Haifaa Younis – Heart Check-Up – Do I Have a Pure Heart
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Forgot
completely what he was calling
and who he was calling.
And he and dad actually. And he made
to Allah
partners.
Does that sounds familiar?
Yes?
Then my heart has an issue.
Little bit of a sickness.
I need
to correct.
So look at your.
Are you for example, nothing is happening. You're
driving and you look around
and you see, you Allah, what a beautiful
creation is this surrounding me. If this is
your creation, who are you?
That's zikr.
You're a person who your heart is connected
with Allah.
Is that hard?
Honesty, this is not hard. There's couple of
things are hard. We have to be honest.
But this one is not. Why we are
not doing it?
Tell me. Why?
You're too quiet. Is that too hard for
you?
Right? Or I'm speaking not English?
Right? You're reflecting. Excellent.
It is not hard.
Honestly, that's good. It's not hard. You know
what is the problem?
May Allah forgive me before anybody else. We're
too busy.
We are too distracted.
Distracted. The more the quicker the life pace,
the more distracted we are.
And the list, as I said, to do
list gets longer.
So of Allah.
The sign,
they say, the scholars of the hearts tells
you,
the
sign that you love Allah,
that you always remember him.
When you love someone,
as we say it in Arabic, when you
love someone, how often you think of them?
All the time.
If they send you a text message,
this text message is memorized.
And this text message is read how many
times?
And how many times you share it with
people? Look at the message.
You're laughing. It's true.
Right?
Where are you with the book of Allah?
Isn't that the text messages
from Allah?
Isn't his words?
So dhikr of Allah.
And that is why
so don't despair
and don't feel it is hard. When Allah
when Rasool alayhi salatu wa salam looked at
Sayyidina Mu'adh,
Mu'adh al Nujabal, the famous companion,
And he looked at him and says,
I
love you.
Imagine Rasul alaihi salatu wasala say this to
you. What will happen?
I'll die.
Period. I'll freeze, actually.
I was like, love me?
When you love someone, what do you teach
them?
Something so dear to you, and you really
want them to do it. Says, yeah,
Mohad, I love
you. Don't forget,
after each salah,
to say the following,
And give me your heart before your brain.
Don't forget to say,
after every salah,
5 times a day.
And
in Ramadan,
we learned it,
But we need to make it a habit.
You know what?
Read Quran longer in your salah.
This is a true story.
I was there in that masjid.
Right? And I'm not gonna wear it in
public, so I'd have to take the permission
of the Qara before I say this. So
I was in this Masjid. My friend said,
this Masjid starts the Hajid from the first
night of Ramadan, not like the last time.
And she said, but just to let you
know, the the imam reads long.
Okay? Alhamdulillah.
So I go.
This is this last Ramadan.
So I go. I entered he he already
started.
He was in the 3rd page of Al
Baqarah.
First sukha.
I entered.
He's reading.
He's reading.
Okay. And I said, so he's gonna probably
finish
the first Jews.
We started the second Jews. I said, you
know what? He's probably gonna stop when we
get to the verses
of.
He's reading. And I said he's gonna get
to the Hajj. He's re
honestly.
Honestly.
He's reading.
Reading
one rukah.
Finished the Ayatul Hajj. I said he's gonna,
get to the,
the third jus. He's reading.
You know when he ended?
One.
This is not I read in books.
I was there.
Honestly, I was there.
Finished. Went for ruku, ruku,
and the imam is not young.
He's not 20 or 30 or 40. I
think he's close to 60. Could be could
be more.
You know how you know the is long?
You know how?
I'll tell you.
When the imam say,
you hear in the masjid,
or, again,
I lived it.
I went for sujood.
You make your dua the way you want.
Stood up.
Started.
When did he finish?
Yeah.
He read the whole Ali Imran second.
Started the 12:15.
I know because I entered.
I went 12:20 when I said Allahu Akbar.
When he finished the second rukah, it was
2 o'clock.
He didn't finish. He didn't finish.
Continued.
We finished
4 o'clock just before 4.
2nd day, also
It's phenomenal.
I have not done that. I've read it.
We have read people long, but to see
it in the 2023
in reality,
that tells you what remember what I started.
What did I started saying?
If he can do it,
we all can do it.
And he was not sitting
or standing
And I said, you Allah, what you gave
him gave me. Give me.
Give it to me. You know, even if
you are not a half above the Quran,
doesn't matter. Open the Quran in front of
you and read. In Tahajjud, you can do
that. So the memorization of the Quran is
not the excuse.
In the front of you and flip,
Subhanallah.
If there is people on this day and
age
oh,
3rd day was Thursday.
I was there. He read the Al Anam
in first rukkah, and he read half the
hour off in the second rukkah.
Finished. Did the witter. Done. There's 1 hour
for this was Ramadan, for shafoor.
So my friend who was with me, she
said, let's go.
No. She said, you wanna go back to
the hotel? I said, who's this was Jumuah.
