Haifaa Younis – Understanding Surah Al Mulk – Part 4
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The host of a Tuesday program discusses various topics including a video about a book called rein terms, a woman named Subhanallah who made the Earth easy to live in, a woman named Moherid who made the Earth easy to live in, and a parable about walking straight and on a straight path. They also talk about animals and how they are comparing two people. The host provides examples and references for the audience to follow.
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here, because I can't see them.
Put it just behind the, no, no, it
has to be exactly behind the camera.
And then this should be up, taller.
This is how it is.
Yeah, lovely.
Okay.
Assalamu alaikum.
Bismillah walhamdulillah.
Oh, the sound is really good.
Mashallah.
Yes.
So, Bismillah walhamdulillah.
As-salatu was-salamu ala rasulillah, wa ala
alihi wa sahbihi wa man wala.
Allahumma a'allimna ma yanfa'una wa anfa
'na bima a'allamtana.
Innaka as-sami'un wa mujeeb al-dua
'a.
Allahumma inna ya'udhu bika min a'min la
yanfa'a.
Wa qalbin la yakhsha'u nafsin la tashfa
'a.
Wa du'a inna la yusma'a.
Rabbana la tuziq qulubana ba'da iz hadaytana.
Wahab lana min ladunka rahman.
Innaka anta al-wahabi.
Rabbish fahli sadri wa yassali.
So, welcome to our Tuesday program.
Alhamdulillah, we are still in Surat al-Mulk.
We're going to be doing the second page
of Surat al-Mulk.
I don't think we'll finish it today.
Insha'Allah, if Allah gives us life, probably
next week we will finish it.
And then we're going to figure out what
we're going to do, which surah.
And then I start getting all these requests.
So, we'll see which request I will say.
Not respond what Allah wants me.
It needs to be short.
Because we have only until the break, the
winter break.
Then I will not be here.
So, figure out one of the short surahs,
which one you really want to learn about.
Right?
So, short surahs meaning a page, page and
a half, something like that.
Al-Mulk I went, I was planning first
in three classes.
But then, subhanAllah, you keep going until Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala opened whatever.
Okay, so, again, surah was revealed in Makkah.
Surah that is a protector, right?
Saver.
Helps in the punishment of the grave.
So, what does the surah talk?
We talked about it last time.
Just a quick review.
Number one, there is no stories of prophets
at all.
There's not even name of a prophet.
There is all the talk goes literally alternate.
Talks about Allah, his creation, day of judgment.
Allah, his creation, day of judgment.
And then ends up with Allah, question from
Allah about his creation with no answer.
So, as I was preparing, I was like,
why this one is about the grave?
Yes, there is a hadith.
But what is in it that it reminds
me of the grave?
Are you all with me?
I'll leave it to you.
We'll talk about it next week.
So, you do your own.
And just read it.
Alhamdulillah, all of you, if not almost all
of you, know it and you know the
concept.
And we went through it.
This is the fourth class.
There has to be something in it that
Allah used it for the protection of the
punishment of the grave.
Has to be something, although there is no
mention of a grave in it.
And there is no mention of death in
it.
Isn't that interesting?
Subhanallah.
So, here, now Allah bring us back.
And we're going to talk about this earth.
Subhanallah, this weekend, I was out of town.
And there was a drive.
My host, may Allah reward them, they took
me to the place of the retreat.
And it was about two hours drive.
And as we were driving, literally this verse
came to me.
So, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, this is
verse number 15.
Pay attention to this verse.
Because this verse, if I know it, I
know the meaning, I can apply it in
every minute of my life.
We spend a lot of time driving.
Especially living in this state.
So, Hua is Allah.
He made for you.
Okay.
That's the name.
What is Dhaloola?
Is it?
It's easier for you.
Meaning, made the difficult easy.
We say, made the difficult easy.
It made it easy for you.
Why I'm saying, because look at the next
one.
Walk.
