Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Composite Humanity Balancing the Angelic Animal Natures Masjid Nr Long Island NY.mp4
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Is
in the head of the prophet
and was that
half of
Iman is
suburb. Half of Iman is what? It's patience.
And in another hebrew, the prophet
in which he says that half of patience
is in fasting.
The idea or the theory of
what a human being is in the deen
of Islam
is that he is a or she is
a,
a composite between
what between 2 different things.
One is
a
Bahia nature and one is a Malachiya nature.
1 is a an animalistic nature and one
is a
a, an angelic nature.
And the task of being this dunya is
that both of those natures, they have their
own separate
needs and necessities in a person
in order to be
fulfilled.
And both of those natures will take a
person down 2 separate paths.
And it's for the love of Allah
that a person has to balance both of
those paths.
This is not to be confused with balancing.
What's the difference? It's not to be confused
with balancing the
and the.
The idea that you balance your dunya and
your.
This is a technique. This is a,
a spurious
interpolation
in the deen that has been added by
people who either don't know any better or
by people who never understood the message of
the prophet
or really honestly by people who don't have
any
intellect. Why?
Because Allah in his own book is.
The the
is better than the dunya. It's more intense
than the dunya. It lasts longer than the
dunya. It's.
It lasts forever, in fact.
Right?
Allah says, and these are these are the
these are the. This is not even going
into the rest of the Quran
amongst us. Sometimes maybe their elitist ahead of
where where we are and where people like
ourselves are.
And the person who deviates. That's for the
one who deviates in this world and prefers
the life of this world over the akhirah.
The idea is that you prefer the akhirah
over this bhiyah. Why?
Because everybody here knows basic math.
Is it maybe is there anyone in your
master's or your PhD in mathematics?
No?
Is there?
Right? Tell me something.
What what's a bigger number, like, a 100
years or 70 years and forever?
You have to be out of your mind
if you think you're gonna balance them because
of that. Balance means what that that you
treat them as, like, you know, equal. This
is ridiculous. This is never this is never
the commandment of,
Allah
to balance the 2 of them as in
equalize them or to treat them the same.
If you read the life of the
you read about the lives of the
that's not how they treated them. That's not
how they lived their lives. The stories of
heroism and iman and faith and overcoming all
of these great challenges.
That doesn't happen by being a half time
Muslim. Obviously, the the deen is superior to
the dunya.
Obviously, the alfila is superior to the dunya.
But that being said,
still
being in this world,
being born in this world, and having to
live in this world until Allah ta'ala gives
us our number that we can die and
leave from this world, we're still commanded by
Allah
to take care of both of these both
of these natures. Why? Because that's the law
that we're given. That's part of what the
test is. If we were angels, then there'd
be no test.
Knows best, but there's
a narrated regarding the story of the the
2 angels, Hamut and,
the the 2 angels that that are mentioned
in the beginning of and
the
that what that their angels, they they asked
Allah,
they wondered why
are these people, human beings, so
crazy? Right? Because they're intelligent. They're intelligent beings.
The fact that they don't disobey Allah, it
doesn't mean that Allah didn't give them great
intelligence and and a great ability to understand,
figure, predict, you know, those types of skills
that we have and use in the corporate
world will make 6 figures, right, as an
analyst. You see, okay. This is how this
you know, the trends they analyze the trends.
This is the direction which this thing is
going.
So they understood.
Yeah. All about this thing you're doing, it
looks like it's gonna go very wrong very
quickly.
And he says, what do you say? I
don't know. I didn't know what you don't
know.
I I know what you don't know. This
is not your job to worry about what's
gonna happen, what's not gonna happen. I know
something that you don't know about the creation
of Islam.
And so this how does it come with
themselves? They wondered,
what's wrong with the Islam? I mean, there's,
like, a lot of good stuff going on
there, but
he knows he's only gonna be in the
world for a limited amount of time.
He knows Allah
He's gonna go back to Allah He's gonna
have to reckon for all of his deeds.
He knows all of these things. If anything
else, he knows at least he's gonna die
one day. He cannot take all of this
with him forever. He cannot take all this
material,
stuff with him. I landed in LaGuardia today,
and I saw a big,
Boeing 737,
and it says written on it, Trump.
What is he gonna do? Is he gonna
take it into his apartment with him and
fly around his what is he gonna do
with it?
What what what is anyone gonna do with
all of this stuff? I mean, after a
while, people have what they need. They have
a place to live. They have a car
to drive around in. After a while, they
have everything. And how much? What are you
gonna do with it? You're just keeping score
like life is a game, and life's not
a game. And so what happens is that
these
these people, they're, like, crazy. What is is
it really that hard? The test that they
have to go through, is it really that
hard? That's it. Okay. You wanna know if
it's really that hard? Here's the deal. You
2 go in in the and live as
human beings for what? For 1 year.
Okay? And the test is what? You just
have to get through that 1 year without
committing kufra, without killing someone, and without committing
zinai.
That's relatively,
relatively easy. Most of us, have been able
to pull off of the 365. We're on
a on
a on a on a winning streak as
far as that's concerned. I mean, we're not
the most, you know, pious in the world
like some of us are, I guess. But,
like, most of us aren't the most pious
in the world. Right? But we still,
managed to get through the year without committing
and committing and killing people.
Those of us who are struggling with these
things, give us help. But, that's the best
of the test. You're an angel. You should
be able to do it. So what happens
if 2 of them come into the come
into the world? And both of them fall
in love with a a wicked woman,
and they they completely are like,
you know,
the the the experience of falling in love
overwhelms them, which is a small note to
all of us, be careful who you fall
in love with. There's no guarantee that if
you fall in love with someone that they're
good for you. So just be careful. Don't
don't mix with anyone and everyone, and be
be very careful about that because it can
make things go soft real quick.
So what happens is that they fall in
love with a woman and,
in in doing her bidding,
because of because of the the state that
they're in, they commit all three of those
things before the year is up. And then
Allah
takes them to account, and now they have
to do these kind of weird odd jobs.
