Shadee Elmasry – Hikam Class #8
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The speakers emphasize the importance of protecting one's privacy and shaping their sexuality in religion. They stress the need for self expression and bringing out one's actions in relation to the physical body, setting goals and boundaries to avoid regretting one's actions, and discussing the dysfunctional experiences of single parents and how they may affect society. They also touch on the topic of the Big Bang and how it is a result of the beginning of the universe, and the importance of shaping and inspiration in shaping society.
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we are on page 112.
And we're about to finish the section on original prayer.
One of the things that we talked about is that the greatest
that a man can do is his salah, and the greatest of Salah
is the forum
for
the greatest Salah that a person can do is is obligatory
and the obligatory prayer we keep narrowing it down, that is most
difficult. And the most indicative sign of Amen
is which prayer.
Because the whenever theme,
their attribute is that they do not concern themselves with
federal prayer. This is the attribute of Hippocrates. Why
there's no credit or glory or reputation, or dunya in federal
prayer in the masjid.
But there are a lot of rewards
for other prayers. So what we mean by rewards is worldly things. For
example, if you show up to Asia, there's a crowd there. There's a
scene there people
show for mugging up same thing.
You're going to be seen Federer, it's an in and out people are not
talking people are not socializing. And in the time of
the province I set up it was actually dark. The Sahaba lived in
such a rudimentary period of time. Such a basic period of time that
they did not even light up buildings back in the day. Public
buildings like the message it was not even lit up. It came later in
the time of American football. That as a hobby, okay. The Sahabi
came up with an idea to put lamps, oil lamps in the mosque. And that
is how he received the nickname to me with dad, which means the
lighter of the homes, he lit up the the the message and he put oil
lamps in the mosque.
He was the first one to do this. So they used to pray federal
prayer in the dark, pretty much. And by the time you were arriving
home, the sun is coming up. No federal prayer as well as
there are ranks to fetcher. crip fetcher prayer by yourself is
accepted and excellent. But if you can hear the event,
you're obligated to go pray there.
Okay, if you can hear that. Now, how can you hear that? By voice
not by amplification amplifying you can get really far. But if you
can hear the event within voice shot, it is wedge of your prayer
in your home for no excuse
is not accepted.
So if I'm sitting and by voice shot or the same distance that is
which, okay, I hear the event and I ignore it. And I pray in my
house.
This Allah inside of Allah is not accepted. Why once if you can hear
the call of the other, okay?
You must answer the call by God. Again, this is by voice shock. If
someone uses amplification, then it may be so far that it's not
necessary if it's too far, okay.
So this is why the event is important. This is something
possible in the Islamic countries now, otherwise, it is highly
recommended for the males to go pray Fajr in the masjid. Okay,
then this is the greatest type of a better because we said it's
obligatory and of what matters the salah Okay, and what Salah is
specific, federal, and where which way to do Fajr in the messenger
Now Federal Domestic for women is not prohibited. Some people think
it's prohibited for women to come for Federal Domestic it's like
crazy. No the prophesy seven said it is. And this is an example in
which you need to know your Sierra. People don't know this and
don't know that the Hadith of the prophets I send them the prophets
I send them said the best Salah a woman is in her house, right? But
the women at the time of the Prophet until the time of Abu Bakr
and Omar Al Fatah used to pray in the masjid, we notice. So what
happened there? They found that they love praying feathering the
Masjid. So despite this hadith, even though the Prophet said he
did not rigorously push the sisters to pray at home, because
in his entire life, they prayed in the masjid, it would indicate to
us that this hadith has to do with certain situations. Okay, certain
situations, such where the situation is that there is fitna
then it's better for her to stay in her home. Because what are we
going to say that about is he wasn't obeying the Prophet Hafsa
wasn't obeying the Prophet, all of the women's Sahaba were attending
Phaedra in the masjid. And this hadith was said so therefore we
have there has to be a reason for that hadith, right? It wasn't a
rigorous teaching. To say women do not come to the masjid go pray in
your home, even in the time of all material. hottub right. His wife
was praying in the masjid. And all marble hilltop stood and said, We
don't want women praying in the restaurant. Then the wife of all
marble, Khattab said you cannot prohibit something that we used to
do in the time of the Prophet. So she continued to go. So you
continue to go and there is a little bit more to the story, but
we'll discuss that another time. But this is the main idea is that
is headin has a reason behind when there is some matter of fitna when
there is some view that it is inappropriate. For example, if you
have a small village,
it's not going to upset you if you have your daughter or your wife
walking in the dark to the masjid. But once that village expands, and
now we have strangers in the village, we don't know these
people are in our city, then we will say yeah, we have a problem
with women walking at night. They can be in the dark, they can be
aggressed upon. So there's a reason. So you see how in the
beginning of that time in Medina, there were such few people, that
it wasn't a problem for the women to be walking in the dark to the
masjid. But once it expanded and became many, many people coming in
from different parts to come and learn their Deen it became a
problem at all model we said this is not appropriate anymore itself
walk into the masjid, you're gonna be aggressed upon, and it's not
right. Okay, so it's all about this and that even shiksa like
taught us the Hadith of the prophets is that a woman should
not travel the amount of time of one day without a motto. So I
asked her ecstatic about this, he said it is with the island, it has
a reason. And the reason is safety. Namely, she should not
travel a distance of one day by herself. Because after that, if
she's in danger, she's in trouble.
So he's in a situation now that a woman must travel for some period
of time if she can be completely in this position of safety the
whole time. Okay. That's what's important is the issue is safety.
And likewise, the issue of women praying fetcher in the masjid or
praying in the masjid in general. Okay, well, Allah and the cultures
are achieved that and people imagine it's how well Allah they
think is haram for a woman to be praying in the masjid. Right. Some
cultures are like this. No, the province I sent him said this, and
because we know he said it, but he allowed the woman to keep doing
it. Okay. And then when Omar saw that the population had changed.
Okay, then he stopped it, okay. And he implemented this hadith for
them. We now know that the reason and when is prayer for a woman
better in her house is when it is inappropriate or harmful for her
to go out. Okay, unsafe.
Okay, just to break this myth that is like haram for women to be in
the messenger comprehend federal messenger is insane.
It's really bizarre. They were doing all the way through the time
of overbooking into the time of Omar and even some women didn't
even beyond them. And Omar couldn't stop that. Okay. So the
greatest a bad for a man is to try to prefetch in the masjid.
Right and you will notice that you are protected the rest of the day.
And it is the hardest thing about it. There's no credit
If there's what are you going to do? You can't show off with it.
You can't say anything. There's no showing off. It's between you and
Allah. And that moment when you're getting up, everything is dark.
And you're getting yourself ready and you're going down to the
masjid in your car or walking around however you go. There's so
much Baraka in that period of time you draw near to Allah azza wa
jal, every step that you take is every step that you take as a bad
is a Hassan adds and every other step is say Add to being removed.
Here is the next hikma.
ritual prayer
did we do this? What chapter we are
okay
I'm in America in
okay, we did that one.
And tougher raga Minnesota very similar to the one that we did
this. The big shame is that you have free time and don't turn
towards Allah azza wa jal, we talked about this. So now we're on
chapter seven,
invocation, vicar.
All of what we talked about is the prerequisites. And now as they
grow matured with AI, a very famous statement.
All of these prerequisites, sincerity, getting your Salah
correctly, knowledge and recognizing knowledge and
remember, we never get engaged in the treatment of Islam as a human
phenomenon. Academics shift as a family when he was here. He said
some Harvard graduate students came up to him and said, We want
you to teach us fifth. He said
he said why he says Were they they said we are studies in Islamic law
at the PhD program at Harvard. He said I do not teach fifth or
anything in religion except for spiritual motives. I don't teach
fifth just for you to study something human phenomenon or just
to study it for no reason. We are studying this to practice it to
the bias and this is the biggest problem between an academic slump
and when you have academics I wouldn't do it completely abolish
it, it should be practiced. Islam has to be practices right. It's
not a matter of just to be studied.
At Vikram now is the main course of the subject of the song
this is the everything else like we say feathering the message all
these other things they could
do is now the main course and why the shading gave all these
prerequisites. The without these matters is unacceptable and is no
it's yet it's acceptable. But it should lead you to this number one
knowledge Chapter Two repentance you have to understand the power
of repentance. Number three, Nicholas if the last number
sincerity number four, okay, Chapter Four was
the ritual prayer chapter five solitude. Solitude is very
important too. So, okay, and then number six was time not wasting
time now we give you the home run, which is thicker and the statement
that Vikram and should I have means thicker?
Is the handout of Willa I'm unsure is an advertisement. Like handing
out cards for a store or whatever mature is basically like an
advertisement or coupon book that you get in your in your mail. We
call that a mature anything that is bringing inviting you to take a
fast route to something else, or to get all the information to do
something that
is the main course of the soul. Okay, and it is the number one
deed that the soul brings that other books won't bring you
or other subjects won't bring.
Now let's see what he says. Again,
the first hikma here is how to handle failure indica. Remember,
we always talk about how to handle the negative right, how to handle
sins. How to fall the first hikma here, what do I do when I am
failing in the matter of okay, he says
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gra they are the name of luring Allah Allah Heafy you never leave
off vicar because you feel that it is not working or you feel that I
am not
getting closer to Allah or not changing you never leave vicar for
that reason.
Number one, we tell you do you think that anything valuable comes
quickly?
Do you think that anything deep appears automatically
everything takes time. Everything takes time.
Okay, everything takes time. Do not abandon your thinker because
you do not feel the presence of God there and someone is doing the
career doesn't feel anything. We tell you. What do you think this
is? Right. This is not a drive thru. You're going to get results
when you want it. Allah is not an on demand God.
He works at his pace. And you wait. This is the De
Leon reflets account will do the decree sentiment of latika field.
Why should you not leave vicar because you don't feel lost
presence? Because the absence of liquor is worse
than heedlessness inside of.
