Hosai Mojaddidi – Foundations of the Spiritual Path (Monthly Sisterhood Halaqa Part 1)
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The speakers discuss the importance of hardship, loss, and desire in achieving success. They stress the need for gratitude and practice gratitude to avoid false expectations and feelings of pride. They also emphasize the importance of following Sharia's teachings and not abandoning others. The speakers stress the need for acceptance and embracing one's views, and emphasize the importance of staying the course to achieve contentment and happiness. They also mention the use of Sundays to avoid unnecessary harm and encourage viewers to watch Instagram.
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ease and blessings and all of this abundance, that's from him. And
when he is testing you,
that's from him. You can't just switch your heart or turn your
heart on and off. Based on your circumstances. You got to take it
all right. And that's why the process and taught us that and the
beautiful Hadith, right? How wondrous is the affair of the
believer, because in every circumstance, if you truly
understood your deen properly, if you have a proper Elpida, you will
see it's all really hard for you. Alhamdulillah Allah Cooley had no
matter what you're going through, even if you're physically
outwardly going through a lot of hardships. In the grand scheme of
things, you are actually an immense blessing. And this is
where again, that beautiful story of Ivanova Allah is very powerful
as a reminder for us, because in our limited understanding, we
sometimes perceive tests as only things that are difficult, right,
but destroy them and apply that actually teaches us that no, every
human being is being tested always right now, think of a person that
you think hasn't made. Think of anybody that you think they're
wealthy, they have beauty, they have lineage, they have all the
things that people envy, right?
Guaranteed. They're tested. Why? Because even in blessings or
tests, right, so the story of him in Atlanta is that he was
burdened, and he came to his to another teacher, Abu Seidel,
Morris No.
Mercy, I forgot his first name. But he's another great chef. And
so he asked him, he said, I am really burdened in dunya. And I
need guidance. And so he tells he asked him, you know, like, what's
going on? And then he explained to him his situation. And so his
shift taught him and he said, I'm going to teach you something. And
if you really understand it, it'll free you of all your burdens. And
he said, every human being is in one of four situations a
possibility of or a mix of one to four. And then he goes on to and
he says, All of them are tests, and each of them have a response.
Right? So the first is the obvious one, tribulation. That's when
you're in hardship, like all the things we just talked about, that
we understand as human beings, because you look at someone who's
being tested. Oh my god, they just lost someone. Yeah, Allah, that's
a test. And so what is the appropriate response? Right, why
does the last part I put some people through really difficult
tribulations is because he is seeking from them. What, what was
modeled to us by Sedna, are you right and saying they are cool,
right? The subbrand Jamil, the beautiful, perfect patience. Those
are the tests of tribulation is that you're going to go through
really serious, severe hardships. But what Allah seeking from you is
can you hold your tongue have beautiful patience, trust the
process, trust that your Lord has your good in mind for you endure
the grief? The loss? You know, not feeling like? Oh my god, the
world's falling apart, enduring it enduring it? That's several Jamil.
That's the first one. Okay, then the second one is that you have
namah it's the complete opposite. So now some people will think
well, how is a person who is in utter blessing or complete
abundance and blessing? How are they being tested?
Because they may know, how are they being tested?
Excellent. Absolutely. So their test is do you have gratitude?
Allah Subhana Allah is seeking from you. If you're in abundance,
like right now, if you have higher in your life, if your marriage is
really great, your kids are healthy, you have health, you have
financial security, you've just maybe traveled or you have plans
to travel, there's all these good things happening for you got a
promotion at work. Your test is literally your test. It's not that
you're just get a free ride is can you show
the requisite gratitude, right? Or at least a portion of that? Can
you show gratitude to Allah subhanaw taala for your abundance?
And also what is gratitude look like? Practically speaking, it's
not just sitting and saying Alhamdulillah because that's easy
to do. Gratitude is actionable. Gratitude has to manifest in what
we would say, paying it forward. Right? You have to share your
blessing. So if you have money, you be you better be giving more
sadaqa more Zeca because you recognize Allah has given me so
much. I have to now help and redistribute some of this to the
less fortunate. If you have more knowledge. You can't sit at home
and just read books. You couldn't do it. But what is the point of
that other than just benefiting yourself? Allah gave you
knowledge. He gave you the ability to teach, go out and serve your
community because there are people who
need that right? If you have anything, any skill set, right,
that you can share, Don't hoard it for yourself because Allah gave it
to you as a test of your generosity as well as your
gratitude to him, but also your generosity of spirit. So that is
your test. And there, that's why many people, you know, they this
point about the next one actually is really tied to that. They
forget a lot in times of prosperity.
