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Ramadan 2026 - Hajj Hassanain Rajabali
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[0:03]Allah was Why can't [singing] for Allah.
[1:11]for authority.
[1:39]for alhamdulillah.
[2:15]>> [singing] [clears throat] >> Alhamdulillah.
[2:29]Alhamdulillah.
[2:33][singing] Alhamdulillah.
[3:07]city.
[3:17]for [singing] the for [singing] mech.
[4:16]Amen.
[4:26][singing] Foreign speech.
[4:42]Foreign speech.
[4:43]Foreign speech.
[4:43]for [singing] ford.
[5:37]What?
[5:44]What?
[5:45]What the What the [snorts] Alhamdulillah.
[6:37]Alhamdulillah.
[6:44]Alhamdulillah.
[6:50][singing] Alhamdulillah.
[7:29]Alhamdulillah.
[7:31][singing] for Alhamdulill.
[8:15]Fore!
[8:19]Foreign!
[8:21]Foreign!
[8:42]Alhamdulillah.
[8:52]Alhamdulillah.
[9:01]>> [singing] >> Alhamdulillah.
[9:32]Alhamdulillah.
[9:56]Alhamdulillah.
[9:58][singing] [singing] Alhamdulillah.
[10:30]Alhamdulillah.
[11:00]Allah was something for was Allah.
[12:10]All for Allah.
[13:11]Ali Hussein.
[13:16][singing] Allah.
[13:55]for Allah.
[14:20]ford.
[14:53]Allah is one.
[15:19]Allah for [singing] Allah.
[15:48]for [singing] All [singing] shamb.
[16:41]be why there for just foreign Fore!
[18:09]Foreign!
[18:11]Foreign!
[18:28]Allina Thank you for Oh, Honorham.
[20:17]Do you have a Quran?
[20:20]Do you a Quran?
[20:22]Muhammad Muhammad.
[20:38]Ali Muhammad just going to read just few minute Quran until uh
[20:48]brother Hassan Rajali comes in here.
[21:01]Okay.
[21:04]Should I read quick Muhammad Muhammad?
[21:32]Respected brothers and sisters and welcome to Mecca.
[21:43]Before we continue our program, I would like to take a moment
[21:49]to express our sincere gratitude for tonight's sponsors and Marim Khalifi Hassan
[21:56]Salimi Hafari, Sister Fatimi and Mutabi family.
[22:03]I hope I say it the right way.
[22:05]May Allah reward their contribution.
[22:09]And let's recite surah fat on the soul of the afterham.
[22:27]As we gather here in this final breath of Ramadan, our heart
[22:32]remain heavy with what is happening to our brothers and sister abroad.
[22:37]May Allah grant them ease, victory, and steadfastness.
[22:41]As we navigated the majestic atmosphere of the night of power, we
[22:47]prayed, we pleaded, we placed the Qur, the holy Quran upon our
[22:51]heads in hope of a better destiny.
[22:52]May Allah accept our fast, dua, sujud, and the silent prayers we
[23:01]carry in our heart.
[23:00]May he grant us the strength to finish this month with excellence
[23:04]and the wisdom to carry its lights into the rest of the
[23:11]year.
[23:09]I would like to take a moment on behalf of the entire
[23:15]f community to extend our deepest gratitude to our esteemed scholar, our
[23:19]dear say Salah and his family.
[23:21]His dedication to our spiritual growth is tireless.
[23:26]Whether it is through his word that grounds our heart in the
[23:31]love of or his constant availability to guide our youth through the
[23:37]complexity of the modern world.
[23:38]He remains a pillar of certainty for us all.
[23:43]to his wife Hajiraa Kazwini.
[23:45]She's often the silent engine behind the scenes managing the complexity, offering
[23:52]support and sacrificing her own family time to make sure that community
[23:57]benefit from all the programs.
[23:58]To their eldest son, Sed Mahi, it's truly beautiful to see a
[24:05]young man devoting his technical talents from audio to the live stream
[24:09]to serve his community.
[24:09]This family pours not just hours but but emotional labor into supporting
[24:15]every one of us.
[24:18]They are truly the heartbeat of this center.
[24:21]May God bestow his blessing upon them and grant them the best
[24:24]deed.
[24:25]On a personal note, I have reflected on what this center means
[24:28]to me.
[24:29]We often speak of a community center as a building or an
[24:32]institution.
[24:32]But for me, it has become a sanctuary for my faith and
[24:39]a turning point in my spiritual life.
[24:42]Watching the selfless dedication of our volunteers, especially our youth who serve
[24:49]with such sincerity and tireless energy.
[24:51]To the gu to the quiet devotees who arrive early and stay
[24:55]late just to ensure we all have a place to pray.
[24:59]You are my motivation.
[25:00]Mecca taught me that true faith is found in the way we
[25:05]serve one another and I am deeply grateful to have found a
[25:11]home among such beautiful faithful people.
[25:12]Finally, to our board member, leadership is often a heavy and thankless
[25:19]burden.
[25:18]You strive between balancing your own professional lives and your families and
[25:23]ensuring the success and sustainability of this center.
[25:28]We are grateful to your hard work and may God grant you
[25:33]his blessing and mercy.
[25:34]To all my brothers and sister in this community, let us do
[25:38]our part.
[25:39]Let us strive to be the best in our faith and continue
[25:45]to donate and support the center.
[25:47]By doing so, we protect our youth and ensure they have a
[25:50]safe, guided space to grow.
[25:54]Let's reach our goal before this holy nights conclude by sponsoring a
[25:58]spot in the new gem.
[26:00]Lastly, this past few night we have been privileged and grateful to
[26:08]have Hash Hassan Rajabali to guide us farther into the depth of
[26:13]spiritual certainty through his wealth of knowledge and lifelong dedication to the
[26:18]bath of the without further delay.
[26:24]Please welcome our dear guest with Alah Muhammad Ali Muhammad.
[27:10]her.
[27:29]>> [clears throat] >> Alhamdulillah.
[27:35]Alhamdulillah.
[27:40]Alhamdulillah.
[27:55]Muhammad subhalah.
[28:16]forham Muhammad.
[28:48]I begin in Allah's name the beneficent, the merciful and all praise
[28:52]belongs to Allah subhana wa ta'ala and we are blessed with a
[28:55]month upon which Allah has given us the opportunity to purify ourselves
[28:59]by doing good deeds and becoming more conscious.
[29:03][snorts] A lot of research has been done that the intelligence of
[29:08]the human being at its highest level is not at the IQ
[29:14]level but rather it's at the in the ability to be conscious
[29:17]about your own consciousness.
[29:19]Meaning when you're able to study your own thinking, when you talk
[29:27]about yourself, it's more like introspection but deeper from the perspective that
[29:34]we get into realizing who we really are.
[29:35]It's amazing that we are an individual.
[29:37]I'm a person.
[29:40]I'm a person upon which my soul is singular, but yet I
[29:45]can talk about myself.
[29:46]This is really mindboggling when you think about it.
[29:49]How can a person talk about themselves?
[29:52]You know, if you really think about it, a person should be
[29:56]able to talk about others, but how do you talk about yourself?
[29:58]It's almost like there's more more than one of you.
[30:02]But that's the power that Allah has given us.
[30:06]The power of the ability upon which to assess ourselves in this
[30:12]month while we fast.
[30:15]As we know that fasting keeps Shayan away from us.
[30:18]People think that when we fastl is you know imprisoned.
[30:22]He's not physically imprisoned nor are his agents imprisoned.
[30:25]Of course not.
[30:28]For evil continues to be pervasive in the month of Ramadan.
[30:30]But rather it is that when we become very conscious of our
[30:36]own selves and become God conscious then our ability to choose wrong
[30:40]from right and right from wrong becomes much more uh pronounced and
[30:44]as a result we are able to now reject shan and move
[30:53]towards Allah subhana tala.
[30:54]So fasting Allah says so that you achieve God consciousness [clears throat]
[31:05]we have given we have enjoyed fasting upon you and your predecessors
[31:11]so that you become more God conscious and if you study the
[31:14]critical reality of the human race when it comes to our trials
[31:21]and tribulations it is the ability to examine in yourself.
[31:25]So as a general principle you will see that in the Quran
[31:30]there are three stages of the sto of the soul.
[31:33]The human soul has three stages.
[31:35]The nuffs has three stages.
[31:36]As you know r is fixed.
