Why is Life a Struggle? - Sheikh Aous Asfar - Ramadhan Night 12

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Why is Life a Struggle? Ramadan Night Twelve Sheikh Aous Asfar Muslim Youth Connection Ramadhan 2019

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[0:00]the auditorium please donate or spread the word another thing is that

[0:08]I might see retreat registrations are up if you guys are interested

[0:12]please register there's there's a table outside of the bookstore ready and

[0:16]without further ado let's welcome brother Mustafa solidi for some recitation Allah

[0:36]Allah Muhammad Ali Mohammed I would be like him in a shape

[0:53]on your regime you're on man you're here I live me the

[1:18]linkle kids are vulnerable fee you hold a little more time pain

[1:47]love in you mean all of it away being where you'll be

[1:54]more who knows wah wah wah [Music] movie war on one Lelaina

[2:11]you mean onna be ma the lanai Elin Pelin or build a

[2:38]Fiorentino Pino I love them you begin Wow little filly in La

[3:15]Mina come follow so I give the rights a woman to zero

[3:34]minou I knew him some lovely shower when a woman and I

[4:27]see my my video me 1 billion me one love me meanie

[5:28][Music] [Applause] [Music] wah-wah-wah [Music] why Oh [Music] [Music] yes ye the

[7:28]feel alone naso follow although I don't mean ah - so far

[7:59]you know Momo so far my love sun dong-yeol lobby in fact

[8:23]apostle allah muhammad was thank you brother mr.

[8:44]Stuber for this beautiful station let's all give him a lot salat

[8:48]and now without further ado please help me welcome share owes us

[8:58]for to this to the podium with Allah so Allah Muhammad Ali

[9:20]Mohammed a second time for the love of Allah mahmoud hassan until

[9:26]imam hussain a third time for the love of lady fatima with

[9:35]the loudest of voices miss me I have a man of AHIMA

[9:45]salat wa salam ala sayyidal mursaleen habib allah hey Lyla mean I

[9:48]will cast him in Mustafa Muhammad wala elevated to beam up ah

[9:57]hey Dean so what well Anna to the Metro a body on

[10:00]edema in min and an alarm yo me Dean Bashar Assad recently

[10:07]memory of the dr.

[10:07]Millis on EF coley-cole allahu ta'ala fake eatable ke moko ham hock

[10:14]allah subhanaw taala states in holy quran and what he says is

[10:18]the truth in the chapter of al baqara vs.

[10:20]155 - 157 Allah says when an affluent accomplished a in Manado

[10:25]fee well Giuliana criminal and wali well unfussy with samara to assure

[10:29]of sovereign alladhina ada asaba to mercy become coluan allahi wa inna

[10:34]ilayhi roger own hola Akali him salawatu mubarak muhammadun allah subhanaw taala

[10:42]says in these beautiful verses he says i surely we will try

[10:49]them mankind with some fear with some hunger with deficiency in their

[10:53]wealth and deficiency in their health and deficiency in their sustenance and

[11:00]their glad tidings to those who are patient those who when afflicted

[11:05]by a calamity they say surely we are from allah and to

[11:09]he we shall return those are the ones that are praised by

[11:16]allah almighty and those are the ones upon which Allah Allah bestows

[11:20]his mercy and those are the ones that Allah will label as

[11:25]the righteously guided sort of Allah Allahu Alem I'm Anabella brothers and

[11:29]sisters assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh in the last few nights we've learned a

[11:39]great deal about ourselves a great deal about this life a great

[11:44]deal about our creator himself we learned how to set goals and

[11:49]we learned how to have self-awareness and how far that can take

[11:53]us we learned how to speak to ourselves to our hearts with

[11:55]positive self-talk so that we can be proactive and take initiative to

[12:01]instill change within ourselves and that that change if we are able

[12:04]to make within ourselves then for sure that will also help us

[12:07]make change in others we learned how to speak to others so

[12:12]that we can be a positive element of change in their lives

[12:15]too by treating others well surely allah subhanaw taala will allow us

[12:21]to create a better society a better community we also learned how

[12:26]to speak to our lord to allah almighty and by doing so

[12:32]we started the conversation an important conversation a conversation that's way past

