Asalamu-Alaykum, I think the topic that I was given was about the heart or the
illnesses of the heart and how to deal
with that and from what I heard it was
covered by sheriff Dollard Reese before
and I'm sure he could do a better job
about it than I can but and also I'd
like to say that any talk for me about
these matters is certainly tatiana or
reminder for myself as well because i'm
certainly by no means where i would like
to be in terms of the nature of the
heart and its state the the hadith that
Imam and Noah all day long on who
relates in his are Bahrain which is
really a hadith that is a summation of
the Islamic teaching and it was a hadith
that the prophet Elijah them is
questioned by gibreel and all of you are
familiar with the hadith but the last
section of the hadith deals with an
issue about which really is the realm of
the interior or the realm of the heart
and that is the idea of SN and
interestingly enough in the Islamic
tradition the the sciences of the heart
were really a science that was studied
alongside the other sciences so in other
words a student of the Islamic teaching
would not simply study filk which is
concerned with the rules of the Sharia
in how to perform the world or in how to
buy and sell and the activities of daily
life this is the arena of filk or the
science of jurisprudence the science of
the doctrine or the dogmatic aspects of
iman is some call it Kalam or sulla Dean
which is the the principles
and they're really intellectual
principles upon which the al-qaeda is
based and that is the realm of what's
generally known as as Eman but then
there's a third aspect of the Islamic
teaching which goes under the category
of Exxon and this has been called by
various scholars different things the
early scholars called it the Animus eluc
or the idea of being Salak and the book
that even a layman Josie about Leland
wrote called Madonna to sateen deals
mainly with this whole idea of what is
Sulu and unfortunately I think in many
ways because of what are known as the
whole Otto Sophia or the some extreme
groups of people that have been turned
Sophia or better term promoter saweeza
have in many ways maligned the sciences
of Exxon and people like the English
have a proverb say don't throw the baby
out with the bathwater as a kind of
reaction to maybe some of these
superstitious or folkloric
manifestations of Islam have tended to
ignore the extremely rich intellectual
tradition that exists in the psychology
of the nafs and in the psychology of the
human heart and how the diseases of the
heart are nurtured and and made well and
so I think really it's it's very
revelant in our relevant in our time
that the muslims once again begin to
examine this rich literature and
really start thinking about these things
because it's an element that in many
ways does does not exist in a lot of the
current movements Islamic movements
although the idea of test Kia and
therapy is certainly a concern the
emphasis is sometimes often not given
the degree of importance that I think is
absolutely necessary for it because what
my own study has revealed to me is it
basically every Islamic revivalist
movement and by the nature of Islam it
is a Dean that revives itself
the Prophet Elias Adam said that this
Dean would be renewed by renewal and
this happens continuously and it has in
the past and will continue to do so in
the future but what I have noted in the
little research that I've done
personally and heard from others who
have done more extensive research is
that really every Islamic movement of
any word that has had some
sustainability in the history of Islam
was based on on really - two
foundational principles the first one is
the revival of the knowledge of Islam
which has to do with the outward
Sciences ya Illuma dean which is
interesting that Mohammed Atta's Ali
probably who many in fact is almost
really by the admire at the Ummah he is
considered to be to be the mujaddid of
the 6th century of Islam and this is
without argumentation and extraordinary
figure who had a massive impact on the
Muslims during his own lifetime and
after that
and really myriad scholars have
benefitted extensity from his work and i
know that recently there has been
criticism allah wa hamid al-ghazali and
certainly from the area of hadith and
people saying that he's weak in hadith
and I think it's a grave disservice to
the Imam because while every book other
than the Book of Allah has mistakes in
it and this is something completely
accepted by all of the scholars of Islam
there is not a single book on the earth
that does not contain mistakes in it
except the Book of Allah subhanAllah
Donna and Allah would not allow any book
other than his book to be perfect
because Allah alone is perfect when
commodity that and so any scholar who
writes a book ultimately will have
mistakes in that book and it doesn't
matter how great that scholar is and so
to focus on the mistakes of the Imam and
to not benefit from the extraordinary
reveal vacation of the Islamic teaching
that he gave to this Ummah is really a
great disservice and I know like Sheikh
Mohammed er Kobe was telling me
yesterday who actually did his PhD on Oh
Muhammad Allah's Adi that the the Muslim
camp tends to be on two extremes one
people that say that Imam can do no
wrong and the other is people that
criticize him and really the position is
always the middle position in Islam that
we take from our scholars what is
beneficial and then from the scholars
that came later and rectified the
mistakes that those Imams made then
those mistakes are taken into
consideration and this is the nature of
the Islamic teaching so abu hamid
al-ghazali called the alanna wrote his
book or the medina and really it's based
on again these two aspects the revival
of the islamic intellectual legacy and
the revival of the idea of takea or
