Ali Albarghouthi – The Disease and the Cure #27 Sin Robs You of Wisdom and Strength
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So like last week in the week before we continue talking about
the consequence of sins the many many consequence of sins.
And for tonight ignore claim Rahim Allah will share with us how sins
blind the heart and weaken its ability to see the truth.
So he says women will go batty ha That is from the consequences and
punishment of sin that the blind the heart. And if not blind it, it
weakens its insights, its ability to know right from wrong. It is
this has to happen. And we've explained before that it does
weaken the heart. So he's here, reinforcing what he had said
before and adding to it.
He said that when the heart is blind or it's weak,
it will be unable to recognize alHuda guidance will not be able
to recognize alHuda or to execute it in himself or with others. And
this is in accordance with its weakness, meaning the weaker it
is, the less likely it is to know what the truth is to be out be
able to follow it. Right? Just like a weak person. If a weak
person is really weak, he can't lift anything. But if his weakness
is not severe, he could lift something. So he's saying the
heart will do what will be weak and its weakness, our levels. And
based on that level will be its ability to see the truth or not.
Or to be able to follow it or not be assessed for in nilkamal
Insomnia, my daughter who Allah asleep, mad if it would help him
in a lottery or a third who Ali, he says human perfection revolves
around is built upon two things, knowing falsehood from the truth
meaning able to differentiate them and to favor the truth over
falsehood. Meaning, basically, and this is a good thing to remember
because these are foundations, right? It's basically knowledge
and action. Isn't it all? What we do is what you know, and you act,
isn't it? Not only religiously, but anything else you know, you
act you know you act. So he says okay, human perfection. What is
human perfection, human excellence? Humans can be perfect.
But what is human perfection the best that they can be? That's
their perfection. So say how can they be perfect? Or how can they
be excellent? He says they must have knowledge and action.
Like in any nation, religiously or otherwise, knowledge and action.
So he says if you have the right knowledge and the right action,
then you're excellent. If you don't have that, then you're not.
So you must know the truth versus falsehood. That's actual
knowledge. You must then after you know it, to follow it.
The truth?
Right, right. Not wrong, then you become excellent. Call it Omar to
follow that man as it will. He says creations degrees degrees
with Allah azza wa jal vary based on these things, based on how well
they know the truth and how well they follow it. Karla Homolka
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what could Eva Ibrahim always is harkaway Jacoba ODL ad will ever
saw. This it is these two qualities that Allah phrased His
prophets with when he mentioned Ibrahim and his half and Iacob
Allah said with core and mentioned or and remember our servants
Ibrahim and his half Ania coupe the people of add meaning power
and upside insights.
What Why did they deserve phrase? He says because these prophets had
two qualities. Oral ad meaning they are strong ad is plural have
yet hand
and hand denotes what? Strength. Right you're able to do? Well
absorber Ciara is insight
because they have these to Allah azza wa jal praise them. Hello,
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as is. So humanity is divided because of these two into four
categories.
Right? And you could come up with these categories on your own based
on these two qualities. So he says the first of those who have both
of them, they have knowledge, right knowledge, right action. And
the as he said, these are the best of creation.
It says, Then you have those who are the opposite. They don't have
knowledge and they don't have action, wrong knowledge wrong
action. Hey, you said man lebuh skeleton Oh fit Dino La Quwata.
They don't have power.
And they don't have knowledge. He says these are most of people.
These are most people.
And they are the worst. So interesting, right. And he's gonna
have an interesting description for them. But he says these are
the worst. And these are most
most of humanity belongs to what category? This?
Right. He says a lady in order to whom cuddle room is a seeing them
is like a speck to your eye. It's harmful to your eye, it's
disturbing to your eye.
We're human Urwa. And it is the fever of the soul, meaning it's a
disease to the soul. So meaning being around them is harmful,
physically and spiritually.
Looking at them is a contamination, because what are
they doing?
Anything and everything wrong?
What they're doing is everything and anything wrong. So when you
look at them, they harm you that you're looking at something ugly.
The reason why you we don't see them as ugly is because we lack
these powers. Otherwise, they'll be the ugliest thing to us. Right?
You know how when someone
smokes a lot until they get used to that,
to that smell.
Or he's around smokers and he gets gets used to that smell and also
to the smell of their mouth. So it's not repulsive anymore. So
what happened?
It's not that the smell itself had become sweet, you got used to it,
your Fedora got changed. So he says looking at them is despicable
is ugly is harmful. See would look at the famous people that people
celebrate, that fit that category and people lust over them by not
only liked them, they lust over them, they love them, they wish to
be them, they would wish to be next to them and they lacked that
scale.
Then you understand that the problem is not with them any not
that they become beautiful. But we have become what? Ugly, unable to
detect that ugliness. See, so he says spiritually they are
infectious. Like a fever.
And physically it's hard to look at. Then he says we're so common
elope and they are the sickness of the heart. Then he continues
right? The description is kind of unique but an interesting one. You
the Hakuna Dr. He says they crowd the lands
they can see restricted constrained and they as if they
populated for no reason.
There's no benefit. They bring no benefits. So they just what they
crowd the areas that they are in, but they don't blink with that
benefit while you Hulu and LSR and they cause prices to soar.
That's interesting. They cause prices to soar to go up. Now
inflation right. You say but how do they cause that is a either by
their sins.
Remember when we talked about when people's sin Baraka is taken away.
And part of that Baraka is for things to be available and when
they are pricey then they are not in reverse Baraka so because of
their sins prices rise.
But that's not the only reason is because of their misdeeds because
they are corrupters in the land. So they steal and they cheat and
they raise prices to make money right.
They steal from you and if they can make a buck they will make a
buck. So they increase prices unnecessarily just like all
All of or not all, what a lot of these corporations do when they
can get away with it, they will increase prices and use inflation
as a reason. Right? So they will steal your money so you don't LSR.
And you wonder why it is so expensive. You have some of the
answer.
That's why economists, if they are not religious, don't have the full
picture.
Now you cannot study economy, and come up with conclusions as to how
to fix us state or an a particular economy.
And you don't know Allah has his origin, you have only wordly
solutions. But you don't have the whole picture.
