Tom Facchine – Addictive Dimension of Sin

Tom Facchine
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The speaker discusses the concept of sin and how it can be attributed to factors like factors like factors like sin and addiction. They explain that sin can have triggers and conditions like sadness and drinking, which can lead to sinful behavior. The speaker also discusses the concept of a "shaytan" and how it can lead to sinful behavior.

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			You know, there's an addictive dimension to sin,
		
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			and it's something that is similar to the
		
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			concept of habitus. Right? It's like if you
		
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			do an action,
		
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			it makes it easier for that action to
		
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			occur again, or it makes it easier for
		
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			you to perform that action again.
		
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			And so it takes you know, the inertia
		
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			of the thing is that it's gonna keep
		
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			on going
		
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			unless you insert some sort of, you know,
		
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			energy to overcome that inertia
		
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			and then stop it or reverse it.
		
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			And this is actually a field where, you
		
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			know, you can actually capitalize or benefit a
		
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			lot from,
		
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			the works outside of Islam when it comes
		
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			to all the different sort
		
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			of factors that play into
		
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			what
		
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			puts a person back in a situation of
		
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			sin or repeating a certain action. Let's just
		
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			take an alcoholic, for example. Like, somebody, they're
		
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			trying to get clean. They're trying to stop
		
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			drinking. Everybody knows that there's certain triggers, there's
		
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			certain situations, there's certain sort of,
		
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			even people that bring that person back to
		
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			a a situation where they want to do
		
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			that thing again. Right? Whether it's yeah. Like
		
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			when they're sad or something happens or a
		
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			certain time of day or going to a
		
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			bar or after a meal or whatever it
		
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			is. Like, the person has triggers. Okay? And
		
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			so sin is like that.
		
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			Right? Sin can have these sorts of triggers.
		
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			There are certain situations,
		
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			right, where
		
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			the suggestion from shaitan comes and it there's
		
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			certain situations that you're in where it seems
		
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			more likely or more reasonable or you're more
		
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			willing to act on it. Your defenses are
		
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			down. Right? And so if somebody's really trying
		
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			to reroute their habits, you know, it's not
		
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			just about subtraction, and that's, I think, one
		
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			thing that we get trapped in when we
		
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			think about sin and stopping habits. We need
		
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			displacement.
		
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			K? You have to displace that habit with
		
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			something else, with another habit.
		
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			And that could be lots of things. Right?
		
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			Like, there's always the example of
		
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			when he
		
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			came to Masjid one day, and he missed
		
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			the salah in Jema'ah because he was delayed
		
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			from his
		
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			He was working in the fields. You know,
		
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			he had a a a date plantation or
		
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			whatever. And so he was so upset with
		
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			himself
		
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			that he missed the the congregational prayer
		
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			that he gave that
		
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			plantation away in charity.
		
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			Right? So he had, like, a counterforce, like
		
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			a counter habit to displace
		
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			the habit that he didn't like. Well, it
		
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			wasn't necessarily a habit for him. It happened
		
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			once. But that's the sort of thing that
		
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			we're talking about where it's like, you need
		
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			some sort of consequence even put to put
		
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			on yourself. Okay? If you get angry with
		
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			your spouse and you you start to, like,
		
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			say not not nice things. Okay. Maybe,
		
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			you have to give a certain amount in
		
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			charity every single time.
		
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			Somebody told me, a friend I had from
		
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			from Bosnia, what was it? They said something
		
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			like,
		
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			whenever they
		
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			were about to commit a certain sin,
		
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			they
		
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			they said, I'm gonna pray to raka.
		
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			And they found that very, very, very soon,
		
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			they stopped even wanting to do the sin.
		
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			And they were telling me this. They're like,
		
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			you know, I think it's just that it
		
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			really is the shaytan because the shaytan doesn't
		
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			want me to pray.
		
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			And I got so in the habit of
		
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			praying whenever I wanted to do this sin
		
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			that the shaytan just gave up and said,
		
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			you know what? Forget it. I'd rather him
		
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			not pray.
		
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			So those are the sorts of things we're
		
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			talking about. So if you wanna break your
		
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			habits, it's not just, you know, it's not
		
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			just subtraction. You have to displace it with
		
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			something else with something new entirely.