Night 27: Law of Attraction - Sayed Mohammad Baqer Qazwini | Ramadan 2024

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[0:06]I begin in the name of the Almighty God, the compassionate, the

[0:12]merciful, the one who has created everything in utmost perfection.

[0:16]And may the peace and blessings of the almighty God be upon

[0:21]his pure and beloved messenger, the peak of his creation, the symbol

[0:29]of humanity, the holy prophet Muhammad Samuhammed and his immaculate progeny of

[0:41]the peace be upon them especially the leader of our time the

[0:45]awaited savior alm May Allah hasten his reappearance and make us all

[0:54]amongst his sincere and dedicated servants.

[0:57]Respected brothers and sisters, one of the very disturbing phenomena that we

[1:11]are experiencing in our modern times is the attempt to replace religion,

[1:20]religious practices, religious rituals with nonreligious ious practices.

[1:29]For instance, I am witnessing in our era the attempt to replace

[1:38]spirituality in religion, prayer, dua, supplication, the vikar of Allah subhanana wa

[1:44]ta'ala, the glorification of God, that being replaced for instance with yoga.

[1:50]I know many people and their intentions are good.

[1:54]I'm not here in a position to judge them.

[1:57]They are searching for spirituality through yoga.

[2:02]I find people in some of our communities who are Muslims.

[2:07]They do not pray.

[2:10]They have no clue whatif is.

[2:13]They have not taken the time and effort to explore their spirituality

[2:19]of dua for example or dua and they resort to yoga and

[2:25]when you ask them why they'll tell you because I want to

[2:28]be spiritual and through yoga I want to connect to my creator.

[2:33]Now the environment in some of these yoga sessions is a pretty

[2:40]disturbing environment.

[2:39]The typical environment is they go to a gym in a room

[2:46]with the opposite gender wearing their tightest clothes that they can and

[2:50]dancing to music.

[2:50]Mashallah for this spirituality inshallah straight to the ar of Allah subhanahu

[2:55]wa ta'ala we are trying to replace religion with these types of

[3:01]practices.

[3:02]Now, yoga as a physical exercise, breathing technique, a lady who's pregnant

[3:08]and has back pain and the doctor tells her to observe some

[3:14]yoga moves, that's fine.

[3:15]But if I want to take spirituality from yoga, that's not how

[3:19]it works.

[3:21]No prophet of Allah, no religion advocated for that.

[3:25]This does not give you spirituality to connect to your creator.

[3:29]You want spirituality, it must go through the path that Allah has

[3:32]given you through Quran, through supplication, through the of Allah subhana wa

[3:38]ta'ala, through the duas of that's how you achieve spirituality.

[3:43]And then we find rituals invented in these nonreligious practices.

[3:51]For instance, do you know that you have the yoga chakra rug?

[3:58]It looks like a prayer rug.

[4:00]They sell it.

[3:59]Go and check it out.

[4:02]Subhan Allah.

[4:04]They have this rug so you can do these yoga moves.

[4:05]And the prayer rug is for us an opportunity to pray to

[4:11]Allah subhanana wa ta'ala.

[4:11]So let's replace all of that.

[4:12]Forget your daily prayer.

[4:14]Go sit on a yoga rug and you can have your own

[4:16]meditation.

[4:17]Even many types of meditation today are used to replace religion.

[4:25]One type of meditation is blank meditation.

[4:28]When you sit and you do nothing, you sit there in a

[4:34]certain gesture, posture.

[4:35]You're familiar with it, right?

[4:36]And for an hour, you're supposed to think of nothing and do

[4:40]nothing.

[4:43]Just go blank in your mind.

[4:47]Now, in Islam, we don't have such type of meditation.

[4:50]Islamic purposeful meditation is when you sit, you review your day, you

[4:55]examine how you can better yourself, you think of the you think

[5:00]of death.

[4:59]That's good meditation.

[5:02]You remember Allah subhana t that's good meditation.

[5:04]But for you to sit an hour and do nothing, that is

[5:08]not purposeful meditation.

[5:08]No prophet of God ever advocated for that.

[5:12]But we are told in modern society, you don't need dua, you

[5:15]don't need prayer, you don't need salah.

[5:17]Just sit and meditate and you're fine.

[5:20]Another attempt at replacing religion is what is called manifestation and certain

[5:27]aspects of the law of attraction.

[5:30]And in our discussion tonight, we will examine the law of attraction

[5:36]as Muslims.

[5:36]How do we make sense of this law?

[5:38]Is there truth to it?

[5:41]What is it that we accept from this law?

[5:44]And what is it that we reject?

[5:46]Now let's briefly define the law of attraction and see how there's

[5:53]an attempt to use it to replace religion.

[5:54]In very simple terms, the law of attraction means when you have

[6:02]positive thoughts, a positive mindset, you can attract good positive outcomes.

[6:11]Now there are many variations of this law.

[6:15]You will find books written on this law.

[6:18]But at a very basic level that's what it means.

[6:22]The law of attraction also means that your thoughts create feelings.

[6:30]You can create positive feelings or negative feelings.

[6:35]If you create positive feelings, you will generate positive vibrations in the

[6:42]universe and you will attract good outcomes that match these vibrations.

[6:49]And if you have negative thoughts, you will create negative feelings.

[6:54]And once you create negative feelings, you will generate negative vibrations in

[7:00]the universe.