[12:36]you one that we have to start in this month in these

[12:40]nights so that we can come to a closer understanding of Allah

[12:43]Almighty and so that he knows that we have not forgotten him

[12:48]that we are not of those who are heedless that we are

[12:50]of those who seek his pleasure who show him gratitude who always

[12:57]connect with him and don't forget him so that he doesn't forget

[12:59]us on the day of judgement we went through the rights of

[13:04]certain faculties that allah subhanaw taala had given us or has given

[13:10]us after making the logical deduction that everything that allah has given

[13:15]us from all of our faculties surely were given to us for

[13:18]no other purpose than to be used in gratitude and thanks to

[13:23]him and him alone what I wanted to talk about today is

[13:27]I wanted to answer the question why is life a struggle now

[13:33]we covered obviously the right of the greatest right of Allah Almighty

[13:37]we covered of course the right of the self we covered the

[13:43]right of the tongue and the right of the hearing and the

[13:50]right of the eyesight if you recall today our goal is to

[13:54]practically apply what we learned we did the same thing after we

[13:57]learned the right of the tongue we practically applied and we had

[14:04]a game plan in terms of what we need to do if

[14:06]you recall we talked to a line we said that after every

[14:11]prayer after the morning prayer after the lauren hassle prayer after the

[14:15]metal Benicia prayer we would do that doraville imam ja'far assad of

[14:19]salam ala ali out of curiosity how many people have continued to

[14:23]do it very good not bad so we want more numbers to

[14:25]do it every day right so what are you going to do

[14:29]you're going to say yeah up brbr up we oughta be onto

[14:34]what happens so you're out of breath and then what do you

[14:36]do what do you ask allah for protection from sin with which

[14:43]name do I ask him yeah awesome very good and then what

[14:48]else for a lot amend us exactly and with which name do

[14:54]I call upon him so that he mends me yeah mostly a

[14:59]centum good today our goal is to understand how it is that

[15:03]we can practically deal with the challenges that allah subhanaw taala has

[15:07]given us because we know for a fact we proved it by

[15:12]logical necessity that allah almighty has to give us challenges in order

[15:16]for us to prove to him that we are worthy of the

[15:22]challenge of this earth right to prove to him how much gratitude

[15:26]we have you see if we're not tested then how do we

[15:34]know how do we know ourselves how dedicated we are to Allah

[15:39]Almighty how do we know make sense I want you to think

[15:45]about that so what I'd like to do first and foremost is

[15:48]I'd like to go through the logical necessity for us to go

[15:52]through struggle we'll work that out together the next thing that I

[15:55]want to do is I want to go through the academic understanding

[15:59]of struggle and lastly I want to see what the Quran says

[16:02]to us and then we'll see if we can practically apply the

[16:10]star daily lives so logically speaking after proving time after time and

[16:15]taking it as a reference point that Allah Almighty is the one

[16:20]who created us that we couldn't have created ourselves that a creator

[16:23]is not limited by his creations and therefore the creator of the

[16:27]unlimited of the limited world must be unlimited acento and therefore since

