Haifaa Younis – Building My Eternal Abode (Part 3) I Sh Dr I Jannah Institute
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The importance of being true to oneself and not drinking water is emphasized, along with the need to know the day and time of life and control of the computer. The heart and control of the heart are discussed as important in shaping behavior, and the importance of reading and listening to the Quran is emphasized. The speaker advises on practice and staying present in a healthy and organic way to strengthen one's immune system, as well as learning to strengthen the heart and natural way.
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As-salamu alaykum.
Much better.
I can see you, alhamdulillah.
Already, but that's also going to put you
under the microscope.
Because I'm going to see who's focused, who's
looking at their phone, who's talking to each
other.
So, ready?
Bismillah.
Bismillah walhamdulillah wa salatu wa salam ala rasoolillah
wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa man wala.
اللهم علمنا ما ينفعنا وإنفعنا بما علمتنا إنك
سميع ومجيب الدعاء اللهم من يعوذ بك من
علم لا ينفع وقلب لا يخشع ونفس لا
تشبع ودعاء لا يسمع ربنا لا تزق قلوبنا
بعد إذ هديتنا وهب لنا من لدنك رحمة
إنك أنت الوهاب رب اشرح لي صدري ويسر
لي أمري واحلوا العقدة من لساني يفقه قولي
I'm going to take you through the second
journey now.
So, inshallah you all, I ask Allah, I
pray to Allah, I beg Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala that we all before the break
learned about something maybe majority of you knew
of but you were not focused or you
didn't pay attention to it or you didn't
know how important it is and that is
sincerity.
Sincerity.
Like if you're drinking water, why you're drinking
water?
I really mean it.
Everything you do, train you.
Don't teach anybody this yet.
You will teach it when it becomes your
habit.
And in fact people will see it on
you.
But now everything you do, why I'm here?
Why I'm drinking water?
Why I'm sitting?
Why I'm focusing?
Why I'm not?
Why I'm recording?
Why I'm not?
Now the second thing because we said this,
remember the lake?
Now this, if I apply this, everything that
is coming, all the rivers will end up
in this lake and the lake will be
pure, beautiful.
Anytime you see water, a lake, a river,
an ocean, a sea, ask yourself, is this
my heart?
So now a couple of things is, why
the heart?
We said before the break because Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala taught me and you that
the only way I'm going to be successful
getting to Jannah is when I come to
Allah with Al-Qalb al-Saleem.
With a pure, sound, healthy heart.
Now I want you to look at it
in a different way.
Think of it with me.
When you want to make a decision, any
decision.
I want to come.
I'm not coming.
I want to record.
I'm not going to record.
Anything you're doing, simple.
Where does this all start?
There's something inside you is talking.
True or false?
Something inside me is talking and then I
have this dialogue inside me.
I call it, in general, the morning dialogue.
You know the Fajr dialogue?
May Allah help you.
It's way too early here for Fajr.
And it's way too late for Isha.
SubhanAllah.
And this was, when I came yesterday, when
I landed, oh this is much better.
Because I was in Dublin.
Ya Allah.
It was 10pm Maghrib.
Actually 10.10pm. Isha was midnight.
And Fajr was 2.20pm. Literally, if you
want to go to bed, you say Adhkar
before you sleep.
It's time to say, Alhamdulillah.
Allathee ahyana ba'dama amatana.
Done.
So there's always this dialogue for Fajr.
Sometimes even in winter where it is much
easier, the alarm goes on.
And then you are too tired.
And then something in you says, five more
minutes.
Ten more minutes.
Right?
But there's another voice inside you who's saying,
come on, get up, it's Fajr.
Don't go to bed, you're not going to
wake up.
We're not going to do this every single
day.
There is a dialogue.
Am I correct?
Yes?
And this applies in everything.
In everything.
Who is making the decision internally before you
do it?
And if the internal decision is correct, your
heart is pure.
When I say correct, I'm not saying correct
with people.
I'm saying correct with Allah.
So the heart, think of it, where the
time and day of computer.
If you look at a computer, laptop, your
phone these days, everything is in the phone.
Or in my iPad.
What is the most important thing in this?
Is what I see or what?
Anyone tells me.
What is the most important part of the
computer?
Is the screen?
Yes or no?
No, you're right.
What is the most important thing?
What makes the computer dies?
What gets infected?
I want to hear it.
The hard drive.
Right?
Virus, whatever it is.