So okay, you don't feel lost presence in the liquor store
leaving? All right, leaving it to do what?
What are you doing now?
Now you're watching TV. So what was better, someone failing and
vicar or someone not doing the Gretel you better off to be
failing, right? And even the donkey is gonna get it right
eventually. If you give a donkey a job, he's going to fail and fail
and fail and eventually we'll get it right.
You're going to be better than a donkey. You're going to keep
failing and thicker and failing and failing. Someday you're gonna
get it right.
So as a frog, I mean indicative that I will do the Rattler,
dickory mouth video. So it is just a matter of time between from when
you are heedless and vigor to when you are aware. And that means
namely that your ticket is failing to your liquor succeeding it's
just a matter of time. That's all it is. Just a matter of time. But
what time Allah is testing you. Allah azza wa jal remember what we
said last time about the path to Allah azza wa jal, there's only
one cardinal sin that isn't giving up. Right? Some people,
everyone, not some people, everyone must be tested. You must
be tested. You're going to be tested now or later. Guaranteed
you're going to be tested some people they just have such a hard
time getting going. That's their test. Other people get going
quickly. They don't know they're gonna have a test coming is not
there's no free way. Right? Okay. Let's look at say that we're
saying? We're saying there's a legend in Islam. We all know this.
Look at how he began when your grandfather is the prophet.
You got things pretty easy, right? When your father is it? When your
mother is false.
Zara, right.
I mean, what easier can how easy can it get right? Someone says Oh,
how's that even fair? How easy can it get? Okay? You think it's easy
because you're naive. The test will come now or later. Look at
how he died.
All right. You want your grandfather's the Prophet? Your
father? Is it your brother is Hasson? How about watching your
mother die young watching your father get killed stabbed in the
head than watching your brother getting poisoned than you yourself
getting killed? Now, would you like to be handsome?
Would you not now to switch with them? Yet as babies you would have
liked to be in their position, right? Growing up in the lap of
the Prophet peace be upon him. As a baby you would like to be him.
But you can pick and choose you have to take the whole thing and
look at his whole package. His whole package he got his test at
the end. Okay, God has tested them. Everyone would like to be
memorable karate, right? Celebrate. I mean writing books at
moonlight at the grave of the prophets. I said I mean what a
life a man who has done is spent his whole life traveling city to
city soaking up the knowledge of the morality.
Right? All right, yeah, you like that? We utilize it at the end
when he can't find a home when he's kicked out of summer months
kicked out of initial court kicked out of Bukhara kicked out of every
city he's going to be kicked out of his homeless. You don't like
that part, right. So we know that in this path is all there is going
to be tested in the beginning with
And if you have your tests at the beginning, we tell you, you are
lucky. Some people have doubts
or lie, some people have doubts. They can't even get their immense
solid. That's their test you are if you have your tests in the
beginning, we tell you, you are lucky, because it's going to be
smooth sailing until the end. And then you get your basically like,
as a medical degree, you just have to take relicense reamp every once
in a while with a test, but nothing will be harder than the
first one. So if you get your main tests at the beginning, you're
lucky. Now, some people Allah will test them by not giving them what
they asked for right away. Because again, your God is not on demand
God you wait until he wants to draw you near to him. The
guarantee is who tries will get who seeks will find that is the
guarantee when is up to Allah.
It's a 5050 deal. Ask you're going to receive but when it's up to
Allah. And this is why, again, they said the only cardinal sin
from which you can never survive and recover is quitting. We never
quit. Even if you go slow as a snail, but don't quit.
Women Vikram Mao would do the oppression in a diplomat what do
they do?
Now some people the vicar is now stages. Firstly, your tongue is
moving and nothing else is happening.
Secondly, your tongue is moving and your heart is enjoying it.
Thirdly, your tongue is moving and you enter into a situation in
which you feel and you are certain Allah is watching you and it's as
if you are with Allah azza wa jal.
It's as if you are with Allah azza wa jal This is go from the
governor to yet other to Hello,
woman decree mouth what do they do in a decree mouth do Divine Mercy
with God? Oma Dalek Allah Hibiya Aziz.
Your brother
or
your brother huddled right?
Although Allah azza wa jal you feel it is as if I'm sitting with
Allah, then driver is even greater, and that is that a person
is no longer even aware of his surroundings and has an
anniversary one time I believe it was hustling and bustling, maybe
we know. It was one of the debates actually.
Maybe it was Muhammad about or job whatever
it is in an IBD
his house was on fire while he was in Salah.
His house was on fire.
And the house was burning down. And then later he came out.
Then they said what what happens? How could you not hear? Right that
your house was on fire? He said by Allah I was in Salah when I
snapped out I thought the whole place was on fire.
This is a guy that literally not aware of his surroundings. This is
how deep the thicker can be. Okay. And in this case, he closes with
with Nick Alba Hibiya Aziz.
No one should say well, I will never attain such level and vicar.
Whoever says so quits and he doesn't attain it not because he
was correct but because he quit. Okay? Not because he was correctly
because he quit. And he's in these times. Allah azza wa jal shows
that
what no one else will see from the baby yet okay. That which is more
of a via Allah azza wa jal shows that these things what happens
when we draw near to Allah
and away from the dunya
people want to know what happens. All right, very simple question.
This is very simple. What happens when to when one loves another and
this is of course Allah when Allah method Inanna right? We're not
there's no perfect metaphor with Allah. But we can use metaphors,
allegories, when two people love one another. What do they do? They
start sharing
more information with them. You start sharing more knowledge with
you start showing them more stuff. If someone you love came to New
York City, what are you going to do?
You can show him around because it let me show you this. I want to
show you this. I want to show you this. Why? The more stuff you show
him, the more he's gonna love you. And because you
You love him. He wants to show him. That's just the nature of
relationship. You want to show him more stuff.
So the only one Allah decides that he loves only
now he starts to show him more stuff of His creation.
He starts showing in his creation, and he starts showing him his
creation. He doesn't have to take him away. He doesn't have to take
him. Let me show you. He's not showing him of the earthly things.
So you have the other worldly things. And this he shows him in
the Apollo or in different ways, however, Allah wishes to show him
okay, but there are so many keramas to the Olia.
Wilaya
is a path that is formal. We know what it takes to get there. But
Allah azza wa jal says, When I love the
prophets, I seldom said when Allah loves a habit that means when
someone has strived that strive and strive to strive and reaches
the level of Wynia This is not a fuzzy thing. It is a formal thing
that I have below Upton
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Ember, I love so so now you must love him. For you, boo Gibreel
while you're near the end of summer Yeah, let's not lie, you're
a boo, boo, boo server somewhere you're doing a feeler and an art
and a hippo fallen for you dollar level cupola.
This hadith is regarding the announcement of a person's when,
when I
when you get a doctor, when you become a medical doctor, you don't
gradually become a medical doctor. You finish your exams. You wake up
one day in the spring, you show up at the thing.
The guy gives you the certificate. At that moment you become a doctor
before if you died and you never showed up You're not a doctor if
you get sick and you never show up to graduation, so at that moment
you become a doctor Wilaya is not a fuzzy thing. It is a formal
thing in the heavens, okay? And which Allah azza wa jal announces
to intervene. I love so and so now he's a wedding.
When you are a wedding, what is the difference between a Walkman
and only a movement, he has a pope and he has guarantees that he will
eventually go to gender, that Allah azza wa jal will eventually
enter his prayers in this life with the next that he has approved
amongst the Muslims.
When he has greater Hakuho from Allah, He has greater rights now,
what are his rights? That is local, we will immediately be
answered
that if he needs protection, it will come to him immediately.
That
if he is fought, if anyone has enmity to him, okay.
Allah takes over. If I'm a believer, you're a believer.
We're,
if you're if I'm a believer, and there's a guy bothering me, right?
Then whatever happens happens, right?
I have to defend myself. Okay. Unless I'm oppressed and Allah
gets involved. But if someone
has animosity towards a well me, okay?
Allah gets involved and Allah azza wa jal will make sure that that
person
gets reprimanded for punished. Okay, sometimes there used to be a
shift named that heavy Batman my school had had that the Batman
machine had that he is from the hubbub of Yemen, but he used to
live in between gender and East Africa. And there was a man who
abused
so have you ever matured, he went around?
Okay, he went around, yelling at the man abusing the man back. So
they said, Why don't you leave the matter for Allah azza wa jal.
Right. And we know your position. He said, that's the whole point. I
am trying to take care of this and ended now because I don't want to
love to handle this man, because I actually liked the men a little
bit.
It was his former landlord. Right? And the landlord, can we rent Mr.
Hyde that fix the house?
So the landlord said, Oh, you fix the house, raise the rent. Instead
of thanking him and giving him a discount. He raised the rent.
So even though Have you ever had that kept going after him? Right?
And they said, Why don't you leave them alone alone, take care
because I don't want to take care of I want to take care of it
because I don't want it. Well, with Juliet. Sometimes that
doesn't work. And that that man ended up losing his business and
becoming broken and he ended up being homeless.
To
man either legally and for Canada to Ricardo. If Allah azza wa jal
if you have animosity towards a wealthy, okay, then Allah we just
want it doesn't matter. Okay? It doesn't matter. Remember, the or
older Imam had that he said something the opposite he said,
I'm just I found out I found that if I talked badly about someone
and I fight back and I argue back then Allah azza wa jal leaves. But
if I stay silent, then that person gets punished.
When people have animosity towards him, this is when
now the question is asked, Can a person know that he or she is
oily?
And the answer is yes. How was the answer? Yes. Mm hmm. No way to add
the Zadie of them said yes. How is that? Yes, very simple. Don't we
have Sahaba mono there
aren't the Sahaba Roboshot in with Jana. Our background Omar Ottoman
Dylan was given Bushra that he is going to go to Jana, Hassan and
Hussein before they even reach Balu. They knew they're going to
gender? And is anyone going to contest that they weren't Elia
greater than anyone he after them? Of course. So a person may not. So
now remember no asked, well, how will it be avoided? Someone asks
me know how can we avoid now if he learns that he is our lead? by
some means, usually through your dream?
