Our Unopened Birth Gifts - Sayed Mahdi Qazwini

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Our Unopened Birth Gifts - Sayed Mahdi Qazwini
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[0:00]SMIL r-rahmani r-rahim al-hamdu lillahi rabbil alameen salat wa salam o Allah

[0:06]Ashraf al anbiya evil marceline Habib Allah al al-amin below cozumel Mustafa

[0:13]Muhammad Allah Allah BtoB note Aharon alma so mean al muntaha beam

[0:29]CoreLogic eatable hakeem olajuwon mana Boheme waha leve Angela Como some al-abbas

[0:37]rol f editor kalila macaron sadaqa allahu allahu allah muscle ala muhammadin

[0:47]wa ala muhammad brothers and sisters assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh

[0:52]first of all I'd like to begin by expressing my joy in

[1:00]being here and joining you once again and by expressing congratulations to

[1:05]the entire Muslim Ummah on the celebration of the birth of the

[1:09]prophet muhammad sallallahoalyhiwasallam and al imam ja'far bin muhammad as-sadiq allahumma sallam

[1:16]and i'd like to begin with a story that I heard relayed

[1:25]by a Christian pastor and this Christian pastor was the pastor of

[1:32]a mega church if you're familiar with mega churches where upwards of

[1:40]10,000 people congregate and so you can imagine that as a pastor

[1:45]of a mega church you would see hundreds of people thousands of

[1:49]people in one day and so he says that one day as

[1:54]he was greeting the people as he was walking amongst the people

[2:01]he said a man handed him a gift it was a box

[2:03]the gift was in a wooden box and because he didn't know

[2:09]the man because he didn't recognize the man he assumed that this

[2:15]was like any other gift and so when he opened it he

[2:20]didn't really take a good look but he assumed he assumed that

[2:23]it was a watch and so he took the gift and he

[2:28]went back to his office he opened up the drawer and like

[2:30]sometimes when people gift us with something he tossed the gift in

[2:35]the drawer and closed the drawer and he forgot about the gift

[2:40]he said many months later I said he went back and he

[2:42]opened that drawer and he found that gift box there and so

[2:49]he opened it up and he found a beautiful watch so he

[2:56]was curious as to how much this watch costs what was the

[2:59]value of this watch and because someone had given it to him

[3:01]again that he didn't recognize he assumed that the watch probably didn't

[3:05]have any value when he looked it up online when he googled

[3:10]it he realized that the watch cost thousands of dollars it was

[3:14]a very expensive watch it was a gift that was given to

[3:21]him but he had not discovered its value because he had never

[3:25]opened up that gift he had never opened up that box and

[3:32]had it remained that box in the drawer of his desk unopened

[3:35]he would have never realized its value there would be nothing that

[3:41]would push him to discover the value of that gift and I

[3:47]say that because tonight I want to shed a little bit of

[3:54]light on the topic of the unopened gifts that we all have

[3:58]allah subhana wa ta'ala when he created us endowed each and every

[4:07]single one of us with gifts with certain capacities with certain intelligences

[4:12]with certain types of intelligence with potential and for the vast majority

[4:23]of human beings much of those capacities many of those gifts much

[4:30]of that potential remains undiscovered there was a quote that I read

[4:36]and it said that out of every 10,000 gifted children that are

[4:45]born and and that's every child about 9999 of them never really

[4:51]understand what their true gifts are for whatever reason sometimes our gifts

[4:58]are never truly discovered because someone said something to us implanted a

