Shadee Elmasry – Why Allah Hid Certain Things…
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The importance of repeating actions and not just learning is crucial for personal success. The speakers discuss the negative impact of not being able to achieve success in life and the importance of memorization in learning and understanding emotions. The NEMA project is a great example of achieving success, and the negative impact of not being able to achieve success in life is discussed. The transcript concludes with a discussion of the benefits of technology and the positive impact of memorization in the future, particularly in the future.
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Today, there is a really interesting
thing that I want to share. And the topic of today's talk is that
Allah to Allah has hidden eight things inside of eight things.
Now, if you were at the masjid yesterday, last night, I spoke
about this for the first time now, you been around,
you know, the classes that go on, you know that I believe in
repetition.
And it's not. And people have completely misunderstood
discovery, with, not with learning and knowledge. And they've
confused the two, that discovering something new is merely the first
phase of learning.
It's, and many people mistake it for learning that when I discover
something, that means I'm learning. And if I've heard
something already, that means I'm not learning.
If you want to actually learn, you need to completely undo this
understanding. And you need to realize that learning truly occurs
after multiple repetitions, okay, of a thing.
Here, you don't have an expert at anything at surgery or painting,
except after 1000s of repetitions of the same movement of their
hand, right? Then these, like a master painter,
does the same thing, you're painting the same wall, but when
he paints, it paints a wall 200 times over the course of a year or
two, he's at another level than someone who's doing it for the
first three times, the brain is no different.
The intellect is no different, it's a muscle, that if it was to
repeat the same action, over and over and over every single time
guaranteed, you would derive something out of it, something
different out of it, and it's not
the page that's changed or the knowledge that's changed, it's you
who have changed.
If you're trying to climb a mountain, you're gonna, like, be
tired, 1/3 of the way through, you're gonna come down, right,
next time, you're gonna go two thirds of the way through, you're
gonna come down, eventually, you're gonna get all the way up
there, there's gonna come a point in time, when you get up there so
effortless, effortlessly, that by the time you get to the top of the
mountain, you are your energy reserves are still full. And
because your energy reserves are still full, your brain can now
absorb a lot more,
you know, on the 10th time around than on the first time around,
right or the third time around, just the same thing when it comes
to knowledge. It's you who have changed. It's not the book that's
changed. It's you who've changed. You're now coming in now without
ignorance of certain terms. Alright, so you're coming in with
a completely different outlook. Secondly, anytime you go through
anything intellectual,
what happens is whether you're reading or listening,
the the speaker or your eyes, they're moving at a certain pace.
You come upon something that's pretty interesting, right? Your
imaginative funk faculty, default the faculty within our brains that
it dwells upon things and thinks about things, okay? And sometimes
does this
unintentionally, right? You'd be listening. You're supposed to be
listening.
Let's say hypothetically, I just said something at minute four,
that you found to be really interesting. Your ears are still
with me, and you can hear what I'm saying. But your mind your
imaginative mind. You sometimes the Arabs used to call this the
heart. Some people call this you know, the subconscious mind.
Whatever you want to call it doesn't matter
has picked up on something really interesting. And now it's
extrapolating something that's learning, right? Because now
you're contemplating something you're pondering something you're
linking things in your mind together. Right? Oh, he said this,
but I also heard someone else had said that, right? So this is
matching or they're opposites. And how do we put this together so
your ears are with me.
But your mind is actually took a seed and planted it and is
examining how that seed is going to look and how that seed is going
to grow. Okay, so you your actual attention has jumped off the
timeline
in a good way.
To contemplate something. Now, when you come back to the timeline
at minute five, you have five minutes and 15 seconds. So for
about a minute and 15 seconds, your ears were with me but your
actual mind was elsewhere. Was was benefiting, your actual mind was
marinating, a point that was made in the fourth minute.
Now you're coming back to me at minute, five, five minutes, 15
seconds, you missed a minute and 15 seconds your ears heard them.
But you you there's no way you could have contemplated you can't
accomplish contemplate two things at once.
And so that's why anytime that you hear a good lecture, the first
listen is me, it's really you're only going to hear truly
contemplate a small percentage of it. Because if the lecture is any
good, your your mind is constantly going to jump off the timeline,
you're going to jump off the timeline, you're going to dwell on
something that's true learning is happening at that moment. true
benefit is happening at that moment. By the time you come back,
you probably missed two minutes of the lecture. Right?
Which is why sometimes you know, this idea of the recorded lecture
that you could pause has a lot of value. Or you could rewind, it has
a ton of value.
And to hear a live lecture once
I honestly think you you're really only benefiting 10% If you're
paying full attention, because your mind is going to keep jumping
off the timeline. So therefore, that's the idea that you listen to
it a second time, give it a third time. And I'm not even kidding
you. And I tell you, if there is a clip,
maybe a 20 minute clip about a topic about something, I might
listen to that
60 times over the course of a month, like I get obsessed with
it.
But I'm telling you that knowledge never leaves. It never leaves.
It's become part of my bone marrow. Okay, I have a book like I
have a library and met some people out some some scholars that come
visit and they're like, it's not huge. The library. I don't find
great value in having tons of books. Right? Unless it's a
resource topic like law FIP or, you know, like a science, you need
those books, because those books are meant to be read cover to
cover their encyclopedias, they're more like resources, the resource
books.
