Shadee Elmasry – Hikam Class #9
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The speakers discuss the importance of protecting oneself from gangs and finding one's own happiness in life. They emphasize the need to balance work and personal life, pursue certain habits and routine, and learn about numbers and facts in the desert. They also emphasize the importance of learning about the d union and visiting New York City for a day.
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kulula Mala al Amin, we ask Allah azza wa jal in order for us to get
through this world, there's only one way to get through the world.
And the key is the phrase, the Sunnah and the Jamaat, the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam when he was asked about the hard times,
he gave me two pieces of advice. Stick to my sunnah and stick to
the Jamar.
In another narration, he said stick to the book of Allah and to
my sunnah, and in the third narration, stick to the book of
Allah and to my family.
Okay, when we say the Sunnah, obviously, no one's going to be
following sunnah not following Quran, right? So Quran and Sunnah,
or go hand in hand.
When we follow the Jamar, with a special emphasis upon 100 beats,
you have to love 100 beats, if you love our beats and your family,
that means like stories of it felt to my husband and Hussein, and you
love them and your family and your community. It's really an
additional special
padding to your guidance. Okay. And what we have to do was live
and die by basically as a gank.
To keep you gave in order to keep everything's gangs, the whole
world is gangs. It used to be tribes, right, it descended a
little bit and got bad, right. And they have gangs. That's what it is
a gang to protect one another, to protect one another from falling
off the path. That's what we have to do. Right? You got to be a gank
it's not a easy world out there. Every movie that you see, will
life they made a movie about forks and spoons, one of them's going to
be gay. Every single movie, they have to put a gay reference. And
some people say they get fooled, because they'll put a gay
reference, then they'll put someone who makes fun of it,
right? A character who makes fun of it, it doesn't matter it got in
your head right? There just put, they put both to look like it's
Oh, it's balanced. It's not balanced. It shouldn't be in there
in the first place. Right? It's not something that we believe
shouldn't be there in the first place. Okay, so everything has a
gay reference rod, Allah,
everything, they're gonna have to refer to it somehow it's gonna get
in your head.
So we need to constantly be protecting ourselves. And we're
going to do so by togetherness. All right, Jim. Protective
togetherness. No one should be upsetting anyone. Anyone who upset
someone immediately apologizing a website away. And no one should be
holding a grudge against anyone else. We the path of pure hearts
is what we need to have pure hearts. There are it's an amazing
thing. There are a certain type of star. If you look at it, you can't
see it. But if you look next to it, you can see this is a unique
thing. You may be experienced this. Very few people see stars in
the first place nowadays because there's so much light out but back
in the day when there were stars you look at a star and you see
another very faint star here. But then when you go to look at that
star, you don't see it anymore. Certain now, the prophesy centum
said to say that I showed your lawn, there are certain blessings.
If you don't look at them, it'll stay. One time said I said she had
bread. She was making bread and the province I said said how much
bread is there? She said let me look. She looks
and she said there is bread for one day. The prophesy centum said
if you had not looked at it, it could last you until your death.
Another example. They say that if there was
Food in the pub.
And you fear that there are too many guests.
Okay, because on the one there are two centers, there are two centers
that conflict with one another, it appears that they conflict but
Allah gives us an outlet. The first one is you do not invite
guests when you have nothing to give them. Right? You don't marry
when you don't have any food to feed your wife, the prophesy said,
Minister, I mean, come on.
If you can handle the responsibility, then get married.
So if you cannot feed people or have a guest, don't invite him.
Invite him to be hungry. Okay, then he gets upset. But then we
have another example, that if someone requests to come we never
turn them away. Right? Another example,
and it's my crew is frowned upon.
Except for the prophesy sudden because he knew what he was doing
in one instance, to let's say, someone invites me I go to their
house, okay.
And I say, You know what, let me bring the whole class with me.
Right? Only the Prophet did that in a certain situation. He know
what he's doing. And I'm not speaking about anything. So
yesterday there was a great thing but we didn't This has nothing to
do with that right? This is just totally coincidence. Okay. But
invitations the these are the Sumners the prophesy send them
then gave us an outlet. If you fear that the food's not gonna
last, then what do we do? We recite upon it, students Quraysh
the elf encourage enough immorality, she thought it was
safe. Right? Failure, I would rather bathe worship this loader
this allele abama majeure, He fed them from hunger Mahnomen health
and he kept them from theory, safe from fear, recite that while
pouring the food without looking at the pot without looking in and
saying, Oh, how much left? How much is left? How much is left? Do
not look at the problem.
Now, just as a interesting coincidence, really, I'm not a
coincidence. But insert interesting parallel. They were
these scientists, they were doing an experiment.
And they found that the behavior they were looking at the behavior
of certain particles. Okay, particles, so the particles were
going and splitting. Okay, they were splitting, they noticed the
particles are splitting, or going in different directions.
So then when they noticed that and they started to observe it, it
stopped happening. Right? It stopped happening. What does that
show us? Somehow our looking our gaze upon something that thing
reacts to us. And whenever we look at something, we ruin it. Right?
Whenever you put your gaze upon something, you ruin it, right? It
stops behaving the way we think it is. So someone who's sitting
looking for a miracle will never see one. But someone who is
focusing on something higher than that will see one right. So the
prophesy Selim said recite Surah Quraysh on the food and pour from
it.
Imagining that it has no end to the pot. There's no bottom to the
bottom that no limit without looking at the fruit. Okay, don't
keep looking at the pot and wondering how much left how much
is not left, right, then it will last for everyone. This is how the
province I sent him did it when he went to a hobbies house while they
were digging the fund up. The wife of the men. She said to the Saudi
men, she said to her husband, the prophet looks so tired, tell him I
have cut for him slaughter for him a lamp. Okay, or part of a lamp.
So she ran and whispered to the ear of the Prophet when you're
finished digging.
When it gets dark and you're not digging any more common we have
some of them. So they all prayed rather than the than the men went
home to prepare a primitive in his house he prepared. Okay, then he
looks out the door waiting for the Prophet and what does he see? The
entire army is coming.
He ran inside the house in a panic and he said Do you have any other
food? She said no. Why? He said because all armies coming.
And she said Did you invite them? And
he said then who told them? She said he said Rasulullah sallallahu
Sallam then she said if Rasulullah brought brought them then he knows
what he's doing. Everything's gonna be fine. This is the man of
the Saudi women. The Eman of the Saudi women. They're not counting
pennies. Okay, so within the prophesy Selim came,
and people that there were too many people for the house. So they
would come in 10 in the house that house Oh,
They fit 10 people, and they would eat in the profit would bless the
food, okay, then they would leave. And they didn't have a Suraj,
which is a light, they didn't have a light so no one sees what's in
the pot. If you're looking to wait for a miracle to happen, it's not
going to happen. It's not a game that works like that. Okay, so
then 10 leaves and 10 go up until everyone ate from the food. Okay?
Now, if you want to attain a goal to so Wolf is telling us you can
attain a lot if your gaze is only on Alonso Ajah. But if you keep
looking at the your phenomenon, and thinking about it, you may be
the cause of its own destruction. So our goal is to get through this
life soundly where our Eman is under siege or Islam is constantly
under siege. With temptations, good things and bad things. We
want to get through it. The way to succeed is to keep your eye on
Allah azza wa jal. Your goal is to be with Allah azza wa jal
if you start looking, mashallah, I succeeded one month I succeeded
for two years, this is no good, you're going to falter, you're
going to falter because your eye is not on the road anymore. Your
eyes on the rearview mirror, if you're driving on the highway, you
cannot look in the rearview mirror, or else you're gonna
crash. So people crash when they start looking at themselves. You
can't drive and start looking at yourself yourself in the mirror
and saying, Oh, my makeup looking good. You're gonna crash.
You're going to crash. So remove, don't look at your situation. Just
look at your work. And speaking of work, this is why I send everyone
a spiritual action chart, right through to action chart.
This we have to practice what we're doing here. We did six
chapters, right, six chapters, and I put them in five practices.
First one is,
every day there should be something available. And the
avenues for AMR so many there's no limited, right avenues of enemy
podcasts. There's podcasts. There's, I mean, when you drive,
right, when you're driving, you can listen to it. Some people are
they listen, they're better at listening. Other people are
getting out reading, okay?
Reading an hour, 20 minutes, 10 minutes, do something. If someone
reads listen to a podcast 10 minutes a day, which means
basically, from your home to go to the pickup,
or sitting in the line to do the pickup your kids, right?
Right? You're standing online, pick up your kids, or any of these
chores that you have to do listen to some items. Until
Until the guy says all the way down
Okay, listen to some item that's an inside joke for the nearly men
parents all the way down. Okay, just listen for that. You can
learn knowledge. This is how you learn right little by little
little by little. You remember had that said knowledge is review and
consistency. It's not It's review and consistency. That's all it is?
To an hour, 20 minutes, 10 minutes.
And what is the best knowledge to study is to review old material.
Some people think I need to read something new because I read this
book already. Actually not according to him, I'm gonna have
dead the best knowledge for you to learn is to review something
you've already read or learn to read it again. Right to read it
again. Shake arami and soar. He's the only person in America we
could say on the American who has memorized the main book of Malik
effect. It's like this big basically this big, He's memorized
it. MashAllah cover to cover, memorized, cover to cover.
Yeah, this is the book of flip, right? He's memorized. Okay, so
the end you have all in one on one stuff or even one or two, reread
it, just reread it until you know it like the back of your hand.
This is the best of knowledge. Okay, it's not about reading so
many books, but it's about actually having memorized almost
the content of the books that you did study. The second thing is, I
mean, mashallah, we here in America, we have so much an AMA,
it's unbelievable how much namah we have so much. Now.
If you imagine if you're a French Muslim,
you got a lot of problems. If you're a French, most of them.
Imagine if you're in Germany, a country with a very strong
national identity. They don't want foreigners there, right. Angela
Merkel says this thing is not working. Right. We've got a
problem before. Well, we're living in a country Allah caused us to
come to a country it's all foreigners. No one could say this
is the country for one group. No one has a
long historical lineage to say for 600 years we've been this or that
we don't have that here right? There's constantly punk
calculations and we're in a big Namur by how much arrogance isn't
if we are taking this number without making any so far right
the solution for them is you got to make a super that's how you
neutralize it make a lot of it's too far. And so this is the code
from the Prophet sizer right. So for a lot of humility Nayla Allah
who will help you much away when you do this you can say and how
you will pay you or you could say hi yell for you either way, is
correct era Okay, stock for Allah.
Okay, so monsoon with the Fatah allow the mala de la la la and
then el HYAH being a CIFA lawful gelada stock through la
de la vie La ilaha illa hua hai yah, a uma wa Chubu
and if you say a socket Allah Allah the melody Lai La Ilaha and
you say Allah Hi EULA you were to really is also valid and correct.
