Safi Khan – Soul Food For College Students Dear Beloved Son Class 13

Safi Khan
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The speakers discuss the importance of knowing one's own success and identifying one's own success. They emphasize the need for success and the importance of following the Prophet's teachings and not giving too much information. They also discuss the power of Islam, including the ability to change one's behavior and pursue one's beliefs. The speakers stress the importance of working towards one's own goals and not trying to be a good person. The Q&A session will be on Thursday.
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Okay, inshallah.

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Sorry for the slight delay.

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Okay, bismillah walhamdulillah, assalatu wassalamu ala rasulillah wa

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ala alihi wa ashabihi ajma'in.

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Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu.

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How's everyone doing?

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Alhamdulillah.

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Is everyone doing okay?

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Are we inching towards midterms yet or no?

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Sort of?

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Kind of?

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MashaAllah, there's like a wave of depression I

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feel that's hit the land.

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But mashaAllah, inshallah you guys will all do

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well.

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Alhamdulillah.

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Anybody so far struggling in school?

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Yeah?

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We need to define struggling, right?

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Like what is struggling?

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To a lot of Muslim kids, struggling is

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like getting a B.

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Struggling is much worse than that.

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But mashaAllah, inshallah you guys are all doing

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well and hopefully you guys are making progress

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through your year.

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So we're inshallah going to do two chapters

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today.

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And today also we're going to plan on

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doing a Q&A inshallah.

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So around 8.15, so in around 35

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minutes, we're going to stop inshallah the chapter.

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And we're going to dive into our Q

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&A session.

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So inshallah the Q&A by the way

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for anybody who wants to know, you can

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go to slido.com and you can type

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in the code will be soulfood, S-O

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-U-L-F-O-O-D.

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And you can kind of pre-submit some

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of those questions inshallah that we're going to

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go answer one at a time at 8

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.15 inshallah.

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So again slido.com and the code is

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soulfood, S-O-U-L-F-O-O

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-D inshallah.

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So go ahead and pre-submit your questions

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inshallah if you can already think of some.

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But obviously you can do so along the

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session as well.

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Okay, so we're going to start a session

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today inshallah that's going to be very powerful

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in terms of the topic of adhering to

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things that we know are substantive and not

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being people of fluff.

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Okay, and I'm kind of paraphrasing this from

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Imam al-Ghazali's words.

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Because Imam al-Ghazali, he begins this particular

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chapter and he says, You should know that

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your words and deeds should be according to

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the shari'ah since knowledge and action without

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observance of the shari'ah is absolute deviation.

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Now, I know that sentence sounds a little

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bit intimidating but I'll explain what Imam al

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-Ghazali actually means by this.

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So the first thing he says is that,

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Know that your

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words and deeds should be things that are

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done underneath the permission of what Allah Ta

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'ala has allowed you to do.

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Meaning, in simple terms, adhere to things that

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are good and stay away from things that

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are bad for you.

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And then he says, because an action or

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a piece of knowledge without the observance of

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what Allah has allowed you to do is

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what we would call dhalala.

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Dhalala in Arabic means things that are done

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incorrectly.

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Now, what this means in paraphrasing ways is

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to know that Allah and His Messenger know

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better than you.

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And this in and of itself, this phrase

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is uncomfortable for human beings to accept.

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Why?

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Because all of us like to think that

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we know best for ourselves.

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I mean, how could anyone possibly know better

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for me than I know for myself?

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I know my life.

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I've lived my life.

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I know my context.

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I know the different pieces and elements of

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my life that makes it what it is.

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So how can anyone tell me something that

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is better than I can already think or

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tell for myself?

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And what Imam Ghazali is saying here is

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a part of your deen is to admit

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that Allah and His Messenger know better.

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And everyone in here, including myself, I think

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it's hard for us to hear sometimes that

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somebody might know better for me than I

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know for myself.

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It's a little bit of like an ego

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trip.

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How can that person possibly know better for

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me?

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But the two in question here are Allah

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and His Messenger.

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And subhanAllah, one of the most incredible teachings

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of our deen is that even if you

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think you know what's best for yourself, out

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of manners and etiquettes and respect for Allah

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and His Messenger, it's always better to say

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that Allah knows better.

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Allah knows best.

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And I'm sure you guys have heard this.

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At the end of any answer that certain

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people give, particularly this happens in scholarship, whenever

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you talk to like a Shaykh or an

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Imam and you ask them about a particular

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question or an issue, they'll always say at

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the end, Allah knows best.

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Why is that something that is beautiful to

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behold?

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Why?

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Because those who say that Allah knows best,

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they're automatically raised in the ranks of knowledge

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because you understand that your knowledge would not

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be what it was if it wasn't for

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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Everything you know in your life is because

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Allah allowed you to know it, right?

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عَلَّمَ الْإِنسَانَ مَا لَمْ يَعْلَمْ Allah says that

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in the Qur'an.

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That you only know things that I allowed

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you to know.

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So imagine like a little kid.

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Imagine if you had like a little sibling

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and you taught that little sibling, you know,

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gems after gems, right, in their life.

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You taught them how to, you know, cook

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certain foods.

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You taught them how to do certain chores.

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And then all of a sudden that kid

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turns 10 and they look at you and

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they're like, yeah, I don't really need you

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anymore, you know.

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And at that moment you're like, what a

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disrespectful little snot, you know, like you call

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them all these names.

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And the reason why you feel that way

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is because you saw this kid grow up

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in front of you.

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And all of a sudden this kid thinks

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that it knows better than you.

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Now imagine how we come off to Allah

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when we say that, no, no, no, you

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know what?

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I know Allah tells me to do certain

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things, but I feel like I know better

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for myself here.

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This is literally what Imam al-Ghazali rahimahullah

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is saying here.

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That if a person is acting and speaking,

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they should do so under the allowance of

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what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has allowed

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them to do, right.

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Because at the end of the day Allah

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knows best.

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This is actually a tradition, by the way,

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of all of the sahaba, the companions of

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the Prophet ﷺ.

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Anytime they would be asked any question by

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the Prophet, they would always say, Allahu wa

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rasuluhu a'lamu, even if they knew the

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answer, even if they knew the answer.

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There's a famous narration I'm sure a lot

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of you guys have probably heard of.

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It's a narration called Hadith Jibreel, where Jibreel

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alayhis salam, the angel, comes to the Prophet

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ﷺ and he asks him a series of

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questions in front of people like Umar ibn

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al-Khattab.

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And at the end of this questioning, and

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by the way, it wasn't hard to detect

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that this was not a normal human being

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that was asking these questions.

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The Prophet ﷺ, he was described, this being,

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this creation, this man, he was described as

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wearing all white clothes, his hair was jet

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black, extremely beautiful, striking person in the middle

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of the desert.

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Ain't no desert Arab ever looked like that

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in their life.

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And so at the end of that entire

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ordeal, the Prophet ﷺ, he asks Umar ibn

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al-Khattab, he says, Ya Umar, do you

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know who that was?

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And Umar ibn al-Khattab, I mean you

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can only think about this guy, right?

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Umar ibn al-Khattab is one of the

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greatest companions the Prophet ﷺ has ever seen.

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Don't you think that Umar ibn al-Khattab,

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after years and years and years of being

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around the Prophet, he would know enough to

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know that this person that asked the Prophet

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all these questions wasn't just a regular man?

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He probably was an angel.

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Umar ibn al-Khattab witnessed the Prophet ﷺ

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receive wahi, revelation from Jibril ﷺ.

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He could have easily been like, yeah, I

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know who that was.

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That was Jibril ﷺ.

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Of course, I'm a tenured veteran at this

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point, right?

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But Umar ibn al-Khattab, he said, and

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you can look at the hadith, he says,

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He didn't want to speak in front of

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the Prophet ﷺ.

