Walead Mosaad – The Spiritual Dimensions of Fasting Part 2

Walead Mosaad
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The speakers discuss various topics related to spiritual and spiritual transformation, including the need for a transformation or re revision of human interaction, the need for secession and taking care of others, the importance of secession and taking care of others, the importance of seeking intimacy, and the importance of experiencing spiritual guidance to achieve secession and growth. The conversation is difficult to follow and appears disjointed, but the speakers suggest that it is a good practice to have some sort of secession and growth, and that it is a good practice to be in the morning. The conversation also touches on the universal license and promise of nothing less than a third pillar of the inner aspect of the bear.
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mobile cellular automata steamer, I remember what I mean. So using

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100 water in your mind, so my my bath

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Ramadan Mubarak or Kareem, Ramadan Muslim in a guy that just continue

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reading and exploring some of the

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inner dimensions of a Betta, particularly in this blessed month

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of Ramadan. And we're using as a reference to the masterful work of

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the master himself. The shift that is

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happening in the law without me

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dead translated English as the four pillars of spiritual

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transformation. And these four pillars as we mentioned last time

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in the last session,

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they are something that all of these spiritual masters more or

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less have agreed upon, ignore to be elucidates on these particular

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four. But as we said last time, it's about a paucity of

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interaction with others, which is clear that an M, paucity of sleep

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kiloton minimum paucity of food

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and a paucity of speech, so Kadem

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and these formed the basis of a true spiritual transformation,

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because they are kind of the vestige the vestiges of dunya

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when one kind of becomes overwhelmed with the dunya, then

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we find that usually coming out in these four particular things, so

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people tend to eat too much when they are kind of enthralled and

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overwhelmed with the dunya and people tend to speak too much.

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Also, as a result,

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people tend to sleep sleep too much as well or have a sort of

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laziness or laksa days attitude, and people tend to have very

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unproductive and rather not very beneficial interactions with one

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another. So looking at those four specific parts,

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you know, the the focus of our event that should lead to want to

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have sort of

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mythology methodology over these four specific flows, and not just

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to kind of do them happenstances the way everybody else does.

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So last time we read about a subject or to choose silence,

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versus a support which is to be silent assault institchu silence

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the next pillar that we're going to look at is called an ERISA or

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seclusion

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and we'll read the Arabic and we'll look at the English as well

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as we did last time. All Masonic Rahim Allah when I find any me no

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there are no uncle Taylor's there to several one there's something

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in said from Allah does Allah Allah Nessie let me as you learn

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you have to deal with dedicated assumptive in the said,

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seclusion leads to silence for a person

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since one who withdraws from human company has no one to talk to. And

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that naturally leads to silence of the tongue. And for a reason that

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it will always want to make a parent at the end of this section.

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He's going to state why he chose to make silence or some kind of

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isolation to separate things. Even though we can say

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in a particular type of isolation, Mozilla has slumped, malaise him

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to * as though that would say that some or silence is a

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necessary part of it. So if you're in seclusion, and this type of

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seclusion is a physical seclusion, right, if you're in a physical

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seclusion, then naturally, by definition, there's no one else

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there. So who you're going to be talking to with your tongue, even

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though you may be talking to someone else, or being busy with

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someone else with your heart, which is going to get to at the

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end of the sexual Federline kind of spilled the beans before we get

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to that particular part.

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So does this have a

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shrine? Does it have some sort of basis industry? Of course,

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the prophesy Selim stated in Hadith, that why the beginning of

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Revelation, just one of the very first few Hadith with Viva la

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parte in the South Asia narrates a lot of our sites and then we used

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to spend many nights and days in Iraq. You have to Hanif right and

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the hang of means a better Marlowe's the 100 means to worship

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in seclusion. And this was you can almost say the pre prophetic

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either pre prophetic ritual worship

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Have a proper homicide. And of course, he did continue to do it

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later on. But we will see that in the therapy and never we do the

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raising of degrees as as applied to the partner homicide Center. He

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was raising degrees from just a mere physical isolation, to then a

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spiritual isolation or to a better word of spiritual detachment from

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the world and everyone who is in it from the dunya itself. And