Similarly, also, you cannot be a psychologist, or a therapist, or a
counselor, because some people ask about this, right? You cannot be
that
an effective one if you are not religious, and if you're not
knowledgeable,
you know what people said? But you have no idea what Allah said.
So if you're not grounded in Islamic knowledge, I don't mean
religious in the sense of well, I just pray and fast then okay,
fine, this is good for you. But how does that help me when I come
to ask you questions? No, unless you're grounded in knowledge, and
then you apply that in your life. And then you know, what people
have said about the human mind and the human self and what and they
will be able to decipher right from wrong by comparing it to what
Allah azza wa jal had stated, and what the Prophet alayhi salatu
salam had stated as well, then you will be a good psychologist,
therapist, counselor, what have you. So anything in the dunya that
is trying to offer solutions is incomplete until
it is grounded religiously, hello, I used to fail to be Sabeti him in
our version, or you only get shame and disgrace when you keep their
company. So that's the second category, most of humanity, right?
So a person has to be also scared when you hear this? Is it if this
is the most Am I among the most?
Am I among the most or not? And you will if you don't want to be
that then you need to escape it. Not just simply wish or assume
that you're not you need to escape it. How do you escape it? By what
he's going to be talking about? Listen with that this is the third
one. It says the who has insights they know right from wrong. Lucky
Now hold on a founder who whatever who attend fee the here with $1 T
Lee. It says he knows right from wrong, but he is weak, powerless
when it comes to the execution of what he knows or to call people to
it. He can't do it himself. And he cannot invite people to it. And he
says this is the weak believer, and the strong believer is better
than him. And we're beloved to Allah azza wa jal and that's the
Hadith of the Prophet Alayhi Salatu was Salam and McMinnville,
how are you? Hi Ron, what are Habu il Allah him in a minute, but if
the strong believer is better and more beloved to Allah than the
weak believer.
So what is the meaning of that hadith? Now you understand it? How
is that believers strong?
By having two things, what are they?
They know, and they act.
Right? Keep that in mind.
Because if you say to yourself, or somebody asks you, you know, by
the way, you know, I'm find myself to be a weak Muslim. How do I
become strong? What's your answer?
Now you know it.
Knowledge and action, you have to learn and you need to act, learn
more, read more, attend more, listen,
and also follow and strive and push yourself and keep doing these
two, because it's insufficient to be strong in one but weak in the
other. You still weak.
So this is a weak believer, a strong believer, and he is weak
because what he knows right from wrong, he just doesn't follow it.
And that again, that's also he doesn't say this. But that's also
the case for a lot of us. We know, we just really don't follow, but
at least we know
and that's better than being completely devoid of strength. At
least you know, maybe later, you'd be able in sha Allah to follow it.
And Chris Mirabella the fourth one, he says he is the one who has
energy, enthusiasm, zeal, but no insight in religion, unable to
distinguish between the allies of the Rahman and the allies.
Have the shaytaan the friends of Allah azza wa jal, those who are
close to him and those who are close to the shaytaan he can tell
them apart.
But yes, so that in Tamra, these are you know, kind of like idioms
or Proverbs, He says, But he believes that every black thing is
a date. And every white thing is a piece of fat. And he thinks that a
swelling an animal that is sick, and is swelled because of that
sickness, he think it's fat. And he thinks that the medicine or he
thinks that we are Scible he thinks that the medicine is poison
if you present him with medicine either way that's poisonous. So he
doesn't take it
so it's kind of humorous to write but this is cut up this is how
they conveyed that message. Dates is every black thing is a date he
has no clue or every white thing is what has a piece of fat to eat,
he has no clue or he sees an animal or mashallah This is fact
it but it was sick. It's sick, but it's just as swelled. So he says
has no insight, he has energy. And again, you will find people like
that. among Muslims, you can see them, they have a lot of energy.
May Allah bless that energy that they have. They're willing to do a
lot, talk a lot, March speak to a lot of things. But when it comes
to their knowledge, it's almost non existent. They want to do a
lot of good but they don't know right from wrong. They need
direction. And sometimes they are amenable, they are open to that
direction. They are said they will say, I don't know.
I don't know tell me
because I don't want to do mistakes. And some No, they're
stubborn. No, no, no, no, this is what needs to be done. And it's
you guys who are the problem, right? So you need strength in
both. And if you are not strong in one, you need someone to
compliment you. Right? You need someone to compliment you. Just
I'm reminded of a Shafi Rahim Allah. When he spoke to Mohammed
Rahim Allah and he said unto Allah Momina will Hadith he says, you
know Hadith better than we do. So tell us when it's authentic,
whether it is from Iraq or a sham or an hijas. So we would follow
it. So Shafi recognized what okay, I'm not I didn't spend time it's
not like he's not brilliant. He is but he didn't spend time pursuing
a hadith like other scholars did not as much he did but not as much
so as as your new Hadith more he knew, Okay, this is something I
like.
And it is wise to understand what you like, it is wise to know what
is missing. So he said, You compliment me. So if somebody is
weak is a compliment me, I'm strong here. Compliment me in my
areas of weakness. This is how people proceed to Allah azza wa
jal colourway Sofia Allah Emmanuel Imam, but if it didn't, Well, who
am older under her civil Christmas over? He says none of these people
is qualified to be an Imam, religiously a leader, religiously
except the first category, the rest cannot be leaders. They have
to follow but the leader is only the first who has both of these
things. Knowledge and action called Allahu Allah he is now
working to confirm this. He says What do you mean home emitter?
Yeah, don't be a Marine Allah Masaharu what can we be Aya Tina
yokley noon he said and we made from them we've selected from
among them at ima leaders who will guide with our commands because we
commanded them lemme here's why they were selected limb muscle but
when they were patient, and they were certain of our eyes, they had
conviction.
So these two things patience and conviction card for about US of
Hannah who so Allah said that be Sabri Alia kini nurdle Imam ATAPI
Deen. He says because of patience and certainty, they acquired
leadership or Imam AMA, religiously. And that is a
statement that comes from ignitor you may or himolla animalium
repeats it, and it's widespread. That is if you were to read or to
listen, this is something that gets repeated often. So listen to
it again. Right. Bill EB Sabri will your Kadena will Mr. Motta
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It is with patience and conviction that they became leaders
religiously before that you're not qualified to be right. So what is
a sub Alia theme Alia clean is this knowledge. And a stopper is
their power, patience. That's the power. That's the action. So they
believed in something and they patiently pursued it. That's how
they became leaders. And they resisted those who fought them.
