Hosai Mojaddidi – Purification of the Heart for Muslimahs (Monthly Sisterhood Halaqa Part 1)
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Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim Al hamdu lillah wa Salatu was Salam
ala Chapelle MBIA? Will mursaleen say that our Mowlana What have you
been a Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam while he was talking to
Senator Sleeman Kathira Saramonic Warahmatullah wabarakatuh. Again,
your sisters, thank you for being here. And for all who are watching
on the livestream, thank you as well for being here. We got a bit
of a late start today, just for some technical reasons, but also
logistical reasons. So inshallah we'll try to be more timely next
month, where now we have our schedule pretty set. But in the
beginning, we do evicted, just FYI because the time for the Halacha
on site is at seven o'clock. So we do inshallah want you to come
here, if you're going to come at seven where we'll do the Likud a
group that get the right dimension had for me mom and her dad
together. But for those who are watching on the live stream that
will delay us maybe about 1520 minutes in terms of the start of
the head office, so you can stick around if you want. But we thank
you for being with us. And again, I thank all of you for coming here
and taking out the time. Welcome, mashallah more sisters are coming
and Hamdulillah. That's great. So, if you were here last month, you
may recall that we kind of, we're taking a bit of a poll right to
see like, what would interest people and because of post COVID,
there's just so many more new faces, so many more different, you
know, people coming from different parts of the area, actually, last
mashella month, we had people from as far as a Sacramento as far as
stocked in other areas, which is really impressive, mashallah, and
humbling and amazing. But because of that, and the fact that we're
not always sure what, in turn, in terms of the turnout, it's going
to be, I opted this year to do something a little different than
previous health as if you've attended my class, whether here or
at live, you may know that we've done a lot of discussion driven
huddle classes, where I present on different topics related to, you
know, just spirituality, self development, anything that I think
is relevant, more contemporary topics, and then each month was
kind of different, which works Alhamdulillah. And if there is
time, I would be more than happy to facilitate those types of
discussions here. But for the purpose of this Halacha, just to
bring everybody up to the same, you know, on the same page, we're
going to be actually covering a text. And this text is called
purification of the heart, the signs, symptoms and cures of the
spiritual diseases. And this was, it's a translation and a
commentary by Hamza Yusuf, based on a classical Arabic poem by Imam
Al Mahmoud, called methodical Kullu which really addresses
spiritual diseases of the heart, which we are all riddled with, we
all have different diseases, and different degrees of disease, but
certainly we all have them. And that's why many of our scholars
including my mental Rosati considered
doing this process of you know, tending towards spiritual
diseases, the Teskey process, one of the four of the is one of the
obligatory compulsory requirements of a believer because this is
really, you know, when we talk about Mujahidin neffs, right, what
does that mean right to struggle against oneself, it is to overcome
spiritual diseases. And that is our life long struggle. It's not
something that anyone graduates from, or overcomes, just by virtue
of practice or by virtue of knowledge.
And so this is why it's such an important topic that we have to
constantly tend to, I was mentioning earlier, at the
beginning that, you know, I've been Alhamdulillah very blessed
to, first of all learn this from Sheikh Hamza directly.
Alhamdulillah many, many years ago, maybe before some of you were
even born. I don't know. But um, the lads been a long journey in
this community having him Michelle, may Allah bless him. So
he, we were, you know, in attendance when these classes were
being given many years ago. And so I'll hand it over the years of
course, you know, benefiting from from those classes and his
teachings. You know, I saw it his, I just want to clarify, I saw his
permission. So by his permission, we are teaching and you know,
here, but I certainly am in no way.
I could not,
in any way, feel what he's doing. I would advise everyone actually
to if you haven't listened to the original recordings, what he
offers is next level, I'm just like, trying to give whatever we
can here, but honestly, I really advise that and I advise if you
don't have the book to have the book, because just going back to
it.
It just, there's so much healing to it. So that's why I wanted to
do this book with all of us here in Charlotte, because I think
it'll be a great opportunity for us to benefit from each other. So
we'll kind of just, you know, do a reading and then open it up for
discussion.
I'd love to hear from all of you. And yes, we're being live
streamed, but I'm the only one that's on camera. So I hope that
kind of resolves any maybe issues that people have about speaking
up, because inshallah the camera's not panning. It's not moving to
anybody else. I mean, that's not right. Yeah. Because typically,
it's just one person to the speaker. So I'll take all that.
And I don't mind and you guys, but I would love your input and
insight, in terms of anything that comes up for you as we read along.
So with that said, any any questions or anything anything for
me that you if you're new, and you haven't attended, you know, we can
do all that now, if you want?
Does anyone have their copy with them? I know, Sahar has hers and
Michelle Sarah, do you have that? Anyone else? Okay, awesome, you
guys. Yay. Okay, Alhamdulillah. By the way, just before I forget,
make sure please to contact Sahar before we leave, because she has
the list for the WhatsApp group where you can be added to that for
updates. Okay, so just keep that in mind in case they've stopped
for prayer because Aisha will come in soon. Okay, so Bismillah, let's
go ahead and read and if you want to read next along, you know,
someone next to you, I mean, keep COVID restrictions somewhat in
mind, but maybe we can look over. Otherwise, I'll try to read as
clearly as possible, so that you can,
you know, follow along, inshallah. So I like to, you know, typically,
actually, if you asked me, my earlier stuff, I would never read
a book cover to cover, I'm that person that wants to skip to all
the good parts, and then fill in the blanks of blanks. But with a
book like this, you want to start from the very beginning. So we'll
go straight to, we can go to the acknowledgments actually, or, you
know, look at the contents. If you want to look at the contents page,
the diseases that we're going to be covering are listed there.
Right, so there's a lot of them, I think I counted 27 altogether. So
Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim. Beautiful, best Mala there, right
before the acknowledgments. So let's look at the acknowledgments
here.
Bismillah, on the Day of Judgment, no one is safe, save the one who
returns to God with a pure heart. This is in the Quran. Surely in
the * of humanity is a lump of a lump of flesh, if sound, then
the whole body is sound and if corrupt, then the whole body is
corrupt. Is it not the heart, this is a Hadith of the Prophet
sallallahu sallam, and then bless it are the pure at heart for they
shall see God. This is attributed to Esau, please.
