Abdullah Hakim Quick – Living Islam #03

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The importance of protecting one's Islam during a pandemic is emphasized, along with the need for practical advice on mental health and seeking help for mental and spiritual struggles. The speakers emphasize the importance of avoiding depression and caution, as well as the use of technology to stay connected with others. The importance of hyper taxation in society is also emphasized, and caution is given to individuals who know what they want to avoid. The host provides practical advice and guidance on protecting one's Islam, avoiding harms, and being a witness to the spiritual journey.

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			wonderful show here live now Shall we can begin.
		
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			Okay, so I'm not going to law here about a cattle, brothers and sisters, those who are viewing in
the beginning, I wanted to mention that it's important for us to get full attention and full
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			The smilla rahmanir rahim al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil alameen wa sallahu wa sallam Allah says Halima
Arkadin. Nabina Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi baddeck was on our praise the due to Allah Lord of
the worlds and peace and blessings be upon the last messenger Muhammad, the master of the first and
the last, and of his family, his companions and all those who call to his way and establish his
Sunnah to the day of judgment as to what follows my beloved brothers and sisters as salaam alaikum
wa rahmatullahi wa better cat Alhamdulillah we thank Allah azza wa jal for another opportunity to
reflect upon His mercy in revealing the last message of the call end, and sending the final and
		
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			greatest of the messengers, Muhammad sallallahu alayhi Salaam to humanity
		
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			and in the world that we are living in today, with the great crises that we are facing, this is
becoming more and more a clear blessing for believers who are hanging on to the rock.
		
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			And it's important today that we become as practical as we possibly can.
		
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			Because in the times we are living in, there is war, there is death. There is now a pandemic. People
are worried about how long they will live or if they will live.
		
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			People are worried about what's going to happen tomorrow. And so in dealing with the pandemic, the
doctors will prescribe specific treatments. The doctors will teach people, not just how to cure
yourself with a vaccine if it really comes to fruition.
		
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			But the intelligent doctors will teach how to protect yourself as being proactive. And they will
tell you to wear a mask to clean your hands, too. To do social distancing.
		
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			Other doctors the more naturalistic doctors will tell you strengthen your immune system.
		
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			Get a lot of vitamin C, vitamin D
		
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			if you're Muslim, they will say if they have good evidence take the black seat because Prophet
Muhammad Sal Solomon's told us Aleykum we have been to soda for in the harder why and min colada,
he'll not take the black seat, it will protect you from every disease except death.
		
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			And we know now that the black seed This builds the immune system. So it's the immunity. And so the
enlightened doctors will tell you change your lifestyle builds your immune system.
		
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			Take your precautions. So these suggestions are practical. And that's what people want to know
today. But there's not only a physical pandemic, there is a mental pandemic.
		
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			And there is a spiritual pandemic.
		
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			And the mental pandemic is one that we can see in a sense that our alcohol or our brain is connected
directly to some of the things that we are doing.
		
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			The spiritual one is not that clear.
		
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			But this is where we need to be able to approach the writings of the great Obama
		
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			the lessons from the cold air and and from profit moments on seller in a practical way to try to get
tips as to how to protect ourselves and to protect our Islam. In that statement, which is the title
of our session, our group of classes that we are having is the practical guide and preserving our
Islam.
		
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			The time of crisis. What is our Islam there's three levels. We need practical suggestions and how to
preserve our tawheed, the oneness of God and the reseller. We need practical suggestions and how to
protect our prayers,
		
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			and our fasting, and as a cat,
		
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			practical suggestions in the possibility of Hajin, oma.
		
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			And these things are changing. So we need to know what to do,
		
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			in order to continue to be consistent in his practices. We also need practical suggestions in terms
of our E man. That is our belief in Allah, and his angels and his books and his messengers. And the
last day, how the will of Allah the good and the bad, there have practical suggestions, this is how
our Islam is layered. And the third layer is Sn. So we need practical suggestions in the area of Sn.
And that is a more of a spiritual area. That is as the Prophet Salim said to worship Allah as though
you see him or he sees you. So it's more like your,
		
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			your conscience, your inner being
		
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			that higher status.
		