And that's how Allah azza wa jal saw
acted. Hello hola Humann Latina stuff Nahum Allah subhanahu
germinative hustling. This is these people that category, that
first category, it says that's the one that Allah excluded from the
cat form the losers from the multitudes who are losers walk
Somerville, Austria and he took an oath with the US of the time,
which is the time that you spend either to win or lose this time
is the time that you use, or the arena that people use to either
win or lose that everybody else is a loser, except
the categories that he excluded. So Allah has added when he said
we'll ask, he swore by the time this is our actions, where are
they in time during time, it says in Berlin or in the US in Santa Fe
host. Indeed, humans are in loss, so everybody's a loser. Illa. Now
the exception, and the exception tells you what the most or what
losers and the exception are the exception, but most are losers.
Illa Dina, he said, I'm Anwar Amuro. Solly had so they have a
man and they have good deeds, and they counsel each other to follow
the truth and they counsel each other to be patient, call me
active even don't be mad if I did. They were sobre la. He says he was
not enough for Allah to say that they will escape being among the
losers when they know the truth and they are patient with it until
they counsel each other to follow it, guiding each other to it and
asking each other to be patient only then would you be excluded
from it.
So to have Eman just Iman, no.
Amen. Well, Amira, Saudi had great but you're still incomplete.
Until you do what?
Until you say to each other, follow the truth. remind each
other follow the truth, guide people follow the truth. And then
of course, when you follow the truth, you are going to be
resisted and harmed. You have to insulted attacked. So they say be
patient with it. Follow the truth and be patient with it follow the
truth and be patient with us as a only when they do this, they
become among the successful. So the recipe for success is there
is not a mystery if it was a mystery for us on the mystery.
Now, the recipe for success is right there. Allah, everybody else
other than this category are losers. And it's known he said
that sins and disobeying Allah azza wa jal, they blind the heart
so the heart fails or start to fail to see the world as it is the
truth as it is the clarity, the heart, heart loses clarity, or
thought of overthought over to Azeema immature, and even the
result of the heart and its zeal weakens.
Right?
Fella your spirit.
He doesn't have patience to follow it.
The truth right, he doesn't have patience sought to lose patients
to follow patients with it. Balcatta Awara to alcohol he says
man indeed sins could keep attacking the heart had they and
it says Roku camera and IQ say Euro.
The sins could overwhelm the heart until his perception is inverted
or reversed as his movement is reversed. For you to recall both
in a Harken. We'll talk about tila. So he sees as falsehood the
truth and truth is falsehood. The opposite. He doesn't see it as it
is anymore. But the opposite. See, understand what he's saying. He
says, since in the beginning, we'll do what will we can you
see, you don't see all the truth, but you still see some right.
And you're not completely immobilized, you still do some
good but what has happened is that you are weaker in its pursuit.
You're not as
energetic
as patient as you were before, but you still have some power. But if
they keep the sinski visiting the heart than visiting the heart,
then visiting the heart, you become sicker and sicker and
weaker and weaker until you lose a complete perception of reality.
You know what know what the truth is anymore? The truth now is
repellent to
like a people people could listen to the Quran and run away from it.
You can tell them no alcohol and these things this is barbaric.
Prohibited prohibiting alcohol is barbaric. Prohibiting Zina is
barbaric Where is freedom of choice, they can just see it
So they will be attracted to like only if you open the doors of sin.
This is a physical road that has sins in it and a physical road
that has what pleases Allah. That road that pleases Allah repels
them, they don't want to be there the people who please Allah repel
them, but the door that and the path the actual road right that
has these shops in it that have said Allah that attracts them and
the people in it attract them and they could spend hours listening
to them. So that perception of the heart has been reversed, right.
Whereas marathon current or non current rufa so falsehood and evil
are a falsehood and truth are reversed.
For in techies if you say you're a so it's traveled to Allah azza wa
jal gets reversed and he walks backward. So he goes away from his
travel to Allah and to the Day of Judgment. To his travel, he
stopped traveling to Mr. Karina fossil Mattila to what empty souls
are engaged in the ones that are simply satisfied with this dunya
and happy with it, and in attentive and negligent of Allah's
and his ideas, and does not wish to meet him Subhanallah with that,
so he's saying that, if that's the only punishment for sin, it would
be sufficient, right. Then he continues,
and he said
that he wants here to note to kind of highlight or emphasize how, as
sin kind of leaves darkness in the heart, Allah's obedience will
deposit light. And that light is able to not only resist, but
defeat J shaytaan. as well. And he will, you know, present an analogy
here he says what a mountain Ultra to know we will call it says
righteousness enlightens the heart, right. With the blue waters
cooler water away what with a better so it can polishes the
heart, strengthens it, and establishes it, right. So he says
had the Sierra Club in Moscow that if he jolla here was offered EFI,
I'm telling you, Nora, it becomes like a polished mirror in it.
Meaning completely polished, completely pure.
And
filled with light fader, Dennis shaytaan, Amin who Asaba homie
naughty, he says when the shaytaan comes close to that heart that is
filled with light, it will be burned or harmed by that light, as
he when he's trying to eavesdrop, in this case, to what the angels
are talking about to the purity of what the angels are talking about.
He'd be hit, right?
He'd be hit and he'll be chased and he'll be burned because of it.
So he says it's the same thing. Shaitan would be so afraid of that
heart worse than a greater fear than the wolf from the lion.
And I was thinking as I'm reading it, why did he use the wolf with
the lion is because he had mentioned before that the shaytaan
is the wolf of humanity.
shaytaan with a boo Benny Adam, that the shaytaan is your Wolf,
and he will devour you who will eat you.
And that indicates weakness, right that we are weak. But he's saying
that if you have Allah azza wa jal beside you and if you have paw
righteousness in your heart, your heart would be so strong and so
pure and so lit that when the shaytaan wants to come close, you
will burn him, and he'll be afraid of you like a wolf from a lion
meaning you become a lion.
