Musleh Khan – The Parallels Between Your Actions and the State of Your Heart

			Salam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh
		

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			Door. I know exactly how you guys feel all that clear Malayala that you have been praying all night
is probably getting to you right now. So don't worry, I know exactly what you're feeling.
		

			Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa Salatu was Salam ala Rasulillah he
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			or civilly, Emery wash. No look, the terminally 70 year old Kali. Brothers and sisters. As you all
have just heard what the topic will be in sha Allah for you in the next 30 minutes or so is really
just relating or showing that relationship between what you have in here. And what you illustrate
out here. Because you all know one very important tradition of our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam. You remember that hadith that he says that in the body there is a mandala and Oregon, if
it's good, then the entire body will illustrate that good. But if it's not, then the body is going
to illustrate just that.
		

			This hadith literally sets the tone of how every single human being should really look at
themselves, look at their heart. And this Hadith also teaches you an eye that we can actually judge
a person's intention to a certain degree based on their actions. So if somebody is always coming to
a masjid, they're always praying. They're always watching their tongue. They're very careful about
their movements. What does that tell you about their heart? It shows that there's some level of
consciousness and awareness of Allah azza wa jal in their heart, they're doing something right, as
opposed to somebody who's just free and careless. So I'd like to start off in sha Allah Who Terada
		

			to remind myself of course, and all of us here today. There are a number of verses in the Quran that
speak about the heart, I will try to go through as many of them as I can with you. But I'd like to
start off in sha Allah by mentioning to you a very important two verse verse which is part of a
paragraph of conclusion versus in sorbitol as AB SUTA till hisab. Allah azza wa jal mentions a verse
that is absolutely mind boggling when you compare it to a person's heart. Allah azza wa jal says in
oral dental man atta Isla summer were too well ordered. We challenged the heavens and the earth to
carry this Amana. You know what the Amana is in this verse? The Amana is your soul for you to just
		

			simply be alive and walk the face of this earth is a great Amana Allah azza wa jal gives you life
but then also gives you the Amana or the trust or the responsibility to take care of that life.
		

			So Allah azza wa jal says somewhat well out of well gee bad, three very large and very powerful
creations. Allah azza wa jal says that the heavens, the earth and the mountains, when we challenged
them to carry the same soul, you know what they did? A bean and Milda. urbane doesn't mean they
refused, it means that they don't even want to think the very thought of trying to carry this soul
the burden of this soul. They didn't even want to think about doing that. You know, if you have a
table, and you put some weight on that table, you'll start to feed it some weight until eventually
you realize that the table is about to crack and collapse. But what you're doing is you're trying it
		

			out, you're seeing Okay, let's how much weight can this table really give? It's not like the table
is saying, Okay, give me give me your best shot and see how much weight I can really take. You just
give it to it. But the zhiban The mountains, the heavens and the earth, they didn't even want to
try. They said no, no, we don't want that responsibility. So what did Allah azza wa jal do? Well,
hemella Hal insan you and I, Allah gave us that responsibility. What does that tell you? You know
what this man when we're seeing responses
		

			Build it you know what it's talking about? It's talking about the Quran.
		

			Every single one of us sitting here today, we have what it takes the strength, the ability, the
knowledge, the courage to carry the message of poor and wherever you go. Now try to relate this back
to the heart for a moment. You remember in Surah Al hasher Allah azza wa jal, he told you that if
you were to take this polar end and place it on a mountain or
		

			place it on a mountain what would happen to the mountain, the mountain will become moto sedan minha
Shatila moto solder doesn't mean that the mountain is going to break into pieces, it means that it
will crumble into dust. What that tells you is that imagine if you have like a like a cup or a glass
and you throw it on the ground. Now depending on how hard you throw it, there's a possibility that
you can gather the pieces and start gluing them together and almost bring back a similar shape to an
original cup. But if you do multiple sod there, you take this cup and you throw it to the ground
with so much force it is impossible to put the pieces together you can never get it done. So this
		

			mountain, it crumbled into dust when it carried the Quran.
		

			Allah azza wa jal says to you and I, you have the strength to carry that same core and that caused a
mountain to crumble.
		

			Now imagine the person whose heart is hardened they're hearing it yet they're going to the classes
they're going to the conferences Derry know the message of Porter and but it doesn't move them one
bit. It doesn't cause them to change. They don't reflect Allah says in surah 12 out of Walcott Zara
nearly Johanna Kathy or Amina al Genie will ins in Johanna we put many populations and gatherings in
groups of jinn and people love them call of Allah describes them to love them polo Herbalife Kahuna
beha, they have hearts that don't really contemplate or understand or ponder.
		

