Nouman Ali Khan – 4523 And Our Current Reality

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The speakers discuss the history and importance of Islam, including the responsibility of believers to protect themselves and their feelings. They emphasize the need for constructive criticism and letting people know what they want to see, even their actions. The speakers also touch on the negative impact of false negative criticism and the importance of letting people know what they want to see and not just what they see.

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			Allah azza wa jal has given us some fundamental principles in the Quran on what it means to be a
believer. And one of those fundamental principles is that we have to be people of thought, our
religion, criticize or criticizes people that refuse to think and refuse to analyze. We are supposed
to be people that arrive at this faith, not just because our parents are Muslim, not just because
you're born in a Muslim culture or Muslim family, but because you are actually deeply convinced
yourself that this is the truth. And this is actually something Allah claims himself and he says, so
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			miraculous signs in the skies and even inside of themselves, until it becomes absolutely clear to
them that it is in fact the truth. When Muslims overall become complacent, meaning we're Muslim,
because our family's Muslim, because our tradition is Muslim. That's all I've ever known. So we're
essentially civilizational Muslims, then we become in our convictions, we're no different than
civilizational Christians, or civilizational Jews, or civilizational, Hindus or anything else,
because the only explanation they have for being that way, is what's the number Mau Jana Alayhi Abba
and what we found our father's doing, that's what we're doing to the Quran directly condemns this
		
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			kind of thinking Alhamdulillah for many of us, the majority of the Muslims were born in a Muslim
family and hamdulillah for that. But you know what, that's not enough. That is absolutely not
enough. Allah warns us of people that came before us that Allah gave a book to they came to Eman and
after some time their hearts became hard work cathedral min home fast you can also Google Home for
Kathy Roman home Farsi upon their hearts became hard. Most of them are corrupt. In other words,
they're Muslim, basically by name. They don't really have any any real deep conviction on this
thing. Now, how do we know that we're actually deeply profoundly convinced of this faith that which
		
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			is what we call Eman itself, the strength of conviction, any man itself, just compare it we I
believe as a Muslim, that this word of Allah and these teachings of my messenger sallallahu alayhi
salam, they are the ultimate description of reality that everything I see around me, I see reality
through the lens of these words, through the lens of this message. And without that lens, I can't
see it for what it is. So while for example, everybody else sees a tree or everybody else he's a
mountain everybody else he's a plant coming out of the ground. What I see is you know, when Allah
describes people who are in any doubt about being raised after they die, that they should
		
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			contemplate on a tree they should contemplate on the earth it does that's what that's what matters.
It shakes it rises and it sprouts new life and a lot more and Allah you heal or Baba devotee ha You
Should Know Allah gives life to the dead earth after it had died. Right so and he gives it gives it
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			Telling me every time I see greenery in the world, it's reminding me of resurrection. And it
reinforces my belief that the same one that can create this life or every day, and he said, sends a
command from the sky, he says rain from the sky, and the dead earth comes back to life is the one
that will bring me back to life when his command comes. So my belief system gets reinforced, by the
way that I see the world. And that's one of the things that the Quran did, it changed the way that
we see the world. Now the thing is, we all know what conviction is, if you see a fire burning,
there's no way you're gonna stick your hand in it, there's just no way, you know that it's going to
		
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			burn as you get closer, you're going to feel the heat, you're convinced you're not going to touch
it. But then there are things that Allah says that are taking you into the fire. There are things
that Allah says that are absolutely bad for you. And we're not as convinced that touching it is such
a bad thing. Because somehow that fire is it as real as this fire that the temperature you can feel
that's an indication of a weakness of one's conviction, right. And it's really absolutely critical
that we develop the strongest kind of conviction from an early age into our kids. And if we haven't
had that, then it's time we developed it, it's really important to know it's really important to
		
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			have because otherwise, the only reason the average young person is a Muslim, is because their
mother says it's time for Salah, it's time to read Quran, hey, don't eat that. Make sure you eat
halal food, etc. And that same young man or woman, they go to college, Mama's not there anymore.
Baba is not telling you to come to Juma. Right, and they're their campus. And everybody's doing
whatever they want. And if they're not absolutely convinced that they're doing this not to make
their parents happy, not because some other Muslims are watching. But they're doing this because
they know this is the better way. This is the absolute truth. And what everybody else is running
		
