Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – The Distracted Hearts Generation
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remission and bring "healthy desires" to the heart, but it is also a distraction that can lead to concentration and reflect. The "monarch" approach is to focus on "monarch" and avoid distractions, but it is also a distraction that can lead to processing information and making decisions. The "monarch" approach is to get closer to Allah's
the "monarch" approach is to get closer to Allah's
the "monarch" approach is to try to get closer to Allah's
the "monarch" approach is to try to get closer to Allah's
the "monarch" approach is to try to get closer to Allah's
the "monarch" approach is to try to get closer to Allah's
the "monarch" approach is to try to get closer to Allah's
the "monarch" approach is to try to get closer
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May Allah subhanaw taala give us the Tofig to, to benefit from
these reminders that keep coming in this world over and over again.
And may Allah subhanho wa Taala give us the ability to make amends
in this world. And the way to do this, the easy, the way to do this
is to try to get closer to Allah subhanho wa taala. If we try to
what I've noticed is that if we tried to do all of this as just an
intellectual decision of trying to, you know, a rational decision
of just like, I want to be good from today, it's a good enough
intention. But the problem is that we're so habituated to the wrong
Love of Allah subhanaw taala is not penetrating in our heart, our
hearts, quite disease, our hearts are quite diseased, and they're
all dark and black. So although intellectually, we've kind of
tried to give us ourselves a direction, but our heart doesn't
allow us to continue because of the years and years of neglect, it
takes a while for this neglect, to be dealt with, and to be to be
removed. And that really to tell the truth, the only way to deal
with this is to do think of Allah subhanaw taala is to do think of
Allah subhanaw taala the benefit of that will be that Allah
subhanaw taala will give us purity and cleanliness of our heart. And
then after that the good desires that we will have, our hearts will
be able to follow it. Because right now we hear something, it
penetrates our ears, it penetrates our hearts, it goes through our
eyes when we see something when we hear something, and we want to
change. So for that moment, we want to change but because it
doesn't really find a good seating in our heart. But once we go
outside, we lose it again, we lose it again. And thus, we have to
keep having these doses. But the way that this will benefit us is
to actually start working on our hearts. And nowadays that's just
just very difficult because of our distracted states. Even when we
read in the Quran, do we have any concentration we read in the
Quran? Do we really ponder over the meaning when reading our
species? You could be doing, you know, 100 500 600 disputes the day
but do you really concentrate on your disputes? When you're making
salah? Do you really recognize that we're standing in front of
Allah subhanaw taala. And we feel that you know, some people they
stand like this, they stand in these weird ways in front of Allah
subhanaw taala they, how can you get yourself to stand in front of
Allah subhanaw taala believe me, you start doing thicker, you start
doing Morocco, you start doing meditation, you'll notice that
because of the concentration that you develop the meditation, this
this ability to concentrate, the biggest problem I think people
have today is attention deficit. You know, we all have it at some
level, you know, that's considered to me that that is considered to
be a problem today, that young children when they have an
excessively, they give them these medications like Ritalin and so on
for attention, attention deficit disorder, it's called ATT, where
they can't concentrate, they're always jumping around here and
there and other they can never focus sit and concentrate on
something, I think adults as well today because of the because of
YouTube and because of an information overdose. And because
of all these different things that you know, that are bombarding us
left, right and center, you know, you just go down the street, you
see billboards, you see you see shops, you see this, you see this
is just so much of a variety of things that are bombarding us
every second, every minute that what's happening is that is that
you're processing all of this information, you process this, and
then suddenly, you see, you know, you're in the middle of
understanding this, and suddenly you see something else. And then
you start thinking about that, and then you see something else.
Likewise, when you're sitting down, right, you're sitting down,
and suddenly, you know, your phone beeps, and then you see a blue
light. And then you open it and there's a text message. And then
suddenly you see another notification that's coming from
your Twitter, you see another notification has come from, from
your Facebook, so and then you see a name pop up, you see another
text message pop up, you see a WhatsApp message pop up. So then
you're trying to navigate all of this. And by the end of it, you
haven't concentrated in any of those. So although you've actually
read the message, you've actually read the first message, but you
will not respond to it because you've forgotten about it. Because
the next message seems to be more important. You looked at that. And
then while you're doing this, suddenly something happens on your
iPad and you start looking at that, then suddenly somebody calls
out to you can you can you see the amount of distractions we have in
our life. So there has to be a way to get back to go back and to and
to start focusing. Yes, these things have to be used, you know,
they have to be used in in a way that benefits us. But then this
kind of information overload that we're having, it's just it's just
really really distracting us. So we need to go back to
concentration that has a problem with our worship, because even in
our worship, when we're doing worship, we see a blink we see a
light we see something else. It does the same thing for us, right?
