Shadee Elmasry – Almost Everyone Is Cheated Out of These Two Things…
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This beautiful booklet I've been reading this book for maybe 10
years, maybe more than that maybe 20 years. It's a small booklet
that's only 35 pages. And it's selections from fat Hill body, now
fat Hill body
is it literally means the openings of the Creator.
And it's a commentary on Sahil Bukhari by signal Imam had been
Hajer Alas, Kalani. Remember 100 Ashkelon is one of the greatest
Imams of Hadith of optina of FIP. Now, he's not a specialist in op
ed. But his, his his work in hadith is shot of Sohei because it
is so lauded because of his accuracy in optina, and FIQ. And
that's why Allah has elevated this book. It was written in its time,
you know, certain passages in it were written in gold, they
actually wrote it in gold.
And they had a huge celebration when this book was finished in
Egypt. And the Sultan's were there, and every everyone
important was there. So it's all this section is all about life and
afterlife. And I think that's a, this is a great time to read it.
Because when we're at a time
of fasting, it's a time where you start to feel like leaving this
world a little bit. And we're behaving like angels in the sense
that we're our nourishment in this month is all thicker, and more
than more so than food. So
let's get straight into this book. And and this is let's just read it
cover to cover in the next coming days. We'll probably finish it in
the first week or so. But it's gonna it's going to be a great
resource to have to have read this book. So I don't know if it's for
sale. But you can check if there is a
Muslim academic trust. This was on sale, you know, a long time ago,
but you could check for yourselves. It's called Fit
selections from futsal berry by
translated by TJ winter arrives at Heike morons. So let's just take
this first
narration here
and it says the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says there are
two blessings in which many people are cheated health and leisure
namah turn
Michael Boone fee hidden a cathedral minuteness a Suharto?
Well, Farah there's actually no Arabic here. But I happen to know
this hadith. He says your two blessings of blessing a NEMA is a
good state. It is sometimes defined as a benefit conferred
upon another out of kindness. So a NEMA is if you look at all these
things, we always look at benefit and harm. Anytime that you look at
any of these positive words like namah, Baraka, kya, all of these
words, you can really summarize them very simply as the
requirement of benefit and elimination of harm.
Right now, the nuance of NEMA is that it's conferred by somebody
else. Alright, so my name is the one who he gives namah. To others,
he's a giver.
He says the next the word cheating or a goblin. And the word in the
hadith is Makayla Boone. cheated. According to Joe Huddy, the former
refers to cheating in sales of a carbon and ladder cheating in
respect to opinions of urban and urban. Alright, little detail
there between the cabinet and the cabin. On the basis, both may be
appropriate to this hadith, since individuals who fail to use these
two blessings appropriately are really cheated, and assemblies who
does this by creating cultures, within human beings, Sibelius is
not stupid, he's not going to just
every single human that's born, he's going to do the same trick on
him. No, he's going to create a system in the life of human beings
that harms them. We call those systems cultures a culture can be
good and bad. Okay. But
cultures here are the cultures that waste time. I mean, I think
the number one most
obvious thing when I think about wastage of time is video games.
Right now, I, you know, when I was young,
there was a little Nintendo and my parents were very suspicious of
it. I barely got to play it. I mean, the first day I got an in
tendo. You got the Nintendo and it came with with two games, Mario
Brothers and Duck Hunt.
That was probably one of the happiest day in my childhood. And
anyone who was an 80s kid would say
Do the same thing.
I hardly got to play it, I only played it maybe Saturdays was the
only time I was allowed to play it. Right. And I never understood
until way later that, of course, you know, when you're young, you
don't understand things. Why this is such a waste of time, right?
And why they were so suspicious of it, and, and upset by it. Right?
