Mohamed Magid – Purification of the Heart Beyond the Basics #03
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The importance of the heart and purification in Islam is discussed, including its connection to the brain and body. The heart is the most important aspect of Islam, and its movement can affect behavior and attitudes. The importance of purifying one's body and avoiding trash, removing oneself from a situation where things are going to corrupt the heart, and creating a clean environment for one's mind is emphasized. The importance of purifying oneself and avoiding negative behavior is also emphasized.
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Allah
make our gathering only for his sake and
accept
our present here today.
The
issue of today is the purification,
internal and external purification, Bahara.
The,
last week,
class, I want to just to see what
what did we do so far? Did you
follow-up on on the homework? Did we read
more about the Rasool Allahu alaihi wa sallam?
Did you try to live a day with
the from the morning to sunset?
Did we say the dua in the morning?
Did he did we remember
all of this week?
Was NBA season or is not?
It's off season. Yeah.
Is it the season?
Okay.
Then,
I hope
those players have not occupied our heart and
mind more than this
week.
I would like very much whatever we say
here, we'd like to see the change the
impact
in
the family life individuals.
The whole purpose of this
for myself really,
to see if I can get improved
by even going through this preparing for class.
And since I say to other people I
should do it myself.
And ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to have
everyone else improve
by the end of this series
that we feel that we have life have
changed for the better and if live if
we leave the we feel the improvement in
our behaviors, in our attitudes,
and we feel
Iman wise that our Iman have been increased.
That's the whole purpose.
And
if we ask
our self what we want to accomplish as
individual in this life,
each one of us have a list of
things.
Want to finish school.
Want to have a job.
You want to
perhaps buy a house
and perhaps maybe get a raise,
they have this and that. We very much
in in the worldly
life planning, we're very good at that. We
can write things,
desires and and and,
we can call objectives
that we want to accomplish.
And then we measure our success or failure
of how much of this we accomplish.
Maybe all of the things that I mentioned
are noble cause. Good things is not prohibited
to have a higher education,
is encouraging Islam
to pursue
knowledge.
It does not prohibit in Islam to ask
for a raise in your job.
It is not prohibited in Islam
to
to own your home.
If you do it of course according to
Islamic teaching.
And
is not prohibited to do certain things. It's
not prohibited.
But the there's a,
Himma
of dunya, meaning that the person have this
drive for dunya and there's drive for akhir.
When the drive over dunya become more than
the drive of Akhira,
and actually overshadowed
the whole thing,
a person
lose big time.
Therefore, we would like very much
in this
class inshallah and this series of classes
to major progress.
You know, and to see the inshallah the
curve
going up.
Goes up and down.
By this minimum.
You know your car has
a, you know,
indicator for how much gas you have.
Sometimes, you know, if the the light is
on, you know how many miles you're gonna
drive before you run out of gas.
Therefore, you like to avoid
being even in that point,
so that it does not also affect the
well-being of the car itself because all of
the,
the dust and the dirt come into the
system.
The same thing with Iman.
We know sometimes when it's really going down,
and we feel like almost a lot of
gas. Therefore, you need to refill this.
And by do this checking every time in
our life,
and measuring and see the source that we've
been mentioned where we can recharge this battery
and make sure that we have enough energy
to go in life,
will
sustain our iman.
Regarding purification tahara,
this one of the most important elements in
Islam.
And purification of tahara
has two elements.
One of them the tahara of albatin
and tahara of alwahir, purification,
the internal purification,
and external purification.
What do we mean by internal purification? Anyone?
The tahara of the heart, of inside.
And this is one of the most important
tahara purification.
And by the way today, inshallah the notes,
sister, promised sister Fatima that we inshallah we
will write them and we send it to
you, but I want you to take notes,
today do it manually until we give you
something in writing.
Therefore, we would like before I'm gonna talk
about the significance and the inner dimension of
the Tahara of Al Waha.
We want to talk of the tahara of
al Batin, tahara of
internal tahara, purification.
And that's where the religion begins.
Islam
starts with the purification of the heart.
What are
the issue of the heart?
The whole idea of Iman
that this heart
is a receiving
planet.
A reflection mirror
of the Quran,
the teaching of prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wa
Salam
come to the heart.
There are certain things
that cover the heart.
Rejecting the truth, for example.
Not accepting it. It's called kufr.
And kufr
create what they call it cover, just like
in English. Kufr and cover, to cover.
And create
the shawah as Quran Kareem says.
And create the ceiling of the heart.
In order for the heart to receive the
guidance and the light,
it has
to clean or be clean or or the
veil to be removed.
And Quran Kareem called it
veil rich.
Okay?
They say our heart are sealed.
The disbeliever,
they ask them why don't you believe? Say
because our heart are sealed.
What? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, don't make
that excuse.
Why they were sealed? Because you made kufur,
you reject the truth.
Say, Allah have concealed their heart because they
become capital.
They rejected the truth.
And that's why ulama said there's no person
whom Allah
sealed their heart not to believe.
People seal their own heart.
Hearts.
Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying here
that the sealing of the heart
is a result of the kufr, not the
cause of it.