You will become strong like a lion, now weak anymore.
Not really susceptible and open to all the whispers of the shaytaan.
Now, he'll never stop whispering, will the shaytaan ever stop
whispering? Can you ever reach a stage when you say now I'm free
from the whispers of shaytaan?
Can it? No.
But he says he's very apprehensive when he approaches
very afraid when he comes close to you. And he says had the inner
Sahiba who lay us or or shaytaan he says indeed that that person
could beat the shaytaan could overpower him throw him to the
ground. He said for your liberal sorry, I he will fall to the
ground. So the shayateen will come and say what happened to him? He
says an insert an inci human being overpowered him put him to the
ground.
And that's an image of Allahu Allah and because that's not a
thing that if not I am witness physically happening. Allahu Anam.
But who is saying that this is an image that he'd be so defeated so
weak that the other Shire
Tina will be amazed what happened to him. Why is he so defeated is
as the he is trying to mess with a strong human. Right, a strong
human. And of course there is a basis for this. In the Hadith of
the Prophet Alayhi Salatu was Salam that the believer weakens,
weakens his shaytaan like you weaken your camel, in a long
travel. You know how you ride a camel. And the camel writes for a
long time and you don't have enough water and don't have enough
food. By the end of the trip. The camel is weak, tired, hungry, it
says you weaken as a believer, if you are a strong believer, you
weaken your shaytaan like a weak camel, taken a long trip. So
that's not a strong shaytaan versus the shaytaan of the
disbelievers. As they state they say you will find the shaytaan the
disability of her fat and happy
because he eats with them and he drinks with them. And he sleeps
with them. And he does everything and they listen to him. And he
doesn't have to what do a lot he doesn't have to do. They're not
fighting him. He just says do something, they'll do it
Hello, and then he just brings and he likes poetry Rahimullah. So it
says, a look from a heart of a liberated right man or lit man or
lit person that is about to burn the shaytaan. So that he's saying
is that you could be filled with light that you can burn that. So
is this heart he is saying similar to the heart of another who is
filled with a darkness of sin,
filled with the confusion of different desires. The shaytaan
has taken him as his home as his base does with it whatever he
wants it as a suborbital it when he wakes up in the morning, the
shaytaan greets him. And he says welcome. I know that you'll never
be successful in this life or in the next welcome because what he
achieved his goal.
So again, some verses of poetry.
I will he says I am your companion in the dunya and in resurrection
and after. So you are my companion everywhere. So if in the land of
misery, I am with you. We'll be both will be in misery together,
meaning I brought misery to you in the dunya. And I will always be
with you. And I'll make sure that you'll never escape that misery.
But how did there was able to do this is because we've given him
the keys to our hearts and the keys to our lives and keys to our
bodies. Otherwise they don't have that power. They can just only
whisper. So if you want the shaytaan To be your companion, he
will be your companion. Right.
And even law as I've just said some claim coach this area. Why
would the shayateen become people's companions, QA that will
Mejia Chu and Victoria Rahmani Naka Yecla who che Atlanta for
hula hula Corinne.
He says I'm the one who Yeah, sure and decree Rama. Yeah, sure means
weekends and Asha is to have weekend site. You could be blind
or just weak in sight. So so if you are weak in your sight, when
it comes to our remembrance of Allah, or you are blind when it
comes to the remembrance of Allah, so you turn away from Him. And by
the way, that disease begins as a smaller disease.
We weakness insight, you forget, then you forget some more. Right?
Then you forget some more, then you forget some more, until you
are completely forgetful.
So when you truly turn away from Allah isodiol Allah said, what we
appoint him in the shaytaan Hola, hookeri. He is his companion.
And you say why does this happen because the place is vacant.
And places in this unit are in this world don't stay vacant,
right? Like if you're living if you are living in a beautiful
house, and he says simply leave it. Don't you think a person will
come and
take residence in it?
Right? It's not going to stay empty.
So Allah is saying that when you turn away from Allah azza wa jal
and the place is empty, your heart is empty. Do you think the
shaytaan is going to say I'm going to leave it empty? I say oh, okay,
that's my time now, so that she thought comes. So this will Allah
says, For Hawala, whoa, Corinne, then interestingly, Allah said
we're in the Himalayas, so doing a home Annie Sabine.
We have some guna in the home moto Dune is and they block them from
Allah's path, they miss guide them while they think that they are
guided
Look at that's the travesty of it. Because as long as you think that
what you're doing is wrong, there is hope that you'll come back.
Right? There is hope there's always hope as long as somebody is
ashamed, okay, maybe you will wake up one day.
But if you think that you're guided, while you're not guided,
how will you ever come back?
How will you come back?
So that's a version of the human fitrah. And the human perception
is the most dangerous thing. Because how would you argue with
this person to try to convince them that this path is wrong?
He's adamant, no, no, this is right. And you're wrong, you're
backward. Something is wrong with you. What are you telling me about
God and prophets and day of judgment and all of this? What are
you talking about Islam? What are you talking about? You know, being
pious and being righteous leave the dunya. That's not my scene.
That's not my mood. That's not what I want to do. That's not what
attracts me. There are other things in life that are exciting.
This is just so dull and boring and what? So how could you reach
that person? You could always make dua and keep giving Dawa. But how
could you reach that person who doesn't even think that what
they're doing is wrong anymore? That this is right. Nothing wrong
with it. We're supposed to live the way we think we like to live
to. We set our own morality.