And at the very least, we can make 100 As far as a day. At the very
least you could do this at a traffic light. And the best thing
real Vickery, I tried to do it sitting down without distractions
in your house. That's the best of the right. Sit down without a
distraction in your house. Okay, relaxed and really heavy. Ballmer
puts a lot of emphasis on being relaxed and happy and comfortable
when you do that. Right. I mean, the temperature is fine, the
lighting is fine, you're happy, okay? You've eaten you've drank
you're totally happy in a good mood. And then you do that. Right?
Because this is Yanni you don't say to your for example, your
child wants to come spend time with me. Right? And he's a haggard
state state. He's hungry, he's tired. You're happy you enjoy
yourself, right? Vigorous enjoyment is enjoyment. Right? So
you shouldn't shouldn't be set to go after dinner. Had your cup of
tea and do some liquor. Then Salah salah. Okay.
Again, we said there's a myth. Some people really think it's
haram for a woman to go pray in the masjid some people think like
that's crazy, right? It's not haram for a sister to go to pray
in the masjid when the prophesy said I'm talking about the best of
love a woman is in her house. Okay, that's the Hadith. Now let's
look at the practice and we Malkia were very much keen on looking at
the practice. What was happening? Okay, not just the statement,
because Robin said the Hadith and in the time until the time of
Amara homophone wife was praying in the masjid, right. So, what is
the ALA therefore, therefore the Allah has to do with safety and
shift cernik even said the same thing when he said about a woman
cannot travel 24 hours one day and my Sirata young woman should not
travel one day without her madam. So so someone medically woman
asked her ecstatic she said, shit, what happens? We need to go
somewhere. He said, No, no, that doesn't have to. It's not about
the actual time or distance is about safety. The inlet for this
hadith, the reason the Prophet said this hadith has to do with
safety. So if you're on a plane with everyone, right, and there's
always like, officers everywhere, it's fine, right? If there's a
need, right, he's not advocating like someone go on a vacation by
themselves. Right. But if when there's a need or reasonable
situation, or a good thing to go to Hajj and Umrah you can go with
the group, right? Going to certain things, but things go into
conferences go in a group, right? So these types of things, as long
as there's no any situation of there can be immorality in it. So
that's the exception. Likewise, in the masajid. Women, they do
everything today. Right? She's there everything today. So if
there's a sulla verb and I'm out, swing by the masjid, pray in the
masjid and continue what are you doing? So the misogyny, one at
least one prayer in the masjid feathered in the masjid is
gold. That's what's gold, right? And this is why feathering the
masjid is actually the most superior of Salah in the masjid,
is because it forces you to sleep early at night.
feathering the nest it forces you to shut down the day. And most of
the rest of the heart comes from the youth or the adults who are
staying up late. What are you doing staying up late? You got to
be you're watching something, right? You're just watching videos
and spending time on your phone. If you do this too much it could
nullify all the good that you did in the day. And you die with a
rusty heart and you won't wake up for failure. So fudging the
message forces you and we're doing another thing to send me an iron
do another thing. The Arab brothers the Sudanese and their
brothers they already do a beautiful thing where they bring
in food and tea and stuff Sunday morning for
fetch. So we're gonna do the same, and they bring their kids. So they
beat us to it. Now we're going to imitate them, because they did
something good, right? So we're gonna copy them, why should they
be doing something good? Well, we can do the same thing, right? So
we don't want, they're gonna get the reward of their action. And
for setting the example they're gonna get the reward for all of
us. We're going to copy them. We're going to start bringing our
boys and kids to the masjid and if you have a whole family, make it a
whole family thing. Right? Unless you have babies obviously you
can't bring them for February but if you don't, you know make it the
whole family comes to 100 You know what this is going to do the
people, right Phaedra is such a special time people don't realize.
So this is so so your Salah, and now if you don't do anything in
the masjid, at least do 12 gods of nephila
to before Fajr, for before the huddle to after there, you've
already done a
write, then.
It should before Fajr for that 678 than awesome has no definite you
could do two to four before Awesome. That's lesser, so no,
then Maghrib. That's 10, then chef, two, that's 12. Then Witter
is going to top it off.
Now, all Zillow and Flickr is really combined, if you're very
ambitious, you do an hour 35 minutes and at the very least what
we do in DECANOATE, five minutes, complete shut down everything
close your eyes and you visualize this is also known as two solar
two solar two. So what comes from the word Surah, which is Image
two. So what is visualization? You visualize yourself, on your
deathbed, regretting? And what do you regret is what you need to
remove from your life?
Or being happy? What are you happy about? I wouldn't be happy that I
was very sincere. I spent a whole lifetime praying Federa in the
masjid. And I never strayed from the book of Allah. Salaam, the
Prophet and I never made my parents upset. I would feel very
confident. You only go not confident, but hopeful and Allah's
mercy. If I had done those things, right. I know that on my deathbed,
I that's what I'm going to be hoping on. So that's what I need
to do now. Before tomorrow, I need to do it now. Okay. You don't need
to be 60 to do these things. This is what you realize in our head.
We imagine our when I'm retired, right? Then I'm gonna be to do all
these things. You need to do all that. You just need to do part of
that and now part of it now. Okay? And have you Vollmer says it's
from the shadow of the knifes. It's from the false passions of
the ego, that you tell yourself, I wish I could just leave all this
work in dunya and just devote myself to Allah. He said, This is
a trick of shaitan it's a trick. You don't need that. You need to
keep doing your dunya and just do part of that a day but be
consistent. Be consistent. Then lastly, Vickery.
The greatest vicar is the Quran. There is no rival to the book of
Allah. Two pages of Quran a day or his
how many Jews of Quran are there 30 Each Jews is divided into two
has. So his was 10 pages in the medina massage or a his plus the
width the Latif and the ratchet Masha here, the two prophetic
Elrod that are that are derived directly from the son of the
province. I sent him and we need a volunteer to make printouts for
the what is it, Latif? Okay, so who's gonna do that? It was gonna
volunteer.
The Green Book and actually yeah, the green book is great. Is it
even? Is it even sold anymore?
We can get it so
yeah, we should probably do that. Actually. We should probably buy
them in bulk and then just sell them by sell them off to people.
Yeah, you could take it with you could put in your purse. You could
put the CD in the car.
And what is it? Let's see. Alright, submachine that's called
prophetic invocations. That's the book that we should have. That's a
word of the morning. And the thing is, if you're driving to work, you
put the CD and follow the CD. Right What is it in the morning
but on the machine and the night?
I would say it looks like maybe 40 Do it.
Okay, yeah, bring those. Bring those.
There. Yeah.
And we'll get 20 of the CDs to actually do this probably online
too. He gets put in your phone in two minutes, right. It's on
YouTube.
With audio.
The
Okay good. And you all know that how to strip the audio from
YouTube video. YouTube dash mp3 dot org. There's so many of these
websites
Yeah, we're gonna do that in sha Allah, we raise your hand, if you
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we need to pass a paper around the challah.
And we'll do that someone have a piece of notebook paper.
All right, so these charts are very blessed. These charts that
you see here, okay.
You got to put up numbers, you got to put up results, right? You got
to put up results. You can't just be talk, right? You got to have
results. If you want results, if you want to see results, you got
to put in results. And you got to put them in on a regular basis.
Right? It needs to be every day. If you notice here, the see on
each one.
Actually, I vichara did the opposite. See is the hardest one.
That was an accident. Okay. But if you look at it for each one of
these,
if you do the least the bare minimum, okay, the bare minimum
here, you're gonna be good. You know, you're gonna be good. So
these are the subjects that we've studied. Toba, Salah,
Ficker, and thicker today we study another one, which is very heavy,
very heavy, because this involves depriving the neffs of what it
loves. The nature of the neffs is that it constantly loves to
entertain itself.
The neffs is in a constant state of design to entertain itself.
Okay.
And that's how
coffee shops and stuff are in business. You're bored. Okay, what
do I do? Drive to coffee, right? You know, it's what is it? It's an
excess. It's like, oh my god, I really need you might need coffee
like twice a week because you're really drowsy. But other than
that, it's just a little gift for your knifes right a little massage
for your for your knifes abstinence is teaching us that if
we don't have the courage to remove stuff, okay, then there's
no room for the growth of our spirituality. Let's take an
example. How to coddle Jelani
A man came to him and he said to him make to
make draw from my heart. So abracadabra, Jelani said there's
no point in that. He said why? He said, Because I'm looking at your
life. There's no room in your heart for Allah. You are so
filled, insisting upon so many things to have for yourself.
There's no room. Okay, so we need to clear out space. And every once
in a while. This is the whole theme of don't be a frog in
boiling water. Okay, don't be a frog in boiling water, which means
your life is just gonna get more and more and more busy. Okay, and
your ambitions are going to increase more and more and more
and more, until there's no room for any spiritual ambitions left.
So every once in a while you need to stop and you need to empty,
empty, empty stuff away, empty stuff out. Okay? You have to empty
stuff out from your desires.
Man, I'm alone baraza montalvan Zed, wala Cateura, Cameroon.
baraza carbon laden, no deed or net arising from a renouncing
heart is small, and no deed arising from an average his heart
is fruitful.
By the word raw him here he means desirous desirous you desire so
many things. So I mean, there are people out there, you talk to
them. You look at their lives. There is no calmness in their
life. There's no calmness. What is it? Ambitious ambitions, desires,
constantly working so much. Why are you working so much? I'm busy.
Okay. I don't doubt that you're busy. But I do doubt that you have
to be busy. I think you made yourself busy with your ambitions.
You bought stuff, and now you need to pay it off. Right? You purchase
stuff. Okay. And now you need to work overtime to pay it off. You
didn't need that stuff in the first place. It's your avarice and
your greed and your love of dunya that made you do all this stuff.
Okay, so we have to constantly be looking at how much dunya are we
forcing upon ourselves. We're forcing on ourselves a lot of
dunya that we actually don't need
And then we have to work overtime for it. That's why we're busy.
Okay, we bought stuff that we don't need. And this is where
abstinence comes in. Abstain from excessive purchases that will put
you into abstain from desires in your heart to be like so and so
you have people their entire lives, they measure their lives
and take direction in their lives based on what other people are
doing.
It's like this right? Keeping Up with the Joneses. If they got a
picket fence, we have to paint our picket fence, take the metal fence
down, put the wooden fence up. Why? Okay, gotta do it. If so, and
so recently bought a luxury car. And sometimes this is in families,
in families, my brother got his wife a luxury car, I have to get
my wife a luxury car. She got a luxury SUV, I gotta get her luxury
SUV. Which if you had to set I want I can do it and then I want
to get it because I want to. There's nothing wrong with that.
