know the ones that are old and decrepit
and you know they're still doing these
hard on things it's something despicable
so though then that's that's the first
we're dealing with four things here of
how to purify the heart and achieve
taqwa that's the first one and I'll go
briefly through the next three will
you'll pay for the water at the Y anima
mala FINA be here but the hakama that he
should not do anything without knowing
the hokum of allah and this is something
that we're very neglectful about there
are many people that go into businesses
go into contract go into relationships
without understanding what the hell come
of our lawsuit behind with data is and
this is something that's disastrous we
have to know what allah has commanded in
everything in every single action and
allah has not left us without guidance
we even have guidance when you don't
have a choice but between two haram
things
this happens in existence and we have
also li principles that protect us and
guide us but we have to have taqwa and
we have to go and ask the people that if
we don't know we have to ask the people
that know and then he says you'll fire
on Bulba Minnery ie what hazard in
Richmond what coolly die so the next
thing
achieving taqwa after the seven limbs
and after learning the Sharia of Islam
is Sapiro pal that you purify the heart
men Maria and the prophets Allah
lightest and I'm said that Turia and his
OMA is alpha min American men the the
shirk is more alpha it's more discrete
then the new militant soda a black and
fill a Latin Valmer
in a dark night a la Sahara Tim Elsa on
a smooth rock this is the shirk of the
prophets ulna it's a very subtle shirk
and it's called the RIA which is showing
off your iron ass showing to people and
not guarding what Allah subhana WA
Ta'ala is commanded and then so he
begins with react because that's the
foundation of all sicknesses and then he
says what has it and husband willfully
died hath set is to be envious and this
is one of the worst things and the
prophets all I said I'm said in Al
Hassan uh yeah bullet has an ad come
attack or not
al he thought that the Envy will eat the
good action like fire eats the dry wood
and so Hassan what has he neither hasad
seeking refuge from Hasan and hazard is
when it's different from guilt ah in the
Arabic language in the fifth at the
house at the Prophet Allah has said that
in Lafayette name that hazard is called
the HIPAA which is where if somebody has
knowledge or has memorized the Quran you
don't have hassle but you wish that you
were like him you wish you had what he
had without him losing it or her losing
it and that's called Gupta that's a good
hazard that's a good Envy wealthy
Vatican pietà novice and molten Fe soon
that we should compete and buy with good
action there's nothing wrong with that
so that is a high thing it's not a low
thing but hazard is where you're not
content with Allah's decree and it's a
horrible state to be in because Allah
gave that person and if you're not if
you want him to lose that it means you
want Allah subhana WA Ta'ala
to take away what he's given which is
good for that slave and then rushman
Rajab is different from Cuba because
rigid is that the the merger
he's impressed with himself without
necessarily being with the Aliana hat he
might not be exalting himself over
somebody else but he's impressed with
himself
you know Maj Melanie I would've you that
my lemony multi ebony that type of
attitude like oh I'm so wonderful and
I'm so you know this or that and this is
a deep sickness urge and the prophets
all aligned is to them he said one of
the signs of the end of time is Java
Cooley the Ryan veeraiah he where
everyone who has an opinion is impressed
with his opinion that's one of the signs
at the end of time where people think
their opinions are so wonderful and so
Rajab is a deep sickness and the way
that Rajab is is uprooted from the heart
is that you see who the money is if you
have a gift that Allah has given you you
recognize that it's from Allah Allah is
the money Allah is the one who gave you
that gift and so you recognize that it's
a gift from Allah and just as he gave it
to you he can take it away from you and
eventually you will be if you're
beautiful your beauty will fade if your
intelligence your intellect dies just
like everything else this is the nature
even the most brilliant person Allah can
Yoda Julieta of the Lama he can send him
back to senility like a baby that I
don't want to shake up not knowing
anything and this happened people PhD
look Ronald Reagan now he is the
president United States now he doesn't
even remember who his wife is you see
this Alzheimer's disease you know you
can be so impressed with yourself and
Allah can literally take away everything
he's given to you and this happens
people lose their minds they lose their
memories they lose all these things so a
jib is a deep sickness and it has to be
uprooted from the heart what could he
die and then you get into many hazard
both Bovina there's a whole bunch of
diseases of the heart that I really
don't have time to go into and then he
tells us we're gonna be an awesome
awesome ideal al-fatih he gives us the
source of all of these diseases
habari aza were powerful auntie
loving leadership loving leadership
wanting to be in charge and the Prophet
said learn I'll be harder I'm a monk
Bulava who one man yeah how do you
swanny we don't give leadership to
anyone who seeks it or once he's
obtained it covets it and none of us
should see ourselves as everybody's
expendable everybody if you're the
greatest wise or the greatest move to
condemn you are expendable in Allah's
Deen Allah Dean does not need you it
doesn't need me and it doesn't need any
individual because Dean will continue
