Shadee Elmasry – A Message to the Youth
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You should be there to catch your grandpa when he false,
unacceptable.
Don't start that stuff with me.
Let's go over the review here. Listen, I don't care that we study
a lot of stuff. But what I do care about is what we do study, you
remember it, and you know your stuff. That's what I care about.
Okay, so let's go over everything from the start.
I don't know how to do games, you told me how to do a game.
If we, if we hope.
Yeah, that's a good idea. But I didn't prepare it. I don't I
didn't prepare the questions. You know.
So, also, this isn't fixed, if it was fixed would be much easier.
You know, what is fifth?
Fifth is the study of the law.
Law. Okay, the first thing that we looked at
is the hadith of intentions. And then we looked at Hadith Jibreel.
In some, but not at all. And that's all I really want to do
this semester. But we want to beat this down like a, you know, beat
it into ourselves. So let's go through the first thing, actions
or by intentions, and revise what we looked about.
Regarding sincerity.
Okay, when it comes to sincerity, a class is not a fuzzy thing in
our religion, right? It's not a fuzzy thing. It's we have very
clear lines demarcating
how we have to be sincere and what sincerity is. So the first thing
that we did is we divided actions into two types. Who remembers
this?
Okay, let's hear it. We divided actions, this is something
important for whole life, you will never not need this piece of
information. All right, what is? What are the two types of actions
that we have?
Yeah, the two types of actions.
Yeah.
So so the first type of action is the mundane action. Give me an
example. Let's go to
what is a mundane action.
Walking down the street. It's a mundane action. What else is a
mundane action? How about
your soccer team succeeds, wins. So you have a party? This is all a
mundane action. Right? How about there's an old lady crossing the
street you have? This is a mundane action. This is not an act of
ritual worship. Right. So that's the second part ritual worship. So
what is the definition of an act of ritual worship?
Yeah.
Yeah, anything that the prophets have come down, or the Prophet
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam has come and specifically
taught us this is how you worship. Allah wants you to do this. And
this and this. What's one of the main differences between a ritual
act of worship and a mundane action? What is the what is the
number? What are the main differences between these two? If
you see two people, one is doing one, one zoo and the other, how do
you know the difference?
Good. Now, when there's a ritual act of worship, this act is not
what we call rationally comprehensible. Which means that
if someone's walking across the street, you're helping a lady
across the street. Everyone understands what that is. But when
you're doing salah, no one understands what that is, unless
they understand the religion, right? So no one would ever do
that action, right? of prayer, except that they were taught by a
prophet. Okay. No one will ever do the rituals of Hajj. So rituals do
not look like normal actions. Right? They're different from that
respect. So when we talk about intention related to the two,
okay.
Let's talk about the use of give me some knowledge, drop some
knowledge on us when it comes to the actual intention. All right,
for the two. So if you make intention for like for mundane
action, you're doing it from laws, you get you get rewarded. Yeah.
And then what you don't have to necessarily make good. So let's
stop there for a second. When it comes to a mundane act.
You don't need to have an intention. But if you don't,
you're wasting a chance right? To be to receive some kind of credit
with Allah azza wa jal, right, you can get some credit by making a
mundane action to be to have an
Attention. All right. So even the most mundane actions, the Prophet
told us to make an intention, right? Even sleeping, has an
intention, right? You sleep with the intention to revive your body
to wake up and to do good in the earth. Okay, as the prophets to
find what is good, right? Even eating has an intention. When
someone offers you food, to eat their food, right and enjoy it,
you're making them happy. All every single mundane action can
have an intention. And wherever it really can't have an intention,
the Prophet peace be upon him, put a vicar in front of it, and after,
right, like the Prophet peace be upon him, he said, before you go
to the bathroom, there's a vicar to say, right. And after you while
you're going to the bathroom, there are some rules to abide by,
like you don't talk, right and are supposed to talk while you're
going to the bathroom.
