Safi Khan – Soul Food For College Students Dear Beloved Son – Class 11
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The segment discusses the story of Hassan Al Qaeda and its potential for distractions in the future. The punishment of the hereafter is emphasized, along with the importance of boundaries and avoiding burning one's mind. The importance of sleep and avoiding drugs and alcohol in relation to shadowing is also discussed, along with the need for boundaries and avoiding " burning one's own" thoughts. The segment concludes with a quote from a famous boxer about the importance of boundaries and boundaries in social life, particularly in the evening.
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He begins by sharing a quote of Hassan
al-Basri rahimahullah.
Okay, Hassan al-Basri rahimahullah he says one
day was given this drink this cold drink
from another person this cold cup of water
and he took this cold glass of water
and it immediately fell from his hands and
he became Unconscious like a very very like
very serious situation, right?
If somebody would be like, wow, that's kind
of dramatic or like why would that happen
to you?
Somebody just handed you water Why would you
pass out from just carrying water and the
glass fell from his hands?
And so when he regained consciousness, he came
back to his senses Somebody asked him somebody
asked Hassan al-Basri rahimahullah.
They said to him what happened to you?
Okay, they said what happened to you?
Why did you react like that?
What happened to you, Abu Sa'id?
That was his name and he said subhanallah
He said, I remembered the wish of the
people of * when they said to the
people of heaven He said it reminded me
of Something that the people of * will
ask the people of heaven Subhanallah, so that
moment where he was handed a cold drink
and he passed out He said that that
moment reminded me of a situation in the
akhira It reminded me about something that will
happen in the hereafter.
And what was that specifically?
Something that the people of hellfire will ask
the people of Jannah.
And what's that question?
It's actually in the Quran.
So it's a lot of verse number 50
He says Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala says that
the people of Jahannam They will implore, they
will beg the people of paradise, the people
of Jannah They would say O people of
Jannah Pour some water over us or some
of the provisions that Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
has given you Okay, it's a very intense
statement Okay, and the word particularly here actually
in Arabic, you won't see in the English
translation, but in the Arabic it says Means
to not like like allow us to drink
the water but to pour the water on
top of us They'll be begging.
Yeah.
Oh people of paradise Pour the water that
Allah gave you over us so that we're
not burning and boiling like this anymore Okay,
or if you can't do that then just
give us some of the rizq that Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala has given you and subhanAllah
the Response that Allah will tell the people
of Jannah to respond with is Extremely scary.
He will say to the people of Jannah.
Do not give them anything Do not give
them anything.
In fact tell them Allah has made it
haram upon you this nice cold water that
the people of Jannah are enjoying you know,
sometimes like it's scary because we look, you
know towards the the idea of of religion
as a form of mercy and hamdulillah Exponentially
Islam is more merciful than it is Punishing
without a doubt and we know this This
is the narrative that we are teaching our
communities because we want to hope in the
mercy of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala But at
the same time, we're not oblivious to the
realities of the punishment of the hereafter either,
you know It's subhanAllah.
It's like, you know in in sometimes in
parenting, you know Well, I have a two
and a half year old at home.
Sometimes like I'll tell Aya if you do
that you can get timeout But if Aya
never receives that timeout what's gonna happen?
She's gonna keep on pushing and pushing and
pushing I'm sure y'all remember like seeing
this growing up if you're like the the
oldest child or the middle child You know
exactly what this is.
If you're the youngest child, you have no
idea what this is Alright, you're the oldest
child the youngest one.
You're like, you you know, you've seen this
happen You know a parent tells you something
and they're like I'm gonna do it next
time.
I'm gonna do it but then they end
up never doing it and What happens with
that is that the kid will never learn
really right and Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala as
merciful as he is Ar-Rahman Ar-Rahim
Al-Ghafoor right at the same time the
reality of the hereafter is that there's truth
to it There's truth to the hereafter.
There's truth to the punishment of the hereafter.
There's truth to the adab of the hereafter,
right?
It wouldn't be something that is real if
there was not a Jannah and a Jahannam
Okay, so Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala will tell
the inhabitants of Jannah when the people of
Jahannam ask for you know Relief Allah will
tell the people of Jannah.
Don't give it to them.
Don't give it to them.
Why because they had a chance They had
a chance in dunya to refuse all the
indulgences all of the things that I made
haram for them Allah says I've given them
chances to refuse all those moments, but they
chose to their transaction was I'll take it
now And I'll suffer later I'll take it
now.
I'll suffer later.
The people of Jannah will say I might
give some conveniences up now But I'm gonna
enjoy for the rest of my existence.
That's the mentality of the people of Jannah
Okay, another really incredible thing to look at
when it comes to this particular passages Look
at the taqwa of Hassan Al-Basri Hassan
Al-Basri he was handed a cup of
water and he passed out thinking about an
ayah in the Quran Think about that sometimes
like Quran verses hit us in our faces
and we're like, yeah, man I wonder what's
gonna happen next in rings of power, right?
You're thinking about the Amazon special that's out
right now.