Tavia tuneups and this is why the fifth
book of the Imams work deals almost
specifically with the states of the self
and the rectification purification of
the self and of the heart and he was a
master of this area and it wasn't
something that he understood
intellectually but he was actually
somebody who was a practitioner of the
of this readö or this nastya and a
beautiful book which is
almost a concise summation of his whole
work is the book I you Hal dwelleth in
which he wrote to one of his students
who was a scholar of his own right and
really told him what was important about
the Dean and one of the things that he
emphasized in that book was that if you
learn knowledge and you just acquire all
of this information but you never act
upon it then ultimately you are like
Allah subhana WA Ta'ala says in the
Quran
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home that first you clean up so Allah
subhana WA Ta'ala says that the likeness
of those who are were given the Torah as
a it's heavy it's away dicen okay a lake
opponent tequila
we will thrust upon you a heavy word and
homily indicates that it's a barren you
have to bear the word and so Allah says
the likeness of those who were given the
Torah to bear in other words in action
but they don't really carry it in other
words they don't act according to it
then they're like donkeys that carry
books in other words the information is
just on the back because it's not being
lived it's not being experienced and
it's not the responsibility of it isn't
being taken upon the individual to act
according to it and so this knowledge is
really of no benefit if no Raja Abraham
buddy or at the Aloha and who says in
his in his commentary on the hadith man
Soraka peripheral Timmy Sufi here Elma
Saahil Allah who devoted a final agenda
that the one who sets out seeking
knowledge that that Allah will make easy
for him the path to Jenna he says in
that that there are four types of
scholars or people of knowledge and this
is a very important distinction that he
makes the first he says is an imam
billahi wa ana Mundi hoja Tila this is
the the one who knows Allah and knows
the proofs of Allah and he said that
that this man is safe in his own self
and he is
haja over a lost creation and then the
next one he says is a honeymoon villa he
would yeah he don't be her JD Leahy you
feel do enough sir who allow you field
over a ho a scholar who is a scholar a
knower of allah super Hannah with Donna
but does not know the Barra he nor the
frigate the proofs that Allah has sent
down he benefits himself and he doesn't
benefit other people and then he said
well what a demoon be a huge Idol a well
well yeah he don't be laughs one who
knows the proofs of Allah and this one
is somebody who has all the rules but
yet he doesn't know Allah subhana WA
Ta'ala and he said yo ruin observe oh
well you feed oh hey oho he harms his
own self and he benefits others and then
so so this this categorization and this
the possibilities here is that the the
Imam is telling us that there are
individuals who know a logic behind
ratan and what he said that means is you
bash you to to bash you room I referred
to who belaying al babu that his
awareness of allah is something that
impacting his heart and it might not be
somebody who knows very much outward
knowledge and this is very important
because many of the Sahaba were of this
ilk in other words many of the Sahaba
were not scholars they were actually
very simple people who but because their
Eman was so strong in their knowledge of
Allah was so powerful that they were
ulema of this deep knowledge of allah
subhana wa to anna and yet they were not
people of fatwa they were not people of
even memorizing the whole Quran or
knowing many Hadees many of the Sahaba
the actual people that gave fatwa from
the Sahaba are less than 10 I mean this
is a historical fact they were only a
handful of the Sahaba that were really
giving fatwa and most of them really
didn't want to because they had such
taqwa of Allah subhanAllah Diana so I I
really think it's important that we
don't envision that you know if you're
not a scholar that that's it you're cut
off from on the contrary there are many
very simple Muslims that their Eman is
so
these people are in a much better state
than people that know many rewire and
all of these words and things like that
and in the end of the day really they it
doesn't benefit them now the best one
and the highest one according to you in
Rajab is the one who knows Allah and who
knows the Sharia of Allah super Hanna
with the honor because the Prophet SAW
Allah I am loved that things were
beneficial that you know in a logical
movement at OE what a moment ago we have
o it allahi min and movement of ieave
the the strong movement is more beloved
to Allah than the weak movement was
equal in hell but in all of them is good
so the the strong movement is the one
who in in terms intellectually has a lot
of knowledge and also benefits other
people but he is also being benefited by
his knowledge and so a weaker movement
would be somebody who maybe has less
knowledge and these type of things but
still in both of them is good now in
terms of the so this this whole aspect
of learning these outer knowledge is is
extremely important but at the same time
it should not be at the neglect of this
path Kia that should be taking place and
traditionally what would happen is
because people were studying with people
that really had had a lot of
purification themselves that this would
affect these people in a very profound
and deep way and through the process of
spending time with these people they
would literally themselves become people
of tehse Kia and unfortunately in our
Islamic Ummah are the teachers and the
scholars of Islam were really so
tortured and and and attacked and
