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smiie not know nor him it's a blessing
always to participate in these things in
may loss behind without a reward all the
people that worked very hard to put this
together the the the modern world is
very fast and people feel the time and
the pressure of just their daily lives
it's hard to justify balance in those
lives and it's a blessing to be able to
to remove oneself somewhat from that
hustle and bustle out there and to be in
a place where there's a lot of nature
and things that historically people were
very connected to I mean there this
there's still are people connected to
these things but they're increasingly
diminishing in terms of just numbers on
the earth the major cities that are
emerging all over the world are there
they're terrifying in that so many
people that traditionally were living
off the land and connected to the
natural cycles have moved in and we have
massive slums all over the world for
people that have travelled and seen some
of these places we've got about even
one-fourth of theirs
datian now living in really slum
conditions which was very very different
modern modern poverty is not like
pre-modern poverty because pre-modern
poverty was was rarely qualified with
impoverishment of the soul if you went
if you if any of you have been to
Pakistan a lot of you are unfortunately
some of the really young people don't
realize how much has changed just in the
last twenty thirty years
Swat Valley was one of the most
beautiful places in the world and I know
people that became Muslim because they
visited Swat Valley so and the stories
about just the incredible hospitality
and the beauty of the people of the Swat
Valley so when you read now about what's
happening in places like that it's very
disturbing when I first went to West
Africa what was that it's actually my
second time my first time it's in 1978
but the second time that I went the
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Mauritania was an isolated place that
had a lot of people there didn't even
know about America just that there was a
country called America I actually met
people in the Sahara Desert that did not
know America as a as a place so it was
it was very amazing to see people that
weren't just pre-modern people but they
were pre-modern people that had almost
no interaction with the modern world so
you got a very different perspective on
just how people view things and the now
in Mauritania recently there was a
tourist that was killed and even though
it was very shocking for the people
generally that the fact that there were
some you know Muslim extremists that did
something like that in Mauritania was
like very shocking for Mauritania
because that type of Islam or that
manifestation of Muslim behavior not
that type of Islam that manifestation of
Muslim behavior was really unknown in
that place so it was a big shock so
things have changed but it's very nice
for us and to be able to come out here
and so I think we should do our best to
take advantage of I went Imams it and I
took a walk and there's a place called
the Baptist Vacation Bible School and
right down the road but that was a nice
I like the name Vacation Bible School
because vacation is from a Latin word to
empty out you know vacuum comes from the
same root
so vacating is emptying out and the the
set of called it Talia
there's a hadith that the Prophet shall
I send him said that the Prophet emptied
us out of jahiliyya and then he filled
us of Islam so the spiritual practice is
about emptying before it's about so you
have to be emptied before you can be
filled if you're already filled in fact
where most of us are full of ourselves
so that's the problem is how do we empty
our souls of ourselves emptying the soul
of the self and that's a very difficult
thing but what's what's interesting is
the prophets Allah TM was when when
gibreel first met him on Jevon or
mountain of light he squeezed him and
some of the ummah talked from that the
ishara he squeezed him three times and
it was actually to make sure that he was
completely empty of himself before
giving him the revelation and that's why
he thought that he was going to kill him
because he literally crushed his just
sides but that that was a physical
manifestation of a spiritual reality
because the Provencal I said him in the
books they always say Kenny at the hand
Ethel you know yet the hen death and
in the commentaries always say attendeth
hua tabbed would the tendeth is a type
of devotional practice so the practice
that the prophesizing was doing the
meditation that he was doing in the hall
Hara there on Yemen or was called
tendeth now we just read in surah Tauba
kara what what verse had that word in it
anybody who's al hinted all theme right
so the hint is in surah taha dad
what does it mean in there and hint
anybody luckily you're doing in surah to
walk out with Shariah so you'll know
what and hence is shirk so de hann north
is to han north is in the morphology of
arabic to handle one of the meanings of
