Haifaa Younis – The Quran Has It All #26 Illness

Haifaa Younis
AI: Summary © 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.

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