Travel.
Drive.
Meaning, again, we live in this state.
Just look behind you to the east.
What are you going to see?
You're going to see mountains.
Right?
This is how we are.
Irvine is a valley, mountain.
And, where do you live?
Right?
Don't you drive?
405, 5.
On your left side, if you're going north,
it's going to be the mountains.
On your right side, the mountains.
On your left will be the ocean.
Right.
Think of it, so you can apply this
verse.
Imagine, there was no valley.
There was all mountains, till the ocean.
Can we live here?
Very difficult.
So, this is what he did.
He made the earth facilitate.
In other words, you can translate.
Facilitate the earth for you, so you can
walk around.
It's not walk around, like let's go and
walk.
So, you can live.
So, you can do your daily things.
If there was no road from here to
LA, how we are going to be doing
a lot of the work we need to
do?
Now, again, there's a beautiful word here.
Walk or drive.
Traverse.
Is the word.
What is mankab?
Shoulder.
And, why he used shoulder?
Does the earth have shoulder?
It's beautiful.
For the Arabs, they always have camel, which
is camels.
So, they use camels.
The weakest point in the camel is actually
the shoulder of the camel.
So, Allah said, he made the weakest part
of the earth easy for you to walk
on.
Because the hardest part is very difficult for
you to live in.
So, he used the word mankab.
And then, wakulum al-risqih.
And, eat.
This is general.
Risqih.
His provision, or his sustenance, or his food.
Wa ilayhim nishur.
And, we all gonna back to him.
Or, resurrection will be to him.
Now, look at this verse.
This is how you understand the Quran.
So, you have four parts in this.
Huwa Allah.
Ja'ala lakum al-arda badula.
Made the earth easy.
Then, there is an order.
Kam shu fi manakibih.
Wakulum al-risqih.
And then, we are going back to him.
Why?
Why?
Why didn't he say, very common in other
places of the Quran, and be grateful.
La'allakum tashfuro.
Huwa tash, he said it in the beginning.
The second verse, he said, you're on this,
he created death and life, to see who
would be doing the best.
But, why he put earth, walk around, eat
from his sustenance, wa ilayhim nishur.
And, you're going to go back to him.
It's beautiful.
You have to read the Tafsir to know
this, because this is amazing connection.
I found it in one book only.
you.
When we go back to Allah, what is
He going to ask us about?
Were you grateful?
Were you grateful?
Are you grateful?
Are we?
وَقَلِيلٌ مِّنْ عِبَادِيَ الشَّكُورِ Very few of my
servants are grateful.
Now, gratefulness is not just saying alhamdulillah, definitely,
but that's not it.
Grateful is when you're driving that car and
we're stuck in that traffic, especially, we live
in a, again, city, traffic is the norm.
I am not going to focus on huff
and puff about the traffic.
I'm going to look at the street and
I said, He made the streets easy for
me.
And if there is no traffic, then even
more.
I was like, alhamdulillah, there is a highway.
وَإِلَيْهِن يَشُورُ He's going to ask me everything
He gave me, He is going to ask
me about.
And that is why this is one of
the reasons it's going to save me from
the punishment of the grave, because it's going
to make me more grateful.
وَكُلُومَ الرِّزْقِهِ Look at the word, His sustenance.
How many of you had lunch today?
All of us.
I don't know how many of you yet
had dinner or maybe no dinner plans, but
it's not my food.
I didn't cook.
You didn't buy.
You didn't order.
It's His.
But how many of us think this way?
The whole Al-Mulk is a continuous reminder
of Him, of things that we see it
every single day, yet we don't pay attention
to.
And look at the next one.
Now He is reminding me, I gave you
one and two and three.
Be careful.
Now He starts scaring me.
This is actually the tone of Surah Al
-Mulk.
