Safi Khan – Soul Food Advice 10 Death and Our Mortality
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So like I said, something mentioned, today we're
gonna go through the 10th advice, and this
10th advice is about
the break. Anybody wanna volunteer to read?
The first
couple of lines?
Yes. What did you mean by the how
do you have? I
Amon? Amon?
It says that
for you to plant resolution
in your spirit
and place your feet in your lower self
and death in your physical
body. K?
It sounds like a really cryptic message. It's
like, hey. I don't completely understand what you're
telling me to do. There are 2 there
are 3 things that he mentions. K? The
first thing that he mentioned
is investing in one's soul.
First thing that he mentions
is investing in one's soul. The second thing
that he mentions
is conquering one's stocks.
We'll talk about what that means. And then
the 3rd claim mentions is recognizing that death
is a reality.
That know that your body is prepared for
death. Like, that is a huge reality.
When we talk about
death, when we're talking about the grave,
what Imam Gonzalez
is putting our mind to
is to recognize
that the grave is a reality.
It is something that is gonna happen.
You we all will die
and the place that we will end up
in is the grave.
And it's so much so a reality
that he says that the people of the
grave are awaiting.
You know, like, someone knows a guest who's
gonna come over. Somebody confirms with
you. I'll come over to your house at
5 o'clock for dinner. I don't know who
eats dinner at 5 o'clock. Not my friend.
But I'll come over to your house, like,
8 PM for dinner. This confirms us.
As confirmed as that is, that is how
people of the grave
are.
But there are 2 things that he mentioned
before he talks about preparing yourself for death.
He mentions first, the investment in one's soul,
and then number 2, the defeating of one's
lust.
And these are 2 things that
once you take care of these two things
or once you continue to take care of
them because it's a never ending journey, it
only ends when you die.
Once you continue to take care of them,
then perhaps you may be ready for death.
Perhaps you may be ready to die. We'll
talk about that in the next paragraph.
The first thing though the thing to recognize
is that these two things
are in our life journey.
So first thing is investing in one's soul,
and the second thing is defeating one's naps.
K? This is the 2 things you spend
your life going back and forth between.
When we talk about defeating one's naps, it's
important to understand the naps.
The mouse are of 3 types, and I'm
having this conversation with you guys now so
you kinda understand a little bit more about
yourself because the mouse really means the sound.
And being able to understand yourself,
being able to understand these three things will
help you understand different things you may battle
with in your brain.
So the is of 3 types. There's
What's interesting
is that how many of you guys get
really you don't have to read your hand.
How many of you guys get really down
on yourself when you do something wrong?
Right. And you don't have to reach me
out, but you guys, it's great. Right? How
many of you guys do you may do
something wrong, you recognize that it's not okay,
but for some reason, you really wanna do
nothing.
Like, you're like, it's this is I should
not be mean to this person or I
should not say this thing,
but I just really wanna say it.
It's necessary to mean you do it, but
you just really wanna say it. You just
really wanna do it. These are all parts
of the self, and everybody has these three
parts.
And a model
is a part of us that call us
to do things that we should not do.
Even though we know that we we even
though we know that we shouldn't do it.
Even though we know that it's not okay.
So for example,
use of them, who's a prophet
of god. K?
He is in a situation
where the
Aziz's wife,
basically the governor's wife, tries to seduce them.
And after all these things happen, he ends
up going to jail. He says to Allah
Subhanahu,
you know, being in we've covered series of
and so forth, but he tells Allah
being in jail is more
loving to me. Like, I would love to
go to jail
than have to deal with this. Like, then
to be called to whatever this sin is,
I rather go with you. I rather be
put in prison
than to be dealing with this.
Once he's in prison, it comes a time
when his name can be clear.
His name is clear, and when his name
is clear, he does say to Allah,
he says that there's a part of me
to be blamed,
and that part is
my Okay. There's a part of me to
be blamed and that part is my
And he's saying this
because
at the end of the day, the reality
is though he's a prophet, he's still a
human being,
but he had a reign on that knot,
that part of it. He was able to
pull it in.
Right? But it doesn't just because you can
control something,
doesn't mean that the desire does not exist.
