Shadee Elmasry – Hikam Class #7
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The speakers discuss the importance of time and how it is the cornerstone of life, as well as the challenges of measuring success and achieving optimal savings. They emphasize the importance of acknowledging one's actions and intentions in achieving optimal savings and the importance of achieving a spiritual promise. The speakers also touch on the benefits of living in a certain position and avoiding work hours, as well as the importance of staying true to one's life and avoiding distractions. They emphasize the importance of using time for personal reasons and avoiding distractions, as well as rebuilding one's life after a difficult time.
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he was talking to him.
First thing I want to talk about is something a little bit
different from what's next in the book which is page 123 which is
Chuck's chapter on time and its importance because
the all important people, everyone who wants to achieve something in
life focuses on the subject of time.
But the SOFIA in particular
give a lot of emphasis on the subject matter. Before this, I
want to talk about another critical critical subject which is
to
wow, SULI
hedaya guidance and how to obtain it.
Firstly, simple question, what is guidance? Okay, what is guidance?
Guidance, is that your body and your heart are in line with the
Divine Will.
That's your body, your limbs, and you're
certainly up to the near to if you want
your limbs and your heart are in line
with the Divine Will.
Okay, this ultimately is Hidayat and if you can imagine an orbit,
okay, planets are all good orbiting around in their sun moons
are orbiting around their planet. Okay. Everything in space is
orbiting perfectly. You don't see crash accidents in space. You
don't see the moon being you know.
Question questionable. The moon is never questioned Well, the sun is
never questioned. Well, it's predictable. Everything is running
perfectly. If it wasn't predictable to wasn't moving
perfectly, we would have chaos on the earth. Okay. So he died is
that we are operating in the orbit that we're supposed to be in as
human beings. Okay?
The difference is that the planets in the moon there Yani.
Very simple. Our lives are much more complex, okay, but we're in
our orbit, so long as we're not doing what we're not supposed to
be doing. And we're doing what we're supposed to be doing. Okay?
And our heart is in the position that it's supposed to be. Now.
This no human being by himself, can do can get this and be like
this by himself. A person is only guided because Allah is preserving
him. Can the sun be doing what it's doing by itself? Right? Can
the moon be doing what is doing by itself? No, only Allah azza wa jal
is holding them in place. So how do we get to hold ourselves in
place? We can't do it ourselves. We can only do it if Allah is
preserving us of God. This is why the NBN are my sole and only are
my food then we cannot do wrong. Okay, and now we are protected
from rock. Of course, the big difference being that someone who
he can at some point in his life do something wrong, or in his
past, but the earlier are muffled, protected.
Hidayat is the most valuable thing in the creation of the universe.
Okay, it's the most valuable thing in the creation of the universe.
Okay. Why is that?
What is more valuable, your to be alive? Or to be guided? What is
the value of life if you're alive, but not guided? You're in
hellfire, and what are those people on the way we say and so
that's another? Yeah, that's an equal to two robber. I wish that I
was just if I was a rock, it would be better off for me that to be
dragged to *. So hidayah is more valuable than life is more
valuable to us than our own life. But what is the value of the band?
Its value is eternal paradise. That's the value of it.
Look at this
In this life, if you attain Hidayat just for two breaths for
two breaths before your death,
you're guaranteed paradise for an eternity. So he died. Closing out
your life with Daya with guidance is equal, that small bit of
guidance is equal to an eternity of paradise. Now, we now come to
the question of if a Daya is only from Allah azza wa jal and only by
Allah that people are guided, then how do we earn it? You can't do it
yourself. But you can earn How do you earn it?
Okay, and this is the mistake many people make many people make this
mistake. They imagine that one or two deeds that they can do or that
there's a specific vicar or there's a specific action that
they can do to attain hidayah you're wrong. The only thing that
will gain you here is what they call a suitable fifth column.
Sigurd sincerity in one thing, the only cardinal sin that you can do
that will guarantee that you're not going to receive hedaya. Okay,
is giving up.
Giving up is the only form that you can do in this matter. The one
who is seeking Hidayat, he can and most likely we all do commit
wrongs. Would bad wrongs, major wrongs, prop big problems. We want
him and that should be our goal. But we have baggage, we have
issues. Our hearts are still attached to dunya our heart we
have ego problems, we have so many problems. There's only one way to
attain this hidayah. And that is to sincerely want it. And there's
only one way to guarantee you're not going to get it and that is to
give up to give up. This is why the first hikma he says in the
heckum webinar
is when he says oh actually this is out of order.