[31:40]It is the living entity that God has given us.
[31:42]It has fra in it and fra is in one direction.
[31:46]Meaning it is the GPS that takes you.
[31:50]It is the GPS of truth.
[31:55]There is no lie in fra whereas the nuffs has the capacity
[32:00]to dangle or to we say from one side to the other
[32:02]from evil to good from good to evil.
[32:04]So our nuffs which is also composition of ourselves as you know
[32:11]we are made up of many parts and Allah specifically talks about
[32:16]the nuffs as the one that needs to be managed.
[32:19]The R the FRA.
[32:21]You will notice these are all components that Allah has blessed us
[32:24]with as the inner prophet.
[32:28]We have an outer prophet and we have inner prophets.
[32:31]Our inner is the nuffs which has been taught.
[32:38]So nuffs has been taught.
[32:43]NS is programmed to know wrong and right.
[32:48]But it has the capacity to fluctuate.
[32:49]It can move in the direction of wrong and it can also
[32:52]go in the direction of right.
[32:55]And Allah mentions three major stages in the Quran.
[32:59]In Yuf Allah says right as you know Ysefam recites this that
[33:12]the self okay has a tendency to deviate.
[33:18]meaning go in the wrong direction except by the mercy of Allah.
[33:25]This is that first stage what we call naro.
[33:28]Now you will notice that that's the material stage of the self.
[33:32][clears throat] The human self that's material.
[33:34]It's existential in nature and it is it is a powerful tool
[33:43]to survive.
[33:40]When we become selfish, when we become uh protective of our own
[33:49]existence, it's it's a good thing is not a bad quality by
[33:52]the way.
[33:53]It's just that if you don't manage it, it can go out
[33:57]of whack because as I mentioned the other day, there are two
[34:00]major components that are constantly at war with each other, but they're
[34:04]actually one and the same.
[34:06]Okay?
[34:07]But one has a higher quality, which is material and spiritual.
[34:12]two components.
[34:11]You will notice in the world that we live in today, the
[34:17]hedenistic people who are very material, who are sort of atheistic, for
[34:22]example, who are agnostic, you'll find they're very material.
[34:24]They find pleasure in material things.
[34:27]In fact, their argument for the non-existence of God is primarily through
[34:32]material things.
[34:35]They minimize spirituality.
[34:35]They talk about pain.
[34:37]They talk about suffering.
[34:39]They talk about the physical reality, the inability to measure God scientifically.
[34:43]It's all materialbased whereas the spiritual component is superior.
[34:50]You'll notice that even Stephen Hawking when he says the elegant universe,
[34:54]you know, as a cosmologist, you know, he mentions the universe is
[34:58]elegant.
[34:59]Well, elegance is not a material thing.
[35:02]It's a spiritual thing because it's a valuebased system after you've examined
[35:08]the material world.
[35:10]So I always chuckle when I find pure empiricists who are teetering
[35:15]on atheism or agnosticism and they start talking at a philosophical level
[35:19]of giving value to things.
[35:20]It's always profound to me that why do you give value?
[35:26]Because value is immaterial.
[35:28]You will notice that the spiritual component is really the key.
[35:32]While we are material and Allah has built our souls to always
[35:38]need a material body on this earth, our soul which Allah has
[35:42]breathed into us, which Allah has given life to through r and
[35:49]and nuffs and so on.
[35:50]You'll notice it needs a physical body to transact.
[35:54]Our scholars said that when we die and go into barak, Allah
[36:00]will give us another body.
[36:02]It's called uh jisma mythali.
[36:03]It's a jum that is similar to this body but it will
[36:09]have a componentry upon which it will be in the dimension of
[36:12]the next world but it will still have a body because Allah
[36:17]mentions this in the Quran that in paradise you will have rivers
[36:20]flowing under you right and Allah says and you will have pleasure
[36:27]in it and you will be in reclining couches.
[36:31]There's a physical reality in paradise which requires a physical body and
[36:38]our scholars say that that physical body which will be given to
[36:42]us upon our death and into the next world will not look
[36:44]the same as you and I that look today.
[36:46]We will look actually based on the purity of our hearts.
[36:52]That means the more sincere we are, the more submissive we are
[36:55]towards Allah, the more beautiful we will look.
[36:58]Okay.
[36:59]So in fact there is a hadith whether it's true or not
[37:04]but it's it's got profound message that the man goes to the
[37:08]graveyard and says salam to the people of the grave and he
[37:14]keeps saying salamlaykum but doesn't get allaykum salam then he invokes Allah's
[37:18]name and he hears a voice [snorts] and in the voice somebody
[37:26]sayslaykum so he's stunned that there was a response So he starts
[37:31]having a conversation, I'm curious to know what is happening in this
[37:36]grave.
[37:36]The man in the grave says, "Allah has allowed me to speak
[37:40]with you, but not today.
[37:41]Tomorrow, come tomorrow." So he leaves and comes back the next day
[37:48]and he now sees this handsome young man sitting by the grave.
[37:51]Says salam to him and starts having a conversation.
[37:55]This is by the command of Allah.
[37:55]So the conversation takes place and the gentleman asks him, "Who are
[38:01]you?" He says, "I'm that butcher that died about a decade ago."
[38:04]He says, "I remember you.
[38:05]I know you." This is a hadith.
[38:10]How true it is, Allah.
[38:11]But the point is there's a moral story behind it and there
[38:14]is truth in it.
[38:16]For there's plenty of evidence Quranically also to show this fact.
[38:20]And he says, "But 10 years ago when you were alive, you
[38:25]didn't look this way.
[38:27]You had a different look." He says, "This is my look in
[38:33]the grave.
[38:35]This is the just mythali God has given me." He said, "But
[38:38]he said the man looked this person in from the grave looked
[38:41]very beautiful.
[38:43]his his demeanor, his quality was was uh filled with awe.
[38:50]Meaning this man was stunned by the beauty of this human being.
[38:53]He said, "But I remember you.
[38:56]You didn't look like this." He says, "This is my body that
[38:59]God has given me." He said, "Why?" He said, "When I was
[39:03]in the grave and the angels were questioning me, they were pleased
[39:07]with one thing that I did besides many good things that he
[39:10]did." He said, "As a butcher, I never cheated my clients.
[39:16]I always added extra when I scaled and Allah was very pleased
[39:24]with me." Notice one transaction.
[39:26]All right?
[39:27]Based on pure justice and love in the principles of giving and
[39:31]forgiving that Allah subhana ta may wipe off all our deeds.
[39:37]Allah mentions it in the Quran that when you come to the
[39:39]grave, we will wipe off your your lesser sins as long as
[39:45]you avoid the greater sins.
[39:46]And Allah mentions in numerous verses in the Quran like when you
[39:54]do good deeds, Allah wipes off the bad deeds.
[39:57]When you do and seek repentance from Allah, Allah purifies.
[40:03]This verse that I read from Listen to the verse.
[40:18]All you who believe, turn to Allah a sincere turning.
[40:22]Maybe your Lord will remove from you your evil and cause you
[40:25]to enter gardens beneath which rivers flow on the day in which
[40:30]Allah will not abase the prophet and those who believe with him.
[40:33]Their light shall run.
[40:36]Meaning the as we say this light that you and I need
[40:45]to to brighten and purify is on this earth.
[40:46]This is when we fast, we pray, when we're honest, we're sincere,
[40:52]we're caring, we're sharing, we're giving, we're forgiving, and we're loving.
[40:57]What Allah does is he purifies our light.
[41:00]You will find n come out of our faces.
[41:02]Some of us may see it.
[41:03]Actually, I do see it.
[41:03]Many times when I see people I see the light coming from
[41:07]their faces.
[41:08]I can tell that this person has purity in their heart.
[41:11]But what I'm trying to say is that even ignorant people like
[41:17]myself see very little of what the reality is really there.
[41:20]And I think it's very important in this month of Ramadan while
[41:25]we're fasting and while we're keeping shan away and we are purifying
[41:28]ourselves and strengthening our ability to introspect that we should purify our
[41:35]light.
[41:35]But listen to this verse.
[41:39]It's magnificent.
[41:36]The eth verse of 66th chapter turn to Allah.