[5:08]false idea in our mind that we are not gifted that we

[5:11]don't have the capacity to achieve that we cannot truly achieve our

[5:18]goals and among the gifts that allah subhanho wa taala has endowed

[5:23]us with upon our birth or the following he says huahin let

[5:27]en shaa allah como some our observable data polina matter oon that

[5:32]he has initiated and sure he has initiated the following sama which

[5:42]is the ability to hear observe which is vision the ability to

[5:47]see and F EDA which refers to the power of your heart

[5:50]and every one of these gifts is unique and what tells us

[5:57]that we're not using these gifts to our full capacity is the

[6:01]fact that at the end of the verse God says valine and

[6:07]mattis karoon rarely are you thankful rarely are you grateful because if

[6:13]you're truly thankful and you're truly grateful you would use that gift

[6:18]to its fullest capacity it's like if someone gives you a gift

[6:28]now sometimes we receive gifts and someone buys us a clothing item

[6:32]and it just it doesn't fit us it's not the right fit

[6:35]I'm not talking about things that that don't fit I'm talking about

[6:41]something that fits someone gives you something and it fits you perfectly

[6:47]but you just don't make use of it sometimes you buy a

[6:50]gift for someone and you you believe as that as the giver

[6:55]of the gift you believe that it has value and you see

[6:58]the value and you understand the value but the person receiving the

[7:03]gift doesn't necessarily know what the value is and they may be

[7:06]thankful and they're grateful but in your mind you're thinking well if

[7:09]you're truly grateful and you're truly thankful you would use the gift

[7:13]you would wear that clothing item that I gifted you and so

[7:20]God says that very rarely are you grateful very rarely are you

[7:23]thankful and if you are truly grateful if you were truly thankful

[7:26]you would take those gifts that I have endowed you with and

[7:31]you would use them to your fullest capacity and these are only

[7:34]some of the gifts now I want to share with you something

[7:40]that I read recently and of course this this talk is in

[7:44]no way meant to be completely encompassing or inclusive of all of

[7:50]the gifts because if we were to think about all of the

[7:53]gifts that God has endowed us with that he has granted us

[7:58]you'd never be able to count them most of the gifts that

[8:00]God has given us again we we don't even know about as

[8:04]a human race we don't know we don't even understand what our

[8:08]true potential is it's so interesting you look at just the human

[8:16]being how the human being is born as a baby as babies

[8:18]were completely dependent think about it babies are completely dependent they can't

[8:25]do anything on their own they can't feed themselves they can't clothe

[8:31]themselves they certainly can't put themselves to sleep they can amuse themselves

[8:38]and maybe make themselves laugh but a baby is completely dependent what

[8:43]happens in that process of a few years where a baby that's

[8:51]completely dependent completely reliable on other people completely powerless completely helpless becomes

[8:57]such a powerful person such an unstoppable person sometimes you see people

[9:04]and you know they've they've they've done they've made so much trouble

[9:09]and so much mischief and then you think to yourself well one

[9:17]day this person was was also an innocent baby and your mind

[9:19]is confused you can't reconcile the thought and the imagination between this

[9:26]person one day being having been an innocent baby to now being

[9:31]a powerful and mischievous adult someone who has the capacity to ruin

[9:37]people's lives someone who has the capacity to ruin and destroy their

[9:44]own life so what is it that happens in between well what

[9:48]happens in between is that that person takes the gift some of

[9:52]the gifts that God has endowed him or her with and misuses

[9:56]them so I want to talk about a number of gifts and

[10:02]this comes not from myself this comes from an author who who

[10:06]he says he says there are three very powerful gifts that we

[10:14]need in order to become effective and become great at what we

[10:17]do he says number one the most powerful gift something that resonates

[10:21]with each and every one of us and he talks about the

[10:26]three unopened gifts these are gifts that for most people they're unopened

[10:30]it's that gift that remains in the closet it's that gift that

[10:33]we look at and because you don't like the wrapper because you

[10:38]don't like the covering you're not even gonna bother to open and

[10:41]see what's inside it's the gift that was given to you by

[10:43]the person that you don't really know so you don't really cherish

[10:48]it it's the gift that was given to you and you just

[10:50]have too many other gifts or too many other things you perceive

[10:56]in your life as gifts that you're kept yourself mentally and emotionally

[11:00]tied to that you don't have time to open this gift it's

[11:07]the gift that sometimes you're waiting to read gift to other people

[11:11]we all have that place in our closet or that place in

[11:15]our house where people have given us gifts and you don't open

[11:18]it you're waiting to give that gift back to someone else so

[11:24]he says one of those most powerful gifts is the idea of

[11:29]freedom he says freedom it's something that resonates within our soul it's