[6:59]And that will attract negative outcomes that match that vibration.

[7:04]That is the basic principle of the law of attraction.

[7:10]Let's now take our Islamic glasses and analyze this law from an

[7:17]Islamic perspective.

[7:18]Do we entirely reject this law or there are aspects of this

[7:22]law that we can accept and then there are aspects that are

[7:25]problematic that we reject and we in fact see it as an

[7:32]attempt to replace religion.

[7:32]Today, let's start with four concerns that we have with the law

[7:38]of attraction.

[7:39]Number one, when we examine the law of attraction, we find that

[7:47]in reality there is an attempt to remove God from the picture.

[7:52]Because many types or variations of the law of attraction, they tell

[7:57]you that if you keep thinking of positive things, you keep wishing

[8:05]for something, somehow mysteriously the universe is going to deliver that to

[8:11]you, the universe is going to make it happen to you.

[8:14]Now when I ask them, who exactly is the universe?

[8:19]When you say the universe is going to do wonders for you,

[8:25]if you have a positive mindset, let's say all you think of

[8:29]is to become a millionaire or to become the CEO of X

[8:33]company and you think of this every single day.

[8:36]Every single day that's on your mind.

[8:38]You think of it.

[8:40]The law of attraction says eventually the universe will use all of

[8:43]its mysterious powers to make that happen.

[8:45]So my question is when you say the universe, who are you

[8:47]referring to?

[8:50]Who's the universe?

[8:54]Mars, Jupiter, the Milky Way galaxy, a black hole somewhere in the

[9:00]universe.

[9:01]Who's the universe that you're referring to?

[9:02]So in reality, you find that there is an attempt to remove

[9:06]God from the picture and tell you that wonders will happen in

[9:09]your life, but it's the universe that will make it happen.

[9:14]This contradicts the teachings of the monotheistic religions that tell us Allah

[9:20]is in charge.

[9:22]Who created the universe?

[9:22]Allah subhana wa ta'ala.

[9:25]This whole system of cause AND EFFECT.

[9:28]GOD IS THE one who created that.

[9:29]Allah has a system.

[9:30]He's determined many variables.

[9:31]And yes, he's given you some free will to determine your own

[9:36]fate, too.

[9:37]But everything in the universe is in the hands of Allah.

[9:40]Nothing happens without a cause.

[9:42]Nothing happens without a variable that Allah has created.

[9:48]Allah states in the holy Quran anything that happens even misfortunes calamities

[10:00]tragedies problems trials whether on earth on land or in your own

[10:04]nefs in your own self Allah has a record of it Allah

[10:09]knows of it he's written it in a book so nothing mysteriously

[10:16]happens in the universe without God.

[10:18]Allah subhana t is the ultimate guide and cause in this universe.

[10:23]SO THAT IS the first observation that we have when it comes

[10:27]to the law of attraction.

[10:31]It seems that there is an attempt to remove God from the

[10:33]picture.

[10:34]There's no God.

[10:36]Just wish for good things and somehow the universe is going to

[10:39]make it happen.

[10:40]That's not how it works.

[10:41]Who is the universe that you're referring to?

[10:44]Allah is the one who can make things happen.

[10:48]So that's the first observation.

[10:53]The second observation, yes, we will get to the positives of this

[10:57]law and some of the advantages of this law.

[11:02]We'll talk about that.

[11:02]When you think of something and you're positive, you are more likely

[11:06]to achieve it.

[11:08]However, it does not mean that anything you wish for and you

[11:13]think of, you will get it.

[11:13]Sometimes Allah will intervene and it will not happen even if you

[11:19]think of it a h 100 times a day because sometimes Allah

[11:21]sees that this is not good for you.

[11:22]If you're a M, if you're a believer and you're asking for

[11:27]something that is not good for you, Allah subhana t may stop

[11:29]it.

[11:30]So it's not true that anytime you wish for something or you

[11:37]constantly positively think of something, you will get it.

[11:38]Many times you will and you will not get it because it's

[11:42]not in your interest or Allah wants to try you.

[11:46]So that's the second observation we have.

[11:46]The third observation is that some people when trying to implement the

[11:54]law of attraction they fall into the trap of wishful thinking.

[11:57]When you read about manifestation and the law of attraction, sometimes you

[12:01]hear youth on social media discussing it this way or thinking about

[12:07]it this way that you basically just sit in your room and

[12:13]a 100 times a day think of getting that job and eventually

[12:16]you'll get it.

[12:18]That's not how the world works.

[12:19]You have to make the effort.

[12:21]Positive thinking by itself will not give you results.

[12:26]It must be coupled with action.

[12:28]Allah states in the holy Quran you will not get accept that

[12:38]which you work for.

[12:37]So I feel some of the youth they fall into this trap.

[12:42]They think why should I go to college and get a PhD

[12:46]and work so hard to establish a business?

[12:48]me let me sit in my house and think of becoming a

[12:50]millionaire for 6 months for a year and somehow inshallah I'll become

[12:54]a millionaire that's not how it works this is wishful thinking be

[13:00]positive think positively have hope work hard but that's the key work

[13:06]hard without working hard you will not get anywhere you must make

[13:13]the effort so this is the trap that some people fall into

[13:16]when they embrace the law of attraction and the world of manifestation.

