Yaser Birjas – The True Meaning Of Watchfulness

Yaser Birjas
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The interviewer describes J installations on a church's Operator, highlighting the importance of understanding the church's theory of the Greatest God. They also discuss the church's pattern of watching the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, which is the only way to create the world. The interviewer explains that the church's perception practices have led to the development of perception, as humans are visual and as they see the god.
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Do you guys remember the new chapter we

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started last night?

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Huh?

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You already forgot?

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Al-Muraqaba.

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Al-Muraqaba, which means to know that Allah

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SWT is watching you and observing you.

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That's what it means.

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Like you always keep your heart alert that

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Allah SWT is watching you.

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And this hadith, the first hadith that he

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started with, hadith number 60 in Riyadh al

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-Saliheen.

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Hadith Umar ibn al-Khattab radiallahu ta'ala

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wa rida'a, qal.

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The very famous hadith of Umar ibn al

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-Khattab reporting on the story of Jibreel when

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he came to Medina.

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qal.

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qal.

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One day as we were sitting in the

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company of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam.

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Out of nowhere, a man shows up and

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comes in.

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And this man, ironically, he had very beautiful

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white thobes, very dark hair.

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qal.

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qal.

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You can't tell he was traveling.

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Like his clothes are clean, his hair well

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combed.

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And no one recognizes him.

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Which means, where did he come from?

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I mean if he's a stranger, at least

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you could tell that he has the signs

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of travel.

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But this man is clean, he looks masha

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'Allah beautiful, but no one knows who that

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person is.

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So where did he come from?

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So it became a mystery to them.

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qal.

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Until he sat right in front of the

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Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam.

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Something the sahaba would never dare do.

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Like the adab of the sahaba, they would

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give the Prophet his space.

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But this man coming from outside, he just

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went straight to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa

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sallam.

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qal.

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Until he came, sat right in front of

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the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam.

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He puts his knees on the knees of

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the Prophet or near the knees of the

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Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam.

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And his hand on his thighs.

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So now, this position the ulema, they try

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to describe in one of two ways.

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And I'm going to describe this to you.

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I want you to help me out over

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here.

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Come over here please.

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Jazakallah khair.

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So one of the two examples.

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Yeah, sit like I'm sitting here.

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So he came and he sat right here.

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He put his knees on the knees of

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the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam.

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And whether he puts his hand on his

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own knees or the knees of the Prophet

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salallahu alayhi wa sallam.

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The other way is if you sit like

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this.

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Like the shahad.

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So he said that he came and he

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sat like this.

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Like he's now ready to ask and he

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wants to get his thing done and leave.

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Now whether he puts his hand on his

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own knees like this.

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Asking the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam face

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to face closely.

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Or on the knees of the Prophet salallahu

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alayhi wa sallam himself like this.

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He's kind of holding the Prophet salallahu alayhi

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wa sallam.

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Give me the answer.

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Or teach me.

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So this is one of the two ways

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that describe the hadith.

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How Jibreel came and sat before the Prophet

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salallahu alayhi wa sallam.

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By the way, if you look at how

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many benefits of adab, the etiquette of seeking

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knowledge.

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The ulama, they inferred from this position.

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Oh my God.

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That's a lot to talk about.

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Like how close you need to be to

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the teacher.

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How attentive you should be.

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You put your hand, you know, you hold

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yourself tight.

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So at least always alert to receive many,

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many different benefits.

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But the point is, so he asked the

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Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam.

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He called him like the Bedouins do.

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Like he dares ask the Prophet salallahu alayhi

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wa sallam without using that respect, honorable title.

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Ya Rasulallah.

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He goes, Ya Muhammad.

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Muhammad.

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It's like anybody talking to him.

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Which means he has an authority.

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So this man has an authority over the

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Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam.

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To call him, Ya Muhammad.

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Tell me what Islam is.

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And the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam says,

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You bear witness there is no God worthy

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of worship but Allah.