[16:33]he is unlimited that means is all purposeful that means when he

[16:38]created me he created me for a purpose and I know that

[16:40]the greatest purpose for which he created me is to thank him

[16:46]until him gratitude why because I know that for a fact that

[16:49]when I'm with my parents I feel an obligation to be obedient

[16:54]to them to please them and the reason why is because they

[16:56]have a right upon me and that is that they brought me

[17:00]to this world they sheltered me they fed me right they guided

[17:03]me and I know by priority he who gave me my parents

[17:07]and their parents and all of the blessings in this universe has

[17:10]the greatest right upon me and that is to show him gratitude

[17:13]and thanks through obedience and that that would be the greatest form

[17:16]of worship and that that worship first and foremost would have to

[17:23]be to use his flock his ethical system his code of conduct

[17:26]how he treats others those who he deemed worthy of existing and

[17:32]that I should treat them just as he treats them and so

[17:36]by logical necessity if I determine that all existence have Worth and

[17:41]Allah gives them opportunity than I by priority must also give them

[17:47]the same type of opportunity that Allah gives them Allah gives them

[17:52]breath Allah allows them to talk I allow them to talk I

[17:54]give them an opportunity to give their opinion and I respect their

[17:59]opinion though I may disagree just like Allah Almighty may disagree with

[18:03]their opinion but he still lets them think and express themselves and

[18:12]I realize that each individual in this world must have challenges of

[18:17]their lives and the reason why they must have these challenges is

[18:20]so that they can show their level of gratitude to Allah and

[18:25]that each one of us when we have challenges our challenges are

[18:31]unique to us you're not gonna find many people who are standing

[18:44]at the podium and their challenge comes right to their podium see

[18:50]how a lot challenges us he challenges us in our patience to

[19:02]see how we're going to treat each other to see are we

[19:06]aware of his presence among us or no because if I know

[19:11]that Allah is present among us then I will appreciate everybody and

[19:17]enjoy their presence in my life even when they don't understand their

[19:25]own importance or my own importance right and what that does is

[19:35]that gives me this bird's-eye view of life it makes me have

[19:40]a different understanding of all the challenges that come in my way

[19:48]it makes me it makes me see that every person that comes

[19:51]in my life will bring something new to me and I know

[19:56]that if it comes from Allah Almighty and it is of his

[19:59]creations and he is indeed all perfect then there is no way

[20:07]that it could be bad for me to go through there's absolutely

[20:11]no way I also know that since everything in this world is

[20:15]limited then that means it has a beginning and an end and

[20:21]if it has a beginning and an end then that means that

[20:23]I should not look within that struggle I should look beyond the

[20:28]struggle if today my age is 13 years old then in a

[20:38]year I will be 14 and that age will end and the

[20:42]struggles within that age will end and the pain you feel within

[20:45]that struggle will end why because the nature of being limited is

[20:50]that you have a beginning and an end right Hasson which means

[21:00]now that my view of my struggles becomes a realistic one it's

[21:05]no longer one that is rooted in illusion thinking that just as

[21:18]my imagination goes wild I think that I'm never going to get

[21:22]out of the struggle how is the pain ever going to pass

[21:28]and why me and not to anyone else why this struggle and

[21:32]no other the answer becomes simple why this struggle because Allah chose

[21:39]it for it for you because you're worthy of the struggle because

[21:45]you will become stronger after the struggle passes when I play a

[21:52]video game what happens I move from level to level but I

[21:56]don't move to the next level until I have perfected the first

[21:58]level right and I don't move out of the second level until

[22:04]I've perfected the second level and I don't move to the third

[22:06]unless I protect it I've completed and perfected the second level right

[22:10]or the third level and the fourth level and so forth life

[22:17]isn't any different it's not different at all life is exactly like

[22:24]that Xbox or Playstation game that you play and life also has

[22:29]cheat codes it's got a half cheat codes I know because if

[22:33]a human being is going to create a cheat code for a

[22:35]game then you better believe that God by priority who gave him

[22:39]the ability to think that way will also give him a key

[22:41]that will open a door into a higher level if he takes

[22:47]the time to find it and ask for it it just makes

[22:54]logical sense one of the simplest cheat codes that I can tell

[23:00]you we can prove logically and simply is drop once we uncover

[23:10]the reality that there is a creator and that he is unlimited

