We all will be looking at the book on Stations of gratitude. This is pretty amazing we got to the reality of Shukr, which was taqwa and then he said Shukr has two mcoms there's
two stations of sugar, Mohammed Shakur which is the mama like Allah says Adina many body a Shakur very few of my servants are Shakur.
The Shakur is the one who's grateful for calamities and tribulations not just blessings. He actually, he feels gratitude when horrible things happen because most people just feel at best they'll be patient or resigned but the Shakur he actually says alhamdulillah alhamdulillah. He knows that only Allah only does good
for his believer right there's a hadith
in Sahih Muslim a Japan the Ambrym
Oatman fin Amaro hula hoop hula hair how
wondrous is the affair of the believer
his affair all of it is good right
like they say in the hood it's all good
and that's what they say that's like a
modern kind of phrase it's all good
I mean they what they need to learn is
if you're a believer it's all good if
you're not a believer it's all bad even
the good but if you're a believer it is
all good and that's why if you if you
really do believe that you enter into a
state of gratitude even for the
tribulations alhamdulillah and always a
good thing to remember is even a bad
said no matter how bad it is
it could be worse and there are people
like that there are people even
non-muslim you'll meet non-muslims that
are like that
they always look at the good side well
it could be worse
think of this count your blessings
I mean we in to do we're into it to a do
net metal lettuce oh ha if you attempt
to enumerate the nemah of Allah you will
never enumerate it right lettuce Oh ha
now just look at one nimah look at the
nemah for instance of the eye this is
one nama first of all think about this
blinking just think about blinking you
don't even notice that you blink now if
you didn't blink you did you ever see
pictures of aristotle onassis
when he got old he had to have the
richest man one of the richest men in
the world he had to have band-aids
holding up his eyelids because he lost
the muscle that returned the eyelid and
his eyelids just dropped all the time so
he had band-aids to hold his eyelids up
but then he had to put drops in his eyes
all the time because if your eyelids
don't close they get dry and you get
dust in them because one of the things
that blinking does is it it brings the
dust back down it's like window wipers
right
you know those windshield wipers it
brings the dust down and then what
happens is the dust moves to the side
and accumulates in the in the corners
right so when you wipe your eyes you'll
get some little dust in it you don't
even think about that it's just that's
just one part of the eye but then you
look if you look at the eye look at the
the nerve of the eye and how that
developed the myelination of that sheath
the fact that that there's synaptic
response the fact that you know there's
neural transmission because that breaks
down for some people we don't even think
that think of the electricity right also
colors just think of colors just color
a lot could have made everything black
and white look at all the subtle colors
that he put in though in the world and
you can experience those the eye can
experience an incredible variety of
colors right I mean that's an Emma and
then look how some colors you they just
give you pleasure seeing them you don't
even think about it
but there's a vibration if you look
there are seven colors right I mean all
colors go down to seven primary colors
and I mean in color theory they'll go
down to three I think but there's
basically seven in a spectrum so visible
light if you look at the visible light
spectrum each one of those colors has an
effect on you red is a certain
vibrational resonance right it's a lower
resonance than violet violet is that the
high spectrum red is at the low spectrum
red if you see red it stimulates you you
don't even know that they know that now
in in color theory because they've done
Studies on people if you put people in
red rooms it has a different effect than
if you put them in blue rooms it will
actually change them because it's a
resonance there's a electromagnetic
radiation that's all radiation so it's
having an effect on you you don't even
know it now the thing about the world if
you go and look at green green will make
you feel good that's why people love to
look at grass or love to look at trees
it has a you know you nourish that's
what the arabs say it's called the Rabia
that's why i said oh allah make the
quran the spring of my heart out of the
alcalde it's a hadith along Medina Quran
or a vehicle v what does that mean it
means that thing that brings your heart
back to life because spring brings your
your whole being back to life you know
people start feeling good the people get
what they call seasonal affective
disorder it's called sad right there's
people to get depressed in the winter
time but then spring comes around they
forget how to press they were in the
winter they start feeling wonderful why
are they feeling wonderful green colors
start changing theirs photosynthesis all
that chlorophyll
is starting to come back to life
reactivate flowers look at flowers I
mean what is that a flower why do people
like that smelling a flower that's
another scent but just the eye to look
at a flower right or beauty when I looks
on Beauty why do why do we all respond
the same way right when you see
something beautiful and most people
share a common taste in beauty if you
see something beautiful you're attracted
to it it's an attraction why it's
because beauty is an attribute of God
and what you're seeing is a reflection
of a divine attribute so you're
attracted to the divine that's the real
attraction the real attraction is not
that that ephemeral beauty that fades
it's what you're seeing a manifestation
of the divine in creation that's the
real attraction but people don't realize
that I mean that's where it's coming so
the eye all these things about the eye
and and we don't even think about it
look at the eyelashes and the eyebrows
they're serving a purpose eyelashes
serve a purpose right I mean when
anything comes near your eye you close
your eye and it protects the eye is
something amazing so all these things
just the eye if you start thinking about
and then there's all these net we don't
even know about we don't even know about
it
for instance light why do people get
depressed one of the reasons they think
is because serotonin levels drop
serotonin is a it's a it's a hormone in
the brain that is released based on
light right cortisol I mean it's all
light so you're taking in light during
the day you don't even think about it
melatonin is also based on light
melatonin is what makes you get sleepy
that's why people that have artificial
light don't get sleepy the eye is the
one that's doing that the eye is
dictating that's why you get tired you
get it's all based on the eye so even
your sleep patterns are being affected
by the human eye you don't even know
that when you feel awake when you feel
drowsy right it's all result of the eye
I mean that I just the eye alone if you
start
doing that and looking at the eye you
can't you can't there's no way you can
enumerate all of the blessings that's
one namo namo 13 and and but we don't
there's untold blessings in it and it's
one namo so the Shakur is the one who
shows that gratitude but this comes from
absolute certainty and this is a maqam
related to real dot which is contentment
with Allah and it's a state of muhabba
because once you fall in love you can't
see anything I mean that's the beauty of
love is that when you're in love you
can't even see faults right yeah I mean
if you love Laila and anybody tells you
you know Laila did this or later you get
angry you know what later would never do
