Ahmad Arshad – Remembrance Solace Of Hearts

Ahmad Arshad
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The transcript describes the importance of listening to popular music lyrics and understanding one's life to improve one's life and reward opportunities for personal growth. The focus is on the physical aspect of life, including physical energy and body temperature, and the success of working in similar environments and workforce. The d union is a focus on the physical aspect of life, and the shift in paradigm has impacted the way people look at life, including the shift in paradigm about materialism and how it can lead to transformation. The transformation process is a mixture of spiritual and external factors, and it is crucial for individuals to find their own success.
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Assalamu alaikum

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warahmatullahi

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wabarakatuhu, wa rahmatullahi wabarakatuhu, wa rahmatullahi wabarakatuhu.

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Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala aali

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Sayyidina Muhammadin wa barak wa sallim.

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Allah rabbul Izzat ke paak aur kare naam

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ke saath is majlis ka azad karte hain.

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Allah rabbul Izzat se duaa hai ki Allah

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ta'ala ilm is baithne ko Allah ta

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'ala kabool farmaye.

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Hum sab ke liye zariyat najat banaye.

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In lamhaat ko humare li keemti kar de.

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Aur apna mukarab hone ka zariyat bana de.

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Hum atala Allah ki taraf mutawajjah rahiye.

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Aur muhabbat me doob ke Allah ta'ala

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ka zikr kiji.

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Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.

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Astaghfirullah rabbi min kulli dhanbi wa tubu ilayh.

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Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala aali

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Sayyidina Muhammadin wa barak wa sallim.

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Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina Muhammadin

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wa ala aali Sayyidina Muhammadin wa barak wa

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sallim.

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Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.

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Alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen arrahmanirrahim.

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Maliki yawm al-deen.

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Iyyaka na'budu wa iyyaka nasta'een.

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Ihdina sirata al-mustaqeem.

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Sirata al-lazeena an'amta alayhim ghayri al

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-maghdubi alayhim wala al-zaleen.

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Ameen.

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Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.

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Alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen arrahmanirrahim.

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Alhamdulillah.

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Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala aali

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Sayyidina Muhammadin wa barak wa sallim.

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Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala

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aali Sayyidina Muhammadin wa barak wa sallim.

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Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.

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Alamna shurah laka sadarak wa wad'ana anka

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bizraka alladhi anqadha dhahrak wa rafa'na laka

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dhikrak fa innama alusri yusran innama alusri yusra

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fa idha faraghta fansad wa ila rabbika farghab

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Alamna shurah laka sadarak.

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Alamna shurah laka sadarak.

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Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.

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Qul huwa Allahu ahad.

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Allahu samad.

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Lam yalid wa lam yulad.

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Wa lam yakullahu kufuan ahad.

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Qul huwa Allahu ahad.

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Allahu samad.

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Qul huwa Allahu ahad.

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Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.

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Alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen arrahmanirrahim.

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Maliki yawmid deen.

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Iyyaka na'budu wa iyyaka nasta'een.

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Ihdina al-sirata al-mustaqeem.

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Sirata al-lazeena an'amta alayhim.

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Ghayri al-maghdoobi alayhim.

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Wala al-dalleen.

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Ameen.

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Allahumma salli ala sayyidina Muhammadin Wa ala ala

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sayyidina Muhammadin Wa barik wa sallim.

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Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.

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Allahumma ya qadiyal haajat.

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Allahumma ya kafiyal muhimmat.

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Allahumma ya dafi'al baliyat.

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Ya dafi'al baliyat.

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Ya dafi'al baliyat.

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Allahumma ya shafiyal amraad.

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Ya shafiyal amraad.

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Ya shafiyal amraad.

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Allahumma ya rafi'al darajat.

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Ya rafi'al darajat.

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Ya rafi'al darajat.

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Allahumma ya mujeeb al da'wat.

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Ya mujeeb al da'wat.

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Ya mujeeb al da'wat.

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Allahumma Ya Musabbal Asbab, Ya Musabbal Asbab, Ya

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Musabbal Asbab, Ya Musabbal Asbab, Ya Musabbal Asbab.

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Allahumma Ya Arhamar Rahimeen, Ya Arhamar Rahimeen, Ya

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Arhamar Rahimeen, Ya Arhamar Rahimeen.

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Bi Rahmatika Ya Arhamar Rahimeen.

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Ameen.

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Bi Hurmati Muhammad al-Mustafa wa

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bi siri Surat al-Fatiha.

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Allahumma Salli ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala aali

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Sayyidina Muhammadin wa barik wa sallim.

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Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.

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Hasbuna Allah wa ni'mal wakeel.

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Allahumma Salli ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala aali

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Sayyidina Muhammadin wa barik wa sallim.

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Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.

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Ya Khafi al-Lutfi, adrekni bilutfi kal khafi.

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Ya Khafi al-Lutfi, adrekni bilutfi.

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Ya Khafi al-Lutfi.

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Allahumma Salli ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala aali

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Sayyidina Muhammadin wa barik wa sallim.

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Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.

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Ya Baqi anta al-Baqi.

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Allahumma Salli ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala aali

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Sayyidina Muhammadin wa barik wa sallim.

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Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.

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La hawla wa la quwwata illa billah.

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Allahumma Salli ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala aali

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Sayyidina Muhammadin wa barik wa sallim.

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Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.

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La ilaha illa anta subhanaka inni kuntu minal

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zalimin.

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La ilaha

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illa anta subhanaka

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inni kuntu minal zalimin.

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Allahumma Salli ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala aali

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Sayyidina Muhammadin wa barik wa sallim.

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Allahumma Salli ala Sayyidina

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Muhammadin wa ala aali Sayyidina Muhammadin wa barik

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wa sallim.

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Ya Hayyu Ya Qayyum bi rahmatika astaghis.

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Ya Hayyu Ya Qayyum bi rahmatika astaghis.

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Allahumma Salli ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala aali

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Sayyidina Muhammadin wa barik wa sallim.

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Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.

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Allahumma Salli ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala aali

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Sayyidina Muhammadin wa barik wa sallim.

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Allahumma Salli ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala aali

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Sayyidina Muhammadin wa barik wa sallim.

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Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.

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Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'oon.

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Allahumma Salli ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala aali

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Sayyidina Muhammadin wa barik wa sallim.

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Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.

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Allahumma Salli ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala aali

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Sayyidina Muhammadin wa barik wa sallim.

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Allahumma Salli ala

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Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala aali Sayyidina Muhammadin wa

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barik wa sallim.

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Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.

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Allahumma Salli ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala aali

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Sayyidina Muhammadin wa barik wa sallim.

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Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.

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Allahumma Salli ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala aali

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Sayyidina Muhammadin wa barik wa sallim.

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Allahumma Salli ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala aali

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Sayyidina Muhammadin wa barik wa sallim.

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La ilaha illa Allah.

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La ilaha illa Allah.

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La ilaha illa

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Allah.

