Shadee Elmasry – Dunya In Your Hand Not Your Heart
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lowering the gaze from the dunya. Nothing more than a unique
behavior as well. John minhang directs not thine eyes willfully
what We have bestowed upon them.
So let's move on to Allah in all these concepts that we're talking
about have to do with the aspect of the soul worth making much
thicker, following the path of Allah subhanaw taala.
abstaining from love of the dunya
because the scholars mentioned that the concept of being a person
who is considered to be what they say, in Arabic as a zoo had
someone who practices
the aspect of abstaining from worldly from worldly things. It's
not that they don't have worldly things. Because there's a reality
to that, for example, everyone needs to have clothing, everyone
needs to have housing, everyone needs to have food. And all these
things can be considered things that are part of the dunya. But
the way that Imam Al Ghazali Rahim Allah Allah had displayed the
dunya to us, he compared the dunya he said that the dunya is
everything that is between the heavens and earth, everything only
che Baneasa watever everything as between the heavens and the earth,
that take us away or distract us from Allah subhanaw taala that is
the dunya
so anything that we're using as a means in order to worship Allah
subhanaw taala, then that is not necessarily considered to be the
dunya
so people ask, you know, how do I you know, practice as you know, as
abstinence from the dunya and things of that nature, the way
that you do this is that you only take from the dunya that what you
need to worship Allah subhanaw taala
and that you don't have a love for the dunya in your heart, because
some people can be who had or consider themselves to be so hard
or tried to be so had meaning to try to abstain, but they still
have a love for the dunya and that's even worse than a person
who has a lot of the dunya but doesn't have a love for it.
So it's worse to not have belong in love and lust after it than it
is to actually have it but not have a love for it. And this is
the example that we see for example, the likes of automatic
fan or the great example of madmen
they say well I've got her and but I don't need to come into Medina.
That's the Asia what really the haha it's related about Aisha Radi
Allahu anha. The one time she was in her her home in Medina, this
was and she felt the ground start to shake. And she didn't know what
was going on. So she asked someone like, you know, what, what is
that? What is going on? Why is the ground shaking? And the person
told her that oh, the caravan of
alphas come into Medina is arriving in the city.
And that's just to say that Abdul Rahman
met him and out of his caravan has so many camels and so much so much
belong his audits that it made the ground shake.
However, I'm not mad I mean, I was a person who would you would never
consider to be a person of the dunya.
So again, having the dunya in your hand, but not having it in your
heart.