So but they, you know, sort of like all like all of us now, it
had to sort of get it because if you don't, it becomes a huge, you
know, big deal in the mind of a kid. So sometimes something That's
hella, if everyone has it, and you don't, it may become such a huge
deal in your mind that the kid then seeks it when it's not
appropriate for him anymore. Whereas if he has his fill of it,
in its time, he stops. So sometimes, we as human beings,
because of the cultures that we're in, we're always in between
choosing which is a lesser of two harms. Right. Okay, which is the
lesser of two harms. So it actually reminded me of this is
terrible to be mentioned in this and Ramadan is sort of silly. But
back in, I think it was 1991, the Buffalo Bills, they had the best
offense
in all the NFL, they were tearing everyone up, they had receivers
quarterback and running back combination that was the best in
the league. Now the Giants had to play them in the Superbowl.
Alright, so your your you can only do so much with your defense. So
the defensive coordinator back then, which was Bill Belichick, he
told his guys listen, we are we will choose to get burned by the
run, so that we could stop the throw. Because the throw he could
score touchdown really quickly. Whereas the run, it's exhausting,
you gotta run the whole field. So he says, Guys, we're gonna let I
can't remember what his name was. The running back, we're gonna let
him run all day. And you're gonna look bad, because it's gonna look
like we can't stop the run. But I want the linebackers, which is
like the middle defense, I want you guys dropping into protection
of the receivers, I want you to stop the receivers, let him run.
So that gameplan well, they won the game, they won the Super Bowl,
that game plan actually made it into the Hall of Fame, because he
was one of the first coaches to ever explicitly say, we're going
to let ourselves get burned by this. Okay, we're going to we know
that we're gonna get burned by this. Well, we, some of us are
parents, some of us are youth, right? We as parents, and
you know, assuming most people out there are parents are going to be
parents, when we're looking at this stuff like this, this
cultural stuff, and even as Imams when you when you give advice. And
when you you know, let things slide in the community, you know
that it's not great. But you know, the only alternative if I put the
brakes on this part of the culture or this thing that people do, it's
actually only going to result in something worse. So sometimes we
have to choose to get burned by the lesser fire than the greater
fire. And remember, had done he had a student one time that got
married and had children and used to bring his son to the class. And
he said to him,
why is it you bring this young man to the class? He says, I want him
to get used to studying and sitting with them shoe? He said,
That's wonderful. But don't all the other boys play? He said yes.
I said, I don't want my son to play. I want him to study. He said
a mom and her dad told him a an amazing wisdom. He said, he said
No, let him go play now. Because if he doesn't play, he's gonna
grow up feeling that he missed playing, he missed out on blank.
And then he's going to seek it when it's not appropriate for him
to do so. So this is the wisdom behind this concept of letting
people get their fill of whatever it is the phase of life that
they're in. Okay, as long as it's in the 100 because if you stifle
it, you may actually produce something far worse. Okay? Now all
this is in the context of knowing that Iblees is stealing our time,
and he doesn't steal our every kid's time one at a time. You
know, he creates a human culture in the society and then we
perpetuate it. All right. We perpetuate this wastage of time.
And no gaming is like a thing now. 30 year olds do this. Of course
they do it they their parents were doing it. Their parents played
video games when they were kids. They played video games now. You
know, it's that's for as a Muslim. That's not really like something
you want to spend so much time on,
you know, excess on and I think that the people who don't have
that stuff in their lives, then they never got rid
really
into that? I actually think they're better off. I mean, it's
it's a complete waste of time if you ask me, but I mean, it's it is
nonetheless something Helen and, you know, should just not be
treated any more than as a possible waste of time. Okay, so
we can't go to an extreme on that either. But that's what Hubin
means that IBLEES creates in human cultures, habits, things that we
do that waste time.
Okay. So this is why I said, we're MK Boone were cheated.
Or he sold, we've sold our life at a ridiculously low price. That's
what he says here in the book, right? We have sold our lives at a
low price.
This human life that we have is so precious and so valuable. It's not
just about that you're alive, it's what we could do. We have so much
potential human beings, we have so much potential, and I was thinking
I always say, the last frontier they say is space. No, it's not, I
don't want to go to space. The last frontier is the human mind.
What we can do with our brains at our minds, we haven't even
scratched the surface and you wouldn't even believe,
okay, what we could do with the human mind. And have you Omar has
a lecture out there. It's not even a lecture. It's like a short clip.