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			towards is tantamount to fire. I'm not going to touch it. I'm not saying everybody else is going to
*, but I'm not going to just dive in along with them. I'm going to stop myself. That's that power
will not be there, that that ability will not be there. If the absolute conviction isn't there, our
focus has become on the watch of Islam. All we teach our kids all the time is what to say? How what
the *? How do you clean yourself when you go to the bathroom? How do you make wudu? How do you
pray? How do you fast? How do you eat? What how do you eat with you know, what do you make when you
go to see all of those are good things? That's the what and the *? But you know what more
		
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			important than both of those is? Why are we believers? Why are we following this? Why am I doing all
of this? It's it terrifies me to meet young men and women that have memorized the entire Quran is
kids, they memorize the entire Quran. They were put in a health program by their parents. And by the
time they got to college, they're no different than other non Muslims. Why? Because the parents
assumed that if you give them this, what you make them memorize, you make them recite Quran
properly, right? You teach them how to pray. Now they're, they're wearing Islamic kinds of clothes.
That means inside of them, they're absolutely convinced of this. No, they were just conditioned.
		
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			They were in an environment. They did what the environment was telling them to do. There's no
internal conviction. So when they're in a new environment, they don't see a real reason to hold on.
And then we say our youth are getting lost. No, are you from getting lost? We're not giving them
guidance. That's not their fault. We're not providing an avenue. And for a lot of parents, they find
themselves in this crisis. Parents could your kids will ask some some of your kids go to public
school, your kids will come and ask you, Hey, my friend, he's Christian, his family believes in the
Bible. And my other friend is Hindu, they have their own religion. And I have other friends that
		
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			have no religion at all. I wonder in the end, who's going to be right, like how do we know were the
right ones? Right? And you know what scary a lot of parents say, I don't know, either. But don't ask
that question. I'm gonna hit you. If you ask again.
		
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			You know, I better take him to some, I better take him to somebody who has a really long beard.
		
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			And then they can just recite some, you know, laws and further canals on this child and and then
their questions will disappear. Or this child has Shabbat on him. Or they'll say, oh, stuff from I
don't know, I don't know what to do somebody fix this for me. Somebody go talk to him. Well, you
know what, Allah on Judgment Day will not just, you know, ask us about what we didn't pass on to our
kids. But this idea of learning your deen and being internally satisfied, here and here, here and
here. That is a responsibility of every believer. And it doesn't matter what age you are you
everyone has to wake up. Everyone has to decide, You know what, I don't know. I need to learn. I
		
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			need to study I need to arrive at this conclusion. So what does Allah do it is sorta like a Jessenia
which is what I actually wanted to talk to you about today. In the opening and I recommend every one
of you to read some to jatiya Today, over over the weekend. Just read it for yourself. So So number
45. Okay,
		
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			In the beginning of the Surah, the ayat continue to talk about people that arrive at the conviction
that Allah is real, that this revelation is real, that Islam is true. And what do they think about
that leads them to that conclusion. So it's it's, it's the opening passage is about thoughtful
people, then the next passage is about people that refuse to think. And why don't they think? Why do
they refuse something? Why did they ignore and what's going to happen to them because they refuse to
think that's the next passage. And I and I want to talk to you about is right down the middle of
this, this remarkable surah. And I wanted to talk to you about it because I've been reflecting
		
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			something that I've been observing for some time, and I've only mentioned it in passing here and
there. But I feel like this idea deserves a lot more attention, especially in our climate. Allah
azza wa jal has a term Anita ILAHA. Who have you seen someone who has taken his own feelings, his
own whims, and turn them into their God?
		
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			So this is not talking about people who worship an idol, who worship the Son of God, who worship
some other false deity, you know, some myth? Some some plethora of gods? No, no, this person has
created a different kind of God, their god is their own feelings. They worship their own feelings.
What in the world? Does that mean? How does someone worship their own feelings? You don't make a
giant statue of anger, happiness, sadness, and do searches onto it. That's not what this means. What
in the world is that world does it mean that someone worships their feelings? You know what, when
your ultimate truth, because Allah, you know, in Allahu Allah, Allah is the ultimate reality. But
		
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			when you replace that ultimate reality with anything else, then that becomes your object of worship.
That becomes the thing that dictates what you're going to do, what your priorities are, where all of
your energy is going, what your goals are, what do you want to accomplish in your life, all of
that's dictated by the ultimate reality in your mind. And for an individual for a man or a woman,
even a young man, woman child, if their ultimate reality becomes how they feel.
		
