Mirza Yawar Baig – Whats the nature of the Qalb

Mirza Yawar Baig
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The confusion surrounding the title Islam is attributed to the "hasith" in Islam, which is meant to differentiate reality from spiritual experiences. The speaker advises removing the confusion from one's minds and using the "hasith" to differentiate between reality and the spiritual experiences of the heart. The importance of lifespan and lifespan in modern manhood is emphasized, and caution is given against rushing into saving a child and killing oneself. The relationship between intelligence and the heart is discussed, and the "hasith" is meant to be the heart of a man.
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Bismillah wa alhamdulillah wa salatu wa salamu ala

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Rasulullah wa ba'ith.

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So, what's the next question?

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He said, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said,

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Lahum qulubun la yafqahuna biha.

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They have hearts, but they have no understanding,

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they don't understand Him.

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And then, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said,

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the hadith where He said that, fil jasad

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budqa.

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He said, in the body there is a

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lump of flesh.

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And if that is salim, if that is

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good, then the whole body is good.

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And if that is corrupted, the whole body

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is corrupted.

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And then we have also, where Allah subhanahu

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wa ta'ala mentions, illa man atallaha biqalbin

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salim.

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la yanfa'u maalun wa la banu.

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It's not your wealth and it's not your

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children which will benefit you.

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What will benefit you is, atqalbun salim.

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Now, question therefore, Omar said this, so therefore

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does the heart, as in, what is pumping

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him, does it have the capacity to understand

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and to differentiate and to love and so

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on and so forth?

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Does it have all these capacities?

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Or is there some allegorical metaphorical meaning?

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My understanding of Allah alam, and of course

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala knows best.

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My understanding is, first of all, today medical

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research tells us that the heart has neurons.

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And the heart does understand, that the heart

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does remember, there is memory in the heart

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and so forth.

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So there is actually physical research.

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But we don't need that physical research.

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Alhamdulillah, this confirms what we know already.

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Now, on a side note, this is something

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very important to always keep in mind and

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to make sure that people understand.

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And before people that we understand, that whenever

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we talk about the creation of Allah subhanahu

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wa ta'ala, whatever it is, we don't

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use the creation to prove the truth about

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the karam of Allah.

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We don't use the creation, we don't say,

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well, you know, we have the Big Bang

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Theory, and because of that we know that

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this ayat of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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is true.

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No, it's the other way around.

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The ayat of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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is true, whether there is a Big Bang

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Theory or not.

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Because very simple question, when the ayat was

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revealed, there was the Big Bang Theory, so

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what is the ayat not true at that

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time?

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So what's the point of saying Big Bang

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Theory?

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Big Bang Theory is a theory.

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So tomorrow if the Big Bang Theory for

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whatever reason is disproved, so what do we

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say to the Qur'an?

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The Qur'an is false.

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So don't fall into this trap.

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By all means, use the signs from the

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creations of the heavens and the earth.

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, Inna fi

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qalqil samawati wal ardi waqtila fil layli wal

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nahari al ayati li ulil albab.

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But let us be true ulul albab, who

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know as Muslims that the kalaam of Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala is the final confirmer

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of what we see as our experience in

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life.

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The life experience and scientific research and whatever

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does not confirm the kalaam of Allah.

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Allah's kalaam confirms that.

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So having said that, we also have this

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research, which has been published to say that

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the heart has neurons, the heart has memory,

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the heart feels and so on and so

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forth.

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So it's not just a mechanical muscle which

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is pumping blood.

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It's more than that.

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Number one.

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Number two, however, is to understand that the

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word that is used in the Qur'an

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is qalb.

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Right?

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It's qalb.

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It's qalb.

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It is translated as the heart, but does

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it just mean the lump of muscle, the

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lump of life?

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The qalb, the concept of the qalb in

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Islam is a combination of intelligence and intellect,

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of emotions and intellect.

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Emotions and intellect.

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And this is true to human nature.

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And this kind of differentiation that we have

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made, which you normally hear, things of the

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heart, things of the head.

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So we have separated, at least in Western

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thinking, and therefore all English people, English-speaking

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people are prone to that.

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We separate these functions as if a human

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being is capable of living in compartments.

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So there is an intellectual part of the

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human being and then there is a emotional

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part of the human being and these two

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are unconnected, disconnected, and they can operate separately,

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discreetly, differentially, without affecting each other.

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This is a completely false premise.

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So I would ask you to remove this

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from your minds.

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Now, to give you an experiential or an

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example of this stuff, to prove what I'm

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saying.

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Imagine that you are a very highly qualified

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professor, dean and president of a university.

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You have three PhDs in psychology and sociology

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and mathematics and you are one of the

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most intelligent human beings that ever lived on

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the face of the earth.

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Your IQ is 300 or something and so

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forth, right?

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Now, you went to work, you're returning from

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work, and as you get close to your

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house, you find there is smoke and you

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find there are flashing lights of fire tenders

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and police cars.

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And as you get close to your house,

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you turn down your street, you find the

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police have cordoned off a house and people

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are standing there and you realize it is

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your house.

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You say, my God, what happened?

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And you find that your house is on

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fire.

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So you jump out of your car and

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you try to run to the house and

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the policeman stops you and he says, no,

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don't go inside there.

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You say, this is my house.

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Policeman says, don't worry, your family is safe.

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And here they are and you find your

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wife and two children who are standing on

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the pavement.