[11:34]something that resonates within our Neffs what is freedom now freedom I

[11:37]spoke about this I believe when I was here in Muharram if

[11:42]you remember there's a difference with attaining freedom and being carefree freedom

[11:46]does not be does not mean being carefree freedom refers to the

[11:55]following so freedom refers to the space between stimulus and response what

[12:01]does that mean stimulus is anything which pushes you or triggers you

[12:08]towards action or a reaction so if someone was to poke me

[12:12]with a sharp object that's a way of them stimulating me to

[12:17]react what happens if someone pokes you with a sharp object well

[12:20]automatically I mean in terms of your body and your mind you're

[12:29]told danger there there's alarms that go off in your mind that

[12:32]say this is dangerous I need to I need to pull back

[12:36]I need to react or if someone curses you someone verbally abuses

[12:40]you if someone physically abuses you that's a stimulus that's something that

[12:48]stimulates you after the stimulus comes the response but the response doesn't

[12:54]come immediately after the stimulus even though it may look and feel

[12:59]that it is immediate there's a small space in between within that

[13:04]space lies our ability to choose what our response and our reaction

[13:10]will look like now for some people people that were born in

[13:16]homes where there's unconditional love where they're provided for that space may

[13:24]be a pretty big space so maybe they won't be bothered as

[13:27]much as a person who maybe grew up in a household where

[13:32]there was not unconditional love maybe it was an abusive household maybe

[13:36]people said hurtful things in those cases you find that people will

[13:42]react negatively to things more quickly but the freedom that we have

[13:47]is the freedom to choose how to react the freedom to choose

[13:53]how we will respond to our situations either positive or negative but

[14:00]mostly when it comes to that which is negative and the reason

[14:03]why it's so important to think about and to talk about that

[14:09]freedom that space right there is because we live in a world

[14:13]if you've noticed we've live in a world where a lot of

[14:17]oppression exists it's not to say that oppression does not exists but

[14:24]there is also a victim mentality there are also campaigns that are

[14:31]out there which tell you that no matter where you're from you're

[14:35]a victim if you're a black man you're a victim if you're

[14:38]a white man you're a victim if you're a Muslim man you're

[14:41]a victim if you're a Jewish man you're a victim if you're

[14:42]a Christian man you're a victim if you're a woman you're a

[14:47]victim if you're this a person of if you're an immigrant you're

[14:49]a victim if you're a non-immigrant and your parents grandparents have been

[14:52]here for 300 years you're a victim there are campaigns out there

[14:58]that are designed to make you feel like a victim and what

[15:02]happens is and again this isn't to say that oppression does not

[15:10]exist but having an oppression mindset versus a victim mindset is something

[15:16]very different Salaam Hamid wali Mohammed so that mati Temari so the

[16:01]victim mindset tells us once it gets in our head and once

[16:09]it gets into our conscious that you can't choose your reactions what

[16:13]happens to you it's not your fault the way that you react

[16:20]then is not your fault but understanding that first gift the gift

[16:24]of freedom that you are not created as a robot God tells

[16:30]us in the Quran that there were creations or creatures that lived

[16:34]before us those creatures could not choose what they wanted to do

[16:39]and what they did not want to do those creatures were the

[16:45]Angels the angels they responded to God's commands they executed God's commands

[16:50]whether they liked it or they didn't like it but as a

[16:55]human being you're not an angel and you're certainly not a robot

[16:59]which means that at every time at every space in any situation

[17:06]you have the ability and you have the freedom and you have

[17:11]the choices to change your reaction this is number one and this

[17:19]is a very important gift you know what what he talks about

[17:22]this author he says that once you begin to realize that you

[17:30]have freedom of choice once you have yet once you begin to

[17:32]realize that you have freedom of response he says for some people

[17:37]it's a very terrifying idea because once you understand that you are

[17:44]free to react and that you have choices and that what happens

[17:48]in the past does not determine your future and what people do

[17:54]to you does not determine your behavior yes what people do to

[17:57]us it in flu thus it influences our behavior but it doesn't

[18:01]determine our behavior there's a very big difference if you hang out

[18:06]with the wrong crowd obviously they're gonna influence your choices but they