So you there's value in it just like looking at, you know, one
muscle or one question. But actual books that I would say that I've
read in my life, I could probably number them, because I'll just
keep going back to that same book, like, Mmm, no, we shot one Muslim,
I'll probably read from that the rest of my life, I don't need to
read another shutter. Right? I want that one. Because I want that
one to be in my bones.
FIP same thing. It starts with IB and actually read that for like
two years. You know, some people finish it in six hours, you could
finish in six hours, but to actually truly absorb it.
Then I actually went quickly to resell it. And now he's eight. I
spent like years on that book. Yours.
Just reading it over and over. And I don't care if people say oh, we
finished that nine months, and we moved on. Yeah, it's such a
superficial reading. So this is the idea that repetition is truly
truly the best technique of learning and what does Allah do?
Right? He gives us the Quran and tells us read it over and over and
over and over. As the Quran changed, no, you changed.
And the Quran is the best example of someone who could read the
Quran his entire life. And when he's 60 years old, still feel that
this verse is his first time ever reading it? It's because yeah, you
read it.
When you were at the bottom of the mountain, you only saw the
silhouette of that verse. Imagine you're at a mountain and the sun
is rising behind the mountain. all you saw was the silhouette of that
verse. As you matured,
and the son of your maturity rose, and the son of your wisdom rose,
you see more of that mountain.
It's the same mountain and you're standing in the same spot. But
your maturity changed your life experience changed, your wisdom
has completely transformed. The sun has moved now at the her the
same stance, the same glance is completely different. Now Maghrib
completely different shades of light, completely different
angles. All right. There is no book more so than the Quran that
people will sit there and tell you I've been reciting the Quran for
50 years. I've this verse just hit me right now.
Here's what it actually means.
You can find everyone will tell you that everyone, and not
Magellan not fakery, in truth, they'll tell you that.
This is the this is the value of repetition. Right. And on top of
that, there's a second value of repetition, it's that it's the
lowest common denominator of learning methodologies. Right? The
most sort of dense type of person that you can imagine, will benefit
through the technique of repetition, right. So the someone
who is completely not bright at all.
And you tell them read this chapter, every single day, for the
next two months, read this chapter. And they do that
they their brain will develop from that, because they'll finally get
it, you know, maybe on day 50, they will finally get it. And once
those whatever synapses, axons, whatever they call them, whenever
they connect at the moment, they connect in the brain. And the
person understood something, it doesn't matter whether they
understood it from the first time or the 50th time, the synapses
finally connected.
He's discovered that he can learn
he's just discovered that he takes more repetitions in somebody else.
That's the only difference. And the more he continues and persists
upon this is brain will go stronger and stronger and
stronger, he won't need 50 times to actually learn, right to
actually understand the concept will be have gotten smarter, in
the same way that someone will have gotten stronger by lifting,
they get stronger, smarter, by understanding by reading over and
over and over. So that's why and I learned this from many people.
Remember it had dad said it Imams a checker was the first person to
say it. I remember when I was a checker saying this way back
around the year 2000. He said, I'm going to repeat this and and he
said, I have no shame in ever repeating something. And no, I
learned this actually from sitting one time with Habib it before he
was really big and famous and, and on all the TV stations, he had
come to visit America.
He visited America in late October 2001,
late October, and he was meant to spend two weeks in Virginia, and
then drive into different places depending on what opened up
because people didn't know who had anybody was in the United States.
And he still hasn't had he was like a teacher and Donald Mustafa.
He hadn't gotten in the, into the limelight the way he is now. And
involved in all the things that he was involved in. So people didn't
know who he was. So he said, it was gonna come spend two weeks in
Virginia. And then when people learn that he's here, they'll
invite him and we'll arrange all that stuff. And I wasn't even an
organized I was just one of the periphery brothers who just
hanging around and trying to study from the ship.
Well, guess what happens? 911 happens. And he's grounded for two
more weeks before the whole trip is canceled. And then he takes his
flight back to Yemen. Well, in that period of time.
I did something which was terribly wrong. And discovered afterwards,
is that whenever you hear someone telling a story, or talking about
like, you know, a topic or something, and you've heard it
before,
it's human instinct to blurt out, Oh, I heard this one before.
Right. And I had done that with him. I was like, I don't know, 19
years old or something, right.
Alright, later on. He mentioned as you know, as nausea, when you hear
a story,
I don't care if it's the 100th time that you're hearing this
story. Don't ever, ever, ever say, Oh, I heard this before.
Right?
Because number one, he may give you a different rendition of the
story. Number two, he may extrapolate on a different wisdom
from the story number three, you may have heard it but may not have
understood it.
That's a big difference.
You are you are you having heard the story means that the discovery
factor is gone. The discovery factor is gone.
But
the learning factors still open.
There is a big difference between discovery and learning.
Right? So don't confuse the two. Right so this is one and then I've
anyone who grew up with Hamza Yusuf knows that he employed this.
If you hung out with him, and followed him around, and knew like
you know what's going on and where the talks were given. For like
three, four months, he might latch on to a topic
and give mentioned to that topic or that story 5678 times within
the span of a few months, right. So like, you know, at attend
talks, who mentioned the same story seven times, or the same
point seven times, or will latch onto a topic for a year.
But the value is that you've heard it in different angles in
different contexts, so many times, it becomes part of your blood.
Right? It, it marinates. Right. And learning is more like
marination.
