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[0:19]Allham.
[0:28]Allah for female.
[1:00]for foreign.
[1:39][singing] Alhamdulillah.
[2:25]Alhamdulillah.
[2:40]fordul.
[2:48][singing] Foreign speech.
[3:13]Foreign speech.
[3:15]Foreign speech.
[3:22]for Allah.
[3:58]All speech.
[4:28]My foreign.
[4:53]Fore!
[4:57]Foreign!
[4:58]Foreign!
[5:07]Subd.
[5:25]Fore!
[5:35]Foreign!
[5:37]Foreign!
[5:45]Ming in the Yeah.
[6:20]Alhamdulillah.
[6:37]Alhamdulillah.
[7:00]Alhamdulillah.
[7:19]for alhamdulillah.
[7:56]Alhamdulillah.
[8:12]for speech.
[8:44]Alhamdulillah.
[9:02]foreign.
[9:23]foreign.
[9:48]Alhamdulillah.
[10:09]Alhamdulillah.
[10:24]Alhamdulillah.
[10:54]Allham.
[11:07]Fore!
[11:11]Foreign!
[11:12]Foreign!
[11:21]foreign.
[11:56]Allah [snorts] Hussein say Shabb.
[12:46]for what's Hassan Ali.
[13:29]Ichech.
[13:43]for Allah fatigue.
[14:44]for Allah.
[15:21]What's with Allah Fore!
[16:12]Foreign!
[16:13]Foreign!
[16:18]Fore!
[16:19]Foreign!
[16:20]Foreign!
[16:28]Fore!
[16:38]Foreign!
[16:40]Foreign!
[16:58]foreign speech.
[17:37]Amen.
[17:38]Allah What should Foreign speech.
[18:22]Foreign foreign foreign speech.
[18:32]forham.
[20:13]>> [snorts] >> Muhammad.
[20:20]>> [snorts] >> Yeah.
[20:49]for Ba.
[21:18]forchech.
[21:47]Does it mean for Allah.
[22:47]Foreign speech.
[22:56]Foreign speech.
[23:05]forch.
[23:35]foreign.
[24:08]dream.
[24:20]forchech.
[25:00]Amen.
[25:01]I'm sorry.
[25:12]for salawat.
[25:40]>> [snorts] >> Say aldu als Brother and sisters, tonight we have
[26:28]a lot of angels in the room.
[26:29]Um, may Allah bless you all.
[26:35]Um we are few hours away from the end of [snorts] this
[26:39]holy month.
[26:41]We ask um or we pray that Allahel has accepted our amal
[26:47]in this month and we ask Allah to help us continue uh
[26:55]after to continue on this path after the end of this month
[26:58]because the biggest challenge and the biggest um test is that we
[27:05]continue the momentum after end of Ramadan between now and the next
[27:10]Ramadan inshallah.
[27:09]So we ask Allah to help us with that and we ask
[27:14]Allah to um give us the um strength to continue the way
[27:21]we did this month inshallah.
[27:23]Um technically today is the last night in in in Ramadan even
[27:30]though we have a program tonight.
[27:30]So um not sure if I'm going to be I'm seeing tomorrow
[27:35]as well.
[27:34]So, I'm going to take a minute here to first thank you
[27:38]all for attending.
[27:41]Um, I know these faces here, [clears throat] you're the group that
[27:45]pretty much attended every night, mashallah, for the whole 30 days.
[27:47]I know a lot of people after the somehow they think Ramadan
[27:53]is over, but you uh always came and you always attended.
[27:56]So, thank you so much.
[27:59]I also want to thank all the volunteers who made this program
[28:04]a success.
[28:04]the Quran reciters, the dua reciters, the um volunteers for MCing every
[28:13]day.
[28:10]Uh the tech team.
[28:14]Uh special thanks to uh say Mahi Kazwini who was always the
[28:18]first one in the room and the last one who leave every
[28:23]night.
[28:24]I don't know what we would do without him.
[28:27]I know for the fact that he missed a lot of tars
[28:31]and had to leave early many nights just to be here on
[28:34]time.
[28:35]So, thank you uh brother Mahi so much.
[28:38]Uh also wanted to thank sister Malik who ran the kids program.
[28:41]I know a lot of you uh dropped your kids there.
[28:45]I went there a couple of times to check on on on
[28:49]her and one one one day she probably has 25 or maybe
[28:51]30 kids.
[28:52]I don't know how she managed to to take care of all
[28:57]these kids but uh this is definitely um a hard thing to
[29:03]do and may Allah bless her for um for that.
[29:03]Also, we don't want to forget the great speakers we had this
[29:09]year.
[29:10]uh say Muhammad Hassan Shah early on and in and shah Ramadan
[29:13]and of course our beloved say Salah and the beautiful lectures as
[29:17]well in the last 10 days by Haj Hassan uh Rajab Ali
[29:25]um who I'm not sure if he's here yet uh is okay
[29:31]uh he'll be here momentarily and um um yeah alhamdulillah we were
[29:36]so [snorts] blessed to have him and um his lectures were very
[29:40]informative and very deep.
[29:45]So um um I also wanted to thank of course the donors
[29:49]uh who donated every night uh for sponsoring the nights and uh
[29:57]want to thank all those who donated toward the gym uh as
[30:01]you know.
[30:02]Um, so if you Thank you for doing that.
[30:05]And if you're one of those who's still thinking about it, uh,
[30:08]we still have one night.
[30:12]We're still officially in the month of Ramadan.
[30:15]So if you're still thinking about it to donate toward the gym
[30:17]and sponsor one of the spots, this is great time to do
[30:20]this.
[30:21]Uh, we don't know if we are going to be here next
[30:26]year.
[30:27]We have some brothers who were with us last year and they
[30:30]uh departed um this life and couldn't make it to this month.
[30:36]So if you're thinking about it, it is the time.
[30:39]It's not um late yet.
[30:42]Um also I want to remind you all that we on this
[30:47]Friday Mubarak is going to be um most likely the Eid for
[30:54]everyone this year inshallah.
[30:54]So if that's the case uh or anyway uh whether it is
[30:59]or not we're doing a Friday two salat salat we're doing one
[31:03]at uh 8:30 in the morning and that would be salah led
[31:11]by and then we have another salat at 9:30 uh with Samir
[31:14]Ali and inshallah as we do every year we are going to
[31:20]have a breakfast um coffee and donuts and man and all the
[31:25]good stuff that we missed.
[31:34]Um is is uh hash ready.
[31:35]Okay.
[31:36]So um I also want to remind you we have today uh
[31:40]even though it's not officially we have a sour bakery just u
[31:49]um donated or gave us 100ish u z and jyn.
[31:53]So, so uh please help yourself uh toward the end if you
[32:01]have any uh questions maybe save him to and inshallah um we
[32:04]would have a I would call it a quick afterward um inshallah.
[32:09]So as we wait for him um uh I would ask you
[32:15]to give three loud salathammed okay I know he's um should be
[32:37]here shortly so uh we'll wait for a couple of minutes inshallah
[32:40]And we will continue with Haj Hassan or here here he is
[32:44]Muhammad Ali Muhammad.
[33:19]Father, Alhamdulillah.
[33:37]Alhamdulillah.
[33:44]Alhamdulillah.