After they become covered and the heart was
sealed.
In order to have to be purified,
to be receiving and to be glowing and
and and bright star,
that have to be shine, has to be
clean.
Imam Ghazali says, this is the example of
the Mishkat.
And then also said the Mishkat that Allah
says,
So this
beautiful description in Surat and Ur for this
purification
of the heart. He says, like a lighting
and bright star and a lamp. You know,
when you take a pure lamp, Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala
is describing this lamp.
He says, it has a pure glass
and said the glass itself like a bright
star.
And the oil from which this lamp was,
lighted,
the oil itself is lighting without even
lighting it up by itself. There's a light
glory coming from it.
This example of this belief is just like
this light like in the belief in the
heart of the believer.
Therefore, when a a Mu'min,
his heart is pure.
He see things in the light of Allah
subhanahu. Allah give him the light.
You know,
Imam,
the the,
Al Khalifa.
Asmael
Afan He was sick.
A man came to visit him. But this
man before he
stopped by Osman home radiAllahu anhu to visit,
He saw a woman in the street and
he didn't lower her gaze. He started staring
at her and so forth, and he come
see Omer, Osman.
Then Uthman ibn Affan look at him and
said,
Someone want enter my room and the zina
is in his eyes.
The man says, Subhanallah.
Is this a revelation after the prophet al
Hazra sallallahu? What's going on here?
Asman Al Affan said, no. No revelation. No
claim of that.
It is the This
meaning the energy
and the the,
the insight Allah give to the believer by
reflecting and seeing things.
This Mu'min, the believers, when he look at
things, he see more,
than the service.
For the purification of the heart,
it is one of the most important element.
Before you begins with the the Hara of
the bedding, I'm gonna also I'm gonna show
you the connection between them. There's a connection
between the Hara of the bedding of the
body and the hara of the heart. The
hara the hara of the cloth and the
hara of the heart.
Therefore, it begins with this, the heart of
the of the heart.
And the
one of the things that
create this disease in the heart
and dirt, we can call it,
And also call it rust.
Very nice description. By the way, if the
heart is a mirror, if the heart, it
is
a shiny,
I can say glass or something that reflect
light. The light of the Quran.
The light of the teaching of Rasool
himself
as a light, as Noor.
Siraj Munir.
How does Siraj Munir the star,
you know, which is like the sun. By
the way, Rasool Allah said about him because
himself,
You you truly guide people to the straight
path. Therefore you have Allah
See how many knows all of this light,
the heart has to be like the moon,
the planet,
Or or or or, you know, like a
camera, sorry. The camera. And the camera, the
the the the moon, it reflect supposed to
reflect the light.
Is the moon itself shining?
Is anything coming energy coming from the moon
itself? Is the reflection of the sun?
The heart of all believers is like the
moon.
And what is the sun?
It is the light that comes from Allah's
teaching of Allah through the Quran
and the teaching of the russus Allah alaihi
wa sallam.
Then the heart reflect the light.
Receive the light and then you see the
light in the face, the light in the
behavior, the light in the attitude, the light
in the talking, the light in
in everywhere.
That's why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
Beautiful. Reflect on this.
Allah says,
is it equal a person who's dead
and then who brought him to life?
This here talking about spiritual death.
Was dead brought him to life?
How was Iman?
Because Iman
bring life. The heart was though Iman is
dead.
There's no life on it.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
says,
Then that person was dead and brought him
to life and we'll give him the light,
a light.
He walk
among people with it.
What that nur is?
Do you know? It's the nur of Iman.
And what's the nur come from?
From the heart.
And the heart is the receiving.
Taking its light from this Saraij Munir,
pride star. Whom that pride is Saraij Munir?
The one we talked about him last week.
And
what other light or ant?
We send you a light.
This Quran is no light.
Okay?
And then we can share this light with
people. We can walk with this light among
people. No one knows she behave in this.
What are the things that will cause
this
bright star and
and
and pure lamp
to get dirty. What are the things that
come to it?
1st
is the disease of the heart. That we're
gonna talk to about each one of them
inshallah in this series.
Sheikh.
A saluting someone with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
When a person does not submit completely to
Allah and this heart occupied with other things,
the love of others.
And created equal parts with Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala, the heart will not be able to
receive the light.
A person sleep and grudge woke up in
grudge.
How can he have have light?
Because the heart is not clean.
Yeah,
showing off.
The heart is occupied by
the
looking up to people. How we're gonna show
off today?
Rafla
complete
did not become mindful of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala
and also committing sins.
Imagine
that the
the sin
is a cause of reducing
the man of light.
Every time that person commits sin, some of
his light,
you know,
goes down.
Is Have you seen those,
lamp?
That way you can adjust them? You can,
you know, have it high and then very
bright, and then you lower it little bit
until become low.
When it's bright,
that is the heart in the peak of
iman.
They're committing sins,
little bit down.
More sin, a little bit down.
More sin, a little bit down until complete
is off.
That what it is. Therefore every time we
commit a sin
and we don't repent.