Then, you know, adding salt, you add salt once, right? You don't
marinate food and salt on this, you're purifying it, of course,
but you don't marinate in salt, you marinate with the other spices
overnight. And that's the value of the recipe is the marination. You
don't come and put the same spice you cook the thing and put the
spices on it. No, it's just how it works. You marinate. So that's the
value of repetition. And remember, that said knowledge is just
repetition. Right? So with that, that's a little bit of a
introduction turned into something a little bit bigger than an
introduction. But
I set all that because to introduce the topic that I had
spoken about last night, which is that Allah has hidden eight things
inside of eight things. And that's what we want to talk about today.
The really interesting topic. And the first question comes to mind
is why hide anything?
Why hide something? Why not give us the reality of a thing right
away? Just give it to us right away? Is, is this a game is this
Hide and Seek what's going on here? You have to understand two
extremely, extremely important things.
Number one, when Allah to Allah decrees, in effect, he never
decrees an effect. Without first without also decreasing the cause.
So many people, they separate between Canada and Canada,
divine will and cause and effect, right? So let's say somebody
searches and works for seven months to find a job then finally
finds a job.
Someone who talks about divine destiny says look, I look good,
couldn't have Allah found you the job without you having to look for
seven months. Yes.
But the will of Allah net does not separate the effect from the
cause. The will of Allah was for you to apply that cause to attain
that effect. It's the will of Allah, that he chose fire to burn
water to, to wet to make things wet food to satisfy the stomach,
sleep to rest the brain. Okay. So we should never separate the two.
So therefore, if we're desiring an effect an outcome, it's not for us
to ever separate and say, well, I'll look could have just given it
to us. No, because part of the decree is what is the cause that
brings about this outcome. It's as important as the outcome itself.
And this is one thing many people who are lost in Canada and Canada,
they're confused about and they're totally missing the reality of the
show the real show is not just the outcome is what has Allah chosen
to be the cause of this outcome did barrier intermediary between
confer Kuhn between corn and your corn? Okay.
Between corn and the Akun B, and it is.
So it initiates from him b corn
and it comes into being between that
99.99% of the creation because has a barrier some something between
that and between that that's what we call the cause the s Burb
Alright, the S verb. So we know that
a child is going to be born.
But the sub is the two parents that Allah chose for that child to
exist, right? Allah says to the child B. Now what does that mean
when Allah says to the child V. The child exists pre eternally in
divine knowledge.
Nothing
that comes into existence, was absent from divine knowledge, pre
eternally
Because Allah acknowledges his attribute,
and that his attribute is pre eternal, all His attributes are
pre eternal, that means they've always existed. So in knowledge,
they've always existed, you've always existed, as a piece of
knowledge with Allah without form, without body without anything,
just as a knowledge, you yourself have always existed with Allah, in
his knowledge.
So he speaks to you as a piece of knowledge and says, Be couldn't.
And then you become in manifest life,
as a physical body or as a soul first and then as a physical body.
So you see, there are aspects about you that are different.
There's your existence in his divine knowledge, that has always
existed, He speaks to you there and says, couldn't be, have you
ever wondered, Who is Allah talking to? He's talking to the
thing itself, right? That exists
in divine knowledge without any form or other reality except
existing and divine knowledge. And he says, Good.
For Kuhn, as soon as he says, when that thing comes about, however,
out of his great divine wisdom, you just don't pop up. He has,
he's created for you a cause. And that cause would be like your
mother and your father, your grandparents, all those causes
together. Alright, the flesh that you're made out of the blood, the
water, all right. So between Cohen, and fair, Kuhn
is a barrier. Or we should say a bridge, that's a better word, a
bridge between Cohen and fair, Kuhn is a bridge.
There is so much wisdom in that bridge, you can never ignore that
bridge, you can Oh, the just ASVAB? No, not just as speb. What
do you mean, just ASVAB? Allah put it there. So it's not just
anything. It's extremely valuable.
So what does this have to do with this idea of hiding eight things
inside of a things? What has to do with is that Allah subhanho wa
Taala only wants us to arrive at these eight secrets, these eight
great benefits through the means of searching.
The means of searching is as important as the outcome itself,
is something so important for us to understand. The means that he
created, the ASVAB was created is as important for us to contemplate
as the outcome itself. And that's why he's hidden them so that we
can search
and Allah to Allah wants an effort to be put out of people.
Because it's
exertion of effort comes so many more benefits and wisdoms than
simply attaining the outcome. Okay. And it's no different when a
child says, oh, what's the answer to 16 times five? I can't figure
out 16 times five. You said, Well, get the pen and paper, get the
pencil and paper, do it. And we'll see what kind of effort what kind
of mistakes you make, or you know, put some effort in first.
Right? Why? Because in it, there's learning to do things yourself. In
it, there's learning the actual math, there's learning to make
mistakes and fix it. There are so much in the in the effort before
attaining the result. So Allah just doesn't give us the result by
itself. And I always think about, say to Mehdi, Mia set up amazing,
just absolutely amazing to contemplate that this is the most
Beloved, this is the most pure woman to ever walk the Earth. She
is the most oppressed woman because she's completely innocent.
She's not just innocent. She's it's not like she was a normal
woman who was married and then people say you committed Zina. He
fornicated No, she received a miracle Kurama from Allah ammaji
has a really.
And then she was accused of that. Right? So it's not like a regular
Muslim. They're insulting him and saying you're ignorant. No, he's
actually a scholar, and they're telling him he's ignorant. There's
a big difference, right? There's a huge difference between a regular
like a regular person that people make fun of, oh, he's ignorant.
