Greek Philosophers and Happiness - Sayed Ali Al-Qazwini

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[0:14]The Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert theorized that one difference between humans and

[0:22]all other animals is that while the most an animal can conceive

[0:29]is survival, the end goal of any animal is survival of its

[0:33]own self, evading predators, getting food and its lineage, procreation.

[0:39]Whereas you find human beings are not content to suffice themselves with

[0:46]just survival.

[0:48]The prime and the greatest goal of any human being is happiness.

[0:53]Isn't that what we're here for?

[0:56]trying to make ends meet, trying to raise our family, trying to

[1:01]build social and community ties so that we can all inshallah be

[1:05]happy.

[1:07]And yet we find there's a misery epidemic in our 21st century

[1:13]communities.

[1:14]Why is no one happy?

[1:15]We live in the best of times materially in terms of survival,

[1:22]in terms of material comfort, in terms of medical advancement, in terms

[1:26]of all types of recreational activities.

[1:30]We live in the best era.

[1:31]So why is it that so much people are in such misery?

[1:35]One reason, my dear brothers and sisters, is that we don't know

[1:38]what is the proper way of searching for happiness.

[1:42]We might do a certain act thinking this will guide me and

[1:47]lead me to happiness but in fact it only entrenches me further

[1:50]in my misery.

[1:54]Tonight I would like to take a look at three early Greek

[2:00]philosophers, three giants whom we've stood on their shoulders and see what

[2:05]did they have to say about this subject.

[2:09]Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.

[2:10]How did they examine the issue of happiness?

[2:14]How does one arign at happiness and attain happiness?

[2:19]And can we mesh their sayings or some of their sayings with

[2:23]the teachings of the Islamic faith of the sunnah of and that

[2:28]will be the topic for tonight.

[2:33]Before that, Socrates was one of the first to state that happiness

[2:48]is not having a certain appearance of life.

[2:53]Rather, it's an inner state.

[2:58]You find someone on the outward appearances, they can look so happy.

[3:05]They're always smiling in people's faces.

[3:07]They have the best cars, the best homes, they have the best

[3:12]job.

[3:13]Everyone respects them.

[3:13]But maybe deep down they're not happy.

[3:16]This is all just a front.

[3:19]An inner state is not something that you can hide.

[3:23]You can't fake happiness.

[3:26]According to Socrates, it's not something that you can by force attain.

[3:29]It's an inner state that comes to you.

[3:32]And he says people try to arrive at this inner state through

[3:36]external factors and many times it doesn't lead them to this internal

[3:40]happiness.

[3:40]A lot of people think money is what brings them happiness.

[3:45]That's why they spend every waking moment thinking, planning, searching, working all

[3:51]for money.

[3:51]But does money really bring happiness?

[3:53]Sure.

[3:54]You can't live or survive without happiness, without wealth, without money, without

[4:01]having savings.

[3:59]Of course, to live a proper, complete, fulfilling life, you need money.

[4:04]But is money the key to happiness?

[4:07]Look at these Epstein files.

[4:11]Majority of these people, they're millionaires, billionaires.

[4:15]They were so inconsent with their lives that they had to resort

[4:20]to such vile measures, maybe just to feel something, for that temporary

[4:26]pleasure.

[4:26]Look at how base these people were.

[4:27]Majority of them were wealthy people.

[4:30]What?

[4:31]Seems like that wasn't enough.

[4:33]A lot of people think fame is what will bring me happiness.

[4:37]You know, I have 2,000 followers on Instagram.

[4:40]Maybe that's why I'm so miserable.

[4:41]If I can boost my ads and I can hit that to

[4:46]20,000, 200,000, 2 million.

[4:47]Maybe only then I'll find happiness.

[4:51]But look at majority of people that are famous.

[4:53]Are they really living content lives?

[4:55]They're either struggling with drug abuse, with depression, with suicide.

[5:06]One night in Argentina, a famous singer, he was part of the

[5:13]One Direction band, if you've heard of him, Leagne.

[5:15]He decides to go on the balcony of his hotel and throw

[5:18]himself.

[5:18]And they find him the next day or that night on the

[5:20]ground.

[5:20]Now, this guy was at his peak in life, right?