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He didn't want to say anything in front

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of the Prophet ﷺ.

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Because even if he thought he knew what

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was correct, out of mere respect for the

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Prophet, he never wanted to overstep his limits,

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right?

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And we did this, by the way, in

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Surat al-Hujurat a few months ago, before

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Ramadan.

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Actually, subhanAllah, not a few months ago.

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This was almost like eight, nine months ago.

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When we were doing Surat al-Hujurat together,

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the first verse of that surah was, O

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you who believe, don't step ahead of Allah

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and His Messenger.

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Don't ever think in your life that you

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know so much that you know better than

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Allah and His Messenger.

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Always think that Allah knows better than me

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in this regard.

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Even if it's something very personal to you,

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right?

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You're trying to figure out if you want

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to tie the knot with somebody in your

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life, right?

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You're getting married.

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You're like, yeah, 100%.

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I know this situation in and out.

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I know exactly the venue that I want.

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I know exactly the things that she likes

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or he likes.

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I know exactly how to go about it

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with my family.

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That moment when a person admits, Allah knows

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better than me, automatically you're putting barakah into

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your decisions.

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Allah knows better than me.

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Always get used to saying that phrase, Allah

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knows better than me.

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It's a very humbling statement, by the way.

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It's more about putting barakah into your life

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than actually not making decisions for yourself.

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Just because Allah knows better doesn't mean that

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you don't make decisions.

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You make decisions with the knowledge that Allah

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knows better.

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And so this is what he mentions.

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And then he says, do not be deceived

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by ecstatic utterances and vehement cries of those

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who claim to be religious.

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In this particular text, you can see that

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Imam Ghazali is taking a shot at a

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group of people that call themselves the Sufis.

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By the way, we're all Sufis.

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The idea of Sufism actually means that you

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are a person who practices tasawwuf.

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Tasawwuf means purification of the heart, reviving the

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soul to be closer to Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala.

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But understanding the context of where Imam Ghazali

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was, there was a group of people who

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used to call themselves the Sufis in his

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time.

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They would basically think to themselves that I'm

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going to do pseudo-spiritual things that will

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help me grow closer to Allah.

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I want you guys to think about this

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very easily.

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It's like your modern-day manifestors.

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I'm going to sit in a room, light

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some beautiful candles, I'm going to basically put

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on some scents, listen to uncut gems, and

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I'm going to manifest all of my duas.

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That would be what Imam Ghazali is talking

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about in modern-day terms.

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And he says, don't be fooled by these

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eloquent people.

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AKA, don't be impressed by fluff.

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Don't be impressed by fluff.

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Because these people will have these beautiful utterances

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and cries, and he says that this isn't

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the way to go.

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This isn't the way to go.

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Because he says, this path can be traversed

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rather by one who fights their whims and

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selfish desires through spiritual exercises.

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What are spiritual exercises?

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Salat, dua, dhikr, fasting.

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This is what Allah and His Messenger told

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you to do.

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Some people think that, no, no, no, it's

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okay.

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I'm going to bypass prayer and I'm going

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to meditate.

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This is the opposite of what a Muslim

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should do.

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Never ever think that something that you thought

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of can be better than what the Prophet

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of Islam already did.

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I'm going to tell you right now one

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thing.

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I know we live in the age of

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creators.

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I'm actually a creator.

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Everyone's in the generation of originality.

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Everyone wants to start that trend.

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Everyone wants to start that new thing on

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TikTok that 8 billion people now stitch into

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their own videos.

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Islamically, I'll tell you guys something.

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Islamically, you should never want to be a

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trendsetter.

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That's not what you want to be.

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In fact, in Islam, you want to be

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the most beautiful of followers.

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That's the greatest compliment as a Muslim.

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If a person can follow what the Messenger

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of Allah did and follow it to the

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T, that's better than starting your own trend

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Islamically without a doubt.

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Don't worry about being original.

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That's not what it's about in Islam.

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You can spend all night thinking about what

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can I post on my Instagram story that

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nobody else has posted before?

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What angle of roots can I shoot that

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no one has ever shot before?

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Everyone's thinking about that new cool thing.

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What latte can I make that no one

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else has made before?

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Should I add garam masala to mine?

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You think that'd be good?

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We're all excited about trying that new thing

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and becoming that new trendsetter.

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But in Islam, I'll tell you 100%, you

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follow what the Prophet ﷺ taught you, and

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you will surpass everyone around you.

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On the Day of Judgment, Allah is not

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going to ask you, Ya Fulan, Ya Fulana,

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did you start a new trend when it

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came to Salah?

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Did you pray in this new cool way?

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Did you start a new Salah in the

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day?

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Allah is actually going to punish you if

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you did that.

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Like, man, Allah, I made a 6th prayer

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actually.

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You're like, no, no, no.

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Why would you do that?

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No, no, no.

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Allah will ask you, did you pray in

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the way that My Messenger taught you to

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pray?

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If you did that, then, فَادْخُلِي فِي عِبَادِي

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وَادْخُلِي جَنَّتِي That's going to be the test

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for you.

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So he said, don't be in love with

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the trends and the utterances of those people

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who claim to be spiritual.

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What he says is, rather, fight your inner

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nafs.

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True victory is not by beating other people

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in the dunya.

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True victory is actually beating your own inner

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self at its worst.

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That's what true victory means.

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In a moment of desire, when you have

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the option to do something haram, and you

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overcome your inner self, and you choose to

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not do that haram thing, that's the actual

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show of quwa, of power.

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Power, by the way, subhanAllah, I was actually

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sharing this with a class that I was

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teaching last night.

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Power, when you think about the power of

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Allah, power of Allah is never ever in

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only grandiose things, right?

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That's the power that human beings define.

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If you look at power in the dunya,

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you think of people who are like, wow,

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mashallah, like, they have this many followers, and

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they can do this many things, and they

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have power to make that many decisions.

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The power of Allah is power to be

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able to change the waves in the ocean,

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but also to take care of the ants

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within the ground.

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So you see, the power of Allah is

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never displayed via grand things all the time.

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The power of Allah is sometimes to take

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care of ants and small animals.

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That's also the power of Allah, subhanAllah.

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So don't ever get twisted and think that

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power always has to be this great show

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of strength.

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Power can be you not clicking a certain

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button.

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Power can be you deciding not to send

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a text message.

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Power can be you deciding to open up

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the Qur'an one night.

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It may not be like some crazy show

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of strength, but you being able to grab

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the Qur'an off of your bookshelf and

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open up one chapter takes a little bit

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of determination.

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That can be the greatest show of strength

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in your day, right?

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That's what Imam al-Ghazali is talking about.

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He said, not through falsity and wrong practices.

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Not through falsity and wrong practices that will

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take you away from Allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala.

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You don't have to reinvent the wheel here,

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okay?

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Then he said, وَعْلَمْ You should know that

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a fluent and quick tongue and a close

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heart of heedlessness and lust are signs of

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unhappiness.

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This is a powerful, powerful line in the

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book.

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He says, a fluent and quick tongue.

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What does this mean?

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People who speak really well.

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Nowadays, unfortunately, subhanAllah, I'll tell you guys, we

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are so obsessed with people who speak well,

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right?

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That's why when you see the TikTok video

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at night, and there's the humming noise behind

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the video, it's like some random Muslim guy

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singing a nasheed, you have Mufti Menk pop

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up, and mashallah, he says something really motivating,

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and now you want to repost it and

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retweet it, and it sounds really good, right?

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I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that,

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but to be obsessed with that and to

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make that the entirety of your motivation is

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somewhat problematic, because that means that you're just

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obsessed with whatever looks good right now, right?

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Whatever looks good right now.

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Whatever feels good right now.