أَأَمِنْتُمْ مَنْ فِي السَّمَاءِ أَن يَخْصِفَ بِكُمْ الْأَرْضَ
فَإِلَهِ يَتَمُوكُ أَمَنْتُمْ مَنْ فِي السَّمَاءِ يُرْسِلَ عَلَيْكُمْ
حَانصِرًا فَسَتَعْدَمُونَ كَيْفًا نَذِيرًا There is a rhetoric
question, no answer.
أَأَمِنْتُمْ مَنْ فِي السَّمَاءِ Are you so safe
from the One who is in the sky,
heaven, that He will decide and He will
open this earth and swallow you?
What is the answer?
Mafia, there isn't.
Rhetoric question, very common language of the Quran.
Why?
Why there is no answer in general?
Because the answer is obvious.
Because we are not safe.
How many of you have seen, well, earthquake?
If you didn't live it, you've seen the
pictures, right?
When I went to Turkey in this really
bad earthquake, which was 7.4, absolutely, you
see the earth was sucked, especially from the
aftershocks.
How safe we are?
We live in a, for us, in a
state, it's on that line.
And that's why for the last three or
four months, we have felt it.
4.3, 4.5, right?
Are you safe?
That's what He's saying.
Of course, this was revealed to the disbelievers.
Who was punished by the earth that swallowed
him?
Why?
Why?
Why Pharaoh was swallowed by the water?
Pharaoh was also arrogant.
Just a second.
Khasf is one of the most scary and
humiliating, and it's sudden.
The earth opened and swallows you.
Go to the internet and look at some
pictures from Florida.
They have a common thing.
I can't remember now what they call it.
A sinkhole.
Exactly.
It's very common in Florida.
It's something that has to do with the
way the earth is in there.
Suddenly, you find in the big street, big
sinkhole, and the car is in there.
We see it.
Everything in this page, by the way, is
things we see.
It's not something we will see.
It's something we see every day.
Are you safe that Allah will do this
to us?
And then why Khasf?
He was talking to the disbelievers, meaning he
was telling them, are you safe from what
I did to Qarun?
I'll do it to you.
When I am rich, and I brag about
my money.
When I'm rich, and I show off.
I don't have to be Qarun, but I
have more than others.
And I brag about it.
Let alone I say I worked very hard
and I got the money.
Let alone when I have the money, I
start treating people like they are nothing.
And usually the punishment, it's a rule in
fiqh and in this deen.
The punishment is similar to the offense.
Whenever I am arrogant, the punishment will be
I will be humiliated.
This is a rule.
Allah has done it all the time.
All the time.
And it's a question.
But why did he say there is no
space for Allah?
Allah is not bounded by space.
But why did he say that's his words?
Beautiful also.
This is why when you have surahs, you
really want to understand, read, especially those of
you who know Arabic.
Read the tafsir.
They said there is two reasons.
One, because the people at that time, when
this was revealed to them, they think Allah
is fissama.
Rabbuka, they used to tell the Rasul alayhi
s-salatu wa s-salam, Rabbuka alladhi fissama.
Your Lord that is on top.
But reality, this is the beauty.
And in the Arabic language is So something
that is higher than us.
So not necessarily up, but higher, bigger, better.
We don't even compare.
The one who is higher and bigger, can
he do that?
Can he do that?
Absolutely.
No.
You have to be very careful because the
way, don't answer if you don't know.
Honestly, because Allah's words in the Quran is
not just said, it's not like you and
me.
There is this word, serve this purpose.
And this word, what is tamur?
Allah said it also.
Not only move, but moves like waves.
Earthquake, the earth move.
And then what happens?
You start having openings and swallow people.
Are we safe from that?
Can I say I'm safe?
Okay.
Okay.
That doesn't apply to me.
And what is he trying to tell me?
Why did he put this?
Because he talked about himself.
He said, I did this to you.
I did this to you.
I did this to you.
You're coming back to me.
We're still heedless.
I know, I know.
Then he starts scaring me.
And that's also the language of the Quran.
