Safi Khan – Soul Food For College Students Dear Beloved Son #08
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Everyone. How's everyone doing?
So,
we're going to continue on. Myself and Sud
Murphy both are, basically playing this crazy game
of
against time,
where we're trying to finish a a meaningful
lesson,
by the time that Maghrib Salah comes in.
So,
in another week or so, I believe, we're
going to be planning to begin the program
after
Insha'Allah. That way, we just have a little
bit more time, to engage. We can go
back to the q and a sessions that
we normally do.
But just for this week, Insha'Allah, last week,
we're gonna kind of, like, do a little
bit of a consolidated version,
of the regular,
main lecture.
And then next week, we're going to be
going back into the,
the q and a, format.
Okay? So last week,
we began the conversation
of the idea of hypocrisy.
Now this chapter is titled hypocrisy,
but it has a lot to do with
the idea of 1,
not fulfilling the rights of Allah,
and in fact, giving the rights of Allah,
to other than Allah. Okay?
And this is problematic on multiple levels. As
Imam Al Ghazali
begins kind of pry away at this subject
with his students where he says,
you have studied elaborate elaborate subjects in your
life. Right? And he lists all of these
different ones, theology and medicine and poetry and
astronomy and syntax and morphology. Right? You've studied
Sarf and Nahu. You've studied all these different
things,
but
you have wasted your time against the will
of Allah
through this. Now last week, I mentioned that
what this means is not that it's haram
to engage in dunya,
you know,
endeavors. Of course, it's not. Anyone
knows that a person who engages in any
subject matter of the dunya. Muslims are not
afraid of any subject, by the way. You
know, there's, like, a lot of times
we hear that, you know, religious people are
afraid of certain topics. Why? Because it's a
threat to their their faith. It's a threat
to their entire fill you know, religious philosophy.
And the reality is no. A person who's
Muslim is not afraid of science at all
whatsoever, actually.
People who are Muslim are not afraid of
of of medicine. In fact, there are hadith
of the prophet
where he actually said in a very authentic
manner that for every disease, there is a
cure.
For every disease, there is a cure.
And this particular
hadith,
it is used as a really great evidence
for a lot of people who go into
other things, like medicine and science and whatnot.
Right? But the problem that Imam al Ghazali
presents here is when a person pursues matters
of the dunya
in negligence
of their rights that are due to Allah.
Right? And I mentioned the examples of a
person who says, yes. I want I I
want to, you know, gain a good living.
I want to go, and I want to
earn a degree so I can work hard
and I can make money for myself and
my family. But along the way,
they forget to
fulfill their salawat.
They forget to pray their at the masjid.
They forget to make their du'a. They forget
to do their adkar. They forget to read
their Quran.
These are the ways in which dunya
comes
at the price of a person's
their their their the rights that they are
that that they that they should owe Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala. Okay?
And so
after this, he mentioned something very, very interesting.
He says,
He goes, it is said in the gospel
of Isa, Injil i'isa alaihis salam, the gospel
of Isa alaihis salam. And by the way,
this is all, you know, isla iiyat, you
know, the the these are narrations that are
sometimes pulled from narrations before the time of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
And he says that there was a narration
from the time before the Quran was revealed,
before the time of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam, and it was attributed to Isa alaihis
salam, that he said from the moment that
a body
is placed
on the funeral bed, okay,
when it is placed on the funeral bed,
until it is placed
at the edge,
at the edge of the grave.
Allah
will ask this this person
40 questions.
Okay?
Subhanallah.
You know, we we we we look at
the process of life and death. There's a
video that came out today that Roots published
from last week's class about the reality of
death, that death is merely a journey
that a believing soul takes
from this dunya to
their rub, to their creator.
Right? But even then, subhanAllah, I want you
guys to think about this, the beauty of
the process of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Allah does not allow a soul to to
to to perish in this dunya, and then
immediately right away, they go straight into the
akhirah. What happens in between?
They pass away. There's the rights of the
janazah.
They're they're wrapped. They're buried.
They live a life of the the the
grave that we call the barzakh. Right? They
live a life in the grave. And within
this grave, they have a period of time.
They're asked certain questions. Now there's a narration
that mentions in the prophet
what? That when a person is in their
kabr, they're in their grave, they're asked 3
questions.
Right? And the questions are simple, and every
single person here, by the way, should know
these 3 questions. The questions are,
who is your Rab?
Who's your Lord?
What is your Din?
And who is your
prophet?
These are the three questions.