Well, maybe he's not ignorant. Right. But what if the person is
actually like a scholar and people call him ignorant, then it's 10
times worse because it's far from the truth.
So say the medium is this purest woman she's carrying the word of
Allah being as Allah says, the word of Allah meaning the miracle
of Allah subhanaw taala. Okay, well kennemer min Allah means
says
grabbed by sets and as a career too, because he was born out of a
miracle to march is a
it's a miracle. Say now he says a miracle marches.
She's carrying a module that in her sin her body. Think about
this. And they called her this. Not only that, she has no
supporters. She had this baby by herself under a tree all by
herself. Now if you're walking, and, and you see an average woman,
forget the greatest woman to exist.
And you see this woman on the side of a highway having a baby, you're
gonna stop, you're going to help her. Right? You're gonna get her
food, you're going to take it to the hospital. But Allah subhana wa
Tada tells Satan about him something else.
After she had the baby.
He said, Stand up, well, who's zi, la ke we do the Nakhla. To circuit
I like a lot of engineer, Get up, stand up and shake
the tree, shake the branches of the tree.
And then dates will come down. Now, the amorphous city and say
there are no dates on the tree. It's a barren tree. It's just like
her.
She, she's witnessing literally herself. Because the date the tree
has no dates on it. She's told get up, shake the branches and dates
will come falling down. As I'm watching again, right?
Now, here's the amazing part. If it's a miracle, why not just have
the dates come down by themselves? If it's a miracle,
again, there is so much in the cause that Allah creates the
wisdom showing everyone that Allah wants something out of you. Why?
What is he going to get out of that? You get some kind of
satisfaction to see a sweating and no, it's to complete the NEMA.
Because when you have a hand in it, it's to complete the NEMA. I
want you to contemplate something else.
Benissa Elan Sedna, Musa alayhis salam at the Red Sea.
Musa strike the sea.
Why? What is that have to do anything? It's not going to do
anything? No, but it is to complete the namah for Musa
alayhis salam. Okay, it completes the NEMA for him in one way that
it completes the namah for him is that his own tribe, the vinius
lead witness him being the sort of symbolic button presser button
pusher of this miracle.
That's just one of them. So Allah to Allah always wants an effort
from us.
Not for any satisfaction that it gives him in the same way that we
when we see someone lazy, we get satisfied to make them work a
little bit. No.
It's rather to complete the NEMA for us. Because if Allah was just
to give it to us, it's an incomplete blessing. But if he
gives us a hand in it, then it's a complete blessing.
Right then Allah say he preserved the Quran. But we didn't see
angels or we didn't see Allah come down preserve the Quran who
preserved the Quran? preserved the Quran was Imam Huff's Imam
Awesome. Okay, Imam wash
human beings who came up with the Tuskegee Khalid bin Ahmed from
Oman, who lived in Basara came up with the concept of tusky Okay,
the different
typography is the the authors of these
scripts such as NESC right and, and these different scripts
that the basically invented the, the design the script, so Allah
Tada has given the OMA of Muhammad, certain members of the
ummah of the prophets lie Selim, this great honor of being part of
his plan. So it completes the NEMA for us. So
the eight
out of eight number one,
a fellow little cadre philosophy worker, his hidden layer little
covered in the last 10 Nights.
Number two, alpha is small, all them PS SMA E. L is one of them.
There's so much to be talked about. The great name by which
ALLAH Ta, all dua is answered. Okay. And there's a lot of
discussion about what it is what it is and nobody knows for sure.
Why, because it forces us now to try this one. Let me do this one.
Let me do that one. And in the process of doing so, you develop
so much if there was one dua he would get bored of it it's human
nature but one of the signs that Allah Tala wants to give something
to somebody is that they are Moodle him Bidra what is the word
Moodle him mean? It has many meanings number one it means that
they're on the spot with their da
it's not you know rehearsed. It's not I'll wait till five o'clock to
make the dot. It's there's there's an element of, of spontaneity in
the DUA.
Yeah, that's one meaning.
A second meaning of Moodle humble, da, is that he continues to recite
all sorts of different prayers. And if you've ever been in an
effort to do something,
and you ever find yourself trying hard to do something, you'll find
yourself coming upon many different doors, and opening all
of them.
So that for like a week, you're, you hear about the secret of Salah
on the Prophet. And so you just are nonstop doing silhouettes on
the Prophet until that becomes part of your DNA. You don't stop
it.
And then, you know, after 10 days, you realize, oh, wow, there's
another da which is the dua of Eunice La La Land's panic any
consumer of vitamin, you become obsessed with that. After two
weeks of that, that's part of your blood. Now, you hear now that
sadaqa to serve the charity in secret
is one of the greatest of doors to acceptance. And you wants your you
need something so badly that you now do sadaqa to serve secret
charity for another two weeks, right. And then by that time, you
need to brush up on your salon the profit again. So you revive that.
And then you hear about, you know, I'm doing all this, my recitation
of the Quran is weak and Allah speaks to you through the Quran.
So you start reciting and reciting and reciting, and you feel like,
every once in a while an A A pops out at you. And you're like, wow,
Allah, just, this is like a turgidity from Allah.
And so you become obsessed with the recitation of the Quran. And
so you go from one thing to the next to the next to the next to
the next. And that's why Allah hides things, just so that you
could do that. Because at the end of this experience of yours,
all of that will be in your DNA. And so when the time comes, you
know, things will settle down and you go back normal life. But then
when there's a need, you open up that toolbox and each of those
tools, oh, I know how to use this. I remember I use this, I use that
I know how to use this. And you can get things done like that. In
through the spiritual realm through the realm of dua in a bad
salon, the prophet I have a great experience with saw on the Prophet
I was obsessed with it for a month. Right? Now I can revive
that and improve on it. Fasting, I was obsessed with fasting, right
for a period of time. It's almost like taking a course.
