have a television we don't have a
television in the house I don't we don't
watch television - my children don't
watch television if you have a
television in your house take it and put
it in the closet lock it in the closet
for one month don't allow your children
access to a computer they say it's not
TV HBO it's not TV it's TV trust me HBO
is just tricking you to make you think
you're more intelligent than the average
person wasting his time watching ABC NBC
or CBS really HBO is TV if you're
watching a Showtime shame on you really
shame on you
these are our sinister forms that that
are out there destroying people's time
taking eating their time away so my
advice to you is put that machine away
cut down all of your sensory stimulation
CD a little Gemma and one of the great
North African said that as the sensory
diminishes the meaning increases as this
the meaning decreases the sensory
increases there's a correlation between
hiss and mana that your highest points
your peak points in life and and if
you're blessed with having experiences
of profound significance in your life
you will know what I'm talking about the
peak points in life are not sensory
experiences their experiences of meaning
of discovery of understanding of
cognitive awareness of a divine when you
realize in truth that it is allah
subhana wa ta'ala that is is behind this
entire universe in america no man i am
attuned sor Kulemin you Derek Ojeda
Kahneman a holiday bar this universe is
nothing but images that are meanings
their meanings set up in images if you
understand this
from the people of a bra what is he bruh
in the Arabic taboo yeah you need a
bizarre think deeply about this yeah
Yulin observe people of innermost
understanding think deeply a t-bar in
the Quran is used several times the word
a bruh is a discerning lesson it's a
lesson that you derive meaning from the
word abre
means a tear because often when you when
you discover the truth tears well up in
your eyes because of the profundity of
what you're experiencing and also a bra
tears emerge out of some understanding
whether it's the loss of somebody
something like that but the root word a
para Lube or means to move from one
place to another that is what it's about
is it's moving from not understanding to
understanding the Quran is there to take
you from not understanding to
understanding who you are to whom you
belong where you are and where you're
going may allah subhanho wa taala give
you all a blessed journey this ramadan a
journey to the lord of the world may
allah subhanho wa taala increase all of
you in this ramadan may he make this
Ramadan a blessed Ramadan for our ummah
may he increase our Ummah may increase
it in numbers anyone who's left Islam
may he replace that person with a
hundred people
anyone who's turned their back on his
some and and I guarantee you nobody
leaves Islam Islam leaves them that's
the truth of it nobody leaves Islam
Islam leaves them we have many young
people and this is my advice to the MSA
we have many beautiful young people do
something with your life you're here for
a brief moment in time we're all here
for a brief moment do something profound
with your life utilize this opportunity
it's a blessed time allah subhanho wa
taala will give you great gifts if you
do for the sake of our loss of a Noah
talent one of the greatest tribulations
on this planet is tribalism tribalism
and I've talked about this before
tribalism is a bliss ism tribalism is
ibly 'some it's thinking you're better
than somebody because of your lineage
because of your color because of your
religion
and beware of religious tribalism to
think you're better than the Jew or the
Christian or the Hindu because you're a
Muslim you have to be very careful
because you don't know who you are until
the last breath you take and you enter
into the next world and then you'll know
who you were but you don't know if
you're better than that person who's a
homeless person on that street knocked
down and busted by life you don't know
if you're better than that person so
beware of thinking that you're better
than anybody on this planet because
that's a bleach ism tribalism is
destroying this planet in Kenya in Kenya
where Barack Obama comes from his father
became an alcoholic because of the
tribalism that was tearing that culture
apart a brilliant man who came to this
country studied went back to his
homeland and it was tribalism we saw in
the last Kenyan democratic elections the
whole thing fell apart because of
tribalism because of one group thinking
that that tribe shouldn't be elected
that we're better than that tribe and we
should be supporting our tribe and Kenya
by the way Obama comes from a very
powerful tribe in Kenya but in America
tribalism means nothing tribalism means
nothing and that's why the African
Americans whether they realize it or not
and I got this from dr. su demon yang
who said that one of the great gifts of
the a from African American community is
having their tribalism rooted out from
them because they're one people in this
country but if they were in Africa right
now they'd say who are you i'm house'
and automatically you're in a box
according to the Mandinka or according
to the fool an or according to the
Yoruba or the Evo or whatever group
there is but in this country it's a
unified group of people that have a
solidarity that have a solidarity
because of a struggle that they have
shared in this country to obtain their
rights Thomas Jefferson one of the
founding fathers of this country said I
shudder for my nation when I recall that
God is just that's Thomas Jefferson
that's a person from this country who
knew the meaning and you know what he
was talking about he was talking about
race
he was talking about slavery in this
country
he said he shuddered for this nation
when he remembered that God was just we
have a just God and we pray for God's
mercy because God's justice when it
comes it leaves nothing standing no UI
for the nasa with on me him now you ask
allah llahu Nessa bugle meum Matt Erica
a Hammond dubba if God took people to
account for all of their oppressions
there would be nothing remaining
standing nothing living or breathing
would be remaining that's the reality of
God's justice well you have one cause
here he forgives so much tribalism is
killing the world right now whether
you're an Arab that thinks you're better
than a bangali or a Pakistani whether
you're a Pakistani Punjabi that thinks
you're better than a Belushi whether
you're a Belushi that thinks you're
better than a Pathan whether you're an
Indian that thinks you're better than a
Pakistani whether you're a Russian that
thinks you're better than a Georgian
nobody is better than anybody else on
this planet and the best of Allah's
creation said I was commanded to be
humble I was commanded by God to be
humble the best of creation was
commanded to be humble and why he said
haughtily aha ahá Dona Ana I had so that
no one would boast of being better than
any other because if anyone had a right
to boast that he was better than anybody
it was the messenger of allah sallallahu
sent him and yet he was the humblest of
men this is where this world has to come
to and so I congratulate the United
States of America for putting a
Democratic candidate as the primary
candidate from a black family this
country needs to be congratulated but it
needs to be redeemed it needs to be
redeemed this country needs to be
redeemed we want redemption for America
not destruction we pray for America's
Redemption we pray for the Toba of this
country was Saddam I did come along
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