You Are What You Eat Spiritually - Sayed Mohammed Hassan Alsheraa

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[0:38]Salamu.

[0:41]Muhammad Muhammad.

[1:09]Allah Foreign speech.

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[2:46]Alhamdulillah.

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[3:23]Alhamdulillah.

[3:27]for alhamdulill for Allah.

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[9:04]Alhamdulillah.

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[9:52]Alhamdulillah.

[10:13]for me.

[11:03]Alhamdulillah.

[11:26]Alhamdulillah.

[11:42]Alhamdulillah.

[11:44][singing] All for Allchech.

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[16:08]Don't care.

[16:16][singing] All dua.

[17:06]All foreign.

[17:51]Why?

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[18:12]for whatever.

[18:43]for Allah.

[19:17]for what Allah Forch!

[20:10]forless.

[20:14][singing] Ali Muhammad Salam allayikum everyone and Ramadan Mubarak to you and

[20:59]your beautiful families.

[20:59]Welcome to Mecca's annual Ramadan nightly program.

[21:04]Tonight marks the third night of this holy month.

[21:07]the month of healing, the month of prosperity, and the month of

[21:09]forgiveness.

[21:10]Let us use this time wisely to increase our duas, our sodaka,

[21:15][clears throat] and our spirituality to get closer to Allah subhanahu wa

[21:21]ta'ala.

[21:20]I want to take the time to remind you all of the

[21:24]exciting events coming up.

[21:24]Starting off tomorrow, Saturday the 21st, we will have this with a

[21:32]scholar event 10 p.m.

[21:31]here at Mecca.

[21:33]A Q&A will take place with site and site Hassan along with

[21:36]some lattes available for purchase.

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[22:20]Children three years and under are free.

[22:22]This is a wonderful opportunity to strengthen our relationships with the community.

[22:26]As for parents seating away to keep their children occupied, Mecca offers

[22:32]a nightly kids program with Sister Malik at the weekend school in

[22:35]which children engage in activities like arts and crafts and story time

[22:40]all while being informed about Ramadan.

[22:42]I would like I would like you all to take a moment

[22:46]to look at the youth all around us.

[22:48]These are the future leaders, the innovators and the voices of change.

[22:53]They are the future of this community.

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[23:01]But to see Mecca reach its fullest potential, we kindly ask you

[23:05]all for your support.

[23:06]Growing up, my parents always taught me the importance of attending the

[23:12]mosque at a young age.

[23:12]That early con connection instilled a sense of purpose and belonging in

[23:17]me.

[23:17]Alhamdulillah, we see that same belonging thriving in the youth today.

[23:20]Let us all take comfort in knowing we have contributed to strengthening

[23:24]Mecca's foundation to empower all, especially the youth.

[23:29]One last announcement.

[23:30]There's going to be a QR code presented on the TV at

[23:34]the end of every pro at the end of every night.

[23:36]It includes a question about the lecture from the night before.

[23:39]At the end of at the end of the month, whoever's answered

[23:41]the highest number of correct answers will receive a prize.

[23:46]So, make sure you guys pay attention.

[23:48]Um, as for the list of sponsors, I have them on my

[23:53]phone.

[23:52]Had anonymous Ahmedif Brian Ashkar and his family.

[24:07]Please recite and their souls.

[24:11]Um, thank you all for your time.

[24:14]Please help me welcome the next speaker.

[24:36]I don't know.

[25:10]Alhamdulillah.

[25:27]Mustham.

[25:33]Amen.

[25:44]Allah Please illuminate your hearts and bless this gathering with a very

[26:30]loud salawat.

[26:36]>> Respected scholars, brothers and sisters, baraku the holy month of Ramadan

[26:49]among the most beautiful moments of anticipation leading up to the month

[26:54]that we are now in despite the beautiful opportunity to get closer

[26:58]with one another.

[27:00]Some people you don't meet until the month comes.

[27:02]But that's still nonetheless something good and to look forward to as

[27:09]well as the opportunities for ibad and worship spiritual development.

[27:12]There's a definitely a very big beautiful factor that many look forward

[27:17]to while in the holy month of Ramadan and that is to

[27:19]entertain wonderful goodar at the end of the day after a long

[27:28]day of pretty much starving you know holding and restraining your desires

[27:33]from eating and drinking and now suddenly it's as if shaitan yes

[27:36]is locked up but he's much better on social media your algorithms

[27:39]are all food suddenly they're All is am I is it just

[27:45]me?

[27:45]It's all this is your new way of making a date latte

[27:49]and a this that and a that this and it's just whoa

[27:51]this wasn't normal before Ramadan.

[27:53]And so food is a very big component to the already exciting

[28:00]and jam-packed holy month within the year.