			Imagine the same poor N caused that mountain to crumble into dust.
		

			And a heart becomes so hard and it's not moved by the message of Quran that tells you that that
person's heart surpasses the hardness of a mountain.
		

			It really gives you a perspective to think about that. If you're not reflected or you're not moved
by the message of Allah. That tells you that the you don't just have a problem with your heart. You
have a serious problem with this Amana that Allah trusted you with. So we ask Allah azza wa jal to
soften our hearts say, I mean.
		

			So I want to take this topic one step further now and really get into some key issues that we have
when it comes to our heart and the actions and how we how we present ourselves in front of the
world. I want to start off with this, the eyes because if you can control what you see, you are
guaranteed to control what you do. If you can get control of your eyes and everything about what
your eyes see in this world. Naturally you will become a person that is very focused, you'll start
achieving goals in your life, you'll start to be more focused, you will concentrate you'll have
visions in your life, you will be able to accomplish all the goals because the number one avenue
		

			that shaytan comes to attacker on person. The number one avenue that he starts off with is their
eyes. He'll come up to a shave even and be like you're a che you can look at her a little bit. Okay?
You have E man you pray to head to you got the beard you do this, you do that. It's okay. You can
look at her.
		

			Imagine that's for a scholar or a chef. What would that how successful would the shaitan be? When it
comes to just an average layman Muslim? Allah azza wa jal says in Surah, a nor verse number 30 and
31. Now in sha Allah tomorrow when I discuss when I have the one hour session in the gender
relations, I'm going to go through this verse entirely as as much detail as we can. But for now, I
just want to give you a brief insight of what this verse has to do with you controlling the eyes to
preserve what's in your heart. Allah azza wa jal says to the believing men, he says will pull little
more meaning your whole domain of Saudi him Allah says
		

			Zoa gel says, Say O Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa salam.
		

			Your first point here is you notice Allah didn't say yeah, Are you her Latina am and who who
absorbed ACOEM? He didn't say Oh, you who believe. In other words, Allah is not talking to us
directly. He tells us Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, I want you to carry this message to the
people. Because it's a really sensitive issue. Can you imagine if you see a brother or a sister
looking and staring at everyone, can you imagine going up to them and be like, Okay, why are you
staring at the women for? You know, you go to a brother, you say that you go up to the sister and
say, Why are you checking him out for Subhan Allah match and if you do that, it's a really sensitive
		

			issue. You can't just walk up to somebody. So what did Allah do? Allah put the man in charge the man
that we respect the man that we reflect our life after the man that we love, the man that we would
do anything, the man that we love more than our own mothers and fathers and he said, You go tell
those people. Start off with the men and tell them, hope to absorb them.
		

			Lower your gaze, lower your gaze literally means to weaken your eyes. So what that tells you is
there's a big difference if you look at somebody like this, as opposed to, you have a very soft gaze
when you address them very soft gaze when you look at them. Why does Allah azza wa jal do this?
Because Allah says in surah tel out of that same verse that I gave you Laham kulula Kahuna behalf.
They have hearts, ALLAH is talking about the people in the hellfire. Allah gives you three
characteristics about them. The people of the Hellfire, the first thing is, these people had hearts
that couldn't comprehend information. The second thing about them that Allah highlights while at
		

			home, are you Allah, you will soon be here, they have eyes but they couldn't see with it. In other
words, they were so blind to the message when Allah told them to control what they look at. They
were blind to that message and they still kept careless with their eyes. We ask Allah azza wa jal to
protect our eyes say Lahoma me. So the first thing is Allah azza wa jal says to believing men, lower
though that gaze you know why? Because the next part of the verse says, Why photo photo, Jerome.
Because if you do that, then it's going to be time for you, you're going to be able to get control
over your actions, Allah highlights the private area. And that's something that I'm going to discuss
		

			tomorrow in sha Allah. But the point is, you went from your eyes, to your actions. So what Allah
does, so that's how you have to make sure that's how important it is to control that. I want to move
on to the second second point. Because the same thing is mentioned in verse 31. The same thing is
mentioned for the sisters as well Allah tells you to do the exact same thing.
		