Number three, alpha Salatin Gustavo felucca silhouettes.
For salata, combs, he hid.
One of the most beloved prayers to him, which is called a celestial
Wooster. Now, Allah subhanaw taala says, how if you do on a salatu
salam, Wooster community, let quantity,
guard the prayer, and the middle prayer, and stand up to Allah, in
humble in humble supplication. Or in some say includes.
So what is the middle prayer? It's obviously the third, third out of
the five there are five prayer. So the third one is the middle. But
what's the first and the fifth? What is the standard by which to
determine the first prayer? So the first prayer of Ramadan, or have
any hingedly month is what is always negative. That's the first
prayer of the month. Right? So if negative is the first prayer, then
that makes Federer to the middle prayer.
But
the sun, you may argue that Salah is solar,
it's by the sun. Therefore Fetchit is the middle prayer
is the first prayer and effect it is the first prayer than us it is
the middle prayer.
Then you may say, Well, why don't we actually see which was the
actual first prayer that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam prayed, and that was after the surah in the Miraj. The
Prophet SAW Selim returned to the earth
And it was around mornings. It was still nighttime. But Satana
Gibreel did not come to him to teach him how to pray at for
February because it was so dark. He came to him for.
So Salah to Thor was the very first obligatory prayer prayed of
the five prayers.
If Salah to vote is the first prayer, that means Maghrib is the
middle prayer. So that leaves us with three conclusions. That it's
the whole. Sorry, it's us. It's fudge or it's mad at him. Which
one is it? So therefore a person's got to observe all of them to make
sure he gets it. Get
Alpha satin e Jabba Fiona Juma?
Satin each other
is a expanse of time,
however you utter your DUA is what's going to happen.
So when Allah says St. Java,
or Java
it's exactly how you uttered the prayer. No difference. This is
what you're gonna get.
It's, of course we know as Muslims all dua is answered in one of four
different ways. Either Allah gives you exactly what you asked for he
gives you something better, he protects you from some harm, or he
saves it for you in the afterlife. That's all prayers are like this.
So when Allah subhana wa Tada says, a sack of E Jabba an hour in
which prayers are answered.
We're not talking about these four, we're talking about the
first one, the first type of answer of the four, which is that
Allah to Allah will answer it exactly how you say it.
Exactly how you say it, is what you're gonna get.
That's what Saturday job is. And it's hidden on Friday, every
Friday from morning to Maghrib Fajr. Tomorrow, there is an
expensive time.
And Allah Tala has hidden that so that you never know when it is.
Okay. So that you would do to our all the time. Okay. And some
people many, many, many people say it's close to love it.
It's between Austin and McCullum. Hola Ana.
Just as many people say that ladies, Okada tends to be on the
27th. We know that obviously, it's the last 10 nights of those the
last the odd ones, and of the odd ones, most likely the 27th because
it's been our best said that suited to the country has 30 words
in it. And the reference, the only reference to later Qatar as a
pronoun. Okay, is the 27th word. So he said watch out for the 27th.
Now, I think it's a total mistake. That people imagine that it's only
on the 27th. It's there. It's not only could be any day.
I remember reading you that hustle and bustle. He once said that
little cuddle was on the second night of Ramadan. Because in those
times the people were much more pious and energetic. Today, you
know, we're a bit weaker, so we expect it to be scheduled for us.
Right? Not exactly how it works. But at least most you know, most
of the people always talk about the last you say 2627 28 days of
Ramadan, because our 27th may or may not actually be the actual
27th.
Oftentimes, people may have not seen the moon.
So it's the first for them, but it's actually the second for many
other people.
Because in the if, if, before communication, it could be cloudy
in one city
and clear in another city. And they can't communicate quickly
enough.
But a writer, for example, may travel to the next day and said
what day of Ramadan is this? They'll say it's the 13th day he
say actually it's the 14th thing. You know the city where I came
from, because we saw the new moon
and there's a whole fifth discussion about that can happen
at the time of say northmen
alpha, number five Wali, Allah He fineness, Allah Tala has hidden
the willie amongst the people. The earlier are just like FIP we have
more college, someone who imitates he doesn't. He cannot derive an
evidence by himself. He could learn what the evidence is. But he
couldn't have derived that by himself. We call that a mullet.
That's like the student of
Knowledge, we'll call it which is the rank of most of us. Right?
That we can understand the evidence, we can go read the
evidence, but we could have never derived that by ourselves. And we
probably can't even justify why it's an evidence we just know
that's the evidence. Why isn't something else to evidence
instead?
There are more college. Before that level. Adrian's even read the
evidences, he just reads the final result of the ruling. So this is
more color than you have. You know
what he can study the evidences within a school and tell you which
is stronger than you have in which dead Finn meth head he could use
the methodology of the school
and derive his own ruling within that methodology then you have
much said mutlak, he's beyond all the four schools. He doesn't
follow anyone and he comes up with his own rulings directly from the
Quran and the Sunnah.
Likewise, the Olia have different ranks. There are Elia who don't
know that they're earlier
they're hidden from themselves.
