Mohammad Elshinawy – Inner-Peace & the Cravings of a Caged Spirit

			hamdulillahi Rabbil aalameen that will humble person with a little Jimmy Lucia de la ilaha illAllah
hermetical How can we be no shadow Anna? Muhammad Rasulullah him. I mean,
		

			when I was looking at who he had to Mohammed in sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
		

			refer to her or Kalamata timbira or colaborar, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah cynefin. Now naroda
Baraka, Thailand and now we begin the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the grantor of mercy, all
praise and glory belongs to Allah, Lord of the worlds. Indeed Allah is deserving of the best of
thanks, and the most beautiful of praises, those that we say and far above and beyond anything we
can say about him, some kind of hautala and we testify that no one is worthy of our worship and our
devotion but Allah alone without any partners, the true supreme King at the Prophet Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was indeed, in truth, His Prophet and his servant and Messenger, whom
		

			Allah sent is a mercy to the worlds and the truth of words, the words of Allah and the best of
guidance, the sooner the example of our Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and the most
dangerous of matters are the newly added matters into this religion.
		

			For every newly added matter into this complete and perfect way of life is a leading history that
only leads to the fire May Allah protect us and you and our families and every sincere seeker from
anything that could draw us closer to that fire Aloma mean,
		

			exactly one year ago. Well Gregorian, at least last year on December 31,
		

			about this time, but Eastern Standard Time.
		

			It's nine o'clock now. So midnight, it was midnight in New York, I had to hand over the keys to my
apartment, I was moving. And so I was kind of running
		

			to beat the clock, and emptying out my apartments and filling it in a truck. And I had the
		

			dishonor of riding through the streets of New York City, as the clock hit 12.
		

			And people are just jumping for joy.
		

			Going crazy, literally losing their minds, hugging and kissing and blowing horns and screaming
across the street. And and when I just looked around, does it red lights every red light? I just I
felt bad for people. Well, I felt like how empty how artificial is what what do you have? What have
you accomplished? You know, even the lunar calendar, something has changed. There's a new moon, what
exactly has happened on New Year's? What happened? Have your debts been forgiven? The average
American i think is like in $12,000 in credit card debt? Are your problems solved? What happened at
12 o'clock?
		

			Absolutely nothing. And that's how empty people's lives are. They're looking for fulfillment in
places that are nonsensical.
		

			Because they don't know where else to look.
		

			You know, there's a fancy term I'll throw out to you right now.
		

			This is joke that sometimes I say words that I don't fully understand myself, just so I can sound
more photosynthesis, you know, meaning more sophisticated.
		

			The term is existential psychotherapy. You can you can boast in front of your friends about that.
Okay. Basically, what that is, is a new form of therapy that addresses your psychology psychotherapy
tries to shift the way you think about what existential regarding your existence. Basically, it's a
therapy that is based on a philosophy, that the real reason why people are not comfortable in life,
the inner conflict they have inside, why they can't find happiness, why they can't find inner peace,
is because they have a problem understanding their existence. There, they have a conflict because
they don't know what the givens what the facts of existence are.
		

			And so that's why people don't even like to talk about like, what's the purpose of life and these
profound questions because I don't have any answers. And if I do think about it, I'm gonna have to
think about death as well. And I don't want to think about that either.
		

			But the believer by Allah's grace, Allah has pulled you out of that rescued you from that you
receive your perceptions, from the light of revelation in the light of why. And so you know, what
are the givens of your existence, right? You don't just sit there and like live the moment. Whatever
impulse you have, you just are compelled by it. You become a compulsive creature, right? compelled
by your impulse. I feel like this now so I do this now.
		

			You Allah pulled you out of that swamp. I know it's odd.
		

			Because people have endless desires.
		

			You're born you have a desire to suckle milk. Then you move on two years old. You have the desire to
become possessive. That's why kids, you know, they say mom
		

			Mine Mine mama right at two years old was just a natural desire, they find that inside of them, you
move on a little bit further your hormones start pumping, you have a desire for the opposite gender.
		