Whoever has not thanked people has not thanked God said the Prophet
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. This work is the result of
the collaboration of many people. I am honored to have studied the
meanings of this poem with my friend and pure hearted teacher,
Abdullah Medina. I also asked the eminent scholar and spiritual
master Sheikh Mohammed Hassan within Haldane for giving me
license to teach and translate the poem and whose outstanding
commentary on it was my constant companion during the classes and
remains so today, thank you for Aiden McGeady for your continued
love and support and for having the zeal to organize the classes
and the small blesseth school that would become a tuna. More
gratitude than can be expressed goes to Dr. Hashem Allah Lucy, who
humbly sat on the floor against the window to attend the original
classes that would become this text. He saw from the start the
importance of this work, and through his extraordinary efforts
helped realize more than I had hoped to with the zaytuna
Institute and now zaytuna college. I also think my sister Nabila, who
has worked tirelessly throughout Humber productions now Cinderella,
and Kansa Academy to spread this message. I'm grateful to Hashem
mooned for his careful editing of the translation of the poem, and
to my friend and artist Abdullatif Whiteman. For his beautiful design
of the cover. I'm also deeply thankful and appreciative to all
those who worked diligently on the transcription, proofreading and
editing of the text. Finally, my immense gratitude goes to the
mother of my children, Liliana, whose pure heart is fortunate
enough not to need the contents of this book, Michelle and beautiful.
I'm the dilla s. So now, we go to the note to the reader. So this is
for us right for us reading this book. I offer this book to you,
the reader in the spirit of gratitude. Just as I was taught
this text years ago by my teacher of the love with him Edna, in a
similar spirit, gratitude and thankfulness to our Lord. The
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gain, but to help us all along the path of purification. So we can
serve humanity and ultimately God in the best of ways. In an age
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our other products, such as the essence of our tradition shook her
gratitude. Just as the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said to Lady Aisha, but are the law on her in the midst of his
late night prayers, should I not be a thankful servant? So to do we
hope to always return to the station of gratitude in all of our
affairs. If you are thankful, surely I will increase you. Allah
subhanaw taala says in chapter 14 Verse seven, Hamza Yusuf Sheikh
Hamza Yusuf Centerlink Hamdulillah. So that was the entry
of the beginning the acknowledgments and the note to
the reader for those who are joining us on livestream of
purification of the heart and we are going to do our best to read
it again from beginning to end in this halacha and of course of this
halacha Inshallah, with that intention, and we ask Allah
subhanaw taala for Tofik that we're doing this with the purest
of intentions, to rid ourselves of of spiritual diseases and to help
our family our loved ones because as we come to understand ourselves
better Inshallah, Allah will enable us to also be beneficial to
those in our in our lives and shot love in Allah.
Now, we will continue with translators introduction, so this
is now she comes a further message from him speaking to us before we
actually delve into the poem. And all of this of course, is is
necessary to read Inshallah, which is why we're doing that. So this
Mala almost universally, religious traditions have stressed the
importance of the condition of the heart. And the Muslim Scripture,
the Day of Judgment is described as a day in which neither wealth
nor children shall be of any benefit to anyone, except one who
comes to God with a sound heart. That's chapter 26, verse 88, to
89. The sound heart halben Celine, is understood to be free of
character defects, and spiritual blemishes. This heart is actually
the spiritual heart and not the physical organ per se. Although in
Islamic tradition, the spiritual heart is centered in the physical.
One of the extraordinary aspects of the modern era is that we are
discovering aspects about the heart, unknown in previous times,
although there were remarkable insights in ancient traditions.
For instance, according to traditional Chinese medicine, the
heart houses what is known as Shen, which is spirit. The Chinese
characters for thinking thought, love, the intention to listen, and
virtue all contain the IDEO gram for the heart. In nearly every
culture in the world, people use metaphors that directly or
indirectly allude to the heart. We call certain types of people hard
hearted,
usually because they show no mercy and kindness. Likewise, people are
said to have cold hearts, and others yet who are warm hearted.
We speak with people as wearing their hearts on their sleeves,
because they do not or cannot conceal their emotions from
others. When someone's words or actions penetrate our souls and
affect us profoundly, we say that this person touched my heart, or
touched the core of my being. The Arabic equivalent for the English
word core, which originally in Latin meat meant heart is known as
love, which also refers to the heart, as well as the intellect
and the essence of something. The most ancient indo European word
for heart means that which leaps, which is consonant with the idea
of the beating heart that leaps in the breast of men and
People speak of their hearts as leaping for joy. People also say
that their heart skipped a beat, when they come upon something
startling that elicited from them a very strong emotional response.
When people fall in love, they speak of stealing one's heart.
There are many other metaphors involving the human heart, owing
to its centrality in life. These phrases, however, casually, we may
utter them today have roots in ancient concepts. The ancients
were aware of spiritual diseases of the heart. And this
understanding is certainly at the essence of Islamic teachings. The
Quran defines three types of people and me known believers, you
care for your own scoffers or atheists. And then when alpha code
hypocrites, the believers are described as people whose hearts
are alive and full of light, while the scoffers are in darkness, is
one who was dead and then we revived with faith and made for
him a light by which to walk among the people, like one who is in
darkness from which he cannot exit. The Quran asks, in chapter
six verse 122. According to commentators of the Quran, the one
who was dead refers to having a dead heart, which God revived with
light of guidance that one may walk straight and honorably among
human beings. Also, the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said, the difference between the one who remembers God
and the one who does not, is like the difference between the living
and the dead. In essence, the believer is one whose heart is
alive, while the disbeliever is someone whose heart is spiritually
dead. The hypocrite, however, is somebody whose heart is diseased.
The Quran speaks of certain people with diseased hearts, self
inflicted, we understand, and as a result, they were increased in
their disease. This is in surah baqarah chapter two verse 10. The
heart is centered slightly to the left of our bodies. Two sacred
languages of Arabic and Hebrew are written from right to left toward
the heart, which is some have noted mirrors the purpose of
writing, namely to affect the heart. One should also consider
the ritual of circumambulation or circling around the ancient house
or Kaaba. In Mecca during the pilgrimage. It is performed in a
counterclockwise fashion, with the left side of the worshiper facing
the house, with the heart inclined toward towards it to remind us of
God, and His presence in life of humanity in the life of humanity.
