Hosai Mojaddidi – Top 4 Spiritual Retreats

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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