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that's kind of the goal of Husna. So what we're talking about here

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is a lot of typing from the Gnosticism. Problem. So I said I'm

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clearly said they'll have any evidence that there's no

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monasticism in the sense that we take it as a permanent way of

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life, to kind of live isolated from everybody else and not have

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any human interaction. No, we were designed by Allah subhanaw taala

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to have human interaction, but we want that human interaction to be

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as human as possible. So when we left our own devices, oftentimes

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that interaction will degrade into something else. And you know, the

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most benign word we can call for that type of unproductive

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interaction, is that a key that was caught? Which is He Said, She

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Said, they said, we did we didn't, so forth, which is the vast

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majority of what people talk about today, amongst one another, you

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know, whether it's an actual conversation, whether it's on the

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internet, or whether it's emails, whether it's WhatsApp, most of the

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time when people are talking about

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will not count in their Sahifa will not count in dollars and

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cents, it will not count in the skill of good and more often than

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not or public health against them.

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So we want to have a transformation or a reorientation

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of even how we have our physical face to face interactions with

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others and OSLA this type of seclusion was one of the keys

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so he then says closer to Allah plus main or is that reading way a

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bit Sammy I will highlight

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was that the valuable clue we acquired

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for Alexa Google Magellan initially in Silverlake maybe like

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the Allah and then you know where che would have to hear at Casa de

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Lucia ahead.

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There are two kinds of seclusion.

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Just as he said in the section before that there are two types of

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silence right silence of the tongue and silence of the heart.

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So here it's going to be similar. So the two types of seclusion.

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Firstly, the seclusion of the aspirants or the moody Dean. This

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is a word that's used to describe people who are kind of trying to

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be on some sort of spiritual path and are at the beginning or the

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middle of this path. We call those people aspirants are odd. And he

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said This consists of not associating physically with

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others. And then secondly, the second type of seclusion is a

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seclusion of the verifiers, more than half the code or morado, and

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is another word you can say the ones who are

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the Select or the elect of the last panel had a hole in the wall

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see known as if not a secondary says it was even those who have

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arrived to this knowledge of God.

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What is their seclusion, it consists of having no contact with

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creative things in one's heart.

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Their hearts have no room for anything other than the true

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knowledge of God or the last battle to Allah, which is the

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witness of the truth in the heart that results from contemplation or

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Moshe had. So he's describing a type of lump and we kind of

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alluded to this in the last time that there's more Altaba and

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Shahada. Morava is kind of one of the first McCombs or spiritual

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stations of the Marine, right to realize that you are in a state of

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visualization that Allah subhanaw taala sees everything that you do.

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Oh, my God, am I Quinto and he's with you wherever you may be. And

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in that in the hadith of Gibreel

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Finn interpreter off and now we are up if you don't see him know

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that he sees you. But the higher station is Masha Hedda. tabooed,

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Allah kaneka tunnel, worship God as if you see and this calf which

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is called Catholic dystrophy is very important. Which means it's

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kind of like a simile or metaphor. Worship God as if you see him so

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we don't see Allah subhanaw taala by the by the side of the eye.

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When Moses it said I've asked a lot to do that. He told him lentil

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on what I can handle illegible in staccato Allah can over sofa.

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Rather you will not see me but look to the mountain if it stays

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in its place. Then you will see Bella Metrojet la Bucha Germany

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Giada that can Wahaha Musa side.

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So then there is what's called antigen even the Quranic word is

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to gin. So when Allah manifested His names and attributes or one of

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his names and attributes upon the mountain, maybe alcohol maybe

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maybe more than that those

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Depending upon the the height of the machete what I'm seeing it

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yeah Allahu Deccan. Ohana Musa Cypher right it was destroyed. And

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Musa felt the crowd realizing the the gentleman, right, so he did

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see Allah in that particular scene, but not a sight of the

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eyes, he saw a Bible shahada, he saw the agenda. And that agenda

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then is something that's inside of the hearts not inside of the eyes.

