5- Usul al-Kafi - Silence and Contemplation - Sayed Mohammad Baqer Qazwini

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Usul al-Kafi 01, offered in 2017-2018, is now available to take online at Al-Hujjah Islamic Seminary. The first five classes are available to view as a demo to get an idea of how the course is instructed. To register for this class, see all class videos, and take the exams, visit hujjahseminary.com. For any questions, email us at [email protected]

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[0:05]audhu billahi min as-shaytan ar-rajim bismillah r-rahman r-rahim al-hamdu lillahi rabbil alameen

[0:16]wa sallahu allah sayidina muhammadin wa ala nabina Tajin la sala allah

[0:25]mohammed mohammed we continue our journey into the exploration of the role

[0:36]of the intellect the aachen how significant it is how the religion

[0:41]of god and the reward of god are both based on the

[0:49]level of intellect and how can we develop our intellect we continue

[0:54]our discussion of tradition one point one point twelve which is one

[1:01]of the longest traditions in the book of coffee it's a wonderful

[1:10]narration it's a wonderful narration by al imam al karim salawatullahi on

[1:19]e in which he talks to his student Hisham abdel hakim and

[1:32]he shows him practical ways to actually develop the intellect so we

[1:41]continue our journey into this amazing hadith and if you turn to

[1:47]page 73 we see that the Imam Ali in Salam is showing

[1:53]him ways to develop the intellect and the previous course we examined

[1:59]about five ways so far in which we can develop our intellect

[2:04]let's examine a sixth way yaa Hashem in Nanak unleash a in

[2:14]the leland waddell illa llah Kalitta Oh Hashem there is a guide

[2:23]for everything everything has a guide and the guide for the intellect

[2:31]is contemplation if you want access to your intellect and to develop

[2:37]the intellect one of the keys is contemplation to think contemplation and

[2:44]thinking is one of the most important acts of worship and the

[2:50]religion of Islam as the hadith states one hour of contemplation has

[2:56]more value than 70 units of prayer or 70 years of prayer

[3:05]according to one narration that's because if you pray for 70 years

[3:10]without contemplation without the use of the intellect without really knowing God

[3:16]and the system of God that prayer does not have much value

[3:24]but one hour of contemplation which allows you to see the secrets

[3:29]of God's system the glory of God's creation how to worship the

[3:34]Almighty God how to save yourself and achieve salvation that's very valuable

[3:39]Abu Dharr one of the great companions of the Holy Prophet peace

[3:48]be upon him and his family was truly a man of intellect

[3:50]he used in his intellect to achieve such a high status you

[3:57]remember abou that when he was a young man when he was

[4:00]a youth he had not such a good history he came from

[4:07]a tribe that was known to loot the caravans you know like

[4:11]those thieves that you find in the middle of the desert raiding

[4:18]caravans eluding them he came from that tribe and when he first

[4:22]heard the message of the Prophet he said to himself let me

[4:28]go and meet this man it he is saying the truth I'll

[4:33]listen to him maybe I'll accept his message if not I'll just

[4:37]kill him and save everyone from this big headache he went with

[4:44]the intention of potentially harming the Prophet yet when he found the

[4:51]Prophet and his amazing words and those words unlocked the barriers that

[4:57]had surrounded his intellect and he engaged in deep contemplation he became

[5:03]one of the best companions of the Prophet an imam in baccarat

[5:06]Eason I'm the fifth amount of alien bait he says a Buddha

[5:13]would worship God all day and most of his worship was too

[5:18]fickle most of his worship was contemplation most of his day he

[5:27]would engage in serious important contemplation thinking about his status in this

[5:33]life thinking about the temporary nature of this world thinking about the

[5:40]permanent Hereafter thinking about how to restrain his desires how to tame

[5:45]his soul and prepare it for the day of judgment so the

[5:53]Imam Mahdi's salam says one of the keys to unlocking the potential

[5:57]of your intellect is to engage in serious contemplation meditation serious critical

[6:04]thinking every person who possesses a high level of intellect you will

[6:11]find that an important part of their life was based on contemplation

[6:18]we have stories many stories from our great scholars and Moraga in

[6:23]which they have stated that the knowledge they've achieved the status they've

[6:31]achieved was more from contemplation the reading you read that's very important

[6:36]to because we need the knowledge we need the data right but

[6:39]then they would engage in serious contemplation so that's one of the

[6:44]key is to unlocking the potential of your intellect and ask yourself

[6:50]how much time do you spend the day seriously thinking about these

[6:55]issues engaging in serious contemplation it's difficult or requires concentration we're not

[7:03]used to it but that's how we unlock the potential of the

[7:08]intellect analyst panatela has endowed us with then the amon-ra sallam says

[7:13]after saying that contemplation guides you to the intellect what God you

[7:21]contemplation the amantani sallam says what daily note effect core assigned and

[7:28]the guide for contemplation is silence silence in the religion of Islam

[7:34]is highly encouraged highly praised and has a special status exercising silence

[7:40]one of the qualities of intellectual people people of the intellect are

[7:46]those who engage in silence frequently they're good listeners one of the

[7:56]qualities of true leaders are good listeners most people don't know how

[8:00]to listen yes we can hear but we don't listen even when

[8:05]we're engaging in a simple conversation right oftentimes we're just concerned about