You also supposed to use your left hand when you clean yourself,
you're supposed to use water when you clean yourself. Then when you
leave the bathroom, there's another thinker to say. So even
something so mundane has gone to the bathroom. The Prophet peace be
upon him has taught us ways by which, okay, we can render this
simple, mundane act that everyone does animals do, that you can end
up getting rewards for in the sight of Allah and on the Day of
Judgment.
So this was really the first thing now we need to talk about.
All right.
You're going to tell us about the issue of intention regarding
ritual worship, because here's where it gets a bit. We said for
mundane, it's either neutral. And also, by the way, mundane actions
could be that too. Right? You could do a mundane action, and you
could get sense for it. Right? Depending on your purpose, your
intention, right? You could do something that looks good, right?
But in fact,
your intention behind it is bad. Someone can give me example for
this.
Give me an example of something that it looks like it's a good
deed. But in fact, you're purposely doing it with a negative
purpose, you
know, a mundane act.
Think of a mundane act, you could do that. It looks like it's good.
But in fact, right? There's negativity, there's a negative
purpose behind
giving charity, giving charity so that you can have control. That's
a very good example. Right? So what do all these businesses and
stuff when they give charity to let's say, a politician? Does it
because he wants a politician to help the people? So he wants to
have some control? Right? Yeah, or they give charity to like a storm
in Haiti or something, right? Or a tornado hits Haiti or earthquake.
It's just to get his taxes removed. Right? So this is
something that it looks like it's good. But Allah azza wa jal knows
the people's intentions, right? He knows people's intentions. You're
never going to get good if you didn't intend good. And if you
intended good, the ACT needs to be according to the Sunnah of the
Prophet peace be upon him. Not every good intention is rewarded
by Allah. Right? There are people who have good intentions they are
giving out beer is that you're gonna get rewarded from Allah, you
might get forgiven because you didn't know better, right? Allah
forgive. But in order for us to get rewarded by Allah, we need two
things. Number one, intention. But number two, what's the second
thing? The action has to be good? Right? It has to be good.
According to the Prophet peace be upon him according to the Sunnah
and the sacred law. Take this example.
A doctor, he has a good intention doing a surgery, right? No doctor
goes in and it says I'm gonna kill this guy. Okay. Every doctor goes
into a surgery with a good intention. Right?
Now he messes it up, and you get messed up. Is there a consequence
or not? Is he getting sued or not? Use if surgery, you break your
nose, a surgeon does it and messes up your nose? Is he is there going
to be lawsuit or not? He says I'm seriously I really didn't mean it.
It doesn't matter if you meant it or not. You're getting sued.
Right? I'm gonna get some compensation for this.
It doesn't.
If he meant we'll never know anyway, right? Unless you left
some trace of evidence. So this is the same thing with Allah. You
can't just do good because you want to you have to do good
according to how the prophets taught us what goodness is, right?
How the Prophet taught us what is goodness okay, so this is that now
let's go back to Kingdom when it comes to ritual worship. Talk to
me about intention, regarding ritual worship.
Correct with
ritual worship, it's very strict, very strict, okay? You can only do
ritual worship for the sake of Allah.
Only otherwise, what is it?
What is it otherwise?
The hypocrisy and it is from the lowest levels of *, Allah azza
wa jal, he is a very clear God.
He's saying when you worship, you better be sincere or don't, don't
even fix yourself, you have two options when we're not sincere.
And by the way, youth, US Muslim youth born as Muslims, we are the
non believer, he has to struggle to find this lamp. Right? They got
to struggle to find the truth, right? Us as born Muslims, we have
a different struggle. This is our struggle, we are brought into
Islam without our choice. And we are taught to do these acts of
worship and taught to come to classes and taught to come to
Ramadan, and fast and pray and do all these things. Right? Our
struggle
is that we have two options in front of us, we can either stop
doing these things, or fix our intention. You Muslims, you young
people, you have a choice.
You either don't do it at all, or you fix your intention and do it
right.
Otherwise, you're in the middle and you're wasting your time. And
you're a hypocrite.
This is why to be born Muslim is not easy. It's very difficult.
Someone who's born not a Muslim, they have a choice. They got to
look through all the paths in the world and the religions and their
philosophies and figure out what's true, right.