[23:15]automatically what happens also magically what happens is this is I look

[23:23]towards the heavens I don't look down to the ground for some

[23:28]reason I look towards them is why it's just something that's innate

[23:32]and all of us and what happens I say what is my

[23:39]purpose what's the draw it's a request what did we say the

[23:42]other day a request happens from whom to whom for it for

[23:48]it to be a draw from lower to higher exactly and if

[23:52]it's a command then it's from someone who is higher to someone

[23:55]who is lower and if it's our idea which means just a

[24:04]simple request that you hope that you hope will be responded to

[24:08]the two people are at an equal level right but what I

[24:14]do is automatically I realized that he is unlimited that I know

[24:18]I'm limited so what happens a request that request must be by

[24:23]default outdoor hands down and since the sadhana I know for a

[24:33]fact that because I discovered this reality that I will be rewarded

[24:38]right away especially if I ask for guidance I say what do

[24:40]you want from me that's the guidance I'm asking for guidance right

[24:43]once I do that I know I have opened the door and

[24:52]I feel it because my intellect opens up to and I start

[24:57]seeing things with a different mindset I start looking for the good

[25:07]as opposed to focusing on the bad I become more optimistic as

[25:13]opposed to being pessimistic instead of looking at job as a challenge

[25:20]I look at her job as what as a blessing and that's

[25:28]a challenge in itself instead of looking at my relationship with my

[25:32]dad as one that stuff and I could never please him what

[25:35]happens I become thankful for that sort of relationship and instead of

[25:42]standing I - I challenging him I fall down and kiss his

[25:51]hands and his feet and thank Allah that he brought me to

[25:56]this world to have this man raise me and guide me and

[25:59]care so much that he argues with me and tells me you

[26:04]don't understand son you're still too young how blessed am i to

[26:08]have a father that cares so much about me your mindset changes

[26:16]your perception changes you see everything with a different eye you see

[26:27]everything first and foremost before it you see the unlimited after it

[26:31]you see the unlimited next to it you see the unlimited on

[26:35]the other side you see the unlimited everything about your view of

[26:41]life changes it all becomes about and central centered around the creator

[26:48]himself it's amazing so then what happens is now since my perception

[27:00]changes what happens I say why is it that luck testing me

[27:04]if I'm not tested now I'm going to start questioning my relationship

[27:12]with Allah Allah am I not good enough why are the tests

[27:18]so easy Allah am i not strong enough now you start wondering

[27:24]why you're not being tested think about that motto it's a very

[27:37]very deep thought very very deep level of thinking you end up

[27:47]longing for the test feeling hurt that you haven't been tested well

[27:52]enough and now when you look at other people as they go

[27:59]through their challenges instead of saying you Haram what do you say

[28:04]say Allah what level of faith does this person have what worth

[28:09]do they have to allow that Allah puts them through such a

[28:16]test and that then becomes motivation for me to try to be

[28:20]involved in their struggle so that I can help them somehow so

[28:26]that I can share in the table in the nearness to Allah

[28:29]Almighty look at how the perception changes did you ever think of

[28:43]things that way what can you do you see it not yet

[28:46]it's tough it's tough to look at a struggle look at an

[28:52]illness and say I'm the love she could it's not me come

[28:55]to love ship it's someone else right that's easy to say right

[29:02]something that wasn't me but then when you go through the sickness

[29:09]and you surpass it do you come out stronger or no even

[29:17]biologically speaking your system your immune system becomes stronger right the Tejeda

[29:22]right your immunity becomes stronger growing up as we're exposed to different

[29:30]viruses and bacteria what happens our immunity grows stronger if we look

[29:37]within ourselves we will find the answers Allah created the system to

[29:44]almost match the physical system if we only take the time to

[29:53]look and learn so what do the academics tell us Sal Allah

[29:58]Mohammed Ali Mohammed so I'm going to cite three works here so

[30:11]for those who want to take down the names of these books

[30:15]you got your phones out I'm gonna take down the names to

[30:24]these books the names of these books okay so one it's called

[30:27]presence that's number one that's one of the books are reference the

[30:33]other one is called the upside of stress and the last one

[30:37]is called mindset Amy Cuddy is the author of the first book

[30:48]presence Carol Dueck is the author of mindset Kelly McGonigal is the

[31:02]author of the upside of stress let's look at presents first in

[31:15]her fifth chapter Amy Cuddy says that studies done in the university

[31:23]of st.