Any person who has, like, been Muslim
for even, like, a few days We'll be
able to know the responses to those questions.
But why
are three questions that are seemingly so simplistic?
Why will those 3 be asked the time
when a person's in their grave? Because when
a person's in their grave, they won't be
so simply able to answer that unless they
have those answers within their heart.
It's easy to fake it till you make
it in the dunya, y'all. I can go
stand in salah for for 40 minutes
during salatul tarawih.
I can go and I can, you know,
engage in in in in in a halakat
because, yeah, my friends are around me, and
I'm feeling the mood, and I'm feeling the
emotions, and I feel like I wanna be
a part of this.
But in the barzakh,
you know, while you're while you're in the
grave and then you're asked those questions,
you won't be able to answer those questions
unless you truthfully, truthfully believe in what you're
saying.
You'll be thinking Allah when the angel asks
you who's your creator,
but the word Allah will not exit your
tongue. It will not exit your mouth.
You know the answer of who is your
prophet as the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam. But a person who is absent from
practicing the sunnah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam will not be able to so
easily utter his name. Why? Because this is
a time in which the heart and the
tongue will be 1.
In the dunya, the heart and the tongue
are separate. Right? The heart truly feels something,
but the tongue sometimes
is coerced to say something else.
How true is that for everybody in here?
Sometimes we feel a certain way, but we
say something different. Alright? Somebody asks you, hey.
How was the food?
Delicious. Right? Like, your stomach is churning and,
like, you know, like, how do I look?
Amazing.
I'm just kidding. Like, you know, it's
you're you you wanna say something,
but the heart, right, the tongue, they're 2
separate things. By the way, anyone know know,
Sultanulukman?
Right? Sultanulukman, the 31st chapter of the Quran.
It talks about a man by the name
of Luqman al Hakim, Luqman the wise. Right?
There's a funny story from Luqman's life, by
the way, where a person who was in,
like, a a a position of authority during
his time, they asked Luqman alaihis salaam to
slaughter a sheep and bring
bring him the 2 best parts of the
sheep. And And so Luqman alayhis salaam, he
he he slaughtered the sheep, and he brought
this master of his,
the tongue and the heart. Okay?
And so then after, you know, that part
was over, the same person, he says, yeah,
Luqman, slaughter another sheep and then bring me
the 2 worst parts of the sheep.
The 2 worst parts of this animal. And
so Luqman, he slaughters another sheep, and he
brings to his master the tongue and the
heart.
And so the master, he says to Luqman,
he says, yeah, Luqman, what are you what
are you doing? What game are you playing
with me right now? I asked you to
bring me the best, and I asked you
to bring me the worst, and you brought
me the 2 exact same same vessels each
time. What are you trying to say here?
In Luqman,
he says, verily, the tongue and the heart
can be the best
of
our our ourselves
if
they are upright
or they could be the worst of ourselves
if they're corrupted.
And how along the same lines
does the prophet
share his hadith?
What does he say? He says that verily,
there's a piece of you, a morsel of
flesh.
If it is upright and straight, the rest
of the body will be upright and straight.
If it is corrupted,
then the rest of your body will be
corrupted.
He says that this is the heart.
SubhanAllah. How in line of the same same
advice do you find in the advice of
Luqman alaihi salaam? So on the day or
on the day in which you're buried, right,
you'll be asked these questions. They're not gonna
be so easy to answer. You know, nowadays,
like, we think, like, yeah. You know, I'll
memorize those things. I can say them in
my sleep. But the reality is truth will
come out that day unlike
any other day that you've ever witnessed in
your entire life.
So
the the advice that the prophet he gives
us is prepare for that day. Not just
like you prepare for a test, by the
way. Sometimes and y'all know this, college students,
students in general, y'all know. Sometimes you can
memorize facts for an exam.
Yeah. This is this is the equation for
that, and this is the, you know, the
mitochondria is the powerhouse of the human cell.
Like, you you you can memorize that stuff
and not know what in the world that
means.
You've memorized names of, like, presidents in US
history. You have no idea who they are.
You've memorized certain things in your class, and
you have no idea. On the day in
which you'll be asked by those Malaika,
you unless you truly understand and believe the
answers about what you're saying,
your tongue will not be able to follow
suit.
So as much as we're so used to
just memorizing and regurgitating,
a part of our deen teaches us to
internalize
and understand
and practice
anything that you preach.
Anything that you preach. Guys, what was one
of the greatest evidences
of the the the the the truthfulness of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam?