[5:24]young guy.

[5:26]He's handsome.

[5:25]He's sought after.

[5:28]He's wealthy.

[5:30]He's famous.

[5:29]He has a good voice.

[5:32]Or so I've heard.

[5:32]So I've been told.

[5:34]Why do people like these throw themselves off balconies and bridges and

[5:38]highways?

[5:40]So is fame really the key to happiness?

[5:46]Some people think power is what will bring me happiness?

[5:49]You know, maybe if people can respect me, if I can force

[5:54]my will on others, if I become the mayor, if I can

[5:56]become the governor, if I can become the president only, then I'll

[6:00]be happy.

[5:59]Allah, look at these people.

[6:02]Look at the likes of Trump, the likes of these individuals.

[6:05]They're the most miserable people on earth.

[6:07]You think they're happy?

[6:10]They're not any happier than you or me.

[6:13]Trust me.

[6:13]So if these external factors don't bring happiness then what brings happiness?

[6:18]According to Socrates he says knowledge and consciousness.

[6:25]These two when you combine them they will lead you to the

[6:33]real causes of happiness not the fake outer causes of happiness that

[6:36]we usually associate with happiness.

[6:39]He says knowledge and consciousness.

[6:43]Ignorance is the biggest obstacle to happiness in the opinion of Socrates.

[6:49]And in fact this point specifically here is one in agreement with

[6:56]the we have a narration from im peace be upon him in

[7:01]a tree says he says it is simply not possible that if

[7:07]someone is not knowledgeable they're not they can't be happy someone entrenched

[7:14]inah someone entrenched in ignorance can't really find happiness because they'll always

[7:18]be searching in the wrong place.

[7:22]You don't go to Shobi searching for hardware tools.

[7:25]You go to the wrong place, you're not going to find the

[7:27]right product.

[7:29]And knowledge is what guides you to the right place.

[7:33]So according to Socrates, knowledge and consciousness.

[7:38]In another hadith attributed to the if Allah wanted to punish someone,

[7:49]if Allah wanted to prevent his blessings from reaching someone, he will

[7:54]withdraw from them something.

[7:56]Is it wealth?

[7:57]If Allah wants to punish someone, is he going to take their

[7:59]wealth?

[7:59]Find a lot of wealthy people in their peak of disobedience to

[8:06]God.

[8:06]Is it food?

[8:06]Allah wants to punish us.

[8:09]He takes food off the table.

[8:11]Power, wealth, fame, all the stuff we discussed.

[8:17]If Allah takes away and understanding and comprehension, man, this person is

[8:22]in trouble because is what separates us from animals.

[8:27]How are we different than animals?

[8:29]Even physiologically, we're similar to some animals, some apes, some monkeys.

[8:32]But what's the difference?

[8:35]Our intellect.

[8:36]That's one key difference between us and animals.

[8:40]The which guides us to overcoming our base desires and looking upward.

[8:47]Without you're just like an animal.

[8:50]In Islam, we have three high ranks.

[8:54]Number one, Allah says the pious ones, the ones that dedicate their

[9:02]every moment for the sake of Allah.

[9:04]The second rank this is another high rank and status in the

[9:14]faith of Islam.

[9:16]The third are the people that are aware that have knowledge that

[9:22]have consciousness are they the same with people that are entrenched in

[9:27]ignorance?

[9:28]Definitely not.

[9:33]Allah will elevate those who have faith and numerous times we find

[9:41]in the Quran and the Sunnah im is good but it's not

[9:44]enough without it has to be supplanted with knowledge because knowledge is

[9:52]what guides you to h knowledge is what roots you firm in

[9:55]your iman this is the opinion of Socrates we come now to

[10:07]Plato.

[10:06]Plato he agrees with his teacher in some respects.

[10:10]He says yes I agree that happiness is not all this outer

[10:17]factors.

[10:15]It's an inner state.

[10:18]It's not something that you can forcibly attain.

[10:20]You can't conquer a country and go and find happiness.

[10:24]It's not sold in any department store.

[10:27]But he disagrees in the mechanism and manner of attaining it.

[10:33]He says reason and wisdom is what leads to happiness.

[10:38]It's not all too different from his predecessor.