You're thinking about like the next hangout with
the friends We're thinking about the next time
we go grab, you know food from talking
tacos It's good halal spot by the way,
that's opened up.
You know, we're thinking about all these different
worldly dunya distractions Hassan Al-Basri, he thinks
about a moment in which cold water reminds
him of the hereafter SubhanAllah, you know like
that that that that reality, right?
It's always like it's said in like a
joking way But like, you know, whenever somebody
complains about the heat what's like that classic
Muslim guy say how far is hotter, right?
Everyone wants to beat that dude up, right?
It's like come on, dude.
It's okay I can believe in how far
being hotter in Dallas also being a part
of it, right?
But but but sometimes that person says that
how far is hotter how far is hotter
this how this is why by the way
There was a really interesting narration I remember
reading this one time that Muhammad Ali the
famous boxer Rahim Allah he passed away right
years ago Whenever he used to he said
whenever he used to like get tempted towards
doing something not permissible Whenever he would be
tempted towards doing something that is displeasing to
Allah he would take a lighter out from
his pocket and he would turn it on
and then he would put his hand right
over it and He would say and like
obviously if anybody's ever kind of been near
fire of the dunya You can only get
so close until it starts burning you it's
become so painful, right?
So he put his hand above the lighter
and he said as soon as it would
get unbearable I would tell myself if I
can't handle this I can't handle that So
whatever I'm about to do right now, it's
definitely not within my interest So how long
right sometimes it's important to give ourselves that
reality check, right?
Anytime you pass by like a grave or
like a cemetery stop for a second stop
for a second.
Look at it Look at it.
Sometimes we've almost like fictionalized these experiences, right?
Oh the cemetery.
Yeah, you know, it's not really a real
thing for me fire Yeah, it's nice to
cook.
It's not really a real thing Use those
mechanisms to also address the realities of your
existence The cupboard will be your home one
day Fire is an outcome Right.
These things are real.
So it's important to kind of bring ourselves
into those realization moments.
All right So now Hamdulillah, we go to
our next chapter, which is the 11th Chapter
of Nasiha the 11th chapter of advice from
Imam al-Ghazali rahim Allah to his son
And this one the English translation mentions that
it's labeled sleep It's labeled the chapter of
noam the chapter of sleep and we'll talk
a little bit about why so he mentions
here He says yeah, you had wallet He
says low can a little more Mujarrad Mujarrad
who caffeine like he said if mere knowledge
of the self, by the way Illumon illumon
Mujarrad who is basically translated as like knowledge
of like self Spirituality, right like knowing what
to do and what not to do things
that will are up for your best benefit
in your best interest He said that if
mere knowledge of the self was Caffeine luck
Caffeine comes from the word cafe, which means
to be sufficient Okay If that was enough
in and of itself and you do not
need any other Amal any other work other
than this knowledge?
Then the call of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
would be meaningless to you What is the
call of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala and Imam
al-Ghazali rahim Allah?
He gives us this beautiful hadith Okay, and
I'll share the entire hadith with you guys
just so that we have like a really
good understanding of the whole picture Okay, the
whole picture is that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam one time.
He said He said verily Verily Allah subhanahu
wa'ta'ala Slowly draws near until the first
half of the night has passed Okay, so
Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala in the evening.
And by the way, we're gonna talk about
this.
This is why Praying and really locking in
in your spirituality and the evening is so
important The evening is so important.
Anybody ever been like traumatized by like elders
about like not going out at night Don't
go out at night.
The jinns are gonna get you right like
there's all these like stories And by the
way, like it's not completely false Okay, when
you read surah al-falaq wa min sharri
ghaseqin itha waqab Know what that means?
Wa min sharri ghaseqin itha waqab from the
evil of the night when it emerges What
does that mean?
It means that there are true evils in
the evening time after the Sun has set
that are very very real for people Right.
I mean the majority of the crimes in
the world Look at it in the more
like, you know translatable scene state I mean
the majority of the crimes of humanity happens
in the evening, right?
No one no one ever prays Fajr waits
for the Sun to rise and says well
This is a great time to go to
that club.
Like no no one ever does that No
one ever makes a decision that is bad
in the early morning after they do something
pious, right?
All the bad thoughts happen in the evening.
And by the way, this is why I
just want to kind of be very frank
with you It's so important to put boundaries
and barriers of your social life in the
evening It's so important because people who are
loosey-goosey with their morals and principles at
night.
It's it's a very slippery slope y'all
I'm telling you 9 p.m. Becomes 10
p.m. 10 p.m. Becomes 11 p
.m But that 10 minute phone call is
now like tahajjud Like wait a second.
What how did we get you look at
your call log?
It's five hours.
You're like How did it get to this
well, it's because we didn't have barriers We
didn't have boundaries We didn't understand that there's
a moment subhanAllah.
We're like shaitan hops on that phone call
after 11 p.m He's like yo, we
three way in this thing.
I'm like what?
Are we you can I can I join
in like how's it going?
Right?
Like he just joins in hops on in
this is where the Believer has to tell
themselves man.
I need to I need to really address
the realities of the evening.
I Need to address the realities of the
evening.
There are certain things that I just need
to call quits after a certain time.
