Shadee Elmasry – Hikam Class #11
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Well
today,
as we said,
we don't really believe,
as some people do, that the subjects have to soul Wolf,
which is Islamic spirituality which everyone loves, can ever be
separated from knowledge, right? We've said this a million times,
and this is the right way to do things. Okay, that's the correct
way. So at once a month, we divided up the class, we divided
the class and we returned those who are studying Fick, with Sheikh
todich. Amir
will go over there, and those who are studying fic with Mufti and
ers will be in the backroom. And then the rest of the students will
remain with me for all lwml Quran Sciences of the Quran. Okay, this
is going to be in the second half of the class. So the first half of
the class we're continuing on with Hichem of 11, Allah Allah, and we
are class number 11 Chapter 11. And before that, we talked about
the dictionary Glossary of the Holy Quran. Now here is
a bigger version.
Okay, here is a bigger version. And
it actually is almost like
more of an encyclopedic version, because it gives you a little
paragraph or a little passage, and it gives you how to pronounce it
in English is very good book, right? Okay. This is a very, very
good book, and I'm telling you, some people think wrong. They
think that the dictionary is a book that you go to when you don't
know a word. No, it's not how it is. A dictionary is a book that
you can read. Right? You can read, just pick it up and read from it,
word after word after word, and then memorize five words, right
word after word after word. The benefit of this book is it has an
index, okay? It has an index in the beginning. So any word that
you want to find in any verb form conjugation, plural, dual male,
female, you can look it up in the first half of the book. It's an
index. Okay? So let's just take any word of the Quran. You go to
the index, it'll tell you the page, and then it'll tell you the
meaning of that word. Right. So this is very good book. Okay. It's
called legato Quran.
Yeah, if you don't, you don't need to know the root. That's why it's
very good. You don't need to know the root word. You look up the
word as it as it appears.
This is the another book, which is another excellent book.
And it gives you
it's this is another encyclopedic book.
Okay.
Yes, they're both dictionaries and encyclopedias of the Quran. And
I'm telling you mofro, that in Mauritania,
they've put a high emphasis on knowing more for that vocabulary
words, you need to have a lot of vocabulary words, you need to know
what a lot of words mean. So I'm actually find it very fascinating
just to read dictionaries, right? And you just read word after word
after word. And you learn
it depends this one, they made it more user friendly, right? They
made it more user friendly. Because you don't need to know the
root in the hands where of course you are only operating through the
root word.
Alright, chapter 11.
Discipline
here, I'll pass it, take a photo of it. And then if you upload the
photo to Google, right, then it sharp it'll give you the thing
disciplining the ego, page 151.
Very important subject here. Very important subject.
You
Imam even Allah Alayhi Rahmatullah says
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are critical, critical, absolutely critical, he says you're being
you're being concerned and looking for the errors of your knifes okay
is more valuable
than seeing the unseen.
So it is more valuable, that you are sitting and trying to identify
the flaws of yourself, then trying to have visions.
Okay, if you were to see your own flaw, it is better for you than to
see an angel
or to look at something of the unseen or to have a vision of the
unseen which many into so will they use visions of the unseen as
like motivators as motivators and nice things that people like to
talk about. Right? People love to talk about karamat. And they feel
that their Eman increases when they talk about kinematics or
visions of the prophets I send them or Elliot seeing other
things. But what is even our thought saying, He's saying your
vision of your own flaws, is far better and more valuable to you
than to see a mystical vision. Let's say who is it who saw more
than any worldly on the earth.
It bliss
is bliss. He was residing in the heavens. He was not only seeing
the unseen, he was living in what we call the unseen to us. The
seven heavens above us is unseen. IBLEES was living in the unseen.
Okay, he's living there. Okay.
And yet he could not see could not see that he had a flaw and a big
problem. Right? What was his flaw and problem
that he loved himself.
He loved himself more than anything else.
Oh secret, you are eager to discover hidden matters. You
desire to know of the Divine mysteries, secrets and subtleties.
You consider these matters to be the goal. No, they're great
motivators, but they're not the goal. Okay? Remember that to
incline the art in this direction and pursue these hidden entities
is not for your welfare, it's not your business. Allah never said to
us seek mystical visions seek vivid dreams, he never said about
this, right? This is not our goal. This attitude is in fact harmful
for you this attitude is harmful. Okay. It is better for you to to
view your spiritual defects such as showing off envy, pride, etc.