			You move on a little further you feel like life is becoming lonely. You have a desire for
companionship, right? And they just live being handed off from one desire to the next. By the way,
this is very important regarding this gear. These desires are not how long okay? these desires are
not how long these desires, physical desires you have they're natural. Some people call them
physical desires, some call them the essential the carnal. The animalistic, right, the fleshy
desires have to do with your body, your physical your flesh. That's not how long in and of itself to
desire these things. Okay.
		

			As a matter of fact, Allah azza wa jal, one of the wisdoms why he placed these inside of us, is
because they preserve our existence, right? Like if you did if a baby didn't desire milk, a desired
steak, the baby would die, right? If humans didn't desire the other gender, there would be no
reproduction, the human race would end. But what Islam also turns our attention to is where do these
desires come from? What do these desires represent? Okay?
		

			Because all of these desires, you speak about desire for food for drink for mating for
companionship, these all come from where you came from. Where do you come from?
		

			Where do you come from? You have to bear with me, the dirt beneath your feet. And all of these
desires stem from the dirt, food and drink come from the dirt, don't they? Even your burger
		

			was his print is nourished by the grass, right?
		

			Your drink is from the water of this earth, even when you desire golden silver, according to one
interpretation, at least scholars say because that was placed in the earth by Allah subhanho wa
Taala. Right? When you desire people, either sexually or companionship, whatever. That's because
these people also come from the dirt. So Allah placed inside of you a natural desire to long for
your place of origin to protect your existence. That makes sense. It's important to understand this.
But what Islam does for us, it takes us one step beyond that you're not just the body these are just
the physical desires, right? What else are you you're your spirit your soul.
		

			You know, Allah azza wa jal says,
		

			with color a bouquet Malika teeny Holly kombucha ramen Sol Sol in Hama in Miss noon. Allah said to
the angels I am creating a human being from Sol Sol I mean Hemet Miss known from clay that was made
out of a hammer mud.
		

			That is Miss noon. You guys know what Miss noon means? Anybody? What does Miss noon mean?
		

			Miss noon means rotten. Wonder era for Amica sharabi kilometer center. Look at your food and your
drink. The guy who slept for 100 years in the cave. Lemmy at the center at the center Miss noon, it
never rotted. So Allah subhanho wa Taala I'm creating a human being out of mud. That stinks. That's
rotten that spoiled even the translations altered the mud. It's not good enough altered meaning it
went to bed change.
		

			You know what's happening here a lot as diligently saying I am fully aware of what I made you out of
Why? Because the ignoramus who's the ignoramus who's Mr. Note all
		

			shaitan he's gonna come along now and say iteca Heather levy Carranza, Allah you see this guy, you
see this guy who you prefer it over me like have you taken a look at him? He stinks. So Allah azza
wa jal is saying, I am not oblivious to what I made him out of. I'm fully aware of what he's made
of. But the next day she wasn't paying attention. The next day says for either as a way to who when
I felt to feed him and Rui fukagawa who said she didn't
		

			but after I have fashioned him that's how he's privileged number one because I love fashion Do you
with his own hands, soprano tala hands be fitting His Majesty beyond our imagination, but his hands
his two hands I fashioned him with and then the second way alone or do you and I blew into him from
my room. From my spirit from my soul. My soul here means my the soul that I've honored by the way,
we don't believe that a part of God is in us Do we? Do we believe that as Muslims is a part of God
and every single one of us? No, no, that's not our belief. My soul meaning the one I've privileged
the same way the cab is Allah's house. It doesn't mean it's a part of a law or law takes residence
		

			in that house. When I lost his nap got to love the camel of Allah and honored camel. Does that make
sense?
		

			So when he says, My soul, this soul is created, it's not Allah. But I have honored a very special
soul for me, I blew into the body, now prostrate to it. That's what you really are. Human beings are
not a body and a soul. You're a soul that's temporary living in a body.
		

			Very important that we understand that, to understand how our lives our souls gets contaminated. You
see the people that don't believe in a soul to begin with, they're not even gonna nourish it. But a
Muslim believes that you're a really a soul inside of a physical body, because the soul was created
first. And the soul is more important the body and the soul will live on beyond lift beyond the
body. Right? That's what you are. That's what makes you special. You're a spiritual being in a
physical body. We care so much about this body, right? We'll get to that in a minute.
		

			Though, it's about the vehicle.
		

