Ammar Alshukry – What to Do When Spiritually Stuck

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			sit at my desk when I fill out but a person can point to a moment in time in their life where they
just felt spirituality. They felt like they had so much pleasure and joy in their worship. They were
excited about it. It could have been when they were first practicing Islam. It could have been when
they were practicing Islam in university and they felt so engaged with the deen they felt so much
faith. And then time goes on. And their worship then becomes routine or their worship becomes
hollow, they don't find that sweetness in the citation of the Quran, they don't find that sweetness
in what they offer to Allah Subhana Allah to Allah. And Allah says, in Surah, that hadith, he says,
		

			Has not the time come for those who have believed that their hearts be soft into the remembrance of
Allah, and that they not be like those who were given the book from before and a long term past, and
many of them were for cassettes, Kulu boom, and their hearts became hard, well, cathedral minimum
farcical and many of them are transgressors. And so what's one of the ways to resolve this, this
notion of being spiritually stuck, my spirituality has been stuck for months or my spirituality has
been stuck for years. It's to simply make the craw of Allah. It is to increase your remembrance of
Allah. You know, when it comes to spiritual health, it's a lot like physical health. If you talk to
		

			doctors and say, What's one exercise that I can do that will help me they'll say walk, and people
respond, and they say, well, walking isn't exciting enough, I need to do CrossFit I need to do I
need to do some sort of, I need to do jujitsu, I need to run a marathon and they'll tell you just
know, over a lifetime for you to walk 10,000 steps every day, you will do better for your health
than any of these things. And so for us spiritual health, vicar of Allah is the equivalent of
walking, it's not super exciting. You don't necessarily feel but for your spiritual health, the idea
of being in a constant state of remembrance of Allah. And this was the prescription that the Prophet
		

			sallallaahu Selim would give to everybody who is busy. Let's face it, there are mothers who are busy
with their kids and dads who are busy with their kids. There are people who are busy with their jobs
or you leave that student's environment you leave that early practicing environment and you don't
have time necessarily anymore, but the thinking of Allah is something that you can do at any time in
any place. All of the time. It polishes your heart, and it removes that hardness