And if you have wealth, you should it's an insult to Allah's namah
that Allah gives you well, and you're living like a muskie. No,
like I said a million times this is not a deen that
that humiliates the rich and gives preference to the poor just for
the sake of poverty. Now, if you are just happened to be like that,
fine. But if you're doing it out of competition, that's where the
problem comes in the motive, if the motive is competition, there
is no blessing in it. Okay, so this is this. Here. Hekima says,
when you do a nomina if your heart is empty, like a clean white
plate, okay, clean white plate, then whatever you put in there is
going to be pronounced right, but if your heart is like, filled with
stuff, and whenever you were going to put in there, it's going to
dissolve, like if you go to the best restaurants. There's not that
much food in the plate. But what's in the plate was like fresh,
cooked well perfect ingredients. And it's worth more than if you go
to a
buffet these buffets and they're 30 meals you got the seafood on
top of the steak on top of the chicken, do you even taste
anything anymore, you can't even taste anything, all the flavors
are all messed up. Same thing here. If you have empty space your
art has to be empty than what you put in it counts.
And they call this Infinity background. Right and Infinity
background okay? If you want to have your whatever thing to look
pronounced make the background all white and then just put that thing
in the middle. That's called an infinity but it makes pronounced
but you fill the landscape with junk. You can't even recognize
anything good in it.
Acceptance of the of deeds in the Divine Court occurs only when
these deeds are devoid of such calamities What calamity desiring
of dunya On the contrary, the servants upon whom Allah's Grace
settles, and whose egos are purified from love of the world,
all the actions, whether pertaining to the religion of the
world, are based on sincerity, the aim of such a person is solely
Allah because the world has been expelled from his heart. Hence, a
deed rendered by an absent one is not insignificant, even if the
quantity appears slight. Although his deed may be quantitatively
liberal, it is imbued with a true spirit and is accepted by law most
one of the things that the
Medicare emphasize a lot is if there's any doubt in a matter
remove it. So their ethos ends up being very simple. Very simple,
right? They don't do a lot of things. Because if there's any
doubt in a matter, they remove it completely. So they end up not
doing a lot of things. But what they do has a stronger effect.
Okay because the for the plane is pure. There was a shape once is a
big one he Oh, Allah azza wa jal, and he was seen talking about
investments. He was seen in good clothes. He was seen in a luxury
car. And he was in Cairo. And they asked him, yeah, and he he talked
about so what you do all these things, you got to staff, you got
investments, you got people investing your money, you drive a
luxury car, all these things, how do you have a hood? He said, the
difference between myself and others, is that I do these things
out of habit. Right? It's out of habit. It's a good habit when you
get a lump sum of money. Zoho does not to be dumb. When you get a
lump sum of money. It's a good habit to have to grow that money,
give it to an investor to invest it. Right. So he says I do these
things, and we come from the rich
damage. It's a habit. When we have money, we invest it. We don't just
throw it in the bank. We invest it. That's a habit. I'm doing all
this out of out of good habits, not out of desiring. Dunya. So
this is how the Olia they combined these two, the things we need to
do in life and should do in life without letting it affect your
heart. Your cleaning, so cleaning, right? Why? Because he loves doing
it. No, it's a good habit. Everything he buys is nice. The
food he buys is fresh. He didn't have the junky stuff in his house
everything was nice in his house. This is why when I told you the
story before the ship went to the house, he says not our lead this
amount of dunya when he was asked why you do all this this this is
just a habit this the habits the habit, good habits, you don't buy
cheap stuff, you don't buy cheap food, you clean you invest your
money, you get an education, out of habits is the way of life.
Okay? What should they call sooner to hire?
Sooner of life, that's how you do things. Okay, so that no one
thinks that Zoho is to be some dirty wrinkled clothes. Cheap.
Stuff is horrible, right? No. Look at chef no having color. Okay, his
work his books that he produces, right? You don't even want to open
it. When you get the book. I just want to put it on the shelf. I
want to buy two one for the shelf and one for to use. Okay. The
quality
does not cannot be matched the quality of the work the pages, the
cover everything about it, right? Why don't you do this habits, not
love of dunya habits, good habits, okay. And we need to be an
educated drummer, a wealthy drummer, and intimidating. A
strong drummer. We got most of the people talking about Muslims. You
see a woman in a hijab driving a beat up Honda. She can get yelled
at. She can get cursed. She gets spit on. But if she's driving,
right in a nicer car, she's looks with it. No one's gonna bother
her. Right? No one's gonna go bother a woman who's she's driving
in like, Mercedes. A job in a Mercedes no one's gonna bother.
But if she's because as soon as she can afford a lawyer, right?
But if she's a miskeen, and a Honda beat up old thing, right?
And it's not even washed. This is someone who she's like, someone
can abuse that. Right? So as a minority, we also we need these
things.
Tafara Hawaii
right? Now, how how do you live happy? You want to be every wants
to be happy in life? How do you be happy. Don't be happy.
By stuff.
Hekima here, if you want your sadness to be little, let your joy
be little.
If you're happy with stuff, you have dug your own grave of
sadness, how when that stuff gets ruined. If you're so happy that
you got a new phone, right? You will be very miserable the moment
you drop it, right?
If you invested so much to buy a piece of furniture, you're going
to be so miserable when your child or your niece or your grandson
takes it with the marker. Right and draws on it. Okay, so what
you're so happy about, you need to actually think about, well, what
is it that gives me a high, right, because that's what's gonna give
me a low. All right. And then some people have another thing. They
look in the mirror and they're so happy with what they see. These is
the dumbest of people.
Because it is a guarantee you're going to be old.
You're going to be old, if you're a brother, he might be old and
wrinkled game over for you. Then when you look in the mirror, you
say hamdulillah let me use this for some good hamdulillah but
like Abu Bakr used to say oh neffs know that you will grow old and
you will lose all these Namba he Rebekah used to be very keen on
this. He said Oh where are the youth so happy with their looks?
Let them look at the old people in the masjid. That's who you're
going to be. So don't even invest so much and build so much.
Unfortunately some people that haven't so good they build on
these things, right? They build on these things. You build on the
fact that people love to be around me right but what happens when you
get old what happens when the youth they become more mature and
better than you your God? So don't invest on something that's gonna
go away. Invest on that which stays right
in the law Heba man documented
Mandela back what you people have Allah saying what you people have,
meaning the people of the dunya is going away, it's gonna go away,
we're gonna end the lie. And that which is with Allah stays. And
that is spirituality, spirituality. Okay? Even knowledge
is something you're gonna grow old and forget your knowledge and
someone will come with a better knowledge or you have knowledge
you solve the problem after you've solved that problem. It's not a
problem anymore. So your knowledge is not needed. Right? There's
another like Salah Deena UBN his his gym.
Right? So
they experienced this What did they what was what how did they
make selves known or not make themselves known what are they
known for? What they read took Jerusalem right?
So after they read took it, right by promoting, you know, this
concept after you retook it, the next generation grows up that's
not a problem, right? That's not a problem. So an efficient military
is not valuable to them anymore. So so that Dean son, so So I had
the you know, you we use the Fibonacci of his son was not
really into the military or the jihad against the Franks. He
didn't care. He grew up and the Franks are already defeated, right
he grew up and the enemies are routed. So what is he into, into
other things? So when he took the position, one of the first thing
he did is it he deprioritize the military and he prioritized trade.
Okay, so an even a great accomplishment like that the glory
of it will go away. Unless you did it for Allah azza wa jal, then you
should not care for the parades you should not care for the praise
of people. You did it for Allah azza wa jal, and all those wishes
to stay alone. Always reminds you of why you do things you do for
Allah azza wa jal.
Now, let's read what he says. In most cases, the cause of man's
grief and worry is the wall a loss of worldly objects. The loss of
wealth and property is one example of the possession of such objects,
on the other hand, produces pleasure and comfort. If anyone
wishes to decrease grief and worry, he should decrease his
worldly possessions, he will not then possess the things that cause
him grief, the greater man's worldly possessions, the greater
will be his grief and sorrow, the heart will not find peace, thus
the intelligent man will contend himself with necessary
requirements and eliminate superfluous possessions. In this
way he acquires the peace and comfort of both worlds, okay? You
want to put yourself in a position? emotionally speaking,
right? You want to put yourself in an emotional position that you
have nothing to lose? Okay? You have nothing to lose, right? This
is the emotional position that you need to be okay? Because you can
be blackmailed any destiny, the events of life can blackmail you.
Right, if the right path is one way, but requires you to lose
something,
including a friend, right? Or the happiness of your kid. Okay, what
happens to you, Jana, you have a belief. Your kid doesn't like that
belief. What are you going to do? This is a test. Your attachment to
your kids is good. But it's not absolute. It's, it's controlled.
It's controlled. Really, there was one time shift. A lot of people
were so devoted to right. And this shit. He had quirks and he had
abuses and whatnot. It's personally it wasn't wasn't any,
like blue would say
a basket of fruits. Right? He wasn't a basket of fruits as a
person to deal with. But everyone loved him because he guided us,
right. But everyone tolerated all that. But as soon as he made
started making errors in nakida, everyone jumped in. Everyone just
dropped it. Right. It was amazing.
The time were like 1020 people around him loved him so much. He
was like a drunk, gruff. Everyone tolerated all that. Right, in the
name of love and benefit. But as soon as he took a turn in the
matter of beliefs on PETA, everyone jumped. Dropped him,
right. So our even our attachment has limits, not going to go to
* for anyone. Right? So it has those limits. And that's very
that's some people will say like the Buddhists will say, Don't be
attached anyone. Well, where's the joy of life? If you don't love
your kids, and really love them passionately, and care so much for
them, maybe that care is what's going to keep them on the straight
path. But when they become their own people, and they choose to
turn right or left, right, then there's
Mind, right? Because Allah describes the Momineen as Okay,
when Lavina Hammond who should have been Allah, those who believe
they love Allah more, right? They love Allah far more than they love
any human Abubaker his son came to him and he said, Father, I saw you
in the Battle of a bedroom and he was covered and a book was Muslim,
and I tried to avoid you. Right? Look or whatever. But I said, this
man is on Kufa, he said to him, and I didn't see you and if I had
seen you, I would have fought you would have went after you. Right?
We our love for Allah azza wa jal has no companion or else that's
the type of ship right? Not at the ship, but spiritually, right.