K? Just because you can control something,
it does not mean that the desire does
not exist. It's there, You just have a
little bit more control over
it. So that's the first part. The first
is your enough amount of result. It caused
you to do wrong. So there are times
where you're gonna wanna do something that's wrong
and that's not okay, and you're gonna cognitively
are you gonna actually
recognize that it's wrong. You should not do
it. You're not a crazy person.
Everybody has that part of them.
Everybody has that part of them.
Then there is your
doesn't know what they want. K? That part
of you
is your I don't know if I want
Dean. I don't know if I want Daniella.
That's that part of you. You know, probably
that's like, this seems really cool, but I
kinda wanna make up with some today, so
I don't know why I should do this.
Maybe I should do it. Maybe I didn't
do it. And then you do it, and
then you get mad at yourself doing it.
That's your naps and then you laugh. It's
real. All of us got it. We all
got it.
That's your naps and luana.
It's the part of you
that gets upset with you that you when
you do something wrong,
but also tries to convince you to do
something that's wrong.
Wants you to do right, but it's like,
damn, this is the same girl flying.
That's that part of you. That's the part
of you that when you're talking to your
friend
about them doing something wrong, and you're like,
man, that must have been fine. I mean,
you shouldn't have did that, but that must
have that's god's define you.
K? And then your last part
of you is your
and
this is content with God.
It is the part of you
that wants and craves
for Allah to be happy with you.
The more you feed your soul things that
are good,
the more you feed your
The more you feed your side of you,
that craves
that love and and that satisfaction
that, you know, that love can turn with
the law.
The more you feed your muscle amount of
result, soul, that first part of you that
caused you to do wrong, the more you
crave to do wrong.
And what Imam Ghazali is telling us here
is that he's saying, listen.
Investing in your soul
investing in your soul,
will either prepare you for the get great
or it's gonna make you absolutely terrified to
die.
You can choose.
Either you're gonna prepare yourself for the year
after, for the break,
or
you're terrified for that. Why? Because you you
may feel like you have nothing to show
for it.
Because you're feeding into that.
There are different ways to be able to
feed into your.
There's different ways
to be able to, you know, build yourself.
And normally, they say acts of worship. So
what are some acts of worship that you
guys can think about?
Anybody? There are many acts of worship come
on, guys. Smile.
Smile. Very good. Somebody said smile. Right?
Very
good. Smile to the smallest charity donating.
Anything else?
Yes. Moving something harmful out the road.
Very good.
There's all these different ways of acts of
worship.
Normally, people will say things this is normal
too, but people will say things like salah
and fasting,
like your bipolar.
But there's so much more as that has
been mentioned
to
acts of worship.
There's so much more to your deen and
your belief and feeding yourself and being, like,
a person that has good character,
being a person that has that that is
working towards that relationship with Allah. There is
so much more to you
than just ritual. Ritual is important,
but our religion, our deen is very holistic.
And so there's so many narrations where he
talks about
He says
That a person
who claims you don't have true belief. Like,
we all claim to be believers here. You
don't have true belief until you love for
your brother or sister to love for yourself.
And we we talk about this all the
time. We say it, but then we internalize
it.
This feeds into our enough so much more
in that.
We're putting it in the context of recognizing
that this is how we continue to invest
in our relationship
with Allah.
We will invest in everything else, but do
we invest in our relationship with Allah.
Part of investing in our relationship with with
Allah is doing right by people. The
process of it said in another marriage,
will love the
will love
will love the value of him. He says
it 3 times. I swear about Allah a
person does not believe. I swear about Allah
those persons is not a believer.
To the point where the companions, they then
turn to the and they say to him,
Who are you talking about?
You know, you're you keep saying that this
person is not a believer. This person is
not a believer.
You know? Who are you talking about?
And the pastor's only he says,
but why but why people?
That the one who their neighbor is not
safe from their heart?
The person
who the their neighbor is not safe from
them.
And how does this not call us,
but what he's saying is recognize
do not recognize that part of your belief,
part of you being a person, part of
you being a Muslim,
and a and a a believers who actually
truly has faith in God is that you
are good to other people. These 2 are
acts of worship.
So in addition to our salah and our
fasting
and our charity,
the way we treat people is very important.