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			And so we're looking at practical suggestions. And we want to go from the mundane worldly parts of
practicality to the spiritual part as well. And in last class, we looked at depression. And we know
of all of the challenges that are facing the younger generation. And our community. One of the most
dangerous is depression, especially now in the northern countries, when we are ending in January,
and going into February, they'll tell you about February, that is the least amount of sun
		
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			in any month of the year.
		
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			And many places is a lot of rain, or if it's cold as a lot of snow. And so it is depressing to wake
up and not to see the sun.
		
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			This depression can go from being a normal mental depression into a clinical depression, where it
actually starts to physically harmless. And so of the many cures, we looked at not only theoretical
cures, but action cures. And I want to just look at these last points again, especially for those
who were not in the class last week.
		
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			The action cure for depression, one, reach out and stay connected. We're locked in our homes, we're
not able to move around. So we need to reach out to people stay connected online. Allah blessed us
one blessing out of the internet. Although there's a lot of fitna and tribulation and trials. But
one of the blessings is to be connected with other people, too. And that is to do things that make
you feel good, and stop being selfish. But you may have a habit, you may have a hobby, which was a
good one. And if that makes you feel good, if by making things and if by reading certain passages,
whatever it is that makes you feel good talking to somebody, then then do that because it's it's
		
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			important for us to struggle with positivity to fight the negativity three, get moving, even though
it's cold outside, for those of us who live in in Canada, or the United States, in Europe, it's
cold. If you're living in South Africa, or in Brazil, it's actually one.
		
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			But in the north, many people go into hibernation. We know that many of the animals who cannot fly
south, they go into hibernation, they burrow into the ground, or they burrow into a tree. And Allah
has blessed them with this ability to go to sleep and their blood slows down their their temperature
changes. They're in a sleep like state until the coal goes away. And many of us want to do the same
thing. We want to bury ourselves in our bedroom, bury ourselves in our laptop and forget about the
world. That's not the solution. We have to move. Even if you're inside the house, find ways to move
but go outside sometimes breed them some fresh air. Move around, get into action as much action as
		
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			you possibly can. Now before eat a healthy depression fighting diet, as you see on the screen, the
citrus fruits, the vegetables, stay away real wisdom. Don't drink
		
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			Alcohol, but stay away from sugary, sugary things, lower the carbs to starches down
		
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			and get things that are light on your body, which will lighten up your mind.
		
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			Number five was to get a daily dose of sun. That's difficult here. So get some vitamin D, and take
that vitamin D regularly. And seven and six was challenged negative thinking.
		
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			Now this is interesting because these are doctors who lay down these points psychiatrist and
challenged negative thinking. And this is something where we're now going into the mental and the
spiritual part. Challenging negative thinking. Because we want change, we want something to happen.
Allah told us in Allah, Allah you hero, Bobby, Robbie Coleman had tell you how you do Bobby
unforeseen. Allah will not change the condition of a people to they change that which is in
themself.
		
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			So whatever negative things are going on inside of us, we have to struggle against it. We can't
submit to the negativity. That means that if you get negativity all the time, when you turn on the
television, turn on the news, slow down.
		
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			Use it for other means that just sitting there and just watching it, because we need to change
ourselves desperately.
		
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			Because we're in need of Allah subhanaw taala in this crisis that we're going.
		
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			And so this slide, I want to present to you some very important teachings from an amazing scholar
who lived in fez in the 15th century. And this is cd 100 zavok. And CD is the American way of
saying, say God, which is like the master, Ahmed's Iraq. And his name was Abba Father. She has a
Dean harborlab bass, I've met him and Ahmed bin Mohammed, even Isa alafasy, alborz. Lucy, known as
Azhar rock.
		
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			So that that's a long name.
		
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			And he became really famous. And it's interesting, because when he talks about his biography, his
life, he said, I was born on Thursday, at sunrise, on the 28th of will Harlem.
		
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			And that was 846 years after the hedger, which is 1426
		
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			ad or see 15th century. Look at his life, his mother died. My mother died, he said on the following
Saturday, and my father died on the following Tuesday. So he was a complete orphan.
		
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			My grandmother on Albanian and fatty her
		
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			a female scholar, she took care of me to my 10th here. So the first 10 years of this scholar,
considered to be one of the greatest Maliki's scholars in history. It began with his grandmother.
Think about that now, that's how important your your female parents are. His grandmother had fick.
		
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			She helped him to memorize his Quran, to get as Arabic language together to get the basis of Islamic
Studies, and then attend she gave him to the orlimar.
		