And to concern yourself with their elimination. Try to eliminate
these things. In the course of your spiritual journey some
mystery is revealed to you do not attach any significance to it.
spiritual experience do not attach significance to this because again
if bliss had the greatest spiritual experience of anyone
else he lived in the heavens. Okay. Keep in mind that your
purpose is the purification of your ego from evil from evil
attributes.
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Okay, come out of among the attributes of your human nature
draw away from every one that is incompatible with servanthood
incompatible with servanthood so, that you may be responsive to the
call of Allah and His presence. So, if someone asked for what is
the goal of this science and this subject,
it is to attain servanthood it is not to have visions, it is not to
have ranks it is to have the attributes of a service. Okay.
There is a chef in Pakistan today. His name is Mubarak Ali Shah
Jelani. Okay, Mubarak Ali Shah Golani.
This chef,
okay.
He makes all of his close Marines working for him. Right. They work
for him. Not for his house. Okay, but for his school.
He has a school. So someone once said, Don't go to such and such a
chef. He uses his Marie's instead of paying workers, he uses them
instead of paying workers, right? So they brought that to his
attention. He said, I'm not using them. This is part of their
education. Service is part of their education. And how can they
learn to be a servant of God? If they are too arrogant, to be a
servant in the school that is benefiting them? Right? Then the
school that's benefiting you, you don't want to mop the floors? You
don't want to go and change a light bulb. You don't want to
paint the walls right. How can you be a servant of what is unseen? If
you are too arrogant to be a servant of what is seen and
benefits you directly same thing with barrel validate, barrel
validate in the search Muhammad mo lute. His curriculum has two books
that they said if you master these two books, and you live your life
on these two books, you go straight to jungle with Nila. The
first book is called the rights of parents. The second book is called
the purification of the heart, all written by Sheikh Mohammed
Mahmoud. Okay. Why is the rights of parents so important? If you
are good to your parent who was right in front of you, right, who
is a mortal who was a human who makes mistakes, you will no doubt
be good to your Prophet, his sunnah and to your Lord, because
you've it's the same discipline. It's the same thing. You're
shooting a best free throws in the high school gym. It is not going
to be any different when you go to the NCAA gym, or the NBA gym. It's
the same basketball the same hoop just a different arena. That's all
it is. So someone arrogant with their parent will be arrogant with
the religion.
That's how it is. So it's that's that's the thing. And so also say
Muhammad Ali with Maliki right if Mecca.
His students, you don't know who the student is and who the janitor
is. That's how it is. Right? So they they are all students, but
they also have chores. Right? They also have chores. And one of the
schools of Asia I believe South Asia.
The finished 12 years of education today Subhanallah if you do a four
year madrasa, you're like a scholar right there system in
Pakistan in Rome for the partition in India was 12 years. Okay. 12
years scholarship track 12 years. Now on the 13th year, he doesn't
go out to get the job. He doesn't go to your job. He becomes a
janitor. Right? He becomes a janitor in the same school that he
was the senior student in he's a janitor. He serves as a gem. These
people knew how to be it, they knew to sew off right, they knew
the knifes and knowledge is one of the worst things of the neffs to
the neffs the knifes knowledge will improve you or bring you
down, right? Knowledge will raise you up or bring you down because
whereas knowledge it's up here, so the nature of knowledge brings you
up.
Right you have to make sure that it brings your soul up and your
ego down, not your soul down and your ego up. We'll take questions
just write them down so we can get because we only have an hour
today. So it is very important to understand that our goal all of us
is to be humble servants. And do not ever imagine. You cannot be a
servant to a human and only be a servant to Allah. It's never going
to work like this. Never will work like this. I have even seen
students. Marines very close to the chef, very disrespectful to
the let's say they're dead, right?