You're Yanni
and what is Allah azza wa jal says, if your families your
wealth, your belongings, your businesses, and all these that
your homes if all these things are more beloved to you than Allah and
His messenger and striving in His way, right then just wait. Okay,
and when, when Allah azza wa jal doesn't name the punishment that's
really bad. When Allah says Just wait, okay, this is the worst
punishment. The worst punishment is the unnamed punishment. You
don't even know what's coming next. Okay. So Allah and His
messenger and striving in there wherever every family should be
involved in the Dow was somehow you got to be involved in some
it's the whole family, right everyone and someone who doesn't
want to go right you want to be part of this family, right? We
strive for Allah we work for Allah azza wa jal, this is how you keep
the family good and strong in whatever capacity okay. Next
Hikmah says
in Allah to other for letter to Wella Wilayat and letter DUMO
luck. If you do not want to be dismissed, you don't want to be
fired, then do not take charge of a position that will not always be
yours. Right? That will not always be yours. Remember, had Dead was a
king or lay moment had that is such a great example of such a big
damage have taken him as the
PhD
subjects. Enamel had that he had something called What did they
call it?
The house.
The house I believe they call it the How to and how to what was the
How to it was part of his house. He made public part of his house
like a public courtyard in his house. So he had his house here.
And then some space and then a section almost like a little
Masjid right in front of his house. Right.
And that's where he took
his modulus. That's where he made his modulus. He would never accept
to be the Mufti of the land. He never expects it to be an imam of
the masjid because at the time she is ruling Yemen, Z these were
ruling Yemen, Zaydi Shia were ruling Yemen, so he would have to
be under their authority. Right? And he said, I'm not going to be
under the authority of Shay's. Right. So he took his home to be
his his his message. And he was they describe him as a monarch in
his home, his home and that little space was the monarchy. He ruled
in an uncut ticket away from him, it's his home. And he curved the
appetite and the temptation to have a bigger space or a bigger
thing or whatever. Right. So he was like King, because he curbed
appetite. If you have the appetite to be the president of a company,
right? Then you're in trouble. You can be the president of the
company. But if you went there with appetite, then you're gonna
have a lot of fear to be fired. But if you went there just because
I happened to get the promotion and not a really, whatever, I got
the promotion, okay. Then if you get fired, you get fired, right?
So this is the thing if you have that appetite for something you're
going to suffer to have to you're gonna have to protect it. This
aphorism is an example of the former statement the kingdom of
the world has no true existence of its own.
It is transitory and perishable and only sustained by Allah. Do
not acquire it in abundance, because you will be confronted
with grief of being dismissed from it. Even if you are not dismissed
in worldly terms, death will ultimately tear you away from this
kingdom. You will then suffer the grief of dismissal, hence,
abstaining from the acquisition of this perishable kingdom. Okay,
abstain from this.
All right. I think the whole fitna of the presidential election has
done a lot of good things for people spiritually, because people
have now imagined a life as refugees.
to immigrants even just imagining it has a lot of benefits
spiritually make you detached a little bit. Right makes you a
little bit detached and it's all about nothing and none of that
will happen. And it's just a passing tests from Allah azza wa
jal
but it has done a lot of good people saying, You know what,
maybe I don't belong here. Maybe I'll just go like why do I need to
be you know
in
in rock America, and be dyads that's good. Oh, this is amazing.
hekman in Dhaka, ha ha ha hit back on her button.
If the beginning of something makes you desirous, the end will
makes you have to make you abstinent.
Okay, and if the exterior invited you, the interior will hold you
back. And this is a big example for a lot of people who spend 20
years of their life trying to own a home. Right? The biggest goal,
and this is again, one of the things of the middle class.
American brainwashing is that your goal in life is to own a home, we
say. We say owning a home makes sense. We don't say it's your goal
in life. See the difference? So an ignorant person would say, Okay,
no, this is no good. We just rent it out. That's the ignorant person
who's who's not nuanced enough in Islamic spirituality is never is
about outward. It's always about the motive, right? So we don't say
the goal in the statement, the goal in life is to own a home or
the goal in the middle of your life is to own a home. Right? This
statement is false doesn't mean homeownership is bad homeownership
makes more sense. At least you have something to sell, right?
Okay.
You're paying rent anyway, you're paying rent or paying your state
your state tax or whatever they are your home tax to the township
citizen, they send them out. And then anyway, you keep renting, you
can have a family who's gonna rent to you with three, four kids,
right? So we don't say that to own home makes no sense. We say it's
not our motive in life. If you people, someone out there reaches
a situation in life, that he will never own a home, you shouldn't
care. And you're not any less than anyone who does or own a home.
You're not any less than them. And they're not any better than you.
If you have the money and owning all makes sense.
But if that's your goal in life, you're a fool. And you're going to
be emotionally damaged, because you're going to move in.
And within two, three weeks, the taste of having a new home is
lost. Right? I taste his last 234 weeks, then the headache starts.
All right, you got to know home. Who's gonna clean out the gutters.
More fees, who's gonna cut the grass, more fees? Okay.
Who's gonna everything has to match, okay, all these things and
becomes a heading. So this is why the beginning of it looks really
nice. They knew when they selling homes in the commercials, they
always show the first moment they walk in their new home. They never
show like the fifth the 15th year, right where the sink is falling
apart and ceilings, got stains on it. And then the guy is sitting
there and he's got his wife made him a to do list the size of a
book. Right. Okay. And he spent Saturday What are you doing on
Saturday had gone to the Home Depot. Okay. Spends that's how he
spent his Saturday. Okay? So that's the end result of right? So
again, what do we say if you do that, do that because that's the
smart thing to do. If you're in that situation, right? And then
it's blessed. But this is not your goal in life. Okay, this is not
your goal in life. Those people will never own a home they should
they should feel Allah has lifted from me this tests this
tribulation, okay.
So then the next thing here, if the exteriors invite you interior
holds you back, what does he mean by this? Very important, something
many people take lightly, and those who don't, they're happy in
life.
Basically, the summary is, right. Don't underestimate what your
heart is telling you.
And what truly makes you happy. Okay, what truly makes you happy.
Many people happiness is something they defined with their mind that
if I have x, y and z, I should be happy. When they get to Z. They
realize they're not happy. They scold themselves, they yell at
themselves, and they force themselves to be happy, and they
keep getting more and more miserable. The intelligent one
says to himself, am I happy or not? Do I really want this? Right?
Yeah, the society tells me I should have it. I might my own
mind tells me I should be doing this. But when I got there, I'm
not happy.
Right, turn around. Okay? Don't let society tell you how to be
happy. Okay? Because I guarantee you, between you and yourself,
right between you and yourself, when you sit all alone, with no
pressures from someone without even realizing that you're
thinking about this, if you ask a person, what do you really want in
life? He says I would really just like many men would say, I really
just like a small house by a lake or a river, and just fish go
fishing, eat my fish and go to sleep. Right? That's it. Most
people will say that, right? Most people will say that. But why are
they living simply that they live? Simply? Why are you chasing after
positions? Why are you chasing after more only because his ego
will not allow his neighbor to be better than him. His ego check,
Alright, take care, bro.
His ego will not allow his cogeneration This
is cogeneration list to be better than him. And this is something
you have to fight, what's more worthy for you? What is more
valuable to be happy or to be perceived as superior to your
cogeneration? It's the girls of your generation, or the the boys
of your generation. People measure themselves? Right? Competing with
the people of their class, their generation, right? The people of
my age, I did better than all of them. Right? So you would rather
be perceived as being better than all and be able to say I did
better than all my classmates and be miserable, then to say, Yeah,
they did better than they did a little bit better than me. I
didn't do better, they did better. But you have like, people are
making this equation all the time. They are choosing to be miserable,
and externally perceived to be better
than their cogeneration is then to be okay in the middle of the pack.
But happy Subhanallah right, so and one of the things they say
about the moment the happiness of a movement is a reflection of
Allah's will. So when you find yourself in that comfortable
position, that you feel totally serene, and that's where Allah
wants you to be. That's for the advanced moment who's trying so
hard, that he should listen to his heart, right? When you reach
serenity. That's where Allah wants you to be. If society or your own
mind tells you climb up another mountain, and you climb that
mountain, and you feel happy and you feel like I shouldn't be doing
this, then do it. As soon as you start to feel miserable about it,
know that Allah doesn't want you to go any further stop there.
What's the proof of this from the Quran? Right? Proof of this from
the Quran that Delia give. Prophet Musa alayhis salam is described in
suits and KEF that he said here I want to see this person of
knowledge who was
he said to his, his apprentice, who is you shot him at noon,
Joshua, son of noon, he said to him, we will I will go and meet
this man. Even if I have to walk for an eternity. Oh, I'm the
Alpha. Alright, so Musa is going walking fast and you can't even
keep up right? Because Musa when he has a hammer for something, he
had a very strong hammer, right drive. So he's walking, going, go
traveling. Then what happened? Allah azza wa jal says in the
Quran, when Moses passed the point that he was supposed to be, then
he said, I feel tired.
Right? When he passed the point, Allah told him go where there's
two rivers meet two bodies of water meeting but Musa past that
point that Allah azza wa jal said, made him feel tired. So when you
start feeling miserable about something
about something that you're doing, or tired from it, this is a sign
from Allah to you. You've done too much. Now go back a little bit.
Push back a little bit. All right, then Musa realized then he talked
to the voice that he said to the boy get the fish because I'm tired
than the boy said, Oh, the sign was that the fish came to life and
jumped out of the water. Okay, is it oh, he looked down at the fish
is gone. Alright, so we passed our point. Okay, so this is the sign.
Some people come up and they say, I have an ambition. Something in
myself says I want to do something. Should I do it or not?
If it's halal, do it until you start to feel miserable. That's
when you know Allah telling you to stop. Right? Sometimes people feel
I feel I should be advancing in my job in my career and my knowledge
until it starts to taste and bitter when it starts to taste
bitter, then pull back then you know you put too much. Can you
have food without salt? You gotta have salt. But once you have too
much, right and you got to remove some. Okay, you have to remove
some. And this is how we have to ask our hearts and we have to have
balance.
Okay, and we should not there's not everything has a textbook
thing to it. Not everything has a textbook thing to it. Okay
in NEMA John
we're maddeningly will do the factory. Does he that lack of
fear?
Another sign that we've done too much, that Allah azza wa jal, he
only made the world the place of alternatives which means constant
temporary things and the mine of impurities. So by way of inducing
detachment in Utah that one of the Hickam the great Hickam, a very
short hikma
of even our thought, which is probably going to come soon, is
states that Allah azza wa jal is only waiting for you to get bored
of dunya.
So the sign that Allah is telling you enough is enough, is when he
puts
all right impurities in your dunya
okay, this is a sign for you to pull back. Okay? And
constant change, constant change, okay?
constant change making you feel this pointless
profit I used to have in muddy him. He asked Allah azza wa jal Oh
Allah show me what happens when dunya leaves the heart of a man.
Okay, so Allah told him, I'll show you and he was walking and Prof.