Right is what I think is right wrong is what I think is wrong,
right? Isn't that how a lot of people think so how how do you
convince that person so he Subhanallah the shaytaan misguides
them and they think that they are following the truth had the either
Anna see but see the difference here? Until when He comes to us
meaning on the day of judgment call Aelita Vainio vena cava
mashallah clean, if we sell Korean, he will say to his
companion, I wish that there is a distance between me and you like
Eastern West your worst companion, right. Then Allah says, What are
you in for alcohol Yama, Ilam, to convey will either be Musa Deikun
This is a will not be sufficient for you are consoling in any sense
for you that today both of you are experiencing the same punishment,
and it will play him will explain it. So
even though came here Rahim Allah explains the ayah that just
explained that Allah azza wa jal when he, you turn away from Him
and the shaytaan comes and he blocks you from understanding his
book and knowing Allah azza wa jal that compat shaytaan will be with
you all the time. Carla, you've heard it. Hola, philia kamati
wonderful, missy. Whether you're traveling or you are a resident,
He will never leave you. He is always with you. And he breaks
this verse of poetry, or the alley Benny 30. And I'm taka sama be as
Hamidah Jean I will do then at the for Rocco. He says that they drink
the same milk from the same mother? Or did they swear at night
that forever we will not separate?
So that he's saying any kind of bring this verse to say, what are
these two together? Are they brothers? They drank the same milk
from the same mother. That's why they're always together? Or did
they by chance swear one of those nights that forever we will be
together? Why which one of the two? So is saying that's this
strange companionship between this Shavon and that human human being?
What are you with him and he is with you. You're not brothers.
So why did you take him as your companion that he says continues
that the shaytaan blocks him and then Miss guys him and he think
that he is guided
and on the Day of Judgment, he will say that I wish that I've
never knew you and that the distance between us is like east
and west. Then he continues explaining the last part of the
last part of the last idea. However McKenna Musab OOIDA
Sharika Highgrove, he Mousavi, muesli, but he has a little bit to
see. Now the key if you notice, Lea, it says when you're
afflicted, and you see that others also have the same affliction,
that mutual pain that you know that people also are going through
consoles, you lessens the affliction, right, knowing that
while others have gone through the same thing, right? And all of us
know this feeling. If you're going through any to anything terrible,
and somebody comes and says, You know what? I had that same
sickness not long ago. You immediately feel what?
Better or worse, better?
Or you know what, I'm going through the same thing at this
time. If you're I'm not alone, right? I'm not alone. So, mutual
affliction, or common affliction decreases the intensity of the
affliction itself. Well, it's not just me. And it's not just me with
suffering with high prices. Everybody is okay far. It's not
just me. It's not been me who's always stuck in traffic everybody
is so that's fine.
Not only or who is has trouble this or that everybody does. So
that's fine. Why because everybody has it. So it becomes easier. So,
so he said here, but this mutual affliction that makes the
affliction itself
easier is that this is not happening in the on the day of
judgment, because the companion will not find any relief or any or
the least joy because the other is being punished as well. Right? So
that mutuality or commonality brings no relief. That's why Allah
says Allah Yun Falcone, oma in column two is not going to help
you today that both of you are experiencing the same punishment
in the dunya will help but in the era, you will not find the least
bit of relief because at least he's being punished. No.
None None of it. Well, you cannot tell masa it will be dunya either.
I'm not sorry. at Mozilla. It says when panic or afflictions or
travesties in the dunya when they are widespread. People start kind
of to get more used to them or to forget their intensity, as Hansa
said about her brother, sir.
And I just find that interesting, because that's why I'll explain
it. Soil concert this is before she accepted Islam, and his famous
that her brother passed away. So she composed these poems
in his remembrance, and then part of what he said, Follow Luca
throttled by Kena. Holy Allah is learning him Lockington turneffe.
See what may have caught them if the Athena wala Qin was enough son
who betta See, he says, and if not, that there are multitudes
around me crying over the brothers, I would have killed
myself.
I want to say, if not for the fact that a lot of people around me are
crying because they also lost their brothers. Because of my
laws, I would have killed myself. If not, that I've seen that it's
common that this happens. Then she said, Well may have called me see.
And then he said, they're not crying over someone even close to
my brother.
Like my brother is something else.
Everybody is nothing like him. Wala King was enough, sir. Nobita.
See, but I console myself by observing that common affliction.
Right? So it's very beautifully put, right? Very beautifully put
from her. And that this is true.
And that's why a way to console people as long as you're not
exposing a sin of yours. Yeah, is to tell him Yes, I went through
this, or I know people who have gone through this, and they
conquered it, or they were able to withstand it, or they survived it.
So it tells you that there is hope. Right? And it rescues that
person from the depths of despair and the whispers of the shaytaan
that tries to tell everybody, you're the only one and your
problem is the biggest problem and you can there's no escaping it. So
this is also how to help people by pointing that commonality of
affliction. So he said, Rahman Allah that Allah azza wa jal had
deprive people of that even that type of relief in the era if they
are being punished.
Okay, trying to decide, okay, so we can do questions, or I can
continue, do you guys have a lot of questions?
Not yet.
Okay. Because the next chapter is probably not going to be finished
by time for Asia. So anyway, we'll do all the parts of it, I guess,
then we'll answer some questions. And Shawn, unless you like,
absolutely determined to say no, stop, we have a lot of questions
to ask. And I can stop.
Okay.
Continue David show life.
Hello, I mean, Alphabet DL. So he says on a form, it's punishment is
that it will strengthen your enemy, right? By
endowing him or giving him greater supplies, greater soldiers,
greater power against you and your enemies, the shaytaan. So, in this
hole was called a chapter, he's going to tell you that this is a
state of jihad. This whole world that you're in is a state of
jihad. And this, by the way, is very interesting. And we're going
to come and we will talk about it, he will tell you how it is a state
of jihad, but it's not a time or a place for you to be comfortable.
This is not the time or the place for you to find comfort, not in
the dunya. The dunya is a place of jets. So imagine yourself a
soldier and the soldier says I want to take a nap I want to rest
as a no soldier station, right? You have an enemy and the enemy is
out to get
You, and the enemy is plotting against you. And if you're not
ready if you're not fit, and if you're not smart, he will destroy
you. So this is not the time for you to relax or let your guard
down. This is the time for you to fight. So when you sin, he's
saying now in the you're in that state of jihad, and you know that
you're a soldier, and there's a soldier who is fighting you, then
you're strengthening your enemy to defeat you. That is the idea here,
right?
So he said, well, that he can Allah have to have that incentive.
You are the winner. You've heard it pulls out further it is
amazingly Allah had afflicted or had tested humanity, each human
with an enemy, that does not leave you a blink of an eye.