But and other people don't know their Elia. So they're hidden from
themselves and they're hidden from people. They're Olia who don't
know that they're out yet but the she you know that they're earlier.
The other LDS know that they're LDS how there are signs wilayah
has signs, Willa is not some kind of mystery. It has clear signs,
right. And those who know the signs know the odia. And of
course, any claim of Wilaya is a speculative claim.
There's no hard and fast like, we can hard and fast say Hanifa was
in woodshed and Watlow
was out it was much to hit mutlak, we can say that hard and fast
rule, right? Because that's, it's an external thing.
But Wilaya is an internal thing. Therefore, we say that people can
make the claim but the claims are all speculative.
It's by saying well, Allahu Allah.
Next is there or earlier that they themselves have been shown that
they're earlier and the people know that their own idea? Or
sorry, the opposite. They themselves know their own idea,
but the people don't know their own idea.
If a person sees himself as a mountain, in a dream, then he's
already if a person sees himself in a dream wearing a white turban,
then he's a weenie. Mm hmm. No, we were brought up the discussion.
Can somebody know that there are really some said no, they can
never know there will be if Allah told them they were Lee that they
would stop having Taqwa they would stop fearing the fire.
That's totally not true in men. And no, he said, What's greater
Wilier as a hobby?
So hobby, of course.
Right? And don't have a bucket doesn't have a bucket know that
he's guaranteed paradise, say normal was known guaranteed
paradise. Right? The Quran mentions the song above Abubaker
30th, Nene thermophila, Ada Collodi Sahibi.
All right.
He tells his friend, his companion. So remember, no, he
says that didn't change their hearts. It didn't corrupt their
hearts to know that they were companions guaranteed paradise. So
he said by analogy of that, the Sahaba in their, the what could
occur to them.
And their legal status is not different than anyone else. Of
course, their spiritual status is different. The spiritual status of
a companion, but there's nothing that if a hobby can do it, then
you can do it in the sense that it's lawful for you. It's lawful.
They don't, there's not there. They don't live by a different law
than us. They're human beings just like us. And they operate by the
same city as us. Okay, there's there's differences between us and
them, in that we owe them honor.
More than anyone else that's different, but they're human
beings. They're not like a category like prophets are.
So if they can know that they're guaranteed paradise and they're
beloved by Allah, then he can do and there are different ways in
which people are known to be odia. Usually how they see themselves in
a dream, but it can change. Okay, that's a difference. Sahaba of the
Prophet also could have changed. There were people who became
companions of the Prophet sighs No, and they lost it by apostates
out of Islam. There were two specifically, that stick out. One
became a Christian in Abyssinia. One being returned to Mecca to
become a pagan again, and then he became Muslim again. So he's a
Tebay not as a hobby because he died on cover. When the prophesy
centum passed away. He was to uncover
a Muslim again after in the time of Santa boubakeur.
Okay.
So a person could know his family and the people know he's early
or they don't know. He's a Willie. Okay, so all four possibilities.
Right. And then there are the Olia that are involved. They're the
ones running the show. They're the ones involved in FIP in Dawa, you
know, and those types of odia
Okay, so earlier, sometimes they're hidden amongst the people,
and sometimes they're not
a full cover era for the newbie. kuliah. Now, anytime he says here
that he's hidden the major sins in all of sins. Anytime that you want
to study, what are the major sins, you're gonna find a vast array of
opinions
on purpose. Now, what's the point of Allah telling us there are
major sins but not telling us the criterion? Like is something
that's mentioned in the Quran? Is that making a major sin? Like what
exactly is a major sin there's the dominant opinion is that anything
mentioned in specific in the Quran is a major sin
or anything that the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasallam attached
to a punishment also is a major sin. Anything prohibited in the
Quran in general, is a minus one.
And anything that the Prophet forbade
without attaching to it and describing its punishment is also
a minor sin. That's the dominant opinion.
Okay, so for example, greed. Greed is generally prohibited there's no
one action of being greedy. So anytime you're greedy mine person
an act of greed, like I'm not gonna give this poor man $5 minus
it. Right? Because greed in general was blameworthy in the
Quran
not like mentioned a specific thing.
Okay. So by having that fuzzy boundary, it makes you a bit
scared to do any sense.
Alright,
number seven, Aqua sub Alma Thani Phil Quran Al Karim.
Allah mentioned suboptimal Thani will Quran and Alim
the seven repeated verses.
Okay.
Is it suited in Fatiha? Is it spirits Al Baqarah and the next
seven long the call the subject to all the seven long, very long
suttas is it that we don't know? Right? So there's, it's hidden,
because these ads are special. There are those eight that Allah
subhanaw taala specified in the Quran, which means that when
they're recited the state that you're in and the DUA that you
order is confirmed.
And lastly, Aqua SATs and Java for throttle Acadiana lane.
Just like yomo Joomla has an hour of Java hidden in it. There is an
hour of Jabba hidden in the last third of the night. And therefore
it's recommended for us to try to seek it out by saying up the
entire last third of the night. And if you were to get up in the
last third of the night as a habit every single day, statistically,
you will eventually hit it at some point. Okay, if you do this for a
year or two, and a woman in height I was asked recently what can she
do she could still get an MC dot your DA is accepted. In the
medical school you can even recite Quran just can't touch the most
half you can recite from a tablet or from a phone but you cannot
touch the most half only Maliki method allows us because medic
separated between hide and Ginebra Ginebra you entered it by choice
and you can exit it by choice. Genova is after sexual *
hides is something that came from ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada has
absolutely nothing
to do with personal choice. Therefore Maddix had Why should
she be punished from reading the Quran? All she could do is she
can't touch them was Huff because she doesn't have to do and she
cannot enter the Masjid. But she can read the Quran from memory.