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			Then they've turned that feeling into their God. And Allah describes this person in the Quran as a
single idea. He describes a person who takes takes their their feelings and their whim to become
their God. And Allah says, what Allah Allahu Allahu Allah Illman. And Allah allows this person to be
misguided, even though they have knowledge, even though they know better. So you're gonna have a
scenario in which someone says, you know, I, and by the way, I wanted to take a shot at this because
in, in modern social media culture, there's a lot of, you know, self declared psychologists, right.
And there's a lot of people that are giving you advice about how to, you know, pick yourself up and
		
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			how to take care of yourself and how to boost yourself and don't listen to anybody. And don't don't
worry about what other people say to you. You're number one, you're the greatest feel good about
yourself. You have a right to your feelings. You, you you and you like a grand dicing you right and
everybody else is wrong. You're the one that's right. Everybody else is a narcissist. Everybody else
is an abuser, you're the victim of all of them, you must rise above it. And there's this narrative
where you constantly see yourself as man, I got to take care of myself, and all these people are out
to get me. Right so your mother says something to you, Hey, you. How come your your your sleeping
		
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			utensil? Oh, don't be an abuser. You're abusing my personal space. This is my you know, why are you
being such a narcissist. So now we start throwing these terms out that are used in the field of
psychology and are well studied. Now we're turning these into labels against people, mindlessly,
mindlessly just throwing these labels at someone. And you know what's happened. Now, our religion
says that we don't pass judgment on anybody, we only pass judgment on actions. Listen to that,
again, we don't pass judgment on people, we pass judgment on actions. So if somebody stole, then we
judge the fact that they stole, but they are not forever called a thief. That's not our religion. If
		
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			somebody killed if somebody killed, they paid for their crime, whatever is done is done. You know,
it's happened already. Now forever. They're not called a killer anymore. That was an action that
they did. That doesn't define them. That doesn't define them. That's something that's a mistake that
they made. Otherwise Musa alayhis salam to this day would be called a killer.
		
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			You understand? We that's not our religion. But you know what's happened in this new self declared,
you know, create the new ego and the new self as a god. Well, now you get to call somebody with
these psychological terms and forever. Your husband is a narcissist and your mother or your cousin,
or whoever is, you know, it's toxic. And we use these kinds of words, throw them at them and
forever, this person's toxic, everything that comes out of their mouth is somehow nuclear waste that
you must get away from. Right and that this is an oversight
		
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			amplification of what I need to protect myself and my feelings. And whoever tries to challenge me.
Nobody can say anything to me, nobody's works better. I don't care about anybody's opinion. All that
matters is I feel good about myself, Wow, well sounds like you, I've made my my knifes and my
feelings and my Hawa into my own god that nobody else can come over. And when you do enough of that,
you know what happens, then, now that you've removed people from the equation, and I've removed
people, because their words don't matter, their criticisms don't matter. And by the way, criticism
in our religion is actually a fundamentally good thing. There is such a thing as unfounded
		
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			criticism, you're ugly, you're short, you're a loser, you'll never make anything of your life.
That's not the kind of criticism I'm talking about. But if some, if your brother comes to you, your
your parents come to you, their spouse comes to you and says, Hey, you said this, it wasn't a good
thing to say, You should have said this, instead, it was hurtful for you to do that, or you dealt
with this child in this way. I think you should have dealt with it in this way. It might be better
if we do that next up constructive criticism of we all need it. Everybody needs it. If there wasn't
constructive criticism, nothing would improve in business, nothing would improve at work, nothing
		
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			would improve in education. Nothing would improve in your family. So actually, we welcome
constructive criticism. And in fact, even when somebody gives you a criticism that's unfounded, that
we try to find if 99% of what this person is saying is nonsense, that 1% That is true, I should
contemplate on that. Instead of saying, Who are you to tell me or we don't we don't get our ego
spike because somebody criticizes, you know, Allah describes one of the one of the states of the
monastic. He says, Yeah, so Buddha could have had an early him and sort of Mafia code. They assume
that every outcries against them, would you say about me? It was about me, are they taking a shot at
		