Right? Other enemies do human enemies. But this doesn't leave
you a blink of an eye. And he does not sleep
to let go of you. And he does not. He's not neglectful of you.
He's always watching. He's always plotting. He's always trying
Yahuwah Kabira woman highschooler era he sees you but you don't see
him. He's counting the advantages.
So doesn't leave you a blink of an eye. He doesn't sleep he doesn't
neglect sees you but you don't see him. And he says he does his best
to harm you. And he does not leave a plot but try to throw it your
way or send it your way. While you're still a no lie. Benny obey
Him in shayateen and Ginny, why you to him in Shayateen it ends
and he enlists the devil's from the jinn. And he enlisted the
devil's from humans as well.
He has two contingents, right, two groups, he'll bring the gin
against you who are Shayateen it doesn't stop there. He'll bring
also humans against you as well. All right. Qualified masala hula
hubba. Ada will Hawa ADA will Assura Karl fuca he says what he
says, now he has these traps set up for you everywhere. And he says
to his helpers, this is your enemy and the enemy of your father.
Who's Who's his father.
A police
says this is your enemy and the enemy of your father lay of who to
come Don't let go of him. Don't let him enter agenda and you enter
Hellfire right don't let him be murder be receive Allah's mercy
and you receive Allah's curse. Don't let that be you know what
happened to us because of them
all right. So you see that hostility, so if not, I am is
trying kind of to convey to you that hostility, and you can
understand it because humans sometimes have that hostility. If
one family harmed one for another family, they say okay, we're gonna
we're gonna make sure that they are wretched, that they're
miserable, that they're not successful. So there's your
thought has that animosity, that hatred that revenge is a don't let
them you know what happened to us, because of them. Because of them.
We were expelled from heaven. So make sure that they will be your
partners in Allah's curse, since you could not be with their
righteous in heaven.
Meaning if you are drowning, let them drown with you. If you are
going down you bring them down with you because you know where
they are, they are going Why would you let them succeed? You bring
him down you do your best. So he said Allah azza wa jal told that
that this is all because of our enemy and he told us to be ready
for it meaning you already have had been told this and what a man
it must have Hannah who other more of any But Buddha we have other
Selita I am I'm a dome Yasaka or June. He says, when Allah knows,
this is your enemy. And this is what they have for you. Allah azza
wa jal give gives you gave you reinforcements gave you soldiers
gave you help.
Welcome a so called jihad, if you had the hit Darphin with the long
run, he established jihad in this world, as long as you live.
So the armies of the shayateen are against you. And he says you also
have an army and enforcement's and soldiers against them. And this
time this life is that time of jihad. Which is what he says it
compared to the hereafter is like one breath that you take
in all of this because if you say to yourself, all this life is
jihad, right? I'm already tired like I'm already tired. I'm
already gonna surrender. I'm already way, way way, the way
down. All of this life is jihad like till I'm 5060. And this is
still going on, is think all of this in the hereafter is just like
one breath, right? I don't know if he would do it the same way he did
it, but it's just one breath. That's it and
It's done. So the hereafter is forever. So whenever you think I'm
too tired, say is just one more hour, two more hours, one more
day, two more days, it'll be over, and eventually it will be over. So
it's just one breath.
And he said he had Allah azza wa jal had declared a 10 transaction
with the believers, he buys from them their souls and their money
and he will give them gender and exchange, they will fight for the
sake of Allah xojo They will be killed and be killed. And Allah
says this is a promise that Allah had given them in the Torah and
the NGL and the Quran and Allah azza wa jal has the best of
promise. So he says, If you want to understand how heavy that
transaction is, how
profitable how the how that transaction is, look at the one
who has offered the price, look at the one who has guaranteed it and
look at what you have, and you will gain Allah zoton has offered
it the prophets a lot here Salam has conveyed it and the price that
you get back is what is heaven.
So he says the most profitable of transactions are UFOs in other
women Heather, what are you did you are out in Aruba home in Ho
what is there a greater success? Or is there a more profitable
transaction? As Allah azza wa jal says, Hello to LUCAM Allah Tiara
into G Caminada in LM Shala and I point you to a transaction that
will save you from severe punishment. You will believe in
Allah and His messenger and do jihad or strive and Allah sake
with your money and yourselves, this is best for you, if you but
no Allah as the tool will forgive your sins and admit you into
heavens, under which rivers will flow and beautiful abodes and
eternal heavens, that equal foes will Aleem, and something else
that you love a victory from Allah xojo.
And he said here, if someone were to ask, but why, why did Allah
xojo destined this jihad? So we would love to have concluded at
his in an arena of jihad, this this world. But Why did Allah
decree it that way, as difficult as it is for everybody to go
through it? He said, Allah azza wa jal did not give him power, to be
able to harm you and to be able to attack you.
Except because this jihad is the most beloved thing to him, because
it extracts the most beloved things from humanity.
But this jihad is beautiful to Allah azza wa jal, because when it
happens, the people who engage in Jihad become the best of people.
And Allah azza wa jal elevates them because of the sacrifice they
are willing to offer. So before it, they're at one level.
But they have not yet been tested, not yet been harmed, not yet have
agreed to say yes, I will give my life to Allah.
I will give up their think to for Allah. I'll give my money for
Allah. They didn't offer that sacrifice yet. They were interred
and that's yet say, I'll continue to be patient, and I'll trust him
Subhana wa Tada. Despite that harm, they didn't say any of that
yet. So Allah wants to extract from them the best of them and
develop in them the best. That's what Allah azza wa jal had made
this earth and arena for jihad.
Tharaka Subhana Haleiwa a hurdle hurdle harp li Hola, Sati MK
Locati, he will who will come Allah azza wa jal have kind of
established that this war or allow that war because of the most
selective his creation which is the heart
that the primary goal of all of this is the heart
right? The fight is over what what is going to be won or lost is what
the heart
so the whole lot is so interesting, this is what he says
hold on. So to mark Locati the selective Allah's creation is the
heart. The best of you is your heart. Under the Hua notice what
he how he describes it, a lady who I'm a Hulu Malfatti when I had
Betty were abou the Yeti, he will is La Silla who what the word
kuleana he will inhabit la he found the Who am Rohan so this is
the place the heart where you would know Allah and whether you
would love him and where you would worship Him. And you are you would
be devoted to him and you would we would be relied on him you will
you would rely on Him and you would return to him. So he made it
responsible for that war.