Right? How many people do do we know? Who when things are going
rough times are rough, they're like, oh, Allah, Allah. But as
soon as things are easy for them, they become forgetful. It's really
scary how common that is. Right? When you when you when you, you
know, can when you tie your your practice of faith only with
adversity, that's what we're talking about. There's a lack of
consistencies there. But there's people suffer that. So, again,
that's the second test that he mentioned. Many he mentioned, the
test of obedience. Right? So how are those insha Allah who consider
themselves Muslim? Who are in a state of submission to Allah
Sparta? How are we being tested? What's our test? Because this is a
test. You know, if you looked again at the world in in these
dichotomies like oh, those who are guided and those who are not
guided, you could it would be obvious like, Okay, if they're
misguided, they're being tested, but it might not occur to you, the
people who are guided are also being tested. But there is a test
there. What's the test?
For the obedience would be that I know what needs to be done.
Why do I have to do is to get along? So I didn't follow the
rules and regulations that I learned from Allah. Right? This is
what I needed to do. Absolutely.
No one was
taught me in my life, has taught me something I should have done.
Absolutely. So keep maintaining the purity of your practice of
faith. Absolutely. Right, which is what we're talking about, right?
Being mindful, adhering to the Sunnah, and trying to rebrand your
own version of Islam. That's definitely there. The other part
of it is also not becoming self righteous. Because this is it
comes from that, right? It's a form of arrogance. Arrogance can
work in many ways. It can be like, Oh, I'm better than you, but can
also be I got my I'll figure it out, or I'm gonna create my own
path, right? And it can also be what many people exactly that I'm
always the right one, and you start to look down on people. And
this is the danger of guidance. It's a blind spot, right? It's
like, oh, I'm now wearing hijab. Oh, I went, and I am taking
classes and I memorized Quran. So what's going on internally with
you now? Do you feel suddenly that you're superior to other people,
when you go out into the world? Do you look at people as Oh, those
Kaffir? Right? Those kuffaar And you're just like speaking about
people like They're lower than you the dirt of the earth, and you're
the God's gift to humanity, like what's going on internally,
because just because you're guided just because maybe you're you
excel in your prayers, you fast in Ramadan, you're very righteous and
pious does not give you any edge over any other human being until
your until you die, your record is not closed. Right? Now, neither is
theirs. And so the humility required with guidance is that,
you know, guidance can be taken away at any minute from you and
give it and reduce given to someone else that you may have
looked down upon. So it's very dangerous to let self
righteousness and arrogance enter the heart, because you're playing
with your own station with God. So our, you know, test as Muslims is
not to turn on our fellow Muslims, first of all, or our even fellow
brothers and sisters in humanity. With this arrogant arrogance,
where we think that we are more deserving we are more entitled we
are somehow the chosen people, and they are left behind ultimately,
that's, that's a very serious danger. So it's a test though. So
the test of course, is again, always checking your knifes when
you see someone doing something, and I remember again, when I first
came to Islam, because we weren't taught properly, I was learning
Islam from books and really figuring things out on my own. I
was reading literally things into things that I had no understanding
about. So this actually disease afflicted me, I would watch people
pray, and I would presume that oh, there's they don't know what
they're doing because they weren't doing certain things that I
thought was the standard, right. So imagine Subhanallah you know,
there are people unfortunately, that's what they think, you know,
they're a mother I have we have four canonical schools of law that
allow people to there's going to be some variance in certain
things.
Now, if you're not taught that, right, but you're taught one
version, then you think this is this is a slam, then you're going
to look at other people, for example, I mean, the most obvious
one is prayer, right? There are some people who pray with their
arms down by their side, in the Maliki. fifth position. This is
the position of Imam Malik, right? To do to have your arms on your
side, if you don't know of a mathematics position, he's Sunny,
you may look at a person doing that and presume, oh, they're
Shia. And then if you have a Sunni, Shia complex, you know, all
of a sudden, you're thinking all these terrible things. Who are
you, first of all, to think anything about another person
praying to their Lord, whether they're praying with, you know,
with their arms down, or maybe their clothing, and I remember,
you know, many years ago, that was also a very common discussion
point, because sometimes, you know, subhanAllah, some people are
coming to the faith, you know, they're feel a turning of the
heart, they might come in, they have nail polish on, they might
come in with sweatshirts, and their, you know, pants are really,
really tight, and their T shirts are high, or why are you looking
at them? And,
you know, in your mind, or to the what's even worse, by the way,
it's riba to do this. It's Liba. If you and your friend or someone
is sitting, and you want to do an A shara, like look at that person,
you don't have to say a single thing. But it's all implied.