But he says the one heckuva is if you think that you're going to
gain guidance by yourself, that's your first problem. You're not
gonna get it from yourself. Okay. Now there is a parable that the
ultimate give, there's a parable. Okay, that there's a ship, one of
the greatest ships, the greatest ship of the time. And the sailors
they go around the collects.
Go to islands, and they collect whatever they collect from there.
And this ship survives everything. And it's like paradise. The ship
is perfect. Now, the captain, he's getting old is back in the day
when they live to 300 years. The captain is getting old, he needs
to assign the next person to to be the captain of the ship. Okay. So
what does he do? He doesn't interview them. He doesn't give it
to the first mate. He does not give it to the best worker on the
ship.
But rather he tells everyone, we're going on a mission.
Just short mission, but it's very bad place. So go do the job really
quick. And wait until I call you back. Okay.
And he goes, gets onto the beach, but he doesn't take them to a bad
island. He takes them to a gorgeous Island, a boy cute
country. And he takes him there. And then in the middle of the
night while everyone's sleeping. He goes up to the mountain and he
watches. Okay, he watches them from the top of the mountain.
The first month, everyone is just pitching their tent on the beach
and waiting just to the job that they have to do and wait. Just
came waiting for the for the captain to come back, say All
Aboard on the ship. But he doesn't come back. So they just get tired
of waiting. Okay, so they start going peeking into the island a
little bit, go in a little bit, take a peek and come back. Well,
by the second month. They're taking a peek spending all day in
the island and coming back on that night. Well, by the third month,
they're going in and spending the night in the island and only
coming back once a week to check if the ship has been boarded or
not. Well, by the end of the first year, they've totally forgotten
about the ship. And they're taken by all the new things that they
see on this island. They're taken, okay, and they go deep into the
country until the ship and its captain
are a mere memory.
ship and its captain are mere memory. Okay.
At that point, the captain waits to who see who is going to come
back? Who is trying to come back? All right, who's talking about the
ship? Who even remembers the ship? Until finally, someone, the one
the first one, the ones who make it back, okay? are the ones who
become the captains of the next ship. Why? Because the lesson
isn't that you need to be the best person at running a ship, you need
to want it the most. That is what it
goes to Allah azza wa jal is not looking at the best Muslim Now,
who's the best, most of them now he's not looking at that, who
wants it the most. And so as soon as soon as someone gets a taste of
it,
they should expect a test to be thrown at them. And some of the
tests are very hard. Some of the tests the one of the hardest one
is the mild one that lasts a long time. This is actually the hardest
one, if someone puts a gun to your head at this minute and says, you
want it or not, that's actually not a hard test, you know, we've
been tested, you know, it's gonna be two minutes and the pass or
fail really quickly. That's not a problem. The big problem is the
long distance tell me what's harder to do like a four
millimeter or 400 meter dash or a marathon? Right? The dash you
either faster or not. But the marathon takes a lot of training.
And Allah azza wa jal oftentimes puts us in three, four or 510 year
tests, we have to understand this, right? Sometimes the test is four
or 567 years, and we're just not able to get our hedaya He is just
waiting. Are you going to give up or not? Are you going to give up
or not? And the tests of Allah azza wa jal, as I live in Abu
Talib said, Okay, has a time limit Kulu che in the room with
everything, every test that Allah gives, the person has a time
limit, all you have to do is pass the test laid out the time time
limit. And so an individual will put 100% effort to attain Matt if
of Allah to draw near to Allah to change. And yet Allah will not
granted to him, he will continue making him do the same since
allowing him to fall in the same sense. Okay, and he will regroup
off again, and do another push and pull 1,000% effort
and do everything the client says everything the ship says, still,
he's not getting it. Still his faltering, he's not reaching it.
Right?
Allah azza wa jal is not testing whether or not you can do it. He's
testing how bad you want it, you're going to fail once or
twice, I'm waiting, when you're gonna give up. The only sin that
you can do that will cause you not to have a day is to give up. If
you give up, you're finished. And I'm telling you Subhanallah, you
see some people, the best of us, there have been the best of us.
And they give up tomorrow, they gave up they didn't want it bad
enough, you have to want it. And this is why all of the automat
have to solve, they will tell you there's one way to attain the
Promised Land spiritual promise and that we're all seeking. Some
of you have only heard about it, some of you have seen it, and then
lots,
some of you have climbed the mountain loads and then fell
again.
The only way that you will reside in that level that we're all
talking about and is being described here is through one way
and that is a center for follow up. It may take two years, one
year, 20 minutes or 20 years. Okay? You have to want it and this
Allah only granted to those who have proven that they want it
otherwise it's going to be squandered and why is it going to
be squandered? This guidance is more valuable. Okay. The value of
guidance is an eternity in paradise. That's the value of it,
so he will not give it to someone who will squander it. The one who
will squander it is not the one with the best safe, right? The one
who won't squander it is not the one with the best safe. The best
luck it's the one with the most stubbornness persistency Okay?