[8:08]getting our points across proving that you're right what matters to you

[8:17]we're not really listening to the other side we're not really looking

[8:22]deep into their eyes into their soul to see the point they're

[8:25]trying to make or maybe the struggles and the challenges that they're

[8:30]sharing with us very few of us are good listeners but one

[8:37]of the qualities of people of the intellect of true leaders is

[8:41]that they have the ability to listen that's why some companies today

[8:47]when they're hiring someone for an important position one of the very

[8:53]important qualities that they're looking for is one not only someone who

[8:58]can been saying who knows how to talk who's got skills that's

[9:02]very good but they're also looking for listening skills is this person

[9:09]good at listening proper true genuine listening or no that's a very

[9:15]important quality they put multiple questions in one question to test whether

[9:24]you're listening or not so the Emiratis setup says one of the

[9:28]guides to the 2v2 contemplation is silence to actually listen to be

[9:38]a good listener that helps you to train yourself to contemplate to

[9:45]see the reality of things to be able to decipher good from

[9:49]bad not to be fooled by this life therefore you'll find in

[9:59]the religion of Islam being talkative you know as tempting as it

[10:03]is for many people being talkative is highly discouraged allah subhana wa

[10:10]ta'ala despises people who are talkative unless you're doing that for a

[10:14]good cause like you're giving a speech for example you're counseling you're

[10:18]helping someone that's different but just engaging in a lot of talk

[10:21]that is very negative in the religion of islam it comes with

[10:27]many negative consequences let me share a few consequences with you first

[10:32]of all people who tend to talk a lot because when you

[10:35]have the habit of talking a lot in reality you're looking for

[10:41]attention a lot of us look for attention that's human nature it's

[10:44]very normal for us to want attention now because you want attention

[10:49]you want to attract others to you you're talking and in the

[10:56]process of talking you will tend to exaggerate a lie to grab

[11:01]more attention to attract more listeners because if you're just talking about

[11:07]normal things you're not exaggerating you're just sticking to the facts it's

[11:13]not interesting sometimes right how do you make something interesting either by

[11:16]exaggerating or lying so the more we talk the more we exaggerate

[11:24]and the more we lie and these are sins so in the

[11:26]religion of Islam it's highly encouraged to keep it short don't have

[11:34]the habit of talking a lot that is one of the enemies

[11:36]of the intellect one of the soldiers of the intellect is silence

[11:43]and one of the enemies of the intellect is what being loquacious

[11:47]or talkative talking too much it's discouraged in the religion of Islam

[11:53]that's number one secondly a second consequence of talking a lot is

[11:59]that people who have the habit or nature of talking a lot

[12:04]they tend to reveal a lot of facts and secrets about themselves

[12:06]and they're not even aware of it you're talking and you're talking

[12:10]right and you have that habit or nature in reality you're revealing

[12:15]a lot about your own self that's not good remember not everyone

[12:20]in society wishes you well some people are jealous envious some people

[12:24]are your enemies some people are waiting by the second to bring

[12:28]you down so the more the more you reveal about yourself you

[12:32]tell others about yourself the more you're potentially endangering yourself and your

[12:39]family so it's always safer to talk less because then you'll give

[12:43]less information about yourself about your family about your secrets about sensitive

[12:48]aspects of about your life because a lot of times we're just

[12:52]not aware I don't remember people like to hear personal facts so

[12:58]when you want to attract attention a good way of attracting attention

[13:01]is what to reveal information about yourself but that's not good that

[13:08]almost always proves to be damaging maybe not today maybe not tomorrow

[13:13]maybe a year from now maybe five years down the line maybe

[13:18]ten years down the line we see this happening every day in

[13:21]society people have said things five years ago ten years ago now

[13:24]there are trouble now there you know experiencing a problem because of

[13:31]that so that's the second negative consequence the third negative consequence of

[13:37]talking a lot is that the more you talk naturally the more

[13:41]you the more you'll be gossiping backbiting accusing and all of these

[13:45]major sins in Islam that's why the hadith says the tongue is

[13:55]the key that unlocks all other sins this tongue it's a small

[14:00]organ right it's one of the smallest organs we have in the

[14:05]body yet it is the most organ that sins and hence interestingly

[14:08]scholars say Allah subhana WA Ta'ala has taken this time he has

[14:13]imprisoned it behind your teeth that look like prison bars right and

[14:21]then behind your lips seal it imprison it don't use it don't

[14:25]be so generous with your tongue and your words and your speech

[14:33]be very careful with every word that you utter in fact one

[14:36]hadith says every single day all of your body parts and organs

[14:43]they beg the tongue symbolically they speak to the tongue they say

[14:46]Oh tongue have mercy on us if you don't sin if you

[14:54]behave well we'll all be well today if you misbehave will all

[14:56]suffer and pay for the consequences this is an actual hadith so

[15:03]the Imam Ali Salaam in this hadith he says one of the

[15:05]guides to contemplation as silence so so far the Imam Ali said

[15:12]I'm in one beautiful small sentence he has shared with us two

[15:18]tips to develop the intellect one is contemplation in Arabic we call

[15:30]it tefik KO and the second silence in Arabic we call it's

[15:38]and also Sukkot what you'll find that sunt is more positive Sukkot

[15:47]is just general silence but slammed is a positive type of silence

[15:56]because not all silence is good right sometimes you have to speak

[15:59]the truth sometimes you have to say something slam doesn't want Muslims

[16:03]you know to be just silent people not saying anything no you

[16:07]have to voice your opinion you have to defend the truth and

[16:11]join the good forbid the evil establish good ties establish friendships that's