that
you know I saw Laila did this you're
lying you're a liar
Laila wouldn't do that that why because
he's in love with Laila no matter what
you say about Laila he won't believe you
that's real love people don't even know
that type of love anymore right so if
you're in love with a lot a lot can't do
anything that would upset you nothing
because you'll see it's myself I did it
to myself
Allah didn't do that Allah wouldn't do
that I did it to myself or Allah is
doing it because like the father that
punishes the child you see I mean you
see a father punishing the child the
father loves the child so why is it
punishing it because it knows that in
the punishment is benefit for the child
it's disciplining the child is bringing
the child back it's reminding the child
has bound if you see a child running
towards fire and the father slaps the
child's hand it wants to taste a light
pain in order to avoid a great pain you
see because it knows that pain is
nothing compared to the pain of the
flame and when Allah gives you great
tribulations those are nothing compared
to the fire nothing so if Allah is
purifying you to prevent you know to
keep you from that then you realize this
is the love
a creator for his creation and the
prophets Eliza damned once saw some
birds being fed by their mother and he
and he said no he saw a woman giving
nurse to her child and the prophets a
licen have looked and this is the man of
Allah takes discernment from everything
he takes a bra right discernment a
lesson there's a lesson in everything
Navajo a bra
his glance is a bra work Adama who
hikmah and his speech is wisdom there's
a reason for what why he speaks the
prophets Eliza once saw a woman nursing
her child and he said to a Sahaba do you
think that this woman would throw her
child into the fire and they said that
would lie he also a lot that she would
never do that
he said Allah has more mercy for his
servants than this woman for her child
allahu allah ma ba ba de men had a dome
Louella dia allah has more mercy for his
servants than this woman does for her
child Allah subhana WA Ta'ala says about
new ideas to them in ocaña abdun
shakoora he was a grateful slave look at
Noah 950 years calling people to Allah
and all they did was reject him but he
kept calling who could do that I mean
people now they get fed up after a week
of Dawa you know these people they'll
never listen I mean this is 950 years
doing what Allah so behind without that
Shakur one of the things also model that
has told me is from tafseer but he said
no I never once went to relieve himself
except that he came back saying and
hamdulillah the earth have an onion
other you know praise be the one who
removed this harm from me even just
having sugar for like some Mac once went
to visit Haruna Rasheed he was a great
ahead and in a while and her owner
rashid said would you like anything and
he said bring me a glass of water so he
ordered water they brought him water and
he said yeah i'm it
meaning if if you if you would be
refused this water what would you give
for this water and he would said I would
give half of my kingdom for a glass of
water if I couldn't have it
he said if you drank that water and then
you couldn't release it what would you
give to release it he said the rest of
my kingdom he said what is a kingdom a
Dominion that is not worth a cup of
water or the release of it as urine and
what do you really possess if you know
he said Mao and Mon Cala D let you say
we shot a bet imagine what I thought
about it doesn't equal water or the
flowing of urine so you think of that
you know is the blessing of just eating
and the fact that you digesting you
don't have to tell your hydrochloric
acid to be released you don't have to
push any buttons here really you eat
something and if it's protein then it
sends and it breaks down the proteins
down to amino acids and then your body
reassembles them as protein if it's fats
it breaks it down to fatty acids then
your body reassembles them if it's if
it's carbohydrates it breaks them down
to carbohydrate takes them to the brain
right if you have extra the insulins
released takes it to the liver and
stores it as glycogen so that when
you're out of energy the liver will
release the glycogen break it down and
you and you get cover you didn't have to
tell the body to do any of that and yet
it's all doing it for us right now
you're at 90 you know I once had this
man I was talking about Islam and and
and I said well Islam is based on being
grateful to God and he said I guess I
have a few things to be grateful for
that's what he literally said to me he
said God's done some things for me in my
life and I said to him who do you
think's maintaining your body at 98.6
right now anyone seriously who's
maintaining that why don't why not you
want you right now you could be in a
fever
you could be shivering even if it you
could all be if I was sick right now
that Poblado law if I was sick right now
even though it's a moderate temperature
I could be shivering right now feeling
cold and it's not even cold if I had a
fever I would be boiling right now in a
moderate you're all fine but if I had a
homo if I had a fever I would be wanting
to take off all my clothes and really
think about that York Allah is keeping
you at at this 98.6 even if it's a
hundred degrees outside your body is
releasing fluid in order to maintain
this 98.6 on average it's going to be
around there if it's a hundred degrees
outside
why don't you boil up to 100 degrees
what created that inner thermostat that
keeps you at that balance if it's cold
out why don't you drop down because you
will if you go out in ice-cold and for
long enough you'll freeze but for a
period of time you won't you'll stay at
98.6 right why you can go swimming even
and your temperature in a cold water
your temperature will will will will
maintain its might drop very slightly
and that's all from allah subhanho wa
taala so showing gratitude and then he
said Allah subhana WA Ta'ala there's a
hadith that says youn a demon Aden Yama
Yama Yama Yama Delia Pullman muhammadun
that may let the people of praise get up
FEA poem some rotten film so Buddha home
Lee Webb Fayette Haruna Jenna then a
group of people will get up and they'll
be given a flag a banner and there
they're told to enter into paradise and
they asked the prophets Elijah Muhammad
hoon who are these people
he said a lineage Coronel da-da-da-da-da
coolly ha
they're the ones that are always
thanking Allah no matter what their
condition is and these are people on
your team you're going to hear that
somebody somebody called Valley Apple
muhammadun that all the people of ham
Madone Ahmad is mobile aha
it's called Seva mobile Allah it's a
hyperbolic form in Arabic it's Hamid not
hamid hamid everybody who says al
hamdulillah is Hamid how mad they're
always saying alhamdulillah
alhamdulillah Calahan al hamdulillah
adequately have right and in another
rewire at essaouira evil bharat those
who praise allah in good and harm invent
things that make them happy things that
make them sad the second maqam is those
people who look at those that are less
than them in their worldly affairs right
feel more at dunya without a Dean for
your aluminum metal lighter and idahe be
said Amity I'd be with Deanie why I feel
to me map to the Adaro be your album
narrative dunya daily Mahalo so those
who look at other people that are in
tribulation and they feel great grateful
that's less it's a lower ma calm but
when you see the thing about one of them
oh no he said always look in fact no
there's a hadith he said the Provencal
item said about dunya that you should
look at people who are less than you in
dunya because you'll always feel
grateful now there's always people less
than you that guarantee you you'll
always find people less than you right
