The Power of The Ears in Our Spiritual Development - Sayed Ali Khalkhali

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[0:11]all right respected Elders the younger ones brothers and sisters in Islam

[0:19]May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon your own assalamu

[0:23]alaikum continuing in these steps to gain God Consciousness to gain taqwa

[0:35]to be of those who truly understand the quality fast to be

[0:42]of those who really are of the ones that Allah says that

[0:48]fasting has been prescribed upon you like those before you Allah continue

[0:54]to learn from the lessons the one who is truly got conscious

[1:04]the one who are true like the holy prophet of Islam who

[1:09]stayed away and refrained from all sins who remembered Allah who always

[1:18]had the thought of Allah pleasing Allah they were truly of those

[1:27]who are taqwa I wish to learn how to be one of

[1:37]those who have taqwa responds with the verse from the Quran to

[1:42]be of the to be of the ones that Allah loves they

[1:48]are the ones who have taqwa they are the good doers when

[1:52]you ask for further advice as we mentioned he mentioned those quality

[2:02]steps those steps of someone who has taqwa whether it's the footsteps

[2:08]that he takes the mesh which is tawa law the walking of

[2:13]those who have takwa is full of humility whether it's their clothing

[2:19]and their dress is moderate attire whether it's their tongue and how

[2:27]they speak they talk direct to the point concise sharp precise they

[2:33]speak noble words good words or as we mentioned last night they

[2:42]are the ones what do they do they they lower their gaze

[2:47]from that which has been forbidden that which is Allah has mentioned

[2:57]that is Haram for you to see stay gaze lower there gaze

[3:00]then of the other quality acts that he continues to mentions he

[3:05]mentions that they stop their ears that they give an attentive Heir

[3:19]hearing to all that is beneficial knowledge for them that when it

[3:25]comes to these two ears again a source of us to gain

[3:32]information to understand and learn many in this world they hear they

[3:38]listen there is a difference when it comes to these two heirs

[3:42]sound vibration of those sound particles enter our ears some of us

[3:54]would be hearing some of us would be listening when it comes

[3:59]to listening some of us are passively listening some of us are

[4:06]actively listening when it comes to for example even in some Gatherings

[4:10]you know when you're sitting with down with someone he'll say I'm

[4:16]hearing you you say no I want you to listen to me

[4:22]I want all of your attention towards me for example and you

[4:25]find this many times with children you want to give them advice

[4:29]you want to sit down with them you want to speak with

[4:31]them and all the child's think is about something else when's the

[4:36]next game when can I go back to my toy when can

[4:37]I when are you going to stop speaking I want to go

[4:42]back to my life and the father mother says no I need

[4:44]your active attention you're true hearing is not just these sound particles

[4:55]going through the air because sometimes they go through one air and

[4:59]bounce back no we wanted to be active listening that there is

[5:08]a conscience that there is an awareness not there is an understanding

[5:12]and in the same way regards to the eyes we are responsible

[5:18]for our two eyes Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions that we are

[5:23]also responsible with these two is Allah has gifted us blessed us

[5:31]he mentions we are responsible our two is what we hear what

[5:49]we listen to how we receive the communication what we are listening

[5:56]to it's extremely important the imams mentioned the rights of the ears

[6:01]imams in the right of the air he mentions about the importance

[6:06]of listening to that which is permissible to ensure that you do

[6:11]not listen to that which Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has forbidden new

[6:16]form listening in fact one of the ways to understand and gain

[6:20]a greater understanding of many things in life is to First listen

[6:26]is FM then understand then what gain awareness then he States then

[6:35]put it into practice act upon what you were hearing from others

[6:43]states to his beloved Son Imam Hassan that tonight and tomorrow we

[6:51]are honoring the 15th of the holy month of Ramadan this blessed

[6:58]joyful occasion that Milad the birth anniversary of Imam Imam teaches us

[7:03]also how we should speak to one another how we should speak

[7:08]to our sons how we should speak to our children and he

[7:13]says to him my beloved Son again addressing him with Love With

[7:19]Honor with a title then he gives them a set of instructions

[7:27]one of them he would State accustom yourself estimate accustom your ears

[7:40]to listen to that which is best to listen best to listen

[7:46]to that which brings you closer to Allah then he States that

[7:54]that whenever you listen to something listen to that which yes that

[8:02]shall increase in your knowledge increase in what in your understanding and

