Walead Mosaad – The Spiritual Dimensions of Fasting Part 4

Walead Mosaad
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The segment discusses the importance of the four pillars of the Betta, including belief in seclusion and capturing the heart for spiritual transformation, the physical and mental aspects of sleep, and the use of stimulants and stimulating the body for a natural sleep cycle. The physical and mental aspects of fasting are also discussed, along with the importance of recognizing and witnessing spiritual energy for transformation. The segment emphasizes the need for daily practice to achieve spiritual transformation and the importance of being present in the moment to avoid being out of touch with the neff.
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100 enemies

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while the silhouette with democracy met, honestly getting

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hammered.

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I remember looking at it meanwhile, early last Hobbico as

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well, any moment if there's any headaches standard, isn't it, they

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already know that.

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So hamdulillah we're on our last session for support sessions,

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dealing with the inner dimensions of a Betta.

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Here we're specifying that for Ramadan, and we are in the last

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hours of Ramadan

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in Kampala and Masha Allah,

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even though these particular four pillars are relevant and are

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applicable for all times. But being that we're going to stick

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with mindfulness. Last month, we are focusing our learning,

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specifically of the month of robots. And we had already spoken

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about the other three pillars, namely assault, or silence.

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And you do our hunger

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and

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or seclusion

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and now we've been to ourselves to the last pillar of what we hope to

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be

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a spiller spiritual transformation, as has been

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mentioned previously, as sub Saharan Arabic. Sometimes it's

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used interchangeably with some Samarra, which means to

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avoid sleep, but for that, which is something which is beneficial.

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So sometimes a summer doesn't certainly mean it's beneficial.

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And some even in the Arab world today, they say it's summer, like

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some sort of,

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you know, you could be attending some sort of concert at night, but

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in the masala and the terminology of

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Ballard's talking about staying up or avoiding sleep for that which

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is better than sleep. We say in the event of the soap opera or

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Salah to Cairo, Mina know that prayer is better than sleep. The

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Quran inserted was me, talks about

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how ALLAH SubhanA knows that the prophets I send them had never

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thought of, they also often will say, Well, if a community in

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America are long overdue later on,

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that those who stay understanding, praying with the prophet is a

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third or half or less than two thirds and so forth.

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And they do so

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avoiding sleep to do that. So here, it's also signifies the

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the preponderance of staying awake and choosing something that may be

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less enticing to the physical pleasures, but more fruitful for

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spiritual transformation. And that has kind of been the theme of the

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other three as well. So we talked about silence, most people prefer

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to speak, right? And even the there's a shuffle of the tongue,

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right? There's an appetite of the tongue that wants to speak. But

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then you can get yourself into trouble when the tongue speaks,

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because then you could speak of things that could be lies. That

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could be rumors that can be innuendo, that can be perversions

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that could be backbiting.

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And that's why the homicide someone said someone's to say

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something good, or stay silent for level five, Oh, yes.

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And remember, if anatomy, he also talked about silence of the heart,

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right, you can have chatter going on in your heart. So like all

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these extremes, thoughts, and all of these

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worries that one has and the heart is very cheerful, and you're

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trying to remain silent with your tongue, but it's difficult to do

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so when the heart is kind of going the other direction. So we see

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that one of the themes also is having the physical aspect of

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these four pillars. So when it's silent silence of the time, when

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it's seclusion, it's seclusion of the body, but also we want

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seclusion and capture of the heart is the main goal. And then we

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talked about hunger or fasting last time. So the physical fasting

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that we do a lot of a lot, but also the fasting of the heart.

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Fasting from what for Poonam, so Allah or habit couldn't be messy

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well Allah, so too fast from the love and the desire and the

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aspiration for anything except a last panel data then would be the

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spiritual

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counterpart of the physical fasting which you need in order to

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get to the spiritual counterpart.