so you say I'm doing that I mean if you
don't have a lot of money in this
country were rich in the biblical times
to put a jar of honey on your table was
a sign of great wealth a jar of honey on
your table was a sign of great wealth
really and now people one man said to uh
if a null model he said to him you know
I'm a poor man and he said do you have a
house he said yes he said then you're
not poor he said do you have a wife he
said yes and he said you're wealthy and
then he said you have a servant he said
yes because in those days like now you
know in some countries you don't have to
be wealthy to have a servant there's a
lot of cultures like if you live in in
in Bangladesh
or Pakistan you even you know lower
middle class people have really poor
people as their servants because all
they have to do is give them food and
they'll work in their house so he said I
even have a servant he said you are rich
beyond you know so this is the thing
here in America the majority of people
are would be considered in any previous
time they would be considered living in
palaces the idea of having running water
in this country in the 1930s still about
70% of Americans did not have running
water the idea of having running water
the fact that you can take a hot shower
by just turning a a knob
people don't even think about that you
in Mauritania will lie where mop that
has lives there's three women Aisha
Afiya and I can't remember the third one
three women their job is to bring water
every day it takes them about two hours
to go get the water it takes about an
hour to fill it up and it takes them two
hours to come back five hours every day
just to bring drinking water to their
village and that's their life that's
their life they have to load the
donkey's right with the kettlebell when
they drink water
well lie these and have didn't amitin
meThe narrative man do their water is
it's brown it's brown most of them have
urinary problems because of the sediment
in the water
you
people forgotten this you know I'll just
give you an example well I I read this
the other day I was reading a letter and
don't ask me why I was reading it but I
was reading a letter by robert e lee who
was the head of the Confederate Army in
the Civil War and after his house had
been taken by the federal troops his
wife he wrote a letter to his wife
because she had to flee the house it's a
it's a mansion now you if anybody's been
to Arlington Cemetery is called the
Custis Lee mansion anyway that was his
house and it was captured she had to
flee so he wrote this letter and he said
I reflect on all of the great blessings
that we shared in that house and I feel
fear in my heart that we did not show
enough gratitude to God while that house
was in our possession and for that from
his wisdom he has taken it away from us
that's that is the way Muslims used to
think I mean did that was a Christian
man but that's how he thought about it
because that that's that is hikmah
that's a way to think you know why did
this happen to me this is unfair that's
not the response the response is what
did I do to lose this blessing because
Allah subhana WA Ta'ala says in the
Quran in allaha la ayuda Muhammad had to
die you know maybe enthusiam Allah does
not change a people until they change
themselves the attic Vienna lauhala
McCune when I am an amateur at opponent
my idea in Edmonton and amaha de palma
had to Yanam IBM for zoom Allah will not
take a blessing away from a people until
they change something in their hearts in
other words they don't show gratitude
for it
in Kunta phenom eaten for in an mile c20
name like the poet said Allah if you're
in a blessing then be vigilant about
that blessing because disobedience will
take that blessing away from you so
people used to know that people don't
know that anymore they've forgotten that
just the nemah of the houses we live in
think about that really
nana of the houses we live in the nana
of water the nemah of food on our table
the Ngata of clothes to cover our
nakedness to keep us warm the nemah of a
bed you know the namma of being healthy
I mean never todavía that you got up
this morning and you weren't sick think
of how many people got up this morning
they had to empty out a bag that had
their their urine in it a bag that
they'd have to change every day think of
how many people got up this morning
think of how many people that got up
they couldn't go to the toilet or that
bled blood think of how many people with
asthma that couldn't breathe this
morning that woke up you know without
really think of how many people that
spent their night coughing last night
couldn't sleep because of a cough really
that's why I mean then just shook up
just showing gratitude for a loss of
Hannah a tad just gratitude I mean this
country you have to wonder about this
country just the blessings that this
country has been given and the
complaints of people but also the Muslim
world Muslims complain a lot now I mean
Muslim there's still people and of all
the Muslim people that I know the best
ones that I've seen are pride the
Mauretania the second best are the
Moroccans Moroccans are pretty
impressive if you go to Morocco you ask
because i if you go to some color I'm
going to mention them but I've been to
some Muslim countries you because I
always do this it's a test of levels of
gratitude you ask the taxi driver how
things are going they start complaining
the gas is too high you know this that
the government etc etc you ask a
Moroccan taxi driver I'm serious you get
in rockin taxi you say Kiva da hua a
town dude I'm fine animal I'm in a
blessing I swear you they you know 90%
or more of those guys you ask them how
things are happening now I was in one
place in a Muslim country and I asked
this guy how things were going he said
algebra
he said petrol is so expensive
I'm not making any money and I said you
know what the complaint will make it get
more expensive if you complain about
it's going to get more expensive like
Americans they're all grumbling about
the price of gas this is the cheapest
gas in the world they drive the biggest
cars in the world look at the cars they
drive some of these cars I don't know
how they get them in their garages do
you know and the bigger the car the more
arrogant the person generally it's
axiomatic the smaller the car the more
humble by the nature of cars you know
people get in big cars especially those
big trucks that elevate them those
people it's amazing some of those
characters you know I'm sorry about
truck people but I've just watched them
and observed them on the road in fact I
just saw two people today I was with
Issa and you know there's a lot of
traffic and there were two cars one was
a truck person and I let him go I didn't
have to do that but I just stopped my
car a little early and let him get in
the thing he didn't even acknowledge me
not even a you know a wave that's fine
you know if you do things to get thanks
from people you'll be disappointed you
know but just to be human being try to
maintain our humanity out there right so
I'm that's what I'm doing out there
despite it all I'm just fighting to stay
human because I don't want to turn into
one of those people
so he goes car truck guy as if it's his
right you know of course I have to stop
he's a truck and I'm just a little car
you know but that's the reason so he
goes on fine that's fine and I said
watch this next guy small car I told
that he said I said he'll wave right so
he goes on you know he gives me a wave
like thanks a lot you know because he
sees your cars a little bigger than mine
you're letting me go
you know whatever I mean it's
interesting why people are like that you
know but there's people out there like
that do you know if you have people that
have very fancy cars it intense and
Aleya
aha rahu stamina human being start