I wish they all felt they all felt it's a mirage. It all they all
felt but he who is good to his elders. Right? He will be good to
Allah azza wa jal, it's the same color is very important. This is
why it's a big disservice. To allow arrogance, to pass through
someone to allow children to be disrespectful. It's a big
disservice. Some people say, Well, I want to make sure my kids love
me. This is very important, but first make him a good kid first,
then he'll love you second, right? Or this is also why you have a lot
has given you a mom and a dad. Why dad will not care so much to be
loved as to be respected. Right? This is actually a fact. And I
used to hear this all the time. I don't care you love me. You don't
love me, but you respect me if you're in this house, right? You
show respect. This isn't how Allah has created a man. He cares more
to be respected his rules than loved. So what does the kid learn
he learned
That aspect and then the mom is the opposite cares more to be
loved the respective, which is approval. You go and you see the
kids with the mom is chaos is happening. You don't know what's
going on why she wants him to have fun to to be loved to feel loved
to feel good, right? But it's chaos. So you have to have to both
attributes. Okay. So this is the key, the key, the very important
key that all of us from the top to the bottom must embody the ethic
of being a humble servant. Everyone, no one's exempted. Okay,
nobody is exempted the whole, like if you have a whole community, no
one's exempted from being a humble servant until you have a white
beard, then you've earned your dues, you should not lift a
finger. Right? This is how if we're going to be in a sama
community, that's how it's got to be. Once you've got a white beard
once you hit the age of 60. You do not lift a finger, right?
Okay.
All of our youth and our children, if we're going to teach them to be
servant of Allah, first be the servant of what you can see. Right
before you can be the servant of what you can't see. So serve your
community. Put the shoes on the rack, all these is service service
service, all of us top to bottom. No one's exempted. Okay.
Next hikma says
Oh, and this past hikma is someone says oh what is the point of the
self? Why are you doing to so? Right? The answer is very simple.
To take an old booty towards, to fulfill servanthood to Allah azza
wa jal to fulfill servanthood proper, sir, and the greatest rank
that a human being can attain is given in Surah An Sr. What is the
greatest thing Allah can do is to bring you up to the heavens right?
To bring you up to speak to him directly without a barrier. The
prophets I seldom in the Mirage spoke to Allah directly without a
barrier, right? In this MACOM in this position, how did Allah
describe the Prophet? Did he describe did He say, Glory be to
the one who brought his messenger forward? Glory be to the one who
brought his prophet forward? Glory be the the one who brought his
most beloved forward? No, he described him as Glory be to the
one who brought his servants forward. So the highest makan we
can have is the servant of Allah azza wa jal, and if you notice, as
one philosopher says, we are God making servant creatures, every
human being, if you notice his glory is that he served the cause
or he served the God and that God could be the true God or it could
be an idea it could be accompany it could be something could be
himself, but we are service oriented creatures, okay. So, the
question is what we are serving.
Next one says also locally Marcion was reflecting Washa who attend a
river and enough's.
This is a big one.
The origin of every disobedience every heedless, state of
heedlessness and every passion is self satisfaction. self
satisfaction. Okay? self satisfaction.
Chef NOSM Haqqani okay NOSM Afghani, only the WISE will
understand the methods of shamanism and Afghani.
So if NOSM will have Connie is very funny to watch. He is putting
down everyone in his presence. Everyone in his presence has been
put down all the time, but he's not really putting them down. He's
just making sure that they know that they have ways to go. So they
never fall into self satisfaction. Okay, this is the logic behind why
he does it. What else Luke Colita adds in via Latin, were a fitting
either more real Minca and the origin of every obedience,
vigilance and virtue is to stop doing something okay. Is
dissatisfaction with oneself.
Dissatisfaction with oneself
Okay, well in just have a Gehenna layer the NFC Cairo Naka antas,
hubba element yarda NFC, it is better for you to to keep the
company of an ignorant one a common man who is not pleased with
himself, then to be in the company of a scholar who is pleased with
himself. Okay.
Okay. For a you are Edelman, Lee, Elliman, yada yada, and I've seen
what kind of scholar what knowledge does he have if it led
him to be pleased with himself? What are you juggling the jehlen?
Nail the NFC and how could the ignorance of the ignorant harm him
if he is not pleased with themselves? You
Gotta be with people who are not pleased with themselves. Okay, we
in London there was one time have you bomber came to London and one
of the keyboard of the six big scholar came in street clothes.
Have you ever came to Birmingham Birmingham, of course is uni.
