Mohammed Hijab – Spirituality #04 – Hold Yourself To Account!

			You know, we are living in a culture nowadays, which basically people don't want to take
accountability take stock of their own action. And this destroys relationships and destroys
communities destroy societies, by in our tradition, Islamic tradition, the idea of self
accountability was certainly one which was emphasized pretty deeply. And in fact, so much so that
Allah has Allah. He's got an entire book on the matter in his magnum opus, his compendious work here
along with Dean the masterpiece. And the Kitab is called the Book of Kitab. And what I cover and in
Bahasa essentially been translated into English, which is the book of self examination and
		

			vigilance, I'm going to be looking at the some of the notes I've taken and tell you some of the
things that he has said in regards to self examination, both first of all, there are many acquire of
the Anima. And speeches of the predecessors, which are very pertinent to this particular inquiry or
the subject of inquiry achieved most I would say, of the predecessors is what Ahmed pop has said,
which is that has worked for several popular to herself with that, hold yourselves to account before
you are held to account I found very interesting about the book about this particular book is that
Allah zali, he starts off by putting forward a trade analogy. And he does this throughout his book,
		

			he makes analogies for states of mind and psychospiritual states. So to read some of it, he says,
Know that when those who engage in commerce and deal in commodities, settle accounts, they seek a
healthy profit. Hence, the trader availed himself of his associate, handing him his money for the
trade and then settling his account with him is the same with the intellect Apple, as it does
Commerce on the way to the hereafter its object and profit is the purification of the soul, because
it's Felicity is through this list. It's basically good fortune or its success. It's very
interesting how he phrases that because actually, he's what he's saying to us is, we should think of
		

			purification, self examination in the same way as we would think about business, we should want to
make the biggest profit possible. And of course, making the biggest profit possible. It's not just
getting new business, which in this case, would be doing good deeds, but it's also making sure that
the customers remain that we don't lose capital, or that we don't lose investment value. That, of
course, means purifying ourselves. And the way he mentioned, this is very powerful. He considers the
heart as the main organ is the main organ. And then there are seven members that lead to the hearts
and which needs to be purified. And he mentioned that then the servant of God's counsel to soul
		

			about the moments of his life after which he prefers counsel about his seven members. And what are
those seven members the eye, ear, tongue, stomach, the private parts, hands and foot, these other
seven members. In other words, one needs to keep track of what he is seeing what he is hearing what
he is saying, especially saying and he's got an entire book on this in fact, as I like, but how we
are words can get you in trouble in the many Hadith on the matter, you know, the atma or Jana, the
prophesy Salam said that I guarantee Jana, we need that Allah guarantees it for those who are able
to guarantee that which is between the two legs and the tooth and the jaw, basically. So this is and
		

			then he goes into detail. It'll Hazari about all of the sudden things. We're holding yourself to
account for those seven things. So he breaks it down into different few like categories. The first
thing is you have to make a commitment to yourself, you have to condition this is called El Masato,
you condition I am not going to do this things. I am not going to you say to yourself, speak a bad
words, swear words, I'm not going to sweat, you know, I am not going to backbiting this person, I am
not going to say and what is backbiting is the Kritika haka. democra. Hate is saying that about your
brother, which he hates, or your sister, of course, do not say that which your brother Muslim
		

			brother or sister will not like some form of cowardice don't do this as well, I am not going to see
something which is haram, because it's difficult to do nowadays in the age that we're living in. But
we have to do more Charata we have to condition ourselves for these kinds of things. And once you've
done that, once you've conditioned yourself, then you start to examine yourself. So this is the
stage two, which he mentions here. After you've said yourself, look, I'm not going to do this and
everyone's going to fall into and this is goes back to a nefs lawanna A duck for answers that he
swears little custom will be nefs in LA wham, swear by the self, reproach and soul, meaning you keep
		

			exams so important that Allah actually even makes custom by it, which means he he swears by it, the
reproaching so you keep going back to why have I done that regretted now in one culture because you
shouldn't regret anything? I say you shouldn't regret anything except for your sins. And I see this
is exactly how Islam you must regret your sins as a part of
		

			net them. It's a part of Tober. Net them as part of October regretting as part of Tober. So after
you've done the mug shot, then you have to be steadfast is the karma you have to have is the karma.
Now you try your best to stay on the path that you're on. And then you do Maha Sabha, which is self
examination. After the act, you do something bad you examine yourself now is to think of why did
this happen? Just as you would in any situation life? Yeah, something happens. You get into a big
argument with your spouse, you say something bad to your parents, you commit a major sin, you commit
a minor sin, you look where you shouldn't be looking at you, then you sit with yourself after you've
		

			committed this sin which we will all bound to commit. And you say to yourself that, you know, I Why
did I do this? What triggered this behavior? Why did I fall into this? How can I make sure that I
don't go into this again? So this is another thing you do? After you've done that and you go on to
the next stage, which he mentioned and this is guys this is extremely important, let's be honest,
because he mentioned here The fact is, this is in his fifth chapter. And this is travelator can
really fast is when a person examines his soul he finds tempted he finds it tempted by sin,
therefore he must punish it in manners described you mentioned that before you have to discipline
		

			yourself wha clubber you don't just discipline your child you don't discipline this one or that will
you discipline yourself as well how are you going to discipline yourself you can fast you can do
this you can you can do men that you can stop yourself from having certain things if you don't
discipline yourself life will discipline you, you see and so that is the next step. And then this is
very powerful in this in the six chapters as he saw I say know that you you that your worst enemy is
your soul inside you. It was created to incite ill and predisposed towards evil and desecration of a
good so this once again it's a very interesting take and he starts going into a monologue and has
		

			and he's got this very powerful way of just telling it how it is listen to what he says here. He
says also, if a servant of yours knee a brother should confront you with something you dislike, what
anger and loathing which you harbor for him yet how recklessly you then expose yourself to God's
loving anger and stern punishment. You think you can bear His wrath far from it. If your cockiness
has lulled you away from his painful wrath, then try for yourself. Put yourself under the sun or in
the bath house for an hour ring your fingers close to the flame and find out how you bearer or are
you deluded about God's nobility and favour his disinterestedness with respect to your acts of
		

			obedience and worship. Why do you not rely on His kindness and the weightier matters of the world
when a focus use you why Judas devise a strategy to repelled him without relying on God's kindness.
You see, we are self deluded and he has a very powerful monologues. The book is filled with these
kinds of models, one should have a systemized method of holding themselves to account and with that,
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