Stubborn, persistent and faithful believing you're gonna get it's
just a matter of time. And subhanAllah there have been some
reads
okay.
33 years he describes some reads 40 years describing that he's just
a routine run of the mill motors he does good Some days he does bad
Some days he does good some days is bad some days and he's just
watching other people events all his whole life. Finally, Allah
azza wa jal give it to
If and when you get this hit, if you don't know what happened to
yourself, all of a sudden, everything that you feel that you
were doing that you can't stop doing, all of a sudden, it's gone.
You don't even think about it anymore. Something one or two
little decisions that you made. It says if Allah azza wa jal took a
flash drive and drag the virus from your hard drive to a flash
drive and put the track flash took the flash drive out and throw it
in the garbage.
That's how it just all of a sudden, some light bulb went off.
This is why they will always tell us it's not from us. I don't know
what happened. It's just it's off. And somebody else turned on.
That's it. Subhan Allah, this, this is a sign that something is
from Allah can't explain how it happened.
Okay.
Now,
that was a little any tangential thing that I want to share, which
is essence of the
essence of the soul, Wolf, a surgical formula? And if you want
to know, what is the nature of this happiness, we don't
understand, you don't understand what is this hedaya You don't get
it. One of the examples that they give is to look at the life and
the state of a child.
The state of a child, the state of a child is always in happiness.
Okay? The state of a child is just carefree. The shade of a child,
there is no ego, there is no dunya there's no knifes, they don't
children don't have envy, like I'm talking three and four years old.
They don't have envy. They don't have all these things. They're
pure, they're happy. Okay, and this is what we got to be looking
at. If someone doesn't have a clue. What is this state that
we're talking about? What is this guidance? Right? It's freedom from
these shackles of sins sins, our shackles keeping us down? Don't
you want to be free from them? Right.
So this is what this state of EDA is all about.
And then we look at Dalian he look at how they lead their lives. How
are they mountains like this? They're not, you know, faltering
one way or the other.
And they're the most happy of people.
Okay, now to the hikma of page 123, on time, and its importance,
ma'am, and never listened to the INLA aka the room fee on the
basically, the summary of this is Every Breath You Take you lose
part of your life.
Every time you inhale and exhale, part of your life is God. Okay? So
ask yourself what part of my life just went?
Every time you breathe in and out? What part of your life just
disappeared? Okay, what are you doing at that moment? Okay, and
every action that you are doing, you should be able to justify it
with knowledge from the religious law, okay. Or some
even your level, we have a couple of things you have level n.
And GID. You have three categories. Gender, of course
means seriousness, that which is beneficial that which is real.
Okay, then you have less live and low. And then what's the other
one?
Yeah, live. Live
is something that is not real, but is building characteristics needed
for what's real. So
for example, when kids are playing certain games, let's say kid is
playing a math game, right? Way back in the day, there was math
buckets, right? You got to answer the equation before the little
thing goes into the bucket. It's just a game, right? Or there's
Carmen Sandiego, geography, game, geography and general knowledge,
right? So these are all games, right? But we say this life has an
end. When you do this game a lot. You learn geography or you learn
math.
In certain sports that people do you learn victory, you learn loss,
you learn teamwork, you learn a lot of different things, or you
gain exercise so that it's meaningless in itself, but
secondarily, it has a benefit. This is live right? Now. What is
Level Level is a type that is meaningless in itself and is not
preparing you for anything else. It is not preparing you for
anything else. Like let's take a comparison between someone who
plays basketball. Well, you would learn a lot of lessons in
basketball. Firstly, you're even physically fit. Secondly, you're
learning teamwork. You're learning how to win How to Lose all these
things. You're learning a lot. Okay, versus some
One who is playing solitaire
it's just a game of meaninglessness, you don't learn
anything. And there is no benefit at all there. Okay, so it's
complete waste of time. This is a bribe and level now what is the
shot a difference live has a place live has a place live busy
learning things so a lot is should be removed
circumstance when you're doing level with your family as this is
the way to bond with one another okay
this is a way of bonding between one another okay? And sometimes
some families they don't get along so what do they do they have to do
some level together that's the only thing
okay low like watching TV together watching this Super Bowl because
you know TV turns out
two minutes of fights gonna break out so the TV on right then no
fighting is gonna happen. So unfortunately but law or the
prophets I seldom said with your family is the only time that Allah
azza wa jal doesn't mind you doing low okay if this is the way to get
your family to be happy together and of course no human beings all
need downtime. So to do this with your family is accepted to do it
outside your family and your friends is accepted.