They have to live forever as human beings
in the dunya and do these odd jobs
for Allah
Right? Because even angels have ranks,
They get deposed from their high rank to
the low rank. They have to dwell in
the seeds of the punishment. The fact of
the matter is it's not easy. It's not
something that's simple. That's where the whole test
is. If there was no test,
there would be no place for reward. If
you didn't have to do some work, if
you didn't have to do any put any
effort into it, there would be no reward.
It's a hadith of the prophet
that,
amongst other places is narrated by,
but it's also mentioned by Moana Ashraf Alaykhanu
and
his for their Eid. That when is the
day of the their Eid,
the day of 5th or the day to
open fast, I mean, the day of Eid,
Allah will post in front of his angels
and he will ask his angels, oh my
angels, what's the reward of somebody who? A
worker who fulfills the
job that was given to them. And they'll
say, oh, our lord, the reward of a
worker who fulfills the job that was given
to them is that they should be paid
their wages.
Right? If it wasn't a job then, you
wouldn't have a a a place to be
paid your wages.
Sure. We live a life that's oftentimes
grimeier than that of of an angel.
But at the same time,
through fulfilling this job Allah gave us, we
have the
ability to achieve a that's even higher than
the that they do. And it's not something
that every Muslim is able to do. It's
not something every person is able to do,
but the opportunity is there. So you have
to balance what? You have to balance the
fact that, okay, I have a job to
do, and I have this, like, set of
constraints, and I have this set of goals.
Your goals are dictated to you by what?
Your angelic nature. And your constraints are dictated
to you by what? By your animalistic
nature. It's how I'm gonna go kill yourself.
Right? It's how I'm just saying, oh, this
dunya I needed. I'm gonna go kill myself.
It's hard to do so. It's not permissible
to do so. There are certain religions. There
are entire religions, world religions that actually idealize
this.
Unfortunately, some of them seem to take on
the guys in Islam as well.
People doing weird suicide bombings that seem to
have no benefit or no,
you know,
no sort of
help for the person doing it, and they're
not helping other people who are being killed
in the process who are most more often
than not Muslims anyways. Right? This kind of
death death, health, and legalism. This is haram.
This is not this is not something that
Allah taught. There's a religion there's a major
world religion
from India called Jainism. That's what they idealize.
Like, you eventually, when you reach a certain
spiritual state, then you take off all your
clothes and wander naked into the forest and
starve yourself to death
because
whatever. That's how you're gonna reach enlightenment because
you're not gonna harm anyone else and take
them to the dunya. This is not what
Allah Allah commanded from us that for the
sake of, you know, saving a couple of
plants from being eaten, we're supposed to kill
ourselves. Rather, Allah
made us the most honor honor of his
creation,
that the whole rest of the dunya was
made in order to serve us.
The whole rest of the creation was made
in order to serve us. It was there
the animals,
right, that it said on the the the
the the hajj of the prophet
that he slaughtered 100 camels
as his heady.
And he gave half of them. He took
half of them himself and he gave half
of them to,
to slaughter on his behalf.
And the camels were were pushing each other
out the way to come forward and be
the sacrifice of the
Rasul
And if a person says, oh, that's just
a tall tale. Why do people tell stuff
stories like that? It's why is it something
that's so unimaginable
for a person that the camels push each
other out of the way? Because they there
are human beings that would push each other
out out of their out of out of
the way in order to be the sacrifice
of the prophet
even if you may not find it easily
in Long Island or at the mall. There's
still people like that. Right?
And
so what is it? Is that you have
the set of constraints within which you have
to operate,
and this is part of the understanding of
the deen and understanding of Islam that we
kind of miss out on
because the only education we have about the
deen has to do with Sunday school,
which is a noble effort. Whoever is working
on Sunday school may allow a lot of
reward that we're trying to preserve some semblance
of dean amongst the our young people, but
it's it's very little. It's not enough. What
is it? 4 hours 4 hours, like, from
8 AM to
12, noon or from 8 AM to to
there's over 4 hours, 5 hours of instruction
a week for maybe 2 thirds of the
year at maximum.
It's it's true will. It's not enough. Right?
This is the entire
this is the entire, like, wisdom tradition of
the You're
not going to be able to transmit it
even as information in that amount of time.
How are you gonna get the that you
need, the companionship that you need, that you
transfers the transfers the the the light of
this need from one heart to the other.
How are you gonna get that in such
a short amount of time? And on top
of that, we have something called Islamic Schools
in America.
Whoever is working in an Islamic school and
whoever is doing qidmah for an Islamic school,
Allah
reward you. They have even less hours of
instruction in the week. You know that? Most
Islamic schools that I've seen in America, their
Islamic studies 3 hours a week,
which is what if you're paying full time
tuition in order to get even less instruction
time then?
Sunday school.
We have this huge wisdom tradition. It teaches
all of these things. So hadith the
prophet
right? He flows in the in the body
of a human being
through the pathways in which blood flows.
So
constrict constrict his ability to enter into the
body
through what? Through fasting.
This is something these these are these are
this is something it has to do with,
like, an understanding of the way the body
is. It has to do with the understanding
of the what sheikhan is and the way
sheikhan works. It has to do with the
understanding of of an entire spiritual realm, which
the reductionist,
reductionist outlook of modernity and modernism doesn't allow
a person to see or talk
about.
But there's nothing nothing that influences us except
for except for physical things. There's nothing that
influences us except for physical things. That if
a person you know, time we're we're very
objective about everything.
Time time is the same time. If a
person is in jail, how do they perceive
the flow of time?
If a person is being tortured, how do
they perceive the flow of the flow of
time? If a person's in love, how do
they perceive the flow of time? The entire
night will go by and the person will
will not even
know where the time went. They'll hear the
Adanafedra, and they won't know where the time
went.
If somebody is, you know, getting something painful
done on the flips on the on the
on the flip side, I wouldn't want the
cupping.