He moves me because he knows my feeling
and yours.
Some people needs to be scared.
Some people needs to be reminded.
And some people needs to be motivated.
That's why there is Jannah and there is
Nahr.
There is hellfire and there is Jannah.
Some people motivated, I want to go to
Jannah, they will work.
Some people, you know what, I don't care.
Let me just get to the door.
We say this and it's very sad that
even we think this way.
But anyway, then I need to be scared.
Or you are safe that he decide, he
decide to change the rain instead of rain
of water, will be rain of, what is
Hasiba?
What is Hasiba?
What is Hasiba?
Somebody said it.
What is Hasiba?
Stones, but hot stones.
Who was punished by hot stones?
Only people, the people of Lut and Ashab
al-Fidh.
Two people, completely different era.
Qawm Lut, people of Lut, they were punished.
Hot stones on them.
Imagine hot stones.
Have you ever, I don't know if you
get it here, probably you don't.
But if you go, especially next month or
in February, if you go to the colder
places, when it rains, it rains with hail.
H-A-I-L, and when you drive,
you're going to start doing many duas, because
if one hill hits that one shield, you
cannot see anything anymore, it will be shattered.
And this is cold.
Now imagine this size, strong, because it's coming
from up, and hot.
Are we safe?
Did I warn you enough?
Did I give you what you need to
know enough?
And then, the people before you have rejected.
What is wrong with you, right?
People before us, you probably know people who
maybe died recently, and they rejected.
What is going to happen to them?
Let alone, you read the Quran, people of
Samud, people of Nuh, people of Ad, people
of Samud, this is really the sequence, people
of Lut, and people of Madian, or Shu
'ayya.
You read the stories, but you read the
stories, and next, why did Allah put all
these stories for me?
Oh, so just to have fun, or to
get scared.
No, to learn.
And to remember.
To learn, and to remember.
Now look at the next one, and you're
going to say, what is now?
Now he brings me down, again.
Don't they see, another question, do we see?
Do we all see?
Do you all see me?
Answer me.
What do you see?
A woman speaking.
Right?
Or you may see the light, you may
see the camera, you may see behind me,
that you didn't see.
This is what he's saying.
Don't they see the birds?
Up there?
They are in rows, usually.
They spread their wings, and then they bring
it together.
What is this?
Why this?
You all know Surah Al-Mulk.
Some of you read it every night, before
you go to bed.
Right?
Why is this?
How many of you have seen birds?
And how many of you have seen flocks
of birds?
What does it do to you?
Oh, beautiful.
Oh, what kind of a bird?
Or most of the time, I don't even
pay attention.
Why he's bringing my attention to the birds?
Number one, something everyone can see.
Everyone can see.
There is no country that doesn't have birds.
Maybe you don't see it every day, because
it is cloudy, or it's cold, or whatever.
But you see it.
So number one, he's saying, awalam yaro, meaning
they didn't see it.
You see it, but you didn't see it.
You saw me as a woman speaking, you
saw me, I'm giving online, you see me
there, whatever.
But none of us, the first thing come
is the creation of Allah.
So Allah, number one, he says, do you
see the creation?
Do you see my creation?
But he didn't say my creation, he said
birds.
But then why did he say he commented
on their wings?
It's twice actually in the Quran, the same
thing, here and in Surah Al-Nahl.
Why?
And they say the following, when the birds
fly, it's exactly like someone is swimming.
The human beings swim in the water, the
birds swim in the air.
And that movement is the same movement when
somebody is swimming.
The only difference is you put it in
the front, and the birds put it on
the sides.
Who keeps the birds up there in balance?
Don't give me the physics, but who keeps
them?
Every time I'm in a plane, that's the
first thing come in my mind.
Who's keeping this plane?
Especially if it's this big plane, 300, 400
people, God knows how many luggages and stuff
in it.
And who's keeping it straight and moving?