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So here when he talks about a sub he says, All the line assignment

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teacher to do work in the matter is LM yeah configure for arm they

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have a no was suffer Sahara, sir

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When it was awful,

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he said,

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less sleep is a result of hunger

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for the stomach, if it has food in it, then sleep goes away. And

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that's usually the case. Right? The our eating patterns Today,

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however, are that we are. So I think artificially, kind of

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made to stay awake via caffeine

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via sugar via stimulants, we are all sorts of things that we don't

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really have natural sleep cycles. And I think that's one of the

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things if you're looking at even from a physical wellness point of

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view, one of the things that even I think Modern medicine is

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beginning to catch up with and rethink once again, is how are

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people sleeping? Right? Are they getting a restful sleep, and are

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they sleeping in a natural sleep cycle, right, and our bodies are

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remarkable in that they actually fall into a natural sleep cycle,

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when we don't have this artificial stimulus around us. And the first

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really artificial stimulant was electricity was like, so people

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who live traditionally before electricity, tended to sleep

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fairly early compared to what we're talking about today. And

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they also tended to wake up fairly early, you know, way before. So

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they are fresher time would come in. And so that was kind of a

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natural thing that they had. But now we are we are, we are

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artificially made to stay awake

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via these stimulants that we ingest into the body or artificial

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environments, you know, artificial light, and so forth. And many

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people live a life where they flip the day in the night. And it's

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unfortunate that many Muslims actually kind of do that to a

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level bar and they think they can sleep all day and then just stay

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awake all night. And that kind of defeats the purpose a little bit

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of a lot. So he said, in a natural state of affairs, the less that

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you eat, and the less sleep that you will need because food kind of

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ways you have these you a little bit, both physically and

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spiritually. And so then you might feel a tendency to want to go

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sleep after that. And then he said that there are two kinds of Sahar

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or as a translator says Your vigilance. I'm not sure I agree

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with that translation but we'll use it for our purposes, visual of

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the eye and a visual of the heart so maintaining a visual like a

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night visuals what he's referring to

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for a soccer club into their home and know where to look for that

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polygon Lucia that

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was after lyonie baton fever for inhumanity humanity will call the

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reporter the new Samarra in the liner either Namath bottle

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dominant fun beef in Cana Peninsula united in Mariano made

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it for her to share that to somebody and with a condom law

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like what a man young Hala availa dedica fella prefer either to

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sorry is similar to our calendar, what's your thoughts on minimizing

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the loss of unity underlie data?

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So the two kinds of vigilance which will have the eye and which

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love the heart

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here he doesn't mean I like physical eyes, he means like

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spiritual eyeball zero. So he says, the hearts vigil is

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awakening from the sleep of forgetfulness and seeking

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contemplation

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while the eyes visual is the desire to maintain the spiritual

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intention in the heart, to pursue the quest for Musa or night,

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converse was seminar with whom, with Allah subhanaw taala. In the

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head of common ever had an elephant Abdullah have in your

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days and also means in your nights, there are enough a hat,

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there are these type of spiritual breezes. And these spiritual

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breezes are very specific. Some of them come only in certain

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activities during certain activities, like spiritual

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activities like prayer. So you'll get certain ones while you're in

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pm while standing in prayer certain ones while you're in

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sujood certain ones while you're in the mood for certain ones while

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you're in a state of fasting. So they're kind of specific in that

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way. And they're also specific to times of day as well. So Allah

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subhanaw taala arranged by the day and a night confer right one runs

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into the other, but these kinds of spiritual opportunities right whoo

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Shahadat things that you can read, recognizing that you can see

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meanings Allah can put in your heart will vary from one time of

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day to the next. So

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we could say you can argue that during the night there are certain

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types of leather hat you may not have available to you during the

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day.

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And vice versa. Right when and there's indications of Asakura

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work or an adventure in Ghana Masuda

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Right the Quran of the federal Allah was the prayer of the

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treasure, something specific about that? What specific about it get

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it Masuda, right? It's been witnessed witness by witness by

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the angels, witnessed by certain group of the angels witnessed by

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certain people of the believer. So there's like a specificity to it

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something of what we saw for Sisa, for saw is something special about

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it, that you may not find, necessarily in other parts of the

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day or night. And so that means we want to have Tammy here and walked

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as they say, Tamina, what means you want to ensure that every day,

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every segment of the day, and every segment of the night has

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something in it, where you can avail yourself of that. So if you

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are a believer, and you pray your five prayers, and you've never

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once in your life, woke up before a pleasure to pray to hedge it.