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			And the scholars loved this boy right from the beginning. He increased the knowledge at an amazing
rate, to the time when he was a young person coming up,
		
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			around 20 years old, or so he was, he was already a chef.
		
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			And he traveled and he taught and see the admin was given a title that no other scholar before him
or after him was ever given. Now this is more tested by Allah will only
		
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			he was the evaluator or the quality controller of the scholars and the Sophie's. Okay, why was that?
And how he describes himself, he would compel the scholars to be more spiritual, and to improve
their sincerity to Allah.
		
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			So many times you find scholars, they talk about aqeedah. They talk about the fic. But their
spirituality is lacking. They like dry.
		
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			They don't seem sincere when they're teaching you. And so he would he would compel them, he would
show them the way he was their quality control manager, because he was the highest level of fic in
the Malik effect.
		
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			And that's rare when you find a puppy like this is also considered to be on the highest level of
solf.
		
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			But what he did
		
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			With the Sophie's is that he would bring them back into the limits of Sharia. If somebody who
claimed to be teaching sn, they claimed claimed to be dealing with spirituality. So you say you have
a problem not with how to make the prayer. But you can concentrate in press,
		
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			you have a problem with your relationship with your husband or your wife.
		
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			You have a problem with dealing with people dealing with society. These are things that are not
necessarily tangible things. And you need the SSN level. And so there are people historically, who
specialized in this, they had many different napes. The most famous is the Sophie's have to saw off,
he would bring them back into shadia. He was their quality control manager. So if they start making
declare Lord floating off into heaven, He would bring them down.
		
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			He would make sure that they would stay within the Sunnah.
		
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			So this is an amazing person. And that's the kind of teachings that we need today. Not one side or
another side, but all of our scholars and enlightened people. And so
		
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			near the end of his life, he had a large following. He had gone to Mecca and Medina and everywhere
he went, you know, people would flock to him for his teachings. He spent a lot of time in Cairo. And
at that time, Cairo was
		
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			the center, if not the highest level for Islamic scholarship in the Muslim world, but that had been
destroyed. There was still confusion in the Muslim world. So Cairo was the center. And in Cairo
itself, CDR bizarre rock was on a pinnacle, in terms of scholarship. But he ended up going back to
North Africa, to misurata, which is presently in Libya, although he was born in fez, and he
continued to teach. And at one point near the end of his life, he felt that his followers that the
Muslim students and the people were in danger. They were a danger of their Islam.
		
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			And so we wanted to give them some foundations, strong foundations, which would help them
spiritually, something that would
		
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			solidify their belief that they could hold on too tightly. When the fitna comes, trials and
tribulations come into the world, and look at the situation that we are in today, but the trials and
the tribulations that are facing us, and so we laid down five foundations of the spiritual path.
		
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			And I want to look at these five foundations, along with other practical issues as we go along
within our teachings. And because we need to preserve our Deen
		
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			and our Islam is definitely in danger now. Our faith, our practices are in danger. Look at what is
happening with our masjids our prayers. Ramadan is going to be at home. Most of the time, the Hajj
and Umrah are slowed down almost to a halt. And so we are in need now. Look at our email and our
beliefs are shaking.
		
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			Sad, five foundations of the spiritual bath had the first of that was tequila facility. Well, hello
Ania it was mindfulness, the consciousness of Allah, privately and publicly.
		
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			The second was adherence to the Sunnah at the bar, so not in word and deed.
		
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			The third was indifference to the acceptance or rejection of others. So you're not doing your Islam
for people, whether they accept you or reject you, you continue on for
		
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			satisfaction with Allah, in hardship, and in ease.
		
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			And number five, turning to Allah in prosperity, and adversity.
		
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			So we want to look at these five foundations, had to discuss them, and also bring some practical
issues. At the same time. This is how we're going to go through the course. So we're getting
practical things and
		
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			at the same time, building a strong foundation for the spiritual side, which is our base. And you
see the doctors we even said get rid of negative thinking right?
		