[13:20]The fourth concern that we have with the law of attraction is

[13:25]that you are basically given the impression and this can be very

[13:31]toxic my dear brothers and sisters that if you are going through

[13:34]trials and difficulties in your life it's because you're not positive enough.

[13:38]I hear some people say that you're going through a disease, financial

[13:44]crisis, family crisis because your mindset is not a proper mindset.

[13:48]Start having a positive mindset, all your problems will be solved.

[13:52]That is not true.

[13:54]Sometimes you have people who are very optimistic, very positive.

[13:57]They have the best mindset.

[13:58]But Allah is trying them through that health crisis, financial crisis, family

[14:04]crisis.

[14:10]If Allah loves one of his servants, a human being, Allah will

[14:16]drown him in balah.

[14:17]Allah will drown him in difficulty, in hardship.

[14:22]I know this is very difficult for us to digest.

[14:27]How could a loving merciful Lord do that?

[14:27]But it's because he's merciful and loving that he's doing that.

[14:33]Because Allah subhana ta is your ultimate coach.

[14:34]Allah sees your weaknesses and through these trials, Allah is inviting you

[14:41]to address your weaknesses.

[14:42]And that's what a good coach does.

[14:47]You as a good coach, if you're coaching one of your team

[14:49]members to play ping pong table, table tennis, whatever it is, and

[14:52]you realize that player has a weakness in his left arm, you

[14:59]as a good coach, where do you keep striking?

[15:02]Right side or left side?

[15:06]Which side?

[15:07]Left side.

[15:09]Right.

[15:09]Why is it to embarrass that team member?

[15:12]Because you are going to embarrass him a few times.

[15:16]Is it to make him suffer because you enjoy seeing him suffer?

[15:19]You realize that he has a weakness in his left arm.

[15:24]So you'll keep striking on the left side for him to strengthen

[15:29]his left arm because that's what a good coach does.

[15:32]If you have a personal trainer at a gym, halal gym, inshallah,

[15:36]if you have a personal trainer, who's a good trainer?

[15:40]A trainer who gets you to your goal in the most efficient

[15:43]way possible.

[15:44]Imagine if one day you show up to the gym to your

[15:48]trainer and the trainer says, "Hhabibi, I've got very good news for

[15:51]you.

[15:52]Today, no pain, no suffering, no 5 hour difficult workout.

[15:54]I brought you a pizza.

[15:56]Let's sit and watch a movie for the next five hours." Will

[16:00]you accept that?

[16:01]If you get a refund, maybe.

[16:04]But will you accept that?

[16:04]You will tell him, "That's not why I came here.

[16:07]I did not come here to eat pizza.

[16:08]I came here for a good workout.

[16:09]In fact, I want you to make me suffer.

[16:12]I came here to suffer because I have a goal.

[16:16]I want to be fit.

[16:18]I want to shed x amount of pounds." Allah subhana t, if

[16:20]he makes you suffer, it's because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is elevating

[16:24]you.

[16:25]He's coaching you.

[16:27]He's strengthening you.

[16:28]So if you're going through problems and trials in your life, it

[16:33]doesn't necessarily mean that you have a bad mindset.

[16:34]You have a corrupted mindset.

[16:36]You're not positive enough as some people claim.

[16:39]For some people that may be the case, but for others that

[16:43]may not be the case.

[16:44]Sometimes you could be the most positive person, but Allah wants to

[16:46]try you.

[16:48]Allah wants to elevate you.

[16:51]So we find these four concerns, my dear brothers and sisters, with

[16:55]the law of attraction.

[16:55]Having said that, let's now examine what we as Muslims can accept

[17:01]from the law of attraction because there are positive elements of it

[17:07]that we can accept.

[17:08]In fact, way before the law of attraction, you find verses in

[17:12]the holy Quran and hadith from the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasall and

[17:16]his family that have pointed to some of these points that people

[17:20]today attribute to the law of attraction.

[17:22]Let's examine them.

[17:23]Number one, the law of attraction tells you that when you have

[17:32]a positive mindset and you act upon it, you generate vibrations in

[17:37]the universe and those vibrations attract certain outcomes that match the vibration.

[17:46]Is there any truth to that?

[17:48]Yes, there is truth to that to an extent.

[17:52]When you a human being when you commit a deed when you

[17:56]do an action in this life there's a ripple effect to this

[18:03]action that can reach the other side of the universe and that

[18:09]invites you to reexamine what you do during your day.

[18:13]Sometimes I think my action is very limited.

[18:16]It's just in my room in my house in my community.

[18:17]But in reality it has a ripple impa effect that can reach

[18:23]the other side of the universe.

[18:26]That's how powerful your deed can be.

[18:27]In one of the z of IM Hussein which states it's the

[18:34]most most authentic z of Im Hussein.

[18:36]There's a powerful passage that states the following.

[18:49]In one of the visitations of Im Hussein, you say, "Oh Abdah,

[18:55]I bear witness that your blood that was spilled unjustly, that your

[19:02]blood, it reached eternity and it dwells eternity.

[19:08]Your blood became eternal.

[19:12]The shadows or the shades of God's throne were shaken and the

[19:19]shadows of creation meaning all of creation was shaken.

[19:21]The martyrdom of Imam Hussein was so significant.

[19:27]The act of killing him was so evil it shook the entire

[19:30]universe.