If it's not the apps, because you can
delete them and insert them.
It's your hard drive.
If it dies, the whole computer is dead.
And the control of the computer is actually
the hard drive.
And then it sends the signals to the
rest of the computer.
Screen is my external look.
Now I'm going to make you think of
us related to a computer.
The way I look is the screen, is
what people see.
What I put on the screen, which app
I click on.
Your screen can be different than your screen
and mine can be different than yours.
And what control the screen is what is
in that hard drive.
What did I download?
Are you with me all?
Are you making the connection?
The hard drive is the heart.
If my heart is pure, again, think of
the lake.
If my heart is pure, everything I say,
pure, pleasing to Allah.
Everything I look at, pure, pleasing to Allah.
My hands moves, pleasing to Allah.
Because the orders is coming from the heart,
the pure one.
It is not coming from the other sound,
the conversation.
Remember the conversation?
It's usually my nafs and my heart.
The nafs in general, just to make it
easier for you, is what it enjoy and
order what not pleased to Allah.
It follows what I want, what I like.
I want to fit in.
That's the nafs.
The heart in general, Islamic, let's say spirituality
in general, there's a lot of details that
I don't want to overwhelm you with details
today.
Heart is the pure heart.
So that conversation, who wins at the end,
is going to show up on the screen.
If I feed, now coming to the most
important topic, how I'm going to get to
the lake.
If I feed the heart 24x7, all the
time, what corrupts the heart, the lake is
dirty.
The rivers that's coming is not clean.
The ones that is corrupted, dirty, not clean,
way more than the other side.
So the heart is the control.
If I weaken the heart, I am weak
with Allah.
And here I used I, because it is
my choice.
What I see, meaning I turn on the
laptop or the phone, and I scroll.
Not something comes up, like I'm walking now,
and then something comes up.
So I have no control over it.
It just came my way.
But it is my control, do I keep
looking at it.
Let alone download it.
Let alone pay money to see it.
And let alone share it with someone else.
Everything you do, you hear, you see, you
are feeding one of them.
Either your pure heart or the opposite.
And then decision becomes harder.
One simple example back to Fajr.
Let's assume Fajr at 5 o'clock.
So it's not a matter of, it's too
short time, and I'm too tired.
Fajr is at 5 and your Isha is
at 8.
So by 9 if you go to bed,
Alhamdulillah, you got enough sleep.
What did you feed before you went to
bed?
What is the norm these days?
We are in our bed, looking at our
phone.
Yes or no?
Show me hands, I can see you this
time, Alhamdulillah.
Perfect.
There is nothing wrong with anyone who raised
their hand.
Because I didn't ask you, what are you
watching?
I said, do you look at your phone?
Let's assume you review your Quran in your
phone.
Let's assume you have this article.
Not necessarily all is about Deen.
Article that you really need to read.
Widen your knowledge, it helps you in your
meeting tomorrow.
Anything.
You want to learn about the school your
son, daughter is going to go to.
So you are reading, that's okay.
If you are, in general, reading, meaning feeding,
your heart, before you go to bed, I
assure you, you will win the battle in
the morning, and you are up on that
Sajjadah.
If you did not, then we are going
to come to here.
What did I feed?
If you were looking, and may Allah protect
you all, I am giving general, I am
speaking general.
If you fed your nafs with haram, I
assure you, you are not going to be
up on that Sajjadah for Fajr.
And this applies to everything in life.
I am giving the Fajr because it is
a very common struggle all of us go
through.
Everything you feed, everything you look, you hear,
you listen, you say, literally, it is going
to be stored.
And you all know this.
If you kept listening to Quran, let's say
Quran, that night, when you wake up in
the morning, what is going on inside you?
You are listening to that Quran, you hear
it, right?
And if you listen to a song or
something, the same thing.
And that's what Allah said in Surah Al
-Isra.
He is going to ask me, he is
going to ask each one of us in
this room, I gave you the eyes, what
did you do with it?
I gave you the ears, you all can
hear me.
Alhamdulillah, talk to people who can't hear.
What did you do with it?
And what did you do with your heart?
So as we are, especially these days, so
careful about what we put in our mouth,
healthy, organic, halal, because it is not pleasing
to Allah, not good for my body, not
good for my health.
Exactly the opposite, that majority of us don't
think of it as a big deal.