Right? When you do the whole, check that person over there, and
you're making a glance of judgment, that's Reba.
Right? And it happens all the time. It'll happen here in the
house of Allah and Juma tomorrow, you'll have people who look at
someone that they don't approve of the way that they're dressed or
behaving. And they'll make all these presumptions and judgments.
And even while they're doing an act of worship, and you have to
sit there and go what's wrong with me that I'm preoccupied with
another person calling into question the sincerity of their
faith, who am I? I don't know what's in their hearts. Maybe
they're, and this is why many of our scholars said
never look meet people, right. Like I think it was Imam Shafi
that I never He never met anybody but that he presumed that they
were better than him. Right? Because the Wali Aliyev Allah are
hidden, and we don't know who they are. So it's, you know, again,
that's it. So that's the third test is that if you're a believer,
you have to check your ego. So these are internal checks. So when
you have those thoughts, you don't share them. It's shameful what you
should do is unworthy goes for the long male May Allah forgive me for
that thought, right? Follow up a wrong deed with the right one the
prophesy said I'm said, Now forgive me. And Don't, Don't
wallow, don't sit there and, you know, feel like the worst person
on the planet. We're human beings, we're going to have these
intrusive, negative thoughts, what you do is you self correct and you
move on, and you catch yourself. And if you do that, more and more,
you don't think eventually you're going to stop and surely you'll
stop because it gets tiresome to keep policing yourself, right?
You're gonna get tired of yourself. So you'll be like, Okay,
I'm done. I'm done looking at people. And this is where the
Hadith of the Prophet SAW I said, I'm right. Which is, which is men
who say Islam and moderator Kumala. Yeah, any part of the
beauty of a person's of Islam is minding their own business, you
will get to the point of I got no, I'm not looking anywhere. I'm not
looking to the right or to the left of me and actually, one of
our teachers, Sheikh Mohammed Jacobi, he told us that that's
actually a really strong practice of fulfilling this hadith is even
if you were like walking down the side of the street, and there was
an accident, right, unless I mean, people needed help. But at least,
you know, the whole Rubberneckers kind of phenomenon that we have
now, where everybody wants to see what is going on, then, if it
didn't have anything to do with you, and there's nothing you can
benefit or nothing you can do to help mind your own business. Why
do you feel the need to know what's going on in the first
place? Right? The Inquiring minds want to know, this is the
fundamental issue of the human being is we're nosy, we're
preoccupied, we're distracted. And the more we focus on other people,
we absolve ourselves of our own diseases and that's really at the
root of it. Right. Your enough's would rather you be distracted
looking at other people and judging them than inwardly facing
your own diseases. And this is where our job is like, you know we
reorient right? So your heart strays, you start looking and
judging you reorient the focus back onto yourself. That's the
state of the believer. So it's a test and it's a struggle that's
what Mujahid enough says is like constant fighting, constant
talking to yourself constant internal checks, constant lip
biting, oh, I shouldn't have said that stuff at all. I Allah forgive
me, constant apologies. Right. If you're not apologizing, often for
your mistakes. You have an ego problem. Because it's not that
you're not making mistakes. You just refuse to apply
pologize so what does that mean? That means that you refuse to set
right when you are proven wrong, right? And that's a big, you know,
reflection of the ego that you can't admit wrongdoing. So that's
also part of the spiritual practice is to bring in humility.
Humble yourself, be willing to admit your mistakes. Don't look at
other people, don't bother yourself with other people. Mind
your own business. So this is the test. The third test, the fourth
test, is misguidance. When you have strayed, and you're distant
from Allah, you're in sinfulness. You're doing things you shouldn't
be doing. Allah Subhan. Allah is testing you to see if you are
going to pay more attention to every eye, every Hadith, where he
is literally calling you back to him, right? He is a to web. I
mean, how many verses how many Hadith how many stories has have
had been revealed, that indicate to us that Allah subhanaw taala
does not close the door of Toba? We are the only ones we either
open it or we don't. Right, but the door is always open.