[18:11]don't determine your choices it's you that determines your choices and that's

[18:15]a very very important point for all of us to understand once

[18:18]you realize that you have freedom you realize that you are also

[18:22]responsible and for some people responsibility is the most terrifying thing that

[18:29]could ever happen to them most people who are going down the

[18:34]wrong path don't want responsibility it's easier to blame somebody else what

[18:43]he also describes is people that he describes as transition people what

[18:49]are transition people transition people are people who no matter what has

[18:54]happened to them in their past no matter what has happened to

[18:56]them in terms of lineage they have decided that they are going

[19:01]to change their own destiny and the destiny of the people that

[19:04]are to come in their family and he gives many examples he

[19:12]says sometimes men come from a lineage of alcoholic fathers one father

[19:18]who is an alcoholic who passed the habit on to his son

[19:21]who passed the habit on to his son and he passed it

[19:26]on to his son and four five six seven generations deep of

[19:29]alcoholism and then one person seven generations below eight generations below nine

[19:38]generations below decides to change the destiny of everyone else that is

[19:43]to come after that that's called the transition person that's a person

[19:49]who comes to the realization that no matter what has happened in

[19:52]my lineage no matter what has happened with my father my grandfather

[19:57]my great-great grandfather my past does not take my future hostage so

[20:04]freedom freedom to choose freedom to respond to stimulus freedom to react

[20:12]in the way that we need to react freedom to behave that's

[20:16]one unopened gift many people they keep in the back of the

[20:23]closet why because it's easier to blame someone else for our choices

[20:27]so this is one gift that remains unopened is our ability to

[20:31]choose what we want to choose to be free another unopened gift

[20:38]is the fact that we have principles that guide our behavior now

[20:44]when we talk about that space between stimulus and response what is

[20:49]the wisdom what are the guidelines that guide that behavior in that

[20:56]small space this comes in the form of another gift refer to

[21:00]as principles what are principles principles are foundational truths principles are rules

[21:10]that serve as a basis for the behavior that gets us what

[21:14]we want out of life now sometimes when we talk about principles

[21:19]we also talk about values but there's a difference between values and

[21:25]principles values see even an evildoer can have values a band of

[21:30]thieves they share the same values when you say the word value

[21:33]value is the word value is merit free values are neither good

[21:42]nor bad values however are images of the principles so this is

[21:48]this is how it goes our behavior is guided by our values

[21:54]and our values are rooted in certain principles when people don't have

[21:59]principles then their values are not rooted anything and if your values

[22:02]are not rooted anything then there's no direction and guidance for your

[22:06]behavior why it's important to understand what principles you stand by is

[22:11]so that your principles can provide a map for your values and

[22:16]your values can be it can provide guidance for your behavior it's

[22:20]like it's like a GPS system the GPS system if you remember

[22:26]when when when GPS systems first came out and they first had

[22:30]them in cars you had to you have to put a CD

[22:34]there was a CD that you put in and any time the

[22:40]new maps came out you were sent a new CD the way

[22:44]that it was able to provide you guidance is because that map

[22:47]that displayed on the screen it was rooted in something else it

[22:51]was rooted in something which was established which was that GPS program

[22:57]now the map is not gonna find itself by coin it's not

[23:04]gonna find by coincidence it needs a software that is going to

[23:06]back it up in that same way your behaviors that are guided

[23:11]by values those values need to be rooted in principles I say

[23:15]that because what the author talks about who describes this he he

[23:20]describes it as vertigo has anyone ever experienced vertigo vertigo is when