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La ilaha

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illa

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Allah.

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La ilaha illa Allah.

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Muhammadur Rasulullah.

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Allahumma Salli ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala aali

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Sayyidina Muhammadin wa barik wa sallim.

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One of the things that is important for

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any person to do is to reflect on

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their life, the life that they have spent

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and the life that they will spend, and

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this gift that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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has given them.

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And the reason for that is that it

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allows us to not only reflect on our

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experiences, but to actually learn from them.

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And this is essential.

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Learning is essential for growth, and without growth,

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life becomes stale and monotonous.

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And so, when we look at ourselves, whether

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it is individually or whether it is as

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a society or as an Ummah today in

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2024, 14 centuries after the passing of our

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blessed Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, we ask

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ourselves, what is it that is so different

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about us and those earlier generations that we

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call the Salaf-Saleheen, whether it is the

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first generations of Sahaba-e-Karam, Rizwanullah-e

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-Jama'een, or afterwards you have generations successively

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coming afterwards, Masha'Allah, who were able to

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accomplish so much in their Deen and in

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the Dunya.

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So, this is a question that we need

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to ask because if we look at the

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physical reality, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has

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given us more ni'mah physically than were present

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at that time.

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We are in much more comfort, we are

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in much more luxury.

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They had the same amount of time that

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we have.

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They had 24 hours a day, we have

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24 hours a day.

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They had needs, human needs associated with them,

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just like we have human needs to eat,

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to drink, to have safety, security, to have

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a family, to be part of a community.

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And so, you know, the earlier generations were

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exactly like that.

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So, physically, they were, I would say, in

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a more difficult position, meaning they had to

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work harder when it comes to basic things,

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just as drinking water or to protect themselves

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from the elements.

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So, it's much easier now, meaning we have

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more time, we don't have to spend that

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time.

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For example, Fatima al-Zuhra, R.A. Lady

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Fatima, as we know, she used to spend

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a lot of time in chores, so much

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so that she would get blisters in her

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blessed hands, meaning she would take flour and

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she would grind them and she would cook

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them.

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The whole process was pretty taxing.

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It was very physical in nature, right?

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We don't have to do that.

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If you want some flour, you can just

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go to Apna Bazaar, get a bag of

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flour, come back home, and you have machines

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that will make the atta for you, and

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you have electric stoves and ovens, and in

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a few minutes you can get it.

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If a person is lazier, they can just

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go and order some naan and that's it.

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So, we have to really understand that, that

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they were able to accomplish so much more.

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And the reason for that is that their

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overall orientation in life was much different.

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So, the generation that we call Salaf Salihin,

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their orientation in life, their understanding of life,

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what is life all about?

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This is what we call teleology.

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What is the maqsad?

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So, their maqsad, maqsad-e-zindagi, maqsad-e

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-hayat, understanding of this gift of life, was

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very different than our understanding of gift of

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life.

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So, our orientation is different, that's why our

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efforts are very much different.

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So, they have the same time, we have

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the same time.

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They had necessarily, you know, same or a

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little more energy, we have similar energy, but

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they spent it on something else, and we

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spend it on something else.

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So, I think it requires a little bit

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of thinking, that why is it, why is

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it that we are in a state that

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we are in?

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And different people will tell you different answers

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for this, but, you know, one of the

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answers could be this, that their orientation in

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general were people who were focused on akhira,

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because Rasul-e-Akram ﷺ, he brought forth

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this, you know, this opening, this reality, that

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life does not end when you close your

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eyes.

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And generally, the Arab of that time, they

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took it as such, that's why if you

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look at the Qur'an, the Arabs ask

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this question, really, that we will die and

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then we will be raised up again?

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So, Rasul-e-Akram ﷺ brought forth this

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concept of akhira very elaborate, that no, this

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life does not just end when you close

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your eyes, there is a life afterwards, and

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that life is the eternal life, there is

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accountability, there is reward, there is punishment, there

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is Yawm al-Hashr, there is, you know,

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there is a whole living afterwards, a living

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that can be most beautiful living, blissful living,

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or it can be most formatted living, depending

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on how we live our lives.

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So, Sahab-e-Akram, Rizwanullah-e-Jama'een

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and Salaf-e-Salihin, they were very much

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focused on the akhira, and our orientation is

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different, we have left akhira as the focal

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point, and we have made the dunya, made

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the dunya the focus of all of our

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efforts, dunya focused, and this is because where

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we live in, usually everybody is focused on

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the dunya, so we just learn from the

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society, we learn from where we are, from

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our environment, and so if you look at,

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you know, all of our efforts, is for

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the sake of dunya.

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So, that is a big, big difference, and

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we have understood it in some other places,

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for example, because their focus was so much

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on akhira, Allah Ta'ala had given the

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Sahab-e-Akram, Rizwanullah-e-Jama'een, and,

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you know, the Salaf-e-Salihin afterwards, what

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we call aql-e-ma'ad, you know,

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this was a very different kind of aql,

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intellect, that they always used to calculate, they

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always used to make decisions based on based

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on akhira in their mind.

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And what do we do now?

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We base all of our decisions, meaning all

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of our intellect, is based on what we

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call aql-e-ma'ad, which is dunyawi

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benefit, loss, benefit, loss, benefit, loss.

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That is why it is much easier for

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us to move to a different state if

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we will get a good job.

00:35:11 --> 00:35:13

It is easy for us to move to

00:35:13 --> 00:35:15

a different place if there is a good

00:35:15 --> 00:35:15

university there.

00:35:16 --> 00:35:18

It is easier for us to move to

00:35:18 --> 00:35:20

a different state if we find that we'll

00:35:20 --> 00:35:21

get a bigger house.

00:35:22 --> 00:35:25

Because those necessarily are dunyawi benefits.

00:35:27 --> 00:35:28

On the other hand, if you look at

00:35:28 --> 00:35:31

the life of our elders, they would make

00:35:31 --> 00:35:33

decisions based on the akhira, so they would

00:35:33 --> 00:35:37

look for the best masjid, or the madrasa,

00:35:37 --> 00:35:42

or the khanaqah, or the sohbat of saliheen,

00:35:42 --> 00:35:43

and things like that.

00:35:43 --> 00:35:45

And it was easy to make that decision,

00:35:45 --> 00:35:46

so the question becomes why?

00:35:47 --> 00:35:50

And it is because they had trained themselves.

00:35:51 --> 00:35:53

Of course, their spirituality is part of their

00:35:53 --> 00:35:55

ruhaniya, and all of that, but at the

00:35:55 --> 00:35:57

end of the day, their ta'aleem, their

00:35:57 --> 00:36:00

tarbiyah, whatever that process was, had trained them

00:36:00 --> 00:36:04

to focus on their akhira, and to make

00:36:04 --> 00:36:05

their decisions based on the akhira.

