revelation came but she said come to a
clear enough see i i i deemed myself
insignificant she said I knew Allah
would absolve me of this of this slander
but I just deem myself insignificant
that any revelation would come that
that's what this is about
well then defini hate m'lady must utter
like beggars just by begging you know
that laffy enough see he but it's saying
without being in a state of need you
have this insignificant view of yourself
and this is something really important I
mean so many people just take themselves
far too seriously and and their own
significance and and it just creates ego
it creates a sense of a just inflated
sense of self and and there's there's
nothing worse than a puffed up soul one
of the things in in in
in the Western tradition they have this
idea of canosa sub the emptying out of
the soul and we have the idea of techne
it's the same concept yeah it's a holla
Thalia you empty your soul of yourself I
mean there's a beautiful Egyptian
expression for the Egyptians out there
there's a beautiful Egyptian expression
that I thought about because I always
thought it was so such a strange way of
the Egyptians like in Mexico you have
idioms like in Spanish they say fungi so
you must throat you you're like watch
out which if you actually literally
translate it seems strange but in in
Egypt when they say watch out they say
highly Bannock i mean f sick hella
baddack monistic just means watch out
you know he'll live adequate enough sick
you know watch out but what it literally
means is empty your mind of yourself
that's how you watch out because if you
enter your mind of yourself if you if
you took her leave addict mean f ck
Allah will watch out for you it's it
must have come from from some
enlightened people in Egypt that just
started that phrase because it's a
beautiful phrase suddenly VALIC mean if
sick empty your mind of yourself and one
of the Moroccan great Moroccan sages
serial German he said but I yeah Banach
with Tana massive aha set your mind at
ease and learn how to swim set your mind
at ease and learn how to swim the world
is in good hands no matter what you see
out there of trial and tribulation it's
all from what we our own hands have
wrought all of it there's nothing out
there that we haven't caused ourselves
people say where is God somebody
actually said to that that to me
recently somebody from one of these
countries is going through immense
tribulation they said where is God and I
just said I think God's question to us
is where are you and and that is a
perfectly valid question from God it's
not a valid question from us lad you
said oh I'm not a fan
well whom you said God has not asked
about what
he does but they will be asked about
what they do and so that's a different
way of looking at it so just remembering
that power is a laws alone allahumma man
allama medical mood to attend would
command tisha oh oh allah possessor of
dominion medical would to attend would
command tisha you give Dominion to whom
you please you give it to whom you
please or turns out more commitment asha
what wisdom and I shall go to the lumen
Tosha you dignify whom you please and
you humiliate or a base whom you please
this is this is this is it what right
this this is the reality so it's very
important to remember that and then well
I'm feminine Gemma a whole fee of 80
masya
and they expand wealth that they have
gathered or earned without any
disobedience in the law hapa you own
that what i a better a lot by yoga
allies pure and he only accepts pure
things
what are him although I had a duly when
my Skinner and God will have mercy on
humble people and the poor people Allah
loves the poor poor in spirit
not necessarily poor in in in wealth
because there are many good wealthy
people and we don't we don't have the
tradition that wealth is somehow evil or
something to avoid know some of the
people that that had the highest mcoms
in our early Islam around the prophesize
and we're extremely wealthy people but
they used their wealth for good and the
prophet sal i said i'm said to people
will never will never go to people are
envied the one who's given wisdom and
and teaches and the one who's given
wealth and expends it piece of you tada
by night and by day so those are the two
things that we should want in the world
is either wealth to do good things with
or wisdom to act according to and to
help others to act according to so i
just want to look quickly and then and
then we'll open up for some questions I
want to look quickly at at surah taha
Allah subhana WA Ta'ala says and this is
from Imam Ali Baha'i one of the great
commentators of Quran great Shafi
scholar in Zen now who he later
telepathy
yeah near Piranha means the Ferranti
night and a nevada mathcore so it's a
it's is basically taking the place of
what's not mentioned so the Damier there
the personal pronoun who in and then who
goes back to the Quran and know who and
zero who Jim Letten Wahid attend feel a
little fatter mean lol muhaha it a
simmer at dunya so Allah revealed it at
one time so it all came down to Samoa
dunya one time the Quran and then it it