[19:31]If you were able to see the reality of this universe, if

[19:36]you could see behind the veils, the metaphysical aspect of this universe,

[19:40]you would see the universe shaken to its core when Imam Hussein

[19:45]was killed.

[19:45]and even our daily sins.

[19:48]My dear brothers and sisters, according to one hadith, Allah subhana t

[19:51]said to prophet Jesus, he tells him, "Oh, Isa, when a person

[19:55]takes a false oath in me, you take an oath in Allah

[20:01]and you lie.

[20:03]Lying is a big sin." Now, when you take a false oath

[20:06]in God's name, it's even a bigger sin.

[20:10]Allah subhana t tells prophet Isaam the one who takes a false

[20:17]oath in my name my throne is shaken by that means you

[20:23]small little creature here on earth with this sin you can shake

[20:26]the throne of God and to the contrary to the opposite if

[20:32]you do a good deed it has a ripple impact in the

[20:33]universe it has a ripple effect it generates positivity throughout the universe

[20:39]And the system behind that is angels.

[20:42]The angels take your good deeds and they take it to the

[20:47]Allah.

[20:47]They take it to the heavens.

[20:48]Your good deeds generate a vibration, a spiritual vibration in the universe

[20:53]that the entire universe can feel your good deeds.

[20:58]So this aspect is something that we can embrace and we can

[21:03]accept because we have teachings in Islam that point to this direction.

[21:07]And this should remind us never to underestimate our deeds.

[21:11]Never underestimate it.

[21:14]Imagine.

[21:14]Imagine the inhabitants of the universe.

[21:16]And we don't know who's out there in the universe.

[21:21]Billions and trillions of angels, heavenly creatures.

[21:22]There may be life out there.

[21:27]Imagine your deed impacting all of that.

[21:28]That's big.

[21:30]And imagine your good deeds sending these good signals to the universe.

[21:35]So this first aspect of the law of attraction is something that

[21:40]yes we can accept.

[21:42]Let's move to the second point.

[21:47]The second aspect is the the positive element in the law of

[21:53]attraction tells you that with op optimism with a positive mindset you

[21:58]can achieve anything.

[21:58]Yes there is some truth to that.

[22:01]Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in Islam teaches us to realize our full

[22:06]potential.

[22:07]Never put a limitation for yourself.

[22:10]Allah has created you.

[22:14]Allah has given you faculties.

[22:17]Allah has given you so many different powers and capacities.

[22:19]Realize your full potential.

[22:23]The problem of the average human being is that he or she

[22:26]underestimates their potential.

[22:31]Imam famously and beautifully said in these lines of poetry that are

[22:36]attributed to him, you presume you claim that you're some small entity.

[22:41]I'm just a small little human being here on earth.

[22:47]But in reality, the big universe is infolded in you.

[22:53]Don't underestimate yourself.

[22:53]The entire universe is infolded in you.

[22:57]Which means you the human being you have a great capacity.

[23:00]You can be connected to your lord to your creator.

[23:04]Allah is infinite.

[23:07]And when you connect yourself to an infinite source the results can

[23:13]be infinite.

[23:14]Don't presume you're just some small entity.

[23:15]Don't put limitations on yourself.

[23:19]With a strong willpower you can achieve anything.

[23:23]Imam also said, "Have you seen how a bird flies?" The Imam

[23:32]says, "You can also fly." Now, not with physical wings, but with

[23:38]your willpower.

[23:36]With your willpower, you have the capacity to fly.

[23:41]You can achieve anything.

[23:42]Yes, be realistic, but you can achieve anything.

[23:46]So, this is something that we fully embrace in the religion of

[23:51]Islam.

[23:52]Never underestimate yourself.

[23:52]Never say, "I'm not able to do that.

[23:55]I can't pull this off." You can be strong.

[23:58]Have the willpower and ask Allah to help you and see how

[24:01]Allah subhana t will do wonders for you.

[24:05]In 1954, an interesting record was broken.

[24:11]It was believed before 1954 that no human being would be able

[24:19]to run a mile in less than four minutes.

[24:22]Impossible.

[24:22]Human beings just don't have the physical stamina and the physical capacity

[24:27]to achieve that to pull that off.

[24:30]What happened in 1954?

[24:32]In 1954, this record was broken by the British athlete Roger Banister.

[24:40]He managed to run a mile in 3 minutes and 53 seconds.

[24:50]He broke the record.

[24:51]Now, here's the interesting part.

[24:53]In the next 12 months, over 20 runners were able to run

[25:02]a mile in less than four minutes.

[25:04]Why?

[25:05]What changed?

[25:06]The mile is still the same mile.

[25:11]It's not like they shortened the mile, right?

[25:12]The bodies are the same bodies.

[25:16]How come before 1954 those runners could not pull it off?

[25:19]But once Roger Bannister pulled it off, 20 other athletes pulled it

[25:26]off too within the next year.

[25:29]Why?

[25:30]What happened?

[25:29]What changed?

[25:32]Perception.

[25:31]Before 1954, they believed it was impossible.

[25:34]And when you believe something is impossible, it becomes impossible.

[25:38]you're very unlikely to do that which you think is impossible.

[25:43]But now that you had a human being break that record, it

[25:47]was proof to them that you can.

[25:51]If Roger did it, why can't I?

[25:53]Because they believed in their capacity to break that record.

[25:55]They in fact broke that record.

