Tamara Gray – One of the most important cornerstone ibadah habits

Tamara Gray
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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.

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