00:36:06 --> 00:36:09

And our ta'aleem, our tarbiyah, done by

00:36:09 --> 00:36:12

our school systems, our colleges, our friends that

00:36:12 --> 00:36:14

we hang out with, the media that we

00:36:14 --> 00:36:17

are exposed to, what do we do?

00:36:17 --> 00:36:20

That we focus all of our efforts on

00:36:20 --> 00:36:20

the dunya.

00:36:22 --> 00:36:27

This is very common, and we have put

00:36:27 --> 00:36:30

on these glasses, and we like to think

00:36:30 --> 00:36:32

in those terms, so it becomes very ajeeb.

00:36:34 --> 00:36:38

It becomes very ajeeb that if somebody tells

00:36:38 --> 00:36:40

us that brother, do this, you will get

00:36:40 --> 00:36:42

this, and on the day of judgment, you're

00:36:42 --> 00:36:45

like, oh, okay, I can't wake up during

00:36:45 --> 00:36:46

the night, so I can't do it.

00:36:46 --> 00:36:49

But if somebody tells you that, wake up

00:36:49 --> 00:36:50

during the night, and in the morning you'll

00:36:50 --> 00:36:54

get a new iPhone, the decision is already

00:36:54 --> 00:36:54

made.

00:36:54 --> 00:36:56

We don't have to think about it twice.

00:36:58 --> 00:37:00

That's the difference in psychology.

00:37:00 --> 00:37:02

So it's a psychological difference.

00:37:03 --> 00:37:06

Their focus, our focus, their efforts, and our

00:37:06 --> 00:37:07

efforts.

00:37:07 --> 00:37:10

And if you build on that, this is

00:37:10 --> 00:37:16

why you find that the earlier generations, there

00:37:16 --> 00:37:22

were very much people of ruhaniya, spiritual people,

00:37:22 --> 00:37:24

spiritual beings, spiritual creatures.

00:37:26 --> 00:37:29

Again, because of that, because they were akhid

00:37:29 --> 00:37:33

focused, they would bring into their life actions,

00:37:33 --> 00:37:36

and they would bring into their life habits

00:37:36 --> 00:37:40

that would increase in their ruhaniya.

00:37:41 --> 00:37:46

So very spiritual people, mashallah, and on the

00:37:46 --> 00:37:50

other hand, we have made matter, materialism.

00:37:51 --> 00:37:56

Materialism is actually like a philosophical sort of

00:37:56 --> 00:38:01

worldview, where we take it as our focal

00:38:01 --> 00:38:01

point.

00:38:02 --> 00:38:05

So their focus point was akhira and ruhaniya,

00:38:06 --> 00:38:09

our focus point is dunya, and because it's

00:38:09 --> 00:38:14

dunya, materialism has really become the focal point

00:38:14 --> 00:38:15

of all of our efforts.

00:38:15 --> 00:38:16

Now materialism is what?

00:38:16 --> 00:38:20

That the only thing that you can say

00:38:20 --> 00:38:23

for sure is matter.

00:38:24 --> 00:38:26

Anything that is metaphysical is just in your

00:38:26 --> 00:38:30

mind, it's just in your head, doesn't really

00:38:30 --> 00:38:31

exist, it's very subjective.

00:38:32 --> 00:38:33

What really exists?

00:38:33 --> 00:38:36

Meaning, so this is like an ontological question,

00:38:36 --> 00:38:36

what exists?

00:38:37 --> 00:38:40

To them, a materialistic view is that only

00:38:40 --> 00:38:46

physical world that we can measure, usually through

00:38:46 --> 00:38:49

empiricism, empirical means, that is the world that

00:38:49 --> 00:38:50

only exists.

00:38:50 --> 00:38:53

So make your effort in discovering it, so

00:38:53 --> 00:38:55

if you look at all the research in

00:38:55 --> 00:39:00

the dunya, what is the research going on?

00:39:01 --> 00:39:04

All the research is, whatever sciences you look

00:39:04 --> 00:39:06

at, is research on matter.

00:39:06 --> 00:39:08

Research on matter.

00:39:09 --> 00:39:11

Everything, everything to do with that.

00:39:12 --> 00:39:15

It was very interesting, not too long ago,

00:39:16 --> 00:39:20

it's been over 10 years, but something that

00:39:20 --> 00:39:23

was probably not that prevalent in late 90s,

00:39:23 --> 00:39:27

but in early 2000s, late 2000s, you found

00:39:27 --> 00:39:32

that organizations started talking about the concept of

00:39:32 --> 00:39:33

mindfulness.

00:39:34 --> 00:39:38

Became very common, mindfulness, mindful practices, they will

00:39:38 --> 00:39:42

bring in the concept of meditation.

00:39:43 --> 00:39:47

Now this was not present, maybe there were

00:39:47 --> 00:39:50

some organizations in general who would just focus,

00:39:50 --> 00:39:52

but in general it was not present.

00:39:53 --> 00:39:57

And then you saw wholesale adoption of it.

00:39:57 --> 00:40:01

Now, the example was interesting because in the

00:40:01 --> 00:40:03

deen, in the ruhaniya, you have a similar

00:40:03 --> 00:40:07

concept, what we call huzoori, mindfulness, presence.

00:40:08 --> 00:40:11

Meditation of zikr and things like that, being

00:40:11 --> 00:40:14

in a state of muraqaba and muhasiba, etc.

00:40:15 --> 00:40:18

But again, our deen looks at it from

00:40:18 --> 00:40:21

the perspective of akhira, ruhaniya.

00:40:22 --> 00:40:26

There, because everything is duniya, and everything is

00:40:26 --> 00:40:30

materialistic, what was very interesting was all that

00:40:30 --> 00:40:33

conversation about mindfulness was all about how does

00:40:33 --> 00:40:36

it make you a more productive person.

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Meaning how can you achieve more in matter.

00:40:42 --> 00:40:45

If you're not focusing in your work, in

00:40:45 --> 00:40:48

your job, do a few of these practices

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and all of a sudden your creative juices

00:40:51 --> 00:40:51

will flow.

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They will literally say this.

00:40:53 --> 00:40:55

If you don't feel you're creative enough, then

00:40:55 --> 00:40:57

you need to do this, you need to

00:40:57 --> 00:40:59

do this, you need to do this, and

00:40:59 --> 00:41:02

it will help you be more, meaning, more

00:41:02 --> 00:41:02

materialistic.

00:41:04 --> 00:41:07

Your quest for matter will become much better

00:41:07 --> 00:41:08

now.

00:41:09 --> 00:41:13

So even that, it was very much extremely,

00:41:13 --> 00:41:15

extremely matter-focused.

00:41:15 --> 00:41:20

So materialism is a philosophical, it's a paradigm.

00:41:21 --> 00:41:25

Now, you will find that some of, even

00:41:25 --> 00:41:27

Muslims have adopted that so much so that

00:41:27 --> 00:41:32

they will use their deen not in the

00:41:32 --> 00:41:36

quest for akhira and ruhaniya, but in the

00:41:36 --> 00:41:39

quest for duniya as well as materialism.