[8:08]awareness that's why we are recommended to go to places that we

[8:18]gain knowledge and we gain nearness to Allah with these two is

[8:21]sometimes I don't need to do much doesn't need much it doesn't

[8:29]need me eat milk in fact we have two ears and one

[8:33]tongue and on that ratio we should listen more and speak speak

[8:41]less speak less that's why the ahadith remind us the importance of

[8:48]what speaking less and what being sometimes at places it's more appropriate

[8:54]to stay silent to stay quiet and when we speak to speak

[9:00]when it's appropriate good words but always listen always have an attentive

[9:08]is hearing and listening for example the narration says the one who

[9:15]listens to the one who sits in a gathering he just listens

[9:24]to others performing Victor of Allah he shall be recorded upon someone

[9:30]as someone performing Victor of Allah even though he himself was not

[9:36]performing the recitations with his two with his tongue he was not

[9:43]reciting that the Allah but due to the blessing of being in

[9:47]a gathering that the thicker and remembers of Allah took place and

[9:55]he was listening to the thicker of Allah he shall be recorded

[9:58]of someone who is performing thicker we should be honored such Gathering

[10:03]such events don't say that no I wasn't really actively participating I

[10:09]was just sitting on one side and I was just listening to

[10:12]the majors I didn't do much no be honored with the opposition

[10:19]that remembrance that's sitting down not listening to the thicker of Allah

[10:23]in itself is an honorable position that you would be recorded as

[10:30]a darker of Allah or another narration States that one who listens

[10:39]to the recitation of the Holy Quran in itself there is tawab

[10:45]in it in itself you are remembered as one who is reciting

[10:49]the Holy Quran even though you are not reciting it with your

[10:55]tongue even though he was not even reading it but you were

[10:57]sitting to one side and you were hearing the verses of the

[11:03]Holy Quran and these verses would Ripple within your own heart within

[11:07]your own understanding within your own god-consciousness within your own awareness of

[11:13]Allah you would be recorded as one who is what as one

[11:18]who is the one who recites and the one who listens there

[11:30]is a benefit and one should encourage one another recite the Quran

[11:35]and if you're not reciting at least be in that Gathering listen

[11:41]to the thicker of the Holy Quran being recited and of course

[11:44]when one listens to the Holy Quran when one recites the Holy

[11:47]Quran the month of the Quran that we are in we should

[11:51]try our very best to what also to understand the teachings of

[11:58]the Quran put an extra effort a man came to the 60

[12:01]Imam he said in the holy month of Ramadan of the Holy

[12:06]Quran 10 times may Allah reward you all best but again we

[12:15]remind ourselves of that statement we always State it's quality not not

[12:20]quantity Imam said of the 10 times that you recited the Quran

[12:26]how much did you understand the teachings of the Quran how much

[12:30]did you understand the teachings the laws the commands the provisions the

[12:36]stories he said not really much the Imam said so beautifully he

[12:40]said he said if you were to recite the Quran once once

[12:48]and you were to have tafakko understanding of the teachings of the

[12:54]Quran Min elf it would be better than a thousand times that

[13:03]you recite it without understanding without awareness you recite one Ayah try

[13:10]to gain some attachment to that Ayah what does it mean those

[13:14]chapters and verses that I regularly recite in my Quran in my

[13:20]Salah those chapters that I recite in my Sada for example I

[13:23]recite every single day every single one of us let me give

[13:30]an understanding what does mean what does it mean what does it

[13:38]mean let me understand these verses let me try to listen to

[13:43]a few tafasir chapters commentaries on the verses of the Holy Quran

[13:47]so the one who recites the Quran and the one who listens

[13:52]to the Holy Quran they receive the same there is great deed

[14:00]in listening to the Quran and reciting the Holy Quran also you

[14:06]find that going to a gathering that brings me closer to Allah

[14:13]imaginess that brings me closer to Allah in listening is something that

[14:21]I am recommended to always do look man the wise he reminds

[14:30]us about any imagines that we go to any Gathering remember majidus

[14:35]does not necessarily means which are great the best of majalis in

[14:45]Arabic terminology means place where people sit and gather there are various