			But there's much more to these two verses, which we will talk about in sha Allah. The second point
that I want to bring your attention to in sha Allah. So we've taken care of the eyes. Let's start
talking about the ears.
		

			Let's start talking about what it is that you listen to and what it is that you hear. So you know
for sure I'm going to talk about music, right? Because if you're going to talk about the things that
you hear and things that you shouldn't listen to, you got to talk about music. I'm not going to talk
to you about libre and backbiting and false testimony and all of those things, because Allah azza wa
jal says in Quran and Sunnah three, four con what either mob rule below Maru ki Rama, Allah azza wa
jal says that when you hear those things, when you listen to conversations, or you're part of a
conversation that you shouldn't be, if you're in there and you hear all the Haram things people are
		

			backbiting with each other people are doing peel and call that person said this, that person said
that you know what Allah says you to do Maru. KERAMA Allah says, leave in a dignified, proper and
respective manner. Don't get up, throw your last two cents. Well, Allah azza wa jal says to all of
you way that Maduro belong when Maduro keramas I'm leaving, don't do that. I don't say like you guys
are do have this and Allah says do it in a proper manner. You get up just Ecolo hiring guys. You
know, I don't want to stay here right now I have to go I gotta go do something. So that's what
happens when it comes to those issues. But really, truly what I want to focus on is the desire of
		

			the ears. And that's what leads me to things like music. You know, until this day, no matter what
opinion you might have heard of, or you might have read or exceptions to this whole concept of
music. Until this day, I still can't as a student or not, I still can't connect where the permissive
		

			ability of music comes from I still can't do it. I can't imagine
		

			if the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam, or even go below that ladder for a moment and go to just
one of the companions. Imagine if our modal Hatha was sitting right there. Imagine if Abu Bakar was
sitting right there. Imagine if Fatima was sitting right there. Khadija was sitting there, imagine
these amazing leaders and companions were sitting right here amongst us. And you decide to put on
like a Kenny G series or something I could send instrumental, it's okay.
		

			What would happen? What kind of impression would that leave on them? What would they have to say
about this? What would they what would their reaction these are people who are crying, when they
hear Allah azza wa jal, those words of Quran, they start tearing, but they don't understand the word
you and I imagine, imagine how poor and works. You may not know Arabic, you probably have never read
a tafsir before and you don't know anything about Quran. But you still are standing in taraweeh. And
you're listening to that recitation, you don't know what Surah it is nothing about it. But all of a
sudden tears start flowing down, you start crying, that emotion starts to come up. What does that
		

			tell you? This is the true music to your ears. If I can use that term correctly, this is the real
thing that you should be focused on that you should be listening to. So this is what I want to say.
You have to figure out that and I know I live in the same society, I know that when you go to the
dentist, when you go to the doctor's office, when you're in the elevator, when you're in the grocery
store, when you're at the library, wherever it is, this music is going to keep pumping into your
ears, the sharee, I makes a very clear distinction between listening to something as opposed to just
hearing it that it's just there is a difference. There's a difference. If you take a CD and you put
		

			it in your car, and you plus you press play, as opposed to just happen to be sitting there and the
cab driver just keeps blasting this tune. There's a big difference with the so you have to figure
out which category do you belong to. And that's how you start to preserve your ears. You start to
preserve what you listen to. And you know what this leads to? It leads to the third point. This is
how you start training your mind to think poor and I want everybody to make sure that you understand
this point very well. How you get your mind to start thinking por en Allah azza wa jal says in fu
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			Allah azza wa jal says in Surah earlier Imran in the farewell message of that surah Allah azza wa
jal says Verily within the heavens and the earth, the night and the day, these are all a yet
miracles indications things for you to look at and reflect but it's specifically for those who are
amongst a who are amongst the Al Bab, you know, who are Al Bab Al Bab are people who have a very
clear and sound mind their mind isn't filled with useless information. We live in a time where we
hear things and we see things that are just of no benefit to us. They just clutter your mind and you
know how you know if you have a cluttered mind you can test yourself
		

			if I say to you, that the heavens or sorry the The sky is so beautiful look at Allah's creation. If
you're one of those people who look up in the sky and you'd be like, Okay, it's blue,
		

			masha Allah or what? Subhanallah What do I say here? If you're one of those people who can't see
that beauty, if I show you like a nice mountain or some beautiful greenery, I mean, you see Summer
is coming out. You remember we were living in a plateau of snow. Now all of that is gone. Now
greenery and luscious life, Allah azza wa jal is bringing it back again. And if I start talking to
you about this, and you look at me like okay, well, it's just grass. I need to start cutting my
grass. No, that's all I really care about. If that's what you start thinking, this is how you can
test yourself that the mind is cluttered. You have things inside of your mind, that stopping you
		

			from appreciating goodness when it comes in front of you. Things start cluttering there. That's why
you'll find people especially youth today, when you start talking to them about shayateen and gin
and you start telling them these gin stories and you start saying to them, you know, you got to
watch out shaitan is always there
		

			They'll be like, who cares? So, you know, I saw paranormal activity like 15 times. What's the big
deal?
		