We don't go back to Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. We don't ask for forgiveness as I'm
gonna say, I'm gonna show you how we
can keep the energy
and re charge the battery
that it reduce
the light. And that's why they say for
example, Zena, adultery or fornication.
It takes the life from the face.
And make a person,
feel down.
Energy goes down.
Any kind of sins, maybe a sin kabayr.
It take the light from the heart.
And what bring them the light? What how
we sustain the light in the heart? How
we purify our heart?
Gave us the medicine. He said,
So said,
will it show how to be rusted?
You know the rust?
What do you do with something rust?
You like to clean
it.
What do you do?
Polish
it.
The question come from the companions of.
How can we clean our heart purify?
The
Quran and another hadidikrullah.
Remembrance of Allah,
the citation of Quran,
the members of death
will clean it.
Therefore, when you go to grocery store, you
need to buy 3 things.
Yeah.
Or when you go to a pharmacy,
you need to buy thing, 3 things. But
this pharmacy pharmacy of Rasool
Allah.
Okay? He said to us,
go and get
the cleaning,
tool.
He said first the members of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
The heart will become purified.
Dhikr.
2,
read the Quran which is all the dhikr
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
3,
that
remember death.
That he will die one day. That would
clean
it. Also,
obedience
to Allah, obey Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and
do more of
the fa'at.
Salah for example,
is one of the best ways to profile
the heart.
Because as I say, there's a lot of
veils come to your heart.
When it's time before Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
and we have complete Khushu as we're gonna
dedicate a whole class about this in a
dimension of salah and Khushu.
That purify our heart, clean our heart.
The other things that
Zakah Al Quran Kareem
say that
doing charity and Zakah
is bring purification.
But charity here is not only money that
you give.
Everything that we do for the sake of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala purifies that heart.
But look to what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
says in Quran.
When he asked Rasool alaihi salaam to take
money from people, he said,
Take from their money, sadaqa,
to do what?
To zakim. To zakim. To zakim. To zakim.
To zakim. To
zakim.
So you can purify with them.
Purify them with this zakah.
Why?
Because as we're gonna speak about this issue
of Zakah, materialism
also as we talk about love of materials,
that when a person gives Zakah,
they become what? Their heart become tender
because you think about the poor and the
needy people.
That purification from what? From Kiba Being arrogant.
Become humble. Remember the people who we need.
Also from being stingy.
That purification of the heart.
And also I have a person
be sharing
that purification of from selfishness.
Just one act. Just give him Zakah.
Give him charity.
Do that purification. How many disease cleans?
Now so far I've said 3.
It could be more than that, the least.
Just the act of Zakat itself.
When it's done with sincere heart, it does
all of that things.
People of sins,
they need to be purified.
When we commit sin we know that we
get dirty, we need to clean the heart.
From where you getting that? Quran Al Kareem
brought
some people who are committing sin
to witness that their sin is what?
Is impurity.
From their city. Do you know what they
said?
They said kick them out of your city
because they are the people who purify themselves.
They steal from the sin.
That's what this
their their their
their own statement.
Therefore what the sin
it it make a person not pure,
special wise.
How we can clean our self
from that?
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
he said to the wife of the prophet
Muhammad
SAW.
He said,
he gave them instructions.
He said don't speak in a manner that
a person have a disease in their heart.
They think ill of you.
He said do not
expose
yourself. Don't,
expose your body.
Establish prayer and do charity.
For what purpose? All of that.
Allah said to the
that do those things, establish salah, prayers, stay
away from sin because Allah going
to make
you Before Ta'a,
obeying Allah's power to help in that purification.
There's a ta'a
then the there's
a tahara
of Jawaria, mama Ghazali said. After the heart,
he said this heart,
it it does it is like a generator.
It produce produce energy to the rest of
the body.
He said whatever you feed the heart,
it's what whatever it's whatever the fruit, the
branches get.
If the heart is really
sick
the hand is sick.
The tongue is sick. The ear is sick.
The eye is sick.
Every part of the body is sick.
That's what Rasool Salam said.
Very surely in the heart there's a What
an organ? In the body there's an organ.
Is a
that organ become good, the whole body become
what? Good.
Therefore, if you're,
yeah, Unisys have your battery down
in your car,
can you have your high beam on?
Can you turn on the car?
Can you do anything?
The car will not move.
The tire could be brand new new tire.
You can just get it from, you go
to the,
Price Club, get new new tires.
And
every time that you put new things, you
turn the new tires, you said, I think
the car is not going because
it was old tires.
Then you said, maybe I like to change
the lamp, although it is working. He said,
no, I No. You cannot A person cannot
be like that.
If the battery is down no matter what,
other things has,
it will not work. The same thing.
With the heart that it gets
control the rest of the body.
And that's in the spiritual sense.
And the same time
that if you have the the energy
or the place where the the get the
energy is not there, you cannot light anything.
The same things with our
body.
Therefore and the Jawari
can cause
the battery to go down.
You have a new battery.
You have the light on, you turn on
the car,
you have the light on for 2 days,
3 days.
What will happen?
Okay. A person
have say I have light in my heart,
but he sit in 2 hours of backbiting
straight.