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So not only here is describing the witness of the truth or share head

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and heart, which is an Bucha Hana, so to not see anything except a

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loss. So not have an interaction with anything in your heart, or

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not have an aspiration for anything your heart except for the

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knowledge of Allah. And that quintessential knowledge is that

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Allah is unique, he is one he is without partner who is without

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Matthias without anything that is like him, we are for him, and we

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are to him returning, you know, to live those meanings. And every

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single nevus in every single breath after taking this is a type

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of very high spiritual aspiration. That then we'll have to hoon using

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the verifiers using the terminology of how to be this is

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where they arrive to this is what they aspire to.

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So then he goes on further to say about it.

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Well, then what does it mean and here to say less,

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they have to shuffle nasionale to Shara and with the ID de la vie,

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or alhfam in our in our oven with the nurse with a sense of London

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FC, also a one in Africa outlet and negative in Africa out.

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So the people of seclusion have three intentions or motives for

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why they want to do seclusion.

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One,

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the fear of the evil of other people affecting oneself. And most

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of the time, that's like the first place that people go to lunch

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because people never forget, it's just the horrible, I need to get

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away from them. I need to go on vacation, I need to get away I

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need to do this. So that's kind of a sentiment that you hear often.

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And this is an intention for seclusion to get away from things

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people say you know, I want to regroup I want to collect my

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thoughts.

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You know, when they talk about

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introverts and extroverts who say that introverts they have their

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kind of emotional power and energy sucked up by other people. And so

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they need to get away for people to kind of recharge on and get

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back to that. So I know a little bit about that. So

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that's kind of the first place the first stop that people go to.

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The second one, he says the fear of one's own evil affecting

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others.

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And then he says this is a higher MACOM of perception than the

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first, as in the first case, one thinks badly of others. While in

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the second one,

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one thinks badly of oneself. And thinking badly of oneself is

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better, since you are more knowledgeable of yourself, the

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owner, right. So

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it didn't mention the third one yet, we're gonna talk about in a

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second. But looking at it from the perspective of

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a

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party, if everything is from the last panel data, including the

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people in your life, and including those moments you have with those

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people that you find,

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you know,

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difficult and

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unexpected or something you'd rather avoid? Well, that's also

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from Allah subhanaw taala. So then, the second Muslim here is is

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not about or the second motor is not about oh, these people are

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going to get away from them. They are who they are, and allow me to

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who they are, that's the way that they are. And so my inability to

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deal with them still, in a way that's pleasing to Allah is part

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of that, right? That is exemplified by the verse in the

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Quran for the last one month or odd for added an NJ with a hotter

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manager who will call you selama. So there is there is a method

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there's a way to deal with, let's call them difficult people or

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toxic people to use the modern terminology. And the Quran clearly

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outlines how we're supposed to do that with a thermal imager. He

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called himself MO The Jade is the one not to want to just ignorant

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but who is emotionally ignorant, maybe doesn't have a motional

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intelligence says the wrong things. Doesn't do the right

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things with people is abrasive as offensive. How do we deal with

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such a person? Pod who said that? They say he's so it's not just an

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COVID habit. It's how you act. So it's not to it's not to act

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unkind. It's not to push them away. It's not to defy them.

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Right, and push them away by with a violent sort of React.

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Should Know it's actually the opposite. It fabulosity. Hey,

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Asad. Quran also says, So repeller defy with that, which is better.

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And here's an example that I would send him.

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Or in the verse I said before that who did ask what? The law for

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added energy in the law for means pardon people, right? What would

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have been Earth and call to the common good? Wow did it Jamie and

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turn away from the J.

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Don't push them, don't be violent with them. Don't put them in a

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worse situation than they started off with before they met you

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because of that interaction, but the least you can do out it is

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turn away. So here then we say the the problem that is my inability

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to deal with those people not that they're awful, is the nuts, the

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deficiencies which mean the shortcoming with me, I don't have

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enough spiritual capital going on to kind of absorb everybody. And

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so perhaps I need to get away perhaps I need to seclude myself

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for a little bit in order so that the next time I come into

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interaction with these people, I'll be in a better place. And I

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can handle it better than I did in the previous attempts. That's kind

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of I believe what a lot of you and others will talk about, oh xlarge

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saying.