[41:48]turnba turn to him just this turning is so magnificent that that
[41:53]when we seek grace from Allah subhana wa ta'ala it is the
[41:59]most satisfying thing so this person at the grave says to him
[42:04]that I was honest I was a man of honesty I didn't
[42:08]cheat people there's another hadith that says a man wanted to meet
[42:13]imm and He went to mid Sah and there's riat to say
[42:19]that for 40 nights if you read dua and you know Quran
[42:24]that you will meet the imam there's a interesting story that rajayat
[42:29]who was a great Arif in the Islamic republic who was he
[42:34]was a tailor but he was a very pure person in fact
[42:36]he was a landlord to give you an example look at his
[42:39]purity he was a landlord and I want us to know those
[42:43]of us who are landlords I want you to think about this
[42:45]he was a landlord Lord in Tehran and he had a couple
[42:52]that was living in his apartment.
[42:52]He was a tor but an Arif very connected with God.
[42:58]The family had a child.
[43:03]So Rajali goes to the tenants and says your rent has been
[43:10]reduced.
[43:09]They said how come?
[43:12]He says because now you have one extra mouth to feed and
[43:14]that burden on you is unfair.
[43:18]How many people do you know that are landlords who will reduce
[43:23]the rent on the basis on the basis of saying that you've
[43:25]you had one child imagine you have a second child your burden
[43:30]is even more the the the tenants were stunned by the love
[43:33]of Rajayat for he had so much love because he truly believed
[43:39]in the mercy of Allah that his livelihood wasn't coming through the
[43:43]rent that he was collecting his livelihood was coming from Allah and
[43:47]rent was one of the means of Allah's livelihood.
[43:52]Many of us don't believe in this honestly on this earth.
[43:57]Many of us think that that mighty dollar that we have in
[43:59]our hands is our security.
[44:05]Whereas Allah says no you foolish people.
[44:07]No.
[44:08]This is can be very corrosive.
[44:09]But many of us I've seen with my own eyes brothers and
[44:12]sisters fight for wills that their parents left and they kill each
[44:18]other literally.
[44:17]Okay.
[44:18]just for this stupid material thing that when you kick the bucket,
[44:21]as they say, when you die, you don't take a rotten penny
[44:29]with it.
[44:28]But my god, we are so caught in this foolish web of
[44:35]ignorance.
[44:34]It's absolutely mind-boggling.
[44:37]Now, of course, I'm not saying it in a derogatory manner, but
[44:42]I'm saying it to awaken us.
[44:43]I'm not being insulting here but I'm I'm saying it in a
[44:50]way that for the love of God let's wake up.
[44:51]So this man goes to Masid Salah for 14 nights and then
[44:55]he has a dream.
[44:57]He says if you want to meet the Imam get on a
[44:57]bus and go in this go on a long distance and go
[45:01]to this city.
[45:03]So he gets on the bus and he goes and he reaches
[45:07]this city and he is told that go to this bazar and
[45:08]and go to this particular vendor.
[45:12]Look, Subhan Allah.
[45:12]There's a story behind this.
[45:15]The same as that person from the grave.
[45:18]It's all about transactional systems that Allah has placed on this earth.
[45:23]That if you and I claim to believe in Allah and you
[45:28]and I claim to be lovers of God, if you and I
[45:32]don't don't practice justice and equity and love and forgiveness, we are
[45:38]fooling ourselves.
[45:39]And there was a woman who comes in selling a lock.
[45:43]And the owner of the shop gives her six tuman.
[45:47]She looks at him and says, "All day I've been trying to
[45:51]sell this lock and nobody's giving me more than half of what
[45:55]you've offered me, three tuman." At that time, Tumman was very valuable.
[46:02]And the man says to the woman, he said, "Lady, the value
[46:07]of this lock is six.
[46:10]So I have to give you six.
[46:12]I cannot give you less." The woman gladly takes the six and
[46:15]leaves.
[46:16]There was a young man sitting opposite to this man who was
[46:22]looking for the imam.
[46:21]And the young man smiles and says, "You don't need to go
[46:26]to masid salah for 14 nights.
[46:28]You need to practice this and people like us will visit you."
[46:32]Muhammad Aluhammed.
[46:38]>> But how many of us believe in that?
[46:42]We say Sahaban, you know, we say, right?
[46:46]And then we cheat.
[46:49]We double the prices, right?
[46:50]We we swindle thinking I'll get away.
[46:54]That person from the grave said, I never never cheated people as
[46:58]a butcher.
[46:59]You might think Islam is a very complicated religion.
[47:03]It requires all kinds of, you know, meditative powers and to have
[47:08]ti and to have all the secrets of the universe.
[47:11]Yes, you can.
[47:14]Of course, you can go there.
[47:15]You can go to Malakut from Mulk.
[47:19]You know, this world is Mulk.
[47:21]Malakut is the next stage where the angels are.
[47:25]Then there's Jabarut.
[47:28]You know there's lahoot and there's jabarut.
[47:29]There are stages the human soul can reach.
[47:32]There's so much to say about this my dear brothers and sisters.
[47:37]But let me touch very briefly on the power of introspection.
[47:41]Research has shown the most powerful intelligence of a human being is
[47:49]the ability to introspect yourself.
[47:50]Allah says, "All you who believe, take care of yourself." The prophet
[47:58]said, "Do your before Allah does your weigh your scale of deeds
[48:12]before Allah weighs it." This power is the power I want to
[48:15]focus on tonight from the perspective that while we're vulnerable and I
[48:20]mentioned yesterday about jealousy and vulnerability and I will touch on this
[48:23]today you know briefly as quickly as I can because I want
[48:29]to draw this picture very clearly that when you and I are
[48:31]sitting meditating in our homes or you and I are sitting in
[48:37]a gathering measure the value of that gathering.
[48:39]How much is Allah mentioned in this gathering?
[48:41]People get together and they're smoking shisha and argile and stuff like
[48:47]that which please for the love of God stop it stop it
[48:53]please it's delletterious hubble bubble is extremely dangerous it's destructive Allah blessed
[49:00]us with a beautiful body blessed us with a very balanced chemistry
[49:05]in our body one change of chemistry causes chaos and We develop
[49:14]so many radicals in our body that leads us to degrade very
[49:18]rapidly.
[49:18]Don't we want to live a full life on this earth?
[49:21]Is it not waj upon us to take care of ourselves and
[49:27]to be healthy and to eat good food halal and to be
[49:31]cognizant that we breathe fresh air?
[49:33]How do we go into these facilities where sometimes I have young
[49:36]brothers invite me to have a dialogue and they want to smoke
[49:42]this Hubble bubble and many a times I say to them no
[49:44]if you're going to smoke this I'm not going to sit with
[49:48]you okay I I why should I talk to a half-witted human
[49:51]being who's half in the sky you know having some kind of
[49:58]inebriation as we say sort of like hi and then I'm talking
[50:01]to them about deep matters It's I would rather go to the
[50:06]zoo and have a conversation with different creatures.
[50:08]And then they you hear this bubba bub like I feel like
[50:12]I'm in some kind of a contraption, you know?
[50:15]I mean, what is this?
[50:17]And what is the problem?
[50:19]Didn't I mention the other day that why do human beings have
[50:22]to go there?
[50:24]What has Allah denied us in the beauty of this world and
[50:27]in the uh indulgence?
[50:35]Who made haram for you the beauty of this world that takes
[50:40]you towards Allah?
[50:40]Who who made haram for you to look beautiful?
[50:43]Who made haram for you to be healthy?
[50:45]Who made haram for you to have a good time?
[50:48]Who made haram for you to play sports and laugh about it
[50:53]and feel good about it?
[50:54]For that is what life is about.
[50:56]But why do we self-destruct?
[51:01]You know, when I go to these places and I I I
[51:04]see this, it's really disturbing to me because I can't even have
[51:10]a conversation with people.
[51:10]And then they want me to now, you know, give them haya.
[51:16]Like the first haya is stop this nonsense.
[51:21]And I know some people who sell this stuff and they have
[51:24]shops and they get angry with me, you know.
[51:26]son and come on.
[51:26]You know, I said, "Listen, you're not going to stand on judgment
[51:31]day for me.
[51:30]You can rack up all your millions of dollars that you want
[51:35]to do, but this illicit behavior is absolutely not acceptable by me.
[51:39]And I'm not going to stand in front of Allah and tell
[51:43]Allah that I tried to please this human being by being a
[51:45]sickopant upon which I needed to wag my tail to make this
[51:50]person feel good." When Allah says, "You should do only to please
[51:55]me." So when you and I in gatherings, measure the value of
[51:58]those gatherings.
