Shadee Elmasry – Alchemy of Happiness Connecting to the Ummah

And one of the amazing things about the concept of the OMA is

that it transcends time in place. It transcends culture, and all

other social distinctions. It transcends so many of these

different things that divide people in the world in which we

know in principle, and that it is a tube for a Muslim, to that

really not understand what it means to be a part of the Ummah,

look how we are conducted, to people quite literally, all over

the face of this earth. So the OMA is something that we have to live

up to. And that it is something that we should feel a part of, and

that it opens up a great door for us to really love people from all

different backgrounds. And this is for people that approach it, that

the proper way, when you go to a place like Hajj, as sisters Aina

mentioned, and that you are amongst these swarms of people, we

should love that we should truly appreciate all of the different

skin tones, all of the different features, all of the different

languages. This is truly a sign of Allah, Allah, Allah Allah. Now,

the other aspect of this is is religion and I'm assuming they

meant by that the translation of the word deen and unfortunately

that we use this term and I think that some of us don't really

understand what we mean by it. And you can refer to the religion as a

whole as the dean for sure. Just as in this is like when Allah says

at Yom at committed to local Deena calm today that I have that

perfected your religion for you, or you could refer to the

individual Deen of each person, as we see in the Hadith of the

Prophet about 10 deeds so a licen about renewal, and ujet due to the

Amara Dini, ha, towards the end of the hadith is that what is the

purpose of the majestic the renewer is that he renews the

affair of the religion for the OMA. And what is meant by that is

the religion of the individual, our own Deen how it is that you

and I approached the Quran and the Sunnah and implement it and make

it a part of our own reality.

And then the third aspect is what we started to touch on yesterday

was this idea of sada which is happiness. And that no doubt is

that our deen is that is a means for us to be able to attain sada

happiness in the true sense of the word we could also translate this

as Felicity