There was not one commandment
that the prophet, salallahu alaihi wa sallam, he
gave that anyone around him could claim that
he does not follow.
Not one.
Not one.
Be good to your neighbors. He's the best
of his neighbors.
Be good to your own family, he's the
best to his own family.
Be generous to those who have less than
you, he is the most generous to those
who have less than him.
Spend time in the evening for Allah
He used to spend the most time in
the evening with Allah
Look at this. I mean, there's nothing that
you can take a dig at him. Saying
that, he doesn't do what he says to
other people.
And now look at where we are. It's
a great lesson for all of us to
really think about, like, you know, how how
sincere are we? And we're gonna talk about
that sincerely inshallah in just a moment.
So he says here
that
in this particular narration from Isa alaihis salam,
you will be asked 40 questions by Allah
And he says
here, the first of them will be this,
Youkullu Allahu Ta'ala, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will
say, oh my servant,
oh my servant,
you have purified yourself
in the sight of mankind
for years,
for decades.
As long as I have allowed you to
live, you have dedicated yourself for the sight
of those around you.
But
you have not purified yourself
for even 1 hour for me.
You have not purified yourself for even 1
hour of me. What does this mean? That's
a powerful statement. Right? You think about the
idea of of of of purifying yourself for
other people. What does that mean? He says
that you have purified yourself in the sight
of mankind for years.
Now, subhanallah, there's a powerful word here that's
used. Imam Al Khazari, he says, you have
purified yourself in the, what did I say,
sight of other people.
It's very visual.
It's not internal.
Can someone not look like the cleanest person
on the outside, but be the most filthy
person internally?
Exactly.
So Imam al Khazadi, he says, you've taken
so much time
to make sure that you dress nice.
Right? You smell good. You look presentable.
Everything on the outside
is perfect.
Everything is up to shape. Everything is up
to par,
and you've spent day night
working hard to present yourself as this type
of person to the public eye.
That when you walk by, everyone's like,
That person's got their life set. That person
looks like they have themselves put together.
It seems like everything is good on the
outside. Right?
And you do things for the eyes of
other people, for the sight of other people.
You are so worried about what other people
will see of you, so that's all you
care about. And I'll tell you guys something,
subhanAllah, it's very, very it's it's scary
that a person who is so fixated on
the sight of other people, they rob themselves
of sincerity when those eyes are gone.
When those eyes are no longer there,
that person does not really care about the
details anymore.
When they present themselves in public, they are
the greatest,
you know, person who pays attention to detail.
Everything has to be like this, and everything
has to be like that.
But then when no eyes are on them,
whole different human being.
Whole different human being. Okay?
But then he says, but when it comes
to me,
my servants, my worshipers,
you have not even spent 1 hour
to purify yourself
for me.
Okay?
And, you know,
may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala protect us from
ever being people who
think of others before we think about Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
We worry so much about the perception
of other people that we completely forget about
what would Allah
think.
It's to the point in within our our
our acts of worship, in our duas, in
our adkar, in our salah, in our Quran
that we're constantly thinking about, like, hey. You
know, am I praying
in in a way that if somebody walked
in, they would be like, wow.
That person's praying so beautifully.
But while we're so concerned about the person
who walked in to look or to see
us,
we're completely
void of what Allah would think about us
internally.
SubhanAllah. I'll tell you something, it's so interesting.
One of my teachers told me, he goes,
somebody who, quote, unquote, praise beautifully
could be standing beautifully in their salah, but
they could be silently not reciting anything.
They could just be standing there, just worried
about what other people are thinking about them.
They forget to recite Fatiha.
They forget to praise Allah
All of those internals are missing.
Right? There's a reason why Islam is iman
and aamal.
There there's a reason why Islam is deeds
and faith.
Because if it was all deeds, then it
would all it would we would only be
judged upon things that you can do on
the exterior.
There's also something called iman.
Iman is something that you cannot see.
SubhanAllah, when the prophet was answering those questions
from Jibril, alaihis salam, when Jibril asked him,
you Muhammad Akhbirniya anil Islam,
teach me, tell me, inform me about Islam.
What did the prophet say? The 5 pillars.
He said,
dashhadan la ilaha illallah. Witnessing and testifying. There's
only one God, and the prophet is his
final messenger. Salah, zakah,
som, fasting, and hajj.
All those things are
external.
You can see people praying. You can see
people fasting.
You can see people giving giving charity sometimes.
You can see people in Hajj. But then
Jibril alaihis salam, he asked him, you Muhammad,
akhbirniyanal
iman.