[23:25]you're in the plane you're at a high altitude or you're standing

[23:29]on a high platform and you look down what happens what happens

[23:33]when you're standing on a high platform and you look down you

[23:35]begin you become dizzy that state of dizziness it's called vertigo he

[23:41]says most people they walk around this world in a state of

[23:44]vertigo they're dizzy and the reason they walk around and they're so

[23:47]dizzy is because they have never rooted themselves in principle and when

[23:52]you don't root yourself in principle and you don't have any values

[23:57]when you don't stand for anything then you will fall for everything

[24:00]and that's why some people they may get older they may have

[24:04]some white hairs in their in their beard and on their head

[24:09]but you see them 20 years later they're behaving in the exact

[24:12]same way that they were behaving twenty years earlier even though externally

[24:18]things can change some people externally they can change they can leave

[24:24]one family and create another family they can sell one car and

[24:28]purchase another car they can leave one career and go to another

[24:34]career they can leave one city and go and relocate to another

[24:37]city they can change these things externally about themselves but because internally

[24:42]they have not gone through the process of routing themselves in principle

[24:49]then nothing really changes there's a story about a plastic surgeon who

[24:54]lived in the 1940s and he wrote a book on his experiences

[24:57]and the book that he wrote had nothing to do with plastic

[25:03]surgery it was a book on psychology which makes it very interesting

[25:05]I mean why would a plastic surgeon write a book on psychology

[25:10]well the reason he wrote a book on psychology is because he

[25:13]realized that a lot of the people that he was treating and

[25:17]he was doing different procedures for whether it was a facelift or

[25:21]on the nose or the ears or whatever he said that some

[25:26]of the people when he would perform those surgeries they would come

[25:30]out feeling better about themselves because something was changed physically about them

[25:35]so they felt better about themselves he said but for some people

[25:40]nothing changed they didn't feel better about themselves at all so he

[25:45]began to inquire about those people he began to ask okay well

[25:48]well what is it that didn't didn't change and he realized that

[25:51]for those people that didn't change it had nothing to do with

[25:56]their exterior and everything to do with their interior and he said

[25:59]and he would it's funny because instead of you know they say

[26:02]that it's notorious and and if there are any Plastic Surgeons here

[26:08]I I don't mean to offend you in any way but they

[26:12]say that it's it's a field where they're they're willing to perform

[26:15]any surgery because there's a lot of money involved and it's in

[26:18]their benefit to perform that surgery so if I go in there

[26:21]saying hey doctor there's something wrong with my ears can you pin

[26:24]them back and there's nothing wrong with them well I mean he

[26:27]can he can do it and take the money but this doctor

[26:30]said no and what he began to do is he began to

[26:35]tell people look people would come in and and and they would

[26:37]say doctor you know my nose is messed up or my ears

[26:40]are messed up and he would look at them and you would

[26:42]say no there's absolutely nothing wrong with your nose there's nothing wrong

[26:46]with your ears and so one of the chapters that he writes

[26:50]in his book is about a spiritual facelift he said some people

[26:55]they needed a spiritual facelift they needed they needed to do a

[26:59]lot of interior work internal work and it had nothing to do

[27:01]with external work I could fix his nose but it's not gonna

[27:06]change anything because he believes certain false assumptions about himself so so

[27:12]going back to that that second unopened gift principles being rooted in

[27:18]principles sometimes people they never they never root themselves in anything they

[27:22]never they never build their foundation on any principles and that's why

[27:26]you see you see in terms of their behavior they're all over

[27:31]the place they're all over the place so the first gift is

[27:35]freedom to choose and to behave the second gift which remains unopened

[27:39]our principles and rooting ourselves in principles the third are what he

[27:47]calls the four intelligences what is that so normally when we talk

[27:51]about intelligence Alcala what do we know about the output the word

[27:56]that is used to define Occulus intelligence and normally when we talk

[28:02]about intelligence we think of IQ which is mental intelligence there's an

[28:07]IQ test that you can take and it'll determine how intelligent you

[28:12]are but studies show that people who have a high IQ and

[28:19]only a high IQ that doesn't necessarily mean that they're going to

[28:23]be successful in life in the 1980s there was a gentleman by

[28:26]the name of Howard Gardner and he worked at the Harvard School

[28:31]of Education and he came up with the theory of multiple intelligences

[28:35]that it's not just mental intelligence but there's social intelligence there's emotional