was revealed by over time over a 20-year
period through from there so so well da
who he baited
essa so this is a debate that the the
house that is over the Kaaba it was it
was placed there thumb can it unisol be
he drew Briella I am and this is why and
Zell naho in the Quran you have Angela
and mrs. Ella Angela means to come down
all at once mrs. Ella means unit zero
who to come down pieces so both happened
and then it says wama adraka ma later
tour cutter and this is this is Adam and
Eve a yahoo so Allah subhana WA Ta'ala
has its to make you think wow what is
this and what will convey to you what
lailatul cutter is and and and so sue me
Atlanta stupider Ileana Leila - taka
Darrell or more well akan yoga dear
allahu feeha a mother Senna TV everybody
he will be dad he in a senator mock Mira
so this is the reasoning muhammad baba
he says and this was the tafseer that
was studied by all students of knowledge
after it was written amount of the holy
and bow he became the two most important
tough series for students of knowledge
so he says that that it was what Allah
subhana WA Ta'ala
decrees for the following year excuse me
for his servants and for the land so
for instance the wars that are going to
be determined all these things the the
droughts the famines the blessings
everything and this is why you want to
be in the most obedient state and you
want to be really calling on allah
subhanho wa taala because it's a time
where you have to be aligned with a
lawsuit behind without it so the prophet
sala I said I'm said to seek it out in
these last ten nights especially in the
odd nights but it's something that we
should also take that advice and think
about these things every every year and
then he says what terrible fear akiha
and they differ about its actual time
from Kalevala home in Canada and idea
Rasool Allah is Allah I said I'm
tomorrow Fiat that it it was only during
the time of the Prophet and then it was
removed that's one opinion what a metal
Sahaba tea would ruin a Matta and about
the Eternity a yarmulke p.m. et so but
the majority of Sahaba
and the scholars say no it continues
until the day of judgement Caraballo
home here later to malaria center it's
any night during the the nights of the
year
well Jim horn Manhattan in an official
area Ramadan but the majority of
scholars say that it's in the month of
Ramadan well Colonel Hassan Laila two
separate Shara it's the night of this of
the 20s of the 17th well here Laila
let's he cannot so be had so be had to
ha what a veteran and it's the night
that can so be had to her what a better
than that it's it's morning was on the
the day of butter and so well sorry yeah
well Lydia dear octoroon but the sound
opinion and what the majority say and
Horatio are officially Rama ban mhmm
Allah who had a hill a litter Anna had
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hospital
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the sorrow water Homs we small out of
them were a small out of them fit
estimate so this is amazing so he said
Allah has hidden this night from his
Ummah in order that they strive hard to
to find it with their worship through
the nights of Ramadan desiring to to
actually achieve this night because it's
worth a thousand months and so and and
and like that Allah subhana WA Ta'ala
has hid the hour of Aqaba
on the day of Jummah he also has hid the
the wool of Prayer some say it's
automatic said it was fuzzy up but he's
hid the middle prayer in the five
prayers he's hid his is Malayalam in his
name's some say it's yeah I am some say
it's Ya Allah
so there's different opinions about that
but we don't know what he'll bajo Fattah
adds the araga bouficha me mija and then
he put his earlier ba his pleasure or
his contentment in his devotional
practices so we don't know what devotion
we do is is is going to achieve that a
lot of Allah that we know that the
prostitute was forgiven for feeding a
dog who was thirsty or start starving
and so and he hid also was up in morale
see me and tell Anya me Mia and he also
hid his wrath in acts of disobedience so
that we would avoid all of them well
alpha P emma sati the Oh sh t he do
Fattah at have a 10 min OPM yeah and
then he also hid that that the time of
the the last hour so that we would
always be prepared for it and then he
says later to rodriram in at V sha na na
who I'm an on-site account if he dated
Heidemann a committee ed sheeran they
Sevilla later tour other so it's worth
the actions of your worship on that on
this night are worth a thousand months
and then Allah subhana WA Ta'ala says to
Tennessee dole America to Aurora so the
Angels come down and the rooh the Holy
Spirit we know in our tradition the Holy
Spirit is not a persona of God as some
Christians believe but the Holy Spirit
is Jubilee and I had a said I'm he's
called a local does the Holy Spirit and
the Prophet believed in the Holy Spirit
and he said to Hassan II booth have it
yet the khalaby or Oracle dismayed
the spirit give you a sucker or help so
so that it's a time when the Holy Spirit
comes down a Bakula Eminem in a Haiti