Birmingham is
like a Muslim city. It's a cumbersome city, certain parts of
it. And Maghrib if you look down the street, you just see doors
opening. It's an amazing sight. And it's awesome for us Americans
because they speak English, right? And you make friends with them
really quickly. You can make friends, we relate to them. And
you look down the door of the street youth on the street. All
the doors are opening. Sec Subhanallah it's like you never
can be down or depressed in the city because you're interacting
with people all the time.
Mother in Asia, right. And the brothers there Subhanallah it's
amazing. I was in actually Birmingham, then Blackburn very
similar. And I'm telling you, not only in some of the streets like
you'll have a masjid at the coldest act at the end, and then a
long street. And then there it's not like America with the big
yards. It's just home home home home home, like Monopoly or
something right? Like little homes, no yards, just a small
front yard, no side yards. Usually the house is like maybe one foot
separating each house right? There's no side yard so just home.
So oftentimes, the doors stay open. Right? The doors stay open.
Okay, and then cousins will go over each other's homes. Take your
book back study in the messenger between Maghrib and Aisha right.
Some will come out with a kettle, right with the kettle and some
tea. Like some chai, go to the masjid pray Maghrib sit until
Aisha, I'm telling you is such a good it's a it's a gloomy city.
But
the Salah, the company, the Sangha, it's really uplifting when
you live in it. When you leave you miss it. You really miss it. So
Birmingham SubhanAllah. And these types of cars, they live together.
And it's almost not even like 90% 100% of the block would be
Muslims. Right? So the mandala and the Tbilisi Gemma has done a lot
of work to get the people out that somebody Jamal there were really
big just to get people into the mess. And they're the bleeding
system works. You could literally just go knocking on people today
if you knock on an American's door. Oh, shut the blinds. What's
going on? Right? It's like a shock. Who's knocking on the door?
Right? Hold on. Okay. And then you have people like, you know,
crawling under the door. They don't want to be seen. It's like
an emergency crisis happen. You don't know why someone's coming,
knocking on the door, right? People don't do this anymore over
there is still the norm. So you can actually do Dow knocking on
every door, right? And spend the whole day doing this. So the key
is here is this this sofa? Sofa of the people who are not pleased
with themselves is very important. So this shift, when have you
bought came to Birmingham? Okay. I remember we came to Birmingham, I
feel the whole lot.
The share this share came in street clothes and sat in the
back.
So people were like, Why are you sitting in the back are all the
mache or were there that like the guest of honor sitting in the
front? He's like, honestly,
I like to sit with the the bad moods, that stink, right? Because
they're not satisfied with themselves. Right? They know they
stick. Right. But the Marines who did good think that they're worthy
of something right? The people who are on top of everything they do
good. If If and when they start feeling worthy of something. It
loses it right? It's loses the taste. But I he said I like to sit
with the failed mureeds the failed. Muslims were failing but
they're in the masjid. Right? Because they know that they are
not satisfied with themselves and they are not worthy of anything.
So Subhanallah that was a big lesson. That was a big lesson.
One time profit dude at a Salam was pleased looking at his men,
his Sahaba praying, soldiers fasting, seeking knowledge praying
Prophet dough that a sinner gave up. He made them have edit. He
really trained his Sahaba right. He was like the way Amara Hatha
was he was like a combination of Alma and Annie, right? He was a
combination of the two he was severe on them. And he had them
going, and he was very pleased at the end of his life watching his
men. Right. Frank debrid Ali Salam came to him. And he said, Are you
pleased with your students? Right. Are you pleased with your Sahaba?
He said yes.
Masha Allah look at them. He said, I want to inform you. If a
beautiful woman was to cross by this Masjid right now all of them
would lose their Salah.
So why was the wisdom of this right? To show even Prophet though
if he's pleased with them, he's going to stop pushing them. Right?
Don't ever be pleased with yourself always know. And this is
why sometimes a member Ghazali says that there are four flaws in
every movie, every Muslim.
Okay, the first flaw is something obvious. He learns it, and he
eliminates it.
He learns it. And he eliminates immediately. The second flaw, he
learns that it's wrong, but it takes him a long time or years to
or months to eliminate it. And he has to put a great effort to
eliminate this for many of us. When we learned about backbiting
it took a couple months, right? Like half a year or something to
really eliminate, right?