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And the reality is, that moment of flowery,

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beautiful speech will not last forever.

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It will not last forever.

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You know what's funny, actually?

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Sheikh Omar, I'm going to mention Sheikh Omar

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here, because me and him had a really

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interesting moment exactly a year ago, actually.

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How many of you guys were here when

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Sheikh Omar was here for soul food a

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year ago?

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Yeah?

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Afra, you were here?

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So, Sheikh Omar was here a year ago

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when we did that book reading of Al

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-Mahajah Fi Sayyidil Duljah, right?

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The book about the journey to Allah, okay?

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And he said, mashallah, Sheikh Omar is the

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most famous Muslim in the world at this

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point, right?

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Him and Mufti Menk need to go in

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a boxing match to see who's the most

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famous Muslim in the world.

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But he was telling me, when we were

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going through that session together and people heard

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about 45 minutes of me and him going

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back and forth, he said that the book

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that we were reading that day was a

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book that he went through with his teacher

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in like the most boring fashion.

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He's like, I sat and I read this

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with my teacher and if anybody in this

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room that was like here for the halatah,

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for soul food that night, they went through

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the way that I went through that book,

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they would have fallen asleep.

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What does that mean?

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He put in years and years of reading

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that book with his teacher to make it

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sound beautiful for you guys for 45 minutes

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that night.

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You see what I'm saying?

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So, never get obsessed with the eloquence in

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speech, right?

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The substance is actually what matters.

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Okay, so he says, you should know that

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fluent and quick tongues and a closed heart

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full of heedlessness.

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Now, that's the second thing that Imam Ghazali

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warms about.

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He says, وَالْقَلْبَ الْمَطْبَقَ He says, this heart

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is closed.

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This heart is closed.

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The moment they hear that 30-second motivational

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video, they're motivated to pray.

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But then the moment that video gets turned

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off, they no longer want to pray anymore.

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You never want to be a person that

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does that.

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You never want to live and die by

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motivation.

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You want to live and die by substance,

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right?

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There was a group of people that came

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to the Prophet ﷺ and they said, ya

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Rasulallah, we feel almost hypocritical.

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And the Prophet ﷺ said, why?

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And they said, because when we're around you,

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we feel so spiritual.

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We feel like we want to pray and

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we want to give charity.

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We want to make dua.

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But the moment we go away from your

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presence, O Messenger of God, we feel like

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an absence in that.

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And the Prophet ﷺ, he said, of course,

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because that's not how it's supposed to be.

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You're supposed to be a person who is

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able to go through your spirituality regardless of

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if I'm here with you or not.

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And this is why the famous statement of

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Abu Bakr as-Siddiq radiAllahu anhu, at the

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death of the Prophet ﷺ, he said, those

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of you who worship Muhammad, what did he

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say?

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Know that Muhammad has passed away.

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فَقَدْ مَاتَ Know that he passed away.

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Because he's a human being.

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But those of you who worship God, know

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that God will never die.

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So who do you really worship?

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Do you worship these moments of motivation?

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Or do you worship Allah?

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If you worship Allah, you'll never be disappointed.

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Allah will never go away.

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Allah will never leave you.

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Allah will never disappoint you.

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Allah will never give you a high level

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of motivation and abandon you the next minute.

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Because Allah will always be there for you.

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That's the nature of Allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala.

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One of his sifat is that he's always

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there, right?

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And so he says, a person who believes

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in the fluency of speech and the quickness

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of the tongue, their hearts will eventually be

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full of what?

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Of?

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بِالغَفْلَةِ Of heedlessness.

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Heedlessness, by the way, is this idea of

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kind of, you know, feeling motivated at one

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point and then being completely mindless the next.

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Right?

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And the reason why غَفْلَة is used is

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because غَفْلَة is very, very hypocritical.

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Heedlessness is very hypocritical.

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Heedlessness is like you pray when everyone else

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around you is praying and then when no

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one else is around you, that prayer is

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not seen anymore.

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Right?

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That charitable moment is no longer seen anymore.

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It's like those people who like put their

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phones up for like a TikTok video and

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then they wake up in the morning stretch

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and then they're ironing their clothes on like

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0.25 speed.

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Right?

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I'm like, I wonder how they look like

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when they're setting that camera up.

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Like I just want to know.

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Just out of curiosity.

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I just want to know what they look

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like when they set it up and they

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go down for sajdah.

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Like I wonder what it looks like.

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Right?

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I'm not hating on like the creator mentality

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of social media.

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But like there has to be a serious

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gut check of like who I am here.

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Right?

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Am I just doing this because I see

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like 30,000 likes next to my video?

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Am I only doing this because I see

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600 comments underneath the video I just posted?

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Or am I doing this because sincerely I

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love Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى.

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Remember what Junaid al-Baghdadi said.

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I remember we mentioned this weeks ago in

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our conversation.

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There was a scholar by the name of

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Junaid al-Baghdadi.

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He was seen in a dream and one

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of his companions said, يَا أَبَالْقَاصِمِ His name

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was Abul Qasim.

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He says, يَا أَبَالْقَاصِمِ What news do you

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have of the hereafter?

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And Junaid al-Baghdadi رحمه الله He said,

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Vanquished are the eloquent speeches that I gave.

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Perished are all the flowery words that I

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spoke in my life.

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The only thing that mattered were the two

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raka'ats that I played in the middle

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of the evening.

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That was it.

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That's the only thing that mattered.

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So again, a very staunch reminder to remind

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ourselves of where we truly lie here.

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And so he says here that these are

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signs of true unhappiness.

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الشقاوة الشقاوة He says true unhappiness.

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Unhappiness doesn't mean like you're an unhappy person.

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It means misery in the hereafter.

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You won't be happy in the hereafter.

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You'll be happy because of the followers here.

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You won't be happy when none of those

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followers actually benefit you in the hereafter.

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In the hereafter, you'll be with Allah سُبْحَانَهُ

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وَ تَعَالَى You know there's a powerful lesson

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that one of my teachers taught me.

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He said that a person who does really

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well in this dunya in terms of their

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Islam, they will be happy with themselves in

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the hereafter because there's no one else to

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rely on in the hereafter.

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You can't ask anyone to save you that

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day.

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So you have to be really happy with

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who you are.

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And I keep on mentioning the modern day

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kind of obsession of social media here because

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I feel like after the cameras are turned

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off and the recording stops, there's like this

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deep sense of loneliness that's felt there.

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That like, you know, if I'm not recording,

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then what's the point?

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There are actual people, Allah, I'm telling you

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guys, there's actual people that have come up

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to me and told me that like, if

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I don't record something and post it on

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my Instagram story, I don't feel like it

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actually happened.

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And I asked them like, why?

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Why do you feel that way?

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It's just because like, I see all the

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other people that have seen this memory and

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I feel it makes it more real.

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I'm like, that's really sad because you feel

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like your own account of it's not good

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enough.

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Right?

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Like you feel like your own memory of

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it's not good enough.

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A person who is strong in their relationship

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with Allah, they don't care if other people

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saw them pray, they know they prayed because

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it was them and Allah in that room.

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And in the hereafter, they won't have to

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rely on other people because their memory was

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with them and Allah to begin with.

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And so they have this extreme confidence about

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themselves that I don't need to rely on

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other people.

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So, a really beautiful reminder here.

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So he says, until you annihilate your inner

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self, حتى لا تقتل نفسك until you basically

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oppose your nafs, your inner self, all the

00:30:22 --> 00:30:25

desires that you have, only then will you

00:30:25 --> 00:30:27

understand what true happiness is.

00:30:28 --> 00:30:28

Okay?

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And he says here that this is found

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in true مجاهدة مجاهدة that word that unfortunately

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western terminology has stolen away from Islam, the

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jihad, it doesn't mean just a fight.