But someone who is a Muslim, you have a clear choice, but it's very
difficult. It's very difficult. Your parents who expect you to
wear a hijab dress appropriately come to classes, be a good Muslim,
do all these things, right? That are not general goodness, like
telling the truth is general goodness, everyone in the world
loves the truth, right? No one in the world loves a liar. No one in
the world loves someone who's backbiting. No one in the world
loves someone stingy. These are general goodness, that's all over
the world. But Islam is teaching us very specific forms of
goodness, right. And very specific forms of things that are bad that
the society is telling us is good, like homosexuality, like, just
having a boyfriend and girlfriend is sleeping around. Okay?
This, this society is accepted as good. But your parents and all
your religion and your Imams, and Your Messenger is teaching you
something very specific. That's bad, and very specific. That's
good. And here you are, this is your test in life, you're stuck in
it, you're born into it. Now you have to make a choice. Right? This
is why this hadith is very important. You have to make a
choice. Am I going to be a hypocrite and be in the middle?
Or am I going to leave it off?
Or am I going to actually understand what this who this God
is? Who this prophet is? Study it? And then when I come to a
conclusion, I'm going to follow it 100%. Right. Nothing else makes
sense. And by the way, if you pick the middle,
if you pick the middle where you say, I got to do it, I have no
choice, but I really believe it. And then you are a coward.
anamorphic. You are this is the worst. This is even the kuffar.
We're not like you the kuffaar was, listen, I need to know what
you are you believe in this thing or not? You know that there are
many guys and girls who are totally confusing everyone else.
There are girls who wear hijab, and go to parties and smoke weed
and drink.
The guys are like, Listen, tell me what you are. Are you muslim or
not? I need to know what your status is. Right? So I can either
pursue you or I don't pursue you. I need to know what you are. Don't
be in the middle.
And guys do the same thing. Right? They do the same thing. Praying
Asia, and then they go to clubs. Right? So we're trying to figure
out, am I supposed to trust you like you're in the masjid? Or
which one are you? Right? The sin of a moment? What is the sin of a
believer? You have to understand this very well. The sin of a
believer
is that which comes out of him either inability to do something
obligatory, or he falls for temptation. While he doesn't like
it. This is the sin of the believer. While he does, he knows
it's wrong. But he's, we're humans, right? Your human
temptation conquers you. And your human weakness conquers you. Okay?
But you hate it while you're doing it. You miss Federer and you hate
missing Federer.
And you wake up telling yourself tomorrow I'm going to make better
or you're unable to control your temptation and you hate your
inability to control your temptation. Okay. You hate it.
This is the sin of the believer. And Allah says if this is the
state of a person
then this person eventually will figure things out and Allah will
forgive him. But who does Allah not accepts? He does not accept
the one
who has no commitment either way. He's not made a commitment to him.
Allah loves the one who makes a commitment to him, but he's weak
like all of us, right? All of us, we make our commitment to Allah
and we're weak. This whole point of this class, is not to make you
perfect people, like all of a sudden you're wearing a hijab, all
of a sudden, you don't have a boyfriend or a girlfriend. I don't
expect this from you right now. What I expect from you is to make
a commitment to Allah azza wa jal, and to start studying who is God,
who was the prophet, let me make a commitment. I don't care if you're
perfect or imperfect, in fact, you'll never be perfect, and we'll
never be perfect. And the people today, if you're living in the
modern world, is filled with garbage, the checks, read the
Quran, we're not perfect, no one's perfect. And Allah never expected
perfection. But he expected a commitment one way or the other.
And this is why this hadith
really is so important. When we do these ritual worships, what's it
what is in fact, something that is a ritual worship, like hijab, for
a woman, it's not something you would ever do on your own, you
only do it because God told you to do it. Right? A man not wearing
gold, he would only do it. It's not something he would ever think
of. So therefore, when we do these things, our intention has to be
sound. And when we fail at doing these things, we should fail while
weeping inside of ourselves. And knowing I made a mistake, I'm
weak. May Allah strengthen me, you shouldn't say I'm weak. So the
religion has to change. Right? Some people do this, right? They
say I can't do it. Give me another angle in the religion. Give me
something else? No, we say I'm weak. So Allah strengthen me
because you believe this is right. Right? If you believe it's right,
then your answer should be I'm weak. So Oh, Allah strengthen me.