A third flaw is unseen. It's in himself about, like, envy, or has
it or hip and it takes him a long time to learn about it and to
understand it and to witness it in himself. But then when he does, he
eliminates it. That's the third one. But then as Ali says, then
for every moody there is a fourth every believer there is a fourth
flaw. And this is a flaw. Right? That is function is to remind him
of his
his flawed nature. And this is a flaw that lasted for two years.
This is a flaw that will last him dozens of years. Right? That he
will just it will take him a long time to shake it off. Right? And
what is the role of this flaw? This flaw is like the we can call
it the spot of a waste. We call this flaw of the spot of voice.
Right? So what is that? Wasel Kearney was a man from Yemen, who
was a believer he never met the province. I sent him but he lived
in a time of the province. He had lepers he had leprosy. And he
prayed Oh ALLAH cure me of my leprosy, but leave a spot. So I
can remember what you did for me.
So away so cottony. He had a spot somewhere, I don't know his hands
or something, but he could see it every day. And remember, he had
left he used to have leprosy. Okay, so we call this sin are this
flaw the spot of voice, okay. So it's a flaw that will remain in a
believer.
Okay, that every time he falls into it, he remembers who he truly
is. Okay. He remembers his flawed nature.
So look out for this.
Look out for this and realize that being satisfied with your ego is
really bad. And there are sensitive people, okay, there are
sensitive people who are very self conscious.
And it's very easy for them to be dissatisfied with themselves. So
we're not saying you should be like this. But if you find someone
like that, keep their company every once in a while. And take
from that attribute a little bit. Right. Like if you're a coward,
you need to hang out with courageous people. Right? If
you're, you know, if you're tend to be arrogant, like everything is
good in your life, hang out with, you know, modest people, people
were not gifted like you are so that you can balance yourself. If
you tend to be self satisfied and overconfident, hang out with
people who are a little bit more broken down so that you can
balance your attributes. Okay, so that we could do this.
Next hikma says K factor three political our will NTLM tough
enough SQL our.
This is critical again. If you want to sow have to work. You have
to do what you think is impossible, which you tell
yourself is impossible of your bad habits. Okay. He says here. How do
you expect the laws of nature to be ruptured for you? Okay, if you
have not ruptured your bad habits,
okay.
As
I think it was, who came first Muhammad Ali or the Beatles?
The Beatles, right? Beatles. Cache is clay.
Cassius Clay was just getting famous when he was somewhere and
the Beatles were there
All right. And he had just maybe won the world championship, the
first his first time that he wanted against Sonny Liston.
And he saw the Beatles and one of the many and he was for the first
time, really huge. Okay, famous people running after him like
crazy. Then he said to one of the Beatles, so this is how it feels
to be a Beatle, right, because you guys are up there. And I'm just
getting up there. So one of the Beatle guys, he goes to him, the
more real you are, the more unreal it's gonna get.
Right. So the more you actually produce results, the more
unfathomable and unreal, the reward becomes. And of course,
we're not after that reward, we're after another reward, a reward
that maybe other people won't see. And this is the trick onto so this
is why it's very tricky. You put in a lot of effort, no one will
see the reward that you get that reward will be between you and
yourself. Right? It will be between you and yourself. Okay? So
what he's talking about here, how do you expect Allah azza wa jal to
draw you near? To do favors for you? Right to purify you, to bring
you closer to the Olia to change the situation. If you haven't
changed your own situation. So your war is against your own. I
should say our our war is against our own bad habits. Okay. And this
is the hardest thing. The habit is the hardest thing to break the
habit. The one time sin is not something you have to worry about.
You said one time thing, one time incident, even if it happened in
front of people that forgive you, right? One time thing, but if it's
daily, weekly, monthly, this is the habit Your life should revolve
around this habit. Breaking this habit. Okay, and how do you break
this habit? Sometimes it's
it's a nonstop effort. But sometimes there are just literal
physical means.
