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[0:00]tasty hasty level of being driven you're going to meet him so
[0:10]when one thinks about that moment that you're actually standing in front
[0:15]of Allah just imagine yourself right now just take a second close
[0:21]your eyes and the next time you open your eyes you will
[0:23]see Allah in front of you whatever you imagine Allah to be
[0:29]what would that be how would you feel in the Quran States
[0:43]of what did we do we opened up your eyes today the
[1:08]veils have been moved the reason why I'm beginning with this because
[1:11]discipline has two sides this discipline is being able to say yes
[1:15]to the right things and no to the wrong things I remember
[1:22]I walked up onto my parents porch I was sitting down with
[1:29]my brother my brother's Bassam we're sitting outside and we're talking normal
[1:38]day you don't know what's going to happen in the next couple
[1:44]hours you have no idea my mom's inside my mom is sick
[1:54]she's not doing well so those moments I remember vividly something called
[2:03]emotional memory which is tagged by the amygdala that side of your
[2:06]brain those events don't let you go they're imprinted into your mind
[2:11]you will not forgive them forget them so we're talking outside all
[2:18]of a sudden we walk inside my mom is laying there you
[2:28]still don't know what's happening it's just a normal day we come
[2:33]up me and my brother sit down we're having a conversation my
[2:35]brother my other brother comes and my other brother comes my brother
[2:40]Hassam is here so now my brother Hassan he comes in and
[2:49]he says he looks at my mom she doesn't look right and
[2:56]he checks her he's in the medical field and what happens he
[3:02]says she doesn't look right so now your heart starts to move
[3:07]the heart starts to move there's fear something is happening so on
[3:17]that level all you can sense something is changing that moment it's
[3:22]coming towards you you cannot remove yourself from that what are you
[3:27]going to do in that moment there's nothing that you can do
[3:31]and my brother says I think she may pass and I remember
[3:39]that so what did I do I put my hand under her
[3:45]head and all I can say was Muhammad or Ali Muhammad that's
[3:51]all I can do now why am I sharing this with you
[3:55]I'm sharing this with you because we're all going to be in
[4:01]that moment so that discipline that you need to have to be
[4:04]able to hold back when the Temptation comes when your anger arises
[4:10]how do you hold back how do you have that mental muscle
[4:15]to tell the self no well it says whoever forbids the self
[4:24]from regressive desires that person stops at that moment and says you
[4:30]know what I'm not going there I'm not going to do that
[4:32]ow that's not an easy thing when the Temptation sometimes has great
[4:38]taste to you but let's say you habitually now built that into
[4:44]your system where your habit is stronger than you that battle when
[4:49]it comes let's say you're sitting down and you're by yourself you
[4:54]have your cell phone you get an ad something happens you get
[4:58]a physical reaction temptation who's stronger who's stronger you or your Temptations
[5:11]and that moment you know what your character is in that moment
[5:17]you will realize if I'm really moving towards dignity honor respect or
[5:24]humiliation my own self-dignity my self-respect is at stake so now tonight
[5:32]I just want to open it up to is is please be
[5:36]as as much as you can open up just talk we'll have
[5:41]a I want it to be more of an interactive discussion and
[5:45]let's just open things up and see what happens now I'm going
[5:50]to say a few more things and then we'll go from there
[5:54]so I'm going to take you on a psychological level and a
[5:58]biology level so in the mind there's something called the as as
[6:05]you're actually let's say you get a apple or candy bar how
[6:10]many of you would choose the Apple candy bar okay so most
[6:16]of you would choose the candy bar why we got two hands
[6:23]up why is the candy bar so tasty yes sugar of course
[6:27]are you sugar monster okay very good okay so now there's something
[6:32]tempting you there's something in your brain okay and it's it's there's
[6:38]a part of your brain and it's it's the in the prefrontal
[6:42]cortex okay the ventral medial prefrontal cortex when it lights up when
[6:50]they put you under a f on my or fmri scanner what
[6:52]happens in your brain when you see the sugar you know what
[6:57]happens that part of your brain just lights up now there's another
[7:04]part of your brain that's under the control system that's the control
[7:08]center of the brain that doesn't light up there's actually a battle
[7:16]in the brain different parts of the brain are activated by different
[7:23]stimuli so the ventral medial cortex is this what your willpower your
[7:26]strength that lights up so for people who have self-control you know
[7:33]what happens they can resist you know when they resist that part
[7:36]of the brain actually lights up the person who that when they
[7:42]see the candy the ventral medial part of the brain what that
[7:47]means the ventral is the lower medial is in the middle of
[7:52]the brain the ventral dorsal part of the brain is more upper
[7:56]but it's still what I'm sorry ventral lateral it's on the outside
[8:01]of the brain medial middle lateral on the outside two different parts
[8:08]of the brain are actually what going at each other so now
[8:12]the person who can resist that part of the brain will actually
[8:16]that person has self-control that part of the brain lights up when
[8:21]they fail you know what happens when they give into temptation that
[8:27]part still lights up the other side the person who doesn't have
[8:31]that kind of control when they see the candy and when they
[8:36]don't see the candy that part of the brain is a lot
[8:40]it's not active so you're building yourself every decision you make every
[8:47]every right now you all of you made a decision to come
[8:49]I'm gonna come to the Masjid I don't care who's here I'm
[8:54]gonna come for myself you made a decision that decision has a
[8:59]benefit it has a benefit to you every small little decision you
[9:05]are wiring yourself you're wiring yourself to either become better or become
[9:08]worse now I'm just going to give you something here then we're
[9:11]going to enter a different level how does a habit wire itself
[9:16]into your brain you think you have control do you really think
[9:22]you have control how many of you think you have control none
[9:28]of you I have some kind of control something okay none of