Backbiting.
Straight 3 hours. He just come from Trauya.
Then he come somebody home and
on Sahur,
3 hours straight backbiting. You finish one person,
it goes to another person the list. Another
person the list. What happened to the light?
You cried in Trawiyeh
and so forth. You go 3
hours because the tongue
was the light on.
It get it out.
Therefore, Jawaria
take the light also by committing sin with
our hands,
our tongue, or our eyes.
You know, Imam Shafi'i.
Imam Shaffei, the scholar.
I'm gonna we shall not stop for the
I think about 2 minutes or more. No.
It's fine.
It's okay. Okay.
Imam Shafi'i,
he has a sheikh
called Waqir.
Imam Shafi'i is going to visit his sheikh,
also
to complain about something.
Imam Shafi'i said, who was a young man?
A lady walking the street,
wheel came,
show her legs, mom said, look at them.
He couldn't memorize anything after that.
He tried to memorize his gun.
He went to work here. He said, Imam
work here,
my memory, my brain is not working.
Things are not as used to be.
Waqiya said,
and Imam Imam Shafi'i said it in very
beautiful poem.
He said, I went and complained to Akia
about
my week of my memory.
And he said to me,
the
key,
quit committing sins.
Asking Allah for forgiveness.
Because
the light, the knowledge that Allah gives is
a light and the light will cannot be
give to someone commit
Immediately,
the effect has seen.
But that happened to true believers.
Other people
commencing
said,
the and
the movement, the difference between them.
The commit a sin,
big sin.
He look at nothing, just like a fly
come to his nose, did like that.
You know?
And he might come and talk about it.
He says, oh my goodness, that was a
party.
We drank until the night, you know, in
the morning.
Nothing. He said, how's it been? You drink
alcohol?
Yeah, once in a while.
Nothing. The sin is is not there. It's
not bothering.
A believer,
small sins,
look like a big mountain, Jabal.
He think that the Jabal gonna collapse on
him or her.
They take it serious.
Therefore, a person,
all of us should,
in order to maintain this purification of the
heart, need to check our self.
What do we do that affect this light
of the heart?
Now,
The other things I would like to,
to say about about
our body parts.
That we have always
to remember
that everything
you need to purify.
When the heart is pure,
we will like to do it, purify the
tongue,
purify the hand.
I cannot be a believer,
someone who's really
their heart is full of immanent pure,
and go go and commit for example,
a physical abuse.
How can a person, their heart become pure
and their hand is not?
A person curses someone,
calling them names.
That's that's an indication
of the heart is
not pure completely.
And whatever even the the whatever in the
heart, this tongue could take away.
The hands take away. Therefore, we like to
have everything is in in control.
Why also we can purify our heart?
Being in the right place and the right
with the right company.
Sometimes,
our heart is
clean,
but we do what?
We allow other people to put input on
it. Just like computers.
They're telling us things, suggesting things. With a
shaitan
of
ins,
human or shaitan of jinn. They're very good
in that.
They don't see a pure heart, they don't
want to keep it pure.
You know, they would like to bring all
their trash
and so forth. They would like to throw
things. You know,
have you seen a sign?
When people say no trash,
nothing's thrown in the street and so forth,
what they put the sign? Know what?
What?
No. No. What in in today?
And when we go on neighborhood or the
lobby of a building, know what?
Know what? Delivery. No littering.
You should say in our heart, you know,
put it here. Sit to these people. No
litter, please.
Not allow.
Okay? Don't tell me any backbiting, I'm not
gonna take it. Don't tell me anything that
is No don't suggest anything to me please.
Don't tell me that you like to do
this and that.
You know, please big sign. Can we do
that?
Maybe you could show right here the big
sign and and put it here in our
jacket, go to work, and say it here
in the heart. This big heart, heart heart
association,
buy one of them, those things, and we
say that on it, and put it here.
Because that's what would happen. Sometimes
you go very good, you leave your home,
and you go to wrong place.
You read the place, and you know that
somebody had to look at it, had really
thrown things in this house, and you didn't
do anything about it. You you feel so
bad.
Therefore, we need to remove ourselves from a
situation when you realize that something is gonna
corrupt our heart.
Because that's why this is a disease.
It get to us.
Unless our heart is has strong light, you
go to the dark area
and you're lighting the other people.
That that's the good heart.
But you don't receive any kind of thing
that affect us.
And Rasool alaihi hai have made a beautiful
example of that.
He said, a good companion
like someone sell perfume.
You sit next to them,
they either they give you a gift of
perfume,
you enjoy
it or
they you buy from them, like someone who
sell perfume,
or you get nice smell. You're just sitting,
you got nice smell.
You know?
Some people will sit with them,
you know, sometimes people go to some people
home and said, excuse me, I can I
charge my cell phone in your house?
You know that? The telephone cell phone is
down. Then sure. You plug your cell phone
while you're having conversation. You go, you leave
the house and the phone is what?
Charge.
Go to people where you go to their
home said, can I charge you?
What are you charging my heart? Plug in.
Let us talk about something good. And you
charge it during the visit, and you leave
their heart is charged completely. Can receive
things.