Judas seriousness that which is real
Okay, next one is
every state has a heart
Okay? Liquid government God right?
For every state that you're in, okay, it has a hop. Alright being
in the masjid is not like being at work. Being at work is not like
being with your family. Being with your family is not like being with
your parents said so on and so forth. Everything is different.
Everything has a hawk. People have to know what is this the hawk?
What is the role of a man in his household? What is the role of the
prophets I sell him in his household? Kindness of Allah one
day he was sending him there in the few minutes
that the prophets I send them in his household. His sunnah is that
he takes the role of a servant
of his family. Okay.
And the children take the servant of the parents the role of
servants to the parents. So the prophets I seldom he is serving if
he's in the house of that Isha even though he's much older than
her, and he's the Prophet sighs I insurance. How is the Prophet when
he's with you in the home? He says he takes the role as if he is a
servant, cooking the bread sweeping the floor, mending shoes,
etc. Okay, lifting crumbs off the floor. This is the how the Prophet
spent his time as a default setting with his family. Okay.
And the children in the family are also servants to the parents.
Okay.
So every position that you have, you have to know the Sunnah of
action in that position, and you cannot waste time. Right? Do not
waste time. wastage of time is one of the biggest Cardinal issues
that a number of his early talks about and having to solve talks
about all the time. Every breath that you take, you have to ask
what position on my end and what is the hub of that position? If
you're sick, the hub is Southern. Right? Rebekah Sadiq made a big
distinction and honorable caught up. They made a big distance
between day and night. And welcome to Sydney said there is Iman for
Allah in the night not acceptable in the day and there is no love
today not acceptable at night. Okay and what does he mean by this
the daytime is for Hickmott and OMA service of the OMA and the
nighttime. It's for a bad of Allah. That we are not
workaholics. In America we have to know that America is not like the
rest of the world and usually the number one greatest country in the
world is a little bit different and it has a problem. We are all
workaholics. We are addicted to work if you are sitting down for
two minutes just relaxing
it's like something in the air will come and tell you you're
wasting time. Right if you're making something will come and
tell you you're wasting time. What should you be doing something
economic something that was productive, something that is
going to get you a raise something that's good for your resume. The
drive is all materialistic for work? Well, a robocall gives us a
ruling Workers for the day. In general of course sorted them
resemble tells us that Allah knows some workers at night, but in
general workers for the day and what's that night
As for Allah,
that means there should be a time where everything shuts off. And it
used to be the normal. If you left the office a lot you can't write
unless you bring a file home with you. But now, it could be Sunday
to end and you could be in your bedroom. But with technology, you
could be doing work. You could be checking emails, you could be
doing work. While we know we have guidance, we have to shut this
down. Okay, work has a time. And what is a bucket? What did he
consider work?
The highest religious work
is to be the Khalifa. Is there any function in this society better
than to be the Khalifa of the Messenger of Allah? I mean, it's
greater than being a brain surgeon, greater than being a
heart surgeon. You're the Khalifa of Rasul Allah. And yet he tells
us there is a job, it's to be done in the day. It's not acceptable to
do it at night. And a night is not acceptable if you do it in the
day. Okay. All right.
Of course, we all know his story. He was asked he is the second
Felipa he is the SEC prior to the death of the prophets Rule The
Omen. Okay.
When do you sleep? He says the cannula of the night of the
afternoon. Well, why don't you sleep at night? How can I sleep at
night when there's the hack of Allah? Right? And then they say
Why don't you do it in the day? He said how can I do it in the day
it's the hack of the bed. It's the right for the servants of Allah
for me to serve as their Khalifa but when the night falls they
don't have the right for that anymore. It's Allah's time
and this is why they said for Sanam dinar would have been
delayed. Okay, the salah for described as soldiers by day monks
by night, we cannot have an imbalance, you don't want to be
one of these people who are filled with anxiety because they're
overworked. Nor do you want to be from those who made the opposite
mistake and became monks by night and month by day, and you end up
unemployed
and useless. And what do these people do? They end up having a
reaction towards religion, because five years later, he's an
unemployed guy, and all of his friends are in medical school
married
and he's unemployed. Why he misplaced everything. He became a
failure in life. So now what does he do? He turns and he rebels
against the cause that made him realize that he's a failure in
life. We have to be balanced. There's a time for a bad and
there's a time for work. And there's a time for these things to
be shut down. Most of the youth today they're suffering anxiety,
because there have no limits. They have no limits on their
technology. There is no limit on their technology. And recently, if
you heard the news, a boy, his grandma was waking him up.
Everyone heard this story. His grandma woke them up for school.
So he got so angry with her. She couldn't get him up. The mom came
and they both couldn't get them. The boy up. He got so angry, he
walked him, marched up, got his gun and shot them all.
But he was so sleepy, he shot them and didn't get the heart. He
didn't get any mortal wounds. They all were hospitalized and they're
fine, they're alive. But he shot everyone in his household because
of the how they will come up. So people are like, what kind of
insanity is this? Well, one psychiatrist is saying, believe it
or not, okay, this sounds crazy. But you can be sleep deprived. So
regularly on such a regular basis, you can actually behave this way
you can be crazy. And I'm telling you, these kids are now sleeping
at 234 in the morning, gaming. Okay, gaming and being online. on
a consistent basis. Just do it for four or five days, nine days in a
row. You're gonna be crazy. You're gonna do something crazy. Okay?
Either you become one of those who sleeps all day and games all
night. Complete the beat.
Okay? If these kids have to go to school the next day, right? You
got to wake up the next day. You're not going to be right. And
this is one of the ways that shaytaan is getting us at the
level of our sleep. And this is not a big if this was not a big
deal. If someone says it doesn't matter when you sleep as long as
you sleep your eight hours or fiber. No, it's important when you
sleep Allah azza wa jal would not have revealed verses of Quran on
this matter. Verses of Quran
John and Mahara, Masha Jana Leilani Versa, with John John and
Leila Sugata. Multiple versus saying night is meant for
sleeping, right gay is meant for living multiple verses. Allah does
not reveal anything except that it is
a
are important. And he doesn't name a sort of except the subject
matter is important. So that's a lane, right switch lane, there's a
so called nighttime, nighttime has its Huck. So by having a type of
clock, it would make much more sense to me if this 12 hour clock
was 24 hours. So you could actually pinpoint right from this
block of time I'm doing this, this block of time I'm doing this, this
block of time doing this. Generally speaking, we're not too
rigid. You can't be too rigid. You're human. Human beings can't
be too rigid. Generally speaking, there's certain blocks of time for
certain things, okay. And if you move one block of time, you must
move the rest. But you can stay up late, and then keep your phones or
routine can work. If you have a routine of friends that I wake up
I prefetching. And I do this after fajr this Decker after fajr. Okay,
if you stay up late, you're not doing that. You're gonna miss it.
Okay, you've got to have a general blockage of time. And our general
summer is evening and what did they call night?
The night the prelude to the night begins after awesome, believe it
or not, after awesome they start preparing for the night. Because
we're humans, right? You can't have a on off button. So you need
a gray area. So the gray area
that's turning into night comes after the onset of prayer. Once
you pray also, in your mind, you should start unwinding everything.
Then from Asia, after Salah to Asia is the time when you start
readying yourself for sleep. Right? And then how do you know
when the date when you start up February? Right around February
time and then give it we have feathered although it's a shock to
Baltan it's going to be a mix between fragile sulla maybe you
get up for work. Maybe you rest, right? Okay, so this is how we
end this thing is like it's not some cockamamie 12 step system
where some cortical expert comes and gives you a detailed list at
705 do this. No, that never works. Right? What Works is what is
simple. If the sun's up this day, the sun's down it's night. If I
say comes, the sun is setting prepare, you can't just stop what
you're doing. You have to prepare to wind everything down, like stop
initiating calls, stop initiating texts. Stop initiating work. After
officer.
Right? Okay, then when it's time, then you can notice shut it down.
And then when do you start it up again when you have to. So that's
where you gotta go. Right? That's when you initiate him run the
motor up again. Okay.
So this is how we operate things by the prayer times. And by the
day and the night knowing that Quran was revealed on this. We
have made the day for living and the night for sleeping. Right.
We'll take the q&a Write them down, we'll take them before we
end today.
We are defended Anika Aktau can we'll do the Medaka Tila who Shima
who I am okay, McAfee do not look forward to bring being free.
Okay, from anything. Okay. For that is indeed what cuts you off
from vigilant attention to him in that very state he has assigned to
you. So one of the things that he's saying is that he's saying
here is that
don't look forward to the end of something. Because that is a
distraction from what you're supposed to be doing now. Okay.
Don't look forward to that. We are actually a people of
the SOFIA tend to be against multitasking.