Okay. So this is
the importance of getting our intention. Correct.
So we need to get our compass. In order, we need to get our compass
in order. Okay.
Our Compass has to be in order. This is more important than
getting to our destination right now. Okay, so you understand now
that any action done ritual worship done, okay? Without the
sound intention, then you're one of these people that's in the
middle. Right? You're in the middle, neither are you this way
or that way. Right. And you don't want to be this type of person.
Number two, we looked at what this hadith does not mean. And we
already covered this, right? This hadith actions are by intention
does not mean that intention is the only thing required for Allah
to reward an action and accept it. What is the other thing? Let's go
someone raise your hand, what is the other thing, which we've said,
is required.
For an act to be considered good use of has to be done? It's gotta
be done, according to how the Prophet peace be upon and define
goodness wise that
Allah created us. And he sent us a manual.
Right? of right and wrong. Who defines what's good? This is a
very important question in philosophy. Who is it that defines
what is good? And what is bad? Let's say if I come to your house,
right?
Can I go start making rules and say, look, I can wear shoes in the
house if I want to? Why not? Because it's not my house. If you
come into the theater, and you say, I want to keep my phone on.
I want my ringer to be on. I need my ringer to be on. Is it allowed
or not? Know?
When when we accept God and His Prophet, what are we accepting
about Allah one is one is the main relationship between us and Allah.
He is our Creator. Right? He owns us. So who has the right to tell
us how to use our body and how to use our minds and how to use our
hearts? Only the Creator? The Creator is the only one who has
the absolute right? To tell us what is good and what is bad. And
as a result, if we want to do good,
if we want to do good, okay? If we want to do good, who is it that
defines goodness? Only the prophets and where Allah and His
Messenger our silence on a matter. The prophets I sent him said Allah
has never remained silent upon the matter except out of wisdom, so
that you can all figure it out yourselves. Right? Allah has
remained silent like what? Like Allah never said you have to have
a ramp for the handicapped as we figure that out ourselves, right?
Allah never said certain safety laws, traffic laws, do you figure
that out ourselves? But Allah did tell us what foods we cannot eat.
What foods we can eat? Right?
certain behaviors you can do, how to conduct a marriage, how to
conduct a divorce. Alright, all these things. All right, what kind
of financial contracts are valid and what kinds are not? Good now?
So that's the second thing, which was what this hadith does not
mean, it does not mean that
intention is the only thing we need the Sona as well. Does anyone
have any comments or questions so far?
Does anyone have anything in their mind that they want to say?
All right, how about
changing intentions? Halfway through? Like, where does the
intention can be? Does the intention have to be at the
beginning?
Can it be in the middle? Can it be in the end? And this question
applies for both mundane acts and ritual acts.
So let's start with Monday next. Who has her handle? Right? For
Monday, next, tell me about this.
Yeah.
Good. So when it comes to the timing of intention, and the
nature of the intention, for mundane actions, you can change
your intention halfway through and get rewarded for the whole thing.
And you can change your intention afterwards and get it
get it rewarded for the whole thing. Like what? Like you help
the brother move, right? You help the brother move, you spent all
day helping someone move from one department to the other.
And you never thought oh, to make an intention.
Can you make what's the result of this action? What you could do is
at the end of the day is Oh Allah, I forgot to make intention, make
this act like a type of sadaqa form. And it's accepted, right?
It's not
if you come upon a group of people making salah. Okay, then you just
join them.
And you prayed for a rock as with them.
Then you say hold on what your prayer is this and say, hey, we'll
pray and what did you just pray? And he says, Aisha, is that
actually I didn't pray Yasser, let me make it awesome.
You can't do that. Right. You cannot do that. So for ritual acts
like fasting Zika, Hajj, or Umrah, Salah, right? You have to specify
the intention right away. You got to specify the intention before
you begin. Okay, before you begin.