So it's now it's Friday morning. And I
said, who's gonna read Jumuah Friday morning? Salah.
He said, the imam.
I said, I'm coming back.
I wanna see what is this.
Right? So we went for for Suhoor and
came back. 1 hour. Less than 1 hour.
What did he read for Jum'ah?
Did he read?
No. That's you and me.
Right?
You're gonna say too tired.
What?
My my legs are hurting.
Allah is rafur Rahim. I need to go
and sleep. It's from
Allahu. And I was waiting and see what
he's gonna read. He read the sunnah of
Jumu'ah, which is you read in the first,
rukah of Fajr
as sajdah, 3 pages. And in the second,
you read it in sand, 2 pages. And
he was reading in like, when he was
reading, he was reading fast. This one he
was reading and joining.
Not done. Wait. Finished.
I'm sitting there. I was.
This was
the experience of my life. He finished, and
I said, let's see what he's gonna do
afterward.
Did he at car because you can
hear. And then took the mic, and he
gave a lecture.
What is this?
From 12 o'clock.
12:15, this man is in the Masjid. Now
we are 6,
And he's giving the talk as if he
slept and woke up and had breakfast and
coffee.
And I said, you Allah, what is in
his heart?
That I don't have it.
What is it? It's not the Quran only
because, again, some of us believe that we
have the Quran in our hearts, or I
can read
it. It's the attachment to Allah.
So the sign your Qaib is Salim
is when the of Allah is enjoyable.
You do it. It's not a duty.
So
you see how we do this?
And we're done. Versus you enjoy, you're talking
to him.
You're saying his words. He's listening to me.
So dhikr of Allah,
the third sign that you are
absolutely
connected with Allah is your relationship with the
dhikr.
The more the clearer your heart.
The detergent, think of it this way. How
many of you have washed dishes in their
life?
Right? So think think of it this way.
And in fact,
the more you put detergent and you clean,
the cleaner is the cleaner
is
the plate or wherever you are washing. Same
thing for the heart.
I'll be sharing the pure,
the heart that has only Allah
and the detergent is
the.
The of Allah.
Teach yourself
anything you're doing
to put the
name of Allah in it. You're cleaning, you're
cooking, you're changing the diaper, doesn't matter. Anything
at work, you're thinking, planning, you know, seeing
patients.
Right? Always.
You put the names of Allah all the
time till it become
what?
Habit.
You don't have to think of it. Comes
natural.
Natural. Like how many times now you look
at something beautiful, then you say, SubhanAllah. You
don't think of it. It just comes. How
are you doing?
Natural. That's what I want.
Once you get to this, your.
Number 4. By the way, it gets harder
as we go more.
So if by the end, I will see
nobody in this,
I'm not gonna be surprised.
Number 4,
which we alluded to it in in the
previous session.
When he or she
misses
an act of worship
that he or she is used to with
Allah,
when they miss it, they feel the pain.
That's the word.
If they feel inside them pain as if
they lost the most precious thing in their
life.
When you lose when you miss
the weird they call it, your act of
worship that you are used to it, and
you wish it for whatever the reason, there's
pain in the heart.
If you feel it, then your heart is
connected with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Number 5.
How many of you love food and drink?
How
many of you don't care about food and
drink?
Really?
Whatever they put in front of you, Hamdulillah,
and you eat. How many of you?
How many of you are very picky?
The salt has been should be that much
or spices that much or the rice this
way. How many of you picky about food?
No hands. I have no idea
what
is
happening.
They say,
the person
who has this is number 5. It's related
to food.
The parable, of course.
The person who
their hearts
is sound.
The heart of Sayedna Ibrahim,
they miss
they
miss and they long
for the act of worship
like they miss food and drink.
How many of you said I miss that
coffee,
or I miss that tea, or I miss
that ice cream, or I miss that chocolate,
whatever it is.
Right?
Remember Ramadan when you're fasting?
Right? What comes here?
The person who their heart
is serene
sound,
they miss
the act of obedience. They miss it.
How many of you honestly
miss Ramadan?
Alhamdulillah.
I miss that. You know what I said?
I miss that person
who was the same person. I miss that
person in Ramadan.
How she was different.
You all agree with me?
We ran to the Masjid. We didn't care.
It was 9 or 10 PM.
We stood up as I just shared with
you. We stood up for hours, and we
didn't say we're tired.
And nothing changed. Life continued. Right? Work continue.
Family continue.
Everything continue. Oh, we did it.
So if you miss the act of worship,
your heart is sound.
And how do I miss something?
What makes me miss something?
I wanna hear it.
When you love it.
Right? If you don't love it, who cares?
But when you love something so teach again.
Train yourself. By the way, this is not
something you learn today is gonna happen tomorrow.
It is not. This is a process.
This is a process. It will take time.
That's fine. Whatever life life is gonna give
me, I'll do it. But do it and
start.
So you say, you Rabbi, and this is
a dua.
You Allah make me love this deen.