becoming oppressive when they start
feeling independently wealthy it's just
ecology that's why a wealthy person
that's humble is something very high in
a lot of sight because the nature of and
that's a way a lot of people are out
there they're just arrogant either
really arrogant there's people out there
they think they own the road and you
will see generally if he's got a 1965
Volkswagen Beetle he doesn't have that
psychology he's just driving around
trying to get where he's going he's very
humble and but if he's got a Jaguar you
know this or that and he's out there
with that arrogance and it's all about
thinking that I'm independently wealthy
it's an arrow from Allah if Allah gives
you wealth it should humble you it
shouldn't make you arrogant should do
the opposite because you look at other
people out there and you feel super
Haleh I don't you know you people say
what did I do to deserve this they can
do it both ways if somebody too horrible
happens they say what did I do to
deserve this
you exist that's that is enough as a
crime right really it's enough as a
crime to think that you exist beside
Allah you are a criminal because let you
die in Allah there's nothing worthy of
worship but Allah and yet here you are
walking around thinking this little
contingent creature that is totally
dependent for every breath for every
instant on Allah subhana wa tada and he
thinks he's independent if you're in a
state of heedlessness you are a criminal
if you forget Allah for one instant you
are a criminal and you stand condemned
and anything that happens to you you
deserve it because you've forgotten who
allah subhana wa tada is yeah you
wouldn't send Mahara kabir Abeka Kadeem
what has deluded you about your Lord
what what has deluded you about your
Lord why are you in a state of delusion
thinking that you don't need every
instant you don't need a lawsuit pan
over to Ana just to take the next breath
to have the next heartbeat the heartbeat
what activates it an electrical impulse
who's activating it a lawsuit behind
with youth
get your brain is not your brain your
brain is not doing that they don't even
know what's doing it you can cut all of
the heart you can cut all of your nerves
to the brain and the heart still beats
right there's some people doctors at
Asia you studied physiology here are you
a doctor
yeah what makes the heart beat seriously
tell us and all this knowledge they gave
you at the university what makes the
heart beat
do you know physiologically what makes
it beat right there's a there's a
electrical activity there's no doubt
about that
right but what what makes that beat why
I mean you well I mean no but seriously
how can you explain that be they don't
even know why cells heart cells start
beating at a certain point they beat
before the central nervous system is
even formed in the infant right in the
embryo what makes those cells just start
beating not only that if they cut them
up they've done these experiments they
cut them up and separate them they start
beating on different beats they bring
them back together they synchronize
again right I mean that's one of the
things that's in that book evolutions
and he talks about that look at the
hadith of the Prophet when he told
people to close ranks in their prayer
because he said if you don't your hearts
will differ one of the things about
people that are close together their
hearts synchronized we know that now
seriously your breathing will
synchronize women who live in the same
house will start having the periods at
the same time of the month they
synchronize it's well known if you live
in close circulation with people you
begin to breathe as one and that look at
that Hadees staked close together in the
prayer line if you don't your hearts
will be different because you want to
beat together as one thing I mean look
at this hadith
Aladin you cut in a liability no kata
Rocephin Ola Bell Idina patroness often
Booya no muscles as if they're a
well-structured house they fight
together in one rank as if they're a
well structured house
what's a well structured house it's well
designed Muslims fight based on strategy
on thinking on design right military art
straight they don't just go out and do
things without planning he gave you the
blessing of this you were just like
those Mu Shu became cadet occur come to
mental Furman Allah I think um you were
just like that before and then Allah
gave you the blessing of Islam what
woody why you think you're so different
I mean the beauty of Islam for from one
of the many beauties but one of the
beauties of Islam and this is what I
love about share abdullah bin via islam
you see there's two ways of embracing
there's the embrace of an equal and then
there's the embrace of a superior did
you ever think about that
what's the embrace of an equal well I
mean you embrace somebody who's the same
as you like if I embrace you you're my
brother you're a little bigger than me
but we have an equal embrace I put my
arms around you you put your arms around
me
what's the embrace of a inferior a
superior to an inferior the child the
child can't put his arms around you you
pick them up and you embrace them and
you hold them see that's Islam Islam can
take all those other religions and just
embrace them all God is so great that
God will even allow somebody that denies
him to exist I mean that's greatness
he'll feed him nurture him give him
reign keep his body healthy give him a
wife children that love him Allah will
do all of that and that person denies
God's existence
all that does is it it shows the
greatness of God now if if you can't let
that person survive it's like there's a
story it's an apocryphal story I don't
know how but there's a wisdom in moment
of Azadi mentions it about ibraheem and
asa damn one night a he's he never ate
alone sane abraham ever he always found
somebody eat with but
night he couldn't find anybody he went
out found a man and he bottom he was a
mushrik and before the man ate he
blessed his food in the names of his
idols and when abraham heard that he
said you can't eat any of my food you're
an idol worshipper get out of here the
man left and then allah revealed to
ibrahim that that man i have been
feeding him for forty years
and patient with his idolatry you
couldn't be patient with him for one
meal and so if i hit my knees and i went
and found that man and apologized to him
and invited him back to his table and
the man asked him why and he told him in
the man became muslim that's islam we
can embrace them
she Dawa what is Dawa in Arabic what
does that word mean Dawa
it's an invitation now if I put a gun to
your head and say you're coming to
dinner tonight at my house is that an
invitation seriously it's not is it
that you're not inviting somebody you're
forcing them to come lettre have a dean
an invitation is only valid if you allow
the person the possibility of refusing
the invitation now who would allow the
person that possibility a generous host
Allah has made a house he called it
dawdled Islam and he invited his
creation to it and he gave them the
option to refuse to come to the house so
if people refuse it why why are you so
fearful of them why are we so afraid of
those people you should have no fear the
see the thing about people that are
ignorant they fear that that's that's
what a fundamentalist is is somebody
who's afraid of the other he's afraid of
having his Eman he's so afraid and his
he's so afraid that he won't even allow
for the other to exist he can't he's not
going to allow that possibility he wants
them eliminated
really and that's a disease that's why
Islam is the only religion that's ever
allowed other religions to exist side by
side with it you study the history of
religion Christians never did it this
all this tolerance now it came from
John Locke who wasn't even a he didn't