All right. Here's this is this is the hard part.
How do we correct our intention? Let's say you've been a Muslim for
like,
you're all maybe you've been children for a while, then you
become adults. Maybe you're young adults. Maybe two, three years
ago, you all became young adults. Right? Before that you were kids.
Now you're actually an adult.
Adulthood doesn't begin at 18. And Sharia adulthood begins at the
onset of puberty. As soon as a boy or girl hits puberty, Allah sends
down another angel. And that's the game is serious. Now, it's not a
game anymore.
years, it's serious.
So how do we correct our intention? Right, let's say
someone was a Muslim for 20 years and never studied anything, never
did anything, just moseying through life. Then he changed his
intention.
How do we do it? How do we change our intention and make a U turn?
If we're headed down one path, how do we make that U turn. If it's in
a car, you hit the brake, you turn the wheel, you hit the gas, you
turn the wheel a little bit more, turn the break a little bit, and
then you move do you make a U turn? How do we do this in life?
How do we do it when it comes to Dean?
Yeah.
Number one,
what is it that the Dean has, that nothing else has?
Is that this Dean is telling us this Dean is not just for your
life.
This is for eternal afterlife.
eternal afterlife. Therefore,
the remembrance of death
is extremely critical. The remembrance of death. Right is
very important.
extremely critical.
Why is it that young people behave like crazy, right? Why is it that
young people
erratic in their behavior all young people, not just this,
everyone thinks, oh, just this generation, well, young people do
they change. Young people have always been young people, right?
They all act crazy relative to their elders. Why? Because they
view life is far ahead of them, that they got a long way to live.
There's time to make up for your mistakes. Why are older people
more serious and cautious about certain things? Because they see,
death is like at 70 years old. People tend to die at the age of
7080. And I'm or hitting 50. Now, Hello, I'm Mike, I'm at the finish
line. I better fix things quick. Right? When you're young, how do
you die when you're young freak accident, right? So you say
yourself, I'm not going to have a freak accident? What's the
chances? When you're old? How do people die? You just die. Because
That's it. Time's up. No one's gonna live past 100 and 120 150.
This is the rare exception. Most people,
right? You're hitting you once you start pushing 65 and 70 and 80.
Tell us the statistics are against you. The clock is running out, you
better fix your situation. But one of the things that I want you to
do is be smart. Don't wait till you hit 60 and 70, then it's too
late. Then it's way too late. You need to fix the take the U turn
now, by remembering death intentionally. The young person
remembers death as an act of worship. The old person remembers
death, because it's staring him in the face. Death is coming to him,
You have no choice, but to remember death. But you should be
smart. And think about death from now. And prepare your life from
now. So when death is coming to you, when you hit start, push
pushing to age 70. You're 65 you're 72 which is going to
happen. You can't imagine it but it will happen. And death is
coming to you. You should say I'm ready. I've been preparing for you
for a long time. I'm totally ready. And this is why
religious people all religious people of all religions, when they
get old, they get more relaxed. They're not worried to die.
They've been preparing for death. Right? They've been preparing for
death. Luckily, we say you prepared but you prepared wrong.
The other Dean's we hope Allah can forgive you. But you prepared
incorrectly. You study for the wrong tests you studied. Yeah.
Right. But for the wrong test. We have the fortunate that we've been
born into the religion of the last messenger of Allah when he was so
if there's like 10 review sheets, right? If there are 10 versions of
an exam, and someone studied for one version, he studied hard, but
for one version, then what?
Then what? Right? Yeah, you studied hard, but for the wrong
version. But if you studied for all 10. And this is what Islam is,
this is the last messenger there's no one after him. Right? If you
studied this version, that means you've got everything covered.
Right? So this is the importance of belief in the Prophet peace be
upon him. So remembrance of that. Number two,
you change you correct your intention by learning. Our
religion is a religion of knowledge. Knowledge was mentioned
in the Quran 800 times 800 times, Allah azza wa jal alluded to
knowledge in the Quran. If you are ignorant in this religion, you're
going to be in trouble. Tell me.