[52:00]Is there a conversation about Allah?
[52:01]Is there a conversation about progressing the soul?
[52:06]I love being in communities where we can sit for 12 hours,
[52:10]we just take a break for salah, maybe a few morsels of
[52:15]food, and then we continue expanding what is brilliant in our heads.
[52:19]that this power of introspection at especially at the frontal lobe of
[52:25]critical thinking that Allah loves please my dear brothers and sisters I
[52:36]I sincerely say this to all of you this life is very
[52:39]short don't waste it and don't grow old having done stupid things
[52:43]don't people ask me you know when are you going to retire
[52:49]I said, "I will retire when Malikul meets me because I want
[52:55]to be busy doing God's work until the moment the angel of
[52:59]death takes my soul for there is no reason for me to
[53:04]retire.
[53:02]How can I retire when I have so much debt to Allah
[53:07]subhana tala?
[53:08]Tell me how can I retire?
[53:09]I have so much good to do on this earth to thank
[53:13]Allah for what he has given me." That relationship is what's important.
[53:18]But nonetheless I say introspection.
[53:20]So you notice that the first stage is and it's a good
[53:29]enoughs.
[53:29]It stays with us.
[53:29]There's nothing wrong with it.
[53:33]But Allah expects a graduation from it.
[53:34]Meaning Allah expects us to move higher in stages.
[53:40]So in Allah says Allah swears by the selfacusing soul.
[53:52]Is not only accusing but it is accounting.
[53:57]It starts to see that while when I was young the world
[54:02]was the problem.
[54:04]You know when a child is going after the toy and the
[54:07]child wants all the toys.
[54:12]It's mine.
[54:09]It's mine.
[54:11]It's mine.
[54:13]This is nar.
[54:13]And the child screams when mom or dad doesn't give them that
[54:19]toy.
[54:20]They're going to now punish the parents.
[54:22]They're going to expose the parents in public that you're doing bad.
[54:25]And the mom feels embarrassed.
[54:26]Okay.
[54:27]Okay.
[54:28]Habibi.
[54:29]Habib, you know, you can take this.
[54:30]The child says, "Ah, Nia is working beautiful.
[54:34]You see that?
[54:34]All I need to do is raise my volume." And boom.
[54:38]You know, we have Pavlovian response.
[54:41]Mom immediately bows.
[54:43]teach that child no it's called good love and let the child
[54:50]know that there are rules and honestly a child doesn't have to
[54:53]mature for it to know the rules I believe rules should be
[54:58]instituted within the first seven years of their existence because that's the
[55:03]critical foundation of a child's future growth their nature upon which they
[55:07]become the kind of persons they become in adulthood is predicated entirely
[55:10]on the first seven years of their growth Please understand this.
[55:15]Plenty of research to prove this fact.
[55:18]Many parents are subservient to their children thinking, "Oh, you know, I
[55:21]don't want my child to feel bad." No.
[55:24]Nobody's saying that you should make your child feel bad.
[55:28]You need to train this child to understand longevity of life, to
[55:32]have long-term vision, and to understand that life has rules and regulations.
[55:37]Not in a draconian way, not in a helicopter parent way where
[55:43]you're constantly monitoring this child.
[55:46]Not that for one of the greatest gifts in a child's existence
[55:49]is their autonomy, their freedom of thought.
[55:55]And parents must allow children to exercise their freedom.
[55:58]While we as parents are terrified that my child may get hurt,
[56:03]there is a limit.
[56:04]For there is nothing you and I can do when a child
[56:07]is with their friends.
[56:08]There's nothing a parent can do.
[56:11]So why don't we come to terms with it and have Allah
[56:13]become the guardian of this child?
[56:15]For that child doesn't belong to us.
[56:19]My daughter doesn't belong to me.
[56:21]My daughter belongs to Allah subhana tala.
[56:22]And Allah has loaned her to me.
[56:26]And Allah says this is an ama and I I have loaned
[56:30]you this child.
[56:32]raise this child the way this child deserves to be raised.
[56:34]For that is you.
[56:37]This is what we call version 2.0 of you.
[56:40]Each child is a new version.
[56:42]For God says, here's another version I give you.
[56:49]For each child is ourselves.
[56:49]Many times we ask Allah, "Oh, I wish when I was younger
[56:56]I didn't do ABC." Allah says, "Okay, I'll give a carbon copy
[56:59]of you." Sometimes you see these children walking, they're identical to their
[57:03]fathers or mothers.
[57:03]Identical.
[57:03]You see their baby pictures, they're exactly like their fathers.
[57:08]When they grow older, they're identical.
[57:08]People say, "Oh my god, you look just like your grandfather, your
[57:12]father." So Allah subhana ta says, "I give you a version of
[57:15]you.
[57:16]And now this version is in your control because when you were
[57:20]younger, you were ignorant.
[57:24]Now you're not.
[57:24]Now you're experienced.
[57:26]So he has a chance to now manage this new version.
[57:31]How many parents poison their children over and over and over?
[57:35]I've seen it.
[57:36]I've seen misbehavior.
[57:38]One kid at the Islamic was, you know, punching everybody, pushing, you
[57:42]know, at the shoe when we were taking our shoes off in
[57:45]the Islamic center.
[57:46]And this kid didn't care.
[57:47]Like he was huffing and puffing.
[57:49]He was only like seven years old.
[57:50]And brother Hussein and I looked at him and said, "What's with
[57:53]this kid?
[57:56]What's his problem?
[57:57]Subhan Allah.
[57:58]When the program ended, we were taking our shoes.
[58:02]The father was doing the exact same thing.
[58:05]Huffing, puffing, kicking people, taking the shoes.
[58:06]And we looked at each other, said, "Ah, [laughter] no wonder." You
[58:11]know, that's the fruit of the roots, you know, as they say,
[58:14]right?
[58:15]Uh, so what you find is that this poor child is mimicking
[58:22]the father.
[58:22]So, do I blame this child?
[58:25]Allah judgment day will will will blame the father that how dare
[58:30]you misappropriated this misbehaving.
[58:31]Now what kind of a father is like that?
[58:34]It's the father who hasn't taken account.
[58:37]It's the father who has not introspected.
[58:40]It's the father who has not validated their real life.
[58:43]They're survivors.
[58:45]They're like in the jungle, you know, you find a potato, you
[58:48]slap everybody to get it and you make sure you hide it.
[58:53]And the concept of sharing is an impossibility in this jungle because
[58:56]I need to survive.
[58:58]In fact, I'm going to come and take your potatoes.
[59:02]So in Islam, Allah says, I swear by the soul that accounts
[59:09]itself.
[59:10]This is the graduation level.
[59:14]If we can implement this at an early age, yes, typically when
[59:17]we grow older in our 20s, 30s, we start to account for
[59:21]ourselves.
[59:21]That idea as a child to say all the toys are mine
[59:27]start to become real, to say no, there is a boundary.
[59:29]Some are mine, maybe none are mine, but there is a boundary
[59:34]and others do have the right to own it.
[59:39]this power of relinquishing this what we call idea of self-centered ego
[59:44]egotism and narcissism.
[59:45]Unfortunately, we have a leader today who has never graduated from from
[59:51]that initial child baby that he was born in.
[59:55]And look at the damage.
[59:58]I tell you the best example.
[60:01]Look at the damage on earth today.
[60:03]How many thousands and hundreds of thousands of people are going to
[60:07]die because one leader refuses to graduate into NAS laama.
[60:11]Think about it.
[60:14]And the viciousness of these people, you know, Gileain Maxwell, Jeff Jeffrey
[60:23]Apstein, you find that they were abusing because they had no empathy.
[60:28]They never accounted for themselves.
[60:31]They couldn't care less about the outcome.
[60:33]Whereas Allah subhana t is telling us account for yourself.
[60:39]Come towards me.
[60:38]Know that you have a responsibility.
[60:42]So Allah says I swear by the self-acusing soul.
[60:46]And tonight I want to talk about this self-acusing soul because if
[60:51]you and I modulate in this reality that middle stage if you
[60:56]and I can reach that stage then the probability of us reaching
[61:01]a higher stage is very high.
[61:03]What's the third stage in Allah says?
[61:21]Oh you who has reached the tranquil state of the soul.
[61:25]Who is this person who has reached tranquil state?
[61:27]Prophets, imams, people who have struggled in this life.