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			They're going inside now that's not your diet. That's not your exercise. Right? That's thinking your
thinking your very being the negativity inside of you. And so this is where these teachings are so
critical at this point in time. Had the first one Tukwila facility. Well, Alinea
		
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			taqwa is is our quality that we discuss constantly. In the corpus of Juma we're hearing about taqwa.
In many different teachings and courses that we take. We hear about Taka Allah azza wa jal. And we
know that some people translated as fear. But it's not just fear. Some people saying, guarding your
faith is not just that the all of us say it's unhelpful Raja that it is fear and hope. So
combination of the two, so there's a lot of meanings for it. And one beautiful concept of taqwa is
like a type of hyper vigilance, that we're really cautious and alert
		
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			and vigilant. So this is like a consciousness that comes around us. And it's this vigilance. And you
will see that people who are playing sports, for instance, when they're playing on the sports field,
their eyesight develops, they can look to the right, they can look to the left, the ball is moving
around. If you're playing football or soccer, the ball is moving around, you got to be vigilant of
where the ball is, if you're playing American football, then you need to be vigilant because if you
have the ball, one of these giants can come flying out of the air and knock you down. So a type of
vigilance is developed. So this is a spiritual vigilance that we are aware of what is going on
		
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			around us. And taqwa,
		
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			again, is a powerful foundation. It is probably the most important pillar or foundation of these
five in the spiritual path. And that is the consciousness of Allah. And there's so much to talk
about about tapa. It is something that can really give us that foundation that we need to withstand
the tornado, literally spiritual tornado coming. Look at the world today. They're trying to take
people out of the masjids and keep us home literally. And we have to be vigilant that once the
pandemic relieves that we call back to the masjid because some people may have lost their feeling
for the house of Allah, their feeling for fasting, making the Torah we have prayers, or they are
		
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			feeling to make Hajj and Umrah so we have to be vigilant for this and this is where the taqwa
		
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			gives us a strong foundation. And taqwa has got many benefits. I want to share with you from the
many benefits of taqwa. There's five benefits that we can gain right away from taqwa. And this is
our foundations now, and these things will help us now how because we're in trouble, right? People
are dying every day, you go online, and somebody else has died. My friends in Cape Town, South
Africa, as you know, has got a variant of the COVID-19. And it's spreading rapidly. And I have
family, you know, in Cape Town, my son's married to tour capetonian, Cape Malay. And so we're in
touch with Cape Town, the orlimar that I've spent time with hand. Recently I spoke with people from
		
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			South Africa and Cape Town, they said, you know, it is spreading so rapidly amongst the scholars,
almost one out of every two other scholars is COVID, 90, positive and some are dying. So, we're in
trouble now. And taqwa can really help us. Number one
		
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			of the five benefits there's so many. But if you adopt this taqwa, you increase it and you try to
increase your taqwa, you can gain an ease in affairs, your affairs will literally lightened up once
you have that connection to Allah subhanaw taala and have that understanding of the greater picture
of things and insert to Tilak verse for Allah tells us, we're mainly a tequila yahoomail Omri, USA,
and whoever has the consciousness of Allah, then Allah will make their their matters easy for them.
		
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			Your straw will come.
		
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			Number two
		
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			you will also
		
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			lead to a way out of things. And in the same verses inserter talaq, Allah tells us we may attack
Allahu Allahu Maharaja, that whoever has the consciousness of Allah is hyper vigilant of Allah
subhanaw taala the interaction,
		
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			then Allah will make a Maharaj away out of things that are going wrong. And we definitely need some
ways out was this pandemic is still spreading, especially in play in the United States, just south
of the Canadian border, how it is spreading and not slowing down.
		
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			But the constants of Allah, this is the internal part
		
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			that we need along with dealing with the external
		
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			number three,
		
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			and that is for those who are afraid, they're losing their employment, what's going to happen in the
future. Once you have that consciousness of Allah, you are increasing it, then Allah will bring to
you sustenance from where you know where you are. zoku when Heitler doesn't allow will provide for
him from where he knows not, that's inserted, so talaq two.
		
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			And
		
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			the fourth point,
		
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			and that is the ability to distinguish truth from falsehood. And that's so important today because
the false news that's going on the confusion every time you turn on the media, you're not sure what
people are actually saying. Or they're saying one thing you think everything's got to be cured, and
suddenly you see people getting sick again.
		
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			What is the truth?
		