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Are you still a believer? Obviously you are? And obviously,

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Allah did not make it a requirement upon you. But can we

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say that you're missing out from something? Right? There's

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something that's going to be available to you during that time,

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that you may not be realized and another time? Most certainly, yes,

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you may miss out on something, when you don't avail yourself of

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that opportunity. So, you know, our most precious commodity who we

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are capital is our time. And so Allah subhanaw taala kind of

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arranges what we said these, these never had to be spiritual breezes

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during different segments of the day in different segments of the

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light. So when he says here, the eyes vigil of the vasila is to

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desire to maintain the spiritual intention, the heart to pursue the

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quest for the masala, right with Allah's PebblePad, I want that

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very specific thing about the life that may not come during the day.

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For when the eye sleeps, the activity of the heart ceases. But

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if the heart is not asleep, when the eye is its objective is

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contemplation of its previous visual, previous visual, no more,

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indeed, for the heart to observe anything else is not possible. So

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hear you saying that?

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Your heart,

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sometimes it's referred to as that, obviously the physical

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factor, but the spiritual one that has the ability to interpret and

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see the Hakluyt or realize the realities, it's kind of your

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magnifying glass, right for your telescope, to see things that can

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may not normally be seen otherwise, but this is kind of a

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spiritual insight. So if the activity of the heart ceases,

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right that he has, right, that factor is not working, then what

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are you going to see, you're not going to see anything. So he says,

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you will see only what maybe you saw on a previous video, in a

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previous SOP. You know, sometimes when you're not staying between

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sleep and wakefulness, you can recall things that you don't

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recall, no, not in another state, right. And you see those things,

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whether they're bad or they're good.

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That's because we're have a heightened spiritual awareness

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when we're in that why because the senses are somewhat dead. And so

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the senses, the physical senses don't get in the way of seeing

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those things. That's why when you're asleep, as you said, I

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think previous session, you can see things and you're walking

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going many places, and and it's very symbolic, what happens in the

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dream, but oftentimes, it represents something very real,

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and that realness about it. You have access to it when your senses

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no longer get in the way. And obviously the ultimate sensory

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experience you're going to have is when you die, that's when the

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senses are completely deadened. Right? But then you see reality as

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it is everybody who becomes active when they're when they're not even

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at the start just one who is a disbeliever he's going to see

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reality as it is and all those things that he denied or she

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denied during the like the the swell of the angels, the question

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of the angels, the the reality of the grave, and the punishment of

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the grave and the reality of the afterlife. All those things become

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real. They already were real, but now they've become a chef. Now

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they actually see it. Why because now their senses are no longer the

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way and they're incurred and their

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denial no longer has any power because you cannot deny that which

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is clearly in front of you

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then he says Well, how was Saudi time you know what the hassles and

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he said

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before that

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prefer either to sir is similar. Ramona Cosby, what do you call a

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man as an ally and Mazoon analyzed to add?

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The spiritual state of vigilance is to cultivate the present

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present moment is what we said to me otherwise

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for both the seeker and the verifier, your cover last session,

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so there's kind of two levels of people there's the seeker Sadek

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and then the verifier, or Watson.

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So both of them seem to do that, except that the verifier will have

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that also has an increase in assuming the lordly attributes are

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to Hello, and Rabbani unknown to the secret,

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right, and there are some other indication, the Hello of the

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Hello. Hola, hola, hola. urbania have taken some of the a flap, the

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character attributes of Allah spiral that there's some

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discussion amongst the parliament about what does that mean?

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Exactly. And are all the attributes available in that way,

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or some of the attributes only available for what we call to add?

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Look, you have a connection to it. So there are things that are very

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specific to a lost battle data, even they're all specific to

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Allah, but even the name itself, we don't attach to anyone except

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the last time if not, we take some more liberal approach. And he for

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example, is going to argue here that play you media, right Allah

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one of his his attributes, what how you play you, He is the one

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that is alive, and has also taught you that you mean self sufficient

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or self sustaining doesn't need anybody else. So even if we were

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to say that this can apply to the human being and play you mean,

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does it mean that there are independent of Allah as part of

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that, but sufficient in the sense that they don't need a hug, right,

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they don't need other creatures, they don't need other Gods

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creatures. And Allah is the One who sustains them, and sustains

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them both in obviously a physical way and also in a spiritual way.