The physical heart, which houses the spiritual heartbeats about
100,000 times a day.
Today, they know that any medical people,
shocking 100,000 times a day, pumping two gallons of blood per
minute, and over 100 gallons per hour. If one were to attempt to
carry 100 gallons of water, whose density is lighter than blood from
one place to another, it would be an exhausting task. Yet the human
heart does this every hour of every day, for an entire lifetime
without respite subpanel.
The vascular system transporting life giving blood is over 60,000
miles long.
These are I mean, I've read this book so many times, but every time
I read that isn't that incredible? 60,000 miles, I don't know how to
comprehend that. Right? It's like can't wrap your mind around that
type of system inside of us, Allahu Akbar, right?
More than two times the circumference of the earth.
So when we conceive of our blood being pumped throughout our
bodies, know that this means that it travels through 60,000 miles of
a closed vascular system that connects all the parts of the
body, all the vital organs and living tissues to this incredible
heart. We now know that the heart starts beating before the brain is
fully fashioned. That is without the benefit of a fully formed
central nervous system. How many mothers here?
What was it like to hear the heartbeat the first time right? A
lot of like
the dominant theory states that the central nervous system is what
controls the entire human being with the brain with the brain as
its center.
Yet we also know that the nervous system does not initiate the beat
of the heart, but that it is actually self initiated or as
as we would say, initiated by God, we also know that the heart should
all of its connections to the brain be severed as they are
during a heart transplant continues to beat. Many in the
West have long proffered that the brain is the center of
consciousness. But in traditional Islamic thought as in other
traditions, the heart is viewed as the center of our being. The
Quran, for example, speaks of wayward people who have hearts
with which they do not understand. That's chapter seven, verse 179.
Also the Quran mentions people who mocked the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, and were entirely insincere in listening to
his message. So God placed over their hearts a covering that they
may not understand it. And in their ears, he placed acute
deafness, because it's chapter six, verse 25.
Their inability to understand is a deviation from the spiritual
function of a sound heart, just as their ears have been afflicted
with a spiritual deafness. So we understand from this, that the
center of the intellect, the center of human consciousness, and
conscience, is actually the heart and not the brain. Only recently
have we discovered that there are 40,000 neurons in the heart
neurons. In other words, why there are cells in the heart that are
communicating with the brain.
While the brain sends messages to the heart, the heart also sends
messages to the brain to physiologists. In the 1970s 70s,
John and Beatrice lacy conducted a study and found that the brain
sent messages to the heart, but the heart did not automatically
obey the messages. Sometimes the heart sped up, but other times it
slowed down, indicating that the heart itself has its own type of
intelligence. The brain receives signals from the heart through the
brain's amygdala, thalamus and cortex. The amygdala relates to
emotions while the cortex or the neocortex relates to learning and
reasoning. Although this interaction is something that is
not fully understood, from a physiological point of view, we do
know that the heart is an extremely sophisticated Oregon
with secrets still veiled from us. Subhan Allah, the Prophet of Islam
SallAllahu Sallam spoke of the heart as a repository of knowledge
and a vessel sensitive to the deeds of the body. He said, for
example, that wrongdoing irritates the heart, so the heart actually
perceives wrong action.
So when you think of that for just a moment, think about anytime
you've sinned, right, doing not feel a constriction in the chest,
right? We know when we're doing something wrong as human beings,
right, we know it, we feel it. It's that fitrah the, you know,
it's that squeezing right in the heart that tells us
you know, this is wrong. And that's because we are, you know,
created right, the natural disposition is to, to be right,
right to worship Allah to be, you know, to have a soundness. So when
we veer from that heart, it communicates to us Subhan Allah.
In fact, when people do terrible things, the core of their humanity
is injured. Theodore Dostoevsky expresses brilliantly in Crime and
Punishment, that the crime itself is the punishment because human
beings ultimately have to live with the painful consequences of
their deeds. When someone commits a crime, he does so first against
his own heart, which then affects the whole human being. The person
enters a state of spiritual agitation, and often tries to
suppress it.
There root meaning of the word COFA disbelief is to cover
something up.
As it relates to this discussion, the problems we see in our society
come down to covering up or suppressing the symptoms of its
troubles. The agents used to do this includes alcohol, drugs,
sexual experimentation and deviance, power grabs, wealth,
arrogance, pursuit of fame, and the like. These enable people to
submerge themselves into a state of heedlessness concerning their
essential nature. People work very hard to cut themselves off from
their hearts and the natural feelings found there. The
pressures to do this are very strong in our modern culture.
One of the major drawbacks of being severed from the heart is
that the more one is severed, the sicker the heart becomes, for the
heart needs nourishment, heedlessness starves the heart
robs it of its spiritual manner.
No one enters into a state of unawareness, a debilitating lack
of awareness of God, and an acute neglect of humanity's ultimate
destination, the infinite world of the hereafter. When one peers into
the limitless world through remembrance of God and increases
in beneficial knowledge, once concerns become more focused on
the infinite world, not the finite, one that is disappearing
and ephemeral. When people are completely immersed in the
material world, believing that this world is all that matters and
all that exists, and that they are not accountable for their actions,
they affect a spiritual death of their hearts. Before the heart
dies, however, it shows symptoms of affliction. These afflictions
are the spiritual diseases of the heart, the center of our being the
topic of this book,
any questions so far?
Subhan Allah.