What do you guys aspire to when you guys grow up when you was go
off to college? And afterwards, Michaela, what are you? What's
your aspiration? You have any aspirations yet? You haven't
gotten there yet? How about you?
Anything?
Nothing. Like nothing. You grew up and said, hey, when you were six,
no one said do you? What do you want to do? And you said, I want
to be a fireman or astronaut. Like those conversations don't exist
anymore. What? What do you want to be like? Well, you guys like
millennials, you just want to work at a fairtrade coffee shop or
something?
Oh,
a lawyer. Good. Finally, someone said something. What else?
About you?
Know, hey, you haven't gotten there yet. But you know, like
nothing's crossed your mind at all?
Nothing. Yeah, you don't have to have one. Right? And you change it
however you want when you're young, but you got to have some
aspiration. Right? And when you have that aspiration, any
aspiration that you want, what is it that seemed to differentiate
between you and someone else, like two people want to be a lawyer,
what is going to be the difference? The difference is who
knows more about the law
is knowledge. The key is knowledge. And once someone
believes that Allah that means you are working now for life after
this life. What do you need? You need knowledge. You need
knowledge. Okay, this is really what you need.
So the third thing is the company that you keep
the company that you keep telling
If someone wants to be a lawyer
who should be hanging out with
successful successful ones or failed ones.
If you if you hang out what you can benefit a lot from keeping the
company of a failed lawyer, if you keep your eye out for his bad
habits so you can avoid them. Right? This is why in a family if
there's a bad Muslim in the family, usually the rest of the
people become good. Because they see the result of failure. Right?
You see a kid
he's wayward. Right, he's wayward. You see the negative result of
this waywardness? Usually it has a positive effect on everyone else.
So that's why sometimes there's a wisdom, why some people go astray,
so that everyone else could see the result. So yeah, it does make
sense to take a peek at failed lawyers with that purpose with
that intention. But otherwise, you need to hang out with real
lawyers, successful lawyers. Alright.
So now
what is the sign of a good intention?
What is the sign of a good intention?
Number one, that the action is in accordance to the sacred law. This
is number one.
The action is according to the Sunnah of the Prophet peace be
upon him. That's a sign that your intention is good. Number two.
What is number two?
Number one, that you have submitted your actions to be in
accordance with the sacred law.
What's number two
the sign that Allah that you're actually your intention is sound
is peace of heart and you're in within you. serenity and peace of
mind inside of you.
Was in this class so much better when it wasn't noisy? With all
these little kids, I think we got to change that we cannot have kid
class with these kids anymore. Right? Too noisy. Now the kids are
going to come on, they're going to start up and it's going to be a
headache again.
Now we have class again next week.
Now,
the second thing is we got when you do something for the right
reason, not for yourself, it feels good. Allah has made it like this.
feel relaxed, you feel Sakina Allah says in the Quran, whoever
remembers Allah has Sakina in his heart. That means whoever does an
action for Allah, Allah immediately rewards him right
away. With a feeling in his heart, then the person becomes addicted
to goodness to doing these good actions, but then shaytaan tries
to come and corrupt it. And of the Prophet Allah has made that if an
action if an action is bad, or selfish, then Allah azza wa jal
fills the heart with all sorts of grief, like greed, envy, hatred,
jealousy, all covetousness
desire all of these negatives in the heart, when an action is done
for selfish reasons. Lastly, the third thing, if you're doing
something truly for the sake of Allah azza wa jal, you will find
yourself not having
conflicts with the people.
Not having conflicts with the war. In contrast, if you're doing
something for yourself, then you have all sorts of conflicts, envy,
right? Competition, all these negatives.
All right.
The origin of this hadith who remembers the origin of this
hadith?
Who remembers the origin of this video?
Okay, so who is on Bacchus?
Who is the Mahajan of Omakase?
You remember, let's hear
you
Okay.
Well, we usually say
yeah, keep going. Just keep going. You get you're on the right track.
Yeah. You're on the right track.
I know it. Well.
Do you know how to talk
then what's the problem?