[31:20]Louis show that when a group was primed before entering a test

[31:29]primed as in someone sat down with them explain to them the

[31:33]importance of the test their goal was to stress them out as

[31:38]much as possible and then when they went into the exam the

[31:41]invigilator x' their role was to be right over their heads so

[31:46]if they're slow you know they'd be right over their head sink

[31:51]come on clock is ticking clock is ticking stress them out stress

[31:54]them out as much as possible the other group there was no

[32:00]one there priming them no one primed them no one did that

[32:02]to them they just went into the test now what's interesting is

[32:08]that the results of this research shows that in these two groups

[32:13]those who were primed meaning stressed in the test most of them

[32:18]failed while those who weren't primed some of them failed and some

[32:26]of them didn't and there was a third group that third group

[32:29]was also primed but in a different way they were told listen

[32:33]life is a test this is a test you're going to get

[32:37]over it it's a limited period of time it'll start it'll end

[32:39]don't worry about it if you don't get the answer to one

[32:43]question move on to the next one and so forth until you're

[32:45]able to get the answer or remember the answer then go back

[32:50]to the question that you don't know okay that third group all

[32:53]of them passed every single one of them asked why those who

[33:01]are stressed not the control group those who are stressed when asked

[33:06]why is it that you failed they said you know what when

[33:11]I couldn't get one question I just ended up just thinking about

[33:13]it over and over and over again and it just it kind

[33:17]of paralyzed me I couldn't move on to the next question right

[33:21]the next thing I knew that time was up when the third

[33:28]group was asked what did they say they said well it was

[33:31]easy because they reminded us before the test that you know this

[33:34]test is going to end anyway and life is going to go

[33:37]on so after this if I can't answer this question then I'll

[33:41]just move on to the next one it's not a big deal

[33:41]next thing you know I was done I might have missed a

[33:44]couple of questions but it was neither here nor there I still

[33:47]was able to pass the test okay in another study in her

[33:57]same book in that fifth chapter she cites a study that was

[34:01]done with American students and Japanese students they brought two groups of

[34:07]children okay this was during school time one was in the Japanese

[34:11]school system one was in the American school system in the American

[34:16]school system they were given these puzzles the same puzzles were given

[34:19]to those Japanese students they found that the American students when given

[34:23]the puzzles they gave up very quickly while those who were in

[34:27]the Japanese school system they kept on working and working and working

[34:30]on the puzzles until they were able to solve them and the

[34:35]mindset of each group was different when they were interviewed those kids

[34:38]said you know what is just impossible the American children well the

[34:42]Japanese kids they said this is a challenge they said this is

[34:47]so challenging we want to be able to solve it that even

[34:51]when that time was over they still wanted to work on it

[34:53]while the American kids when the time was up they were so

[34:57]relieved that it was done and over but some of them even

[35:02]said we thought it would never end in her book mindset caroled

[35:12]awake says something really interesting and you might have heard this from

[35:18]me before she speaks about the IQ test she says that originally

[35:23]the IQ test was actually made for the French school system for

[35:27]a curriculum within the French school system she said what ended up

[35:33]happening as it was adopted by the American school system to test

[35:38]students for their aptitude now the problem is testing the students in

[35:43]their academic aptitude was not what this test was made for it

[35:49]was an evaluation to see whether this new curriculum was effective and

[35:52]that the students in France were actually benefitting from it or not

[35:58]unfortunately the IQ system now became basically the hallmark of understanding whether

[36:01]someone is smart or not and we know for a fact that

[36:06]there are people that don't score high in IQs but are very

[36:10]successful business people right we know that so that kind of gives

[36:16]us a hint as to how accurate that system may be it's

[36:19]almost like a caste system that is developed but within the halls

[36:25]of academia right and within families all you know he's not too

[36:28]smart his IQ was very low right we heard this all the

[36:30]time well what did you score on your IQ test oh and

[36:35]they get embarrassed you know I don't know what can I tell

[36:40]you so what she says is she says what we've literally done

[36:44]is we've categorized and classified children in our society as dumb or

[36:52]smart and we've let that carry through their entire academic career oh

[36:58]he's simple he doesn't understand he's not too bright he doesn't get

[37:04]it too quickly we need to spend a little more time why

[37:06]don't I give you a few minutes you need my 10 5

[37:10]15 20 minutes to get it versus someone who maybe as a

[37:12]science major for example in college or an engineering major they're smart