It is the commander it is the king. It is what is going to be
won or lost. So it is this place that has everything that Allah
loves.
And it gets developed when you wage a war against the enemies of
Allah the Shavon
and you win it, and he harms you and you harm him and you continue
to fight until death. And he says why yet we'll be joined didn't
mean that Mullah Katella will fail your corner. It says and he given
him angels, soldiers, supporters that never leave him. Like the
shaytaan never leaves, right? Is the angels they never leave Lahoma
Oktibbeha to mean beignet, they heal. I mean healthy. Yeah,
following a home in amarilla. He says they have successive angels
in front of them and beeps and behind him, they protect him by
the command of Allah azza wa jal.
So we know about the angels that record right.
Good and bad. We know about them. But the Acrobat is stated here
Lahoma octave atom mania, the human selfie, he has angels in
front of him and behind him, they preserve him and protect him, by
Allah's decree and by Allah's command, right.
So you are Jacobo bombala they succeed each other meaning when
one goes, the other one takes his place, could no matter how about
their own job or their own, or with a bituin. They make him
steadfast, they command him to do good, they exert him to do it. And
they promise him that Allah will honor him, and they make
impatient, right? Why are coluna in Namaha sabrosa, they tell him,
it's just a patience for an hour, and then they will, you will relax
forever, they will be comforted forever. So Subhanallah, as you
may be aware of some times that there is a devil that is
whispering, and he say, oh, that we live in a shaytaan a regime.
Also there is an angel that is supporting you. And the effect or
the consequence of that angel sometimes is when you feel
yourself being pushed to do something good. You remember
something good, or I should pray, I should wake up I should read the
Quran. Oh, I remember something good. I should go I should forgive
so and so I should give so so and so a gift. I should call him you
are reminded.
What is this reminder come from? Likely from the angels of Allah
xojo around you, they are supporting you, pushing you to do
good as they know that the shayateen are pushing you to do
evil, you have angels that are pushing you to do good. And they
are what asking you to be patient. Yeah, go to the masjid. But you
know what people are terrible. And this and that is be patient. Be
patient go to the masjid. So you go Hi, everyone, I mean, it's too
hot. It's too cold. And, you know, hot was too long calipers too long
this I could do be doing something else to go, just go and listen, go
and listen, you, you learn something, it's better for you.
It'd be wasting your time if you do something else. So if you find
that in you acknowledge it that tn Hamdulillah I have that impulse, I
have that field, I have that energy, take advantage of it.
Because that could be a touch really of an angel, touching your
heart touching your body to push you do the right thing. So Allah
Azza did not leave you alone, he sent angels, you know how in the
Battle of bed. He sent angels physically to fight. If you're
fighting this jihad, Allah gives you angels as well.
So you feel fortunate and you feel protected because of it.
Then he said Allah subhanaw taala also gave him his revelation and
his words to support him. And he says also Allah subhanho wa Taala
had given him
an alkyl he gave him this mind to be able to understand and he gave
him certainty. And he sent it he continues to increase until he
could see the hereafter in front of his eyes so he could see
Allah's promises in front of his eyes and Allah's punishment in
front of his eyes. So you could use your your pain, your certainty
could develop to such an extent it's as if you could see it with
your own eyes, right before it actually happens.
Right.
Colosseum SubhanaHu wa mnb had an armory Bukoba koala Herati Well,
Martina said that Allah as it also gave him additional support. So he
gave him let's say, a pious eye and he's going to be talking about
how the shaytaan utilizes, and this is for next week, but in the
last version, how the shaytaan tries to invade you through your
eyes and ears and these entrance entry points. So his has Allah as
didn't protects him or he gives him an eye that protects them and
ear that protects him a tongue that protects them hands and feet,
our legs and also angels that are asking Allah to forgive him and to
protect him from evil and to admit them into paradise. And Allah has
devoted himself also defends him. So the greater of Hyatt he has
Allah azza wa jal also defends him. And he also finally and
that's interesting he says, We're Allah subhanahu a bear the hook a
fee at the heart, the heart of this Allah had taught His servants
how to win this Jihad how to win this battle. And he brings this
idea from the conclusion of Surah Ali Imran
It was just talking about physical jihad, and he applies it to the
spiritual jihad. So Allah he says Allah had in four sentences or
infer four words. Allah has summarized how to wage that jihad.
So he says, Yeah, you have Levina Ermanno is Biru while Saburo What
are we to what the hola hola hola come to flee when he says four
things that you need to do all you have Iman. This, by the way is
true in physical jihad. And it's true in your spiritual jihad is
will have patience.
But I am says that it's not enough to have patience until you have
Sadhguru Saburo is to have more patience than your enemy.
You know how you can outsmart a person and this is to outpatient a
person. He's patient.
When I was saying, Okay, your patient and his patient who's
going to win
you must have more patients than he is.
So in barrel, those who are more patient when
if you give up because it's just too long. No, you're already
defeated. Right? You already defeated, right? I don't know. I
mean, I've heard an expression and they call it's like biting on
fingers. I don't know. Where does that come from? I have no clue.
But it's like who quits first like I'm biting on yours and you're
biting on mine who quits first there's no one with lost.
So that's the patience you have to have more patients than them. So
we have patients than more patients than them than third and
be stationed what arbitral This is just like a soldier you have to be
stationed at the borders so you don't let him in. You don't let
him sneak you don't let them attack your station.
What the hula and have to have Allah azza wa jal All right, so he
says here
what do you metal how the Thalassa I'm going to holiday Docomo Bihar
taco Allah says all those those three patients and have more
patients than and to have be stationed in preparation for that
fight. He says those three need tacos Allah azza wa jal so you
cannot have them and they be beneficial without Taqwa. And you
cannot have Taco without patience.
But let's suppose you want to have Taco could you have Taco without
patience?
How could you stay away from Hara? How could you pray? You need
patience? Okay, you have you're a very patient person. Will it be
useful without taqwa? What is it for?