[16:16]all required but just be careful say only that which is necessary

[16:20]because if you're not chances are you're tripping and making mistakes violating

[16:26]other right the rights of others and violating your own self so

[16:30]we see that contemplation is key and the path to contemplation one

[16:35]path is silence no religion invites us for its followers to engage

[16:41]in contemplation like the religion of Islam there is this amazing emphasis

[16:48]on contemplation and the Holy Quran is a book that invites you

[16:56]to contemplate about pretty much everything about the universe the stars and

[17:00]the galaxies and how the universe was created about your own biology

[17:04]and how you were created even these stages of embryonic development the

[17:10]Quran tells its followers and readers to think about that past civilizations

[17:16]dictators the rise and fall of civilizations and empires the Holy Quran

[17:21]tells us think about that so about pretty much everything history science

[17:28]your society your family relationships all of that is something that you

[17:36]need to engage in contemplation so the Quran actually invites us to

[17:41]think and the religion of Islam gives us amazing freedom when it

[17:46]comes to thinking you have freedom to think the Holy Quran encourages

[17:54]thinking about every subject there's nothing you cannot think about and question

[18:01]the Holy Quran welcomes us to think about pretty much every topic

[18:09]now yes some thoughts while we are free to think but some

[18:14]thoughts can have damaging effects of course not all thoughts and all

[18:18]thinking and all contemplation is good you have negative complete contemplation negative

[18:25]thinking that's why the Holy Quran says in a bottle of oneness

[18:28]some of your thoughts and speculations they lead you to sin because

[18:34]when you develop negative thoughts you tend to act upon those thoughts

[18:40]what precedes our actions usually it's our thoughts first you have a

[18:44]thought then you act upon it that's a very good point a

[19:19]lot of the thoughts that we have they spring from our own

[19:23]ego from our own personal interests and later we'll kind of examine

[19:27]that as well how to distinguish between good thoughts and bad thoughts

[19:32]so yes when it comes to our thoughts the people of the

[19:37]intellect when they're engaging in serious contemplation they try to be objective

[19:43]to take their thoughts put them on a scale and judge whether

[19:47]these thoughts or good thoughts or bad thoughts are they based on

[19:54]the truth or their pay based on ego or my own personal

[19:56]interests or on falsehoods or on ignorant so yes that's a very

[20:01]good point that we have to be able to differentiate between good

[20:04]thoughts and bad thoughts because bad thoughts will lead to bad actions

[20:09]everybody in society who does bad actions it started with bad thoughts

[20:16]so bad thoughts will lead to bad actions and we have to

[20:19]be very careful with our thoughts now generally speaking allah subhanaw taala

[20:24]will not hold you accountable for thoughts if you don't act upon

[20:28]them as long as I don't act upon them allies merciful he'll

[20:34]forgive us even our bad thoughts as long as we don't act

[20:36]upon them but that's very hard whenever you have thoughts chances are

[20:39]you will act upon them you know there's a hadith from prophet

[20:47]s Ali's Salam he says in that hadith my brother Moses he

[20:51]used to tell his people don't sin you know like the ten

[20:58]commandments don't do them don't steal don't kill don't commit adultery and

[21:02]so on and so forth a sadist and I'm says I don't

[21:07]tell you don't sin that's a but I tell you try not

[21:15]to think of thing of sins try not to think of these

[21:20]things because thinking of those sins will lead you to those sins

[21:24]and we have this beautiful example of fire and smoke sins are

[21:28]like fire they burn when you commit a sin you're burning yourself

[21:33]and burning others and the last mount of toilet can punish us

[21:37]for sins however bad thoughts are like smoke they don't burn meaning

[21:43]God will not punish you for them if you don't act upon

[21:48]them but they're like smoke they pollute your mind right smoke does

[21:53]not burn smoke just pollutes the environment in the same way that

[22:01]smoke pollutes the environment negative thoughts bad thoughts pollute the mind and

[22:06]sometimes they can be so severe they could suffocate you right there's

[22:12]a lot of smoke around you you could suffocate and die so

[22:15]bad thoughts can do a lot of damage and we have to

[22:20]be careful what kind of thoughts were engaging in and if you

[22:23]train yourself to go through the process of contemplation you will learn

[22:28]how to expel negative thoughts from your mind and focus on thoughts

[22:35]that please Allah subhana WA Ta'ala this comes with practice and remember

[22:40]that allah subhanaw taala when he sees his servant really trying spending

[22:47]time to really contemplate for the sake of God for the sake

[22:51]of truth allah subhanaw taala will also help you the hadith says

[22:54]true knowledge lay sellin vachetta tal no true knowledge is not just

[23:04]by reading books reading books getting information yes that's an important way

[23:10]to achieve knowledge but the hadith says well I can ll maneuver

[23:14]on yoga for laughs it'll be minutia true knowledge is a light

[23:20]that allah subhanaw taala instills in the hearts of those whom he

[23:25]chooses so a lifespan asada also gives you guidance he will train

[23:28]you how to engage in proper contemplation when he sees that you're

[23:33]making the effort so contemplation is actually very very important it really