I Didn't call quits man.
It's time for me to kind of like
be a little bit more You know intrusive
a little bit more, you know to myself
a little bit more kind of you know
Introspective and a little bit more in tune
with Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala imagine subhanAllah because
the spectrum is so large Imagine a person
who could be doing the worst things in
the evenings, but then they choose to spend
some time with Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala Like
what a beautiful Transaction they've made they've given
up the the temptation and they just spend
20-30 minutes with Allah I mean there
is a special place in the highest levels
of Jannah for a person that does these
things and Not only a person a young
person.
I'll tell you that when you're older man
Like you want to wind down at like
9 p.m. You're done You're cooked as
they say, right like a mother of hits
right and you're like, alright, it's been a
nice day guys I'm the time to wrap
it up get under my heated blanket and
sip on this giant till I fall asleep
eventually When you're younger what happens is like
you have this kind of like you have
this temptation to kind of like spark that
social life After 9 p.m. I'd be
like I wonder what everyone else is doing
right now.
It's like 10 p.m Right.
Do you think they're also on Clubhouse back
in like 2020?
Everybody's like everyone's trying to like socialize the
smart person at that point knows when to
put their phone down Because they know nothing
good on Instagram happens after 11 Nothing good
on tik-tok happens after midnight You see
these like shady brothers on tik-tok live
for some reason then always after 12 a
.m always It's just so bizarre to me.
Well, it's so interesting.
So the wise person knows put that phone
down at night time Just decompress a little
bit.
Okay, and so he says that Allah subhanahu
wa'ta'ala descends Through the evening and Specifically
Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala is closer than ever
in the last third of the night the
last third of the night So it's so
funny like that I mentioned all of this
lead up right like the first half of
the night the social butterflies are out, right?
but in the last third of the night
the true people of Iman they actually wake
up from their sleep and The shayateen they're
like passed out.
It's 4 a.m. Right?
They're like man.
That was a crazy 11 p.m To
3 p.m. That I had right they
fall asleep at 3 30 and they're knocked
out until like 11 a.m. They're done
But the true believer they go to sleep
after isha because they know I gotta be
up for Allah at like 4 a.m.
I Gotta be up for Allah at 4
a.m. And this is when the Prophet
says Allah is closer than he ever will
be the last third of the night and
What does Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala do that
last third of the night?
It says here in the hadith That Allah
calls out.
Okay Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala.
He calls out Munadi and you nadi you
cool.
Oh * Min da'in you Stay Java
just a job.
Oh, no, he says is there anyone?
Calling out to me that they may be
answered by me.
And then he says is There anyone *
min must of fear in you'll follow that
Oh, is there anyone that's going to ask
me for forgiveness that I can forgive them?
Is there anyone who's going to call to
me so that I can respond to them?
Is there anyone that's going to make Toba
to me that I may be able to
give them what they ask for?
This is what Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala saying
in that last third of the evening.
Look at what Imam Al-Ghazali Rahim Well,
he says he says that the Prophet Sallallahu
alaihi wasallam mentions is that this the Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala He will say hellman sat
in Hellman must of fear in hellman ta
'ib in these three things.
Is there anybody that's gonna call on me?
Is there anybody that's gonna ask me for
forgiveness?
Is there anyone that's going to repent to
me and Imagine at that moment if the
believer has no response It's like that one
time your parents feel generous, right and they're
like you need anything Is anything anything you
want from me?
You want something and at that moment if
you're like not even in the room and
Then that sale ends.
You're gonna run to the mill.
Please.
Please.
Please.
Please.
I actually have a lot of stuff And
at that moment it's over though you've missed
the train it's over this only happens in
the last third of the night Hellman sat
in Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala will say is
there anything that you want to ask me
now think about at that moment all Of
the things that you want to ask Allah
as the widget Allah can you give me
some clarity in my life?
I've been going through a lot of confusing
situations Allah, why did that that that thing
that happened to me a few months ago?
What was the wisdom behind it?
Hellman was talking is there anyone that wants
to ask me for forgiveness and at that
moment Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala is Opening up
the doors of muffetta for you But imagine
not being there to answer that call Hellman
ta even is there anyone that's going to
repent to me so that I may give
them what they seek from that repentance and
Imagine that you missed that call Allah is
calling you, but you're missing that call Okay,
now.
I wanted to share a couple of things
about the difference by the way between Toba
and it's the far Because the prophets awesome
he says hellman was suffering hellman ta even
there has to be a difference right there
has to be a difference Between it's the
far and Toba.
What's the difference anybody know anybody want to
give a shot?
What's the difference with the systematic?
Very good you actually were much a lot
very very beautifully you spoke Toba is more
of the process It's still far.
It's more of the actual asking Because they're
not they actually say Toba and by the
way if people are writing things down.
I 100% recommend this Toba has a
few steps Has a few steps Toba's a
journey Toba is not one singular action Toba
is a journey Toba means that first and
foremost You're stopping the sin.
You're stopping the sin.
You're not going to engage in the sin
anymore That's the first step of Toba the
second step of Toba is Istanbul is