[28:03]The variable of food in fact is a wonderful way to attract

[28:07]people.

[28:08]I mean unfortunately some people will only come and uh many of

[28:12]the scholars and those who organize programs will know this best if

[28:17]they see on the flyer food will be served then there are

[28:20]people will come because of that factor and if you add that

[28:25]factor you don't makes the difference between 20% additional attendance or not

[28:29]hey man at the end of the day food is good and

[28:31]if good food is there you're going to get some attention as

[28:35]well the holy month of Ramadan is an opport opportunistic month because

[28:39]of the variable of food additionally and of course Islam didn't shy

[28:44]away from the fact that this is a positive component.

[28:46]Often times you see reminders and reflections from figures that deem spirituality

[28:53]is their identity.

[28:56]They tell you to be abstious from food, to remain aesthetic in

[29:00]the world of desire, culinary, you know, factors.

[29:04]And that couldn't be further from the truth in regards to what

[29:07]it means to live an ideal life.

[29:09]If you look at many world religions out there that purport blissful

[29:15]spiritualism, it can only be attained if you strain and refrain from

[29:19]eating food.

[29:20]So if you look at the stories and this is a wonderful

[29:23]thing for us to do compare and contrast other world views because

[29:28]then you will see what you have and become more observant objectively

[29:32]speaking of the that Allah has given you the study on the

[29:35]figure known as Sedarta or Buddha.

[29:37]He says that the problems of life are all because of desires

[29:43]and so let me abolish and annihilate all my desires.

[29:45]And so he never looked at the other gender.

[29:49]He refrained from eating and he became very thin.

[29:52]And it's as if he is fighting every desire because desires are

[29:55]what lead to problems in life.

[29:57]And Islam came and said that the way to live life optimally

[30:02]isn't to be abstious.

[30:02]One man came to the holy messenger of God and this man

[30:08]was a good individual.

[30:08]He goes by the name of bin Mun.

[30:11]The thing is he understood religion in that perspective.

[30:16]the the the incorrect point of view that to be a extremely

[30:20]obedient Muslim, you must be extremely an obedient Muslim.

[30:27]To be extreme, there's a beautiful saying, don't be an extreme Muslim.

[30:35]Be extremely Muslim.

[30:35]A person shouldn't be extreme on aspects of faith assuming this is

[30:42]the ideal way to go.

[30:43]But in order to be optimally Muslim, you emphasize what your faith

[30:49]has to offer.

[30:51]And so his wife complained to the prophet of God.

[30:54]And she said to him, "All he does is fast in the

[30:58]day and he prays at night and he's deprived us his family

[31:03]from his attention.

[31:03]We don't see him.

[31:05]He's just worshiping Allah.

[31:05]Is this what you were dispatched for?

[31:08]Is this the ideal model of He's barely even eating.

[31:12]He would do kind of what you would do Allah.

[31:15]He would seclude himself in a cave.

[31:17]And to imagine like is that what it means to be Muslim

[31:19]to be extreme?

[31:20]Allah said bring me to him.

[31:25]And he saw him and he said this wonderful lineman.

[31:31]Allah did not dispatch me to be one who purports monasticism.

[31:38]is a monk and monks at those times and then even today

[31:43]if you look at what a monk does in prim primarily most

[31:48]I guess world religions they are very humble in their clothing in

[31:52]their food it's to just be like avoid the pleasures of life

[31:55]that's how you get closer to God Islam balanced that for us

[32:00]and Islam said beautifully and we have made you a balanced um

[32:07]where you're not too extreme on one side and you're not too

[32:10]extreme on the other side, not too much, not too little.

[32:16]That middle ground operate in eat and drink, but don't be too

[32:20]excessive.

[32:24]God despises, does not like does not like is a big statement.

[32:31]In fact, I shouldn't even be using the word like.

[32:33]Love.

[32:35]Love.

[32:34]I despise those who are excessive and who are wasteful in their

[32:40]manner when it comes to eating and drinking.

[32:44]I bring this to the point of Ramadan because we might without

[32:47]realizing fall prey to this issue to name a few foods when

[32:53]you go to the table spread and there's mashallah already one type

[32:58]of food.

[33:01]What else is there?

[33:04]which is amazing.

[33:07]Then there's there's this food I just discovered the other day.

[33:10]It's called Lebanon or something like that.

[33:15]So interesting names.

[33:18]Then this then that and only 10% is eaten.

[33:21]If it's the case that everything will be utilized later so that

[33:25]it's saved for another time for that's okay.

[33:28]Don't be too quick to judge people because wow look at all

[33:31]that.

[33:31]Shouldn't we be humble?

[33:31]Allah said this will be used for another time.

