Commentary on the poet's saying: "Make your fasting before meeting her, and the day of union the day of Eid al-Fitr in Ramadan, and make the descriptions of her beauty the guide and the secret of receiving the fears, while she is the source of safety"
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The Shaykh :"Make your fasting before meeting her, and the day of union the day of Eid al-Fitr in Ramadan"
Allah is the Greatest! Make your fasting before you meet her, because if you die before you fast from the sins you have reached, then fast from the sins in this world before you meet her. And when is the breaking of the fast? On the Day of Resurrection, the day of union.
"Make the descriptions of her beauty the guide and the secret of receiving the fears, while she is the source of safety"
Make the descriptions of her beauty [your guide]. It is not possible to reach the descriptions of beauty except through the two revelations: the Book and the Sunnah. The author (may Allah have mercy on him) mentioned in his book "The Guide of Souls to the Lands of Joy" descriptions of the Houris that are sufficient for one who has ambition to work toward union with them.
"So do not let a dwelling that the hands of ruin have played with in past times distract you"
By this dwelling, he means the world. The world should not distract you from the Hereafter. The hands of ruin have played with it. Ruin means perishing and destruction. It has been played with since past times, meaning from what has passed. So you are only left with the dregs of people who left you the world after they departed from it, and after they corrupted it and it corrupted them, and nothing remains but the dregs.
"For indeed, every joy has departed from it, and it has been replaced by worry and sorrows"
He means that the joys of this world do not last, but are replaced by sorrows. The poet says:
"A day is against us and a day is for us *** A day we are slaves and a day we are masters"
And the other says:
"There is no sweetness in life as long as it is spoiled *** In its essence by the remembrance of death and old age"
And both the first and the second are truthful. You hardly pass two days while you are happy without something spoiling it, either from your own self, or from your family, or from your companions, or from society. Every living person, whose heart is alive, must experience this.
Also, suppose a person is in the best of living conditions and farthest from problems; if he thinks for a moment: what is the end? The end is one of two things: either death or old age. If you die, you have finished; if you grow old, you have tired yourself and tired others. That is why you find that old age that reaches the point of senility is something his family tires of. They put him in a corner of the house, he talks and shouts, and no one comes to him, his family who are his family.
"So there is no sweetness to life as long as its essence is spoiled by the remembrance of death and old age" This is the end of the world.
"So do not let a dwelling that the hands of ruin have played with in past times distract you, and it has been replaced by worry and sorrows
A prison is narrow for the one who has faith *** "
A prison that is narrow for the one with faith, correct. The believer's prison is the world, for two reasons:
The first reason: that he does not see in it what pleases him in terms of faith and righteous deeds, except rarely.
The second reason: that he anticipates a home that is more gracious, more complete, and sweeter than this world, is that not so? Yes. Allah the Exalted says[An-Nahl 16:32] in the state of death, they are taken in a good state, O Allah, make us among them. And the angels say to them: Peace be upon you, enter Paradise now. That is why when a person is placed in his grave and asked, doors to Paradise open for him. So the world is the believer's prison without doubt, and he says:
"***But Paradise is the abode of the ungrateful"
He means: the world is a paradise for the disbeliever. It is a paradise because, compared to the punishment he will face, yes, it is a paradise. And because the disbeliever is not restricted by anything; everything is lawful for him. He commits zina, steals, drinks intoxicants, wears silk, and everything else, he indulges himself, so it is a paradise for him, but for the believer it is a prison.
It is said that the Judge of Judges, as they describe him, Ibn Hajar (may Allah have mercy on him) was the Judge of Judges in Egypt. And when he came from his home to work, or went here and there, he would ride in a carriage. The carriage at that time was the equivalent of a Cadillac for us, yes, the highest thing.
Allah is the Greatest! Make your fasting before you meet her, because if you die before you fast from the sins you have reached, then fast from the sins in this world before you meet her. And when is the breaking of the fast? On the Day of Resurrection, the day of union.
"Make the descriptions of her beauty the guide and the secret of receiving the fears, while she is the source of safety"
Make the descriptions of her beauty [your guide]. It is not possible to reach the descriptions of beauty except through the two revelations: the Book and the Sunnah. The author (may Allah have mercy on him) mentioned in his book "The Guide of Souls to the Lands of Joy" descriptions of the Houris that are sufficient for one who has ambition to work toward union with them.
"So do not let a dwelling that the hands of ruin have played with in past times distract you"
By this dwelling, he means the world. The world should not distract you from the Hereafter. The hands of ruin have played with it. Ruin means perishing and destruction. It has been played with since past times, meaning from what has passed. So you are only left with the dregs of people who left you the world after they departed from it, and after they corrupted it and it corrupted them, and nothing remains but the dregs.
"For indeed, every joy has departed from it, and it has been replaced by worry and sorrows"
He means that the joys of this world do not last, but are replaced by sorrows. The poet says:
"A day is against us and a day is for us *** A day we are slaves and a day we are masters"
And the other says:
"There is no sweetness in life as long as it is spoiled *** In its essence by the remembrance of death and old age"
And both the first and the second are truthful. You hardly pass two days while you are happy without something spoiling it, either from your own self, or from your family, or from your companions, or from society. Every living person, whose heart is alive, must experience this.
Also, suppose a person is in the best of living conditions and farthest from problems; if he thinks for a moment: what is the end? The end is one of two things: either death or old age. If you die, you have finished; if you grow old, you have tired yourself and tired others. That is why you find that old age that reaches the point of senility is something his family tires of. They put him in a corner of the house, he talks and shouts, and no one comes to him, his family who are his family.
"So there is no sweetness to life as long as its essence is spoiled by the remembrance of death and old age" This is the end of the world.
"So do not let a dwelling that the hands of ruin have played with in past times distract you, and it has been replaced by worry and sorrows
A prison is narrow for the one who has faith *** "
A prison that is narrow for the one with faith, correct. The believer's prison is the world, for two reasons:
The first reason: that he does not see in it what pleases him in terms of faith and righteous deeds, except rarely.
The second reason: that he anticipates a home that is more gracious, more complete, and sweeter than this world, is that not so? Yes. Allah the Exalted says
The ones whom the angels take in death, [being] good and pure; [the angels] will say, "Peace be upon you. Enter Paradise
الذين توفاهم الملائكة طيبين يقولون سلام عليكم ادخلوا الجنة"***But Paradise is the abode of the ungrateful"
He means: the world is a paradise for the disbeliever. It is a paradise because, compared to the punishment he will face, yes, it is a paradise. And because the disbeliever is not restricted by anything; everything is lawful for him. He commits zina, steals, drinks intoxicants, wears silk, and everything else, he indulges himself, so it is a paradise for him, but for the believer it is a prison.
It is said that the Judge of Judges, as they describe him, Ibn Hajar (may Allah have mercy on him) was the Judge of Judges in Egypt. And when he came from his home to work, or went here and there, he would ride in a carriage. The carriage at that time was the equivalent of a Cadillac for us, yes, the highest thing.