So, Imam Ghazali, just to bring it back
a little bit, Imam Ghazali, he says
that, listen.
In order to prepare yourself for the grave,
you need to do 2 things.
You need to invest in your soul and
defeat your nuts.
How do you defeat your
nuts? Well, by investing in your soul.
If you do good things, it will continue
to defeat anyone else and continue to break
them down. It takes discipline.
It takes discipline.
Sometimes you're in the habit of doing things
that your adolescent and not able to sort
of keep calling you to.
You have to discipline yourself.
You have to say that I am not
gonna go to that environment.
I will not talk to this person. I
am going to delete their number. I will
not stop them in spam.
K? Just because you delete the number and
that you stop them, that
doesn't
help. Why are you asking? I'm serious. Because
he knows. He knows. I know. Right? Right.
It doesn't help.
You have to continuously discipline yourself.
And then on top of that, you
replace that habit or replace that thing with
something better.
So you're doing 2 things. You're dropping. You're,
like, completely
investment amount of the sort. You're like, listen,
homie. And you're like, seriously? I need you
to chill right now. And you're feeding into
your
that relationship between you and the law. And
that is what helps you prepare you for
the good.
Your name was Amen.
Yes. K. Can you read the next slide,
please? I'm actually really bad at names.
So, normally, I just meet people, which is
not not a good thing. I can't believe
what this is about
Very good.
He brings in a quote or narration for
Abu Bakr to think very long for life.
What's interesting is he presents 2 types of
animals here. What does he say?
Anybody?
Birds and
cattle. K? Birds and cattle.
And he says what he's saying here
is that he says that our mind and
to ourselves, we are abiding that that it
is,
changes
Like, those of birds or symbols of cattle,
like animals, cattle.
Now he says that you can either be
a bird
or you can be cow.
And what he means by that is that
when Allah says,
when when he calls the souls back and
he says, return to your lord. K. When
Allah
calls the souls back,
what I would love to speak here a
long time, I'm even saying here is that
he's saying either you can go back you're
gonna go back either way.
When Allah's calling us back to him is
not
a question.
You know? He's not saying, hey. Do you
wanna leave? Do me a no no. It's
not a question.
Alright? While saying that it's your time to
go, it's your time to go.
Either you can go like a bird that's
free
or you can be dragged like cattle.
That is what you're saying.
Either you can go like a bird that
is free
or you can be dragged by cattle.
The way that you go like a bird
that's free is by taking care of those
2 things.
Feeding good into your soul and resting into
your soul
and defeating your nuts.
But if you don't do those two things,
then you're gonna be dressed like cattle. You're
not gonna wanna go. Who wants to get
in trouble? Nobody.
Nobody.
Something a practice that the prophet will do
very often
is that the prophet will go and visit
the graves.
How many of you guys have visited a
graveyard before?
Anybody?
Humbling.
Took a little bit of delay. Yeah. Actually,
hearing. Humbling. Anybody else?
Same.
I'm settling.
But how quick was it to forget that
feeling?
Very
quick. That day, you're a little weird, you
know. You're like, man, that's, like, my reality.
You're kinda thinking it might.
And then 2 days later, 3 days later,
and that's it.
The prophet will go frequently.
And when he would go, he will make
a dua that
is so powerful
because it it brings it all into perspective.
He will say
peace be onto you, oh people of this
grave. I'm talking to people.
And then he will say,
to those who have faith and those who
submitted.
And
without a doubt, we're gonna join you soon.
That's the scary part.
Inshallah, no doubt about it, we're gonna join
you soon. Like, you're here now. No. Imam
Abu Dhabi says the people of the grave
were waiting for you.
Right? This is how prophet will go greet
them.
And then he says,
that we ask Allah for you and for
us that we're safe. We're safe and for
peace.
Crossroads and we did this very frequently,
and it's to put our minds in perspective.
It's to help us understand what we're working
towards and what we're investing in. So in
this beginning part, I'm gonna hand it off
to myself and then now. What we're learning
here is that it's so important to take
care of our time that we have now
so that we can prepare ourselves for the
green.
