Ismail Kamdar – The Art of Contemplation

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The importance of contemplation in Islam is discussed, including the need for balance and social life, working on one's thoughts to develop deeper spiritual qualities, and unlocking one's spiritual process through deep thinking and understanding oneself by sitting and thinking deeply about mistakes and goals. The speakers stress the benefits of contemplation, including unlocking deeper thoughts and developing a life lesson, and provide four types of contemplation that should be pursued in one's life, including deep thinking, cutting distractions, and creating a plan. They suggest that deep thinking is a fruitful practice and a way to improve one's life, while also being mindful of one's choices.

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			And they take time to reflect and contemplate
		
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			on the creation of the heavens and earth.
		
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			And they conclude, My lord, you did not
		
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			create all of this with our purpose.
		
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			Glory be to you, protect us from the
		
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			punishment of the hellfire.
		
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			These two verses are full of so many
		
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			lessons.
		
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			You could literally write an entire book on
		
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			just these two verses.
		
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			But I leave the focus on one of
		
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			the qualities that Allah mentions in this verse.
		
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			About being the quality of an intelligent person.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala describes those who
		
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			are intelligent, those who are true believers to
		
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			be, from amongst those who يَتَفَكَّرُونَ فِي أَرْضِ
		
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			السَّمَوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ They contemplate the heavens and the
		
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			earth.
		
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			They contemplate the creation of the heavens and
		
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			the earth.
		
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			But this quality, تَفَكَّر, contemplation, is our theme
		
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			for today.
		
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			What does it mean to contemplate?
		
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			And how do we do this and how
		
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			does this fit in with our religion?
		
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			In the simplest meaning of the word تَفَكَّر
		
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			or contemplation, is that contemplation means to think
		
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			deeply.
		
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			To take a long period of time to
		
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			sit and think deeply about a topic.
		
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			That's the most simplest definition of تَفَكَّر.
		
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			That you just take your time and you
		
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			sit and you think and you think and
		
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			you think deeply about a topic.
		
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			And we live in a time where people
		
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			are too busy and too distracted to contemplate
		
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			on anything.
		
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			We are constantly connected.
		
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			We are on social media all day long.
		
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			If we are not on social media, we
		
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			are streaming.
		
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			If we are not streaming, we are entertaining
		
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			ourselves with video games.
		
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			We are always connected.
		
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			Now we connect to multiple devices at the
		
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			same time.
		
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			So it's not surprising to see a young
		
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			person today, watching something on one device or
		
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			playing a game on another device or chatting
		
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			to someone on a third device.
		
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			And we do this constantly from the time
		
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			we wake up till we go to sleep.
		
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			We don't give our brains time to think.
		
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			We don't give our minds time to develop.
		
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			We don't give ourselves a chance to develop
		
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			deeper thoughts.
		
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			Because we are always connected to the internet.
		
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			We are always connected to other people.
		
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			And this is not natural.
		
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			It is not natural to be connected to
		
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			people all the time.
		
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			We need to be balanced.
		
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			There are two extremes.
		
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			One extreme is total isolation where you don't
		
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			talk to people, you don't interact with people.
		
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			You are just yourself.
		
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			The other extreme is being connected and you
		
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			are with people all the time.
		
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			We need balance.
		
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			We need social life.
		
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			But we also need time alone.
		
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			And we need time to focus on our
		
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			thoughts.
		
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			And we need time to sit and to
		
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			think and to develop more mature, more structured,
		
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			more deeper thoughts.
		
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			This is really the primary goal of contemplation.
		
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			That your thinking becomes deeper.
		
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			Your thinking becomes more structured.
		
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			Your thinking becomes more mature.
		
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			And you notice the difference between someone who
		
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			makes time daily to think deeply and someone
		
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			who does not in the quality of the
		
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			thoughts that they talk about.
		
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			The quality of what they bring to the
		
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			table.
		
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			So what does this have to do with
		
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			Islam?
		
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			It has everything to do with Islam.
		
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			This is a quality that's highlighted over and
		
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			over and over again in the Qur'an.
		
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			And even in the seerah.
		
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			I'll just give one example from the seerah
		
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			that shows the importance of contemplation.
		