ACSF for arrests. Then he saw a man working so hard digging,
digging, digging, looking for something. Then suddenly the man
stopped, leaned on a shovel through the shovel and sat down.
Okay. Then suddenly, the man got up again and started digging and
digging and digging and digging. So then Alonzo just sits above he
said, Did you see this man? He said, Yes. He said, he had desire
to find the treasure in the in the earth. Then I removed the love of
dunya from his heart. Okay. Then I placed it back in.
So he went to the man. And he said, Oh, man, why were you
digging? Then you stopped and you started again. He said, I was
digging and digging and digging. And
I remembered life is so short, even if I find the treasure, I
wouldn't be able to enjoy it. I'm so old already. So I put the
shovel down. Then he said, then what made you get up again? He
said, Then I remembered that I have children, that they can
inherit this treasure. Right? And the second intention is better
than the first. Right the second one is selfless. The first one is
for his lifts.
Allah Most High has made in the world, a place from which man
should derive a lesson and experience. He also made an abode
of pollution and worries. From the awful and awesome episodes enacted
night and day on Earth. The intelligent man takes a lesson and
gains experience. From the terrible calamities and upheavals
happening in the world man gains admonition no one is able to
attain fulfillment of his wishes and goals. In short, the world is
the abode of worry and pollution. In the hardships, trials,
tribulations and experiences of men. There's considerable mercy
from Allah azza wa jal, as a result of these trials man has
truly defined becomes disenchanted from the world by means of this
disinclination Allah Most High separates him from the carry on.
That is the world carry on is like a dead piece of flesh. The
solution to all this is balanced solution is balanced. You can't go
without it. And you can't go with it. So what should I do? strike a
balance? And how do I know when to stop? How do you know when to stop
putting too much sauce? Here? Do you have a bowl of soup in front
of you? You're not gonna go look in a book and say how much salt do
I put? How much salt do you put? You put a little salt. He tastes
it needs a little bit more put salt.
Just right, or you put some saw. Now it's too much salt. What do
you do at some more soup? Right now it's perfect.
So how is it by tastes? Likewise in life, you need to attain
serenity, then go about doing everything in life as soon as your
serenity is being disrupted, that you know that you've done enough
stop right there. So you end up living balanced, be balanced and
be careful of the American.
Really temptation and lore that is telling everyone you have to be
the number one that what you do. Right if you're number one from
yourself and hamdulillah good for you. But do you do not sacrifice
your serenity just to be better than others? This is a really an
American
thing, okay. Every other culture traditionally in the past and the
old world, they honored a balanced person, someone who's balanced in
life, okay? In the movie Seven days from Tibet or whatever it's
called, okay.
Brad Pitt is American, what's his job, what is his goal is to climb
the mountain right to climb like the highest mountain in the world.
But then when he meets it Tibet and people, they're all like,
balanced, okay? And his life is so messed up. His life is so messed
up, but he wants to be the number one mountain climber in the world.
This is the nature of the American celebrity, and the American
superstar in the American achiever. He is completely out of
balance, completely out of balance, just for the sake of
being number one in his small tiny field, whether it's bowling,
poker, mountain climbing politics, money, in order to be number one,
he sells everything. His family's a mess, his everything is a mess,
just for the sake of being number one in his own little meaningless
bubble. Okay, be mindful of it and avoid it. It's not going to
benefit you on your money on these people. They're all alone, these
people, they're all seeking treatment. And by the way, the
other day, we talked about treatment, sometimes some
psychotherapist, it's evolved, it's not as what it used to be.
Some of it's actually good and needed, right? Because I remember
the other day we talked about and we said, you know, you need some
disparaging remarks, but actually, it's developed. And there's some
people who need it. And some people really benefit from it. And
it's a trade, it's a trade that is different from to self to self
tries to get a person towards Allah. But some of these
therapists they teach you how to be with your family, how to be
handle grief, how to handle loss, yes to solve, does it Dean itself
does that but some people, some of these therapists, they'll just
walk you through it, right? Just walk you through it, okay? And so
there is some value, and we shouldn't just throw the whole
thing out about, you know, out, it's never smart to just throw the
whole thing out, especially these fields are all changing, okay? But
all these people, you know, all these number one celebrities, you
notice there is always something wrong in their life. Right? And
they're never normally or if you're a normal, just like an
accountant, okay, or whatever. With a family and you're just
normal, you're probably have a better life than these people. You
just won't have better highlight moments. Okay, you won't have a
highlight moment where there's an auditorium filled with 5000 people
give you a round of applause. And then they give you a medal or
trophy or say you're the number one or the interviewer you
afterwards, you won't have that. But other than that, most middle
class people are poor people. They have a more wholesome balanced
life than those who have sold everything to be number one.
Alright, so you got to be careful from that a lower
interpretation.
Okay. Alima and NACA, let somebody who knows how to run for the water
come in the word. May you say hallo? alayka will do the Ferrata.
This is good. This is very good. This hekman means Allah knows that
you don't listen.
So he makes you tasty. Right? Allah knows sounds like the parent
to child, right? You don't listen. Okay? How many times I tell you do
this. You don't listen. Alright, now taste the punishment. All
right, go to your room and no dinner or something like this.
Okay.
But this is basically what he's saying. Allah knows. He's told you
be careful the dunya be careful of the dunya. Be careful the dunya
the only way you're going to learn to avoid the dunya you're actually
going to avoid the dunya when you have it, and it tastes bitter. The
first bite is sweet. Second bite is sweet. The third bite doesn't
even have any tastes anymore. And finally, the fifth bite is bitter.
Okay. So you spit it out and you throw the apple and you don't buy
any more of it. Right? This is what he's saying here you need to
experience this bitterness. The Quran, Hadith and council of
learning are adequate for a man devoid of the love of the world
and whose intelligence is sound. However, Allah knows that the love
of worldly pleasures and pollution is firmly entrenched in the hearts
of numerous people.
The intelligence of such people is deficient. Okay.
The happy one is the one who learns from the pain of others.
Right? The Fool is the one who has to do it himself and feel the
pain. Hence good counsel alone is not sufficient for them. He gives
them a taste of all the hardships and trials so that they become
disillusioned with this carry on this filthy world. Okay,
abandoning the world therefore becomes a matter of ease.
See, it becomes easy, okay? When you have feel the hardships of
dunya there are also such people who fail to gain any lesson from
difficulties and hardships. This is the worst of people, the worst
of people. This is climbing the mountain of dunya. And he's losing
his kids. He's losing his own happiness. He's losing his family,
and yet insists and persists upon climbing that mountain and being
number one in his field. Right? Despite that he's lost his own
happiness to such a person, what are you going to do with such a
person? Right, Abuja Hill, forget dunya the truth of the prophets I
seldom Abu Jahan was miserable in his cocoa but refused to submit it
out of competition with the bene Hashem with the prophesy said, I
mean, what worse person you are already miserable. Just give it up
in the app refuses. This is why they also call this path of just
to sad. It's not that this is a marketing scheme that we're saying
you're going to be happy at the end of this no, we use happiness
as a measure of how much is enough dunya we actually use happiness as
a measuring tool to tell us how and when to stop if the city
doesn't tell us when to stop. Right should yeah, doesn't tell
you work 40 hours or 60 or 80 hours right? So hello, but you
yourself your own happiness. It says I need to stop at 50 I'm
miserable after that, right.
Then he says that there also seems to be the failed to gain any
lesson from difficulties and hardship. Nevertheless, numerous
Muslims do turn toward Allah's Maza without any consequence of
the calamities that befall them. Thus, in relation to their former
state of degeneration, they progress in the direction of going
to Allah azza wa jal, if you don't go to Allah azza wa jal out of
wisdom and intelligence and accepting the advice, you're gonna
eventually turn back to Allah, because the hardships of this
world will cause you to go back to the province I send them drew a
line. He said, This is a man's lifespan, then he draw vertical
vertical lines across it, he drew a horizontal line, then vertical
lines, okay? Then they said, Okay, this is the man's lifespan. And
the prophesy says that this is the first child he gets than the
second child and the third trial and the fourth trial, then it then
he dies. And hopefully, if he didn't accept advice the first
time, hopefully, the first trial will get him to give up dunya love
of dunya hope if the first trial doesn't work, hopefully the second
trial will get him to give up love of dunya if not the second one,
hopefully the third one, by living along life, you will have more
trials, and you will give up more dunya until you are actually wise
and enlightened. The ALMA Andalus used to have a thing. And then
Lucia, Cordoba, nice places, the Alma and probably many countries,
the British said about the quarterback, they used to look at
the youth, this gaze upon the youth. And they would look at who
is tested amongst them and how he reacts to the test. Because
whoever gets tested amongst the youth, and reacts positively, he's
a step ahead of his generation. Right? He's the one who Allah
tested by choice. Right? And those are the future Imams. How does
what what does Allah say about Imams? He said, those who have
suffered, those who had suffered trials and are patient, there'll
be the memes because what when they got the trial, what happened?
They give them dunya love of dunya from their heart. So they used to
say we look for the youth who are tested, all the youth are playing
around, right? And right around 1314, maybe a little bit before
that 1516 1718 We started looking who will be tested, right? Then
all of a sudden you start seeing this person showing up in the
lines for Fudger. Right, you start seeing him out of nowhere showing
up for salon today sharp, the tests, and he reacted well to the
test, then we pick those, like going fishing, we pick that up
because we know he's ready. Lavinia has left his heart, he's
ready for knowledge now and we teach them and he becomes the
future events. Okay, that's how it works. Okay, so if you are tested,
you should be honored. Really.
Are you doing
some say an empty map.
The trial when a trial comes to a believer, it's a cause of
celebration and it's a feast. Why does this actually celebrate when
a trial comes his way because now he knows almost paying attention
to me. Allah is paying attention to me and he's removing dunya from
my heart. If If Allah azza wa jal comes and starts removing stuff,
okay. Why does Allah ever remove stuff so he could put something
better? Right so he
input something better than Allah is removing stuff from your heart,
only to prepare you for something that's not going to come tomorrow,
right? If you start seeing, you know, like
a restaurant that's in business. Okay, put it temporarily closed,
and it's removed all the tables and all the front of the lights
and everything from the inside of the restaurant, what do you say to
yourself? Say wow, it's gonna be really good and we refurnishing
the whole thing. Do you ever say to yourself, it's going to be
worse? Now it's going to be better, right? No restaurant just
doesn't close for business and take everything out except that
they're going to put something better in so many people don't
realize when Allah takes away with wisdom, okay, he will put
something back with generosity something far better. So when you
lose when you are in loss, do not think you will be in Las
permanently that this is this is my life now just to sit at home
and just cry and just do nothing. No, maybe not. Now, maybe in one
month, maybe in two months. Something else is going to come
when you're ready right? When the field is ready, now something new
is is going to come something better is going to come. So this
is why this is how we view trials and tribulations
Was there something
where Yep?
