Shadee Elmasry – Alchemy of Happiness Connecting to the Ummah
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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