So how do we when we stand in front of Allah subhanaw taala
shaytan uses that time to remind us of all sorts of things. That's
that's kind of like a like a winding down time. Right that many
people use this a lot as a winding down time. What that means is they
just don't have time outside of Salatin being in the toilet and I
hate to say this, right? Being in the toilet, the bathroom, the you
know when you can't do anything else really right. Or when you're
in your salon. Again, you're restricted for 510 minutes to
doing this. Now we become so much you know, so professional in
performing our salads, right that you everything is happening
automatic
Allahu Akbar, we're reading automatically because we're so
good at our salah. And we we use this time shaitan makes us use
this time to actually think this is the time that people think and
make decisions and unwind, reflect. Same thing in the toilet,
there's nothing, nothing much that you can do unless you've got
magazines in your toilet, right. So it's the only time where you've
got time to yourself to think. Because even when you get in bed,
you got no time to think because your phone is next to you. Now,
you used to be stuck to a wall before with a wire. So you
couldn't take it anywhere. The TV was too big, right? But now you
got this thing that's right next to you, you can literally sleep
with the next to you Subhanallah some people do that they on their
phone, and then they just sleep, you know, it just falls on them
and they go to sleep on their chest or whatever, right or it's
under their pillow. SubhanAllah. You know, I wouldn't do that. That
because you don't know what kind of radiation is in this thing, as
well as just from that, that in that aspect as well. We're so
distracted. So that's why they're automatically found these ways of
doing vicar that are the same vicar La ilaha illa, Allah
Subhanallah Al Hamdulillah, Allahu Akbar the same kinds of dhikr. But
they've just found a way that will make you concentrate. And as I
said, the maraca is extremely powerful that if you sit and you
do this maraca by just thinking of Allah subhanaw taala as Rama to be
entering your heart and then after that, the heart begins to say
Allah Allah, you will actually find that you will develop
concentration, you will develop a you know, a way to like just for
five minutes to think of one thing only. And that's Allah subhanaw
taala. You know, today, if you have to think of one thing, the
only thing that we can think of is when we're watching something, we
get so immersed because the ability of the screen and these
and what they produce, it beams directly into the middle of our
brain into the part that doesn't even require any thinking on our
part is just hydrolyzes right beamed right in is direct internal
duct doctrine, ation, indoctrination, there's no need,
you know, for us to even think see, because when you have five
different things that are going around your mind, and your brain
is going to have to correlate all of these events, all of these
details that are happening that are taking place, and to bring
them together and to make up your own kind of idea about them. But
now they tell you exactly what you what, what they want you to think,
because they're able to beam directly into the middle of your
mind. And that's why our children Subhanallah going to school to
pick up my son, and I see that they're on YouTube. Right? The
schools are Subhanallah that I don't know if they're teaching
anything anymore, because they're using YouTube is the teacher now
even in schools. So you've got two three teachers in the class, but
they're putting on YouTube. So the children are absolutely engrossed,
because they're putting something that's kind of interesting today,
which has an educational kind of aspect to it. That's why kids,
they when they come to the motherland, you're trying to teach
them the Quran or something else, they have absolutely no time to
think they've got no ability to think that's what the problem is
today, people don't have any ability to think anymore, because
they just getting this all this information produced. It's just
like, Do you know how to make bread anymore? Right? Do you know
how to make bread? No, you don't. Because you don't have to make it
at home. Right? You don't you don't know how to ferment the you
know, the yeast in the dough and let it rise for a while. And then
after that, put it into the oven. What kind of you know how long he
has to stay for you probably mess up. The reason is you can buy
bread in the store. That's what you do. You don't make it at home.
So now you no longer know how to do it. Think of processed foods
like this, right, that you people used to make in the house before?
Now you just gone by them? Do you now to make jam for example, in
your house? No, you don't. Because you buy it? Right. That's the
insignificant, that's an insignificant detail there. But
it's the same kind of thing here that when you're not told how to
process information and think for yourself, then this information is
and this information is given to you, you know, packaged in the way
they want it right into the middle of your brain, that you no longer
think about the Quran, your afterlife, you just into this
dunya dunya dunya that's what's happening. I just I just pray to
Allah Subhana Allah, Allah, Allah subhanho wa Taala protect our
children, because they've got this worse than we did in our
generation. You know, we just about kind of got it at the end of
our at the end of our kind of adult youth, our youth that we
started getting into this stuff, but Subhanallah our children have
got it from the age of two, they know how to work a phone at the
age of two, right? That's how, you know, that's the capacity of these
children to be able to do this. They know where to go to get the
games on your phone. Right? And this your phone is for them a toy.