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			Where did the Prophet ﷺ receive the first
		
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			revelation?
		
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			Where was he when he received the first
		
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			revelation of Ikram?
		
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			In the cave of Iran.
		
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			What was he doing in a cave?
		
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			This is a businessman from the city.
		
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			What was he doing in a cave?
		
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			He would go every day to that cave
		
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			or rather he would go for long periods
		
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			of time to that cave to sit and
		
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			contemplate.
		
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			To sit and think deeply about the problems
		
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			of society.
		
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			About the purpose of life.
		
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			About what he's going to do with his
		
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			life.
		
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			He would go and sit in the cave
		
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			and just sit and think.
		
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			That means it is sunnah to carve out
		
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			time.
		
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			To sit alone in a place where there's
		
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			no distractions and to just sit and think.
		
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			This is the methodology of Rasulullah ﷺ.
		
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			And he kept this up after he received
		
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			the first revelation as well.
		
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			We know there are many occasions where he
		
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			would just go to the masjid and sit
		
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			and think.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Where he would like disappear from society and
		
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			just sit and think.
		
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			This is his method.
		
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			This is the method of the early Muslims.
		
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			But the Qur'an especially gives us so
		
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			many encouragements to sit and think.
		
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			So many times Allah SWT calls upon us
		
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			to contemplate.
		
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			He calls upon us to think deeply.
		
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			I'll give you a few examples.
		
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			In Surah Ar-Rum and we discussed this
		
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			verse a few weeks ago.
		
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			When Allah talks about marriage and He talks
		
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			about love.
		
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			He calls upon us to contemplate that the
		
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			very existence of marriage and love is a
		
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			proof of the existence of God.
		
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			So Allah SWT tells us in Surah Ar
		
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			-Rum.
		
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			وَمِنْ آيَاتِي أَنْ خَلَقَ لَكُمْ مِنْ أَنفُسِكُمْ أَدْوَاجًا
		
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			لِتَسْفُدُوا إِلَيْهَا وَجَعَلَ بَيْنَكُمْ مَوَدَّةٌ وَرَهْمًا From His
		
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			signs, from the signs of the existence of
		
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			Allah.
		
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			Is that He created for you spouses, that
		
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			you find peace in each other's company.
		
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			And He placed love and mercy between your
		
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			hearts.
		
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			How did Allah end the verse?
		
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			He ends the verse by saying, إِنَّ فِي
		
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			ذَٰلِكَ لَآيَاتٍ لِقَوْمِ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ That in this, in
		
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			the existence of marital love, there are signs
		
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			for whom?
		
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			For people who think deeply, for people who
		
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			contemplate.
		
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			In another verse, in surah Zumar, Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala describes the process of the
		
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			soul leaving the body when we are sleeping,
		
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			and the soul leaving the body when we
		
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			die.
		
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			And He compares these two experiences, the minor
		
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			death that we experience every day sleeping, and
		
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			the major death, the day our soul will
		
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			leave our body and will never return.
		
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			And Allah ends this verse again by saying,
		
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			إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَآيَاتٍ لِقَوْمِ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ In this,
		
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			in sleep and death, there are signs for
		
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			those who think deeply.
		
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			Again, the word تفكّر is mentioned.
		
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			Even when describing the Qur'an itself, in
		
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			the verse that we discussed last week, surah
		
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			Asad, verse 29.
		
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			How did Allah describe the Qur'an?
		
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			كِتَابٌ أَنزَلْنَاهُ إِلَيْكَ مُبَارَكًا لِيَتَذَكَّرُ أُولُّ أَلْبَابٍ A
		
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			book that will reveal to you that it's
		
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			mubarak, it has barakah in it, it's blessed.
		
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			What are you supposed to do with this
		
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			book?
		
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			What are you supposed to do with the
		
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			Qur'an?
		
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			يَتَذَكَّرُ أُولُّ أَلْبَابٍ You are supposed to think
		
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			deeply about its verses.
		
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			You are supposed to reflect on its verses.
		
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			You are supposed to contemplate its verses.
		
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			وَلِيَتَذَكَّرُ أُولُّ أَلْبَابٍ So that intelligent people can
		
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			receive reminders.
		