Then how will we know he doesn't relax in the religion?
He won't relax in the religion. So just relax. Now I'm already here
and I could just relax. He said if someone does that he's not going
to be worrying in the first place. Because the number one point in
Arpita that is Cofer is an endometrium to feel secure from
the threats of Allah azza wa jal
and we've worked with us to do that. If I have my right foot in
paradise and my left is outside I'm not secure. So both are inside
paradise, then I can relax. Okay.
So number one is not going to do that. Number two, it is that
person who's asking the question is assuming fear of * is the
only motive for a moment no.
who attains Wilaya he attains when I when fear is not the main motive
that drives him anymore when love is his main motive? Right when
love is his main motive at that point, fear and hope even if
they're nullified, he will still keep doing it better. This is why
Robin Adaware she said I have a bucket of water for anyone afraid
of * and I have a fire for anyone desiring paradise. Why
she's saying this when we are supposed to in religion fear help
and desire the garden. Even the great onea they simulated right
they simulated us Allah told you to fear * and the desire the
garden you have to do that. You can no one present hamdulillah
I've reached the point of your health. This is covered. I reach a
point out of desire perilous. Your life You haven't even seen it.
Right? Okay.
So this is covered to Who are you not desired paradise in the
province I sent him said I saw some fire of * and I stepped
back and I saw a grape of paradise and I wanted it you're better than
the Prophet. Right? So you have to, but it is not their motive.
They reach the motive that they have a greater motive that they
love the deen they love everything about it. Okay, and this is Les
minhwa Takahata they're cool could Khun however Tibetan imagine.
You're not going to complete your aemet until your desires are in
accordance with what I have brought. That means his most
beloved moment would be to have Julian fetcher write. It wouldn't
say really Secretly, I love having, you know, coffee and
staying up watching TV and two in the morning, secretly. That's what
he really loves. No, you would really be at the point that I
don't really want that at all. I don't like that. I don't like the
consequences of that. And some people have to try and taste it.
And then they learn some people. That's how they are. They're
curious. But the problem with curiosity, there's a problem and
benefit to people who are just so curious. There are some people out
there, they're just so curious. They need to know everything. So
they go and they try everything. Maybe not out of
maybe they didn't plan it. That's just how they are.
And they learn the hard way. So the number one problem with it is
their path takes longer because they try so many things and they
realize the conclusion is really bad. And when you try something
you may get lost in the forest, and it may take you five years to
come back.
It
may take you five years to come back, but the benefit of such
people is they have actual more knowledge. They know for sure this
is bad for you and this is what happened to me and this is what
happens when this well, this is why nobody could refute
heresy and philosophy and too much and excessive
cerebral ism like as nobody is refutation of Sarup cerebral ism
was more acceptable than presenting because of a memory of
his dad. He spent his entire life as a highly cerebral scholar who
just studied to death everything there was on the earth from all of
Greek philosophy, all of Shiism botany and Okay, botany
philosophy, right, every philosophy on the face of the
earth, he studied it to a pulp and he responded to it.
And then what did he say to us at the end? In his small booklet
called face, Philippa, Ben and Immanuel Seneca, the line between
faith and heresy. And the last chapter, this the last thing,
remember was that he wrote, right, the last chapter of that book is
like the conclusion of his own life. He said, all of my life
spent refuting
is basically the doors of the city, locking the doors of the
city, but your Amen will not grow from refutations
your Eman will not grow from excessive thinking. Your Eman will
grow from x constant exposure to the remembrance of Allah be it
through the event through the Quran through so Gemma to the
Muslims. And he said many many ignorant people unlearn it, people
have arrived a lot faster than me. But they didn't have the knowledge
to put it in words. Right? They arrived. And this is why a man
because I realized that the path itself is filled with common folk,
if you think about others, so it's mostly common folk, and like 1%
scholars,
but he said because it's a matter of the heart and their hearts are
equal to the scholars of hearts, right? So they arrive at it
knowing it with their heart, okay, but they don't have the words to
put it together. And this is one of the reasons we follow the
Jamaah of the Muslims, the Jinmao of the Muslims, even though
they're not scholars, they're hjem for us.
Right? If all the pious believers are doing one thing,
there is a reason even though they don't know how to put it into
words. Right? This is why we should follow the drummer of the
Muslims. This is why many of us have always talked about the man
of their grandmothers, right follow the man of your
grandmother, right your grandmother, she does not put into
words. But she's been alive enough that she knows what works and what
doesn't work. And this is basically
basic knowledge of the heart that's what it is is knowledge of
the heart.
knowledge from experience.
Next, says a krav maga bichara Imagine Allah. Allah azza wa jal
gave me three Carabas
three gifts really?
Three Jada Carolla number one
he made you interested in
what is the First
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jornais the celuk Mohammed bin Junaid
All right. His nickname is Junaid acetic Junaid a Sadek you should
know he is the earliest scholar who put pen to paper on the
subject of dissolve. Okay, Junaid is the first person to put pen to
paper one of the first on the subject after so, so what's the
story of Junaid? Junaid
is from Iraq and he was a wrestler and this time Ira had was so
wealthy and life was good. Right really good and there were so many
Arabs that moved up there and Persians. Okay Junaid was one of
them. He grew up in such a luxurious life a very good middle
class life, really not excessively just a middle class life and he
was a wrestler. He was wrestling right? And he became the greatest
wrestler in the city.
So, a man came up to him one time in the gathering of the salt of
the Sudan or the Khalifa at the time was sitting there with the
people and Junaid was there. He's like a young celebrity wrestling,
right? So an old man came in
okay an old man came in.
Alright sorry, the king said the Khalifa Khalifa time said I want
to make a tournament with Junaid so that if anyone can meet Junaid
I'm going to give him 2000 gold coins. So they did this
tournament. Now a man came in old man came I said I want to be
Contestant number one.
So he said okay, this is a joke obviously, you're an old man.
You're not going to be Junaid. Now, the men he said I'm going to
do it. I want to try I have the right to try it. So everyone
laughed. I said try. Now, right before they start wrestling.
Before they make any moves, they're whispering to each other.
And this is what athletes do. They always talk back and forth. So he
said Look, Listen, I'm panelbase
Okay, and Junaid says Okay, and what?
What about? He said I can accept.
So then it clicked in his head.
And we cannot accept Zika the man needs the money. Right? He just
said those two words. That's all he took augmented. He said I'm
always such an instance. What do you want me to do about that?
Okay, so
I can't accept the car.
So he realized, so Junaid said to me, I'm going to pitch you that's
the move that you need to do. If I make the move and signal you make
that move. Okay, so they went on Wrestling, wrestling wrestling and
Junaid kept pushing his hand and pinching him or squeezing his amp
until he made the moves on him and he pinned him
so then Junaid The King said this is something's wrong with this do
it again.
He said Let's do it again. So they didn't again this time today to do
a different moves than Junaid got up. He said Wallah. He is old but
he has experienced he has moves right and his King says I don't
believe this do it a third time it didn't. You still won and people
were just looking at Junaid like you just lost to an old man. And
Junaid made up an excuse. He said he has moves like he's he's all
but wrestling is not strength its moves. Right. So Janae quickly
left
and his reputation was ruined. He wrote his reputation and the man
got 2000 gold coins.
Right. Then, that night the Prophet size sudden came to Junaid
he said you did this for my family.
Okay, I will ensure
that your future is blessed. Okay. And the prophets of Allah wa
alayhi wa salam gave Junaid this * on because of what he did
for no date. Right? He ruined his own reputation for him to bait so
I'm going to give you a new reputation now. Then Junaid left
wrestling
completely. Then he wears what else to do back in the day, he
started attending to the shapes of the time until he became the
greatest shape up to so often his era. He and his nickname be is
because become say the biofoam, chief of the superior
before he was the chief of the rest of us, right? And I became to
this day. So alginate says there is something called when is Sabra
small when
and what is small Wilaya just the fact that you believe in thicker
and dissolve
a small version of hula, just the fact that you believe in it, that
you recognize as part of a slab that you recognize is the truth.
This is when I saw grow. Okay.
So the first thing if you are someone who makes thicker, if you
are someone who makes thicker.
This itself is the first gift Allah has given you. Even if it
means you're just one of those silly people who's carrying around
the set of beads all the time.
Many people say this is a bit but we say to them. Okay, let's take
an analogy here.
You have to calculate years ago.
Are you using a zero? That weren't zeros at the time of the problem?
How are you calculating circuit writing numbers using the
calculator on your phone? None of this tools existed in some of the
profit. So using the Subha is a trigger because when you have it
in
Your car in your pocket all of a sudden it makes you make what else
are you gonna do with it? It's a trigger that helps people make a
pickup and this is why Junaid is Sadek the same Junaid was asked
why are you in old men and you are carrying the sofa when you know
the scholars they don't usually use it but why are you using it?
He said when I was young this helped me remember to make it
thicker and because it helped me in the beginning I don't want to
ever leave it off. And since then, it was not considered anything
wrong to use a sofa. Okay, so this is why people use a sip and should
have it to help them remember to make
Okay, what else are you doing in the car? Right
well hola Pablo Lam tech on an island near Jaya Jaya, victory
here like if it wasn't for Allah's choice, he would not have even
given you the prerequisites to make you worthy of victory
or prerequisites being what we talked about Toba Salah in the
class.
Also, Oslo were gyla cometh Gorham be it helped
this better who they are. And he has made you
remembered
by him since he confirmed his relationship to you.