what about akka so being the arugba
himming I mean couldn't be eminent in
other words of higher and Baraka
so yeah hold on I'm in a meeting that I
be a Marilla Saddam Alto said you use
Rama at Audia 11 at a party one of the
things in in in if you you know if you
have Christian friends and they might
send you a holiday card and they and
they quote a verse from the Bible that
says you know peace on earth and
goodwill towards men it actually doesn't
say that if you look at the in the Greek
it says goodwill towards a righteous man
and and this is something also in the
DAO de Jing it says all men hate arms
you know like violence
Thomas clearly told me it actually
doesn't say that in Chinese it says good
men good men don't like that so one of
the things that we have to remember is
that there are shielding and in out
there there's just there's so the sanam
is not for everybody it's for the people
of obedience to Allah subhanAllah a are
the ones that get the peace ah - at be
what to see any woman ethically
Audrianna and in massager Imam Shafi
said that it was that the angels are
greeting the people in the message on
latest of Qatar which is why everybody
goes i mean he Nita liebe shams Iranian
treasure from the time the Sun Goes
disappears until Roger appears Khalid
Kelby America in Girona feeha kunu ma la
Poma Mina no Mina tan sallim wa alayhi
memorably he had a pleasure opiate
America Rama and Capote he did not be
him including Emily so he said that that
the angels greet every believer man and
woman on that day that's what Imam and
Kelby said now in the in the in the
actual verse it says he had not Lyle
fetcher
and in Arabic had to has three different
meanings but but in Arabic it's usually
what's called a preposition hard job
that what follows it is mature or but it
can also be a type of thought so so in
if it goes like he had to mop lion
fragile and it's muscle then it means
including Roger if like if you say I
killed to a semi Qataris aha I ate the
fish even the head whereas if you said I
kill to sanika hot air Ecija then it's
up to to that point and so here it stops
at that point so the night is the night
and once the day comes once the day
breaks then the night of power is over
even though that day according to the
enema is a good day to also have HD had
and Mujahid said Yan Yun la etapa dari
Sally Mattoon liar Sophie Rochet upon on
llamada feeha a sua Ora and you had this
fear you had this and you had either
Feehan so it's the time when she upon
can't do any suit and nor can he cause
any harm had not lion fetcher i la motte
lion feta and until so al hamdulillah
some comments or questions that anybody
has may Allah bless you and I and I
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Charlotte there are good times there are
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you
I mean and inshallah I will ask a few
questions from online I'm in love we
have a lot of people commenting prayers
for yourself your family and Zaytuna
thank you for the work we're doing and
thanks for your Ramadhan rumination
series and the first question we have
from Facebook is from yes Mena who asks
what is the best way to counter our nose
it's a big question a lot of it than if
you have four enemies in this life and
only four enough shape on how and dunia
all the other enemies you if Allah sends
them to use the tribulation but your
real enemies are these four and if you
can conquer these four enemies that all
the other enemies are very insignificant
but the nufs is the number one bad that
I do with my enough Sakura TV nijam bake
the Prophet SAW I am said the the most
vicious enemy that you have the most
harmful enemy that you have the most
aggressive enemy that you have is your
own ego between your two sides and we
all have them were born with children
children have wonderful beautiful side
but then they've got that horrible
childish selfish side it's mine
you know when they grab a toy it's mine
so this this is something that as you
grow older or hopefully you you learn to
overcome that but there are many people
that behave like infants throughout
their whole lives so
one of the most important things that we
can do so they cut off all loss behind
with to Anna just to remember a lot to
work on ourselves we have to work on
ourselves I mean we all struggle I
struggle with myself we have to work on
ourselves we can always do better I was
today just today I was in a you know I
had a meeting with some people that came
there are nice people you know and and I
was I just really because I was really
busy with something else and I had some
problems I just I I didn't I felt like
you know I really wasn't
I was rude basically to somebody and I
immediately like after the meeting I
went up to her and I just said I want
you to please I apologize you know I I
don't think I listened to you
attentively and then and that was my
mistake and I think being able just to
admit that you're wrong about things
it's really important not being
defensive
the ego always defends itself in fact
one of the most extraordinary scholars
Ibrahim Al Thani it's amazing man if you