			You start talking to them, I'll yell milk piano. They'll say to you, you know, I saw whatever 2012
movie or something like that, you know, but compare it to something and they'll be like, what's the
big deal? The moment brothers and sisters, when you become desensitized to good information, it's
time for you to start clearing your mind. It's time for you to start reflecting what's in your
heart. And that is why Allah azza wa jal says, Allah the ninth Quran, Allah piano, the Al Bab are
people who are remembering Allah while standing while sitting and whilst they are on their sides,
why didn't Allah just saying they are the people who remember Allah all the time?
		

			Allah makes a separation in three different areas standing sitting or lying down, why not just say
every moment of their life because this is how Quran is teaching you that when you stand up and you
walk and you see the rain falling, and there's you know, all the greenery and the trees are
benefiting from this immediately you will remember a verse ones the lamina summer Eema and Mobarak.
Allah azza wa jal sends down the rain from the sky and it is baraka. If somebody starts arguing with
you, and you don't want to argue with them, okay, so like let's say like husband and wife, they
never like to argue with each other. So you have husband and wife, and the husband or the wife
		

			doesn't want to argue right now. You remember right away because why you're thinking Quran? What is
a hot tub of Umoja? Who don't call who said
		

			when the ignorant when the one who doesn't have control over their mind and their emotions when they
address you? And they address you with a loud voice? They raise their voice and their tone to you
call to Salama. You try to defuse the situation and calm him down. Brother Brother, relax, it's
okay. Sister, Sister, don't do that. My heart my love, my dear, don't tell don't do anything. You
try to calm them down. That's how you start training your mind to start thinking or earn. We ask
Allah azza wa jal to keep our hearts our minds pure say. I mean, last point that I'm going to leave
you with in sha Allah. So we've talked about the eyes. We've talked about the ears, we've talked
		

			about the mind. The next thing is really general and that is our limbs. So everything else about
your body, the way you walk, the way you stand, the way you sit. The way you address one another,
the tone the posture that you have. Do you know Subhanallah holder and even tells us how to walk.
		

			Why are you bad to Rockman Alladhina em Shula al oral de Hona Allah azza wa jal says in Surah
Farrakhan, the real ultimate servant, when they walk, they walk with a sense of weakness and
tranquility. They don't walk with their chest high up and they don't kind of walk we'll miskeen like
a Kim really humble No, the the bad the ultimate servant finds a balance between the both of them,
not too prideful, but not at the same time not to the other extreme, poor and tells you how to use
your hands, color and tells you how many steps you take where you should take them where you should
be going. Quran tells you how to behave, how to treat your spouse, how to treat one another as a
		

			community how to treat the general public and people around you. Quran tells you all of this Allah
You know, I'm sure in Ireland out of the hole now either hot tub, Umoja, he Luna Paulo said Emma,
what does what happens next? Allah azza wa jal tells you well Athena up to nearly Robbie him sujeto
piano,
		

			Allah azza wa jal steers you to go back to your home and make sure that you have some worship, some
prayer, some of cowardice, some things you're doing in your house, because you're not going to be
able to do the right thing outside. If you can't start doing it inside your house. If you can't
start treating your family good, it's going to be extremely difficult for you to do it outside.
Because if you still get by doing it outside, then you're gonna have this problem of almost having
like a trait of a Munna filled hypocrisy in your heart. And then you know, this is one of the
problems that marriages they they they they flood or they fall apart because of this. So you have to
		

			be very careful in how you use your limb.
		

			is and how you walk, how you buy and sell. A Muslim has always and forever has the tools, the
ingredients to really, really hold themselves together in any situation.
		