If you
there's a story of Yvan abbess, saying
okay, I know when my name is being mentioned in the heavens by Allah
azza wa jal they said I was a biller Is there a way after Rasul
Allah? Is there any way now? prophets God, how do you know that
what's happening in the heavens? He said, Because Allah says,
with Caroni Of course, remember me and I will remember you. So
anytime I am remembering Allah azza wa jal, I know him as
remembering me. Simple anytime you're making pickup Allah's
remember do so it's a two way operation. So when Allah azza wa
jal made you make vicar This means he is thinking of you. So if you
want to know what is my position with Allah, if you are beloved by
Allah, don't you think about your beloved all the time?
Don't you think about your beloved all the time, at all times you're
thinking of any two hours aren't going to pass without you thinking
about? What's my wife doing? What are my husband doing? Okay, I need
to check in with them. Right? Or what am I kids up to right now to
three hours aren't going to pass without that, right?
Likewise, if Allah loves the habits, he remembers him all the
time. He remembers him all the time. Okay. He remembers him all
the time. And so, when Allah remembers that it manifests in
this world without desire to remember a lot, and this is why
whenever the Ellia have forgotten to make a vicar they feel maybe I
have done something wrong, why isn't Allah remembering me? So
they hastened to make a pickup and shift and Azzaman Haqqani is no
see how it was.
If you go more than four hours if you go four hours, four hours of
time
take a short break. Remember a little bit
so if you're with people, or you're doing the job and your
heart will start feel rusty at four hours every four hours just
stop make pollute pay to raucous and he used to leave his guests.
excuse himself. Right? Go Michael Dupree Turaga then come back to
him because he used to have a lot of guests right? He used to go
excuse himself, make two rockets and come back. Okay. So this is
something that we can do.
And then he says
it was ALLAH can Quran endo Fatima mania metabolic. Okay.
And he made you remembered by those with him.
remembered by those with him. The first relationship is you're
trying to get close to Allah azza wa jal.
But Allah Allah, this is very interesting. People don't realize
this.
Allah azza wa jal
when he wants to draw you nearer to him, he doesn't come and get
you himself. He plants the seed and you start traveling to him.
Then what happens? He sends you one of His Olia that are closer to
him to educate you and draw him here. He sends you a soul, a
messenger and of course
Another no messengers, he sends you a teacher, he sends you a
teacher. And when your bond grows with your teacher, and you grow
and you start learning, and you start drawing advancing, and your
teacher starts pointing out your flaws, right, that is the sign of
Allah's education to you, as far as I can educate yourself,
himself, he puts seeds, the seed of love inside of you.
Or he gets involved in destroying what is causing you to forget him,
okay?
And he puts inside of you the serenity that you feel what you're
doing right? Until finally you start moving. Once you get on the
path, then he sends you a teacher.
So in the beginning, it's just you want to look right, you're alone
and you have things are changing, and it's weird. All you have is,
then a teacher will come to you. And he will take you by the hand
slowly, one by one, until you arrive properly.
This is how the path works. No one should say.
I'm gonna I'm traveled to a lot but I don't have a teacher. I
don't know how to shave. I do. It's between me and Allah. That's
it. No, we tell you that person check on us tricked you. Because
what is the sign of A? Firstly, I also did some Allahu alayhi wa
sallam was not learning the religion from Allah directly. Was
he? Or he was learning from Jabril.
He's learning from Giblin if Rasulullah saw itself the greatest
of the product and the founder of the religion and the first and the
return of all the chains of transmission. If he himself is not
directly being educated from Allah, he's getting the greenery.
Right.
So who is anyone else not to have a share? This is a tenant in the
subject that is first Secondly, the subject of the soul medulla.
Mandala means you can get lost in the subject of the self if you
don't have a shield to educate you. How many people have you? If
you go home and you tell your families? Oh, we studied the soul.
And the Sophia, they're going to sell this week. We're crazy. These
people are going in graves and these are people doing better and
these people are dancing. These people are charming snakes and
swallowing chicken blood and all these things. Yeah. We tell them
those this When did this happen? When did this happen? I could
speak for the Arab world, Egypt in particular.
This happened when the British shell been an ins, okay, you can
figure something out. They figured something out. What did they
figure? They figured that there is a that the soul wolf having a 30,
aka an order is the link between the chefs and the people. That's
the LinkedIn. The people are not studying FIP? Not like two
percenters studying 2% study in Hadith, but what are all the
people doing attending the Sufi gatherings? The Molins?
Right? So what did they do? First thing? They made it through the
patches? Of course, they made the patches do it. Every 30 has to be
registered. So they did that. And it looked fine. Registering all
the orders. Anyone who wants to make an order? What was the rule
back then the Azhar University controlled all the orders, how if
you're going to open up 30 of them, publicly, I'm going to have
a share. I'm going to be a chef, I have a thicker session, I have
gatherings of classes on to solve I have Marines you must be a
graduate of
you must be a scholar.
What did the British do they canceled that they said Is anyone.
So what did you end up having just had ignorant people opening 30
Plus
ignorant people opening today because now what now you have all
the problems coming in. There were no problems up to that
in terms of to solve having this bad reputation of being a bunch of
craziness going on. Now, all the problems developed right. All the
trouble came because of this. When the scholarship was broken from
the This is why it is
what is the attribute of someone who has knowledge in the sight of
Allah
number one attribute and spirits use of Woolfolk Cooley the element
and him above every one of knowledge is a shade. above
everyone have knowledge as someone of greater knowledge. That means
we in Islam, yes, you're inspired by Allah. Yes, your DUA is
directly between you and Allah. Yes, you worship directly Allah
but how do you learn
through a shaman? That's it. You must learn through a shed and have
a shaker for the rest of your life. There's no such thing as I'm
just me floating around. Alright floating around, settle to the
bottom. You'll be safe, right? If you want to have no shit settled
to the bottom may take no action. But once you take action
In religion, you need to have recourse even if your shit is
like, okay, like the group of people that yes, I trust these
individuals, and sometimes I go to him and sometimes I go to and
sometimes even and that's accepted to, right. You need to have
someone, you don't just do it by yourself. Okay?
This is very important.
This is why the conference I said give us another job.
Allah Mirzakhani Hogback Oh Allah grant me your, your, your love.
What?
What hope that men you have and the love of those who love you?
You cannot it's not enough that I love Allah, Allah loves me. If
Allah loves you, what is he going to do? He's going to guide you to
Michelle, He will guide you to have a teacher because the
prophets I said and said Oh Allah grants your love and the love of
those you love. Oh, how do we know who is the good ship? Well, how
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look at this axis look at their actions look what others are
saying about them. Right? Who is the shift? The shift is someone
who has a shared who others can testify as he study with someone
so he's not a self made man. There's no such thing as a self
taught man. Right? So you'll never see a chef Bill one off he will
always have colleagues always other people around.
Okay, so should we do is take a pause here.
We should take a pause here and
Austin is now at 415 Or what do you what what should we do is
Austin is that an odd time? Let's take a pause here.
Okay, so keep going
food's not here yet.
Okay.
Mercan Allah here
in about issue
okay.
This heckler means
there is no thicker on the outside, except that the inside is
already working.
The outer aspects of invocation would not be saved for the inner
aspect of contemplation and meditation.
The worship obedience and invocation of the servant meaning
all your religious efforts, which become manifest in the world are
in certain sense a return to the inner witnessing, experienced by
the Spirit prior to its entry into this world. They are thus
connected to the effect that effects of that earlier SPIRITUAL
PERCEPTION even though the servant is unaware of it, when you are now
noticing yourself, start to change your behavior.
Okay? This is because something deep inside of you
already started to change. And this is merely a manifestation of
the change. And likewise, the opposite to
when you want to look at someone. Look at their behavior. Suddenly,
he's changing for the better or the worse little things. The
outward is a reflection of what's happening deep inside. Right?
Yeah, back in the day. You look at a kid is going through sixth
grade, he's fine, seventh grade, and all of a sudden, he doesn't
want to wear regular pants. He wants to wear baggy pants.
Alright. By the end of seventh grade, all of a sudden he's
pulling his pants down a little bit. Okay, so what's happening?
Something's happening there. Right? Something's happening. He's
been influenced by someone. Next thing, right? He starts spending
20 minutes in the mirror. Right? Making sure everything looks
perfect. He wasn't doing this before what happens? Something
happens, right? Something happens to make him more concerned with
worldly things than before. Okay,
so all so if you're noticing something happened in December,
the change internally probably happened in March. Right? And this
is why I'm I've been hooked up. He wouldn't be very perceptive of
minor changes in people. Because once you let you answer the call
of your knifes once to little things, it's going to start
demanding bigger things and bigger things and bigger things. So
almost to use to cut it at the little things. Okay. Alma wrote a
message to the people of Azerbaijan. The Arabs in
Azerbaijan. This is recorded in Imam and no always book Western on
RFP
couldn't believe it when I read it.
Omar wrote a letter to the people of Azerbaijan to the governor's
the leaders of the Sahaba and the Taliban in in Azerbaijan. And
amongst the things that he said to them, he said,
the people of Azerbaijan they don't like do not like sitting in
the sun, but know that the sun is the bathhouse of the Arabs, so sit
in the sun
and know that the people of iser by it has reached me that the
people of Azerbaijan were loin garments caught underwear, right?
They were loincloths. But we Arabs do not wear a long cloth, we are
free. Okay.
Can you imagine a head of state telling the people this, he's
telling the Arabs do not even is governor's that he has control
over them at least. Right? He's telling the governors do not even
wear a loincloth. Because that's the beginning of your change, do
not change. Right? Don't change. It's the beginning of you
imitating them Don't imitate them. That's how perceptive all model
was. It's just little changes here and there. Little changes. And as
working in the masjid, it's textbook, the stuff is textbook,
you start seeing this stuff, Yanni. And it's like textbook
stuff. You see a person starts coming. The first thing they say
is
my friend had a question that sent me to ask you, right? Okay, we'll
pretend we'll play along.
All right.
Then he comes back and two months later with another question, and
then we're one month later, and then a week later, and then every
day.
All of a sudden,
he's gone. Right? He's gone. It starts very slowly from far away,
from far away. And there's even in music
and music philosophy. And Hans Zimmer does this all the time.
It's in like a waves right, where the music will be played. And then
from far away, you hear like an instrument. And that's slowly that
instrument gets louder and louder and louder and louder until it's
the present meaning instrument. It's like that with people to
their far away, and they come you have one interaction with them.
Six months later, another interaction. Two months later, one
month later than he is irregular than all after two years. All the
signs of Taqwa are there. All the signs of Taqwa are on this person
and Masha Allah, they've developed. That's how it is how it
works. So we need to start moving. Alright, and we have to be
careful. The very when you start, this is the thing, when you start
noticing that yourself is doing things that you don't like it to
do. Do not worry about the thing worry about the motive. It must be
that some matter of dunya has entered your heart, someone who's
now I'm doing a behavior I never used to do before. So I must stop
this behavior. You're thinking wrong. You know what you're
thinking like, there's a weed coming up. So let me cut it.
What's going to happen next, it's just going to come back, let me
cut it again. It's going to come back, let me cut it again. No, you
need to dig because somehow the seed of the weed got deep in the
ground. And that's what you need to remove. So we said it's not the
action that you need to worry about is the motive, which is
Hublin dunya.
Probable love of popularity, the seed entered sometime four months
ago, maybe from one interaction with a person the seed entered,
and it manifested four months later.
And you now have trouble cutting it off. You don't have to worry
about cutting up. So what do you do the cruel notes.
When we do the vicar nights here, we do the session in which we five
minutes, shut the light and imagine yourself going into your
grave.
Imagine yourself on your deathbed. This is a very powerful
meditation, this figure.
If someone does it, just we do it five minutes, twice a month.
Imagine someone who does it five minutes, once a week for five
minutes, twice a week or every day. Right? You visualize yourself
on your deathbed. Okay. Now what the automat tell us is that
contrary to the popular saying my life pass before my eyes know all
have that tell us your regrets will pass before your eyes. You
will regret what do you regret then your regrets manifest. Then
you can remove them. It's just like in
Medicine, when they want to see if there's something What do they put
in your blood? A dye, a blue dye, and it goes in and if there's
something bad it comes up. So what are you going to regret? A life
spent saying, I'll do it later. I'll do it later. I'll do it later
when later comes, you're not even healthy enough to do it. You're an
old man or an old woman and you're on your knees can't even sit
properly
and your eyes can't even see and you have asthma and you can't even
make thicker because you're coughing too much. Right? Don't
wait. Do it now. So this picker gets to the heart of the matter
that is most most is the heart of the matter the grunt melts
so we'll stop there Shala and then we'll come back now we move from
vicar
to
spark alone are the
opposite pause it okay
you can even pause it
ALL RIGHTY
we're now on the section of fickle meditation
no thicker is the twin of the
Prophet peace be upon him.
Set
sir to figuring
classroom and Alfie sanity a bed or other statements like this
similar to this, that an hour of physical or a period of time in
which you do Flickr
is worth more than 1000 years of a bad or 70 years of a bad or what
have you in the head, mainly because Flickr
is categorically better
than a bed categorically but
Ficker thinking, pondering,
there's a big difference between cognition, cognitive intelligence,
like your IQ
and thoughtfulness. Right? And the ability to imagine
there is a huge ocean of a difference. Okay? Between the two.
Cognition is being smart, right? Having an IQ, okay?
There are a lot of people who are smart, okay? This has nothing to
do with thoughtfulness,
reflection, pondering and imagination.
Okay.
And the latter
is what Allah is talking about when he says fickle. Okay,
pondering, contemplating imagining,
okay.
And we can summarize all that in meditation. Now, the only reason
that I would hesitate from using meditation is because it has sort
of
has a sort of
what's the word
sort of an association with other religions, the practice of other
religions. So we can just say Flickr, and it's actually
interesting that there has been a thing or Islam has brought in new
vocabulary words, wherever it has gotten.
Some has bought a new vocabulary words, because the words itself
have meanings that are different. Ficker is different from
meditation.
You can't go meditate on nothing. You can't do flicker on most
meditation. What do they say? Like Clear, clear thoughts. Okay. What
do I think of next? They'll tell you I don't know a peaceful scene.
This is not Flickr, right? Flickr is not meant to do this. This is
not a secular therapy situation. Right. Flickr is the
contemplation. Okay. That leads you to leaving off matters of the
dunya. This is the goal of Flickr, the goal of Flickr
is that it will lead you to move towards the ephemera and leave off
the dunya anything else is not called Flickr.
We can advise for treatment for them.
See, this is and this is this is the thing where guided meditation,
we want to call it meditation. Right? See, I don't really like
the thought of saying Islamic this Islamic that. Well, we have a term
for that. Right?
We have a term for the Islamic holy war. No, we have a term for
that called yet, right. Islamic meditation we have a term for
that. It's called Ficker
Islamic spirituality we have our own term for that it's called SN
to some deskew. Right, is to assume that there's anything
beneficial in Islam that originated outside of Islam, and
we had to make it Islamic. If it was really of any benefit, we
would find it in the books in the source itself.
So as for someone who, as Shaban said, he has a thicker word, or
he's in a state where he's completely blanked out.
Of course, stuff happens to people, right? But our goal is
these three things as the prophesy centum said, that we are yearning,
yearning for the afterlife
and forgetting dunya. Notice how I mean, it's how do you do that? To
get yourself to the point that you're not thinking about the
dunya anymore, you're less interested in losing interests in
worldly affairs. And your actions are reflected in this and what is
your action, you start acting for death, you start taking the
actions of death. And even. And this is a very fine line between
us being complete failures in life. In the name of spirituality,
this is wrong, even if someone must act for the dunya. Let's say
you're a marketer, right? Are you going to start saying you know
what, I don't really care about sales this month. Let me just mark
it half the time. No, this is not what Islam is calling you to do.
We're looking at the motive. And one of the greatest motives is
that for example. So not to have our city I recognize that
something called sunnah to hire.
What is so not to hire? How to normal people live, to get
married, have kids have a business? Go to work, you expand
your business, then you retire. Okay, so naturally, that's how it
is, right? So Neptune had when you were and you start thinking I
needed a justification, why I'm doing all this work. It's one of
the justifications as soon as this is acceptable, and is the right
thing to do. So now, I need to work, you need to get married, you
need to have a resume, you need to build a resume, you need to be
waking up doing something, right. So the last thing that we want is
some dead beats making.
This is the last thing that we want, right? So when you work and
the other thing that we want, that we don't really buy into so much
is Protestant Ethic thing in Islam or what have you, the Calvinist
ethic, right, like go and work extra overtime, so you can get
more setup, right? I mean, this is sort of the Protestant Ethic. The
Protestant Ethic means that the Protestants believed in their
religion that people came to America, who were actually a
rejected sect. They rejected sects from England. They didn't want
them in England, they were persecuting them in England,
because they were a sect, a thought, if a Philipa. So the
British kicked them out. They ended up coming on the Mayflower
and the Nina, the Pinta, and coming to Massachusetts. What *
was this? They used to believe if you're rich, God loves you. If
you're poor, God doesn't love you. So let's backtrack one step and
what does that force you to do? It forces you to work extra art?
Right? Protestant Ethic work hard, so God loves you. Now you got a
lot of people trying to bring a version of this in Islam and
Saying work extra hard, so Allah could love you more. And you could
have more money, we say not, that's actually you're not going
to find the prophet ever preaching that you will find the Prophet
preaching work. This is another life. If Allah gives you money,
good for you enjoy it. Right. But working and also work is a form of
worship, yes, because so keeps you off the street, there's a lot of
benefits in it. So this is how we approve approach. Okay, people,
you know, working, and also realizing that this is there's
nothing wrong in this. But at the same time, we're not going to sort
of Protestant epic version that has very little evidence directly
in our sources. So when someone is in a form of medical meditation,
we have a focus on that person should be focusing their their
figure upon something, and that is Allah that is after that, and that
is Hosenfeld Mahmoud. We also have something else called tell husband
and Mahmoud,
beneficial or praiseworthy sadness. And that is this type of
sadness that pushes you away from the news. And what sadness is this
this type of sadness is
this, the best way I could put it is, when you go to your old
school, or an old place that you used to go to all the time, and
you found that you find that it's like, falling into ruins or
something. Or it's so old, right? You go there, and you're like,
wow, I used to live here, or I used to go to school here. And
look what happened, everything's changed, everyone's gone, right?
It's not even a sadness. It's more of a contemplation. Right? It's
more of a reflection, like, look what happened. Everything's gone.
Everyone's changed. Or when you are in your house, and you find an
old yearbook from 1986. And you're looking at, oh, my gosh, look at
what we used to look like. And why does this good? Because it makes
you realize that life is passing by if it's moving. And this is
only something that you could do with age, you can't do this 10
year old cannot do this, because he has no memories in the past is
only 10 years old. 15 year olds cannot do this. Right? Once he
hits 25.
Then he sees a second year grade yearbook. He could start constant
oh my gosh, remember this? And look how life has passed. And what
have I done since then? Et cetera, et cetera, right. This is an
Hoser. And Mahmoud in the province of Assam said, all goodness
derives from this positive.
This type of husband that makes you want to live off dunya. Right.
And the dunya is such a gravitational pull on us, that
some people and this again goes back to the balance of work. And
spirituality is very important. Some people instead of having to
fight
the pole of dunya, they cheat, they cheat. And they flip their
magnet around, so that they go to the opposite extreme. And this
happened in London, when one of the young devotees, not young
actually middle aged.
And the ships was given a regular lecture and you saying that the
prophesy seven said the best work is the work of your head. This is
a Hadith, the best real result of a person is the work that he's
done with his hands. And this means that it's the best it is
because if I made like a glass and I'm selling it, it's very clear
what I've done all day. Whereas if you're something else, it's not
really clear what you do all day, right? Most jobs, you ask them,
What do you do all day? You look like you're sitting behind the
computer all day, right? What do you do? Right? So it's very hard
to say, Well, I did this amount of paperwork. It's very hard to
justify right that you did a good day's work, even though you know
you did or did. So that's the meaning of the Hadith. So what did
this person do? He was working in a pinstripe suit type of job where
he dresses in a pinstripe suit. He goes for a brokerage company, and
making deals with other people's money all day. And these people
make a lot of money, right? They could lose a lot really fast, but
they make a lot of money because he gets what is it something like
5% right up front goes to him, and then 20% of the returns, right? So
imagine how much money he's making. And he's just an agent in
the brokerage so he doesn't even have to go get the business. They
bring him the business and he works in, okay. And someday he
becomes a partner and he brings in the business. So he became a
started attending to the ship at the time. There's a Turkish chef
teaching himself. So he loved it so much. He loved the thicker so
much.
But he flipped his magnet, right? Instead of fighting the resistance
of dunya and
Living in the dunya, but fighting the resistance to love dunya What
did he do? He quit his job. And he became an apprentice to a plumber.
His wife went nuts
he ended up insistent, many hardships were coming. Right? many
hardships were coming. But he didn't understand the deen. He
didn't know that when you make a decision number one is to number
two is to shut up. Number three, if all these hardships are coming,
maybe you shouldn't do it. Number four, you didn't have to do this
in the first place. If your job is to allow your trades or allow you
to have to do this in the first place. inadvisable. Right.
He ends up losing his losing his wife
losing his kids. Okay. Losing his house. Now, he thought he was
having. So he was a plumber by day living in a little apartment
thing, go to the ship right away, spend all night with the ship and
go back to being a plumber a nine to five. He thought he was happy
710 years past
good. Seven to 10 years past and he woke up. It's as if he woke up
he realized, well what have I done? Now he's looking at the
scale of his life. What have I done?
So what does he start doing resenting the shape, hating the
shape so much for being the cause of this? He left the shape and he
left the practice of Islam altogether?
Not only him.
His brother saw what happened. And his brother became a secularist.
His mom and dad saw what happened. They kept their kids from the
mosque. So look at one foolish decision that looks good, but it's
out of ignorance led to an entire family basically cracking and some
of them got over it over time they got over it. It's not like they're
all of a sudden
so simplistic, they all became secular kafirs or metrics they got
over it but they all cracked all of them cracked and they're not
the same towards religion anymore all because of one Jehan ignorant
decision made with ignorance, see knowledge the value of knowledge
him you were made a rash decision with ignorance. Okay, so instead
of going to this extreme, we say he a strong dosage of thicker,
thicker
when you make figure it causes you to basically lose that attachment
to the dunya so you're going through the motions of what you're
doing with effort with energy with with sincerity, but it's not
making you love the dunya so at any point, right when time's up,
you can leave it you will do not become a workaholic or an addicts
to dunya This is the benefit of thicker, thicker cannot achieve
this as good as fickle can achieving that figure thought that
notation can achieve this Yes.
Okay, very good question. How to Practice flicker?
Flicker occurs by begin with reading the lives of the NBA
and the lives of the Sahaba than the lives of the side and then
emulate
okay.
If I don't know how to make quick well all of us need a guide for
and the guides are these books. The stories of the Southern get
there's a book called What is it called the ranks of the righteous
is known as Hindi attune earlier in Arabic You can get it called
Hillier tune Olia just by order it from. There's a online Arabic
bookstore. What is it? There's real books. There's
there's another Arabic site, what's the Arabic site Fennec
books.com falak books order heavier to earlier or higher to
Sahaba.
This will guide your fickle, you'll start seeing how the site
of hate live, right how they live. This is the easiest way to begin.
And then from there, it'll it'll go on and you'll understand how to
make pickup by emulating their lives, right, reading their
stories and knowing this is our Padilla. These are our examples.
So many people when people talk about examples is that Steve Jobs.
Right is the first thing people talk about Steve Jobs.
First of all, what is your motive in life? This is the question. You
want to be successful. not successful. That's it. You should
want to be successful in dunya
And, but successful in Africa first dunya. Second,
Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, all these people, they're all successful in
dunya. First, an accurate zero. This is not what you want to be.
That's not what you want to be. So look, who is your example? Right?
And we have examples in some subjects. And he's not your
example in anything else. Right. So where he crosses outside as
industrially in this industry is the best example. Okay, follow
that as long as he is. And when he breaks with the guidance of your
dean, that's when you don't take from that. Right. So this is the
importance of Flickr.
Okay, and Flickr to see or LBP maidin. And here
it is the voyage of your heart.
Thinking about dunya we things that will lead you to the effort
thinking, how do people of dunya die? How do they die? Unhappiness
or misery? How do people of Salah die on happiness or misery? who
avoids fitna in their lives? Look at fitness. Do you want to have
fun with your kids? Or
do you want to have a fitna where when your kids goes astray, go and
look at who goes astray. And look at their parents, you're going to
find and many people say subhanallah you never know what's
going to happen. See, look at such great people and look at their
kid. I'm telling you, it's never it's never random like this, there
is always something. There's always something that was done
wrong. Right? There's always something that's done wrong.
You're never gonna have a kid go far astray. Right? For no reason.
There's always a reason.
Answer Tamera gray.
Tamra gray. She sent an election one time that I listened to. She
said, love and guidance is there's no equation for love and guidance.
Right? She said this into Holika. And then the teacher said, No,
you're wrong. There is always an equation, just that you didn't
know it. Right. So when you see someone going far astray. Right?
And you see their parents are so good. They pray and they're such
nice people. Well, that's all you know, you don't know what goes on
in the household. Right? You don't know. Are they attentive in the
household? You don't know? Are they bad in the house? So you
don't know what's going on? So for your knowledge, you don't know.
But there's always something there is always something. Okay. There
was once a great woman Subhanallah she was a great woman. Everyone
loves her in the community. And her daughter went far off. Right?
Turns out whenever she would, she's had some bizarre thing. I'm
sorry, her son. Yeah, bizarre thing. When her son would say,
Mom, do you love me? She would say no.
And she thought, you know, he's, you know, tough kid. You know,
they're all boys. And they're all tough. So she's just being tough
back. And so misguided, right. But that simple thing, right? And then
there's other problems you discover later on the debt. Right?
That had it didn't like for his son to read
such bizarre things when you start putting two and two together.
Thirdly, right? They never asked the brothers to help the son.
Right? So every brother is doing something, and they're never
bringing the youngest brother along. You start thinking all
these three. There's a reason is never a blind equation, you have
question?
Which profits? Profit? Nurhaliza?
Do we have another example from the children of the prophets?
No, his he only his wife.
But his daughters were good. With Prophet normal. Let's take
example. The Prophet Nora, what did we say? He said, You have a
mom and a dad. Right? Okay, these are the two influences. If the kid
goes astray, there's always going to be a problem. Well, what was
the wife of Prophet?
a disbeliever. Right? Who lied to him and cheated to him? So one of
the kids inherited that, right.
So it's not that you had a rosy picture of two believers. And then
two believers who are decent parents, and no one's saying you
have to be great parents. You read these books. You don't take these
books too seriously. No one said you got to be this perfect parent.
You just got to be decent enough. And decent enough in Islam. Right?
That's all you have to be. You don't want to wind yourself up so
much. Right? That every second you're looking Am I being a good
parent Am I gonna know? You just need to be decent enough, right?
Allah azza wa jal is Kadeem and generous right? You
Get up there enough decent enough knowledge enough. That's enough
knowledge enough. But profit nor Why did his son go straight? He
didn't You didn't have to righteous parents. You had one
righteous parent. The other was, whenever she was a Miranda, she
was telling you, I'm with you. I'm with you. I'm with you. And in
fact, Allah says I'm Raja no one forgotten at home. They were both
liars. They were bad women. Right? Okay. So that's what got passed on
to those kids to that one shot.
More difficult, doesn't mean it's hopeless. But
of course, if there are two accountants handling the files,
now only one is handling the files. He's got more work to do,
right? Same thing. Anytime you take two jobs and put them in one
is going to be more difficult. But you have examples in America, his
mom was a single mom. What did she do seek help with the scholar she
used to take her son to the ship? Right? sought help in the
messages. That's what she did. And that the son of single parents
seek help of the messenger. Right? By being in the by being in the
masjid. Okay, there was a once a woman
totally told single mom of one or two or three boys can remember.
Totally looked like a helpless case. hopeless case. But what was
her practice or routine? Just bring them to the master this was
in England, bring them to the masjid bring it to the master just
bringing the master she didn't even know what to do. She's just
sweep, sweep the floors, sit in the class do nothing. I don't
know. She sought Allah's help by coming to the masjid. Well, think
about this, who's in the masjid other people, right? Other people.
And each one. He now the boy he that boy ended up actually better
off than so many other kids because of how many relationships
he developed and how balanced he got how many skills he learned to
use to bring him in and help him he's going to fail in school as
she doesn't care. Just bringing them in the restaurant and dumping
the mustard, right? And then start helping out. He rose up to the
point that he's like everyone's assistant assistant librarian,
Assistant to the Imams doing paperwork. He was the child of
Allah, we will just say that, like he's the son of a son. But the son
of the messenger we could say, right, the son of the mustard, in
that sense. Okay, so everyone else pitched in.
So this is what the single parents are doing a lot of that's a whole
nother subject that
your sister
Well, we are what we can say is really bad results do not come
from nothing. That's what we can say.
Can they if they want to live, they have that seat.
That behavior because it's going to be part of
your household where they feel that they are conditioned under
the behavior of a person with a child to
practice.
Okay, so you're asking if he came from a dysfunctional situation.
All right. So we have a Hickmott in this to the automobile segment.
The ultimate say, whatever dysfunction you had in your
childhood,
okay, can be fixed by your spouse.
There's a big heckler, right. Only your spouse, you had this bad
dysfunction in your childhood with your mom and dad. Your spouse will
help you undo those knots. And that's how it works. And as the
son of marriage as wild prophesized center, we marry
because those dysfunctions only another one that you live with,
can help you undo those dysfunctions. Right? That's why
there's so many dysfunctional people today because they don't
even married.
They don't marry so the dysfunction continues.
So well, we see a therapist, okay. Therapist isn't with you at two in
the morning when you're like crying and having some breakdown.
A therapist is in with you in that random moment. A therapist cannot
do a lot of things that a spouse can do for you, right. A therapist
isn't even committed to you as a person.
Oh,
I have some old fashioned opinions.
I have some old fashioned opinions. Okay. But I don't want
to make a statement about fields that I'm not aware of. But I have
some old fashioned opinions. Okay. All right.
Let me just ask one question. Go to the therapist and say you don't
have an insurance, you're not going to treat it. So there's
someone who loves you
If your loved ones failed you in one respect, only someone who
loves you equally will help you in that other respects. This is why
this is where I just think I'm not buying this thing, right? These
people is not love relationship. You need a love relationship to
help you get through these things. And how many Best Friends spouses
have taken people from the gutter and fix them with no expertise.
They never cracked a textbook. What did they just love the
person. They just love the person, they stick with them, stick with
them, stick with them until they solve the problem. I've seen many
of these and you have all seen many of these things where you got
a hopeless case, but the mom is just relentless, relentlessly
loves her kid. And she gets through all the doctors said no,
as a hopeless case is obvious because the mom got him through or
the wife. Right. But there was even a documentary of a Christian
right in Tennessee, that the guy
think like
they're engaged. And they're right before the wedding by some few
days. There was a big accident car accident. So the guy he doesn't
walk anymore, he can't walk. And he can hardly talk. Okay, so what
happened? His fiancee, and that's why in the south to have good
Christian communities, right?
Her fiance, his fiancee refused to give up on them. She stayed. And
then over years, you learn how to walk and communicate. What the
doctor says I'll never walk and I'll never talk. Why? Because
there's love involved. And this is where the big difference between,
you know, some guy who's just taking your insurance? And yes, he
has some expertise, but you cannot replace a love. So to answer your
question, the dysfunctionality of childhood the ultimate tell us can
be fixed by your spouse or loved
at
all
even that
or
even that though, like a mom who takes the kid to a therapist, even
that, even if it works, it's probably because of the month
because she's taking him around she looked up the therapist, right
yeah, so they that's why I didn't want to throw the whole thing in
the garbage. But if you're gonna tell me that is better off than
one of these family relationships right now, even when therapy works
is because the mom and dad arranged it and helped out or the
wife arranged it and helped out that's why it's going to work
because now you cannot. So that's allowed. But that's what I think
conclusion I've read so far.
It's a tool it's a tool. It's simply a tool that if I don't know
how to do something, you know but and there's always someone behind
you can never replace these poor relationships that Allah created
the human being with these relationships
No, it's just funny because back in the day, if you go to a
therapist, you're gonna if you even said it, you're gonna get hit
therapists you have a mom and a dad what's your problem?
But if we're gonna get all technical and everything is so
technical these days the human being is a robot, right?
Everything is a technical right so okay, if we're going to use it as
a tool fine. That's it as a tool
not objecting America's because
you have to work with
my question is with the spouse aside
they have this
What's the action?
You mean?
You mean getting getting triggered for what?
To get out your parents
Okay, so in my opinion, from my experience, I can only speak on my
experience on this. From my experience on this. If someone has
a coping mechanism that is really bad that he needs to stop. Okay.
I say there is no one straight way to do it. Anyone who's trying to
sell you one straight way to do it, this is a line, basically. But
my method that I've found works is that you just is dogged
determination, and refusing to stop is though is what gets people
to where they want to be. And thinking about this is the best
answer. Because there is no one way to do things. If there was one
way to do things. Why are there so many books? Write to me, to me, is
dogged determination, and fighting and not stopping, and eventually,
right, you're just going to hit it. If you want to find gold, you
just keep digging, there's no one way to know where to dig, you just
keep at it. And that's just what how I, and we all enjoy it here.
We had no idea we had bad habits, right? How do I fight? If you want
to find the one book, you're lazy, there is no one way to do it. You
just keep battling away battling and failing and getting up and
failing and getting up and failing. And then I'm telling you
from my experience, at some point, it starts to click. And something
deeper habits some deeper motives. And deeper issues start to come to
the surface. And once you clear them, the behavior to cope with
them goes away on a low atom, or they are the agendas, deep hidden
agendas that were in the ego rise to the surface then when you
remove it, the habits that come with that agenda, go away with it.
So Allah Adam, but I would never divorce that from the religious
path that Toba. They could have Quran fasting solitude, combined
with whatever therapists are saying. Okay, it looks like it's
going to be opened up. But yeah, we'll take one more and then we'll
go we'll take you and then we'll do a couple more as well. At least
we finished the
dysfunctional family
well, we don't want to stereotype.
Yeah, I noticed like TV monitors and watch
TV, I don't have a cable box.
I noticed watching sorry. Put them in front of TV has a tendency.
reaction
does what I used to watch TV with my boy. And it was
a lot
cheaper, do all these different things in a sly, very humorous
way.
Disney Channel and I'm like checking it out. And I'm looking
at it. The older kids are laughing but they lie.
They cheat. They do different things and so forth. So I've had
the TV aspects of taking charge of the children's behavior and what
they
also practice was asking for my boy plays that he plays and how
they play.
Hopefully we ever our culture is so filled with disrespect.
American culture is just makes fun of everything sacred has no no
limits. Our culture has no limits. I mean, the culture that produces
a movie one nation underdog,
right? You know where that culture is go. It's already in *. And
whoever absorbs more of it has a greater chance of going into
equation or can make it a mathematical equation.
Okay, this pop culture mean, you're not missing anything. Right
and I'm missing anything. So I think you're doing the right
thing.
Next one, he says I'll figure to figure 10.
Figure is to shake rotten, secret tutors. ficlet tutors dipped in
one email.
One of belief and meditation,
with thick reduced who didn't iron and the other of contemplation and
vision
for hula or bourbon Atiba.
The first
is for people who like to think and contemplate Withania Tony
Robicheaux dual Estep Sol and the second is for those who have made
it. Alright to contemplation and intellectual vision. Let's see the
explanation. The Select servants of Allah are of two kinds, the
Salic and the magic lube.
This is some advanced matter here in the realm of soulful
spirituality. There are two two
EPS salik while much do ascending is the one who is having to go
step by step to draw near to Allah. The magic lube is the one
whom Allah azza wa jal has taken him to him.
So our share batch right now from East Africa, he used to get his
original Yemeni East Africa I used to say, as Salic is the one who
has to climb the buildings step by step. And the match Dube is the
one who wants to the back up the elevator
okay, this is the difference all the way to the top floor. So they
have differences to them, okay. The one who logically deduces the
causes from the effects is a traveler, he meditates on the
effects and arrives with the knowledge of the cause. So, a cell
again, which is most of us here, hopefully all of us,
we operate by cause and effect we operate in the world of cause and
effect. If I want to arrive at an effect, I have to do the causes.
Common sense is heart initially wonders in objects of Creation. So
he starts looking at the creation to attain this desired effects.
From these meditations, he reaches the way to divine attributes.
Okay. For example, He sees people transgressing without Allah
punishing them. And from this the traveler appreciates a loss him
patients
where he refrains from punishing despite having the power.
More over from the beauty, excellence and perfection
of objects, he infers that Allah is all wise. So he's always
looking at the creation first. And then understanding Allah azza wa
jal is attributes through the club. This is the first type of
contemplation, okay, looking at creation, and understanding your
maker through that. I'll give you another example. In the realm of
Dawa
in the realm of Dawa,
we will constantly find that when Dawa is local, that flourishes,
and it's easy, and it's sweet.
Once it becomes so huge, and broad and umbrella and national, it
loses its sweetness, and it gets corrupted, and it becomes a
business.
This is something you'll notice, you don't need to read a book
about it. Just notice if you have any experience in the realm of
data. Whenever data is small and local, it's sweet, it's easy,
everyone's benefiting, everyone's happy. Once it becomes big and
national and broad. Even if the leader of such a data is the best
person.
If he loses control, it becomes bad, it becomes sour, it becomes a
business it becomes really bad. And the best example of this is
one of the best of the people and one of the people that everyone
knows he's one of the OD of Allah azza wa jal Elia, we consider him
to be one of the big adiala. And he's a forbade, and he is a day
and he's one of the best. He did an organization that was national.
And before he died, it was a disaster. And this has an
abundance. Has an environment is up the best of people read his
biography. He's one of the best of ES keramat hasn't been as
chromatic earlier. Okay. But
his Dawa was different from the way his ships used to do it. How
were his ships doing it? A local, a local German, right? What did he
do? He said he modernized it. He made it a national organization.
He had immense success in the beginning. Then what happened?
is uncontrollable, it spiraled so fast, it is out of his control.
Within his lifetime. He couldn't control it. And they went and they
tried to assassinate people and politicians and they did things
and it became out of his control. And there were too many people he
could not teach them. He couldn't educate them. He lost control
within his lifetime.
Now I often thought it has an inventor is such a great man.
That's an Allah subhanaw taala.
