Misinformation - Sheikh Aous Asfar - Ramadan Night 2 - MYC Program 2020

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[0:00]you bismillah r-rahman r-rahim o salat wa salam ala sayyidal mursaleen Habib

[0:30]Allah al al-amin a bell clansmen Mustafa Muhammad while elevated by bin

[0:36]Laden well Anna to the immature Allah add image Mahinmi young lady

[0:41]Dean Paul allahu ta'ala Vicki table in cream Allah Allah Allah gotcha

[0:51]no mistakes he says yeah Edina Amman enjoy a confessor combinable in

[0:57]Fatah Bayon and Toshiba Coleman BG halogen photosphere Oh a la Martha

[1:01]Anthem nada mean allah subhanaw taala in this verse he says o

[1:08]you who believe if someone who is corrupt comes to you with

[1:11]information then make sure that you verify that information otherwise you will

[1:18]become regretful so the falafel alley rally brothers and sisters assalamu alaikum

[1:25]warahmatullahi wabarakatuh our topic today is a very important topic it's a

[1:30]topic that affects all of our lives and when I say that

[1:33]it affects all of our lives I mean every part of our

[1:39]lives we receive if social media messages every single moment of the

[1:44]day we receive messages from our whatsapp from telegram from Twitter from

[1:48]Instagram from Facebook it's hard to avoid the electronic and digital media

[1:56]that we receive in these social networks that have become available to

[2:04]humanity and all too often what happens is that we get so

[2:07]much information that we become overwhelmed overwhelmed because we can't really decipher

[2:13]what is true from what is false some of us in actual

[2:15]fact what we do is when we receive such information we end

[2:23]up forwarding it without even checking it and sometimes we don't even

[2:27]check it at all we become desensitized to a lot of the

[2:32]information a lot of the information we receive we do is consumed

[2:36]in actual fact if we don't check our social media we feel

[2:42]a sense of a void inside of us we'll look at why

[2:43]it is that that happens in this lecture but today our goal

[2:48]first and foremost is to look at this idea of misinformation how

[2:51]is it that I'm going to decipher what is true from what

[2:58]is false with all of the minutiae that is surrounding and buffering

[3:02]and padding all of the truth that is out there now in

[3:06]order to give this topic justice it's important for us to look

[3:12]at it from three perspectives we'll look at it from a logical

[3:15]perspective and then from an academic perspective and finally we'll look at

[3:20]it from the Islamic perspective so from the logical perspective we start

[3:26]out with a very simple question is truth good or bad of

[3:31]course no two will disagree on this matter everybody will say that

[3:41]truth is good the next question is is lying bad of course

[3:46]no two will disagree lying is bad so on a fundamental level

[3:53]we all agree rationally no more two people differ on this that

[3:58]truth is good and falsehood is bad based on that then we

[4:02]understand that even our value system as we raise our children as

[4:09]we are raised by our parents we recognize the value of telling

[4:17]the truth and the value of telling lies we know that those

[4:20]who always tell the truth are looked upon favorably and those who

[4:23]always lie are looked upon unfavorably we know that people who lie

[4:31]on their taxes end up going to jail we know that people

[4:33]who lie to steal from others end up being punished we know

[4:40]that those that and cheat on exams lie about the fact that

[4:43]they studied end up being caught and being penalized we know for

[4:49]a fact then the truth rationally and logically speaking is something that

[4:55]we must connect our self-worth now if we are able to do

[4:57]this if we were able to understand the importance of the truth

[4:59]then why is it so difficult for us to be able to

[5:04]adhere to it one and two determine what the truth actually is

[5:09]now what ends up happening all too often and we'll take a

[5:16]simple example let's say for example I go into a garage okay

[5:19]and in the garage I'm trying to speak to the mechanic but

[5:25]as I'm speaking to the mechanic the car is being revved the

[5:28]louder it is revved the less likely I'm able to hear what

[5:34]the mechanic is telling me so if I ask him to tell

[5:37]me what's wrong with my car I'd have to keep screaming what

[5:41]was that what did you say I couldn't hear you and even

[5:42]if I do agree and thinking that I heard him I might

[5:47]have actually misheard him why because there's so much noise exactly like

[5:51]those who for example would go to a concert of course nobody

[5:57]here goes to music concerts but let's say for example you know

[5:59]we look at some people well I have the beloved might go

[6:03]to music concerts because we know music is haram right so let

[6:05]alone go into venues of entertainment that would be Haram also so

[6:09]and those who go to such venues what ends up happening is

[6:15]they can't hear each other right they might tell someone you know

[6:18]be careful um you know you might set yourself on fire for

[6:23]example nobody would be able to hear why because of the noise

[6:27]the amount of noise that's out there and it just so happens

[6:29]that this noise especially music concerts is falsehood right and because it's