00:41:40 --> 00:41:44

They'll use, I mean, deeni means deen, which

00:41:44 --> 00:41:46

is supposed to be all about the divine,

00:41:46 --> 00:41:48

metaphysical, akhira.

00:41:49 --> 00:41:52

Now, because our talim and tarbiyah, whatever the

00:41:52 --> 00:41:56

training is, we are so different that unlike

00:41:56 --> 00:41:58

our salaf salihin who would even use their

00:41:58 --> 00:42:01

duniya for their deen, we use deen for

00:42:01 --> 00:42:04

our duniya, for our materialistic pursuits.

00:42:07 --> 00:42:08

So, samaz milagri?

00:42:08 --> 00:42:09

Ajeeb sadiq difference.

00:42:09 --> 00:42:10

This is a difference.

00:42:11 --> 00:42:13

You know, sahaba karam rizwanallah have been very

00:42:13 --> 00:42:13

different.

00:42:13 --> 00:42:14

They weren't like that.

00:42:15 --> 00:42:17

They would use their duniya for their deen

00:42:17 --> 00:42:20

because of that focal point of akhira.

00:42:22 --> 00:42:27

We use our deen, which is apparently supposed

00:42:27 --> 00:42:28

to bring you close to Allah Ta'ala,

00:42:29 --> 00:42:30

you know, etc.

00:42:30 --> 00:42:30

etc.

00:42:30 --> 00:42:32

We use it for duniya.

00:42:32 --> 00:42:33

I have a good voice.

00:42:33 --> 00:42:35

Oh, masha'Allah, now I will use it

00:42:35 --> 00:42:37

for duniyawi gains.

00:42:37 --> 00:42:40

I'm a beautiful qari and I would use

00:42:40 --> 00:42:43

this, or I'm a nasheed khan, right?

00:42:44 --> 00:42:47

So, before it was just, you can sit

00:42:47 --> 00:42:49

alone and, you know, think about your beloved

00:42:49 --> 00:42:53

salallahu alayhi wa sallam and read beautiful poetry,

00:42:53 --> 00:42:55

you know, and it would increase in your

00:42:55 --> 00:42:56

ruhani.

00:42:57 --> 00:42:57

Right?

00:43:01 --> 00:43:06

Now, you use it, so, in a very

00:43:06 --> 00:43:09

literal sense, people can, you know, drop money

00:43:09 --> 00:43:11

on you and you see that.

00:43:11 --> 00:43:15

That people are reciting nasheed and people are

00:43:15 --> 00:43:16

throwing money at them.

00:43:17 --> 00:43:18

This is what I'm talking about.

00:43:18 --> 00:43:24

You're using your deen, because you're so duniyawi

00:43:24 --> 00:43:26

-focused, you're using it for your duniya, for

00:43:26 --> 00:43:29

your material ambitions.

00:43:31 --> 00:43:32

Do you think there's a difference to Nasrat?

00:43:33 --> 00:43:33

Right?

00:43:35 --> 00:43:39

So, similarly, you know, our salaf salihin and

00:43:39 --> 00:43:41

sahaba kram, because of that, because of ruhaniyat,

00:43:41 --> 00:43:44

you found that they were very much, they

00:43:44 --> 00:43:46

would build their batin and ikhlaq.

00:43:48 --> 00:43:52

So, necessarily, the result was that they had

00:43:52 --> 00:43:53

a lot of sifat.

00:43:54 --> 00:43:55

They had a lot of sifat, people of

00:43:55 --> 00:44:01

sifat, beautiful sifat, generosity and kindness and compassion

00:44:01 --> 00:44:03

and self-sacrifice.

00:44:03 --> 00:44:04

I mean, you name it.

00:44:05 --> 00:44:07

You name it and they had it.

00:44:09 --> 00:44:13

Because batin mattered to them.

00:44:14 --> 00:44:17

So, batin was a focal point for all

00:44:17 --> 00:44:17

of them.

00:44:18 --> 00:44:21

And, on the contrary, for us, the zahir

00:44:21 --> 00:44:22

has become the focal point.

00:44:22 --> 00:44:25

Even from an individual perspective, now we are

00:44:25 --> 00:44:27

more concerned, how do I look?

00:44:28 --> 00:44:29

How do I look?

00:44:30 --> 00:44:32

And, you know, how do I dress?

00:44:32 --> 00:44:33

Or how do I do it?

00:44:33 --> 00:44:36

Rather than what Allah Ta'ala looks at,

00:44:36 --> 00:44:38

we're not that concerned about that anymore.

00:44:39 --> 00:44:43

The batin, the shakal inside, we're not, as

00:44:43 --> 00:44:46

long as other human beings consider us to

00:44:46 --> 00:44:49

be pious and virtuous and naik and salih

00:44:49 --> 00:44:50

and all of that, that's all that matters.

00:44:52 --> 00:44:56

And, regardless if our actions are devilish in

00:44:56 --> 00:45:01

nature and our solitude is not pure and

00:45:01 --> 00:45:04

we lack haya and there's no sadaq, there's

00:45:04 --> 00:45:05

none of that.

00:45:07 --> 00:45:08

So, that's the difference.

00:45:08 --> 00:45:10

They were focused on batin, batini taraqeeq.

00:45:10 --> 00:45:13

We are focused on very much our zahir.

00:45:14 --> 00:45:15

Zahir bach achha hona chahiye.

00:45:16 --> 00:45:17

Aur yeh mardon mein bhi, orton mein bhi,

00:45:18 --> 00:45:19

orton mein bhi.

00:45:20 --> 00:45:23

How many women or men you'll find that,

00:45:23 --> 00:45:25

you know, they take it upon themselves that

00:45:25 --> 00:45:27

I want to make my inner self beautiful.

00:45:29 --> 00:45:31

But zahir, zahir, zahir, zahir mein aisa hona

00:45:31 --> 00:45:33

chahiye, zahir mein aisa hona chahiye, zahir mein.

00:45:34 --> 00:45:35

It's very different.

00:45:35 --> 00:45:36

Again, it just stems from, do you understand,

00:45:36 --> 00:45:40

like it's stemming from the same, if you

00:45:40 --> 00:45:42

want to call it epistemology, which is like

00:45:42 --> 00:45:43

a source of knowledge, but it's really like,

00:45:43 --> 00:45:45

you know, like how do you kind of

00:45:45 --> 00:45:45

learn?

00:45:46 --> 00:45:48

So, learning has been so different, which we

00:45:48 --> 00:45:53

call taleem ul-tarbiyyat, that, you know, that

00:45:53 --> 00:45:59

sort of like duniya, materialism, results in just

00:45:59 --> 00:46:00

focus on the outer self.

00:46:01 --> 00:46:06

Akhirat, akhirat-centric, meaning you're spiritual, ruhaniya, and

00:46:06 --> 00:46:10

then you are focused on your baatein.