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So he says, it's spiritual stations that have in play your

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media, everlasting self existence.

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He said that, you know, I'll just summarize what he says here in

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interest of time. So some of the people deny that that was

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possible. But he found that it was possible

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that he says there's no name of the divine presence that the human

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being cannot be the bearer of to some degree. So, as I said, he

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takes that more liberal approach, other automat will say that onec a

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Smith concert with the Hambach with

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a dialogue, right, some even up to hip hop, you can be merciful, you

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can be Latif, right, you can be gentle, you can be have this ease

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with people. And most of those are the geometric properties, the

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object or the attributes of beauty, whereas they argue the

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attributes of JLL, the generic properties,

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always say you go and talk to him, I want to take care of those

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things. If someone were trying to take them on, they would not fit

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to

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a human attribute because they're specifically for Allah subhanaw

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taala or of magnificence of Gillette, so you have to follow up

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with them. But if not, we, you know, we believe in him and we

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believe in the things that she saw, and he's talking about

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experience. He believes there's a way that it can have that

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property, even for funding, which we're not going to go into that he

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doesn't go into it. So we'll just leave it at that.

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And then he says regarding vigilance.

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The last line

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is that vigilance equates knowledge of the cell. So we saw

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that each of them there's certain knowledge that comes about,

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depending upon which which one we're talking about. So we said

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that he said that sample silence, recruits knowledge of a law that

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was law or seclusion, the police knowledge of the dunya that hunger

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or do arbequina knowledge of Satan or shippon and vigilance, we

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preach knowledge of the cell of the neffs. Right, and we know that

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the neffs is cubby for most of the time, but the NAPS is despicable,

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orders us and urges us to all sorts of iniquities and all sorts

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of transgressions, mostly in the desire to fulfill his passions and

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appetite, not necessarily to transgress safe, she should find a

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seat and that's his desire. He wants us to just disobey God,

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because of his hazard, his jealousy that he has for the human

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being, because he felt because of his, his jealousy and he didn't

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want to follow Allah's command and prostrating for our fathers. The

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money set up so we want to see everyone see you milliard in that

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way, in the same way that he was humiliated. However, the neffs

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which is our lifeforce,

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which we need to keep us alive. It tells us when we're hungry, it

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tells us when we need to drink it tells us when there's danger,

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right and defend ourselves and it causes anger, but when it's not

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properly channel, right by the author's Sharia by the intellect

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of the shutdown of the city, then you can do more

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Anything that will be transgressions will be mistakes.

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So he says that the sub gives you some knowledge of this neffs. And

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I would say in a manner

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that

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there's more Gehenna to neffs, right, there's a striving against

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the neffs, especially when you desire sleep to some degree, but

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you were kind of fighting that desire. And so the neffs is kind

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of put at bay,

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to some degree, kind of putting it on the side. That's kind of from

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an initial perspective. But once it becomes a day, then right once

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it becomes something that, you know, now your soul craves it, you

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know, you read the books of the year. And they say that, if people

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knew what we found in the night, right from our Masai Mara, or for

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when Agia, what we find with Allah subhanaw taala, then the Kings

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consultants would have fought us over it, to have something of

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this. But since they've never tasted it, they don't know what it

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is. And so they don't have a desire for it. So when the Sultan

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tastes that right, then the neffs kind of goes to the background,

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right? And then you then you learn how petty the neffs actually is,

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we have this this impression that the neffs the ego is a sort of big

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mean, huge ogre, who's more powerful than we are, it's a

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struggle to defeat him. But in reality, the neffs is like a

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spoiled little child. And that all you have to do is discipline it a

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little bit, and it can't really do much to it. It kind of goes goes

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to the side, when it's when it's greeted with with the power of

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your soul, right of your of your sin, your innermost sanctum, we

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are no secret.

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So

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he then concludes that

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section and now

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he says stomach again.

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And Malefor even matter what to do at Atlassian had Ebola said Now we

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finished all of the four and said, Matt, if a knowledge of God is

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these four major things matter for the law of oneness with dunya was

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shaped thought. So when you say out of below, what does that mean?