That's what it is. That's what they want it for. They don't they
don't check messages on there. What they're worried about is, is
going on to what do you call it? Temple Run? And you know, what's
other stuff Temple Run and Subway surf and, you know, I'm sure
there's worse stuff than that, right? That they can go on onto
your phone. That's what they want. Even these two year old kids,
that's what they want. They just want to grab your phone, and they
and when you don't give it to them. It makes a massive problem.
They create a massive scene, they go into a tantrum, right. So this
is what we're doing Subhanallah we have to be able to control this
somehow. We have to be able to control this somehow. And I said
that if we can't gain concentration, we have absolutely
no way to get anybody else to concentrate. And believe me you
start doing more aka you start focusing on your hearts you
develop
Love this ability to just concentrate for five minutes. That
is massive. That's a massive, you know, for you, for us to be able
to concentrate for five minutes on Allah subhanho wa taala. On a day
when we don't have too much grief where we're forced to do it,
right, that is a success, then it can build on from that, then after
that sitting for five minutes will be nothing you'll be wanting to
sit with Allah subhanaw taala for half an hour, 45 minutes, an hour,
two hours, believe me, what it will then do to you is that when
you start solid, you will be thinking that you're standing in
front of Allah subhanaw taala Allah will be watching you. And
then after that, you will actually look down properly. You know, when
he says in the Salah that a person should look at the place he does,
the place that they do such the way they prostrate right now we
have to actually just make sure we're looking there. But when
you're focusing on Allah subhanho wa taala, and you realize that
he's there, you're actually going to just naturally look there
because that's the way of humility. That is the way that is
the direction that you refocus. Because you know, you won't be
standing like this anymore, right? You won't be kind of slouching
anymore. Because you're standing in front of Allah. Imagine you're
standing in front of somebody with for an interview, or sitting in
front of you going to be at your best behavior. This is Allah
subhanaw taala. So then, to get this presence, you need to be able
to do this kind of specialty thicker, that's that's what it is
that Allah discovered that during the time of Rasulullah sallallahu
sallam, the fact that the proto Lawson was there, he could he
could make them you know, they would develop this very easily.
But as we get get further and further away from that time, we
are more and more and more and more distracted, we need to come
back to Allah subhanaw taala. So may Allah subhanho wa Taala give
us the trophy. And may Allah subhanahu wa taala allow us to
reflect over this in this world. And may the May He give our hearts
so much softness, that when we read a poem of this nature, that
we can also cry like Imam Muhammad cried, because crying, that tear
that comes down out of the fear of Allah subhanaw taala is one of the
most beloved drops in the sight of Allah subhanaw taala as mentioned
in the Hadith, that one of the one of the most valuable drops is
obviously the drop of the Majah his blood and another one, of
course, is the drop of tear that shed in the fear of Allah subhanho
wa taala. So if somebody is really really crying like that, for the
sake of Allah subhanaw taala out of his fear on that day, and our
feeling of what we've done in this world and what we haven't been
able to do in this world, then you can imagine how valuable that is
in the sight of Allah subhana wa Tada. So the ability whether Allah
mentioned is the ability to cry for Allah subhanaw taala is really
a Tofik from Allah subhanaw taala that if you notice that you can
never cry for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala he means your heart
is a problem. That's what the Buddha must say that your heart
has a problem if you don't have the ability to cry, when you see
these, these pictures out of Syria, when you see you know,
injustice is being injustice is being made, you know, being
afflicted on different people. And when you see just the disease than
the death around you, and you think you can't think for yourself
Subhanallah then you know that you've got a problem with your
heart. Right? You know, you've got a problem with your heart, you
just have to realize that may Allah subhanaw taala soften our
hearts, may Allah give us a heart that's not prevented from weeping
in front of him. And may Allah subhanaw taala grant us a heart
that is close to him. That is that may Allah grant us an ability to
become the Kareena like Shaka Rinella which means which means
that are very grateful to Allah subhanaw taala and that are full
of dhikr from every part of our body of Allah grant. They're
thicker in every pore of our body and allow us to allow us to make
the best day of our of our existence, the day that we're
standing in front of Allah subhanaw taala Welcome to that one
and Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen
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