00:46:10 --> 00:46:16

Isika end result, you'll find that, you know,

00:46:17 --> 00:46:19

if you boil it down to actual faculties,

00:46:20 --> 00:46:23

you know, our salaf-salihin were people that

00:46:23 --> 00:46:24

were called ahl-e-dil.

00:46:26 --> 00:46:29

Because they were internal focus, they had very

00:46:29 --> 00:46:31

strong hearts.

00:46:32 --> 00:46:34

Because they had very strong hearts, not the

00:46:34 --> 00:46:37

physical, again, because we're thinking, the qalb, the

00:46:37 --> 00:46:41

qalb was so strong, that's why iman was

00:46:41 --> 00:46:41

strong.

00:46:42 --> 00:46:44

And because iman was strong, the tawakkul in

00:46:44 --> 00:46:45

Allah ta'ala was strong, and because the

00:46:45 --> 00:46:47

tawakkul in Allah ta'ala was strong, they

00:46:47 --> 00:46:48

were able to accomplish so much more.

00:46:50 --> 00:46:53

For us, the qalb is extremely weak, because

00:46:53 --> 00:46:56

the qalb is weak, iman is weak, because

00:46:56 --> 00:47:00

the iman is weak, bayyaqeen is there, dhilmil,

00:47:00 --> 00:47:03

dhilmil, dhilmil, you know, and because of that,

00:47:03 --> 00:47:04

tawakkul is not there.

00:47:07 --> 00:47:08

It's just not there.

00:47:08 --> 00:47:11

And it manifests itself in our daily lives.

00:47:14 --> 00:47:18

They were people who would strengthen their iman.

00:47:19 --> 00:47:21

They would strengthen their hearts.

00:47:21 --> 00:47:24

kaise karte the, zikr karte the, ibadat karte

00:47:24 --> 00:47:27

the, sara kuch karte the, would really, you

00:47:27 --> 00:47:29

know, they were people of strong tawajuhat, and

00:47:29 --> 00:47:31

tasarufat, and you know, this is a hadith

00:47:31 --> 00:47:34

that Rasulullah ﷺ, his ru'ab, his awe,

00:47:35 --> 00:47:37

that magnificence, it used to travel at a

00:47:37 --> 00:47:39

distance of three months from him.

00:47:40 --> 00:47:42

That is the quwwat-e-quloob.

00:47:43 --> 00:47:46

The qalb was so strong that it would

00:47:46 --> 00:47:50

affect, it would affect the person sitting next

00:47:50 --> 00:47:50

to them.

00:47:52 --> 00:47:56

So, now, it's more, you know, everything is

00:47:56 --> 00:47:57

just like an intellectual exercise.

00:47:57 --> 00:48:00

So, we have brought all of our focuses,

00:48:01 --> 00:48:03

you know, even our deen, it's not there

00:48:03 --> 00:48:04

to strengthen our qalb.

00:48:05 --> 00:48:07

It is there so it's, you know, my

00:48:07 --> 00:48:09

understanding is good, and I can go give

00:48:09 --> 00:48:12

a good biyaan, and I'm an articulate speaker,

00:48:13 --> 00:48:15

and I can articulate things in a much,

00:48:15 --> 00:48:16

much better way.

00:48:17 --> 00:48:20

So, the way that even the deen is

00:48:20 --> 00:48:23

perceived is different.

00:48:24 --> 00:48:25

In the beginning, what was deen?

00:48:26 --> 00:48:26

To strengthen the heart.

00:48:27 --> 00:48:28

Today, what is deen?

00:48:29 --> 00:48:31

It's all about an academic intellectual exercise, just

00:48:31 --> 00:48:32

like our colleges.

00:48:32 --> 00:48:34

You know, in college, you have subjects, you

00:48:34 --> 00:48:36

take courses, you go from one subject to

00:48:36 --> 00:48:38

another subject to another subject.

00:48:38 --> 00:48:41

Even deeni pursuit has become that.

00:48:42 --> 00:48:44

That is just, you're taking some subjects, and,

00:48:44 --> 00:48:48

you know, you're increasing your intellectual capacity, you

00:48:48 --> 00:48:51

know, your, what they call, like, critical thinking,

00:48:51 --> 00:48:54

analytical analysis, that you're able to, mashallah, you're,

00:48:54 --> 00:48:56

and, you know, it sounds like they're not

00:48:56 --> 00:48:56

smart.

00:48:56 --> 00:48:57

They're very smart.

00:48:57 --> 00:48:58

Extremely smart people.

00:48:58 --> 00:49:00

Like, you start talking to them, and they're,

00:49:01 --> 00:49:03

you know, they'll bring in concepts from various

00:49:03 --> 00:49:05

sciences of the deen, and, and you're like,

00:49:05 --> 00:49:07

oh, mashallah, isko toh bada kuch aate.

00:49:09 --> 00:49:13

But, again, when you look at sifat, when

00:49:13 --> 00:49:14

you look at the qalb, and when you

00:49:14 --> 00:49:16

look at, you know, the connection with Allah,

00:49:16 --> 00:49:18

the ta'alluk, you know, all the things

00:49:18 --> 00:49:20

that we spoke about even last time, you

00:49:20 --> 00:49:23

know, qurba falla ta'ala, anabat illallah, you

00:49:23 --> 00:49:25

know, being a muqarrab, and rujoo illallah.

00:49:25 --> 00:49:26

It's just not there.

00:49:27 --> 00:49:28

It's just not there.

00:49:29 --> 00:49:30

It's very ajeeb.

00:49:31 --> 00:49:33

It's 100% absent.

00:49:34 --> 00:49:38

And seemingly, it is with people who are,

00:49:38 --> 00:49:40

you know, very much considered to be what?

00:49:41 --> 00:49:43

Now, you know, we can call them scholars,

00:49:43 --> 00:49:47

people of ilm, people, but, again, look at

00:49:47 --> 00:49:47

the paradigm.

00:49:47 --> 00:49:51

It's because the dunya focus, because, you know,

00:49:51 --> 00:49:54

all of those things are there that has

00:49:54 --> 00:49:59

really, really shifted, that has shifted the way

00:49:59 --> 00:50:01

that even deen works now.

00:50:02 --> 00:50:04

So it's a subtle point.

00:50:04 --> 00:50:08

I hope it's getting through, but it really

00:50:08 --> 00:50:11

starts from, like, you know, the basic way

00:50:11 --> 00:50:14

of how the world is perceived, and then

00:50:14 --> 00:50:15

it just translates down.

00:50:16 --> 00:50:17

Everything gets affected.

00:50:17 --> 00:50:20

So did you understand a little bit or

00:50:20 --> 00:50:20

not?

00:50:21 --> 00:50:21

Right?

00:50:22 --> 00:50:22

What's on one side?

00:50:24 --> 00:50:25

Akhiraat focus.

00:50:25 --> 00:50:27

Akhiraat is a concept, right?