Like,
wanted a very good Muslim woman. She was making history. Good. She
said she will be marrying him if he converted to Islam and made him
correct. And so he did that.
To
marry her and they would all
say that oh if you only did it for like her so
well had your own because good so this man he did not want to become
Muslim or make Hijra. Everyone knew it right. He only did it when
she asked him said, if you're in Mary meet, you need to be on this
path. So he became known as Mohajer Omakase. So the Prophet
then took that as a chance to teach people the importance of
intentions.
I don't know the history of that, man. Actually. That's a good
question.
All right, can we make multiple intentions?
For one action?
Yes. What is the limitation? There's a limit though. On certain
certain actions can only have one attention which actions are those?
The obligatory ritual acts, right? The obligatory ritual. So if
something is an extra action, like what like for example, I want to
pray to America's in the masjid. But I also want to pray to knock
us out of repentance and I want to pray to Iraq as for is to kind of
prayer. Right? And I want to pray to it because to make up a sunnah
that I missed, you can make all of those intentions in one. But if
it's luminosity or motivation, or Ramadan, fast or otherwise, you
can only make one intention. For the obligatory actions, you can
only make one intention. Now lastly,
we are looking at worldly benefits. This subject matter here
does not just benefit your religion. The subject matter here.
benefits your worldly life.
benefits your worldly life. How does this subject matter benefit
your worldly life?
How does this subject matter here benefit your worldly life? Think
about this.
Who has a clue?
This subject benefits your worldly life. Because literally speaking,
your actions will only be sensible or successful if they are focused.
This hadith is teaching us to focus.
Make your intention clear. If you're walking somewhere, you got
to have an intention. If you're going to open your textbook, have
an intention. Are you going to study for your exam? Or are you
going to fool around? If you're going to study then eliminate all
other distractions?
You fool around easy. You open it up. You look at two pages. I need
to have a snack
time. But you're having a snack right now. You separate
yourselves. You guys are like third graders honestly. Separate
yourselves. Get this one here. That one and move her over. Let
her sit next to between these sit right there. Maybe by osmosis.
Right? You'll get some maturity will happen from osmosis maybe?
And why do I What are you eating? Secondly,
who give me this? Let me see some of that. I didn't, huh?
You ate the whole thing. I didn't have my dinner to give me that. I
didn't have my dinner to come and educate you. And you're coming.
They're having a crunchy bar, whatever this thing is, how old is
this thing?
Of this year, you never know these things sit around for decades.
They never even changed the label. That's why they don't change the
label. You know this, right? If they change the label every year,
then we're gonna know.
They don't change the label. It's yeah, every decade so the thing
will be sitting there in a warehouse. And then we're
consuming it who knows what's inside of it?
Yeah.
I'm eating it man. I'd have dinner to teach you guys
give me everything you got.
Everything you got man, what do you do? How much trick or treating
did you do?
Don't trick or treat I used as a trigger trigger.
I can't say it's haram but I just don't do
because until
you understand how this subject of intention actually transmits to
your worldly life. Right. Many people why they don't really
succeed in anything they do is they are not focused. Their
intention is not clear or
Okay, even when you talk when you're talking to someone, you got
to have an intention. Why are you going to talk to that person? What
is your purpose? What is your goal? What are you trying to get
out of it? pile it on right here. I got I got one more class to go
so
good
next
you can be hungry enough
at some point
if you're starving in the desert and you only got like a 10 year
old kid
and I see
lizard I'm eating it. You know that desert? They have the lizard.
Desert lizard. Did you catch it? You got to catch him.
You got to catch it and solder it
what's tumble me?
Was that
like they're like
No, listen, you want to learn something about the desert. You go
look up the top. The desert lizard has nerves
that continue to move even after it's been killed. Even if it's in
the pan or in the plate or in the fridge. You want to see it.
Let's look it up
Alright, so while I'm looking this up, I want you to mentally in your
head. You remember these nine things that we talked about
intention? All right, we reviewed them. This is benefit, right?
We might not finish the review of the whole thing, but who cares? As
long as you're benefiting from something? Okay. This is the point
of this class. All right, is to benefit and is not just simply to
pass a test.