opposed especially during the colonial
period that I mean you can read in I
read in in Turkey that in 1923 there
were 17 shoes that were hung in one
village you know the the what took place
in Morocco under governor Lutie this
fanatical French governor who literally
went and killed many many teachers of
Islam
and this was happening all over the
Muslim Ummah and then the next thing
that took place was the dismantling of
the Islamic madrasah and university
system which would they these systems
were producing human beings of great
caliber well those things were literally
dismantled so we find ourselves in a
very precarious situation because not
only do we have very few people that are
really well established and well
grounded in the Islamic scientists but
also we have very few people that have
gone through this serious training in
which they can lead they can take you
know positions of piada
Omar Omar banana pavel delong I said to
fuck ahupua'a pseudo that you should be
people of understanding before you get
into positions of authority and what
happens in many situations is many of us
are put into positions of authority
really before we're prepared for that
and I would certainly you know put
myself and many other people in in that
category because this is a tragedy in
the Islamic Ummah so in these two
aspects of the Islamic movement which is
one the riveted vacation or revival of
the Islamic Sciences and knowledge now
the Islamic science is really are very
well known they're categorized and
they're classified and they're
classified between what are called
feride Keith ayah for the line or
individual responsibilities collective
responsibility there's an obligation on
all of us to learn the I mean all of us
have this individual responsibility and
these things really are not learned on a
weekend seminar there are things that
take serious study by all of us and
unfortunately if we did not get it as
children then we must learn it as adults
I mean the best and ideal situation is
that a parent will give the child what
it needs in terms of the prerequisite
knowledge --is of Islam but if they're
not given these knowledge --is and they
reach into adulthood and they find that
they're in a state of ignorance it
becomes incumbent upon them as a
mockolate as somebody who's responsible
to seek that knowledge and we know also
that knowledge according to Islam is
from the cradle to the grave
it literally is you know man
the lady from the cradle to the grave
and we have many traditions of
scholarship and use of the alarm
everyone is death met bed was learning
some massage capilla and it wasn't
because he needed them in this life he
literally wanted to increase his
knowledge because Allah your Farrell
Edina amanu when Latino ultra shot a lot
raises up those who believe and those
who have been given knowledge by degrees
so the more knowledge the more Eman one
has the higher their degrees with Allah
subhana WA Ta'ala and this is how these
people look they were learning knowledge
not for their own selves not for
self-aggrandizement not to display their
knowledge not to be impressive in front
of people not so that to shadow alayhi
but van an like they say like people
pointing and oh look at that one and
what knowledge he had this is all
illusion like Khalil even is happy when
he the hadith document about the Allah
who was who wrote the science of our old
which is prosody and really a brilliant
scholar and grammarian somebody saw him
after he died in a dream and he said
where were all those knowledge is that
because he Khalil asked a lot to give
him and now as nobody else had before
him and he was inspired to put down the
science of the metric versification in
poetry the what are called the Abha in
arabic of lines of poetry and he did
this and so this man asked him in his
dream what did allah subhana wa that i
do with all those knowledge is how did
they benefit you he said what was it to
her her baton man taurah i found there
just nothing all that I rolled that I
never saw all these things that I
learned her baton Mathura and like his
Junaid that buck daddy said somebody saw
him after he died in a dream and he
asked him and he said they Hobart city
Shara
was tenet typicality bharat what
happened to fitna Allah okay at kuna ID
hostage offal ale all those fine things
we were saying they're all gone and all
of those wonderful articulations they
disappeared and the only thing that
benefited us was some little Rockets we
were doing in that in the middle of the
night you see so I mean all of the
knowledge once the human being dies
really
it's it's it's heaven and man thora you
know the savage area which benefits us
are those things those books that people
leave behind and these things where
people benefit if they were placed for
the for the sake of Allah subhana WA
Ta'ala alone I mean there's a great
scholar in Tunisia assitive no Farhat
about the law and he was a really great
scholar and he wrote a book in which he
collected most of the traditions of imam
attica of aloha and this man when he
went back to the two tunas there was
another man saneun who wrote the model
Winnetka bra which is he took from even
on casa móvil Ohana and the scholars of
Tunis asked asset even farhat to look at
the book of son own and to measure it
against his which was called the acedia
and a sediment Farhat said why do you
need his book when you have my book now
that's Zelda you know with all respect
to the imam because he was a great
scholar and imam but the point that he
said that his book was left by the
muslim scholars
I mean his book literally even though
it's there and it's looked at by certain
scholars the model one afternoon is the
book in which a lawsuit Hanna with Dada
gave the towfield and this is very
fascinating there are literally hundreds
