Sadullah Khan – Parables and Wisdom from the Quran (Purification through Self Evaluation) Night 26

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The concept of naughty actions and the importance of self-reductions and critical self-reductions in improving one's behavior is discussed. It is emphasized that knowing oneself as a man is essential for men to determine their own worth and get to know themselves. The heart of the woman is also discussed, as it is associated with love and belief. The concept of love from the heart and how it affects one's behavior is also discussed.

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			kolomela in another in volition,
the role model and the center
		
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			team. They learn it
		
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			Amen and what the Serban the what
do you learn Katie?
		
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			All the bIllahi min ash shaytani R
rajim Bismillah R Rahman Rahim Al
		
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			hamdu lillah wa Salatu was Salam
ala Rasulillah he was early he was
		
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			a big Marine. They are the Tom
keen on masala Hikmah mineral
		
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			Quran Al Karim knights of
empowerment, parables and wisdom
		
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			from the Glorious Quran.
		
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			After the longest series of oaths,
sometimes Allah has raised one
		
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			oath, and then he brings to our
attention something.
		
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			In this case, there is a series of
eight oaths, the longest series of
		
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			Allah in the Quran. And normally
after the oath Allah evokes our
		
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			conscience, either with a question
or the statement. In this case,
		
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			we're gonna see what the HA HA
well commonly that Allah when the
		
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			hurry that a series of eight oaths
by the brightness of the sun, and
		
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			the subsequent moonlight, that
follows and by the daylight, which
		
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			makes everything conspicuous, and
by the night, which obscures and
		
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			so on. And then the point comes,
when let's see what masa for Allah
		
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			Maha Fujimura, what Taqwa consider
the human self, and how it is
		
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			fashioned in proportion, and how
it is innately imbued with the
		
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			capacity to distinguish wrong from
right.
		
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			Then Allah says, Africa Hammonds
		
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			worker the herberman successful
indeed is the one who keeps the
		
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			self pure and purifies yourself.
debase is the one who corrupts the
		
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			self. Now this notion of knifes in
the Islamic text, the concept of
		
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			knifes or self is used
synonymously and interchangeably
		
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			with the spirit which is the rule,
a time to the heart which is the
		
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			call.
		
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			In other words, the faculty of
reasoning, Faculty of
		
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			intelligence, faculties of emotion
and so on of alcohol. And
		
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			therefore, when you speak of
purifying or improving the self,
		
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			we talking about a holistic
development at home this world to
		
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			the hereafter to the next is one
yo Mulayam for Omar, goon Ilam.
		
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			And at Allah be colbyn Salim,
those who meet Allah with a pure
		
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			in sound art and the other one,
Allah Allah will balloons Xena to
		
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			hayati dunya, will Bhartia to
solve the heart, the permanency of
		
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			good actions, pure art and the
permanency of good actions. But to
		
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			do to Ischia to do this
purification, it must begin
		
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			somewhere before that there must
be a starting point. And the skill
		
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			requires what you call Maha Sabha.
And that is what I want to focus
		
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			on here. Bahasa Allah says in the
Quran, a Hasib a nurse who a youth
		
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			Raku a young man, whom Allah you
have to know do you merely think
		
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			you will say you believe and we
will look test, you know? So the
		
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			idea is there will be a hisab
there'll be an evaluation of you
		
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			as a number radiola I'll say ha
Cebu, Kabul and Taha Cebu evaluate
		
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			yourself before you are evaluated
but Allah so we find here,
		
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			reference to Maha Sabha and Maha
Sabha means introspection,
		
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			critical self evaluation, a self
inventory, where am I what am I
		
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			doing? And under self analysis, or
self appraisal, if you wish. And
		
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			why is this Maha Sabha so
important? Because on the one
		
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			hand, it helps in appraising our
lives and our deeds. It also
		
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			allows for a SWOT analysis of the
self looking at our strengths or
		
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			weaknesses, and of course, the
opportunities we have to work on
		
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			the tasks that need to be done and
so on.
		
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			So, it is for SWOT analysis, but
also an appreciation of what we
		
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			have and what we require, whether
it be physically, whether it be
		
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			intellectually, whether it be
ideologically over the be
		
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			spiritually and also, Maha Sabha
is a stepping stone to self
		
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			correction,
		
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			a stepping stone to self
correction and personal
		
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			improvement.
		
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			So this idea of Maha Sabha and be
very careful not to be negative
		
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			when we look at some of these
terms, it it implies self
		
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			criticism. But self criticism does
not mean self contempt. It doesn't
		
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			mean you hate yourself. Many
people mistake humility with
		
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			humiliation, you know, and then
the idea of criticism with
		
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			condemnation or contempt. We have
to draw a careful balance between
		
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			working at our own self
improvement and on the other hand,
		
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			feeling useless or worthless on
those issues we find we may be
		
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			weakened
		
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			So self criticism, and this idea
of Maha Sabha should be looked at,
		
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			as in positive act, an act of
appraisal, an act that can be
		
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			empowering, that can teach us how
to advance ourselves and from
		
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			which you can learn is not a tool
for mortification, no for self
		
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			degradation, and for undermining
yourself. Always remember that
		
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			Islam, as I mentioned, promotes
humility. It never promotes
		
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			humiliation. It is through Maha
Sabha that we truly get to know
		
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			ourselves. And we realize, as the
wise ones have said, men out of an
		
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			officer who for
		
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			those who get to know themselves,
they get to know their creative.
		