[23:42]protects you from falling into the dangers of this life then the

[23:48]Imam Ali Salaam at the end of this paragraph he says walk

[23:54]a far bigger Jalan enter kabamaru heeta and it is enough foolishness

[24:00]for someone to commit a sin that you've been prohibited from committing

[24:06]that's a type of foolishness because the one who uses his intellect

[24:11]knows that these sins are harmful these sins are damaging they damage

[24:20]you and they damage others yes there's a veil that does not

[24:24]allow us to see the damage instantly but the damage is done

[24:30]so a person of intellect once he knows that something is a

[24:35]sin this person will use his intellect to suppress his desires and

[24:40]to say no to that sit the Imam says the one who

[24:45]gives in to his desires and commits that sin this is an

[24:50]act of foolishness this person is not making use of his intellect

[24:56]then if we go to page 77 to continue this hadith we've

[25:01]mentioned this before but just to briefly summarize in this paragraph the

[25:07]imam ali salam says god has two pieces of evidence for you

[25:15]or against you one is the messengers the prophets and the imams

[25:21]room heaps sent we call them external pieces of evidence external haja

[25:29]external proofs Allah subhana WA Ta'ala uses the prophets messengers and Imams

[25:37]as proofs against us such that if we did the wrong we

[25:43]took the wrong path while having seen the path of the messengers

[25:47]that will be used as evidence and proof against us on the

[25:53]day of judgment to incriminate us a last panel today will say

[25:56]I sent you these proofs you did not take them so now

[26:01]you're liable now you're at fault this is the meaning of Hajin

[26:04]Hagia is proof for evidence that you use either for yourself or

[26:12]against yourself if you took that path then you're equipped with that

[26:16]proof on the day of judgment even if a last panel to

[26:18]Allah questions you you're safe you know that you took the right

[26:24]path that evidence that proof will help you so this is the

[26:27]external proof then the hadith says there's the internal proof which is

[26:31]the intellect the internal Hodja's the intellect that God has equipped you

[26:36]with God will use this intellect that he's given to the human

[26:40]being against the human being on the day of judgment for not

[26:46]using the intellect Allah will tell us what differentiates you from other

[26:51]creations from the animals physically you're not so different in fact many

[26:56]animals are stronger than you physically what is it that differentiates you

[27:00]it's the intellect and you did not use it and you have

[27:05]no excuse for not using it many people who do wrong they

[27:10]really don't have an excuse they know what they're doing is wrong

[27:13]but they simply don't care just like you know those people who

[27:17]smoke right they know it's bad yeah sometimes maybe if you corner

[27:20]them they'll come up with arguments and say yeah that's not that

[27:24]bad you know I know somebody who's been smoking for 80 years

[27:26]and he's healthier than me right you get these arguments sometimes or

[27:33]I remember once you know a guy who was smoking and there

[27:36]was a group who were trying to talk him out of it

[27:41]and you know they told him that if you smoke then every

[27:44]time you smoke you lose three minutes of your life he's like

[27:49]I know I know and the joy I get from smoking five

[27:52]minutes to my life so once you do the you know equation

[27:57]the addition and subscription I'm actually gaining two minutes right even if

[28:02]they come up with arguments like that they know it's bad they

[28:05]know it's bad it's clear to them yet they just simply don't

[28:11]care it's not important for them it's the same with the intellect

[28:15]people know what's right or wrong believe me most people know except

[28:19]someone who has a deficiency in their intellect a mental problem that's

[28:24]different somebody isolated in some Island who has no clue no knowledge

[28:28]that may be different but most people know exactly what's right and

[28:34]what's wrong but they just don't care they're just distracted by this

[28:38]life they're pulled by their temptations they want to justify their positions

[28:42]and stances so they will ignore the truth Allah says this hidden

[28:46]proof because the hadith says well I meant bad linen as for

[28:50]the hidden proof or evidence that's the intellect say hidden proof that

[28:57]our last panel Tata has equipped you with if you use that

[29:01]proof then you're protecting yourself if not Allah subhana WA Ta'ala will

[29:05]use this hidden proof which is an intellect against you on the

[29:08]day of judgement so therefore we have two proofs the internal ones

[29:14]and the external ones the internal one is the intellect the external

[29:18]one is the signs that God has sent us the prophets the

[29:20]Imams the Holy Quran The Book of God all of that is

[29:26]external proofs then if we turn to the following page on 79

[29:32]we see the imam ali said i'm giving us further steps practical

[29:36]steps to develop the internal to the intellect to safeguard the intellect

[29:44]and to remove those veils that block the intellect yah Hashanah en

[29:50]a la la la vie la la la la la la chakra

[29:54]beautiful Oh Hashem the person of intellect is the one who never

[30:03]is distracted from thanking God and being grateful to Allah even if

[30:11]what he is doing is halat the pleasures that he is engaged

[30:17]in are all halal and permissible but that never distracts him from

[30:22]being thankful to Allah one of the signs of the people of

[30:25]the intellect is that they're constantly thanking the Almighty God for his