and we will all die everybody in this
room like the Prophet said within 100
years will be dead and there will be new
people to take this Deen on the deen
does not need us we need the Deen
that's a moon remilia is phenomenal
don't start telling me that you've come
into Islam as some gift to me this is
what the Prophet is told to tell these
people but Allah gives you the gift of
Islam
you don't give you Salaam your gifts
Allah gave you those gifts and blessed
you with Islam that you might use those
gifts for Islam and so this love of
leadership is a disease and like the
American Native American people they say
that the biggest problem is when you
have too many chiefs and not enough
Braves you have too many people want to
be chief and not enough people that want
to do the work because the chief is the
one that commands and doozie but you
need the people who and now everybody
says who's he to tell me what to do
who's he to tell me what to do and this
is and there's fold-up anarchy even the
family has become
anarchical because there's no structure
and then these type of things and then
what Butterfield auntie is
procrastination and this really is a
whole dump in itself the idea for crash
nation it's one of the things that
fascinates me more than anything else
why we procrastinate why given what we
know we put off the after all
Caliban to head wound and agita to Rick
Boone and I do that what's our own and
our hell
you put off you love this Angela that
Sonia is going the dunya and you put off
the I'll Cara and you put off what's
immediate what's really right in front
of you
Elmo to occur abu allah Abdi min
shyrokyne Adi he death is closer to us
than the strap of the sandal death is in
our face every day of our lives
and yet we put off we go to sleep we
fall to sleep as he will pop down to
hostel and so putting up in data meet
mentions a beautiful hadith in which it
was related that she Auto share pod at
us we've you'll be husband movement that
be the slogan of share bond is
procrastination that he thrust into the
heart of the believer well hey we'll
better agenda who the best righteousness
is the one that's done immediately
that's why the prayer is done
immediately all the action should be
done immediately like the saying and
that you should live in the dunya as if
you live forever but work for after as
if you die tomorrow if you're gonna die
tomorrow in in internal matters you're
gonna try to get them all done today
whereas in dunya matters if you have to
forever to do them you can procrastinate
with dunya matters you can't
procrastinate without her no matter what
we do now is we procrastinate for al
Qaeda matters and we do dunya matters
and one of the signs of taqwa in in in
is that the moment if he's given a
choice between dunya and akhira he
chooses the dunya matter over the the
the after no matter over the dunya
matter that's a sign in itself and then
he says Russell javea who could agita
the source is love of Angela that's why
this procrastination Lisa Dawa Allah
Akbar Allah there's no cure from all of
these things that he's mentioned except
to flee to Allah subhana WA Ta'ala to
void Allah he and then I'll just end
this by a saying of Ibraheem and Hawass
who was one of the sannin from sham and
he gave five things in which the heart
could be cured
the world pollution city Asha karate
Lauren with the dub or reading the Quran
with reflection the heart can be cured
by the Quran the Quran is she Fatima to
Sodor it's a cure of what's in the heart
and we have to return to the Quran we
have to become people of Quran we have
to become people of T now WA we have to
become P and chill our in Arabic means
to recite but it also means to follow
it's a beautiful language you see it
means to recite but it also means to
follow allodynia to do Nikita Ally
hospitality he those who recite the book
of allah as it should be recited as it
should be followed not only do they read
it but they actually act according to it
what a family that ilaha the moon when
it follows the Sun Tala it's the same
word Tala it's Lou to recite so reciting
the Quran should mean following the
Quran so we should recite it with to
DeBoer and then he says well halal
button the album titled heaven fitna
that too much food will ruin your
intellects and one of the signs the
Prophet said after the firown' and
Moffat Allah he said he'd open horny
from melody Nia Luna home to melody nyan
own thumb my Alvaro VM is Semin and then
he said and then people start getting
plum plum and that doesn't count for the
ladies it counts for the men because the
earth of people some countries the woman
are plump and there were Sahabi at that
we know even the prophets beloved wife
so de omar when he saw her because she
was a heavyset woman even though she had
a fee death he said I know who you are
so that because she was heavyset so the
Prophet didn't bother her about that so
it's not you know that's that's not the
women need wait for childbirth and
things like that but not pathological
ways and we should know the difference
so the halal boppin what p.m. a nail the
getting up in the night literally this
will purify the heart and cure the heart
of diseases whatsoever in the south and
the time of Sahara is an important time
right before the puja that is the
important time
my she wrote a beautiful poem
yeah NFC a foamy water a one's a jelly
will let that Valletta to do neodymium
Fedora and then he says well a CML who
you are walk the sahari
leave all of the pleasures of this world
especially that Pleasant sleep right
before fedja
you have to abandon that sleep and in
sha Allah give us the strength to do
that because that's a time will be as
hairiest at home most octoroon though