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			me? I think that was about me. They're paranoid that everybody's out to get them, you know, and the
people that sing the song, I don't care what anybody says, the more they sing it, the more they're
proving they really care about what everybody says. Yeah. It's really getting to them. It's really,
really getting to them. That's that's a state where the only objective you have is to protect
yourself to elevate yourself to rise above and you say, You know what, people don't matter. My
family doesn't matter. My friends don't matter. Nobody understands me. I'm a unique, special
individual. I've seen enough tick tock videos to make myself feel extra special. You know, I'm above
		
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			all of this and everybody else I've got the labels for all of them. narcissist, toxic, abusive, this
manipulative, you know, psychopath, sociopath, I got all of them labeled. I don't even use their
real names anymore, you know, on my phone. But once you get above that, and the only one left for
you to deal with is Allah is Allah Himself. You know what happens? Well, I made dua, and I really
wanted Allah to do this for me, and it didn't happen. You know what, I don't really believe in Allah
so much anymore.
		
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			Because it's not going it's not Allah is not surrendering his will to my feelings.
		
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			Because I'm not getting what I wanted.
		
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			So right, Amanita ILAHA Waho, have you seen someone who takes their feelings and turns them into
their God? Allah did not put us on this earth, you know, this, this false narrative, snap out of it,
snap out of it. Allah did not put us on this earth to seek happiness, to seek happiness. You know,
Allah put us on this earth to live by a purpose. And when you live a purposeless life, when you
realize your job on this earth, is to serve your robe. And then by serving your robe, you're going
to serve humanity, you're going to do something good for others, that is not about you, that's about
them. You're going to build, you're going to build a well, in a village, you're going to build a
		
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			school, you're going to help your neighbor, you're going to help stop a crime, you're going to do
something good. You're going to add value to the world. And it's not about you. When you read when
you don't have that in your life, then slowly but surely, the the when your purpose is lost, then
the only way the purpose can be lost is our connection with Allah is going away. It's disappearing,
it's fading. And eventually it fades enough and my own self becomes so inflated, that even Allah
doesn't have room in my heart anymore. And so Allah says Allah, tada ilaha illa, Allah, Allah Who
are their element, and Allah allows this person to be misled, even though they know because Allah is
		
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			now making a distinction between our which can be here in the chest, and the alien, which is here.
So logically, I know what I'm saying is wrong, but you know, you hurt my feelings. My feelings are
hurt, therefore, and I'm justifying all of my behavior based on my whims, even though I know better,
even though I know better. And the arrogance can get to the point where we even start making lies up
against Allah. Allah knows how I feel. And I know what I know. The book says it's how long but my
feelings have Allah and I have a special connection. He'll understand. Really
		
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			Not too early when Allah Hobbico what Allah says you're going to teach allow your religion now,
you're going to teach allah how this works. That's the position your you got that special status.
Now, this is what happens when, when the how, when the inner state becomes a God. He says Mahatama
Allah seminary he will call me he, he places a seal on such a person's heart.
		
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			And first first deep, this is a seal on such a person's hearing. And then on their heart. What does
it mean to place a seal on their hearing? That means every time they have to hear something that can
guide them back, they block it out, they tune it out. I don't even want to hear this kind of
negativity. I just want to hear a positive message. That's just too negative.
		
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			You know how, if you're just looking for constant positivity, and you can't deal with negativity,
you know what that means? You're not able to deal with your own flaws, because you've already deemed
yourself flawless. I've already considered myself so beyond criticism that I can't hear anything
that seems to put a Casta cast an image I am forced to see myself in the mirror. No, no, that's too
much negativity. Right. So in the name of actual abuse, actual narcissism, actual verbal toxicity,
and in the name of protecting yourself from those things. Now you've put yourself in a new kind of
pedestal, a new extreme has been formed. And I've seen this extreme. You know, on the one hand, we
		
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			have Muslims, unfortunately, who have no conscience, no awareness of mental health issues. No
awareness of there is such a thing as verbal abuse, there is such a thing as narcissistic behavior,
or toxic me with no awareness of it. And on the other hyper aware, to the point where you're just
becoming your own self declared psychologist, eventually your own god, you know, you know that and
that's the extreme that I want to save myself from and all of you from Allah xojo Protect us, or
terminate DACA either Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, that element
Mahatama 70, he will call me he was also here to shower. And he places a cover a veil over over this
		