And the way that we take care of
our time that we have now is by
investing in our soul
and defeating our
Yeah. So he continues now after building up
the idea, the understanding
the idea of understanding
that,
no matter where you come from and what
position you're in,
that is something that
everyone is gonna have to cross. It's a
line that everybody is going to have to
cross, but we don't know when. And he
mentions
hadith of the
the prophet
mentions authentic narration
where he said that
that the
the throne of God shook
as a result of the death of this
one companion.
His name was Saad Munir. He was the
leader
of the tribe of the Os.
The tribe of was one of these two
tribes in Medina before the prophet
came to Medina.
There were 2 tribes. What were they named?
Khazoa. Very good. Right?
So
these were 2 tribes that were trying to
claim
dominance and superiority over the territory
And it was interesting because this tribalism had
gone so far
that
they had developed such animosity towards one another,
and they had been battling in in in,
you know, petty ways
that when they came to the prophet Muhammad
initially, when they came to him,
during,
during the days of Mina,
during the the day of Aqaba,
when they came to him initially,
the conversation wasn't necessarily about, like, Islam, Iman,
and Jannah and Jahannam. But when this group
came from Medina and sat with the prophet
one of the things that they talked about
about accepting Islam because they were not Muslim
yet was they told the prophet
that we heard
that you are somebody who can solve disputes.
Like, we heard that you had this trait
within you, that you're just somebody who can
handle disputes between people. If you can settle
the dispute between us,
then we're gonna go ahead and allow we'll
we'll accept that you're our leader
because this is something that's been happening for
so long.
And so interestingly, subhanallah, I want you guys
to take this away from that story.
When the
first came to the prophet, it
was not because of some
miraculous
convert story
about, oh, in my dream, I saw this
and then I saw your face and so
I came here and saw you. Those exist,
by the way. You have the subconscious stories
where you have the companions who traveled
thousands of miles on foot,
being given prophecy of a man in the
land of palm trees
who will not eat from gift not eat
from charity, but will eat from gifts. That's
the non fantasy story. And he travels and
goes and finds it. It's an amazing story.
But this story, these people,
they accepted Islam
because they saw Islam as being the solution
to their problem.
They didn't know of any other way to
solve it. They tried everything else. They fought
each other. Right? They tried to negotiate. They
tried to use diplomacy. It didn't work. So
they finally hear this person, and
they say, look. If if if you can
solve our problem, then that's enough of a
proof for us. We'll accept it. So the
prophet
obviously, the rest is history. We know he
goes to Medina.
Right? He he he he makes the the
the people of the
and the leader of the tribe of, who
accepted the on
the hand of a young companion. His name
was Musa.
Musa
Abid, his story is something else completely. We
can't go on a tangent there because it's
gonna take too long. But I want you
to know something. When the prophet
had to pick 1 person
to go to Yastrib or Medina later
and teach these people about Islam before he
himself made hijra there.
He's going, but he has to send one
person ahead.
Right? This happens sometimes when families move. One
person goes and takes care of, like, furnishing
the house or something like that. Right?
So Musa, this is a lot more serious
than buying furniture.
Prophet was like, I need somebody to go
and prepare these people
for the message that we're bringing in the
community that we're building. He chose Musa. Do
you guys know why he chose Musa?
What do you guys know about this man,
Musa?
Yeah. No.
So so that
definitely is a fact about him that most
of was pointed to, like, one of the
wealthiest families.
I hate I I don't make this comparison
lightly because literally,
this is the only
comparison it's a I'm not gonna use that
comparison. That family is I don't know. I
don't know.
Like, the Kennedys or the Rockefellers. I was
gonna go with the Kardashians, but I was
gonna go with the Kenny's Rockefellers.
K?
Well, you know, like, these big name families,
like, that just
have wealth.
They just it's like they're like, the grass
on their front lawn is $100 bills. Like,
they just have this generational wealth. Right? That
was Musa. Musa was born into that. He
used to get clothes and shoes and everything
imported from from Yemen. He never had
to buy stuff from Marshalls. Like, he just
had stuff custom made. You know, that was
just him. They said you can smell him
from 7 days away,
which is Arabic, like,
you know,
hyperbole. Right? You can't smell someone from a
certain amount of time away, but they said,
yeah. You could with him because he smelled
his fragrance so small. It was beautiful because
the scent was imported.