[25:58]That shows you that the human being puts limitations on himself.

[26:02]When you remove those limitations, you can achieve the unthinkable.

[26:06]Another example is in 1939 there was a math student or student

[26:13]in statistics and math by the name of George Danik.

[26:15]Have you heard of George Danik?

[26:18]He was a very famous mathematician and statistician.

[26:20]What he did in 1939 was amazing.

[26:25]One day he goes to class at the University of California in

[26:31]Berkeley.

[26:33]He goes to class late.

[26:33]So he sees two problems on the board.

[26:37]He writes them down.

[26:39]He goes home to solve them.

[26:41]These this is his homework.

[26:42]Now he realized that the problems were a bit too difficult.

[26:47]They were not your average homework problem.

[26:50]But he manages to solve them and he submits it to his

[26:52]professor.

[26:53]His teacher his teacher goes crazy.

[26:56]After a while when the professor was grading it and he realized

[27:01]he solved it, he contacted him.

[27:03]Come, George, what's going on here?

[27:04]He told him, "What do you mean?" He's like, "How did you

[27:06]solve this?" He's like, "Well, I admit it was a bit difficult,

[27:10]but I solved it.

[27:10]Why?" He's like, "No, really, how did you solve it?" He's like,

[27:14]"I solved it.

[27:14]This is the homework that you gave us, and I solved it.

[27:17]What's the big deal?" He told him, "No, that was not your

[27:18]homework." He's like, "Then what was it?" He's like, I was giving

[27:25]an example of two open problems in math and statistics that no

[27:28]one has been able to solve.

[27:30]Not even Einstein has been able to solve it.

[27:33]I was giving an example of that.

[27:34]He's like, "Oh, I thought that was my homework." And his his

[27:40]professor was fascinated and he told him, "These two problems make that

[27:44]your thesis.

[27:45]This is amazing.

[27:44]You discovered an answer.

[27:48]No scientist has ever done THAT BEFORE." WHY WAS George Donsik able

[27:53]to do that?

[27:53]What was different about him in class that day from other classmates?

[27:59]Other classmates, the minute their professor told them, "These are problems Einstein

[28:05]couldn't even solve," that's it.

[28:07]The brain shuts down.

[28:11]The ambition shuts down.

[28:11]If these are open-ended problems, open problems in math and no one

[28:16]has been able to solve them, who am I to solve them?

[28:19]See, you put the limitation.

[28:20]It's a mental barrier limitation that you put on yourself.

[28:24]Whereas George, he came late to class, so he thought it was

[28:30]a math problem, homework.

[28:30]Obviously, your teacher when he gives you homework, you can do it.

[28:34]Teachers are not going to give you homework that you cannot solve.

[28:39]So, in his mind, he was sure that you could solve it

[28:41]because it's my homework.

[28:42]Because he was so sure of solving it, he actually solved it.

[28:47]And that shows you the power of willpower.

[28:51]It can do wonders.

[28:54]Asam stated, you can fly with your two wings just like a

[29:00]bird flies with its two wings.

[29:01]But your wings are your him are your willpower, your ambition.

[29:07]So one positive element in the law of attraction is that if

[29:13]you focus on positive ideas, a positive mindset, you can actually achieve

[29:17]good results.

[29:18]And that's something that we believe in the power of belief, the

[29:22]power of the power of im your nia and your intention can

[29:30]do wonders.

[29:26]As I beautifully states, If your body is weak, your nia is

[29:39]strong.

[29:40]Your nia can compensate.

[29:44]Meaning your willpower can compensate.

[29:46]Your positive thinking can compensate for that.

[29:48]How do you think Ali lifted the door of when the Imam

[29:54]would barely eat any food?

[29:55]How did he do that?

[29:58]Many people ask.

[29:57]It's the power of his im.

[30:00]It's the power of his faith.

[30:01]when he felt connected to Allah and he wanted to bring the

[30:06]victory of Allah he had the power of 40 men to carry

[30:08]the gate of that's what willpower can do to you so this

[30:13]is a positive element that we can accept number three one of

[30:18]the elements of the law of attraction is what's called good karma

[30:22]or bad karma in Islam do we believe in the system of

[30:27]karma at a basic level without going into the details of other

[30:35]religions, what Hinduism says, what Buddhism says.

[30:38]No, at a basic level that when you do something, it will

[30:43]come back to you.

[30:43]If it's good, you'll receive good results.

[30:46]If it's bad, you'll receive bad results.

[30:49]What goes around comes around.

[30:51]Do we believe in that at a basic level?

[30:54]Absolutely.

[30:53]I'll share with you several verses from the Quran to demonstrate that.

[31:00]Number one, Allah subhana wa ta'ala in surah Toba verse 98, he

[31:04]speaks about those hypocrite bedins, Allah describes one of their qualities.

[31:17]Some of those better, they believe that when they donate to charity,

[31:22]it's a loss for them.

[31:26]It's a fine like I'm getting fined.

[31:28]Zakat is like a fine.

[31:29]You know when you get fined by the police they believe that

[31:35]donating charity zakat whatever it is that is actually a fine.

[31:39]They hated that.

[31:42]And then the Quran states they wish misfortune on the believers because

[31:52]they're hypocrites.

[31:54]They would wish that bad things happen to the believers.

[31:58]The Quran says the misfortune is going to hit them.