study his life you just marvel he
actually wrote the Johan in one night
and when he finished it he went to his
share and he gave it to him and he
shaped knew what it meant like he had
had a opening because it's a stunning
poem 144 lines of just crisp creed and
he he took a oath with him he said from
this day forward I never want you to
defend yourself and that's that that's a
powerful practice of just not defending
yourself we have an amazing story of Abu
Bakr Siddiq about the law and who when a
man was really abusing him in front of
the prophets in him and the probe was
there this thing and and and and smiling
and then well what could I just couldn't
take it anymore so now his nufs came in
and even Abu Bakr had enough I mean it's
the purest of all nufs after our
prophets lies them in in his OMA but he
he he couldn't take any more he started
to finish up the
profit left when he saw him later he
asked him why he left he said that man
was it wasn't true what he was saying he
said I saw the Angels defending you and
right when you began to defend yourself
chiffon came into the room and I don't
sit with chiffon I mean that that is
just such a stunning testimony to the
power of fighting the ego so what I
would I what I would suggest first and
foremost is that that you you you begin
to do a type of Mahasabha and we
actually Imams ate and I worked on
something together called the agenda for
changing our condition and it's actually
a program to work on the self where you
you do a Machado
you know and then maracas band and
Mahasabha and then what alphabat so you
do you you you actually commit like I'm
not going to back fight and you commit
to doing it for 40 days 40 days straight
because it takes 40 days to really yet
the Allah subhana WA Ta'ala gave up I
mean Aleida like he gave 40 to prepare
for the meeting he gave Moses forty
nights to prepare and so forty this is
why in Jamaat tably if they go out for
forty days there's a big secret in the
number forty and so you do forty days of
no I'm not going to back by for forty
days and if you do you have to do my
house about the end of the day and then
you start over if you didn't do it and
then you do a more aqua but you have to
punish yourself
even though what have been said I made
many oaths to give up backbiting and I
ended up fasting a lot because he would
break the oath he'd do another and then
he'd have to fast and he said so I
decided that I would give a dinar in
charity every time I I spoke ill of
someone and he said because of my love
for money I was able to finally give up
because he made that his oath instead of
fasting breaking his oath so
I think that's something that you can
practice it's just working on things one
of the things most of us in Indiana you
know an NFC boss the human being knows
his own so well Oh Alabama
Adira even if he gives his excuses he
knows his own soul and so I think most
of us know what's wrong it's very good
to ask people I mean I I always get
shocked sometimes I'll ask do I do this
or do that yes you do you know that
that's an ouch but it's something that
you have to to take reflection from
other people so that that's important
and then the the best thing and this
this is absolutely well established is
prayer on the prophesy so if you make it
a consistent practice your soul will
will align and and this is something
witnessed by many many people so people
that do consistent practice of Prayer on
the Provos allies to them that it has an
effect on the heart and they really
begin to behave in a much better way but
each of us have our trials and
tribulations it's also useful to know
what's what's called the temporal the
humoral theory so if you and this is
something in madaba Soddy said that you
really shouldn't be a teacher unless
you've studied this so you should know
it's similar to the Briggs Mayer type
personality test so it's very it's
actually very similar and Jung also came
up with with a similar model but the
humoral theory is what the Muslims used
it was a developed by it originally
comes from Hippocrates and then Galen
but the one who developed it extensively
was even Cena the physician so you
knowing what humor you have is really
important are you Flagg Matic are you
choleric are you sanguine are you
melancholic so this is demo we better
than me so doing so far away knowing
those and then there are also mixtures
of two like my my my baseline is demo
but my my layered on is so far away a
lot of people that are asked that like
reading and studying and scholarly by
nature tend to be so far away and so far
away is is a tough disposition people
that are melancholic so far we have a
really hard time so it just depends on
what God's given you people that are
sanguine tend to be very cheery but each
one of them comes with their
shortcomings and their blessings so
knowing that can help because, there's an interesting book called 'Tthe Temperament God gave you'. It's a Catholic book, it has a test you can take. The test will really help you to see what things you're naturally going to need to work on and and I swear by the temperament tradition.