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It means someone who knows God, who knows their own depths, who

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knows the dunya. Right? It knows what how it's trying to entice

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him, I know the shape Ah, so you know, the dunya is happier, right

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to know, the dunya, that it's not worth it. There's nothing in it in

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there, really, that you shouldn't be spending so much physical,

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emotional, spiritual energy on to acquire it or to accumulate it.

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And most Muslims, if you ask them that question, and probably even

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non Muslims, if you're asked that question, they can acknowledge

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that, but yet, they still run after it. So here, this modifier

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is not just an intellectual acknowledgement, it's evoke it's

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Shahada. It's actually bear witness in the heart, tasting in

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the heart, like to really know it, really know it, so that you

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actually don't want to go after it. You're not interested in it.

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And the same thing with the other things, you talked about knowing

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the naps. So it's about knowing the naps, it's not eliminating the

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naps, right. Don't think you're gonna get to some point, and I'm

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going to be a willy of Allah. And then

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my naps will completely go away, and some are going to entice me

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again. No, that's not actually true. It will entice you in

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different ways, but you will know when it's doing. That's the thing.

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You will recognize it when it's actually telling you Oh, you know,

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you should be the one speaking in front of all those people, and you

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should be the one who's leading and you should be on doing this.

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You're like, wait a minute, that slot. That's my knifes talking to

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me. And so you've learned to recognize it and then you're able

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to disobey it. That's what it means to be it out. If we learn he

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knows what an app says. And he knows what Allah is talking to him

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to. He knows when the inspiration is from a last panel to add, you

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know, the prophesy son was talking to if the law was over when he

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said to him, Stephanie, call back a lot of tech and move through our

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flow of tech and Ness. Seek the fatwa the Edict of your heart,

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even though others may be giving you the photo these others could

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be the neffs these others could be disregard these others could be

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you other human beings, but if you're listening to the America if

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you listen you know how to listen for one hola speaking que

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directly,

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then you don't need all those other ones when attack and move to

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step the callback, right your heart that can actually know when

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Allah speaking to it, and no one when something else is speaking to

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him or her.

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So it's not a it's not a general admission. It's not for everybody.

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Right? It's not for him say something like, Well, okay, my

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club says, fasting is really hard, and I don't want to do it anymore.

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So I'll take that fifth one. But that's not a lot talking to you.

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That she'd been talking to you. That's your next talk with you.

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It's not the last part of that.

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If that doesn't concern you, I will continue I left it was

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summertime victory victory ropey a year who will have the island that

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you

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Just many are Saranga law you know in that in Washington I feel

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having a solid ABA we do that visually here to who

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mannequin we're who they are to say that and walk through His Son

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or they went to Sheridan without any law here all

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so when someone withdraws from the creative world and from himself

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and when he silences his own internal voice, right which we

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spoke about some

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leaving space for his lords mentioning of him versus McCollum

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Island, right? When you realize that you're not really that good

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until cool. With Ikaruga Yahoo, the crew, the crew like

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when you realize it's not really making the slot you really

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mentioned a lot or you to mention a lot. What's the comparison

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between you and the last Balcatta but it's really Allah's mentioning

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of you. So when you mentioned him, that's Allah's way of mentioning

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you. So when he's living in that, or she's living in that, so

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leaving space for his or her Lord's mentioning of him, so

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there's no this chatterbox of the heart going on. So you leave that

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space for Allah and your recognition of Allah mentioning

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you. And when you ring relinquish Corporal nourishment, it just many

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and remains wakeful while others are plunged in sleep. Right

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there's there's a Sisa also for doing and being wakeful and alert

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and being any better when others are not. Allah, small time he

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likes when people do that, when others are in the state of Allah.

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That's why the night is special, then I have something special

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about it, because most people are not aware of that time.

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The prophets I send them when he was asked why you fast.

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The month of Chavez.

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He said that this is a month between Roger Ramadan when that

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stock fell annual, right, people are not aware of it, they don't

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pay attention to it. So I like to fast when people are not in a

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state of awareness of something. So that's also something that

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is specific to when in times of love that. So it can be certain

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times certain months or it can be a certain circumstance, right, the

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one believer or the one Sadek, or the Stryver, amongst many who are

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not, also has a special look up, right because there's no one to

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help him or her. That's also beloved to Allah.

