Combating Spiritual Heedlessness - Dr. Sadik Kassim

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[0:00]el doble a min ash-shaytani r-rajim bismillahi rahmani rahim alhamdu lillahi rabbil

[0:07]alameen alhamdulillah alhamdulillah d hadana they had a llama kun le na

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[0:30]MJ belkacem muhammad la masala vada ribbit fib nipani nirmal boom in

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[0:42]a misshapen rajim bismillah r-rahman r-rahim eaten derrick coleman Mandira humph mhmm

[0:51]Rafi Ron sadaqa allahu allahu alim the the Quran and the entire

[0:55]message of Islam was revealed for people who are in a state

[1:02]of goth let a state of heedlessness the Quran repeatedly mentions that

[1:07]these ayahs are for people who are unaware for a people who

[1:11]lack awareness who are in a state of a goth let now

[1:15]what does the word the raffle Amin because it's an important concept

[1:18]that's repeatedly mentioned throughout the quran the word loeffler comes from the

[1:24]root word the rainfall am a fella which means to turn away

[1:29]to turn away from something probably the best description of a flaw

[1:34]in the al-quran the best physical description of vogue a flaw no

[1:38]Quran occurs in surah number seven aya 179 Allah subhana Allah tells

[1:42]us what roughly means he says bismillahi rahmani raheem l'homme au Lubin

[1:50]lyov Kahuna be ha voila home I yunnan diopside wannabe ha voila

[1:55]whom a don elías maanna be ha like a call'n amble whom

[1:59]eval like a homolog a feelin let's break down this ayah into

[2:04]more detail to understand what the word roughly means but first please

[2:09]give me a lot solo wat malayalam madhu I Muhammad so the

[2:15]people who are in a state of Gruffalo according to Allah subhana

[2:18]Allah they have hearts lon po lublin but the problem is with

[2:21]these hearts they don't understand l'homme palawan life kahuna be ha well

[2:26]at home I yunnan layups we're gonna be huh and I have

[2:32]eyes but they don't see with their eyes what a home I

[2:36]then on dyess my own abhi ha and they have years but

[2:38]they don't hear with the ears like a Cal like a Kellen

[2:44]on balumil one says these people are exactly like the cattle but

[2:47]nay but they're worse they're worse than the cattle they're worse than

[2:53]the animals like a home in la fille loon these are the

[2:55]people who are in a state of la fleur who are in

[2:59]a state of heedlessness left according to Imam Ali alehissalaam is the

[3:04]cause of every error and every evil deed in humanity in fact

[3:08]some of the scholars have even taken it a step further saying

[3:13]that 99% of humanity is in a state of guff let meaning

[3:16]they're unaware they're completely unaware of their surroundings and they're completely unaware

[3:21]of their connection with allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala in fact in surah al-anbiya

[3:25]allah subhana wa'ta'ala tells us about the cause of hafla why is

[3:32]humanity in a state of guff la why is humanity in the

[3:35]state of heedlessness in a state of non awareness of allah subhanahu

[3:40]wa'ta'ala Allah subhana Allah tells us in surah al-anbiya bismillah r-rahman r-rahim

[3:43]akhtar abella na CA sabaha mafia a flattened maariv on the account

[3:50]of the day of reckoning is fastly approaching to mankind but they're

[3:54]in a state of La Fleur won't feel half Latin my reborn

[3:57]Maya T him and Vikram in Robbie him whatever comes in the

[4:02]form of a remembrance from their Lord elastomer oho oho me L

[4:06]a boon they listen to it but they're playing they listen to

[4:10]it but they're preoccupied with other things so the source of guff

[4:14]lower the reason that the majority of humanity is in a state

[4:17]of guff Allah is because they're completely unaware and they're completely unconscious