Make me, not me. He will help me.
And make me love this faith,
faith event.
Make me love faith.
And the opposite this is a verse of
the Quran,
and
make me hate,
hate,
kufuf,
disobedience,
and ungratefulness.
And fusuq,
which is basically,
like
publicly disobeying Allah, doing things he doesn't like.
Make me hated.
You know why? Who can tell me why?
What is why do I want Allah to
make me hate something?
Tell me. Come on.
I'm sure you know it.
Give you an example. Always food. Go back
to food.
Because food is daily life. So someone put
in front of you how many of you
love ice cream?
Oh,
Malaysian don't love ice cream.
If you are in the in the States,
everybody will love. What what does Malaysian love?
Nudu?
What is it?
Rice. Rice.
Yes. Wherever I go, I see rice.
Even breakfast.
So somebody put rice here.
Right?
And someone puts, let's say, something you don't
like. Let's say ice cream. Just an example.
It's not you don't like, you don't care.
If it's there, hamdulillah, it's not hamdulillah.
So you have an ice cream and you
have the rice.
Okay? And somebody removed the rice. They didn't
show you the rice. They just showed you
the ice cream. You don't like it. Will
you struggle
to eat?
If they took it, what happens?
Versus the rice. You love it. You want
it. You're so keen when I eat it.
This is the dua.
Make me basbullah,
hamdulillah.
Make me hate
make me hate
your disobedience
so I don't struggle.
Did you see it? So when something comes
on the screen,
I am studying, I'm I'm doing the research,
and something comes in, it's disorient to Allah.
I don't like it.
I have no problem. I'll just
right away turn it off. But if I
like
it, that's the struggle.
Did you get it? So this is what
I want from Allah, And that's a dua,
you have to make it for yourself before
you make it for anybody else.
You're gonna say you Allah,
make me hate
your disobedience,
then I don't struggle.
And make me long your obedience, and that
will make it easy. And then once I
love it, I'll miss it.
And my heart will be sound.
Again, wallahi, it's not impossible.
It's a matter of training.
Remember when I first I start I was
telling you about the weather?
Remember? And this is not just an example,
but everything we can adapt to.
That's my point.
You all adapted to the weather of of
and it's fine.
Right? So and I say, if they can
live with it, then I can. The same
story. If there's somebody who can stand up
for 3 hours for salah, I can. And
if somebody is in 1 hour and 15
minutes of driving in a state of bicker,
I can. It's just a matter of focus,
training,
and practice.
Clear?
Right. Number 6.
Honestly, I'm gonna ask a question. I need
the answer.
Are you ready?
Did I ask you a lot of questions?
Did did I put you on the
right? That's okay. We need we need to
learn. Right?
What's your relationship with Swaddah?
With Salah.
I'll give you 3 options.
Right?
It's a burden.
I
did it.
Did you pray? Yes.
Something I have to do. It's nice.
I have to do.
I love it.
I miss it.
I'd love to be in Saadat.
Which one we are? Honestly.
How many are number 1?
Of course, nobody will have to tell you.
I am I am sitting with the angels
of Malaysia.
Right?
Yeah. He never felt
that your Allah, when is the salah gonna
you know, Isha when it is 10 PM
and you are dead tired? Most of us
are in the middle. I'll take it. Although
I have
a my hesitation, but I'll take it.
How many say
what Rasool alaihi wasalam felt about salah?
The coolness of my eyes,
and this is a figure of speech in
the Arabic language,
was put in salah.
Just to give you an idea, in the
Arab world,
the children when the baby is born, one
of the dua you make to the parents
says, may Allah make this child
That's when you see the baby, you feel
good. And the baby will be, when they
grow up, they will be the best children
for you. That you always feel good and
nice and comfort with them. That's
And why do we say this? What did
he tell Sayid Nabilaal
when he told him go and call for
Adan? Did he tell him go and call
for the Adan?
No.
He used to tell him, Arishnabiha
yabilal.
Let's feel comfort with the tiyabilal, meaning go
and call for salah.
So salah for him was comfort.
I'll tell you something practical.
I'm sure everybody in this room,
when you really felt down, sad,
a lot of problems,
and you went,
struggled,
put yourself on that sujada, whether it is
an obligatory salah, whether it's an extra salah.
And you said Allahu Akbar.
And especially when you have problems, you will
focus more in the salah.
When you finish the 2 rukat, how did
you feel?
Different.
I doubt anybody in this room did not
feel different.
The diff how you felt the amount of
the difference is different.
Let's make it this way.
So one of the things I say to
Allah
You know, learn to talk to him.
My dear sisters and brothers,
learn to talk to Allah.
You Allah, make me love salah.
Make me love it. Let me not look
at it as a burden.
Did you pray?
I prayed. I don't want that. I was
like, I finished.
I have to go and do and you
have to go and do our life.
Right?
Ask Allah to make salah
wholeness
of your eyes.
So the albu salim,
the comfort is in salah.