She can put on her hijab and recite from a phone and it's
perfect a bad. That's Imam Malik's phip. Okay.
So,
with that we've covered we've actually covered three topics we
covered repetition, we covered cause and effects and how Allah to
creates the cause with the effects and you cannot ignore the cause by
which Allah creates because there's so much wisdom in the
cause. And then finally, we covered
the eight hidden inside of Eight. And now
we will
take go into the live chat and
See if we have any questions and answers. So we have salaam from a
lot of people here g spice 71 Shar Patel, Nadia pranic. Alicia
Stigall. Ease Oh Traduction
why are they going to sit down to all of you?
Alicia says repetition is the best technique of learning, absolute
best technique, repetition.
Repetition is of, of learning repetition of action, you know,
Salah and cm and Ramadan. And it's a muscle memory that develops from
that, which is like a new term, but it's a really useful term
muscle memory.
Good summary here.
Right? If you came on late, Alicia is actually posting up summaries
so you could look at those.
So by the way, these are all being recorded, and they will be put up,
up probably on the Safina society channel as like post produced
recorded and they'll still be the live ones will still be on on
here.
So yesterday's will probably go up today, it's published and it just
got to they have to polish it up and put up today this one will
probably be cut into three parts.
Three different parts because we covered three different really
important topics. And that will be published as well.
So the M says the seven are the cause to attainment of an outcome.
The search the pain is the journey of life other otherwise, Allah
would have given everything without it. I remember
San Antonio Spurs they had a guy
who was there center for the San Antonio Spurs.
He was there Saturday, he's from Wake Forest. Right? I
can't remember his name. Tim Duncan, Tim Duncan, one of the
Hall of Fame NBA players. And he I think he won five
titles. Right? He said something so wise, one time.
He's at the interview. And the guy saying this is like your fourth or
fifth, I can't remember how many titles you want. He wants so many
championships. You got like four championships, they said this or
fourth championship? Does it feel any different? He said it's never
about the championship.
It's about the journey. And the championship just confirms the
journey. How amazing is that statement. It's never about the
championship. It's about the journey.
And the championship merely confirms the journey. Right? It
justifies it, it, it makes it the real thing.
And that's why anytime you're on a journey, if you're on a journey
with Allah to Allah, you should know for sure it's going to be
completed. Because there's no point in the journey without
completing the end of the journey. And I've said, you know, in the
past few weeks,
when there's a carrot in front of you, and you're chasing the
carrot, and in the process, you transform your life, you stop
committing sins.
You stop committing that one sin that you used to commit, you just
stopped it for the sake of this carrot, carrot being something of
this world that you wanted for yourself.
And you transformed your sins into good deeds.
I find it from my experience with Allah Tada, it is impossible that
he will put you on this journey and give you all of these
wonderful things, months of Transforming Your Life.
And then he gave you all that and you learn about him. You learn
about da, you become so blessed. In the deen. He's given you
something far greater than the carrot. There's no way he gives
you that and then he doesn't give you the carrot.
It's a sign that he's going to give you what you're seeking. If
you find yourself on a journey, a transformative journey.
It's the good news. It's like a Beshara.
And then, ultimately, as Talia says, Paradise is the ultimate
justification of the journey, right? We have so many little
journeys because we don't have patience.
In the past, you notice that they the life story of a worshiper
would be what was his life. He worshiped Allah for 70 years. Then
he died and went to Paradise, right? I mean, we that story's all
over. It's the
make history. That's because life was different human beings were
different. They could withstand that. They were born in the world
that did not give them a lot of choice.
So this idea that you're going to get bored, well then get bored,
there's nothing there for you to to have, right? The world was so
simple, but us it's different. We live a very different life. We may
live, you know, four or five different major chapters of our
lives. And in each one is 10 different sub chapters and sub
journeys. You may live from like the age 20 to 30 is a completely
different life from 30 to 40.
Then within each one, there's all sorts of stories.
That's our lives. The past, they had a lot more patients, they
didn't have a lot more patients, because they
on their own account, they had no more patients because they had no
choice. Patience is one of those things that, yeah, it's a virtue.
At the same time.
It's not your choice that you were patient, you had no option. We
have options, right? So patience has been taken away from us. And
it's almost we're almost not really completely blameworthy. In
that if if you want to talk to me, and you don't pick up the phone or
text and say, Oh, I was just waiting till I see you. You're
blameworthy. Why? Why should you wait like that? Call me text Allah
has created this technology for us. So we're like, what the heck?
Why would Why would something take two weeks? To get me information,
when you could have texted me. So patience is something that has
been taken away from us by the introduction of faster means which
make it unacceptable now, for anything to be slower. It's
completely unacceptable, right? In most cases,
for something to be slower.
Cool. Na Min has a good comment here. He says,
repetition is different from memorization, and he's 100%.
Right? Because repetition is done with each
rendition with each
repetition you're trying to understand. Memorization is very
different. Okay, memorization is completely different. And I was
talking the other day really, really interesting topic. And it
doesn't it's absolutely no disrespect, but there are in the
field of, of Islamic knowledge. The one who merely memorizes a lot
of things is the least valued. Of course, the Quran memorizing the
Quran is a spiritual value, that nothing can talk right, it's the
best. But
in this world that we live in,
to, to merely memorize something is not a great value.