[34:10]Subhanah.
[34:39]I begin in Allah's name the beneficent the merciful and all praise
[34:44]belongs to Allah subhana tala for granting us this life the all
[34:48]being the almighty being that cannot be described is precisely where God
[34:54]should be for any description that we give to Allah is not
[34:57]Allah.
[34:58]Allah has many attributes and one of the qualities that we have
[35:06]to understand is that our limited capacity that we have in our
[35:10]existence meaning that we're limited within the frame of time, matter and
[35:14]space cannot comprehend an absolute being.
[35:17]It's impossible.
[35:18]It's like trying to define infinity.
[35:20]You cannot do it.
[35:21]No empirical scientist will dare tell you that you can define infinity.
[35:27]But we know that in the world of science, infinity is what
[35:31]drives all all natural sciences.
[35:33]It is infinity that drives it.
[35:35]But we can't describe it.
[35:39]While infinity is a principle that is within the framework of our
[35:45]created existential nature, we find that Allah subhana ta is very similar
[35:48]in that frame.
[35:50]And we call God the infinite one.
[35:53]For infinity is only one and it cannot be described.
[35:57]You cannot divide it.
[35:57]You cannot add onto it.
[35:58]You cannot multiply it.
[36:01]And that's Allah subhana tala.
[36:01]But we have to take it higher of course for Allah is
[36:07]just not an infinity in terms of mathematics and science.
[36:09]God is conscious, allseeing, uh, visionary, purposeful, who creates with design, who
[36:18]puts things into motion and therefore there is a tremendous amount of
[36:23]intelligence that we can see when Allah subhana ta creates his creation.
[36:29]So for example, we ask the question, how much intelligence lies on
[36:36]this earth?
[36:37]Let's look at the human DNA.
[36:39]You will notice that the human DNA is a molecule that is
[36:42]capable of replicating itself.
[36:46]It holds the code to life and not only life but it
[36:49]actually holds the code to the what we call phenotypic realities from
[36:56]the genotype.
[36:54]And that means that the code translates into a structural reality that
[37:01]that has color, that has shape, that has form, and that DNA
[37:08]actually dictates all of these realities.
[37:10]And all living things have DNA in them.
[37:13]That's interesting.
[37:13]And Allah says, we made all living things out of water.
[37:18]This is a very recent phenomenon in the last century that was
[37:24]discovered that the origin of life, the necessary component for life is
[37:30]water.
[37:31]You have to have water to be able to dictate life.
[37:34]For water is what maintains life.
[37:37]It's really interesting.
[37:37]But when you go into the DNA, you will see that the
[37:43]DNA has a very complex system.
[37:45]It's very very complicated and yet it's extremely elegant, extremely concise.
[37:50]And one of the conditions that we have in our uh you
[37:57]know the way we examine each other in terms of definition of
[38:05]intelligence is language.
[38:04]So language is a sign of intelligence.
[38:06]Any creation that has language uh is telling you that that creation
[38:14]has intelligence and language requires encode and decode.
[38:19]Meaning I'm encoding right now as I'm speaking to you and you're
[38:25]rapidly decoding as I'm speaking to you.
[38:27]All my gestures, my facial expressions, my nonverbal communication actually is actually
[38:33]more powerful than what I'm saying.
[38:34]Right?
[38:35]Because we see a holistic person communicating with us at the level
[38:41]of intelligence upon which not only am I encoding but my body
[38:48]gestures are part of the encode and you are now decoding it
[38:52]and you're making sense of it and it's instantaneous.
[38:55]So the the sign of intelligence is language.
[39:00]One of the signs of intelligence and [snorts] you will see that
[39:04]the DNA has a language.
[39:04]It encodes and decodes.
[39:08]You know DNA polymerase encodes and decodes.
[39:09]So you will find that its ability to encode and therefore to
[39:14]decode to make a copy of itself is a sign of intelligence.
[39:18]So subhan Allah you know it's ironic when you talk to people
[39:24]who don't believe in God and they are they become atheists.
[39:27]It's ironic that as empirical as they are that they can conclude
[39:32]that there is no God.
[39:35]It's very ironic.
[39:34]It makes no sense because let's examine if you know people like
[39:41]Bertrron Russell argued that since everybody needs a creator then who created
[39:47]God?
[39:45]It's a very classic question people ask and Bertrron Russell was a
[39:51]famous atheist.
[39:51]This question is logical if the god we're talking about is in
[39:57]the frame of time matter and space.
[39:59]If we worship a god that is within the frame of time,
[40:05]matter and space then such a question is logical that such a
[40:09]god if you were to assume that that's a god then you
[40:13]would have to ask who created that god because such a god
[40:18]is in need of time matter and space but Allah subhana t
[40:23]is above this there is no comparison to god god is beyond
[40:27]time matter and space And therefore that question does not apply.
[40:32]It's outside the framework of the question.
[40:34]So then we have to ask the fundamental question from nothing comes
[40:39]nothing.
[40:40]It's logical.
[40:42]But we are something and our something must have been caused by
[40:48]something because nothing cannot cause my existence.
[40:51]It's impossible because from nothing comes nothing.
[40:53]But I am something.
[40:55]And the only logic is that something must have made me.
[40:58]Now if that being that made me is similar to me within
[41:03]the frame of time, matter and space, then you have an issue
[41:05]of what we call infinite regression problem where now you have a
[41:11]god who needs a god who needs a god who needs a
[41:14]god who needs a god and you have an infinite regression problem.
[41:17]Okay, it's I'm just laying this foundation as my final lecture tonight.
[41:22]Fundamentally, for those who are still confused and teetering on agnosticism, you
[41:29]know, agnosticism is basically the outer periphery of atheism.
[41:34]You'll find when you debate with atheists, they jump between atheism and
[41:40]agnosticism because you can never be an atheist.
[41:44]By definition, you can never be an atheist.
[41:44]Okay?
[41:45]Because atheism with the capital A assumes that you have evidence for
[41:54]the non-existence of God.
[41:55]But lack of evidence is never evidence for an argument.
[42:00]And atheists never have any evidence because they cannot measure God.
[42:03]So you can't go to court and say, "Your honor, God doesn't
[42:07]exist because I don't have evidence." The judge will kick you out.
[42:11]So atheism teeters between agnosticism I don't know maybe maybe not.
[42:17]So this is a famous situation that took place in the time
[42:20]of our holy prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam Muhammad >> and a man
[42:29]came to the holy prophet and said I don't believe in God
[42:32]and the prophet looked at him and said why not he said
[42:35]because I wasn't there when the universe was created so you know
[42:40]I don't know who created so the prophet said since you don't
[42:45]know who created then how do you know God didn't create because
[42:48]if you don't know then you cannot cancel God.
[42:52]See agnosticism is at that level.
[42:55]They don't know but then they cancel but you can cancel because
[42:58]you don't know.
[43:00]It's a quagmire.
[43:00]It's what we call a conundrum if you want to call it
[43:03]or it's it's a situation where it's very paradoxical for them.
[43:06]That's why whenever you talk to atheists they will always teeter between
[43:09]I don't know.
[43:11]I said but if you don't know then how did you conclude?
[43:13]And the classic example of atheism is precisely this fact that you
[43:16]can't measure God, therefore he's not there.