Okay, every sin that we do, has like triggers. And there are times
that we do it. And there are times we don't do it. If we keep a log,
and we have everything's data driven, right? Today, any
everything is data driven, your behavior is taken statistics,
everything is a statistic, okay? Even they know where to put the
best place to put a gas station, where's the best Put, put the most
expensive stuff in the store? Right, there's a reason they put
the milk in the back, right? So that you have to walk through the
whole supermarket, and maybe you'll see something, buy
something else, right, or the lower the price of the milk, right
to bring you into the shop because that's the only price you
remember, but secretly though raise the price of the onions
raise the price of the rice to raise the price of the peppers,
right? And they'll make up the money that way. Everything is data
driven. If the most important thing is our deeds, then we should
have that and that's why we have like last week we talked about
charts, the charts if there is a wrong action that we do
repeatedly, we should mark down when do I do it?
What is have I eaten before this or after this? What How is my
sleep? state of sleep? What company Am I in? What time of day
is it? If you can find a pattern
then it will help you stop this action. But more so Moreover, than
this, Allah will guide you. Okay to the solution to this. If we
remove the love of dunya from our hearts
shaytaan attacks the one who loves the dunya okay shaytaan has access
to the heart of people who can enter and whisper and someone
wants asked.
Someone once asked, okay, Oh Allah, why do you allow shaytaan
to visit some people and trick them and others not?
Okay, this is like a fable. It's not a hadith or anything. So the
answer was, because every father has the right by Sharia to visit
his daughter.
This is my Sharia, right. Every father he has the right to visit
his daughter, your daughter gets married, you have the right by
Sharia to knock on the door and pay her a visit. Okay. And the
dunya is the daughter of a bliss. The dunya is the daughter the
worldly temptations is the daughter of a bliss. So if you
How's his daughter in your heart IBLEES has the right to come and
visit and tricky one remove movie on army. So who is the one most
immune from the trick of bliss? The one who has no love of do
He's
the one who has no love of dunya then he is most immune from the
trickery of Iblees.
Now, there's something about a sub, which differs from other.
There there is taking to account. Our good deeds and bad deeds are
written in the account is one subject, the effects of things is
another subject. Let's take an example.
If you intended to do a sin,
okay, but something interfered and you didn't do the sin.
Are you getting punished or not? Do you get written or not? It's
not written we know that right? Prophesy centum said, If you
intended to do a sin, and let's say the power went out, so you got
stuck, so you didn't commit your sin that day?
It's not written for you.
But the ultimo earlier tell us if you intended a sin, and something
stopped you from doing it. Okay, accidentally,
the negative effect is still inside.
Right? One of the ultimate of Hadramaut was asked to whom? Who
is barred from the note of Allah.
Okay, is it the sinner?
He said, not only the sinner, even the one who just intends to sin.
Okay, not only the center, even the one he intends to do it.
So even when you don't, something is not written against you as a
sin. It doesn't mean it doesn't have a bad effect on you. It does
have a bad effect. Let's take another example. The meat that is
not healthy for us to eat, okay. It's not healthy for us to eat. If
someone lied
and said This meat is Hello. And he told a lie. Okay, and you ate
it? Because you trusted him? Do you have a sin against you? You
did not. But we do know that may have a negative effect on your
self on your body. Why? Because the prophets I send them says and
the Quran says Kulu Mendota University where a mellow cider,
eat wholesome food and do good deeds. So what did the automat
said that means wholesome food will lead to good. The opposite is
true. Before we're qualified, unwholesome food will lead to bad
deeds. Right. And
there's a shift here actually, he's next Monday. And he is from
the Noxzema geomatics I believe as well. His name is Jeff Coker
and Shane Coker, maybe some of you know him. Coker.
He said one of the first things lessons he gives us is make sure
your food is halal. We believe if your food is not pure, your deeds
will cannot be pure, some something will have okay, because
the food that you're eating is not pure. So we say about this, it's
very important to know your it might not count as a bad deed
technically, but it will still have a bad effect on you. So
someone who desires sins, but doesn't do it because of
something. This is why it's most important to make us as if anatomy
said it is more important to love the good and hate the bad than to
actually do a lot of good and do a lot of that right or avoid a lot
of bad if an oddity went deeper in the matter. And he said it's more
important that you love the good. Okay, and hate the bad and what is
the dua of the Quran is not Oh Allah make us do so much good. It
is oh Allah make us love. Amen. And make it beautiful in our
hearts and make us hate CO for and for Zuken ESEA
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scary Hikmah and he says incurable sickness results when the
sweetness of passion takes possession of the heart. This is
why we have to repeat this over and over and over alone having
been in an email was Rubina. were correct. Elaine l COFRA. Well
forsook our Sen. Make hateful to us, make it hateful to us. This
belief
for so immoral sins of behavior and disobedience. immoral acts of
disobedience make it painful to us, okay. Something that is
hateful to you. You will leave it as soon as you can. Okay? This is
such an important job.
repeated again.