[61:33]People who want shahada, people who are willing to die for the
[61:36]cause of the love of Allah subhana tala.
[61:38]These are the recipients of unfortunately most of mankind doesn't reach that
[61:45]unfortunately because we are living in a world that stumps us from
[61:49]reaching that stage.
[61:51]The pulpits the the uh and I don't talk about the Islamic
[61:54]pulpits.
[61:55]I'm talking about the general principle of institutions of public distribution of
[62:02]knowledge is filled with lies or halfbaked truths.
[62:08]Our systems are corroded.
[62:09]Our logic is misplaced and our lifestyles are so antithetical to the
[62:15]purity of God's system that the natural result is that the there's
[62:21]a vast population of people who are highly confused.
[62:24]It's sad but that's true.
[62:27]But we must never lose hope in this fact for Allah says
[62:30]don't lose hope for I'm the one who puts faith.
[62:33]Our obligation from an individual standpoint when we introspect and look deep
[62:39]into ourselves is that we will become an agent of the promotion
[62:45]of good that even if we touch one life that's 40 generations
[62:48]of a person that you've touched just one life but I say
[62:51]what is this introspection you might ask what is this what do
[62:59]I need to do in my introspection that takes me towards Allah
[63:03]subhana wa ta'ala what do I need to do as a person.
[63:07]You start to begin to realize that the vulnerabilities that I have
[63:12]become very prevalent.
[63:12]The insecurities that I mentioned and that when Allah tests us, if
[63:18]we hold on to the rope of Allah, our security becomes stronger
[63:24]and then our distribution of good starts to permeate.
[63:28]So when I introspect myself and I start to see that the
[63:33]world is not the problem, maybe I am the problem.
[63:37]One of the best principles to use is when there is a
[63:40]problem, take the blame 60% first.
[63:42]I have a policy often where when I see a problem in
[63:46]anything that I'm managing and I see a problem, even in the
[63:49]institutions that I'm involved in as a leader, I take 60% of
[63:54]the blame.
[63:56]When I see something wrong, I see something, I say, well, it's
[64:01]probably something caused by me.
[64:02]60%.
[64:02]What that does is it stops me from pointing fingers.
[64:07]I think that's very important.
[64:09]When there is what we call conflict, we must not be quick
[64:13]in pointing fingers.
[64:15]That's a sign of vulnerability.
[64:17]When I'm vulnerable and I'm ever so quick to point fingers, I
[64:21]am very insecure.
[64:22]when I throw blame on others whereas Allah says do not find
[64:29]faults in each other and don't call each other bad names after
[64:37]you have faith.
[64:39]So if I stop and I say hold on maybe I did
[64:43]something maybe I haven't done something.
[64:45]What happens is you start to introspect.
[64:49]Your frontal lobe your critical thinking starts to activate.
[64:54]You start to reason h what could I have done or not
[65:00]done that has caused this?
[65:00]Because all these people who are working with me are subject to
[65:04]my decisions directly or indirectly.
[65:06]Therefore, I can't point a finger.
[65:09]What will happen is when you start to analyze and assess, you
[65:15]begin to realize that maybe I was 90% responsible or maybe I
[65:19]was 20% responsible or maybe I was 5% responsible.
[65:22]And you find the 90% responsible is somebody else.
[65:27]But now your approach to that other person won't be fingerpointing.
[65:30]It'll be analytical.
[65:31]It will be decisive.
[65:33]It will be with discussion where you will come and meet the
[65:36]person and try to analyze and the intent of meeting that person
[65:42]who's 90% wrong won't be to to denigrate them but rather to
[65:45]elevate them by what we call constructive criticism.
[65:49]Not is the of Islam.
[65:52]This is how the holy prophet was.
[65:54]This is how the B were.
[65:55]So I want us to please focus on this fact that our
[66:04]vulnerabilities will be achieved in a much higher stage when we in
[66:08]other words we will conquer ourselves through an analyzing but it's impossible
[66:16]when you and I assess ourselves it's impossible to peg ourselves with
[66:21]security without Allah.
[66:24]I'm just saying this categorically.
[66:26]Anybody who analyzes theirel and has realized that I have to be
[66:35]part of the solution or else I am the problem.
[66:38]This is a if you don't peg yourself with God, it's impossible
[66:41]to be secure.
[66:43]I'm making a very general statement.
[66:45]I would love to give a series of lectures just on this
[66:48]sentence that I've given because I think this is a huge component
[66:54]of human social relationship of how you and I need to mature
[66:57]within our societies.
[66:59]And as a as a summary, we as parents need to raise
[67:02]our children and to teach them introspection.
[67:07]So when my nephews and my niece uh would make mistakes, I
[67:12]would sit with them and I say,"I want you to tell me
[67:17]what did you do that was wrong." The child is is not
[67:19]interested because they're in an emotional state.
[67:22]They are very much, you know, in hyper emotions, right?
[67:27]at that time when something wrong happens because typically the knee-jerk reaction
[67:30]is you're going to get punished or there's going to be a
[67:35]loud voice or there's going to be some kind of something that's
[67:38]going to put fear or you're going to be you know pushed
[67:44]into a room and locked up.
[67:45]I never did that.
[67:45]I felt that I would take my nephew if they made a
[67:49]mistake I'd sit down with them.
[67:50]I say okay tell me what did you just do?
[67:53]And my nephew would look at me says huh?
[67:55]I let him calm down.
[67:58]I said, "Okay, now let's talk.
[67:59]I need to have a conversation with you." You will notice the
[68:03]power of conversation is huge because what is it doing?
[68:09]It's now exciting the intellect of the other person.
[68:11]It's minimizing emotions and it's maximizing intellectual introspection.
[68:18]So when there is a crisis even between couples, don't be emotional
[68:24]and throw a tantrum.
[68:24]Say, "Can we discuss this?
[68:27]Can we sit down and discuss this?" If we're sitting, can we
[68:32]go to the couch and discuss this?
[68:34]Move.
[68:35]Move your environment because wherever that chaos took place has negative energy.
[68:40]Stand up and move.
[68:41]Change it.
[68:42]The prophet said when you're angry, if you're sitting, stand up.
[68:45]If you're standing, sit down.
[68:46]Change your state.
[68:48]For that's how you become aware of your anger and delay it.
[68:55]When somebody's saying something to you, don't respond.
[68:59]Silence is gold.
[69:00]Because when you're silent, you're defeating the enemy because they're throwing fuel
[69:05]into this fire and you're just not allowing it.
[69:10]Let's discuss this later.
[69:11]How about tonight?
[69:13]Tomorrow we will get together and have this discussion.
[69:15]You will find that the entire conversation is different the next day.
[69:20]I have parents that come to wise and they're I rateate, you
[69:25]know, and I see, okay, you know, what's this?
[69:26]Maybe they didn't have breakfast that day.
[69:29]Maybe they got bad news, but now they're ready to throw a
[69:34]tantrum because they need a victim.
[69:36]And I know this is victimization.
[69:41]And even if we're wrong, there's an a upon which to deal
[69:43]with wrongness, isn't it?
[69:44]Oh, they come screaming at you.
[69:47]I said, "Oh, calm down." And then you sometimes they will say,
[69:50]Let's make a statement like okay explain what did you just say
[69:53]or what I will typically do is I'll rephrase oh so what
[69:58]you mean is this by rephrasing what I did was I bounced
[70:04]off what they're saying and when they hear themselves they're in a
[70:08]different mood like huh or you ask them what did you mean
[70:10]by that you are in Islamic school I said yes can you
[70:16]explain to me what an Islamic school is huh what do you
[70:21]mean sit down calm down let's have a dial the next thing
[70:24]they're you know consiliatory begging for forgiveness it's because their anger was
[70:33]misplaced but how often do we engage in such anger thinking it's
[70:36]legit and we add more fuel to the fire then it leads
[70:40]to so much misconceptions that later on we realize what a dumb
[70:44]thing how did I engage myself in such stupid altercation when there
[70:48]was no need for me to do that.
[70:53]All of these are qualities of introspection.