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			So that intelligent people can benefit from it.
		
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			Again, notice this trend throughout the Qur'an.
		
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			Whenever Allah talks about thinking deeply, He always
		
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			links it with His signs and He always
		
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			links it with intelligence.
		
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			Intelligent people think deeply about the signs of
		
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			Allah.
		
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			This is a message that's consistent throughout the
		
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			Qur'an.
		
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			And I'll give one more verse that shows
		
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			the importance of contemplation.
		
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			In Surah Al-Qaboot, Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala tells us that when we travel, what
		
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			we see of the world when we travel,
		
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			we should contemplate about the greatness of Allah.
		
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			When we see the world, when you see
		
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			the diversity of Allah's creation, when you see
		
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			the diversity of cultures and languages and different
		
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			regions and different natures and different things all
		
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			over the world, you should contemplate on that.
		
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			Allah says, قُلْ سِيرُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ وَلِّلْلُّكَيْنِ فَبَدَأَ
		
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			الْخُبْرِ Travel to the earth and look at
		
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			how Allah created everything.
		
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			Travel to the earth and look at how
		
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			Allah created everything and realize that Allah's gonna
		
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			do it again, meaning the resurrection.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So all of these verses, whether about traveling,
		
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			whether about marriage, whether about sleep, all of
		
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			them call on us to do one thing,
		
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			think deeply.
		
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			تَفَكَّر Contemplation, deep thinking.
		
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			This is an important part of being a
		
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			Muslim.
		
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			This is an important part of being a
		
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			believer.
		
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			This is what separates the intelligent believers from
		
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			everybody else.
		
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			So today I wanna share with you three
		
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			simple things.
		
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			Number one, what are the benefits of the
		
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			تَفَكَّر of contemplation?
		
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			Number two, what are the different types of
		
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			deep thinking in Islam?
		
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			And number three, a few tips on how
		
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			to do this.
		
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			So let's start with the benefits.
		
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			Why should we make time to just sit
		
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			and think?
		
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			Why should we make time to sit and
		
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			reflect, to contemplate?
		
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			Number one, the number one benefit of contemplation,
		
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			it unlocks deeper thoughts.
		
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			A lot of people today, they only do
		
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			surface level thinking, because they don't ever take
		
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			the time to develop their minds.
		
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			The more time you spend thinking deeply, the
		
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			deeper thoughts you unlock from your own mind.
		
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			The more you are able to understand things
		
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			on a much deeper level.
		
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			And this can be anything.
		
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			Whether it can be the Quran, the Hadith,
		
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			history, but it can even be your own
		
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			life, your own self, it can even be
		
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			your own goals, it can even be your
		
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			own mistakes that you made in life.
		
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			To sit and reflect on this, and to
		
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			grow from this, and to mature from this,
		
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			this is one of the benefits of contemplation.
		
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			Another benefit of contemplation is to confront the
		
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			darkness within us, and to work on it.
		
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			And nowadays when I tell young people about
		
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			the importance of thinking deeply, one of the
		
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			most common objections I get is, I don't
		
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			like the thoughts that come to my mind
		
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			when I'm alone.
		
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			I don't like the thoughts I have to
		
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			deal with, so I distract myself so the
		
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			thoughts don't come in.
		
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			That's the wrong approach.
		
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			If you're not dealing with these thoughts, then
		
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			they are staying in your heart, and they
		
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			are going to affect you at some point.
		
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			The correct approach as a Muslim is to
		
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			confront the darkness within.
		
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			Every single one of us has a Nafs
		
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			-ul-Ambara Bistu, a portion of the soul
		
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			that commands you towards evil.
		
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			Every one of us has this within us.
		
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			We have within us a portion of our
		
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			soul that commands towards evil.
		
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			You have to confront it.
		
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			You have to deal with it.
		
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			You have to acknowledge it.
		
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			You need to know what your weaknesses are.
		
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			You need to know what your trigger points
		
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			are.
		
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			You need to know what causes you to
		
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			slip into sin.
		
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			And you cannot do this if you do
		
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			not think deeply.
		