[43:18]Well, there are many things you can't measure.
[43:21]That doesn't mean that it's not there.
[43:23]But that's not the argument.
[43:24]The argument is from nothing comes nothing.
[43:27]And when atheists asked me what's your evidence for God, I said
[43:30]me.
[43:30]Hello.
[43:31]Here touch me.
[43:34]I exist.
[43:35]From nothing comes nothing.
[43:37]I'm something.
[43:36]How did I come?
[43:38]So the messenger of Allah is asking this atheist.
[43:41]He said, "If you don't know who created, how do you know
[43:43]God didn't create?" He says, "I don't know." He said, "Then it's
[43:47]better for you to be an agnostic, but don't you dare claim
[43:49]to be an atheist." And by the way, when you're an agnostic,
[43:54]then you should be quiet because you don't know.
[43:57]So the argument here is that subhan Allah, Allahh is showing us
[44:03]that look at my creation.
[44:06]When you can when you understand yourself, you will know your lord
[44:12]you look around and speak see this spectacular system that the believers
[44:15]say you know you'll find Michael beh for example looked at the
[44:25]DNA and said there's irreducible complexity it which is impossible for this
[44:30]to come together in such a structured way that is so holistic
[44:34]universe iversally that all the particles in the universe are in tandemly
[44:39]working together in sequence where there is no contradiction from any level
[44:45]of any kind of physics.
[44:48]Even physicists who know relative physics and quantum physics see a contradiction.
[44:54]They try to merge it with a higher physics you know where
[45:00]they say there's a grand unified theory that puts together this physics
[45:03]and they go into string theory.
[45:04]So notice even those who are observing the universe are realizing that
[45:09]there's a spectacular system.
[45:12]And if you look at the Quran, when you read the Quran,
[45:14]it's constantly reminding me of how spectacular it is, but in a
[45:19]very simple language, the expansion of the universe, life coming from water,
[45:26]you know, And the fundamental question you and I need to ask
[45:38]is if we're so accidental, why are we struggling to know the
[45:41]reason?
[45:42]We should be accidental.
[45:45]Our mind should be accidental.
[45:48]Everything should be chaotic and accidental.
[45:50]When I ask atheists, when you lose your key, do you look
[45:52]for it?
[45:53]They said, yes.
[45:54]I said, why?
[45:54]Why don't you think it went back the same way it came
[45:58]from nothing?
[45:59]and they look at you like, "Oh, I can't accept that." So
[46:02]notice that the the reason for Allah's presence is incredible.
[46:07]So I want to make a point here that how do people
[46:11]become atheists?
[46:12]By the way, I've never met an atheist who really doesn't believe
[46:17]in God.
[46:17]Even Barker, when I debated, when I got him really cornered, he
[46:22]looked at me, he says, "You know, Hassan, when I meet your
[46:24]God on judgment day, I'm going to tell him you're wrong." I
[46:28]said, 'Good, I'm glad that you know you will meet him, this
[46:32]debate is over.
[46:33]And why did he say that?
[46:37]When I meet your God, because tells you, you know, Allah said,
[46:42]we are closer to you than your jugular vein.
[46:45]You know, people who reject God, even when they are in the
[46:51]state, Allah says, When the waves are covering them and they're about
[47:03]to drown, they turn to God sincerely.
[47:06]It's so true.
[47:08]Honestly, when you see it, even even atheists, you know, when the
[47:10]plane is about to crash, they pray.
[47:15]Who do you pray to?
[47:15]And this is a true story, by the way.
[47:17]My uncle was on a plane and there was a lot of
[47:20]Chinese who are atheists you know and the plane was about to
[47:22]crash in Dar Salam and they all started praying.
[47:25]Alhamdulillah the plane landed safely.
[47:28]The landing gear opened up like literally seconds before it hit the
[47:32]ground and alhamdulillah the aircraft was safe.
[47:35]And as they are disembarking my uncle looked at them and said
[47:39]do you guys believe in God?
[47:40]They said no.
[47:41]He said then who are you praying to?
[47:43]He said God.
[47:43]He said so you didn't believe in God but then you did.
[47:47]He says when they in a state of peril and about to
[47:52]die, they turn to God sincerely.
[47:55]But when we bring them back to shore, they take the middle
[47:59]path.
[48:00]So Quran constantly mentions that.
[48:01]Now I'm not here to debate about atheism at the moment.
[48:04]But I want to make a comment.
[48:07]Atheism is the result.
[48:11]Immakes a beautiful statement.
[48:12]He says atheism is the result of the misdeeds of the believers.
[48:19]Subhan Allah.
[48:21]Think of pay attention.
[48:22]Atheism is the result of the misdeeds of the believers.
[48:28]Most atheists by the majority were believers in God before.
[48:35]They either got confused or they read some concocted scriptures, you know,
[48:41]attributed to God which are terrible where God says go kill people,
[48:44]rape them, you know, do whatever.
[48:48]They got disgusted by it and they said, you know what, I
[48:51]can't believe in this rubbish religion, right?
[48:54]Dawkins talks about that.
[48:54]He says, how can I believe in such a religion where God
[48:59]is so vindictive, he's so jealous, he's so destructive?
[49:01]I can't believe in such a God.
[49:03]And I tell I tell people like that, bravo.
[49:05]My hats off to you.
[49:08]At least you have the courage to reject.
[49:10]Many of us are tranquilized.
[49:14]We're in that state of you know because my father was that
[49:16]whatever religion.
[49:18]So now I'm going to follow that same religion.
[49:21]But you know it's staring at you.
[49:22]This white elephant is looking at you and telling you I am
[49:25]dead wrong.
[49:27]Yeah.
[49:27]But it's okay.
[49:28]You know God will be pleased with you.
[49:30]May God be pleased with you.
[49:34]We try to sort of it doesn't matter.
[49:37]We we don't have the courage to reject the demigods.
[49:39]Whereas Allah says if you reject the demigods here is used in
[49:55]a positive way here in Allah uses it in a positive way
[50:01]and you believe in Allah then you're holding on to the rope
[50:08]of Allah.
[50:09]It will not break.
[50:12]Meaning you are firm.
[50:14]When you look at people who are atheists, often they've been abused
[50:20]or they saw abuse.
[50:21]They looked at the believers as templates of a true faith.
[50:25]And the nature of true faith is it has to translate into
[50:30]real transactions.
[50:32]For if you and I claim to be loving and God is
[50:33]great and then I'm a thief and I'm a cheater and I'm
[50:37]arrogant, then there's a disconnect here that how do you and this
[50:40]is the irony.
[50:41]Look at what they're doing today.
[50:44]It's really ironic even the messianic idea of the Messiah, you know,
[50:50]um if you look at the Christians and the Jews for example,
[50:54]you know, they they are waiting for the Messiah.
[50:56]Now, who is this Messiah?
[51:01]Well, according to the Christians, he's Jesus.
[51:02]Was he a kind person?
[51:05]Yes.
[51:06]Jesus says, "Why do you look at the speck in thy brother's
[51:08]eye when there's a log in yours?" Meaning Jesus says, "Don't point
[51:15]fingers at others." Jesus forgave.
[51:16]He was loving.
[51:17]And he said, "When somebody slaps you, turn the other cheek." So
[51:21]Jesus is an upright, loving, caring, sharing individual.