those people who doing that as hard they
ask forgiveness of Allah subhana WA
Ta'ala and really this is what we have
to do to revive this Ummah to begin to
get up and complain to the one who loves
complain
Allah loves complaint everybody in
creation hates complaint you come to me
start complaining to me and I'm gonna
not be very patient but you go to Allah
and he loves complaint and we know in
the hadith that he actually will not
answer the prayer of a slave that he
loved because he loves to hear him call
on him maja
so Allah loves that so we should make to
the rock and the last one who genesis of
Saudi Xin sitting with the righteous
people yeah you had latina amino at
Apple la well Coulomb I saw the pain o
you who believe
have tap of Allah and be with those of
sip of truthfulness people who remind
you of Allah like I'm in Zurich said let
us help in men you know Hitler Kahana
who where you do look at all I'm Apollo
who don't take as a companion except one
who his state will get you Micheel with
get you going get you energized to be
worship Allah while you do look an
alignment honorable and what he says
takes you to Allah a photo Kody had it
was tough for the lodges are
brothers and sisters there are more
questions than we can ever answer I
would say due to the time limit our
brother has to travel today brother
Hamza Yusuf I'll try to cover a few
questions and with him first one is
would you please address those teenagers
who want to go every Friday night with
the American friends apparently
non-muslims to move his parties and how
haram this is and how it affects their
lives you know the postal item said if
you knew what I knew you wouldn't go out
at night and that's not a joke
because most of the mafia - a lot takes
place in the night like vampires they
they're awake at night they have to go
into the coffins
they're past during the daytime and
that's why they say normal body marry
gotta the sleep of the oppressor is like
worshiping because it's the only time
they're not doing anything wrong and the
people of night sleep during the day so
you know the other thing I mean it's
unfortunate I think part of it is you
know Aisha there's beautiful tradition
that Anna Solley relates about Aisha of
the Alana when the Habashi were dancing
in the Masjid and they were singing
ibaka Sampaguita in Habashi they were
like praising the prophet in Habashi a--
and she the Prophet took her and he was
hiding her with his Rida his cloak and
he asked her a - deviant and Lauri yeah
I should you want to look and she said
yes and then she she said I got up on
his shoulder and her cheek was next to
the prophet's cheek and she said
something about the Aloha and huh she
said that the Prophet said how spooky is
that enough she said that you know I
want to see some more and then he said
after a little while how spooky
is that enough she said no and she said
well I I didn't want to watch them
I just wanted women to know her mom how
close she was to the Prophet so a lot is
enough it's a view she's a young girl
she was very young girl and she means
but in the hadith the point of that is
she said I was at an age that people
yeah 10 below that the entertainment
still was something enjoyable which is
an indication that at a certain age when
people are youthful that entertainment
is something and the Prophet was not
opposed to entertainment really he was
not opposed to entertainment in fact he
asked about Malema for the Ansar is
their level and when they said no he
said bring some entertainment because he
said you're a diva home al-ansari you're
a diva moment allow the unsought
they like entertainment and he also said
at one point bring some entertainment on
this read because I like to show the
Jews and the Christians that we have put
half in our Deen that there's some but
there were not all these dry Puritan
type people that don't have some
enjoyment no entertainment can be but
what type of entertainment this is the
question you see I mean our
entertainment is not like their
entertainment their entertainment is
filled with things that we really
shouldn't be looking at and what they
call parental guidence subhanAllah I
mean this just really pornography from a
Muslim perspective and it corrupts are
you it corrupts the youth it really does
and even you know I'm actually want to
I've written one commentary on a Disney
movie I'm watching all these Disney
movies too not encouraging youth to do
that but to do actually analyses of them
because they're very insidious films
that that actually have deep hidden
subliminal messages to our youth and
most of the messages deal with in fact
disobedience to parents it's not a joke
I mean it's it's it's very deeply
ingrained if you look at the Little
Mermaid it's basically about a girl
who's refusing to obey her father and
what the message of the movie is disobey
your father marry whoever you want which
in this culture means sleep with whoever
you want and your father will still
you that's the message and the same with
the Aladdin is actually a deep attack on
the Sharia of Islam in fact it's it's
even though they don't blatantly say it
I'll just give you very quick examples
the the scene where she steals an apple
or takes an apple to feed a four person
and they're about to chop her hand off
which has nothing to do with the Sharia
of Islam because poor people first of
all there's no cuttin in food and the
Prophet Elias and I'm said about the
Madonna
there's no cutting when people are
hungry so that that's not Sharia but
they're showing the Americans that idea
of cutting the hand for stealing to help
somebody it has nothing to do the song
but the the deep insidious attack is
that the woman she's a princess who
cannot marry a common person and this is