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			You cannot do this if you are afraid
		
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			of your own thoughts.
		
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			You have to confront the darkness within.
		
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			And that leads us to the third benefit
		
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			of contemplation.
		
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			If you spend a lot of time thinking
		
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			deeply, you will understand yourself better.
		
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			You will know yourself better.
		
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			Many people today don't even know their own
		
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			selves.
		
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			They don't know their own strengths, their own
		
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			weaknesses, their own goals.
		
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			They don't know what they want to do
		
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			with their life.
		
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			They are just following what the media tells
		
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			them to do.
		
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			They never take the time to actually get
		
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			to know themselves.
		
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			And that's one of the benefits of the
		
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			Bakr, is you get to know yourself by
		
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			sitting and thinking and having an internal conversation
		
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			with yourself.
		
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			Another benefit of contemplation is that you learn
		
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			important life lessons.
		
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			One of the best things you can do
		
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			for yourself, especially if you are young, is
		
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			that every time you mess up in life,
		
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			and you won't mess up in life, every
		
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			time you make a mistake, especially if it's
		
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			a major mistake, take time to reflect on
		
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			that mistake and learn a life lesson from
		
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			it.
		
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			This will become invaluable life experience.
		
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			If you just take the time to sit
		
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			back and say, what went wrong?
		
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			What did I do wrong?
		
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			What can I learn from this?
		
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			How can I avoid this mistake in the
		
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			future?
		
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			This is one of the best things you
		
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			can do for yourself.
		
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			Another benefit of deep thinking is you can
		
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			help us make better decisions.
		
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			Instead of making rash decisions, instead of making
		
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			decisions on impulse, instead of making decisions just
		
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			for how we feel today, you can actually
		
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			take the time to assess something properly and
		
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			make a better decision.
		
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			And most importantly, the main benefit of deep
		
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			thinking is to connect you with your spiritual
		
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			side and to bring you closer to Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala because the faqr is
		
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			an act of worship that is meant to
		
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			bring you closer to Allah.
		
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			That the more deeper you think, the more
		
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			you connect with the Creator, the more you
		
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			connect with your spiritual side, the more you
		
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			are able to understand the Qur'an, the
		
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			more you are able to see the benefits
		
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			of the Qur'an in your own life.
		
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			And these are six benefits of contemplation.
		
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			Now, I also want to mention four of
		
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			the main types of contemplation that all of
		
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			us should engage in.
		
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			Now, if you actually study the books on
		
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			this topic, there's a lot more than four.
		
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			So, for example, Ibn Tayyib al-Jawziyya lists
		
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			eight or ten different types of deep thinking.
		
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			Right?
		
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			But I'm just going to give four because
		
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			these are the basics.
		
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			These are the four everyone should be doing
		
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			in their lives.
		
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			Number one, the most general version, is Tafakkur.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Tafakkur, which is mentioned in all these verses
		
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			that we quoted today, is the more general
		
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			term of contemplation.
		
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			And we said, Tafakkur simply means to take
		
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			time to sit and think deeply for a
		
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			period of time.
		
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			That you spend 30 minutes to an hour
		
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			thinking deeply.
		
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			And this is general.
		
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			This can apply to anything.
		
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			To just sit and think deeply about the
		
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			mistakes you have made, about your own faults,
		
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			about your plans, your goals, about anything.
		
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			Even it could just be a historical incident
		
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			that you're sitting and thinking about.
		
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			It could be a hadith that you're sitting
		
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			and thinking about.
		
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			Just, in general, taking time to sit and
		
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			think deeply, this is called Tafakkur.
		
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			This is something everyone should be doing.
		
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			But there are more specific forms of deep
		
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			thinking that we all should be engaged in.
		
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			One of them we discussed last week.
		
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			And that is, Tadabbur.
		
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			Tadabbur is mentioned in the Qur'an, specifically
		
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			referring to the Qur'an.
		
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			Whenever the word Tadabbur is mentioned in the
		
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			Qur'an, it is referring to the Qur
		
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			'an.
		
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			Allah says, أَفَلَا يَتَدَبَّرُونَ الْقُرْآنِ Do they not
		
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			think deeply about the Qur'an?
		