[9:34]you okay some kind of control how much control do you think
[9:37]out of 10 decisions you make how much control do you think
[9:39]you have somebody throw out some numbers to me one more oh
[9:47]for nine okay nine four eight okay two that's the candy monster
[9:57]Okay so I just want you to understand here's the way a
[10:01]habit works so every time you actually wire yourself every time you
[10:07]do something you're just a bunch of magnets on the inside a
[10:11]bunch of this electricity so what happens inside of your brain every
[10:16]time you fire an Iran there's a neuron that goes off in
[10:20]your brain just an electrical signal that turns into a chemical signal
[10:25]that's how you're wired that's how Allah has programmed you so now
[10:28]when that happens you fire at once you fire it again and
[10:33]again and again it starts off with the front side of your
[10:36]brain in the frontal cortex now what happens is it starts to
[10:41]move the more you do it okay it starts to move from
[10:43]the front of your brain to the back of your brain from
[10:47]there it goes from that right side it crosses over on the
[10:51]bridge which is called the corpus callosum and then from there it
[10:54]goes to where the left side of the brain so it moves
[10:59]over then it starts moving back and it starts to use less
[11:05]and less and less tissue now that little mechanism in your brain
[11:09]is no longer underneath your control it's now subconscious you just wired
[11:20]yourself that little mechanism is no longer underneath your control now it's
[11:25]just a suggestion based on an outside trigger so when that comes
[11:29]to you you know what happens there's something from the outside now
[11:32]you're walking in the in the store and you said one right
[11:35]what's your name brother parsa okay so now my brother is coming
[11:42]he's in the store what's your favorite candy Twix I I like
[11:49]I like Twix too okay so what what is it about Twix
[11:54]that you like The Taste okay so now let me give you
[11:56]something about the taste there's also the part of the frontal cortex
[12:01]so on in The Taste when they actually measure this kind of
[12:05]there's one particular neuron there's particular neurons in your brain that actually
[12:08]are wired to this taste so now when you see that what
[12:13]do you think is going to happen when you see now you're
[12:15]walking along and you just see the brand of Twix What do
[12:19]you think is going to happen what's that what is it you're
[12:25]going to enjoy so watch this what happens when you just visually
[12:30]see it it actually engages the dopaminergic system the dopamine is actually
[12:38]released prior to the taste because dopamine is about motivation so you
[12:42]know what's happening to you once you see the brand just by
[12:47]seeing it it's already releasing what the dopamine you're being driven to
[12:51]it now do you think that suggestion is underneath your control it's
[12:57]not because now what you're going to do is you're going to
[12:59]think about it and you're going to think about the taste and
[13:01]now your mouth starts to salivate correct and do you think you're
[13:08]going to reach into your pocket and pay for it do you
[13:10]think you're actually underneath that control a lot of times we're not
[13:18]we're not now the person who's strong is the person who stands
[13:23]and says you know what I'm not going to do that I'm
[13:27]not the most who can give me one thing that is take
[13:34]a guess of what is the most powerful antidote stop the self
[13:40]from doing wrong smoking that's a powerful habit okay what can stop
[13:48]someone from smoking what is give me one way that you can
[13:54]literally have some people when they what happens when you when you
[13:59]let's say a smoker what's that fear of fear how many of
[14:11]us really have fear these days do we really are we really
[14:20]afraid why do you think I'd be I began with that first
[14:22]do we really do you think about death every day my brother
[14:27]why are you talking about death man your soul and live live
[14:32]it's fun so who can tell me one thing besides fear fear
[14:39]of what fear of the unknown scary what can stop you from
[14:49]doing something wrong what is it who who said that Masha could
[14:55]you stand up brother Masha Allah masha'allah could you come up here
[14:59]okay I'm gonna make them afraid all right I want you to
[15:05]sit down take my seat all right are you afraid no you
[15:10]sure yeah okay do you guys think he's afraid okay hold on
[15:14]hold on hold on okay he's done he's gone masha'allah what's your
[15:19]name okay now who wants to take mabin's place okay Masha Allah
[15:27]okay he saved you thank you come up here brother oh we
[15:31]got two volunteers all right everybody what's your name isn't it weird
[15:40]being up here it's quite nice okay mashallah you see the bright
[15:44]light here okay why why would it why would someone be nervous
[15:48]up here why there's a lot of people uh looking at me
[15:51]okay very good very good well but what else what why is
[15:56]the fear why does the heart just start to palpitate why you
[16:00]feel some sort of pressure okay so let me ask them for
[16:06]a second okay Muhammad Masha Allah he's a good looking guy so
[16:09]I picked the right person okay so what happens automatically in the
[16:16]brain as Muhammad is walking up here Muhammad was negotiating with himself
[16:19]before raising his hand and he said to himself you know should
[16:23]I do this should I not do this I don't know what
[16:25]he's going to do to me but he volunteered he stood up
[16:30]am I correct yes okay so what made you get up Muhammad
[16:34]I like to push past my country okay [Applause] so he pushed
[16:48]past his fear that fear now was going to grab you it's
[16:52]going to talk to you and it's gonna say you know what
[16:54]Muhammad don't go up there now who else will volunteered and come
[16:58]up here who's got some guts okay now everybody wants to come
[17:05]up okay so whenever you get that chance push yourself push yourself
[17:12]past that fear why because you need that courage now the ultimate
[17:21]fear that will stop you from doing anything my brother said that
[17:29]zikr of Allah what does that mean does anybody please give me
[17:35]what what is God remembrance mean to you what does that mean
[17:39]s it's a beautiful beautifully stated abstaining from something that is it's
[17:46]guarding you it's holding you back and saying don't move don't go
[17:52]after that hold why why would you hold go ahead if you
[18:02]have punishment okay beautiful why why else beauty of God these are
[18:13]such beautiful things when you give me to reflect at a different
[18:18]level with them when Nabi Yusuf was in the quarters and zulekha
[18:30]tempted him she said to him Yusuf was known to be very
[18:41]beautiful and you can literally say he's beautiful and he's a man
[18:43]but you could tell he's beautiful because masha'allah like if women start
[18:47]cutting their fingers as they're chopping this is masha'allah okay so she
[18:53]tempts him now what does the prophet Allah say does anybody know
[19:04]the verse he says one thing he says I fear who that's
[19:15]God consciousness that is God Consciousness that's Allah at work he says
[19:26]Allah has made his remembrance when you remember Allah in that moment
[19:32]an Enlightenment for the heart meaning your heart begins to open and
[19:39]you see things differently now I want to get to a point
[19:43]but I'm not going to go there for now I want to
[19:46]explain to you what taqwa is but I'm hoping it would happen
[19:48]in a discussion there are three levels to taqwa we are all
[20:00]masha'allah believers and we have this drive to want to be in
[20:06]front of Allah and say wow they gave me my book in
[20:10]my right hand not in my left but how do we get
[20:15]to this level how do we get to this place okay I'm
[20:18]going to give you five quick things then we'll move past how
[20:21]how should we conduct ourselves what should we do on a daily
[20:28]level okay five steps okay anybody gonna write them down so if
[20:33]I come next week and you're here and I ask you do
[20:38]you have these five steps you're gonna be like man yeah come
[20:40]on man I got you so you can pull out your phones
[20:46]now if you want to masha'allah everybody Masha wow Muhammad okay these
[20:58]things information shouldn't stay in other people's minds or in books you
[21:04]need to download it and utilize it you need to use it
[21:06]the Quran is a book that needs to be downloaded the Quran
[21:10]has an algorithm for your algorithm download it talk to it understand
[21:18]it it will lead you it will open up things in your
[21:21]heart that you have no idea exist it will talk to you
[21:26]at a different level but do you have a relationship with the
[21:28]Quran I'm telling you it's an algorithm it has an algorithm Allah
[21:35]knows your algorithm so now he knows what to give you so
[21:40]now first step it's the person who's constantly watching themselves why should
[21:51]I do that why should I watch my actions why how do
[21:57]I stop myself from doing things if I don't go back and
[22:01]actually watch myself I'm watching myself constantly and I'm taking a list
[22:10]here's a list of things I've done every day I reflect on
[22:16]it and I want I do that first step second step what
[22:24]is that accounting to take account let's say I did something wrong
[22:30]I'm looking at my schedule and now I did something wrong then
[22:33]I asked myself why did I do that is the second step
[22:42]third step I've committed the sin I've done something wrong I don't
[22:50]like myself I don't like what I'm doing with my life I
[22:53]did something that I shouldn't did I said something to my dad
[22:58]my friends went out and I followed and I did something extremely
[23:04]and I posted that on social media my dad saw it and
[23:08]now he's coming after me with a stick okay so now I
[23:15]when this happens I've committed the sin some of us at this
[23:18]stage it doesn't mean much the prophet sallallahu alaihi he says he
[23:29]says commits a sin it's like a mountain on his shoulders commits
[23:37]a sin it's like he's pushing away what a fly of of
[23:44]his nose doesn't matter that weight that emotional weight is not there
[23:49]I'm not connected it doesn't matter I mess around it doesn't matter
[23:54]I take Life as a joke it doesn't matter I don't remember
[23:56]any it doesn't matter to me nothing that I don't have any
[24:02]fear nothing matters to me so now the third step is feeling
[24:07]that weight it's called the person who starts to feel the emotional
[24:14]weight of that sin I don't want to do that the fourth
[24:20]step is this is now when you know the sin you've done
[24:31]the wrong you feel bad about it you go to listen to
[24:39]the Dua you've got to come and you say you hear Imam
[24:45]Ali salaam and he says a repentance that you don't go back
[24:57]that is the heavy weight of the heart so that's the first
[25:03]fourth step you go back and forth against yourself and you tell
[25:09]yourself no the fifth step is where you continue you fight the
[25:16]self you win and now you sustain you create a good habit
[25:21]not a diseased habit you create a good habit it's a tool
[25:27]now and it aids you so now when you're weak a girl
[25:31]sends you a picture and you're like Ya Allah God help me
[25:34]she's so beautiful I can't Ya Allah why did you create such
[25:40]beauty I can't but you're like you remember Yusuf alaihi salaam you're
[25:51]like I got this guys I am Yusuf himself so you resist
[26:02]I'll just share a quick story with you and I'll just transition
[26:06]to the discussion I was I was on a call I was
[26:12]talking to to one of my clients and I get this strange
[26:16]call from someone and I just decided to answer I'm like okay
[26:22]I'll just answer I answered I don't know why I answered I
[26:26]just answered he's like I need to talk to you I said
[26:31]who's this is like so-and-so I don't I'm sorry I didn't remember
[26:37]who the person was so I said to him is there anything
[26:41]he could do for you are you okay and he's like yes
[26:44]yes please I just I was just watching something and it was
[26:46]one of your lectures I go okay did I say something wrong
[26:53]he's like he's like no no he goes I'm sitting there and
[26:57]I wanted to text this girl and as I'm doing my homework
[27:04]she texts me and I want to text her back and as
[27:08]I was doing doing my assignment I'm also listening to your lecture
[27:13]and as I pick up the phone part of your lecture you
[27:18]start to talk about what how not to text women in the
[27:25]wrong way and the guy freaked out he literally freaked out okay
[27:30]now why am I saying this to you am I saying oh
[27:34]look at me no I don't care at the end of the
[27:38]day when Allah wants to talk to you the signs are all
[27:42]there they're all in front of you but you choose to turn
[27:44]away so he said so I asked him so what are you
[27:49]going to do he's like no I don't know man I really
[27:52]like her see look Temptation you see it he does look he's
[27:58]going back and forth Muhammad was going what back and forth do
[28:01]I get up do I not get up think of Horror and
[28:05]he's going back and forth his whole life his eternity is relying
[28:14]on that decision one Decision One decision and his what his his
[28:19]partner the person next to him he says to him he says
[28:23]I know you're you're a warrior why do I see you perplexed
[28:29]why he says I'm choosing between Heaven and Hell what a decision
[28:39]now I want to ask you one quick question do you think
[28:45]probably his his feet were six to eight inches away from his
[28:52]horse the back of his heel was six to eight inches about
[28:56]this far away that distance can you move your foot that distance
[29:01]when your life is on the line imagine how far that distance
[29:07]is mentally if you're not ready in that moment to make that
[29:10]kind of decision do you think you're going to be able to
[29:13]do that do you think you have that kind of Will and
[29:14]ability just to move your feet six inches do you think that's
[29:21]an easy decision to make we hear it every day in karbala
[29:28]every year we hear it over and over do you think that
[29:30]decision is easy because you're going back and forth he's choosing between
[29:36]what Heaven and Hell but the heart is ready because it's trained
[29:42]to say no I'm not going to do that and when Muhammad
[29:47]got up he says I am and I'm not afraid and I
[29:53]stand here's my character the weight of Who You Are is your
[30:00]discipline you want to see someone's character look at the positions they
[30:07]take and how strong they are when they stand so when Muhammad
[30:09]came up here my brother came up here that's not an easy
[30:15]decision because you're choosing to what engage I'm not afraid the heart
[30:21]is intact and it's moving forward so let's all become like horror
[30:26]but make sure that you're not on the wrong side and you
[30:30]don't end up on the wrong side that you have to make
[30:34]that kind of decision work train the heart so it's an easy
[30:39]decision when you're wasting your time don't do that I know smile
[30:48]is my nephew right here and he was in the Quran competition
[30:54]and I was helping him one day and I'm just looking at
[30:57]him and he's working so hard he's working hard and he's trying
[31:03]to remember the verse after verse after verse I said man how
[31:06]beautiful is this I swear to you that has a taste it
[31:11]has a taste just like your Mariam where are you you're enjoying
[31:14]the candy okay the Quran has a sweet taste I swear to
[31:19]you it has such a beautiful taste it's alive it will talk
[31:24]to you talk to it just hold it I swear to you
[31:29]put it next to your heart and say Allah help me help
[31:31]me understand this I don't know I don't know how to read
[31:38]it help me understand it that's the taste you want when you
[31:43]do that and your heart becomes to connect to that you won't
[31:48]have to make these harsh decisions because you'll be in the right
[31:52]place because your discipline is intact and you've been able to tell
[31:56]the self no I'm not going to do that so on that
[32:00]level I want one of you to come up here and restate
[32:08]everything that I just said who has that kind of guts okay
[32:18]that but you see it's it's okay but do you see now
[32:24]it's it's when the challenge comes it's not easy to stand up
[32:27]it's not now why is it hard to come up here because
[32:31]your competence is on the line people are going to judge your
[32:33]competence and your competence is one of the core parts of your
[32:40]identity that's why people get scared to come up and be in
[32:45]front of a camera and trust me the first time I came
[32:48]up here the back of my knees were sweating I was shaking
[32:53]it was terrifying no no that's why I was going to transition
[33:16]it's been to my experience in my lifetime that the accumulation of
[33:21]marginal gains these compounded through the power of time leads to great
[33:26]success and Great accomplishments yes very true and I was wondering because
[33:34]I as we know habits are both a double-edged sword they caught
[33:37]for you and they caught dangerous happened yes and I was reflecting
[33:47]upon the most powerful habit one could partake in his son true
[33:54]and uh so I was reflecting in the manner which Allah has
[34:01]prescribed Salah to them in sin all of the word prescribed yes
[34:08]you know and why it was ordained in such a manner in
[34:14]five times a day strict times and uh overalls ordained over a
[34:23]lifetime is this marginal gains does your Salah get better even just
[34:30]the way you stand from the way you when you start someone
[34:33]you end is this part of the reason Allah has prescribed it
[34:38]in such a manner okay um that's a beautiful question so the
[34:41]question is why did Allah azzawajal prescribe Salah in such a way
[34:48]so I'm repeating so people online and by the way Jihad if
[34:55]you're watching that's out to you okay now in the Quran States
[34:57]so go back to the Quran right away this is why you
[35:02]should what talk to the Quran it says in the Quran says
[35:14]he says prayer has been ordained or prescribed to you at fixed
[35:22]times why would Allah prescribed fixed times right now let's say fought
[35:30]me one and two okay one of you has surgery tomorrow and
[35:37]it's life or death are you going to miss that meeting you're
[35:42]not going to miss that meeting why because it has a high
[35:48]level of value every Prophet died saying assalam why is Salah so
[35:58]prominent why does Allah azzawajal want us to pray every single day
[36:02]okay okay I unders I did it once twice three four times
[36:10]why what is Salah what is in Salah establish prayer so you
[36:16]can remember what Allah so if you remember Allah what happens to
[36:22]the heart we said Imam in Allah now watch this so number
[36:33]one he established it at six times number two is now that's
[36:40]that's Salah okay forces you to remember who Allah azzawajal I'm in
[36:48]I'm going to work do I remember Allah no I'm in the
[36:53]state of I hear that what do I remember I go back
[36:58]to Allah I go back to the path so Salah is to
[37:03]engage you with Allah now what happens when you are engaged with
[37:07]Allah and you start moving away from the world this is an
[37:15]Enlightenment for the heart foreign the core of Islam is your prayer
[37:36]you go anywhere in the world watch somebody praying who is a
[37:44]Muslim you're going to know they're praying now what happens Imam Ali
[37:50]goes further what happens when you establish prayer and let me give
[37:54]you something to establish prayer a lot of us pray everybody in
[37:56]here prays I know everybody prays and if you don't pray and
[38:00]you miss some prayers you're gonna go pray tonight okay and if
[38:04]you pray you're going to praise Allah and you're going to remember
[38:07]me as one of those 40 guys please remember I need it
[38:10]okay so on that level I'm going to give you three things
[38:16]what is the difference between somebody who establishes to establish a prayer
[38:20]and somebody who doesn't establish prayer okay in the Quran it says
[38:27]surely this prayer removes this indecency how how does Salah affect your
[38:36]behavior a lot of us okay I'm gonna ask one of you
[38:38]come up here and pray okay there's no effect most of us
[38:49]take Salah like that there's no cause and effect in Salah but
[38:54]you know I want to give you something quick point do you
[38:57]know we're gonna you're gonna feel the effect of Salah if you
[38:59]don't pray and the effect of your sins is when the soul
[39:04]separates from the body that's when you feel it you're going to
[39:08]feel the weight then all the things you did negatively and all
[39:11]the things you feel you did positively that's when you're gonna feel
[39:14]it it's that separation I'm not going to get into that too
[39:21]far but now Watch What Happens when does Salah affect your actions
[39:27]your behavior the way you conduct yourself number one to be able
[39:30]to get it to do that pray on time that's number one
[39:36]number two pray with Joshua number three the extra prayers you do
[39:46]those three things Salah will begin to affect your actions and your
[39:49]decisions now that's a side note what what happens with the heart
[39:59]expands and now there's enlightenment continues with Hadith he says he hears
[40:03]past his deafness he hears past his he sees past his blindness
[40:08]and his heart will submit and obey so you get gifts Allah
[40:25]the exact same thing that Imam Ali is talking about Hadith it's
[40:30]in the Quran but there's a covering over the heart now why
[40:33]is it difficult for a person to pray this is the hardness
[40:39]of the heart you want to know how close you are to
[40:40]Allah see how well you're connected to your Salah bottom line when
[40:49]it's time to pray and it's Allahu Akbar or Playstation or my
[40:57]phone or anything else that I'm doing and I prefer that action
[41:01]no I'm telling Allah it's okay you're on the side for right
[41:05]now I'm gonna do something else that means your heart needs work
[41:09]you need to work on yourself your Salah needs to take a
[41:13]higher level so that's why Allah made you pray five times a
[41:15]day so you could practice imagine you went to work out five
[41:20]times a day well each one of you guys will walk in
[41:21]here you won't even you have muscle upon muscle but that Salah
[41:26]is designed to build this mental muscle that's Allah is the mental
[41:29]muscle it's the brakes you hit the brakes before you commit the
[41:36]sin that is your Salah when you stand and you say no
[41:41]uh as an example Imam Hussain in the middle of battle Allah
[41:50]in the middle of battle karbala is a university you can learn
[41:57]so much from it Imam Hassan stops the whole thing he stops
[42:03]and they pray what a test do you think any of us
[42:08]would want to be in that test do you think anyone would
[42:10]even pass that test now I'm going to finish with this in
[42:14]terms of Salah you expand imagine you get to this point and
[42:22]my sister's here it says we've inspired the heart of the mother
[42:46]of Musa and suckle him and if you are afraid how many
[42:52]of you how many guys right here that's a woman want to
[42:54]talk about women here's women the heart doesn't have a gender Iman
[43:00]doesn't have a gender it doesn't this is the heart of a
[43:10]woman but a believing woman we inspired her and said if you
[43:17]fear for his life then why put him in a river how
[43:21]many of you guys right here right now can take a little
[43:29]baby infant put him in a river and let them go and
[43:34]he's your son how many of you can do that you're a
[43:41]lot stronger than me I wouldn't be able to do that the
[43:47]power of faith when you establish your prayers properly you will be
[43:52]able to do stuff like you will be able to see right
[43:56]and power of Prayer prayer that's your flashlight and then you can
[44:02]hit the brakes when you need to and you can watch hit
[44:05]the gas when you need to and you can kick your horse
[44:09]and you can go acrossalam so I hope that answers to the
[44:16]question that's a heavy question the presentation was better than mine though
[44:20]so alhamdulillah but go ahead like any anything that you guys said
[44:23]I can throw some things at you right back but I'm gonna
[44:25]make you I'm gonna embarrass you so you you don't want me
[44:28]to kind of do it because I'm used to this stuff now
[44:32]I care less but if I call you up here okay you're
[44:34]not going to be it's not going to be fun so throw
[44:39]some questions or something let's make it fun yes so Salah is
[44:47]the training mechanism it's the training it's at the constant training that
[44:51]you get to such a point when one day you think of
[44:56]Allah properly and the Heart engages and you touch something in your
[45:03]heart and then you begin to cry and then you're like okay
[45:06]what is this feeling I disconnected the emotion now starts to connect
[45:12]so that constant praying every day it's the training mechanism and it
[45:20]evolves what are you evolving it's to be able to be God
[45:22]conscious as much as you can in your Salah and then when
[45:29]you're like that imagine you have an affinity to want to be
[45:31]Institute you just want to be in sujit now I'll give you
[45:38]a challenge Ramadan is coming up correct how many of you can
[45:46]resist praying or the food before you pray okay all right so
[45:50]everybody in this room everyone when the first day of Ramadan just
[45:53]do it for one day the first day the food is there
[45:58]and as the hardest day usually the first day is Father's Day
[46:00]everyone here you have to promise me hold your hand up everybody
[46:05]hold your hand up okay we're gonna do a covenant right I
[46:09]promise say so you've got to repeat I promise you Sam that
[46:15]I will on the first day of Ramadan I will pray before
[46:22]before I eat and I will feel what I need to feel
[46:30]in my heart towards my Salah okay and not the food that's
[46:35]everyone that's hard okay but I just you see what I'm saying
[46:42]it's it's it's that simple it's that simple can you enjoy your
[46:44]Salah like you enjoy your food that's why I tell you Salah
[46:51]has a taste it has a taste Iman has a taste so
[46:54]you're all you want to do is just build that and Salah
[46:58]is your opportunity to build that you build yourself through your Salah
[47:04]so on that level I hope you guys understand the power of
[47:13]that because Salah is your character when you have to pray and
[47:17]it's a it's an airport or it's on a plane or it
[47:21]doesn't matter you remember Imam Hussain he's in the middle of battle
[47:23]and you say you know what I'm gonna find a way I'm
[47:27]gonna pray that's discipline that is discipline and the more discipline you
[47:34]have in terms of these kinds of things my God what you
[47:38]could do when your intention and your discipline is towards Allah it's
[47:42]incredible what you can do now who wants to show us some
[47:49]courage foreign but so guys give me something that you guys think
[48:01]would be like like something a story a concept something you did
[48:09]about discipline let me ask you guys a question anything you feel
[48:13]like you it's it's part of discipline give me a quranic verse
[48:19]Hadith Masha Allah okay what give me something else go ahead beautiful
[48:39]now with hardship comes ease could you give us a little more
[48:48]sister [Music] okay do you want to come up here and talk
[48:54]okay very good you see that that's a beautiful position I don't
[49:00]think I'm qualified that's a humbling position okay but that takes some
[49:07]discipline correct to be able to say that that's not an easy
[49:11]thing to say but now what happens when sister what's your name
[49:16]Scarlett okay Scarlet how long have you been coming to the mosque
[49:22]this three years okay why have you been consistent okay how many
[49:33]of you this is your first time masha'allah there's a believer in
[49:41]the bad guy go ahead okay so discipline is in everything literally
[49:54]in everything you do every decision you make there's a discipline factor
[50:01]in it your choices are all about discipline every decision you make
[50:06]is about discipline so when somebody wants to come up here can
[50:11]anybody come up here and give us a story about discipline besides
[50:16]you anybody come up here fat me can you come up here
[50:22]okay so now I see the fear so who can overcome the
[50:27]fear who can overcome the fear give me something from the Quran
[50:32]if you can tag it with a quranic verse anybody fearful not
[50:39]fearful Muhammad what's your mind saying to you okay see sister Scarlett
[50:50]what's your mind saying to you okay beautiful she just threw it
[51:00]right back on you okay guys at the end of the day
[51:04]when the test comes the reason why I'm doing this is just
[51:08]when the test comes it's not easy don't think you have the
[51:10]equipment don't a lot of us we claim we have principles we
[51:17]claim that we're believers but the only way you will know is
[51:22]when you are tested it's not when you think you have it
[51:28]it's when you are tested okay so I'm going to finish with
[51:32]this I'm going to give you just three more things go ahead
[51:49]true true so the accounting that's the accounting you know so the
[52:02]prophet says he says take account of yourself before you get accounted
[52:06]for so that accounting is extremely important but again these ideas like
[52:12]sister how long you've been doing that okay so that but is
[52:20]that a habit it's a beautiful habit but that's established now on
[52:26]the day of judgment you can literally pull out that habit Allah
[52:28]is going to pull out that hard drive anyway and he's going
[52:31]to hand it to you as you can say to you here
[52:35]here's your habits but at the end of the day that's a
[52:37]beautiful habit you can get some really good land impair you can
[52:42]purchase some land with that one that's a really good thing to
[52:45]trade with but you're taking account now in in terms of talking
[52:51]about Sin I'm going to give you three levels of what Taco
[52:53]is okay and then we'll finish with this so why is why
[52:59]is God remembering so important because we just said it's literally the
[53:04]mental muscle it's the fear of the sin or the joy of
[53:09]the Good Deed that is incredible when you remember God says foreign
[53:35]you found your address God's address in your heart when you do
[53:43]that there's something that happens in your heart it opens I'm going
[53:47]to show you what happens how do you get to this level
[53:51]where now you and Allah are together Allah is with you Allah
[53:58]is guiding your heart you're about to get in an accident Allah
[54:02]just gives you this little sign says you know what take your
[54:06]foot off the brake just a little bit now Allah is with
[54:10]you number one the first stage of taqwa is to stay away
[54:16]from the bigger sins that's the first stage what's what are some
[54:23]of the bigger sins somebody give me some of the bigger sins
[54:25]correct the sins are they the Sarat or no when we commit
[54:34]to sin are we on the right path we're not so Allah
[54:39]has given us the rules if you want to know the path
[54:42]what is Allah saying to you follow my rules hijab where hijab
[54:49]pray on time fast follow the rules I've prescribed it to you
[54:58]but a lot of us you know hijab it's not in the
[55:05]Quran doesn't say it sounds I'm not making fun of anybody I
[55:09]swear to you I have my own struggles too but at the
[55:15]end of the day we justify these things okay so now what
[55:18]happens here is extremely important I go into the religion with full
[55:24]understanding that I'm submitting to it I'm not picking and choosing what
[55:32]I want what are the bigger sins anybody give me the bigger
[55:36]sins give me go ahead smite drugs okay doing drugs bigger sin
[55:41]go ahead brother speak up speak up manly what is it coffin
[55:48]beautiful go ahead back biting beautiful more genocide very good brother hardcore
[56:00]my end it would not lying oh hold on hold on hold
[56:08]on lying lying lying is the big sin it's literally one of
[56:18]the khabar so lying when you lie every time you lie Allah
[56:21]promises every time you commit a sin of the kabair Allah promises
[56:31]Hellfire you will touch Hellfire for the khabar so every time you
[56:37]lie you manipulate the truth you swing around things you think you're
[56:41]getting away with something you know what you're doing to your heart
[56:45]man you're playing a dangerous game especially when this thing begins to
[56:49]lie say the truth for you or against you say the truth
[56:55]now how do you get away from the bigger sins masoha so
[57:06]Allah says in the Quran says stay away from the bigger sins
[57:10]how how do you remove the bigger sins does anybody know the
[57:14]verse I just said it what is that what does that mean
[57:18]anybody know repent with a sincere repentance be sincere do not go
[57:26]back to the sin that's how you remove that now Allah gives
[57:30]you a two for one deal watch this it's on sale anybody
[57:35]want it I know the sisters probably like sales okay so watch
[57:39]this Allah promises you he says he says on he says if
[57:51]you stay away from the bigger ones the bigger sins the major
[57:55]sins you know what I'll do I'll take away your minor ones
[58:00]too two for one deal why not smaller sins when you say
[58:04]oof to your parents and they're older somebody says salaam alaikum you
[58:10]don't reply these are small sins smaller he's Allah says I'll remove
[58:14]those two now the second level of taqwa so the first level
[58:19]is staying away from the bigger sins all of us are going
[58:23]to stay away both hands up like this okay I promise I'm
[58:27]just in Salah and you were on the floor and you were
[58:32]begging Allah please forgive me I feel so bad that time between
[58:38]Monday and Friday that's Toba you get Azure for that so don't
[58:44]if you commit to sin and you go back it's okay it's
[58:49]okay go back and say talk to Allah don't feel so hard
[58:54]with yourself talk to him tell him where the pain is tell
[58:58]them what's wrong and cry with the sincere part of your heart
[59:03]so first level stay away from the bigger sins we're all going
[59:08]to do that right from now on to the way day we
[59:11]die none of you here is going to commit a bigger sin
[59:13]again right should I hold my hand up or we're good okay
[59:16]all right so on that level that's the first line second level
[59:23]is this the second level is you stay away from the minor
[59:25]sins this is called teskia but you stay on that path is
[59:34]now when you want you're purifying the self and you stay away
[59:40]from the bigger sins and the minor sins third step this is
[59:44]where it really gets good guys just take this with you Allah
[59:48]gives you some gifts if you can stay away what if you
[59:53]can stay away from the major sins and the minor sins here's
[59:56]what Allah gives you and this is going back to what we're
[60:04]saying you start establishing prayer Hassan and now you start Salah begins
[60:10]to affect your actions and now you come upon a Temptation and
[60:13]you sell to yourself you tell yourself no I'm not going to
[60:17]do that and it's a bigger sin and I stay away from
[60:21]it and then I walk a little bit and I see a
[60:24]minor sin and I also stay away from it because I'm what
[60:29]remembering God Allah is with me now he's in between me and
[60:33]my heart and I'm maneuvering then I remember I feel like I'm
[60:41]doing the right things and I'm moving Allah begins to give you
[60:50]things he uses two verses What in Bismillah let me start for
[60:59]there is this when you have the stopwatch and you're doing all
[61:09]these things and you're walking on the right path Allah begins to
[61:12]give you things first gift your eyes will open and you can
[61:20]see what others cannot see Allah will give you the binoculars in
[61:25]the middle of the night the night vision goggles for your heart
[61:30]the person next to you is blind they cannot see but you
[61:34]will be able to see I promise you you will be able
[61:39]to see that's the first gift Allah opens up the heart and
[61:42]then you can see the eye of the heart sees not this
[61:47]naked eye that's the first level that's the first gift second gift
[61:51]Allah Maharaja second what is that if you are God conscious Allah
[62:01]will allow you to come out of certain difficult things that you're
[62:05]going through that's the second gift that he doesn't allow things to
[62:14]happen to you Imam it's that when somebody does fitna against you
[62:21]Allah will give you a way out from your even your own
[62:26]fit on the inside that's the second gift so now you have
[62:31]the night vision goggles and you look out and you can see
[62:35]then the second gift is Allah highlights the path for you if
[62:41]there's a million doors that door will literally say Right Above It
[62:43]choose this one you will be able to see it while everybody
[62:48]else is blind you will be able to see it and the
[62:52]third gift is this the result what does that means you have
[63:08]calmness in your heart where others will be fearful you will have
[63:14]calmness you look out in the middle of the night you're in
[63:16]a forest your friend is terrified you have the night vision goggles
[63:21]you look out to you can see Allah highlights the path for
[63:26]you but as you're walking the path your friend is fearful you're
[63:32]not so Allah gives you three gifts the path he shows you
[63:41]the path and while you're walking the path he allows your heart
[63:44]to be what calm you're not afraid and my brother Muhammad will
[63:49]walk up here he doesn't care my sister doesn't matter I'm calm
[63:55]nothing can trigger the heart but it all starts with what the
[64:00]discipline of your Salah work on that sound good unless everybody's like
[64:07]that Allah I put a very somber mood right okay but this
[64:10]is when you talk about Allah find places where Allah is mentioned
[64:15]constantly don't put yourself in places or around people Who removed you
[64:21]from the thicker of Allah that's why it's so beautiful to come
[64:25]here that I will finish with this says it says I have
[64:37]bully foreign think about this please one Rica in this world is
[64:49]better for me than heaven and what is in it he was
[64:55]asked why he says because here there's a bada I can worship
[65:02]Allah In Heaven There is no worship there's a heaven on Earth
[65:07]and it's when your forehead hits the ground and your heart goes
[65:14]into it's tranquil that's the most powerful place on the face of
[65:19]this Earth you want to talk about antidepressants that's the antidepressant that's
[65:25]the most beautiful place on the face of this Earth that Imam
[65:30]he says if you were to understand what is in the bounties
[65:33]of being in sujood you would never Raise Your Head Up so
[65:37]the next time you're having a difficulty a hardship things are not
[65:45]going right go into situation of the Allah from there and have
[65:51]this cry but not just this have also this cry and it's
[65:56]incredible what kind of power you'll Attain ment yes go ahead I'm
[66:14]going to the first questions um I'll leave that to your mother
[66:18]he'll tell you uh but overall there's there's uh there are differences
[66:26]there so I would say just consult your your Maja in terms
[66:29]of this uh this this particular Point some some say you know
[66:32]I'm not going to get into that but at the end of
[66:36]the day I think a bird beard would look good on you
[66:40]it's manly these days the masculine guys the masculinity is kind of
[66:45]coming back against the femininity you know these kinds of things I'm
[66:48]joking I might just gets launched something might get launched at me
[66:52]right now okay uh but inshallah any any questions comments concerns anybody
[66:56]yes sister this is now you're passing me okay um overall I've
[67:12]asked the same question and they said with hardship comes ease in
[67:16]terms of that that the particular thing but I I would go
[67:21]into the tafsir of that because I don't want to say something
[67:24]and sometimes like when we explain things it's not fully intact so
[67:28]if I were to I would that would be a side question
[67:30]that I can have with you but that's a beautiful question by
[67:35]the way it's a really all of you should do the tafsir
[67:37]of that that that verse it's one of the most beautiful verses
[67:42]with hardship now why is here I'll just say this sister why
[67:47]did Allah create hardship why anybody can can anybody answer that yes
[67:54]brother as a test okay but I don't want to be tested
[67:58]why did you make it so hard yes brother without hardship there
[68:05]would be no ease okay I like that okay sister go ahead
[68:12]to teach you discipline okay beautiful why would Allah put a challenge
[68:20]in front of you why beautiful that's a beautiful answer what is
[68:29]it to prove okay very good that's beautiful in the Quran comes
[68:38]it's a sealer it seals things to see which of you is
[68:44]best in Deeds so it's to see which of you can want
[68:47]do the best Deeds bottom line so on that level Allah creates
[68:55]a challenge but now can somebody tell me who are your first
[68:57]your first challenge what was your first challenge in your life that's
[69:02]right getting over my anger okay masha'allah is doing the character development
[69:07]already yes brother blue and red square okay was that was that
[69:13]okay so that's when we were very young right okay what else
[69:18]give me something before that what was your first responsibility yes brother
[69:30]so to pick the right path that yes brother what is it
[69:38]I can't hear I'm sorry I can't oh wash okay very good
[69:47]okay before that breathing oh hold on hold on your first job
[69:51]was to take a breath that was your first responsibility think about
[69:57]that what was your next responsibility crying give me the third responsibility
[70:03]what's that go there okay but do you see how what's happening
[70:09]though the second you walk into this world what happened there's already
[70:17]challenges the second you begin in this world the second you take
[70:21]a breath that was your first challenge if you couldn't breathe what's
[70:24]going to happen right okay you're done but that was your first
[70:31]challenge okay but now what happens as you mature and you move
[70:36]up does the responsibility increase now I'm going to give you something
[70:41]here it's extremely important whenever a baby is trying to stand and
[70:44]it balanced itself when you look at the baby do you think
[70:53]that's not fair to the baby why would Allah do that to
[70:56]the baby have you ever seen a baby just go in the
[70:59]corner and say Allah quit call us I don't I don't do
[71:04]this anymore it's way too much I'm trying the balance and it's
[71:07]just not working you know leave me alone I don't want to
[71:11]do this anymore have you ever seen that did you do that
[71:12]when you were younger no you didn't man but but at the
[71:17]end of the day okay you were resilient and you stepped up
[71:21]why is Allah's challenge to hurt you or to Aid you why
[71:30]is it to Aid you why would the challenge be there to
[71:35]Aid you because what happens when the baby actually learns how to
[71:39]walk it gains a tool to take on life through the challenge
[71:44]do you see it so when I learn how to walk I
[71:49]actually gain the next tool for me to move to the next
[71:54]level and now I have to take on level two then it
[71:56]keeps growing and growing and growing and then one day Muhammad is
[72:01]in where he's in the MBA and he's looking at LeBron James
[72:06]and they're like Hamad your face is full of light Masha Allah
[72:11]what do you do Muhammad like I pray every day man give
[72:14]me the ball there's only three seconds left forget LeBron I can
[72:19]care less look at me I'm floating Hamad begins to float off
[72:22]the ground okay then from there there's three seconds left they're done
[72:30]by two they're looking at LeBron they're looking at Muhammad LeBron is
[72:35]mesmerized by Muhammad he's like wow what light is coming out of
[72:40]your face brother Muhammad goes into sujood stands up he's actually seven
[72:48]feet tall masha'allah okay now from there he gets to a point
[72:54]why would you give your best player that ball in that kind
[73:04]of challenge why would you do that go ahead he's going to
[73:11]score a better chance he'll do it the best that level of
[73:15]responsibility is not for everybody just like that level of responsibility when
[73:21]you took your first breath that's your first start not many of
[73:26]us end up in that level to take on that kind of
[73:32]responsibility so Allah through the challenges gives you tools so you can
[73:38]elevate so you can go to the highest form of your own
[73:43]perfection and then you can Ahmad will be he takes the shot
[73:47]and it takes like 30 seconds to go into a slow motion
[73:51]and everything's gonna and then pamad's like this turns around before the
[73:56]ball even goes in you know and we get all a lot
[73:57]the things that happen and they they just expand on on just
[74:02]Muhammad's light then there's just the camera just goes off whack because
[74:06]he just is he's so powerful mashallah okay but I just want
[74:09]you to understand how much responsibility can you handle is how many
[74:15]challenges you could take on a life so the next time a
[74:20]challenge happens embrace it walk with it hug it invite it in
[74:27]for coffee tea say you know what you're my challenge you're mine
[74:32]I want and I don't want anybody to solve you but me
[74:36]this is life but I'm sorry a lot of our kids now
[74:41]that's not the case look at the suicide rate and everything else
[74:46]is because of these kinds of things because suicide is the ultimate
[74:49]self-hate but if somebody truly loves themselves they're not going to do
[74:55]that to themselves but it's about taking on challenges to excel to
[74:58]the high slot all right Muhammad
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