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Then the third, which we didn't read yet,

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the third mode which is the highest

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when needed to easily supplement in Lola min Jen had been militant

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Allah for Allah nursing mana Tessa infc Isa selling software jalopy

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for them and Ethel Rosa, Allen Muffaletta. Stuff like that, who I

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love Lady woman. So a lot of them Yeah, I haven't may have eaten

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water, I mean are heavy with us.

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So the third and the highest then is the preference for the company

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of the master from the sublime assembly, Allah subhanaw taala.

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The most elevated of people is one who parts from himself out of

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preference for the company of his Lord.

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One who prefer seclusion to the company of others, prefers.

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One who prefer seclusion, as opposed to the company of others

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prefers his lord to that which is other than Him. And no one can

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know what gifts and mysteries God showers upon the one who prefers

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his Lord.

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So

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here, this is a little bit we talked about earlier in the last

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session about a man a

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beam was the last final kind of or knowing that Allah Subhana Allah

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is with you, and not to feel lonely not to feel isolated. So

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what he's really saying here is you're not really secluded, in a

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sense, because if Allah subhanaw taala is with you, and He's always

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with you, Allah Lappalainen that Hunter, how could you be alone?

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How could you feel loneliness? Allah is with you. And so

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laws that then this physical one is then to prefer the company of

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your lord over the company of others.

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Then the question arises, well, aren't you always in the company

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of your Lord, even if you're within the company of others,

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this is something higher, right. And it's kind of branches off when

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we talked about here. So when you have a realization that you're

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always in the company of the most powerful, even though you're

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amongst others, then this is what they're called, sometimes it's

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kind of often genuine, KIALOA genuine. So you're have this

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Hello, you're alone, but you're actually amongst a genuine, you're

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actually amongst people. And this is probably in in the Millennium

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Park or in the the outward Tao of the Pulsar center. That happened

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after the first two and a half years after von Hippel. And then

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he was given the, the command to, to call openly to intervene,

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according to Islam, then the prophesy seven had fewer and fewer

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actually moments when he was physically a lot. They became

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less, but his handler for general became higher, right? His moments

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of detachment from dunya were higher, even though he was amongst

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people. And this is what they say that the makalah right being

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amongst people is better than being alone, if there is benefit

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to be made, if there's benefit to be had, either by yourself or by

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others. So those people will reach this particular more harm. Others

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can benefit from this. So they're still attached from the vignette.

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They're still detached from the world, but because of their Oslo

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convenient, right, because of their isolation within their

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heart. In other words, their preference for a lie in their

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heart over all else, then they bring benefits to others when

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they're merely in their presence.

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And this is what I believe a lot of he's trying to point out.

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And this is what he means by Mohammed Al Assad, what Allah will

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give to them. From Malachite from gifts and secrets, right? Oh,

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meanings, realizations to gently yet epiphanies. But you will.

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These are things that will happen while one prefers the company of

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the Lord to the company of all else in one's heart

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will not have time to cover them to the cloud be in them in

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Washington Washington talks a lot why don't call me in and waters

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and I know we're unseen been martyrs in LA who are living

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Yasuko, who Illa OSLA.

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Seclusion never happens in the heart unless the heart feels in

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estrangement from that which one is separating from an intimacy

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with the one with whom one is secluding oneself, which is what

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drives wanting to seclusion

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perhaps is what the province arson was indicating when he said

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whether it's them over event was a huge over event for to the real

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world at slam began estranged people. And it will become

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strange. Once again, the tool that is all about over here is either a

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name of paradise or paradise itself and in the metaphysical

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sense that good tidings and good news, glad news, glad tidings to

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the ones who are the horror that the ones who feel estranged from

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Virginia. So when people come and ask, you know, I kind of feel like

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illuminated and strange in this life in this world, like I don't

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really belong to it. How do I get over that? Like, tell me how you

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got that? Because that's where we want to be. We don't want to get

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over that. This is why would you not feel strange? When everything

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is punctuated by by misery and by greed and by, you know, passions

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and desires and personal interest? That's kind of the world that we

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live in. So if you feel strange and that whole mu, then why why?

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Why would you question that? That's actually a positive thing.

