Tamara Gray – Illness of the heart from not knowing the Prophet (s) and the Unseen

			The dunya is love of this world.
We love this world today, not
		

			because we love it so much, but
because we believe in it. We're
		

			like, this is a table. I know it's
real. This is a table. It has four
		

			legs. I know it's real. I can
believe in it. I can love it. I
		

			can get a more expensive one. I
can get one made by a famous
		

			furniture designer, and love it
even more. But we don't have
		

			we don't love the angels. We don't
see them. We don't really
		

			experience them. We don't have
love for the miracles of the
		

			karamat, of the Olia. What is
that? That's a legend from a long
		

			time ago. We don't feel and
understand the reality of angels,
		

			jinn and the unseen world,
		

			the unseen world. That's just,
yeah, yeah, yeah. That's we learn
		

			about that in Sunday school. It's
Syria. No one is saying it's not
		

			real, but we don't feel it like we
feel the table. And so, of course,
		

			we love what we know. We love what
we know. Even the Prophet saw him.
		

			Who knows the Prophet? SallAllahu,
sallam, we don't know the Prophet
		

			saw them anymore. Muslims don't
know the Prophet. Forget about
		

			peoples of other faiths. Of
course, they don't know Him, if we
		

			don't know him,
		

			but we don't know the Prophet
because we have been trained since
		

			1096, when Pope Urban, the second
sent the very first Crusade, and
		

			after him, generation after
generation after generation of the
		

			English canon of literature, from
Frankenstein to from Dante to
		

			Frankenstein to gold to Voltaire,
one after another. Create to
		

			Luther. Martin Luther creating a
villain named Muhammad.
		

			I'm not saying that we learn that
directly, but we pick it up.
		

			There's a fruit if you pick it up,
everyone in the Arab world knows
		

			you have to have thick rubber
gloves to pick it up or you're in
		

			trouble. So if you don't know
that, and you pick it up, you're
		

			going to get little, teeny, tiny
cactus bits in your hand. And then
		

			you look and you can't see them.
It's not like a sliver. You go to
		

			you wash it, it's still there. You
have to literally, like, go like
		

			this and find it and use a
		

			tweezers to pull it out. This is
the state of the heart of most
		

			Muslims today.
		

			It is a heart filled with cactus,
		

			cactus pins, if you will. I don't
what they're called about the
		

			Prophet sallallahu, alayhi, salam,
		

			each time we read in a textbook as
a child in public school,
		

			something that was a little bit
off when we had to read
		

			Frankenstein, even Anne of Green
Gables and all these different
		

			books and places, a social studies
book, something you Googled, a
		

			YouTube video that you saw, a
movie.
		

			Literature after literature after
literature that presented Muslims
		

			as terrorists or as Islam. Is the
problem. All of these things
		

			collect around our hearts, little
bits of cactus that hurt, but as a
		

			result, we don't, we don't love
the Prophet like we love this
		

			table, because we know the table,
but we don't know the Prophet
		

			sallay Salam, not anymore, not
really, not really. And so we end
		

			up with an ill heart. There's a
sick heart. There's sickness in
		

			the heart. But dunya, we love the
world more than we love the things
		

			of the next world.