So are you going to succumb to the whispering of shaytaan? Or to what
people tell you Oh, your you know, your trash, your waste your waste
of space. There are people who are so heartless when they're angry
with someone, for whatever reason, they will use these types of this
is a form of spiritual abuse, right? Like you're fighting with
someone you don't you're so angry with them, that you start to read
the their rap sheet to them. Oh, you're so disgusting. You've done
this, this and this and this and it's all to basically tell them
you're worthless, even in the sight of God, you're nothing
that's a human being will say that to another person, to tear them to
shreds to nothing, whereas Allah subhanaw taala the the one who is
owed the obedience, the one who you have, you know, you have
betrayed in the sinfulness. Will Never has never said that. He
actually says the opposite. Even if your sins accumulate to the sky
or the form of the ocean.
If you seek sincerely come back to me returned to me. I mean, the man
who killed 99, how many beautiful stories have we heard, where Allah
Subhana Allah is teaching us over and over again, don't close the
door of Toba return.
Right? Because a bliss will come in, you know, the his station,
right? A bliss, bliss despair. That's his station, he wants to
pull us away from ALLAH SubhanA data. So he's not going to fill
your mind with hope. He's going to fill your mind with disgust, with
self loathing. And that's why we have a tragic problem of people
falling into despair, and then spiritually going in the opposite
direction because they don't have focus. So
those are the four states. And they're all tests. So you can't
find a single human being right now on the planet that's not being
tested. Because everybody falls under one of those four, right? Or
a combination, you could be guided, and in blessing, you can
be guided and in tribulation, you can be misguided and in blessing,
or misguided and tribulation, you're in one of those four or
combination of those four. And that means that it's an equal
system, right? Because everybody has their own tests, and nobody
can say their test is not as easy as mine. And that's where we also
have to check our knifes from falling into a victim mindset.
Because if you victimize yourself, and you start to think like, oh,
woe is me, I have more problems than everybody else, and I deserve
this. And I deserve that. First of all, it's an allegation against
Allah subhanaw taala you are literally accusing Allah of being
unfair. When you think when you frame things that way, right? If
you've ever had the thought that I'm being tested more than I
deserve, why me? That's a inspiration from a bliss because
he wants to turn your heart away from Allah. But you also have to
read into what you're actually saying, which is I am accusing the
Most Merciful of the Merciful the Most just a being unfair to me,
because I somehow deserve less problems. And I'm comparing myself
to this person and that person, I think, well, they are not tested
and I am that's not fair. Who are you? Who are you accusing? You're
accusing the most just of being unfair. So this is where again,
calling your your, your your sincerity into question the claims
you make into question and the sign of a true a person who's
really on the path is that they are consistent with Allah, no
matter what's going on. They have resolved with Allah.
I lost something I'm going through problems. Allahu Akbar. I will
My prayers just as I do when everything's going amazingly
that's consistency so that's the fourth foundation the fifth
foundation right and these are all the five that he that shift that
CDM is the rock outlines for us as being the essential platform or
foundation to build our faith upon the fifth one is is about you know
being active right because the contentment is is your reaction
right that you are that you are reacting to ease and hardship in a
consistent way right the fifth one is turning to Allah so now you're
actually the one who's doing this right. So you are turning to Allah
and prosperity and adversity so there are different in this way
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a law on prosperity and and diversity. This is where you
actively know what to do, whether things are going well for you or
whether they're not, you are always turning to Allah you don't
go to, you know, the the first line of defense basically in every
situation is Allah. As soon as you have a worrying thought you're
concerned, you're freaking out, you're having a moment of anxiety,
you're having a moment of pure fear or panic. Or you're in a
moment of joy and excitement, your words should come through Allahu
Akbar Alhamdulillah Subhana Allah because you're exalting the one
that deserves all praise, right? Or you're turning to the one who
is the only one who can bring you relief. But in both situations,
you have,
you've calibrated yourself, you've calibrated your heart, to know
what to do that it's always on law as your first line, you can then
pick up the phone and call your loved ones, you can then tell
whoever or seek advice and use the means the sub that he's given to
you. But your first turning should be on law helped me with this.
Right? And so it's an active thing, a practice that we do. And,
and it pairs like I said with the previous one in that the previous
one is about the way that you react to things and this one is
about your actions, right? So they're, they're different and
similar in the same way, right? That in both hardship and ease,
you have to draw, that's the way you're you're perceiving the tests
or perceiving the blessings, you're receiving them in that way.