[51:27]But to bring him back, we need to kill everybody.
[51:32]We need to sow chaos, burn people, bomb them.
[51:38]Why?
[51:39]Then Jesus will come back.
[51:41]Like are you crazy?
[51:45]Has have you gone mad?
[51:45]Like what God do you believe in?
[51:48]The god which is gold, oil, and drugs.
[51:53]that God or the real God, the one who creates you, the
[51:58]one who is merciful, the one who's going to hold you liable
[52:00]on judgment day.
[52:02]It's ironic even the Jewish messianic idea.
[52:06]Go out and destroy people so we can build a third temple.
[52:11]Go destroy the mosque of the Muslims so we can build a
[52:13]third temple.
[52:15]Which Messiah do you believe in?
[52:18]I mean, your transactions are vicious.
[52:21]that Messiah, God forbid such a Messiah comes for we will be
[52:28]in big trouble because we'll all be prisoners, you know, we'll be
[52:34]so abused.
[52:33]But our iman who's the who is who is the messiah of
[52:39]the time who's alim he's going to be so just with such
[52:47]love that he's going to allow every religion to practice upon theirelves
[52:52]within their own laws.
[52:51]The Imam is not going to come and cause bloodshed where people
[52:57]say when the Imam comes that he will kill so many people
[53:00]we'll be ankle you know up to our ankles will be in
[53:07]blood.
[53:04]No no not at all.
[53:07]If there will be blood up to our ankles it will be
[53:12]because of those other people who are preparing for their Messiah.
[53:14]Not Imam Sabu Zaman.
[53:17]No no no.
[53:19]Imam Zu Zamanis reduces damage.
[53:24]He doesn't like fighting.
[53:27]He doesn't like killing.
[53:28]You look at our holy prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam saw Muhammad Muhammad
[53:36]>> when he was entering Mecca his army had arrived in the
[53:42]evening.
[53:41]Now he knew Mecca is a is a blessed city.
[53:47]It's a protected city.
[53:50]It's a pure city.
[53:51]When Ibraim Alisam built the Caba, he purified it.
[53:56]You see, and Allah, he asked Allah to purify this this house.
[54:01]The messenger didn't want a battle.
[54:05]He didn't want a battle with the Quraysh.
[54:05]He did not want bloodshed.
[54:10]He didn't want to have this mayhem.
[54:12]Look, the messenger now has every right to take the Cabba back.
[54:15]It belongs to him.
[54:18]He is the He is the custodian of the Cabba legally from
[54:21]God.
[54:22]He has every right.
[54:23]But notice how he minimized bloodshed.
[54:27]It was genius.
[54:29]When he arrived in the evening, they were on the hills.
[54:34]Abu Sufyan's army was by the Caba.
[54:36]They were on the lower levels and they were looking up and
[54:39]they saw the prophet's army had arrived.
[54:41]The messenger told every soldier to light a fire was genius.
[54:47]It was a psychological war.
[54:49]So every soldier lit a fire.
[54:53]Now it was traditional that when soldiers traveled to go fight, one
[54:58]fire occupied 10 soldiers.
[55:00]So the Meccans multiplied the fire by 10.
[55:04]And they they were stunned thinking the prophet's army is 10 times
[55:11]greater than it was.
[55:11]And Abu Sufyan became so terrified he immediately sent a message, I'm
[55:16]ready to negotiate.
[55:18]And the prophet completely diffused the battle and he got them to
[55:24]surrender before daylight.
[55:25]So what did the holy prophet do?
[55:28]He minimized bloodshed because a Muslim is one who promotes peace.
[55:34]Imam Ali Alisam when he was fighting Aisha 20,000 soldiers got killed
[55:39]20,000 soldiers.
[55:41]Imam didn't like it.
[55:43]He could have annihilated Aisha's army the way he annihilated the thear
[55:50]in Naharan.
[55:49]He could have but he said this is not Islam.
[55:53]This is the work of Shan.
[55:54]Just like when MS killed that one person, Mus Alam in the
[56:00]Quran says this is the work of Shan.
[56:02]This fight should never have taken place.
[56:05]There was no need for me to punch this person who died.
[56:07]This was the work of Shayan.
[56:11]Fitna started.
[56:10]Although Musa was right, he didn't like it because believers don't like
[56:15]wars.
[56:16]They don't like these kinds of uh altercations that take place where
[56:21]you have a confrontation that leads to somebody getting injured or die
[56:27]or dying.
[56:27]So I imam notices that the camel of Aisha was the one
[56:33]that was infusing this madness.
[56:37]So Imam says to one of his soldiers, "Go cut the legs
[56:43]of this camel so that this battle stops.
[56:48]It must stop.
[56:47]The war must stop." And the war did stop and Imam won.
[56:55]So when I immediat surgical he's going to minimize through diplomacy through
[57:02]through methodologies by which to disconnect the power of the enemy and
[57:06]bring instant peace on earth.
[57:08]This is the mai we believe in.
[57:12]And if the world is out there listening, hello.
[57:14]Ask yourselves, by what standard can you dare call the mai when
[57:21]you are the progenitor, one who's promoting damage and destruction so that
[57:26]the mai should come back.
[57:30]What a contradiction, isn't it?
[57:31]This is not the Islam we follow.
[57:33]The Islam we follow is the Islam of love, the Islam of
[57:37]attraction.
[57:38]So when we look even among children who become atheists, parents I
[57:44]have seen with my own eyes, children sometimes go to certain Islamic
[57:48]schools, they come out atheists because we shove religion down their throats
[57:54]and we propose religion and promote religion in a draconian way through
[58:03]fear.
[58:03]Many times I asked children, do you pray?
[58:05]They said yes.
[58:06]I said why do you pray?
[58:07]So, oh, if I don't pray, I'm going to hell.
[58:10]So, the whole transaction of a child's prayer is avoid hell.
[58:16]It's like coming home and you hug your dad.
[58:20]So, why'd you hug your dad?
[58:23]If I don't, he'll slap me.
[58:25]What kind of a love is that?
[58:28]Can you love your father that the reason you hug your dad
[58:32]is because you're avoiding him from hitting you?
[58:34]Because as long as as long as you're hugging your dad, he's
[58:37]not going to hit you.
[58:39]But if you hug your dad, you know, he he won't hit
[58:41]you.
[58:42]What kind of a silly idea is this?
[58:44]Yes, there is a hell and children need to understand that hell
[58:48]does exist and we could go there, but that should not be
[58:55]the motive of iman.
[58:55]It should not be the reason our religion as I mentioned yesterday
[59:01]two nights ago I said people who are myopic people who are
[59:04]close-minded rule and believe their faith through fear now there are two
[59:09]types of fear the of losing Allah's love is a positive fear
[59:16]it's like when you love someone and you're always making sure that
[59:22]you're pleasing them not because you're afraid of them but you're afraid
[59:27]of losing that love you know you love your children you can't
[59:30]unlove your children but you're afraid that if they should get hurt
[59:37]so you take care of them you please them it's that kind
[59:39]of love that is the proper fear when Allah mentions tawa people
[59:43]say fear of God that's not what it means it means fear
[59:47]of losing the love of God not the fear of God who's
[59:52]going to throw us in hell as I mentioned yesterday Allah says
[59:58]Say to the believers who have gone astray, don't lose hope in
[60:04]the mercy of God.