[10:41]But he says the key to happiness is wisdom and reason.

[10:48]In the republic, the foundational work upon which one philosopher said all

[10:54]western philosophy is footnotes of the republic by Plato.

[10:57]He says the human being has three aspects, three parts.

[11:02]We have reason, we have spirit, the essence of the human being.

[11:09]And we have desire.

[11:11]And these three are always fighting.

[11:12]According to Plato, when reason overcomes desire, that equation equals happiness.

[11:22]It's that simple.

[11:23]When desire overcomes reason misery simple as that.

[11:33]So it comes down to understanding Quran says.

[11:46]So these three are always in conflict and all three are ingrained

[11:52]within the human being.

[11:53]Every human being has potential for good and potential for evil.

[11:56]Once a man came to an ancient philosopher.

[11:58]He asked him, I find two wolves within me.

[12:03]One is constantly pushing me to do good.

[12:06]The other is pushing me to do bad.

[12:08]How do I win?

[12:10]What do I do?

[12:09]He says it's easy.

[12:11]He says the wolf that you feed will win.

[12:14]Feed the wolf that pushes you to do good.

[12:16]Give do always have give your brother and sister benefit of the

[12:24]doubt.

[12:25]The good wolf will win.

[12:25]But feed the wolf that pushes you towards evil and of course

[12:28]he's going to win.

[12:30]He's going to be more bigger is going to be more jacked

[12:33]and he's going to push you towards fitna causing drama.

[12:38]This guy, why did he look at me in this way?

[12:42]Why didn't he say salam?

[12:41]Why didn't he invite me to this aim at to this gathering?

[12:46]He must have something against me.

[12:47]You know what?

[12:49]Let me go and talk bad about him.

[12:51]Let me go try to ruin his business.

[12:53]Of course, I feed this wolf.

[12:54]That's what's going to happen.

[12:57]So, it starts first and foremost here in the mind.

[13:01]Which attitude do I want to adopt and which approach will I

[13:07]take?

[13:05]They say there were two friends walking by the beach.

[13:09]They started getting into a ferocious argument.

[13:11]You know, maybe it was coffee versus matcha and tea.

[13:14]I don't know what what exactly they were arguing about.

[13:16]One really got heated and he slapped the other on his face.

[13:22]So the other he was about to slap him back but he

[13:25]held himself.

[13:26]After he calmed down he went by the shore and he used

[13:33]his fingers to draw some words.

[13:35]So his friend was like what's this guy doing?

[13:36]We were heated and I hit him.

[13:41]He was about to hit me back.

[13:42]He looks, he says, written in the sand by the shore, "Here

[13:45]is where my friend hit me." So he channeled his negative energy

[13:51]into writing.

[13:52]So the friend didn't really comment.

[13:55]A while later, these two friends are mountain climbing.

[14:01]The friend that had hit the other one, he's trying to grasp

[14:06]onto a rock.

[14:07]He's about to slip.

[14:08]The other friend catches on and saves him.

[14:11]After they reach the top, he takes out a piece of stone

[14:16]or a sword or something sharp and he carves something into the

[14:18]side of the mountain.

[14:21]So the friend again, he's looking.

[14:22]It says, "Here is where I saved my friend." So he asks

[14:26]him here, he's like, "You know, what's up with you and writing

[14:28]stuff and carving stuff?" He said, "When you hit me and you

[14:37]slapped me by the shore, I wrote it by the shore so

[14:41]that the waves would come and erase it.

[14:43]So, I forget." No, life is is too short to be petty

[14:47]about stuff like this.

[14:47]You know, I'm not perfect with my friends.

[14:50]Okay, he hit me.

[14:52]He did something wrong, but it's okay.

[14:53]But here, I did something good and I had a positive interaction

[14:58]with my friend.

[15:01]I wanted to record that in stone so that it could stay

[15:04]for eons and ages.

[15:05]It's all about our attitude, my brothers and sisters.

[15:08]It's all about the way we see.

[15:10]They asked a guy living in a city, "Is this city a

[15:15]good city?

[15:17]Good or bad city?" He said, "No, it's a very good city.

[15:19]Good people.

[15:20]All I see is good." They asked another guy living in a

[15:24]city.

[15:23]Do you see good people in the city or bad?

[15:25]He said, "No, this is a terrible city.

[15:27]bad people always resorting to crimes, terrible people, and they both lived

[15:32]in the same city.

[15:34]How can that be?

[15:34]The first guy, he has a good positive attitude.

[15:37]All he sees is good.

[15:40]He associates with good people.

[15:41]The second guy, he has a negative attitude.

[15:44]He's constantly looking out for bad and he finds bad.

[15:45]What you see is what you find.

[15:49]That's why the great author Joe Despensza he mentions your personality is

[15:59]your personal reality.

[15:59]The way you see things and the attitude that you adopt will

[16:06]influence how you live and that in turn influence if you experience

[16:09]happiness in this life or you experience misery.

[16:12]We can't control the external world.

[16:14]There's wars going on, the economy, stuff I don't even understand.

[16:20]All I can control is here.

[16:22]This is my palace.

[16:25]I can choose to let people in.

[16:29]I can choose to let thean in.

[16:30]I can choose to let negative energy, negative thoughts in.

[16:32]Or I can choose to let this be a breeding ground of

[16:39]good.

[16:38]So this is the theory espoused by Plato.

[16:48]40 years later comes his disciple Aristotle.

[16:55]Aristotle again he agrees happiness is an inner state but he disagrees

[17:01]with his two precedor on how we should attain this happiness.

[17:06]In his opinion, as a spouse by his book, the Kumakian ethics,

[17:10]he says that happiness is a series of virtues.

[17:17]Your character and the type of person that you have, this determines

[17:22]if you're happy.

[17:22]If you have good virtues, you'll lead a happy life.

[17:26]If you have all vices, bad habits, you're going to leave a

[17:31]miserable life.

[17:32]So it's all about the type of character.

[17:36]One thing Aristotle says that we disagree that we find to be

[17:43]incompatible with the school of thought of the B is that he

[17:46]Aristotle he himself acknowledges there's a dilemma.

[17:49]He says if it's all about predispositions, it's about character.

[17:53]Then what if someone is raised in a bad family with bad

[17:57]habits, he had bad role models, this person is not going to

[18:01]have good virtues.

[18:01]He's not going to be generous.

[18:02]He's not going to be kind.

[18:03]He's not going to be empathetic.

[18:06]He says giving charity once, does that make you a charitable person?

[18:14]No.

[18:13]One act of kindness, does that mean you're a kind person?

[18:18]No.

[18:18]These are predispositions.

[18:18]their feelings within.

[18:20]So he says that's why upbringing is very important.

[18:24]You find people from good families, good upbringing, mashallah, the apple doesn't

[18:32]fall far from the tree.

[18:32]But someone with bad upbringing, they'll have these bad habits that they

[18:38]can't get rid of.

[18:40]And he says, you can be someone that's greedy and give once,

[18:44]but doesn't that mean you're a charitable person?

[18:47]So he himself pretty much resigns at this dilemma.

[18:49]He says, "Yeah, it's all about it's all about upbringing.

[18:54]However, just because you had a bad upbringing, does that mean it's

[18:59]the end of the world?" No.

[19:01]We have many hadith pointing to this concept.

[19:09]Usually double standards or hypocrisy is not good.

[19:13]You don't want to feel something in your heart and say or

[19:18]do something else except when it comes to good.

[19:19]You're actually a greedy person, but you force yourself to give.

[19:25]You're a meanarted person, but you force yourself to act kind, to

[19:30]be empathetic, to be brave, even though you're a coward.

[19:35]Yes, initially you're just acting.

[19:37]It's just a role.

[19:37]What you're showing off is not really what's inside.

[19:42]However, if you end up doing this enough, eventually after many times

[19:48]practicing generosity, practicing courage, you will become courageous.

[19:51]Initially, it's kind of like an act.

[19:53]It'll feel awkward, but you can actually gain these virtues through repetition.

[20:01]So, Aristotle says moral character is the way and the path of

[20:08]happiness.

[20:07]And he has the theory of the golden mean.

[20:10]He says we have to look at each virtue and vice and

[20:15]we have to see what are the extremes.