Because of the amount of ways in which we could preserve knowledge.
It's understanding that is the value.
And of those who understand. There's no value in understanding
if you can't communicate from so we go from memorizing, to
understanding to communicating.
And from all those who know how to communicate, they're not all the
same. The one that can emote
is the one that's ultimately the most rewarded or the most valued.
The one that can emote means the one who can elicit any emotion.
A lot of people can communicate, they could string words together.
But how many of them could actually
reach into a person's heart and pull out any emotion?
Don't ever separate emotion from thought? You can only think how
you feel
you cannot think critically about something if it's boring. If the
if the if the message is coming to you in a boring fashion, you can
not think, okay, you can only think you will think as strong as
you feel. If someone emotes In other words, elicits an emotion
out of you. You'll find yourself thinking for days about it. And
that's a benefit. Okay, that's benefit and that's why the Quranic
methodology is to teach you through a story. Not a list of
rulings and a list of wisdoms because a list is boring to
people. But you tell me Satan the use of was thrown in the well at
the age of like seven years old.
And then he's made a slave. And then he sold again. And now he's
living with this beautiful woman all alone, and he's becoming now a
14 year old boy. 15 year old boy 16 year old boy 17 year old boy
living all alone in a room in a house with a beauty
For women eat so many emotions are moving in your body now.
And then she chases after him. Right and, and rips his shirt. And
he goes to Joe.
Amazing lesson. Why touches an emotion? Right. So that's the
levels of things. And that's where a good point by cool, Norman is
that this idea of merely memorizing it was, by the way, in
the past, when paper was hard to come by, then, you know, paper was
would would would fade away, ink would fade off of the paper within
like a 234 or five years, until they got better at it. Right? So,
in the past memorization was extremely valuable. But today,
it's not as valuable why so Allah could give a chance for different
types of qualities to get the reward.
A friend is saying that Hamza Allah and His aka lockira, may
Allah bless you as well. So Leah is saying, can we get go ever go
back to simple? Will the world go back to that state? I say no, and
don't even desire that. There's a reason why Allah Allah creates.
And one of the, I think, flaws in Islamic talks, is the idea of of
that the way the world was, is somehow superior to the way the
world is. Not the way the world is, is because Allah was pulling
out blessings from it. Right? But if you want to talk about the
blessings from us through that, but if you want to talk about the
morals, you can, you can say the hearts of people were pure. Right?
You can say that the morals of people were out there were good.
But we should move away from this almost.
In the Islamic
ethos and culture, there's almost this did not almost rejection of
the way things have become an I feel that good, bad or ugly. It's
not changing anything.
So just to for us to allow ourselves to go into that.
It's almost pointless it is. It's it on the I hate to saying To be
honest, people say it is what it is. Right. But sometimes that
saying makes sense. This is what the hand we've been dealt. We've
been dealt the hands of technology. We've been dealt a
hand. So
I've been in a lamenting phase, I went through that lamenting phase,
and I learned that from my shield, right? I learned that lamenting
every piece of technology that lamenting right. All right, but
you're draining my energy or something. All right, what's
happening here? What's happening here is I'm feeling demoralized.
I go home, I blame everything on technology and everything. Right
now. Um, that's not what Selena is doing. But
and that simple state of life was great, but who is no going back?
There's never going back. There is never going back with the human
being. Okay, there's always something new. Which doesn't mean
that things will always scientifically improve. There
could be a complete crash, who knows, right? But even the
complete crash will not be the same. Because if we were to
completely crash out of technology, we would not be like
our great, great, great grandfather's, our great, great
grandfather's. They were happy with what they had. Well, maybe
not they we oftentimes assumed they were happy. If they were if
they were so happy, then why did they develop technology, they were
unsatisfied. They wanted more they wanted to discover,
what they didn't realize was they had a great blessing, the Earth
was clean, the food was clean, right? If we were to crash, we
would be crash, we would have no technology and a world full of
pollution and plastic, that plastic is not going anywhere. We
would have a world where plastic bags are flying in the wind all
the time. Right? So it would not be a nice, you know, return to the
old natural way. The Earth is not getting any cleaner, right? It
just became the pollution is still here. The junk is still here. And
on top of that. It's very different when you're living
simply. And that's all you know, versus living simply when you
lived a life where you could talk to someone in China
in a split second, when I literally can WhatsApp someone in
Singapore.
Right? And literally within less than a second he receives my
message.
And now you take that away from me, I'm a different person. Now
I'm going to be like, I'm in loss now. So
the human being is in constant expansion and discovery.
Alright, last question we'll take because I don't want to keep
everyone too long is oh says is memorization
beneficial. However, for our synapses or memory, memorization
is really beneficial. It's really beneficial. There's no limit by
the way to the muscle of memory, it's just our memories, muscles
shrink, because of the amount of writing that we have. Then we
don't need to memorize anything. So it's shrunk but there is no
limit to it. Is it necessary for a student of knowledge to memorize
some basic learning? Let Quran or webinar should combative Adam go
without it? It is highly hot. Well, Quran is a special case, of
course,
by the Valium, yes, he can go without it, but He's superior if
he was to memorize the texts. And in this day and age, you know, how
much time do you want to spend on memorizing versus understanding?
Most of my teachers they do insist that, that there'll be
memorization. Right? And so, if we can possibly try to memorize that
would be really good. So, or Alright folks, Giselle Kamala
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