They like things to be pure. Right? Which amount of people
multitask a lot, right? But we like things to be pure. If you're
doing a job focus on that job. If you're taking a class focus on
that class, if you're doing talking to someone what did the
son of the Prophet when he talked to someone he didn't look left or
right he didn't do something while talking to someone. Whenever the
private talks someone he turned his all chest facing that person
and talk until they finished. And he never looked around. fidgeted
right, showed that he doesn't want to be there or has done ever
anything like this, right. So we're a type of people who are not
really supportive, multitasking is not giving the hub the do of that
thing. Right. You need to get everything it's do
so
Do not look forward to the end of something, because that is a
distraction from what you're supposed to be doing now. And you
don't know. What you're supposed to be doing now is your fatigue
can come from there, your benefit, and your opening can come from
that, even if that's being sick, being in debt or being in a bad
relationship, being in whatever, know that Allah has put you in
this situation, accept it, and work at it now. Until Allah
relieves.
Some people are in a bad relationship. Some people don't
get along with their grandparent or their mom or dad. You don't sit
there. Oh, can we turn 21? Again? Wait, don't 24 Right. No, it's
gonna happen anyway. No one's gonna stop time. Just give the
hug. have supper now. Okay, and don't keep looking at the clock. I
mean, you look at jobs, some jobs, you got to look at the clock,
okay? It's not moving, the more you look, the slower it moves.
Just do what you have to do now. And you never know, you may
discover a way to actually enjoy the state that you're in.
Prisoners are like this. Prison prisoner. If you ask about
prisoners, the worst time is when they're still in trial.
And they don't know what their fate is going to be. Because they
keep thinking, well, they're not gonna let me get out. Will they
not get out? But when does he actually settle and his heart
settles and he becomes in a routine when he's sentenced. When
your sentence class, they have no choice. So I'm here, now that I'm
here, now I can make a life for myself. Like all the last year
there was a report or whatever program on I'd like to say it
from Baltimore. And he's in jail. Right? He's like, I have a life
for myself. Actually. He said this podcast has actually disturbed my
Rypien because now you gotta be thinking of getting out. I was had
no hope. So I created a little life for myself here. Right? So
this is how you have to be if you're in a state, you got to just
be in that state and try to work it you know, have severed and see
what kind of benefit you can have in that state. Don't say I can't
wait till it's over.
Man Allah Allah wa judul Ferrari in the row, Nitin nefs.
postponing your deeds until you are free is one of the tricks of
the knifes
postponing your this is why we do in the vicco. We do this exercise
that imagine yourself that you are like you're on your deathbed.
Another meditation, imagine yourself, you've retired, your
kids are grown up and left the house, you are retired 67 year old
men? How do you want to spend your time? How do you want to spend the
last two years of your life? What do you want to do? The answer to
that question is what you should be doing now? Right? And
everything else is merely what you have to do now. So I have to go to
work, right? I have to take care of my responsibilities. But what
you really
would want yourself to be doing in the last two years of your life is
what you should be doing in your free time now and empty your heart
of everything else. I mean, what is the point of anything? If you
are willing to throw it out on your deathbed?
If I'm willing to throw it out on my deathbed, right? That's the
only thing that's important. And so men, how do you how do we all
answer this question, we all answer this question. I hope I
want to die with an empty heart from dunya. I don't want to have
dunya in my heart. I don't want to have 1000 bank accounts. I don't
want to have headaches of all the wealth that I've amassed. I don't
want to have
be chasing some material goal, or I don't want to care about release
my reputation.
Are you going to be dying? Are you deathbed and worrying what people
think about you? You're not gonna write, you're thinking about one
thing what have I done for Allah? Now it's my time to be with Allah.
And you're going to start realizing oh my gosh, I don't I
don't know Allah. I've never given this time. I've never given any
effort to the subject. Right? I don't know Allah. I wish I can go
back 30 years and start over. Then I wouldn't be chasing the company.
I wouldn't be chasing this chasing that. Okay. Chasing while chasing
right?
This vehicle remotes Okay.
Tells you what you need.
and slowly when you increase and do this, the gap between what
comes to your mind when you do the good votes and what you're
actually living, that gap slowly shrinks, slowly shrinks until you
finally attain that, that you could die right now because I'm
actually fulfilled. I'm doing what I would want to die upon. This is
very important. This decode mode is very important. And this
procrastination. postponement is a huge trick from Shaytaan because
you're postponing you don't even know when you're gonna die. Right?
You don't know when you're gonna die. When was the last Sonata
Janaza we had in this semester.
Didn't remember who it was.
It was I believe, Alex, who was one with me.
Maybe Shaban went with me. Young man.
Not even 30 years old. Muslim men, not even 30 years old. Okay. He's
it. That was the last one as we did here. Okay.