We need to do those kind of things.
Can you visualize the things? Charging things like
that? We need to do most of that.
The tahara of Badin,
of our body,
it is one of the most important visual
of Islam also. And Islam has taught a
lot about it. Those aspect of the heart
of the beddin.
Insha'Allah after Maghrib,
I will gonna speak about the inner dimension
of the tahara
of the beddin of the body, and the
connection of it with the tahara of the
heart. How we can make that connection as
we do it everyday.
Insha Allah, as we learn the techniques,
we can feel the difference. Every time we
make wadu or make a whistle,
we inshallah feel the purification of the heart.
To continue with the topic
of Tahara,
After I spoke with the about the Tahara
of the heart,
I'd like to address the Tahara of the
body
and the the heart of the place,
and the connection between those purifications
and the state of mind
and our heart, the state of the heart
also.
The connection between them. The inner dimension is
says
of the
of the that we do everyday.
And perhaps as we
do this exercise,
maybe inshallah we'll
feel better
when we do this,
rituals after that.
In order to profile ourself
doing this tahara of the Baden and the
tahara of the Makan or the place,
We have to see
what are the requirements. What are how we
profile our body.
If somebody accept Islam,
said We ask them to do it.
Why?
Why person should do?
A person might just come from a shower,
clean,
and
he
say, He said, what for?
I'm not dirty.
Because there's a symbolism of water
in Islam.
The symbolism of water,
it meant to wash away
the sin.
To have a person
as if a new baby
come to all.
As if he went to this all of
this,
amount of, birth delivery.
Because Allah
says
Allah
is the protector of those who believe he
can deliver them from darkness to light. That
birth.
Therefore, at that person receiving that light, do
what?
Take that shower
to differentiate, to make the 10 point that
even in the physical sense
of the previous life to the new life.
And after that person enter Islam all of
his what?
Record, bad sins been what?
Purification also of the record.
Clean record.
That means this
you know, if you read how the companions
become Muslims,
very interesting.
He says,
declare his Islam,
he went to his home and come back.
Of course there's no towel that you buy
from Kemal or from HEX or something like
that. There's no towel.
They come and,
the beads are wet, their hair is wet.
They come to the masjid.
Wet.
Just
fresh.
You know? Just accept Islam.
This symbolism
of it.
Okay? Purification.
You know, it it is
a person begin their life with having that.
And there's a great effect of water by
the way.
And also body and the state of mind,
especially
when you do it in that state of
mind of purification.
You know, when someone is stressed, they say
go and have hot showers. When you take
the hot shower with the feeling that you're
gonna relieve the stress, the stress gets relieved.
You can feel the water better.
But when you take a shower and you're
jumping and just go into the car and
go you don't feel that even you have
therefore, the feeling of the water itself.
Therefore, this a whistle,
it begins Islam
have a person start
entering Islam. Or that's either physical purification
have in line, it is what? It is
spiritual purification.
The proof of that is the special purification.
If there's no water, a person does what?
Priti. Priti.
Therefore, a person said, I'm I'm using the
dirt to get dirty or to get purified.
Because Allah
had told us this dirt is the simplest
of purity.
Okay?
Man is made of what?
What are we made of? What's our nature?
Clay. Clay. What the clay made of? Dirt.
Dirt and water. Therefore, when you do not
have to purify yourself, either the water or
the dirt.
No apple juice.
You know? Nothing else.
You know? No,
those perfume, one man show or whatever they
call them. It is old fashioned by the
way.
The You don't use that perfume to clean
yourself. Either the dirt
or the water. The origin of it. Origin
of man,
of human being.
Okay?
And as a person also that Islam teaches
us
that before they're standing before Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala,
if a person is said of Janaba,
they have to do what?
Take
a shower.
Okay. There's
also.
Also, it meant a person when he stand
before Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
he airlifting himself
from that desire.
And now you completely spiritual.
Because fulfilling one desire physical desires,
it is not a spiritual state. Although said,
even that.
Okay? But it meant even with before the
standard of Allah
to have
completely not thinking of it anymore.
You purify yourself and have that standing before
Allah
As
even as we come to Jummah,
because in sunnah, they have to have this
also.
A person might have taken a shower
Thursday night,
and said, I just took the shower Thursday
night. No. You need to have the state
of mind you're going to Jummah.
You're going to this small festival,
and you would like to be in the
spiritual purification.
And there's
a there's
a particular description of what we're doing also,
of course.
Take
the event, the incident where Umar read
the Quran.
And what he was
what? Very angry.
He just slap his sister,
push her husband,
The the even the mukri, the teacher was
hiding.
The teacher was teaching from the anger of
Umar, the shouting, the screaming.
How she met him to come down?
If he's read the Quran in that anger
and just grab it, she said what?
You know what?
Clean the stuff, put some water on you.
The water does what?
Bring the anger down.
When you're angry, do what?
Just like a fire, you need to put
it off. Yeah.
You are very calm.
Because
you need to have the water in itself
and the water has great effect.
And
he came with different state of mind.
He read it. He
said what?