[4:21]of the signs of loss of Hana wadada and their connection to

[4:26]Allah subhana wadada in fact Allah subhana wadada goes one step further

[4:32]and says katha boobie ayati now econo an have a feeling they

[4:36]denied our signs they denied our ayahs and because they denied the

[4:41]existence because they denied their creation they were in a state of

[4:44]God flow so we wanted to do very briefly tonight because it's

[4:50]the night of Destiny lailatul cod we just wanted to briefly talk

[4:54]about some some solutions to overcoming Gruffalo and and how this relates

[4:59]to lailatul cod tonight but first give me a lot solo hot

[5:06]mamas illallah muhammad ali muhammad so what is the cause of Gruffalo

[5:10]what causes mankind to be in a state of roughly imam ja'far

[5:13]asada beautifully said that this world leads to heedlessness or leads to

[5:18]unawareness in the person who relies in it meaning if you depend

[5:24]completely on this world you're going to be in a state of

[5:26]guff layer going to be in a state of heedlessness imam ali

[5:32]alehissalaam aboot arab goes one step further he says that now soon

[5:36]IAM the people are sleeping fave Amato and tabu who and when

[5:43]they die they awaken meaning all of us right now we're actually

[5:46]in a state of of sleepwalking we think we're alive because we

[5:51]walk we see but imam ali ra Saddam is telling us know

[5:56]in fact you're not awake you're in fact sleepwalking through this life

[6:00]and the time that you'll become completely awake is when you die

[6:04]so what's the solution to La Fleur well simply put it's the

[6:10]it's performing the acts of worship allah subhana at our asses lamar

[6:15]character jinnah well innsa1 maharaja noel ncl ally abu doin I've only

[6:20]created mankind and the jinn to worship but what does Allah mean

[6:22]here by this ayah allah ya budu on many people take a

[6:28]very mechanical translation of this ayah or this concept of yahwah doin

[6:32]they say well this means simply salat psalm our own purpose our

[6:37]entire purpose just simply to perform salaat to go to Hajj to

[6:41]fast during the month of Ramadan and that's the end goal but

[6:46]in fact an Laria by doing that's not the goal of our

[6:48]existence that nuts that's not the purpose of our existence and by

[6:54]debt is a tool for an ultimate goal a bada is not

[6:56]the goal itself but it's a it's a tool or it's a

[7:01]mechanism to a higher goal it's exactly like for example if you

[7:04]buy a hammer from the store the objective isn't to buy a

[7:09]hammer but it's to use that hammer to build a house or

[7:11]to build some furniture same thing with a bada the entire purpose

[7:17]of a body is not the a bada itself but rather it's

[7:19]the goal that that a body is going to take you towards

[7:24]and what is that goal well the goal of a bada is

[7:29]love our entire reason or our entire purpose for being on this

[7:32]earth is to love to love what to love allah subhan allah

[7:38]ta'ala with the idea being that when we love allah subhan allah

[7:40]ta'ala we love ourselves and when we love ourselves we love our

[7:43]society and we love our society allah subhana allah loves us it's

[7:48]a positive feedback loop it's a full circle so all of the