How about
copper Ramadan's ago to the janazah for 37 year olds. Okay. So
there's no you don't know when you're gonna go. And there's just
it's a trick of shaitan that say, okay, when you get old because
here's the problem. When you get old, you're stuck in your habits,
you can't teach an old dog new tricks, you're stuck in your
habits. Number two, you're tired, you're gonna be exhausted. You're
physically unfit. Now you're physically fit. So you need to do
what you how you want to do now what you want to do now. And if
you can do it 100% At least carve out part of the day. So visualize
yourself that in part of the day, you are a seven year old man
that's about to die even if you do this for one hour of the day,
right.
We find we benefit from it and everything will change.
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it is possible to fulfill some obligations at times, but it is
impossible to fill the obligations of every moment for there is no
moment wherein Allah does not hold against you a new obligation or a
definite matter. So how can you fulfill someone else's obligation
when you have not fulfilled a loss
by Mr break
there are two kinds of obligations upon the servant
The first is worship the rights of Allah at fixed time such as
praying and fasting if you do not discharge these okay
it is possible to do them as cover up you can make up prayer you can
make up some the second obligation concerns time okay, but these
obligations are at every moment and there is no separate fixed set
out time if you miss this moment you can never get it back. If you
miss this moment, you can never get it back. Unlike Ramadan if I
travel Ramadan I got sick I couldn't make it up. But if I get
if I waste time, now if I waste my free time and my health now you
cannot make that up okay, you can make up everything else except the
wastage of time.
Okay.
The states of the human beings are of
14 types. You are either in Nana or mo sebum. You're either
receiving blessings from Allah or you are losing blessings from
Allah okay.
Or you are in obedience or you are in sin. Okay.
If you are in namah
if you're in Namur, you should be given sugar.
If you are in masivo, you should be giving sobro if you are in
thaw, likewise, you should be given sugar. And if you are in
Maaseiah, you should be giving Tober I would differentiate it I
would say if you are in NEMA, you should be giving sadaqa if you are
being blessed, you need to give out if you're healthy. You need to
do something beneficial with your body. Don't just serve yourself.
Well like we have a such a self serving culture. Right, such as
self serving culture, if you're doing if you're in a state of
health
You need to be serving others. If you have more knowledge, then you
should be passing it on. If you have more wealth, you should be
investing for someone else to benefit if or donating. If you are
in a state of
physically, you can help people use your body for that reason.
Okay? If you're, you have resources at your fingertips, use
those resources for others. If you're in namah, you should be
doing setup. If you are in masiva, you should be doing several
patients if you're being struck, if you're sick, if you're poor,
have patience. If you're in a bad situation, your job is to have
patience, you cannot have patience later, you need to have patience.
Now, you can make it up. If you are in a state of obedience, you
should be giving sugar.
And if you are in the state of disobedience, you should be making
Toba okay.
It is imperative that the servant observes the obligations of time
at every breath, he should be mindful of this duty. It is for
this reason that the righteous scholars have said a Sufi abnormal
works or Ebenen works. In other words, he is perpetually
perpetually engrossed in the discharge of the obligation of
this moment. Right of this moment, okay. This is another thing that
called our culture is totally a global culture, global world
culture is really messed up in I mean, nobody everyone has any
people are not engrossed in the moment that they're in. Right?
No one's it goes to the moment that they're in.
This is something totally lost. We're either busy recording it so
much that we're not even enjoying it. Right? We're either recording
it, that we're not even enjoying it. We really got to get our
selves under control here. The the internet technology is a wild wild
west. And it's been running without rules for 10 years, 15
years, we need to start reining it in and having some giving it some
some rules, right? giving it some legislation. Okay.
You can't find people are in the moment anymore. No one's in the
moment. You either you ruin the moment by trying to record the
moment he wrote, right? He wrote the moment by trying to record the
moment
or you're not finding any benefit in immediate satisfaction in this
moment. So it records down to the mobile phone, right.
So this is,
as you see here has
two more segments we'll do and we'll finish this chapter. This
issue of timing, math, ultimate America, Allah, Allah masala laka
Manu, Lottie Matala,
the point of view like that has gone by is irreplaceable. And that
which has arrived is priceless, okay? can't put a price on it. No
compensation can ever be offered for man's time that has expired.
Therefore, the time that one obtains at present is priceless,
the entire earth with all its possessions cannot buy, a moment
that has passed, which has the potential to bring everlasting
happiness for the one who uses his time wisely. It is precisely for
this reason that the pious predecessors treasured their
breathing, taking a constant reckoning of every breath, never
would they destroy a single moment. According to a hadith, the
moment that a servant spends in forgetfulness will be a cause of
regret for him. But at that time in the future, once he has passed
away, remorse will be of no avail.