He was came left his home to kill
Rasulullah,
left his sister home
asking for the Rasoolasoolam
to accept
Islam.
And between the two
moment is was wadu and recitation of Quran.
That's it. Did it.
And he went
The other things that connection between purification of
the body and the purification of the heart.
There's a hadith that sometimes we forget to
see the sin itself.
Was sitting with his companions.
He said,
You know that's hadith?
Said,
a man of paradise will come from this
side.
You know, the 3 times a man came,
what were the description? Do you remember?
What were the description the companion said about
him? The most obvious description all of them
said.
He came
and the water was dripping from his pit
from Wodu.
Said from a jannah,
to this moment,
myself, I don't know the name of that
companion.
I don't know. I've been searching. If you'll
let me know please if you find the
name.
And Abdullah ibn Umar,
he said, I would like to see what
what make this man of Al Jannah, Uhrel
Jannah.
This man of Waddoo,
coming with Waddoo, it was not only physical
purification.
This man has a very pure heart, clean
heart.
He said to him, I would like to
spend 3 nights with you. Can I do
that?
Made an
excuse. He said 3 nights with him.
Abdullah ibn Umar is stand up at night,
make him tajuk, pray this man shiv and
witter,
done. Go to bed.
But whenever he moved,
and this is by the way, they're called
awaken of our heart. Heart is awaken.
The Abdullah bin Umar said,
the only thing I noticed about this man
when he moved from the bed, he changed
from position to another position, he mentioned Allah
name.
3 days is over, Abdullah ibn Amr said,
listen.
I don't have any problem with anyone. I
come to spend this days days with you
because of Saha Salam have made a statement
about you. He said you are the man
of paradise.
And I don't see anything that you do
extra.
What do you do?
He said, I don't do anything. Just accept
what you see.
Abdullah, I'm not gonna give up. He walked
away. The man called him said, Yeah, Abullah.
Maybe one thing I left.
I have not slept any night
with a grudge or hatred in my heart.
Clean it up. You know, you have something
called in the computer the trash and recycle.
You take the old files
and you get it into it. This man
does that. He clean the system
every night
the system is clean.
Red of all files.
The heart is clean. Go to bed,
just his heart just receiving the light from
heaven.
Therefore, the names of Allah there
because the heart is so sound.
But remember, he has to
the word. That's verification.
The other thing, the connection
between the of the and
the
of the heart
is
when he went to Israel.
He
said,
he called after the of Israel. He said,
Yep. Yeah.
I heard your footsteps in paradise.
Somebody walking in Jannah, I heard,
I said, who's that? They said this is
the footstep of Bilal.
Because for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala everything have
taken place. Allah can so see show the
prophet
what will take place.
I heard you for disturbing
paradise. What are you doing, man?
Said,
I don't do anything extra except
every time my wadu is gone, I make
new wadu.
And the new wadu,
I pray to rock afirst.
And he said,
he said, that's what you get you there.
All the time in the set of.
Can you imagine that?
Bilal
ibniraba.
The man was beaten in Mecca with his
spit at, and they also he's a slave,
he's worthless.
Period of Mecca.
Come to him and say, I heard you
put the steps in paradise.
Wabu did
it. Now,
what can we do
as we do this also and do other
things?
That if you take our kosol
once a week for Friday,
let us say that will be end of
that week,
we're clean. We ask Allah for forgiveness for
the sin that we did.
And we start fresh every time that we
do what?
Bring the books
before you take the shower and look at
it that says, yeah, that really I need
to clean all of that system now. You
ask Allah
for forgiveness,
and you start new.
Every time we make wudu, Rasu wasallam told
us the effect of wudu.
Why is that?
The inner dimension of wudu,
we can make wudu like this,
And then run. You know? And sometimes I
said, oh, you forget your foot. Oh, you
know? You know?
And sometimes, oh, you you your face is
still some of it. Oh, okay.
You know, that kind of things. But let
me start with myself,
and then I ask you.
Inshallah, I promise you I'll try to concentrate
on what I do tonight
and and from tomorrow.
I will do better inshallah. I will ask
Allah to help me, and I would like
you to contemplate on this.
Said every time
you're still being cleaned
from your hands, from your face, from your
feet, from your hair, and so forth. How
is that?
Because as you make wudu, you have to
be conscious of yourself.
One of the things that Islam teaches us
is to be conscious of your
self, life around you,
everything that should remind you of Allah. When
you do wadu, let's just be mindful. Imam
Ghazali, Bahamullah, said something very interesting.
Said that
the present of the heart in the time
of Urdu, it would determine what kind of
salah you're gonna have.
You're gonna have the effect on the salah
itself.
And that's why I'm gonna,
there's a alim of David called Hatemal Assam.
Hatemal Assam.
Hatemal Assam is the man that will know
that he,
you know, have this kushur. You pray behind
him, you can feel the energy come from
the to
all the lines.
And people said, what
do you do in your salah?
He
said,
He collect himself.
He just take a moment to reflect. What
did he just do now? Purification of the
body.
Then he stand for salah, as we're gonna
talk about the hushur and salah.