the idea except in in Islam and in the
shaft reMed have there's the idea of
khufu that a crazy woman who is cory
shia the father can refuse to marry her
to a Tamimi
or to a Calvi because that she is
parecía and that is an acceptable
position in islam even though it's not
the jump or position of Maddock ahmed
and our hanifa of Dalarna it is an
acceptable position and people should be
aware of that
of the idea of excel and it attacks that
whole idea and basically again says that
the king in the end says well i guess it
is a tradition in other words it's an
old sacred law but we can just change it
and this is the message and aladdin
Aladeen becomes ow
which is exactly what they want an out
Dean - ow
TV watching movie and even not knowing
the game watching each other well you
know I just about TV I could go on for
hours because and so can TV how they can
mean or Kings the hard haha what what I
would what I would do initially there's
two ways you can go with TV TV is an
addiction it's just like it is just like
heroin or morphine or opium they don't
like to talk about this but all of their
statistics show that people are addicted
to television and they show the same
type of withdrawal symptoms when they
stop watching television as they do with
other addictive drugs this is all been
scientifically documented it's not
something that I'm making up and there
are many bugs the plug-in drug by these
win or for arguments for the elimination
of television amusing ourselves to death
a whole bunch I've read a lot of books
on television written by very brilliant
analyst of that medium and so basically
it is an addiction if you are addicted
to television and I would say watching
it every day is a sign of addiction
because anything you do on a regular
basis every day is a type of addiction
if you're watching it every day then
first of all the the first thing you
have to do is look at what you're
watching now that's the most important
thing first as just a first step
you most people will find that what they
watch is rubbish there are certain
people that do watch like the news which
i think is rubbish as well because it is
just empty I mean there's a book called
watching TV news by Neil postman very
clearly articulates the fact this guy is
a PhD in communications theory at
Columbia University that you don't learn
anything on the news you in fact are are
actually dumbed down people during the
Gulf War crisis there were statistical
studies done the people watching CNN
knew less about the war than people that
were reading
articles about the war so and you can
read an article in five minutes it'd
take you a half an hour to watch a news
program about 90% of it is just what
they call fluff and then the 10% is and
the other thing I don't think we should
look and I'm very opposed to showing
pictures of dead Muslims in the Battle
of a hut and then when the prophet saw
the Muslims that were dead he commanded
the Sahaba to cover them over that we're
not we should not denigrate our brothers
and sisters that have died in the way of
Allah by exposing their nakedness to the
whole world to look at and the fact that
the kuffar do this is cuz they're just
dogs over over carcasses that's what
they are they're just dog those
photojournalists they're like dogs over
carcasses they have no human compassion
for the the people and the victims that
they're taking pictures of and the
Muslims should not we should not become
part of that and I really would urge all
of you to write magazines Islamic
magazines and ask them to stop putting
these pictures in our magazines because
one we become desensitized to the
suffering that our brothers and sisters
are experiencing all over the world but
two they literally don't benefit you
what you end up doing is looking at it
feeling disgusted and turning the next
page and that is is something it's
despicable in itself the fact that you
can see that and then go have dinner is
a sign that the hearts dead I mean if we
really have living hearts and you see
one of those pictures you'll vomit or
just weep bitter tears and problems that
he wouldn't eat house an atrocity
somebody mentioned death to him and he
didn't eat for three days so really
think about that but you know the
television is a serious disease what
what I would recommend this Ramadan is
everybody who has a television just
unplug it during that month literally
put it into a closet and don't watch it
for an entire month and just look at the
change that takes place in your life
inside the house it was it positive or
was it negative that's what I would ask
all of you to do and what you need to do
is really incre encourage your children
and instill in them a love of reading
from an early age because if they
if you use the television as a
babysitter as them as children they will
become addicted to it at an early age
and television is hard to compete with
it really is it's a type of neural
stimulation that books tend to have a
difficult time competing with and
children that grow up watching
television end up not reading and this
has also been documented so I would
encourage you to read the literature
there's a book called kicking the TV
habit which is a very good book for
parents and it gives alternatives to
doing these things and one thing with
the children is you know I would just
encourage like family people instead of
getting together to watch a television
program is do something human where you
literally interact with each other and
just enrich our lives a little bit thank
you so much I still would give him your
questions and I'm sure he would be more
than glad to read all of them that's for
me thank you for for you the English
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