[37:19]they have high IQs and so forth right but usually the richest

[37:21]people in the world don't tend to be engineers doctors if you

[37:25]think about it so now what does she say she says in

[37:31]her book she says that the reality of the matter is that

[37:33]when we do that what we've done is we've created two types

[37:39]of mindsets what they found is that those and you might think

[37:42]that those who are described as being not too smart are the

[37:46]ones that are affected affected negatively most their her studies show that

[37:51]those who are told oh you know you're not that smart what

[37:54]happens to them is they say well you know what if I

[37:59]get it wrong I get it wrong what's the big deal I'll

[38:00]just keep trying but those who are told that they're smart constantly

[38:07]they have a rep to live up to so what happens is

[38:09]that they have a fear of asking questions they have a fear

[38:13]of being wrong they generally have all these fears and phobias related

[38:20]to their academic aptitude while the others they have reckless abandon because

[38:25]they're like you know what if I get it wrong what's the

[38:27]worst that could happen they think I'm dumb anyway right what she

[38:30]also found was that there there's a third group that actually has

[38:39]both mindsets so for example you could be she called him one

[38:41]was called an open mindset one was called the closed mindset a

[38:45]closed mindset is or a fixed mindset it's someone who has a

[38:52]hard time asking questions who fears that their academic status may be

[38:58]affected if they ask a question or answer a question and get

[39:01]it wrong and another sure sign is that if they do answer

[39:05]and they get it wrong they become very defensive and they try

[39:08]to show how much information they know even if it's unrelated to

[39:13]the question I know as I'm saying this you're thinking of people

[39:18]right specifically ourselves I'm when I when I hear that I'm asking

[39:23]myself am I like that right because if I'm like that and

[39:26]I was raised in that type of environment as I'm sure many

[39:31]of you have been right because if this person is smart then

[39:36]he can do no wrong and if he does anything then what

[39:38]happens then it's a social stigma all of a sudden right what

[39:42]are people gonna say about us if you don't go to medical

[39:48]school bupkes sure master dick - holy she could ruin us right

[39:54]small laugh you've been to solid doctora look his daughter became a

[40:02]physician but you vacant what's wrong with you she's me in there

[40:07]and in that's awesome and neck I'm sorry yeah isn't that what

[40:10]we say other people are better than you they're better than us

[40:17]and there's this pressure right it's like a pressure cooker and you

[40:21]find yourself of course your parents don't understand I don't understand why

[40:26]they're so stressed right well maybe because I have the burden of

[40:31]the entire reputation of the family and all of Islam on my

[40:39]shoulders right an entire community so the third mindset is one that's

[40:43]a mixture of both and some things there's a fixed mindset and

[40:47]other things no it's an unfixed mindset it's an open mindset so

[40:52]for example let's say when it comes to studying the person is

[40:58]too proud to ask questions okay but when it comes to poor

[41:01]on for example they're okay to ask their local shaker or their

[41:04]friends that they don't understand this or that or the other but

[41:09]see because they know they don't know so they're okay to learn

[41:12]but because they have a reputation to keep right when it comes

[41:15]to their engineering or science right what happens the chest goes up

[41:24]like this right and they're like you know if I ask what

[41:27]if my question is silly what if they get the wrong impression

[41:33]of me what if what if so you try to like hide

[41:37]you know in the auditorium as your teacher right before they leave

[41:39]as they walk down the hallway where nobody sees them and you're

[41:43]showing yourself like you're mr.