[20:17]So he says for example we have on one end cowardice being

[20:22]a coward but he says its opposite is also not good recklessness

[20:25]is it good to be reckless is sometimes necessary.

[20:30]So he says we find the golden mean in between cowardice and

[20:36]recklessness is courage.

[20:37]Same thing with being greedy.

[20:40]Being stingy, it's obviously not good.

[20:46]But overly giving with no check is also not good.

[20:48]And the Quran even says this.

[20:51]The Quran tells the prophet, don't withhold your hand and don't ever

[20:54]give, but don't open it such that you lose everything.

[20:58]Be reasonable even in your charitable giving.

[20:59]That's what the Quran says.

[21:01]Therefore, in between, you know, being miserly, being greedy and being overly

[21:07]excessive is being charitable.

[21:11]And he goes through in his book all the list of virtues.

[21:14]And he analyzes them in this way.

[21:16]You have two extremes and you have a perfect mean.

[21:20]Now, while we may not discuss every single virtue, but the overall

[21:27]concept is accurate.

[21:26]Yes, our goal is to increase our virtues and to denounce our

[21:32]vices.

[21:32]You know, in the sermon of the pious says the those who

[21:41]are pious they're people of virtues.

[21:45]That's basically what it comes down to.

[21:47]Being a mut being God conscious means you try to increase your

[21:54]virtues and you try to fight that that's promoting these vices from

[22:00]within yourself.

[22:00]The Quran states part of the goal of our our worship is

[22:10]so that we can have and a sign of tawa is having

[22:18]good virtues according to if we can do this we can increase

[22:23]our tawa by the method of increasing our virtues this will lead

[22:28]to happiness we can enjoy life it's not out.

[22:32]Some people think being a means, you know, starving yourself, always being

[22:36]at home, living in the desert, engaging in every day, reading dua

[22:40]24/7.

[22:41]No, you engage with people but with proper andab in fact that's

[22:47]how you can discern a from a if someone's living in the

[22:53]desert 24/7 they won't have chances to interact with others such that

[22:56]their virtues can shine and they can really denounce their vices.

[22:59]It's when people live in a community and there's various interactions that

[23:04]their is tested.

[23:05]That's why Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him was sent and this

[23:10]is according even to Arab historians and scholars to the worst people

[23:14]on earth.

[23:15]These desert dwellers with the worst, they're very rough.

[23:17]They have no empathy, no kindness, they bury their infant daughters.

[23:22]Allah with his loving heart had to live with people like this.

[23:27]And yet he had the greatest of once had dispersed money to

[23:41]everyone from Balus.

[23:40]He was heading home when an you know ignorant Arab desert dweller

[23:45]came and approached him.

[23:48]He came from behind.

[23:48]He was late to receiving his stipen his share.

[23:52]So he came and he approached Allah from behind and he yanked

[23:57]on the collar of Allah so rough the prophet started bleeding.

[24:03]Now imagine you're walking home after a long day and someone comes

[24:07]and basically assaults you.

[24:08]So the prophet turns he says what do you need?

[24:11]He says yeah I didn't get my share.

[24:14]Well first of all you know you were late.

[24:15]It's your fault.

[24:16]Allah is always there at the same time distributing funds.

[24:19]Allah says no problem.

[24:21]He goes, takes the hand of this guy, takes him to Muslim,

[24:26]gives him a chair and he walks back home all with a

[24:29]smile on his face.

[24:29]According to some of our narrations, this is when this verse was

[24:31]revealed.

[24:34]And rarely you have the greatest of character.

[24:40]Having great character doesn't always mean every moment of your life is

[24:46]going to be nice.

[24:46]Allah had a very difficult life.

[24:49]Just imagine being such a kind-hearted person in that rough terrible society

[24:54]being an orphan right on the fringe of society people who are

[25:02]marginalized but that didn't stop Allah from exhibiting the greatest of we

[25:11]can enjoy this dunya my dear brothers and sisters but don't let

[25:15]it control you benefit from this duny without letting dunya benefit from

[25:20]Enjoy it while understanding this is just a transitory period.

[25:26]We have a narration that one of the angels came and asked

[25:31]prophet Noah and some narrations say this was at the time when

[25:37]he came to take his soul.