In Islamic tradition, these diseases fall under two
categories. The first is known as Shubo, hat, or obfuscations. These
are diseases that relate to impaired or inappropriate
understanding. For instance, if somebody is fearful that God will
not provide for him or her, this is considered a disease a disease
of the heart because a sound heart has knowledge and trust, not doubt
and anxiety. The category of Schuberth alludes to aspects
closely connected to the heart, the soul, the ego, Satan's with
springs and investigations, Caprice, and the ardent love of
this ephemeral world. The heart is an Oregon designed to be in a
state of calm, which is achieved with the remembrance of God. Most
surely in the remembrance of God do hearts find calm Allah subhanaw
taala reminds us in chapter 13, verse 28. This calm is what the
heart seeks out and gravitates to, it yearns always to remember God
the Exalted, but when God is not remembered, when human beings
forget God, then the heart falls into a state of agitation and
turmoil. In this state, it becomes vulnerable to diseases because it
is undernourished and cut off. cells require oxygen, oxygen, so
we breathe. If we stopped breathing, we die. The heart also
needs to breathe and the breath of the heart is none other than the
remembrance of God. Without it, the spiritual heart dies. the very
purpose of revelation and of Scripture is to remind us that our
hearts need to be nourished. We enter the world in a state of in
the state of Quran cause fitrah, our original state and inherent
nature that is disposed to accept faith and prefer morality. But we
soon learn anxiety mainly from our parents, and then our societies.
The hardest created vulnerable to anxiety and agitation. Chapter 70,
verse 19, those who are protected from this state are people of
prayer, people who established prayer and gardens performance
with a humble and open heart connected with God, the Lord of
all creation. The highest ranks among people are those who do not
allow anything to divert them from the remembrance of God. They are
the ones who remember God as they are standing, sitting and
reclining on their sides.
The second category of diseases concerns the base desires of the
self and it's called shadow out. This relates to our desires
exceeding their natural state, as when people live merely to satisfy
these urges and are led by them. Islam provides the method by which
our hearts can become sound and safe again, this method has been
the subject of brilliant and insightful scholarship for
centuries. In the Islamic tradition, one can say that Islam
is at in essence is a program to restore purity and calm to the
heart, through the remembrance of God. So Maha Samadhi welcome.
So again, here, you know that that last line Subhan Allah, you know,
how many of us have understood our deen? I mean, it's such a simple,
concise, yet very powerful statement, right? That Islam is a
program. Right? That's why we don't say Islam is certainly not
an ideology, or just a religion, right? It is, what?
A way of life right? It is a dean. It is a complete, perfect system.
And so what is the system for it's to restore purity and calm to the
heart through the remembrance of God because the world is so
distracting, right? You have I mean, if we look at modern
times I forgot the exact statistic of how many images we're seeing, I
think she comes in may have even mentioned it in this book or an
agenda. But the amount of images that we see in a day are more than
what previous pre modern people saw in their whole life. So the
amount of just imagery, we're just talking about images, right? So
images are distractions. Sounds are distractions. People are
distractions, right? Neighbors, co workers, family members, right?
How many times? Have you felt that your phone was intrusive? Right?
Have you ever felt that way? Right? Like, you feel like you're
trying to just have a moment of peace, some silence some time to
yourself. And there goes the ringer, or the notifications Ding,
ding, ding. And, you know, if you're like me, I don't know why I
don't do it. But I have my ringer off. So my ringer never goes on. I
have Emergency Bypass for like, two or three people. That's like,
that's it. But what I haven't done and it's my own fault, is get rid
of the notifications, right, the red. Those Those come up, and I
see the banners. So even though I've, you know, turned off my
ringer hoping that it all stopped me I have that problem of oh, did
anybody message. So it doesn't really help? Because then you're
worried, right? Like, if I don't hear it, maybe I have to check it.
So it really it's a broken system, I need to do something different.
But the point is right, that we have lives where the amount of
distractions are just too many. And so if you think about
the time that we do have left, right, to worship Allah subhanaw
taala, how does that look? Right? When you have, I mean, let's do
the calculations, how many minutes does it take to do our prayers,
like average? Five, every 10 minutes, right? If we're, I think
if we're being really generous, right, we have a few extra
minutes, but most of the time, especially when you factor in
little kids, right? That are needy, or work like you have a
short break and you have to get right back to work and you got to
eat something too. So you want to you know, think about the times
that we do allocate for the remembrance of God, even in that
time. We're distracted right by what we have to do next. So the
amount of distractions are so many they never seem to end and that's
why
we have to you know, we have to understand that this is why we're
experiencing all of these problems right? Because our hearts want
what what do our hearts want to do?
That's our eyes right? Our eyes and our knifes in our mind but
what does our spiritual heart want to do? What is it designed to do?
Worship Allah subhanaw taala so like, one of the
analogies that I that I found really useful to understand that
was a plant and he anybody here like a green thumb? Yeah,
Michelle, you can you can I'm terrible but good for you. I just
can't I smile I really admire people my mother in law Michelle
She's like an entire garden like she's really good. But some people
who care for plants will tell you it's actually an incredible thing
to observe. Plants are created of course they need what they need
light right water soil in order to we know this we remember from
science classroom, photosynthesis, but one of the things that a
flower plant will do always is seek the light source right? So no
matter where you put it, if you put it into a shaded area and you
watch it over time, that plant will turn you know if the leaves
are faced away from the sunlight or the natural source of light it
will turn to look for the light it's incredible. I mean I've done
it tested on the plants that I have kept and also killed. May God
forbid give me but in the time that they were alive they did it
and it was just amazing to see the turn because I'm not turning it
turning. So I love that analogy because I feel that that's so true
to our hearts right that our hearts no matter which direction
inshallah is leisure time.
You can't hear me
that's fine because it sounds like he's talking to me, but I don't
think he is.
I think we can hear you guys loud and clear time. Sorry, brother. I
thought this was only going to the live stream Okay. Inshallah, we
will stop Okay, thank you.
Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Shadwell La ilaha illallah
a shadow a la ilaha illallah wa shadow anna Muhammad Rasulullah I
had one
Muhammad Rasul Allah, Ayala, Salah yada yada yada and for La Jolla,
la la cama de sala de Sala, Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allah Allah in
Allah
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mostly receiver longtime long term resident of Pleasanton. And he
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Hello Oh, there we go. Okay, Miss one. So we're back. All right. So
hamdullah we left off. Right before we stop for prayer. We're
just talking about the second paragraph here
on page 18
which we're still in the in the translators introduction. So these
are still the early pages of the book. But we this last sentence
just, you know, wanted to comment a little bit on that on the fact
that you know, she comes and says Here one can say that Islam is, in
essence is a program to restore purity and calm to the heart
through the remembrance of God. And that's just really important
for us to keep in mind that our whole Deen every aspect of our
deen there's a purpose to it, it's to reorient us where the where
that, you know, plan to our heart is always you know, seeking the
light our heart is always seeking Allah subhanaw taala. But we are
the ones that move right because of our our physical needs or our
our weaknesses, our distractibility all of those
things make us move away. So that's why we have to, again
appreciate that though. It's just really appreciated that So now,
we'll continue from there. This present text is based on the poem
known as methodical lube, literally the purification of the
heart or purification of the hearts, which offers the means by
which purification can be achieved. It is a treaties on the
alchemy of the hearts, namely, a manual on how to transform the
heart. It was written by a great scholar and St. Chef Mohamed
Mahmoud Jacobi and Musawi and more attorney, and as his name
indicates, he was formed from Mauritania in West Africa, he was
a master of all the Islamic sciences, including the inward
Sciences of the heart. He stated that he wrote this poem because he
observed the prevalence of diseased hearts. He saw students
of religion spending their time learning abstract sciences, that
people were not really in need of, to the neglect of those sciences,
that pretend that pertain to what people are accountable for in the
next life namely the spiritual condition of the heart. And one of
his most cited statements the province of audience that um,
said, actions are based upon intentions. All deeds are thus
valid, valued according to the intentions behind them, and
intentions emanate from the heart. So every action a person intends
or performs is rooted in the heart. A memo would realize that
the weakness of society was a matter of weakness of character in
the heart. You Mahmoud based his text on many previous illustration
ilus illustrious works, especially the amendment of Azad is great
here Illuminati in the river vacation, the Revivification of
the sciences of the religion, each of the 40 books of a hair owner
Medina has the underlying objective of rectifying the human
heart.
If we examine the trials and tribulations, wars and other
conflicts, every act of injustice all over the earth, will find
they're rooted in human hearts covetousness the desire to aggress
and exploit the longing to pilfer natural resources. The inordinate
love of wealth and position, and other maladies are manifestations
of diseases found nowhere but in the heart, every criminal miser
abusers scoffer embezzler and hateful person does what he or she
does because of a diseased heart. If hearts were sound, these
actions would no longer be a reality. So if we want to change
our world, we do not begin by rectifying the outward. Instead,
we must change the condition of our inward everything we see
happening outside of us is in reality, coming from the unseen
world within. It is from the unseen world that the phenomenal
world emerges. And it is from the unseen realm of our hearts that
all actions spring.
The well known civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr.
said that in order for people to condemn injustice, they must go
through four stages. The first stage is that people must
ascertain that indeed injustice is are being perpetrated. In his case
it was injustice as against African Americans in the United
States. The second stage is to negotiate that is approach the
oppressor and demand justice. If the oppressor refuses, King said
that the third stage is self purification, which starts with
the question, are we ourselves wrongdoers? Are we ourselves
oppressors. The fourth stage then is to take action after true self
examination. After removing one's own wrongs before demanding
justice from others.
We have the modern world are reluctant to ask ourselves, when
we look at the terrible things that are happening. Why do they
occur. And if we ask that with all sincerity, the answer will come
resoundingly. All of this is from your own selves. In so many ways
we have brought this upon ourselves. This is the only
empowering position we can take. The Quran implies that if people
oppress others, God will send another people to oppress them. We
put some oppressors over other oppressors because of what their
own hands have earned. This is chapter six verse 129. According
to FUCKLOAD Deena Razia 12th century scholar of the Quran, the
verse means that the existence of oppression on Earth may be caused
by previous oppression. By implication, often the victims of
aggression were once aggressors themselves. This, however, is not
the case with tribulations, for there are times in which people
are indeed tried. But if they respond with patience and
perseverance, God will always give them relief and victory. If we
examine the life of the prophet muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam in Mecca, it's clear that he in the community of believers
were being harmed and oppressed, but they were patient and God gave
them victory. Within 23 years, the prophet Salado Saddam was not only
free of oppression, but became the leader of the entire Arabian
Peninsula. Those people who want suppressed him now sought mercy
from him, and he was most gracious and kind in his response. Despite
their former brutality toward him, the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa
sallam forgave them and admitted them into the brotherhood of
faith.
This is the difference between someone whose heart is purified
and sound and one whose heart is impure and corrupt, impure people
oppress, and the pure hearted not only forgive their oppressors, but
elevate them in status and character. In order to purify
ourselves, we must begin to recognize this truth. This is what
this book is all about a book of self purification, and a manual of
liberation. If we work on our hearts, if we actually implement
what is suggested here, we'll begin to see changes in our lives,
our condition, our society, and even within our own family
dynamics. It is a blessing that we have this science of purification
of blessing that this teaching exists in the world today. What
remains is for us to take these teachings seriously. So let us go
through what is explained here by this great scholar and learn of
the diseases of the heart, examine their ideology, their causes,
their signs and symptoms, and finally how to treat them. There
are two types of treatments the theoretical treatment, which is
understanding the disease itself, and the practical treatment, which
focuses on the prescriptions we must take in order to restore the
heart's natural purity. If we apply the techniques that have
been learned and transmitted by the great scholars of the vast
tradition of Islam, we will see results, but just like medicinal
prescriptions, the physician cannot force you to take it. The
knowledgeable scholars of spiritual purification have given
us the treatment as they have gleaned it from the teachings of
the Quran, and the exemplary model of the Prophet sallallahu
wasallam. The teachings are available, they are clear and they
work. It is then up to us to learn and apply them to ourselves and
share them with others. So those were the that was the translators
introduction, Michelle, any any comments or any perspective?
Anybody want to share? What stood out to you from this? This
section?
Anything that was memorable or that made an impact from what you
read?
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judgmental illness and judgment. Like you mean arrogance, like
looking down at other people.
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he go right and inflated ego.