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			What is the false what
		
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			Allah tells us
		
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			in
		
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			Surah till on file first 29 Yeah, are you hella data Manu in tuck taco La Jolla come for Karna are
you who believe if you have the consciousness of Allah, He will make a criterion for you. And a for
con is that which separates truth from falsehood. And the Motor Show canny rahimullah even said this
for con is the battle club. This for con is is a way of DDD, consolidation of the hearts while cool
water Messiah.
		
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			He said this also will strengthen your sight. In other words, insight. So we can have insight as to
what is really happening around us in this world today.
		
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			And
		
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			it will make us our feet strong in the earth. And so the ability to to separate through from fossil
for corn. That's an amazing quality that we need. It's one of the blessings that comes out of the
taqwa.
		
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			And finally, when you kafir and consejo de como yo feiyr.com Well, Lord, Father, Adi, the rest of
the verse says, that Allah will release you of your sins and forgive you.
		
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			And Allah is the Lord of great bounty.
		
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			And so forgiveness and release from since look at this foundation.
		
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			You have a strong foundation like this.
		
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			That's what we need today.
		
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			And that's what we need to really culture in our lives in this very critical situation that we are
in today in this world. And so Tukwila
		
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			facility will Alinea. The first of the foundation's is to have the consciousness of Allah,
		
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			in public and in private.
		
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			So you see you having the consciousness of Allah, you know, people go publicly, especially if you go
to the masjid or you're around other individuals who you respect. And it's easy to show
		
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			your Islam.
		
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			People find themselves pious, whether in crowds, they make a long salaat they can do all types of
things. I remember there was a story of this
		
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			person, and he was in the masjid. And this happened to me, you know, the story came out of Cape
Town, and there's a big master and people are coming in, you know, at Jaguar. And so just after the
Juma
		
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			People are on the sides. Some are making extra prayers after Juma others are meeting with each other
had a group a delegation came in and they locked in it was one of the brothers here just about
starting his prayers. And he looked and he saw these people coming and they were looking at him.
		
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			So now he made his salaat and he made it beautiful.
		
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			He was crying he went down and record he was in sujood long. He came back up and the people are in
the background. So pod Allah. Look at this pious Muslim.
		
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			And then the brother comes up and it gives us Salaam salaam aleikum, wa rahmatullah salaam aleikum
wa rahmatullah. And I'm fasting to.
		
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			So he said to the people, I'm also fasting. You see, you see what happened to him. He turned from
somebody was praying to Allah,
		
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			to a person who was praying to the people
		
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			that has what is called react.
		
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			You see, so
		
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			we have to realize
		
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			how serious our fears are, and how we can actually change up in a moment. Now I want to talk about
something deeper in taqwa. Because I know many of you have heard about things in taqwa before. But I
want to look at from the writings of Ibn Jews al Maliki.
		
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			And he took it a step further now.
		
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			So this is not your normal talk about taqwa fear and hoping. No, this is not the normal talk. This
is taken a little bit deeper. Because we said remember, taqwa is caution. It's being alert. hyper
vigilant.
		
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			Right. So that's taqwa. So when the person has taqwa, as described by the companions, is like as
this this turns on the ground, heel is so so you don't want your clothes to be
		
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			cotton or towards your you want. So you lift up your clothes, and you walk very gently, and you look
down because you're very aware of these dangers. And so in this case, hyper vigilance, spiritually
What is going on? How does this manifest itself, the first degree of taqwa
		
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			is a caution, of falling into disbelief. So the person is now hyper vigilant, has to follow your
disbelief. So they are looking at one of those things that is Cofer, what is the things that shirk
and they will say, I'm going to stay out of this, I'm not going to fall into this, they are hyper
vigilant of this. And you know, they want to stay on the path. And this is described by Ibn Josie,
where he will live as this type of submission. This is teslin. So this is where the person submit to
Allah subhanaw taala. And this is your the basic form of taqwa. It's a degree now, because remember,
you have those who are in karate, you have yellow belt, orange belt, blue belt, brown belt, and then
		
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			Black Belt. And the black belt is supposed to be the highest level, it's not this black belt, black
belt. First dad, they would say a Japanese, meaning your first level of black belt, second and third
death, fourth, and fifth, until they give you master.
		