[60:03]He forgives all.
[60:06]Allah says to Allah, Allah turns to you and gives you opportunities
[60:11]often when you go astray.
[60:13]God is not the type who easily throws somebody in hell.
[60:16]As I gave the best example yesterday with Mus Alisam going to
[60:22]Fyan, this man had already committed a lot of crime.
[60:25]But even then Allah is showing me in Islam.
[60:28]Look how much hope there is for Fyon.
[60:30]That MS is offering him still a respite by which all he
[60:36]needs to do is ask for forgiveness and Allah subhana ta will
[60:39]forgive him.
[60:40]So our children should be raised through love.
[60:44]Indeed in Islam often we're very restrictive.
[60:48]You know we we dominate.
[60:51]Children feel oppressed.
[60:54]Adults feel oppressed.
[60:56]I know people who've given up faith in Allah because they feel
[61:01]choked because they feel like you know one slip and they're going
[61:05]to hell.
[61:06]Whoever has made up this kind of a narrative has not understood
[61:08]the values of the Quran.
[61:14]The Quran is so elegant and so inviting you know that even
[61:18]the conversation of with Allah subhana wa ta'ala as he's drowning he's
[61:22]telling God now I believe in you and Allah says now after
[61:30]all these warnings see that was the same as those people who
[61:36]are drowning when Allah says you know when the waves cover you
[61:40]you turn to God says sincerely.
[61:42]That was what Fyon was doing.
[61:43]He was turning sincerely because he was in trouble.
[61:45]Allah says, "Not now.
[61:48]Not now.
[61:49]I gave you too many opportunities." So I want us to understand
[61:54]that religion of Allah in our homes should be taught with love.
[62:00]Invite them to the way of your Lord with wisdom.
[62:02]Talk to your children.
[62:06]Tell them how much Allah loves you.
[62:09]Young children, put love in them.
[62:11]0 to7 children should have nothing but love but not the kind
[62:16]of foolish love the love that is calculated with wisdom the one
[62:20]that the child resonates that everything they look around they see Allah
[62:26]as Imam Ali Alisam says I don't worship a god unless I
[62:33]see him eyes cannot perceive him but hearts do and I see
[62:38]nothing but Allah And when Zabam takes this one step further that
[62:45]when Yazid says I've killed your refractory brother, she says I don't
[62:51]see anything but beauty.
[62:54]She's taken it to another level from what I aliam said.
[62:56]But she's expressing it now in public after having gone through a
[63:00]tragedy of a massacre where she sees nothing but Allah but her
[63:07]vision of Allah is nothing but beauty.
[63:09]That's why she says I see nothing but beauty.
[63:15]My brothers and sisters, honestly, you and I should pray to Allah
[63:19]subhana tala that we should have vision like Zaiam because then what
[63:23]happens with our love for God even under trials and tribulations under
[63:28]losses our families can be taken away from us but we see
[63:32]nothing but beauty because we are so in love with Allah positive
[63:38]kind it's the kind that children need to believe in then you
[63:44]put them in dangerous situations where agnostics, atheists, sophists circle around them
[63:51]and try to twist their minds for them to leave Islam.
[63:55]They will never leave Islam.
[63:56]Never.
[63:57]Because their love for God will be so solid that there will
[64:04]be no room for negotiation because they have submitted fully.
[64:06]This is how we need to raise our children.
[64:14]Now I recited this verse from anal verse number 24.
[64:25]Oh you who believe answer the call of Allah and his apostle
[64:32]when he calls you to that which gives you life.
[64:36]Think about it.
[64:39]I'm already living.
[64:42]What is God calling me to life?
[64:43]Actually, if we don't know Allah and we don't we don't know
[64:50]his real dean, we're not alive.
[64:51]We're dead.
[64:52]While we are breathing, we're walking, we're talking, we're transacting, but we're
[64:58]not alive.
[64:58]People who are alive are the ones who are connected with Allah
[65:04]and his prophet.
[65:02]Otherwise we are just as we say meteoric creatures bouncing around and
[65:10]we will never be satisfied because Allah clearly says the one who
[65:15]really has tranquility in the heart is the one who does the
[65:18]real of Allah when you do the of Allah you have tranquility
[65:25]in your heart and Allah says He puts tranquility into the hearts
[65:43]of the believers and he increases their faith upon their faith.
[65:47]This is the kind of love relationship you I need to have.
[65:53]Now this verse by the way is very beautiful because Allah is
[65:56]calling us to life.
[65:57]What is life?
[65:59]You will notice that when we die, we just transact.
[66:02]We move from one state of existence to another.
[66:04][snorts] In fact, Shahid Kam mentioned, he said, you know, when you
[66:11]see a martyr from the outside, it looks brutal.
[66:13]A bomb, the dismembering of the body, blood, you know, it's very
[66:19]ugly.
[66:20]It's very brutal.
[66:21]But he made a beautiful statement which is true.
[66:24]Shuttari also speaks about it.
[66:25]He said, "But for the Shahed himself, it is the sweetest moment."
[66:31]Now, it's very hard to understand this that when an enemy strikes
[66:37]you because you're speaking the truth and now wants to kill you
[66:41]to that true believer who's in love with Allah, it is the
[66:45]moment of glory.
[66:46]Most people don't understand this.
[66:49]In fact, the Jews, the Christians, when they talk about the Shia
[66:54]of Alb, they say these people, they love shahada.
[66:57]They're not afraid to die because they are too material.
[67:03]You see, when we are really living with Allah, then death becomes
[67:09]sweet.
[67:10]But of course, we're not morbid.
[67:15]We don't invite death.
[67:14]No, no, no, no, no.
[67:20]We invite life.
[67:20]We go forward in promoting life.
[67:22]But life filled with justice.
[67:27]You see it we have enjoined upon you in the um that
[67:34]you should be promoters of good.
[67:37]You see now God says you're the best in the um you
[67:46]must promote the truth.
[67:48]Like when I sit on this pulpit, when this battle was starting
[67:51]and [snorts] all these situations were coming, you notice that the minute
[67:58]you speak and this goes out to the web, you got all
[68:00]these clandestine groups, dangerous enemies of God, who pick up all your
[68:06]nuances of what you're trying to say.
[68:08]Then they spin it off into some spin machine and try to
[68:14]demonize you for what you're saying.
[68:16]And you ask that question, should I be silent?
[68:20]Should I just gloss over it and forget about the geopolitics of
[68:23]the world?
[68:25]Should I just not talk about it?
[68:27]Notice how difficult it is that in the world we live in
[68:29]today, any truth you say, including oneness of God, including promoting B
[68:37]can and will be used against you.
[68:43]So then what can you do in life?
[68:45]Tell me should I be koi that if I meet atheists I
[68:47]shouldn't talk about God if I meet idolattors I shouldn't talk about
[68:52]if you know what should I do should I be silent whereas
[68:57]Allah says no rise they struggle in the way of Allah they're
[69:06]unafraid so you notice that when that happens Now shahada becomes a
[69:15]reality because the enemy now sees you as a danger sees you
[69:18]as a threat.