And he says, Elohim will let the takuna fee Balton and Insan.
tassel Allah in for Allah tuna fish on account. I mean, that's
almost like quantum physics here. He's basically saying that from
the observations of human beings, and this is all across history.
every century, every location, people from their experience will
tell you thought, it actually changes the world. Thought and
contemplation. And that's where the quantum physicists are really
having a lot of fun. Because it was Einstein and his partner who
discovered that when they were observing a quantum particle, it
was behaving differently when they then when they stopped observing
it, and when they were thinking about it, okay, it behaved
differently than they were when they were not thinking about it.
Okay, and that's where Einstein really just completely, his world
flipped upside down. Because how can you measure anything at that
point, then all of our objective measurements are almost false, in
a sense, because the fact that we're observing it disrupts, it is
a factor, the observation itself is a factor. So it disrupts the
actual flow of it. See, Einstein was trying to look at the
subatomic level, and the behavior of subatomic particles. Now, if
you take an apple and you just drop it onto the ground, we know
what's going to happen, it's going to fall to the center of the
earth.
But when He disrupted the subatomic level, he saw that they
don't behave like larger particles. And that's why quantum
physics is a field, the small particles, they don't behave like
everything else. They don't just fall. Allah has created them with
their own law. This is amazing. They bounced around
towards gravity against gravity, they bounced around almost like if
you were to throw up,
you know, bouncy balls, instead of dropping an apple, you dropped a
rubber ball, like what's gonna happen, that thing's gonna bounce
all over the place, right? So he saw that the subatomic level,
everything's bouncing all over the place. And it's impacted by the
observer. And that's where the Quantum Mind studies is Cummings
like, what are what's inside of us? That's connected, just by our
thought to the subatomic particle that changes its behavior. It's an
absolutely amazing study. And it's Allah's creation. It's it make a
difference. Einstein discovered it or whoever, who would discovered
electricity. It's all Allah's creation, right? And it's an
amazing thing to study. Right that the human mind has so much
potential yet we're wasting it and losing it as the prophets telling
us you're being cheated. Right? You're just selling your time.
And health
in low and the difference between low and live is that live? Is I'm
alone Balton Jehovah.
Okay.
It is an action that has no truth to it, doesn't mean it's haram. It
just means it has no reality to it. Reality means like no real
life application, such as playing basketball, there's no real life
application to that. Unlike swimming, which does because you
can drown then you need to swim or horseback riding. It does. So I'm
going to embark to a low Gaya but law is meaningless play that does
have a function.
Okay. It does have a function which is
You get exercise, right?
When you play basketball, you have extra so you can get above your
friends, right? So you could learn teamwork, etc, like that. So those
sports, they're bots in themselves, but they have a Gaya.
And that's why there's some acceptability to those things.
Allah Who, however, is Amazon bottle release ILAHA. It is it's
about an action that has no function, it has no benefit to it
at all. An example of that is that if you were to, for example,
play dice, and you just roll it rolling
dice and whoever has more dice wins. It's complete waste of time.
Okay, it's an absolute waste of time. So that's the two types of
life that we get cheated. He says according to imminent baton.
The meaning of the hadith is that a person cannot be leisured until
he is financially secure and sound of body. And so whoever
experienced this should be careful not to be cheated. By abandoning
gratitude to Allah one aspect of such things taking the form of
obeying His commands and prohibitions. Whoever is
lackadaisical in this, he's the one who's cheated because he's
cheated out of more, because you could have more if you're
thankful. So he makes a good point, even Batol. Here he says
that people don't really get cheated at all until they're
financially secure. And their health is excellent. Okay, their
sound of body so it's when people get into this that they now have
time for entertainment. Before that they don't have time for
entertainment. Okay, they don't have the energy because they may
be sick. So it's important point here. And in Santa Clara Houston,
always, always always remember this idea from students
similar Bikila the color. So little anak in Santa layup Baba
era who Severna Verily the human being he goes beyond his bounds,
when he finds himself to have been free of needs, and what are the
needs, the needs are wealth, and physical health. I mean, those are
the two needs that we need, right we need to be physically sound,
and we need enough wealth, right to take care of our affairs. So
whenever we get to that, that's where the rot starts settles in,
or when does a fruit rot? After it gets really sweet? Right? The Rot
settles in when you've perfected your blessing.
