How to Deal With The Dunya and Its People | ʿUnwan al-Hikam | Ustadh AbdulRahman Hassan

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Join AMAR Academy Today: https://www.rahmaniyyah.com Ustadh AbdulRahman Hassan explains the complete poem ʿUnwan al-Hikam by Abu al-Fath al-Busti rahimahullah, opening with its famous first line: increase in this dunya is deficiency, and profit that is not pure goodness is loss. 📖 Everything you collect in this world wealth, positions, houses, even children will one day leave you or be left by you. Nothing remains. So what should a person actually pursue? Knowledge, the only possession whose thirst is quenched by drinking more of it. The explanation works through the poem's principles for a happy life: be good to people and you will win their hearts, respond to wrong with good, be at the service of others, and hold firmly to the rope of Allah. 🤲 It covers the realism of the poem too whoever lives among people will endure hardship from them, people's natures differ as their colours differ, secrets should never be given to those known to spread them, no happiness lasts forever, and when a close friend cuts you off, the world is full of brothers. A thousand-year-old manual for dealing with the dunya and its people, explained line by line from beginning to end. Timestamps: 0:00 Precap 1:18 The Text Begins: Increase in Dunya Is Deficiency 10:09 Be Good to People and You Will Own Their Hearts 19:14 Hold Fast to the Rope of Allah 23:41 Generosity Wins Hearts, Withholding Loses Them 25:41 Choose Peace Over Picking Fights 28:22 Let Your Aql Govern, Not Your Nafs 33:23 People Will Hurt You and No Friend Is Perfect 37:04 The Lessons History Keeps Repeating 40:53 Smile, and Take Every Matter Gently 45:22 Do Not Hasten, Do Not Beg 49:51 Race to Good and Ignore the Crowd 53:24 Guard Your Secrets and Know People's Natures 58:09 Everything Has an Appointed Time 1:01:50 Your Intellect Is Companion Enough 1:04:38 When a Land Turns Against You, Travel 1:05:49 The Oppressor Will Be Dealt With 1:07:36 Knowledge Quenches Every Thirst 1:09:43 No Happiness Lasts Forever 1:12:09 Do Not Be Deceived by Your Youth 1:16:33 Every Break Can Be Mended Except the Deen Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abdulrahmanhassanofficial25 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/AMARofficial Telegram: https://t.me/+c87I9vy6kqkxOWZk YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@rahmaniyyahofficial WhatsApp: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VbBlpi2CHDyjG4ZI1I0g X (Formerly Twitter): https://x.com/UstAbdulrahman #abdulrahmanhassan #AlMadrasatuArRahmaniyyah #AMAR