[6:35]falsehood subhanAllah it's completely when it's it's oversaturated it over saturates the

[6:43]airwaves it becomes overwhelming and the truth ends up being drowned in

[6:47]all the falsehood so now what I need to do then is

[6:53]I need to figure out a why I allowed myself to be

[6:55]in such a situation B how can I be able to remove

[7:02]myself from such situations and see um how can I at the

[7:08]end of the road be able to decipher what is true that

[7:10]from what is false and this is purely an epistemological dilemma that

[7:14]we are facing so logically let's take a simple example let's say

[7:20]for example I have whatsapp right and I have my Instagram and

[7:25]I have my Twitter feed and I have my Facebook okay so

[7:31]all of these apps I have on my phone I receive updates

[7:33]all the time I get messages all the time I know that

[7:37]the reason why I actually installed all of these is so that

[7:40]I can be connected with my family with my friends with my

[7:46]peers with my colleagues and my workers or with my colleagues at

[7:54]work right so um it can be a great source of educate

[7:58]use as points of education to gain knowledge however I know that

[8:05]in many cases even people who are endeared to me who I

[8:08]have connected with on let's say whatsapp in order to connect with

[8:13]the near of kin as allowance me to do and all too

[8:15]often I end up getting all of these messages that you know

[8:19]much of them I don't know whether they're true or false and

[8:21]some of them are so outright ridiculous that when I asked why

[8:26]did you send this message out they say oh I don't know

[8:28]I received it and I just decided to send it out for

[8:31]the heck of it because I figured everybody would enjoy it anyway

[8:34]even if I didn't um look at it myself which is ludicrous

[8:40]it's absolutely ludicrous for someone to make such a statement if it

[8:44]was anything else let's let's take a simple example if let's say

[8:48]I receive a message about the corona virus I hear for example

[8:56]that the corona virus is causing let's say zombies to be resurrected

[9:02]let's say something absolutely ridiculous right and I receive it on my

[9:06]whatsapp I don't look at it I don't verify the information and

[9:08]I send it right right now what ends up happening I cause

[9:11]fright amongst people right now some people will be rational in love

[9:17]enough to say to send me a message and say to me

[9:18]what is this garbage that you've sent out right but others will

[9:23]actually just send it out so why is it that some people

[9:25]are able to decipher it while others are not now the reason

[9:29]is that a we have to understand there's this argument that's out

[9:33]there which is no information as bad information all information is good

[9:37]information whatever information we get that in itself is really good now

[9:44]it's up to us to decipher what is true from what is

[9:47]false so this is a great argument ok um it may even

[9:52]be convincing for some right you know it's better to have all

[9:55]information than lack of information and having information that is false also

[9:59]helps us to decipher what is true from it's false great however

[10:03]what needs to happen here in this first point is that you

[10:06]have to have points at which this information is verified because if

[10:11]left unburied quite it can be extremely damaging now you might say

[10:15]in the second point why is it that it would be damaging

[10:18]chikna I say to you it would be damaging for several reasons

[10:23]because not everybody verifies the information as we all know right and

[10:28]so this can create unrest so let's say for example I receive

[10:34]information that is bad about something that might cause social unrest meaning

[10:39]that let's say somebody says something bad about someone they send it

[10:42]to me and I don't read it or verify it and I

[10:45]send it out and what ends up happening that person sends it

[10:49]to three others those three others send it to six others next

[10:52]thing you know you've created an instability within society and when everybody

[10:58]sees that person who has been targeted from that message what ends

[11:00]up happening is nobody looks at them the same they don't they

[11:06]disrespect them they don't dignify dignify them why because they all ended

[11:09]up subscribing to the falsehood that is in that message because it

[11:12]came from you because it came from me because I didn't check

[11:17]that information and people trust me and trust you and so when

[11:21]we send them information they tend to build on that trust so

[11:24]that means then that in order for me to be able to

[11:30]decipher between truth truth and falsehood I have to first and foremost

[11:34]look at the messages that I received right secondly I have to

[11:37]have a reference point from which I can say that I can

[11:43]verify this information and then once verified then I'm going to decide

[11:47]whether I disseminate it or not so how is it then that

[11:51]I can verify the information that's the next one verifying the information

[11:55]actually is not as hard as it seems but in order for

[11:57]me to understand the concept of how to verify I have to

[12:01]go back to my reference point remember we always have to start

[12:04]from a reference point when we're doing anything in our lives especially

[12:10]when we're searching for truth I have to go back to the

[12:12]truth the truths that I do know if I go back to

[12:15]the truths that I do know then they can become that foundation

[12:19]from which I can work if I have an unstable foundation full

[12:23]of cracks right or a lack of foundation completely then obviously my

[12:27]house is going to end up falling to the ground right because

[12:30]it'll be unstable in itself from the get-go from his very base

[12:38]so I go back to the strong base of knowing that allah

[12:41]subhanaw taala is the unlimited creator and since he's unlimited he's all

[12:46]purposeful he's all-knowing he's all wise he wouldn't give me information that