of Arbaeen at the the collections of
urban hadith hundreds you can see so
many Lula Mae wrote it because of the
hadith about our brain you know man hey
Villa Albertina man hadith e he enters
into Jennifer's Amritsar fokaha it's a
weak hadith that Imam no we mentioned at
the beginning of the book but because of
the hadith many many people wrote the
Irvine why is it that when we say Allah
urbane everybody knows Imam and no away
I mean why is that that Allah gave this
Imam toefield
in the in his or Bahrain in a way that
no other Imam was given and really Imam
no he has an amazing maqam in this Ummah
because all of his books have a complete
acceptance and really the way that's
understood is the degree of the class of
this email
and his life and what it meant it was
somebody who was not there for shahara
who was not there for to become famous
for notoriety for these things doing it
for the sake of Allah subhana WA Ta'ala
which he left that would be the linkages
and without shakoora they don't want
thanks and they don't want gratitude and
they don't want reward they do this for
the sake of Allah subhana WA Ta'ala and
this is a lot but the science of your
cloth literally is how because there's a
difference between Muslims and mullahs
in the Quran both ways are come in the
Quran one is an active form and the
other is a passive form so there is
literally a passive there is a loss that
is active but there's also an a class
that is passive and the two are the ones
that the people of tofu or the Muslim
soul and the muffler's own and multiple
Haroon are the people that have been
purified by Allah subhana WA Ta'ala but
Amazon was Allah who flew home and those
who when their hearts deviate Allah
deviates them more and Sophia Peruvian
Murata Zelda whom Allah o Madhava in
their hearts is the sickness Allah
increases them in that sickness and this
is the difference there's a departure at
a certain point in the individual's life
where they move towards increase or they
move towards decrease ward jihad the
attitude Emani
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I must say that rudia had the attitude
Imani that Eman increases our hani Farah
Delano has an opinion that differs from
that and it's a very intricate opinion
but it's really more semantic difference
the Eman increases the metas ego part
with insanity in anything where the
obedience to Allah is increased when
Noxubee noxee ha and Eman decreases as
far as decreases and this is the nature
and by the nature of the Sunnah of Allah
subhana WA Ta'ala we are either in zyada
or we are in knocks and we are either
increasing or we are decreasing but
there is no static state in doing
Stacy's does not exist in dunya it's not
in a biological phenomenon it's not a
physical phenomenon you won't find any
Stacey's in the dunya the the nature of
dunya is change things are either
growing or decaying and such is the
nature of the spiritual world the heart
is either growing with Iman or it is
decaying and the way that it grows is
through obedience to Allah subhana WA to
Anna so in terms of looking at the the
signs of the heart I want to look just
at a few things and then I'm going to
open this up for some discussion or
question the even a shot of the line who
says what over 2 min kulli dhanbin huge
tera that Tova is an absolute necessity
from every wrong action from every wrong
action Tajik will fall and multiple
Mejia Nedim that it is necessary
immediately and against every wrong
action and there must be remorse no
dhamma and the place of Nodame or
remorse is the heart which differs from
guilt in the English language which is
what they call access with them a guilt
is something where the the person
actually believes that they are
worthless in other words their self has
no inherent Worth and and and so they
identified the wrong action with the
nature the the human nature itself this
is not the Muslim position this is the
Christian position the Muslim physician
sees wrong action literally as a slip if
one is a movement into hafla into
forgetfulness and that forgetfulness is
a temporary State for the movement it is
not a permanent state and so you move
literally in and out of Gullah until you
become from the people who are in a
state of awareness of allah amoral kaaba
and this is nuts and most medina so most
of us will fall into the category called
nufs alabama which is the blaming self
where we remember and then we forget we
remember and then we forget and this is
why Toba is the act of turning back to
Allah subhana WA Ta'ala it is a
continual act there is a constant
turning just as the the earth is can
revolving around itself and moving
around the Sun that the movement is
continually making this Toba to a
lawsuit panel at the anna forgetting
entering into Hoffler and making Toba
you see and this is the nature of the
moment the nature of the heart valve in
arabic language literally means the
thing that turns it turned yet the
unloved means literally to turn in
collab is to turn upside down
so the heart by its nature is an organ
that is turning it moves towards
obedience and it moves towards
disobedience what the movement is
desiring is that stationary state of
iman where it stops at a certain point
moving towards disobedience and then
back to obedience and it literally
begins to move continually towards
obedience and this is an achievable
state there are people that have
achieved this state this is not
something that is is unachievable many
of the Sahaba of the Llano this was
their state abu bakr as-siddiq
radiyaallahu anhu
was a man who was continually on the
increase all madhavan a hapa these
Sahaba and we have many examples
throughout history of people that
entered into this state of obedience to
Allah subhanAllah to Ana and this is
where they get the idea that hassanis
would say yes in Makkah ravine that the