			And so that's why By the way, when the soul went into the mud, it got transformed. That's what made
it special. And that's why when your soul gets pulled out of your body, you rot again, you become
rotten, right or wrong.
		

			That's why what you eat comes from the earth. And when you release it again, urine or feces or
sweat, or it's it has that stench right or wrong.
		

			But when the soul went into it, it became very, very, very special.
		

			And so the same way the body
		

			gets nourished by yearning for where it came from the mud, the earth, the soul gets nourished by
yearning from where it came from, from above, from the king of the heavens of China, hautala
yearning to go upwards. And so when we live a life nowadays, all our life does, it serves the body,
right? It's all about food and drink, how many flavors of coffee are there, how many flavors of
barbecue sauce are there, how many different everything, what everything is objectified, women
sexual appeal, all of that. It's all about power. It's all about socializing, and building friends
and how many followers I'm going to have and how I can step on those that are like deterring from my
		

			prominence and like those that don't, when everything is serving that the soul dies in this
atmosphere. Because your body's nourishment is from his origin and your souls nourish from this from
its origin. So if you don't feed your soul, by connecting it with with its origin, where it came
from, it dies.
		

			You become an animalistic creature, the animal within becomes you. That's it. That's why what you
take home by the way, how much time do I have?
		

			12 minutes. Okay, good. The four poisons that the scholars mentioned, of the soul are not even
		

			in and of themselves, inherently. But the problem is, an excess of them is what makes them poison.
		

			Too much eating and drinking, right? Too much sleeping, comforting, resting the body some more,
right?
		

			Too much speaking, socializing. And too much mixing.
		

			Right secondhand smoke, also secondhand sins destroy you just the same. Those four things he thinks
about how I'm sleeping is not how I'm speaking is not how I'm socializing, not how I'm an excess of
them will suffocate your soul making them a poison. It's too much.
		

			You have even in your physical body, you have elements in there that are fine. But if there's an
imbalance, it destroys you. And so remember that now that's how those are the four poisons you
quarantine from you protect yourself from and then you have to now foster the good elements. You
have to feed that soul of yours.
		

			The greatest nourishment of that soul of yours is connecting with Allah. And the greatest agony of
that soul of yours that will have yours is being distanced from Allah subhanho wa Taala.
		

			Allah said, I created you to serve me, meaning that's what you're made for. Nothing else will
satisfy you. The greatest, most satisfying thing in this dunya is knowing Allah. The same way the
most satisfying thing in the hereafter seeing Allah subhanho wa Taala that's the nourishment, that's
your nutrients, that's your meal.
		

			So the same way you need food and drink and oxygen, you have even more of a need. You have a need.
You have a need a desperate need to learn how to love Allah. To learn how to fear Allah, you need
that, to learn how to trust Him, to learn how to rely on him to learn how to enjoy his company. You
know why we're miserable is because we dedicate our whole life learning on how to get an education
		

			To learn how to get a job to learn how to get a house, learn how to get married. And that's it. If
you live like that, then you're you're living, you're not a life. You're living the life of an
animal in the form of a body.
		

			But it gets worse. And I have 10 minutes to tell you how right? Try to use six minutes and give you
three solutions. And the last four, you're right, like I'm gonna be able to pull that off.
		

			If you don't pay attention, and you live for these physical desires, these animalistic impulses
inside you, you don't stay there. There's a Pitts beneath that. And these are the satanic desires.
The Satanic impulses are robata Shea tawnya.
		

			Look, you will came from mud, your your longing is for the mud. Fine. Physically. What did shaytaan
come from?
		

			Fire. So his desires are related to the fire.
		

			What are the two most necessary qualities of fire the scholars say? Fire desires to go upwards to
climb to be exalted. And it destroys anything in its way on its way to the top. Right, you put a
piece of paper over the fire what's gonna happen, huh? It's gonna burn the paper to get on top. It
refuses to be beneath
		

			this is these are the satanic desires. Now, if you're so bent on your sensual desires, you will
become addicted to them, and you'll destroy anything in your way to get them. That's where NV comes
from. That's where hostility comes from. That's where resentment and violence and hatred that's
where all that's arrogant. That's where it all comes from. Interestingly, Shay Thawne was bragging,
I was made from fire. Right. And he didn't realize that he was supposed to be careful of the
weakness in fire the same way you have to be careful of the impulses of the mind. he bragged about
that Allah and how you I'm better than him I made from fire he's made from mud. And that's the very
		

			thing that destroyed him, though not that Allah destined him to be destroyed, and he didn't have
free will. But he wasn't paying attention. He let it take over.
		