Not being best on the field.
How do you reconcile striving for Allah's sake? Versus how do I know
when I'm doing something truly for Allah? Or to be the best right?
Out of competition?
Yes.
Good question.
Excellent. Good question email and had that answered this question.
The question was,
alright, we talked about not being number try not to be you shouldn't
be motivated to be the best but at the same time, Allah says Be the
best. Allah expects us to. I mean, Allah says be excellent. Do your
best, right, and strive hard and sacrifice. So in other words,
someone can take this and say, Okay, well, I'll just be mediocre.
Know, how do we know we know this? By asking the question, first of
all, Allah azza wa jal said, when you do something, he do it to your
best. Okay. Now the answer the question is, how do when do I know
when to stop? I could work 80 hours a week if I could, right?
The answer is, if you are now
displacing Another virtue, right? That's where you must stop.
Okay, if I'm displacing a virtue, another virtue the member had that
says one virtue should never displace Another virtue. So what
is virtuous? seeking knowledge is virtuous, right? What is also
virtuous, okay?
Do a vicar is virtuous? What's another virtue?
Doing a great job in my job? doing great work is also virtuous. So
how do I do it? You do it such that when your work comes on the
aggress upon you're a badass, that's where you have to stop.
Right? That's where you have to stop. Yes, I could achieve in two
years. Like if we were like, these kofod out there, they achieved so
much in two years. Yeah. Because he didn't have to pray. He didn't
have to fast you know, do any of these things. He's not getting
married, right? He's also lacking all these things. So we may take
us for years, it may take us 10 years, but at that 10 years, we
have the whole package. Right? So yes, we will wait. Okay, so the
key is the one virtue must not displace Another virtue. I want
to. I'm smarter than than Janice. Okay. Janice is working 80 hours a
week. I'm working 40 hours a week. Okay. But I have mashallah
beautiful kids. I have the cup that I do that makes me happy,
serene. I'm a tolerable person. Janice is trying to be Steve Jobs,
and she's a jerk. She thinks she's Steve Jobs. Okay. You see these
people and everyone says, I want to be like Steve Jobs. There's a
great saying, if you want to be like the greats don't emulate
their quirks, or their bad habits emulate their work ethic. Right
and the word
Catholic of a believer is very different. We got a lot more to
juggle. Right? We got a lot more to juggle. So someone says, Oh,
why can't a Muslim have invented this stuff? He could have. Right?
Right he could have. But we should also look at those people and you
realize that these people are horrendous to be around. They're
probably addicts of some sort. They're on pills. They're on meds,
I mean, medication. And sicknesses are so common. Now. Did you notice
now they have pet names now? It's not a medication, I'm on meds,
right? Or their various sicknesses. They all have short
cute names now, because there's so common they're like, pet
sicknesses, right? They all have these things.
The moment his chief rival is his knifes. His chief rival is his
knifes not the person in the cubicle next door. You must
actually conquer this. You must conquer this. Okay, Janice to get
the promotion. What are you going to sell for the promotion? You're
going to sell time with your husband or time with your wife,
your time with your Lord, you're going to sell that sell it? No,
what does Allah say? If you abandon me, then I abandon you.
And I leave you at the mercy of what you chose. Certainly service
115. Okay, if you abandon me, and the Muslims, Allah says, if you
abandon me in love, what does that mean? Some people are so much into
their career. We don't see them anymore. They're not even with the
Muslims. They don't care about the Muslims anymore. They don't care
about the Jamaat anymore. Okay, what does Allah say we abandon the
so mosque life, knowledge life.
If someone's if he if your Neff says to you, I cannot let them get
I have to get it. Right. Then you have made them your chief rival,
you made a big mistake. Your neffs and love of dunya is your chief
rival, not them? You might get it later.
You might you will try to get it. So it's like, I'm giving myself
this window to devote to my career. At this hour of the day,
I'm shutting it off. I don't care what's happened. I'm shutting it
off, because that's what its allotted. Right. That's what it's
allotted. Okay, rent, how much should rent be of your monthly
budget? I think something said like your rent should not be
between 20 to 30% of your monthly budget is rent, right? Okay, so if
I'm making five, let's say, hypothetically, I'm rich, I'm
making $10,000 a month. So rent should be like, you could be what,
three to $4,000 or something like that of rent. So if I see a
listing for 5000, I'm not looking at it. For us. I haven't halaman.
And your time is like a pie chart with an allotment. Anything past
this amount. I'm not even looking at it unless I have other things
to do in the moment has balanced. Okay, so we Muslims if we fall
into the same rat race mentality, and which causes us to lose
everything and be on meds like everyone else? What's the
difference in our Islam? What is really difference? Right? Okay.
And if someone says, sometimes people look at you, but my are
people Yanni, you're you don't like the way you're mentioned in
the industry conversation, right? swallow it, swallow it. They're
not your God. Right? Will some of us have careers? What's the
difference in a career and a job?
If you go into work, and someone says, I did have your work today,
and you're happy, then you have a job? Okay? If someone comes in and
starting to do your work for you, and you get upset, that's a career
when you're doing my work, right? That's not your job. Right? You go
over there and leave me to do my work, right. But no janitor in a
school, someone says, Hey, I did your floor for you. You're not
going to be like, well, why'd you do my floor for me? I wanted to
sweep in myself. No, you're happy. That's a job. Right? And one of
the rules of etiquettes actually is pretty funny. They say, if
you're hanging around with people who have jobs, don't talk about
your career, right? Just obnoxious. But there is a very big
issue and Muslims in America are so educated will have careers. You
might not like the way you your rank, or your the way people talk
about you, in the industry talk right? In the you know,
you want but that's not what you worship is not what you worship,
right? So you should never no one should be able to say anything bad
about your work ethic, or your work. But you should not covet to
be talked about and idolized in the industry. This is going to
make you to be balanced and chances are you'll just be a
straight line slowly going up. Whereas others, you know, there'll
be like this. Yeah, you got up really fast, but your fall is
going to be really bad too. Right? But you should just be steady,
steady, steady, steady, steady. Like, if you remember nbsc used to
be in a little hump.
Shaq, okay, little place in not a great area, then it just kept
growing, growing, growing. So someone was talking to one of the
brothers here, okay. And he said I had a criterion. And one
criterion, I didn't care what anyone else was doing all my
cartoon was, was that this year is better than last year, we made an
improvement, that the next year should be a slight improvement
than last year. So we compete against ourselves That's it in a
compete against anyone else, right? Because then someone else's
at the drivers, don't let anyone else drive your train, you drive
your own chain train. Alright, so this is very need strong
discipline, strong discipline, to resist, and some people are more
competitive than others.
Let's stop here and take a stretch break bathroom break make we'll do
spinal column
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you
may end up x at a certain level
while some of his colleagues are better than him.
But the question is at that you're at that level, but you're happy.
You're at that level and you didn't sacrifice your family.
You didn't sacrifice who you are, you didn't sacrifice your beliefs
or your principles. Okay. Whereas if you had Yes, you may have been
at a higher level, but you would have been miserable. And this is
where Baraka comes in and blessings, blessings.
You want to be blessed? The prophesy centum said, Oh Allah,
whatever you give to us, bless it, which means I have a little but
it's making me happy is better than a lot, but I'm not happy.
The oil moguls of the past the people who first found oil in the
ground in America, they have books and movies about them.
And again, the majority of them are miserable. Right, they
sacrifice so much other good to be to monopolize and control the oil.
Okay, that admitted oftentimes they died, the richest men and the
most miserable men at the same time. So again, how do we balance
the ethic of being excellent in our work while
doing it right? Is namely that balance finding that balance when
it impedes upon your a bad? When you find yourself you can't do
thicker anymore?
Or you're not seeking knowledge anymore? Or your children are
suffering? Or your own happiness is something that's a time that
you need to pull back a little bit. Okay.
Question? Yes? Why would somebody who has the power to their work is
actually
no different?
If they're sacrificing their family or no different? I call
that
duniya
in the guise of Islamic work,
it's dunya in the guise of Islamic work, we have to be very careful,
right? What is dunya in the guise of Islamic work like anyone doing
righteous work, brain surgeons, scholars, all these people, if
your so called Dawa is impinging upon the time that you need to be
spending with others. That's obligatory on you. Then you're
actually doing Dawa for the motive of ego.
There's no other way to say it. Because the mom and her dad said a
virtue does not override Another virtue. If you see a man doing a
virtue, sacrificing Another virtue in the moment he sacrifices that
virtue. It's out of arrogance and ego. Arrogance and ego did it
Allah azza wa jal say,
be excellent. Allah's beautiful loves beauty. So I could buy a
chandelier for the masjid for $10,000. Right? Well, wait a
second. There are also four people here. So I'm going to take from
this money that's supposed to go to the poor by saying Allah is
beautiful and loves beauty. So what do we say I have dressed my
arrogance and my ego with Islamic haddock with a hadith or Islamic
close. Right close. Right. So once that balance is overdone, the
person should not say but I'm doing good. Yes, the deed is good,
but the motive is bad. Right. In my head that also says cutting
meant to happen already. That may have been a true statement. But
his motive is bad. Right? It's true a good deed, but the motive
is bad. IBLEES Ilana Tula he approached properly I used to been
mme. And he said oh ASA c'est la ilaha illAllah.
Prophet Isa give us
lesson from this right? He said Kennametal huckberry The beer
bottle. You're doing something good saying something good, but
you have a bad intention. Right? Why does he want profit? So to say
Leila Illallah because if he follows if he says it then ASA
just obeyed Satan. Right? He obeyed said, and if he doesn't say
it, then he refused to make the cola. So what a profit HSA County
Mental Health Corridor we have gotten to have a like a nice about
that is that I will say it but not after you. And when you leave then
all said, okay, so good deeds can be dressed up.
Okay. Or ego, arrogance, competition can be just up in good
deeds. And how do we know again, when one virtue cancels out
another virtue? Okay.
You got people working, I remember there was a guy, he was doing
classes for the local police. Okay. His mother was also dying in
the hospital. Right. And he was spent all day doing sensitivity
training for the local police of his Township.
And his mom's dying in the hospital. Right. So who are your
priorities? So therefore, his his voluntary act, right of
sensitivity training that can wait is not part of being a cop? You
have to have it you can wait two, three weeks, right? You can just
reschedule it.
So we say to him really motivated, you must be motivated by ego.
Because as you're saying, I'm serving Allah, Allah also told you
to do something else too. Right. So the sign of AirFloss is balance
Are you happy you and talk to myself to dunya Anka?