[30:30]blessings not only on their tongue but in their heart and through

[30:38]their actions their actions reveal that they are thankful to Allah their

[30:44]heart is always in a thankful state first of all when you

[30:48]are thankful to Allah you're constantly reminding yourself look don't be arrogant

[30:54]I did not achieve what I achieved through my own personal efforts

[30:58]it was through allah subhana wa ta'ala this helps you be humble

[31:03]and we said before one of the paths to becoming a person

[31:06]of intellect is to be humble to humble yourself because people have

[31:10]humbleness they're willing to accept the truth thankfulness humbles you it doesn't

[31:19]allow you to create claim credit for everything everything belongs to Allah

[31:24]Spano Tana it really instills that amazing humbleness in your heart number

[31:30]two when you're thankful to God and you're constantly thanking Allah Spano

[31:36]Tana you're much less likely to sin deviate and abuse your intellect

[31:45]let me give you an example let's say you just thanked Allah

[31:49]Spano to Allah for giving you your eyes and your eyesight remember

[31:53]there are fifty sixty million people around the world who are blind

[31:57]5060 million right that's a lot I could have been one of

[32:04]them when you thank God for the blessing of the eye of

[32:10]sight will you use this sight an hour later two hours later

[32:14]that day to send very unlikely when you've just thanked God for

[32:20]this blessing it is less likely that you will use this blessing

[32:27]against him because then you've internalized this concept in your mind that

[32:32]I have this blessing from God right and I just thanked him

[32:34]is it befitting now for me is it appropriate for me to

[32:39]use the very blessing that he is giving me he's given me

[32:42]to sin to disobey Him the people of the intellect through constant

[32:49]thankfulness they keep themselves in check they make sure that they used

[32:55]the gifts that allah subhanaw taala has given them for his path

[32:59]for his obedience and that's extremely important so we see that another

[33:06]tip that the imam and in salam gives us is thankfulness but

[33:12]most people they're not thankful as the quran says what allele or

[33:22]manera body and shakur very few people are truly thankful to allah

[33:29]subhanahu wata'ala so the artist the person of the intellect he will

[33:32]not allow this life the temptations of this life even if they're

[33:36]Halong the pleasures of this life to distract him from thanking Allah

[33:40]subhana WA Ta'ala so if I want to develop my intellect one

[33:45]of the items I have to put in my daily schedule to

[33:47]constantly thank God develop a habit where you're constantly thanking God believe

[33:54]me this will help you stay away from sins from evil habits

[34:00]from wasting time and it will help you significantly to use the

[34:05]resources that you have the blessings that you have to obey allah

[34:10]subhanho to Allah and to prepare yourself for the ocula it's a

[34:15]very powerful way and remember that whenever you're thankful to allah spano

[34:20]to allah allah subhana WA Ta'ala will not only elevate your status

[34:24]but he'll give you more land Shekhar - lazy Danakil Allah subhanAllah

[34:28]Allah says in the Holy Quran if you're grateful and thankful I'll

[34:32]give you more one hadith says protect leash your Nana's your blessings

[34:43]with shook because the hadith says the blessings of God they tend

[34:50]to run away that's their nature right they escape so you need

[34:54]to put them on a leash to keep them around you what

[34:59]is that leash shook to thank the Almighty God being thankful to

[35:02]Allah that is a great way to keep those blessings and have

[35:09]Allah spano to honor increase them and always remember that whenever you

[35:15]thank God you can never do justice to the blessings that he's

[35:20]given you he can never pay God back and Arafah imam hussain

[35:26]hani salaam he says o allah if you give me an eternal

[35:30]life an eternal life millions billions of years and I used that

[35:38]entire life to thank you for one blessing that you've given me

[35:43]I cannot thank you for that blessing not even one not even

[35:50]one of those blessings the hadith says if you recognize this that

[35:54]no matter how much you thank God you can never really thank

[35:58]you and do justice to what he's given you then you've actually

[36:03]done justice to allah subhanho wa taala then you've observed that right

[36:11]if you recognize in your heart that i can never thank god

[36:15]no matter how much I try and do I can never pay

[36:19]him back for a single number if you recognize that and admit

[36:22]that and if you've internalized that Allah says I consider you as

[36:27]if you've really thanked me and you've done justice to me and

[36:32]that's from the rock mobile app a note on one beautiful way

[36:35]of thanking the Almighty God is through said Judah to shook some

[36:40]of you have heard about it the prostration of thankfulness you can

[36:45]do it anytime but the best times are right after your obligatory

[36:50]prayers where you going to see Jude and you thank allah subhanahu

[36:57]wata'ala the sajda to Shakur has very very high significance one hadith

[37:02]states from the Imam and it's Allah when someone does such that

[37:06]to sugar goes into sujood and says chakra nila a number of

[37:12]times three times or nine times is highly recommended Allah subhana WA

[37:19]Ta'ala tells the angels what should I give this person they say

[37:24]oh Allah forgive his sins Allah says no more that's a given

[37:28]I'll forgive his sins reward him of course I'll reward him more

[37:34]I will not take him to paradise of course I'll take him

[37:37]to paradise more they say o Allah you tell us what will

[37:42]you give him the hadith says that Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala will