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That I am the messenger of Allah.

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You pray the five daily prayers.

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You do the zakah.

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You fast Ramadan.

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And you perform hajj if you can.

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So the man says, You told the truth.

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So the Sahaba around him said, What a

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strange thing.

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He's asking a question and he tells him

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when he hears the answer, You're right.

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Which means he knew the answer.

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So now the mysteries have been increasing.

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Like who is this man?

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How come he's asking questions he already knew

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the answer for?

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And he's now going to continue to ask

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the questions.

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So the mystery is continuing with them.

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He says, Okay, tell me about Iman.

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What is Iman?

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He says, So he comes with all the

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six articles of faith.

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You believe in Allah, the angels, the messengers,

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the books, the Day of Judgment, and Al

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-Qadar.

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And the man said again, That's true.

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This is now the point from the hadith

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that falls under the title of the chapter.

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To know that Allah is watching you.

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He says, Tell me about excellence.

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Ihsan, perfection, Ibadah.

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The excellence in Ibadah.

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Now, before we give the answer the Prophet

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ﷺ gave, We have to understand that this

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whole universe was created with Ihsan.

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From Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, All what

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he asks of you when you do things,

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Do it with what?

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With Ihsan.

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The whole purpose of you doing what you

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do is to show to Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala that you can get to that

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level of Ihsan.

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Didn't he say at the beginning of Surah

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Al-Mulk, Who's

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going to be excellent in his deeds.

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He says, all of it is about Ihsan.

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And when you get your reward, How are

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you going to get your reward, Jamal?

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What is the reward for Ihsan in terms

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of deeds other than Ihsan in terms of

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reward?

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So here, he's asking the Prophet ﷺ, Tell

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me, what is this Ihsan?

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When it comes to doing things right.

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When you do Ibadah with Ihsan, What does

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it mean?

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He goes, Ihsan is when you worship Allah,

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You're absolutely certain that you see him.

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As if you see him.

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Not you see him.

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As if you see him.

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You're absolutely certain about it.

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As if you see him.

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What does that mean?

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As humans, We're visual.

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If I don't see it, I start building

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perception about it.

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And in order for me to have that

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absolute certainty, that perception has to be as

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powerful as if it was tangible and physical.

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So when you worship Allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala with absolute certainty that he is watching

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you, or at least as if you see

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him, that's the highest level, or the second

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highest level I would say, of Yaqeen.

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Because Yaqeen is three degrees.

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Certitude of knowledge, Certitude of sight, Certitude of

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Haqq al-Yaqeen.

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Certitude of experience.

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So here, as if you see him, subhanahu

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wa ta'ala.

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Hadith Handala.

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He went and complained to the Prophet ﷺ,

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Ya Rasulullah, we sit around you and you

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speak to us about Jannah and Jahannam.

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And when we're with you, you put us

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in a state of mind, in a state

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of heart, as if we're seeing Jannah and

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Jahannam with our own eyes.

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But obviously, how do we see Jannah and

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Jahannam in that moment?

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With the eyes of our minds and heart,

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not the sight of our eyes actually.

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So we see it with the sight of

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the heart and mind, not the sight of

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the eyes in that moment.

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Because we have developed that knowledge, that ilm,

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that made us feel it's true, as if

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we see it.

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So that's the one level that is high.

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If you couldn't get yourself to reach that

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level of certainty, as if you see him,

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then you have to be absolutely sure that

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he's watching you, that he sees you.

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And if you know that there's surveillance there,

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you're going to behave better, right?

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If somebody knows there's a camera in the

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office, they're going to speak differently, they're going

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to behave differently.

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And that's an interesting thing.

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Like even subhanAllah, as human beings, we all

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have those kind of tendencies.

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When no one is watching, no one is

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recording anything, we speak freely sometimes.

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So here's the Prophet ﷺ telling us, you

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are absolutely sure that he sees you.

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So how do you behave?

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With ihsan.