[32:03]What does this verse indicate?

[32:07]This verse indicates that when you wish evil on others, this act

[32:11]of wishing evil on others is actually going to go back and

[32:14]haunt you one day.

[32:17]That's very important.

[32:18]Intentions are very important.

[32:19]I could be sitting in my house and not harming anyone, but

[32:24]I sit and I wish my cousin is destroyed, right?

[32:26]My friend, I wish he'd die and he'd lose his wealth and

[32:32]he'd fail his MCAT because I didn't get the score that I

[32:34]wanted and he's going to OUT COMPETE ME.

[32:36]YOU'RE NOT DOING ANYTHING.

[32:38]In fact, you don't even talk to your friends about it.

[32:40]You keep it in your heart, but you sit there and wish

[32:46]evil.

[32:43]Honestly, you're not generating good vibrations in the universe when you do

[32:49]that.

[32:50]And this was the quality of those.

[32:57]They wished that bad things happened to the believers.

[33:01]Allah responds to them and threatens them by saying the misfortune is

[33:07]going to hit them.

[33:07]Because when you wish evil on people, eventually the evil is going

[33:12]to come back to you.

[33:12]This is one of the laws of the system of Allah subhanahu

[33:16]wa ta'ala.

[33:18]That's one verse.

[33:18]Another verse is verse 43.

[33:22]Allah states there are some people they're arrogant and they scheme evil

[33:40]plots.

[33:38]Allah subhana ta states These evil plots that you concoct, they will

[33:48]come back to strike you and they will engulf you and they

[33:54]will affect you.

[33:53]And that's the basic law of karma.

[33:56]You plot evil plots for other people, eventually those plots will come

[34:02]to get you.

[34:02]They will come to hurt you.

[34:06]They'll come to make you fail.

[34:06]So this part of the law of attraction is something that we

[34:09]can accept.

[34:10]Yes.

[34:11]If you have a negative evil mindset and you wish evil on

[34:14]people and in fact you act upon this evil mindset, it will

[34:20]come back to attract negativity to you.

[34:24]It will attract to you.

[34:25]That is something that we Muslims believe in.

[34:29]Another verse in the Holy Quran also refers to this law of

[34:33]karma that affects your family.

[34:40]God forbid.

[34:36]Allah states in verse 9, Allah states before you say something evil

[34:55]and bad like you ruin someone's reputation you cause fitna you name

[35:01]it and before you do something bad in society think of your

[35:09]progeny think of your future family because it's the law of this

[35:12]world.

[35:13]It's the law of Allah that when you do good to other

[35:15]families, the world will be structured by Allah to do good to

[35:22]your family and to your children.

[35:23]And when you harm other families, there is a threat to us.

[35:31]Your family can be harmed in the future.

[35:34]That is the basic law of karma.

[35:35]Be good to others.

[35:36]Others will be good to your future children, to your future family.

[35:41]And if you are bad to other people, your children might be

[35:45]in a negative environment.

[35:46]And they will be the target of a lot of hate.

[35:51]Sometimes we think we're strong.

[35:52]I have a strong social position.

[35:53]I have the connections.

[35:55]I oppress this family, that family.

[35:59]I cause fna.

[35:57]I ruin this life.

[36:00]Be careful.

[36:00]Maybe in your lifetime, you'll get away with it in dunya.

[36:03]Of course, not on the day of judgment, but your family will

[36:05]suffer one day.

[36:07]And subhan Allah, we've seen that happening every single day around the

[36:11]world.

[36:11]This is one of the laws of this life, my dear brothers

[36:17]and sisters.

[36:15]So, this is an aspect that we can accept.

[36:19]Karma does exist and Allah subhana t is the one who created

[36:26]this system.

[36:27]Do good, you'll be doing good to yourself.

[36:30]And if you do badum, if you do go do bad, you

[36:37]will be the first victim of your evil deeds.

[36:40]That is the basic law of karma.

[36:41]And this should make us think twice before we do something wrong.

[36:47]My dear brothers and sisters, so this aspect of the law of

[36:50]attraction is something that we can definitely accept.

[36:54]Being optimistic in itself is something that we accept.

[36:56]Many studies have shown that when people who are optimistic, the rates

[37:00]of depression are less, their health is better, they're happier.

[37:06]Be optimistic.

[37:04]You as a mman, you have Allah.

[37:09]Something that maybe others don't have that connection.

[37:12]One of the most beautiful statements in the Quran for me is

[37:16]this one.

[37:18]My dear brothers and sisters, the Muslim army was suffering at the

[37:22]time of the prophet in the battlefield.

[37:24]They're being attacked by these pagans.

[37:26]They were bleeding, suffering.

[37:28]You know how Allah comforted them?

[37:32]It's such a beautiful statement.

[37:33]Allah subhana t tells them, look, if you are suffering, you're bleeding,

[37:41]you're fatigued, you're exhausted, you have casualties.

[37:43]Your enemy is also suffering.

[37:45]They also have casualties.

[37:48]They're also bleeding.

[37:51]But then, but then look at the Quran.

[37:56]but what you hope from Allah is something that they don't.

[38:01]They don't believe in God.

[38:03]They don't believe there is heaven and hell.

[38:06]They're suffering, but they don't believe anyone was going to compensate them.

[38:09]You die and you become dust.

[38:10]This was the belief of the pagans.

