Hamza Tzortzis – Suffering From Destructive Doubts Try This

Hamza Tzortzis
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The speaker discusses their approach to learning and transformation, including their use of various strategies such as learning about Islam and social psychology to improve their spiritual health. They emphasize the importance of critical thinking and using a Quranic way to address one's mind. The speaker also provides guidance on achieving Shabbat and seeking companionship, mental health, and emotions in people's minds. They emphasize the need for balanced diet and finding one's way to death, as well as seeking improvement in one's path and saving people from doubts and suffering.
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You know, we don't see the human being from a post secular or even

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postmodern perspective. The human being is not just an abstract

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intellect the human being is not just based on language and social

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hierarchies that ever changing but rather the human being has a

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particular psychology and Allah subhanaw taala alcoholic, the

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Creator, He created us and He knows the human being better than

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the human being knows the human being. So, we have a very kind of

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Pattabhi, Fitri or Rohit type of approach. Because all these things

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are a dynamic interplay. As you know, Chef, your master this

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Michelle Torah Cola, the aka is according to the majority of the

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LMR a function of the caliber and the color, the color lube is

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wavers. Right? And it has written Shabbat and showered with the

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desires and destructive doubts. He also has diseases like Keba

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arrogance, or job SELF amazement, Ria, ostentation and Hassard,

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blameworthy jealousy and so on and so forth. And the culture is ever

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changing. It's just a loop and the alcohol is within that. So if you

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just attack the alcohol, and you know dealing with the heart, no

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matter what the uncle receives, is going to be almost irrelevant. Do

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you get so we have that approach now? Exactly. So we have our enemy

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approach. So to learn knowledge, transformative, not just

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informative, because the Quran when it delivers an understanding

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of em, it delivers a transformative understanding, when

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Allah says is the one who knows equal to the one who doesn't know.

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And the verse just before the Allah talks about, you know, the

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people who do such die and they pray at night, and they hope in

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the mercy of the Lord and so on and so forth. So Adam, is

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transformative and are two narrations attribute to Imam

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Malik. May Allah have mercy on him when he talks about a minimum.

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It's not just memorization, it's a basis for it. But it's not just

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that it's an internalization and LM is a norm that Allah puts in

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the heart. So we get people to be on a path of enemy because the

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enemy would destroy doubts. But also we get people to understand

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that that shoe bohart are like parasites because a Sherpa which

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the singular for Shabbat, it to be who it resembles something that

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it's not. It's a walk, it's a wolf in sheep's clothing. It doesn't

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have intellectual veracity. So it's like a parasite that sits on

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your hands to drain your Eman. Yeah, so we teach people you need

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to strengthen your spiritual heart the culpa has really been Celine

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has to be a sound her How do you do that with the vicar of Allah,

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with the silhouette with the Salah with the tahajjud with the

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recitation of the Quran with the Quran, so we focus on that as

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well. We also focus on another strategy on your environment, as

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you know, shut the alarm after school to enough stay focus on one

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thing, if they give one piece of advice concerning the job, and

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they say, it's your environment, you're going to be upon the

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religion of your friends, you're going to be raised with those who

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you love, you're going to go to the blacksmith, you're going to

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smell like the blacksmith, you're going to go to the editors, Salah,

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you're going to smell a perfume. You know that hadith of the

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Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam. And even the story of the

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people of the cave, you know, the dog happened to be with the pious

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people, Allah saved the people he also saved the dog is one of the

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one of the exegete says, Well, why is the dog mentioned? Well, Allah

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is kind of telling us that if a dog happened to be saved, because

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it was it was with pious people, then what would Allah do to your

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life, if you will, good people. So we talk about environment, and we

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talk about social psychology, all of these things, then we talked

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about making do as well, nothing is going to work without the help

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of Allah subhanho wa Taala you to express your utter dependency on

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off some add on the ultimately independent. And we have to

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understand that everything happens because of Allah's Iraida and

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Qudra. And the eyes, the essence of worship, was showing our

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humility in our basement and our artistic dependency on him. And

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through that, we could get some transformations as well. Then

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there are so many other strategies that we adopt, we also talk about

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that you have to have critical thinking. I call it a Quranic way

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of thinking, because the Quran has an amazing structure, especially

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when Allah was talking about

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his nature, his nature, not his nature, but the natural phenomena

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that Theophany if you like, the manifestation of Allah's names and