And that's why a person should never actually feel that they've
perfected their blessing. And that's why dissatisfaction and
boredom are Junoon mingenew dilla you're gonna think to yourself,
these are terrible attributes dissatisfaction and boredom are
terrible attributes right?
No, they're not they're actually there are there is a time and
place for them. They're only a problem boredom is only
blameworthy when it's supplanting something that shouldn't be
disciplined. For example, your Salah you can be bored and tada we
for example, you should have discipline in that right? You
should be disciplined. Wherever discipline is, is needed, then
boredom should stop.
But where there is no discipline needed, then it is okay for
boredom to settle in because boredom is a giant it's a soldier
from the unseen soldiers of Allah moving you to discover something
new. It is as if Allah is telling you you've done enough of this
right? And you know the business guys are like this all the time.
Oh, I owned a pizzeria for five years I got sick of that. Then I
moved on to a diner got sick of that right? And a lot of you know
inventors, right? They invent their certain things and they move
on to the next thing. So where discipline is not necessary,
boredom has a function. Dissatisfaction also has a
function
dissatisfactions
must stop at Rideau. So, to be ourselves not to be unsatisfied,
is not necessarily the exact opposite at all times to being
content. I can be content, but I want more.
If we're nobodies like that, then there's no advancement. No one
will advance. Are you satisfied that you know Allah? Yes, I am. I
know a lie. No, I studied some books and I may you know have some
experience praying and getting my prayers answered. And feeling
inside of myself nearness to Allah and seeing some dreams. I'm
content with that. I am raw, the I'm sad as I should say satisfied,
not content sad. I'm satisfied with that. I'm happy with that.
But that doesn't mean it's enough. I want more. And this is something
that Allah wants within us while he created all this creation and
he himself is the greatest Maqsood Mark
Sood means purpose.
Allah himself, you know, Allah to a degree, you're happy with that
knowledge. You live well because you know Allah. But is that enough
knowledge of Him? You can go deeper? And how do you come to
know Allah through His creation?
So we are a people who Subhanallah This is where when we talk about
the balance of Islam, sometimes spirituality when it's excessively
done or incorrectly done,
it could actually hurt you. Right? Because you misunderstand the
nature, the true reality of satisfaction, contentment, etc.
Right. So these things, they can come together, this the concept of
seeking more, in all of aspects of life, while being happy with what
Allah has already given us. They can come together.
He then continues, the profit saying many people, and by the way
is shut up is at 620 today, so we're going to stop around around
620 For shut off, if you want to drop off, you have to go to work
or you're tired. You know, feel free to do so. We have
31 people here. So if you if you need to move on, don't worry.
I know it's a weekday and people need to move on. But we're going
to stay until it shut up. So and look at how much energy we have on
the first day of Ramadan. Right? I mean, do you remember last last
year, last year was on the 23rd day and stuff I was almost barely
keep my eyes open doing these because the days were getting so
long. But here we go. Many people an indication. He says here that
only a few. Only a few are granted success. And that's the promise.
I've said many people, many people. And in the Sharia what is
many mean?
Many is most of the time 1/3 or more?
Where do we get that number from? So anytime that's many or few?
Where is the borderline of the word many? And few is that like
99%? Is it you know 10% What is many, many is 1/3.
And it's not a hard and fast fast rule. But the ultimate do take
that because when they searched in the Hadith, for any reference
point, to cathedra. To muchness, what is much they did find a
hadith.
And that hadith was the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam
talking about the inheritance. And he said that you may be quests to
whomever you want up to 1/3. And a third is a lot. Good. So you can
give to any non inheritor 1/3 of your wealth and the prophets. I
said him said at Fuu with Fuu Cathy's, so it's not a hard and
fast rule, because someone might say, Oh, nuts, that's in money
only. But if you look at that wording, a thulusdhoo, Cattier 1/3
is a lot, right. It's didn't say only in wealth. So the automat did
take whenever they need to make a judgment call on what is the word
a lot mean.
