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honored to be here. Dr. RANIA is traveling she's at a very
important event in Chicago. The hormone project with Dr. Ingrid
Madson and several other notable female scholars make dua for her
that inshallah Allah gives her tofield she's at a conference and
that she returns back to us in shot long, safely.
So we will recite this together now as well.
And this takes about 10 minutes Inshallah, and then we'll have a
discussion.
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outside noise is a little distracting. Sharla. So
first of all, again, welcome, everybody.
And Happy New Year, right? New Year.
Let me just pull up my notes here. Bismillah. So, you guys have a
good New Year's? Right Hamdulillah. So this is an
interesting time of the year, I think for all of us. It's
interesting, because there seems to be like
a shift that happens like a collective, or an awakening of
some type, you know, or our collective conscience is waking up
around the end of the year, every year, it happens.
When people start I think questioning, you know, their,
maybe their lives, their choices in the previous year, what they
did, what they didn't do their goals, and maybe even their own
mortality. Right? You start I mean, every year that passes,
you're a year older. So I think you just start facing,
facing those questions that you're avoiding all year long. And that's
why you have this thing that happens every year around this
time where everybody suddenly wants to be better, and they want
to, they have all these resolutions, and they start
planning and making all these changes. So it's a really
interesting time of year. From the spiritual perspective, we should
be doing that type of self analysis not once a year, right?
Not at the end of every year, when how often should that happen?
Every single day, right? So every single day, we should be going
through this, you know, process of really thinking about what we did
during the day. You know, and this is called Maha Sabha, right where
you actually are taking yourself to account. You're looking back
from the start of your day. How are you? First important question,
the most important question that if you want to, at the end of
every day, that you're you know, in bed, and you're thinking about
your day, what's the most important thing that you should be
thinking about first?
Right, how was your Salah, right?
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So, our prayers, right, the most important thing that we should be
looking at every single day,
from the beginning of the day, but also at the end of the day. I
mean, if you're doing the evaluation process at the end, you
want to look at how are your prayers? Right, that's the most
important thing. Why is that the most important thing?
Look at look at, and then if it's good, then all
the way over to you destroy your life will be accepted.
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connection with a loss?
Absolutely. I mean, if your prayers aren't there, then yeah,
you can't really hold on. Right. But to your point, you know, the
very first thing that we're all going to be asked about on the Day
of Judgment is what
is our prayer? This absolutely, is the most important goal that we
should have every single day. Right? Beyond everything else that
we're doing, if we're, and as most of us are, I'm sure we all wear
different hats, right? We're wives, we're daughters, we're
sisters, we're mothers, we wear many different hats, and we ended
up doing a lot. And we're juggling a lot, we have a lot of
responsibilities, right? Some people are very good about keeping
their responsibilities in order. They like to do lists, how many of
you have to do lists every day? You work from a to do list? Right?
Mashallah. So you keep yourself organized, which is very good. So
people are just on autopilot, right? It's just like, I don't
know what's going on. But I know, I got things to do. You know,
you're racing back and forth. You know, that's a lot of us are like
that we're on little sleep, right? We're barely getting enough rest
and nutrients, but we're just going you know,
but you know, the, the dunya is always pushing us to meet, you
know, all of those worldly goals that we have. And they're
important, nobody's denying, taking care of your family, taking
care of responsibilities, working, whatever it is that we're doing,
those are all important. But the goal of every single one of us
here should be to make certain that whatever is happening in our
lives, that it does not interfere with our prayer. Because it is the
reason why we are created none of this other stuff matters of us,
that have created us for one reason, and one reason only, which
is to worship Him. So if we're not,
you know, doing well in our prayers, that's the first thing
you want to look at, if you're not finding yourself satisfied in your
life, if there's things that are happening.
You know, you have a lot of problems, tribulations, hardships,
you want to look at your prayer, you want to evaluate from that
standpoint, like how committed Am I to my prayers? Am I kind of just
not really there half heartedly doing it? Am I not doing it at
all? Am I missing prayers, you know, but look at that, because I
you know, first first for sure, if you're having any, as I said
issues in life, a lot of times they can be, you know, connected
to, to the prayer. So, you know, as I said in the beginning, you
know, this time of the year, this is what, you know, people are
doing everywhere all around us. And but we should be doing this
every day. And that's the very first thing that we should be
looking at. But I wanted to talk about this concept of you know,
of happiness, because that's, you know, what, so many of us are, are
striving for right? We're all striving to be happy one way or
another.
That can come from our relationships, it can come from
financial pursuits, or career pursuits, whatever, but we're all
we all want this concept of happiness. And so we have to, you
know, stop and ask ourselves, whose definition of happiness are
we?
Are we committed to right
because if you look at we talked about this yesterday, I had a
session here, some of the people in the room were here yesterday to
when we looked at this, you know, idea of happiness. And it's
interesting, because research shows that the more people, you
know, strive for happiness, and we're talking, you know, this is,
you know, research done by, by scientists. So it's not Muslims
that are doing this necessarily, but they found that the more
people pursue or tried to pursue happiness, something interesting
happens, what do you think it is?
They become unhappy.
So, as we are pushed in this direction of wanting to be happy,
researchers find that if that's your focus of this, you know, you
know, word happiness, and that's all you care about. And you're,
you know, what happens to most people's, they start isolating
other people in their lives, because the way that our world
defines happiness is a very selfish, self centered pursuit.
Right? It's all about me, me. It's all about what I want. And so
natural, naturally, what happens is if you start getting in that
frame of mind, you're going to alienate the people in your lives,
you're not going to feel fulfillment from whatever it is
you're pursuing. And so you end up seeing that, as people make that
their number one pursuit, they actually end up with low, you
know, sad life satisfaction. So that's interesting, right? Because
it's like, how can that happen? Well, it's again, because what is
your definition of happiness, if it's to get to have material
wealth, to gain things, to acquire things, to acquire power to
acquire relationships, you're likely going to go down that
route. But that's not the purpose of our creation, right. As we
said, our Allah's father created us for one purpose and one purpose
only, which is to worship Him. And if you look at our entire faith,
every single aspect of our faith is to actually give us the most
fulfillment that we can possibly have in this dunya. Right,
everything. That's why our faith is not just a belief system, it's
a way of life. If we actually commit to following our faith the
way we should be, by following the example of the prophesy son, I'm
the byproduct of that the natural consequence of that is that we
will have the true meaning of happiness, right? Which is what?