[12:50]is bad for me he wouldn't mislead me why because these are

[12:54]all flaws and deficiencies and flaws and deficiencies do not come from

[13:00]the Creator himself right they have to come from a human being

[13:04]who is oppressing himself or oppressing others allah subhanaw taala is all

[13:08]perfect and therefore he wouldn't do such a thing because it is

[13:12]cruel and oppressive and a lot is not cruel and oppressive because

[13:15]he is offered therefore then I say ok well since he allah

[13:19]subhanaw taala is the truth and everything that comes from him is

[13:24]the truth everything that comes from is with purpose then I must

[13:28]a take that as a criterion that everything that I push out

[13:33]there and everything that I receive I have to look at it

[13:37]through that lens the lens of the truth that I know that

[13:39]that information must be correct that that information must be verified that

[13:45]that information must have purpose otherwise I know Sandara that being the

[13:50]case then what I'm going to do is I'm going to see

[13:54]what's the system that Allah put in place a loss of product

[13:57]odda gave me a message so we recognize the importance of a

[14:01]message but not only that he gave me a messenger and that

[14:03]messenger he qualified he said this representative of mine my priority is

[14:09]someone that I have appointed not you humans okay why because you

[14:15]humans are limited and I am unlimited so you're going to choose

[14:19]someone based on your limited knowledge and understanding but I allah subhanaw

[14:24]taala would only appoint someone who's at my high standard of perfection

[14:29]and based on that then you can bounce everything off of that

[14:34]representative I want of you so allah subhanaw taala places the system

[14:47]of training the trainer based on that you and that representative chose

[15:08]an appointed other representatives other trainers so therefore you whether I should

[15:24]follow it or I should ignore it whether I should tell people

[15:27]to follow it or just tell them to ignore it and if

[15:31]I am able to understand this then the epistemological dilemma no longer

[15:37]exists right because now I understand that what my creator wants of

[15:41]me is to follow the verified qualified experts and so based on

[15:46]that then and this is only by rational deduction we haven't looked

[15:48]at the quran yet or any of the hadith we'll leave that

[15:52]to the third perspective so based on that then what happens now

[15:55]I have a paradigm shift I say well hang on I shouldn't

[15:59]be listening to someone who's a non expert telling people to inject

[16:03]disinfectant into their bodies right because people commit suicide that way right

[16:08]people kill themselves and harm themselves that way rather I should be

[16:12]looking at the experts right who tell me to wait until they

[16:19]they discover the actual cure for this disease right until a vaccine

[16:23]is developed that can actually be helpful for people I'm not going

[16:27]to follow someone who is corrupt someone who has lack of information

[16:31]the person might also be might not be corrupt but they might

[16:33]have a lack of information and they might disseminate that information unknowing

