Hosai Mojaddidi – Top 4 Spiritual Retreats
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The speakers stress the importance of reminding oneself of the evils of the past and the power of the gods to restore justice. They recommend reciting the Quran with love and passion to avoid feeling overwhelmed and ask pilots to protect them. The message is a reminder to focus on one's own actions and surrounding oneself with good people. The importance of seeking good people to support one's spiritual health and healing is emphasized.
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If you've experienced injustice, and you forget that God's justice
is perfect, and nobody will ever escape his justice, remind
yourself that the last day is real. That's why the last Israel
because a lot of people have a very difficult time reconciling
the evils of the dunya, or things that have happened to them,
because they forget this. And the world that we're in is not
reminding us of these things. So we have to open the book of Allah
open, we have to read into, you know, the stories in the Hadith to
remind ourselves that the last day is coming, and nobody will escape
it. And justice will be served the perfect justice of Allah, we have
to remind ourselves that the angels are real, that they are
writing our actions down, that describes on our shoulders that we
have protective angels. So when you start to panic, and you fall
apart, and you worry when you're by yourself, just remember, Allah
has assigned for you protectors around you. And the way to draw
them toward you is to make will do because they are attracted to the
light. And the way to repel the demonic and the evil is to, again,
the in will do, and to do the good of Allah to remind to just
continuously remind yourself of these things, and the power that
come with them. And then of course, the actions that we should
be doing in order to show our beauty and our love and reverence
for Allah subhanaw taala all the things mentioned in the verse that
we just read. And then practically everyday, these are just four
things. If we can commit to these things on a daily basis, a portion
of each, right we pray our prayers, all of them should be
done without question without fail. There should be no excuses.
And if you're making excuses for why you're missing your prayer,
wake up. We just said it the day of judgment is real. The very
first thing we're going to be asked about is our prayers, show
up for your prayers make it a priority, set as many alarms as
you need to do not let your enough's fool you or shaitan
delude you into thinking that you know Oh, because your heart is
clean and you do four out of five or three out of five or two out of
five that you'll be good no Excel get better get better, of course
is the most forgiving, but he also wants us to see he wants to see
effort. So don't become stagnant but but work on that so make sure
your prayers are done correctly on time and then read a portion of
the Quran every single day. You know I was doing a class last week
and she Hamza mentioned and this is the position of Imam Azhar and
others that if you're not reading he said this is his quote he said
any serious Muslim reads at least a jest of Khurana de
I mean, all of us we have to again hold the mirror up to ourselves. I
know I have definitely fallen short. There are many days many
days I have not read a whole gist of the Quran.
We try to try try reading 1234 pages as many pages as you can.
But don't abandon the book of ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada and then try
to also beautify your voice enjoy the recitation of the Quran learn
how to recite the Quran beautifully, you know how to do a
two to three classes earlier today. And subhanAllah it's such a
beautiful science if you have not studied the dream may also pop
open your heart to his book and to love to recite his book to want to
recite his book beautifully because while he wants to learn
it, and everybody who you know loves the Quran, or who studied
the sciences knows what I'm talking about but it's quite
beautiful and extraordinary to just see the rules of Tajweed
unfolding and just the way that they're applied but read the Quran
and read it with love and then die you know asking Allah as often as
possible for him when you look at your family you know there are
times where you know I have French doors in my office for example
right now I can look out into my living area or different parts of
the house. So there are times where you know my children pass by
my husband passes by I'll see them doing something they're not even
aware of it and I just you know, I'm so overwhelmed and grateful
for for them and I think it was harder but then it's more than
that it's more for me anyway I feel compelled to ask all those
pilots to protect them to preserve them because you know, we just we
forget sometimes you know even the people closest to us are deserving
of those of those da to stop and to appreciate them but also to
make dua that Allah please protect them you know, let no harm come to
them guide them make them and bring us together and dunya and
after them the best of places so make dua abundant dog and it
doesn't have to be just, you know, to on the prayer mat, you can make
it go anywhere, inshallah and then they can just to try to be engaged
in this type of reflection, you know, where you're really taking
yourself seriously, you take your life seriously and you're willing
to think about things on a deeper level. You know, we're very
superficial. The world is a very superficial place. Social media is
a superficial place. But you don't have to be superficial, you can
actually be deep and the depth shows in how much you think about
things and how deeply you're actually contemplating your own
existence and the reality around you. But that is a form of thicket
of course, calling out almost profited by his most beautiful
names as a form
The good, there's many ways to do this. But the point is, is to try
to do this every single day. This is how we inwardly retreat, and we
fortify our hearts against crippling anxiety against anxiety
that is at the root of so many spiritual problems that people are
fearing feeling and experiencing, this is how we do it. And we of
course, do it seeking ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. And then he
reminds just quickly, because I know I'm probably over time. But
you know, this is another beautiful reminder from the Quran
that you know, when we want PT, you know, and we were injured,
we're asking because we all want good from others. We expect a lot
actually more from other people than we do ourselves. Sometimes
you need a wake up call. And here's the beautiful verse
Terminus will you enjoin pity upon mankind? Will you look at other
people constantly criticizing and being critical of other people and
it forget yourselves while you recite the book, don't you
understand, you got to look inward. So this inward focus is
very, very important. And here, the Bravo as I said, I'm also is
reminding us to make sure that we seek the right companions, because
in addition to that inward, move away from all of the negativity,
really trying to establish good practice, we also need to make
sure we're surrounding ourselves with good people who help us who
support us. And so what does that look like? Well, you want to be
around people who, when they look, when you look at them, they
literally remind you of Allah subhanaw taala, just looking at
them. And if you don't have companions like that, may Allah
subhanaw that bring you companions like that, because it's really a
gift, it's a gift to be able to have people in your life that
increase your Eman without even saying anything, just they walk
into the room, and they're newer on their face, their smile, their
prophetic character, they're just demeanor increases your faith
because they're reminding you of all these beautiful virtues. So
these are the qualities of the companions we should have, right.
And then to also be wary and and to remind ourselves that a person
is on the religion of their companions. So if you're not fully
considering who you're hanging out with, and you're in a way,
shooting yourself in the foot you are you could be compromising your
own self just because you're hanging with the wrong group of
people. So mixed with the noble people as they are the law and
reminds us and you will become one of them, keep away from evil
people to protect yourself and that's within the Muslim community
and outside of the Muslim community, because unfortunately,
there are people that are as they say, bad apples in every bunch.
And then lastly, just remember that we should be mirrors for one
another. So in sha Allah, we reflect beauty, we reflect light,
and this is really at the heart of what we what it means to do that
in order to retreat is that we're seeking something right and and
really what it is is remembering all those paths and often
reflecting the light of truth and beauty and restoring the balance
in the soul so that we're not suffering as so many people are in
Sharla and here's the last draw from the sort of the process that
I'm which is a beautiful DIE you should have you should know this
door, but it's really seeking again light which is how we cast
out darkness inwardly outwardly it's through light So may Allah
subhanaw taala place light on our in our hearts on our tongues in
our hearing in our sight behind us in front of us on our right on our
left above us below us. And you know within our flesh, our blood,
our hair, our skin, and make light our souls and make like abundance
for us Melosa pant that make us light and grant us like I mean
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