[69:21]But a true believer who Allah is calling you saying he's calling
[69:27]you to life.
[69:29]It's about truth.
[69:30]But what we you know many times when I talk about these
[69:34]kinds of things people say oh brother we are afraid you know
[69:39]of becoming victims of being I said listen the Allahh in the
[69:42]Quran says when the messenger was calling the believers let's go and
[69:46]fight they said we may die on the battlefield Allah replies you
[69:52]may die in your homes you may die in your sickness you
[69:57]may die on the streets how do you know when you're going
[69:59]to Allah says No self knows on which land they will die.
[70:06]So Allah subhana t is saying that you're going to die anyway.
[70:13]Every self will test death.
[70:16]Allah says that death which you're running away from will meet you
[70:35]and you will return to your Lord and he will tell you
[70:40]as a witness what you did.
[70:40]So can you and I avoid death?
[70:45]But when you and I conquer it while alive, that's when we
[70:47]start to live.
[70:49]The second part of the verse, which I think is extremely important,
[70:51]is the fact that Allah says, "And know that Allah intervenes between
[70:55]man and his heart, and that to him you shall be gathered,
[71:03]big subject.
[71:05]Tonight just briefly as my last presentation I want us to understand
[71:10]that when we are as we say introspecting and as we are
[71:17]as we say metacog getting into metacognition thinking about how we're thinking
[71:23]looking at how we are behaving we are looking at ourselves as
[71:29]a third person meaning we are critiques of our own selves that's
[71:33]the ultimate intelligence You'll notice a person who has that character will
[71:39]never become angry.
[71:40]They're there because they're critiquing themselves.
[71:43]They are all the time under control.
[71:46]These are the albab people who are very deeply rooted in knowledge.
[71:50]You'll find no matter what you say, they will never they will
[71:55]never lose their temper.
[71:55]They will look at you and they will carefully modulate how their
[71:59]decisions are.
[72:01]They're very cognizant of their environment.
[72:04]They come in the mosque and they sit.
[72:06]They're aware of everyone around them.
[72:08]They will never sit to disturb anybody.
[72:11]They will look around and they will know that my position is
[72:14]not bothering anybody.
[72:17]There are people who are quite the opposite who don't care about
[72:20]anything.
[72:20]They'll come and they'll do things that will bother everybody.
[72:23]They don't care.
[72:26]They are completely what we call in abject ignorance.
[72:28]And Allah says the one, in other words, Allah says the most
[72:33]the the vilest of human beings in the Quran, Allah says, is
[72:39]the one who is deaf, dumb, and blind.
[72:44]Allah says, the dumbest, the one who is the vilest to God,
[72:50]the one who doesn't use the faculty God gave them, the one
[72:52]who refuses to empower themselves.
[72:58]Now where does this come from?
[73:00]What is the depot where everything lies?
[73:03]It lies in the heart of the human soul.
[73:06]I want to touch on it briefly.
[73:10]When you and I look today in the modern world, including academia,
[73:13]you will see that we work very hard to enhance the minds
[73:21]of our children.
[73:20]We're very mindbased people in the world.
[73:23]If you look at modern education around the world, including Singapore, including,
[73:29]you know, Hong Kong, you look at the European models, you'll find
[73:33]that they're all mindbased.
[73:34]Mind-based meaning their acumen is measured on the basis of math and
[73:39]reading and their scientific capacity of memorization.
[73:43]So, Bloom's tonomy, for example, states that fill the child's mind and
[73:49]let the child be creative on the top of the pyramid.
[73:53]But the entire thing including Daniel Gleman's idea of emotional intelligence is
[74:00]mind-based which means that when you have a conflict they train you
[74:07]mentally how to deal with conflict.
[74:08]This is a gross misplacement of the real human being.
[74:14]I'm going to give some quick examples.
[74:15]I've given these examples before but I think it's very important to
[74:22]understand here.
[74:21]Allah tala says that know that Allah intervenes between man and his
[74:25]heart.
[74:26]You will notice that truth lies in the heart and Allah is
[74:34]the gatekeeper of that.
[74:33]Means whatever enters the heart Allah intervenes.
[74:38]But in the mind you can be very what we call calculated
[74:43]and very cunning.
[74:46]But faith lies in the heart.
[74:53]In their hearts is a disease is in the heart.
[75:06]What is the heart?
[75:08]The heart is the heart of the soul.
[75:10]Not this pumping heart.
[75:10]Not this vessel that pumps the heart with four four chambers.
[75:14]No, it's the heart of the soul.
[75:20]And Allah talks about them.
[75:21]For example, s is an expression of the heart.
[75:24]Shah is an expression of the heart.
[75:29]Fra is an expression of the heart.
[75:32]These are all different levels of one's heart.
[75:34]So the expansion contraction of the heart is called sar.
[75:41]Misam when he's going to he asks Allah to expand his heart.
[75:48]My lord, expand my heart because I am going to a difficult
[75:56]task.
[75:55]This is something we need to train our children in the expansion
[76:01]and the contraction of the heart.
[76:03]We work too much to enhance our children's minds and not their
[76:10]hearts.
[76:09]Okay, Shah for example, you will see that the mother of Mus
[76:17]Alisam became very disturbed when she was commanded by God.
[76:19]And Allah uses that term that Allah say take your baby and
[76:27]put him on in a basket and let him and put him
[76:29]in the Nile.
[76:31]Which mother can do that easily?
[76:32]Which mother would take their child and put them in a basket?
[76:35]This is why by the way Musa the name MS is one
[76:40]who was picked from the basket.
[76:42]It's interesting name and you find that he was placed in the
[76:46]basket.
[76:47]The mother was under trepidation and Allah uses that term that she
[76:54]was in that state of trial where her heart was trembling.
[76:57]You see iman is in the heart.
[77:01]So I'm just introducing this very briefly within this short time that
[77:04]I have for there's many points I want to make tonight as
[77:07]summary as completion of this but I think it's very important for
[77:13]you and I to know ourselves because when we're going to do
[77:17]metacognition of ourselves we need to know who we are.
[77:19]This is why I advise us all to study human psychology.
[77:24]Although human psychology in modern days is skewed in some ways but
[77:29]there's still good research in it.
[77:30]The DSMs do have some good directions although they are not the
[77:34]complete measurement.
[77:36]The Quran is the real measurement of the human mind.
[77:39]You will notice that children who go to very high level schools.
[77:45]You'll notice most leaders in the world.
[77:56]You'll notice that people who go to very high school, you know,
[78:02]uh, high level academic institutions like Harvard, Yale, most of our presidents,
[78:08]by the way, are graduates from Yale University.
[78:09]Most president of the United States are graduates of Yale and Ivy
[78:15]School.
[78:14]Oxford, Cambridge, people like Winston Churchill were graduates of these institutions.
[78:20]Obama, Harvard, but you look at them, they were monsters.
[78:26]They were apathetic, vicious, calculated.
[78:31]Winston Churchill was a two-legged monster, highly calculated, was a bigot.
[78:40]He was a racist.
[78:41]He was a misogynist.
[78:42]Notice that you, how is it that you went to an elite
[78:47]school and you became so vicious?
[78:50]You'll find most of these evil leaders in the world today are
[78:56]graduates from some of the most elite schools.