1/3 is the minimum of a lot. The word a lot. So many people hear at
least one out of three people is fooled. But in this sense, I think
it's a lot more. Right.
From observation, when you observe if you were to observe three
random young men in the United Muslim young men in America, are
they
you know, what's going to be the status of them? Right? What's
going to be their status. So that's how you would take it. And
I think that from observation a lot more than a third a lot more
than one out of three is cheated out of this. And it's not blaming
them. It's just saying that they've been given a culture and a
paradigm, right? That is bad for them. Right. And I even think that
this whole the schooling system is immense waste of time. Right? I
would go from
sophomore junior and high school and college and high school ages,
there should be apprenticeships, half a day, they don't need eight
hours a day looking at books, right?
Half a day in school, half a day an apprentice, you get to learn
real life you get to meet professionals, they can inspire
you to go into field so like every semester, three years, sophomore,
junior, and senior year, that's three years, four semesters, 12
terms, each semester, each each marking period. Okay, or you can
break it down to nine if you want so three for each year though nine
total. So that's more
Time, each marking period, right? You, you go to a specialist, right
of some sort, and all sorts of jobs blue collar, and so called
white collar and medical and tech, and you go work and they get free
labor to, they get free labor. Okay? And you deal with adults,
you get inspired by somebody
you learn on the job training, like what is it to run a store?
What does it take? What are you doing a hospital? What does a
nurse do? What does a surgeon do?
How do you run a gas station? Right? All these things, you give
free label to the community, the business communities, and these
kids grow up. Of course, you know, I don't think in this society,
they want kids to grow up, but I wouldn't want my kids to grow up,
you grow up, you work three hours, four hour shifts every day, you
will learn so much. Okay, so much more than just sitting in a
classroom. And this is earth science and rock science and, and
these textbooks, you're going to forget it tomorrow anyway, right?
You need half of that stuff, then college,
you know, cut the general courses in half. All right, General
educate, cut that stuff in half, right? We don't need all that, and
go straight into your specialty that you chose. And take two,
three years of studying that while continuing the apprenticeship. And
now maybe you get paid a little bit. Alright. I'm telling you,
it's a far greater system for the economy, for maturity, for
education, and you're done into college in two, three years.
That's it. So it's half knowledge, half theory and half
apprenticeship. There's no point in learning theory, if you don't
know how to apply that theory, or where the theory applies. But when
you work, when you volunteer, when you listening to conversations,
and you seeing the professionals do their jobs. Now, you know,
where the theory is important where it's applied. So when you go
back to the classroom, you're like, Yeah, because we had that
problem at the company, and I overheard them talking. This, this
concept right here would really help them. Right.
This is, in my opinion, a far more useful
use of time. Right? You know, of course, it's who knows if it's
ever gonna happen, but
that's my take on education.
He says here, the
images Josie,
famous scholar, better dad remarks that a person may be healthy, but
not leisure, because he's preoccupied with earning a living.
Conversely, he might be financially independent, but in
ill health. But when both come together, and he's overcome by
either his laziness, or he abandons good deeds, okay, then
he's cheated. The upshot of this is that this world is a sowing
ground of the next. And anytime that you're not sowing seeds for
the next life, you're really being your time is being wasted. Ask any
person today, money in the bank, what a waste of time. Why would
you have money in the bank? Right? You only need money in the bank
for like maybe two months or emergency or something. But after
that, you got to put an investment because inflation is killing your
money. Inflation is driving your money down the value of your
dollar. So put it in. I'm not gonna give financial advice, but
there are operations out there. Right? That are there's Hoopoe,
financial, none of this is sponsored by nbsc or shadow
muscly, I'm just telling you that they're out there. These are
Muslims who financial advisors, you put their money with them, and
and they put it in safe stocks, you know, stocks that will always
be around companies that have been around for 25 years, and you could
assume that they are there that they will be there for another 25
years. There's Saturna, which is basically a man of mutual funds.