And so the cups they put into your
head, strangely, they don't hurt that much, but
the ones they put in your back, they
they kinda hurt a little bit. So I
thought, if I'm, like, about to go south,
then, then, you know, I lost the fact
that we've ever happened to go through some
hardship in life. And I thought I was
bad. The guy next to me started screaming
like he was getting tortured. I was like,
I'm the guy. Everyone in the clinic, you
and his friends were laughing at him. He
was screaming so loud. Right? What does he
perceive time differently? There's so many things. There's
so many
spiritual realities
that are not considered to be objective except
for the fact that we all know that
they exist and they're real. And so some
people,
they ignore them and think that they're not
going to exist. If we ignore them, maybe
they'll just go away. There's a wisdom tradition
that describes all these things in great detail
that we have, that the shaitan flows in
your in your veins. Imagine somebody has somebody
has any sort of any sort of vice
or haram thing that they do.
K. Any sort of vice or haram thing
that they do. There's a Muslim country. No
need to admit any country. It could be
any of them because none of them are
particularly doing too too well spiritually right now.
Help all of us. Right? So there's a
particular Muslim country in in which they have
liquor stores.
And so that country has a law that
the liquor store, you cannot Muslims can't buy
alcohol from them.
And, only foreigners can enter into the the
the way they differentiate between Muslim and non
Muslim, like, do you have a foreign passport
or not, which is not
a very good method. But, one of the
Muslim brothers went into these liquor stores that
I knew. He was born again, a a
passport from from a western country.
He went and talked to the the manager
of that liquor store who was not a
Muslim, obviously. Right? He was an Indian Hindu.
Right? So he said, I just wanted to
talk to you. So I wanna ask you,
who buys who buys your stuff?
So he says, it's all Muslims.
He goes, but it's against the law for
Muslims to come and buy things from here.
He says, no. What they do is they
keep foreign
they keep foreign, like,
employees.
They'll hire them, and then the foreign employees
will go buy the liquor for them, and
then they'll drink it.
And, he said because of that, the government
even set a quota. Well, the government shouldn't
have done it just out loud liquor, but
the government set a quota.
And and what it is is that each
person can only buy a certain
amount of liquor.
And so what they do, they'll hire more
employees, non Muslim employees to go and, like,
be able to bring more.
They said, how do you know? How do
you know who's gonna who's drinking it at
home? How do you know maybe it's the
those 4 those 4 non Muslim employees that
are drinking the the alcohol themselves? This is
the reason I know the way that I
know that Muslims are drinking it is that
we do not sell one bottle of alcohol
during
Ramadan. The store is open during Ramadan.
So I sit here, my employees sit here.
They have nothing to do. It's completely like
a holiday vacation for them. He says that
if it's a non Muslim who's not fasting
and he's drinking that the liquor,
then what what should the difference be? We
do not sell one bottle of alcohol in
Ramadan.
And this is a very interesting and useful
insight. Why? Because the messenger of Allah
and Salam, what did he say about fasting?
He says the shayvan
flows inside the the the the body of
the veins of the son of Adam, like
blood flows in the veins.
And so what happens when a person is
in a fasting state? We know this medically.
Right? The state of not having eaten,
for for, you know, a long time, 6
hours, 7 hours, the body.
When you have just eaten, there's a certain
state that it's in. You feel full. Your
blood sugar, something happens to it. Your pancreas
puts up, know, insulin in order to do
this and that. It's all stuff that happens
to the body. And then afterward, after your
food is digested and processed,
then the body is in medically what you
refer to as a fasting state. What happens
to it? Forget about even medicine. Right? Forget
about going that technical because it's not medical
school. Maybe not everybody will understand or is
even interested in that level of detail. Just
from a a practical point of view, an
anecdotal point of view, your own personal experience,
my own personal experience. K? What state are
you when you're what what state are you
in when you're fasting?
What state are you in that 5 minutes
before the adhan is supposed to be called
or. Okay. The first and most obvious answer
is probably hungry.
Get beyond that. Okay?
Things that are things that are
important to you now on the, you know,
whatever in the last 10 minute.
Right? People are sitting here. People come to
the Masjid.
People come to the people think that people
come to the masjid because they're pious. I'm
humble about pious people come to the masjid
as well, and impious people should be even
faster to come to the masjid. Why? Because
it's a it's a
it's a it's a it's a generous lord.
The person who's not pious, the one who
has many sins, that person has more needs
than the person that that that has their
life together and is doing okay. And that's
why
this is sometimes a kind of, like, emotional
or nafsani, like, self defense mechanism that impious
people have that, oh, how can I go
to the mustard? It's just gonna remind me
about how horrible of a person I am.
So listen, if you're a horrible person,
then not be reminded about it is not
gonna change it. If you come to the
Masjid, you can fix something. Allah, the will
forgive you for your sins even if you
don't fix yourself up. Sometimes just that that
that that being at the right place at
the right time is enough to receive Allah's
forgiveness.
Sometimes being at the right place at the
right time is enough to receive Allah forgiveness.
Am I just making that up because
much of my employment happens to be in
the masjid? No. Well, actually, I'm not I
don't work in Masjid, but I'm not a
I right now, I'm not currently employed as
a Imam. Conflict of interest disclosure. But even
even even then, I was for some part
of my life.
So what is it? Right?
Said
about the people who are in the battle
of Badr.
What do you know about the people who
are there on the battle of Badr that
Allah hasn't looked inside of their hearts
and forgiven them everything that they they did
and everything that they'll ever do? Just that
you're forgiven.
You know that the people in the battle
of whether what kind of stuff happens afterward.
Right? What kind of stuff I there's amongst
them people who literally commit treason.
The prophet
is sending in the army of to go
and conquer
And one of the one of the veterans
of Badri actually sent a letter to, Makarukarama
warning them about what was gonna happen because
his son lived there, and he was afraid
that they would harm him,
in in desperation when they're surrounded by Muslim
armies in order to save his son.