[16:39]that doing so is going to spread falsehood and going to end

[16:44]and will actually cause damage and we are seeing that today we're

[16:52]seeing that on a daily basis right how falsehood is being exposed

[16:56]so the next thing I want to talk about is logically that

[16:59]what's going to happen is we know that no matter how much

[17:05]the noise how much the minutiae out there that at the end

[17:08]of the road and I have to grab on to the experts

[17:12]and the experts are usually less in the population there are very

[17:16]low percentage so if I'm following the majority we'll talk about that

[17:22]in a minute I'm not necessarily following the truth right because the

[17:26]majority could be basing their information on falsehood but if I follow

[17:31]the experts that I'm going to make sure that the majority if

[17:34]they are doing something if they're following the expert then based on

[17:39]that I'll know that they're following the truth right otherwise I would

[17:42]rather stick with the expert and be a minority right then be

[17:47]a majority and be in falsehood make sense so then rationally speaking

[17:53]it becomes easy for me to understand a the value of information

[17:56]be the value of expertise see the fact that the more people

[18:03]that adhere to the truth right the more we are able to

[18:05]live a life of truth and a life that is an honest

[18:10]life that is based on the good of society not the falsehood

[18:13]because if I follow the minutiae then Society will be full of

[18:17]minutiae right but if I follow the truth then Society will be

[18:22]full of truth and society will be saved and no at no

[18:27]other time are we seeing the value of the expert as we

[18:29]are today so let's see then what the experts tell us in

[18:34]the halls of academia the expert tell us several things we find

[18:39]that there are studies that were conducted by important experts in their

[18:45]fields we find for example that psychologists like Carol do it in

[18:51]her book mindset she explains the importance of looking at things from

[18:56]a rational perspective she cites studies in her book that say that

[18:59]there are people who look at the information that they received and

[19:02]they think of it in a negative manner and there are people

[19:06]who look at the information that they receive and they look at

[19:08]it in a positive manner those that look at it in a

[19:13]positive manner have a growth mindset meaning that they see things in

[19:17]a manner that allows them to look at the good in it

[19:19]so even if I receive false information what am I going to

[19:23]do I'm going to realize that it's important for me to verify

[19:26]the information and not stick to it if I just hold on

[19:32]to that information and I don't check them I'm going to be

[19:35]a person who has a fixed mindset all too often someone who

[19:38]has a fixed mindset ends up being exactly like someone who keeps

[19:42]walking into a brick wall meaning that they're they're not looking around

[19:48]right they're all operating like this and when you operate like this

[19:53]based on a set amount of information that is just being compounded

[19:57]over and over and over again over you what ends up happening

[20:01]is you become drowned in that information you are unable to see

[20:05]beyond it a simple exercise for us to to to do is

[20:09]that if we look at the tip of our finger and I've

[20:11]done this with you before so let's do it again look at

[20:14]the tip of your finger to follow your finger back and forth

[20:18]with your eyes don't focus on anything other than your finger right

[20:21]now I want you to stop looking at your finger and I

[20:28]want you to answer the question a finger only did anything around

[20:33]surrounding your tip the tip of your finger was it was any

[20:38]of it clear of course the answer is no it was blurry

[20:39]right and therefore what does that mean that means that if I

[20:46]focus on information let's say that's false information and I don't investigate

[20:51]and look at what's around because once I stop focusing on that

[20:54]little piece of information and I saw what was around now what

[20:56]happened is I started to see the reality of the world right

[21:00]so all too often for example a person who becomes depressed from

[21:04]the information that they received today when looking at all of this

[21:07]false information out there the misinformation causes causes us to fall into

[21:10]depression right but when I realize that you know what there's something

[21:14]greater out there there's a greater purpose out there and what I'm

[21:17]going to do is I'm not going to focus on all of

[21:21]the bad information but rather I'm going to move around navigate my

[21:27]way to find the source of information and the source of expertise

[21:31]the problem is that what the scientists tell us and according to

[21:35]a really good book that you should read called manage your time

[21:40]manage your life in this book he says with the amount and

[21:46]the plethora of bad information that's out there the way that the

[21:50]system has been developed in terms of social media is that their

[21:57]goal is to use an algorithm and that actually manipulates you psychologically

[22:01]we've seen this in the case of Cambridge analytical for exam right

[22:04]in the last election that we found in the United States of

[22:09]America where they were able to actually control people's political views by

[22:14]changing them by targeting them giving them messages that are going to

[22:18]subliminally make suggestions to them and slowly change their opinion from the

[22:23]truth that they know to even believing that a falsehood is true

[22:27]don't get me wrong this isn't something that's specific only to our

[22:31]day and time this is something that has occurred across centuries it's

[22:35]only the only difference is that today it's a global problem that

[22:39]has single sources before it was multiple sources how so before it

[22:50]was an issue of if you'll excuse me a minute [Music] sorry

[23:01]about that folks in my alarm went off so before it was

[23:07]world leaders the powers that be the political powers those who wanted

[23:11]to control the markets right those who wanted to make the money

[23:13]and be able to control people those authoritarian regimes those are the

[23:23]ones that sought to manipulate people to manipulate information so they would

[23:26]place their spies out there figure out who who was trying to

[23:32]disseminate the truth and what what they would do in turn is

[23:35]they would take them incarcerate them and make sure that they disseminate

[23:37]the falsehood and that way they would stay in power today we

[23:42]find the same model is being used but where through social media

[23:46]now why is it more dangerous than it ever was before it

[23:50]is more dangerous today than it ever was before because it is

[23:54]down to a science today it is marketing is being used psychology

[23:58]is being used you find individuals like Zuckerberg for example the founder

[24:05]of Facebook in actual congressional hearings being asked now that you know

[24:13]that your platform is being used to manipulate people and to this

[24:17]dominate false information will you continue he was asked to be to

[24:26]sell ads and to allow such such people and such organizations and

[24:30]such parties to place false information and while he tried to dance

[24:37]around the answer at the end he said yes I will allow

[24:40]it because the bottom line isn't truth the bottom line is the

[24:48]dollar right and the system that has been created by these social

[24:53]media platforms and though they're being used for good in many cases

[24:57]like we are doing here and they're being used for bad in

[25:02]more cases right to disseminate false information why for the same reasons