And that liquidity in that is so easy. It's when you want your
money back. Let's say I need $500 to change the boiler or something,
you do that right away, like within I think like 12 hours or 24
hours. So that's more liquid. That's the value of Saturna you
can get your money back anytime you want. You don't have to go
through a process and email somebody right and feel like oh,
you know, they're you're making them do paperwork is no, it's
completely automated. So,
in the same way that anyone who with any financial education would
never leave a large sum of money in the bank because it's just a
waste. Likewise, our time is our wealth.
Time not spent so
owing a seed for the data, that's wasted time. And that's why
there's a book of intentions, which teaches us. There's actually
a book called The Book of intentions. It teaches us that how
we should
make intentions for everything, that even sitting for dinner with
your family, that's an intention right there. You're transmitting
your, your, you're giving emotional support. Right? To the
people, your family, you're transmitting knowledge to your
family, you're doing a lot of different things. You're
transmitting your pilot, you're transmitting manners. The Ottomans
perfected
the education through the dinner table, more than anyone else.
Everything is there. Literally everything there's there's still
hate. There's chakra of Allah, chakra namah. Right. There's
contemplating the blessing that you know people don't have when
you eat, they're sharing. When you eat, there's etiquettes. There's
etiquettes, there are norms that we expect, we expect you in
America to hold the fork a certain way. Now you say, Oh, that's not
son. That's not sunnah. But to upset people, and be disgusting,
is my crew. At the very least, you know, someone shoveling food in
his mouth like a caveman. It's upsetting to see, right. So you
have to learn, you're at the dinner table, you can't upset, you
can't disgust us here.
You can't turn people off. So you learn social norms. Okay? Social
norms is so important to learn. Okay, because when we're a
community, and we come together, and someday you're going to be
sitting in front of your father in law, you're going to be proposing,
your father in law is going to be watching how you eat. Right? And
then you come to the table starving. It's also not good.
either. You ever
have guests, or you're going to be someone's guest? What did the Moms
always say, Eat something before you go, don't go hungry. I always
remember this. Don't go hungry to people's house. You get there,
you're starving your eyes getting huge when you're looking at the
food. And then you're stuffing your face and you have a mountain.
And I remember my mom used to say, Don't do this. They're gonna think
you starve at home, we starve you or something. No, eat something so
that you go and you can eat moderately. Alright, and have a
dab when you eat. So we had to learn all these things, social
norms, how do you learn these things? Except to the dinner
table? Okay.
How did we even get to talk about that we said the sewing ground of
the next life, this life is a sewing ground for the next life.
Every single thing, even eating dinner at the table can be common.
Now, what do we say about that? We say it's not an act of worship,
but it's with AB it's rewardable. Alright, so an act of worship is a
ritual that the Prophet introduced to us like Salah Psalms occur. But
when I
use my intention to do something Halon
for the sake of Allah, then we don't say that it's an act of
worship, but we call that you are in a state of worship, and that
the action can be rewardable. That's the difference between an
act of worship and a rewarded act. An act of worship is something in
the religion that we can we know, so law of Psalms aka Hajj, but a
rewardable action, it can be any Halal act that I'm doing for the
sake of Allah subhanaw taala. That's the difference.
A TV says the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam coined the
parable of a merchant possessed of capital, which he aims to preserve
intact while making a profit.
The way he may accomplish this is by taking every precaution and
selecting the people with whom he deals by being honest and
intelligent so as not to be cheated, right? So likewise,
health and leisure are your capital. And once you deal with
Allah by maintaining faith and struggling against the neffs, and
against enemies of religion, so that one may gain the profit of
this world and the next, what's the easiest way to do this? The
fastest, simplest way to do this is to keep good company and to
persist upon that company. Never stop. You can't keep good company
for 10 years, then say, Okay, I got it all I'm done. This is one
of the tricks of Iblees and I've seen it happen to people Wallahi
I've seen it. It's scary thing. You don't want it to happen to
you.
Keep good company with the people for 1015 years. He's so marinated
in religion. He's marinated, he's really good at the deen. Right.
But he thinks he's done. And he thinks that he doesn't need the
people anymore. So he stops keeping the company of the people
and then everything is fine for a while.