			You know, some of the scholars say that if you pay attention to shaytans, I am better than him. You
can pull out eight satanic impulses there. And make a checklist for yourself for whoever wants to
write. And I'll try to remember them. The first of them obviously is what?
		

			He's arrogant. Okay.
		

			arrogance was what? to belittle others, but you can belittle others because you think you're a
nobody. So you want to like step on everybody else. He was also conceited. He felt like he was
better. Okay, that's can see that's a different disease. Some people are conceited, but they can
keep their mouth shut. Some people are so full of themselves, they can't stop talking about it.
Right? You all know that person. But be careful, it might be you. Right? They can't stop talking
about themselves in their account. So that's called self praise escaped and that's another poison he
had inside of him. Right? And also, obviously, he was envious. I'm better than him. Right? He was
		

			jealous of him. Clearly, he's being defensive by saying that. Also, number five, is that he
		

			rejected the command of Allah subhanho wa Taala. Allah said, What stopped you from prostrating when
I commanded you? Right? I commanded you Case Closed. I'm not going to accept that command.
		

			Number six is that he accused Allah's wisdom and you're never going to reject our laws or rules.
Without accusing his wisdom, you think your decision is better than his? Or else? Why would you
prefer yours over his? And that's something tons of people do nowadays, don't they?
		

			What do you mean could have the hand in 2016? You your mind? It's about to be 2017. Right? Do you
realize what you're saying?
		

			They feel like they're gonna one up God on his logic if that term is even permissible to use, but
this is the type of statements that are being said nowadays. All right, number seven. Number seven
is
		

			ah, he used the false analogy and that's not small. The scholars didn't say that. Like he's just
trying to fill a list of like, how many bad things a pun is ascribed subscribes to. faulty analogy
is the way that every ugly human being or gin, silence is his conscience. I'm gonna worship Jesus
because Jesus had no debt. We all have debts. He's special. That's a faulty analogy, right? Because
as I said, I had no mom or dad, right? I'm going to worship the cow because cow give me milk my
whole life. Mom only give me milk for two years. People say this stuff. It's a faulty analogy. But
it's not about being right. It's just about you know, silencing the conscience. You don't want to
		

			wake up in the morning and say I'm a monster. No one likes to feel guilty. The eighth thing he did
is that he over rationalize. A lot didn't tell you why didn't you prostrate when you're better when
he's better when you are better, or he is better Is it because I said so. Why are you using your
		

			rationale when it doesn't belong. And so these are the types of mutations that come out of you not
keeping your desires in check poisons and mutation that gets that ugly. How much time do I have now?
Five minutes. Okay, so I haven't made the spear. Let me say a little bit more about satanic
impulses.
		

			Just think about how much like how much evil how many wars have ever existed, how many gangs, how
many deaths, how much violence, how much hatred, how much divorce, you know, so many people out
there, they're just so resentful like, this is not a natural impulse. Like if if I some spouses hate
each other so much that if I can't have it, you can't have it. Like they just they spite each other
even when it doesn't benefit them. That's not normal. That's a tannic, that's where it comes from. A
short, you want to cover it, and it's mine. That's what allows Jay Thorne to take over this is a
shaytani personality treat. Right? So some people you wonder why they still continue in Ramadan
		

			because they've become an aspect of shaitan has become one with them.
		

			And thus we have made for every prophet Allah says shell Deen devils from the jinn and the humans
share theme from human beings.
		

			So now for the remedies. How do you climb out? We said the pits now how do you get out?
		

			Step one, you got to get rid of all of the satanic impulses, Seek and Destroy figure out what they
are. Study the subject take it seriously. Like chef Jamal was saying it's not a light matter.
		