When you keep giving your nafs, remember, I
am putting the left side, so I want
you just to remember, when I give my
nafs, everything it wants, and sometimes it is
not haram, Scholars of Tazkirah will teach you,
too much halal, too much halal, ruins the
heart.
You know what is too much halal?
Show me hands, I am glad I can
see you today, Alhamdulillah.
How many of you, at 10 o'clock,
let's go and get a coffee, or a
tea, how many of you do this?
Show me hands, why?
Don't answer me, ask yourself, why?
If you answered, why not?
Good luck for the heart, because you are
justifying it.
Versus you ask me, why you are asking
me this?
What is wrong with that?
And in the way you are asking, you
really want to learn.
And I am going to say every time,
and this is a principle of Tazkirah, principle
of purification of the heart, you want to
have a strong heart, the lake.
This to stay strong, this has to be
weaker, the nafs.
Are you all with me, following me?
Alhamdulillah.
I am trying to make it as simple
in this very short time.
We normally do literally a week retreat, teaching
all these principles.
So I am trying, may Allah make it
easy for me, to at least when you
leave, you understood the principles of it, and
you can apply it in your daily life.
So if my nafs wants, and every time
it wants, I am going to give it
to her.
Think of your child, those of you who
are mothers, or your younger brother, 2 year
old.
I want ice cream, you give ice cream.
I want chocolate, give chocolate.
I want to run, go and run.
If you keep giving your nafs everything it
wants, the heart will become smaller, and smaller
in power.
Can't resist.
Fajr becomes hard.
Remembering Allah is harder.
Staying away from disobedience harder, because this is
the control.
Versus, this is the control.
Look at yourself and remember Ramadan.
Your Ramadan way harder than ours.
Because you have longer days.
Because you are further north.
Why were you able to do Taraweeh at
probably 10pm?
And if you didn't do it, you feel
so bad about it.
True or false?
Why?
Because you deprived her, and her is a
feminine, of what she normally wants.
Because I am fasting.
There was no 10 o'clock coffee.
There was no 4pm, the tea time.
Again, there is nothing haram.
But too much halal, that's what the scholars
of Tazkiyah teach us.
Too much halal corrupts the heart.
Because the nafs is much stronger.
So when I say, I like it, I
wanted, that's my nafs speaking.
Verses connect with what we said in the
previous session.
Allah wanted.
Pleasing to Allah, you strengthen your heart.
So to come closer to Allah, the pure
heart journey, the journey starts with the simple
principle.
And the simple principle, few things makes the
heart stronger, and the nafs weaker.
Number one.
Here are four less, and one more.
And apply it to Ramadan, and you are
going to see how true this is.
And it's not my words, of course.
This is Imam al-Ghazali, a long time
ago.
Less food.
Less sleep.
Less interaction with people.
And less talk.
And way more, or a lot of remembrance
of Allah.
These four less, and one more, makes the
nafs way smaller, and the pure heart much
stronger.
Apply Ramadan.
Number one.
Less food, for sure.
Sixteen hours of the day, we're not eating.
Less sleep, absolutely.
Right?
After eleven, you're in the masjid doing taraweeh.
And then you need to get up and
do fajr, and life continue.
Less interaction with people, too.
You don't meet people a lot, outside the
norm, during the day.
And even outside the weekend, I don't have
time.
Less talk, at one point you say, I'm
too tired, I can't talk.
More dhikr of Allah.
Did anybody in this room, and I'm not
going to say memorized, did not at least
one day in Ramadan, had her eyes looking
at the Quran?
No way.
Let alone every day.
Let alone you finished khatmah, or two, or
three, or reviewed your hifz, or start memorizing,
you did more dhikr.
Let alone standing for two hours in taraweeh.
What is taraweeh?
It's all dhikr of Allah.
And see what the heart was able to
do.
Ramadan done.
Day of Eid.
Every less became more.
True or false?
Yes or no?
I eat more.
I talk more.
I sleep more.
I'm too tired, alhamdulillah.
There's no taraweeh, I'm going to go and
sleep.
And during the day, it's day off, I'm
going to sleep more.
Oh, it's Eid.
Oh, I'm going to visit this.
Let's go out this.
Let's go to this coffee shop.
Let's go this.
All more.
When these are more, natural result, this will
be less.
It's only 24 hours in the day.
I can't make it 48 after Ramadan.
Right?
So the most important thing, and this is
my choice, your choice, our choice.
Who do I feed?
And what do I give them?