Because there's happiness that's fleeting, and it's just an
emotion, but true happiness is what
is what?
And I believe that mountain, exactly, the true meaning of
happiness is riddled with Allah subhanaw taala. Right?
To have so much peace in your heart, that the whole nothing
fazes you in this dunya That is actual happiness. Everything else
that is sold to us on a daily basis is a lie.
It's an absolute lie. Right? It's a lie, that money will buy you
happiness. It's a lie. That beauty will make you happy. It's a lie
that even your relationships are gonna fulfill you. That's not
true. Yes.
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culture's our family members, they tell us this from a very young
age, get this, you'll be happy, everything will be fine,
everything will be perfect. And a lot of times, we realize, you
know, that's not what happens and you end up having tribulation and
problems and difficulties and challenges. And what happens, you
know, this is where shaitan just jumps right in, right? Because you
thought if I, you know, I know, for example, many sisters will
come to me and say,
I made us the hunter, you know, and I married someone, and I did
everything right. It was halal. Why am I so miserable, like, my
marriage is not good. I'm not happy, because they were told that
if they do everything by script, and if they make us the Hatha,
it's like a magic potion, and everything will be fine. This is
not true, right? So sometimes it can be even, you know, from our
cultural or religious, you know, people in our lives might distort
reality, but we have to accept that this dunya is not a place
where we should put an expectation of happiness, it's not happiness
is an emotion, it's going to come at times, like when you have the
birth of your first child and shopping or, you know, yes, on
your wedding night, Inshallah, most of all of us hopefully are or
were happy.
There are times where happiness can come to your heart. But if you
ever believe that, you're going to be just fulfilled always, and have
this constant satisfaction in life, and nothing is ever going to
come and, you know, affect you negatively. This is where you set
yourself up for a lot of disappointment. But what we're
seeing is that, you know, this is what's happening, so many people
are not really clear on exactly what is, you know, what, what our
purposes here, and what the relationship that we should have
with the lowest point that it is, so they end up you know, it's
like, I get really close to Allah when things are going good, right.
Or when I have a need, like, when I'm suddenly desperate, you know,
stuff, like you get a call from your doctor, and there's a
diagnosis, you know, potential diagnosis that you're, you know,
like the blood tests are coming in, it could be, you know,
something terrible. Now, all of a sudden, everybody, you know,
prayers go up, and phone calls are being made, can you do a HUD on
this, and it's like, we have this very, you know, interesting idea
of what our relationship is with Allah, like, he's just on call
when we need him. Right? It's not from Allah. And that's not how it
works. We're here only because it's a blessing from him and a
gift from him. Existence. But the the real purpose, and this is
where we have to really come back to our understanding, the real
purpose of our creation, SubhanAllah. And this is where we
have to be so grateful to Allah is so that we have an opportunity to
strive for eternal happiness. That is the purpose of our existence,
Allah created us, he has no need for any of us, He does not need
anything from any of us. So there's no nothing for him in
this. It's entirely for us.
So when we think about the pursuit of happiness, that literally is
existence, and following our deen that if that if you really want to
be happy, that's how you have to convince your mind that the only
way that I will have a true understanding or a true experience
of happiness, is if I commit myself to this deen and I follow
it with that, you know, that full intention and full heart, because
anything else is, you know, you're gonna not have satisfaction in
life, you're gonna, you know, fall prey to so many traps of shaitan.
Because that's what he does. He's our, he's the greatest enemy,
right? And so his purpose is to take away our faith, little by
little right, step by step, and he'll work on us, every single one
of us, he'll find those weak spots, those blind spots that we
have, and he'll start chipping away at us. So that's why we have
to step back and say, you know, what can I do to protect myself
from his traps? And again, the answer goes back to your faith,
the prophesy centum if you look at his entire existence, he didn't
leave us without a solution for really anything. From the
beginning of his of the day, we have to lie that we say throughout
every single moment, there are reminders there are remembrances
there are actions that we should take to protect ourselves. That's
why like, a rod like this is so important, because there's
protective guards in here. You know, there's laws in here that
will protect us, but he didn't leave us without, you know, some
means of achieving
and protection and happiness and safety and security, all of it was
given to us he completed his message very generously. No other
faith is as comprehensive as Islam, you will not find in any
other tradition, what we have, we have an incredible gift in our
deen and an incredible gift in the in the example of the prophesy
centum. Because as I said, from the beginning of the day, when
your eyes open, we know what to say, we know what to do. Our very
first movement out of bed, you know, you go to the restroom, you
have a DA, you come out of the restroom, you have a DA, you know,
you put on your clothes, there's a lot to be said, you go to prepare
your breakfast. You say the HA you eat your breakfast, you say you
finish it, it's like Subhanallah every single point of your day.
He's given us, you know, things that we are supposed to be doing
for ourselves. It's not, you know, for any other reason he didn't
need to do those. He was already spinal. He already had visions of
his, you know, place in Jannah. He knew where he was going. It was
guaranteed to him. He was even given an opportunity to leave and
just go, but he remained because he wanted to give continue to give
to us. So now we have to ask ourselves so here i Here we are
2020.
New Year. How much of his sunnah? Are we really putting into
practice? I think about it.
And how much of his sunnah? Are we really putting into practice? Do
you know all the doors, your daily doors? Why not?
Isn't that sad? How can we face him on the day of judgment? I
think about that all the time all the villa? How can we face him.
And he did so much for us, he would wake up in the middle of the
night weeping for us. And we didn't even bother to memorize the
laws that he gave for us. But I bet you all of us know lyrics to
songs.
Right?
We have a lot of things memorize that we don't need that benefit
us. They don't benefit us at all.
We committed to do those things.
But yet Subhanallah what the lesson is given us it's like we
don't see the value of it.
We don't see the value of it and as tragic right?