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It means striving.

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It means trying hard.

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Any sort of striving for the sake of

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Allah is مجاهدة.

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It's مجاهدة.

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You know, stopping yourself from doing something that's

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not allowed by Allah is مجاهدة.

00:31:01 --> 00:31:04

You stopped yourself from cheating on an exam,

00:31:04 --> 00:31:05

that's مجاهدة.

00:31:05 --> 00:31:08

You stopped yourself from lying to a friend

00:31:08 --> 00:31:10

when it was easy to lie, that's مجاهدة.

00:31:10 --> 00:31:14

You stopped yourself from stealing something that was

00:31:14 --> 00:31:15

somebody else's, that's مجاهدة.

00:31:16 --> 00:31:18

That's true jihad.

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Because it's hard at that moment to listen

00:31:20 --> 00:31:22

to your true heart, to tell yourself to

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stop even though it may give you satiation

00:31:26 --> 00:31:26

for a minute.

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Don't think for a second that this is

00:31:29 --> 00:31:32

gonna make you feel extremely regretful down the

00:31:32 --> 00:31:32

line.

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That's what مجاهدة actually is.

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Okay?

00:31:35 --> 00:31:38

And he says, your heart, unless a person

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does this, unless a person strives for مجاهدة,

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your heart will never become illuminated بأنوار المعرفة

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with the true light of knowledge.

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The true light of knowledge.

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You're always going to feel like a fluffy,

00:31:55 --> 00:31:56

performative person.

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You're never gonna really feel like you accomplished

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much, if anything.

00:32:01 --> 00:32:01

Okay?

00:32:02 --> 00:32:02

Okay.

00:32:03 --> 00:32:05

Here, inshaAllah, I wanted to go over a

00:32:05 --> 00:32:10

beautiful part of the next chapter, inshaAllah.

00:32:10 --> 00:32:11

I'm gonna just kind of fast forward a

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little bit for the sake of time.

00:32:12 --> 00:32:12

Okay?

00:32:13 --> 00:32:16

He then goes into this amazing, amazing chapter

00:32:16 --> 00:32:18

about what we call عقيدة.

00:32:18 --> 00:32:18

Okay?

00:32:19 --> 00:32:22

He says, يا أيها الولد Oh, my beloved

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son.

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Some of your questions, some of the questions

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that you ask are of this type.

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But the portion which can be answered, we

00:32:33 --> 00:32:35

have mentioned in our previous book.

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Now, what are the two types of questions?

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I'll give you guys an easy answer to

00:32:39 --> 00:32:39

this.

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Imam al-Ghazali basically says that there are

00:32:41 --> 00:32:43

certain questions that his student has asked him

00:32:43 --> 00:32:46

that you can't really know unless you've experienced

00:32:46 --> 00:32:46

it.

00:32:46 --> 00:32:48

Anybody ever had that before in their life?

00:32:48 --> 00:32:50

You ask like a friend, like, hey, how

00:32:50 --> 00:32:50

was it?

00:32:51 --> 00:32:53

And they're like, you just kind of have

00:32:53 --> 00:32:54

to be there.

00:32:54 --> 00:32:55

You ever got that before?

00:32:55 --> 00:32:56

That treatment sucks, right?

00:32:56 --> 00:32:58

Like, you're like, you're the worst person I've

00:32:58 --> 00:32:58

ever met.

00:32:58 --> 00:32:59

You know?

00:32:59 --> 00:33:00

But it's true.

00:33:01 --> 00:33:01

You know why?

00:33:01 --> 00:33:03

Because I can guarantee you've experienced stuff like

00:33:03 --> 00:33:04

that in your life.

00:33:04 --> 00:33:07

Somebody asks you, what was your first Umrah

00:33:07 --> 00:33:07

like?

00:33:08 --> 00:33:10

What was your first time ever seeing the

00:33:10 --> 00:33:10

Kaaba?

00:33:11 --> 00:33:12

How can you explain that?

00:33:13 --> 00:33:14

How can you explain that?

00:33:14 --> 00:33:15

How can you explain something like that?

00:33:16 --> 00:33:19

What was it like to, you know, hold

00:33:19 --> 00:33:20

your baby brother or sister for the first

00:33:20 --> 00:33:21

time?

00:33:21 --> 00:33:21

You know?

00:33:22 --> 00:33:23

How can you explain that?

00:33:24 --> 00:33:26

What was it like to like, you know,

00:33:26 --> 00:33:27

your first day of college?

00:33:28 --> 00:33:28

What was that like?

00:33:29 --> 00:33:31

You know, how can you sometimes explain those

00:33:31 --> 00:33:32

moments?

00:33:32 --> 00:33:33

Sometimes you can't.

00:33:33 --> 00:33:35

So Imam al-Ghazali, he says, there are

00:33:35 --> 00:33:38

certain, know that there are certain experiences that

00:33:38 --> 00:33:40

I can't even express to you unless you

00:33:40 --> 00:33:41

experience it for yourself.

00:33:42 --> 00:33:42

Right?

00:33:43 --> 00:33:45

And what the lesson of that is, put

00:33:45 --> 00:33:47

down the books and the pens for once

00:33:47 --> 00:33:50

and just go experience these experiences for yourself.

00:33:51 --> 00:33:54

Somebody can take notes about Salah for days.

00:33:54 --> 00:33:56

Anybody done like extensive Islamic workshops in their

00:33:56 --> 00:33:57

life?

00:33:57 --> 00:34:00

Dua workshops, Salah workshops, right?

00:34:01 --> 00:34:02

Quran, learning this, learning that.

00:34:02 --> 00:34:04

Sometimes you just gotta dive in and make

00:34:04 --> 00:34:05

those mistakes.

00:34:05 --> 00:34:07

Anybody ever make a big mistake in their

00:34:07 --> 00:34:09

Islamic experience before?

00:34:09 --> 00:34:09

Right?

00:34:10 --> 00:34:12

They attended like a Quran class and they

00:34:12 --> 00:34:14

read aloud to the class and they basically

00:34:14 --> 00:34:16

said Fi instead of Fa.

00:34:17 --> 00:34:18

They said Bi instead of Ba.

00:34:18 --> 00:34:20

And now everyone around you is looking at

00:34:20 --> 00:34:21

you like you're an idiot.

00:34:21 --> 00:34:22

You're like, wow, I never wanna do this

00:34:22 --> 00:34:23

again.

00:34:23 --> 00:34:23

Right?

00:34:23 --> 00:34:24

I should've never entered this class before.

00:34:25 --> 00:34:27

I congratulate you.

00:34:27 --> 00:34:28

I really do.

00:34:28 --> 00:34:30

Because at one point, you just have to

00:34:30 --> 00:34:31

dive in.

00:34:31 --> 00:34:32

You have to dive in.

00:34:32 --> 00:34:33

You have to be willing to make mistakes.

00:34:34 --> 00:34:39

There is no substitute for making mistakes in

00:34:39 --> 00:34:41

your life sometimes and learning because of those

00:34:41 --> 00:34:41

mistakes.

00:34:42 --> 00:34:43

You can take all the notes you want

00:34:43 --> 00:34:44

in the world.

00:34:44 --> 00:34:45

But Imam Ghazali, he's saying here is that

00:34:45 --> 00:34:47

you have to sometimes experience those things in

00:34:47 --> 00:34:47

your life.

00:34:48 --> 00:34:50

You can't take notes about Salah.

00:34:50 --> 00:34:51

You actually have to pray.

00:34:51 --> 00:34:54

You can't take notes about Dua for eight

00:34:54 --> 00:34:54

weeks.

00:34:54 --> 00:34:56

You have to make Dua, right?

00:34:56 --> 00:34:58

When we were doing our Dua series, if

00:34:58 --> 00:34:59

you guys remember in Soul Food, right?