[70:54]So tonight I would like to as I mentioned Allah subhana wa
[70:59]ta'ala here now one component I want to talk about before I
[71:01]end on this is jealousy as I mentioned yesterday and I'm going
[71:07]to touch very briefly on surah yuf I'll continue this conversation tomorrow
[71:09]because I think this requires explanation at a fundamental level you notice
[71:14]that I'm going into surah yu and talking about the life of
[71:19]yu but before I do I'm laying the foundation of how you
[71:21]and I need to understand the character of Ysef Alisam and his
[71:26]scenario for I can easily quote Quranic verses but you and I
[71:31]will miss the point because once we understand the grassroots of how
[71:35]human behavior is what the components of human psychology is based on
[71:40]you and I will have a much better understanding so I will
[71:47]you know as I say gloss over Ysef's life it's a very
[71:50]deep conversation honestly I Remember one day I was in Kum.
[71:55]I was actually in Dubai.
[71:57]I was in Kum and in Dubai.
[71:58]I was in Dubai and I was with a scholar and we
[72:01]went to a wedding.
[72:01]It was a very opulent wedding and we had no interest in
[72:04]it.
[72:05]It was just everything was just show.
[72:07]So we're sitting and talking about Imam and we get into the
[72:12]Quran and we're deep in conversation.
[72:14]We even forgot the dinner.
[72:14]Everybody ate all the dessert, the dinner.
[72:17]We didn't even care because we were eating something better.
[72:20]And then after that we walked out and everybody had gone.
[72:24]All the Rolls-Royces came and they all left.
[72:26]You know, we were left without a ride and then we figured
[72:28]out a ride and we were on cloud nine.
[72:32]And for about four and a half to five hours we were
[72:36]just talking about the story of Ysef in the Surah Ysef the
[72:43]12th chapter.
[72:40]And I swear if I spend eternity talking about the life of
[72:48]Ysef, it would be an insatiable experience.
[72:52]Meaning that the food is so tasty, you never want it to
[72:55]end.
[72:56]It's like that pleasure that is eternal.
[72:59]That's the kind of taste you and I need to have when
[73:03]we get deep into conversations with Allah subhana wa ta'ala.
[73:07]When Allah says, "Engage in what I have given you deep into
[73:11]conversation, it's so beautiful.
[73:16]It is so fulfilling.
[73:16]My God, I crave those moments where I can sit with a
[73:21]scholar and just dig deep and each time the Quran just opens
[73:24]up and then they start to break down the language of the
[73:29]Quran and why the grammar is this way and why is it
[73:31]masculine and not feminine and why is it plural and not singular
[73:36]and you start getting deep into the incredible gift Allah has given
[73:40]us.
[73:41]But that's another conversation in itself.
[73:44]But where does come from?
[73:45]It comes from the same problem of vulnerabilities where an individual has
[73:50]not taken account of themselves.
[73:51]When we don't take account of ourselves, we now become loose cannons
[73:58]and instead as we say you know you know when somebody says
[74:02]that I want to bring you down or somebody says you know
[74:06]this wants this person wants to bring you down stop for a
[74:10]moment and say oh so I am above that person.
[74:13]So we don't think of that second sentence.
[74:17]When somebody wants to bring you down, we get angry.
[74:19]But stop and say, "Oh, I am above that person." I think
[74:24]that's a beautiful sentence.
[74:24]When you're above somebody and they want to bring you down, you're
[74:28]already above.
[74:30]Isn't that amazing?
[74:31]When someone says you're not good-looking, tell them don't look at me.
[74:37]If I'm not good-looking, why do you look at me?
[74:40]Since when do you like to look at not good-looking things?
[74:45]Notice you are good-looking.
[74:46]But jealousy exudes in people's faces.
[74:51]And tonight just briefly I want to touch.
[74:54]Allah says, "Do they envy the people for what Allah has given
[74:59]them of his grace?
[75:01]But indeed we have given Ibraim children the book, the wisdom, and
[75:04]we have given them a grand kingdom." Now in surah yuisam you
[75:08]notice Allah is describing this story right so when you look at
[75:15]surah yuf it's very fascinating that >> now as you know and
[75:25]I'm going to gloss over this very quickly but notice the power
[75:28]of jealousy in the family of a prophet you would say you
[75:34]know you and I are secondary beings In terms of status within
[75:38]the family of prophethood, prophets, the children of prophets are or the
[75:47]audacity to commit the act that they did.
[75:50]But Allah is showing me a deep thing when he says, "We're
[75:55]going to give you a beautiful story." It's very deep.
[75:59]It's it's deep in the sense that I want you and I
[76:03]to reflect.
[76:02]These stories are not designed to entertain us.
[76:05]They're designed for you and I to look at ourselves deep inside
[76:08]ourselves.
[76:09]Now, when Ysef Alisam uh [clears throat] as you know, he was
[76:16]very wise as a child.
[76:18]Now, I don't have time to talk about it.
[76:21]I'm looking at the clock and I've got like seven minutes to
[76:24]finish.
[76:25]Tomorrow, inshallah, I'll get into this.
[76:27]As soon as I start, inshallah, I'll get into the surah.
[76:29]And it's really elegant because from the perspective of how Allahha describes
[76:35]the life of Ysef I sincerely ask every one of us to
[76:42][snorts] live within the framework of Yuisam male and female just like
[76:46]Mariam when we look at the life of Mariam male and female
[76:49]we should look at her life like when we look at the
[76:55]life of when you study them when you study them, they should
[77:03]become the framework of how you and I should live.
[77:05]So when we introspect and say, "Oh Allah, I'm accounting for my
[77:11]own weaknesses." Okay, how do you fill the negatives?
[77:15]When you and I examine ourselves, you and I will realize there
[77:20]are lots of negatives.
[77:19]And that's a gift of God.
[77:23]By the way, there's a hadith of the prophet that says when
[77:25]Allah loves you, the first thing he does is he exposes your
[77:27]weakness.
[77:29]You would think that when God loves me, the first thing he
[77:34]should do is expose my strength, negative.
[77:36]Allah says, "No, because I love you so much.
[77:40]There is a lot of positive in you already, but I don't
[77:42]want to enhance you so that you become gloated in your own
[77:50]narcissism." Allah says no I want you to examine your negatives.
[77:52]If we teach children this qu this reality that you know what
[77:58]I have to take responsibility I have to own it.
[78:00]Many times when I talk to people and I would get into
[78:04]a discussion I say you know this was wrong and the person
[78:06]immediately gets into defensive mode.
[78:08]Did you notice that they get into defensive mode and now they
[78:13]start saying, "But you know it was because of they're always deflecting."
[78:16]And I would keep bringing them back and they get very disturbed
[78:22]by that.
[78:23]I said, "Are you getting my message?" I said, "Why don't you
[78:26]just own it?
[78:28]Why don't you just say, "You're right, brother.
[78:31]I need to think about this.
[78:34]Why can't you do that?
[78:34]Is yourself so holy?
[78:37]Is it so sacred, hermeneutically sealed that you cannot unclog it?
[78:44]H do you notice that?
[78:48]You know, we love finding faults in others, but when somebody starts
[78:52]talking about us, please stop.
[78:56]I can't handle this.
[78:57]This is where true faith comes in.
[79:00]Yufuisam was so connected with God that the story goes that the
[79:08]brothers were jealous.
[79:08]He sees 11 planets, the moon and the sun bowing to him.
[79:14]And his father says don't tell this to your brothers for your
[79:17]Shayan is an enemy to us and jealousy lies in the whole
[79:25]family.
[79:24]And history shows that even their mothers, these brothers, their mothers were
[79:28]jealous of Ysef because you know Prophet Yakub had multiple wives and
[79:34]there's jealousy between women.
[79:37]It's a very problem.
[79:38]It's a problem even among men.
[79:40]Jealousy.
[79:41]Anyway, Ysef Alisam as you know is taken by the brothers, right?
[79:46]Say let's take this young boy.
[79:47]And the plan according to the Quran here, I'm just glossing and
[79:52]tomorrow I'll discuss with more details.
[79:55]They said, "Let's take him." Now, the initial intent was to kill
[79:58]him.
[79:59]But among the brothers, some said, "No, let's not do that.
[80:01]That's too much of a crime.
[80:05]Let's throw him inside the well." So, Ysef Alisam, as you know,
[80:09]is taken.
[80:08]He's a young boy.
[80:11]He's innocent.
[80:12]He's so happy to be with his brothers.
[80:15]I could just imagine how excited he was when he got in
[80:17]this caravan to go with his brothers and they were going to
[80:21]go hunting or they were going to do something.
[80:22]He's so excited to be with his brother.
[80:25]That sincerity, that purity that lies in a child, but this child's
[80:31]connection with God.