[37:47]tell the servant if he's done such that to Shakur just as

[37:54]you have thanked me I will personally thank you and when the

[37:59]king of the universe personally thanks you no one can describe to

[38:04]you what that thanked will be and what form it will come

[38:10]what blessings that will carry in this world and on the day

[38:14]of judgment Allah says I will personally thank him that's truly amazing

[38:18]what opilio ilayhi before my last panel Tata says I will go

[38:25]towards him you know we go towards Allah right when you worship

[38:29]God you repent you're going towards Allah the hadith says when you

[38:33]are thankful to god allah subhanho to anna comes to you the

[38:40]king of the universe who doesn't need us he doesn't need anything

[38:45]but he's so generous he's so merciful he will come to you

[38:51]what we hear are emitting and I will personally show him my

[38:55]mercy so one of the keys that we have to develop the

[39:02]intellect protect the intellect unlock the potential of the intellect is what

[39:09]thankfulness that's why the Imam Mahdi's Iran says in Aladdin the true

[39:14]person of intellect and let Elias Valhalla do chakra he who employs

[39:20]his intellect is never distracted from giving thanks by the things that

[39:25]are lawful he never is distracted that's the first part what's the

[39:31]second part voila yesterday bull Haram Oh Sabra and the Haram the

[39:38]sins the prohibited desires they never overwhelmed his patience once you are

[39:46]a person of intellect and you've taken the steps that we've mentioned

[39:50]and one of them is to be thankful then you will not

[39:57]be overwhelmed by your desires many people ask this question they're trying

[40:01]to be good they're trying to change but it's hard they keep

[40:05]falling they come and say I'm trying but then suddenly after a

[40:11]few days I realized that I fell to my desires I lost

[40:16]that status that interest in worshipping God I lost it it is

[40:25]these desires that overwhelm me why because we have not taken these

[40:30]steps to develop the intellect the steps that we've previously discussed and

[40:35]the steps that were discussing today this is a comprehensive program once

[40:41]a person implements this program this person will be a person of

[40:46]the intellect and then you're empowered to use your intellect to always

[40:50]rein in your desires to tame your desires so a person of

[40:59]intellect never allows his desires to overwhelm his patients he's stronger than

[41:06]his desires he has that patience and one hadith states there's nothing

[41:12]more beloved to God when he sees a person being drawn by

[41:19]his desires pulled by his desires but he has patience and he

[41:23]says no the hadith says this instant is so valuable in the

[41:30]eyes of God it's more valuable than some other acts of worship

[41:35]then the fasting then the Hajj then the prayers this this moment

[41:39]is so valuable in the eyes of God when you've remained patient

[41:45]and you said no to your desire when you were being pulled

[41:48]by that desire and the hadith says then and there Allah spano

[41:53]to Allah will compensate you because you let go of a desire

[41:58]then and there Allah will compensate you and the first way in

[42:03]which Allah Spano to Allah will compensate you he will give you

[42:07]the taste of Iman you'll taste the sweetness of faith the agent

[42:12]hallouwe tell even that's something many people are denied from experiencing to

[42:18]taste the sweetness of faith one criterion for tasting the sweetness of

[42:24]faith is to not allow a sin to overwhelm your patience and

[42:30]to say no to it and to let go of so these

[42:35]are some of the signs of the intellect that the Imam Mahdi's

[42:39]salam is examining let's go to page 80 any questions about this

[42:45]so far before we go to page 80 on page 80 the

[42:50]imam ali salam continues and he mentions three important points regarding the

[42:57]intellect yaja Xiong men Xalapa Salathe Allah Allah anima anna anna had

[43:03]me ugly the imam in this hadith is explaining that there are

[43:07]three ways which destroy the intellect we're talking about developing the intellect

[43:14]right there are some acts some habits some ways that destroy the

[43:19]intellect o rashaam if a man releases three traits upon three it

[43:25]is as though he has aided the destruction of his own intellect

[43:29]and this is something many of us engage in daily number one

[43:33]man avila maneuver at effect Cory bitterly Emily we said one of

[43:39]the soldiers of the intellect is what tefik cool right contemplation contemplate

[43:48]contemplation illuminates your mind and heart it's a light that it gives

[43:54]you to see without contemplation the world is dark it's as if

[44:00]I'm blind I can't see what's out of me contemplation gives you

[44:04]that light to see well there is something that takes away this

[44:13]light you illuminate your heart and mind with contemplation but then something

[44:17]comes along and destroys it what is it Lululemon having long hopes

[44:25]or as we see in another translation far-fetched hopes when one hadith

[44:35]Imam Ali bin Abi Talib Ali's salaam says one of the things

[44:42]that I'm most concerned about for this Ummah is Buddha lemon is

[44:47]to have very very long hopes having long hopes means that you're

[44:52]so fixed on this life it's as if this life will continue

[44:59]for eternity and you disregard the ocula it's good to plan there's

[45:04]a difference between planning for the future and being wise and between

[45:07]having long hopes in this life you just have so much hope

[45:14]in this life so much hope and the pleasures of this life

[45:17]and the positions of this life and the status of this life

[45:24]this takes away that light and your heart this ruins that light

[45:28]which you've lit through contemplation the Imam says you will destroy your

[45:34]intellect through long hopes far Fetchit hopes which are false hopes don't