It's not the right thing to do. The
prophet,
like, understood why he did it, that he
didn't do it out of hatred of Islam,
that he did it out of out of
a natural fear that every parent has for
their child. And he looked, he should have
suppressed it in that in that occasion. And
when wanted to
execute him as a as as as a
traitor is executed even in this country. Right?
Friesen has carried the death penalty and it
still carried the death it still can carry
the death penalty. Right? The Alien and Sedition
Act, this is not something that's, like, just
like post 911. This is something that happened
from, like, the the the presidency of John
Adams and from, like, from the beginning, the
founding fathers of this of this country.
What did the prophet say? He he said
he was he was there at Badr. Allah
has forgiven him.
Allah has forgiven him. Imagine
that level of of treason. Why? Because he
was up he showed up at the right
place at the right time. So that's a
really big deal. Hopefully, none of us will
ever betray the trust of the prophet something
like that. But at the same time, you
know,
you know, we're small people, so we come
to the masjid for small forgiveness. Little big
people, Allah gave them big forgiveness.
So
showing up to the showing up to the
masjid. Right?
What has what has thrown you into into
doubt?
What has made you misunderstand?
Right? Who is what has,
you know, defrauded you or or deceived you
regarding your
generous your generous lord.
That deception becomes light at that time. Right?
You're there in the masjid. You're waiting for
for the 5 minutes before
the the fast opens. All those things that
are important to you right now,
they all of a sudden become
relatively less important.
Maybe there's somebody in this in this majlis
or somebody who would come to a majlis
like this,
who's right now concerned about money. How concerned
about money will you be at that time?
You've done a couple of Ramabans. You have
a couple of Ramabans in your belt. You
know how this go. You live there. Right?
You just gonna be really concerned about money
at that time?
No.
How concerned are you gonna be concerned about
your car? Oh my god. My car is
old. I need to get a new car
and financing and blah blah blah. All these
things. Are you gonna be concerned about that
at that time? No.
Are you gonna be are you gonna be
concerned about who's gonna win the presidential election?
Maybe he's, like, only tangentially, just say, oh,
I'll make somebody who's not gonna
make go to the airport harder than it
is already. Right? Then you just move on.
You're not really gonna be concerned about those
things. What are you gonna be concerned about
at that time?
You're going to be concerned about your.
You're going to be concerned about your iman.
If someone tells you something about Madina and
about
and you're gonna say, oh, I wish I
could go on.
If someone talks at that time about memorizing
the Quran, you say, oh, I wish I
could memorize the Quran. Maybe I can memorize
this.
These things all what they they become more
powerful
in you. Why? Because we said that Islam
is takkiv. It's a composite between a an
animalistic nature and an angelic nature.
K?
Animalistic nature here on the bottom, angelic nature
here on the top.
And so what Kufr is one of the
bizarre things about Kufr
is that it's not that just because a
person disbelieves in Allah and His rasool Allahu
alaihi wa sallam that their angelic nature is
is completely gone.
There are many people who don't believe in
Allah and Rasulullah alaihi wa sallam. They still
think it's bad to lie. They still think
it's bad to cheat. They still think it's
good to be good to other people, feeding
orphans. They're like, yeah, that checks out. Sounds
like sounds like a good plan.
But what is it?
What is the case here of such people?
It's that the the animalistic nature is on
top,
and the angelic nature is on the bottom.
Now tell me. Right? Have you seen a
person riding a a a a a donkey
before?
I haven't. So maybe these are more examples.
Right? Like, I should, like, get more
modern and relevant. You know? I see. Contextually
relevant example. Right. I imagine, like, you've seen
this person riding a bike before. Right?
Like, people do that in the old world
because of their simplicity. They do it here
because they're hipsters or whatever. Right? You grow
a beard, don't grow a beard to be
a hipster. Grow it because it's another province
of Allah.
Honestly, some of these hits with these they're
creepy people a lot. Here, all of us,
he die. Some of them are creepy people
who come to me up in the airport
and be like, oh, yo. That's a really
nice beard. And I'm like, yo, back up
off my beard. Okay? You're I'm gonna look
at my beard. It's
creeping me out, man. It's creeping me out,
bro.
So what what happens? Right? You see that
person riding a bike before.
So one person comes to work on a
bike, the other person comes to work carrying
the bike.
Bike's riding in.
Might as well give us maybe a flat
tire.
The bike doesn't work anymore. It costs, like,
3, $400.
I have to get it fixed. I can't
just leave it.
Every day, this this dude is rolling up
with his bike on his shoulder and just,
like, running, jogging to work with his bike
on his shoulder.
Something's wrong. It's like, it doesn't make any
sense.
What's the point?
I'm sure you're doing it. What's the point?
What's the point? This what happens to us
as well, though?
Allah
created the the the behemia nature, the animalistic
nature
to be something that you ride on, just
like a person rides
an a horse or a donkey or or
a mule or a bike.
And he created the human. The human is
like the bike is cool because it lets
you get places faster. Right? You can go
10 miles walking. It's
it's doable, but it's gonna tire you out
if you don't wear wear the soles of
your shoes out. But if you like, you
can do 10 miles. How long would it
take? It would take, like, what?
An hour or something? Yeah. Yeah. I mean,
it's something that that you can do much
faster and much more ease it's a little
bit of a workout, but it's definitely not
gonna wear you off, like, walking 10 miles,
is it? Right? So it's a powerful tool.
But what's more important to the person or
the bike?
When's the last time you've got a person
gets hit in a, you know, in a
riding a bike and was hit in a
by a car, and people ask, oh, how
was the bike?
Like, stuff for a while.
That's not it's the person that's important. But
what did we do? We made the bike
important.
We We made the donkey more important than
the person, than the person running around carrying
the donkey on his back. How ridiculous is
that person running around carrying the bike on
his back? How ridiculous is that? It's silly.
So what is fasting
amongst
a great number of gifts that that that
there are in fasting? Is what is that
it allows you to discipline
your riding animal.
Say, I'm not gonna carry you. I'm not
gonna carry you.
You're gonna carry me, and you're gonna listen
to what I say because I'm the master.