This dua is from surah it's insane I believe Allah Muhammad the Benin
Hundreds 1000s of other, oh Allah make Beloved to us, amen. And make
it sweet in our hearts, beautiful in our hearts
and make hateful to us.
Cofer disbelief, and for so immorality and Sen disobedience,
this will be
I want to know in this hadith in this dua, Allah separates
right. forsook Cofer forsook, and Sen because some people think that
what is wrong? Okay, what is wrong? Nice stick. So every one
that stick, that is a good stick. Just take that rubber thing over
the bottom. Just take that piece of rubber off the bottom. Okay.
Some people think that the wrong in the sight of Allah is merely
immorality, right? It's merely immorality. The only some people
will have a technical problem in their theology, right? And they
will say, look, at least I'm in the masjid. I'm not in a bar.
Right now. Right? There are three aspects here. Your theology has to
be correct. This is a big deal. And some people say, look, he's in
the mosque. He's doing good. He's giving charity? Why are arguing
and attacking him over one piece of theology? No, because Allah
made it a big deal. That's why we don't make we don't decide what's
the big deal. Allah decides what's the big deal? So if the theology
is wrong, that's a problem. For so we all know is wrong in morality.
And unfortunately, sometimes the allies in theology will overlook
the immoral behavior of one of their people. Right? immoral
behavior is the number two.
And then number three ifcn disobedience, because not every
act of disobedience. Neither is it theologically a problem, and nor
does it seem immoral, but it's a sin. Right? There are some why?
Because Allah azza wa jal is always looking for He wants us to
be completely, completely for him. So some sins are not you look at
the sin. And you're like, it's not immoral. It's not theological.
Right? And you take it lightly. This means you're taking a load
likely taking a load lightly. Right? certain sins like this, and
people wonder as a Can it really be a problem? Right? Can it really
be like, the second at some examples, Annie,
for example, is not permissible for men. Now we have to say for
men to what used to be only women, right? But for men to to go and
get their plucking done, and have their eyebrows to be like a
perfect line. Right? If it's in the past colors, not a problem.
Don't go and judging people, maybe it's in their past, right. But you
can't do this. Now, someone might say, art really? Is that big of a
deal. It's not an immoral act. No one will say that you're an
immoral person. But it's Sen. Right? Because he said do one
thing. And you did the opposite. And he said don't do one thing.
And you went and did it and didn't do it. Right. So it's yeah, it's a
disobedience. Right? So this dua is reminding us don't judge the
disobedience from yourself. Let Allah decide what we have to
avoid. Okay, that's just an example. Okay, so, to make curule
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Okay, when something is truly beloved to you, it becomes very
hard to remove it. Very hard to remove it. Okay. So you have to
make a DUA, we have to cure that with dua. Two, and this is why
another attribute another attribute of Muslim kids, right?
Why is it that you want to keep your kids pure, there's, there's a
tension here, very important for us and for our children.
You want to keep them pure, but you want you don't want to
keep them like on crutches. Right? Why do you want to keep them pure?
Because you want them to grow up? You are accustomed to certain
things so that when they see sin, it feels bad. It feels they don't
want to do that. Right? They do it with the Amish kids. The Amish
kids. They grew up in Pennsylvania. They grew up in the
farms. They grew up in nature. They grew up in this beautiful
with all these beautiful things. Now what do they do? They do this
very smart thing. And they give the kid a whole bunch of money.
And they tell them for three weeks. You do not have to follow
any Amish rules that could turn 17 They do this. Okay. And they say
Take them to Manhattan
and give them the money. Right? I think secretly, they're hoping the
money runs out or something, right? But they give him money.