[25:06]than it was done before for the reason of controlling people creating

[25:12]new paradigms for people right so that people have new belief systems

[25:18]before people wanted us the church wanted people to believe in God

[25:22]right the political powers controlled the church so they made the church

[25:27]control people's opinions we find the same thing in countries such as

[25:30]Saudi Arabia where the political powers control the mullahs that are that

[25:34]are out there in Saudi Arabia who are on their payroll so

[25:40]that they affect was that you know are congruent with what they

[25:43]want with with what their beliefs are so that they can achieve

[25:46]their goals the same was the case during the time of the

[25:50]Imams from the time of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam onward

[25:54]until the time of the greater occultation until until this very day

[25:58]in actual fact but what's dangerous here is that these algorithms that

[26:03]are being written according to the experts and focus specifically on a

[26:09]target or a trigger stimulus system meaning that once I have the

[26:17]phone with me the phone with me is everywhere right and my

[26:20]notifications are on as soon as I hear that ring or that

[26:24]ding and from my notifications what happens I get a dopamine hit

[26:28]I get a dopamine hit what is dopamine and what does it

[26:34]do for me dopamine is like a satisfaction drug it causes one

[26:37]to feel a sense of as satisfaction and saturation why is that

[26:43]when we enjoy something that we're doing what happens is dopamine is

[26:49]released it's basically the happy drug the problem is that it fits

[26:53]targeted by something that is bad that causes this hormone to be

[26:59]released then what happens is that we become addicted to something bad

[27:03]but when it is triggered by something good then we become addicted

[27:07]to something good right so for example let's say as an example

[27:11]let's look at a restaurant so marketing experts have found that if

[27:18]they have restaurants placed in strategic locations where they have fans up

[27:25]in the air and their fans actually suck the air from inside

[27:28]the restaurant from over the the stove and they push the air

[27:34]out in the direction of the workers what ends up happening is

[27:37]people smell that that the smell of the food the smell of

[27:42]the cooking it causes there at the dopamine to be released their

[27:45]mouths start to water and they can't focus on anything other than

[27:49]hunger they end up inducing a sense of hunger and once they

[27:57]do eat that food so they found for example that in consumer

[27:59]studies they found that most of the food that we eat actually

[28:03]contains sugar most of pasta sauce pastas everything if you read the

[28:11]ingredients of most foods out there everything in it has sugar right

[28:18]has high fructose corn syrup or corn syrup these are all triggers

[28:23]for dopamine because a sugar rush or a hit of sugar is

[28:26]exactly like a hit of heroin for them to make us addicted

[28:34]to these foods so continue to eat so that we crave and

[28:36]buying these things and just as a smoker it's the dopamine rush

[28:42]from smoking a person who eats a specific food that has that

[28:46]as high in sugars gets a dopamine rush by eating it so

[28:50]they become just as addicted as a smoker to sugar just as

[28:53]addicted to a heroin addict to their heroin and so modern science

[29:01]has discovered that the danger then now lies in the fact that

[29:05]this very concept is being applied to modern forms of social media

[29:10]and the algorithms those who develop them including Mark Zuckerberg and other

[29:14]people at Facebook have admitted and said that they brought social psychologists

[29:20]to actually help them in the development of these algorithms these mathematical

[29:28]algorithms through which people are are are stimulated to trigger that dopamine

[29:35]response once they hear the notification so what we need to do

[29:41]according to them is shut off are not notifications right not become

[29:45]enslaved to social media and try to reduce the amount of social

[29:52]media that you have and try to do reduce the amount of

[29:53]time that you expose yourself to the social media so a good

[29:58]solution for example but you might ask well how do I resolve

[30:00]this issue a good solution is actually to only check your social

[30:02]media a couple of times a day and don't start at the

[30:06]beginning of the day because what they tell us the experts tell

[30:09]us is that what what ends up happening is at the beginning

[30:13]of the day it takes up all of your time okay you

[30:14]next thing you know you're you know you were supposed to do

[30:19]something and now you know was 8 o'clock in the morning and

[30:21]now all of a sudden it's 11:30 right and definitely at the

[30:24]middle of the night make sure that you don't check your your

[30:27]your social media late at night before you go to sleep why

[30:32]because it actually keeps you up and next thing you know it's

[30:33]2:30 a.m.