You know what, yes, you're going to read
hot air, cold air in between, that's all
reasons.
But who's keeping it moving?
How many of us get into a plane
and sit in that plane and think about
this?
No one holds them, holds it, even the
kite, even the balloon.
Why did he say Rahman?
Why didn't he say Allah?
Those of you especially who teaches Quran, who
knows Quran, who knows Arabic, memorizing, you really
have to start paying attention to the depth
of it.
Because there is 99 names of Allah.
Why did he say Rahman?
To show his mercy, of course, but why?
It's always in Ismiddat Allah.
And Rahman is one of the attributes.
Ismiddat, which has no meaning, is Allah.
Rahman, the merciful.
But why Rahman?
Thank you.
Rahman, Rahman, okay.
I really now understood that.
I'm just kidding.
It's his Rahman, his mercy.
We are ungrateful.
We don't pay attention.
We're too busy running around and complaining and
disobeying him.
May Allah forgive me, number one.
But because he is Rahim, he keeps things
going for my service.
Do I need the birds to live?
To make this earth easy for me to
live?
Do I need the birds?
Yes, I do.
Not to eat them.
To keep the circle.
There's a huge circle.
I highly recommend whenever we were planning to
do something with Samah, inshallah, when there will
be time, is to teach you this circle.
It's not only the food chain.
This circle of this earth.
How every part of this earth, creation, complete
piece of the puzzle, so I can breathe.
So you can breathe comfortable.
So you can see.
So you can eat.
It's amazing.
I think I shared it with you, but
in case not, I'll say it again.
When I went with her hiking, right, so
we were reflecting on the creation of Allah,
and then as we were talking, I looked
down, and I see, please forgive me, stool
of an animal.
So I said to Abri, but just be
careful as you are walking.
She stopped us.
And she said, look, what do you see?
Okay, that's what we see.
And then she looked, and she said, okay,
this is of a coyote, and not old,
and this is probably less than 24 hours.
And then we're seeing, subhanallah, it's amazing.
And then she said, look how all the
ants are coming to it.
And then she starts explaining what is in
that that we don't want to even look
at, that the ants will pick.
And then she says, birds is going to
come.
Now birds.
Birds is going to come, and it's going
to pick up this part.
And then they go on that stone that
you see rocks, drop it on that rock.
That's how you see in the rocks, trees
comes out.
Mind blown.
That's why Allah said, because we don't see.
We don't see.
We don't pay attention.
We're too busy.
Stuck to our phones.
Or busy looking at each other, talking about
each other, judging each other.
Out of his rahman.
He's keeping this circle.
So you and me, the sinners, please forgive
me.
Live comfortable.
None of us will have done that to
each other.
But because he's a rahman.
Same question.
If he decides there is no more food,
he is not going to make this earth
bring anything.
Neither orange, neither, we're in Orange County, neither
orange, neither fruits, neither anything.
Who's going to bring food?
How are we going to survive?
We live in the, of course, I'll go
to whatever supermarket and I'll buy ABCDEFG.
But where is the source?
Where it's coming from?
Original, original, original.
Now why he's reminding me of this again.
Remember what I told you.
It goes from the earth to the sky,
from the earth to the bottom, from the
life to death.
It's a circle to keep reminding me because
I am going back to him.
That fact or this fact, unfortunately, majority of
us are heedless.
Heedless is not in denial.
If you ask anyone, anyone, even non-Muslim,
don't believe in anything.
You ask him this question, are you going
to die?
Nobody will tell you no.
Nobody.
It's a fact.
Nobody stayed.
No one.
The oldest woman in the US, and I
think she was in the world, she passed
away last month.
She was 103.
African-American.
103.
Oldest.
Nobody.
The fact that we are not staying here
forever, no one denies it.
What happened afterward, that's where we differ.
But nobody denies it.
Yet, we live on this earth, all of
us, as if we are living here forever.
Why do you want to talk about death?