[41:43]cool and then you're you run up to them and you say

[41:48]you know I had a question then your friend passes by and

[41:50]you say to them by the way is it okay to make

[41:54]an appointment with you so that you have your private time with

[41:57]that teacher to ask them all that you would ask that you

[41:59]don't look like an idiot in front of your friends because you're

[42:03]always supposed to have the answer because you're the smart one in

[42:06]the family just so we're not a couple amazed in right now

[42:15]of course she says this is extremely problematic because what happens is

[42:22]that those were the fixed mindset they tend to stop growing they

[42:26]stagnate while those who don't have a fixed mindset those who have

[42:31]an open mindset they tend to actually surpass that group of people

[42:37]at a later age is that interesting one of them so we

[42:44]ask ourselves which one are we are we the mix of two

[42:46]and what we have to do is we have to look at

[42:50]where we are a fixed mindset and break the chains that are

[42:53]holding us within that mindset okay finally Kelly McGonigal in her book

[43:03]the upside of stress she says something really interesting she says for

[43:07]years she's been preaching to people that stress is a bad thing

[43:10]that it's the cause of heart disease and and it's the cause

[43:13]of heart attacks and strokes and all sorts of sicknesses such as

[43:19]ulcers and so forth but then she said that her new research

[43:22]actually shows that in actual fact it all has to do with

[43:29]your perception of the stress that you have stress can actually be

[43:33]a good thing and I'll give you a simple example and I'll

[43:37]talk a little fight science since we have some warriors amongst us

[43:45]you know in the sport of Thai boxing and Muay Thai we're

[43:50]talking about martial arts okay and I'm sure all of you have

[43:55]seen this on TV on National Geographic or Discovery or something what

[43:59]you find also in the sports of in the martial art of

[44:01]confu and Shotokan the Japanese form that what they tend to do

[44:07]is they tend to practice by hitting bricks with their hand right

[44:11]and muy Thai what they do is they literally kick a log

[44:16]over and over and you've seen videos of the Shaolin monks probably

[44:20]doing this hitting it with their left shin hitting it with their

[44:23]right shin hitting it with their left chin right shin over over

[44:28]and over and over again and then those of you who watch

[44:31]shows like the MMA for example UFC and not that stuff and

[44:38]you see this one guy who kicks this guy's chin and literally

[44:40]the shin snaps just like when you see Jimmy and that guy

[44:47]kicked the baseball bat right and the baseball bat snaps you see

[44:52]that stress can actually make those bones stronger research done on baseball

[45:00]players top batters right they found that the bone density on their

[45:06]leading arm when they bat is much thicker than on the non-leading

[45:10]arm and the reason why is because of the repetition of the

[45:14]use of that arm over and over and over again that's a

[45:16]scientific fact which means that stress can actually make you stronger if

[45:22]you understand that that's the purpose of the stress if your perception

[45:28]her studies show that if your perception is that it is negative

[45:34]then what will happen you'll fall into a depression you'll fall into

[45:38]a slump you'll fall into thinking pessimistically and you won't realize the

[45:42]benefits of the stress that you're actually going through see aliquot if

[45:45]you realize this now Ally your life is gonna be smooth smooth

[45:54]sailing you see now what does Islam tell us now that we

[45:58]understand what the science tells us Aslam tells us something really beautiful

[46:05]and that verse that we started out with what did it say

[46:08]it says well in a blue one neckl be shaken Allah says

[46:14]whoa laughs he says surely and really well NAB Louanna so here

[46:28]we've got lamb of tech heat and the Wow actually the Wow

[46:32]actually is a way for us to swear by something just like

[46:38]we say well Oscar allah says in holy quran what baja right

[46:41]well laylee right allah subhanaw taala swears by these things so here

[46:45]a lot of swearing for sure land a blue one a noon

[46:50]of emphasis again lamb of instances known of emphasis and he doesn't

[46:53]say well and a blue one nichette says one and a blue

[46:56]one at home all of you doesn't say o you who believe

[47:01]he says come all of you all of people all of mankind

[47:03]with what he says be shaken with a little bit of golf

[47:11]fear Nell Kofi well jury and hunger one excellent and a deficiency

[47:16]mean L AM wali well emphysema thammarat wealth health sustenance the fruits