And then we wonder
why we're not happy in our lives. That's the paradox. Like, isn't it
obvious, you're not happy, because the very means of attaining
happiness in this dunya that Allah designed to be a place of
tribulation, to be a place of difficulty to be a place of
turmoil and sadness, every single thing that he gave us to protect
us from being harmed by the dunya. We're not doing and then we wonder
why we're feeling the effects of the harms of the dunya.
Right? Logically, there's a clear disconnect there. And we have to
go back and ask ourselves, well, that's what it is if I'm not
fulfilled in my marriage.
And yet, there are people for example, ESEA, right. Let's look
at the women before us. They were sent us as examples. She's the
wife of Iran, who was her husband.
He was the greatest tyrant in existence for Iran. He massacred
people. He was a horrible wretched human being. How is a wife of that
men able to attain the status of being one of the four perfect
women? How if it wasn't for Allah subhanaw taala and her commitment
to her Lord, right? You can be married to someone in a
relationship that's toxic, but still be protected from that. You
know, and that's what Islam is. Islam is the refuge, Islam is the
eye of the storm, the hub, right? When you're practicing it
correctly, it will shield you from all of the fitna of the dunya and
help your heart so that you're not fazed. And that's why there are
people who come from really difficult places in the world
where they all they saw was bloodshed, they've seen the, you
know, horrific the horrors of war, and just, you know, oppression and
things that we can't even fathom, but Subhanallah if you meet them,
they have a smile on their face.
You know, how is that possible? If you've come from that type of a
background,
right? That you're not affected with Pete
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when so many other people crumble at certain traumas. Right? And
it's it's just the nature of Dinya. PTSD is real. There are
people who suffer from it and I'm not, you know, I'm just saying
that there are people who can be in situations of horror, but they
can come out,
you know, almost like unscathed. Like they walk through the fire.
And nothing's happened to them how? It's because of their Eman
and I shared yesterday, you know, one of my teachers are and
teachers. Just mela you know, I mean, these kinds of stories are
just startle you because you can't fathom it. But he, he lost his
wife in a car accident. I had him when she was a good friend of
mine. Really beautiful woman. But
when she died, her, their two children were in the car. And they
also suffered injuries.
This is what we were told. And of course, you know, I don't think
anybody would make this up. But they said Subhanallah the day of
her death, imagine the day of her death. His children are in the
hospital. He's a great chef. He had a class to teach at the
masjid. So he went and he taught his class
didn't announce anything.
Yes. And then after the class, he said, My wife has passed please
stay for the janazah these are remarkable people. Right? So Hala,
so I'll continue the story after Sona?
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good to see you. How have you been?
Yeah, did you? Were you traveling? Or did I just imagine that? Did
you try it? Well, you're not here for a while or No, you've been
here
this year? Oh, how nice. I don't know if you know, I came back from
Umbra in December 1. So we did from November 20. Yeah, somehow it
was so amazing. I hadn't been in like 11 years. So it was like so
many changes everything somehow a lot of changes. But I was thinking
about how hedge would be because we know we didn't get to go to
like most that if or you know the camp Mina event. Yeah. 100 I did
hedge 2004 Or five a long time ago, but I'm sure it's even the
camp sites I'm sure are different. But yeah, I was hoping like we
could maybe do a stop I think they did. They were going to some of
the students were going to go on a tour but I just couldn't I took my
mom. So and she's elderly so I had to stay with her. So I didn't get
a chance to do a lot of the tours but I was really interested to see
how I felt a minute look now because the Safa model were so
different Oh my from my last memory I was like what is this?
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when did you first or when did you go last before this age?
Like two years? Oh, okay. Mashallah. Nice. Yeah.
I mean, I think it was like 20 years. Okay.
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want to follow male like so? That's exciting. Yeah. I just felt
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were younger. But then I was like, you know, you see so many parents
with their kids. So many people were bringing their children I was
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okay. So we're gonna go ahead and continue the discussion right
before right before you left. I was just sharing a story about my
teacher. But my point in sharing that was to say that there are
people who have found
the secret right? They have been given this immunity from ALLAH
SubhanA wa Tada that enables them to withstand a lot of difficulty
and challenges in this world that some of us have never been through
the loss of a child.
of the loss of a spouse. Real, you know, calamities and tribulations
physical health issues. How do these people do it? It's because
they have found, again, what we all we all have access to, which
is they're committed to their Deen they actually are following it the
way they should be. They take their prayer seriously. They take
following the prophets. I send them sunnah seriously. They, you
know, they do remembrance of Allah, they read their Quran, they
do their silhouette, they do their daily Earth card, their eyes, they
try to keep a state of will do. They have good relations with
people, they serve their parents and their family, they fulfill
their rights and obligations, they honor the elderly. So how they go,
so good to see you.
So this is, you know, it's it's all there. Everything's in our
deen. And the problem is I systems entire life is so that we can
model it. So that's why we have to say it is absolutely possible to
find contentment in this dunya despite problems, tribulations
hardships, that are inevitable, we will suffer, we will have loss, we
will have grief, people will betray us, it's just part of life,
it's going to happen. But how do you again, build an immunity so
that it doesn't break you down. So where the where you're depressed
all the time, you're miserable, you're, you know, you're taking
medication or medicating self medicating with other things that
you shouldn't be doing.
You just look again, to our tradition. So I was just that was,
I just wanted to finish that point. Now, what you have on the
on or whatever, and on the board here is something I wanted to
share with you. Because I really think lists are helpful. When you
have something to to recall easily it can it can help stick, you
know, has that sticky factor. So I like lists. And if you study, you
know, life satisfaction, it's very much tied to again, so you know,
an individual's definition of happiness. So that's why when you
look at people who have low self esteem, one of the first qualities
that they possess is this feeling of unhappiness, right? And so you
want to think about that if you are in a place in your life, where
you're just not feeling good about yourself, for whatever reason, is
it personal? Is it you know, your relationships? Are there problems
you're dealing with, that you don't know how to manage and cope
with? Do you have health problems, or could be a variety of reasons.