good actions of the righteous people are
literally the saith of the people that
are in proximity to allah subhana wa
ta'ala in their awareness of allah
subhana wa ta'ala because the muhammad
exon is terrible the lock and the qatar
aho
- literally worship allah as if you see
him paying them to confer alpha in Huia
rock and so this idea of making this
Toba and so he tells us that Toba is
necessary from every wrong action and
then he gives us the conditions be sharp
alkali and alkaline one knows one of you
is for all that it has to be with the
condition that you leave it immediately
if you're in it in quantum watanabe-san
be and if you're not in it you've done
it and then you must make tawba then the
immediacy of it is still present because
delaying tawba is a wrong action itself
from which Toba must be made so Toba is
like the wrong actions are like
pounded interest it just keeps getting
worse the more you put it off and it
will keep getting worse like the
prophets Eliza them says about the black
spot on the heart it continues to
increase until the whole heart is
completely black and this is a very dark
state to be in because then what happens
is the heart cannot be penetrated by the
nor of ye it literally reflects or
deflects the the nor of washing and this
is the state of the man Adam who can
hear words that are from the Quran who
can hear words that are from the heart
and it doesn't penetrate the heart
because the heart is not receptive to
the meanings that are entering into it
it literally pushes it away like saying
I Hadi said that the Kenney method hop
total fear palpable monadic but at the
health of that this the the the word of
the truth will enter the heart of the
monarch but it will just be in a state
of turmoil Hector to stuck a roofie
husband movement until it finds a heart
of a movement
so the monarch will literally have to
throw it up he'll have to get it out
until it resides in the heart of the
movement and this is a horrible state to
be in
and unfortunately many Muslims are in
this state I mean this is a tragic thing
because Muslims can hear the book of
allah and it has no impact on them
whatsoever
yo Lindo BOHICA hyung and this is
because the sickness of the heart and
the only way that the heart is purified
is through serious scrubbing the Prophet
Elias Adam said kullu shay'in yells bah
were enamel algo yes Bob
everything rust or encrust over and even
the heart becomes encrusted kallab that
run an apple ooh be him Allah says in
the Quran that the heart literally
became this was covered in this darkness
by what they were earning be
mechanically wound by what they
themselves were earning and so the only
way that it's purified is literally
through a washing through a scrubbing
we're in the Sabha that to who vicaroo
law and the scrubbing of the heart
is the remembrance of Allah this is the
polish of the heart and sotoba is part
of dhikr and this is why the Amara men
and photography liner said of the Luger
l walk for under Haram the best dhikr is
when the Haram is present you stop and
don't go into it
remembering Allah when you're about to
enter into Marcia
this is the best dhikr that you remember
Allah when you need to remember Allah
and that is when you are susceptible to
the Haram and then he says well
yesterday among Kenan does still far and
also you have to if you harm people then
you have to rectify that you'll slap
that till vain if somebody stole
something he has to give that wealth
back if it was back binding they have to
go and ask forgiveness of that person
unless it's a type of situation that it
will literally increase the the the
difficulty and then there's you get into
difference of opinion but I don't really
want to look at that well how's he doing
sighs Dean Avenue empty sad and he says
that the the taqwa it is achieved
through avoidance of the Haram and doing
the what Allah has commanded and by the
consensus of the scholars MT thon is
easier than HT NAB it is easier to be
obedient to Allah in what he's commanded
than it is in what he is prohibited and
this is very important to remember that
that it's easier to fall into Marcia
then doing the right action why because
the nature of Marcia is a downward
motion it's a downward motion it's dark
at Jahannam is daughter cat and so there
is in a sense like a gravitational pull
that is helping you to go into this type
of destruction whereas the barrage at is
an upward motion spiritually in other
words it takes an exertion of effort to
do this and this is why the Prophet
salat is that I'm said hoofer tell Jenna
to bill Macatee watanabe shahe wat
Jannah is literally surrounded by
difficult things and the fire is
surrounded by those
appetites things that people incline
towards and then he says theologian and
Wathan Envy that to knob in the inward
and the outward so there has to be a
sheen Avenue m teeth are not simply in
one outward form but in one's in Word
form also
and with this taqwa is achieved and
taqwa is really should be the goal of
every movement because the Quran begins
at even I mean radical kita will arrive
Fe whodunit must attain this is the book
in which there is no doubt a guidance
for people of taqwa it's not a guidance
if you don't have taqwa it can lead
people astray that don't have taqwa and
we have historically many groups from
the jamia to the padilla
to the wasabi yet not neva Mia all of
these different sects and groups that
use the piranhas they're proof for their
bitter for their AHA for all of these
things and literally went astray why
because they did not have taqwa and the
Quran begins eddie flemming
you look in any tough fear of any worth
buy anymore fester and they will say ed
even I mean Allah who Adam Allah knows
what that means so the book itself
begins by telling us there are you are
limited you have any atom in your