the TEFL wasn't it's called to file the
paradigm of tough out one of the
meanings is to avoid so you have like
who Jude is sleep to head Jude is to
avoid sleep so yet the head jet means
you're struggling to avoid sleep Tejanos
means to avoid ship to remove oneself
from share now the the greatest shirk is
worship of the self the idolatry has
nothing on self Allah tree right really
because the the worship of the self and
a las mentions about people that take
their hawa as their God right it tejada
allahu how ah who like he took as his
God his his desires his self whatever
the self wants the dictates of the cell
so the emptying out of the self is
necessary in order to prepare for
your journey to a lots of behind of
Italian even though it's part of the
journey because the journey you have to
pack before you you go on a journey
right you get your provisions ready so
the journey actually starts before you
set out on the physical journey of
actually moving towards your destination
there's things you have to do you have
to get your visa you need a visa you
have to get your tickets you have to do
all these things so the emptying out is
really the preparation to to to to
really move spiritually on the path and
that's why the asana is such an
interesting event in the profits a
license life because now tonight which
is 27th of rajab is there's nothing
confirmed about lailatul is all nothing
and that's why we don't there's no ebody
that is specific to these nights in the
sun no that's true and if people say
there is it becomes a bit that is a bit
add to introduce things that aren't from
the religion into the religion so but
having said that the ulama do take a
blessing from the 27th of Rajab
generally I mean a lot of them say it's
a good night because the majority of
Roma do think that it is the night of
this or all but Imam no we did not
so even to say by Kesh or something that
it's this night
I don't think Imam no it was one of the
great olia of our tradition but he did
not agree with that opinion there's
nothing confirmed but generally it is
the night
if you look on Muslim calendars it's the
night that they put for the night of the
Asura and so it's it's a good night to
remember the astrologist generally the
the the Prophet allies to them if you
look at what happened right before the
Israel right before the Asura was
probably the most difficult
got time of the prophets life so
lightest and they say that the you know
the darkest hour is the one right before
dawn the the prophets item had gone to
Thoth and he had been rejected by the
people of Pi but worse than that they
they really humiliated him I mean they
can't you can't humiliate in reality
dignified people you know it's not but
but they they attempted to humiliate him
because humiliation is really an
internal experience more than I mean
somebody can can to condena great you
but but humiliation is something you
experience I was so humiliated
you know people that's what they say you
know so when you say he humiliated me
it's really you're saying he allowed I
allowed myself to be humiliated by him
because people can't really humiliate
you they can be disrespectful but it
says more about them than it does about
you in reality so you can allow yourself
to be humiliated now the prophets have
also said and want me to allow you the
Lughnasa a believer shouldn't ever
humiliate himself and what CDI mizerock
said that it meant it meant opposing
government you know like like rebels and
things like that and that's how he
interpreted because he said when you do
that and then they capture you and they
put you in shackles and they do all the
you you've become humiliated but he what
Amazon rope the Prophet said and what
Menelaus Lilu Neffs a who the believer
doesn't humiliate himself which really
means that that it's you that's
humiliating yourself and tonight it's
not somebody else it's you that's doing
it but you can cause yourself to be
humiliated by doing stupid things so
what the Prophet I said was doing was
the most honourable of things
there was nothing dishonorable about it
and there was nothing that should have
warranted what happened to him
whereas when you go against a government
for instance and oppose them you've
basically done something that justifies
their response because that's how
they're going to
they're going to spawn by humiliating
you so in essence you've humiliated
yourself by putting yourself into a
position like that so when when the
Prophet slice and went to thought if he
was basically looking for people to give
him protection
so that he could to his Dawa and and
they didn't they didn't respond but the
worse than that they sent the the
servants out to throw rocks at him some
of the children threw rocks at him and
he actually had his feet were bloodied
from that and he was very distressed
about it because it it was like his last
Gila it was his last strategy that's
what that was he was doing the us bad
even though his trust was completely
with Allah he was doing the s babb and