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			Do they not reflect on the Qur'an?
		
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			So this is a specific type of deep
		
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			thinking.
		
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			That Tadabbur is general, Tadabbur is specific to
		
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			the Qur'an.
		
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			And this simply means that you take a
		
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			verse from the Qur'an, a passage from
		
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			the Qur'an, a story from the Qur
		
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			'an, and you reflect on how it applies
		
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			to your life.
		
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			How you can grow from this verse.
		
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			How you can improve from this verse.
		
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			How this verse can make you a better
		
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			person.
		
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			Then you connect your heart to that verse,
		
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			by taking time to think about that verse
		
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			deeply.
		
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			The third type of contemplation that we all
		
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			should engage in often is مُحَاسَبَة مُحَاسَبَة, self
		
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			-accountability.
		
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			Umar ibn al-Khattab r.a used to
		
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			say, حَاسَبُ قَدَّ أَنتُ حَاسَبُ Hold yourself to
		
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			account before the day when you are held
		
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			to account.
		
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			What is مُحَاسَبَة?
		
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			مُحَاسَبَة means thinking about your own faults.
		
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			Holding yourself accountable.
		
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			Telling yourself, I messed up.
		
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			I committed a sin today.
		
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			Okay, let me see the thing.
		
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			What led to the sin?
		
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			How can I avoid it in the future?
		
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			What do I need to do to repent
		
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			for the sin?
		
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			Then you hold yourself accountable.
		
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			You know what your sins are.
		
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			You know what your weaknesses are.
		
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			You know what your mistakes are.
		
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			You know what your trigger points are.
		
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			You know what causes you to fall into
		
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			those sins.
		
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			You know how to avoid them.
		
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			And you have inspiration to do.
		
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			Is it bad?
		
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			Is it good?
		
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			Do I have to try and be better?
		
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			مُحَاسَبَة is crucial.
		
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			It's something we should be doing all the
		
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			time.
		
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			And the fourth type of contemplation and deep
		
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			thinking that we should be doing as often
		
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			as possible is مُرَاقَبَة.
		
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			What is مُرَاقَبَة?
		
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			مُرَاقَبَة which is often translated as mindfulness.
		
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			مُرَاقَبَة actually means connecting your heart to Allah.
		
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			Thinking about Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			This is what مُرَاقَبَة is all about.
		
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			When you sit and you think about who
		
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			Allah is and what is your relationship with
		
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			Allah.
		
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			And you reflect on the names of Allah
		
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			and the attributes of Allah.
		
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			And on your own relationship with Allah and
		
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			whether you are close to Allah or not.
		
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			مُرَاقَبَة is often done during zikr.
		
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			When you are sitting and you say Alhamdulillah,
		
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			Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah and you are thinking specifically about
		
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			the things you are grateful for.
		
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			This is مُرَاقَبَة where while remembering Allah you
		
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			are connecting your heart to Allah and you
		
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			are thinking deeply about Allah.
		
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			And so these are the four types of
		
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			contemplation that we should bring into our lives.
		
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			We should make time for deep thinking.
		
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			Specifically we should make time for deep thinking
		
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			about the Quran, about our mistakes, about Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			And all of this is beneficial.
		
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			All of this is sunnah.
		
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			All of this is from ibadah, is from
		
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			the acts of worship.
		
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			And all of these things help us to
		
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			grow into better versions of ourselves.
		
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			وَأَفْرِقَ عَوَانًا عَنِ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ وَعَنِ الْعَالَمِينِ الحمد
		
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			لله وحده والسلامة والسلامة على من لا نبي
		
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			بعد أباه إِنَّ أَسْتَقَى الْحَدِيثِ كِتَابُ اللَّهُ وَسَيِّهُ
		
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			حَدِيهَا لِلْمُحُمَّدِ وَسَوَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَدَهُ وَشَّرُوا الْأُمُورِ
		
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			وَمُحْدَثَاتُهَا وَقُلُوا مُحْدَثَةٍ بِالْعَارِ وَقُلُوا بِالْعَارِ وَقُلُوا
		
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			بِالعَارِ وَقُلُوا بِالعَارِ وَقُلُوا بِالعَارِ وَقُلُوا بِالعَارِ وَقُلُوا
		