I really believe it's very accurate
HOST: "Thank you for that. We'll take a question from our livestream channel."
Could you ask your comes if someone doesn't understand the quran recitation' doing it's not a we're
but rather spend that time studying the
quran is there a similar reward that's a
really good question first of all i
wanted to say something about tara we
traditionally in most Muslim countries
today we I was actually done relatively
short doing a hut them in taraweeh was
not the tradition in in most places
there were certain mosques that did cut
them for people that wanted to
unfortunately now like if you go to
Turkey most of the mosque do very short
20 short rockets and I really think that
we need to revive this Sunnah because a
lot more people would come for tarot iya
a lot of people leave after eight
sometimes taraweeh ends now at like
twelve o'clock eleven thirty people have
to work the prophesy seven he said yes
you know what that's why sudo make
things easy for people make don't make
them difficult i love the the indian and
pakistani community is amazing like you
see these people that just masha'Allah
and
really quite stunning how they I mean
I've been to in the Muslim world in some
of the Muslim countries I've lived in
I've been to Moscow it's like Miss
mulatto none that I had even I mean a
lot like about women and Rahim mean a
lot I go out and I've literally seen
that and then I've seen middle and then
I've seen the the hutton so I think it's
important in the Maliki tradition which
is the school that I studied it's
actually preferred to do it in your home
if you're able to do it in your home so
if you're if you're gonna be lazy then
it's it's better to go the Masjid but
it's it's better especially people have
we don't have Moss on every corner like
many Muslim countries now in terms of
the question p.m. is is is one of the
sunan of Ramadan and I would never leave
us and I'll give an example there's
nothing there's no better vicar than the
Quran of the ludic Rida it's it's Keith
Avila it's my other I mean who was I die
that's the best vicar that you can do
I mean of the Roma Pope to the best
thing that anybody ever said I said or
any prophet said is la la la la la la la
la is also Quran so but in in the
furture time and in the mother of time
the best vicar at that time is the
avocado Sabharwal Meza about the Saudi
heart and things that the prophet saw
him did at that time it's better to do
those because it's the Sunnah to do
those at that time and following the
Prophet SAW I see them is very important
to do what he did and so you should do
some p.m. even if you just do you know
some short Rockets in your own home you
should do some p.m. if you find it
difficult it's not meant to be difficult
man is I'm not naked Quran latecha we
didn't reveal this Quran that you're
miserable so the understanding is and
then Quran ly Tessa to be joyful and
happy Sarah we has undeniably
uh-uh for most people I'm not gonna say
for everybody because I don't know but
for most people it's going to be a
richer experience if you can actually
understand the Quran it's even better if
you memorize so the parts that some if
if you memorize certain parts and you
hear them recited it's much more because
you can really follow them so I think
that definitely has an aspect but I
would say study the Quran in Ramadan but
also do p.m. even even if you can't do
the 20 records if it's difficult for you
just do some short rakaats in your own
home but do some p.m. particle Elfie
we have a somewhat related question from
Facebook for an ill person who couldn't
fast during this Ramadan what is the
right practice to adopt paid the Vidya
and fast 30 days when they feel better
before the next Ramadan or just pay the
Vidya and it is not mandatory to fast
thirty days prior to the next Ramadan I
feel very confused so thanks for
enlightening us if you can Ramadan
Kareem if if you if you if you can fast
later in the year you have to fast the
fidya is for people that can't fast so
you might be pregnant or nursing or
something likes it going to harm you but
when you're able to you make up the fast
phidias for like old people or people to
have diabetes or people that their their
physicians told them they can't fast I
know of somebody who was went into
pretty serious tachycardia because of
fasting that type person and it's
happened in more than one Ramadan that
person should not fast and the doctor
will tell them that and if the doctor
tells you not to fast if it if it's if
it's a valid doctor with an MD and
they're telling you it is medically
dangerous for you to fast
you should not fast the other thing and
and this is my firm conviction little
children should not fast I know there's
a feed off about this Imam Matta called