We don't want to be depressed.
Right?
Let's talk about something more.
And that he said, peace be upon him,
He didn't call it mount.
He said, remember a lot.
Remember plenty, the destroyer of joy.
And the destroyer of joy is death.
Because they asked him, what is the destroyer
of joy?
It's death.
And if I am going to look and
see, When I am in trouble, when I
am alone, in the middle of the night,
and my car is not working, and my
phone died, What am I going to do?
Allah, Allah.
But when my phone was working, I am
not going to say Allah, Allah.
I am picking up the phone and looking
at the first number.
Imagine this is you and me.
Right?
Imagine this is you, this is me.
Right?
You gave me everything.
Right?
And I know you can help me.
And you told me if you need anything,
call me.
I created this, I made this car.
I know how to fix it.
And then I go and call you.
If any one of us, human nature, if
I know this, you call me and say
I am sorry you didn't call me first.
Surat al-Mulk here brings me back to
reality.
Look around you.
Look and see.
Not only look.
Look and see.
And connect everything you have with him.
Everything.
And teach your children this thing.
It is not my food.
It is not my car.
It is not my house.
They are not my children.
Allah gave it to me.
And he is going to ask me about
everything he gave me.
And what did I do with it.
Who will help you?
That is what he is saying.
Who is going to give you victory?
Who is going to help you in need?
But we are living in delusion.
Delusion.
Now, I hope now you are starting getting
why it is going to save me from
the punishment of the grave.
It is a surah of a wake up
call.
It is a wake up call surah.
Wake up.
Live.
Look around you.
See everything.
Especially for us, I say it again.
I have said it many times for you.
We live in a beautiful city.
It is a beautiful city.
In case you don't know how beautiful it
is, you need to live somewhere else.
As somebody looked at me and said, aren't
we lucky?
I said, why?
He said, because we live in a city
where people travel to see it.
She was very right.
May Allah reward her.
She reminded me of something.
Because we live here, we take it granted.
So he brings me and keeps reminding me.
Who feeds you?
Who made this earth easy for you?
Who made the birds?
It doesn't bother you.
They don't go up too high.
They don't go up too low.
And the birds are needed for one, two,
three, and four.
And if he decides in a minute, if
he gets upset in a minute, like you
and me, we get upset normally.
I will never do this to you.
And he will remove all this.
I will end up with this last one.
And then the last thing will be next
week.
Then he gives a parable.
When we walk, there's two ways we walk.
Right?
If you are an athlete, and you exercise
when you are young, how do you walk?
Straight.
And usually your head is up.
Am I right?
And you look ahead.
If somebody is not, both are in their
40s, let's say, getting to the middle age.
If somebody is not, how do they normally
walk?
Head down.
So Allah gives this parable.
Next.
After all what I shared with you.
He said, He said, Another question.
Mulk is probably, if I am right, the
highest number of questions with no answers.
No answers.
He said, are they the same?
Now what is it, ya Allah?
Two people.
He walks, or she walks, and then their
head down.
Or the other person walks straight on a
straight path.
What is this?
What is he saying?
I translated it to you.
By the way, the language of it is
not too hard.
In very few words, you may have to
look at the meaning.
What is he saying?
He is comparing, right?
He is comparing two people.
So what is the first one who is
walking like that?
And the second one who is walking up
straight?
More guided.
Or the person who walks straight and on
a straight path.
Which one?
Which one?
The back is all quiet.
I am not speaking French, right?
Which one?
I am saying the back.
Which one?
Which one?
I can't hear you.
Straight.
So what is the parable?
Why did he say, look down?
Or the other one is straight?
And of course the one who is straight
is seeing better.
What is the parable?
This is a parable.
Two people.
I am sorry.
Yes, go ahead.
And the
other one?
Okay, I am going to give you the
parable that you all will understand this day.
Right?
They are walking.
Let's say, I just came from a travel.