So did you guys get a chance to look at the diseases that are
going to be covered in the book,
just that we kind of skimmed through but the contents, just
let's look at the list here. For those who don't have the book this
is these are the diseases that we're going to be covering in sha
Allah in the course of this halacha. But just keep in mind as
we go through this list, you know what, what you are observing what
you are observing within yourself first and foremost, because it
should, you know, I mean, we haven't yet defined all of them
but still, you may recognize some of these names or words.
miserliness is the first one wantonness, hatred, iniquity, love
of the world, envy, blameworthy, modesty, fantasizing, fear of
poverty, ostentation, relying on other than God, displeasure with
the Divine Decree, seeking reputation, false hopes, negative
thoughts, vanity, fraud, anger, heedlessness rancor, boasting and
arrogance, displeasure with blame antipathy toward death.
obliviousness to blessings in derision.
And then there's other sections to in the book, mashallah
comprehensive treatment for the heart. But, again, this is, you
know, these are the diseases that we're going to be covering. So,
just something to think about as we move forward, what you observe
already about yourself, you know, I don't know how many of you have
ever heard me speak before on the topic of emotional intelligence,
which is something that
I've done here, and this other cause was in my head, that leaf
and I write about it a lot online. If you're following me on
Instagram, or Facebook, you may have seen a lot of posts that talk
about emotional intelligence. And the reason why that, you know,
it's something that I really tried to share is because of the actual
framework of emotional intelligence, is defined as having
five qualities, right? If you have these five, then you are
considered an emotionally intelligent person, which the
first is self awareness, right? Then self regulation, then
motivation, empathy, and social skills. And this is based on the
works of Daniel Goleman, who is a psychologist in the 1990s. He's
still alive, but he basically put this term, you know, on the map,
in a way, by writing about it, he wrote a book called Emotional
Intelligence, why it can matter more than IQ. And it was an
instant, like New York Times bestseller, translated into
several different languages. But it was considered a really, as one
review from the Harvard Business Review, they said, This is a
paradigm shattering concept, this idea that intelligence is measured
by the heart. So again, making this connection, right, because we
always think of intelligence as IQ, right? That's how we, we
typically used to measure intelligence. And now, since these
studies have been, you know, published and these works have,
have started to gain more, more popularity, people are realizing
that the higher form of intelligence is actual emotional
intelligence. And, you know, I, when I started studying it,
because I have his book, I was like, This is so fascinating,
because every aspect of his teachings would directly be back
to the prophesy seven, like all of you know, these five qualities,
they're all the problems, they're all describing him. Self
awareness, right, there is nobody who's more self aware than
probably so I mean, every instant he was very present and, you know,
he's teaching us to be self aware, to write self regulation to be
able to control yourself, right? He has again, existence is is a
perfect, you know, model for us of someone who had, you know, these
qualities his virtues of temperance, right I've which is to
hold yourself back to practice. You know, regulating your emotions
being under full control of yourself.
That's not easy to do. A lot of us are very reactive, right? And this
is why it's so important to know your temperament to know what your
disposition is, for some people, they are highly reactive more than
others. And so in our tradition 100 out, we're taught these
things, if you're, if you're learning the denas, you should
this perfect program, right? That Islam is, it's teaching you all of
these things is teaching you to know your temperament to know
yourself to be able to recognize your own spiritual diseases, like
we should know, you know, when we're reading these lists, we
should say, oh, that sounds familiar. You know, I, I'm pretty
I have that one for sure. Like, you know, a little checkbox. But
self awareness is the first one, you know, self regulation, and you
have motivation, you know, to be a motivated person. In this day and
age, when a lot of people have lost right? meaning to life most,
a lot of people out there, they don't really have a belief system
that anchors them. And I'm sure you've noticed it too, right.
Like,
in my lifetime, I've absolutely noticed it, where people no longer
even reference God religion anymore. And they'll even say, I'm
not religious, you know, even conservative people who used to
have some, maybe a religious identity, they just don't seem to
think of it as an essential need anymore. Like, you know, and I'm
not really rich, I don't need religion. And then, you know,
spirituality or whatever other term, they may define, use to
define themselves becomes more comfortable for them, but any talk
of religion seems very constricting, so they avoid it.
So then it's what what do you believe in and, you know, a lot of
people, like I said, they just, they live for, you know, their,
whatever goals, material goals, objectives are, and then they just
think that's it, that's life, and then you die. And, and that's it.
So they don't have a, like a bigger, you know, objective or
another belief that, that gives them purpose. So that's why you
see a lot of, you know, just a lack of concern, nihilism. I mean,
we're seeing it, I'm sure you see it online with people. It's just
shocking, like, they're almost like, there's nothing there, they
can watch someone be assaulted right in front of them, and
nothing compels them to action, you know, you have to wonder
what's happening, right? Why are the hearts deadened? It seems
like, it's like, how would you watch someone being attacked right
in front of you and feel nothing. But if you grew up in a society
that basically, you know, you're not really taught these things,
and you kind of are taught, just mind your own business, you know,
I'm just basically living in my own silo. And that's not my
concern, and I'm just gonna get to work and, you know, go eat and
sleep. And that becomes your purpose of existence, and there's
nothing right that would compel you. So this lack of drive, lack
of motivation is very, very common, you know, nihilism, all of
these things that we're seeing in society is, is the root of that,
right? And then you have empathy, which is another symptom, right?
If you can watch people be, I mean, all the injustices that
we're seeing, right, it's a lot of it has to do with the lack of
empathy. Nobody cares about the suffering, or not nobody, but you
know, people generally have become less empathic when it comes to the
suffering of other people. Because we're too consumed with our own
selves, right? This hyper focus on the neffs, on ego on fulfilling
our own desires. We saw it at the beginning of COVID, right?
When he went to Costco, and there was nothing on their shelves,
because people were hoarding, like, how do you do that? Right?
If you're a person who has some level of concern for your fellow
brother or sister in humanity, you would just take your share, but if
you're like, Yeah,
whatever I'm getting, you know, and then there are people I don't
know if you guys saw those two, I think there were somewhere in the
Midwest who took all of the hand sanitizers, you see that? They
bought them all. I don't know how you do that. Like, I don't want to
save anything for anybody, I'll just take them off. So they can
hike the price up and then sell them. That is definitely something
going on. Right. And it's from a spiritual perspective, there's
something missing there. But this is, I think these new stories
aren't even shocking anymore, right? We're just like, oh, you
know, what else do you expect? So the lack of empathy is felt and
seen. And then social skills, right?