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			And this notion of maarif of
knowing is absolutely essential.
		
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			It's a human is incident that
occurred, talking about knowing
		
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			the sound because a person got
into a airport in Cincinnati
		
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			airport, and he there was a queue
of people and you want it to be
		
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			helped. And he told the lady,
please help me the lady said, Sir,
		
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			so long line of people, they're
all going to the same destination,
		
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			please stand in line with the rest
of the people. And he said, Don't
		
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			you know why? She ignored him? She
continued to please stand in line.
		
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			Again. He said, You know, why? Do
you know why?
		
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			She ignored him. Third time he
said to a lady, I don't think you
		
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			know, why. Do you know why? So the
lady took the mic. And she
		
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			announced, she said, Please, on
the intercom system, please. This
		
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			person here does not know who he
is, can please someone come in
		
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			identify?
		
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			Who am I?
		
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			You see, we've gone to great
heights. If climbed the highest
		
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			mountains, and to the depth of
every ocean, we've been to the
		
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			moon and also send missions to
Mars. But we have conquered all of
		
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			this outer space. But yet
		
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			we know very little about ourself
despite knowing everything about
		
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			everybody else.
		
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			If you do not know who you are,
and what you are, you will not
		
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			know why you are here.
		
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			So how will you really know what
to do or why you do what you do?
		
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			And this notion of knowing this
type of knowledge of the self is
		
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			very, very important.
		
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			Malefor is essential even for five
as the scholar same hustle and
		
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			bustle he said Eman ma refer to
mill calm will discern what
		
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			Eman is modified to will come to
know the reality by your heart
		
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			are among them and you acknowledge
them in the sun, you pronounce
		
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			your belief, but you manifested in
your actions. Even therefore,
		
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			faith is rooted in the Malefor is
rooted in the heart. Now one of
		
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			the important things to realize
		
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			from knowing they can be love from
loving, then we can have the you
		
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			can worship a lord or a creator
whom you don't love. And you can
		
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			love someone whom you don't know.
		
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			Many of us are lacking in Malefor.
So where could they be my hub?
		
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			Because from Malefor comes from a
hub from the hub comes very bad.
		
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			And that's why perhaps there is a
shortfall in how our budget is
		
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			manifested. It's called as I said,
la you can tab with Mala to a boom
		
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			what
		
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			it says you can't worship what you
don't love. And you can't love
		
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			what you don't know.
		
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			Ma'am Java aside you love teaching
mumble Hanifa said, Well, you that
		
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			agenda Dr. O'Malley fulfilled for
a hubba hubba lamb you must Allahu
		
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			Ali. He said, If the splendor of
the raise of knowledge of Madiba
		
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			enters the heart, then there is
love and when there is love, it
		
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			will affect you in such a way that
nothing else except Allah will
		
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			affect you. This is like the heart
of Robin.
		
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			Oh Allah, somebody said why? You
don't speak much again. Shavon in
		
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			your lectures, you speak only
about love Allah says Calbee Imam
		
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			Lumia Billa for Angel makan
Lucretia. Tom, my heart is so
		
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			filled with the love of Allah.
There's no place for anything else
		
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			even to ha bomb and preoccupied
with the love of Allah.
		
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			Now, unlike the normal days of
three points, I'm gonna give us 10
		
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			points of Imam has no bursary, who
advised us regarding this Maha
		
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			Sabha and how it has a
consequential domino effect. How
		
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			one thing affects the other thing
and insha Allah may Allah grant us
		
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			to be able to manifest this in our
own lives. When has he been if so
		
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			who Robbie woman Kafala and her
hustle, woman Netherfield our
		
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			keeping ledger woman a thought AHA
who our man Halima runnin woman
		
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			half a Salim ammonia October
episode, an episode of for him,
		
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			woman for him or Alim woman early
Marvel. Beautiful he says whoever
		
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			analyzes himself will benefit.
Whoever is neglectful in
		
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			evaluating himself will lose
whoever looks at his faults and
		
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			rectifies them
		
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			will succeed. Whoever gives into
his lowly desires is weakened.
		
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			Whoever is humble and forbearing
is indeed rich and wealthy.
		
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			Whoever is fearful of doing wrong,
that person is safe. Whoever takes
		
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			note has insight, whoever takes
note of the reality of things has
		
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			insight and whoever is inside
understand those who truly
		
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			understand they know and those who
know they act upon what they know
		
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			and do the best of what they know.
May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant
		
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			us to manifest goodness in all
that we do a call a call the other
		
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			was tougher Allah wa salam aleikum
wa rahmatullah.