Haifaa Younis – The Quran Has It All #26 Illness

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The speaker discusses the concept of sickness in the heart, which is when the heart is sick and the patient's body is sick. The concept of sickness is not just a physical illness, but also a mental illness. The speaker uses the examples of the book Salve the heart and the book of the beast to explain the concept of sickness.

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			Said Ibrahim
		
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			in
		
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			one of the
		
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			most beautiful
		
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			verses in the Quran talking about Allah when
		
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			he said to his people, who's Allah to
		
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			him? He says,
		
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			He's the one who feed me and give
		
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			me drinks.
		
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			And when I get sick, so sickness here,
		
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			he's the one who will give me cure
		
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			or make me,
		
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			healthy.
		
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			So this is something for us also to
		
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			learn. Meaning, the Quran talks about physical illness
		
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			and its part of the life. What should
		
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			I do in the physical illness?
		
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			Right? Number 1, I think all the time.
		
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			It is Allah allowed it to happen. And
		
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			then when I go to someone, I go
		
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			to a physician
		
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			to help me to do a surgery, give
		
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			me medications,
		
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			when he or she is doing the surgery
		
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			and I get, alhamdulillah, recovered,
		
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			I need to remember that Allah
		
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			put the cure in the hand of the,
		
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			for example, the surgeon.
		
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			When I take her medications,
		
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			I don't think the medication is giving me
		
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			the cure. It's the medication by the will
		
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			of Allah. Allah is making the medication
		
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			works and I get better including any medication
		
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			you take for something as simple as headaches.
		
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			So that's the physical. But the interesting
		
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			the
		
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			where
		
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			he said, as he said it in Suratul
		
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			Baqarahlaqarahlaqaw.
		
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			And their hearts already is sick. They have
		
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			disease and Allah made it even worse. And
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala talked about disease,
		
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			or sickness
		
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			when even physical, this one, is when he
		
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			talked about ablution
		
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			and he gave the permission
		
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			for those who are sick. And he said,
		
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			If you were sick or you were traveling,
		
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			then there is an permission not to do
		
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			wudu or to do the wudu in a
		
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			limited way as long as you don't get
		
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			harm. But if you get harm, you can
		
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			even don't do wudu, you do.
		
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			Back to the disease of the heart
		
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			and Allah repeatedly
		
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			say said it.
		
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			The disease of the heart is when the
		
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			heart doesn't see
		
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			truth as truth all the time and does
		
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			not see falsehood as falsehood
		
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			all the time.
		
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			It alternate
		
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			or it changes.
		
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			And usually there is 2 forces in that
		
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			heart. As Rasool alaihi wa sallam, the meaning
		
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			of, he said, lammatan, the heart has 2
		
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			forces. Lammatulmalakul
		
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			lammatu shaitaan. There's a force of the angel
		
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			and there's a force of the shaitan.
		
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			When I wanna do something and
		
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			I know that this thing is not pleasing
		
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			to Allah and I have this voices, 2
		
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			voices inside me saying don't do it. It's
		
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			not pleasing to Allah and the other voice
		
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			will say it's okay. It's only one time.
		
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			Allah will forgive me or whatever
		
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			excuse or justification
		
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			I wanna do, then my heart is sick.
		
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			It's not dead, alhamdulillah.
		
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			It's sick.
		
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			And how sick it is or could be
		
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			not sick at all if the good force
		
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			win? That means I am absolutely fine.
		
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			One of the interesting points where Allah mentioned
		
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			or there is a sickness of the heart
		
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			is when he talked to the wives of
		
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			Rasul
		
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			in the chapter Al Ahab, the confederate. And
		
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			he said,
		
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			Don't speak
		
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			softly
		
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			or in a suggestive way if you wanna
		
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			use that word. And then the person who
		
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			has a disease in the heart,
		
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			the heart is sick, not physically. The heart
		
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			is sick.
		
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			He will,
		
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			and this is he. He will understand what
		
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			you are saying in a different way, and
		
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			he will have more desires.
		
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			SubhanAllah, what a beautiful deen that
		
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			Allah knows what we feel and knows what
		
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			affect us.
		
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			Another one he said about the disease of
		
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			the heart where he said it in Surah
		
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			Tawba, when a verse is is revealed.
		
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			And people in between this is in time
		
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			of Rasool alaihi wa sata salam in Medina
		
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			where the 2 groups were said, what did
		
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			this verse do to you? Now let's pay
		
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			attention
		
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			because that's you and me. When I read
		
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			the Quran, when I listen to a verse,
		
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			what does it do to me? And Allah
		
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			here, he
		
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			When a verse from the Quran is revealed,
		
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			the real believers,
		
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			they are so happy,
		
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			and they feel good and have glad tidings.
		
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			Those who have sickness in their heart, have
		
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			sick heart,
		
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			when a verse is revealed,
		
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			they will what happened to them? They will
		
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			their heart will have more evil.
		
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			Their heart will have more filth.
		
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			Rich is one of the meanings of riches.
		
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			They will have more doubt,
		
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			basically.
		
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			What does the verse of the Quran
		
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			do to us?
		
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			When I read this verse and I should
		
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			ask myself, am I that person, or I
		
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			am the other person, where I am going
		
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			to be closer to Allah and I'm going
		
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			to be very happy, or versus I'm going
		
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			to have more doubt.
		
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			What does that mean? I'm not convinced?
		
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			Then there is a disease in my heart.
		
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			SubhanAllah, how subtle, in a very subtle way,
		
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			Allah
		
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			give us clues to look internally,
		
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			to look into our hearts. And one of
		
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			the best cure,
		
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			subhanAllah,
		
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			for the disease of the heart is the
		
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			Quran itself.
		
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			Allah said this and we send down the
		
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			Quran
		
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			and from the Quran, meaning the Quran, all
		
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			of it is is cure.
		
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			However, the wrongdoers,
		
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			they will even be even more losers.
		
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			So diseases,
		
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			sickness
		
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			is a natural thing. It's something part of
		
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			life. It's one of the tests that we
		
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			go through.
		
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			And Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, ex what does
		
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			he expect from me? I need to be
		
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			grateful. I need to be patient.
		
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			And sickness should bring me closer to Allah.
		
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			That's the external one. The internal one, the
		
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			disease of the heart, is the most important.
		
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			Each one of us have to look at
		
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			herself or himself
		
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			every single day and ask the following question:
		
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			is my heart sick?
		
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			Do I have a disease of the heart?
		
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			Do I have jealousy? Do I have anger?
		
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			Do I have
		
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			arrogance? All these are diseases.
		
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			Sometimes we don't know,
		
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			but the way it helps me is what
		
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			a verse in the Quran does to me
		
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			when I read.
		
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			Do I argue?
		
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			Am I not convinced? Then my heart is
		
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			sick.
		
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			And what do we have to do? Number
		
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			1, ask Allah
		
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			to cure our hearts, to purify our heart.
		
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			You Allah purify our hearts, our souls, our
		
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			body, meaning spiritually,
		
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			and
		
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			purify it. You are the best who can
		
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			purify yarubi Ami.