And he has no rules. Now what happens? According to this
interview, this was done by actually the BBC did this report
on them or some other British Channel? The guy says they all
come back, usually before the three weeks, right? And they said
to the kids, Aren't you tempted to do these things? Don't you want to
do these things? Now? They said, I didn't like it. As soon as I went
out, and like everyone's mean, everyone's rude. Everyone's
walking. Everyone's fast, right? And I just the music's loud, the
lights are too bright. So he doesn't like it. So he left now
he's coming with conviction. Right? But so you want them to
have the conviction. But we want to be accustomed to purity. And we
can accustom ourselves, the province I sent him said, whoever
does something for 21 days straight has accustomed himself to
it. That's not hard. 21 day straight. That's not difficult.
You accustomed to yourself, okay. Now, a lot of people have
difficulty leaving off music, right? A
lot of you have difficulty. But if you look at some of the people who
don't, you can give the most beautiful music to hear that he
gets upset, they get upset, they don't like it. Right? Why? Habit?
So don't underestimate the power of habits, good habits doesn't
have to have logic behind it. It's just a good habit. Like the
Pavlovian dog just it's a habit, right.
So we also were taught Kulu che and either were lower labored,
everything is a habit, even worship. Even worship becomes a
habit. Okay? Your body gets used to getting up prefetcher your body
gets used to it. Okay? It's just accustomed to it. And if you don't
get up for federal, you get upset, right? This is a good habit. So
this is why now in contrast, in contrast, the one who lived his
whole life in his sin,
he has a positive and a negative write as a positive and according
to Mr. Malhotra and common sense, right?
If he lived his whole life in sin, and he's making a U turn, that you
his conviction will be this very strong, right? Because he had
access to all the sins, He's making a U turn based upon strong
conviction, okay. So his action is actually worth more, because it's
based on conviction. But what's the negative, it's very hard to
teach an old dog new tricks, it's very hard to teach a person to
change their habits, okay, very difficult. So he will love
something, and he may continue to love it until the day he dies.
And, you know, if that's something that's prohibited, becomes a
barrier to his advancement is a barrier for his advancement. So
there's positive and negative and you hope to be somewhere in the
middle between having good habits, but also not being Muslim
culturally, being Muslim by conviction, not just by
culturally, okay.
And one of the ALMA said, if you want to bring the two together,
then one of the ways is that the home is the most important thing.
The home is where you really build your habits. So if all the habits
in the home are fine, then even exposure outside the home, okay,
maybe after a certain age, maybe after a certain age exposure
outside the home will not harm him as much. So if your home is very
good and healthy and stuff, then
after a certain age, if someone's exposed to stuff outside,
inshallah it won't harm him as much. And he will be sort of
vaccinated from that I believe in vaccinating because we live in a
toxic environment. One of the worst things to do is never expose
them. Right. And one of the worst things to do is to expose them
prematurely. So it's a balance, you expose a baby, you don't say,
Oh, well, the world is dangerous out there. Right. So let me I put
a one year old in the street, or the world is dangerous out there
are a lot of sicknesses. So let me expose the chest of my newborn
baby so he can get strong. He you're gonna kill him, right. But
at a certain age, when it's determined that he's strong
enough, then he can be exposed. Okay, so we'll go over one more
hikma. We're gonna have to divide this chapter into two weeks, by
the way next week.
subtopics classes continuing doctrine Abell classes and
continuing but my class is off because I'll be at the Convert
con, the combo conference any convert, you know who cannot
afford the ticket? Forget it. We don't care about the money right.
The money is for those who have to help us cover the costs.
Don't just tell them to show up. All right, or we have tickets we
can give it to them. So that no one misses out on this beautiful
event that we're going to have April 17. Next Sunday 11 o'clock.
No, it said Rutgers. But
our The question is are non reverse invited? No, they're not
invited. Okay? They're not invited actually. Because why? It becomes
pointless to have a convert conference and then there's one
out of five person has a conference. Right? The point is we
want okay, them to be in an environment where they're the
majority. Okay, Commons to the majority because that's what we're
told that that benefits but there's no harm if you're going to
come and stop by assist and I'm give support, but don't hog up the
space, okay? To hug up to space. Okay. I think we'll stop here
because Mufti is waiting. Startup has fit as well. So we'll stop
here and next week we'll continue on page 155, which is a common law
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