[30:34]or almost a lot of time and you haven't slept and you

[30:36]have work the next day right so there are solutions but the

[30:41]real question is what do the experts tell us about how to

[30:46]decipher between the truth and falsehood and what's interesting is that I

[30:51]actually haven't found anything in the halls of academia that actually tells

[30:56]you specifically how to decipher between truth and falsehood except in epistemological

[31:03]studies in it's an epistemological studies which is basically the study of

[31:11]information and the study of knowledge right in books of epistemology what

[31:15]we find is that in order for us to go back to

[31:21]today to figure out what is true from what is false we

[31:23]have to set specific standards and paradigms the problem is that and

[31:27]what is these paradigms are shift are shifted as a result of

[31:34]over consumption of social media not being able to decipher between what

[31:37]is true and what is false what ends up happening is unless

[31:40]we completely isolate ourselves from the social media and spend time meditating

[31:45]and spend time contemplating right as we mentioned in that last lecture

[31:51]sharpening that saw going back to basics setting our moral compass and

[31:57]taking everything from that point of view for example Eckhart Tolle who

[32:05]was a homeless person and spending a lot of his time on

[32:08]the streets thinking and contemplating later on he would author books he

[32:12]was featured on Oprah he has a book called the power of

[32:18]now living in the now and and this is an this is

[32:23]a good book to look at to to actually learn from how

[32:26]it is that people in in in the Western world actually perceive

[32:31]the modern life the hustle and bustle of life that he says

[32:38]as well as others him Dale Carnegie's Stephen Covey John Maxwell in

[32:44]all of their books they say that everything has to come from

[32:50]one specific foundation and that is a belief in a higher power

[32:53]now you want to call that belief of your consciousness or you

[32:56]want to believe you want to call it the superconscious or you

[33:00]want to give it the name of nature at the end of

[33:04]the road you have to tap into something that is greater than

[33:07]you once you tap into something that is greater than you and

[33:11]you live in a now according to a cartel and you think

[33:13]about all the things you listen to the air around you you

[33:18]listen to the birds chirping you look at the beautiful greenery around

[33:21]you you might say well chef now I'm cooped up in my

[33:25]house I can't really see any greenery I say to you well

[33:27]look at the plants in your house look at the trees outside

[33:31]of your house and he says that what you need to do

[33:32]is connect with your surroundings and what has happened is with all

[33:38]of the social minutia that's out there it it has become hard

[33:41]for us to connect with anything other than our phone most of

[33:44]the time our hands are like this and we're looking down and

[33:47]even when we're conversing right the Millenial conversation so to speak is

[33:52]two people are talking to each other right there right in front

[33:54]of each other however the way they're communicating is through texting right

[33:59]through messaging through Instagram posting right and and all of the experts

[34:03]tell us that which you have to do is disengage from all

[34:08]of that once you disengage from all of that you'll find yourself

[34:11]in states of solitude tomorrow or in the next couple of nights

[34:14]will I've dedicated a lecture to solitude but first and foremost we

[34:22]have to contemplate we have to remove ourselves from all of these

[34:26]distractions and then and only then we will realize the importance of

[34:29]connecting with something higher than us because we won't know what to

[34:32]do with ourselves we'll be exactly like that addict that needs the

[34:36]hit right of heroin heroin or the heads of the cigarettes for

[34:45]example and I have to work through that you can contemplation through

[34:48]meditation through I'm looking at my surroundings and trying to connect with

[34:52]nature trying to connect with my neighbors on a personal level trying

[34:54]to talk to people that way and when that happens what ends

[34:59]up happening is the dopamine that is released actually ends up creating

[35:04]new habits new addictions I become addiction addicted to life I become

[35:09]addicted to nature I become addicted to socializing with people properly right

[35:16]to listening to the human voice properly and at no other time

[35:19]have we come to value that other than today so let's move

[35:24]on to the Islamic perspective in the Islamic perspective if we go

[35:28]back to the verse the verse says yeah even ladina Amano in

[35:31]jail a confessor whom be never in for the Bata satavahana oh

[35:36]you who believe if someone who is corrupt someone who's untrustworthy comes

[35:40]to you with information Allah says feta billion make sure that you

[35:45]verify that information why because Allah says and to see who common

[35:49]be jihad item photos Roberto Alomar thought anatomy because you may cause

[35:53]people to fall into am following falsehood and as a result you

[35:58]will become regretful why because fat Idol very high on men imam

[36:02]ali says well that i do cherish our own men that a

[36:06]person who does good is better than the good righteous deed that

[36:08]he did and someone who does evil is worse than that evil

[36:14]deed the data so if I end up disseminating evil then I

[36:18]will be more evil than the evil that I decided you see

[36:21]why because it'll be multiplied as it moves from one hand to

[36:24]the other from one device to the other i collect even more

[36:30]and more sin now what now there's an important issue that Islam

[36:34]deals with when it comes to the issue of dissemination of information

[36:38]in times of distress today we're in times of distress social distress

[36:44]global distress economic distress in such situations and imam salam ala le

