Stop Overthinking…Unlock Your Potential

The next segment, Aragoul Aslihani, he talks about

the 2

or 2 other tools, we could say, that

human beings have been granted.

Kind of the nature of human beings and

how

they are to begin this process of reforming

the self and

attaining to the station of a Khalifa

or a steward or a representative of Allah

and

his take on it is that human beings

are have a dual nature. So one of

the part of that nature is

material, right, the body,

and then the other part of that nature

is not material. You can call it the

intellect, you can call it the spirit, the

the soul, whatever you want. And he justifies

this by the

the Right? And there are signs in your

own selves. And his point is that, you

know, all of these things are, again, capacities,

they're potentialities, they're not yet realized, they are

tools

for you to use and he's gonna get

to the importance of that in a second,

how Allah created us different from everyone else

because

we come into the earth not as a

finished product. We come in as a potential

or as a capacity. He gives us the

tools

and he, our job in this life, is

to use those tools to bring it to

fruition or to develop

the proper end product.

But in a general sense, so we have

this one tool, which is the body. That's

that's a tool. Right? We everybody knows

everything that you do can be an act

of worship if you actually put your intention

through that. Right? So if you're sleeping, that

can be an act of worship. If you're

eating, you know, if you're being intimate with

your spouse, if you're doing any of these

things, they can all be acts of worship

for you if you have the right intention.

That's your body. Right? Now when it comes

to recognizing Allah's signs, there's part of that

which is also your body. Allah gave you

eyes, right? He gave us the ability to

see color. He gives us the ability to

smell

fragrance and sense. He gave us the ability

to hear the birds singing. He gave us

the ability to feel the different textures and

then the plants and the animals that he

created and all these sorts of things, right?

All of these physical

characteristics and qualities and capacities that we have

are all tools

that were given to us to use

for accepting Allah's signs. Right? So they're not

just random. They're not just an evolutionary stratagem

just to secure

resources and reproduce, you know, find the best

mate or whatever and reproduce as much as

possible. That's very very basic level stuff. That's

the level of imara. Right? That's not the

level of Chirafa.

Things might have more than one purpose. Right?

If you have that stuff for level of

Imara, okay great, but you also have them

to recognize the signs of your creator.

So that's the body. And then the second

aspect is the intangible

and the inspiration, the insight. Right? If our

eyes are foresight, then our intellect and our

soul is for insight.

Right? To be able to

observe these things and put them all together,

To recognize the patterns. To be able to

detect

in the creation

mercy

and love

and genius

and beauty.

Right? This is something that it's not, it

might be tangentially related to physical forms, but

it's not it's not purely physical. Right? This

is something that is sublime,

we would say. It goes beyond,

the physical corporal reality

and so these are these are the tools

that we're given, which is why, which is

why, and we're getting into now a little

bit of the Maqaddi Mas Sharia, which is

why some of the guidelines in the Sharia

are geared towards protecting these two things.

Okay. If you've been given

a body

to detect and recognize Allah's signs,

then it stands to reason that there's going

to be guidelines for how to protect that

body.

If you've been given an intellect

that is designed to recognize Allah's signs and

submit to Allah's signs, then it stands to

reason that you're gonna have to protect that,

but there should be guidelines

that you cannot cross, red lines, consequences

to keep that intellect intact because as long

as that intellect is intact, you might still

recognize a law of science.

Maybe not until you're 50 years old. Maybe

not until you're 60 years old, Sam. Maybe

not until you're on your deathbed.

But as long as it's intact, you stand

a chance. Okay. What if I'm an alcoholic?

What if I'm a druggie?

What if I do things that just destroy

the tool?

Am I ever going to be able to

recognize the signs if I destroy the tools

that Allah gave me?

It's not possible, unless Allah wills otherwise. It's

not possible. And so many of the guidelines

in the Sharia, whether it comes to intoxicants

or whether it comes to substances or whether

it comes to relations with other people, anything,

a lot of it has to do with

the preservation

of these tools

because the most important thing in our lives

is the ability to recognize Allah's signs and

any activity that we engage in that might

damage these tools that Allah has given us

to recognize the signs, it's not worth it.

We would rather to go without

these fun things that we think are going

to bring us happiness. We'd rather go without

them for our whole lives than damage the

signs.

signs.