And you said, I hope your company
will and you can hold for dosing Allah. Because I really love this
man hustler. I always ask WHY DIDN'T Allah azza wa jal stop him
from doing this national downward?
national dances are always end up no good. In the beginning. It's so
exciting, right? But very quickly becomes bitter. Right? The answer
is this. The answer is the same answer to the question. Why did it
the Sahaba in the Battle of God, follow the orders of the Prophet
and then ended up with the prophets. I said them being
struck and losing at 70 muscles being killed? Why did we not
succeed at the Battle of offered the same answer? Because you all
need to see failure. You need to see examples. Even if you are
soldiers of the Prophet peace be upon him and you are winning the
war, the battle, if you disobey, you will suffer. If you do the
wrong thing you will suffer. So Allah azza wa jal and Allah knows
best, this is just my finger on the matter that Allah azza wa jal
is showing us even if you are the best man. If you do a national
organization, it's never going to be sweet. It's going to be bitter.
It's going to end up bad, right? The best of Dawa that really works
over the long term, even though it's less glamorous, is local
work. It's less glamorous, but that's what works. And all the
people who go national, they end up having to change in a bad way.
You have to be a businessman. You have to be pilot, you have to be
political, very political. Right? You it's just an equation, just
look at everyone. Who does that. You see certain attributes in
them. And everyone who stays local, you see certain attributes.
It doesn't mean you don't travel, but it's what's your ambition? Who
are you trying to do? What are you trying to do? Why are you
controlling so much? Allah azza wa jal put you into place help those
people? Why are you trying to control people in other places?
Look at what I've been a medic. One of the reasons people say it
succeeded is because he refused to allow it to be the omoide book.
And that if he had accepted
that Mater be the Obama White Book, he would have lost it would
have been rejected, the people would have rejected it. Right?
Because it did not intend for his book to be overwhelmed. He just
made a book for the people. And it became overwhelming, right? It's
usually that's how it works. But if you try to control the nation,
Allah didn't ask you to do that. Right? And he's gonna make you
suffer until you pull back. Right? And if you refuse to listen,
you're gonna end up being something else. You're gonna
transform into something that you didn't start out to be. Okay, so
this is Ficker. You think about the creation to arrive at
conclusions about the Creator.
In philosophy, what do they call this inductive reasoning? Right?
Or is it deductive which I always get these two confused? deductive
and inductive? Just like effect and effect? Why did they just make
two different words? Right? You have inductive and deductive.
whichever one it is, it's one of them. You look at the creation you
draw conclusions about the concept. Okay. Deductive okay. Now
on the other hand
the one who acknowledges effects after meditating on the cause, is
the ecstatic initially his arts, his art becomes imbued with the
spiritual perception, figuratively speaking of the being, he then
dwells in the names and attributes of Allah find the answers into
meditating on creation. Now, some people are the opposite. Some
people are the opposite. They come to know Allah azza wa jal, and
they, they focus on the divine attributes, the divine attributes,
then they come to know certain things about the creation. Okay?
That was divine attributes.
Let's take a look at for example.
Something that's quite common in our culture of the big bank,
right?
We know Allah azza wa jal, okay? Allah azza wa jal, his creation,
we know how he creates. So the big bang sounds like
a sort of a ferocious, ferocious
not an axe acts like an accident almost. Right? A ferocious thing.
But we know Allah azza wa jal is very delicate in his creation.
Right.
So I'll continue to look for another term for the Big Bang.
Because he has even if he has, we know in our book to everything was
nothing and that Allah created suddenly, but the Allah created
with elegance. Here's a cream with a ferocious explosion. Right?
This is the work of terrorists, right? The terrorists blow stuff
up. Right? And why are they attributing that to the beginning
of the universe? If it's so bad now? An explosion is no good,
right? It was elegant, whatever happens who knows what it is? I
know for sure. We know from Allah, it was elegant. Allah azza wa jal
secretion is always elegant. It's never horrible explosion. Okay,
several hearts some car horrific explosion. So this is the
opposite.
operating from the Divine Names
and then knowing things about the creation from there. Okay. And
this is what the majority will do.
His heart becomes imbued with spiritual perception. So he
understands Allah azza wa jal, then he comes to know the matters
of this, okay? And he starts to contemplate the creation
afterwards.
So the traveler, the Salat goes from bottom up and the ecstatic
goes from the top to the bottom.
Okay.
The Sheikh says that there are two kinds of meditation The first is
known on belief and the second comes from contemplation and
vision and the first kind of meditation to traveler to, to the
knowledge of Allah by the meditative study on his created
objects, they utilize their physical senses, and they observe
observation of creation to calculate or to conclude the
greatness of the Creator. The aim of this meditation is the
spiritual perception was shahada of the pure Being of Allah Mossad,
its motivated forces not only belief, because progression is not
in this instance, essentially, from the Creator to the creation,
but in this case, the progression so to speak is from the creation
to the Creator. Thus, the gaze of the travelers art is focused on
the creation, then to the Creator. Okay? Now, here's the negative of
this and the positive, the negative is it takes longer.
But the positive is, when you reach a conclusion, you're able to
explain it to others, the opposite those who know Allah azza wa jal,
then they know something is wrong, right? Or they know something is
right. You can explain that to people. I can sit here and give
you five, six examples, right? And then convince you that something's
right or wrong. But the people who know Allah who are inspired by
Allah, then they apply that to the creation. They're always more
accurate. But the problem is, the problem is, they have a hard time
explaining this to others. Right? How do you explain this? This is
like many parents, many common Muslims, something in their heart
tells them that something's wrong. So they tell the kids don't do it.
Stop doing that. Okay, what? He doesn't know why his heart is
clean. It comes from the old country, he knows that's wrong.
Something about it. Just his football knows it's wrong. Now,
his American kid is asking him why. For 10 generations, no one
ever asked why, right? This first American kid asking what now he
doesn't know. And this is the negative of when you are based on
inspiration is a negative as you can't explain why. So the scholar
is someone who can explain why. And this is the benefit of the
scholar over the worshiper, the word super, he may have a better
understanding. He's more pure, but he can't explain why. So it's
pointless. The scholar must be able to explain why. Okay, must be
able to explain why. Same thing and Hadith if you remember, in
Hadith studies, they one of the conditions they put is the end,
which is the hidden defect. So someone said to another student,
or a student said to shift, how do I know if there's a hidden defect?
He said, Go to the experts of the age, they will look at the Hadith.
And they'll tell you if there's a problem or not. Well, one of the
shifts rebutted. They said, No, you can't stop there. If he is
truly an expert, he needs to find the problem in the Hadith. Where's
the mistake in the chain of transmission, okay, so likewise,
and this has been very important for us, as parents, we cannot just
be righteous, you have to have an arch, you've got to be able to
convince
or at least present the case you have to present the good case.
All right. So this is ends the section. So today's lecture was on
Flickr, and the importance of Flickr and the next one is on
abstinence is.
Now, of course, there can be a blend, and a clear, purely
aesthetic, aesthetic, aesthetic or image to do but the more much do
the less functional and society.
The more image do the more illiterate is and the less
functional he is in society. But the more pure he is, but he cannot
convince people. Right? He doesn't have the tools to convince people.
Why do you have to go there? Schizophrenia is the law. This is
sickness from the gender from the brain or something, right?
Schizophrenia is a sickness, right? From
the in the brain, right? There's something wrong physically. The
metronome is not schizophrenic. He is totally gaudy, functional. But
he has inspiration. He's inspired. Right? He's inspired. And
therefore when he sees something, he comes to a conclusion that is
an inspired conclusion. If you ask him why he can't give you an
answer, right?
it'll just know that something's right or something's wrong, right?
Or he'll explain something in a way, but he can't explain you why.
Right. So this is why there's two types of fickle
and he can never be a ship either. He can be assured, you can take
inspiration from it, you can benefit from it, but he cannot be
assured because he doesn't know cause and effect. Whereas the best
type of chef is the one who begins mentioned do but then Allah sends
him down. And then he has to study and learn the way all humans do.
Right? learn cause and effect and whatnot, and then he can explain
it to others.
Yes.
Yes, that's correct. That's correct, he should begin from the
bottom right. And he should not aspire to go out. Before he has,
he should work naturally from his duty, his local situation, at his
family and himself. If he goes further, it goes further from
somebody he should not desire and he should do what his job is, for
himself for his family is for community. Right? Allah azza wa
jal never made it obligatory for a prophet to go beyond his nation or
his people except Prophet Muhammad. But look at how the
Prophet Muhammad said
he was concerned with one city. That's it. When he had to make
Hijra. He was concerned with one city, Medina, right, you didn't
see the profit going and leaving Medina too much. But then he was
focused on one city back then expanded that Arabia is his whole
environment, right.
And you can see when the fitna happens when the Sahaba spread so
thin, then the fitna happened, right. So the issue is that a
person should not be biting off more than he could chew. And
oftentimes it is hidden ego in such ambition, right? It's a
hidden form of ego.
Express
and this reflection really could, I think only applies in
I think it applies in a lot of the service areas service industry,
right? If you're trying to just be so huge, right? And end up being a
political animal, you're not going to offer the service that you're
offering. If you become huge and naturally over the years, then
that's fine. Naturally.
Yep, I wanted to share like when you talk about zip remote,
one of my friends who was going to match tomorrow for residency to
become a doctor. And he passed away, four days back Sobrato, he
went to umbra, and he came back. And within two days, he got a
cardiac arrest. They rushed him to the hospital but he was declared
brain dead so
and we abused branded, the brain dead was declared brain dead on
when he reached the hospital. And they took out the life support.
And he's dead now so so wrong. Yeah, his whole life ahead if you
never know what marriage and everything and that's the benefit
of that is for all his friends and family to take the eyebrow. He
said that his friend who was at ombre, and he was four days away
from taking his his investments, he's always gonna get the match
the residency, basically the medical draft pick, basically, the
draft, he was going off with the draft and he died he just died
four days beforehand, so you never know when you're gonna die. That's
why you got to move now you got to move now even if you have to go to
work tomorrow doesn't mean you quit your job. You got to move now
change your motive, right your motive once your motive change,
you can change your habits.
Anything else?
Okay, so that's a wrap for today's class on unfrequent meditation,
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