[36:51]le monde emiram I mean instead I'm Allah he says it beautifully

[36:54]if we look at Nanjing bulava the very first short saying he

[36:57]says couldn't feel fitness he kept me in Laboon lithography when other

[37:04]entre flip be in times of the stress tons of social distress

[37:07]just like the adolescent camel neither the male adolescent camel neither do

[37:15]you have a hump to be ridden nor do you have others

[37:17]to be milked so in what that means if we apply track

[37:24]equal for mister of Miss according to Islam we must not be

[37:33]a vehicle for misinformation allah subhanaw taala says in the holy quran

[37:38]and volkov Wazza happened about Lila in an bottle a can as

[37:42]a hookah Allah says the truth will appear and falsehood will end

[37:49]up falling will end up dissolving surely falsehood is meant for dissolution

[37:55]okay it's meant to go away notice the life that we live

[38:03]in right now how we've been living so busy with all of

[38:06]the sources of in of misinformation and many of us become convinced

[38:11]that it's okay for us to have all of this misinformation out

[38:17]there but if we go back to the base of the truth

[38:19]that a loss of Hannah to Allah is a lot that he

[38:23]is the truth as allah says in the holy quran in the

[38:28]chapter of alas allah says well Hoffler i swear by time know

[38:31]that time is valuable because allah subhanaw taala swears by it he

[38:37]says well awesome in that incident across surely man is in a

[38:41]state of loss if we don't follow the truth we're in a

[38:46]state of loss if we don't use our time properly we're in

[38:48]a state it applause Allah says Allah lady now except for those

[38:55]who believe in Allah Avenue I have enough Saudi hot and do

[38:58]good deeds believe in what believe in the truth and do good

[39:00]deeds based on that truth right Allah ladina Anna no Saudi heart

[39:08]whatever so we'll happy whatever sohba so notice this is a communal

[39:13]action this is a congregational action a lot of Hanukkah Allah says

[39:17]here except those who believe in the truth in allah subhanaw taala

[39:20]and based on what the truth that they that they believe in

[39:25]they they act upon it and do good deeds so they verify

[39:29]the information before they push it out and how do they do

[39:33]so by collectively working together to remind each other of the importance

[39:38]of adhering to the truth that Allah is the truth the death

[39:40]is the truth that heaven is the truth that I will be

[39:46]held responsible for my deeds in this world and in the hereafter

[39:49]that allah subhanaw taala will reward me with Jenna if I do

[39:53]and that allah subhanaw taala will punish me with a fire if

[39:57]I don't so adhering to the truth then is an important paradigm

[40:01]within Islam and it is a logical right Islam talks to the

[40:06]rational logical human being telling them that you must find the sources

[40:11]of truth you must believe in something value that thing that you

[40:15]believe in that is the source of truth right but contemplation by

[40:19]looking within your own consciousness and realizing that you are weak that

[40:22]you are limited and that you must be dependent upon Allah spano

[40:25]to ana for the truth and then and only then will you

[40:30]realize the purpose for which you have been created for and based

[40:33]on that then you will realize the importance of your actions manifesting

[40:38]your belief system you believe in the all good the all perfect

[40:44]therefore your actions have to reflect that belief Iman Josh's father says

[40:48]it beautifully he says Lisa man she a Tina man Banu will

[40:52]be acquiring Wow let me amend will be a marina what a

[40:55]Sarina they are not of our followers those who say what we

[41:03]say but don't do what we do but don't follow the heritage

[41:07]in the legacy that we have left behind well our kin Shia

[41:12]tuna or in Amasya tuna however our Shia are no other than

[41:21]those in Amasya tuna and Lenina don will be a party now

[41:23]well I mean it will be our marina watering up our Shia

[41:27]are the ones that say what we say and do what we

[41:32]do they do as we do and that is why after of

[41:41]species awesome Allah says what colossal will hack that together they remind

[41:46]each other of the importance of the truth and adhering to it

[41:50]that this life is limited that it will end one day and

[41:52]that you will be held responsible you will be held responsible for

[41:58]the information you collect for the information that you believe in that

[42:01]somehow Elbasan a well for either could you could could look like

[42:07]a can alayhi Missoula Allah Spano - Allah says and you're hearing

[42:11]what you hear what you see what you believe in your heart

[42:17]all of those things you will be held responsible for on the

[42:21]day of judgement and that is the truth and so we remind

[42:23]each other of that right and then what does he say what

[42:27]Allah sober sober and they remind each other to be patient in

[42:29]times that the truth isn't out there now in Islam then the

[42:36]paradigm is Lillis fall back on the foundations of the truth remind

[42:40]yourselves and make sure that you have training partners good believing partners