Kurata Praveen, I can make the real journey what do we just say
the real competition the real rival is what
is not anyone or anything or any mountain or any acclaim or any
award or any renown it is what
when the world the dunya diminishes, okay, when the worlds
dimension is rolled away from you, so that you see that the hereafter
closer to you than your own self. The real competition is not
anything other than you versus yourself
dunya versus Astra in your heart, you can do it by sticking to
regular practices. By sticking to regular practices, you can reach a
point where you are engaged in everything everyone else is doing.
Okay? But this gets heavier with time the impacts and benefit gets
heavier with time, such that you really feel I am just Jonnie
lukaszewski said a bird flying to the afterlife. Only his ankle or
his talent is stuck inside the cage. Imam Shafi said this about
himself. He said I'm already in the afterlife, but only my talent
that in my leg is stuck in the dunya. That's how it is when you
do regular the regularity is more important than the amount of the
problems I set him said. The regularity the consistency is the
best, even if it's little, okay, so the consistency of these
practices and you know, don't let your don't listen to your knifes
your neffs is going to say okay, I did it for a week. What's next? I
did it for a month what's next now? You don't do that right? You
don't do that you stick with the same thing for years. Okay, you
see the same thing for years. And if you come and Allah bestows upon
you a relationship with a chef then you simply replace the old
rod from these old to the rod of the shapes that Allah open for you
to have a relationship with. Right? But that's it. Okay, you
take whatever he gives you. This is almost like Johnson and Johnson
first aid kit. Okay, until you get to a doctor and some people this
suffices them, right? Because this, this is basically what happy
Vamana gives. Okay, what have you been with some Quran? Some? Some
odd some time alone? This is what have you been more gifts? That's
the default. So the default is already advice from a guy that
scholar for William Alonzo, Janessa. boomin Alodia. Okay.
You stick with it. And the path to Allah are like the terrains of the
earth.
Right? The path to Allah is like the terrains of the earth.
Sometimes the terrain of the Earth is a Caribbean island. And
sometimes it's the Mojave Desert. Okay, sometimes it's the rain
forests. Sometimes it's night. Sometimes it's dark. Sometimes
it's a rainstorm. You just keep going. Sometimes Oh, this
So good is my favorite thing. Other times you feel
this routine, you just stick to it. We just stick to it. Continue.
Don't tell your neffs don't let your Neff say, okay, you know
what, I don't want to do this I'm going to do something else or is
there anything more? There was once
someone who gave a class
and the student gave a response? Of course, it wasn't one of our
classes, like a student give a negative review. Right? What was
the negative review? He said? They said, the shade he kept talking
about Hadith after Hadith after Hadith, and I was looking for
something more spiritual.
What I was avila's Indeed, shouldn't be okay. This person or
this statement is almost right, the statement is like, borderline.
How could you say that? Then you have me do you believe in her her
concept of spirituality or he, his concept of spirituality is
something different? Has nothing greater than to be near to Allah
and His messenger? So I tell him, this is why some people say
the stories of the Quran are good, but
okay, but no, it's you who have to change yourself. You have to
change yourself. Okay? You have to change yourself. If Allah says
these are the best stories than if even if I ever recited to you the
100th time, you have to tell yourself there's something about
it that I'm missing, or there's more to it. Right? Don't say the
stories of Quran are good, but the statements are just wrong. You
change yourself. Okay? You change yourself.
Okay, let's see what it says here. Cut on mass that Allah rewards to
the idea. Okay.
Such as traveling huge distances in a minute. This is called by
you. One of the major known karate mats that have happened to many
Olia is that they take one step in their journey and they have
arrived to another country right there right 1000 miles after
taking one set. This is a common karama that you read in the books.
But he's saying here
okay. This are not this is not the aim of the path of Allah is to
have keramas what is the aim? Okay.
Traversing distances, more accuracy is not necessarily
treated the accepted servant. In other words, if someone possesses
the ability of traveling huge distances in a minute, it does not
follow that he is necessity necessarily accepted as a sinner
actually of Allah Most High. It is quite possible that a man can
acquire such powers by exercises even while he is not obedient to
the sacred law, a seemingly miraculous deed displayed by an
irreligious person is an act that leads that person further astray
is to drudge the true journey. The true accomplishment or goal is to
wrap up the distance of the world from in front of one's heart. In
other words, my covetousness of dunya is gone. And I feel that
Africa is right in front of me, not only to expel the love of the
world from the heart, but not to permit it even to pass near to the
heart wants you to eliminate the love of the world so that the Day
of Judgment appears to be nearer to one than one's own self
QuickSight common carotid Elia. We call them karamat OLALIA. Because
most elderly most caravans happened to earlier but does
having a Kurama mean someone is really the answer is no having a
Kurama means that someone is a sincere moment, a sincere believer
and a believer is very different from the world he has more rights
with Allah azza wa jal Donna moment aware Lee if someone
offends him, Allah gets involved only if he makes it to Allah
answers him.
Only Allah does not like to harm him to bring him any harm. Since
that says that though Lea when they're going to die, they get
warnings from Allah, they know when they're gonna pass away, shut
them up. They have to be said his father Sheikh Ibrahim and Jacobi
brought him four weeks before his death and prepared him and said
Son, because my time is coming soon, this is my plot. This is my
money. This is the inheritance desire going to divide everything,
right? And then four weeks later, he passed away and he was able to
discharge all his affairs because Allah azza wa jal does not like to
bring painted Elia. Okay.
So Kurama indicates sincerity of a moment what happens if a Kurama
comes to a center then it's not a Kurama it's to drudge is to drudge
what happens when a Kurama comes to a random guy? Like you see a
grandma lift a car for a baby? I remember Abu Hanifa discusses
this. He says we don't call that a Quran but we call that
carbohydrate. Carbohydrate means fulfilling of needs, Allah
fulfills the needs of people, right? Allah fulfills people's
needs. So we lie
How to be a well he is not defined by commas. And when he can have no
commas, and someone could have 1000 commas, that doesn't indicate
his Willa, Willa is the sign of Wilaya. Or
other things in this that we were not going to go into that now. But
other things in this. But the point here is that the goal of the
moment is that Africa is very near to him. And dunya is far from him.
And he has no, we sold you the story before, but we'll say it
again. There was a lady and his face was so filled with normal
SubhanAllah. And one of the Marines said to him, how did you
reach this position you're in right now? Have so much sukoon.
Right. So much newer on his face, so much consistency in his a bad?
Okay. He said, How did you do this? He said, I was a web a
doorkeeper for 30 years. So the marine left and he said
SubhanAllah? I never thought about Yeah, but well, he has to stand at
the door. So he has to be very patient, he has to be very
vigilant. He has to, you know, do all these things. So maybe he
attained that. So he signed up to be a web doorkeeper. Okay, then he
went back to the willie sometime later to make him proud. And he
said, Now I too, am a doorkeeper. And in the apartments, and I don't
know how it is in Pakistan or another country, but in Egypt, the
web, this story from Egypt is basically he's at the apartment
door, the apartment complex and he greets people helps people take
the groceries up, goes get the car, parks, the car, all right.
Little chores like that. And he gets some money from the people
and he lives downstairs. He went into right now to Ebola. They
said, Good. He said yes. So stop by. I'm in such such an apartment
complex. He said this is not the bulwell I'm talking about. He says
I was in doorkeeper of the heart not allowing dunya to come in.
Not allowing dunya to enter. This is the doorkeeper that we need to
be okay, not allowing dunya to enter the cruel mode constant
Hamza, you had your hand up?
Good question. What is to drudge is to drudge means to blind
someone of their misguidance and entrench them in their misguidance
through good things, through good things such that
you harm someone to make a business deal. Allah will make the
business deal successful.
Right? Because if he made it, this is the worst punishment, that
Allah does not want the guidance of someone who doesn't want
someone to be guided. Does Allah do this to everyone? No only to
the stubborn, the stubborn Allah and someone says How could Allah
do this? And then how does Allah accept to be guided to people to
be guided, if he's misguiding them? No. Don't cheat. Don't
people want justice? Don't people love justice? Allah just, if you
insist on this guidance, it will give you miss guidance and he'll
help you be misguided, right? This is from the justice of Allah,
Allah azza wa jal never acts with cruelty. He only acts with
justice. Right? And you produce their results. Right? If you don't
like the result is not Allah is cruelty. It says justice. Even
Abby's eight says interesada in the introduction, he says when
Allah punishes someone, it's by His justice, right? It's not by
cruelty is by justice. That's what you did. So people who are
stubbornly insisting upon misguidance, that Allah azza wa
jal gives them success in their misguidance. Right. Like, do you
think that Dawkins if he wrote his first book about it, whatever they
theism and various books that he wrote,
denouncing religion, if that book was an utter flop, and his wife
divorced him, and he got cancer, he'll be a believer by now. Right?
But this is someone so filled with arrogance, and stubbornness and
insistence that Allah said, Okay, if you're that insisting upon it,
I'll help you. The book is a best seller. The man is great. I mean,
he's a superstar. He's a celebrity atheist, right? He's a celebrity
so he's locked in it.
Oh, God, really?
And still, we don't know who can at the end of their life change.
Allah knows best. Right? But this is example of Mr. Drudge success
that traps you in misguidance. Okay.
No, Ashraf Gallaga no rule European law right and accurate to
Accra la CheMin Hain Tarhana la wallarah item has in a dunya
Kabara kiss federal for now.
Here's the thing
imaginable Allah Allah is saying here. If the NOR of your teen
enters into your heart you
realize you don't need to travel to the UK, it's all coming to you.
Some people imagine, okay, we need to travel to Allah, everything
needs to change, we need to do all these things, I need to go
somewhere else I need to get out of this, this bad company, the
people I'm around, I need to get out of here, I can't do it here.
All this is false. All this is a veil. Okay? When the, if Allah
wishes to guide you, He can guide you in the same exact spot,
without you having to change a single move a single step from
where you are, or change a single thing about your life. For Allah
wishes to guide someone who will show him just tweak one or two
things Subhan Allah, that's sometimes that's how simple it is
just tweaking one or two things, all of a sudden, you're guided
right?
of Allah wishes to remove dunya from your heart, you don't have to
do anything, then you realize everything I ever needed is right
in front of me. I don't need anything else. Everything I ever
wanted, everything that I imagined I needed for life.
For happiness, I actually already have it. And I'm wasting it.
Right. That's what you realize, okay. And all I need to think
about death. I need to go to a graveyard and spend all night
there to think about death. Maybe I need to get cancer, maybe I need
to go to jail to think about death to do all
that our whole situation is perfect as it is. Okay. When
you're keen enters. When you feel when you realize everything is
actually perfect as it is. That's one of the signs that the note has
entered. Right? That's when you have reached serenity. Like you
should imagine the lake is now still perfectly still. Now you
have to keep it still. Okay, let's see what the commentator says.