knowledge you are limited in your
knowledge and you have to enter into the
realm of this book with humility if you
think you can come to this book and
bring your previous knowledge and
presumptions then you will be led astray
but if you submit to the book and the
beginning is submitting to Alif LAAM
Meem that the answer to a d-flat meme is
Allahu Alem if you submit to that first
criterion in reading the Quran then your
from the people of taqwa but if you
enter into the poor and with arrogance
and thinking that you can in some way
interpret this book and Allah asks are
you more knowledgeable or Allah are you
more knowledgeable or is Allah more
knowledgeable and this is why the
Muslims
traditionally who have been rightly
guided have stopped at that point and
they look to see the guidance of Allah
His Messenger were only in the salad
thicker in kuntum lighter and a moon
asked the people of knowledge if you
don't have knowledge and one of the
sicknesses of this modern
is all of these people that want to
literally become Muftis and anima they
read one book Asuna and suddenly if
they're lucky and they're giving
everybody fatwa and things like this and
this is a disaster and even worse than
these people are the ones that don't
even read a book and they give fatwa I
mean it's gotten even to that point
where oh don't worry
yeah it's tough to come back like your
heart is a Mufti the stuff the convict
is based on a somebody being fitter I
mean the Prophet when he said to that
man of stuff they felt but he knew who
he was talking to not everybody can take
a fatwa from their heart because a lot
of hearts are just filled with Shahada
and Allah and what their heart will tell
them is do whatever you want you see so
the heart has to be really in a position
before it's it so it has to be in a
filter estate and that takes literally
for most of us a deep struggle and with
jihad and liova and these type of thing
so then he says they jazz it up Tom what
happened out of behalf these the the if
we want taqwa there are four aspects to
it four aspects to taqwa and then he
says well he had a static super in
Montana and it is for the person of
snuke it will take them to the paths of
benefit and he says you hold Warren in
here and in my hiding me he should the
first thing that we learned is that the
seven the seven limbs and he'll go
through each one
yeah who'd wanna hear and in Mohave me
where you're Khufu some ago an Anatomy
Cathy Burton Mimi tan zuoren kideth
woody Sano a Hara the turkey modulate
that he should Yahoo do a name here and
in Mahara me we should lower our gains
from what is haram : mock me Nina
Yahoo doe min episod he him tell them
what we need to lower their gaze and
tell them what me not to lower their
gaze this is on the haram what is ever
held on to look at then we should lower
our gaze from it because the eye
although the rule AMA have agreed that
the eye is literally not connected to a
kuvira that there's no action that the I
can partake in that is connected to a
grave wrong action
but my Cuban as I said la salle Hirata
bidis tomorrow there is no little wrong
action with esteem rah with continuity
of actions so if the eye is always
looking at the haram that itself becomes
a Kabira
so the actual if the eye sees haram
occasionally which is especially in this
country you're just out of the villa I
mean we're just surrounded by imbibing
the Haram which is a disaster for one's
iman because they agree also that the
the ostrich area hasn't had a facade of
odd and I mean the quickest limb to
destroy the heart is the the eye itself
this will destroy the heart and part of
it is because visual things are actually
more difficult than to get out than
hearing you can hear many things but
you'll forget them you can hear music
but you'll forget it but I guarantee you
if you've watched films that you've got
those images in your mind right now I
know that everybody in here who's seen
films or watch television you can close
your eyes now and imagine a film that
you saw and there's images of the Haram
that are in your heart they're there how
do you get rid of that we shouldn't have
looked at it in the first place now it's
there what do we do this is a disaster
and this is what chef anh does he likes
to fill the heart with the Haram so
there's no room for the halal because
the Haram is a is a we are and every
container has limits and you have to
empty it of the Haram and the jelly
before it can be filled with the halal
and the noir of Islam and that's why the
Sahaba of the Martin who said the
Prophet literally emptied us out of
jahiliya to fill us up with Islam so
there's an emptying that has to take
place before there's a filling just like
you have to exhale before you can inhale
just like the heart has to be contracted
before it can be expanded this is the
nature of a lot of creation the
diastolic the systolic this is the the
very nature the pupil is expands in
order to take in and it contracts in
order to prevent light from coming in
and this is the nature that Allah has
made us on so contraction and expansion
of
and el vaso he's these two the expander
and the contractor so the more we expand
for chiffon the more we contract for
Iman or for Rahman the more we expand
for the right man
the more we contract for chiffon and
this is really the nature of creation so
he's telling us Yahoo Buena here and in
Mahara me and then the Khufu scimitar
one in the Anthony he turns away from
listening to that aha shut up so he
begins with the I because that is the
most important organ and then he goes to
the ear now that here is very
interesting also if you look at the eye
the eye literally takes in only a linear
we have a basic peripheral vision but
it's limited we don't see behind us but
if you look at the ear the ear by its
nature is circular it takes in