			A Muslim, can hold themselves together in any circumstance, I honestly believe that we as Muslims,
you can put us in the busiest city in the world, or you can put us in one of the jungles in Brazil
or something and leave us there. And we would still find a way to be kind to take care of our
families. Because why we always have poor man behind us. I mentioned that this was the last point
there is one more point in sha Allah that I would love to address with all of us. So we talking
about the heart. Now you all know about the heart its importance and how it's affecting everything
that you do and you saying you think and you listen, you listen to go back to that verse now and
		

			sort it out off. Remember I mentioned to you three things Allah talks about that is amongst the sea
fat or the description of the people of the fire, law home colorable law of tahona behalf what a
home Aryan law you will see Runa be here Wallah. Whom, then hula is Morona be here. They also have
ears that they don't listen, they can't hear with them. These are not people who are blind or deaf.
These are people that when they hear called Allahu taala, or call or Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, it's as if they don't hear anything. It just kind of flows over their head. They're
listening, but they're not hearing anything. What does Allah azza wa jal say Allah, He can kill a
		

			neuron. These people are like animals, Bell whom are born. Actually they're worse than animals.
Because if you train an animal to sit, what is it going to do? It's going to sit, if you train an
animal to walk to move to go to this direction, what is it going to do? It's it has that same error.
Now what a foreigner attitude, it hears it's going to obey and it's going to follow its leader. So
Allah says that you as human beings, you would fall into a state that's worse, worse or more
degrading than an animal itself. Hola, Iike homall Hafi lol. And this is the point that I want to
draw from this verse is how it ends. Allah azza wa jal says that these people who are in the
		

			Hellfire with these three at least these three characteristics about them, Allah azza wa jal calls
them off alone. They are people who are heedless. Their heart is stone cold, their ears are just
fixated. Their eyes are shut. Everything about them has paused. They can't comprehend anything in
their life. I'm sure all of us sitting here we know somebody like this in our lives. We know
somebody you'll tell them all the time. Okay, this is wrong. This is haram. Next day, they'll just
do it again. You tell them, Sister, don't do this. Come on, you got to dress better, you got to talk
better, you got to treat him right. Next day they do it again. This is when you know that you might
		

			be falling into a state of Hoffler you might be falling into a state of heedlessness. And if you
fall into a state like that, there's a possibility that you can close all the doors of hire for you
and you don't want that to happen. So we ask Allah subhanho wa Taala brothers and sisters to protect
us and our families and keep our hearts our minds clear. May Allah subhanho wa Taala purify our
hearts. May Allah subhanho wa Taala purify our souls. May Allah subhanho wa Taala make us people
strong with the Quran make us people strong and understanding the traditions in the sunnah of our
Rasul Salah Torabi was salam, who are they? There's one last thing I want to mention. I think I said
		

			that like 17 times now. So this is the 18th time I'm going to say it. This is a request from one of
the sisters and I promised her that I would discuss it very briefly in sha Allah. There is an
organization that just started that is called the Community Information and Resource Center, an
abbreviation circ I hope I said that right, right. Anyhow, this organization here the goal is to
bridge the gap in terms of the needs of individuals and communities with the resources. So if you
need something in your life, whether it means finances, help support for seniors, whatever it is, or
the youth communities at large and you don't know where to go. You can't find resources to deal with
		

			these issues. You don't know which Muslim organization is out there to help you out with your
finances to give you loans and
		

			A lot of students, they're just over there just filled and overwhelmed with student loans and things
like that. Well, this is an organization that just started in sha Allah to try to help facilitate
those, those gaps on those areas. They are just requesting from all of you in sha Allah, that this
weekend during the conference, they are doing an assessment survey. And they are recruiting
volunteers and inviting you in sha Allah to join and try to volunteer with this particular
organization. You'll know that there are volunteers, they're wearing a t shirt that actually says,
Ask me about Cirque see IRC. So if you kind of browse around in sha Allah in the masjid today, you
		

			might see some of these volunteers and you can ask them and try to fill out the survey and try to
support them. We need things like this, we don't need more massages, we don't need more masalas we
need more resources to help facilitate all these gaps and weaknesses in our families and in our
communities. Brothers and sisters, I thank you all for your time. I thank you all for your
attention. And the reason why I thank you. Because if you listen to this talk, and the talk before
me and all the rest of the show you and the scholars for the rest of this conference, if you're
you're listening to this and you spend time and money to be here, it is a sign that you have what it
		

			takes to have a pure heart you have what it takes to control this, this, this and everything else.
You have what it takes to carry the message of Quran May Allah azza wa jal give you strength. I
thank you was salam Wa alaykum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh