Taqwa: Will Power Through Fasting - Sayed Ahmed Qazwini

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Ramadan 2021 - Night 5 (4/18/2021) Taqwa: Will Power Through Fasting - Sayed Ahmed Qazwini at the Ahlul Bayt Center of Toledo

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[0:06][Music] muhammad in our previous lectures i mentioned that allah says in

[0:41]the holy quran i have ordained fasting so that you achieve taqwa

[0:45]and we define taqwa as being an ability that with it you

[0:51]can stay away from haram taqwa we said is protection from haram

[0:55]protection from sins it's an ability that you can resist the dunya

[1:00]you can resist the temptations of the dunya now how does fasting

[1:08]lead to taqwa you see there are two factors there are two

[1:13]virtues that fasting develops and these two factors they help us in

[1:18]achieving taqwa the first factor is willpower if you want to have

[1:26]taqwa if you want to be someone that is a muttaqi someone

[1:29]that has protection from haram that can easily resist the dunya you

[1:34]need to have willpower strong willpower look at the muttering of this

[1:39]life that you know now and look out throughout history there is

[1:43]one common denominator between all of the individuals that have taqwa and

[1:47]that is they have strong willpower when you have strong willpower you

[1:52]can control yourself you can control yourself when you are tempted because

[1:56]if you think about it there are two times usually when we

[2:03]sin we sin for two reasons number one when we are angered

[2:05]how many times you say bad words you hit someone you say

[2:10]something that you don't want to many of the crimes that are

[2:13]committed many of the sins that are committed are because of anger

[2:16]and number two because of desires think about it why do a

[2:20]human being sin it's either because of desire or it's because of

[2:24]anger and in order to confront both of them you need strong

[2:27]willpower number one let's begin with anger you see you in order

[2:34]to control your anger when you are enraged sometimes you're filled with

[2:39]anger in order to control and manage that anger you need massive

[2:42]willpower and that's why there's a hadith where the imam's narrates that

[2:49]one day iblis the shaytan spoke to prophet noor and he told

[2:53]nur remember me three times basically the shaytan is saying there are

[3:00]certain times when you the human being you are vulnerable to the

[3:04]shaitan this is when he strikes this is when he ambushes you

[3:06]the shaytan isn't just 24 hours a day no he's planning he's

[3:09]waiting for the right times so he's giving some of the secrets

[3:14]to subhanallah he tells him one of those times if remember me

[3:19]remember that the shaytan is going to come and the shaytan will

[3:24]try to misguide you this is opportunity when you are angry when

[3:28]we are angry the shaitan sees a beautiful opening a beautiful opportunity

[3:32]for him to misguide me why because when we are angered brothers

[3:37]and sisters sometimes we become crazy sometimes we go mad have you

[3:41]noticed some people just go type on youtube when people get mad

[3:44]see what they do akbar madness you can't believe this man is

[3:49]a professor this man is a doctor this man is a human

[3:51]being he turns worse than an animal why because he was provoked

[3:56]because he is angry and that's why amir al-ms anger is a

[4:07]type of madness you really become crazy and he says in the

[4:16]hadith it begins with madness and it ends with regret you become

[4:19]mad but then once you become sane once your you know your

[4:23]intellect starts working once again you regret what you did there's some

[4:26]people you see they fight they're very decent people they have good

[4:30]jobs respectful people but because they get into a fight they break

[4:33]tables they break chairs they break people's property they commit so many

[4:38]crimes after that don't they regret it the imam alaihissalam says this

[4:42]is a type of madness when you're angry just look at yourself

[4:44]imagine if you look at yourself in the mirror when you are

[4:49]angry he says he says when you're angry it's as if the

[4:59]shaytan has placed fire it's a burning sensation like a coal burning

[5:04]inside you the shaytan is trying to light it up if they

[5:08]just videotape you brothers and sisters when you are angry just your

[5:11]face becomes so scary that you will feel so embarrassed this is

[5:16]me the imam says look at the angry person his eyes they

[5:20]become red his neck it starts swelling it becomes big you see

[5:23]the you see the veins you've seen angry people they're yelling and

[5:27]screaming you can see the veins on their neck he looks like

[5:30]a shaytan the imam says you become a miniature shaytan when you're

[5:35]angry and you don't know what's going on the imam says this

[5:37]is when the shaytan comes and he rides you he rides you

[5:41]he doesn't just whisper because you've become a vehicle for the shaytan

[5:44]a vehicle without intellect becomes a vehicle for the shaytan you know

[5:48]this is one reason why allah azzawajal prohibited us from drinking alcohol

[5:52]because when you drink alcohol you lose your aquil you become like

[5:57]an animal and worse that's why you see people here in america

[6:00]when they get drunk they do all sorts of habits all sorts

[6:03]of shameless acts sleeping with they don't know who they wake up

[6:07]in other people's beds so much haram they do because this akan

[6:09]is what guides you without the what are we we're animals they

[6:13]say you know when you take a logic class they say the

[6:18]human being's definition he is an animal with intellect take away the

[6:22]intellect he becomes even worse than the animal so the imam alayhis

[6:27]salaam says that you become like the shaitaan this is the time

[6:31]that he comes to strike you so that's why when we are

[6:36]angry we need strong willpower so that we can control ourselves the

[6:40]holy prophet sallallahu alaihi is saying the strong individual is it the

[6:49]one that is you know very strong and brave in for example

[6:53]wrestling right you've seen those wrestling matches and i don't know i

[6:57]remember there used to be wwf 20 years ago i don't know

[6:58]what they call it now you know those wrestling matches the wrestlers

[7:00]he says those aren't the true strong ones he says he says

[7:10]the strong individual is the one that can control that can contain

[7:14]his anger when he's about to explode just try it brothers and

[7:18]sisters when someone provokes you sometimes someone comes and offends you insults

[7:21]you even worse he says he insults your mother what happens to

[7:25]you right think about it is it easier to vent and explode

[7:30]and go hit that person or is it easier to stay calm

[7:33]relaxed and manage your anger which one's easier it's easier to explode

[7:38]right so the harder thing the is if you contain your anger

[7:43]and manage it the prophet says this is the strong one the

[7:46]one that can contain his anger not the one that can everyone

[7:50]can do that that's animals can do the animals when you attack

[7:53]them they attack right back so that's why we need strong will

[7:58]so that if someone provokes you you stay calm how your will

[8:02]has to be very strong that you can say no there is

[8:05]something inside you telling you fight back swear back you know and

[8:07]solve to go and start this problem but something inside you tells

[8:12]you to stay calm one day a man comes to an imam

[8:15]al-baqarah he was a christian man and imam al-baqar's name is taken

[8:20]from al baqr bakr in the arabic language means if you cut

[8:23]something because the hadith of the prophet says that the battle is

[8:27]the one that will basically cut knowledge cut it open and delve

[8:31]into it so he was called al-baqar this christian man he came

[8:36]and he started to make fun of the imam's name you see

[8:39]sometimes people your name sounds like something else they make fun of

[8:43]your name this christian man he told al-imam al-baqarah he told them

[8:48]antel bakar he called him bakar bakar also means cow in the

[8:51]arabic language bakaris cow so he called him bakar he's mocking the

[8:56]imam now some of us right away will punch him i've seen

[8:59]this you know i remember when i was in school someone the

[9:02]slightest the slightest you know of uh offense or they they they

[9:06]they do something that you don't like right away they start every

[9:08]day there's a couple of fights in school al-imam al-baqarah salaam keeps

[9:12]us cool the man tells him are you the bakker of the

[9:15]cow the imam tells him no i'm the bakr the imam is

[9:18]not provoked the imam he speaks with him as if he has

[9:21]he had made a mistake so this man he was kind of

[9:27]disappointed he wanted the imam to get mad and angry right but

[9:28]the imam he kept his cool he told him no i am

[9:32]the bakr so he said you know what let me now offend

[9:34]his mother so he then started to offend the mother of imam

[9:40]al-baqarah he said antab you're the son of the woman your mother

[9:43]was a tabba was a cook now this man he considered that

[9:46]a very low job you know it's like you say someone your

[9:48]mother is a janitor something like that right now why did he

[9:53]choose that why did he mean it's an offensive way i don't

[9:54]know but he meant it in a very offensive way the imam

[9:58]alaihi assalam kept to school once again he didn't say my mother

[10:02]your mother is this this is what we do right if someone

[10:04]speaks against my mother i speak about his mother what does his

[10:07]mother have to do with hell he's a bad individual his mother

[10:09]is innocent but right away we start picking on his mother so

[10:12]the imam al-imam al-baqara when he heard this he said that was

[10:17]his job yeah what's the big deal he kept his cool once

[10:20]again the imam knew the the the objective of this christian man

[10:24]was to provoke the imam he wanted the imam to go wild

[10:29]and crazy he did not no this is an imam al-baqarah he

[10:31]has more willpower than all of humanity you can never provoke an

[10:36]imam so this is number this is the second thing he told

[10:39]him and then number three when he saw this man is it

[10:42]being provoked he started to offend the mother of the imam he

[10:49]began to call all these you know all these expletives against the

[10:52]mother of imam al-baqara he began to swear at her and offend

[10:58]her look at how ali imam al-bakr managed his anger this is

[11:01]taqwa brothers and sisters taqwa is when you can say no when

[11:05]you can resist that urge when you are angry this is taqwa

[11:08]the imam gave him this answer he told him and kunta khan

[11:12]for allah if you were truthful when you said my mother is

[11:18]this and that may allah forgive my mother but if you were

[11:20]lying but if you were lying and slandering my mother may allah

[11:28]forgive you this man was appalled he said allahu akbar who is

[11:34]this man is he a human being this man has to be

[11:37]a prophet that he has such that he has such willpower you

[11:41]can never subhanallah you can never make the imam get mad this

[11:43]is when the hadith says this christian man he said the shahada

[11:48]detain and he became a muslim because he knew this man has

[11:50]to be someone that is divinely guided by allah so this is

[11:56]with anger anytime we are confronted with anger we need willpower to

[12:02]resist that anger that willpower is taqwa brothers and sisters so this

[12:05]is number one the first time we sin when we sin is

[12:08]is because we are angry the other times that we usually sin

[12:13]is because we are faced with desires we see something that we

[12:18]want that is correct any of the different desires that the human

[12:21]being has that allah speaks about in the holy quran when we

[12:26]are tempted by those desires we also need a strong willpower let

[12:30]me give you an example of willpower when it comes to resisting

[12:33]the desires imagine you're doing a diet you're doing a diet for

[12:38]two reasons number one because your weight is going up you're overweight

[12:42]and number two because your doctor tells you you have high cholesterol

[12:45]you have diabetes for health purposes you have to cut out those

[12:49]fatty foods no more cake for example no more sugars no more

[12:52]of those processed foods so you say okay i'm going to start

[12:57]my diet and then a friend invites you over his house he

[13:00]doesn't know you're dieting so he brings a slice of chocolate cheesecake

[13:06]and imagine chocolate cheesecake is your favorite food and he places it

[13:12]in front of you eat this chocolate what happens to your brothers

[13:16]and sisters you know what happens to you there's one part of

[13:19]your brain this is called the impulsive brain your desires this part

[13:24]of your brain tells you eat it look at how beautiful it

[13:26]looks look at the cheese look at the frosting look right you

[13:30]cannot focus but on the taste so it focuses on the taste

[13:35]and the pleasure tells you eat it that's why you feel temptation

[13:38]to eat that slice of chocolate even though you know it's bad

[13:41]this is your impulsive brain but then you have another brain another

[13:44]part of your brain called the rational brain that part tells you

[13:48]i know it tastes good i know it's the best cheesecake in

[13:50]the world it's homemade whatever right but however if you eat it

[13:56]now you will regret it later so don't eat it because there

[14:01]are consequences the first part of your brain the impulsive doesn't think

[14:05]about the consequences it just looks at the short term instant gratification

[14:09]the second part no looks at the consequences if it's not worth

[14:13]it tells you stay away leave this cake because you'll regret it

[14:15]later you're going to get sick you're going to get much more

[14:18]you know you're going to gain weight and then you will regret

[14:22]it so what happens to you here there's an inner struggle right

[14:25]here there's an inner struggle a part of you your desires tells

[14:28]you eat it but your intellect your aqua tells you no stay

[14:32]away from it this brothers and sisters this constant struggle that exists

[14:37]with just a slice of cake it exists with haram anytime we

[14:40]are faced with haram anytime there is something tempting me from the

[14:44]dunya your impulsive brain your desires your nephs and the shaytan remember

[14:49]is always on the side on that side it's all he's also

[14:53]whispering inside you he's telling you yes eat it he tells you

[14:55]the shaitan and your naps and your impulsive brain they tell you

[15:00]do the haram they want the instant pleasure but then your apel

[15:03]your conscience your fitrah your nafsa tells you what no stay away

[15:08]because if you do this haram now yes you will enjoy it

[15:10]now but you will have to pay later because one day you

[15:12]will die you will be placed in the grave allah will hold

[15:14]you accountable stay away from it this will anger allah this is

[15:18]an inner struggle that exists between every human being inside every human

[15:23]being when he is faced with desire three types of beings the

[15:33]first angels angels are what they are pure intellect they don't have

[15:37]desires that's why the quran they says disobey allah because there's nothing

[15:41]to tempt them distract them away from allah they are just intellect

[15:45]and then he created on the other spectrum he created animals animals

[15:49]are pure what pure desires right they don't have intellect to guide

[15:53]them so that's why you find animals always just worried about its

[15:57]food and then he created something in between and that is you

[16:00]and me human beings we have intellect like the angels and we

[16:03]have desires like human beings the human being is the only being

[16:07]that has akhil and has what and has desires the imam says

[16:14]whoever his will overcome whoever's has the will power so that his

[16:18]overcomes his desire that person will become better than angels because angels

[16:24]didn't have that weakness didn't have that distraction but you did and

[16:29]you still followed your so you're better than angels and then the

[16:33]imam says but whoever his desires they are stronger than his aqua

[16:36]he ends up just following after dunya and desires he's worse than

[16:41]an animal because animal can't do any better an animal doesn't know

[16:45]to stay away from this or that because allah didn't give them

[16:49]allah gave me and yeah i become like an animal there are

[16:51]human beings they live like animals brothers and sisters every haram every

[16:55]immoral act they commit allah has given them the aqua but they

[16:58]disregard the athlete and they live like an animal so every human

[17:03]being we have this inner struggle inside us what is this called

[17:07]this is called jihad neff's brothers and sisters it is a form

[17:10]of jihad it's a struggle it's a war inside you between the

[17:15]desires the impulsive brain and your alkali irrational brain one says this

[17:20]way the other says the other way so whoever brothers and sisters

[17:24]is able to overcome his impulsive desires whoever is able to overcome

[17:30]his desires that is the person that has the taqwa amir al-mu'min

[17:35]narrates that one day a group of muslims they were sent by

[17:39]rasulullah to go and fight they went and they fought in a

[17:44]battle and they came back they came back triumphant rasulullah told them

[17:48]congratulations on being triumphant in the small jihad al-jihad al-azhar and now

[17:55]you have the big jihad and the grand jihad in front of

[17:59]you so they objected they told him ya rasool allah what do

[18:01]you mean small jihad we went we fought with our sword we

[18:05]put our lives on the line we're about to die and you

[18:07]call this the small jihad what's bigger than this the prophet told

[18:10]them what's bigger than this is when you are fighting against your

[18:14]own nafs you're fighting against your own desires this is a much

[18:19]more difficult battle than the jihad against the enemies of allah why

[18:22]because the in the battle against the enemies of allah you can

[18:26]never lose can you how can you lose against the kafir imagine

[18:29]you're fighting with rasulullah and badur can you lose no because there's

[18:33]one of two options one of two outcomes either you kill the

[18:38]enemy and you want or they kill you you still want because

[18:41]you're a shahid hamza al-islam was killed in uh but did he

[18:44]lose his shaykh he did not lose he became a shaykh imam

[18:47]hussain on the day of imam hussain defeated his enemies through shahadah

[18:52]so when you are with allah you can never lose it's a

[18:57]win-win situation when you fight against the enemies of allah but in

[19:00]el jahada you can lose that's a difference you see that's why

[19:04]the prophet calls this al-aqbar because this is much more instrumental and

[19:08]you can lose because if your desires overwhelm you if your desires

[19:13]overpower your intellect you become like an animal we become like the

[19:16]example i gave of that person that goes to obey the law

[19:19]and he takes the head of imam hussain for money this is

[19:23]what we do when your desires overpower you you will do every

[19:27]halam just to please your desire you become a slave of the

[19:29]dunya and you lose islam you lose this test of life um

[19:35]imam hussain alaihi salam was on the right path he knew this

[19:38]was the imam of the imam the representative of allah why did

[19:41]he fight him he told himself he told himself because of mulker

[19:44]because i want mulker i want to become the governor of ray

[19:48]president-day tahran in iran because of that desire he said what he

[19:52]said let me go and follow my nips so when you follow

[19:56]your navs it could lead you to fighting against the imam of

[20:00]your time as we gave many examples of how they also fought

[20:03]against imam ali why because the imam said to dunya because the

[20:08]dunya was too sweet so this is the jihadis in this jahadun

[20:11]nafs brothers and sisters in order to be triumphant like i said

[20:17]we need strong willpower the stronger your your willpower is the better

[20:21]you can resist that temptation the better you can resist your desires

[20:26]now you may say i have the weakest of willpowers what do

[20:29]i do that's it i'm doomed no luckily willpower is not set

[20:35]in stone it's not like everybody who has a strong willpower was

[20:39]born like that will power scientists say is like a muscle is

[20:43]are people born with six packs no are they born buff no

[20:47]they have to go to the gym they have to exercise then

[20:51]they become big right then they get muscles likewise scientists say your

[20:55]willpower power is a muscle this muscle could be weak in the

[20:58]beginning but you can train it and exercise it so that it

[21:02]becomes strong and that's why if you just write on the internet

[21:07]how to how how can i strengthen my willpower one common answer

[21:10]you'll get you can try this at home is take a cold

[21:12]shower in the morning don't take a warm shower because your naps

[21:15]you're lazy you know you you like the warm water in the

[21:18]morning take a cold shower you don't like that right when you

[21:22]subject yourself to that cold shower this makes your willpower why because

[21:26]you can endure more now take a cold shower another thing don't

[21:31]snooze for example you know how we wake up i have to

[21:32]wake up for school or i have to wake up for work

[21:34]i have to wake up at seven i start snoozing from six

[21:39]some people every five ten minutes news news news news news for

[21:42]an hour this is terrible for our sleep by the way and

[21:45]for your health don't snooze the first time you hear jump out

[21:48]of your bed this makes your willpower stronger so we we can

[21:52]make our willpower stronger it's like a muscle but you have to

[21:58]exercise it and this is where fasting comes into play brothers and

[22:02]sisters fasting we said the holy quran says allah ordained it so

[22:05]that we can achieve taqwa and we said taqwa means stay away

[22:10]from haram resist the urges of this dunya right resist the urge

[22:14]of temptation of desires and likewise of anger in order to resist

[22:17]you need willpower how does fasting lead to strong willpower because what

[22:21]are you doing in your fasting you're constantly telling your impulsive brain

[22:26]you're hungry right you want to eat you're telling him no no

[22:29]no i will not eat one minute before 8 33.

[22:32]you see how you're disciplining yourself you're teaching yourself will power every

[22:37]time you tell yourself no i'm not gonna eat many times we're

[22:42]hungry right it's 8 8 15 there's half an hour an hour

[22:47]left we're hungry we're thirsty some of us are gilas we're waiting

[22:49]for the aguilas to smoke at night right we have to tell

[22:53]ourselves no let me wait when you tell yourself no you're telling

[22:56]your impulsive brain your desires that there are rules there are laws

[23:01]this is willpower willpower means you control yourself some people their desires

[23:06]control them having strong willpower means you control yourself this is what

[23:12]siam does it disciplines you 12 hours not one minutes before i'm

[23:15]going to eat you see everyone's doing it so you say let

[23:18]me do it too what does that teach you after doing it

[23:20]one week 10 days 30 days eventually that will give you the

[23:26]willpower to say no to halal after 30 days of saying no

[23:30]to halal if i was able to say no to water water

[23:33]we can't live without it sometimes you know you're so thirsty in

[23:38]ramadan you think you're gonna faint because of how thirsty you are

[23:40]you want faith you think you will faint you were able to

[23:44]say no to water after ramadan you could easily say no to

[23:47]alcohol for example i said no to halal now i can say

[23:50]no to haram so this is what fasting does to us it

[23:54]makes our willpower stronger so we can have the courage to say

[24:00]no to this is what fasting is all about allah says fast

[24:04]so that you achieve taqwa how does fasting lead to taqwa once

[24:09]again because in order for you to have taqwa you need strong

[24:13]willpower strong willpower means i tell my nups what to do means

[24:16]i tell myself yes or no fasting you're disciplining yourself you're telling

[24:21]yourself no no no no until it is this teaches your nephs

[24:26]and your body to listen to you not to give you commands

[24:30]the holy quran says tries to give you orders the quran says

[24:35]commands now go watch this go eat this right if you just

[24:41]follow follow you'll become a slave when you fast you tell your

[24:44]nafs i'm not the slave i'm the boss i will teach you

[24:47]when to eat you don't tell me just because you want to

[24:50]just because you crave i'm going to go after it no you

[24:52]have to wait for the appropriate time only then you will get

[24:54]what you want so this is the first factor brothers and sisters

[24:58]that fasting develops fasting develops your willpower it makes you much stronger

[25:04]in the face of haram there's another factor in sha allah that

[25:09]fasting develops i will speak about that tomorrow in sha allah foreign

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