So I always learn a lot from when
I am walking in the airports.
It is an amazing observation.
And you see people literally walking like that.
The usual, right?
So the person was sitting next to me.
It is almost five hours.
Four hours and 15 minutes.
The four hours and 15 minutes.
He did not drop the phone from his
hand.
Like that.
I was like, what is he doing?
Five hours?
Even movie is done.
I was like, I slept.
I woke up.
I read.
I did.
I reflected.
Now I am going to explain to you
what Allah is saying.
So here I am.
I am on the window.
I am looking.
Sometimes you see the creation of Allah.
Sometimes you see the clouds.
Sometimes you see in front of you.
Even the flight attendant is coming.
I am seeing what is happening around me.
And reflecting.
Am I the same as that person who
is always on this?
That is what Allah is saying.
That person in the verse is the person
who is indulging in desires and dunya.
I don't have time.
And I am so focused on me or
my family or my food or tomorrow or
vacation.
You know the usual halal by the way.
He is not talking about haram here.
Versus the person.
The other person also has this life.
Nobody is free.
But the other one is straight seeing the
reality of everything.
Seeing those birds that I normally don't pay
attention.
Seeing the pictures of the earthquake and make
sense.
Are they the same?
And the last, and then I will stop
here because the next one will be different.
Then he suddenly says, back to him.
He is the one who created for you
hearing, eyesight and their hearts.
Spiritual.
Ungrateful.
Now what is this?
Why here?
You all know, yes of course Allah created.
Two questions first.
Why he always starts with hearing before seeing?
Why in the Quran the hearing is before
seeing?
I would be surprised if you know because
you have to study embryology because the first
thing Allah creates is hearing.
He creates hearing before sight seeing.
The baby maybe sees, they still did not
prove it, probably seven months.
But from 20 weeks he starts hearing.
That's why you hear a lot of people
say read Quran, the baby hears.
Subhanallah.
Very rarely you are grateful.
Why?
You hear, and you see, and you can
reflect but you are I'm not grateful when
I don't use what Allah gave me to
know him, get closer to him, serve him,
serve his creation.
So he said I gave you one and
two and three.
What did you do with it?
What did we do with it?
I gave you hearing.
What did we do with it?
We start listening to all what?
This obeys him.
And I don't have time even to sit
and listen to a beautiful nature and see.
He gave it to me.
To do what?
To look at Haram?
To watch all this and that?
And then he gave me this spiritual heart.
To do what?
To know him.
Don't they comprehend?
Did you get what he's saying?
I think I gave you six or seven
verses from it.
If I am able to answer every question
he did not answer in this verse, I
am absolutely safe.
I don't have to worry about anything.
I lived with him.
I know him.
I obeyed him.
And everything around me reminded me of him.
But we are too busy.
May Allah the best thing I have ever
I will give you this advice.
Because we tried it this weekend in the
retreat.
I asked all the attendees turn off your
phone.
Text your family and tell them you are
absolutely fine.
You arrived.
We started Friday.
And if you want turn it on on
Sunday when you are leaving.
I can tell you the feedback.
Apply that.
Cut down on yours, as they call it,
screen time.
Believe me, nobody will die.
I did it.
Two days.
I opened.
I was like, let me see.
I sent a message.
If you need, reach to Maryam.
Nothing happened.
It was like 100 WhatsApp messages.
Nothing.
The earth continued.
People lived.
Right?
And even the emails, nothing.
But the clarity Allah gives you, the enjoyment,
Wallahi.
And this is not me.
We were 60 in that retreat.
The feedback was the same.
I thought especially because I was young.
There was youth.
I thought they would start complaining.
The clarity that Allah gives you, you start
seeing things.
So one of the things to see what
Allah wants us to see, to reflect, is
turn it off.
Imagine that there was a young man who
was sitting next to me.
If he turned off completely his phone for
four hours and start looking around, what would
he have seen that he missed?
Any questions?