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Of course, everyone is traumatized, everyone is very

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upset, but they are safe.

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But suddenly you hear a little voice screaming,

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Daddy!

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And you find that on the balcony of

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the house, upper floor, is your little two

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-year-old who has seen you and he

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is yelling for you.

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Daddy, save me!

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Now, what would you do?

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What would you do?

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So usually when I ask this question, the

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immediate answer of people is, I will rush

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in to save the child.

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I say, no, no, hold on, you didn't

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listen to the story.

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You have to take into account all the

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data I gave you.

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And the data I gave you began with

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the statement that you are the president of

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this university, you have three PhDs in psychology,

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in sociology and mathematics, you are one of

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the most intelligent human beings ever created and

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so on and so forth.

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So I don't think you will rush in

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there and try to save the child, most

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likely in the process killing yourself and the

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child.

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You won't do that.

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You are an intelligent man, so I think

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what you will do is, you will have

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a conversation with the child.

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And you will say to the child, you

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know, my son, I'm really sorry but this

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is the Qadr of Allah.

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This is how much lifespan you came with.

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And we know lifespan is fixed.

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And Alhamdulillah, believe me, the fire is big.

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You will probably get associated with the smoke

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before the fire gets to you, so you

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will be dead before, so you won't burn

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alive and so on.

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You won't feel the pain.

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And you will go to Allah free from

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sin.

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And Inshallah Allah will give you Jannah.

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And your mom and I, you know, we

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can have another child.

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I don't think it's really worth the risk

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of me killing myself.

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I think you will have this conversation because

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after all, you have all this education, you

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are an intelligent person.

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So what's the answer to that?

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You know the answer to that, I know

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the answer to that.

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You know what you would do, I know

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what I would do.

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Now, point therefore is that at the end

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of the day, what is it that makes

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the man take that action?

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Is it that so-called intelligence and what

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not?

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Or is it the heart which is moving

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out of love for this child?

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And nothing and nothing can come in the

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way of the love of the child in

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the heart of his father.

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And there's nothing that the father will not

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do to try to save the child, no

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matter how slim the chances might be.

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So he will go in even when it

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seems like certain death.

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This is what Islam shows.

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Islam shows that the heart is a combination

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of the intellect and the emotion.

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So the heart is not a hypothetical, it's

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not a symbolic thing, it's not hypothetical, it's

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not allegorical.

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The heart is real.

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Now you might say, well, if it's real,

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where can I pinch it and poke it

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and where can I take it from and

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put it in my pocket?

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From the same place where you can take

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your intelligence, from the same place where you

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can take your love, and so forth.

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These are things which we give names to,

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but say, what is the relationship of intelligence

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to the brain?

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Is it again this thing which sits in

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your head?

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And if it was in the head of

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a sheep, it's a nice breakfast dish, in

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Hyderabad at least.

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Is the intelligence in there, those neurons and

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the stuff which is in the head?

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Or is intelligence something which is associated with

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the brain in a way that Allah knows

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best?

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We don't understand that yet, which one it

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is.

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And my understanding is that this is the

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relationship of the kalb to the pump of

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the flesh, the heart, which is there in

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the body of the human.

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Again, science does not prove or disprove anything,

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but we know today that people have heart

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transplants, right?

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So now, imagine you are this Muslim, and

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you are this great faqih, and you are

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a great somebody who loves Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala over and above everything else, and

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you are an alim, and you are a

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hafiz of the Qur'an, and your heart

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decides to take a holiday, and they grab

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you in time, they take you to the

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hospital, and there is a heart there which

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is available for transplant, and they transplant that

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heart into your chest, and alhamdulillah, everything works,

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your body doesn't reject it.

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But later you discover that this heart was

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the heart of a Hindu priest, and this

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Hindu priest worshipped idols all his life, and

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he died on that.

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Or this heart was the heart of a

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Christian priest, or of a rabbi, and they

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did their thing all their lives, and they

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died.

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And this heart now is in your chest.

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So what do you think happens to your

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iman?

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What do you think happens to your love

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for Allah?

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You know what I think happens to your

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love for Allah?

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It increases.

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You gave me this new life, so to

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speak.

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It's the same life, Allah didn't decree that

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you would die, so it's not a new

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life.

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So make me live this life in your

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obedience.

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This is what will happen.

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Just because this pump got replaced, it doesn't

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mean that everything that you associated with the

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qalb also got replaced.

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It doesn't get replaced like that.

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It does not get replaced.

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Because the qalb is the heart, and we

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are saying this word heart and so forth

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because we don't have any other word to

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describe that, and we really don't understand what

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is this supernatural, for want of a better

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word, relationship between what is physically in my

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chest and the meaning of the word qalb,

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and meaning I don't mean as in tarjiwa

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translation, meaning as in the all in-depth

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understanding of what it means.

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So we don't have a word to describe

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that, so we're using the word heart, but

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that is what it means.

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So, walla halam, Allah knows what He said,

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and the Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam knows what

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He says, but by this qalb and this

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corruption of the heart, it's really meant, not

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that you have angina, or not that you

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have a problem of too much biryani in

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the arteries, but the fact that your connection

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somewhere with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is

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missing, and that connection has got corrupted, and

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the connection is getting interrupted.

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So that is what is the corruption in

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the heart, and that is what is meant

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by the salama of the khan, inshallah.

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And as I said, Allah knows best, sharing

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with you my understanding.

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Jazakallah Khair, wa salamu alaikum.

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