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We would have to question if you felt comfortable with all of that,

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if you felt at home with all of that. So this Wascher right, that

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he's talking about this estrangement is the first sign

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right that Allah one spoons with you. Right? Allah wants you to

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have the cystic Ness he wants to bring you to him. And so perhaps

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you put in your heart, this strange world because when you

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feel estranged from something, then you want to seek once right?

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That's the nature of the human being or this is the opposite of

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estrangement, you want to seek intimacy with something else. And

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the only one you can truly find true intimacy with in a sense that

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fulfills your soul is with Allah's final data.

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What kind of tours or to do funny I'll shove the something in

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something less when they have the head or something. He said, Well,

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I'm not some people call me for that or to to for cardio to have

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the full we're here to feed up see the lady later Allah madly lay

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down job, then min min min and Afghan to polyfill for NBFC.

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This is what I alluded to earlier.

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So collusion has no need of the extra condition of silence, a

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silence is necessarily included within it, insofar as in his

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silence of the tongue. As for silence of the heart, seclusion

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does not necessarily lead to it. Since one can converse

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with oneself about other than God and with other than God, exalted,

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does he? This is why we have considered silence to be one of

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the pillars or again, on the way in its own right. So when the

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heart is speaking to itself and not speaking with Allah, those

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names those types of extraneous feelings or thoughts sometimes

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it's called was Wes. Wes was, which are recurrent misgivings are

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the primary source of data ship on either level in law protects us

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from urgency.

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And so most of the time, these were said, which will come in the

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form of doubts, trying to sow doubt into everything that you

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believe in everything that you will ferment true, doubting

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yourself, doubt in your family, doubt in God, doubt in Ramadan,

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doubt, and fasting doubt in all things. And these are the cells of

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the Shaytards. So you could be alone, but then if you're alone

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with those particular thoughts, then, you know, we would say and

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even though you don't find them in the traditional pre modern books,

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but I would say in the time that we didn't know now for some people

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that will fall apart of the Ramadasa, that being amongst

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people is better than being alone, if being alone as being alone with

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such thoughts. So that means seeking out the good software,

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seeking out the good company, right. Being in good company is a

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type of healing.

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And we're not expected to do this all alone, and it's actually one

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of the accountability. It is one of the pillars of the path of the

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way is to have this good software is to have good companions around.

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Like the type that you've not thought unless it can be described

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in the hiccup.

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First hub in lemon

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lemonade in America, how are we do have a lot more time

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Don't spend time with people except the people who whose date

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inspires you. Or his, his or her speech indicates God or needs to

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or guides to Allah subhanaw taala so that's the type of software not

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this sort of, you know, hanging out software or what people say

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like hanging out sort of thing. Let's just hang out let's kill

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time together let's you know go grab a coffee and just hang out

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and what then what are you doing? When you're hanging out? You could

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still be having that same coffee with someone else and it's a true

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sophomore. Let's say it's wrong to do that. But what what's the

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nature of interaction? What are the motives and intentions Each

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one comes with when they come together? So if human interaction

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sometimes is described as human company as a piece of the souls

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and what how is your soul interact interacting with the soul of the

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other

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so the last section from unless I'm in Ursula Walker file is Susan

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walk the near and dear here? Are they into doula who men and

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married women are sorry, as long as I had a civil war how the

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nurses at 10 00 Sophie said you can get

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home half the time. What if I heard it knows it and hello of

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England climate Ursa considers the Trinity Yuja to her up on a

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digital map.

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So that first part he says, One who makes seclusion, their

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practice you and your OSLA grasps the mystery of the Divine unity.

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Here's another like Sufi Muslim, Dr. wagoneer. In terms of

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knowledges and mysteries, this brings him to the secrets of the

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uniqueness a heavier insofar it is a quality.