00:35:00 --> 00:35:01

We did our Dua series for like three

00:35:01 --> 00:35:02

months.

00:35:02 --> 00:35:04

The goal of the Dua series was not

00:35:04 --> 00:35:05

for you guys to wait 90 days until

00:35:05 --> 00:35:06

you made your first Dua.

00:35:07 --> 00:35:09

The goal of the Dua series was to

00:35:09 --> 00:35:11

make your first Dua after the first session.

00:35:12 --> 00:35:13

And then each and every week, you come

00:35:13 --> 00:35:15

back to Soul Food on Thursday night.

00:35:15 --> 00:35:16

You're like, wow.

00:35:16 --> 00:35:18

Yeah, from my Dua that I made last

00:35:18 --> 00:35:20

Friday, now I wanna add on to it.

00:35:20 --> 00:35:22

That's what the goal of this is, right?

00:35:22 --> 00:35:23

So that's what Imam Ghazali is trying to

00:35:23 --> 00:35:24

teach us here.

00:35:24 --> 00:35:27

So he says, the rest of what I

00:35:27 --> 00:35:28

can teach you is in my other book

00:35:28 --> 00:35:29

that I've written.

00:35:30 --> 00:35:33

Then he says here, the traveler of the

00:35:33 --> 00:35:37

path must be in possession of four things.

00:35:37 --> 00:35:38

Now, what is this path?

00:35:38 --> 00:35:40

What is this path that Imam Ghazali is

00:35:40 --> 00:35:41

talking about?

00:35:41 --> 00:35:43

This is the path of a person who

00:35:43 --> 00:35:45

wants to improve in their life.

00:35:45 --> 00:35:47

How many people in here, raise of hands,

00:35:47 --> 00:35:48

wants to improve in their life at some

00:35:48 --> 00:35:48

level?

00:35:49 --> 00:35:50

Beautiful.

00:35:50 --> 00:35:51

That's all you need to know if you

00:35:51 --> 00:35:52

wanna be a Muslim.

00:35:52 --> 00:35:55

If you wanna be a Muslim, your goal

00:35:55 --> 00:35:59

is self-improvement everyday, just a little bit.

00:36:00 --> 00:36:01

Just a little bit.

00:36:01 --> 00:36:05

Don't be obsessed with the jackpot moment of

00:36:05 --> 00:36:09

spirituality in which you basically expected morph into

00:36:09 --> 00:36:10

Mufti Kamani overnight.

00:36:11 --> 00:36:12

It's not going to happen.

00:36:13 --> 00:36:14

It's not going to happen.

00:36:14 --> 00:36:16

Because there was work that was put in

00:36:16 --> 00:36:19

by every person who is confident in their

00:36:19 --> 00:36:22

relationship with Allah each and everyday that you

00:36:22 --> 00:36:22

actually didn't see.

00:36:23 --> 00:36:26

You didn't see those times in which they

00:36:26 --> 00:36:29

stayed up until midnight making dua, doing dhikr

00:36:29 --> 00:36:30

of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

00:36:30 --> 00:36:32

You just saw the finished product.

00:36:33 --> 00:36:35

But a person who wants to grow in

00:36:35 --> 00:36:37

their connection with Allah is a person who

00:36:37 --> 00:36:38

works behind the scenes.

00:36:38 --> 00:36:41

So Imam Ghazali, he says, the traveler of

00:36:41 --> 00:36:43

the path must be in possession of four

00:36:43 --> 00:36:44

things.

00:36:44 --> 00:36:45

The path of self-improvement, okay?

00:36:46 --> 00:36:52

The first thing is al-'aqeedah sahih a solid

00:36:52 --> 00:36:56

understanding of who Allah is free of any

00:36:56 --> 00:36:59

sort of bid'ah or innovation or mistakes.

00:37:00 --> 00:37:01

Can I tell you guys a really beautiful

00:37:01 --> 00:37:03

hadith that will help you highlight this?

00:37:03 --> 00:37:04

There's a hadith of the Prophet ﷺ where

00:37:04 --> 00:37:10

he said, من عرف نفسه فقد عرف ربه

00:37:10 --> 00:37:11

You know what that means?

00:37:12 --> 00:37:17

It means a person who knows themselves they

00:37:17 --> 00:37:19

will know Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

00:37:20 --> 00:37:20

Okay?

00:37:21 --> 00:37:22

You want to know who you are?

00:37:23 --> 00:37:26

Know who Allah is in relation to you.

00:37:26 --> 00:37:29

Know who Allah is in relation to you.

00:37:29 --> 00:37:31

Know who Allah is.

00:37:31 --> 00:37:34

A person who is having a hard time

00:37:34 --> 00:37:36

forgiving themselves for a mistake that they've made

00:37:36 --> 00:37:38

in their life they learn that Allah subhanahu

00:37:38 --> 00:37:41

wa ta'ala is ar-Rahman al-Ghafoor.

00:37:42 --> 00:37:44

They learn that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

00:37:44 --> 00:37:48

forgives sins that even the human being will

00:37:48 --> 00:37:51

not forgive themselves for they will understand who

00:37:51 --> 00:37:53

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is in relation

00:37:53 --> 00:37:53

to them.

00:37:54 --> 00:37:54

Right?

00:37:55 --> 00:37:57

To know that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

00:37:57 --> 00:37:59

is al-Kareem, the most noble.

00:38:00 --> 00:38:01

To know that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

00:38:01 --> 00:38:03

is al-'Azeem, the greatest.

00:38:03 --> 00:38:05

You will understand where Allah is in your

00:38:05 --> 00:38:06

life in relation to where you are.

00:38:07 --> 00:38:08

So, a solid aqeedah.

00:38:09 --> 00:38:11

The second thing he says is a sincere

00:38:11 --> 00:38:16

repentance that prevents them from returning to sin.

00:38:17 --> 00:38:19

The second thing that a person who is

00:38:19 --> 00:38:22

striving for self-improvement they need is a

00:38:22 --> 00:38:27

person who is engaging in sincere repentance.

00:38:27 --> 00:38:30

Tawbah nasuhah.

00:38:31 --> 00:38:32

Sincere repentance.

00:38:33 --> 00:38:38

Sincere repentance means that the greatest humiliation for

00:38:38 --> 00:38:40

me is to go back and make that

00:38:40 --> 00:38:41

same mistake again.

00:38:42 --> 00:38:44

The Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam what did he

00:38:44 --> 00:38:45

say?

00:38:45 --> 00:38:48

That a true believer is not bitten from

00:38:48 --> 00:38:50

the same hole twice.

00:38:52 --> 00:38:53

What does that statement mean?

00:38:54 --> 00:38:55

That you learn from your mistakes.

00:38:56 --> 00:38:58

You learn from the mistakes that you made.

00:38:59 --> 00:39:01

You don't go back to that same place

00:39:01 --> 00:39:04

that you went to that caused you trauma

00:39:04 --> 00:39:07

and difficulty and make the same exact mistake

00:39:07 --> 00:39:08

all over again.

00:39:08 --> 00:39:11

Imam al-Ghazali, he says this is a

00:39:11 --> 00:39:13

great form of humiliation for the believer.

00:39:14 --> 00:39:16

They feel humiliated by themselves for making that

00:39:16 --> 00:39:19

mistake over and over and over again.

00:39:19 --> 00:39:23

Rather, a true believer, they understand that that

00:39:23 --> 00:39:26

memory was so bad for me I don't

00:39:26 --> 00:39:27

want to go back to that place again.

00:39:28 --> 00:39:30

I want to move forward from here.

00:39:30 --> 00:39:32

I want to move on from here.

00:39:32 --> 00:39:33

That's the second.