everything around it and this is why
generally in the Quran Allah begins with
in the summer well borrow wada hula-hula
i kakano anhu Missoula that they eat the
hearing the sight and the heart all of
these things the human being is
responsible for we are literally
responsible for these things why because
if we allow our ears and our eyes to
open up to everything then the heart is
what suffers so the ear in the eye which
are called more water than in and
melodicas yeah they're the areas where
knowledge comes in but also we're
ignorant comes in and they come in and
enter into the container of the heart
and so literally the movement is
somebody who protects and guards his
eyes and his ears in order to protect
his heart they're literally like oh dude
like boundaries in which he must defend
them so these are armies that were to
use for Allah to protect the city of the
heart which is the residents of Iman
that is the medic that is the king that
we should respect and protect but if we
literally open up like any country that
just leaves its borders and anybody can
flood in
then this is what happens with the human
being the heart is left unprotected and
literally the armies of jahiliyyah flood
into the heart because that's what they
want to conquer and this is what chiffon
wants to conquer he wants to become king
of the city of the heart and this is
what Allah is warning us about he's
warning us in the Quran
don't take shot chiffon as your friend
don't take chiffon as a Nasir
he's his hadoo his reward he's deceptive
he will betray us and this is the nature
so he tells us that we have to protect
the ear from what's wrong and then he
gives us the examples Carrie Burton
nummy Merton Zoran kideth diva is he
begins with Heba because Viva is the
most common this is what most of us have
this is what we're dealing with Muslims
have become people that back bite yes
tell Baba Baba and Allah says laughter
Babu come baba don't let one of you back
by another of you well I asked got him
in a moment don't let a group mark
another group don't let one group mark
another who don't be people trivial
people of backbiting and trivial
pursuits these type of thing know we
should be people of death and so he's
warning us about backbiting and then he
says mamimi
because mamimi literally is that which
separates people is called if sad battle
vain and the Islam is based on his life
that'll vain for us today Havana hueco
rectify between your two brothers and
then he says zu ands or is false
witnessing bearing false witness which
is really this is a wretched thing one
of the worst things that a human being
can do is to bear false witness against
other people and then he ends with kitty
because this in a sense is really a
generic under which these other things
will fall and kideth is anything that is
opposite of the truth and this is
something to be avoided
neither listening to it and then he says
the San who ihara the atacama Judith
it's even more important
not to listen to these things but not to
speak them yourself in other words don't
become that's a vesicle whereby people
pour this poison into you but don't
yourselves pour it into other people
because it's actually worse to be the
one who is pouring this found us into
others than to be the one receiving it
what cheetah homer shut up and both of
them have evil both are evil States and
then he says yeah follow but no woman at
her army now he moves to the the stomach
so he's dealt with the eyes the ears the
tongue and he there's seven limbs that
are literally like the war or the the
boundary and then he goes to the button
the stomach yeah for the what no human
at her army that he protects and guards
his stomach from the Haram the prophet
sallallaahu incident told us about that
if you have Elsa to Panama City or
hadith in what was no Harry a button
wherever to Panama that don't even worry
about whatever afflicts you from dunya
if you have a mana trust was Cisco Hadid
well Hadippa to husana and good
character and then guarding what you eat
a mizerock said all of nana can be
reduced to two things look ma and Sabah
what you eat and the company you keep
and he said so God what you eat because
you will do according to what you eat if
you do eat hell out you do hell out if
you eat Haram you do Haram in spite of
yourself and he said look to who you
take as a companion because you're on
his Deen you're on his Deen and morality
Neha Leela he fell young boy I had a
cool demon Johanna
a man is on the Dean of his companion so
let one of you look to who he takes as a
companion to who he takes as a companion
so that he protects his stomach from the
Haram yet Akuma should be happy man and
the next thing is Turkish shougo had
Turkish ubu hot so here he's covered the
he's going through these things
the Turkish super hot is is literally
leaving anything in which is doubt
anything in in which there is doubt and
this is a mahom of what's called voila
or scrupulousness and the people of what
are the people who leave the most heavy
hat those things in which there is doubt
and then he says yeah motherfucker ooh
well you're lucky she heed that he
guards his private part the prophet saw
the light is that I'm said manba mean
Ally my benefit kay he was foggy day he
come into the hole Jenna the one who
will guarantee for me the town and
what's between his two sides or her to
side then I will guarantee for them the
Jenna and so guarding one's Forge
literally is part of taqwa and this
follows the food because eating the
haram leads to doing the haram you see
each one of these things moves one of my
mother had told me once he said I know
Betty do zina the eye is the post it's
the post sending the letter of
fornication is that the burrito zina and
this is why everyone has a degree of
zina written for them and the farts you
