Tamara Gray – One of the most important cornerstone ibadah habits

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The speaker discusses exercises for a happy heart and how it can change one's life. They suggest starting with a prayer for happiness and gradually gradually increasing in practice until feeling stronger and capable.

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			What are the exercises for a happy
heart? So we're gonna go, we're
		
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			gonna do how many? Well, there are
lots of them. Just like there's
		
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			all sorts of exercises for the
physical body, there's lots of
		
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			exercises for happy heart. Let's
start with ay bad day, the one
		
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			most important cornerstone habit.
Who knows it?
		
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			If you know me, you know what I'm
going to say.
		
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			It's the
		
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			heju tehejo is the prayer of the
one who wants happiness,
		
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			because tahejud will change
everything.
		
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			The there are three things that
happen with sahej? One is you
		
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			develop a relationship with Allah.
Two is you become a little bit
		
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			elevated from this world, this
world becomes less important. That
		
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			doesn't mean doesn't it loses all
importance, but it becomes a
		
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			little bit less important. So when
you're really stuck to the world.
		
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			It feels very important, and
everything feels big and painful
		
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			and hard, but when you can kind of
elevate yourself off of it, then
		
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			all of a sudden the world is it's
less important. What's more
		
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			important is that I wake up for
taheshu, and all of a sudden that
		
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			becomes the thing to seek and do
so the very first exercise is to
		
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			wake up for Taisha, the circle of
our life means there will be times
		
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			when you're not praying, right?
And so what can happen is you can
		
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			go kind of 20 days you're kind of
praying and feeling good and
		
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			getting better, and then here
comes a week where you're on
		
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			vacation.
		
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			If you're thinking about your
prayer, you're thinking about your
		
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			heart and thinking about your
growth, don't take a vacation.
		
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			Don't think that one is not a week
of heedlessness.
		
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			It's a week without salah. There's
still the kid, one of the most
		
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			important things of the night, the
time of night and tahija time is
		
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			to be of the mustach, Belina
belzar, to be of those who seek
		
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			forgiveness at night. That's a
really cool thing. So just getting
		
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			up, even if it's just for a few
minutes, even if it's in your bed,
		
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			try not to have it in your bed,
because it won't last very long.
		
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			There
		
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			10 seconds.
		
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			But it's better than nothing. And
just to say for Allah
		
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			at that time of night, it will
change your relationship with
		
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			Allah SWT. It will change your
heart. It'll make your heart a
		
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			happy heart, because every human
being is alone,
		
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			all of us, it is the state of Bani
Adam that we all feel alone,
		
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			because nothing fills our heart
but Allah subhanahu a relationship
		
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			with Allah subhanahu wa so even if
you think you're the only one who
		
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			feels alone? I'm telling you right
now that everyone does. And the
		
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			only cure for that feeling, there
are only two cures for that
		
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			feeling. There are two. One is to
have a relationship with Allah's
		
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			pandemic, and the other is to
serve other people and be worried
		
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			about other people.
		
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			So if you spend your time thinking
about other people's problems,
		
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			you'll feel less alone.
		
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			And if you spend your time
developing a relationship with
		
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			Allah, that feeling of loneliness
will go away,
		
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			and all of a sudden you'll feel
like you're not alone and you're
		
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			strong and you're capable, and
your heart is stronger, because we
		
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			can't carry the world with a weak
heart.