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			So it's not just a black belt. There are higher levels of taqwa also, has got higher levels. This
first one is a hyper vigilance of falling into disbelief to
		
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			its caution, of falling into sin, and evil. So the person may have committed a lot of sense. And so
the person is hypervigilant, not to follow any sense. Many times you see a Muslim born in a Muslim
family, but they're not actually practicing Islam, and then they suddenly get their day. And so at
25, now he's praying, now he's fasting now, she's covering up. And so you'll find in many cases,
they'll go to a higher degree, because they want to stay out of their sin. And they're hyper
vigilant. They're more touchy for this. And that macom or that station, is the station of tober.
It's repentance. So that within the taqwa is a station of repentance. So the person of taqwa is now
		
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			hyper vigilant of evil things are
		
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			Random. And that's again, that's usually somebody who knows what evil is.
		
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			The person may be a new Muslim, who lived part of their life, you know, a rock surrounded by evil or
a revitalized Muslim, or just a Muslim who lives in this world and the dunya and those are evilness,
that's the second stage stage number three
		
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			that is the caution being hyper vigilant of doubtful things. So, there are things which are not
clear and the Prophet peace be upon him said you know that which is halaal is clear and that which
is haram is clear. And in it there are doubtful things
		
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			okay, these motor shabby these doubtful things, the prozone them said and one Hadith da you rebook
Illa Ma, luxury book, stay away from that, which gives you doubt, to the things which gives you no
doubt. And so that is this,
		
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			this this vigilance, or this caution, in staying away from doubtful things, that's another stage,
and even just a called it the state of carefulness. So this person is really careful. And before
they eat something, if they see doubt inside of things, they hope they hold.
		
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			Right, they they're aware of what's going on around them. These are protections for us, we want to
know how to preserve our Islam. These are the protections in the same way that a fighter learns how
to preserve his life.
		
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			Right that a person who is hiking on a trail survival training, they learn how to survive in the
jungle, or learn how to survive in the snow in the Canadian winter.
		
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			And so these are the degrees of taqwa the fourth degree of taqwa is being cautious of the
permissible, this is deep. This is what is called water. And water is a higher degree of taqwa in
that the person will give up what is permissible
		
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			to not fall into what is haram? What is prohibited, for instance,
		
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			say that Abu Bakar Sadiq rhodiola, when he was considered to have a lot of water, and on one
occasion, he ate this food and somebody said that they're not sure about this food. So he actually
made himself vomit the food up.
		
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			Okay, now that's, that's a that's a serious person didn't he didn't have to do that. Because it was
permissible had already went down his throat. He made a mistake. But what are is a higher level now.
So there's certain things that are permissible. And you stay away. I want to give the example of
that brother, who prayed in the masjid after Juma and ended up showing off to the people. You know
what I would be, he's about to make the salaat had a group of people come in and they're watching
him. And he knows that his knifes is got to be pulled towards react towards showing off. And so he
says, I'm not going to pray. So he just
		
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			walks away. He didn't have to make it at Sunday anyway, right? You can make it in the masjid. Or you
can make it at home.
		
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			The water in this case, gave him that understanding not to make that prayer. Why it's permissible,
but he might be falling into sin.
		
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			That's another degree
		
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			and the highest degree, which very few of us will probably reach and that is being cautious of
letting anything into the heart. Save Allah subhanaw taala
		
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			nothing else in your heart, except for Allah. That is the macom that's the position of witness. That
is a witness. And that's a very high level that will be very difficult for us to reach Allah will
choose people to reach that level. But that's a really serious level and people usually go through a
lot of suffering and torment and you know, they go through a lot of changes to reach this level,
where nothing but Allah is in their hearts.
		
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			And so these are the degrees of taqwa
		
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			talk while the facility will Alinea one of the foundations given by CD Amazon rock, rahimullah
foundations, five foundations
		
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			The spiritual path. This is what he said to his followers, he was afraid that they were going to
lose their faith. And he prescribed
		
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			foundations for them to hold up the building of their Islam
		
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			had, we are in trouble now. And so we need to look at this spiritual advice. And be practical about
it. Apply it to our situation today. So that we can be saved from the massive fitna that is out
there in the world. And so I want to end at this point.
		
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			And open up the floor.
		
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			If there are any questions that anybody has, if there's anything you'd like to put into the chat
room,
		
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			I want to open up the floor for any questions that anybody has. The floor is open.
		
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			Again, I want to remind you
		
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			And feel free to ask questions concerning this.
		
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			If you have any questions, floor is open.
		