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			بِالعَارِ وَقُلُوا بِالعَارِ وَقُلُوا بِالعَارِ وَقُلُوا بِالعَارِ وَقُلُوا
		
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			بِالعَارِ وَقُلُوا بِالعَارِ وَقُلُوا بِالعَارِ وَقُلُوا بِالعَارِ
		
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			وَقُلُوا بِالعَارِ وَقُلُوا
		
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			بِالعَارِ وَقُلُوا بِال And I read it and
		
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			I'm like, this is common sense, this is
		
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			obvious, we've been doing this our whole lives.
		
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			Why are the young people saying this is
		
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			so amazing and groundbreaking?
		
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			The book tells you stuff like, don't be
		
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			on social media, make time for deep thinking,
		
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			make time for more material.
		
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			I'm like, this is common sense.
		
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			And I realized it's not common sense to
		
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			the younger generation.
		
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			That the younger generation are raised in a
		
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			world where social media obviously existed.
		
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			They are raised in a world where the
		
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			internet is always around them.
		
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			And many of them have never actually thought
		
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			about disconnecting.
		
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			So they see this to be groundbreaking knowledge.
		
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			Even for the older people, this is how
		
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			we've always lived our lives.
		
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			So yes, I'll share a few tips and
		
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			you'll find these tips are found in that
		
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			book and they're also found in Islamic books
		
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			as well.
		
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			And so that means, number one, if you
		
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			want to think deeply about anything, please disconnect
		
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			from the internet.
		
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			Even if it's for 30 minutes, even if
		
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			it's for one hour, if you really want
		
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			to develop deeper and stronger thoughts, do not
		
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			have any internet around you at all.
		
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			Completely disconnect.
		
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			And you can do this in many ways,
		
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			right?
		
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			But I'll leave it to you to figure
		
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			out how to do it.
		
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			But make sure you are not connected to
		
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			the internet at that time because you will
		
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			be distracted.
		
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			And that takes me to point number two.
		
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			To think deeply, cut out all distractions.
		
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			All distractions.
		
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			Be in a place where there are no
		
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			distractions.
		
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			This is why in general, historically, people will
		
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			do contemplation in the masjid or in nature.
		
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			Right?
		
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			This is like the two places.
		
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			People either will sit in a masjid and
		
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			sit and think deeply or they will take
		
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			a walk in the park and say, Rasulullah
		
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			s.a.w. will go to the cave
		
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			of Hira, right?
		
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			Then they will go somewhere isolated where there's
		
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			no distractions.
		
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			No one's going to walk in you and
		
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			start yapping with you.
		
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			No one's going to start, you know, a
		
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			conversation with you.
		
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			No one's going to distract you.
		
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			You can just sit and think for a
		
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			long period of time.
		
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			So find a place where there's no distractions.
		
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			And choose to be in that place for
		
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			the next 30 minutes to one hour.
		
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			Number three, carve out time alone.
		
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			Make time for this.
		
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			We have very busy lives these days.
		
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			People's lives are just moving from one thing
		
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			to another.
		
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			You have to make time for deep thinking.
		
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			If you don't make time for deep thinking,
		
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			it's never going to happen.
		
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			So you need to tell yourself, the next
		
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			30 minutes, I'm not doing any work.
		
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			I'm not looking at social media.
		
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			I'm not doing anything except thinking.
		
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			You need to make that time.
		
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			And it's something you should try to do
		
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			daily.
		
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			Really, deep thinking is something you should try
		
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			to do daily.
		
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			It benefits your work.
		
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			It benefits your study.
		
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			It benefits your growth as a person.
		
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			It benefits your relationship with Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala.
		
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			It benefits your relationship with the Qur'an.
		
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			You should make time to do it daily.
		
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			So carve out time.
		
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			Cut out distractions.
		
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			Disconnect from the internet.
		
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			Number four, decide what is your method.
		
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			What are you doing today?
		
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			Are you reflecting on a verse of the
		
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			Qur'an?
		
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			Are you reflecting on a mistake that you
		
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			made?
		