[78:58]Now, I'm not denigrating these elite schools, but there's something desperately missing
[79:05]that from childhood, these children have been taught to manipulate the mind.
[79:11]So, when they grow older, they lack empathy.
[79:15]They lack connection with spirit.
[79:19]They are spiritless.
[79:20]They are they are what we call cunning like Muawi.
[79:24]Muawi was like that.
[79:29]Muawi Malam says in Naj, he said he's cunning.
[79:30]He's very smart with his brain.
[79:36]He tricks people.
[79:35]He's a trickster.
[79:38]But when you have faith and your heart resonates, you cannot be
[79:44]cunning because your heart forces you to speak the truth.
[79:48]So we don't train our children at the levels of our heart.
[79:52]We train them to be very calculated in the mind.
[79:57]And we feel that when our children can regurgitate data, you see,
[80:02]and they're very good in speech and they know how to manipulate
[80:10]socially because their frontal lobe in their what we call method of
[80:16]controlling the people.
[80:15]You see uh in a narcissistic way you'll find liars for example
[80:22]have a lot of frontal lobe activities.
[80:25]People who lie have a lot of activities in their frontal lobe
[80:29]because the minute you lie you now have to constantly keep the
[80:38]lie alive because by nature lies will fall in.
[80:42]So because they have to constantly work to maintain that first light
[80:49]to keep it consistent they are very proactive here but in the
[80:54]heart you can't lie it will instantly show up.
[80:57]So Allah says know that Allah is the gatekeeper of that and
[81:03]you and I need to pray to Allah to strengthen our hearts.
[81:09]The brain is peripheral is what we say it's ancillary to my
[81:14]heart.
[81:14]Meaning that the brain will get enriched with data will get enriched
[81:19]with verses of the Quran will get enriched in you know instant
[81:26]decision making.
[81:25]But the driving force is the heart because faith lies in the
[81:31]heart.
[81:30]So I hope you understand this.
[81:33]It's very very important for you for you and I to understand
[81:35]that our children need to be raised at the level of the
[81:42]heart.
[81:42]And the holy prophet mentioned three stages 0 to 7, 7 to
[81:49]15, 15 to 40.
[81:51]Okay.
[81:52]Three stages of growth.
[81:55]The 0 to 7 is the most crucial stage because children are
[82:00]like sponges at that age.
[82:01]They have no cognitive ability to really discern logic and rationality.
[82:07]Up to the age of seven, children don't have the capacity to
[82:11]be logical or rational.
[82:14]When you talk to them rationally, they don't understand.
[82:15]They don't know what you're talking about.
[82:18]You have to feed them.
[82:19]They are just sponges.
[82:23]They receive.
[82:23]From 7 to 15, they start to use rationality and logic.
[82:28]And then from 15 to 40 they put it in action and
[82:34]become inshallah that they reach a stage upon which they take theirelves
[82:41]and now they start to apply what they know to their behavior.
[82:45]So when we have children who get abused at a young age
[82:52]they get scarred.
[82:52]So that's why we must instill love in them but love of
[82:59]Allah subhana wa ta'ala make them pray with you give them characteristics
[83:03]that just is an absorption matter because when they absorb they'll start
[83:10]to use what they have absorbed from 7 to 15.
[83:15]But if we deny them that, they become deviant.
[83:18]Because if you don't give them love at the heart level, they
[83:24]start to find a serious problem in theirelves.
[83:28]In our academy, I notice our children when they reach around 12,
[83:32]13, they're very difficult to deal with.
[83:36]They're pugnacious.
[83:35]They get into fights very easily and they call each other names,
[83:40]right?
[83:41]and they do all kinds of very bad things.
[83:46]Around 12, 13, you'll see them.
[83:50]You'll find teachers will come and say the most difficult stage of
[83:52]a child is around 13 years of age.
[83:54]Why is that?
[83:56]It's because they're beginning to identify themselves.
[83:59]They're becoming a person.
[84:02]But for 13 years, we didn't feed their heart.
[84:06]We fed their mind.
[84:09]So there's an emptiness, a disconnection, lack of spirituality.
[84:14]So they get annoyed because they don't know how to feel comfortable.
[84:21]There's a severe discomfort.
[84:22]And this is where vulnerabilities become prevalent.
[84:27]And one of the what we call Pavlovian responses, knee-jerk response is
[84:35]that when I feel uncomfortable, then I want to denigrate everybody.
[84:39]I want to fight with you.
[84:42]I want to call you names.
[84:43]I want to hurt you because if I do that, then I'm
[84:47]a survivor.
[84:48]Maybe I will feel good.
[84:50]This is classic.
[84:52]I observed it in our school and I said what is the
[84:56]problem?
[84:55]Why is it that our children are behaving this way?
[84:59]Why don't they have this thel of B?
[85:04]You look at Hassan, you know, young 13year-old boy going to his
[85:10]uncle pulling his Abah and says I want to go for shahada.
[85:14]Ali Akbar who's in his tw who's in his late teens, he's
[85:19]saying to his father, let us go.
[85:21]Are we not on huck?
[85:23]Let us go.
[85:24]Little children coming like Zabam.
[85:29]She's sitting on her father's lap.
[85:30]Listen to this.
[85:32]She's sitting on her father's lap talking to Imm Ali Alisam and
[85:38]she says to her father, "Baba, do you love me?" He said,
[85:41]"Very much." She says, "Do you love Allah?" He said very much.
[85:47]So she smiled.
[85:46]She looked at her father at the age of four and she
[85:51]says Baba how can you love Allah and me together?
[85:54]Genius question because she's saying when you love Allah you can't love
[86:01]me and love Allah mean meaning love is all-encompassing.
[86:04]This is a very deep question by the way.
[86:08]This is the true nature of love.
[86:11]By the way, when you and I love, by the way, if
[86:12]we segment our love from Allah, we're dangerous creatures.
[86:16]We must love our children, our spouses, our parents, ourselves through the
[86:24]love of Allah.
[86:27]It's the safest love you and I can have.
[86:31]Zassam, as a four-year-old, is teaching us how wise she was.
[86:34]They say in Kbala when she would give lectures behind curtains you
[86:39]would think this is talking but it was a female voice.
[86:49]How did she become so wise?
[86:50]Imam Ali replies beautifully.
[86:51]He said I love you because Allah loves you.
[86:56]So he completed the equation and she smiled.
[86:59]But who has that kind of a conversation between a four-year-old?
[87:03]But they do.
[87:06]I remember a nine-year-old boy came in California and said to me,
[87:12]"I'm looking for God." I said, "What do you mean?" He said,
[87:19]"I don't know where is God.
[87:20]Prove to me God exists." Nineyear-old, beautiful child.
[87:23]He looks at me.
[87:25]I said, "Why do you have to touch him?" He said, "Well,
[87:30]tell me who is God?
[87:30]I need to I need to know where is God?
[87:34]Where is God?" So I said to him, "Ishallah, I will explain
[87:38]this to you." I said, "Do you love your mother?" He said,
[87:42]"Yes." I said, "How much?" He said, "Very much." I said, "Give
[87:46]me a quantity." So he put his arms out, you know.
[87:49]I said, "So only that much?
[87:51]Not behind you?" He said, "No, all of it." I said, "Are
[87:55]you sure?" He said, "Yes." "And you're not lying?" He said, "No.