00:50:28 --> 00:50:30

You know, if you look at even the

00:50:30 --> 00:50:35

Christian tradition and even the Jewish tradition, it's

00:50:35 --> 00:50:37

not as strong, especially in the Jewish.

00:50:37 --> 00:50:42

I mean, Christianity has, you know, eschatology, and,

00:50:42 --> 00:50:43

you know, they have a little bit of

00:50:43 --> 00:50:47

kingdom of God and, you know, things like

00:50:47 --> 00:50:47

that.

00:50:48 --> 00:50:51

But if you look at the Muslim paradigm,

00:50:52 --> 00:50:54

Nabi ﷺ, whether you look at the Qur

00:50:54 --> 00:50:56

'an, you know, how the qiyamah will come

00:50:56 --> 00:51:00

and life after death, especially life after death.

00:51:00 --> 00:51:01

I remember when I was a young kid,

00:51:04 --> 00:51:06

I came across a book, a small book.

00:51:06 --> 00:51:07

It was, like, an orange cover.

00:51:08 --> 00:51:11

It said, like, مَعَتْكَ مَنْزِرْ مَلْنِيكِ بَعَدْ كَاهُوَ

00:51:11 --> 00:51:11

Right?

00:51:13 --> 00:51:15

And I remember, you know, when I read

00:51:15 --> 00:51:17

through it, it was just like a collection

00:51:17 --> 00:51:17

of hadiths.

00:51:17 --> 00:51:20

Now, whether they were all sahih hadiths or

00:51:20 --> 00:51:21

not, I don't know.

00:51:21 --> 00:51:22

I was too young.

00:51:23 --> 00:51:25

But, I mean, collection, there were some stories

00:51:25 --> 00:51:27

of Salaf as-Saleheen, but in general, it

00:51:27 --> 00:51:29

was a collection of hadiths, you know, and

00:51:29 --> 00:51:31

it was, you know, broken down in terms

00:51:31 --> 00:51:35

of, you know, people who were righteous and

00:51:35 --> 00:51:36

then people who were not righteous.

00:51:36 --> 00:51:38

It was halat of the jannat and then

00:51:38 --> 00:51:39

halat of jahannam.

00:51:40 --> 00:51:42

And I remember when I read through that,

00:51:42 --> 00:51:50

you know, at least for a month or

00:51:50 --> 00:51:53

so, you know, it really straightened you up.

00:51:54 --> 00:51:58

Because, again, it changes that paradigm, like the

00:51:58 --> 00:51:59

way that you look at life.

00:51:59 --> 00:52:01

So, Nabi ﷺ taught that.

00:52:02 --> 00:52:05

Nabi ﷺ taught us to be akhirat-centric.

00:52:06 --> 00:52:11

And so, the first few generations, they, you

00:52:11 --> 00:52:13

know, and, again, like, I will bring what

00:52:13 --> 00:52:13

I said last time.

00:52:14 --> 00:52:17

It doesn't mean that you don't engage in

00:52:17 --> 00:52:18

dunyawi pursuits.

00:52:18 --> 00:52:19

No, no, no.

00:52:20 --> 00:52:22

It doesn't make that you don't, you know,

00:52:22 --> 00:52:24

have a career, you don't have a business.

00:52:24 --> 00:52:25

And we have explained this.

00:52:25 --> 00:52:27

So, I don't need to, like, keep on

00:52:27 --> 00:52:27

repeating.

00:52:28 --> 00:52:29

Sahabah-e-Kamil, Bismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Rahim,

00:52:30 --> 00:52:33

I would say most of them, 95-99

00:52:33 --> 00:52:36

% of them, they all had their, you

00:52:36 --> 00:52:38

know, what we call their career, but usually

00:52:38 --> 00:52:39

they were businessmen.

00:52:39 --> 00:52:40

You know, so they had their businesses.

00:52:41 --> 00:52:43

They had their, you know, they had land

00:52:43 --> 00:52:45

that they grew on, right?

00:52:45 --> 00:52:46

Fadaq was there.

00:52:46 --> 00:52:47

Khaybar was there.

00:52:47 --> 00:52:51

Then even Nabi ﷺ, you know, he used

00:52:51 --> 00:52:55

to get proceeds from that as well.

00:52:56 --> 00:52:57

So, there is that.

00:52:57 --> 00:52:59

But we are thinking in terms of how

00:52:59 --> 00:53:01

does a person make decisions in their life,

00:53:02 --> 00:53:02

right?

00:53:03 --> 00:53:06

So, this is, they were akhirat-centric in

00:53:06 --> 00:53:07

their decision-making.

00:53:08 --> 00:53:10

And this is, you know, how does it

00:53:10 --> 00:53:11

benefit my akhirah?

00:53:13 --> 00:53:17

And, you know, modern society, and even modern

00:53:17 --> 00:53:20

Muslim, it has changed and shifted that our

00:53:20 --> 00:53:24

efforts are duniya for the sake of duniya,

00:53:25 --> 00:53:25

right?

00:53:25 --> 00:53:27

They had duniya for the sake of akhirah.

00:53:28 --> 00:53:30

So, our duniya is, and I'll tell you

00:53:30 --> 00:53:32

this, you know, I engage with a lot

00:53:32 --> 00:53:36

of PIs and researchers at the universities, various

00:53:36 --> 00:53:40

universities, and, you know, they make a lot

00:53:40 --> 00:53:41

of effort.

00:53:41 --> 00:53:43

They make a lot of effort.

00:53:44 --> 00:53:46

Subah, Sirat, you know, they have their labs.

00:53:47 --> 00:53:50

But they are seeking it for the sake

00:53:50 --> 00:53:50

of duniya.

00:53:50 --> 00:53:52

So, there's always, you know, I want to

00:53:52 --> 00:53:53

be published in Nature, I want to be

00:53:53 --> 00:53:56

published here, and I want to get grant

00:53:56 --> 00:53:59

X and this much money, and this.

00:53:59 --> 00:54:02

So, the effort is there, but it is

00:54:02 --> 00:54:03

for the sake of.

00:54:04 --> 00:54:06

Now, Muslim, a Muslim researcher would make the

00:54:06 --> 00:54:08

effort too, but they would be making the

00:54:08 --> 00:54:12

same effort for the sake of their akhirah.

00:54:12 --> 00:54:12

Right?

00:54:12 --> 00:54:13

We will do the same thing.

00:54:15 --> 00:54:18

But our intention behind it, that is akhirah,

00:54:18 --> 00:54:21

that is getting close to Allah subhanahu wa

00:54:21 --> 00:54:21

ta'ala.

00:54:22 --> 00:54:22

Right?

00:54:23 --> 00:54:27

So, this sort of like ladder, if you

00:54:27 --> 00:54:30

just, you know, go from there, akhirah versus

00:54:30 --> 00:54:33

duniya, spirituality versus, you know, materialism that we

00:54:33 --> 00:54:36

spoke a little bit about as a philosophical

00:54:36 --> 00:54:40

sort of like paradigm of being inner self

00:54:40 --> 00:54:43

versus focusing only on outer self.