[80:32]Now, the brothers decided that they were going to throw him because
[80:38]the father loved Ysef more than them, although that is not true.
[80:41]The father loved them all, but it was merit-based.
[80:44]When a father loves a child who's more God-conscious, it's not being
[80:49]skewed in justice.
[80:52]A parent should love a child who has more connection with God.
[80:55]It's just a logical thing.
[80:55]But the parent whose child is not obeying Allah, the parent doesn't
[81:00]doesn't not love them.
[81:03]Look at look at for example noisam.
[81:05]His son was a disbeliever.
[81:07]But no loved him.
[81:11]No.
[81:09]Alisam loved his son.
[81:12]While his son was a recalcitrant disbeliever to the point when the
[81:17]flood was taking place, Nu said to his son, come with me
[81:21]in this ark because Allah commanded Nu take your family all of
[81:24]them take them on the ark.
[81:26]So it was logical that he should ask his son.
[81:28]But look how Allahh is telling us that when it comes to
[81:36]principles of right versus wrong, even your son disconnects from you.
[81:40]For when nuisam is asking Allah save my son, Allah says he
[81:44]is not from you.
[81:47]He is not of you.
[81:50]Wow, that's is a son.
[81:51]Allah says disconnect him.
[81:51]He is not your son anymore.
[81:56]That's the power of justice in Islam.
[81:58]So when Yakub looks at his son, he loves Ysef.
[82:00]He has to love him for he is a prophet of Allah.
[82:04]He's the most subservient.
[82:08]But one thing that Ysef got which was a blessing but it
[82:11]became a curse and that was beauty.
[82:15]And I'll touch on this tonight very briefly.
[82:18]You'll find when people have immense beauty they tend to be solitary.
[82:26]They are the loneliest people in the world.
[82:27]You would think that when I have magnificent looks I should be
[82:33]the most sought after.
[82:34]Yes you are.
[82:37]But you're sought after by the devil too.
[82:39]And now you become a prisoner.
[82:43]And what happened to Ysef?
[82:44]You see what is interesting is after he was thrown in the
[82:47]well the brothers thought he will die.
[82:50]But Allah had a better plan.
[82:55]First rule when people are jealous of us and they want to
[83:01]attack us.
[83:02]No, Allah has a plan.
[83:03]But the plan will work if you and I connect with Allah.
[83:09]Otherwise, it won't work.
[83:10]Although it will generally work, but it may damage.
[83:14]But if you hold on to the rope of Allah.
[83:17]So Ysef is in the well.
[83:19]He's praying to Allah.
[83:19]He's connected.
[83:22]Gibbrael comes and tells him, "Don't worry." Soon, Ysef Alisam is picked
[83:27]up by a caravan and taken to a metropolis city that was
[83:35]the most advanced city in the world, Egypt.
[83:36]Where was Ysef being raised?
[83:40]In the city of Cananan.
[83:41]Cananan was a very barren desert.
[83:43]Was very bare.
[83:45]It was very what we call modest.
[83:47]It wasn't advanced like Egypt.
[83:53]But look, the jealousy pushed him to Egypt.
[83:56]Subhan Allah.
[83:55]When you and I have people who are jealous upon us, ask
[84:00]Allah subhana ta for protection for that jealousy is going to push
[84:06]you and me into higher stages of existence for Allah is merciful.
[84:09]So when and and when Ysef Alisam was in the world, now
[84:15]he's taken and look at what happens to him.
[84:16]He's now taken as a slave, sold on the market.
[84:22]How demeaning is that?
[84:24]If you and I were in that situation, would you and I
[84:29]have faith in God?
[84:31]You and I would say, "What kind of a God is this?
[84:32]I am praying to you and now I'm being debased and sold
[84:39]on the market." Look at the connection with God.
[84:54]You know when Allah says we will test you with loss of
[84:59]life, fear.
[85:01]Ysef is being tested and his magnificent look is now being tested.
[85:05]Look at that first level.
[85:08]First level jealousy thrown into the well.
[85:10]Separation from his beloved father.
[85:12]taken as a slave.
[85:15]Now he's being he's being sold on the market, prodded and looked
[85:18]at.
[85:19]But the governor of Egypt finds him and says we will take
[85:26]him into our palace.
[85:26]Putifar was the governor.
[85:30]He takes him and Ysef as a child now is raised in
[85:32]the house of the governor of Egypt and while he was suffering
[85:38]there he was connected with Allah.
[85:40]This is all in Yusf by the way.
[85:43]I'm just glossing over it very quickly because of no time.
[85:45]Then Ysef Alisam as you know becomes an adult.
[85:49]Now when he becomes an adult the wife of Putifar her name
[85:56]was Zullea.
[85:56]She was very beautiful.
[85:59]She wasn't an ordinary woman.
[86:02]She was chosen by the governor as an elegant beautiful woman.
[86:06]Now, this I think is a test you and I need to
[86:10]focus on in our introspection.
[86:12]For we all want to look good and we all wish we
[86:18]could get stuck in the elevator with a beautiful woman [laughter] or
[86:22]vice versa, right?
[86:23]Or we all look at that, if only that beautiful person would
[86:27]just look at me.
[86:29]I remember a young boy saying to me, I'm in love.
[86:33]I said, why?
[86:32]I said, this beautiful girl looked at me.
[86:34]I said, 'How do you know she was looking at you?
[86:38]Maybe there was somebody behind you.
[86:41][laughter] I said, 'You fantasizing?
[86:42]No, no, she looked at me.
[86:44]I said, oh my god, the vulnerabilities we all have.
[86:48]We wish somebody would just say, you're so cute.
[86:52]Oh, you know, please can you press this heart here?
[86:55]You know, if you think I'm good-looking.
[86:57]We're just so desperate for accolades, aren't we?
[87:01]Well, let's talk about Yufisam.
[87:02]He's quite on that spectrum.
[87:05]And my God, every human being wanted him.
[87:08]And look how Allah is teaching me.
[87:11]He says, "Oh you, your anim animalistic desires are there.
[87:16]Why don't you take a lesson from my prophet?
[87:19]For I gave him more beauty than all of you put together
[87:22]for Ysef was so handsome." What does the Quran say about it?
[87:30]You know when Zlea went mad for him, she she had seven
[87:39]doors.
[87:40]Quran says Abab doors, multiple doors.
[87:42]She locked them all and trapped him.
[87:46]Now I want you to imagine for a moment you're a slave.
[87:53]You have no, as you say, recourse.
[87:56]Your master owns you.
[87:57]I want you to understand this honestly.
[88:00]This numbs my brain sometimes for if I was in that situation.
[88:05]And now she locks this doors and then she says, "Come to
[88:17]me." Now Allah says so beautiful because the story is that um
[88:26]she's got him trapped.
[88:29]Doors are locked.
[88:31]What do you say?
[88:35]He says he turns and says I seek refuge with God.
[88:38]He refuses.
[88:39]And Allah says and I'm glossing but I'll talk about it tomorrow.
[88:44]Allah says if I didn't show him he would have approached her.
[88:47]For that's you know you might you might say sometimes when a
[88:51]woman says come to me and you know she's not beautiful she's
[88:56]ugly.
[88:55]He says yeah [laughter] you you and I may use that logic
[89:01]that you know she was so unattractive that I said oh my
[89:04]god I seek refuge with God.
[89:05]That's not how it was.
[89:08]She was so beautiful that she was so attractive that YSU said
[89:17]Allah describes that that she was so beautiful that had Allah not
[89:22]intervened Ysef would have gone towards her.
[89:25]Quran is saying she was not nonattractive she was very attractive and
[89:31]Ysefam realized that this is my destiny I'm in this cusp at
[89:39]this moment I will destroy my and with this just one look
[89:43]when Allah says Allah says say to the believing men lower your
[89:54]eyes and to the believing women lower your eyes.
[89:59]Here it is.
[89:58]Shayan will saw so much fitna in this one moment.
[90:03]Now yufam could have told Allah that I was I was stuck.
[90:08]I had no options.
[90:09]But Allah says never lose hope in me even if seven doors
[90:15]have been locked.
[90:15]Even if you're a slave, even if you're so caught up in
[90:21]a situation where you have no hope, don't lose hope in me.
[90:25]He says, and he runs towards the door.
[90:29]Now, as he runs towards the door, history historians said that the
[90:35]doors by the miracle of Allah started to open up.