You don't see you don't see, like, a
horse is, like, you know, a horse and
a rider.
Some this happens. Horses have to be trained.
They have to be trained, but not every
horse is trainable. Some horses are irascible. You
cannot ride them. They'll throw you from their
back. They'll break your neck and die. Right?
So every horse you have to train the
horse. If you don't train the horse and
then it's like becomes an adult and then
you wanna ride, it doesn't work that way.
It doesn't if you don't train it, it's
not gonna it's not gonna it's gonna kill
you. It's gonna mess you up.
What what happened? Right? The guy who played
Superman, the actor in the skin. He played
Superman on the on the in the old
movies, he was playing Superman in real life.
Nobody's Superman.
Nobody's Superman in real life.
Like, imagine about
it, kids in kids in school, you know,
I remember when I one term I taught
in Islamic schools, like, we'd be for, like,
2 weeks at at lunch, they're talking about
who and when did they fight Batman or
Superman. And I'm like, they're not real. Like,
yeah. We don't. But, like, Batman would do
this and Superman. Superman doesn't exist in real
life. Right? So what happened? He got fell
from his horse, he broke his neck, and
he actually ended up, after some time, succumbing
to his injuries and dying from,
dying from that that, that accident. That's what
the naps does to a person. The knots
is supposed to be tamed and and and
and controlled.
It's supposed to be trained.
If you train your knots, it will do
a lot for you.
If you don't train your knobs, what's it
gonna do? It's gonna throw you. It's gonna
kill you spiritually.
So what is it? How do you how
do you train an animal? Right? You don't
train an animal by sitting down and say,
okay, horse, let's have a talk. I'll buy
you some very nice wraps. You tell them
your feelings. Let's make it comfortable. It doesn't
work that way. You have to show the
horse what's up. You have to show the
horse his boss. And if you don't, if
you try doing the kinda touchy feelier route,
it's gonna throw you from its back and
you're also gonna break your neck and you're
gonna, die from it.
Right? If if you train the horse, the
horse will be happy and you'll be happy.
So what is it? When you don't eat
every time you don't eat
in the day when you fast. Okay? If
you don't eat for life a week, you'll
die. Right? But you're not gonna die inshallah
from from from you're
not gonna if you are, then fasting is
forgiven for you. So don't don't stop. But
for the rest of us, you're not gonna
die by not eating. What are you doing?
You're sticking it to the horse. You're telling
the horse, oh, you're getting out of line?
I don't know. What's the horse gonna do
next time? Not not gonna not gonna it's
gonna not get out of line. Why? Because
it doesn't like that.
Is the point of fasting the star of
the death? No. If that was the case,
then there would be suhoor, and there would
be a star. Both of them are actually
soon as there's Barakah, a lot of Barakah
in those meals.
What is it you have to train? And
the problem is you have all these people.
You have all of these people. And unfortunately
unfortunately, a great number of Muslims
fall into this fall into this,
category as well. You have a great number
of people who never took the time to
train the horse,
never took the time to train the mouse.
Every time you wanna eat something, you hate
it. Every time you wanna say something, you
said it. Every time you wanted to do
something else, you did it with a woman
you're not married to, with a man you're
not married to, with your computer, with your
phone. God knows what kind of other thing.
Every single time person didn't didn't control themselves,
didn't control themselves. Didn't tell them that's what's
up. Everybody makes mistakes. Everybody does wrong things
from time to time. There's no hadith I've
ever seen or no of the Quran that
I've ever seen which describes the believers as
people who never make mistakes. There are many
ideas and many describe the people as the
believers as people who make,
describe the the believers as people who constantly
repent and return to Allah
and who follow their bad deeds with good
deeds in order to efface them, in order
to to to get rid of their lingering
bad effects.
These things I see all the time. I
never see a a hadith about a believer
being the person who's perfect and has it
all together, never messes it up, messes
up. But the problem is if you never
never ever bother to to,
you know, train train that mask, How are
you going to how are you going to
achieve what Allah
brought you here to achieve? Rather, you will
end up tiring out
your angelic self in order to serve the
the the admirable self.
You'll kill it.
Can you imagine if you had to who
here is to carry a horse?
If somebody put a horse on your back
right now,
what would happen?
Somebody might be, like, you know, pull a
muscle or something. Many of us might die.
It might actually break your back. And the
person who dies the animal death, that's the
one who take them to the graveyard and
and we we read their janazah. The person
who dies a spiritual death, that's the person
we call this this person is a captive.
This person is disbelieved in Allah
This person has sealed for themselves
a fate, a fate which ends eternally in
the fire.
And Allah ta'ala still by his grace and
by his mercy, he brings the dead to
life,
both miraculously the animal dead to the animal
life,
but even more miraculously that from the spiritual
death, he brings certain people to spiritual life
as well.
But that's his grace. That's his follow. If
he does it, he does it. The majority
of people are going to keep going down
that path.
And
who's more who's more,
intelligent? The animal
part of a person or the
physical part of the person, the people who
have led the physical their physical part, right,
their spiritual part. Now look what kind of
ridiculousness
we're getting to day after day after day.
Person cannot tell my man and my woman.
That's fine. You have your your issues. Some
people have, like, are mentally ill. We don't
make fun of them. We shouldn't make fun
of them. Maybe I maybe my tone right
now was wrong. I thought forgive me. Right?
Maybe you shouldn't be fine. That person has
a mental illness. They don't know they're really
unsure about a lot of this stuff.
So,
Their their their spiritual splits their spiritual,
self was strong enough. It would have brought
them to the haqq, because it's part of
the quality of a strong spiritual self is
that that person is impressed with just like
as the physical eyes are impressed with beauty.
Right? The animal like, aesthetics is the animal
beauty. Haqq is deep.
Spiritual beauty, just like,
the physical eyes are attracted to beauty just
like that spiritual eyes are attracted to the
heart.
They're attracted to the truth. It makes a
person want to accept the truth even if
that truth is something that might harm them.