[38:12]But you, the believer, you're suffering.

[38:14]You have Allah.

[38:15]You know God is watching.

[38:17]He's there.

[38:18]He's acknowledging your pain.

[38:19]Allah subhana t is going to compensate you.

[38:22]Can you compare that with an atheist who has no such belief?

[38:25]Can you compare that?

[38:28]My dear brothers and sisters, you know, one of the biggest crimes

[38:33]of atheism is what?

[38:33]It literally is a crime.

[38:36]I know legally it's not a crime, but if you look at

[38:39]it from a humanitarian perspective, it's a crime.

[38:42]I'll give you this example.

[38:44]Imagine if there's a child suffering, a child who was born with

[38:48]a disability, and this child is suffering every day.

[38:50]You know what the atheist tells him?

[38:53]Now the atheist may not say these words, but the atheistic belief

[38:59]boils down to that.

[39:00]You know what the atheist tells that child?

[39:02]Hey buddy, look, you're suffering.

[39:04]Too bad.

[39:05]There's no God up there.

[39:06]There's no day of judgment.

[39:08]You're going to suffer and suffer till you die and too bad.

[39:12]That's just how the world works.

[39:13]And nobody's going to compensate you on the day of judgment.

[39:16]Contrast that to a believer who comes to the boy and says,

[39:23]"Habibi, life is short.

[39:24]You're suffering, but you have Allah.

[39:26]He acknowledges your pain." And then on the day of judgment for

[39:29]infinity, Allah will put you in the highest ranks of heaven.

[39:33]Can you compare between these two?

[39:35]Wallah, that first one is a crime.

[39:37]When you tell suffering people that it sit suffer for the rest

[39:39]of your life, too bad, you're going to become dust and there's

[39:45]no compensation.

[39:43]That's a crime against their humanity.

[39:48]If you don't know whether God is there or not, just shut

[39:52]up and don't say anything.

[39:54]Don't go and say there is no God.

[39:57]There is no heaven.

[39:57]There's no hell.

[39:59]There's no compensation.

[39:59]When you say that, that's an act of crime.

[40:05]Forgive me, but this is the reality, my dear brothers and sisters.

[40:10]That's the reality.

[40:09]That's why atheism is a crime.

[40:11]You're basically telling the whole world and anybody out there who's suffering,

[40:16]that's it.

[40:17]Too bad.

[40:19]You're just unlucky.

[40:18]Too bad.

[40:19]There's no compensation for you whatsoever.

[40:23]Don't say that.

[40:25]Don't say God doesn't exist.

[40:26]How do you know God doesn't exist?

[40:28]That's the peak of arrogance and ignorance.

[40:31]The most thing you want to say, don't say it.

[40:35]But if you need to talk, okay, say, "I don't know.

[40:38]I don't know." But don't come out and say God does not

[40:42]exist.

[40:42]That's a crime.

[40:45]Spiritually, that's a crime.

[40:46]Intellectually, that's a crime.

[40:48]You are harassing billions of people who are suffering when you tell

[40:54]them God doesn't exist.

[40:54]That's the reality.

[40:57]That is the reality.

[40:58]That's why Islam considers atheism the peak of arrogance and irresponsibility.

[41:04]So my dear brothers and sisters, when we examine the system of

[41:13]Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and we examine the law of attraction, we

[41:18]do find that there are many elements that we can accept.

[41:21]But again, we cannot use this to replace religion.

[41:25]We cannot use this to eliminate God from the picture and say

[41:29]that the universe somehow mysteriously is going to do wonders for you.

[41:35]That's not how it works.

[41:36]And then finally, my dear brothers and sisters, whenever you discuss this

[41:40]topic with your friends, manifestation, law of attraction, one of the most

[41:45]powerful elements is dua.

[41:46]Never underestimate the power of dua.

[41:50]You know, they tell you wish for positive things and it happens.

[41:54]Yes, that's true.

[41:54]But that happens through dua.

[41:57]When you resort to Allah and you pray for the best and

[42:02]you wish for the p best, never lose hope.

[42:10]Never ever lose hope from the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

[42:16]And that's the message of the month of Ramadan, my dear brothers

[42:19]and sisters.

[42:21]Never lose hope.

[42:20]Never underestimate the power of dua.

[42:24]A dua is gamecher.

[42:26]Even if there's a fate that's written for you, even if there's

[42:32]a tragedy that's coming your way, it's imminent.

[42:34]One dua from your sincere heart can change all of that.

[42:43]The Quran says, "If it weren't for your supplications and duas, Allah

[42:48]subhana would not would not have blessed you the way he is

[42:50]blessing you." And dua is not only for Muslims.

[42:53]Non-Muslims also they have their own way of dua and connecting to

[42:56]Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

[42:58]Even if a non-Muslim supplicates to Allah, Allah may answer them.

[43:02]Anyone who connects to Allah, Allah may answer them.

[43:05]Dua is one of the most powerful tools that Allah has given

[43:11]you as a believer.

[43:12]That's what I states.

[43:22]Your power, your weapon is your tears and your dua.

[43:27]Tears because it indicates you're sincere.

[43:30]When your heart is broken and you do dua, Allahh accepts that

[43:35]from you.

[43:36]My dear brothers and sisters, about 50 years ago, and I'll conclude

[43:40]by sharing this incident with you.