can't do boohoo oh you suck nipple the
the private part will either negate it
or confirm it so the eye the hand the
tongue like giving more our da or some
type of flirtation with the tongue this
is a type of Zena touching for leather
is a type of Zena looking for leather is
a type of Lena and the looking between
the Muslim have to be with a deaf you
know and you can get into difference
about and watch who would campaign and
these type of things
I really don't these are all my secular
fear that people have but the basic
bottom line is that you should not let
her take do that if you're finding that
you have leather from looking at the
face of a either a man or a woman then
you have to fear Allah it's a key glass
where you hold them in paucity heat and
don't lay it the unmanned
mahasin and Murad that a man should not
reflect and contemplate on the beauty of
a woman unless he intends to marry her
or it's his wife
and the same goes for the women that
they were a Izumo rosado's Sita Rama and
Nisa in other word halma city of the
life would hide Ibrahim in his fate
Allah says that it's not obligatory for
the man to cover what is Haram for the
woman to look at in other words that
between the rock VII and the surah is is
not his hour for the man the chest is
not the aura that does not mean that a
woman can look at it is not permissible
for a woman to look at a man's chest
without the shirt on but it's not
obligatory on him to cover it she has to
lower her gaze and this is really
honoring women because Allah has made
the woman cover because of the weakness
of a man whereas the woman because she's
stronger in that area and this is the
truth that the the man is more
susceptible to that type of facade but
the reason a lot began was zania to a
zani with xania - was an e he begins
with the female because generally
fornication happens when the woman
allows the man and inclines the man
towards something that he already has a
susceptibility so if the woman is strong
the man might desire but doesn't have
the opportunity you see but the woman is
actually has more info in this matter
than the man and Allah honors her
because of that and this is why he's
asked her to veil herself so that she's
not accosted by men who are weaker in
that aspect and this really is is I mean
it's very clear by istikhara by analysis
of the Quranic picture that it's showing
that the same with women praying behind
men you see a man the reason where men
can't pray next to a woman or a woman in
front of a man is because the man's
going to lose himself become preoccupied
with something that he's not supposed to
be thinking about when he's praying
where the woman can prayed behind the
man because that she's not as
susceptible to that by the nature of who
she is then the man is again this is an
honoring and we know during the time the
Prophet that there was not a curtain
between the women and the men in the
Masjid the young boys would pray by
but we also know the Prophet said the
worst ranks of the women are the first
ranks for that reason that they have men
in front of them that are bowing and
things like that but just the fact that
that exists again shows that the woman
has more strength and it has been proven
in studies of
Dinah to pupil dilation they do these
studies these people study everything
and they know that the pupil will expand
when it sees something pleasurable and
contracts when it sees something that is
not pleasurable and what they do is they
do these studies where they show people
pictures pleasurable pictures men's
pupils will dilate
whereas women's don't but they found
that women are more attracted to the
voice than they are to the visual
pictures and things like this is the
fascinating studies that are done about
that that confirm again the wisdom of
the Sharia and in the same way the fair
pheromones of human beings which has
been established now that we have
pheromones that are that are literally
sexual receptors that go out and attract
the opposite sex the pheromones of women
have been shown to be radiating that
they actually radiate and the pheromones
of men are obtained through touch and so
again the hijab literally is part of
that protecting the the inherent nature
of a woman and so it's all the wisdom of
the Sharia will be confirmed again and
again so did EMI Athena said I'll copy
one pussy M hotta at the bayon Elohim
and we'll help they Allah will show them
all these signs until it becomes clear
and then yeah for the photo julia
talking Shaheed said but she was sorry
demon ooh and you read and he should
fear the witness of the angels in his
limbs his two hands and his two feet
said what she was saying so there he's
completed the seven the seven things
that we have to guard the heart with and
this is the eye the ear the tongue the
button the pouch the hands and the feet
and this is the way we destroy our
hearts and if we guard ourselves
become responsible because these poor
things are going to bear witness against
us on llamo Keanu these hands will bear
witness against us on the OPM and say he
made me do this we are in charge the
Apple is in charge here the hands are
not in charge if I want to drink a cup
my hand did not do an autonomous action
there
it didn't rebel against me you see no I
commanded my hand to go and pick up the
glass and now I'm telling it to put it
down
you see stop that doesn't work like that
unless you have Parkinson's disease or
something like that where it's beyond
human control and then people shake and
things like that but that's not what
we're talking about if you've got those
problems then you can't do anything
wrong right somebody paralyzed there
that's it and that's why the share who's
Annie is the worst type creature you
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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