00:54:44 --> 00:54:47

Conscious, meaning, rather than becoming people of sifat,

00:54:47 --> 00:54:52

characteristics, ikhlaq, you know, beauty, ihsan, taqwa.

00:54:52 --> 00:54:52

Right?

00:54:53 --> 00:54:55

It is all about how do I look

00:54:55 --> 00:54:57

outside, what do I wear, what car I'm

00:54:57 --> 00:54:59

driving, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

00:54:59 --> 00:55:05

And eventually, you find that rather than developing

00:55:05 --> 00:55:08

their qalb, their iman, you know, it becomes

00:55:08 --> 00:55:09

a pursuit of what?

00:55:09 --> 00:55:13

Just intellectual or academic pursuits, basically.

00:55:14 --> 00:55:22

So, I want us to kind of take

00:55:22 --> 00:55:25

this sort of framework and then every time

00:55:25 --> 00:55:27

that we look at or read the seerah

00:55:27 --> 00:55:30

or whether we read the life of the

00:55:30 --> 00:55:31

sahabah-i-kiram, bismillah-ir-rahman-ir-rahim,

00:55:32 --> 00:55:34

of Salaf-i-Saleheen afterwards, right?

00:55:34 --> 00:55:35

All the early generations.

00:55:36 --> 00:55:40

If you just bring this perspective, you will

00:55:40 --> 00:55:43

find that mostly, like obviously, you always find

00:55:43 --> 00:55:43

exceptions.

00:55:43 --> 00:55:45

You'll always find, you know, even in the

00:55:45 --> 00:55:48

life of Rasulullah salallahu alayhi wa sallam, even

00:55:48 --> 00:55:51

Madina Munawwara, there were munafiqeen that were present

00:55:51 --> 00:55:51

there.

00:55:51 --> 00:55:52

Of course there were.

00:55:52 --> 00:55:54

But munafiqeen were the exceptions.

00:55:56 --> 00:55:56

Right?

00:55:57 --> 00:56:00

In the generations afterwards, you always found people

00:56:00 --> 00:56:01

that obviously did not act in the best

00:56:01 --> 00:56:02

way.

00:56:02 --> 00:56:03

But, you know, you cannot judge.

00:56:03 --> 00:56:10

Overall, the general, the general orientation was always

00:56:10 --> 00:56:11

like that.

00:56:11 --> 00:56:12

And you will find that.

00:56:13 --> 00:56:15

So, now the question becomes, why are we

00:56:15 --> 00:56:16

talking about this?

00:56:16 --> 00:56:18

Well, I mean, I think one of the

00:56:18 --> 00:56:21

reasons that we, as an ummah, are in

00:56:21 --> 00:56:22

this predicament is because of that.

00:56:23 --> 00:56:28

If akhirat does not matter to me, why

00:56:28 --> 00:56:30

would I make any decisions that will benefit

00:56:30 --> 00:56:30

it?

00:56:31 --> 00:56:32

Right?

00:56:32 --> 00:56:33

Why would I make any benefit, you know?

00:56:33 --> 00:56:37

If the duniya is the, is all in

00:56:37 --> 00:56:39

all, materialism is all in all, you know,

00:56:39 --> 00:56:42

material, you know, progress is everything to me,

00:56:43 --> 00:56:44

that's all I'm going to focus on.

00:56:45 --> 00:56:45

Right?

00:56:47 --> 00:56:50

And if I'm not concerned about my inner

00:56:50 --> 00:56:52

self, if I don't want to learn self

00:56:52 --> 00:56:53

-sacrifice, then why would I?

00:56:54 --> 00:56:56

Why should I sacrifice for you, for you,

00:56:56 --> 00:56:58

for you, my time, my energy, my anything?

00:57:01 --> 00:57:03

And this sort of, it develops it, because

00:57:03 --> 00:57:06

this, the whole concept of individualism actually kind

00:57:06 --> 00:57:07

of came down from that.

00:57:08 --> 00:57:11

As long as you had some traditional deen

00:57:11 --> 00:57:14

leading your way, people were still sort of

00:57:14 --> 00:57:16

like focused on the other.

00:57:16 --> 00:57:17

How do I benefit others?

00:57:17 --> 00:57:19

How do I work for others?

00:57:19 --> 00:57:19

How do I do this?

00:57:20 --> 00:57:22

And as soon as all of that, that

00:57:22 --> 00:57:25

was like shut, that door was shut, when

00:57:25 --> 00:57:29

materialism just became everything, now you have to

00:57:29 --> 00:57:30

give tax breaks, right?

00:57:31 --> 00:57:35

Meaning you give to certain causes and it

00:57:35 --> 00:57:36

will give you a tax break.

00:57:36 --> 00:57:39

So you're bringing in a material benefit rather

00:57:39 --> 00:57:40

than, no, no, this is the right thing

00:57:40 --> 00:57:42

to do and, you know, feed others, et

00:57:42 --> 00:57:43

cetera, et cetera.

00:57:44 --> 00:57:46

So that has been brought in as well.

00:57:47 --> 00:57:49

And as I mentioned, you know, that has

00:57:49 --> 00:57:52

been brought in our deen discourse so much

00:57:52 --> 00:57:55

so that we will use our deen for

00:57:55 --> 00:57:59

our duniya, our deen for our material pursuit,

00:57:59 --> 00:58:01

and that is problematic.

00:58:02 --> 00:58:03

So what do we want to become?

00:58:03 --> 00:58:04

We want to become ahle-dil.

00:58:06 --> 00:58:10

Ahle-dil, people of heart, rather than just

00:58:10 --> 00:58:13

people who are focused on our intellectual pursuit.

00:58:14 --> 00:58:18

InshaAllah, if we make that change, inshaAllah, you'll

00:58:18 --> 00:58:20

see everything will start to fit in.

00:58:20 --> 00:58:24

You will find that your inner self will

00:58:24 --> 00:58:24

become better.

00:58:25 --> 00:58:27

Your inner self becomes better, meaning all the

00:58:27 --> 00:58:28

sifat will.

00:58:28 --> 00:58:31

If I am sakhi, if I'm not self

00:58:31 --> 00:58:35

-centered, then I will worry about what's going

00:58:35 --> 00:58:36

on in the world.

00:58:42 --> 00:58:45

And if I don't, if I am self

00:58:45 --> 00:58:48

-centered, right, if I don't care about sifat,

00:58:50 --> 00:58:52

good qualities, characteristics, why should I care?

00:58:56 --> 00:58:58

Why should I care about what's happening to

00:58:58 --> 00:58:59

them or anybody else?

00:59:00 --> 00:59:02

People take it to the nth degree.

00:59:02 --> 00:59:03

Why should I care?