Where the light of certitude to shine, you would see the hereafter
so near that you cannot move toward him. Okay, you don't need
to do anything anymore. Everything is perfectly as it is. Okay. And
you would see that the eclipse of extinction had come over the
beauties of the world. So I don't like when people talk we're trying
to write like this. This is not Shakespeare. You don't need to
write the eclipse of extinction. Who knows what that is right? This
is the days of Twitter give me a shift f7 on this right Give me
another synonym here. Okay. And this is sometimes this is not the
author's here this is Victor Danner, okay? Victor Danner, okay?
A lion is Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and the thing is,
you want to be poetic and the love literature fine. Literature is a
great thing everyone should know everyone should have some
literature in their house. We don't want dummies in the masjid.
Right? We don't want dummies you should be reading people should be
reading. But when you're giving message to the people, why would
you make it so difficult to understand? Make it simple. Deen
is for people, right? Make it simple. Okay, so we have to figure
out what are the clips of extinction. Allah and His Prophet
sighs LM have informed us that this world is a transitory abode
of falsehood and deception. It's deception.
Everything that you desire so badly. Okay, when you get it,
soon, you'll be disappointed with it or bored with it. That's
deception, while the next world is everlasting, and is the abode of
truth. One of the one of my teachers, I remember when we were
in Washington, he described heaven. And he said, if you're
very hungry, and you take that first bite of food,
in heaven, every bite is like the first plate. So it doesn't taper
off. No blessing tapers off in heaven. Okay, when you have a
steak by the end of it, you leave some of it because you're not even
hungry anymore, right? You don't want it anyway. But he said in
heaven, every bite is like the first bite.
If one had firm belief in these truths, and the light of this
certitude permeated the heart, enabling one to see that the
promises of Allah and His prophets I saw them are brighter than the
Sun than the next world would actually would be actually present
already in the heart. And this is what it means to be a spiritual
being. It means that other worlds actually manifests itself inside
of your heart while you're still alive. This is the old era. This
is how the elderly are. Okay, this is the true reality of the idea
that the spiritual world that we're all going to after we die,
it becomes present in their heart while they're still alive. Spatola
something God, something.
The discernment of reality is the result of the light of certitude
which is inspired in the heart. When it is inspired in the heart.
It makes the realities of things conspicuous.
Every Muslim knows that the world is perishable. And the next world
is everlasting. Every Muslim believes in the promises of Allah
and His Messenger of Allah when he was seven. When the light of
certitude dawns in the heart, these objects of faith become as
visible as the things seen by the physical eyes.
The effect of this discernment is that such a man will cast the
world behind his back and all his efforts will be for the next
world. The in order in ordinate desires of his ego will dissipate,
and he will treasure time, may Allah was still this to us. May
Allah accept our prayer. I mean, now here's something, some people
ask a question, why is it taking me so long? Why is it that I'm
striving, striving, striving, 10s of years, but I'm not getting
where these six are describing, there's a heck of a behind that
great, hey, come up. Number one, Allah loves to see the striving
and struggling of a moment. That's number one. Number two,
maybe Allah has written for you to enjoy certain numbers.
Right. And if you had attained this, you would have zoned in
those numbers. That's maybe number one, number two, number three,
okay? If people attain this degree,
attain this type of sweetness and rank, okay, without having
solidified the habits needed,
you may end up a guy who is no longer functional. Right? So maybe
it is delayed so that you can cement certain habits within
yourself, right? Because if everyone is tasting the sweetness
of a man, the way he's describing, then, if you're a young men, you
might never get married. If you're a young man, you might never go to
work. If you're a young man, something might happen, right? You
might never do anything. Because callus you feel like I've arrived,
right? So you might not move. So Allah may delay the sweetness for
you, so that you can get into certain habits and routines, such
that when he gives it to you, you continue those habits and
routines. And Allah knows best. There's a lot of Hickam of why,
but
give you an example in London chipmakers to Danny one time, he
tells us told us a story. And this is someone who lives with all the
habits of a regular man such that when you look at him, you don't
see anything. Right? He has kids, he's the principal of an Islamic
school. He is does a lot of he has a charity, he does a lot of
things. So one time he said we I was in a masjid.
And I looked and I saw a new one coming out of a room, a little
room. Then he said I have to go see what it is he went in there.
And he saw
three old Bengali men, okay. And they they had a practice every day
that they took 10,000 beads and poured it out onto a table that
was elevated a little bit, then they spent St. Leila and they will
push a bead off the table to push a bit off the table until the
tables empty. So they will basically all three of them will
divide amongst themselves to say Laila 10,000 times between Maghrib
and Aisha and that's how they spent the retirement. That's the
retirement of a moment. We're totally transforming the
retirement phase. Okay, retirement is just an now changing, adding a
bed and start practicing now. From now by doing this is retirement
allows you to do more of that. That's how they spent their time
three Bengali men in their shriveled who swore kameez and
white beards, that Allah Allah, Allah, Allah and so on. Right?
Then he said, When I was there, I'm seeing so much nor right
almost hurt my eyes. Right? This is someone who is seeing other
worldly things in this life. Okay, but this is what he's talking
about. Right?
If Allah azza wa jal was supposed to meet such people who can tell
us these stories, and that's Yanni enough of anomalous, a lot of
anomalous some people never even meet that
somebody had ended up
with sometimes a taste.
And then yeah, it's not a light switch. So like, I'm here, then
they're right. Some people live in New York City, some people only
have seen New York City, right. Some people have been told about
New York City, some people have seen pictures of New York City.
This is like a picture of what we lie, it looks like a little mental
picture description. Right? And then you may see one of them and
he tells you about it. Like, same thing, right? So you may go to New
York City for a day and come back. So you say I know New York City. I
know it but you don't live there, but I know it. Right. So you get a
taste of it, hopefully and Ramadan. When your food is down,
and you're a liquid as
you may get a taste of it. And I guarantee you people who just
attended Ramadan always changed and no movement. His behavior
changes except that he tasted some serenity in his heart. There is no
one who's going to go into religion for social reasons,
right? Because I made friends in the mosque. No, you made friends.
That's what your mind tells me. You're keep coming back. Because
there's serenity happening here. Right? That's what you will come
to massage and I've never seen anyone attend Ramadan well
faithfully except that they change they've something entered their
heart and they've changed and this is why the such Ramadan is the
Savior I believe of the Ramadan save xoma For those who practice
it properly right okay
like you fast you come freighter we just like everyone else
slightly fast you pray your total we set a number of records
consistently right consistently attend the functions just be here.
Just being here. When you pray, pray sincerely, Abu Bakr Siddiq
did not surpass the believers by morcilla or more Zakah. Right, as
some secret in his heart. So when we do something, do it like
everyone else, but with sincerity.
And Laquan with our hero.
We're about you know, her eyebrows. For Neff suits under rue
de la vie, he
will call me on guru Hill about any eyebrows. Outwardly.
creatures are an illusion. Creation is an illusion, but
inwardly it's an admonition. Which means what which means in
outwardly, it's nothing but inwardly it's a lesson, we should
learn a lesson. Thus, the soul looks at the illusory exterior
walls of the viewer, really, he should say, the neffs the ego
looks at the outside, while the heart looks at the inside, which
is the admonition the lesson learned?
We said that there is.
And then there is live.
Right word and there's little.
What is live, have something true. Live is something false, that
teaches you about something true. And level is something false, that
does not teach you about something true. Okay? So a heart is what
like we said, riding the horse is something hot, like you use a good
thing to have. But for example, other sports are button, it's
live. But if it's a sport that teaches you about teamwork,
then there's a benefit in it, right? Or a game that they teach
in school that teaches you about numbers, or vocabulary, or facts.
It's live, but it teaches you something, then there's low, it is
meaningless, and it doesn't even teach you anything and these games
should be avoided, right? It's low knowledge doesn't teach about
anything. Okay? There is no actual tangible skill that you're
benefiting. Okay. So, what he's saying here is the things of the
dunya are themselves meaningless, but they have lessons inside of
them. There are lessons in them. Okay. And the neffs only looks at
the outside, but the heart should be looking at the lesson on the
inside. This is why you can find two people doing the same exact
thing. One's benefiting one's not. Right, one is benefiting and one
is not. How does one know what that
one? No?
No, what lessons should be derived?
That's a good question. He should ask the one that has been through
it before him.
He should ask them one has been through it before. Right? And this
is where it comes where the text of the Quran and the Sunnah does
not give us information. What do we do this is a shot. Ask the
people who've been in that situation, or have done that
before? What is the lesson of this?
The soul is ensnared into excessive love of this world by
the external beauty and glitter of worldly things. Why?
The people of the desert advance in religion better than people the
city, the people of the desert have no dunya to entice them.
Also, at the same time, because there's less dunya they have less
wisdom or have less knowledge. Okay? It's commonly known that the
city people they have a little bit more thinking than the Bedouin,
right than the nomads, okay? Because there's so many things in
life that they have to learn, okay? And the Bedouin is just as
him and the camels and the goats and that's it. Consequently,
consequently, the person in this condition pursues these worldly
objectives, objects. In this pursuit, man forgets the next
world.
But the inner realities of these things are an admonition, meaning
the results of what's going to happen to him is going to teach
them a lesson. While every earthly object is initially beautiful and
pleasurable, its ultimate end is just tasteful and disgusting.
Okay, as an example, consider the beginning and the end of food.
When you walk in even forget thinking about food
when you have are hungry and there's a pot on the stove, it
smells so good, right? Oh, you're so happy. Now you ate. Okay. Then
you smell the food again and it smells bad. Do you think that
smell really changed in the 20 minutes that you ate? No,
actually, you changed. The body is such that when you're hungry food
smells good. And when you're not hungry food smells bad. Right?
Don't the the smell of the food in the house didn't change in 20
minutes. But after dinner everyone's disgusted by the smell
of the food. Before dinner, everyone's running downstairs.
What have who what's what's, what's cooking, okay, that's the
households where the women cook. Okay, now unfortunately, people
are just ordering takeout for everything. Don't do this. If you
make the food in your house you're making with love and bought a gun.
There's got to be better benefit in the house. You're constantly
ordering takeout or worse, microwaving some junk that's been
in a truck for 22 days. And before that it was in a freezer for 22
months. And then you put it in a microwave to increase the
cancerous nature of it. And the peel the plastic swallow this is
disgusting. Right? This is disgusting. You peel back the
plastic. Okay, horrible. We know for sure this toxins are coming
out of this plastic. Okay, and into the food and there's so much
preservative in the food. Okay, don't do this. Right. I would
rather just boil an egg or two made with love than to eat this
junk. Okay.