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The true spiritual state of seclusion, whether it be that of

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the seeker or the verifier, the Sadek or that will happen is to be

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transcendent of all attributes, the highest state of seclusion is

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retreat or follow up, or in seclusion within seclusion, and

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its fruit is stronger than that of ordinary seclusion. So there's a

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couple of things that we unpack here, a lot of these terms would

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need

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several lectures to explain it, but just briefly, what they're

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near and heavier. So he talks about in the beginning here, the

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mystery of the Divine unity, translated from an idea. So

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when we say ye had an Arabic, that means there's a

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thing and a fairly and all that and our farmers and I said is so

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wack, it means one of many, so that there could be others with

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the word. Sometimes this is matam, referred to as an font. Right font

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means different. So there's clearly

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a distinction between you and Allah Spinal Tap, which there

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always is a distinction, but now we're talking about terms of our

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spiritual state. So you are you and Allah is Allah and that

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everything else is kind of not important the material and that He

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is the maboob and you are the abbot. He is the one that has

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worship and you're the one who was worshipping Him. So the secrets of

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this

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walk there Nia is knowing that Allah subhanaw taala is the sole

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object of worship of seeking assistance, right the meaning of

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Iraq and Abbulu what Yeah, can stay

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what's a hadith

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he says the secrets of the uniqueness, a hadith I had liked

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from Surah cohoe, Allahu Ahad I had usually is used when you are

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negating something, like when you say methodic there's nobody in the

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house. And it's not a cardinal number that you're gonna say I had

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an IF name and

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there's no numbers that come with it. So I had is unique and it's

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oneness, just as Allah subhanaw. Taala is unique in His Oneness. So

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the idea then they sometimes referred to as a gem app, right,

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which is that everything literally is a last mile God if the only

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true existence is the existence of God, and everything every other

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existence or being is contingent upon that Supreme Being or

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existence of Allah subhanaw taala. Then, how much of a hottie clock

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do we have? How much of a rally do we have when it can never be

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separated or seen as separate or distinct from the reality of the

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beam of almost final time? So that is a Muslim, that's a station that

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can only be acknowledged, right? That's where Allah is using as a

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hadith, not something that you're going to have an agenda with

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yourself. That agenda happens in

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one year. So you see that agenda if you see things around you, but

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you see them as effects, and remains and Athar of Allah's names

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and attributes. And the idea is like, Allah subhanaw taala as

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that, right, it's the it's the minister of the vet to the visual

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reader, some of them said is the attribution affiliation of the

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divine essence to his being this

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Call 100. So you can't have really have to have book for the Hello

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perception say with this idea, but we see ourselves within the wide

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area. So obviously these these terms are

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difficult to explain. And mostly based upon the type of velcro

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spiritual cognition, it's hard to explain the words, but just know

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the difference between them as one is the genuine subset or a smell,

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which is why I'm here and then that hottie is kind of a unique

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place of Allah but we acknowledge that unique place of Allah smiled

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that

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then he says the highest state of seclusion is retreat, or hello,

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hello means you are doing it. For the third reason that we talked

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about here, how do you want to study with Allah subhanaw taala

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you want to be alone with Allah Survival Guide. And that type of

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seclusion doesn't necessarily have to be a physical one. As we said,

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it could be a fellow of a genuine, it could be a lot of people, but

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the halwa is in the heart. However, it's a good practice to

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to have some sort of seclusion daily, in your day, even if it's a

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fight five minutes, where there's no phones, there's no internet,

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there's no text message, there's nothing everything was off.

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There's no other voices, you alone, and you're just thinking

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about Allah's final data, are you remembering the last time Oh, God,

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you know, some of the issues, they say, you know, in this kind of

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way, you can say a particular type of God, some say it's been more

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fun, right, which is just to say, Allah, Allah, Allah and have kind

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of different.

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Thinking about different things, while you're saying about that,

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thinking about how almost mortality is unique as an

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apartment, think about how everything is nothing except a

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lost battle to

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think about how Allah subhanaw taala doesn't have a time or place

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that everything literally is almost mental data. So these are

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some of the practices that they used. So that, you know, Allah can

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be in the heart all the time, not just at certain times, but that

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there's a Salah, and there's a care and listening, and the Hajj

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and Umrah all of that is going on all the time, not just indistinct

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part times of the year, it is sometimes the day, but it's always

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happening within your heart.

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And the last few sentences as we get prepared for the fall in sha

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Allah

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in building in Martha's, and you're gonna have your theme, I

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like that I put a little puzzle with elephant region. And he was

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led to believe in how many Athenian estate developers let's

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see he called Water who is the manuals that he had, there's a

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whole way of you know, will be made agenda that will fit within

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dedica shall perform the children that are those that will do this

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will benefit the dunya.