00:39:33 --> 00:39:36

Is tawbah nasuhah.

00:39:36 --> 00:39:39

A very sincere repentance.

00:39:39 --> 00:39:43

The third, he says is to settle all

00:39:43 --> 00:39:46

dues even with your enemies so that there

00:39:46 --> 00:39:49

will be nothing remaining over you on the

00:39:49 --> 00:39:49

day of judgment.

00:39:50 --> 00:39:51

Wow, subhanAllah.

00:39:52 --> 00:39:54

The first two are about Allah subhanahu wa

00:39:54 --> 00:39:54

ta'ala.

00:39:55 --> 00:39:57

The third one is about the people around

00:39:57 --> 00:39:58

you.

00:40:00 --> 00:40:03

Guys, the goal of a Muslim is to

00:40:03 --> 00:40:05

never neglect the people around them.

00:40:06 --> 00:40:08

Settle your dues with the people around you.

00:40:08 --> 00:40:10

Even the people you had run-ins with.

00:40:11 --> 00:40:12

Conflicts with.

00:40:12 --> 00:40:15

Don't go to sleep at night hosting any

00:40:15 --> 00:40:16

sort of ill-will for another person.

00:40:17 --> 00:40:19

This is what, by the way, what shaytan

00:40:19 --> 00:40:20

feeds off of.

00:40:21 --> 00:40:24

Shaytan's food is knowing that a person is

00:40:24 --> 00:40:26

angry at somebody else when they go to

00:40:26 --> 00:40:26

sleep at night.

00:40:27 --> 00:40:30

Anybody ever go to sleep at night trying

00:40:30 --> 00:40:31

to memorize something and they wake up the

00:40:31 --> 00:40:33

next morning with that memory in their head?

00:40:33 --> 00:40:33

It's really weird, by the way.

00:40:33 --> 00:40:34

Y'all ever think about that before?

00:40:34 --> 00:40:36

Like you try to memorize something all day.

00:40:36 --> 00:40:37

It didn't work.

00:40:37 --> 00:40:38

Then you go to sleep and the next

00:40:38 --> 00:40:40

morning you wake up like a hafidh.

00:40:40 --> 00:40:41

You're like, wow.

00:40:41 --> 00:40:43

Alif, lam, meem, dhalik, al-kitab, al-arayb.

00:40:43 --> 00:40:45

I never knew I knew that, right?

00:40:45 --> 00:40:46

All of a sudden you know it.

00:40:47 --> 00:40:53

Sleeping on something actually, subhanAllah, imprints something into

00:40:53 --> 00:40:53

your memory.

00:40:54 --> 00:40:55

It really does.

00:40:57 --> 00:40:59

And the same works with negative things as

00:40:59 --> 00:40:59

well.

00:41:00 --> 00:41:02

You have a conflict during the day?

00:41:02 --> 00:41:03

Don't sleep on it.

00:41:04 --> 00:41:05

Don't sleep on it.

00:41:05 --> 00:41:07

My wife and I, by the way, alhamdulillah,

00:41:07 --> 00:41:08

I learn a lot from her.

00:41:10 --> 00:41:12

We agreed that if we have any disagreements

00:41:12 --> 00:41:14

or arguments during the day, we will never

00:41:14 --> 00:41:15

go to sleep angry at one another.

00:41:16 --> 00:41:17

We have to solve it before we go

00:41:17 --> 00:41:17

to sleep.

00:41:18 --> 00:41:19

We can't do that.

00:41:20 --> 00:41:20

You can't do that.

00:41:21 --> 00:41:23

The relationships that Allah has given you in

00:41:23 --> 00:41:26

your life are too precious to squander away

00:41:26 --> 00:41:27

like that.

00:41:28 --> 00:41:31

Always settle your dues before it is too

00:41:31 --> 00:41:31

late.

00:41:31 --> 00:41:33

And that's why He says, even with your

00:41:33 --> 00:41:39

enemies, don't leave this dunya knowing that you

00:41:39 --> 00:41:40

have enemies in your life.

00:41:41 --> 00:41:45

The Prophet ﷺ, subhanAllah, before he passed away,

00:41:45 --> 00:41:49

alayhis salatu was salam, he was speaking to

00:41:49 --> 00:41:50

his companions.

00:41:51 --> 00:41:54

And he said, if there is anybody in

00:41:54 --> 00:41:57

this room that I owe anything to, all

00:41:57 --> 00:42:00

of my beloved friends and my family, if

00:42:00 --> 00:42:03

I owe anything to you, please come and

00:42:03 --> 00:42:05

see me so I can pay you back

00:42:05 --> 00:42:08

or I can repay you for whatever I

00:42:08 --> 00:42:11

have done or taken so that I can

00:42:11 --> 00:42:13

depart from this dunya with a clean conscience.

00:42:14 --> 00:42:15

And you know what he said?

00:42:16 --> 00:42:18

Abu Bakr as-Siddiq radiAllahu anhu was standing

00:42:18 --> 00:42:18

next to him.

00:42:19 --> 00:42:22

And he said, I can pay everybody back

00:42:22 --> 00:42:24

for anything that I've borrowed from them, but

00:42:24 --> 00:42:26

I can never pay one person back for

00:42:26 --> 00:42:26

what they've done for me.

00:42:27 --> 00:42:28

And he pulls at Abu Bakr as-Siddiq

00:42:28 --> 00:42:31

and he says, this man right here, he

00:42:31 --> 00:42:32

gave me more than I can ever pay

00:42:32 --> 00:42:32

him.

00:42:34 --> 00:42:36

And at this moment, Abu Bakr as-Siddiq

00:42:36 --> 00:42:39

radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, he began to shed

00:42:39 --> 00:42:42

tear after tear after tear, crying.

00:42:43 --> 00:42:44

Can you imagine if the Prophet ﷺ said

00:42:44 --> 00:42:46

that he can never owe you back?

00:42:47 --> 00:42:48

He can never repay you back.

00:42:48 --> 00:42:50

What a lofty statement.

00:42:51 --> 00:42:53

And at that statement, Abu Bakr as-Siddiq

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began to profusely cry.

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And after his tears kind of settled down

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a little bit, he said, Ya Rasulullah, Allah

00:43:03 --> 00:43:06

gave me my life to serve you.

00:43:07 --> 00:43:08

That's why Allah created me.

00:43:09 --> 00:43:11

Allah gave me my entire life to serve

00:43:11 --> 00:43:12

you, Ya Rasulullah.

00:43:13 --> 00:43:14

You owe me absolutely nothing.

00:43:15 --> 00:43:17

May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give us

00:43:17 --> 00:43:19

friends like Abu Bakr as-Siddiq radiAllahu anhu.

00:43:19 --> 00:43:20

Everyone say ameen.

00:43:21 --> 00:43:25

And he says, the fourth is to attain

00:43:25 --> 00:43:28

enough knowledge of shari'ah that suffices you

00:43:28 --> 00:43:31

to comply with the umoor of Allah subhanahu

00:43:31 --> 00:43:33

wa ta'ala, the commands of Allah subhanahu

00:43:33 --> 00:43:36

wa ta'ala, than a share from other

00:43:36 --> 00:43:39

disciplines that leads you to the salvation of

00:43:39 --> 00:43:39

the hereafter.

00:43:39 --> 00:43:41

I'm gonna share with you guys two things

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to end, inshaAllah, in this chapter.

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He says it is narrated by al-Shibli.

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This, by the way, is Abu Bakr al

00:43:46 --> 00:43:46

-Shibli.

00:43:46 --> 00:43:48

He was a great scholar at that time.

00:43:48 --> 00:43:50

He was a student of Junaid al-Baghdadi

00:43:50 --> 00:43:50

radiAllahu anhu.