And he said he pray as if Jannah
on the right hand help
left hand
death is coming from the back
and going forward to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
He said, I finished my salaba
from the fear and the hope.
And I don't know after I finish it
whether I'll accept it or not.
But
he said, the sin come from our hands
and from our body. Therefore, even is it
from beneath our nails.
When you make Wado, let us brother and
sister imagine this. You take your hand,
you have the knee and intention, and say,
I'm making this wadu. I would like to
prepare myself to stand before Allah
First,
imagine
that you're dressing up for an interview.
What do you make sure?
Your wife, if you were a man, says
your tie is not right. This color is
not matching.
Your shoes not being polished. You're this and
that. Make sure that, you know, that that
kind of thing. And you're a sister, you
like to make sure your scarf or your
dress and so.
We make sure that before you go to
see this human being
that we really
ready
to meet.
It
is a
to prepare ourselves to stand before miracle Muluk,
the king of the kings.
That's what it is. And when we do
that,
we need to have
When
we wash our hand,
we have to remember that what did we
do
with our hand?
What kind of act we did?
And ask Allah for forgiveness.
Come to the mouth.
Purification of the tongue.
This is symbolism here. Washing the tongue and
we're asking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala purify our
tongue.
Then as we,
do our nose and our face, we ask
Allah to protect our face from health care.
We ask Allah have us be able to
see him in the day of judgement.
We ask Allah not to have our eyes
commit sins
and look at 2 things that should not
be looking at.
As we wash our arms and and and
feet and ears and stuff, we ask Allah
for protections.
When we do that, even as wide our
head,
most of the sin begins here by the
way, the head.
You know? Very strong, you know, dangerous organ.
Something called brain, where all the thoughts comes.
That from it has wiped our hair, our
head. We ask Allah
to have us be mindful of him.
Can we do this?
Maybe after we do this wadu with that
very intense feeling.
Maybe our prayer will be better.
Maybe our mindset will be better. Maybe as
we after he says salaam Alaikum and then
speak to our spouse will be more smiling.
As we reach out to someone we'll be
more cheering.
As we, you know, approaching life
will have better attitude and relaxing.
Let us do that. It reminds of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala. Therefore, let us use the
symbolism of water and clarifications
of as we make this wadhu to remember
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Lastly, I'd like to say about this issue.
I don't like to make the class long,
and I promised 1 hour of of this
class actually and, last time I went overtime.
We would like very much,
you know, every time that we this this
Tahara
of the Baden, we have to remember the
Tahara of the heart is more important also.
We cannot have wadu
but we standing next to someone in salah
we hate them.
We have grudge,
We have hazard. We don't like the we
wish if they're
closed or your car broke or wish them
ill things. We cannot do that. And for
as we do this purification
of the body,
always you have to be mindful of the
purification
of the heart.
Allah subhanahu ta'ala
also remind us that there's a place where
you can have purification like the masjid.
The Masjid is the right place as Makan
that they have purification.
And that's why brothers and sisters, I would
like you
I would like to suggest to myself first
that let us smoke our homes tonight,
go our home and make it massage it.
Make purification of the place.
Make the place
is a warm and a place that remind
us of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
If there's anything in the house you want
to change
that might not have you man follow Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, change it.
And
have the
the
the purification of the homes is a priority.
The place where you pay,
the place where you read Quran. What I
mean by this?
For example, Rasool alaihi wa Salam said, a
house that Quran not be resided on it
like an abundant home.
Like a home that people trashed, people
read Quran in our homes, then you purify
the homes.
The home will become pure.
We clean the house from shayateen,
from all kind of things, and bring the
members of Allah in the house.
In that house
that this have environment of love.
That
has spouses love each other, the children love
one another.
Create that environment in the homes. That's purification
of the home also, the place,
the environment.
And of course, there's a purification, physical purification
of the house from the najasa.
Also,
that is was set up a tone and
attitude in the house that of purification of
the heart.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
said that the masajid
should be the place where people
seek purification.
Said the home that the house of the
Masjid that established on Taqwa from the 1st
day
is the best place where you should be
standing and praying of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
Because in it, in that house, here
men men and women,
They love to provide themselves.
Allah love those who provide themselves.
Here the purification of the heart and purification
of the body.
Allah says in Quran, and if we like
to be loved want to be loved by
Allah
we have to have the tahara of the
bedan and the tahara of the heart.
Why?
And there's a connection between tawba, repentance,
and tahara.
What tawba does? When a pesto repents, what
it does?
Purify and clean the sins.
When a person
when a person come and prove make total
repentance,
as if it's not what they have not
commit that sin, been wiped out clean.
Sincerely repentance, clean sins.
The same things about this of the and
of the
And I love, Allah love those who are
Mutapaheera.
Therefore, when we think about Tahara as Muslims,
everyday
in our bedel, in our body,
it should reflect also in our heart, in
our mind.
Okay? We cannot have dirty mind
thinking evils and ills,
and then taking a shower and have perfume
and what is that about?
It it not might not
help.
Clean here,
and then clean here, and of as well
clean our body from any najas.
Ask
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to purify our heart
and our mind, and to make us mindful
of him in every way.