Oh, Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam, tell me about
iman. What does the prophet says? He says,
iman is
belief in Allah, belief in His angels, belief
in His prophets, belief in His books, belief
in the day of judgment, and belief in
divine decree. Khadihi washadrihi, whether you think it
is good or whether you think it is
bad.
Can you see any of those things?
You cannot see Allah.
You cannot see a person's belief in the
angels. You cannot see a person's belief in
the books. You cannot see a person's belief
in the prophets. You cannot see a person's
belief in the akhirah. The akhirah hasn't even
happened yet.
You can't see a person's belief in divine
decree and their contentment with Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala's will. Those things are all internal.
What do we call those 6 things? We
call them the 6 pillars of
iman.
Why?
Because there's a part of you that must
be polished internally.
There must be a part of you that
is polished that no one else can physically
see.
Islam is the perfect balance between
things that are unseen and things that are
seen.
If everything is seen, then
there's nothing for us to worry about on
the inside.
And if everything is just internal, then we
wouldn't have the motivation to get up and
actually do things.
So a Muslim
is a person who is perfectly balanced in
that full
holistic way.
Right? And so he says here, oh, my
servant, you haven't even purified yourself for me
in for one moment.
Okay? And so what I share with everybody
here is a great lesson, which is when
you purify yourself for other people, you're purifying
yourself on the outside.
This is important. The prophet said this. He
says, cleanliness is what?
Half of your faith.
Cleanliness.
Yes. This is why you do wudu. This
is why wudu is not internal. Somebody can't
be like, yeah. I'm ready for a bridge.
You do wudu? Yeah, man. Internally.
What does that mean? I mean, like yeah.
You know, just did did did did washing
of my internal arm. Like, no. No. No.
No. You have to wash yourself externally. This
is a part of your this is a
part of your faith. This is a part
of your practice.
But at the same time, even a person
who does wudu can be void of purity
when they say
and they begin to stand there.
So purifying yourself for Allah means
purifying yourself for Allah
internally.
Internally.
Okay?
You know, subhanallah. You know, it's so interesting.
Right? One thing that I always like to
share when we go over this particular part
of, Ayuhul Walad is Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
deserves your attention
more than anyone else that you know.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala deserves your attention more
than anyone else you know.
This claim
that Imam al Ghazali is making that Allah,
azzawajal, he's he'll he'll be telling somebody,
on on on the day in which they're
buried in their butt in in their grave
that you've spent so much time for other
people and you've not spent any time with
me.
It's like a person who, and you guys
know this kind of vibe. You know, when
when when people come over to the house,
you present yourself in a certain way. Right?
Yeah. You know, this is this is me.
Right? You're smiling.
Everyone's happy.
Right? Like, can I offer you some chai,
some dessert, some coffee perhaps? Right? And, masha'Allah,
you kick it with that person for, like,
an hour and a half, 2 hours. The
entire time you're like this. Right? And then
as soon as, like, the guests walk up
and head out that door, you turn around
and you see you're like
like, so how long? What kind of shaitan
just came out? Like, what is this? Right?
It's like your mom. Right? She's like the
sweetest woman on earth when guests are over.
The guests leave, and she's like, you stupid
or, like, like, immediately the insults start hurling
out. Like, so so so we don't ever
wanna be like that.
We don't ever wanna be like that,
where we're performing with people
just for a period of time
just for a period of time.
Because those people, subhanAllah, will not know who
you really are.
The guests, you'll present your best part of
yourself to your guests.
That's a good thing. You should. Guests deserve
honor. Right? When you invite somebody to your
home, you wanna show them the beautiful part
of your home and the beautiful part of
yourself and whatever it was. Right?
But that does not mean that once the
guests
leave, your family can't even recognize you.
How depressing is that?
That, you know, whenever we see other people,
my family acts so happy and so nice
and so caring and so kind. And when
there's nobody around us and it's just us,
a whole different person. I by the way,
I I have spoken to people. I've spoken
to people in my own office about this.
You know,
like, it's over and over again. Yeah. You
know, my family members, my parents, my kids,
when when we have people over, it's like
the best time ever.
You know, my dad is happy.
My mom is happy.
But when those guests leave and it's just
us,
they don't even talk to us.
They didn't even spend time with us.
Imagine if that's how we treated Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
That when people are around us, we pray
so beautifully.
Well, when there there's no one around us,
their isha prayer still needs to be prayed,
but we have no ihtaram, no respect, no
love,
no muhabba to meet with Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
It's like the evidence of when we pray
in public, we're taking our sweet time and
praying. We're praying in private. What is it?