[25:38]He asked him Noah you're the one that lived the longest of

[25:42]all the prophets according to some narrations 1,700 years.

[25:44]How did you find dunya?

[25:46]I mean that's like 10 times 15 times our lives if not

[25:52]more 100 times.

[25:53]How did you find this dunya?

[25:57]You know did he get bored was so long with this that

[25:59]was constantly harassing you.

[26:02]You would preach to them they would try to close their ears.

[26:05]He says this dunya for me it was like a house that

[26:10]has two doors.

[26:09]I walked in I spent some time and I left.

[26:13]You're transiting in a country.

[26:16]You have an international flight, you check into the hotel, you know,

[26:20]16 hours later, you check out.

[26:21]That's it.

[26:23]That's dunya.

[26:25]We check in and we check out.

[26:26]Our dates, our check-in day, our checkout date might be different, but

[26:30]it's all the same.

[26:32]There's a story once there was this guy.

[26:38]He was walking when he found, according to him, the most beautiful

[26:42]lady had ever laid his eyes on.

[26:43]He was so infatuated with her.

[26:45]You know, day in day out he would go to the marketplace.

[26:48]He would work.

[26:49]He had a small stall and he would see this lady pass

[26:51]by until one day he gathers the courage to go to his

[26:57]dad.

[26:58]See this guy is doing it the right way.

[27:00]So he tells him, "Dad, you know, there's this lady that I

[27:03]would like to propose to.

[27:05]I'd like to get to know her, but you know, I want

[27:06]to do it the proper way.

[27:08]So why don't you come with me so that we can go

[27:09]figure out who her family is and get on with business?

[27:13]That's a shan.

[27:15]So they go and they find her in her usual place in

[27:22]the marketplace.

[27:21]The story says the dad when he laid eyes on this lady.

[27:26]He was so infatuated.

[27:28]He had never seen someone so beautiful, he told him, "Look son,

[27:31]you know, uh, I've recently gone single and you're still young.

[27:36]You have time to find your life partner.

[27:38]Leave this person to me." So they started arguing.

[27:39]He said, "Dad, what do you mean?

[27:41]you know, I've I've been wanting to pro over a month.

[27:44]What are you doing that?

[27:45]You're an old guy.

[27:48]Says, "No." And they start arguing, arguing, bickering.

[27:50]Who overhears them?

[27:53]The local judge is walking back from work.

[27:56]He overhears all these guys bickering.

[27:58]So, he says, "Look, what's going on?

[28:00]A father and a son arguing in public?

[28:02]It's not appropriate.

[28:02]What's going on?" So, they both offer their perspective to the judge.

[28:06]The judge, he's like, "What?

[28:09]So silly, you guys?

[28:09]A dad and a son are fighting over a young girl.

[28:13]This is stupid.

[28:12]Says, "Where is this girl?" So they go, they take him.

[28:17]They say it's her.

[28:16]So what do you think we should do?

[28:18]Should the dad propose to her or the son?

[28:21]I mean, this is assuming she'll accept, might not accept.

[28:24]The moment this guy lays his eyes on her, man, he's in

[28:30]love.

[28:30]The judge.

[28:32]So now he says, you know, actually both you guys go home.

[28:34]Let me take care of this.

[28:35]So now they're about to brawl.

[28:38]They say, "We have no other recourse other than to go to

[28:41]the mayor.

[28:42]We have to go to the governor of our city." So they

[28:46]go.

[28:47]So the governor sees a dad, a son, and the judge coming.

[28:49]What's going on?

[28:52]Family dispute.

[28:51]They're maybe not content with the judge's order.

[28:56]So he says, "What's going on?" So each person starts giving their

[29:01]perspective first.

[29:03]They start yelling.

[29:04]They start arguing.

[29:06]He's like, "Look, one at a time." Then he understands the situation.

[29:09]He's like, "Are you serious?

[29:11]All you guys fighting over this stupid." So then they say, "Okay,

[29:17]well, you think it's stupid?

[29:17]You come with us." So now they drag along this fourth guy,

[29:22]the mayor, and he sets his eyes on this lady.

[29:24]And now he's crazy.

[29:26]He says, "This is my mayoral order.

[29:29]All you guys stay at home." You know, quarantine.