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			Are you reflecting on an important goal of
		
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			your life?
		
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			How are you going to achieve it?
		
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			What exactly do you plan to do with
		
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			that time?
		
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			Don't go into that time without a plan.
		
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			Don't plan that at 11 a.m. I'm
		
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			going to do half an hour of deep
		
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			thinking.
		
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			And then 11 a.m. comes and you're
		
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			not sure what you're going to think about.
		
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			And you're just thinking about cartoons and video
		
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			games and everything besides what you should be
		
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			thinking about.
		
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			Have a plan.
		
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			Have something specific.
		
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			Today I'm going to think about this.
		
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			And I'm going to find a solution to
		
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			this.
		
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			Or I'm going to grow from this.
		
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			Or I'm going to learn from this.
		
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			And you focus on that for that amount
		
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			of time.
		
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			And there are ways to do this, right?
		
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			So you could do zikr.
		
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			You could recite Qur'an.
		
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			Or if you get good at it, you
		
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			can literally just sit and close your eyes
		
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			and go into your inner world.
		
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			And finally, that's the final point, number five.
		
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			Find a way to concentrate.
		
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			Figure out what works for you.
		
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			Find a way to concentrate.
		
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			Sadly, you know now, one of the problems
		
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			of the modern world that the internet has
		
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			caused is low attention spans.
		
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			Everybody got ADHD these days.
		
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			Thanks to TikTok, right?
		
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			Everybody can't concentrate these days.
		
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			This practice of contemplation will train you to
		
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			concentrate better.
		
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			It will train you to focus better.
		
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			It's what you need to solve that problem.
		
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			Many young people don't need meditation.
		
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			They just need to learn how to concentrate,
		
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			how to focus.
		
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			That's what we need to do.
		
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			So start with something small.
		
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			Start with five minutes.
		
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			And then ten minutes.
		
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			And then grow it.
		
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			You should at least reach a level in
		
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			your life where you can sit for 30
		
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			minutes alone with your thoughts and focus on
		
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			your thoughts.
		
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			That's when you know you are able to
		
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			excel at life.
		
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			And you can use that to focus on
		
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			other things as well.
		
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			But nonetheless, in the beginning, you might find
		
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			it hard to concentrate.
		
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			Here's a few tips on how you can
		
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			do that.
		
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			Obviously, get rid of your distractions.
		
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			But you can sit with your eyes closed.
		
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			You can sit with a pen and paper
		
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			so you can focus or write down your
		
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			thoughts.
		
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			You can take a walk in nature.
		
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			You can focus on your breath.
		
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			You can do deep breathing and focus on
		
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			your breath.
		
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			You can do zikr and focus on the
		
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			zikr.
		
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			There are many ways to do this.
		
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			I highly recommend getting some books or articles
		
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			on this topic to understand it deeper.
		
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			Understand that this is key.
		
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			This is key between being just a regular
		
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			Muslim and being from ulul albaab, the people
		
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			of intellect.
		
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			Every time in the Quran when Allah talks
		
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			about ulul albaab, the intelligent believers, the people
		
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			of deep intellect, He always links it to
		
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			tafakkur, to people who think deeply, people who
		
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			make time to think deeply.
		
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			We must make time for deep thought.
		
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			It doesn't matter how young you are or
		
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			how old you are.
		
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			It doesn't matter whether you are a student
		
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			or somebody who is working.
		
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			It doesn't matter what stage of life you
		
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			are at.
		
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			Everybody should have time for deep thinking.
		
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			And everybody should make time for deep thinking.
		
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			Everybody should develop this quality because this will
		
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			help you grow into the best version of
		
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			yourself.
		
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			This will help you to achieve your goals
		
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			in dunya and akhira.
		
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			This will help you get closer to Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			This will help you to be more confident.
		
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			It will help you to be a better
		
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			version of yourself.
		
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			Really there is no end to the benefits
		
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			of deep thinking.
		
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			So let that all become from those who
		
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			are deep thinkers.
		
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			I ask Allah to allow us to benefit
		
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			from the Quran and especially to ask Allah
		
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			to make us from those who are ulul
		
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			albaab and from those who are true believers.
		
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			Al Fatiha.