[87:58]Are you certain?" He said, "Yes." I said, "Okay, good.
[88:04]Great.
[88:04]Show it to me." And he just blinked and he looked at
[88:11]me.
[88:10]I said, "Huh?" I said, "Notice you are certain you love your
[88:18]mother." He said, "Yes." I said, "Show it to me." And the
[88:20]boy was perplexed.
[88:22]He realized there's a dimension of reality in the heart.
[88:25]What was [snorts] I talking to him here?
[88:29]No, here at the heart.
[88:32]We must talk to our children, our spouses.
[88:35]And you know, we talk linguistically, right?
[88:37]You come to your spouse and say, you know, I've been thinking
[88:40]a lot and my mind has concluded that I'm in love with
[88:46]you.
[88:44]My mind is in love with you.
[88:47]From the from my calculations, I'm in love.
[88:51]The spouse would look at you like, are you crazy?
[88:56]But you've calculated.
[88:56]You love your wife.
[88:58]It doesn't work.
[89:00]You notice that?
[89:02]But you go to your wife and say, from my heart.
[89:03]In fact, we go even further.
[89:07]From the bottom of my heart, not from the top.
[89:09]You know why?
[89:11]Because things settle in the bottom.
[89:13]That which is settled is what's real.
[89:16]From the bottom of my heart, I love you, right?
[89:20]Oh, the love of my heart.
[89:24]Why the heart?
[89:23]Because love and truth [snorts] and faith and imman lies at the
[89:30]heart level.
[89:29]So just as a conclusion tonight within this few minutes I have,
[89:35]let us fall in love with each other at the heart level.
[89:38]So when we pray to Allah, let's while the mind is important,
[89:45]you have to ask Allah to purify the heart.
[89:46]And the heart doesn't speak lies.
[89:51]You know when we speak on the pulpit, I have I can
[89:53]use my tongue and I can use my mind and I do.
[89:57]But the most powerful part of the lecture is when the heart
[90:00]speaks.
[90:01]For the mind and the tongue is not convincing.
[90:06]But when the heart speaks, the other heart that's receiving it, that's
[90:11]decoding, instantly knows it's the truth.
[90:14]That's what Allah is saying.
[90:15]I am the gatekeeper of the heart.
[90:18]May Allah give us inshallah in this month of Ramadan to purify
[90:23]ourselves at this level and ask Allah subhana tala that when we
[90:30]communicate with each other, do it at the heart level.
[90:32]Don't manipulate.
[90:33]Don't say I like that person because that person's rich.
[90:36]Or let me go shake hands with this person because maybe something
[90:42]will open up as an opportunity.
[90:44]That's not heart-based, that's mind-based.
[90:48]That's being very makavelan, very cunning.
[90:50]But the heartbased where you have love at that level where the
[90:57]resonance and the child sees it.
[90:58]And by the way, if you want to be a good parent,
[91:03]just resonate at the heart.
[91:06]Children and adults have a special radar to read the heart.
[91:10]We know it.
[91:12]We read it.
[91:14]We understand it.
[91:13]Let's invite each other to Allah subhana tala with the love of
[91:20]Allah subhanaa tala.
[91:19]We are Muslims.
[91:22]We are blessed to have Ramadan.
[91:24]We are blessed to have fasting.
[91:26]We're blessed to have the five daily prayers.
[91:29]We're blessed to have the cabba to go and circumambulate and bear
[91:33]witness to Allah subh and say you know we go around it
[91:43]seven times.
[91:44]Why?
[91:42]Because my whole life is around Allah and says I want to
[91:53]thank this Mcca center.
[91:56]I want to thank our respected say Salai really you know when
[91:59]I speak with you say I don't I know you don't talk
[92:04]and I don't talk with you with my tongue or my mind
[92:07]>> yes I see you with my heart and I hug you
[92:11]with my heart and I know you do and I know you
[92:15]are leading this community with your heart because it takes a lot
[92:18]of dedication to do this with your family and I pray to
[92:24]Allah subhana tala that all our Islamic centers I just visited the
[92:28]Islamic center the Islamic institute of America yesterday my respected Hajj Alibazi
[92:33]gave us a beautiful tour subhan allah what a beautiful center what
[92:38]a beautiful center you walk in it you feel tranquility the colors
[92:44]the design and how proud I am that the Muslim ummah is
[92:50]solidifying itself with these institutions I feel so blessed that we have
[92:56]a community.
[92:57]Our obligation is to purify ourselves to unite not to find faults
[93:01]in each other.
[93:03]If there are five centers around us, we must support each other
[93:06]because the message of Allah is what's important.
[93:10]Nothing else is important.
[93:11]And I pray to Allahh that this community soon will have that
[93:15]building built with no no hesitation just like that center that was
[93:23]built you know millions of dollars and the technology that has been
[93:27]put in there it makes you proud that look we're advanced when
[93:30]people walk into that and really yesterday as I was walking through
[93:36]I said inshallah many many people were confused outside of Islam and
[93:41]even within Islam will get clarity when they come to these centers
[93:45]and inshallah the dean of Allah will invite them closer for Allah
[93:49]loves people who do those kinds of things.
[93:52]Let's support our educational institutions.
[93:55]Let's support our orphans, our needy.
[93:57]All of these need to have what we call an economic system,
[94:00]a system of economy where you and I on the fly can
[94:07]instantly generate money to help the needy.
[94:10]Today the evil forces are blocking us from saving the real needy
[94:14]people.
[94:15]Let's pray to Allah subhana wa ta'ala that we succeed in fulfilling
[94:18]our obligations to take care of those poor orphans and wfairers and
[94:23]all those people in Lebanon today.
[94:27]I saw a video today of people sleeping on the in the
[94:29]near the Roshia.
[94:31]They're just sleeping, sleeping on the floors and then the enemy just
[94:37]bombs them, blows them up like they are nothing.
[94:40]I pray to Allah subhana tala that this viciousness stops, this cancer
[94:47]goes away.
[94:46]This madness in the name of God, such gods don't exist.
[94:53]God does not promote dropping indiscriminate bombs on [snorts] innocent people.
[95:00]I don't care what religion you belong to.
[95:05]Please, for the love of God, stop.
[95:07]But if you don't, there are consequences.
[95:10]And I pray to Allah subhana tala to bring peace on this
[95:14]earth.
[95:14]And I pray to Allah subhana tala to bring our living imam
[95:19]back soon so that justice prevails.
[95:22]For Allah says, This dua I'm reading is in the Quran.
[95:45]In other words, uh do not put any hatred between our brothers.
[95:56]Okay.
[95:54]Meaning God forgive us and protect us.
[95:59]Those who preceded us in faith.
[96:05]Notice hearts.
[96:07]Look at the Quran.
[96:10]It's all heartbased.
[96:12]Meaning hatred.
[96:13]I don't like that person.
[96:14]Oh, is that person I don't like.
[96:16]Stop.
[96:17]All you're asking Allah stop it.
[96:20]Don't have hatred for people.
[96:26]You are most elevated, most merciful inshallah, meaning raise the the the
[96:45]the community of believers and belittle the hypocrites.
[96:59]that give us plentitude and security and of course success.
[97:11]Let's recite fat for all
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