All right. Who hardware Coahoma? Yes. All right. Come and take a
look. Come on. Stand behind me take a look
see, oh, that's that. That thing has been killed. It's been
skinned. It's sitting in the tray raw. It hasn't been cooked yet.
And look at that.
It's opened up.
This is because the nature of the nerves when it reacts with oxygen.
It shakes. Okay, we understand this. It's a lizard. It's a lizard
see that? See this lizard? Right? Actually eat this? Yeah. When
you're in the desert, you eat anything. Look at that. See that?
It's already skinned. Its foots been chopped off and chopped off.
But the nature of the nerves is that when oxygen touches the
nerves it moves that's all it is. I
got this because I'm hungry because this is you guys are
sitting there eating your sister. Are you eating I didn't eat in
class while I skipped dinner just so I can teach you guys stuff. We
should have we should feel fasted
see the dub?
This is the dub. He's catching it. He's catching it this is you have
to know your history of the desert your profits from the desert look
at this little white girl taking a little
this is a big deal for her. Oh I mean the lands of the era she
actually looks she's gonna catch it
they have to make a video out of it
not that fast. Really? It's a baby it's a baby
yeah
it was
she drops a bit it I think watch it's gonna turn in beta right now.
No they wouldn't it was moving like that
Oh
that's good. See that?
That's that's how it looks
computer narrative so like if you bet it and you ate it it will be
moving inside of you know once it's deprived of oxygen I don't
think
your oxygen line your red blood cells. Yeah, but not like inside
the enzymes. And then my cats are all right kids. Young Youth of
America. class like this class class is technically over. Your
class today was a revision of the
Nine. All right, next week we're gonna study some more and maybe
we'll give you some examination on two things.
Right? The moldy cat and the moon jet right?
Just just focus on that what you may not know why you know where
you want to study something else. Yeah. All right, we'll take
another class next week on Naboo All right prophethood
you do have a test on this night. This night. My mom just this
night. I want you to study these nine things but I need you to know
them perfectly. Okay. The nine things we just talked about
intention.
Well, you guys are the ones saying there's too much aren't you guys
want
me to do? Okay, listen.
Listen, if you guys if you guys are more ambitious, then that's
good. I'm surprised I thought you guys thought this was too much.
Then listen, you go to the discussions on canvas. How do you
look you got actions by intention? Hadith Jibreel faith in hypocrisy,
spiritual excellence. Right. And stop there. Don't do signs at the
end of time. All right. Don't study signs understand. And we
will take a test.
Let me repeat we're taking the tests on actions or by intentions.
We're going to take the test on faith and hypocrisy right here
class three and then we're taking a test on McElligott and Monjee
yet
this is this is what you're taking the test on four things. The test
will test will be half an hour then we're going to review it all
next week that's your test.
No, but they said there's not they want they have more ambition.
Listen, I'm gonna write it in the drive me crazy. I'm writing it in
here. One I have a question. actions or buy intentions
number two
faith and hypocrisy
number three, movie tickets. Number four. Mon Juliet. You see
this kids? Yes, yes. I mean you got this are you on canvas? You're
not in Canvas you got to get on canvas it wouldn't let me join the
gym and show you I'll try to do it every now and then who are you on
Canvas because you need to help these girls get on
your way when this class is
shipped
you have to go there I asked if you're going to know how to do
English and Arabic we actually did that yes
every little thing I want to do she's like which
which actions are buying tensions faith and hypocrisy
No, I'm not kidding. You know
we just not to hear
what you say
no, oh, you're she's on volunteer hours anyway. So you're gonna help
them out?
Raise your hand if you're not on campus
get them all all the materials
like because everything I want to do she's like ready to shed the
Approve
like the questions.
Yeah, we're done.
I have my friend's father.
The other day we were in the car. And he was telling me how
he was like a karate mostly. And how what is basically the right
and justice for all, and like not following anything.
That's you know, my friends. I just wanted to know what he meant
like like,
means that they only take religion from Quran and not from the
Prophet.
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