Suhaib Webb – Lesson Ten Awareness & Contemplation
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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.