Boom. Done.
Right? Those 2 salawat, and then we're done.
We try to spend the least amount of
time. As the prophet
he says,
They peck at the ground 4 times.
That's all they
do. And they don't remember Allah
in their prayer
except just a tiny little bit, and that's
it.
And, you
know,
if this was a friend that we were
treating with, the friend would claim that this
person really doesn't care about me.
How can this friend care about me?
They claim to care about me. They claim
to love me.
They only care about me when those other
friends are around.
And when those friends leave and it's just
me and them 1 on 1, there's no
conversation.
There's no meaningful time, no meaningful dialogue that
is made.
They just speak to me just to get
it over with. Can you imagine, subhanallah?
We are so fortunate that Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala is al Rahman y'all.
We're so fortunate that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is alifafura salam.
We're so fortunate that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
continues to love us despite
our lack of showing that love to him.
Allah
continues to give us
food and and shelter and family and loved
ones despite the fact that we barely spend
any time with him.
But sometimes it's so easy to do so
on the exterior.
And so then Imam al Khuzari, he says
something very powerful.
He says,
every day,
Allah
looks into your hearts and he says,
He says, every day he looks into
into your hearts.
And he says,
what are you doing for other creatures
though you are surrounded
by my kindness?
Are you so deaf that you cannot even
hear anymore?
Now this is very interesting. The Arabic is
actually beautiful. He says,
He says that,
what are you doing for other creatures?
And you are surrounded with so many blessings
from me. What does this mean?
It means now check yourself. Allah talked about
the internals.
Now the opposite also applies.
Allah
has done so much for each and every
single one of us. Now what do you
use
the nam of Allah
from Allah to do? Do you use your
blessings to please Allah, or you do you
use your blessings to neglect Allah?
Imam Al Ghazali, he says, by the way,
you know the idea of shukr?
Everyone knows the word shukr? The word shukr
means what?
Gratitude. Right? He said, the highest
level,
the highest form of shukr
is
a person
who sees a blessing from Allah,
and the only thing they can think about
to do with that blessing is to somehow,
some way please the bestower of that blessing.
It's like when you receive a gift from
a friend, all you can think about to
do with that gift is to somehow, some
way do something for that friend in return.
Right? That friend gave me, like, a gift
card to this restaurant. What's the first thing
that that that person thinks about?
Hey. You and me should go out to
that restaurant
because you're the one that gave that to
me. I don't wanna use this gift for
other people. Like, I I wanna give I
wanna share it with you. Right?
Now imagine
the worst type of way to use that
gift,
to use it with another person, and then
to spend that time at that restaurant backbiting
the same person who gave you that gift.
This is the opposite of shukr.
This is the opposite of gratitude.
Right? There's a hadith I wanna share with
everybody here. It's very very powerful insha'Allah before
we close in the next 10 minutes.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he says
something beautifully. He says
that,
kurbatan
min
kurabid dunya
nafasallahu
anhu kurbatan
min kurabi
yawmulqiyamati.
He says,
if anyone
removes
one of the anxieties of this world from
a believer,
Allah will remove one of their anxieties on
the day of judgment.
You think about, like, being nervous on yomul
kiyama?
How am I going to own up to
all of my realities and all of these
questions that I'm gonna be asked? How do
I how do I how do I come
to terms with this? What does the prophet
say?
Remove a little difficulty from the people around
you in this world.
Remove some hardship from the people around you.
Use a blessing that you have to benefit
the people around you.
This is the way to save yourself on
the day of judgment, by the way. And
then he says,
if one smooths the way for one who
is destitute and poor,
Allah will smooth the way for him in
this world
and in the next. And if one conceals
the faults of a Muslim, Allah will conceal
their faults in this dunya and
in the hereafter.
Look how poetically reflective this relationship is.
Imam Al Ghazari, he says that Allah says
that I've given you so much. What have
you done with those things to benefit the
people around you?
You've been given a heart that is beating,
use that heart to feel for other people
around you. How much of a how much
of a, a deprivation is it for a
person who has a beating working heart to
not feel for those around them?
You look at something that should tremble the
heart,
and that heart feels nothing.
Allah gives you a tongue to say beautiful
things to other people,
and that tongue is only used to curse
and to backbite.
Allah gives you ears to listen to things,
to learn things, and and they'll only only
use that ear to consume haram, those eyes
to consume haram.
One of the ways to attain the love
of Allah
is
to use the faculties he gave you to
benefit the people around you.
