Shadee Elmasry – The Gauges of Our Worship

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.