So, anyway, so this man, Musa Abra, man,
long story short, man, we need to do
a series of Musa Abra.
Long story short, Musa'ab, he loses
everything. He loses everything. His parents take him
out. They cut him off. His uncles
make him
take off his clothes before he's kicked out.
Why? Because he heard of the prophet
and he accepted Islam. So when you talk
about a person who puts
him in his rule, puts
puts
in his soul and puts desire in his
soul and gives it all away,
was one of those people. Check this out.
Who did Sa'ed accept Islam from? Who taught
them about Islam?
Musa, very good. Wasn't it a trick question?
Everyone's like,
Omar? No. We've been talking about this one
person the whole time. Musa
gave his life up for Islam. Right? Intense
moment, serious stuff. He goes
Islam on his hand.
Now what is
known for?
Is known for one statement,
very powerful statement where the prophet was very,
very nervous.
The prophet was very nervous.
Before a battle, he asked his companions.
This is the battle of Adar.
He asked his companions.
They were out on an expedition. They were
not ready for battle.
Okay?
For those of you to understand what that
must feel like, I want you to imagine
that it's a Saturday morning, and your mother
told you, hey. Go and get some milk
and
So you went in whatever you wear on
Saturday morning.
Imagine.
Then she calls you here at the store
and she says, come straight here. You're getting
married. It's your wedding.
Right? You're like, but I'm not ready.
Now, again, in a much more serious fashion,
the companions of the prophet went out on
expedition.
They had no
provisions with them. No swords. No shield. They
were just a bunch of farmers from Yefud.
Like, they didn't have much. They go out
and all of a sudden they get the
news that what? That Quraysh is coming to
attack.
The other issue is that
when the prophet moved to Medina, they had
an agreement. And one of the points of
the agreement was,
if anything comes from Raish, any battle or
any, you know,
declaration of war,
only the Muhajiroun
have to fight. Only we have to fight,
the Meccans.
But those of you from Medina, it's not
your beef. It's not your issue. You don't
it's
not an obligation for you to defend us,
but we would very much appreciate
it given that we are brothers, sisters, and
stuff like that.
You'll not be penalized if you don't do
it.
So now the prophet Sulsedim is out with
these people, 80 of them are from the
Nevakans
and 250
of them are from the the Venans, from
the onslaught. They get word that the army
is coming. Prophet Sulsat, he stands and he
asks everybody, what do you think we should
do?
Thousand people versus 313. What do you think
we should do?
So he looks and, of course,
you know, some of the stronger
neck and the the OGs, the the legacy
companions who I've been with him for over
a decade now. This is the house. Well,
let's do it.
Let's do it. Like, let's let's get ready
to rumble. Like, we're down for this. You
know us.
The prophet, he looks at them
and
he says okay
and then another Meccan
Sahabi says, yeah, so Allah let's do it.
Now the Meccans remember they don't have a
choice, they have to defend themselves. So he
looks, he looks, he looks and the the
companion who's narrating this hadith, he said, it
looked as though the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam was looking for something
like he was, like, he wasn't satisfied with
those two answers. So finally,
who speaks up? Saba Murrah. He raises his
voice
politely, says, Yahweh Sola, we
are with you.
We are with you to such a point
that if you commanded us to follow you,
we would follow you step by step, Yasser
Alaa. And if we saw you walk up
to the edge of a cliff and you
walked off into the ocean and your body
plunged into the water and we couldn't see
you, you know, we would be there right
then.
We trust you.
We have no doubt
that you are the messenger of all.
Doesn't matter what you tell me to do.
I'm not questioning your orders anymore.
I wanna be there with you, so I'm
with you.
The companions from Mecca
or sorry, the companions from Medina, they said
when we heard Saad say that, all of
us all of us felt such jealousy in
our heart in a good way, not bad,
that we wish he had said that because
as soon as Saad out of those words,
they said we saw a smile on the
face of the prophet that we've never seen
before.
His face lit up like proud, my students,
they understand, they get it, they're here. That
was Saba Nua.
He gave it all. And why do you
think he learned how to give it all?
Because who he learned his deed from?
From Musa'at, the one who gave it all.
You see how important it is to understand
who you spend time with?
You see how important it is to see
how these things transfer?