[45:37]have too much too much hope in the like you know some

[45:43]people they sit and they plan for their future they plan everything

[45:47]how they want to enjoy their lives in the future how much

[45:52]money they want to make how they want to you know every

[45:54]vacation they want to go to okay it's okay to have fun

[45:58]in this life every once in a while occasionally but don't have

[46:02]too much hope some people they live in their own imagination 20

[46:07]years from now I'll have the status in my society right everyone

[46:09]will look up to me everyone this everyone will talk about me

[46:13]and my status and my achievements and my success and my wealth

[46:19]and so on and so forth we all have that it's built

[46:23]in because Allah wants to test us this is called food and

[46:26]Emin having long hopes a person of intellect while he plans well

[46:31]he calculates properly but he's never taken over by these false far-fetched

[46:37]hopes that's why the imam ali said i'm in one hadith he

[46:45]says live as if you'll die tomorrow don't have false hopes because

[46:49]a lot of the sins that we commit are based on these

[46:55]false hopes that we'll live 20 30 50 70 years and this

[47:00]is how we're going to live a lot of the Haram income

[47:02]for example that me people make the unlawful sources of income that

[47:06]people used to make money a lot of it is based on

[47:11]false hopes if he really believed that he could leave tomorrow he

[47:15]could depart this life in a week next month he would not

[47:21]take that haram route that unlawful income he would not go after

[47:24]it but the reason why we go after unlawful income as an

[47:29]example and in the process we violate the rights of others is

[47:32]because we have this false hope so this is the first thing

[47:40]that the imam mahdi his salaam mentions if he obscures the light

[47:45]of contemplation with far-fetched hopes this is destructive to the intellect train

[47:51]yourself as much as you can too dispel these far-fetched hopes always

[47:59]believe that you could leave any minute this is serious just like

[48:05]others left I can leave to see we all know this this

[48:07]is not something that we don't know we all know this who

[48:12]doesn't know this who thinks he's gonna stay here for eternity but

[48:14]our actions don't reveal that our actions say otherwise we all know

[48:20]theoretically we're gonna leave what our actions reveal that we're not acting

[48:28]on this knowledge so we need to constantly remind ourselves and to

[48:33]expel these hopes these false hopes far-fetched hopes so that's the first

[48:40]item that the imam mahdi said i'm mentions over here the second

[48:45]one huama hapara if a Hekmati he before Lully Kalama and he

[48:50]expunges kicks out wondrous wisdom with excessive talk we've talked about talking

[48:57]and being talkative the Imam says when you become talkative you expel

[49:01]the wisdom from your intellect and that destroys your intellect so this

[49:10]is actually a continuation of what the imam ali sanam said when

[49:13]he talked about contemplation and the path to contemplation the guide to

[49:20]contemplation is what silence the imam is just telling us here that

[49:24]being talkative unnecessary talk faloona Kalama unnecessary talk this destroys the intellect

[49:32]it's one of those things that will destroy a person's intellect we've

[49:37]talked about that what's the third one well opt for a new

[49:42]Arab bra t he be Shahada in Ephesus and he extinguishes his

[49:47]willingness to learn from life's lessons with his carnal desires our animalistic

[49:53]materialistic desires why is it that we don't learn many people you'll

[49:59]see them falling into the same sins into the same mistakes why

[50:04]because of these carnal desires these animalistic desires that takes away our

[50:12]wisdom from learning from our experiences so see these are three that

[50:16]the Imam Mahdi's Saddam mentions which destroyed the until like tense you

[50:19]see the Imam Ali said I'm saying then it is as though

[50:23]he has aided his corners soul in destroying his own intellect and

[50:28]he who destroys his own intellect has ruined this world and the

[50:33]hereafter so it's very important that we don't destroy the intellect that

[50:40]allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala has given us and we have a number of

[50:45]hadith you know about these about silence and you know being talkative

[50:50]about the first one through the m/l having long hopes I'll share

[50:58]with you one hadith here from the Holy Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi

[51:04]wa in this hadith the Prophet says if you see a believer

[51:10]who maintains silence stay close to him for he shall emanate wisdom

[51:16]such a believer will give you wisdom even though from the outside

[51:22]this person seems silent right it's not talking much but this person

[51:27]is actually giving you wisdom and another part of the hadith we'll

[51:33]examine one of the traits of the intellectual people when everyone is

[51:39]silent and they don't know the truth and where the truth is

[51:44]then they speak so it's not like they're always silent they speak

[51:48]but generally speaking one of their qualities is that they are silent

[51:53]let's end with this section 19 of the hadith the imam ali

[52:02]salam says yeah Hashanah a subbro idol wada a lama to do

[52:06]what Allah oh hey Sean do you want me to tell you

[52:11]one sign that your intellect is strong it's not a weak intellect

[52:19]what is that sign to endure solitude loneliness solitude if you have

[52:27]the capacity to endure loneliness and solitude that is an indication of

[52:36]a strong intellect because people who cannot endure solitude they have a

[52:39]weakness often times they will compromise their religion to avoid solitude to

[52:46]go with the flow to be around those people whom they want

[52:53]to be around to fit in right the Imam says tests yourself

[52:57]do you have the patience to endure solitude if your friends abandoned

[53:04]you because of the truth and religion your society abandoned you do

[53:09]you have that patience to endure solitude or no that's a sign

[53:17]of a strong intellect that you have a powerful intellect so we

[53:23]see that in this hadith the Imam Hani Salaam is telling us

[53:32]that naturally in this life you're surrounded with people who are materialistic