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			person's eyes, over their viewing, you know, what they call that nowadays, they call it an echo
chamber. If you're not familiar with the term, what that is, is anything, you can't hear anything
that disagrees with your view. You can't observe anything, you can't place yourself in an
environment that challenges your preferences. So you surround yourself. Like the algorithms that
like the manipulative Eric, algorithms on social media, you surround yourself with content people,
environments that only reinforce what you already believe that you only want to hear that, and you
cut yourself off literally, the Hutton on summer, and Basa. The visual on the buzzer is now
		
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			algorithms on social media. They make sure that you actually are inside, you're veiled from anything
that will keep you out. And there are studies of people that you know, when they listen to when they
watch a video on one conspiracy theory, guess what shows up next, you know, this, this was
highlighted for you, on your feed the next one, the next one until you're just so dive, you're so
deep inside, that you're living in your own reality. And where we're falling trapped into that there
are studies by non Muslims on this stuff on these echo chambers that are that are extremely
dangerous, extremely, extremely dangerous, that are manipulating us and all of this I started with
		
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			what Allah made us Muslim, one of the conditions of it is that we are free critical thinkers. So the
idea began with us with the ability to think clearly. And so I'm going to end by tying this concept
to one more idea. By the way, Allah says in this ayah I didn't complete the ayah familia de even bad
Illa
		
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			who's going to guide this person after Allah?
		
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			If they've even put Allah aside who's left for them to be guided with? The ultimate destruction for
this person was themselves? familia de humans?
		
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			Aren't you going to make a real effort to remember this? Are you they're not going to make real
direct karoon is different from death. karoun is the firewall. You know what Allah is hinting here.
This reality is something I have to remind myself of, consciously over and over again, this is not a
subtle or a casual thing that you just hear. It's something that has to be reinforced over and over
again. If I let
		
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			you go to Soto Lisara Allah azza wa jal says, when I talk for my lesson, I can be here. I've given
other hubbers about this before but not tighten this. Don't Don't pursue something don't fall
something fall follow something that you don't yourself, have direct knowledge of. have knowledge
yourself, have not know for yourself. Allah wants that for you. Because when you when you know
something for yourself, then whatever you do is based on conscious action. You're not doing it
because someone else wants you to. You're not doing it like a zombie. You're doing it like a thought
thoughtful, analytical.
		
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			calculated human being what I took from Alexa
		
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			in the summer, when vasara While other kulula econ and homeschooler. No doubt about it, the hearing,
the seeing, and the Fouad, I'm not translating for idea all of them will be asked about. So we know
and Judgment, Allah will ask us about the things we heard, or the things we chose to hear versus the
things we chose not to hear. That's the summer being question. While bustle, Allah will ask us about
the things we saw, and the things we refuse to see the things we refuse to see, I was giving you an
example of the tree, anybody can see a tree, but a believer can see a tree and remember the outcome.
Right? Anybody can hear the event, but I believe we can hear the other and say it's time for the
		
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			prayer and leave whatever they're doing. So what we saw and ignored will be questioned. What we saw
and we shouldn't have seen will be questioned, will be heard and ignored will be asked about what we
heard and you shouldn't have been listening to will be asked about what what are you sitting there
listening? What am I sitting there listening to talk about people talking about other people, this
is all life has become. But then the word I didn't translate that I wanted to conclude this hotel is
Alfred, as well as in Arabic actually means the heart. It's one of the words for codon in the Arabic
language. And for soon in this ayah, I became a little bit perplexed because Allah says He will ask
		
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			about the hearing. And he will ask about the seeing, and he'll ask about what sounds like the heart.
So many said no, he what it implies here is the mind, not the heart. But there is there are several
words for the mind in Arabic and for others, not one of them. For outcomes in the Arabic language
from Florida for the Latin, or Latin one for eat. When you roast meat on an open barbecue flame,
when you're out in the desert, and you make a fire and you're you know you're you're rotating the
meat, the meat, right on a skewer, that's actually called Lamb for eat the meat that has been
roasted, this expression got used for the heart, when the heart is over, engulfed in flames. When
		
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			the heart is overwhelmed with emotion, so typically your heart is your con. But if you are enraged,
then it's a flood. If you're extremely excited, it's a flood. If you're extremely scared, it's if
you're extremely depressed. It's, in other words, any heightened emotional state takes your unbanned
turns into a fraud. Now check this out. Allah is saying even the fraud is going to get asked about
		
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			even before and will be asked about you know what people do. Like I said before people take their
feelings into their turn into their gods. We justify the worst, I justify the worst of my behavior
based on my feelings.
		