And then in this final one, it's that you are actively turning, you
know what to do in all situations. And so then he you know, I'll just
read this because inshallah prayers coming in soon, and I'll
leave a few minutes for questions. But this paragraph here again, if
you're reading along, he says, the realization of mindfulness of
Allah is through scrupulousness and uprightness. So if you want
that taqwa, right, the taqwa that is the first foundation, how you
realize that how it comes into being is that you are upright, you
have your your, you know, you you have scrupulousness, which means
you're really as our sister said, You're upholding the integrity of
your actions, you know, that you're actually following the
rules. You're doing things according to how they're, you're
instructed to do them. You're not improvising. You're not trying to
create your own set of, you know, rules in Islam. And unfortunately,
again, we do have that problem or sometimes people think that, well,
if my heart feels it, what's the problem with it? Well, if it
doesn't align with
If Sharia, then there is a problem because you're doing your own
thing. It's not Islam at that point, right? If you're gonna
pray, you know, one prayer here and then abandon the others and
you're thinking, Oh, well, my heart is clean. You sure you can
tell yourself that until you turn blue in the face, but you're not
following Sharia? That's it. It's that simple. So it's actualized
through following the rules and being upright, right? And then the
realization of adherence to the Sunnah is through caution and
excellent character, we cannot develop
or the prophesy systems, you know, sunnah is really about obviously,
worshipping a lot, but it's also character development. So if you
want to have the highest character, and really be the best
version of yourself, emulate him, it will come through just by
taking his practice on, right. So a very simple example of that is,
if your temperament if your entire life, you have been more subdued
and not very emotive, right, let's say there are some people who were
raised in a family environment or in a culture where they weren't
very demonstrative in their affection, maybe they're more, you
know, their, their facial expressions are very limited, you
know, to just being stone faced a lot of the time.
If you want to develop and become a better version of yourself, you
have to look at, what's the practice of the prophesy centum,
he always welcomed people. So it will require you to step outside
of what's normal for you, and force yourself into a prophetic,
you know, way of being, which is, even if it's this isn't
comfortable for me, because I wasn't raised this way. And he did
it. I want what he did, and I'm going to fight harder. So, you
know, even if you think, Oh, I look so foolish, I look so silly.
Again, what do we say in the beginning? Stop caring about how
you look to people? Do you think Allah subhanaw taala knowing that
it's harder for you, because some people come from traumatic
backgrounds, some people come from real pain. I mean, my parents
generation, a lot of our parents generation, if you ask them, they
suffered a lot of things, right? So it's not easy to just suddenly
become smiley, but for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala when you're
in a gathering, and I'm not saying the whole time, you have to
sustain this fake smile and walk around, like, you know, no, it's
about just at least receiving people with warmth, right with
that feeling of I'm happy to see you. And the bonus I sent him. He
was not excessive. So his laughter as we know, was not audible.
Right? His laughter. So I'm not talking about suddenly becoming
this exuberant, fake version of yourself. I'm saying to see where
you're at and say, I want to at least push myself to try to
emulate him. So that might look for some people, like, you know,
just a pleasant smile, for other people might be an open mouth,
smile, something that just is more welcoming, but find the balance
for you as a way of trying to emulate him because this was his
sunnah. This is one of the things that almost every description of
him when you read is consistent, that he smiled at people. And it
removes people and we now know through research, right? There's
mirror neurons that are activated. As soon as a person smiles this is
incredible science that now supports the power of smiling and
this is a son of the Prophet setup. And he taught us up show
Salam Avena, calm right, how do you spread peace between the
hearts without conveying love and love is usually expressed not
always in words, but through warmth through these these
gestures, so that's how, you know we, we adhere to the Sunnah,
right? And then it goes on to say the realization of indifference to
others and acceptance or rejection is your prayer patience and trust
in Allah that even if you're a suddenly excluded from people,
right, don't worry. Allah could take all of your friends and
replace them for you with better people. Right I mean, think of
like I said, our convert brothers and sisters, they're to me
incredible. Some of the some of them literally lost everybody,
they lost their parents, their grandparents, their siblings,
they've been cut off entirely from their whole tribe. But it was
worth it because they've inherited the OMA of the Prophet. So I said
I'm and of course, the replacement of whatever they lost is, you
know, it's so great. So they don't feel the loss of it. But that's
what patience and trust in Allah means is that you don't let your
emotions or that sense of like, doom and gloom and loss overwhelm
you, you just stay the course. You're in it for the right
reasons. You're you're trying you're doing it for the sake of
Allah he will give you topia right. And then the realization of
contentment is through acceptance of what one is given.