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So remaining wakeful while others are plunging asleep when these

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four properties have been united in one. Then once humanity is

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transmuted into an angelic nature and one servanthood into mastery,

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right, you've mastered the self and once intellect becomes a sense

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faculty, right. So what we say your Auckland, your spiritual

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often now consensus of

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consensus, the realities the inner realities, reality or the lead

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becomes visible, which was before hidden or concealed. And then the

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interior becomes manifest. Right, the bottle becomes life.

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So then it larvae, he

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mentioned a small poem that he writes here at the end, which

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we'll conclude with

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he says Yemen follow them and as a dead lead plus the minimum

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length of line that we have for less than earlier in them to that

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Him whom Allah word was the economy go after Lehman, unique

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emulated had even went with sata wotja after winter mahkamah home

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was so hyped up and Phil Headley what had beta will at Summit

00:29:08 --> 00:29:12

again, who said that when a 50 minute update of customer Docomo

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seven minute update may have been something that is earned in the

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image when jewelry was sorry, and is in it alone, you're flipping

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over here called the cemetery Academy and assume that what your

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community is setting in knowing whether you have a net

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all you desire the spiritual abodes of the dead, which are the

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people of the

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people of God without aspiring to the requisite actions. Do not

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hanker after them in vain, for you cannot be one of them without

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emulating their spiritual states. Silence your heart seclude

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yourself from all that brings me down to other than the beloved

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master Allah subhanaw taala be wakeful and hungry. Thus shall you

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be given their station and their company, in all your coming and

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going the house

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sainthood has various pillars and our masters who live there are of

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the of dead. Amid silence and seclusion, unceasing hunger and

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vigilance live those of pure virtue and noble eminence. And

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then his delight at the end, may God grant us a new success in

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accomplishing these pillars, and many quarters, the grace of the

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abortive perfection of a segment as an accent, in the views, the

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most magnificent print as well. So

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that concludes kind of what we wanted to read from Haley to

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update, the title indicates Haley that which one adorns oneself with

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and the idea is that, you know, our humanity

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is not just

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limited to our physical attributes without the sum of our parts. And

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that true humanity

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in its most noble and its most eminent form, as you mentioned,

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here, takes a bit of work. So it's not something that's kind of

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automatic, and something that you can just expect to be born with.

00:31:04 --> 00:31:07

We were created last time and I'm gonna shake. Allah created us, we

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don't know anything. But it's a ability to be transformed. It's

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our ability to change, it's our ability to be a different person

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tomorrow than we were today, which which actually makes us human

00:31:19 --> 00:31:22

beings and which is unique about us. So no matter what state we're

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in before, whether we're in last year, the day before last year, or

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10 years ago, that door is always open, it's never closed. And

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it's no

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coincidence that many of these people who became the great people

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of the last panel data did not have such illustrious beginnings.

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Many of them were sinners, many of them were for bottlerock. You

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know, they were highway robbery robber men, they would stop people

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and rob them. And they will people who are not people over the last

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panel data, but Allah called them to him. And

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that's kind of the first step. First step is to recognize realize

00:32:01 --> 00:32:04

it's really a low quality view. It's not so much you,

00:32:05 --> 00:32:08

picking yourself up by your bootstraps and doing everything on

00:32:08 --> 00:32:11

your own. But it's actually recognition of Wait a minute, you

00:32:11 --> 00:32:15

know, I am Murat. I am the one who's being desired here. I'm the

00:32:15 --> 00:32:19

one that Allah is pulling, to pin to Allah spinal tap. So

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these four pillars are not just mentioned by a lot of either

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mentioned by many, many of the great spiritual masters, silence,

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seclusion,

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hunger, night vigil, and they are kind of the four main pillars of

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transformation, the province or sediment this community to

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practice them regularly. I mean, if you looked at the Sahaba, you

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would see these attributes into multiple different degrees,

00:32:46 --> 00:32:51

obviously. But that was their way, that's what they did. And

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that means it's a departure from what people are used to,

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especially in the modes of the way that we sleep articles, or

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stimulants, as we talked about,

00:33:02 --> 00:33:06

the company that we keep, right part of silence or salt is also

00:33:06 --> 00:33:10

not to put ourselves in situations where it's difficult to be silent,

00:33:11 --> 00:33:16

right. So if we spend a lot of time on the gossip mill, and

00:33:16 --> 00:33:18

people would like to gossip, and people like to spread rumors, and

00:33:18 --> 00:33:21

people just like to talk about other people. And that's a big

00:33:21 --> 00:33:24

part of our day or a big part of our existence, then more than

00:33:24 --> 00:33:27

likely, you're going to engage in that, and you're listening to it.