[47:26]of your labor and then what does he say he says looked

[47:30]but don't worry look beyond the struggle he says well best shield

[47:33]of sovereign says give glad tidings to those who are patient be

[47:38]patient brother Hassan that's the code you want to break the code

[47:47]you want to cheat code that's what it is patience what best

[47:50]Shearer saw it in and Levine who say well how am I

[47:55]going to be patient Ya Allah how will I be patient he

[47:56]says he now he defines a sovereign and levena either a sahabat

[48:02]who mows a baton call you in nara Lionel a garage on

[48:04]that's simple Allah says look those are the ones who when afflicted

[48:10]by a calamity say here's the code write it down this is

[48:13]your key surely we are from Allah and to him we shall

[48:19]return which means what it means the test is temporary because if

[48:22]you think about the endgame remember what we said in the goal

[48:25]setting if you think about what your final goal is it is

[48:29]to meet your Lord to show him that in the meeting when

[48:32]you are judged that surely you did everything that you could to

[48:35]please him to show him your gratitude brother Hassan right what happens

[48:40]then brother sin then my mindset changes the way I see stress

[48:45]changes I don't look at it in a pessimistic fashion but rather

[48:50]I look at it brother much never in an optimistic fashion now

[48:54]I become an optimist I'm optimistic that this struggle will end I'm

[49:00]optimistic that I will surpass the struggle successfully why because I remembered

[49:07]that I'm not give me the struggle surely I am from Allah

[49:12]and this struggle is from him and to he I shall return

[49:15]and report how I did in these struggles in this life and

[49:22]if I do so what's my reward Allah says beautifully after he

[49:28]says o bachelor slobby Deen and latina - wobba - masseur Giancarlo

[49:35]in Allah he won a lady about your own surely we are

[49:38]from Allah - he we shall return he says who those are

[49:49]the ones whom allah subhanaw taala praises and bestows his mercy and

[49:54]those are the ones who will be labeled as the righteously guided

[50:01]what an honor what an honor Allah says in Allah whom Allah

[50:09]akita who you saw Luna Highlander be surely Allah and his angels

[50:15]praised the holy prophet yahya Lavina sallu alayhi wasalam Oh Taslima Salawat

[50:26]Allah and his angels do Salawat on the Prophet Allah here says

[50:33]Allah Iike these people that do this of my worshippers I will

[50:36]do Salawat upon them just like I do Salavat on my prophet

[50:44]what an honor what an absolute honor and it's that simple to

[50:49]be patient through all these struggles it's open book he tells you

[50:53]exactly what you're going to go through and all I need to

[50:57]do is just remind myself surely discuss this temporary I am from

[51:01]Allah to he I shall return how am I going to meet

[51:04]him how am I going to face him right I surpassed the

[51:10]struggles successfully oh Allah struggle 1 & 2 & 3 I passed

[51:14]level 1 2 3 4 I'm in the end zone pray over

[51:19]me just like you did over your prophecy Allah bestow upon me

[51:30]your mercy Allah place me in heaven yah Allah we ask that

[51:34]allah subhanaw taala makes us even more 13 we ask that allah

[51:38]subhanaw taala accepts what little we offer in this holy month and

[51:43]that this becomes part of our practical repertoire that I remind myself

[51:48]during the day that surely I am from Allah and to he

[51:52]I shall return - I wanna anaconda lillahi rabbil aalameen o salat

[51:57]wa salam ala sayyidal mursaleen habib allah a nummy-nummy Ocasio Mustafa Muhammad

[52:02]Allah elevated pagina pardon well Fatiha are one more poem in will

[52:06]eat a chili for Julie la la la Li la la la

[52:11]that one Thank You Sharon for this beautiful lecture we will have

[52:34]a discussion with chef oats in the dining hall please stay with

[52:42]us Celina Mohammad wada Mohammed it's gonna be 15 minutes inside about

[52:50]15 to 20 minutes inside and then it's going to be moved

[52:52]outside after 15-20 minutes at the bottom with a bonfire

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