[14:52]majalis various Gatherings he says The Faculty of sight The Faculty of

[15:06]hearing he says oh my son o my beloved Son before you

[15:11]go to imaginus have a four sides of that majidis before you

[15:18]take the steps towards that Madras wait reflect think for a moment

[15:26]before you want to listen to those who are in that measures

[15:31]wait wait wait then he gives two steps if you saw that

[15:44]that measures that you're going to go to they are going to

[15:48]perform Victor of Allah then he says then definitely go and sit

[15:59]with them accompany them be beside them then he says if you

[16:04]are to do so you have two stages if you are a

[16:10]knowledgeable person a scholar and you're sitting beside those who are performing

[16:15]thicker of Allah gaining Nearness of Allah your scholarly knowledge shall benefit

[16:23]them they shall benefit from you they shall ask you maybe what's

[16:29]the top seal of this verse that we've just performed what does

[16:33]this Hadith mean give us a narration they shall ask you maybe

[16:40]for example for advice on some Jewish potential matters they shall listen

[16:44]to you because you are one of their one of the scholars

[16:48]and if you are ignorant of the rules or unaware but you

[16:58]set you set amongst those you are performing Vikram of Allah their

[17:05]knowledge their blessed Gathering shall give benefit towards you so go to

[17:12]those gatherings this is a reminder for every single one of us

[17:18]any place we wish to go to let me pause for a

[17:21]moment that place that I'm going to that makan that magilis and

[17:27]one is it going to be a remembrance of Allah is it

[17:30]going to bring closer to Allah shall I benefit will I benefit

[17:36]will they benefit will we benefit in Nanos towards Allah then he

[17:44]says if you saw you had the foresight that that Gathering yeah

[17:50]they are not going to remember Allah rather they are going to

[17:56]perform anything to distance themselves from Allah they're going to perform sins

[18:00]Disobedience of Allah you have that foresight you are aware sometimes you

[18:08]find this they invite me to such a gathering they say this

[18:14]is an invitation in this Gathering there is so and so and

[18:18]so going to take place I know in advance there are Haram

[18:24]gatherings I've been pre-warned should I go to this Gathering Do not

[18:30]sit amongst them he says why it says even if you are

[18:37]a knowledgeable person even if you are a scholar amongst them will

[18:40]they listen to you will they wish to understand you and gain

[18:46]Learners towards you no the purpose of their visit is what is

[18:50]to distance themselves from Allah says do not sit amongst them then

[19:00]he says then he says and if you are less aware of

[19:05]the rulings less aware of the teachings less aware of the scholarly

[19:12]knowledge that they have or less aware foreign they shall increase they

[19:26]shall increase in your sins they shall increase in your distance of

[19:34]Allah I need to be aware about my two ears where am

[19:37]I actively listening what am I listening to what am I hearing

[19:44]we mentioned those things that we should hear we should listen to

[19:48]those that bring me closer to Allah and of them by the

[19:54]way is to seek knowledge masha'allah we have our meaning many students

[20:02]amongst them this in itself is an act of worship to go

[20:09]to university to go to college to listen to your teacher one

[20:12]who listens to someone that brings them closer to knowledge in itself

[20:16]is a great deed beneficial deed it's a blessed deed whoever listens

[20:24]to someone who brings them closer to Allah it's as if in

[20:33]that Gathering that they're worshiping Allah and whoever listens to someone who

[20:42]is just talking about satanic deeds those temptation of sins those sinful

[20:50]acts it's as if they are worshiping or gaining nanas to the

[20:56]shaytan what we should not listen to what we should avoid of

[21:02]course Allah reminds us to stay away these two is from listening

[21:08]to Vain and false talk to listen and stay away from what

[21:14]anything that distances me from the true love of Allah listening and

[21:26]actively hearing the Haram music and the Haram singing just potentially there