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So it's not so much about sheer willpower, but it's about trying

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to create or bring about the circumstances situation that's

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going to ease you into this, to make it easier for you. That's

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where the hard decisions are going to have to come.

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And unless we're willing to make those hard decisions and to make

00:33:46 --> 00:33:50

those sacrifices, then we shouldn't really expect the

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results that we're talking about, we're not going to expect, you

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know, for our hearts are very existence to be transformed into

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an angelic one, unless we're willing to kind of do the path

00:34:01 --> 00:34:04

that has been established by the Prophet Muhammad SAW said them and

00:34:04 --> 00:34:09

kind of renewed continuously and contextualized between one

00:34:09 --> 00:34:12

generation after the next after the next until at present time. So

00:34:12 --> 00:34:17

don't think only the Sahaba had access to relay. They're the only

00:34:17 --> 00:34:20

ones who could have found that. And it's kind of forgetting now,

00:34:20 --> 00:34:25

in this age of Google and Facebook and internet and distraction and

00:34:25 --> 00:34:30

artificial intelligence and Monsanto, how could we possibly,

00:34:30 --> 00:34:35

you know, find ourselves and reach those climax reach those higher

00:34:35 --> 00:34:38

plateaus that they reached. But here you're looking at it from the

00:34:38 --> 00:34:44

perspective of your ability, your capability, your aspiration, but

00:34:44 --> 00:34:46

that's not how you look at it, look at it from a loss power.

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And also hold on is capable of doing anything in any time in any

00:34:50 --> 00:34:54

place anywhere. And we know that it's still continuing to happen.

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We've seen people who, who embody these attributes and they will

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continue to be there.

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continue to exist, and they'll continue to be created by lost

00:35:03 --> 00:35:06

power till the end of time to the last few days, there will be such

00:35:06 --> 00:35:12

people, maybe less frequent, fewer numbers harder to find, but last

00:35:12 --> 00:35:13

month and it makes the path manifest

00:35:14 --> 00:35:18

to whom He desires. The problem so I send them said,

00:35:19 --> 00:35:23

and urine they'll be hiring you for clinical feeding. Whatever

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Allah desires, good on his servant, He gives them fit of the

00:35:26 --> 00:35:30

deen. Oftentimes this is interpreted as like 50 in terms of

00:35:30 --> 00:35:34

outcome and the outward fit, but 50 on the time of the prophesy, so

00:35:34 --> 00:35:38

that was not limited to fit, what we call today there was

00:35:39 --> 00:35:43

chemistry here. No, it means knowledge, Maddie for knowledge of

00:35:43 --> 00:35:46

God, knowledge of the divine knowledge of the divine

00:35:46 --> 00:35:49

attributes. So when Allah desires good for you, He will give you

00:35:49 --> 00:35:52

knowledge of that thing. So we asked him as part of that to give

00:35:52 --> 00:35:57

us knowledge of the deen to accept here in the waning hours in our

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last day of Ramadan, to accept our fasting to accept our pm to accept

00:36:01 --> 00:36:06

our total we have to all to make us from those who are from the

00:36:06 --> 00:36:10

liberated from the throngs of the Hellfire. And this lasts less than

00:36:11 --> 00:36:15

10 days and to be the people whose mouthfeel and its default is

00:36:15 --> 00:36:19

accepted and whose silver is accepted and who are those who are

00:36:19 --> 00:36:26

muffle mean that Allah gives us his general and specific mercy in

00:36:26 --> 00:36:29

this place of love and this blessed day of this place of love.

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And I thank you all for participating and listening.

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If there's if we look to the next year, then hopefully we'll reflect

00:36:39 --> 00:36:42

back on these times and think about how well now we're ready to

00:36:42 --> 00:36:45

move on to something else and do something more and hopefully get

00:36:45 --> 00:36:48

the benefit that was desired and

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handled ahead of help.

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