Insha'Allah. Any questions?
Yes. There's a question about the person so
that they'll, see what they're having in the
life.
Absolutely.
I I actually I was,
tried to I had it here. I
I about to talk about the tahara of
the clod.
You know, in Islam, there's a tahara of
the cloth also.
That is,
you know, make our cloth pure. Therefore, it's
supposed to be the mind, the heart, the
body, and the clothes. All of us have
no najasa on it. As I said there's
a najasa, you know the najasa
that anything that's not pure
according to Islam, so bit supposed to be
clean from our body and from our clothes.
Purify your clothes.
Always profile your button, your clothes, your mind,
and that's the pahara.
That Islam asking us all.
What does pahara mean? Purification.
Purification.
Yes. Somebody
question.
Yes. Is there a recommendation after the lube?
Should we wipe, like, dry it out or
just leave it like this? You can dry
it out
You're not healthy. And if you're healthy, you
keep it,
wet. But this okay, you can dry out.
Also,
reciting
around at home,
about the about the weigh and the volume
that we should keep in reciting Quran. You
should not have your children doing their homework
and you have the Quran very loud and
said they say I want to do their
homework and said, no. You need to listen
to Quran. You don't do that. Okay? You
want
you know, in Islam we were told
that this act of worshiping of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala
in every way as you do your homework
and other be mindful of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. You do not annoy people
or do something that have them not to
love the book of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
If they are not listening you don't read
Quran
or read Quran for yourself.
Or maybe establish a tradition.
Say all family members
5 minutes of the tradition of Quran a
day. Our home begins with all that.
That's nice.
You know? You start that day and said,
okay. 5 minutes. No more than that.
5 minutes, 5 verse, 10 verse, whatever it
takes.
Stop on that.
Stop on that.
Yes? Because, like,
do they use this verse like to say
that, like,
in terms of the Quran? No.
The ayah that this ayah in Quran,
he asked a question. He said there's a
ayah in Quran says that the Quran should
not be touched except to the.
Of course,
here,
the pure people, I mean, those who are
pure. It meant
that a a
Muslim should have wadu to test the Quran.
Okay?
And some others said, no, not wadu. It
is only the ghusl, the janaba. When a
person, they have a physical relation with their
spouse,
they should not touch the Quran unless they
have a Muslim before they do that.
Of course, some in
his
he said
here,
it meant Malaika.
Because in Arabic language, there's something very interesting.
Says this
this, Quran
is glory,
generous Quran
in preserved tablets.
It does not say
you shouldn't,
but it say no one
except
have touched it.
Okay?
Quran. Mean the This is Arabic language, more
technical.
The here goes to the preserved tablet. It
does not go to the Quran.
That means this Quran in the preserved tablet,
no one have touched it except the angels.
And rullamah, some of rullamah says, if the
Quran people say no one starts Quran except
a person havadu.
If somebody want to accept Islam as an
Arab Christian
and he want to read the Quran, he
said, I'm not a
Muslim. Wadu is not obligatory on me.
I have to be Muslim first. I said,
what did make a difference if I make
a do I'm not believing in it?
Therefore that person can test the Quran, read
the Quran except Islam. The application even of
the fiqh part of it for the Muslims.
Okay.
Therefore the there's a 2,
more than one opinion on that. Insha Allah,
we'll talk more about it,
in when we talk about the Quran.
But for us reciting Quran,
if when you make Quran and recite Quran
and listen
listen instead of purification,
it also bring that symbolism of connecting itself
with the Quran instead of the Hara. Of
course, it's highly recommended to do it in
the circle. Yeah.
The question is not for the Arab, but
it's about Quran. As you just mentioned that
non Muslims, we can give them Quran to
read
it. Most of the Quran
these days that we see have both English
translation
and Arabic in it. And a lot of
times do you have Christian
friends at work
Or some other places, you wanna give them
a copy of that. Is that okay? Or
do you give them only English copy?
The Quran,
I'm just giving you a scenario. Say, an
Arab who's Christian.
He said, I would like to read your
book before I accept Islam.
I said, no you cannot read it.
How would accept Islam?
You know, just accept it and then read
the Quran.
It doesn't work. You know? Therefore, you read
the Quran.
You know, you read the Quran, didn't accept
see and didn't accept Islam. That's okay. Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala says
in Quran,
Guidance to whom?
Whodal linas
in that verse. Guidance to humanity.
That's humanity have to have access to it.
All humanity.
Another questions?
Okay. Then we conclude inshallah, we ask Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala to accept our gathering, Ask
Allah to forgive our sin. Ask Allah to
purify our heart and our mind. Ask
and to meet be among those whom are
Rasool alaihi wa sallam will recognize
in day of judgement. Do you know how
Rasool alaihi will recognize us?
When he see us, he's ummah. How?
With with
the mark of ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
make all of us among those
recognize all of us with wadu inshallah. You
ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to have us
go to sleep with pure heart, with no
grudge and hatred or envy or jealousy. Ask
Allah to give us a comfort. Ask Allah
to state his blessing and mercy upon all
of us.