No.
But fast forward five years and he's off the mark. His perception
of things is now I would say incorrect. His perception of
things is, is off.
It's not in line with the perception of the ultimate
anymore. Or the regular common Muslims even. So this is why the,
if you want one simple rule,
right?
To guidance, it's keeping good company. And that's why the
companions of the Prophet are called companions, not students,
they're called companions. Until the day of our death, we keep
company with the fuqaha, with the evacuating, and with the drama of
Muslims, and it's very simple. Just go to the masjid, you go to
masajid, you'll hear Imams names, you'll listen to them, and you
keep their tabs with them online. Now.
Internet is a Hoja. It's a proof against for us or against us. Now,
the internet is approved for us or against us.
So we have to use it, take advantage of it. So the M is
asking Can a mundane action be elevated to sacred through
intention? Yes, 110%. So we so we would say about a mundane act like
eating, like
helping old lady cross the road.
It's not an act of worship.
But it's a rewardable act. And it's actually vote, the acts of
worship, we all do the same, a better pretty much we all fast we
all make Hajin ombre. The ultimate say that where people surpass
others, is not in the ritual worships. It's in mundane actions
that are transformed through intention. That's where you win.
That's what the ultimate say. We all fast and pray the same amount.
We give the cow to what we can't, whatever we have. So we're pretty
much I'll even in that gut. It's in the reward. It's in the mundane
action, and transforming those intentions, that
we transfer, we surpass other people, right? And we our race is
won and lost in that realm in the mundane actions that we transform
with intention. I mean, think about this, how many times you go
out and you you're chatting with your neighbor, you can make an
intention out of that, right? And intention doesn't always have to
be, you know, some kind of fake sounding intention, like I want to
do, you know there's going to be doubt now we could just be
lifting their spirits for an hour for five minutes or something like
that, then they have a good idea. They'll have a good opinion of
Muslims, but also just you as a human, that's the highest thing,
the highest intention is to reflect well on the religion of
Islam, because that's the deen of Allah. That's the highest
intention. Right? I remember someone actually making fun of
that. And they said, we all do things just for Islam. Right? And
we don't do it genuinely. I said, Wait a second. First of all,
Islam, you think this is like the race or ethnicity? It's the deen
of Allah, to reflect.
To make people think highly of Allah's religion is the best thing
that you could possibly do. This is not our political party or
ethnicity or identity culture, badger, whatever. This is the deen
of Allah. To make people think that, that the followers of
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi, wa salam, we view them positively.
And I have a warm feeling about them. This is the best thing that
you could do. This is far better than anything else that you could
do for somebody.
Guy because now they're dealing. They're having a good opinion
about the infinite and all that he could do for them. Right. So
that's the highest form of doubt. But the way in which it's gonna go
is by just being a good example, by being someone pleasant to be
around. likability is something that prophesy centum spoke about
most Muslim, Elif, aloof, which means he's easy to get along with
others, and he allows others to get along with him. Right? So
he's, he allows people to appease approachable
and he gets along with people.
The Prophet wanted us to be like that. So that this message will
spread when it's a hallmark that the Muslim is somebody you can
easily get along with. He's not argumentative, he's not difficult,
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Okay.
All right. Let's see what else we have here. He says
it's akin to Allah statement, shall I point you to a trade which
will save you from
painful punishment to Jara tune to G comb and other avenue LM Susan
Jomar. Consequently, he must avoid obeying the neffs and responding
to Satan. How do we avoid obeying the neffs? We avoid
obeying or knifes by every once in a while, deny it a very, very,
very, very, very small thing that it desires. Very small thing.
Okay, so much so they say a spoon of food right? So if you want
five spoons of food, we'll make it four and a half or make it four
why do they say that? If it's it's more important that it's habitual
than that it be much
so the habit of regularly denying my neffs a very small amount
is more important than denying my next a big amount.
Why? Because it becomes a habit now. Now the neffs knows that on a
regular basis I don't get every single thing that I that I want
from from myself.