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			So inshallah, we will be continuing on
		
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			next week, inshallah,
		
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			to go to other foundations
		
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			of the spiritual path.
		
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			We need practical, read a practical guide,
		
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			at the great alumni have given us guides to help us in the spiritual darkness that we are living in
today.
		
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			And so, we pray that Allah azza wa jal would enable us to maintain our faith in this deep struggle
that we are involved in. Especially
		
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			help our job. Yes, there's a question. There's a couple of questions. Yes. So there is
		
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			the attendees in the classroom that says please explain the witness part.
		
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			Yeah, the witness now
		
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			you know, it's, it's, it's,
		
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			it comes in the Quran for couldna Ma sha, Allah Deen, you know, you know, you know, help us to be of
the witnesses or Shaheed, in a sense, is a witness. And, but a witness is a is a is a high level.
And usually it takes a person who is a Shahid to get to this witness point.
		
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			But it is a very high level of relationship with Allah subhanaw taala, because there's really
nothing else left in their heart, except Allah azza wa jal. And so literally, they have they've
reached another stage.
		
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			What it is, Allahu Allah, I'm not privy to all the information. But I know this is a very high
level.
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			Yes, Jeff, there is a question here about the story about the brother who's praying and ended up
		
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			ended up to show the brothers, the people behind him. I think there just needs a clarification on
what was wrong with what he did and not what's wrong. I think maybe the the story wasn't Okay, try
to get the story now. The brother is about to pray. And then some people come and they're, you know,
they, they're standing there. And so he starts to pray. And as he's praying, you know, he's feeling
them and back of them, right. So, you know, you can sort of feel people there. And so, something
inside of him says, you know, make your prayer beautiful, because the people are listening to you.
This is what is called react. Ria is showing off with religious deeds in order to be seen by people,
		
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			right. So so you, it's showing off with your bed. And so he's praying. And the people are saying,
Mashallah, look at him pray. And so he makes his prayer longer than he normally would.
		
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			He does it in a beautiful way. And then when he's finishing finished, he turns to them, he says, I'm
fasting to
		
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			get it. In other words, he's saying I'm not only a beautiful, you know, prayer person, but I'm
fasting too. So he wants them to say Mashallah, that's Ria.
		
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			That means he's showing off now, to the point where he's exposing other things.
		
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			In order to get their pleasure, and that is considered to be the prophet SAW, Selim said, this is a
shark of us.
		
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			This is the minor form of shark of polytheism.
		
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			And the Prophet Salim said it will creep into my nation, like a black ad creeps into a dark room.
		
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			This is the minus shark. And it you know and this and circus serious, right because remember, this
is polytheism when you're worshiping more than one God, so when essentially bowing down to an idol.
But now, the prayer that that person was making was not just to Allah, he was praying for the people
in back of, you see, so when you pray into two sources that shirk in the same way that somebody
might pray to an idol, along with a god or a saint along with God. There's many forms that shark
will take, but this is the minor form of shark.
		
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			Any other general questions anybody has? There is a question here about the clarification of this
doesn't allow us to again call himself a showerhead. And Shaheed what is the difference between
those two?
		
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			Yeah, I mean, the words are used in different ways when Allah uses the names of Allah. You know,
like, for instance, like a Shah hit us Shaheed when they when it's the witness, like you can say,
Rahim, a person is Rahim. They are merciful. But if you say our Rahim, the Merciful, that's the most
merciful that Allah you see. So there are certain descriptions of Allah, which are also used as
adjectives, they just describe people as well.
		
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			So Alamin tuck him, you know, so there are some people who don't like revenge, the one who, you know
who will punish us there are people who do this many of the descriptions, there are some
descriptions, which is only Allah. Like you say, our rough man, that's only Allah subhanaw taala.
		
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			Right, so So this, this, our produce the one who is the most holy, so we don't describe people as
saying this could use your own people.
		
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			So, in this case, Shahid, even when you go to court,
		
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			they will say the shot, you know, when you have the car,
		
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			then you have the child,
		
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			right, you have a witness.
		
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			So witnesses used in many different ways. This particular way is that the person is literally
witnessing, you know, the Presence of Allah subhanaw taala in themself, you know, it's a very high
level of spirituality
		
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			allawah
		
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			and the other general questions, anybody have all the questions we have Trisha?
		
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