How awkward is it to like, interact with people now, like you
can have, you know, conversations, customer service is very weird.
Now. You know, you go anywhere people don't want to talk, they
want to go in and make eye contact. It's just a different
strange world, right? So we're losing a lot of these skills.
And that's why it's so important to
again, go back to them. But I love that framework, because I feel
like it just gives us a nice structure to work with. But
essentially, it's just describing all of the qualities of the
prophesy seven that we need to be mindful of right that these are
among all of his virtues. These are some of them, but he certainly
has more. But if we could focus on developing these five, you know,
within ourselves, then we will see the benefits of that. So that's
why this book is in a way, related to that first and second point
right to self awareness, because it requires honesty, right? If
we're if we're going to do this program, successful, if we're
going to be successful, we have to be honest, because the nerves,
which is that lower part of ourselves, it will try to delude
us the same way that when someone comes and criticizes us, we
immediately defend ourselves, don't we? It's very uncomfortable
for most people to be criticized, whether it's your spouse, your
parent, your sibling, your child, if you have, you know, some of our
children are very honest. And you know, it could be anybody, your
your boss, your coworker, if someone says something to you,
even if, let's say, maybe there's some truth to what they're saying,
why does it bother us so much to admit that, right, because our
ego, our enough's does not like to be criticized. But if we are not
even willing to do that, within ourselves, we're not willing to
hold up the mirror, right and see our blemishes for what they are,
then we're not going to succeed. And that's why they're, it's, you
know, we need to really have that, that willingness to be vulnerable
within ourselves. Nobody's asking to expose, you know, this is a
very personal exercise this whole concept of, you know, rectifying
the heart, it's very personal exercise, it's not something you
have to necessarily do with other people. But in order to do it
successfully, we have to be vulnerable and vulnerable, means
to be open to being wounded. Right, that's what it means, like
you're actually willing to feel the that, that discomfort of
admitting that you have spiritual diseases, of admitting that you
are in fact that you have this problem. So that's when we talk
about self awareness. That's the level of awareness we need to
bring to this right. So you want to think about all the criticisms
you've ever received, and say, even if I don't like it, because
I've heard them maybe my whole life and not say all of them are
true. So it depends on the person's saying them, some people
weaponize words to hurt you. Right. But for me, the test is, is
it? Am I Is it a common complaint, you know, like 556 people saying
the same thing? Maybe it's true, you know, like,
five people in your life who say, You're so impatient.
Maybe you need to say, Okay, I can't blame them all. But they
will all conspired and said, Let's go and make this up. No, it likely
is true, right. But that level of willingness to admit,
you know, to what people are saying, where people have said, is
hard on the on the neffs, it's very, very hard on the ego. But
it's great for expanding the heart, and making it less hard,
like so that it's malleable, and we can start to work with it.
Right. So that level of self awareness and self regulation. So
those two qualities of emotional intelligence are really essential
for this work, because self regulation is about control.
Right? It's about, you know, once you identify the disease, which is
that first step, then can you follow through with the treatment,
because some of these treatments are going to require work, you
know, they're going to require you to, to go out of your comfort zone
to stop doing things that you've habituated to for maybe years. And
completely change course, do you have it in you? Right, do you have
it in you to do that? And then what's your motivation? So in a
way, we could extend it to all five of those qualities, but what
is your motivating factor? Why would you even want to do that if
you want that money for of Allah subhanaw taala, right. That
closeness, that proximity that we all should yearn for? Right?
Because what's the what's the ultimate price in Jannah?
What is it called or what is it referred to us? Like what's the
highest prize that a person could receive?
Yeah, the what we call the Beatific Vision, right. This is
what
So all of us should aspire to that we don't just want Jana of, you
know, I mean, of course we want gender, but we don't want like
There's levels of gender, right? So the agenda that we read about
in the Quran of like,
rivers of milk and honey and food and all those delights, that our
appetites are like, Ooh, you know, that's considered a lower agenda.
Right? The higher agenda is to be with, of course, the highest is
Allah subhanaw, taala, the province lies on the saints that
oh, yeah, like, that's what we want, right? But if you want the
highest of the highest of the highest reward, which is to see a
loss, and then to finally have that experience,
then you have to think, well, how can I work towards that in this
life? Right, if that's my goal, right, you've read Stephen Covey's
book, The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People, right? Isn't
that one of the goals, or one of the qualities have the end in
mind? Right? So if your end is that, then you want to think, how
do I get there? And
this is it, right? It is.
It's working on the spiritual heart so that you become more
worthy of that prize. But that's the motivating factor, right? That
we want knowledge of all us want that in this life, in the form of,
of getting to know him on a more intimate level, getting to
experience openings, and, and really feel expansion in our
heart. Because if you look around, it's the fact that people are not,
you know, even motivated by those things. And the spiritual diseases
are increasing and growing. And they're looking at the dunya. And
just accumulating wealth and eating and feeding their appetites
and every other base desire they have that we're also seeing, I
mean, you could say causation correlation. I mean, they're both,
you know, you're seeing every form of spiritual disease prevalent,
right? So when I asked earlier, what do you think are the most
common? I would say almost all of them are, you see all of them,
they're everywhere. All of these diseases have just spread like
wildfire. And then on top of that, we don't only have spiritual
afflictions, we also see physical right diseases increasing. So why
because as the very first Hadith, reread the prophesies, and said
that there's a lump of flesh in the heart, if it's sound, right,
that everything else becomes sound. And the opposite is true,
too. If our spiritual hearts are diseased, then the diseases spread
to other aspects of our being, and to our communities or found in our
families or communities or societies, diseases. So it's that
mind body heart connection is all very real. And so, you know, when
we think about ourselves and curing ourselves of spiritual
diseases, we also want to think about just promoting overall well
being, you know, a holistic approach, that if I work on my
spiritual diseases, I will start to feel better, like in my, you
know, in my physical body, right, in my mental clarity, I will start
to have more clarity, because there's a lot of thoughts. I mean,
some research says, 70,000 thoughts we have a day, and 80% of
them are 90%. I think our negative thoughts 80% of repeat thoughts.