A person fell falls in love with someone
that's not good for them. Right? Their physical
eyes make them physically fall in love with
someone who's not good. Just like this, spiritually,
sometimes a person falls in love with the
heart. They'll they'll they'll do anything for that.
Why? Because the beauty is too hard to
resist.
But the person there is spiritually not stopping
at them in in order to be able
to resist that, they're they
don't know all of these things. This is
part of that he mentions in his book.
Right?
Don't be like the people who forgot Allah
where he allowed them to forget themselves.
The person wakes up, my my mamma and
my woman. These are things small children are
able to
answer these questions.
Right? A person do I exist or not?
Philosophers write huge facts about this.
It's ridiculous. Right?
There's nothing nothing useful in the mind of
a person
if you tell them it's daytime and they
ask what's your proof. There's certain things you
should know intuitive.
That's one level of sickness. Another level of
sickness has become not individual. It's not like
a sickness in an individual. Right? That sickness
has spread. It's become it's become system wide.
It's become societal.
Now that person has a problem understanding whether
they're a man or a woman.
It's their issue. Right?
And who from the young people, some of
them, they get, like, really astonished when they
go to the Muslim world because they think,
like, oh, everyone knows who praying and fasting
and is really righteous in Christ. They're not.
I mean, I think I my personal opinion
is they're more righteous than the average Muslim
in America is, but there's still you know,
there's reasons why we're dying. It's not like
for free that the Muslim world is not
doing so great, not doing so hot. But
this happens, you go to a Muslim, you
go to Muslim country where there's nobody and
you'll never find a man dressed up as
a woman or, like, these type of things.
They're all there. They've been there for centuries.
In fact, the beautiful thing is the Muslim
world, they know how to deal with with
that stuff in the context of Islam. You
see somebody, you see in Pakistan, you see
a a a a a a person dressed
up as a woman and, like, the the,
the people with beards, they stop the car
and say, hey, you,
this and that, and, like, curse them out
and use bad words and, like, beat them
and, no.
Keep walking. Some of them are beggars. They
give them money and they make Dua for
them.
What is it? It's a part of society.
These things happen. What's wrong though with with
the with the the the the the kind
of critical mass of the spiritual self being
broken to the point where even society, it's
broken.
As a society,
the new norm has been what? That the
physical self rise on on the the the
animal self rise on the spiritual self to
the point where now we have laws
that say what?
That you're, you you know, you cannot
there's a medical doctor who was telling me,
it's a Muslim medical doctor. That, you know,
these whole laws with the bathroom laws that,
like, a person can use the bathroom that
they want to,
whatever. I try not to use the bathroom
outside. Anyway, it's not gonna be, but whatever.
Right? They tried to issue these directives to
hospitals.
And when you're in a hospital and you're
treating patients, sick people, okay,
you cannot afford the luxury of a person
saying that, no, I'm I'm a woman. I
should be treated like a woman. They have
to actually do surgery on you, give you
medicine. There's all these kind of different
chemical imbalances,
chemical balances, hormonal balances, anatomical differences in people.
If you give a person in a certain
setting the treatment of a woman and he's
physically a man,
what's going to happen? You're gonna end up
harming the patient instead of helping the patient.
The hospital actually sued the government, and it's
not because they prayed 5 times a day
in the last year.
They ended up suing the government because this
is where we got money. It's ridiculous.
It's obvious that you're asking us to accept
something is obviously not
true. Why?
Because,
started
riding the person,
and, what happens is that that that human
being was a composite of these two natures.
They start to resemble the donkey more than
they resemble the
angel.
This is something will it will happen. This
is something that is a natural consequence of
kufr.
You will see people who are very highly
functional. They know how to program computers. They
know how to run corporations.
They know how to fix machinery, complex machinery.
They know how to do all these things.
But in every other sense, their life is
a complete wreck.
Their life is a complete wreck.
And what can I do? You you ask
me for example, I'll give you an example,
everyone will say, look, you're mean. You're being
mean by saying this. And I say what?
Hadith and the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wasallam.
The happy person is the one who takes
it, takes a a a lesson from the
misfortunes of others. You don't have to wait
for every misfortune to happen to you yourself
before you're in you don't have to wait
till you get AIDS in order to understand
how horrible of a disease AIDS in its
nose. It's a horrible disease. I sympathize with
the people who have it. I do look
down on them. I don't curse them or
dog them or snicker or laugh about them.
That doesn't mean that I have to I'm
not gonna understand until I get it myself
about that. All of us from getting it,
and if any of our brothers and sisters
have it, I'll help them. Right?
Who are we to judge, you know, other
people? Every one of us is a imperfect
person. Right? So I'll give this example in
that context. K? So I'm not talking down
about somebody. I mean, we feel sorry that
a person could have such a fate, have
such an end. Right? So there's a singer
who just died recently.
His name is Prince.
If you don't know who he is,
good for you. Make no offer me, inshallah.
Consider you one of the lucky ones. Okay?
The singer just died. His name is Prince.
He died in Minnesota.
I actually went to Minnesota, like, a week
afterward. 1 of us said, don't say anything
about Prince. You're insensitive about it here. It's
he died.
He had
something like $500,000,000
of copyrights
that he died with, and he has no
children inherited from him.
He died of a a overdose,
in the painkillers, the opioid the the the
opioid painkillers.
He died of an overdose of those pain
killers. He was actually
had just started seeing,
some counselor to help him cope with this
addiction that he had to illegally prescribed medicine,
illegally prescribed medicine.
And
he overdosed on this medicine, and he was
he was dead for hours before anyone found
him because of poor guys alone.
Okay?
Imagine
half a $1,000,000,000
just in
in in in copyright
in in in value and copyrights
for his music.
But at the same time,
that alone
his sister he had one full sister. His
sister
filed to,
claim his inheritance
because he had no wife, no children, no
family that lived with him. That's it. He
just had a sister. His sister
is
a relationship you build or foster. It's something
that just kinda happened in the general front
because of the decisions of the generation from
before you.