00:59:03 --> 00:59:05

You know, my parents, they lived their life.

00:59:05 --> 00:59:06

Why should I care about them?

00:59:07 --> 00:59:08

You know, what happens to my brother or

00:59:08 --> 00:59:09

sister?

00:59:09 --> 00:59:12

You know, it's, this is very ajeeb thinking,

00:59:13 --> 00:59:14

but there's, you know, you have to really

00:59:14 --> 00:59:18

trace it back to what is really wrong

00:59:18 --> 00:59:20

at the crux of it.

00:59:22 --> 00:59:23

We are Muslims.

00:59:23 --> 00:59:24

We don't think like that.

00:59:24 --> 00:59:28

Our talim and tarbiyyat should reflect, should change.

00:59:31 --> 00:59:33

And even in akhira, I will, you know,

00:59:33 --> 00:59:34

take it one step further, you know, because

00:59:34 --> 00:59:37

I started in akhira in the dunya, but

00:59:37 --> 00:59:40

eventually, even akhira is all about Allah.

00:59:41 --> 00:59:41

Right?

00:59:42 --> 00:59:45

Meaning Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the

00:59:45 --> 00:59:47

pivot around which our life revolves.

00:59:50 --> 00:59:53

And the other lifestyle is just void of

00:59:53 --> 00:59:54

divine presence.

00:59:55 --> 01:00:01

So, atheism will kind of give, you know,

01:00:01 --> 01:00:03

if you take it one step even before

01:00:03 --> 01:00:07

that, because, you know, we have this deistic,

01:00:07 --> 01:00:09

you know, deistic kind of existence.

01:00:09 --> 01:00:10

We believe in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

01:00:10 --> 01:00:12

Allah ta'ala is at the center of

01:00:12 --> 01:00:12

everything we do.

01:00:13 --> 01:00:15

That's why akhira is at the center of

01:00:15 --> 01:00:16

everything that we do.

01:00:16 --> 01:00:19

And that's why spirituality and inner self and,

01:00:19 --> 01:00:21

you know, working on the heart is at

01:00:21 --> 01:00:22

the center of it.

01:00:22 --> 01:00:25

If there is no Allah, right, then it's

01:00:25 --> 01:00:29

just focus becomes the dunya, focus becomes materialism,

01:00:29 --> 01:00:33

focus becomes outer self, and focus just becomes

01:00:33 --> 01:00:33

intellect.

01:00:35 --> 01:00:38

So, that's why we say love Allah.

01:00:39 --> 01:00:40

Have a connection with Allah.

01:00:41 --> 01:00:41

Okay?

01:00:41 --> 01:00:43

So, when we do it, inshallah ta'ala,

01:00:43 --> 01:00:48

you will find that everything, lego pieces, it

01:00:48 --> 01:00:51

will just, all the pieces of the puzzle

01:00:51 --> 01:00:53

will fit together, inshallah ta'ala.

01:00:54 --> 01:00:55

I pray to Allah ta'ala that Allah

01:00:55 --> 01:00:57

ta'ala may you and all of us

01:00:57 --> 01:01:01

may Allah ta'ala make us sensible.

01:01:01 --> 01:01:03

May Allah ta'ala grant us our own

01:01:03 --> 01:01:03

taste.

01:01:04 --> 01:01:06

May Allah ta'ala come into our lives

01:01:06 --> 01:01:09

in such a way that our everything, our

01:01:09 --> 01:01:15

seeing, our speaking, our thinking, our feeling, everything

01:01:15 --> 01:01:16

changes.

01:01:17 --> 01:01:18

Everything changes.

01:01:18 --> 01:01:20

So, when Allah ta'ala comes into our

01:01:20 --> 01:01:24

lives, there's such a transformative change that happens.

01:01:26 --> 01:01:27

Transformative change that happens.

01:01:28 --> 01:01:29

Everything changes.

01:01:30 --> 01:01:31

Everything changes.

01:01:32 --> 01:01:34

This is what we want, inshallah ta'ala,

01:01:34 --> 01:01:35

to change.

01:01:35 --> 01:01:37

May Allah ta'ala grant us all, inshallah

01:01:37 --> 01:01:38

ta'ala.

01:01:38 --> 01:01:39

Ameen.

01:01:39 --> 01:01:39

Ya Rabbul Aalameen.

01:01:39 --> 01:01:43

Wa Akhir Dawana Anil Hamdulillahi Rabbil Aalameen.

01:01:46 --> 01:01:48

Inshallah ta'ala, for a little while, observe.

01:01:49 --> 01:01:50

Close your eyes.

01:01:50 --> 01:01:51

Bow your head.

01:01:52 --> 01:01:52

The world is not there.

01:01:52 --> 01:01:53

Move away from it.

01:01:53 --> 01:01:54

May Allah ta'ala sink into the remembrance

01:01:54 --> 01:01:54

of the Lord of Glory.

01:01:57 --> 01:01:59

Imagine that there is no earth, no sky,

01:01:59 --> 01:02:01

no moon, no sun, no stars, no humans,

01:02:01 --> 01:02:02

no animals, no devils.

01:02:02 --> 01:02:05

For a little while, just disconnect yourself from

01:02:05 --> 01:02:07

everything and everyone in this world.

01:02:08 --> 01:02:11

It's important to be able to step back

01:02:11 --> 01:02:13

from this thought process.

01:02:13 --> 01:02:15

You know, our thoughts, as I said, are

01:02:15 --> 01:02:16

very much focused on duniya.

01:02:16 --> 01:02:17

Step back from it.

01:02:18 --> 01:02:19

Let go of them.

01:02:19 --> 01:02:21

And everyone in this duniya is also very

01:02:21 --> 01:02:21

temporal.

01:02:22 --> 01:02:23

Let go of their thoughts.

01:02:23 --> 01:02:25

Har cheez har ki Allah ki taraf dihan

01:02:25 --> 01:02:26

karne.

01:02:26 --> 01:02:30

You know, refocus your hearts to Allah subhanahu

01:02:30 --> 01:02:31

wa ta'ala and make intentions.

01:02:32 --> 01:02:35

Allah ta'ala istajaliyat, anwarat, fuyuzat, are descending

01:02:35 --> 01:02:35

upon us.

01:02:36 --> 01:02:38

Anwarat aa rahe hain, dil mein sama rahe

01:02:38 --> 01:02:41

hain, dil ki zulmat, sakhti, gandagi ko door

01:02:41 --> 01:02:41

kar rahe hain.

01:02:41 --> 01:02:43

Anwarat aa rahe hain, aur hamare dil Allah

01:02:43 --> 01:02:44

ki muhabbat mein keh raha hai.

01:02:45 --> 01:02:46

Allah, Allah, Allah.

01:02:48 --> 01:02:50

Aur ham aapko apne wajdan ke kaanon se

01:02:50 --> 01:02:50

sun rahe hain.

01:02:50 --> 01:02:51

Inshallah.

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