			And get out like nothing left. Can we leave a little bit of arrogance left? Is that okay? The
Prophet sallallahu alayhi salam said in the heights of Muslims and Muslim, nobody enters gnf there's
the weight of a speck of arrogance in his heart. They said you're all sort of lovely like to have
nice clothes, nice shoes. Is that okay? Or is that arrogance? He said, No, no, no. arrogance is the
rejection of truth. You're not going to accept it. Because you're not the one that came up with it.
You're not going to concede to a point because it came from another the rejection of truth and the
belittlement of people. And this is a genius. subpanel Ah, brilliant description by the brothers.
		

			Also lamb. Because the rejection of truth is something you do openly belittlement of people could be
done inside. So just because you say just like Hello, hate on for the advice. While deep down
inside. You're saying who the heck do you think you are telling me? I'm wrong. And you're right.
That's still arrogance, it could be hidden check for it. The second thing you need to do now, you
need to not remove the animal desires, the physical desires. You need to refine them. Whoever says
you need to remove them has no idea what they're talking about. That's not Islam. It's Eastern
philosophies and all that stuff like life is suffering and the more you hurt yourself, the better
		

			you'll be. the more you'll transcend and spiritual This is all bogus. And that's why it always
backfires. Like the Atkins diet you know the Atkins diet. When you go really hard. You come back and
you pray called out on all the carbs right like you do extra. If you become really religious
overnight and you stamp you know, you floor it promises and says no one does that extended the dean
will overwhelm him. So the dounia you're not supposed to remove it. You're supposed to refine it. So
I really like comfort and sleep prefetcher
		

			I really love money. Just start payers. Right? refine it, how do you refine it? by feeding the
spiritual? Allah azza wa jal says waka Veliko, hyena, la Kuru homina Marina, thus we have revealed
to you a rule. So you come from mud, use urine for mud, you also come from Aurora. Allah sent to you
a rule His revelation, he called it a rule. He called it a spirit. Why? Because it gives life to
your life It gives life to your spirit.
		

			He says we have revealed this rule to you this book to you to feed your rule.
		

			So the knowledge that we have sent to you will give you life
		

			and also actions being coupled with that knowledge is absolutely necessary.
		

			You know, when, when Abdullah Mubarak and I'll close with it with these two narrations he used to
say, Massa Kino le dunia, Harajuku minha la mia to colavita Ayesha, these poor pathetic addicts of
this world, they spent their whole life they left this life without tasting the sweetest thing in
it. They said What is that? Call America to law, getting to know Allah. That's the sweetest thing
here. That's not just facts. There are non Muslims that study Islam and no more facts about Islam
than you. They don't taste this. They're miserable. They can go to sleep at night without their
alcohol and they wake up in the middle of the night because of their insecurities.
		

			And the suicide rates I already read them to you last night, through the roof and the opioids and
wasting yourself on all of this. Getting to know Allah is not facts. It must start there. But that's
not it. I will surely manage dharani
		

			Rahim Allah, I'll close with this. They said to him be mad to nano marry for too long. How can
someone get to that point where he he really knows Allah he's, he feels it. He's acquainted with
Allah on a real level called avatar it he said by obeying Him. They said to him would be mad to now
look or to who? How can a person get himself to the point which are all thinking now? How can I get
myself to the point that I'm really going to start obeying Him? Really dedicate myself to his
servitude? How do I get to obeying Him? Call me he. He said through him. It can only happen through
him. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam used to say I did not come back Muslim Allahumma tiene
		

			FC taqwa zakia antihero. menza caha And will you help him Allah? memorize that and let it be the
start. But don't stop there. Allahumma tiene FC taqwa. O Allah grant my soul its purity is the key
here. It's piety. zakiyah Anta hieromonk zakka. Ha, and purify it, you're the best one to purify it.
And we're Lee you have women who love her. You are its master and you are its guardian. We ask Allah
the master and guardian of our souls in our lives, to not allow us to die except when he is pleased
with us, and not allow us to leave this world before tasting the sweetest thing in it and make the
best of our days the day that we meet him. subhana wa Tada. Oh Allah, master and guardian of our
		

			souls. Grant our souls it's tough coats, piety, and purify to the best of those that do so and I
pray that Allah forgives us and you and grant us and you sincerity and pulls us out of this
conference better than we came into with a loving man. is like a lovely and everybody