[90:36]Either he opened it or he started to open, you know, it
[90:42]just opened and she chased him.
[90:44]And look how Allah saved him.
[90:46]That while she was chasing him, she took his shirt and pulled
[90:52]it and ripped it.
[90:54]He opens the final door and who's standing at the door?
[91:00]The governor.
[90:59]She's right behind him.
[91:05]Suspicion big time.
[91:04]What does she do?
[91:08]She switches the story like a typical Satan.
[91:11]And she said, "He was coming after me." Ysef Alisam is a
[91:15]slave.
[91:15]How can he save himself?
[91:18]What does he do?
[91:21]They say a baby by miracle starts to speak because the governor
[91:26]was impulsive.
[91:28]He believed in his wife but Allah saved him.
[91:33]Why?
[91:31]Because he says I have trust in Allah.
[91:38]Okay.
[91:39]And when Pifa looked and the baby said, "If the shirt is
[91:43]ripped from the front, then he was chasing her.
[91:46]But if it's ripped from the back, then she was chasing him."
[91:51]And it was very clear that his shirt was ripped from the
[91:55]back.
[91:56]So Allah saved him.
[91:55]Move on very rapidly.
[91:59]Now, so now she wants to punish Ysef.
[92:03]She said, "Either he's going to submit to me or I will
[92:06]put him in prison.
[92:07]So what does she do?
[92:10]She brings all the women because there was a talk in Egypt
[92:12]that Zlea has gone mad with a slave.
[92:17]She said, "Yeah, you think I've gone mad?
[92:18]Watch." So she brings all the, you know, all the wealthy women
[92:24]in a room.
[92:27]And she gives them fruits with knives.
[92:28]And then she says to Ysef, "Enter." And when Ysefam enters, they
[92:36]said, Wow.
[92:43]Glory be to God.
[92:46]This is not a human being.
[92:47]This is an angel.
[92:51]That's how handsome Ysef was when he entered the room.
[92:54]And Allah says, "They were cutting fruits and they started cutting their
[93:02]hands.
[93:04]They were so stumped by his beauty.
[93:10]Now brothers, I end with this.
[93:11]If you and I were of that beauty, most of us would
[93:18]pontificate like look at me.
[93:20]Do you notice all these beautiful people that come in public and
[93:23]they walk on catwalks and they want to show their beauty to
[93:29]you?
[93:30]Ysefam is exactly the opposite.
[93:32]He said, "This beauty is a gift of God, but it is
[93:38]now a curse on me for all the Shayen want me." It's
[93:40]like oil.
[93:41]Do you ever notice every country that has oil, the devil is
[93:45]after them?
[93:45]The devil just pulverizes any country that has oil.
[93:50]Nigeria, Libya, do you notice that Sudan?
[93:53]Any place that has oil is a curse.
[93:55]The the devil is there flying like [snorts] flies.
[93:59]You know when there's honey?
[94:01]Look what Ysef Alisam says.
[94:04]He looks at all these women and they there was a tradition
[94:07]when they throw their handkerchief at you means they like you.
[94:11]Historians say the women just kept throwing their and these were all
[94:16]the rich women.
[94:15]So Ysef could have clearly thought satanically that hey this is my
[94:19]escape from slavehood because all I need to do is take one
[94:24]of these pretty expensive women and I'll find my freedom.
[94:26]Notice how many times you and I will think that way.
[94:30]But Ysef only had Allah.
[94:32]Only had Allah.
[94:34]And when he looks, he says that, "Oh Allah, prison is better
[94:42]for me than what these women want from me." I will end
[94:46]with this tonight.
[94:49]That Ysefam seeks grace and says to himself, "Let me be imprisoned,
[94:53]but I will not allow these women to touch me." This is
[94:58]very very deep a story that you and I need to reflect
[94:59]on when it comes to introspection.
[95:01]I want to end with this dua.
[95:06]The dua that I promised you that I will read it is
[95:11]in in the story of Ysef by the way entirely while he
[95:17]was a slave thrown in the uh well when Zlea was after
[95:23]him when he was in prison and by the way he made
[95:28]the prisoners believers.
[95:27]Ysef Alisam would take all the prisoners and he would talk to
[95:31]them about Islam and made almost all of them into believers.
[95:36]Subhan Allah.
[95:35]How?
[95:36]Look at the wisdom of Yufu Alaiisam.
[95:37]And I'll I'll talk about the power Allah gave him which was
[95:43]to to interpret dreams.
[95:44]And that's what gave him that higher position.
[95:47]But it was all staged perfectly by Allah to show that the
[95:51]jealousy of the brothers brought about a series of events that took
[95:58]Ysef from trial upon trial upon which when he succeeded he reached
[96:02]such a high state on this earth.
[96:05]Now combine this for you and I in that when people are
[96:10]jealous of us and people have hatred for us and we hold
[96:12]on to Allah how much Allah will elevate us here uh Allahh
[96:19]I mean imams and describes in I mean in dua of a
[96:26]and this is why when I said um I know I've taken
[96:31]more than my time and I apologize two minutes im and I
[96:34]will read it very fast.
[96:46]This is a dua of Imamin.
[96:50]I advise every one of us please read dua number 23.
[96:54]If you have time read dua number 24 which is for your
[96:56]parents and read dua number 25 which is for your children.
[97:01]Please if you can read it every day it is extremely important
[97:04]especially now what's happening in the world today with the war.
[97:07]We need security.
[97:10]We need security.
[97:10]We need protection.
[97:12]The way Yufisam asked for protection, Allah gave it to him and
[97:16]elevated him.
[97:17]We need to seek protection.
[97:18]You can go to duas.org.
[97:18]You can get it from umislam.org.
[97:22]Sahifa dua number 23.
[97:26]He says, "Give me and my progeny refuge from the Shayan, the
[97:30]evil of venomous vermin, threatening pests, swarming crowds and evil eyes, the
[97:35]evil of every rebel shan.
[97:47]Okay.
[97:47]The evil of every refractory sovereign, the evil of everyone living in
[97:52]ease and served, the evil of everyone weak or strong, the evil
[97:56]of everyone born high or low.
[97:57]I'll read it in English shortly.
[97:59]The evil of everyone small or great.
[98:01]The evil of everyone near or far.
[98:04]The evil of everyone jin or men.
[98:05]In other words, immedivil out there, ya Allah, protect me.
[98:13]I've been reading this dua all my life and I've been going
[98:15]to some of the most dangerous places sometimes to deliver lectures and
[98:19]I feel like there's a shield on me and Allah protects me.
[98:24]So, I'm sharing this to us all tonight because this is not
[98:28]the month of Ramadan.
[98:27]We need to ask for dua.
[98:31]Dua is the principle of protection and proof that you and I
[98:35]are connected with Allah.
[98:36]Okay.
[98:36]He says the jin or man who declares war on your messenger
[98:40]and his household.
[98:40]Meaning who are these people?
[98:41]These are the enemies of Allah.
[98:44]For the friends of Allah who love the prophet will never attack
[98:47]us.
[98:48]He says then the evil of every crawling creature meaning magic that
[98:57]you have taken by the forlock surely you are on a straight
[99:01]path.
[99:02]This is Immah.
[99:16]Oh Allah, bless Muhammad and his household.
[99:19]And if someone desires ill from me, turn him away from me,
[99:25]drive away from me his deception, avert from me his evil, send
[99:29]his trickery back to his own throat.
[99:31]Okay?
[99:32]And it ends here that put a barricade, stop it.
[99:35]And this dua continues by a few more, but I don't have
[99:38]time.
[99:39]I'll end with this.
[99:41]Inshallah we ask Allah subhana tala tonight to protect us to give
[99:46]us victory inshallah that Allahh guarantees this victory what's happening in in
[99:55]the Middle East today in the world you know Allahha is giving
[99:58]us an opportunity to proactively end evil or to minimize evil whatever
[100:07]you and I do let's make dua every single today that victory
[100:10]is upon us and those who are getting killed as we speak,
[100:14]children, women, men, they are all shuada.
[100:17]Understand that Allah is opening the floodgates of paradise for them.
[100:22]Okay?
[100:23]And please understand the greatest gift Allah gives a human being besides
[100:28]the shahada in life is the shuada of leaving this world.
[100:32]And if they are victims of this fact, let's not lose hope
[100:35]for Allahh has created us for the next world.
[100:58]Muhammad.
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