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There's a true level now of ihsan.

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So if anybody is interested in truly, truly

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making their ibadah perfectly, these are the two

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levels that you need to aspire to get

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to.

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That when you worship, you worship Allah as

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if you're watching him and you're seeing him.

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And if you couldn't get to that level,

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then you know that he is watching you.

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SubhanAllah.

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How do I get there?

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That's a different story.

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We covered that a lot in the series

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we were studying with Imam Rajab.

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Go back to the early recordings when we

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were discussing this hadith in detail.

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There are many ways of how you can

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reach your level of spirituality to that level.

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May Allah give us all the ability to

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worship him with ihsan.

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Finally, he said to the Prophet ﷺ, after

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this he asked him, he says, He said,

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Tell me about the Day of Judgment, the

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hour, when is it going to be?

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The one who's asking, the one who's asked,

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doesn't have more knowledge than the one who's

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asking.

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Like we're both the same.

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We don't have that much knowledge about it.

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Tell me about the signs.

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At least tell me about the signs of

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the Day of Judgment.

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The Prophet ﷺ said, He said, This is

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going to come when you see that the

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maid servant will beget her master and that

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you will find the barefooted, naked, poor shepherds

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will compete one another in the construction of

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higher buildings.

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Sounds familiar to you now?

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As we say, We are at the end

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of time right now.

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By the way, that's not just in the

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Middle East, it's even here in Texas.

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Like if you go to downtown, just like,

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whoa, where are these coming from right now?

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They're new buildings, I don't know if you've

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seen that.

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I haven't been downtown in a long time.

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Last time, just because I went to Isna

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program, I'm just like, whoa, they're a new

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building in Dallas.

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I haven't seen them in a long time.

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They're competing.

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Who's going to be actually going higher and

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higher?

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Then the Prophet, Umar, he says, We waited

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for a little bit and this man, he

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just kind of like left.

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Just like he came, he disappeared.

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Everybody's just still confused.

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They don't know what to do and the

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Prophet did not give them any report after

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this man left and just looking at him

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from was he leaving?

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Then he said, Ya Umar.

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He says, Yes, Rasulullah.

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There's multiple narrations.

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One of the narrations, the Prophet told him,

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Go bring him back to me.

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So Umar went after him to look for

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him and bring him back to the Prophet.

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He came back.

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Nobody.

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So the Prophet told him, Do you know

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who was the one asking him?

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I don't know.

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Allah knows best.

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That was Jibreel.

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He came to teach you your religion.

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The value of this hadith, it's not just

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that Jibreel came to teach us.

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No.

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It's the Prophet, Sallallahu alaihi wasallam, saying that

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Jibreel exclusively came here to summarize what Islam

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is all about.

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Brothers and sisters, you're on a journey.

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You are on a journey.

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And that journey is hierarchy.

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It's like a pyramid.

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You start in the base and you live

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your life to go to the top.

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That top is called Ihsan.

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The base is Islam.

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But most of us are in the middle.

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And Iman.

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And the Iman fluctuates.

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Goes up and down, up and down.

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Sometimes we come so close to Ihsan.

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We get the taste of it.

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And then we drop again.

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Because our good deed is not consistent.

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We practice sometimes, the physical practice and Ibadah.

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But we fail to practice with our heart.

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And in order for you to reach that

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Ihsan, you need to exercise the Ibadah of

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the heart much more than the Ibadah of

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the body.

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Because the Prophet said, Taqwa is there.

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It's in the heart.

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If you exercise the Ibadah of the heart,

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spirituality, reflecting, pondering, and always have the love

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for Allah, the fear of Allah in your

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heart all the time, that will elevate your

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spirituality to the highest level you can until

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you reach that level of Ihsan.

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May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us

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among the people of the world.

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Wallahu ta'ala a'lam.

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Subhanaka, Allahumma bihamdik.

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Asharu allaha ila anta, astaghfiru, wa atubu ilaih.

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Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.

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