The Productive Muslim Podcast – Season 3 Ep 20

			You're listening to the productive Muslim podcast season three episode 20.
		

			Salaam Alaikum. And welcome to day 20 of the productive Muslim hot detox challenge. I hope you guys
are doing wonderful today. Now your tasks are going to be remember to do your two pages of going and
reading which now I used to tell you what are the three lessons that I wrote down from Soren to
serve. And I want you guys to share your lessons that you learned below. So one of the first lessons
that I learned from you, sir, that
		

			I really want to apply to myself is the idea of beautiful patients. So when jacoba A Sam was told
that his son had been eaten by the wolf. He did not respond with a ton of anger he did not start
beating his sons or pulling his hair out. He said beautiful patients he put his reliance in Allah
subhanaw taala how often does something happen to us? That completely just shakes us or brings out
the worst in us. And we flip out, we don't respond with patience. Instead, we respond with anger and
we show the ugly sides to ourselves, or as the apple bad is lost some his most beloved Son, and he
responded with beautiful patience. The second thing that I learned from sorority Youssef was
		

			resisting temptation, resisting temptation, not only in the sense of lust, between human beings, but
just resist the temptation to do head on. So when you're Savannah, Sam was approached by his
master's wife, he was very conscious of all the blessings that his master had given him and was very
conscious of Allah. And so he did not want to fall into sin, the same and that is the same mentality
that we should adopt. When it comes to temptation for someone that perhaps you we are falling for,
when it comes to temptation to do something that is not pleasing to Allah, whether it's in our
business, whether it's in how we treat others, just being conscious of the loss of habitat or being
		

			conscious that what we are saying, is going to be written down. Well, the way the things that come
off our tongue are going to be held against us, what we listen to what we watch our ears and our
eyes, they're going to testify against us. And just ensuring that we are conscious of making sure
that we are doing things that please that last panel that. And then third lesson that I learned from
Sarah to set would be the lesson of forgiveness. Now, when I was younger, if my sister took my
clothes, and completely flip up, and not want to talk to her for a few days, because she took my
clothes, and I don't understand why she had to use the valets alarm, had his brothers tried to kill
		

			him, Kenny and his brothers throw him down a well, to get rid of him. And you would think that after
so many years without them, and you know, having reached such a high position, you know, he's in a
position where he could get revenge on them, where he could call them out on it. How often does
something happened with somebody annoys us, and we make it like our mission, the next time we see
that person, we're going to hold them accountable, we're going to tell them exactly what they've
done to annoy us. And I share that trait sometimes, too, if I find that somebody has frustrated me
and make it a thing where I say right, I'm going to call them out on what they've done so that they
		

			know what they've done. Use of LS la forgive them. He forgave his brothers who threw him down over.
Now imagine had my sister not taking my clothes by the show? She threw me down Well, in what
capacity? Would I think, yes, I'm going to forgive her. And I want you guys to think about perhaps
any family members who've done something to hurt you. Whether it's your children, or your spouse, or
your siblings, Yaakov Allison and forgave his children and bore bore the difficulties that he went
through a beautiful patient's use of honey SLM forgave his brothers, we should adopt these two
characteristics of patience, and forgiveness. And I think they were the two really key lessons of
		

			the three that I took from Socrative. And they actually lead me on to the article that you're going
to read today, it is a three part series on peace and contentment. And this article is really
beautiful. And I want you guys to really reflect on this article, because it's about the idea of
what it means to be blessed. So living in a day and age of social media, people showed the best
sides of themselves. So I do have friends who, for example, they'll call me and they'll say, Have
you seen this particular person on Instagram? Do you think they have the best life ever? Or look at
this Instagram girl with her husband and how happy they look? And you know, they're so wealthy?
		

			Don't you wish you could have a life like that? And so we imagine
		

			Come to equate blessings with material objects. blessing us, we'll be having a nice husband.
Blessing as we'll be being wealthy, traveling the world taking photos, eating fancy food, those are
the things that we see as blessing. But because those are things that not everybody gets, you then
start measuring your life by that. And if you don't have that you're not blessed. And taking that
mentality leads to being ungrateful towards Allah subhanaw taala. Because if you really look at the
things that Allah has given you,
		

			and London, Allah created you being able to see a light created you being able to hear that is why
you are listening to this podcast, can you imagine if you were not able to hear Allah put you in a
position, but you have internet access, which many people then I love that you are in a position to
be listening to this podcast to find a way to get closer to Him, to read these productive Muslim
articles to get closer to him, Allah has made you blessed. And so to measure the value of your
blessings based on material objects, that leaves that do nothing for you, you do not take these
material objects into the next world, we're spending your time in a bed, that is the real
		

			investment. having patience is what you're really going to cash in on, on your monthly ama when you
meet a loss of her dad. So I want you to read this article. And I want you to truly reflect on how
you derive contentment. contentment isn't happiness, by the way, contentment and really is not
happiness. Because happiness, anything can make you happy, I can eat chocolate, and I will feel very
happy. I can spend the day chilling in bed. And that makes me very happy having sleep, I will be
very happy. But having actual contentment is this idea that no matter what calamity you're going
through, or what difficulty you're going through, you're trusting the Lord doesn't waver your
		

			contentment that Allah has put you in this position for a reason. It does not waver. So make sure
you read this article and let me know your thoughts on it. Your final task for the day is you
actually have to tasks you're going to write a letter to Allah subhanaw taala. And you're not going
to share it with anyone. Now the reason I put this task in is because it was actually something that
my mom used to do. So my mom grew up in a time where not a lot of people around her were practicing.
And so when my mom at a young age wanted to wear hijab, many people opposed it. And they would laugh
at her and say she was wearing a sack, and didn't she feel embarrassed covering up and looking so
		

			unattractive. And what my mom said was her source of comfort was writing letters to Allah subhanaw
taala. She was very young, about 11 years old. And this gave her comfort, the idea that she knew
Allah was listening, and she wrote a letter, and she would vent out her feelings. And to this day,
she kept those lessons. So we're going to write a letter to Allah subhanaw taala, it can be about
anything, it can be about your progress so far this Ramadan, it can be about why you love Allah, it
can be about what you're struggling with, it can be anything that you want. The next thing that
you're going to do for your last task is you're going to reflect on a calamity that happened to you.
		

			And you're going to reflect on what benefit came from. So calamity is a strong word. But I want you
to think of something negative, something that you had initially perceived as negative, and that had
upset you, and how I send it to a blessing that could be something minor, for example, not getting
into the school that you wanted, or not getting the job that you wanted, and realizing Actually,
this was the best thing that ever happened to me. Sometimes it can be alone, removing someone from
your life. And then later realizing that this person was this person drained your energy, this
person was not good for you. And it was a blessing that they were removed from your life. Sometimes
		

			it could be something like
		

			a missed opportunity that Allah made you miss an opportunity that you thought could be so fruitful
for you. But you later on, you look back and you're like, you know what Al Hamdulillah that
happened. Sometimes the calamity can be that Allah test you and your email in a way that you didn't
possibly imagine. But then the benefit to it is that because you've managed to work through it,
Allah has made you a light for your own community, that you can go out there and help others going
through that same calamity to bring them back to Allah subhanaw taala
		

			we're now on day 20. And I really hope that if you're still listening to this podcast, that you're
enjoying them, that you are sticking to the tasks within this detox challenge. And I pray that
you're feeling the benefits of this challenge. I am looking very forward to being with you guys
tomorrow in sha Allah and I hope you have a wonderful wonderful evening, as salaam aleikum wa
rahmatullah wa barakato.
		

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