Suhaib Webb – Lesson Ten Awareness & Contemplation

Welcome back to our 1st season here of

Sanitation of the Soul here at Twist level

1. And what we're thinking about now is

applying I I'm with you. I don't do

all this, so don't get it twisted.

I do my best just like everybody else.

So I'm with you as we as we

do this together.

We're we're now learning things that we wanna

begin to introduce

incrementally into our lives. I don't want you

to take all these things and suddenly,

you know, put them in at once. Take

certain things that we've mentioned here, whether it's

repentance,

fear, and hope,

you name it, resilience,

being pleased with the lost plan.

Take those things and slowly put them into

your life until they become habits.

Now as we finish up the section, the

sheikh, he said,

Right? That, you know, you want to

you want to purify and work on your

heart. I want to work on my heart.

Right? Wanna free your heart of other things

other than Allah.

How do we do that? He said, Biljiddi.

Right? Working hard.

Walqiyami

bil ashari.

In particular, praying at night. Now, he's going

to continue with the other action items that

formulate the ingredients

of what it means to work hard.

'Mujayehirafi

sabirlila.'

Right? How do we bring meaning to that

abstraction? So

is like a box, and now he's giving

us the ingredients. The first was

to work hard, establish the obligations,

and then to start to pray at night

sometimes.

Then he says,

Al fikr means to contemplate,

to think.

To think. We're gonna talk about that in

a second.

To remember.

So this this this the next two qualities

after working hard, praying at night are fikr,

Thinking about Allah, thinking about blessings, thinking about

our own inadequacies.

Anything that is going to bring about a

what a remembrance of the next Zikr. So

fikr,

we say 'Al Fikra Abu Zikr.'

Right? Fikr is the father of dhikr.

He quotes, Imam al Khazari, the the the

one of the

people who wrote an explanation of this book.

He says something really nice. He

says,

It

says that Allah praises

and recognizes the great qualities of those people

who contemplate

and remember in too many places in the

Quran to mention. He gives an example. Allah

says in Surat Ani Imran, verse number 191,

Those,

he says, who remember Allah

lying, standing, sitting on their sides,

and ponder.

And they say, your Lord you did not

create this for nothing. Save us from the

hellfire.

Then he mentions, this is the quote of

Imam

Imam, which is really a beautiful quote. He

says,

and indeed

the fruit of contemplation.

Right? That the fruit of contemplation

is knowledge

and new ideas and concepts

that weren't there before. So like a new

understanding, a new awakening.

Because if the knowledge reaches the heart,

then the state of the heart is going

to change.

And if the state of the heart changes,

then the accent change. And here he's talking

about, of course, in the positive sense, not

the negative sense.

Wallahi, it's very beautiful what Imam

Abuhamad says, rahimohallahu

ta'ala says,

Thus

fikr contemplation

ethan

is is the key to all good,

and the beginning of all good.

Good fiqr,

fiqr Mahmood.

He

says because, you know, this is what's gonna

cause someone to move from something which is

disliked and hated to something which is beloved

and guide that person to be able to

take the fruit of their knowledge

and to apply

the best of what they know.

Raheem.

Here's a few examples of what we should

be contemplating about. An imam,

which is his tafsir of the Quran.

He says, I believe about, verse 191

in sort,

Al Imran.

He says,

That that

contemplation

is contextual.

Each of us may have different things that

we're thinking about that bring life to our

hearts and our relationship to Allah. So there's

not like one thing.

So Imam al Qushari says,

So he said people who are, indifferent to

this world, the zahideen.

What do they think about?

They think about the fact that this world

is going to perish. They think about the

the the the morbid value of this world,

and how people work so hard to achieve

these things that aren't gonna last. So that

contemplation

increases them in zuhit,

Increases them in that healthy indifference.

Protects them from opulence.

The contemplation of worshipers.

And so the people of worship, they think

about how amazing the rewards of worship are.

Right? In this life and the next. So

that increases

their active active activity,

their aggressiveness

in doing good, and their hope in doing

good.

And and the people who know Allah,

they they they contemplate on the blessings of

Allah

His favors and His blessings.

And that increases them in the love of

Allah. Subhanahu wa ta'ala. I'm gonna read it

one more time.

Allahu

Akbar. It's a beautiful man. So the people

of Zuhd, they think about how, you know,

the real value of this world that increases

their

indifference to it. The people of worship, they

think about

the beautiful blessings of worship, so it increases

their activity

and their enthusiasm for worship.

And the people who know Allah, they think

about his blessings, subhanahu wa ta'ala, and increases

them and their love

for Allahu subhanahu

wa ta'ala. We're gonna stop here. Next time

we'll talk about zikr baraklafikum,

sallallahu wa salamu alaykum

That's okay, man.