[42:46]and network of believing meaning that are going to remind you of

[42:51]the truth and that you the what you believe is reflected in

[42:57]what you do and that requires you to be patient so that

[43:00]you can siphon through the falsehood from the truth once we do

[43:04]that what happens unless is it beautifully he says look I want

[43:08]you to remember something this is an important brick that you have

[43:10]to put in the foundation that you're building your life on and

[43:14]that is Allah says in the holy quran wa hell yes they

[43:18]will Adina ya lamu no alladhina lie on to those of knowledge

[43:21]equates to those without knowledge so allah whose's a rhetorical question here

[43:26]he says listen you and I both know that it's only common

[43:33]sense that you should not follow those who are non experts and

[43:36]therefore just like I would go to doctors such as doctor Falchi

[43:40]- from the CDC or I go to the World Health Organization's

[43:46]and the doctors the team of doctors there to figure out what

[43:49]is the truth about the coronavirus from what is the falsehood that

[43:52]being disseminated by world leaders or by lack thereof let's say only

[43:59]then will I be able to know the truth those of knowledge

[44:01]do not equate with those without knowledge right and therefore in Islam

[44:05]it's important to go back to the expert once I know that

[44:11]paradigm and I follow the paradigm and it's reflected in my actions

[44:16]then I become a true believer then I become the person who

[44:18]applies it not only to my religion but also to my world

[44:23]to everything that is around me religion then becomes practical for me

[44:27]because I know that just as I would go to a doctor

[44:31]who's an expert to fix me or go and physically and go

[44:34]to a mechanic to fix my car and go to a computer

[44:38]expert a computer scientist to fix my computer that I would also

[44:41]go to the expert in religion to a merger in order that

[44:45]I benefit from his expertise the other day I was watching a

[44:48]debate on YouTube unfortunately a woman may Allah guide her um insha'Allah

[44:54]she actually said she said we need to stop listening to the

[44:59]scholars and we have to listen to ourselves we're all able to

[45:05]interpret the holy quran however we want everybody can interpret it as

[45:09]they want what a load of hooey right how could anybody fund

[45:12]such a person and put them in the media and this person

[45:17]is very highly funded placed in the media invited to conferences why

[45:20]because there are people out there who want to be able to

[45:26]control our minds and push out misinformation so that we veer off

[45:29]the path of truth we veer off the for humanity to veer

[45:32]off the path of truth because as long as you're following false

[45:35]information then you can be controlled allah subhanaw taala doesn't want anybody

[45:39]to control us other than those who represent him meaning allah subhanaw

[45:43]taala at the end of the road he doesn't control us right

[45:45]but allah wants us to have the right sources of information so

[45:50]that we can place on ourselves a control system so that we

[45:54]know then how to measure the difference between what is true and

[45:59]what is false allah says it beautifully in the holy quran in

[46:02]the chapter of it in san in Naha de Naju Sibylla we

[46:05]guided them to the correct path in mash acumen by microflora he

[46:09]has the choice whether he is thankful and follows or rather he

[46:13]is unthankful and disbelieving we ask that allah subhanaw taala allows us

[46:17]to decipher the truth from the faucet we recognize that allah subhanaw

[46:23]taala has given us the Faculty of our intellect to be able

[46:26]to do so and we realized that through our intellect we were

[46:29]able to come to the conclusion that the truth is important that

[46:34]falsehood is terrible and bad and that we must veer away from

[46:37]on it and that too much of it means that we are

[46:41]placing ourselves in the wrong environment exposing ourselves to the wrong things

[46:45]and so what we must do is remove ourselves from such circles

[46:48]we must place ourselves in the circles of the experts oh allah

[46:54]do not let us be and do not know us as those

[46:59]who are in the circle of those who have disobeyed you those

[47:02]who have disseminated false information we ask you Allah by your name

[47:06]you are the truth you are tomorrow I mean that you guide

[47:10]us through these trying times so that we are able to follow

[47:12]the truth oh Allah we ask you that you haste in the

[47:17]appearance of the Hajin Salam Salam ooh-la-la so that he can so

[47:21]the truth can reign and oppression can wane Allah we ask you

[47:27]and we beseech you that you bestow your mercy on our dearly

[47:31]departed that you help all of those who have who are working

[47:34]hard to disseminate the truth that you allow organizations such as the

[47:38]NYC and other organizations around the world who are helping disseminate the

[47:42]truth to our communities to continue to do so oh Allah we

[47:46]ask you and we beseech you that you give health to our

[47:49]sick you repay the debts of those who are in debt that

[47:51]you give health to our second to all of those who have

[47:55]been inflicted by diseases around the world yaha Marat I mean we

[47:57]pray the art of banana mean that Allah gives you all health

[48:01]and your families through these trying times and we ask for your

[48:05]door after a down and Ahana me o salat wa salam ala

[48:12]sayyidal mursaleen well follow me Lana

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