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attributes are what gets us to think in a particular way. And we

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get people to think in a Quranic way and that helps a lot with

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regards to critical thinking and dealing with your heart and are so

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many other strategies. We don't have to go through all of them but

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basically we we talk about the strategies we help people

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implement them because we believe in the kind of a thing is a

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proverb, right said if you give a man a fish, you're gonna feed him

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for a day. But if you teach a man how to fish, you feed him for a

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lifetime. So yeah, our strategy is that we give you an answer, but we

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give you the strategies, or the way for the path to follow in

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order to basically do Shabbat. You know, what I find amazing is that

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and before I comment, there was somebody asking on Instagram for a

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full picture

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or you can hop onto YouTube Safina Sati channel and you'll see the

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live stream, you can see the full picture. For some reason

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Instagram, jams us into this narrow picture. And when we have a

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guest, we don't see you don't see the guests faces. So hop onto

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YouTube, that's where everyone is at anyone that's where the chat is

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out. That's where all the chit chat is happening and also it's a

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better picture. Now, one thing that's amazing that I'm realizing

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is everybody who is sincerely seeking the improvement, number

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one, the salvation of themselves. And number two,

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the the benefit of others is slowly slowly coming to the same

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conclusion. Right? And those conclusions are that it takes a

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balanced diet,

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to quote unquote, save and can somebody say that someone saved

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another person? Yes, you can. Because Allah use you to save

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them. Right? And Allah uses something to save them and it is

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permissible as to attribute the action to the means. The proof of

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that is good, yet our furcal medical melt, say the angel of

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death makes you die. Well we know that is Allah Who takes your soul

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and makes you die. But Allah attributes the action to the

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to the caught to the medium that he uses to fulfill His will.

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Likewise, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is the Quran says

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well, equally Coleman head, every people has a gut, right?

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Therefore, there's absolutely nothing wrong with saying so and

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so saved someone. So we don't believe he saved him. Absolutely.

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We believe as a means. Right? He saved him. So when we're and when

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you bring someone from a doubt, to belief

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at that moment, you save them, like we don't know how we are

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going to die. That's true. But at the moment, you did save them.

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Right. And so this concept and this approach to trying to save

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people from the doubts of disbelief and the the storm of

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desires. Okay, Shaohua and shovel hat you heard

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the word sugu hat shadow hat is doubts, things that are doubtful.

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Well, it's a mirage. It looks like one thing, but it's actually

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another thing altogether. That is the job of the devil IBLEES his

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job, that's why Pharaohs a magician, he makes it look like

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snakes. They're just ropes, right? Likewise,

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certain phrases, they sound like they make sense. And they're full

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of mercy. In fact, it's full of violence. And it makes no sense.

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Right? And, but the but what I'm saying is that everyone's coming

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to the realization that you need companionship, not knowledge, and

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spirituality.

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Like you can't do with any of these. Like when you're when

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you're arguing with somebody, there's no point to argue with

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somebody whose heart doesn't want to be with you in the first place.

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And when you do when someone does want to be with you, it's actually

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very easy to say almost like a pluck the person wants to believe

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something, it becomes clear what it is, what the matter is to them.

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issues become easy to discuss because they want the truth What

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does Allah say about the worst possible dispute would be a

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marital dispute, right? And Hola. So, this is like the most

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emotional, the most clouded your mind is ever going to get is in a

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family and marital dispute. Right? Allah subhanaw taala says if, if

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they wish to come together, then a conclusion will be found a

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resolution will be made good. If the two which now if only one

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party wishes to come together, and the others like not, I'm done with

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this, you won't find a resolution. So likewise, how do you get people

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the question is now how do you get people's heart to be in the

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position to receive the right arcade and the right belief is

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companionship and it's a lot of spirituality and that's the

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program that we've been running here. Now it makes me happy to see

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like you're running the same exact operation. I've said I don't know

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the London scene but I figured I mean if you if you and Mohammed

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Mohammed Hajj I've ever ran a center of Masjid with like, rooms

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beyond it for other things that you guys do studio, hangout room,

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chill out room, rec room, whatever. And then a mess it in

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the front. I mean, that would probably be at it would have to be

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that most jumping center I'd ever you could ever have in probably

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Western Europe, right with both your personalities, both your

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outgoing natures. Right.

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But I mean, everyone has a specialty but you get people

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realizing now that the friendship element of things is so important.

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