And turning over the management of one's affairs to Allah. So, you
know, if you have a hard time, like with your circumstances, we
have to remember that I was part of that as a distributor, right?
He's, it's all portioned out. So to me, this is where even if you
study, like the diseases of the heart, where they talk about envy,
it's really important to reflect on these points, but it's already
been divided your portion and my portion, it's already divided.
Right? So just think of like, you know, if you had, you know, I'm
thinking of like,
you know, if you stumbled upon wealth, but the, the numbers were
already kind of predetermined, like, everybody's gonna get this
percentage, right? Or maybe there was a different distribution
system, but it's kind of like the numbers were already worked out.
So this is it's, there's no fighting, this is done deal.
Right? Then everybody has to just kind of be content with their
portion and, and not look at it, like, you know, oh, this is
unfair, no, because you have your and the thing is, if we're really
being honest, all of us have advantages in some areas over
others. And maybe we are disadvantaged in some areas. And
that's to show you, the incredible justice of God is that not
everybody has everything, there's there is this system in play, we
might not be able to see all of it, we might not be able to
understand the design, or the way that it's all proportioned out.
But we should trust the the one who's doing the division as being
just unfair. And if we deserved more, we would get it. And if we
don't get something, maybe it's because in this life, Allah
subhanaw taala is choosing not to give us more of something like
wealth, right? There are many people who spend their entire day
and night just dreaming of wealth, and they have so much envy for
people of wealth. And they don't realize that if you really knew
your Lord, maybe your disease of wealth would be too much. And the
perfect evidence of that is looking at what happens to many
people who stumble upon wealth, right? Like these lottery winners,
there's been a few different articles written about some of
them who have completely become like their own worst enemy. As
soon as they came into money, it destroyed their life. So could
that could be the circumstance, right? That was preventing greater
harm for you. So he's not giving you this thing that you want, so
desperately, because he knows it'll cause more harm for you.
And if you had that trust, you would, then just let go and say,
Inshallah, in the next life, because this is not our permanent
boat, we have, we're going somewhere else, this is one leg of
the journey. And it's, it's a significant leg in that it
determines where we go. But it is not the journey, the part of the
travel that you want to invest in. Right, this is not the investment
is in the Africa. So that's where, again, you know, being content
with what he gives you, and just leaving the rest of us about that.
And then the last point, the realization of turning back to
Allah is through praise and gratitude in times of prosperity,
and taking refuge in Him through affliction. So this is it, you're
actually you're you're being proactive, you know what to do,
when things are going rough, you are turning to Allah, when things
are going ease with ease, and you don't ever feel safe. You know,
part of, you know, the formula that I think is effective, and the
students don't ever get too comfortable. Do not ever get
comfortable, because you'll get blindsided real quick by dunya. If
you start coasting, you know, it's kind of like when you're on the
freeway, I'm sure it's happened to all of us before, sometimes, and
whether you're driving late at night, or you're driving on a road
that's really nice and smooth, right? You know, those beautiful
drives, were just like, oh, this is such a beautiful, easy scenic
drive. And it's like, I'm just enjoying it, everything feels so
good. If you lose sight of the fact that at any minute, the road
could bend, right? Or at any minute cop car could zoom right
past you, it'll, you know, you'll completely lose yourself. So you
have to be alert. And the dunya is a place that requires our
alertness, that things can happen very quickly, things can suddenly
change very quickly. But that doesn't mean it's the end. And it
doesn't mean it's your you know, this is like you're being punished
through this, it means that your test is that you know, change or
it's sudden change or whatever it is in your life that's happened.
But in sha Allah, if you respond according again to the or have the
appropriate response, we'll get through it. So there's so much of
this text, still to come and I really, really hope that inshallah
as we meet month after month, we will continue to expand the
discussion and I advise you all to please look over this PDF like
beforehand and just kind of read through it, because it's really
powerful and it gives and the way that again, the structure is we
Start with the found five foundations and then everything
that comes after is the building blocks that will get us to these
foundations. So he's starting with the destination in a way in mind.
Like if you want to get to all five of these, then the rest of
the document tells you how in great detail so it's really
structured beautifully by candlelight Xochimilco and I want
to thank all of you again for attending and those of you who are
streaming and watching Instagram Live does like more hit and we are
going to be praying in a few minutes but are there any
questions here at least yes
welcome.
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Yeah, you know it's interesting you mentioned this that