Ilan who said that it was tab that it
was actually torture for
children I know there's little children
that want to fast because they see
everybody fasting if they're going to do
that you should only do like half day
but they should their their brains are
developing they need glucose they need
energy they need caloric energy it's not
how it's healthy for us to actually fast
it's not healthy for them too fast when
they're young and I know there's Hadees
in the psyche collection things but that
was not the practice of the people of
madinah and Malik had 600 teachers from
the tabut mean and that was his opinion
it's a strong opinion and I think as
somebody who studied who has some
medical background and I think if you
ask most doctors they would tell you the
science is in and it's not good for
children to fast long periods of time so
the fidya is permitted if you allow a
year to go by you have to feed a poor
person for each day you allowed to for a
year to elapse before you made up that
fast so in Ramadan it's better to try to
make it up early if you did let the year
go by and you know when you finish
Ramadan you can actually according to
some opinions you could do the six days
of Show web and make the NIA of making
up fasting and shelter you get the rule
for both I mean these are enough issues
but I don't allow us yeah all those
mercies fast so that I think that that
answers that question in sha allah
particle elfia
okay we'll just take a couple more
questions and wrap it up if you don't
mind okay good question here may Allah
reward you for this talk and your
Ramadan ruminations any general advice
about the role the Quran should play in
our lives this we not remember him I
think the the Prophet Allah I said I'm
said towards these latter days to to
just go back to the book of Allah I
think the Quran is it's it's an amazing
experience to have a serious
relationship with the Quran
I think study is important but
recitation of Quran obviously if the
more you understand the the more
interesting it is just in terms of the
meanings because to do a Hatem you know
everybody should try to do a hutton once
once a month the Quran was divided into
30 just for a reason those Jews are
meant to be read
he's your honor Quran is considered his
Iran if you read it less than twice a
year that you've pretty much abandon it
so if you're only reading it once in
Ramadan you should at least try to do
one throughout the year the other thing
to do if for those of you who are trying
to memorize it focusing on whatever
you're memorizing is equal one of one of
the thing all of the Quran is is the
same in its equal weight that it's from
Kodama law I mean obviously there's some
verses and some things that like the
prose I said the greatest verse in the
in in the Quran is is ayatul kursi
because of the attributes of God that
are embedded in that first but all of
the Quran is Kaname law so any any Jews
you read from its Kaname law if you only
read one Jews a day but everybody should
try it it takes once you get used to it
it takes about 25 minutes on average
twenty to thirty minutes to do we waste
a lot of time there's a lot of people
that watch a couple hours of television
every day if you look on your cell
phones it's quite troubling to see the
type the amount of time that we spend on
the phone or on the on the cell phone or
looking at things people send us those
things I mean these are all things so we
should give give some time to a lost
book it's it's just a stunning
experience really to have continuous
connection with this book and one of the
things that I promise you if you do it
as a practice over time
it will it would just get stronger and
stronger in other words you you won't
want to stop so I think and that's
something all the people that have a
strong relationship with the put on the
experience so I just I recommend to the
students here don't do a lot of other
that goes to do the poor on don't don't
I think we need to get back to the Book
of Allah so behind with Donna and to a
foundational Sunnah Imam madacorp all
the Alana wrote a book the Moapa it's
the first major book in hadith he has
less than 800 hadith of the prophet
slice and even though he knew over a
hundred thousand he really put what he
felt was absolutely necessary
hadith tradition is for scholars it's
for our Ummah it's not for common people
it was never meant to be read by common
people the Hadees can really create an
immense amount of confusion and even a
weapon one of the greatest scholars of
Islam he's one of the Rashaad of imam
abu Hadi you even know what have been
said I learned so many hadith I became
confused and because of the the problems
in the hadith tradition and he said what
overlay thematically I'd like to had it
not been for lathe and imam malik imam