[28:40]intelligence there is interpersonal intelligence and so we should not just measure

[28:48]intelligence by an IQ number and then a gentleman by the name

[28:55]of Daniel Goleman came and he wrote a book and the book

[28:57]is called emotional intelligence and there's another book called emotional intelligence 2.0

[29:01]and that's become the hot topic nowadays in the professional world and

[29:05]they talk about how companies and corporations they hire not just based

[29:09]on a person's IQ but also based on a person's EQ which

[29:14]is their emotional intelligence which refers to their social competency how do

[29:19]they get along with people can they connect with people can they

[29:22]lead people can they make people feel good about themselves do they

[29:26]have empathy what is empathy empathy is when you can sense other

[29:29]people's emotions do they have self-awareness meaning that are they aware of

[29:35]their own emotions most people they have no sense of self-awareness they

[29:38]live for 40 years 50 years and it's the same things that

[29:44]that trigger them over and over again it's the same things that

[29:47]make them upset and angry over and over again but they haven't

[29:49]identified what those things actually are so part of emotional intelligence is

[29:54]to be aware of your own emotions what is it that makes

[29:58]me happy what makes me sad what makes me feel fulfilled what

[30:01]makes me feel that I'm living a life of purpose and meaning

[30:07]so those are two types of intelligence and this falls under that

[30:11]third gift so one is one is mental intelligence which is IQ

[30:15]one is emotional intelligence which is EQ one is physical intelligence our

[30:20]bodies the physical space that we occupy are very intelligent we have

[30:27]roughly the average human being roughly about 7 trillion cells in our

[30:31]body all of them working in unison with one another you know

[30:34]you don't have to remind yourself to breathe your body automatically breathes

[30:40]your breathing mechanism does not shut down when you sleep your body

[30:45]is intelligent enough to know that it continues it needs to continue

[30:51]to breathe you don't need to remind your body to secrete certain

[30:56]chemicals after you have consumed food so that your stomach begins to

[31:01]digest the food it does that on its own you don't need

[31:06]to tell your body to detect certain illnesses that are there your

[31:10]body has a built-in mechanism that does all of that so we

[31:13]also have physical intelligence so knowing how to take care of our

[31:19]bodies and respect that intelligence is very important and then the last

[31:23]type of intelligence that he talks about and he calls physical intelligence

[31:29]P Q so you have IQ EQ you have P Q and

[31:34]then he talks about s Q which is spiritual intelligence and that's

[31:39]our longing for the divine that's the part of our soul that

[31:43]wants to be a part of something bigger that wants to connect

[31:50]to something greater than itself that knows that it's not only about

[31:54]our own Neffs our own soul our own ego that there's something

[31:57]bigger in this universe there's a there's a great book written about

[32:01]this subject and I may have brought it up before and the

[32:05]book is called man's search for meaning by Viktor Frankl Viktor Frankl

[32:11]was a psychotherapist and he was a survivor of the Holocaust during

[32:15]World War two and when he came out he he wrote this

[32:21]book and he wrote it with within within about 10 days he

[32:23]wrote this book man's search for meaning one of the most powerful

[32:27]pieces of literature out there has sold more than 15 million copies

[32:33]around the world and he talks about how what kept people going

[32:36]based on his observances is the search for meaning is the search

[32:42]for purpose is that some of the people that he observed had

[32:45]given up on their search of meaning and their search of purpose

[32:49]those are the ones that eventually because spiritually they had given up

[32:55]emotionally and mentally and physically they were forced to give up but

[33:03]it began with spiritually giving up so all of those different intelligences

[33:07]and capacities they're also related to one another our physical intelligence our

[33:11]emotional intelligence our mental intelligence and our spiritual intelligence they're all related

[33:18]to one another they're not dependent of they're not completely dependent on