00:43:50 --> 00:43:54

So Abu Bakr al-Shibli radiAllahu anhu, he

00:43:54 --> 00:43:57

said, I served 400 teachers in my life.

00:43:57 --> 00:43:58

Can you imagine that?

00:43:59 --> 00:44:00

Having 400 sheikhs in your life?

00:44:01 --> 00:44:02

Man, I'm like struggling with one.

00:44:03 --> 00:44:04

Imagine 400 of them.

00:44:05 --> 00:44:07

He said, I served 400 scholars in my

00:44:07 --> 00:44:08

life.

00:44:08 --> 00:44:12

And I said, I read 4,000 hadith

00:44:12 --> 00:44:12

from them.

00:44:13 --> 00:44:15

So how many hadith per teacher?

00:44:17 --> 00:44:17

100, right?

00:44:17 --> 00:44:19

You guys are just horrible at math.

00:44:19 --> 00:44:19

SubhanAllah.

00:44:19 --> 00:44:21

I don't know the American education system.

00:44:22 --> 00:44:24

You're like, carry the five, divide the two.

00:44:24 --> 00:44:24

No, no, no.

00:44:25 --> 00:44:28

If he studied under 400 scholars and he

00:44:28 --> 00:44:31

learned 4,000 hadith, it's about 100 hadith

00:44:31 --> 00:44:33

he studied under each and every scholar.

00:44:33 --> 00:44:33

OK?

00:44:33 --> 00:44:37

So he says, I learned 4,000 hadith

00:44:37 --> 00:44:41

and selected one of them for practice.

00:44:42 --> 00:44:44

Now, a person who looks at that, they're

00:44:44 --> 00:44:44

like, wow.

00:44:45 --> 00:44:47

You learned 4,000 hadith and you only

00:44:47 --> 00:44:48

practiced one?

00:44:48 --> 00:44:50

What are you talking about, man?

00:44:51 --> 00:44:55

He says, because having pondered over this and

00:44:55 --> 00:44:59

considering it seriously, I realized that here lay

00:44:59 --> 00:45:03

my salvation since it embodied the knowledge of

00:45:03 --> 00:45:06

the pious predecessors and those who followed them.

00:45:07 --> 00:45:07

You know what that means?

00:45:08 --> 00:45:11

It means that the sahaba and the tabi

00:45:11 --> 00:45:15

'een, their goal was never to collect hadith

00:45:15 --> 00:45:16

and just memorize them for the sake of

00:45:16 --> 00:45:17

memorizing them.

00:45:19 --> 00:45:20

I'll tell you guys right now.

00:45:21 --> 00:45:23

From your Thursday night halaqas here, right?

00:45:23 --> 00:45:24

And by the way, I'm not teaching you

00:45:24 --> 00:45:24

guys anything new.

00:45:24 --> 00:45:27

I'm literally regurgitating whatever my teachers have taught

00:45:27 --> 00:45:27

me.

00:45:28 --> 00:45:30

If you guys from each and every Thursday

00:45:30 --> 00:45:33

take one wisdom and you implement it in

00:45:33 --> 00:45:35

your life from the 50-minute sessions that

00:45:35 --> 00:45:37

we go through every Thursday, it's actually a

00:45:37 --> 00:45:38

major W for each and every one of

00:45:38 --> 00:45:39

you.

00:45:40 --> 00:45:41

Don't think that you have to memorize.

00:45:41 --> 00:45:42

I know some of you guys are like

00:45:42 --> 00:45:43

vehement note takers.

00:45:43 --> 00:45:46

MashaAllah, brother Abrar captures you guys sometimes taking

00:45:46 --> 00:45:49

notes on the Instagram reel once a week.

00:45:49 --> 00:45:50

And some of you guys are like every

00:45:50 --> 00:45:52

word that's being spoken, you're like, I got

00:45:52 --> 00:45:52

to get that.

00:45:52 --> 00:45:53

What did he say at that moment?

00:45:53 --> 00:45:54

Did he say if or or?

00:45:54 --> 00:45:55

I'm not sure.

00:45:55 --> 00:45:56

Don't worry about that.

00:45:57 --> 00:45:59

Worry about the one thing that you can

00:45:59 --> 00:46:01

take home with you that you can implement

00:46:01 --> 00:46:01

in your life this week.

00:46:02 --> 00:46:04

It could be just one teaching.

00:46:05 --> 00:46:08

Abu Bakr al-Shibli, he says, that's what

00:46:08 --> 00:46:10

I focused on in my life, okay?

00:46:10 --> 00:46:14

And he says, and that tradition was that

00:46:14 --> 00:46:16

the messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he

00:46:16 --> 00:46:19

said to one of his companions, and this

00:46:19 --> 00:46:22

is a famous narration in some books of

00:46:22 --> 00:46:23

Hadith.

00:46:23 --> 00:46:27

He said, work for your world according to

00:46:27 --> 00:46:31

your maqam feeha, your maqam within it.

00:46:32 --> 00:46:32

What does that mean?

00:46:33 --> 00:46:37

Work for your dunya depending upon whatever station

00:46:37 --> 00:46:39

that Allah has given you in this dunya.

00:46:39 --> 00:46:41

If you're a person that Allah has given

00:46:41 --> 00:46:45

you with certain rizq in this world, work

00:46:45 --> 00:46:46

accordingly to it.

00:46:46 --> 00:46:47

Can I translate that for you guys?

00:46:48 --> 00:46:48

Live by your means.

00:46:49 --> 00:46:50

Live by your means.

00:46:51 --> 00:46:52

Don't be a person who has 20 bucks

00:46:52 --> 00:46:54

in their bank account and go on a

00:46:54 --> 00:46:54

vacation to Japan.

00:46:56 --> 00:46:57

Habibi, it's not for you.

00:46:58 --> 00:47:00

That's not written in your rizq, okay?

00:47:01 --> 00:47:03

If you have 10 bucks in your bank

00:47:03 --> 00:47:06

account, you have no business going to Knife

00:47:06 --> 00:47:07

Burger with your friends.

00:47:07 --> 00:47:08

I'm sorry.

00:47:08 --> 00:47:10

I don't care how halal it is.

00:47:10 --> 00:47:12

Them burgers are too expensive for you.

00:47:13 --> 00:47:17

Go grab like an Olive Burger burger and

00:47:17 --> 00:47:18

like split it in half and spare it

00:47:18 --> 00:47:19

for two days, okay?

00:47:19 --> 00:47:21

Live within your means.

00:47:21 --> 00:47:23

This is a powerful lesson by the way.

00:47:23 --> 00:47:23

You know why?

00:47:23 --> 00:47:27

Because so much of human nature is to

00:47:27 --> 00:47:28

try to keep up appearances.

00:47:29 --> 00:47:30

How many of us do that?

00:47:30 --> 00:47:32

We live outside of our means.

00:47:32 --> 00:47:34

Your friends are like chatting it up about

00:47:34 --> 00:47:35

like their new Tesla and you're like, yeah,

00:47:35 --> 00:47:36

yeah, yeah.

00:47:36 --> 00:47:38

And you're over here driving your 1997 Toyota

00:47:38 --> 00:47:41

Corolla, 800,000 miles on it.

00:47:41 --> 00:47:43

More than Burakh, right?

00:47:43 --> 00:47:44

The animal that the Prophet ﷺ rode, right?

00:47:45 --> 00:47:47

Like you are struggling.

00:47:47 --> 00:47:49

But for some reason, you have to keep

00:47:49 --> 00:47:50

up these appearances.

00:47:50 --> 00:47:53

The Prophet ﷺ, he says, live in the

00:47:53 --> 00:47:57

dunya with the maqam that Allah has given

00:47:57 --> 00:47:57

you in the dunya.

00:47:58 --> 00:48:00

Don't try to go above and beyond it.

