Saad Tasleem – Are You Addicted to Material Things

			If we know and understand that buying more stuff is not going to keep us happy forever, then why do
we keep doing it? You're watching hashtag with.
		

			One of the best ways I can describe this for you is to think about a drug addict, the person who is
addicted to a drug, they understand and they Well, they may understand that the next fix that they
get is not going to keep them satisfied forever. But they're chasing that initial euphoria that they
felt the first time they had those drugs. And likewise for us, what we do is we understand, yeah,
buying this next purchase this next thing I'm about to buy, it's not gonna keep me happy forever,
but at least for the short period of time, and then we move from one purchase to a next purchase to
a next purchase. And before we know it, we've spent our whole lives chasing that happiness that
		

			we're never going to find. What is the solution? Well, as Muslims, we aim to separate the dunya, the
worldly life, worldly possessions from our hearts, we don't let our hearts get consumed by the
dunya. That is a concept known as zakat. Zohar means as one of the famous scholars in Islam, he
said, so it means that you keep the worldly life, the worldly possessions in your hands, and not in
your heart, meaning there's nothing wrong with having stuff and buying things and all that that's
fine. It's normal. As human beings, we like to buy things. And that's fine. As long as we don't let
our hearts get consumed by those purchases, and that worldly life, one of the best ways to fight
		

			that consumption of our heart is to think about the realities of our life. What are some of the
realities of our life? Number one, we, if you thought about it, we would realize that our life is
temporary, that the pleasures of this life, they're not going to last for very long, the only life
that lasts forever is a life of the hereafter. So Shouldn't that be our main objective? Second of
all, another reality of this life is that this life is not perfect. Sometimes we convince ourselves
that the next purchase we're going to make, that's perfect, the next phone I buy, that's going to be
the last phone I buy, it's the most perfect phone, but very soon realize that it's not perfect. The
		

			last reality of this life is that everything belongs to a law, if you truly understood that, and if
you reminded yourself that if we sat there and we remind ourselves that whatever I own, whatever I
have in my life actually belongs to a law. And that means that a law can take it away from us at any
moment, then we wouldn't let ourselves get attached to those possessions. Meaning if we have
something or we don't have it, Allah has given it to us or less taking it away. It doesn't make us
depressed, it doesn't emotionally affect us. And that is the life that we are going for. We asked
last time to Allah to grant all of us that life of Zod amin until next time, inshallah Tada. I said
		

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