even like Christianity or David Hume who
didn't like Christian that's where they
got all this ideology do you think these
founding fathers were Christians see
Christians now they brag about how great
Christianity is in America were number
one blah blah blah they don't even
realize that this is all anti-christian
the whole thing was founded based on
people that rejected Christianity it
really was Thomas Jefferson wrote a
gospel called the Gospel according to
Thomas Jefferson and he took out
everything that bothered him I mean
that's blasphemy you tell a
fundamentalist that he'll say that guy's
going to hell well why are you boasting
about him as this great Patriot and
great American if he's going to hell
seriously
so where did they get those ideas the
Muslims had those ideas centuries before
the Christians we got it from our
booklet Carroll heffa Dean there's no
coercion in the religion because we are
not afraid
but now the Muslims are so empty they
have no knowledge of their religion
they're threatened by all of these
ideologies out there you see really
because it's all there's no see if
you're on you're not on solid ground
you're afraid of the slightest wind if
your house is made of you know in in
West Africa they have these houses made
of grass right if your house is made of
grass you're afraid of wind if your
house is made of stone you think wind
bothers you wind doesn't bother you're
not afraid of it it's not going to do
anything to you but now we're afraid of
it because our house is no longer solid
it's not on solid foundation because
we've displaced our teaching
we don't have educated scholars anymore
we don't have them with the Kalima we
don't have theologian do you think we
have any theologians in the Muslim world
right now I'm serious most of these
Christian theologians that are really
well trained because I've read some of
their books they have brilliant they
have genius is still working in theology
they would wrap rings around most of
these so-called Muslim scholars
cuz Muslims don't even know there to
hate anymore really
that's why Muslims are so fearful of all
this stuff because we've lost our
tradition we don't learn it we don't
study it we don't think about it we
don't reflect on it so that's the second
mahkum of sugar and then he says that
the basis of lack of gratitude is
ignorance well also local data sugar Al
Jarreau bin mo it's ignorant see if
you're ignorant you don't realize how
much blessing you actually have and if
you don't realize that then what
subbable jihad been amicus or al Midler
and the reason for ignorant about your
blessing is your lack of knowledge about
our loss of behan with data first of all
what is the greatest Nana
well what proceeds even islam existence
narrated egad that he has given you
existence consciousness
what an mo really people say oh I don't
want that namma why to have just to be
conscious to have a conscious your
essential creature to have the ability
to think what an mo what is the next
namah namah tude M dad that he sustains
your existence I mean I read this I was
reading this book is called the atheists
the Atheist debaters handbook and it
teaches atheist how to debate religious
people right
I wouldn't recommend reading it but I
mean it's it's interesting if you're you
know I think for me it's just
understanding how they think you know
because if you're confronted with that
the thing about a Muslim scholar or a
daddy or anybody working in in the field
you have to be prepared for questions
for you really do and you shouldn't be
afraid I'm not afraid because I've
studied my Dean I've studied Torah he'd
I'm not afraid anything they throw at me
not worried about it but in this book he
said he was talking about the Ark the
cosmological argument which is the
favorite argument of Muslims right and
he said
these he said these people argue that
everything is contingent upon something
else and then he says which is that's
patently false
for instance human society is not
contingent upon anything other than
humans right this is his argument so
he's giving somebody fuel right
so he says human society is only needs
humans right so it doesn't need anything
outside of humans so there's something
that's not contingent upon anything
other than the thing itself so he said
so why should the universe not be
contingent upon anything other than
itself
that's his argument that's a that's in
the Atheist debaters published by
Prometheus books and they published very
anti Islamic books as well they
published there's this guy even what a
rock right you know that guy that's
probably from Prometheus books they
published a book called the problem of
God right well I mean they admit he God
is a problem and for them he is a
problem he's going to get bigger and
bigger the problem right
but anyway so look at that argument all
right well human society is not
contingent upon anything other than
humans what about space can't have
humans without space so that's not part
of that's outside of humans your space
is outside of yourself you occupy space
without space you couldn't exist what
about time can't have human society
without time right I mean it's an
addictive thing so they say well the
universe doesn't need anything but
itself the universe needs space with the
University of space dummy right well
wait a second what was there before
there was no universe nothing so the
universe needed space to exist in right
doesn't it I mean the universe can't
exist without space the so if you're
going to say universes space well what
was there before the universe nothing
well so it had to fill something right
and space is dependent on what what is
space dependent on
matter you have to have something to
fill the space if there's nothing that
fills the space there's nothing so
everything is depending on something
outside of itself right I mean this is
this is just thinking things through but
this is the nature of ass officed the
nature of Sophos is that they make what
what Socrates asked what ass office was
he said they make the better the worst
cause look like the better one we calm
lawyers now right lawyers that's what a
lawyer does he can take the worst case
they say a jury is 12 people who decide
who paid the most for their lawyer
that's what they do they just decide who
was the most eloquent who is the most
convincing and that usually is the one
that cost the most money not always but
not usually so ignorant about a lawsuit
vahana with Donna and Morten him
why are you ignorant about a lot turcica
to or Fein at me he see you have to
reflect on the blessings of Allah Allah
subhanAllah darkness tells us to reflect
he says the Prophet SAW isome said let
half a coral feel air but I can't ever
go to VI lae he don't reflect on Allah
but reflect on the blessings of Allah
what does that mean not to reflect on
allah subhanhu that not to reflect on
allah you cannot conceive you can't
conceptualize allah you can't you cannot
your intellect is finite and you cannot
conceptualize the infinite you just
can't do it
and therefore it's Haram to think about
Allah you cannot think about allah
sydney abu bakr said l hold Oh
hell Allah he is Scirocco that to
reflect on allah subhana wa da Dada his
nature is shirk right well as you an
Iraqi he otaku and the incapacity to
conceptualize Allah is conceptualizing
Allah in other words the fact that you
know that Allah is laser committed ishe
you know who Allah is when you know
there's nothing like Allah you know who
Allah is that's why the
as him said about the end of time in the
end of time
he said if everything gets confusing
know that your Lord does not have one
eye right so anybody that tells you that
this is God it has one eye this can't be
God right this is not God but they
called the almighty dollar people die
for it
Fiza be to dole out really they'll die