[21:34]are things that we need to be aware the Haram music the

[21:37]Haram Singh Haram ones of course there are those that the Maharaja

[21:42]that you would approach and see their books that would give for

[21:49]example some exemptions some energy some remembrance Sometimes some classical sometimes no

[21:53]these are what not what we're talking about those things that we

[21:56]should be careful those which are Haram those criminals those sinful those

[22:07]who don't at all have any association and remembers of Allah their

[22:12]form of music those kind of musics my two ears should not

[22:19]at all be nearing any hearing towards them during the time of

[22:31]Imam a man came to the sixth month he said I have

[22:34]a next door neighbor the next door neighbor they have some musicians

[22:41]and some singers Haram music Haram singing their form of music and

[22:48]Haram singing sometimes I go to the lavatory the bathroom after I've

[22:54]completed and washed myself and everything I purposefully stay a few moments

[22:59]a few minutes longer in the bathroom because the window is adjacent

[23:04]to their home so that I listen further and further to their

[23:11]music and their singing he was trying to maybe say that maybe

[23:19]my intention to go to listen was not to listen but suddenly

[23:23]whilst I was there I stayed some further and longer Imam immediately

[23:29]responds with the verse of the Quran all of these you are

[23:42]you are responsible for the verse that we just mentioned earlier on

[23:50]that Allah says that you will be responsible you will be responsible

[23:56]you have responsibility upon your jaware upon your organs upon everything you

[24:03]will be responsible even for those moments that you went and prolonged

[24:06]yourself in order to listen to something which was Haram and actively

[24:14]listening yes there are sometimes that I'm hearing but I have no

[24:18]attention and no motive sometimes I'm going to the local grocery and

[24:22]my intention is not at all to listen to something I'm going

[24:28]to buy some strawberries some drinks some juice and I'm on my

[24:32]way home not at all to listen to something and they put

[24:37]in the background some radio for example and something else that's not

[24:42]at all my attention not at all my intention you won't be

[24:45]receiving sins but of course if you go to that Superstore and

[24:50]you start to dance towards it or you actively sit there and

[24:53]stay there for hours and hours of course that is a different

[24:58]matter and different thing that we need to be aware of and

[25:01]finally of those things that we need to be extremely careful are

[25:09]to is and our Gatherings that we should be careful from are

[25:14]listening to Reba actively participating in riba whether I'm not the one

[25:25]who's actively saying the Reba someone else is saying the riba but

[25:29]I'm enjoying it and listening onwards and onwards and sometimes provoking that

[25:36]person to say something further and perform more Haram the act of

[25:42]backbiting saying something of the secrets of my brother and Faith of

[25:50]my men dear one or to reveal to others something that he

[25:54]does not want to be revealed behind there back in their absence

[26:01]this is something we need to be extremely careful Allah mentions that

[26:09]it's like like the disgusting or the ugly Act of eating the

[26:15]Flesh of your very own love where your own friend and that's

[26:20]why we find in narrations that say that if someone performs riba

[26:23]in this world they need to ask that person who they performed

[26:29]riba for forgiveness and ask Allah and this is not a sin

[26:39]to be taken lightly you can't say by the way you call

[26:41]your friend tonight we're going to do riba about you are you

[26:44]fine about it no you're performing a Haram act there's not something

[26:47]to be fine about and again it just for my friend I

[26:51]can perform riba about him tonight everyone you're welcome to come to

[26:55]my house no this is a Haram the sinful act that we

[26:59]need to be careful and avoid we ask Allah to learn from

[27:02]the lessons of the Muslim to learn by Kareem Imam who would

[27:10]sit beside his beloved father and beloved mother and listen to their

[27:14]words and listen to their advice Imam Hassan who would be beside

[27:22]his grandfather rasulullah and listen to the teachings of rasulullah he would

[27:28]come home and relate the Hadith and narrations of rasulullah to his

[27:33]beloved mother he would narrate the verses of the Holy Quran to

[27:38]his beloved mother what was relayed what occurred this is active listening

[27:43]from a young age listening to their Imam listening to their Prophet

[27:52]listening to their Elders listening to those who bring us all closer

[27:58]to Allah we ask Allah to grant us the ziara of Imam

[28:07]Hassan Allah Muhammad [Music]

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