[53:38]who are all about this life temptations of this life sometimes you

[53:41]have to cut off yourself from these people it's not easy not

[53:44]everyone who is around you is good not everyone that you spend

[53:51]time with has positive influence on you a believer is one who's

[53:54]willing to make that sacrifice that I will cut myself off from

[54:02]this negative influence but then yes I have to endure some level

[54:06]of solitude can I handle that solitude or no a lot of

[54:09]people can and that scares them that solitude scares them there are

[54:18]so many people in the world and sometimes you hear about their

[54:22]stories they don't come out with the truth because of the fear

[54:24]of solitude some people for example in many parts of the Muslim

[54:30]world they know where the truth is it lies with the path

[54:32]of a debate but they have a status they could be a

[54:37]religious leader a leader of a mosque a leader of a party

[54:39]right if they come out with the truth and they embrace the

[54:46]truth they'll have to enter solitude they lose all of that they're

[54:50]not willing to make that sacrifice yes they will lie and fabricate

[54:56]yes to keep that position they know where the truth is but

[55:03]they'll fabricate to justify their position because they know they try to

[55:08]avoid that solitude they don't want that solitude and that's dangerous one

[55:12]of the signs of the intellect inspect yourself can I handle solitude

[55:16]or no for the sake of Allah and there's a beautiful hadith

[55:22]by Imam Ali ibn ABI Taleb alehissalaam he says never feel anxious

[55:29]or lonely or abandoned because very few people are working in the

[55:36]path of righteousness don't let that make you feel lonely because when

[55:41]you look at the world and those who are really going into

[55:46]the path of righteousness there very few that makes you feel lonely

[55:50]it's very natural one of the qualities of the believers is that

[55:53]they do have this loneliness and solitude don't let this scare you

[56:01]make you anxious or make you feel lonely this is actually a

[56:04]good sign that you're on the right path then the Iman alayhis-salam

[56:09]says the one who truly knows Allah subhana WA Ta'ala will cut

[56:17]himself off from this you know Mitch excessively materialistic aspect of this

[56:22]world and the people of the world people whose only concern in

[56:26]life is the world they will cut themselves off from that what

[56:30]are you about FEMA and Allah you only care about what Allah

[56:34]spano Ta'ala has for you and this is the sign of the

[56:36]people of the intellect Hakan allahu unser - washa your comfort in

[56:45]solitude will be allah subhanho wa taala that's what gives you comfort

[56:50]to know that Allah Spano - Allah is with you you know

[56:52]there's a beautiful hadith from an imam al-mahdi allah - allah forages

[57:01]the hadith says we know that the imam is lonely of course

[57:05]he's abandoned he's lonely there's all discussion on that but the imam

[57:10]ali salam says don't think that because the people have abandoned us

[57:15]than we're lonely because we have the truth and we have God

[57:21]how can we be lonely and that's the believer when you recognize

[57:25]that you have the truth you've got something so valuable you've got

[57:30]allah subhana wa ta'ala on your side how can you feel lonely

[57:35]even if your loved ones abandon you the world abandons you everyone

[57:39]betrays you you have who allah subhana wa ta'ala that gives you

[57:45]comfort so his company in times of solitude will be Allah Subhanahu

[57:50]WA Ta'ala and his wealth in times of poverty will be what

[57:54]unless upon Owatonna Allah will be the source of your wealth even

[58:01]in times of poverty one day one of the companions of an

[58:04]imam as-sadiq peninsula he was poor financially struggling we referred to this

[58:09]before he told the Imam or Imam I'm poor the Imam realized

[58:15]that this person is not well he's depressed he's down he told

[58:18]him I am poor the Imam and he said I'm told him

[58:23]are you were willing to sell your faith for 100 thousand golden

[58:27]coins he's like no I'm not willing to sell my faith even

[58:33]for that money the Imam says how dare you consider yourself poor

[58:36]when you own something so valuable you're not willing to sell it

[58:45]for 100 thousand golden coins that's true richness it has been mentioned

[58:52]that Othman sent money a lot of money to a Buddha the

[58:55]Buddha was poor he didn't have much earth man was very wealthy

[58:59]abu dawood constant the expose of man for some of the things

[59:02]he do so one of the ways in which earth man wanted

[59:06]to quiet abou the you know to stop him was to entice

[59:12]him with money once he sent a good amount of money with

[59:15]one of his messengers to a Buddha about that didn't take it

[59:21]that messenger when he looked at a booth out on his humble

[59:23]house and his clothing he told him look you're so poor why

[59:26]don't you just take it for God's sake just take it look

[59:31]at yourself you're so poor he says no with the Iman that

[59:35]I have and the will ayah that I have for Imam I'll

[59:37]even have you thought about his Salaam I am rich don't think

[59:42]I am poor on the outside I import so this is what

[59:44]this hadith is indicating that the people of their of the intellect

[59:51]their richness even in times of poverty will be Allah Subhanahu WA

[59:55]Ta'ala and Allah will be his honor when he lacks skin when

[59:58]you've got no tribe no family to support you then you have

[60:03]Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala misil Allahu Allah Muhammad while employ you being

[60:09]up by hearing

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