[29:32]They say, "What?

[29:34]We can't accept this." They start bickuing and arguing.

[29:38]They have no other recourse other than to go to the king.

[29:42]The king, there's no one on top of him.

[29:44]So they go and they explain.

[29:47]I mean, the king, he's seen things.

[29:48]He has a great empire.

[29:49]He's conquered, you know, small things.

[29:52]They're petty.

[29:53]They don't come to his eye.

[29:54]So they say, "Let's go and see what he says." So all

[29:58]four now go to the king.

[29:59]They explain their situation.

[30:02]The king says, "Let me see this person." the king again.

[30:04]He lays his eyes on this lady and he's about to mobilize

[30:09]the national army.

[30:09]They start arguing arguing.

[30:13]Then they see the lady starts running away.

[30:15]She's like, "What are these guys?

[30:16]Crazy bunch of maniacs." So she starts running away.

[30:21]They start chasing after her.

[30:22]All four, can you imagine?

[30:25]The son, the dad, the judge, the governor, and the king chasing

[30:27]after one lady.

[30:29]They're running and they're and they're trying to trip one another, right?

[30:32]when all of a sudden they fall in a ditch.

[30:35]They're running so fast.

[30:36]They're not looking.

[30:36]They fall and all five are trapped in the ditch.

[30:40]They look up.

[30:42]They see the lady come and she says, "None of you even

[30:45]asked my name.

[30:48]Who am I?" She says, "My name is Duna.

[30:52]Everyone chases after me.

[30:55]But if you think happiness is by getting to me, no one

[30:58]will be happy.

[31:00]Eventually, you will chase.

[31:02]You will chase.

[31:03]You might even enjoy the chase, but eventually you're going to fall.

[31:10]That is our analogy.

[31:12]Dear brothers and sisters, this we chase, we chase, we chase, we

[31:16]chase, we chase.

[31:18]When will we learn?

[31:17]Quran says, "You want to understand what life really is about?

[31:24]We're so busy chasing that grind, chasing money, chasing this, chasing that

[31:28]fame, power, visit the graveyard.

[31:31]Look at all those people that had dreams, ambitions just like you.

[31:35]In fact, they had bigger dreams, bigger ambitions, but they ended up

[31:39]in the same ditch.

[31:39]What are the actions that we leave behind?

[31:43]What can we do such that we can really attain that everlasting

[31:53]happiness?

[31:50]The hadith of says the happiest of people with real contentment and

[32:03]solitude are the people that know our virtues.

[32:07]Because if you understand the virtues of the B, you will understand

[32:11]the keys to success and happiness.

[32:13]You will understand what is the secret formula for happiness.

[32:18]I tried fame.

[32:18]I tried wealth.

[32:19]I tried lust.

[32:19]I tried this.

[32:21]I tried this.

[32:22]I tried this.

[32:23]Nothing worked.

[32:23]The keys are with the May Allah subhana ta constantly guide us

[32:29]to the path that he wills for us.

[32:33]The sunnah of Allah and his immaculate progeny.

[32:35]May Allah subhanaa tala grant us everlasting happiness in this dunya and

[32:40]in the next.

[32:41]May Allah subhana wa ta send his sereny his peace all across

[32:47]Muslims these days.

[32:49]We truly are in need of dua.

[32:51]Let us raise our hands in dua.

[32:53]Some of our brothers had asked that we make a communal dua

[32:57]and a communal dua is a very powerful dua.

[33:00]Let us raise our hands in dua and recite the blessed verse

[33:02]five times.

[33:05]Aman.

[33:21]Amen.

[33:42]Ya.

[33:47]All ya Allah.

[33:51]Ya Allah.

[33:53]Ya Allah.

[33:56]Ya Allah.

[33:52]Ya Allah.

[33:54]Ya Allah.

[33:56]Ya Allah.

[34:04]All ya Allah forgive us of our sins.

[34:12]Ya Allah grant us eternal happiness in this duny and in the

[34:15]next.

[34:16]Oh Allah grant us the following the path of the for our

[34:20]departed ones for our loved ones for the shada of Islam and

[34:24]those who have attended and contributed towards this mjlus.

[34:27]Let us all recite before that.

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