Ask yourself, am I selfish with my blessings?
By the way, there's a difference between the
gifts that you give people and the gifts
that Allah gives you. The gifts that we
internally give other people, they have limitations.
That Target gift card is $25 on it.
Once you spend it, there's nothing left.
That $100 Best Buy gift card only has
a $100 on it. Once you spend it
on, like, one SD card, you're done. You're
cooked. Okay?
But the gifts that Allah
gives you have no limitations.
The gifts that Allah
gives you has no limitations. Y'all ever y'all
ever feel like you know, sometimes when
when somebody gives you a gift, you're like,
man, I gotta use this thing.
I gotta use this thing before it, like,
loses, like, its value, or I gotta use
it while it's still relevant.
The gifts of Allah
do not have an expiration date.
The blessings of Allah
do not have an expiration date.
Use those blessings that Allah gave you to
benefit those around you. And I'll tell you
even more.
When a person uses the blessings that Allah
gives them
and they use it to help other people,
Allah will only increase them in that blessing.
You use your time to benefit others. What
will Allah do to that time?
Expand it.
Expand it.
When a person only uses their time for
their own selfish reasons, what will they find
out about their time?
It's gone.
I I lose my time all the time.
When a person uses the wealth that Allah
gave them to benefit the people around them,
what do they always find? What do we
say in Islam? When a person gives, what
would Allah do to your money?
He will double it. He
will increase your wealth.
Does the the idea of zakat to purify
your wealth? Allah will purify your wealth and
increase it.
What does every sheikh say during a fundraiser?
Who wants to give 10,000? Me. May Allah
reward you and increase you.
Why? Why does he say that? Because we
believe it fundamentally.
But if a person hoards all their money
and they buy it themselves, only things. Right?
How many of us in here well, I'm
telling you guys right now. How many people
in here, we sincerely, generally enjoy spending money
to pay for food for our our family
and friends. If it it's such a beautiful
feeling. Some of y'all like, man, I'm broke.
I ain't prepared for myself. So, like,
y'all lucky. Probably we should have other people.
So, like, it's but somehow, think about it.
You you you have above $20 in your
bank account one day Right?
You're like, you know what?
Sonic blaster on me. Right? Like, Brahms Twister
on me. A dollar 79, I got you.
You know? So, like, you know,
when we have the opportunity here,
trust me. Trust me.
Do your best to share the nirm of
Allah
with the people around you. Allah will only
increase you. And then the final thing he
says in this chapter, and it's so powerful.
He says at the very end, he says,
He says, are you so deaf
that you cannot hear?
Meaning
that your your ears are supposed to hear,
but you are so deaf. You are so
blind. You're so hardhearted
that the faculty, what it's supposed to do,
no longer does its basic function anymore.
Your ears, by the way, do a lot
more than just hearing. Everyone know this. Right?
Your hears your your ears can hear.
Your ears can internalize. Your ears can listen.
Right? Ash Sheik Mikayil, he wrote a book
about it. Right? Your eyes don't just see.
Your eyes do much more than seeing. Your
heart does much more than feeling,
but the bare minimum of what it's supposed
to do is
hear, see, and feel.
So Allah,
according to Mahmoud Ghazari, he says, are you
so deaf that you cannot do the basic
function you cannot even hear? Then what's the
point of even having this thing?
What's the point of even having your heart?
What's the point of even having your eyes?
Right? We ask Allah
to protect us.
We'll pause with that for Asadullah Maghrib.
Next week,
we are about to embark upon one of
the most legendary lines that Imam Al Ghazali
has ever written in his life. Okay? I'll
give you guys a little sneak peek preview
right here. This is it right here. We're
gonna talk about this for a long time
next week, Insha'Allah. Knowledge without without action is
insanity, majnoonun,
and action without knowledge is
vanity, yakunun. So inshallah, we're gonna talk about
this inshallah,
next Thursday when we meet again for soul
food. We ask Allah
to allow us to be people of remembrance.
We ask Allah
to make us of the people who are
reminding ourselves about Allah
in every situation that we have in our
lives. And we ask Allah
to allow our faculties to do their jobs,
to feel and to see and to hear,
and we ask Allah
to protect us from negligence, from mindlessness, from
heedlessness, and we ask Allah
to bless us in this dunya in the
hereafter.
We'll see you guys next Thursday for another
session of soul food.
We're gonna pray Maghrib in the,
immediately. So if everybody wants to kinda make
their way over, that'll be perfect. Alright?