00:48:00 --> 00:48:01

Live within your means.

00:48:01 --> 00:48:03

If Allah has blessed you with money, spend

00:48:03 --> 00:48:04

that money for good.

00:48:04 --> 00:48:06

If Allah has not blessed you with money,

00:48:06 --> 00:48:08

don't pretend you got that money, right?

00:48:08 --> 00:48:09

That's what he's saying here.

00:48:10 --> 00:48:13

The second thing he says, work for your

00:48:13 --> 00:48:17

akhira according to the length of your remaining

00:48:17 --> 00:48:17

in it.

00:48:17 --> 00:48:19

Now, this is kind of like a really

00:48:19 --> 00:48:22

interesting rhetorical statement.

00:48:22 --> 00:48:24

How long do people live in the akhira?

00:48:26 --> 00:48:26

Khalidina feeha?

00:48:27 --> 00:48:28

Abada.

00:48:28 --> 00:48:29

Forever.

00:48:30 --> 00:48:32

So when the Prophet ﷺ, he says, work

00:48:32 --> 00:48:34

for your hereafter according to the length of

00:48:34 --> 00:48:35

your remaining in it.

00:48:35 --> 00:48:36

What's everyone's length in the akhira?

00:48:37 --> 00:48:37

Forever.

00:48:38 --> 00:48:40

Work for the akhira because you know that

00:48:40 --> 00:48:41

it will be forever.

00:48:42 --> 00:48:44

No one that reads this hadith will ever

00:48:44 --> 00:48:45

say, well, my time in the akhira is

00:48:45 --> 00:48:47

gonna be about like two months, one year,

00:48:48 --> 00:48:48

ten years.

00:48:48 --> 00:48:48

No, no, no.

00:48:49 --> 00:48:50

Akhira is forever.

00:48:50 --> 00:48:52

Work for your akhira knowing that you'll be

00:48:52 --> 00:48:53

in it forever.

00:48:54 --> 00:48:57

So if something's not worth it for the

00:48:57 --> 00:48:59

akhira, don't touch it.

00:48:59 --> 00:49:01

If something is worth it for the akhira,

00:49:02 --> 00:49:03

invest in it.

00:49:03 --> 00:49:03

Okay?

00:49:04 --> 00:49:07

Then he says, work for Allah according to

00:49:07 --> 00:49:09

your need of Him.

00:49:10 --> 00:49:10

What does that mean?

00:49:11 --> 00:49:13

You need Allah for everything.

00:49:14 --> 00:49:17

So whatever Allah asks you to do, drop

00:49:17 --> 00:49:19

what you're doing and do it.

00:49:20 --> 00:49:23

Your need for Allah will never ever fall

00:49:23 --> 00:49:23

short.

00:49:24 --> 00:49:26

You will always be in need for Allah.

00:49:26 --> 00:49:29

No matter how happy you are, no matter

00:49:29 --> 00:49:31

how much money you have, no matter how

00:49:31 --> 00:49:34

many degrees you graduate with, no matter how

00:49:34 --> 00:49:36

many people you have on your followers list,

00:49:36 --> 00:49:38

you will always need Allah subhanahu wa ta

00:49:38 --> 00:49:38

'ala.

00:49:39 --> 00:49:42

Work for Allah depending upon your extreme need

00:49:42 --> 00:49:43

of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

00:49:44 --> 00:49:46

And then he says, work for the fire

00:49:46 --> 00:49:49

according to your endurance in it.

00:49:49 --> 00:49:51

What a powerful statement.

00:49:52 --> 00:49:53

What is everyone's endurance in Jahannam?

00:49:55 --> 00:49:55

Zero.

00:49:56 --> 00:49:57

You can't tolerate it one bit.

00:49:58 --> 00:49:59

Remember the story I told you guys about

00:49:59 --> 00:50:00

Muhammad Ali last week?

00:50:01 --> 00:50:02

He used to walk around with a lighter

00:50:02 --> 00:50:04

in his pocket, and every time he would

00:50:04 --> 00:50:05

be tempted to do something haram, he would

00:50:05 --> 00:50:07

turn that lighter on and put his arm

00:50:07 --> 00:50:07

over it.

00:50:08 --> 00:50:09

And he would say, if I can't handle

00:50:09 --> 00:50:12

that, I can't handle the consequences of doing

00:50:12 --> 00:50:13

what I'm about to do.

00:50:14 --> 00:50:18

So he says, work for the fire according

00:50:18 --> 00:50:19

to your endurance in it.

00:50:20 --> 00:50:21

And your endurance is you cannot endure.

00:50:22 --> 00:50:25

So if you can't handle Jahannam, don't think

00:50:25 --> 00:50:26

about something that will gain Jahannam.

00:50:27 --> 00:50:30

This is a powerful lesson, alhamdulillah.

00:50:30 --> 00:50:31

InshaAllah we'll end with that.

00:50:33 --> 00:50:34

We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to

00:50:34 --> 00:50:36

forgive us for our shortcomings.

00:50:36 --> 00:50:38

And we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

00:50:38 --> 00:50:40

to accept from the good that we have

00:50:40 --> 00:50:41

said and forgive us for our mistakes.

00:50:42 --> 00:50:43

And we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

00:50:43 --> 00:50:45

to allow us to learn from these sessions

00:50:45 --> 00:50:47

and allow us to benefit from each other's

00:50:47 --> 00:50:47

company.

00:50:49 --> 00:50:53

I know that you guys all hate me

00:50:53 --> 00:50:54

right now because I said that we're going

00:50:54 --> 00:50:55

to do a Q&A.

00:50:55 --> 00:50:57

But we only have five minutes.

00:50:57 --> 00:50:58

So unfortunately we'll not be able to do

00:50:58 --> 00:50:58

the Q&A.

00:50:58 --> 00:51:00

We'll inshaAllah pivot the Q&A to next

00:51:00 --> 00:51:01

Thursday inshaAllah.

00:51:01 --> 00:51:02

I'm going to keep the Q&A portal

00:51:02 --> 00:51:04

live for this next week.

00:51:04 --> 00:51:05

So you can submit your questions from now.

00:51:06 --> 00:51:07

And you can also submit your questions next

00:51:07 --> 00:51:08

Thursday inshaAllah.

00:51:08 --> 00:51:10

And then we will inshaAllah touch base with

00:51:10 --> 00:51:12

the Q&A next Thursday.

00:51:12 --> 00:51:15

Also, by the way, next Thursday's session will

00:51:15 --> 00:51:18

go back to 7 p.m. start time.

00:51:18 --> 00:51:19

Because Maghrib now is earlier.

00:51:19 --> 00:51:21

It's like 6.43. Then inshaAllah in just

00:51:21 --> 00:51:23

a couple of weeks, Maghrib Daylight Savings and

00:51:23 --> 00:51:24

all that stuff.

00:51:24 --> 00:51:27

So official session time for next Thursday will

00:51:27 --> 00:51:28

be at, everybody?

00:51:29 --> 00:51:29

7 o'clock inshaAllah.

00:51:30 --> 00:51:30

Okay?

00:51:30 --> 00:51:31

Alright guys.

00:51:31 --> 00:51:31

Jazakum khairan.

00:51:32 --> 00:51:33

If you would like to inshaAllah be added

00:51:33 --> 00:51:36

to the Telegram group, please come up to

00:51:36 --> 00:51:37

me inshaAllah.

00:51:37 --> 00:51:38

And you can be added to the Telegram

00:51:38 --> 00:51:40

group for the college students and the college

00:51:40 --> 00:51:41

community here at Roots.

00:51:41 --> 00:51:43

I would love to have you inshaAllah.

00:51:43 --> 00:51:44

Jazakum khairan.

00:51:44 --> 00:51:46

Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.

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