[7:52]acts of worship are a reminder of death because as Imam Ali

[7:55]alehissalaam tells us and nasu and now Sonia the people are sleeping

[8:03]Fatima TNT bahu but when they die they awaken Allah subhana wa'ta'ala

[8:06]on a daily basis is preparing us for death he's preparing us

[8:10]for death through the acts of worship every act of worship that

[8:16]we perform as a preparation for the ultimate destiny of the entirety

[8:21]of humanity which is death for example Hajj when you go to

[8:23]hide you put on the Iran which is symbolic of the kathan

[8:28]or the or the or the burial cloth that you're buried in

[8:31]Allah subhana Allah is reminding you that like the rest of humanity

[8:37]you're going to pass away and not take away any of your

[8:40]material possessions on a daily basis the salat imam ali ra Saddam

[8:45]has a very beautiful description of why we performed the suit he

[8:48]says that the first time that you put your put your forehead

[8:54]on the on the dirt that's a reminder that you came from

[8:56]dirt and then when you arise from thats a dude that's a

[9:01]reminder that your creation originates from the dirt and you arose from

[9:05]the dirt but then when you make the second situate Imam Mahdi

[9:08]says that's a reminder that you arose from dirt but you're going

[9:13]to go back into dirt you're going to die from the same

[9:15]place that you that you originated and then when you come back

[9:20]from the second sujood that's a reminder that from that death from

[9:23]the time that you're buried into the ground you're going to be

[9:26]a risen again you're going to be resurrected for the day of

[9:29]judgment Imam Ali arias Saddam is telling us that the act of

[9:35]sejoon is a reminder of our own mortality it's a reminder that

[9:38]we have some accountability on the day of judgment and when we

[9:42]view the acts of worship in this way they're not just mechanical

[9:45]let's do a lot because we have to pray so that but

[9:50]rather there a mechanism to enable us to be cut conscious of

[9:54]our existence and when we become conscious of our existence we become

[10:02]conscious of Allah sol lewitt musalia my Muhammad so allah subhan allah

[10:06]ta'ala has a beautiful hadith qudsi where he goes into more detail

[10:09]about how we should be approaching the acts of worship remember the

[10:12]goal of the acts of worship is to love allah so allah

[10:17]subhana allah says LaMotta Carrabba alaya abdi be shaken a had the

[10:21]l am emma after avto la voix ayahs allah abdi at acabo

[10:28]la habana waffle hut or he boohoo for either a better who

[10:31]come to some over levy esma oba oba sorrow halevi ups little

[10:37]bit why idaho lateeya fasho be ha orig la jolla TM shabiha

[10:40]well insulin alafia nahual en esta a vanilla even know what is

[10:47]the meaning of this hadith Qudsi allah subhana allah is saying my

[10:52]servant becomes close to me through the most beloved acts of obligatory

[10:57]worship meaning the steps or the acts that we take vasila the

[11:00]psalm these are steps for us to become closer to allah and

[11:04]my servant comes closer to me through the additional voluntary acts of

[11:10]worship so for example helping poor people helping orphans reading da these