I'm not sure if Musa ibn Umayra ever
had a conversation and said, hey, look, if
the prophet
ever asks you, use these lines.
I'm not sure that ever happened. So I
don't think it was scripted. I don't think
it was planned. These things just occur when
the hearts come together and you learn from
your brothers and sisters
And you're with them and you're having dinner
and you're out somewhere and you're sitting on
a nice patio and you just order food
and the waiter comes, the waitress comes, which
is, by the way, the happiest moment after
Hajj.
Like, after you've done your Hajj, number 2
on that moment of happiness is when the
waitress or waiter is coming with your food.
Right? Documented scientifically,
the serotonin release.
And your friend then says, hey, is
in, we should pray.
Right? We should
pray. Like, that kind of companionship
reminding you to pray at a time when
it's so inconvenient
And it's so you have to pray in
public and get so all these thing. Reminding
you and and then what? You're inspired to
do the right thing.
That's the importance of friendship.
Right? Not only having those
so
that this man, because of his sincerity for
Allah when he passed away,
the throne of Allah shook.
There's another narration that's beautiful that the prophet
was tiptoeing at the.
He he he participated in Badr and Rafat,
and he got,
poisoned
with a dagger at Hamdah, and then he
later died from that from that wound. So
when they praised his janazbah or when they
were gathering for his burial, sorry, or when
they were gathering for his burial,
they the prophet was tiptoeing
through
the area of Al Qartir,
and the companions asked the prophet, so, why
are you tiptoeing? And he said, don't you
see the thousands of angels that are here
for Saab?
Like, you you guys don't see the crowd?
So, Imam al Zali here is quoting this
name Saab al Moran in the same way
that we say
shoot the jump shot like Kobe did.
Right? Master the fade away like MJ. If
somebody said that name, you know exactly what
they're talking about. Even if you don't know
what basketball is. Even if you can't tell
a basketball from a tennis ball, you're like,
I get it.
Kobe.
Right?
So is
referencing that name,
and
the
Just like the basketball players of
Wow. Right? That inspiration of Salamah.
To learn how to live your life the
way that Sa'd did and you'll see that
you'll have as powerful relationship with Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. Continue.
Amen.
He says that may Allah save you from
being like one of those animals, the one
that Allah described in the Quran where he
says that they are like cattle. No. They're
worse.
He said, don't think for a minute that
you're safe when you're in the corner of
your house, I. E. Your bedroom,
that you don't think you can be transported
from there into how we have to not
into the jaws of hellfire.
Right? This is what it means to be
sincere. I'm never safe. Not
paranoid, not constantly thinking man on it but
thinking to yourself
Allah can always see me. He knows what
I'm doing.
He knows.
Right? He knows on the incognito browser. He
knows
on my finsta. He knows. He knows everything
that I'm doing and even if I can
hide it, even if my parents don't know,
you know, one of the things that Muslim
said Muslim
youngsters say that's really scary
is they brag about how good they lie.
Have you guys ever done that or heard
that? I just saw 20 people lower their
heads.
They're like I'm such a good liar.
I can lie and, like, I could definitely
pass one of those tests, like, my blood
work my heart rate didn't even show up
at all. Right?
And everyone, you know, people who say it's
like, oh, man. I love it because that's
just that's a bad time.
That's a bad time.
It's not normal to be able to lie
like that and give it. It's not normal.
It's not that's not a healthy heart.
Healthy heart can't do that.
Healthy heart. A lot's out of building these
physiological responses within us, like, you know, the
heart rate increasing and sweating and getting nervous.
That's normal.
Right? But if we don't have that, then
that's a problem.
And that's what
he's warning against. Don't think that you're safe
even for a second. Continue less hard.
Was a really serious dude.
He was really serious. Like, his personality was,
like, really really
serious. I don't know. There's no other adjectives
to describe him. He was very serious.
Really serious. He was intense and and but,
subhanallah, one thing that you can learn from
him is that
quotes this narration about him.
That he received
someone gave him a glass of cold water.
And as soon as they gave it to
him,
as soon as he took it,
he says,
fainted from it,
and the glass dropped from his hand.
When he came to, it was said to
him,
What happened to you?
People around him are like, what's the deal?
You alright? Feel light headed?