should he do the law people will kill
for this it's a piece of paper you can
light it on fire and it disappears you
can't do that to gold
Gold doesn't disappear and if you're
going to worship something worship gold
you know this is not worthy of worship
neither is gold but I mean if you're
going to compare the two get it straight
this is not money this is not real money
this is monopoly it's a paper game right
but they've convinced people that this
has intrinsic value it doesn't they just
print them up that's why things get it
more expensive every year because they
just keep printing it up right it's not
money it's not God and yet people
worship it they'll die for it they
believe that their sustenance comes from
this they believe that there's people
that think that the only reason they can
buy food is because they have money in
their pocket don't worship the Sun in
the moon but worship the one who created
the Sun and the moon right that table
with the ships well I'll come up don't
worship the Sun or the moon but worship
the one who created the Sun in the moon
don't worship the the dollar don't
worship gold worship the one who created
all those things Allah subhana WA Ta'ala
says food guru
Allah Allah he look him to flee hone
remember the blessings of Allah what is
the greatest blessing of Allah of all
the blessings what is the greatest
blessing of Allah as really the Prophet
is the greatest blessing he's the
greatest blessing he's an animated Cobra
he's an amateur Ozma
that is why reflecting on him is the
highest thing that you can reflect on in
this world because he has the qualities
of human perfection he has all the luck
he has the a lot of divine attributes
that's why Allah called him but are
opened rahim
these are two attributes of allah he's
not divine but he is the most generous
of those humans that can show generosity
nobody was more generous than mara a to
occur Amaterasu Dida I never saw anyone
more generous than the prophet of Allah
I never saw anybody more gentle Mara a
to Eliana arica - Meera Sudha I never
saw anybody more gentle than the
messenger of allah the prophet sal Ison
was gentle in his nature so reflecting
on the prophets a license attributes his
qualities that's why learning his serie
learning his Shama ill all of these
things will draw you closer to Allah
I really they'll draw you and they'll
make you love him more and more the more
you find out about him the more you have
to love him and that's why the most
ignorant people of him are the furthest
from Allah and those who know him the
most are the closest to Allah
really and that's why even one of them
said whoever sees me will enter paradise
this is a shop hat it's a famous
statement of Samara but somebody's one
of the owner may heard that he said abu
jahal saw the prophet and he goes to
hell and they told this man that and he
said Allah Mira nebula
your team Benny Hashim he didn't see the
prophet of Allah he saw the orphan of
Benny Hashim had he seen the prophet of
Allah he would have been for paradise
you see to see someone and to see their
reality are two different things and and
so seeing the prophets all I am is
seeing who he was and he was a little
colicky let the best of Allah's creation
so he is an admitted Cobra right because
without him you wouldn't know Allah had
it not been for him you wouldn't know
Allah well Olin Wasi apart that they
have become Al Queda and more salt had
it not been for the means you would have
not known the end
that's why why did Allah say Muhammad
Allah saw a lot to become Muslim yet why
wasn't it just a shadow Allah in a hail
Allah
why not that really think about that
why do you have to say wash had one in
Mohammed up why if shirk is the only
thing Allah won't forgive why did he
make his toe he'd well I shadow under
Mohammad ur Rasool Allah and I bear
witness that Muhammad is the Messenger
of Allah that's part of till he'd you
can't have to hate without that I
guarantee you in our understanding of of
towheads and motto he'd is three things
it's the Allah he at the Nevada and the
summer yet right if you don't believe in
in in the o Muhammad that's your toe he
is not complete so knowing Allah is one
is not enough you have to know who
taught you that because the the Jews and
the Christians no longer know Allah is
one the way we know Allah is one the
Christians believe that he's
three-in-one and the Jews believe that
he has parts right the Jews actually
believe they have anthropomorphism if
you study Jewish theology they have
anthropomorphism they believe that Allah
is in space Speight if you're in space
then you fill up you need space
so you're dependent how can Allah be in
space but then you what then that means
alot nothing no that doesn't mean a lot
of nothing it just means you can't think
of what Allah is because all you know is
space so you assume everything has to
fill space that's only because your
analogically reasoning with your
intellect but when we speak about Allah
leisa committee he che there's nothing
like him
so all we know is he doesn't have space
we don't know his nature because we
can't know his nature but we know his
the negative aspects we know the selby
yet right so allah has existence without
space now Oh Sue Ann Veronica Roth are
bad he says if you forget the Nima if
you if you're ignorant of Anatomy you
don't know it and if you don't know it
you don't give gratitude and if you
don't give gratitude it gets cut off
that how do I know plenty like that so
you have to know the name of Allah
because you'll lose them what does he
say well Sunni remember alpha played era
thought about the first the
root blessings are for right
the first blessing is the nutfah because
all of living creatures came from it in
other words you were initially as I got
and Allah brought you forth from as I
got as I got is just it's a two proteins
that come together and form the first
cell that's what we were initially and
then a lot of right this is a blessing
Lydia regime Gaza and Jimmy Jimmy a
thermal everything that was brought out
Allah brought forth from the earth was
was the blessing of bringing forth all
of the plant life the vegetative life so
the first is animal life and then
vegetative life right and then what he
says the next is elma right because
without water there's no animal or
vegetable life so you have animal life
vegetable life and then you have the
blessing of water without which neither
can exist and then fire right because
fire with it you have light that you can
see and live and then you have all the
blessings of food from it right and then
also because for the people of inner
sight and he said this is why all four
of them were mentioned at the end of
surah tilapia well had he named he leti
thakura harmonium fiag harris orator
welcome well bhava it NFC as Oh again
see why did he I mean look at this woman
after the NAMM what a gently had never
matured Eman from the greatest of
blessings and the most exalted is the
blessing of Eman the manometer Rasool
and the blessing of the result but see
Eman also comes from the prophets do you
see in other words if you didn't have
prophets you wouldn't know what to
believe so recognize the the
I seen of the profit there's no doubt
our belief is our greatest Nana because
by it we will enter paradise insha'Allah
but the blessing of the prophet
sallallaahu Saddam is that he came to
teach us this
Eman hamdulillah the manometer for an
Zuma and Jana Nam in Haiti Oh Mary
gently net and then that he brought us
out from the best of all the the
nation's right see we could have been
Muslims from Benny SAE which is a great
blessing but it's not the blessing of
being Muslims from the prophets OMA we
could have been Muslims from that from
the nasarah it's not the same as being
Muslims from Cairo matino chitlin we