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			I say yeah, I shouldn't have said that. I shouldn't have lied about you. I shouldn't have done this,
this this. I shouldn't have hit him. I shouldn't have done it. You but you know what, I was really
angry at the time.
		
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			That wasn't really me. That was that, you know, this is me, that was a different, you know,
		
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			or somebody will be really abusive, you know, and hurtful. And then come back and say, you know, I
get like that sometimes well, but that's not really me. This is the real me, you know, you know me.
That was just my fraud.
		
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			I hate that guy too. But you can't hold that against me. Because it was I was just feeling really
lonely. And that's why I did what I did. I was just really sad and it made me do it. So what do we
do we take all of our behavior that happens as a result of our heightened emotions. And we say you
know, what is justifiable because I was really stressed out is justifiable, because I was just
excited is justifiable because I was really scared.
		
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			And now those those that fraud is now above reproach above question. It's above question. What Allah
is telling us is that you will not hide behind your feelings on judgment. I will not hide behind my
feelings. You can turn them into your God in this life and worship them and say My feelings are
valid, I will do whatever my feelings tell me to do. Right? Turn them in Tamela but you and I are
not going to escape on Judgment Day. It's not going to fly on judgement day when you say why did you
say these words? Why did you spread this lie about this person? Why were you humiliating to them in
front of others? Why did you do this? So well, you know, they hurt my feelings two years ago and I
		
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			had to this was just me venting because you understand feelings, right?
		
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			No, the facade will be interrogated before it will be questioned it will be held accountable. We
don't get to justify our actions just based on our emotions. That is why we are any people have
restraint over and control over our emotions. That is one of the most fundamental teachings of our
deen you know, Allah uses the NFP radica IRP I think Liuli NUHA healthy Danika custom only the
hedgehog Falletta word after word after word describing these are IOD for people have no ha You know
what no means? It's one of the words for the intellect for this
		
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			Why is he called Noah because it prevents you from keeping letting your emotions run amok shaking
taking over that's why it's called Noah. Healthy Danika Casali the hedgehog isn't there a miraculous
oath in for in these ayat for people that possess hedges hedges at the possessors of rock? You know
why Iraq because the mind is solid, it doesn't fluctuate like the the waters of emotion, it's solid
they're, they're clear in their thoughts. This is why these words are used for us this is what the
Quran is for, for us to develop solid, critical thinking, for developing restraint and control over
ourselves and not fall into this trap where it's not being celebrated, that our feelings should
		
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			actually be the object of our worship. Our feelings are the most important thing of all, and nothing
can get in the way of our feelings and no negative no criticism, no correction, nothing can come in
it's, it's the ultimate god of worship beyond reproach Allah azza wa jal protect every one of us in
our youth especially and and the elders from from allowing their how to turn it into their love and
Allah azza wa jal continue to guide all of us and set us on the correct course. And may Allah give
all of us the ability to make sincere Dawa BarakAllahu li Walakum Hakim on a finally we are going
		
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			to hamdulillah Heba Kapha are salat wa salam o Hyderabadi loveliness taka, Posada, volley Hill,
Mohammed Ibrahim Mohammed Amin Le he was saying he has been called Allah Azza wa Jalla wa Karim Vida
Annapoorna Aruba bIllahi min ash shaytani R Rajim in Allahu ala ketahui Soluna Allenby
		
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			Amanu Sallu alayhi wa sallam Moses Lima Allahumma Salli ala Muhammad Ali Muhammad cabasa later Allah
Brahim Hema Philomene in Majid, Allah bedika ala Muhammad Ali Mohammed COMM A lot of talent.
		
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			I mean in the academy Majid about Allah, Allah, Allah in Allah What are we waiting for? You will
look up one of the Kobayakawa Allah never matters now. consola in this video