But if it's leading you to this conclusion, where you're just not
feeling good about yourself, you might want to, again, reevaluate
where your what your definition is of, or what your expectations are
of this dunya. Because if you can accept that this is a place of
difficulty and challenges, but I can find a refuge, and that's
where I need to put my focus, then inshallah you can slowly come out
of that. But just to, you know, I wanted you to see it for
comparison, right? People who have, again, low self esteem, they
not only feel unhappy, but they also have anxiety, they have, you
know, inferiority, superiority, complex issues, and they're
impatient. Their goals are always about other people. There's no
internal, like desire to become better. It's always about making
other people happy, or trying to get validation from other people
approval of other people. It's a very external thing. And then
negative, just in a constant state of negativity, right?
All of that all of those qualities are indicative of someone who has
is having, you know, there's a spiritual disconnect. Because if
you are, again, following your religion, your faith the way that
you should, and following example, the prophets I sent him it is to
protect you from all of the things on the left, literally, everything
in Islam, is to protect you from the things on the left, right.
Because if you follow your your faith, as we've been saying, it
will encourage all the other qualities and we'll talk about
now, the second list there.
People with high self esteem, look at the qualities that they
possess. The first one is so telling, you're responsible.
Right? If a person has high self esteem, they take things
seriously. They take their responsibility seriously. And this
is one of the first you know, objectives of the primary
objectives of our dean is to make us responsible people. We have
goals every single day that we should be achieving
Our prayers are daily. It's not that Oh, you just say it once and
then you're set. You know, you have to commit. You have to take
your will do your prayers, seriously. And make your world
revolve around your prayers and not the other way around. Where
you're just like, oh, yeah, oh yeah, I have to pray. But you're
doing other things you're shopping, you're going, you know,
to the movies, you're listening to music, you're watching Netflix,
and then it's like, oh, yeah, I have to pray. No, it should be. I
have to pray. And I'm going to schedule everything else around my
prayers. So if I have to, you know, go to this event, Well,
where am I going to pray? That's how your mind should be. You know,
that's how it should work. Where it's always the forefront of your
mind. Is your iba to ALLAH SubhanA? Wa, tada. Right. So
responsibility is the is a characteristic of someone who is,
again, they have esteem, they know their purpose, they know why they
were created. And this is what we're all striving for, isn't it?
Don't we all want to have high self esteem? Everybody in this
room? Right, everybody, we all wish we were confident, you know,
high achieving, high, you know, producing self high self esteem
people? Well, let's look at what it takes to get there. You have to
be a person committed. And that's why number two is connected to
that goal commitment. You have to have goals. Right? You have to
look at your your life and not look at it like it's a done deal.
It is what it is, this is my life. And you know, that's all shaped on
if Shakedowns got you in a place where you're just complacent
wherever you are. And you think like, I'm just destined to be a
housewife. I just cook and clean all day long. And I you know,
clean up after the kids and my husband, I have no other internal
goal of my own. This is unhealthy. And it's not. This isn't what our
tradition teaches. Women, we're multifaceted. We're big, we're
more than just mothers and wives. Our first role is servants of
Allah subhana wa, tada. That's our very primary. You know, that's who
we are. First, all of the other things come secondary. But if you
don't see that as a part of who you are, but the domestic and
material roles that you play all, you know, define you and you don't
think about, well, how can I learn better? How can I become more a
better servant of God? What do I need to learn,
we should all know are further behind. You know, and many people
in our community they don't know they're farther behind. It's not
because there isn't access to knowledge. You're we're in a
community center that mashallah has programs constantly there. We
are the envy of people all across the world. I'm telling you, there
are people who envy this community, because they are center
is so active, and they wish they had a place like this, where they
have scholars coming and teaching all the time. So if you don't know
you're far behind, which are what what are your frontline, which was
one of the primary things that every, every person should know,
every Muslim should know?
What are we responsible to know?
We're responsible to know, our fic of what bajada, right, you should
know how to clean yourself, right? There are certain things about,
you know, knowledge that everybody should know, you shouldn't have
that knowledge, your prayers, right? should know how to pray.
You should know how to read the book of ALLAH SubhanA, WA, tada.
Everybody in this room, we should all at this age in our lives, we
should all know Tajweed we should have studied that. Right? Even a
little bizarrely considered, studying the diseases of the
heart, also a far behind.
So if you've never studied the diseases of the heart,
I'm not I mean, I have I have to make a plug. Now I have a class
tomorrow, you are welcome to come and join. We're starting a six
week class based on the book purification of the heart. This is
the book
if you've never studied it, or read the book, this is by one of
our greatest scholars of all time, in my mother's I considered also
something every Muslim should know. You should know what plagues
the spiritual heart so that you protect yourself from it. But
again, these are sciences and these are disciplines that we have
to take seriously. So you know, wherever you are, in your
spiritual path, you want to ask yourself, I need to always be
looking to grow so
Wherever I am, I need to find the next step. Like if I haven't done
my FIP, I need to do that. So if I haven't needed it, but kind of
just start putting down those goals, that's the better, you
know, New Year's resolution than thinking about how many pounds you
want to lose, you know, or, you know, cleaning out your closets
like, people get stuck on these ridiculous trends, because it's
popular and everybody's Instagram was blowing up. And social media
is talking about these things. And it's like, cool. But all of that
is means nothing if you don't have your your these things in order
from a spiritual place, right? Yes. Just a reminder for those
sisters in the room, who are new to Islam. Like, just recently, I
know that we have a few converts in the room. Okay, we do have just
recently with the year,
right? Let's just write some of this is still do it doesn't mean
that everything she's pointing out on the on the board, or saying is
something you need to know like to write for the Wii for this one.
And if it's something like you're saying something you don't
understand, please ask questions. Please. There's a word that she
doesn't she's saying right now, we asked, or writing challenge
escalator. This is not something you have to know. It's not
something you have to have that list because I know that we have a
few concerts in there. And I know there's a few eyes in here that
are going.
Know, thank you for mentioning that. I wanted to throw that out
there a couple of months shy.
Now just like look at it. I appreciate that. Because I want I
you know, I don't come to this group often. So I appreciate you
mentioning that. Yeah.
Even if it's just three or four years,
of course, and we have to pace ourselves. And I'm speaking really
to the people who have, it's not even a matter of, of convert or
not. It's a matter of your mindset. So you could be, you
know, in this, you know, faith for 20 years or one year doesn't
matter. But if your mindset tells you, you're good, where you are,
that's what I'm challenging, right? Because we all need to be
looking at ourselves as works in progress. And that's why Goal
Setting goals is very important. And again, it's, you know, it's
clear that our deen is pushes us constantly to be better, right?
There's no part of our deen that says, oh, once you've arrived at
this level of knowledge, it's good. You're good, you know, just
know, you have, you know, the Masters in our history who were
always mashallah even though they had achieved incredible feats, you
know, memorizing the Quran when they were young, or all six
volumes of the Hadith or, you know, mastering this science or
that science. They were also guess what mathematicians and medical
physicians, and you know, they studied law, and they were
philosophers, and it was never just enough, they kept wanting to
grow and cultivate themselves into being the best versions of
themselves. I think modern, you know, the message, unfortunately,
is that, you know, once you kind of arrive at a certain point, you
especially in some of our cultures, I think there's a
hierarchy or a priority that's off. It's like everything about
your family. First, you got to cook meals every single day, and
you have to vacuum the house every day. And you know, and it's like,
what all those domestic things are great, but if they're hindering
your spiritual growth, that's not that's not great. Your
spirituality is very important part of you don't deny yourself
those things. Don't deny yourself much. I just had a sister come up
to me during the break. And I was very proud of her, you know, she,
she was when she was kind of excited because she said she has
six children, Mashallah. And she spent so many years, dropping her
kids off and not being able to participate in Masjid activities,
because she had babies to attend to. And now she's here and she's,
you know, attends programs and she's so enthusiastic, very proud
to see that Michelle, because she didn't forget herself. She didn't,
she's fulfilling her obligations as a mother, but she's also
prioritizing that, you know, what, it's my time and we should do that
we should all do that we should all you know, feel. It's that it's
that all of us have had that as always calling on us. And we have
to find ways to to respond. You know, like the Hadith, you know,
where he says, I, you know, extend your hand and I'll extend my arm
walk to me and I'll run this hadith could see it's beautiful.
But where are we? Are we extending our hand even? Or have we just you
know, shut down. And we're just busy reading books, you know,
fictional fantasy books. You see? All these people caught up
and stuff on like, how, you know, you have time to do that
time you have their Kindles, you know, they got all these books
that they can't wait to read. But then they've never bothered to, to
study, you know, the sciences that are going to actually, as we said,
protects you. In the end. If you study the diseases of the heart,
you will find yourself becoming a better human being. I mean, why
would that not be a priority on your list to do, you know,
watching YouTube videos of influencers and tutorials about
how to be perfect and Marie Kondo and organizing your life, it's
like, we waste our time with all of that. And here we have our
beautiful Dean that's given everything that says you want to
be a good you want to be the best human being that you can possibly
be. Here it is.
It's not hard, and it'll all come into place because look, even like
you know, I joke about it, but like when you go shift to the next
wine, you know, for Hara SN, Marie Kondo has nothing on a Muslim
who's actually following their rules. They're their tradition,
because as I said, doing things with the sun is perfection. So if
you want to organize your life, just follow the example of your,
you know, of our tradition, which teaches you to do to be clean, and
to take, you know, organizing and doing things meticulously, as I
said, it's on.
Seriously, that's Islam. Islam teaches us that we don't need
these gurus to teach us things, you know, we don't need to look to
people in modern life as being, you know, like, that we strive for
their way, when our tradition already teaches us those things.
That's what's that's what's sad. So, you know, again, going back to
this, the second list, sorry.
You want to be a person who's achieved success and has high self
esteem, just look, it's all Islam. genuineness, being a truthful,
honest person, this was the prophesy sort of a side effect. I
mean, he was the most truthful, the most trustworthy, just just a
transparent, true person. Not doesn't have you know, two faces
doesn't lie to you. And then you know, behind your back, say this
about you stuff a lot. That's all you know, it's all part of modern
life. But Islam teaches you how to be a genuine person, fear Allah.
So what it is, you fear Allah, you're not going to talk about
people. If you truly fear a lot, you're not gonna make a fever
about people and, and think bad, harbor bad feelings and have
rancor in your heart because you fear Allah, it's genuinely like,
it's there. But all of that is taught by our faith, forgiveness,
being a more forgiving person. This is, again, so much a part of
our tradition, how many Hadith how many, is in the Quran, where Allah
Subhana Allah is teaching us to be merciful and compassionate, and to
forgive those who have wronged us. Even if you have, you know, if
you're in the right, it's better for you. Because when you are more
forgiving, you will get what the forgiveness of Allah subhanaw
taala. Right. When you're more compassionate with people, you
will get the compassion of Allah and mercy of Allah, all of this,
our tradition teaches us, right internal values.
What are we talking about this is this whole discussion is about
having that, you know, conscience that constantly tells you, you
know, to be better, to strive to be better, all of those values
that are coming from your own self, you don't need someone else
to tell you what to do, because you know, your purpose, almost,
you know, that almost kind of created you for a reason. All of
that, again is reinforced constantly in our faith. You read
the Quran, it's constantly told to us what our purpose is why we were
created and to strive for certain goals, but all of that is is again
within our tradition, positivity, just being good person smiling,
you know, meeting people with with cheerfulness this is all if you
read the descriptions of the prophets I send them read them
read read them from the Shema ed or from from the Shiva read how he
was with people. He greeted people always with a cheerful
disposition, smiling, happy to see people exuding positivity, you
know, spreading the salaam, smile, all of that is his sunnah. So
again, you know, we, we wonder, like I said, why we're not
fulfilling and why we're not happy, but the answers are right
in front of us.
If only we took our faith more seriously, and if only we really
Lies its value, that it actually isn't just a strict set of rules
and, you know, things that we have to follow it is literally the
formula of achieving satisfaction in this world. And protecting
yourself from harm. That is Islam, right. And the last one self
improvement, again, constantly seeing yourself as someone who
needs improvement and you know, your work in progress. So those
are the qualities of someone who's, who has, you know, high
sense of self worth, we can all achieve that. And it's important
to again, see the contrast because a lot of people are stuck on the
left.
They're stuck on all on one or two, or maybe all of those areas.
Trust me, like this is a it's a problem in the world. Now. It's
not even just our community. Everybody's you know, feeling
these low, like lows, you know, they're just not feeling happy in
life flow reports of, you know, satisfaction with whatever their
job, they're not happy with their relationships or children, their
spouses, their homes, their cars, their clothing, it's like, there's
no happiness. Well, you know, we have to question why that is,
you know, and how can we protect ourselves because when you look at
the happiest people on the planet, the research is also interesting,
some of them have nothing.
Right? Some of the happiest, most content people are people who are
not materialistically, wealthy, they don't have a lot, but
Subhanallah you see them and I just came from Umrah. You know,
about a month or so ago. You see people mashallah they are visibly
poor, you can tell their clothing, they have you no dirt on their
faces in their fingernails, they just, they probably have a very
difficult life. But Subhanallah they are smiling, you know, ear to
ear greeting. We had people coming up to us offering us dates, and
bread and candy, like just randomly, you know, but if you
look at them, they don't look like they have a lot. But they're so
Subhanallah just happy, because all of us found that has given
them a lot. And that is why the only source of true happiness is
from ilustrado. So you can go and try to find it everywhere else. If
you think those are the things that are giving you happiness, but
they're not going to if you overlook Allah, it's just not
going to happen, you will not find contentment. So the only sources a
lot, everything else is just, you know, again, a gift from him a
blessing from him. A means, you know, but it's not the source, the
source is him. So
this last, you know, list there, I wanted to share
our qualities that we should all be striving for. Because if we
want, you know, true happiness, we also have to realize it's on us.
We have to do our part. We can't just expect it to fall in our
laps. Yes.
Yes.
That's a good question, fear and hope.
Well, you know, from an Islamic perspective, that's Taco Bell. So
you know, that's, you know, I'm sorry, that's taco Excuse me.
That's taco so the taco is fair enough. And that is absolutely a
sign of someone who's got you know, high self esteem because if
you have Taqwa of Allah subhanaw taala. You don't, you know, you
don't get too ahead of yourself where you think, you know,
everything you're doing is perfect. And you're you've got it
made. That's where the fear element, you know, keeps you
humble. Right? It keeps you humble that you know what, no, at any
point, Allah can take me. And that's why we make the offer a
good ending, because we don't know, you know, you could be
praying right now, and believing in this moment, but God forbid,
you do something. And there's Hadith that mentioned all of this,
you know, that, that there, a person can be doing a lot of good,
but then they do one thing. And that's what actually ends up
leading to their demise. So fear is to keep us humble, and then
hope is to also protect us from despair. Because people who are
hopeless, you know, and in despair, this is a weak state of
Eman because this our dean is not a dean of hopelessness. Our dean
is a dean of absolute hope. And that's why we have phenomenal
stories that are trying to get that message through to us like
the man who killed 99 people. I mean, there's no other other story
that I can think of right now. That should give anybody hope.
More than that story. If you don't know that story, look it up. It's
a story about a man who literally is a mass murderer. He murdered 99
people, but he wanted to redeem himself and basically become a
vet.
For a person, and ALLAH SubhanA, Allah gives him hope. And it's a
beautiful story, I don't want to read it for you, but look it up.
Because that's the kind of story that wherever you are, should make
you feel like, you know,
things will get better. And I just have to believe
could possibly, I mean, I don't want to assume that everybody
who's anxious has necessarily, you know, we shouldn't make
assumptions. But anxiety is something we should seek
protection from, you know, the prophets, I send them there's
doors, where he's actually asking Allah to, you know, protect us
from anxiety. So it's something that can plague you and you know,
affect your heart. And it might chip away at your quality of life,
you know, there are people who have, you know, real disorders
that are, you know, very serious, and it definitely affects their
quality of life. So I think, you know, and then there's other
people who can manage, but I think, you know, those are all,
you know, they're gonna they're subjective. So it's hard to really
say, but at the end of the day, when you want to see, you know,
what is our semana?
So sweet, you have something to say.
But at the end of the day, you know, if you want to see where do
you want to be, you want to be free from all of that, right? So
how can I be free from all of those things? Well, that's what
that last list is for. It's to tell us, well, let's look at the
qualities that we need to inculcate in order to gain the
love of Allah subhanaw taala. Right. The first one is Toba. So
wherever you are, all of us we should be making Toba constantly,
you know, staying a stuffer, you know, 100 times 70 times, however
many times a day you should we should be doing that as a matter
of practice. After every Salah you should be conscious of the fact
that you sin, we sin every day, nobody is free of sin. We all
sinned today. We all did something we shouldn't have done either with
intent, which may Allah really forgive us if we did something
harm harmful with intent, or we didn't do something we should have
done. And maybe there was no intent. It was just negligence.
But either way, we have to accept that you can't you know, that
we're held accountable for those things. You know, if you're, like
I said, watching a show, and then you miss your prayer, you're gonna
be held accountable for that. That's just a fact. Right?
So there's certain things you just have to you know, keep real. Yes,
you have a question or a comment?
Sure, I'm gonna translate every single one of them. Thank you so
much. The first one is Toba and Toba means repentance. So
repenting for the you know, whatever you've done, which is
what we just mentioned, right? If you've made any mistakes today,
just make Toba and remember Allah subhana wa Tada. You know, he
loves this is really, again, something you should just stick in
your mind. Allah loves the web, more than the perfect servant.
Okay, I'll say it again. He loves the one who sins but keeps coming
back for Toba. And not to say you're making the same sin and you
keep thinking like, Oh, I'm just gonna, you know, no, you don't.
It's a matter of like, I keep slipping and falling and I'm weak
and I you know, but Allah, I know that you're the most forgiving.
You have this hope that you're constantly, you know, manifesting
by returning to him. You are more beloved to Allah in that state,
that if you were to just do everything perfectly, we have to
know these things. So the to repent. It might sound like, Oh,
it's this negative thing, but it's not. It's actually a beautiful
thing to make Toba?
It's a beautiful recognition of ALLAH SubhanA wa that is, like,
you're over the right, that you are a servant to to him. You're
recognizing his lordship over you. And that's why you make Toba.
Right? So it's a beautiful thing. Don't make it like this shame
thing. Internal shame, by the way is good you know nobody needs to
know your sins. You don't need to go around broadcasting what you've
done. Know it's between you and Allah azza wa jal. I'm so sorry.
I'm sorry. I did this again. But you're so forgiving. Please
forgive me. You know, that's that's what you do.
And you just have hope, and you inshallah work on yourself, right?
And that's why the Prophet said and said, Every son of Adam sins
in the Best of those who sin are those who repent. So the best of
of all of us are the people who make Toba
and many other many other Hadith.
This one actually is a really good one. Allah is more pleased with
the repenting
of his slave than a person who has his camel in a desert carrying all
of his food and drink and it is lost. Having lost all hope to get
that back. This person lies down in the shade and it's disappointed
and heartbroken about his camel. When all of a sudden he finds out
that the camels standing before him. He takes hold of its reins
and then out of boundless joy blurts out, Oh Allah, you are my
slave and I am your job. He commits this mistake out of
extreme joy, right. But the point of this hadith is like he's more
pleased with Toba with our Toba than such a person, and we all
have been there, we've all lost something, right? And we've like,
Oh, my God, and then you know, when you find it, that joy, right?
Like the joy that you feel after losing something that you thought
you lost? Like, what is your engagement ring wedding ring for
like, whatever it is some valuable thing that you find it you I call
that, you know, but it's one of the last one is more pleased with
with us, when we make Toba than the not feeling that we have,
right. So just think about that. It's all to encourage us bajada
The next word is purification.
We have to keep ourselves clean. And this is why going back to what
I said earlier, you know further iron, which is compulsory
knowledge, it's what every single Muslim should know. There are
certain things that we should know one of them is to know how to
clean yourself. Because it's such a big part of being a Muslim, that
we maintain a level of cleanliness, right? And not just
for ourselves in our bodies, but in our spaces. And yes, even in
public spaces. We should be practicing cleanliness. When you
go to a restaurant, or anywhere even a hotel. Like why do you need
to use five towels just because they're they're like, juicy that's
like, right? Why? Why do that? Why throw your garbage? Like
everywhere? You know, sometimes they have a can by the table,
there's a garbage can in the bathroom? Like we have to think
about these things. Why am I a messy person in someone else's
space? Just because there's people that are going to clean up after
me this isn't that's not right or good person is conscious of these
things right? Like I don't want to you know, I want to have a small
like leave a small footprint when I go somewhere right? The
believers are what those who are tread lightly on the earth you
shouldn't you see people hold the biller they destroy hotel rooms,
like I don't get that at all. We go to a restaurant and it's like
1000 Napkins. So yeah, just get
it's like what are you doing? Like can we just be like, you know,
minimal like you know, you know don't make such a big giant mess
for people or you see people and I've seen restaurants or Muslims
do this
whole family and it's just junk all over the table and they just
walk out
that's a horrible stuff is that I mean how would we do that really
like if someone did that to us? How would we feel if they came we
invited them to eat and they just thrashed the the table bones
chicken bones everywhere sauce build
it's just like
they leave it's like who does that? Nobody does that. Yes
of course Absolutely. This is a stuff
oh yeah
exactly.
Absolutely.
Give it to them. It will be with us you're absolutely
absolutely
oh yeah
yes
yeah, no, it's heartbreaking stuff for a lot this is a it's a
weddings, conferences everywhere you go even we just you know we
did on row we saw it there. But I may Allah forgive us. There's a
lot of isn't off and set off is when you are, you know, you
overindulge. And then you, you do that, you know you you're
wasteful. So we have to, you know, seek refuge from Allah because
these are all things that if you're following again, the Sunnah
of the prophets, I send them you don't do those things. Because you
have a conscience that tells you that's wrong. It's wrong to throw
away like if you eat I agree. I've seen it like you know, a sandwich
and someone will have a bite of their sandwich and they just throw
it away or half of the sandwich. Cut, cut, just take a knife, cut
off the portion. Right? And like you said, if you go step outside,
you might be able to you know give
to someone who's in need or, you know, save it for lunch the next
day, but like, you don't need to just toss it. So yes
yes, absolutely.
Yeah.
Yep.
Yeah, exactly. And nobody does that at home, right? We're like,
over the faucet with
the waters too much right? With our kids with everybody else,
we're very conscious about our own spending, because we're gonna have
to pay that bill. You know, but we did. This is all a part of, you
know, your, you have to ask yourself, like, Allah is watching
you at all times. How do you, you know, do that in good conscience?
And it should, you know, but again, if you're not thinking
about these things, and it's just like, everybody else is doing it,
it's okay, I'll do it. And I'm just gonna go along, then, you
know, where is that, you know, internal values, you know, number
five, where you you have your own set of rules that you live by,
that's what Islam should teach you. So the hot is very big, you
know, and this is also important, the key the prophets, I saw them
said that the key to the prayer is cleanliness, it's beginning. It's
like a beard. And it's ending is sunnah our prayer, you know, will
do is very important. It's an act of worship, we have to take will
do seriously, be and try to be as mindful as possible. And if we're
just, you know, splashing water and having showers in the in the
sink, and going through it really quickly, just because we have to
go rush, rush, rush. That's a time management problem. You shouldn't
be rushing your will do because you're likely to get a rush your
prayer. I mean, if you're rushing your will do and you're rushing
your prayer, what are you spending your time on? Right? Because not
everything's getting rushed? And that's where you have to sit back
and go, Yeah, I took, you know, a long time doing XYZ activity. And
it was, you know, I shopped around, I went to the store in
that store, but then I rushed all those things like where are my
priorities, right? Maybe I didn't manage my time well enough. So
this is where this Maha Sabha this constant conversation comes back
where you look at yourself and I need to be better, right? So the
next one is taqwa. Okay? And this is you know, pity it's having that
balance of fear and hope and a loss Panthera but always
remembering that he is with you at all times. And that is what
motivates you to be the best person that you can be the
prophesy. centum said, or ever heard, actually narrative that the
Messenger of Allah was once asked by someone which people were
admitted into paradise the most. And he said, the people of Taqwa
and good character, they go hand in hand. Okay, if you have Taqwa
of Allah subhanaw taala, you will have good character. And this is
the predominance of people in Jannah. This is the qualities that
they will have, right? And then he was also asked in the same Hadith
about people who are admitted into the fire the most. And he said
those who are
those who, sorry, this has not translated properly.
Yeah, it's referring to the people who are too loose with their mouth
and their private parts. Okay? So we know that from the Hadith,
these are the people of Jahannam is those who are irresponsible
with their mouth, which is many things right? They talk too much
they make claims they shouldn't they lie about Allah subhana data,
or they make riba they you know, they lie in general, there's a lot
of bad things that you can do with your mouth and then private parts.
This is you know, again, being
out the blog, you know, just not, you know, promiscuous, doing lewd
things. This is all over our societies now, right? We see it
everywhere. But these are the people that will make up the
people of Johanna. And then he ever said that whoever has Taqwa
of his Lord and maintains maintains ties of kinship, his
life will be prolonged, his wealth will be abundant and his family
will love him. And the prophets and also said have Taqwa of Allah
wherever you are, and follow an evil deed with a good one to wipe
it out and treat the people with good behavior. So that was
constantly there's so many honey these are just short, little, a
few samples of them but enough to get that across that these are
qualities we have to inculcate. We have to have consciousness of
Allah and and make sure that we're acting always with good character.
Sn. Well, we talked about earlier, goodness and perfection. You know,
Allah loves those who do things and they do things well, right.
And it's actually in
In the previous lesson said that Allah has prescribed, that we do
things with SN in everything that we do. So whenever we do something
that we try our best to make it the best effort possible, we don't
turn in things or produce things that are half hearted or done
with, you know, very minimal effort. So take your time, right,
you know, take your time doing things don't rush, right I did,
I'm gonna show thought when you're rushing through something, you're
likely going to make mistakes and it's quality goes down. So again,
though, you know, getting into practice of these things is how
we, we gain Allah subhanaw taala is pleasure to welcome trust in
Allah. Right? Allah loves those who put their trust in Him. Omar
said that he heard I heard the prophets I send him say, if you
all depend on Allah, with do reliance, he would certainly give
you provision as he gives it to the birds who go forth hungry in
the morning, and return with full bellies at dusk. So just having
this absolute certainty that you know what, no matter what Allah is
gonna take care of me, like I just, you just have to believe
that, that almost Panther will will, you know, will either
especially if you have a need, you know, ask for your need, but know
that if it's given withheld from you, in this dunya there's a
reason for that, likely, it's not good enough for you, and inshallah
he will replace it with something better, or he's waiting for the
next life to reward you. But either way, in every circumstance,
you have to have this deep conviction that Allah Subhana
Allah always wants the best for you and not to let dunya or
circumstances make you question that ever, as soon as you start
questioning that it's a problem, right? That Oh, is this you know,
that you start losing your trust in Him, that's, that's a serious
issue. But this is, again, something we all have to work on
justice, you know, being a person who's just unfair,
you know, in all of your transactions with people, just in
every situation, you're just always looking for the, to be a
fair person, this is a very important quality that we should
all inculcate inshallah.
And then the last one
is suffer.
And, you know, again, there's different types of patients, but
the real patients the problems lay some said, is at the stroke at the
beginning of a calamity. So when something happens to you, that is
like, like the teacher that I described, that is the perfect
example of stubborn Jamil right. His wife had just died. But why
was he able to show so much patience, where he could actually
go and give a class even though his her body hasn't yet been
prayed over? I mean, we just have to think what can you know,
because he had, he followed his Deen, he realized that was her
time. Obviously, the pain and the sorrow and all the hardships are
gonna come, you can't escape it, you know, you're gonna grieve. But
when you realize something happens, that's out of your
control, and that you didn't expect your response has to be
patience, like Allah. It's your decree. And I can't you know,
fight it or be mad and angry about it. So these are all inequalities
again.
That Allah Subhana Allah loves and that we should all strive to have.
Okay, are there any questions? I know it's you guys have to pick up
your kids any questions or anything anybody wants to add?
Number six, are there other is justice? Yeah, I'm sorry. I didn't
go over. I did some English some Arabic but yeah. Okay, any other
questions or comments? Or just like go ahead and we'll end in the
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How are you? Al Hamdulillah? How are you?
Thank you.
Thank you so much. I'm so sorry. I'm sorry. Yes. No, no.
Oh, sure. Purification. Oh, absolutely. Yes. This is tomorrow.
I'll be here at 1030. So please, if you can come please come. It's
a
of course. Absolutely.
You need one. Okay. Just for you. It's a hideous for me to you. You
have to make dua for me. Okay.
Thank you. Sure. Please do. Remember. This is a no this is the
Mamelukes book that Shams are translated. And these are both
very good books. I'm just going to put this one here too, in case
anybody wants to take a picture. But I would recommend for the Imam
Al Ghazali. Is he has I mean, he's he's has his own material. But
this book is, is not for everyone loves it. But it's on the same
exact subject of diseases of the hearts. Yes, yes. Yes.
No, not sure Hamza translated it. So this is by emammal Mahmoud. And
he's done. It's a poem and it covers 25 diseases of the heart
chums are translated into English. So we're going to do a class on
this tomorrow. Starting tomorrow, six weeks, we go over all 25
diseases in depth, and we'll talk about you know, yeah.
Yeah, it has it is there. It's similar.
Yeah, it's actually mentioned that it's, yeah, the scholars say it's
the first disease.
So you know,
we talk about that. Yeah.
Yes, absolutely.
Thank you. Batticaloa Vika? Yes. This, this is a prayer that we
said, Were you here for this part of it. Okay. So, so, okay, I'll
explain different scholars in Islamic history, what they would
do is they would look at all the prayers of the Prophet Muhammad
did during his life. And then they created like, kind of like a
formula, right? So that they would do it like three times in the
morning three times, you know, here and there, like they would,
you know, kind of do it that way. So, this is the formula of this.
Chef called emammal had that. Okay, so it's his particular
formula. It takes about 10 minutes, but they're all from the
prophesy centum himself. So it's his dogs. He this Imam just took
it and said, You know what? His dogs are so good. I'm going to