could have been Muslims from the time of
Ibrahim which would have been a great
blessing but not the same as being from
how people are most of us a lot easier
so that is a great blessing to be from
the people of Islam now if you look here
at these these blessings because the I
mean just really think about this a
variety to met to noon have you
reflected on what you to moon that goes
for men and women because the woman also
the she has that as well right both men
and women have this in at the woman is
the ovary and the man it's the semen
right and that those two come together
and the Prophet SAW Isom taught us that
see people didn't know that the woman
had a role in they thought you know they
didn't know that before that so he says
allah subhana wa tada says allah a tomb
a tomb known have you considered what
you what comes late have you considered
that anthem to hope oh no I'm not hot oh
did we create it or did you create it
right I mean have you reflect on did we
create it or do in other words netid
egad
did you bring yourselves into existence
or did we bring you into existence
reflect on that
that's the a pseudonym a not fun right
and then Allah subhana WA Ta'ala says
Nanoka darkness be no common-mode intent
economy oh no - nah no Cadorna day no
common motor when a woman an ovum is
broken we have determined amongst you
your life spans and we will not be
stinted in that determination right
Allah
Anoop Adira I'm thorough c'mon unshaken
female Attalla moon ah that you will
replace the likenesses of you we will
bring you again from something you're
not even aware of
now this share abdullah bin VII said is
even the possibility of cloning is in
that ayah because he said Allah and new
bed dear I am pathetic oh we can change
the way you're being created one on
shale comfy monitor no moon and will
create you a different way we're still
doing it
if you have a test-tube baby we're still
doing it you take your ovum out in an
operation you take your semen out and
you put them together in a test-tube
baby replant that we're still doing it
don't get deluded you think you can
clone don't get deluded it's still Allah
subhana WA Ta'ala right I knew but did
oh I'm that akan will change your
likenesses one own elcome female
that animal in things that you don't
even know about yet 1400 years ago when
I patted him - Menasha Tallulah and you
know how you were first created fellow
that to the qur'an would that you
wouldn't reflect on this and you you
knew how we first brought you about
there will be other ways which is also
an indication we can bring you about in
the next world because that's what the
initial Tufts here was a fara a - metal
tone and how have you thought about what
you're cultivating
intimacies at our ownable i Manahan
Rossetti own are you doing it are you
cultivating this or are we call
evading it because you go out you put
the seed in you cover it with earth you
water it did you do that or are we doing
it in other words all you are as a
suburb but who's really doing it all who
gave you the ability to walk who gave
you the strength in your bodies from
your food to do all these things who did
it all Allah subhanAllah Don well Ilona
Shahada donohue Obama for welcome to the
cajon Enomoto moon banana moon so had we
wanted we would have made it all safe in
other words you plant it and we just
destroy it
look at all the things that can happen
once you plant Allah can send locusts
they eat it all he can send a drought
kill it all so you think you're doing
this Allah subhana WA Ta'ala says then
you'll say oh we're model no no now
we're we're deprived right so you think
you're doing it's all to remind people
you're not doing anything don't get
deluded about this
now look at this every two minima a
Liddy teixeira bone haven't you thought
about water that you're drinking haven't
you reflected on the water that you're
drinking and tomb right and Zell to move
home in animals me I'm an animals II
don't did you maintain it in the clouds
right are you the one that brought it up
into the clouds or are we the ones that
brought it down to you did you do it or
did we do it right I mean now think of
the hydrological cycle all that allah
subhanallah dad doing and then never to
nog right and then allah reminds us lone
Hashanah who Jojo had we wanted we would
have made it bitter brackish fellow that
to scoodle would that you would just
show gratitude it's all about gratitude
that's all I said a vitamin or elegy to
don't look at the fire that you're
bringing about antimension shahadat ahem
not on what you own
did you bring that fire about or did we
bring it about who dried the tree right
why does the tree change it goes you
can't light up try to start a fire with
a living tree really try to do it try to
start a living tree on fire who dried it
out right who made it flammable
antimension shot at the nanomachine did
we do it or you right Nana Donna had to
theöto mohammed an animal queen we did
this as a Ted Kyra WOM Italian McQueen
and a way of making travelers have ease
in their journeys the ability to light
fire on a cold night when you're
traveling forcibly bismi rabbika
darlings say subhanAllah I mean that
really reflect on these and then say
subhanAllah
who's that this is this is a man right
unlettered from the Arabian Peninsula
this is just one small verse and he's
saying think about those for nem the
Nama of your fluids your vital fluids
the name of your agriculture that gave
you those vital fluids then
of water that gave you the agriculture
and then the name of fire that gives you
benefit from from and then sub X Mel B
for the oxen within WAP and newsroom and
I swear by the where I've placed the
stars well in know who doc cusamano Tata
Manali this is a great oath if you bet
new look up into the sky it's a great
oath now they tell you oh that stars 400
million light years away mean traveling
186,000 miles per second it would take
you 400 million years to get there and
they know that now 400 million life did
you see what he said at the Astronomy
thing you know what he said I don't know
people were paying attention
okay you know what he said he said if
when you look up in the sky all you
should see is light because when they
take their telescopes the closer they
get the more dense the light gets if did
you see those pictures remember they
showed us how the sky should look
remember they said that how this guy
should look at night if it was following
normal physics that's why they got the
idea of dark matter because they realize
only some of these lights are
penetrating what's happening why are
only some of them penetrating was some
you will bottom wama adraka melodic
animal Talib the night and the light
visitors the stars that visit you and
what will convey to you what those
visiting stars are the ones who
penetrate in other words there's all
these ones up there that are penetrating
but there's ones that are called badhak
who taught him that who taught it why
does allah swore an oath about that was
summer you will bod up whoever thought
of that by the heavens and those night
visitors welcome ibadah in other words
their light is visiting the earth and
what will convey to you what a night
visitor is because the Arabs knew what a
night you know what a night visitor is a
photic he's the guy that knocks on your
door at night
he shows up that's what I thought Italy
is but that's not the thought of
I was talking about what's in there you
will thought one that that I come about
it an engine without the the star that
pierces and comes to the earth really
it's you know it just goes on and on and
on you just I'm serious
you just start looking at that book and
you'll just start seeing it just goes on
and on and on I mean why don't they
believe because they've never even
examined it when I was 16 years old I
came to the realization that the only