So we're just keep recycling the same thoughts over and over and
over again, right? And how can we protect ourselves from that mental
chatter, if it's all negative? Right? That's what spiritual
that's what this offers is the more focus you you work on
inwardly, you know, healing and cleansing, you will start to feel
that residual effect everywhere. And then imagine, once you become
better at regulating yourself and emotions, guess what? People can't
trigger you.
Right, that you don't, you don't get triggered. Because you're now
in control of yourself. So when someone says something to you,
that upsets you and offends you?
I go, okay.
You know, and there are I've witnessed this happening. It's
amazing when you are with people who've worked around the path.
It's amazing to see their level of control, like, you know, which
reminds me of that wonderful story of Sid Nisa, right? When he was
with his disciples and he was walking, and then the men cursed
at him, and he made off for them. And so the men I mean, his
disciples were like, what they
just cursed you. So you know, you want to think about yourself in
this situation you're walking with your, your BFFs you know, your,
your family, your who, your loved ones, and then someone just hurls
curses at you. Be honest with yourself. How many of us, you
know, we're like, Oh, really? At the rings we're coming off, you
know, would you say?
Get a little sass in our voice. And I'm speaking from experience
that was literally me in high school in college. But yeah, we
have that that's our Neff see reaction, right. We don't like
people to step up to us. And some of us our cultures are very hot
blooded, right? We can't help ourselves or our families. So that
might be the the response, right? Because we haven't worked on on
this. But what did say Nisa do, he made the offer them. And so when
the disciples asked, he said, remember this, it's so beautiful.
Vessels only pour out what they contain. Right? So their vessel
was filled. And that's why they can curse. But he's not he doesn't
have filled to pour out. Because He's pure. He's a prophet of God.
So he's teaching that even if they're, that's what they pour
forth. I don't have to match that energy. Why do I have to stoop
low, I bring forth what I have, and he had happy and light he had
beauty. So we have to look at our hearts in the same way that what
we pour into it is what is going to come out. So if we're consuming
garbage in, right? As chef Hamza says garbage in, garbage out.
That's what's going to come out. But if we're working on cleansing,
and then taking in the remedies, which often do have to do with the
kind of Allah remembrance of, of death, right, if you'll see a lot
of the treatments have to do with these types of practical things
that we can all do. So that we start to change the those
thoughts, right, that negative mental chatter instead of being at
90%, negative? Why? Why are we accepting that right? Just because
it's statistics and research? Do you think the Olia of Allah had
80% or 90%, negative thoughts? Or do know, it's us because we are
afflicted with spiritual diseases, and we're around people who are
afflicted with spiritual diseases, and we're consuming the content,
and the thoughts and ideas of people who are spiritually
afflicted. Right.
And so that's why you know, what we consume, what we take in makes
a difference. So Inshallah, for next time, because we have just a
few minutes left, but I wanted to give you guys an opportunity to,
you know, talk amongst each other and get to know each other. For
next time, we'll continue with the first verses of the poem, which
are the introduction to purification on page one, so we'll
formally start the book, but you can read ahead, and that way,
Inshallah, when we come in, we can also have a discussion and I'll
prove I'll prepare some discussion questions based on the reading.
Okay. Any any questions?
I know it's a lot to take in. Yes.
Yes, excellent question. Yeah. About a coffee from pure from a
Rumi bookstore there. It should be available. I'm pretty certain. I
mean, I would be surprised unless they have any issues with
backordering but I would check with Rumi bookstore they're in
Fremont. They're local and he he does have a shop here in Dublin
but I don't know if the hours like what the hours are. But if you
coordinate he can maybe bring some here if you're local. Are you here
in this area? Okay, yeah, so if you call the Fremont store, check
with him there and maybe he can bring some copies here if he
doesn't have some in the Dublin store? Yeah, Rumi bookstore Yeah,
like the poet
Yeah, it's available on Amazon and I because I did some research I
found that the best bargain or deal is through Sun dollar if you
just go straight through Sun Dalek is some of the prices on Amazon
are hiked up this is a pretty popular book it's in several
languages so some of the sellers know that but if you want a good
deal just go directly to send all you'll pay a little bit for
shipping but you're not going to get prime but but it actually is
less than what you would pay with with Amazon sendowl Oh, it's I'm
sorry, it's the name of the publishing so it's like the word
sandal with an A yes and dolla.org I think are calm
under the law. So any other questions?
Well, thank you. I want to thank all of you for coming here.
Inshallah will with this is every the last Thursday of every month
and it is you know, online, but I would love for you guys to join.
For those of you who are watching too who were here last time. Come
back
inshallah I know it's what we'll do is we'll leave some time at the
end next time to for more like for you guys to get to know each other
because I know that that was a big reason why so many showed up that
we need more connection after COVID I know it's been a while. So
inshallah but feel free to stick around yes
yes I actually thank you for reminding me because I after we
met that meant put the dates together I was like oh no, I think
I'm gonna have to speak with Brother Muneer. Maybe we might do
that one on the weekend before is that the 21st or the what's the
date for the third week?
Oh no, I'm sorry, the third Thursday, not the fourth Thursday
what's
okay, so maybe we'll do the 18th for just November and then resume
unless Christmas falls also. Yeah, the holidays. So inshallah I will
put it in the newsletter but most likely will not be the last
Thursday because again, Thanksgiving okay. And with that
said we'll do an NDA and then please feel free maybe for the
next 15 1015 minutes to stick around and talk to one another if
you haven't met everybody and then please SAR to if we can get the
signup list if you can add more people. Thank you. Alright, so I'm
assuming that Rahim Well I said in the in Santa Fe hostel Illa La
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and everyone again, Inshallah, I will see you all next Thursday and
thanks to all who are watching on the livestream Inshallah, next
time will be a little bit more or on time I think daylight savings
will also be in effect. So I'm delighted Thank you