What is it for? So he's saying okay, you need to be strong, but
for a reason. So if you have taqwa, and you are patient, and
you're stronger than your enemy, and you block all those entrances
of his and you're watching what he's doing, you win the fight.
And he will be talking about that in sha Allah as to how to be
station and how the shaytaan enters that will be inshallah for
next week.
But not me not shall if you have questions.
You mentioned about gaining knowledge, and today, we have
access to a lot of
say
progressiveness.
Nam Zakon. Now, so the brother is asking about priority knowledge.
So there's a lot of knowledge available, right? online books.
And so how to begin, how do you prioritize it? So few words for
that, first of all, the selection has to be made based on the
authenticity, the soundness of the knowledge itself, and the person
speaking. So you have to make sure that the person just like when you
visit a doctor, you have to make sure that they're actually a
doctor. And they're actually a good doctor. And only then you go
to them. And if they are a bad doctor, even if they've graduated,
graduated from school, if they're a bad doctor, you don't get to go
to them says the same thing. This person has to be reliable, and
what they're saying has to be reliable. So that's the first
thing. The second thing is to prioritize the basics. And what
benefits you
so the basics are you have to prioritize the basics that you
need in Al Qaeda, knowing Allah xojo to heat, right. And we've
talked about this before. Tawheed is not a very kind of dry subject.
No, it's about how you feel about Allah as though just so you know,
and you react. So you have to prioritize that to hate and based
on it, loving Allah and relying on him and trusting him Subhan Allah
to Allah and being devoted to him having a class which is among the
most difficult things to have but not impossible. So Arcada and then
what you need from fic right so that you could practice and you
know, and then
the CEO of
Prophet Alayhi Salatu was Salam. So you would know Him more and his
sunnah, so that he would know him more. And then you read the Quran,
and then the Tafseer of the Quran, and then you move beyond or more
based on what you need. Now for some people, and for some
places, they do have a program. And you could just simply follow
that program. Or if you're not going to join that program, you
take the curriculum, and you borrow the curriculum. And you're
able to follow the first year, this is what they study in our
theater and feel kind of seer and Hadith and what have you, if you
have that stamina if you want to do that. But if not, then you
cover the basics so that you know how you worship Allah azza wa jal,
and you're not found wanting when you meet him, and then based on
what benefits you Allah.
whispering to us, but one of the things that I was thinking is that
we also have the equal of vocal caps. And so how can we let's say
if someone is working for a member alive,
to fight off,
but how can they work on their weaknesses?
selves? No. So the question is about, okay, we talked about the
whispers of the shaytaan. But we also have inclinations, our own
inclinations towards sin towards temptation. How do we work?
How did you phrase it? How do we work with ourselves? Okay, how do
we fix ourselves? Right, so that we would overcome these
inclinations. So, first of all, as some people have asked before, how
do we know the difference between the whisper of the shaytaan and
the inclinations of the self and I've said before, it's really hard
to know and tell them apart, because they often are mixed, even
something comes from yourself, the shaytaan simply joins it, and
amplifies it and makes it stronger. So it's really not
possible and it's not very useful, because you have to deal with the
thing as it arrives not really go and investigate its origins, it
might be not be even possible to find the origins, but you deal
with it in the same way. Because as you suppress the whispers of
the Shaytaan, The inclinations of the self also will be suppressed.
So
the self has this appetite, right? And that appetite is a halal
appetite.
So if you feed it the halal it will be less inclined to do the
haram. So that's one thing to medicate yourself with. Is that
okay, I want to do this haram will give it the halal Can I just
satisfy. But if he's still inclined towards the Haram, you
need to kind of restrain it by reminding it that it is wrong and
engaging in much worship of Allah as odd that it does not find this
attractive anymore, finds it repulsive, or at least it
recognizes it will destroy it, so it runs away from it. And that was
where the Satan diminish because of how much time you're spending
with Allah versus away from him. So he has less power over you. So
the self is not as corrupt, right? So if the self receives less
corruption, it's likely to be less corrupt. And if it receives more
righteousness, it's likely to be more righteous and not command you
to be evil. And we talked before about enough's and how it moves
from being an Amara Bisou to Ultima in so you could kind of
transition from this to that from one that commands you to do evil
to one that is content or happy with Allah azza wa jal the more
good that you do the more that you invest the more that you yourself
have become that will lower
the I have other other people shall follow
and into
our care it's up to you you want to give it up I can come back to
you and show
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So hey, Zack Aloka Nam I've windshield concert lost her four
children in jihad. She didn't cry over them like she did cry over
her brother which tells you that the self of the believer the soul
of the believer, how it's very different than the soul of the
disbeliever and how it's more content with Allah's decree.
Whereas what it's doesn't know Allah it panics completely panics
online.
Okay in sha Allah let me see you here and consider
people around us will come our our hearts
so
different from the waistline
because what do you have?
It shouldn't not that I mean, just celebrating the day of honor for
fasting the day off on a different day.
Yeah.
No, I think they're fine. Well, I'll um, it's just the differences
is very, very small that it's not even a difference. And so that is
don't let it disturb you don't have to distribute radical
that are more engaging.
The more the darker is because it's such a good
factor. And
I think
more than it engages in sin.
Say
for example,
yes, yes, that's true. So, the question is that if a person is
more sinful, he is less likely to distinguish between right and
wrong. Is it the opposite true that a more righteous person is
more able to see the truth and understand the Quran and
understand the Hadith? Yes, absolutely. Well, May, Allah
Jalla, who for Karna, the one who has stuck of Allah azza wa jal,
Allah will grant him if he can write a criterion right? By which
he will be able to tell right from wrong. So there's a light that he
would be given. We talked about philosophy before right having
that insight or foresight to be able to recognize right from
wrong, so definitely Allah azza wa jal because he stayed away from
the Haram Allah azza wa jal grants him access to more of His bounties
not only worldly. These another most important one the religious
bounty so Allah azza wa jal let me stop here in sha Allah so don't
delay our Isha if you do have questions Inshallah, just write
them down. Give them to me, and I'm sure a lot I will dress them
better than Lazar than next week. Now.
So So,
so hey,
so hey
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