that's why his dua is so interesting
because well there's two things that are
interesting one is who comes to him at
that time we need when he goes to did
he's sitting under the tree who comes to
him huh the Christian man at does and an
noe where and where was he from because
he asked him were you from what do you
say he said he was from Nineveh and and
the Prophet SAW he said I'm said that's
the city of the the blessed man you know
Savino Mehta now what's interesting
about that because this is you know
these are the things that that God plans
I mean what's interesting about that
story I mean what would be interesting
about a man from Nineveh coming to the
prophets Allison I'm at that point
because what's the story of Nineveh
what's the story of Nineveh
we see they did good yeah it's
interesting because they disbelieved in
him but he gets fed up see yunus jonah
basically writes them off and says you
know these people there's no real hope
for them and he goes and then he gets on
the ship and then his/her storm and they
throw lots and they throw him over and
then the whale comes and but the point
of that story is that he was in the same
situation the Prophet was in the
situation of Units he'd been a meta now
what happens with Yunus in the belly
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he's like his realization is this is all
from God I mean like I had my plan but
God had his plan because he was trying
to get on the boat and get but it didn't
work out the way he thought in his mind
it was going to work out and he ends up
in the belly of this of the whale and
praising God right in the kunta mental
body meaning now who does he blame does
he blame the people of Nineveh he's in
the belly of the whale
oh Allah look what they've done to me
destroy these people right I mean does
he do that that's like he does he blame
the people what's he say he blames
himself it's so interesting
it's like Muslims tenda I don't know
what happened but at a certain point
they stopped reading these stories
correctly or something but he blames
himself and he says you know if you
don't help me I'm finished so that the
fact that a man from the city of Nineveh
comes to the Prophet at that time is
very symbolic and the Prophet item says
that his famous da where where he says
to Allah you are the lord of the
oppressed and he said I don't have any
strategy you know
hey lady I don't really have a strategy
to do it yeah I've tried everything that
I can but then he says you know I don't
know who you're going to send me to is
it an enemy that will treat me horribly
or some stranger that doesn't know who I
am there's no warmth there's no help
coming from them a demented loony and
but then he says you know but if you're
pleased with me you know if you're
pleased with me then I don't care what
you do to me as long as you're pleased
with me in other words I don't whatever
the circumstances you put me in I'm not
going to complain about them as long as
you're and then he said well I have here
- oh so you know the well being is
easier for me it's easier to be in a
situation where you're not in that
constriction and and difficulties but
what's interesting about that is he said
you know that I aku I take a Hawaiian II
on an ass you know I complain to you my
insignificance in the eyes of the people
he didn't complain about how they
treated him he complained about his the
fact that he didn't Hawaii had an S you
know that I'm in this situation where
they're not respecting me and and he all
if you look at that he didn't complain
about the people it's a very interesting
it's very similar to what Jonah did and
one of the things the Prophet said let
old a loony eyelid envía
do not prefer me over other prophets and
in every why he's a Leto forbid only a
day unicity Mehta don't prefer me over
Jonah I don't prefer me over Jonah which
is from his humility and what it means
is do not prefer the Prophet sighs him
in any way that diminishes from the
other prophets that that's what it means
it's also from
humility because he said aniseed will do
Adam whatever ha I am the best of the
children of Adam and I'm not boasting in
other words this is not something that I
really want to tell you about me but
it's something that I was commanded to
tell you so now and then on the way back
what happens from from five what happens
on the way back the angel comes and
offers him thank you offers him to
destroy the people just he'll wipe them
out for him now again here's a test of
who the prophesy him is because there's
people that would do that after being
humiliated like that they're so angry
and the Prophet I sent him said no and
what was the reason that he gave for
saying no that he'd the children the
children because as long as there's
children there's hope doesn't you know
children have the purity and the fifth
law and the Bharata that makes it
possible for them to be open to a
message of truth because children by
their nature are not disbelievers
children by their nature are believes
they