This is sad.
This is if it's not sad to a
person,
I I mean, I don't know how to
explain
how to explain
to you why we don't see eye to
eye. And I appreciate the fact that there
may be certain people who listen to something
like this because I don't understand what's up.
Maybe he's happy alone.
And then your is so shot. If your
is so shot that you cannot understand why
it's not that a person dies so alone,
So alone.
I don't understand what to do. I don't
understand what to what to explain to you.
But what is it? If the average person
on the street, you ask you still say
the same thing, or maybe he was happy
alone, maybe he didn't wanna, you know, live
with anybody. Maybe that's what he wanted to
do. What is it? Right? There's the angelic
self and there's the animal self. For the
animal self, a person is
used to what? To serving themselves,
which is useful. Right? Someone else can't be
hungry on my behalf. Right? If they're hungry
on my behalf and they forget to give
me a call, I might starve to death.
But,
but that that's, you know, what is that?
That's what this thing leads toward.
And it's it's something that's so,
you know, it's so scary, and it's so,
blows a person's mind so much. How can
we idealize this this method of living, this
mode of living, this selfishness,
this
utter,
lack of making sense of anything at all.
This this these things, by the way, these
things are all like the privilege of the
the rich. Right? There's a lot of favela.
There's a lot of benefit in being poor.
Okay?
A white man, a rich white man who
says, oh, I feel like I'm a man
trapped in the body of a woman
or a woman trapped in the body of
a man, what will happen? He'll go out
and buy new clothes, and he will not
gonna have any problems by people. Buying clothing,
but I'm just saying that's the the structure
that we that that we live in right
now. Okay?
What will happen, you'll go out and buy
clothing of a woman, and people oh, look.
Look at my award, and they'll make him
like, oh, this is a hero and this
is this, that, and the other thing. Right?
What will happen if, what will happen if
a poor person in Asia or Africa does
that?
Nobody nobody cares.
Even say people are giving the award to
the they don't they don't care. Why? Because
that's that's that's not the part of the
totem pole that you're in right now. It's,
completely like this kind of class based, power
based
system. Okay? And what is it? You always
see these type of weird deviancies
are always propagated by the rich and enfranchised
class.
Why is it? Because they want
to do whatever they want to do. They
don't want anyone to tell them no.
You'll see this. You have to with every
single sin that Allah forbid a person from
doing.
Every single one of those sins, you'll see
that they're halal for the enfranchised class, quote
unquote halal according to whatever official,
official story you'll hear on the news. What's
a sin? Someone tell me a sin.
Sinan, we already talked about. Right? They they
they've already exhausted
it. I it looks like they've exhausted all
the types of weird deviancy they can conversion
that they can do. I'm sure they'll pull
out another one, like, in the next 6
months that will blow your mind because they're
in this field. They're like the imams of
this field. Name another sin.
Murder, that's also in the same category. That's
the next thing. Right? That that happened in
France, by the way. There was a a
man and woman who were adopted by different
people. They married each other, and the French
court found out that they're actually brother and
sister at one point, and they they tried
to break them up. And the people were
so incensed about it that they actually passed
the law saying that it's okay for them
to be together, and they're happy. Right. Right?
What is a murder? Right? Murder?
Drones drones
drones are drones are killing, like, 90% collateral
damage.
Nobody talks about it.
Why? Because the franchise class is doing that,
Killy.
Right? Black people and white people in this
country,
black people this is a fact. Black people
and white people in this country,
for the same crime, the amount of sentencing,
and the the rate at which they're being
executed,
it's like a day and night difference.
It's like a day and night difference. I
actually was exposed to the statistics of,
the statistical reality of this, When I was
an undergrad in university and,
the the dean of the College of Arts
and our university, University of Washington in Seattle,
he said that to me. So that's what
my PhD thesis was. Case studies,
the same crime, same age, every single,
like, objective demographic is the same for the
the the crime that's been been done.
The only difference is that that in certain
cases, the the person who committed the crime
was white, in certain cases, black. So over
double over over double the amount of, sentencing
always for the black person. And the comments
for the white person, oh, this person can
turn around, they can change, they can live
a good life. Like, this person is deviant.
He's a such a society we should put
away for as long as as long as
we can. Right? What is it? Every single
you'll see every single sin in the book.
Why?
Because ultimately, a person doesn't like, right, the
the the animal self has gotten on top
of
the spiritual self. The spiritual
self enjoys being enjoys being what? Enjoyed being
underneath
the the command of Allah.
People who meditate, they make their
they express their servitude to Allah
You read
for example. K? Maybe very few people understand
Arabic enough to be able to understand what's
being recited in the Quran. Even despite the
fact that a person may not understand the
Arabic, just the act of being in the
prayer to make a sense that you know
I'm making in front of Allah
Is there anyone?
Okay. Sure. When it's, like,
the first rakka hour hour 20 and the
imam's like, and
you're thinking like, dude, this is, like, the
longest route in the entire 4 on. We
are it's already 10,
and we're gonna be,
I mean, you're gonna be here for
oh, I love that. And you're thinking about
all this. Everything happens to people in your
account. Oh, is it, like, 12 or 14?
And then, like, they've, like, whatever. It's, like,
12, not 14. They stopped and they and
he's like, oh, man. There's even 2 more.
Despite all of that right? Is there anyone
here? Raise your hand. Be be be honest.
I won't, like, gather screen at you. Right?
Or you can, like, tell me afterward privately.
Right? And I won't tell your name to
anyone.
I don't even know what people do this.
Right?
Is there anyone when you're done with the
obvi and you walk out the door that
feels bad that at home, man, it's like,
what did I do for the last
2 and a half hour? Everybody feels good.
Everybody feels clean.
But what? That's because the angelic self
enjoys its its happiness isn't being the service
of Allah
And the the the the animal self?
Me, me. I'm the only one who exists.
I don't care about anyone else except for
me.
And that and that that that that thing,
it gets out of control. It wreaks like
a havoc. It starts from, like, small things,
and it will end with literally the destruction
of entire societies.
