Shadee Elmasry – The Gauges of Our Worship
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We need to gauge our ability if we care about something.
We gauge it.
We measure it. If you
if you ride a bike, there's no gauges, right? There's no gauge on
the bike.
If you're walking there no gauges, of course, if you have a bike,
there's just that one five speed bike, right? Or a 10 speed. If you
have a car though,
you have how many gauges? You have? You got the oil, you got the
temperature, you got the rpm, and you got the miles per hour mph.
Okay, you have more gauges, you have drive reverse neutral. Right?
Overdrive.
So you have more gauges. If you have a car, or an airplane.
How many gauges Do you have?
Like, you don't even you can't even count how many edges you
have. If you have a shuttle up in space, you have a whole room full
of gauges. Right? So the more serious people take a matter, the
more gauges there are. Okay? Now think about how serious people are
about their finances. Okay, how many gauges people have people who
are serious about Of course, if you're like a normal person, like
most of us, there's one gauge is there enough money to get through
this month are not like one gauge, basically, one check is coming in,
and it's going to five different places. That's one gauge. That's
it, okay. But people who are serious about their financial
situation, they have a lot of gauges, their portfolio is
diversified, they have a bank account for college, a bank
account for retirement, a bank account for a monthly expenses,
and maybe savings for their vacation and their entertainment
or whatever, okay? And then therefore, they're gonna have
their investment portfolio, their investment or investing in one
thing, no one invests all their money in one thing, their
investment may be in seven things, okay? And then they have revenue
streams, all right, they got the job and they got the house that
they rent out, then they got whatever that is bringing them
monthly revenue. Then with all this, you have to have years ago
gauges, you got to know how my pay is account on all these different
things. How am I going to do that? So you see, the more seriously you
take the issue of money and advance in the issue of money.
You're gonna have mortgages.
But you take someone in the matter of Dean.
And he's doesn't really care. Right? He can't even tell you what
his gauges are. Right? What is his gauges? He doesn't even tell you.
Well, yeah, I pray Jim. Ah, all right. I pray when I can. Right. I
don't do the huddle. I mean, maybe as three gauges, you can have the
most sophisticated guy.
Okay, sophisticated guy, a professional, someone say, oh my
gosh, if he walks in, we have to stop the class and stand up for
him. Right?
But sometimes in matters of Dean, he doesn't take it seriously. Ask
him what are your gauges? I pray him did I give charity I pay my
Zika he's done. He's happy. I've met some people like this. I've
met people like this. I spent on the matter of their dunya he may
have a staff of 20 people, a staff of 200 people in his company in
the matter of his dunya ask him to gauge his of your religious life.
He says will lie if I pray five times a day. If I listen to a
lecture a week, and I say a one would have done night I'm happy
I'm good. So your gauge of your dunya asking me to summarize
summarize your dunya your company for me, brother, that's gonna take
two years, two weeks for you to understand my company. But I've
only understood your religious life and one sentence in two
seconds. So what you care about, you have many gauges and you
monitor many things because you care about it. Ask a regular guy
like us, like another example.
How do you what do you do to keep healthy? Some people have no
gauges. They don't care about it. Okay, other people. I stopped
eating at this hour, and I do one exercise a day. He has two gauges
to stay healthy. But ask the guy who looks like a sculpture. Okay.
Tell me about right your fitness standards. He needs a book to tell
you for I do calf's at Tuesday at three o'clock. Okay? All right.
And he's got gauges. He's, he works out he's got a schedule for
muscles you don't know exists. Okay, like the little muscle in
the side here. Okay. stuff you don't know exists. He's got a
gauge for it.
So we're gonna start with our, with our spirits and the Olia have
gauges like, it's they got assistance. There was one of the
older of Egypt. Okay. He had a thing about his food. He would not
eat anyone's food.
his daughter was so serious in India, his daughter as an
assistant to check what he's actually eating, okay? There are a
lot of subtleties in the matter a lot of subtleties in the matter.
Let me give you one subtlety, your night and your sleep
in the matter of two, so for some people, their sleep is out of
whack. And the issue of sleep is related to two things, you can't
just tackle sleep. Okay, you can't just tackle sleep. Sleep is
related to two things, your sugar and caffeine intake, and your
online presence and your screen time. If these two things go late
in the day, then and you're worried about sleep, you're gonna
fail, you set yourself up to fail. So in fact, if you're serious
about the issue of sleeping at a regular hour, which is very
important for the next gauge, which is Fudger. Alright, so you
see how you have to keep going back, you realize that if you're
very serious about Fudger, then you have to be as serious about
sleep. If you're going to be serious about sleep, you got to be
serious about the issue of sugar, caffeine intake, and screentime.
Because it's proven that these two things they need to actually stop
way earlier than you have ever imagined. If you really want to
dominate the subject, the issue of sleeping on time, sleeping at a
regular hour, right and getting good sleep. Because vicar needs
good sleep, you can't be half alert, in order to thicker so
people are even saying you're going into five, six and seven
o'clock at when you actually need to start your preparations for
fetcher.
Okay, your first stop is sleeping on time. So around between the
hours of five and seven is when everyone's different, right? You
need to actually eliminate and cut down or just close up shop on
caffeine, sugar and screen time.
Is you see how serious this matter is. It's not a joke. When you see
a worldly of Allah azza wa jal and you look at his life is very
simple. What does he do? He's praying and fasting. Oh, he's so
simple. Okay, the why is only like one out of a million people doing
it. If it's that easy. It's not that easy. It is not that easy.
It's something that looks so simple. So it looks so simple.
Like, you take one of
a bodybuilder, what's he doing? He's lifting weights. That's all
it is. That's it, that's a big deal. And don't eat certain
things.
Every million, right? Why are we all failing in this subject? If
it's that simple, it looks simple. It's not simple. It takes a lot of
effort. Right? And there are gauges, there are certain things
you didn't even think were things that mattered, but they mattered
that you don't never think that your cigarette intake, caffeine
and screentime affect your spirituality. People never
imagined it. It's a huge deal.
Just like eating bagels for a bodybuilder, you won't find him
eating a bagel, right? There's just bread. Basically, you're not
gonna find him eating certain foods. You're like, that's a big
deal. Of course, it's a big deal. How much water you drink is a big
deal. So as we advance in draw near to Allah azza wa jal, our war
is with our bad habits. It's our war. Right? And you we are up
ended. Okay, we are upended by our bad habits. Okay. And just like in
bodybuilding, everyone's different and everyone will have different
body type. Likewise, you have a different knifes type. Your
enough's is different. Some people the issue of sleep is not a big
deal. It just not a problem. Food is a problem. Others food is not a
problem. Sleep is a problem. So, this is where the involvement of
the chef comes evolved, right because your body type is
different. So your trainer will help you with that your knifes is
different. So your shift will help you with that. Okay, and there's
certain things that are common for everyone.