One of the things that they say is today,
your your state today is a result of how you use your time in the
past, okay. And so therefore, your future is not going to be by
planning for it is by what you were doing now. Right? How you're
making use of your time now is going to indicate your future.
Takes off. Forget someone who's so young, they don't understand that
they haven't had the chance to live yet. Let's take a 40 year old
men,
a 40 year old man.
What is his state today with his job, his wife and his kids? It is
all dependent upon what he did in the past decade. If he worked hard
and neglected his kids, he's gonna have a good job. No relationship
with his kids. Right? If he was mean and nasty to his wife, he
shouldn't expect
It's a pleasant marriage, right? Whatever you have now, it is only
a result of your yesterday's all of your yesterday moments
compiled. So the intelligent person he doesn't think sit there
being worried about tomorrow or being sad about the past. He
should be doing something useful today. something of value today
and the last week about the aquarium looking at the Danny and
I'm gonna show the lead from mulata. What the lake what a Pilla
well if epoka from mulata it will be disappointing, very
disappointing.
Huge regret. If you find yourself free from distractions, then you
do not use your time for saloon towards Allah azza wa jal and if
you have if you were to have a few obstacles that not move on to him.
Basically, he's saying the worst and the biggest fool amongst the
people, is someone who has free time. He's got free time, and he
doesn't use it for yourself.
This is the biggest fool. biggest fool. There's a room on Yama,
Yama, there is a place a space for the Shabaab the youth
who use their time their free time and saloon and a Baghdad of Allah
azza wa jal, there's a special place and there are many from the
venue. And there are even more from the owner of Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam when everyone's suffering on europium,
they will be ushered in a special room, they will be ushered in a
special place in which they can pray and they could wait and
receive their does that the reward? Okay, they will be made up
again.
Everyone has yomo in Jana is 33. We know that but in Yolo, the AMA,
you will rise up in your best of states or your worst of state so
your best of state if your best moment was that time, your whole
life.
someone's entire life trajectory is based on what he did from the
age of 15 to 25. And mashallah, we have some people studying the zikr
don't tahajjud avoiding wrong from the age of 15 to 25. Every good
that he does afterwards is due to this investment that he put in the
age of 15 to 25. And that's why Allah will resurrect them as
youth.
He will resurrect them as you because that was where you the
game was over. You won the game in the first inning. You don't need
to show the highlights of the ninth inning. Right. You won the
game 11 Three, but you scored eight ones in the first inning.
All you need to talk about is the first inning everything else
doesn't matter. Right. It's all the results of the first inning.
Okay? Likewise mashallah the Shabbat and some are the opposite.
Some are the opposite failures in life. Oh, the biller last. Don't
be a failure in life, right? You and we know what to do force
yourself to do it that as Oh Allah make me sincere if I have doubts,
ask Allah to remove them if I have shakiness, so as collateral
moving, you think about not in control of your heart, you must
not believe in Allah. Right if I have shakiness. I ask a lot remove
the shakiness. If I have, I'm confused, I don't know what to do.
Ask Allah to remove it and spend your youth serving, the youth
should be divided into a couple parts.
Couple parts, if you have someone that Shabbat in their youth,
they're
even giving one quarter of their time to Allah. This is huge, huge.
Okay. humongous. But if you have youth who are lost, you have to we
have to make dua for them. We have to make a big draw for them. And
you don't know though you don't know when things are going to turn
around because we have like, and we'll close with this. Like, you
got
a type of like, old back in the olden days. If they wanted to
fling a rock. What did they do? They took a rock. They put it in
the rock a rubber band, they pull it all the way back then they let
go. Some people this is their trajectory that they're going to
regress regress, regress, regress, but they don't realize that that
regress is going to lead to something great. All right, they
keep regressing for a wisdom Allah knows that some people need to be
in darkness before they can appreciate the light. Other people
immediately attracted to the light. So though as a judgment
when you see someone regressing because even his regress may be
his way to
Progress. Everyone's different, like a cheetah can run fast. A
slingshot is also fast. The cheetah doesn't need to go
backwards, right? But the slingshot needs to go backwards in
order to go forward. The cheetah doesn't do that. Right? So don't
pass a jump but however, the youth have to take the give their time
to Allah azza wa jal and
if your parents are sort of dragging you then you should be
grateful because at least you have good habits. At least you have
good habits and you're not doing something bad. Alright, so this
was a chapter on time and this being the first of the month we
are dividing it back again so shut after our break and Salah chef a
fit Hanafy
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