[11:16]are all voluntary acts of worship and when we perform these voluntary

[11:21]acts of worship allah subhana allah says that my slave or my

[11:25]servant becomes closer to me until I love him so when the

[11:30]slave or when the servant performs these voluntary acts of worship Allah

[11:33]says I I start to love him and what happens when Allah

[11:39]subhana allah loves us he says hot now hey Bo faeva bapta

[11:41]ho and when I love my servant couldn't do some ahoo leather

[11:45]yes my obey I become his ears I become the hearing through

[11:51]which he hears well basada halevi a little bit and i become

[11:53]the site through which he sees ye doha Lettie up the shabiha

[11:59]and I become I become the other hands through which he through

[12:02]which he moves well rijalallah TMC be had and i become the

[12:08]feet through which he walks when sell any laughs I Tahoe and

[12:11]if my servant asks me I'll give him one st anthony nato

[12:17]and when he asks for my protection i'll protect it I'll protect

[12:21]him meaning that the acts of worship are a mechanism for us

[12:26]to love allah subhan allah ta'ala because when we love allah that

[12:30]enables us to tap into our hidden potentials allah subhana wadada has

[12:34]great it created us with great abilities but we never really recognize

[12:37]those abilities until we ourselves love allah because when we love allah

[12:42]we love ourselves and when we love ourselves we become closer to

[12:47]our society and we become closer to a la Sol LeWitt mausoleum

[12:51]Mohammed so the concept of when Allah subhana Allah says that I've

[12:58]created my servants only to worship the end goal is to love

[13:00]Allah because when we love Allah we love ourselves and we become

[13:05]more cognizant we take on these divine qualities where allah subhan allah

[13:08]ta'ala becomes our site our vision our hearing in our heart which

[13:14]is in contrast to the first ayah that i mentioned soda 7

[13:18]179 ample ubel knife kahuna be ha when oh my you know

[13:23]knife saloon abhi Hamid a known as my own abiye we like

[13:26]a Callen I'm belleville oologah feel doin rather than being the people

[13:29]in the state of God let we become the vessels of Allah

[13:34]Subhan o attalos action and mercy here on earth so I wanted

[13:37]to close very briefly with a few a few us gifts of

[13:42]wisdom from Imam Ali alehissalaam because it was during this night that

[13:47]Imam Ali alehissalaam was was hit was struck during his active of

[13:51]worship by by eben Muslim Imam Ali alehissalaam tells us Dawa iquique

[14:00]Mata shawn welcomed in Nakumatt ops up your cure is within you

[14:04]according to imam ali but you do not know and your illness

[14:10]is from you but you do not see you think you are

[14:12]a small body you think that you're a small body but within

[14:19]you the greatest world unfolds within you you do not need what

[14:22]is outside of yourself if you would reflect on self but you

[14:27]do not reflect imam ali ra Saddam is telling us that the

[14:29]solutions to all of our personal problems societal problems is to reflect

[14:34]within because when we reflect within we see there's a vast universe

[14:37]that Allah has enabled us to tap into but the problem with

[14:43]the majority of humanity is they don't tap into that hidden potential

[14:47]they don't tap into that god-given potential that's been given to them

[14:51]to be merciful to humanity to be merciful to themselves and to

[14:54]be merciful for the sake of allah subhana allah so i wanted

[14:59]to close with a with a few things here there's a there's

[15:01]a scientist there's a Jewish doctor over at tom Jefferson University his

[15:07]name is Andrew Newberg he has a book called how God changes

[15:10]your brain how God changes your brain I would urge all of

[15:15]you to read this book and what does he say in this

[15:17]book what Andrew Newberg does and I've talked with him on several

[15:23]occasions as his entire research is based on studying people and the

[15:27]effects of prayer and remembrance of God the effects of these things

[15:31]on their physical intellectual and spiritual well-being and he studies the Muslims

[15:37]in particular so he studies the acts of salat let's see Jude

[15:42]the Roku and what have you and tries to understand their impact

[15:45]on the physical well-being of people and what he concludes is that

[15:49]spiritual practices are inherently good for your body and especially your brain

[15:54]meditation and prayer will strengthen important circuits in your brain making you

[16:00]more socially aware alert while reducing anxiety depression and neurological stress Andrew

[16:06]Newberg is telling us what Imam Ali told us 1400 years ago

[16:11]that the remembrance of Allah will alleviate physical ills that the remembrance

[16:16]of Allah will alleviate spiritual ills and will alleviate intellectual l's de

[16:22]huaah iquique mitesh are welcome in Nakumatt observe in fact just to

[16:26]give you an idea Allah Subhan Allah Ta'ala over 1400 years ago

[16:30]told us a ladina amano Atacama in ocala bomba Vicky Lala be

[16:35]there a lot of menorca lube that the remembrance of allah causes

[16:38]the hearts to become as a submissive or or in a state

[16:44]of peace this has been proven through numerous researchers like Andrew Newberg

[16:49]and others where they find that just simply remembering God simply remembering

[16:54]the Creator makes your brain bigger it'll literally make your brain bigger