reason I was a Christian is because I
was born in a Christian family I
realized that I said the only because
I'm a Christian could my parents told me
Jesus was my Savior bla bla bla right
that's the only reason I realized that I
just realized I thought if I was born in
Sri Lanka I would be a Buddhist because
my parents would tell me here's your God
and pray to him you'll get whatever you
want if I was born in Israel I would
have been a Jew maybe or a Palestinian
who but I realized that I realized at
sixteen I remember very clearly that
realization the only reason I'm a
Christian is because I was born a
Christian and then I thought I should
think about this and then I thought okay
let me look at these world religions and
I took this class in world religions at
the universe at a college and we had the
book by Houston Smith world religions
religions a man or something time and I
started reading about this I thinks they
have 1 billion followers what do they
believe they have this and I started
thinking about all these different
religion I started studying and then I
remember hitting on Islam I thought now
wait a second what's going on here and
then I went nice God I put on and I read
the introduction I remember saying the
whole of the Islamic Creed is summed up
in the statement there is no god but God
and Muhammad is His Messenger
I haven't what does that mean you know
really what there is no god but God I
mean that's such a strange statement
when you first hear that you know I
don't know about people in here but the
first time I heard that I remember
thinking well I wanted to know what that
means there's no
oh god but God I mean now I know what it
means but then you know I was thinking
what does that mean I'm is better -
tries it there's nothing worthy of
worship in reality but God but there's
no god but God is very strange
translation but I remember it just it
and there was some very intriguing about
it there's no god but God and I remember
our sin there's no god but God it was
kind of like some kind of Zen Cohen like
what's the trick here you know what is
it what's like what what am I supposed
to realize here and then I realized what
it meant I just that's it there's no god
but God it's that's that makes perfect
sense there's nothing else that can be
worshipped but what's worshiped in truth
let my mood to be Hopkins see you a lot
that's how our anima interpreted Lam a
Buddha be - see wallah there is nothing
worshipped in truth except Allah
everything other than Allah that is
worshipped is worshipped in by falsehood
but then the second one will Muhammad
Rasul Allah Muhammad is the Messenger of
God what does that mean who was that man
then you start reading about that you
realize this is amazing
you know what and why haven't we been
taught this because I remember when I
became Massaro my father a letter and he
wrote me a letter back and he said
because he the first thing he did he
read Gibbon the decline fall of Roman
Empire he was read the section on Islam
and given actually despite some of the
things that he says he preferred Islam
to Christianity and he does say that
it's a great religion and he talked
about the theology of Islam makes a lot
more sense than the theology of
Christianity so he read that and he
brought me the letter saying that our
ignorant of Islam is historical you know
we should know more about this religion
the fact that it had such a massive
impact on the world why don't we know
about that I mean really why don't
people know about the Prophet Muhammad's
Eliza as a historical they everybody
knows about Napoleon do you think
Napoleon had more impact on on human
history people know about Nepal
they know about Waterloo people know
about you know Michael Jordan really
they know he's the greatest basketball
player that ever lived
Americans know them American know about
you know General Grant they know about
Sherman
you know the defeat of Atlanta I know
about all these things that are so
insignificant in terms of human history
and nobody yet you ask them about the
Prophet Muhammad SAW lice em ya know
that's that that's that crazy religion
right really why is it crazy well that
guy who sama Bin Ladin well no wait a
second let's follow this through here do
you remember that guy down and I mean
I'm not comparing but I'm just saying
same logic you where that guy down in
Waco Texas which guy that guy remember
that guy that you know David Koresh oh
yeah that crazy guy wait wasn't he a
Christian well he said he was right well
okay so you mean he doesn't represent
all Christians no that would be stupid
too so so does Osama bin Laden represent
all Muslims I mean same logic by just a
simple I was on a plane once and my wife
we were in that uh you know those that
were that your face each other Southwest
Airlines you face each other and my wife
was facing this lady and about halfway
through the flight she just kind of
blurted out because when I was wearing a
hijab you know and she had her baby with
her and she looked she said did you ever
see that movie with not without my
daughter that's what she said so I
looked at this lady and I said what do
you mean by that and she said well you
know it was about these Muslims that
like kidnap babies and thing and I just
said to her I said have you ever looked
on your milk carton you know that thing
that says missing on the back or you got
those things in the mail that say
missing she said yeah I said do you get
them regularly she said yeah
I says amazing huh now if you read it
it'll say like Toby Smith last seen with
Kelly Smith
right so who kidnapped her the
biological parent because they're almost
all those kidnappings are divorced
situations and I just said to her you
know Americans are kidnapping their
babies all the time I mean that's why
they're so just because a film was made
of a guy who happened to be an Iranian
who happened to want his child to be
raised in his culture in his land so he
took his kid to Iran one case I mean do
you think that all Muslims are like that
and she says why I guess not
yeah that makes sense you know but I
mean I said if they would teach logic in
their public schools just teach them how
to think logically
it's really sad people can't think
anymore you know every time there's a
like a terrorist thing all the like I
have a friend who's an Egyptian he does
Egyptian tours every time there's a
terrorist event in anywhere in the world
by Muslims all his flights to Cairo the
people cancel them
you'd be you'll be much safer in Cairo
than you would going into San Francisco
today you have much better chance of
surviving a day in Cairo than a day in
San Francisco really but they people
can't think anymore it's like getting
struck by lightning you know I mean
who's it's you know it's very highly
unlikely that you'll be struck by
lightning so don't start worrying about
it it's all fear this would show up on
you I think I'm a fuckup
she'll probably I'm gonna cope with a
shell Don's always all about fear don't
go there
those are dangerous people I mean people
ask me aren't you frightened going to
the Muslim world I said I'm frightened
living in America if I'm gonna be
frightened of I'm gonna be frightened
about realistic concerns right really I
mean I'm I should be worried about
living in California we're on the most
the most incredible fault line on this
planet according to geologists it goes
right through Hayward California right
is right right under Zaytuna Institute
the biggest fault line on the planet if
I'm going to start worrying I should
worry about that but why worry I mean
what whose hands are we in really whose
hands I am I in my hands until hidaka
Samantha's going energy I mean are you
protecting yourself really it's all
crazy so just be grateful to say
alhamdulillah should believe that start
thanking Allah