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One who makes the clusion is practice must have certainty

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regarding God panel data, until he has no thought that will distract

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him and take him beyond the confines of a seclusion. Why,

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because if you if it's not pure, it will be poisonous. If you're

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too much, if you're alone too much with your thoughts, and they're

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not about a lost battle to audit, it could take you to other

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direction. So generally speaking with say, if you're going to do a

00:33:16 --> 00:33:20

more intense form of let's say, firewall or OSLA, then you would

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have to do that under the direction of the spiritual guide,

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not something try by yourself, right, especially in the type of

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God, you're gonna say, some of the names of Allah suave, are

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extremely powerful. If you see them in succession many times in a

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row, they may have effects that you're not able to handle. So

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something like that, we would recommend that you do it under

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someone who's been through before a spiritual guide to help you with

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that, but for the kind of three to five minutes per day, you know,

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just get away from things will clear your mind and just close

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your eyes. And just think about all those final thoughts. And

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that's something there's a general I think permission for that.

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If you lack certainty, right, the more testing don't just go into

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seclusion, the let him or her prepare him or herself to be

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strong enough for seclusion, in order that his certainty may be

00:34:08 --> 00:34:11

strengthened by what is revealed to him in his seclusion, right,

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because things do get revealed.

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Just like think about when you're when you're in that state between

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sleep and wakefulness, and you see things and come to realizations,

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think about things because your senses then are kind of put on,

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you know, the dead end, in a sense, because now your spiritual

00:34:29 --> 00:34:33

sense becomes more heightened. So as their seclusion, if it's done

00:34:33 --> 00:34:36

right can have the same effect. And then things you may see things

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that things may reveal to you. But it's also an opportune time for

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shutdown to play around with you to try to steer your way. That's

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why you said it's important. That one is going to do it in a tense

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way, then do it under spiritual guy.

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So if you lack certainty, then let him prepare himself to be strong

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enough for security. So we're not there yet and don't try it on your

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own yet. In order that uncertainty may be strength

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by what is real to me seclusion, there is no other way. This is one

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of the firm preconditions governing Oslo or seclusion,

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seclusion bequeaths knowledge of the world or of the dunya. So in

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the previous section said silence between knowledge of Allah.

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Here he says seclusion bequeath knowledge of the dunya how so I

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would say that, you see how utterly unimportant and trivial

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the dunya is, when you block out the dunya right in your seclusion,

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there's nothing else except you and Allah subhanaw taala, and then

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even nothing else except the law, then everything else seems very

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trivial seems very unimportant for us. Why are we wasting so much

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time about running up into this thing and acquiring this thing and

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trying to gain this person's particular praise and this

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person's adulation and all those seem things seem so trivial, once

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you actually have the spiritual cognition, contemplation process,

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or in Rosler, and you arrive to that certainty, so it gives you a

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knowledge of how happier right how utterly trivial the dunya is, in

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the things that we pursue in dunya, not the existence, you

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don't think of our existence as dunya, right, because this is most

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of our efforts or path to the next life, but dunya in terms of the

00:36:16 --> 00:36:17

things that people buy for terms of

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material, accumulation of wealth and so forth, and people's praise

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and competition, all those beneficent, all those things,

00:36:27 --> 00:36:30

people have competition over, they seem quite sure of you, when

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you're seclusion or your OSLA is done successfully. Now lawmakers

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of those people

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from hypopyon Sharla. Remember Kamala Das is this is not typical

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for law school. And anything that we do,

00:36:45 --> 00:36:49

by Allah for along with Allah will be easy. And anything that we do

00:36:49 --> 00:36:52

without Allah and not for Allah and other than a lot will always

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be beautiful. Next time shall we go over hunger, or dua, which is

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the third pillar of

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this inner dimension of this

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type of a bear that we're trying to engender in order

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to purify our attentions and to

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guide us to him and to show us how to be guided to him and to bring

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us

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to seek none other than to give us the blessing.

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Gift of pronounce upon our last breath.

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