[33:23]one another and so those are four capabilities that all so represent

[33:27]one unopened gift and the whole philosophy behind that is that if

[33:31]we don't understand that these are some of the gifts that God

[33:36]has endowed us with number one I'll repeat again is the first

[33:38]unopened gift is our freedom our freedom to choose our responses and

[33:43]the way that we react to certain situations number two is principles

[33:47]and the fact that we can route our behavior in principles and

[33:52]number three are those four intelligences if you don't use those gifts

[33:56]it becomes like that gift that someone gives you that you hide

[34:03]in the back of the closet it's there but it's never opened

[34:07]it's there but you never realize the value of that gift and

[34:11]sometimes when it comes to these gifts we tend to regifter how

[34:16]many of us are guilty of rege if thing there's a place

[34:20]in your closet there's a place in your home that's specific for

[34:24]re-gifts it's the gift that someone gives you that you don't really

[34:29]need it's usually the same thing that's either a toaster oven or

[34:34]it's something in the home that you don't have immediate use for

[34:37]and you think well instead of opening this I know that I'm

[34:39]gonna have to give a gift to someone so why don't I

[34:43]just put it somewhere where I can later on give it to

[34:46]someone else really the most embarrassing thing is when you re gift

[34:50]to the person that actually gave you the gift you never want

[34:53]to be in that awkward situation but sometimes people use our gifts

[34:59]more than we use them what does that mean they control and

[35:03]it's an oxymoron but it's as if they control our freedom we

[35:07]have given our freedom to other people so that they use it

[35:12]as their own gift we have rooted our behaviors not in our

[35:18]own principles but in somebody else's values that maybe are not our

[35:23]own values we have not expressed our emotional intelligence so that we've

[35:29]become victim to other people's wants and other people's emotions we have

[35:36]not expressed and found the gift of spiritual intelligence and so spiritually

[35:43]were always bothering physically sometimes we don't respect ourselves we engage in

[35:51]certain behaviors that are physically destructive and so people don't respect our

[35:57]bodies either physically they don't respect us either sometimes intellectually we don't

[36:02]respect ourselves so people don't give our intellect the value that they

[36:12]should give so when you protect your gifts when you cherish your

[36:16]gifts when you honor your gifts nobody can take them away from

[36:22]you but if your gifts are out there and you don't realize

[36:27]the value of them then how do we expect anybody else to

[36:33]realize the value of our gifts see when we read when we

[36:35]read about the Prophet when we read about any man Masada honey

[36:39]said ah when we study their words there's a lot of there's

[36:41]a lot of technical stuff in there how to do this how

[36:46]not to do that what to refrain from but if you look

[36:49]at the overarching message of what they had to say it really

[36:53]boiled down to one thing and that's knowing your value knowing who

[36:58]you are knowing what God has endowed you with knowing the intelligences

[37:03]and the capacities and the gifts that God has endowed you with

[37:09]and that you're unique nobody can take away the presence nobody can

[37:12]take away the gifts that God has given you those are your

[37:15]gifts it's what makes you unique it's what makes you special the

[37:22]freedom that you have to choose if that's what makes you special

[37:25]that that's what makes you outstanding the fact that you're rooted in

[37:28]character and principle that makes you outstanding it makes you special that's

[37:32]what makes other one of people be a part of your life

[37:38]and contribute the fact that you respect your own time and you

[37:42]respect yourself that's what makes you stand out that that's what makes

[37:45]you a leader that's what makes people want to follow you and

[37:47]be part of your life so we ask Allah subhana WA Ta'ala

[37:52]to allow us to understand the capacity of our gifts we ask

[37:55]Allah subhana WA Ta'ala to to keep granting us the gifts we

[38:04]ask Allah subhana WA Ta'ala to allow us to use our gifts

[38:06]to their fullest capacity and servitude to him we ask Allah subhana

[38:13]WA Ta'ala to allow us to use our gifts in the capacity

[38:16]of serving humanity bismillah ar-rahman rahim allah homophily mommy nina one moment

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