[43:43]About 50 years ago, there was a boy in Kuwait who was

[43:46]playing with his friends.

[43:49]Unfortunately, on that day, as he was playing, kids were playing.

[43:54]You know those old guns with the plastic dart?

[43:56]What do you call those guns?

[44:01]Nerf guns.

[43:59]Yeah, let's say the Nerf guns.

[44:05]This 10year-old boy got shot in his right eye with that Nerf

[44:10]dart.

[44:09]So they took him to the hospital and for 40 days he

[44:15]was hospitalized.

[44:15]One day the doctor who was a Palestinian Christian doctor, he was

[44:20]not a Muslim doctor.

[44:20]He said to the father of this boy, "Look, your son is

[44:27]losing his eyesight.

[44:27]I can't do anything.

[44:30]We doctors cannot do anything.

[44:31]So whatever you believe in, your god, your religion, go and pray.

[44:37]I can't do anything anymore." Now the mother of the boy at

[44:41]that time was in Kbala for Zara.

[44:42]So the father of the boy calls his wife, the mother of

[44:47]the boy and he tells her what the doctor said.

[44:49]He told her, "You're in Kbala.

[44:51]Go and supplicate." The mother of the boy, she goes barefoot to

[44:56]the shrine of Abu Fbas and she goes to the shrine of

[45:01]Imam Hussein and she begs Allah subhana wa ta'ala to cure her

[45:06]son on that day.

[45:07]The next day, the next day, the Palestinian Christian doctor calls the

[45:12]father of the boy.

[45:15]Come to the hospital quickly.

[45:16]What happened?

[45:17]He asked him, I have one question for you.

[45:20]What did you do last night?

[45:22]Told him, I didn't do anything special.

[45:24]I mean, I supplicated, but I called his mom and I asked

[45:28]her to go to the blessed shrines, and she made a special

[45:33]prayer.

[45:31]He told him, I want to tell you that your son has

[45:35]been healed and now his vision has been restored.

[45:39]What is it that you did?

[45:43]That's the power of dua.

[45:45]My dear brothers and sisters, this is not a story from some

[45:49]anonymous book.

[45:51]That boy is my father Hassan.

[45:53]May Allah bless him.

[45:53]And I heard this story directly from my grandfather who's in Kbell.

[46:00]That is the power of dua.

[46:01]Never underestimate the power of dua.

[46:03]Especially in the month of Ramadan, the month of spirituality when you

[46:10]open your heart to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

[46:10]We just have a few nights left.

[46:15]Go in the privacy of your room and pour your heart out

[46:18]to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

[46:25]This is one of the duas that we recite in the month

[46:30]of Ramadan.

[46:32]And every night recite this.

[46:30]It gives you so much hope.

[47:02]Oh Allah, those who are in need, they're standing at your door.

[47:07]Oh Allah, the poor ones, we're all poor before Allah.

[47:10]They are knocking at your door.

[47:15]Oh Allah, the ship of the poor ones are now at the

[47:18]banks of your mercy.

[47:29]We're all on this ship and we wish to cross the ocean

[47:34]to the other side to your rahman.

[47:36]Oh Allah, we have this hope.

[48:06]Oh Allah, in this blessed month of Ramadan, say this from your

[48:12]heart.

[48:13]If you only have mercy on those good ones, on the one

[48:15]who fasted and prayed impeccably, then what about me, ya Allah?

[48:19]What about the sinful ones?

[48:24]We don't have a Lord.

[48:22]We also have a Lord.

[48:52]Those who fasted and observed the sanctity of this month, they have

[48:56]passed.

[48:57]They have achieved success.

[48:59]Thank Allah for giving you this.

[49:03]And if you spend some nights of the month of Ramadan and

[49:06]standing on your two feet and supplicating to Allah, you're the victorious

[49:11]one.

[49:24]Allah, oh Allah, have mercy on on us.

[49:31]Oh Allah, free us from the fire of hell.

[49:33]My dear brothers and sisters, it has been a great honor for

[49:36]me to be with you the last few night few nights in

[49:41]the month of Ramadan.

[49:41]I ask Allah subhana wa ta'ala to bless you all to accept

[49:47]your please forgive me for any shortcomings.

[49:48]Inshallah the the program will continue until tomorrow night the English program.

[49:52]Our dear brother Haj Ali Abu is going to deliver the lecture

[49:59]tomorrow night.

[49:57]But inshallah you have a blessed remainder of the month of Ramadan.

[50:01]Inshallah you have a blessed Eid.

[50:05]We expect the Eid inshallah to be on Wednesday for the followers

[50:08]of Al Maraj.

[50:09]But on Tuesday night you can check to verify that.

[50:12]But we expect it inshallah this year to be a unified Eid

[50:17]for everyone.

[50:16]So I ask Allah to bless you and I congratulate you on

[50:21]the Eid.

[50:22]And inshallah after Eid I will be heading back to the holy

[50:25]city of Naj.

[50:27]I will be praying for you in the shrine of and especially

[50:31]when I go to Kbala.

[50:34]I specifically would like to thank the NYC volunteers.

[50:36]You don't know how much time and effort they put in making

[50:43]this program a successful program every single night.

[50:45]I know some of them would get two hours of sleep during

[50:49]the day, but they were dedicated volunteering and helping out.

[50:51]So I ask you to recite a loud salawat for them inshallah.

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