Right whereas if you were to do the opposite, and deny your neffs
something huge
then at that point you're gonna have a backlash and you don't want
it that backlash. Your neffs will fight you back the moment you get
exhausted from from fighting it
it's gonna fight back.
Right.
He says in which he continues as in which many people are cheated
resembles his saying and scarce among my slaves are the thankful
what Kalyan McCollum in a bad Yasha cool suit. It's sub
very few. Scarce the Quran says are the thankful and what is a
shortcode the one whom, when he is struck by benefit,
struck by harm has the same reaction. Because he knows they're
both from Allah subhanho wa taala. Of course,
when you're struck by harm, you're hurt your pet you're in pain,
there's no denying that when you're struck by happiness, you're
happy. However, his reaction in the deen In other words, his
religious behavior thereafter, it improves in both cases, because he
knows this is from Allah.
Alright, one more paragraph left he says alkazi a bucket of
nelarabine states there are different views as to which is the
first blessing which may come upon a slave of Allah. Some say it is
Amen. Others say it is life. Others say it is health. But the
first of these is the preferable understanding since it represents
an unconditional birth, blessing. Because life you can have life and
you go, well dogs have life. Right? You can have life and go to
hellfire. But Amen, will take you to the eternal life.
In their absence, many people are cheated, that is to say they lose
all or part of their Prophet. Whoever goes along with a soul
that commands evil enough some amount of Sue, which eternally
summons us to take our ease, and abandon any respect for divinely
appointed boundaries and consistent acts of obedience has
been cheated. Likewise, if he's at leisure, for work might have
served him as an excuse. So if you were sort of impoverished and you
needed to work a long amount of hours, at least you have an
excuse, but to be rich and lazy, is worse. It talks about habits
and they say that it's important to enforce on kids use a little
bit of pressure to force them into good habits when they're young.
And to deny them of things that are indulgent of the neffs. For
the reason that as follows is that when they get older, the good
habit becomes a great memory as long as it's not, you know, with
excessive harshness, because then it becomes you know, like
something that's traumatic.
But for example, you custom your son to wake up for fetch, maybe
you accustom your kids to go to the masjid you accustomed to
recite the Quran. When they get older, when they're 2030 4050
years old. That stuff becomes memories now. That's like awesome,
my childhood memory. And he longs for it for a different for
multiple reasons. Now, the opposite. When you deny, let's say
music, you say no, we're not doing this. We're not listening to
music. Right? And you shut it down. They may be frustrated at
the moment.
Right? But when they go behind your back and do it themselves, we
know most of the kids are going to do that. They're not going to feel
comfortable with it. It's going to take them by the time they get
used.
Do it right.
A lot of time has passed. So he said that the young person who is
not accustomed to something evil
right now music we say the automat says haram,
bulk majority of them say It's haram.
Maybe not evil, but It's haram. And anything haram, I guess you
could say is in the category of evil, right? I don't want people
to think we're over inflating something. But it is haram. And
it's something we avoid. But if you got them not used to it,
they're used to not listening to it. So they're going to have to go
through a phase where they break themselves into it. Well, by the
time they break themselves into it, maybe, you know, several, a
long period of time has passed. Right. And as a result of that, at
least, they they weren't so quick to go into the act of
disobedience.
Right? So if you're, I think you'd take a regular Muslim kid, and you
were to he's born Muslim, and he never went to, like, one of these
clubs before we see him in the movies, but we'd never been to
one, you'd go in there, you wouldn't know what to do. You'd
feel out of place that they the people would shun you. Because you
look like you don't know what you're doing. And you don't. So
that's a good thing. That means by that it'll take you about two
years to get used to go into a club, right? And you might have
bad experiences because you're not good at it. You're not good at
committing sins. So you might have bad experiences, they may make fun
of you, and that might keep you away. Right? So that's the value
and benefit of
getting people accustomed to not being accustomed to acts of
disobedience. Alright, let us stop here that take stops us
at that first Hadith and we'll maybe again we will do this in the
lab to Allah. Allah gives us the health and the strength to do so.
up to his shock. This is one of the sun and other prophets of
Allah he was salam.
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