And he said, I remembered that.
I I it came across my mind when
I got that glass of cold water. The
hopes and the wishes at the now the
people of now
when they say
to the people of Jannah, oh, people of
Jannah, as mentioned in the
here
is quoted here. Oh, people of Jannah,
give us some of the water or some
other provision that you have. Just give us
some,
Begging for scraps from Genma
while they're in the hellfire. Like, looking up
to the people of Genma saying, just send
us down something. Forget all the fruit. Forget
all of that. Forget the pleasure. Just just
just throw a glass of water down here.
We're so thirsty.
Now that ad itself is powerful, but let's
go back to what happened to Hassan al
Basri when he heard it or when he
lived it.
How many of us have a relationship with
the Quran to the point where, like, when
we see something, we remember something from the
Quran? You guys ever have you guys ever,
like, witnessed something and thought of something from
the Quran or anything? If you witness something
and realize and you're like, wow.
You remember nobody? Anything
anything at all?
Yeah?
What was it, Bob?
I'm not giving grades, by the way. So
this is, you
know
So sometimes, like, really deep stuff, like, you
like, you're waiting for a duas to be
answered and the Quran mentioned something about being
patient with your dua's and then all of
a sudden your dua's are answered.
Okay. Very good. I'm talking like
Like, very, like, descriptive. Allah says in from
the sky came water that he sent down,
from that came fruit and vegetation from the
earth. Like, do you guys ever walk and
just, like, look at the sky and go
in subhanallah? Texas is, like, back to back
champion, world champion sunset king.
Like, every time it's melted here, you're like,
oh my goodness.
Like, nowhere else, man. Nowhere else do you
see sunsets like this. Partially because it's so
flat. Like, from here, you can actually see
Houston.
It's so flat, like, this land has no
hills so the horizon is very generous.
Right?
Getting to the point where
your life interacts with Quran before your mind
has to think about it. Is it does
it sound cool? Like, your heart is always
so familiar
with the verses of the book that when
you get something, you're like, now this is
obviously intense. Right? It's not supposed to be
a very serious person.
But when he got a cold glass of
water for some reason, maybe he was reading
that I have that day or something, it
affected him so seriously.
Right? So ask yourself, what's the first thing
that my heart thinks up when things happen
in life?
What's the first thing?
There's a story about 1 of,
one one of the, you know, the teacher
from United States that he was riding on
a car
and he was he was traveling somewhere and
he was sleeping. Because a lot of times
when you go on these tours, like, when
you get to sleep, and the person who's
driving almost got hit and had skid and
turned and hit the brakes. And when the
teacher on the Sheikh, he woke up, he
said, La ilaha illallah. That was the first
thing he said. He didn't even know what's
happening.
He didn't even know. He just said La
ilaha illallah. Like, how many of us when
something happens, the first words that come out
of our mouth are things that we don't
want the angels to write down?
You know?
That's a check. It's a hard check. So
this is what Imam Abu Zadie is teaching
us here. That if you work on yourself,
eventually,
your reactions will become spiritual. Your reactions will
become
good things
instead of things that are embarrassing or things
that are downright shameful. So we ask Allah
to give us purified hearts. We ask Allah
to give us the ability
to place resolution in our spirit,
to place defeat in our
lower selves
and to understand that that is aligned that
we all cross any neurocognitive.
Do you have any questions on Menti?
Yeah.
You're welcome. Alright, guys. We have a lot
of people. We're great. Take care and and,
yeah, next week when we're here,
we're gonna be very fast. Okay.
May Allah grant us to the So the
time change for all of our roots programming
is that we don't have unless it's advertised
otherwise, everything is right before it's long. So,
for example, if our next week is gonna
be at 757,
78,
So we're gonna be doing this at 7
sharp. So we'll start, like, 7th, like,
gather here,
everyone's safe. There's obviously no drinks. I'm sorry.
7 ish, then we're gonna just go from
7 to 7:45,
10 minutes for your ad, then bring back
to the trouble. And then we can go
to Tallah Week. I know the value range.
I should very, very close here. Got the
tent set up for outdoor tunnel week, so
very exciting stuff. So we can just go
tunnel week for creation tunnel week and travel
right there. Okay?