[16:59]if you think about God for a period of 15 to 20

[17:00]minutes a day aslam goes a step further and rather than just

[17:06]thinking about Allah it is taught us a lot so pano at

[17:07]dada through the prophets and the imams have taught us the physical

[17:12]way to surrender our bodies for the remembrance of allah so for

[17:16]example going by to the act of c-jun which we mentioned earlier

[17:19]one of the nicknames of Imam Ali alehissalaam is a boot Arab

[17:25]meaning the father of the soil why was Imam Ali alehissalaam called

[17:28]the father of the soil Imam Ali alehissalaam tells us that if

[17:32]you knew the power of sued you would never come out of

[17:37]Sigurd Imam Ali Ali Salim if you knew the mercy of Allah

[17:40]when you were in a state of sujood you would never come

[17:44]out of that suit modern science has told us just the same

[17:48]on in terms of a physical level when you perform see Jude

[17:52]what happens is sir Jude is the only position if you look

[17:56]at it so Jude is the only time in your daily life

[17:58]when your heart is above your head usually when we're all of

[18:04]us are sitting right now what's happening is our head is above

[18:08]our hearts but the sea jewett is the only position where what

[18:11]happens is our heart becomes elevated above our head what why is

[18:16]that important when our heart becomes elevated above our head we have

[18:21]this thing in our heart called the aortic arch which starts to

[18:24]pump blood into our head when the heart starts pumping blood into

[18:28]our brain our brain becomes bigger but there's another benefit in that

[18:34]it the the difference in blood pressure causes our heart to relax

[18:39]so when Allah subhana Allah during the act of see Jude when

[18:42]Allah subhana Allah is enabling us to achieve is our hearts be

[18:48]coming in a state of peace in a state of tranquility and

[18:50]our minds becoming bigger this is the only position that enables mankind

[18:56]to both address their their spiritual needs and their intellectual needs when

[19:02]Allah subhana Allah says Allah de la vina amino-terminal lyubimiy vaccarella andaba

[19:07]de la terminal / lube and when Imam Ali A's Saddam is

[19:12]telling us that they're the most beloved position in the eyes of

[19:15]Allah subhana allah is the sea Jude we know this for a

[19:21]fact spiritually intellectually physically the sea Jude is one of the most

[19:26]powerful things that enables us to be successful in life so tonight

[19:30]is the yeah a little cod inshallah we learn from the example

[19:34]of your mom alia and the others and we use our acts

[19:38]of worship not as the goal themselves because the goal is not

[19:42]simply to perform the salat but the goal is to enable the

[19:45]salat to elevate you to a higher spiritual position if you're simply

[19:49]performing salat but you're still lying and cheating and stealing then the

[19:54]salon has not really achieved its ultimate goal but if you're using

[20:00]the salat to benefit society and to and to create love for

[20:03]Allah subhana Allah then you become among the beloved of Allah and

[20:07]as the hadith Qudsi reminds us Allah subhana wadada becomes your site

[20:13]your vision your appendages through what you walk and through which you

[20:17]and through which you perform your actions now just to conclude tonight

[20:21]is the night the first night of power and we'll be reading

[20:25]Joe sinead Kabir Joe sinead Kabir is literally translated as the as

[20:29]the big shield as the big chain armor there's a story about

[20:36]the revelation of Dodge ocean of caveat the prophets hola tyo a

[20:40]synonym was in the middle of one of the battles and he

[20:44]was putting on the chain armor the chain armor is the thing

[20:46]that protects you during the battle it's made out of iron it's

[20:50]made out of steel and it's a protection so when people you

[20:53]know try to hit you with a sword you're protected it's almost

[20:56]like a shield so the Prophet sallallahu asylum was being burdened by

[21:00]the chain armor that he had placed on his body during the

[21:06]during the battle so jibri eid comes down to the profit on

[21:09]orders of Allah Subhan Allah Ta'ala and he tells the Prophet I'm

[21:13]going to give you a chain armor add ocean which will which

[21:18]will enable you to take off that physical chain armor and if

[21:22]you read this the spiritual chain armor you'll be protected for the

[21:28]rest of your existence so the idea being that by remembering allah

[21:32]subhan allah ta'ala during these nights of destiny that will be protected

[21:36]from the state of La Fleur that Allah subhana Allah has described

[21:40]for us that be protected from the state of heedlessness from the

[21:46]state of unawareness so when we read the dot the end goal

[21:49]is to become closer to Allah for the sake of being protected

[21:55]from the distractions and trivialities of the of the world and we

[21:58]look towards Imam Ali I said I'm during these nights in particular

[22:02]because he's the greatest example in the greatest epitome of an individual

[22:06]who took on the chain armor of Dodge ocean and Kabir and

[22:13]the spiritual practices and used those practices to better society not just

[22:16]simply to perform them for the sake of performing them Robin Erato

[22:22]asanin asino of fauna abhinaya tamil arenas Frank mhmm alto 11mm cabrinha

[22:28]Robin Elohim in America tera na be wife wanna walk freely on

[22:32]our hamna anthem Ilana Ponsana el comal Catherine sala wat

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