If you don't believe me, you don't believe
me, just just watch your you know, you
guys have a candidate from New York running
for president. Just watch the guy. You know
why he's so popular?
It's because he's that that
that that that he mean, that animalistic self,
and other people who are in that same
state,
yeah. That's what we need.
Literally,
we can destroy the entire we can destroy
this entire country. They've been saying since 911,
the whole Muslim fundamentalist terrorism is gonna is
the biggest threat to America and Muslim this
and Muslim that and,
Islamic terrorism and Islamic extremism and Islam fascism
and ISIS and blah blah blah. Okay. Great.
I admit there's, like, crazy people who are
Muslims that something needs to be done about,
and they're harmful for
America, and they're more harmful for Islam itself.
Right? But when you see people like this,
you see the entire map of how this,
like, country can be literally turned into a
second rate country.
America's
dominance
and suzerainty
over,
over, like, geopolitics
is not based on our military.
It's not based on our military.
Rather, it's based on our
economy,
and our overwhelming
military
that we have in this country is only
possible
through the amount of money we generate through
our economic sovereignty over the world. Who's gonna
wanna do business with the guy? He doesn't
wanna do,
business with Muslims. Okay. Good good luck pumping
gas in your car now.
It doesn't make any sense. You see how
this does? It will literally go on. His
his his first goal is to get you
out of Jannah.
Afterward, he will do a
He will
use the fact that he has power over
your animalistic self,
and he will keep working it more and
more and more and more and more until
he will let have you killed yourself, your
own family, your own country, your own homeland,
your own everything that you have at your
own hand. He'll have you destroyed at your
own hand, and then he's going to laugh
at you. Then Then he's going to laugh
at you because misery loves nobody.
So when you have this Ramadan,
please don't spend it watching TV.
Please don't spend it,
you know, sleeping through times you should be
awake. Please don't spend it in in idleness
or in saying, like, okay. It'll be over
soon. If you're doing Ramadan properly right? Remember
when we talked about, like, a person being
tortured, they experience time flow differently?
Everyone's looking at the clock. Oh, he's 10
o'clock's coming. He's gonna stop.
That's why I'm standing. I was sitting in
this down for 3 3 hour. Right? What
is it? Right? If you if you experience
your Ramadan properly, meaning what? You're disciplining your.
Right? What is it? It's a type of
torture for you. Right?
If you're doing Ramadan properly,
don't be like, oh, Ramadan went by so
quickly.
It means you're not doing what you're supposed
to be doing. K? There should be in
the days that by the end of like,
by the time you go to sleep at
night, you should barely be able to remember
what you did in the morning. That's how
long the day should pass. So you should
take this opportunity very seriously,
that this is an opportunity that all of
us had because we live in a society
of people that are like these behemoth type
people, these animalistic people, animals with, like, upgraded
linguistical skills. Right? That this is what people
look up to. Not everyone's like that, but
this is what people look up to. We
have to purify ourselves, cleanse ourselves from that,
and we have to get the the the
maliki, the angelic nature back into control. And
it's not something that's easy except for the
person who
That helped to do it. So please, a
couple of practical things before we end. Right?
Just promise yourself
you won't watch TV during Ramadan.
Okay? In the hook of web TV also
is, like, YouTube videos.
People say, oh, I'm gonna go listen to
shape whatever. You know, you're gonna listen to
him, and then there's ads on the, like,
column, and still watch any of it. Your
Facebook, your Twitter, trust me, the world is
not I mean, if you have to do
it for work or whatever, that's one thing,
but your personal Facebook, Twitter,
Snapchat, whatever,
the world is not gonna fall apart if
they didn't see, like, what you ate or,
like, your wise thing that you tweeted or,
like, like, retweeted Adi's or whatever. Adi's
existed before you, and they'll exist after you
do that as well. Don't worry about it.
Right? Shut them shut them down. That's for
29 or 30 days.
Okay? At least until you're done with the.
Right? These things, don't don't do them. Don't
the people who listen to music, don't listen
to music.
Right? Just for these you should have listened
to it anyway, but at least for these
30 days, so you can taste the sweetness
of iman inside of your heart,
and you can have it as a guide
for you. Right? Whatever,
you're eating, be careful about what you're eating
in a number of ways. One is make
sure that it's like halal
to the highest standard. Okay?
And, b, don't eat too much.
Don't
stuff your overstuff yourself.
Right? Part of the part of the benefit
is what? That when you're hungry,
you have this constriction in your in your
system that has, like, a little inroad to
get in. Imam Ghazali describes the person who
eats in Ramadan the same amount of food
that he he eats outside of Ramadan,
not more. We might be able to see
more. Just the one who eats the same
amount. As the person who he has, like,
this pressure in the spring,
and it's just depressed a little bit through
the whole day, normally.
But, he
he presses it, like, even harder, and it
when you're it's time for a star, like,
it gets even harder. It, like, becomes even
more, like, sharp in its in its strike
against you. Eat a little bit less, you
won't die. Really, really, you won't. And that's
like, don't eat you'll you if you don't
eat it all, you'll die. Eat a little
bit less. Don't like eat it until you're
feel like, like, whatever, dying or whatever. It
won't it won't kill you. Do all of
these things. Right? Be careful about what you
look at. Be careful about what you hear.
Be careful about what you say. This is
hadith to the prophet
right, that if a if a person
who's fasting is his brother, like, tries to
fight with him or, like, tries to dog
him out,
and
fasting. Don't feel ashamed to say that. To
say that some of these things are getting,
like, silly.
Even even say to your mom, some of
my coworkers and stuff and people ask, well,
hey, look. Listen. This is a Ramadan. We're
fasting. I can't I can't do this with
you right now. I'm sorry. You know? In
fact, don't be ashamed about saying it. That
person is not ashamed about sharing their other
weird things that they do in their life.
You shouldn't be ashamed to do your weird
thing. You know? Right? Don't don't be ashamed
of saying it. Use the time wisely.