[33:34]That's fine.

[33:35]No, no need to be judgmental.

[33:37]But sadly, if you especially go to invitations, you quickly are are

[33:42]unfortunate to see that the food goes away.

[33:45]It's wasteful.

[33:46]It's in the trash.

[33:46]And that is something God says not I don't like, I hate,

[33:50]I have no love for the one who does in this context

[33:53]because and the emphasis on this is so incredible.

[33:58]You are genuinely what you eat.

[34:00]And eating doesn't mean to only eat halal food, but it is

[34:05]to mean that the source of your food, even if the food

[34:07]is halal, must come from a halal source as well.

[34:11]Bought with haram money still makes the food haram.

[34:15]But or acquired through unlawful means doesn't mean that there's baraka in

[34:20]that food or it's it might be halal, but the atmosphere will

[34:24]not justify the consumption as well.

[34:28]I remember there was a clever trick that one of these unfortunately

[34:31]made the news online too in some city alhamdulillah not Dearborn but

[34:36]there was a city that was pretty much a gathering of haram

[34:42]merry making it was pretty much a club and a barah and

[34:44]they're like there's a good Muslim population but in order to increase

[34:48]customers they're not going to come they're Muslims they put we have

[34:54]halal food on the the sign of the window and unfortunately There

[34:56]are some people they will do haram they will entertain haram but

[35:01]they'll never eat haram food which is honestly impressive mashallah and if

[35:07]you ask what's the logic behind that I mean you're doing he's

[35:12]like I should still keep something connected to God at least there's

[35:16]some awareness but that doesn't justify anything oh okay the actual thing

[35:20]is halal but what is going on around you everything's on fire

[35:26]near you so what does that Mean Islam emphasized here for us

[35:29]that the source of where it comes from is really important because

[35:33]there appears to be a symbiotic relationship between your spiritual reality and

[35:39]your physical as well.

[35:40]What you do physically reflects in your spiritual reality.

[35:44]You will be resurrected on the day of judgment based on what

[35:48]your physical reality did reflecting your spiritual reality.

[35:55]What do we mean?

[35:54]If you look at any of the about on the day of

[36:01]he's preached and preached and preached his last result is to combat

[36:06]and that's not they try to guide and they just succeeded.

[36:11]You saw clearly he transitioned to the other side and the camp

[36:15]of with his famous line.

[36:20]And then many many not just him many because he was successful

[36:26]im Hussein.

[36:25]There was a group that decided not to.

[36:27]Abdaham goes and preaches one last final time when he notices they

[36:33]started doing this and they place their fingers in their ears because

[36:36]they were ordered to not listen to what he has to say

[36:42]because Imam Hussein's words are enchanting magical.

[36:43]So the army was ordered to do this.

[36:46]Then the imam said then if you're not going to listen let

[36:51]me send my condemnations upon you.

[36:53]He sent his on them.

[36:54]He said this line.

[36:57]There's a an area in this statement that truly shines about why

[37:01]they became the way they were.

[37:02]He says that on the 10th of he says this is the

[37:26]reason why you came out against me today that all of you

[37:31]have disobeyed what I've been trying to preach.

[37:34]I'm not trying to fight.

[37:34]I'm trying to guide you.

[37:37]You're disobeying that.

[37:37]You're not listening to what I have to say.

[37:41]And the reason is because they pledged allegiance to Yazid?

[37:43]No.

[37:44]Because they decided to not embrace Islam?

[37:48]No.

[37:48]Because they decided to follow their desires?

[37:51]No.

[37:52]Because they ate haram food.

[37:57]That's it.

[37:59]That's what causes someone to be at the end of the day

[38:05]like and that's the reason says is a factor to what motivated

[38:10]the drive your stomachs have been filled with haram.

[38:17]Why?

[38:17]Look at the beautiful timeline that Imam Hussein lays out.

[38:23]The anatomy of aim metaphorically speaking is one who they don't care

[38:29]what they consume.

[38:32]They don't bother with what goes into their system.

[38:36]Let the human look at his own food can have multiple levels

[38:41]and layers of meaning.

[38:42]That one genuinely look on the surface level.

[38:45]The m of the ayah as we say in the study of

[38:49]Quran the maf of the ayah one hadith says is to also

[38:52]reference look at where your source of information is coming from as

[38:58]well because you are feeding your body and you also feed yourself

[39:01]and nevs and soul look at that as well from a priority

[39:04]standpoint if you focus on the food focus on what goes inside

[39:12]there's a lovely hadith by imam he says I am astonished at

[39:19]the one who all they concern themselves with is what they eat.

[39:22]How do they not concern themselves with what they think?

[39:26]You nourish this.

[39:26]You forget this though.

[39:28]Im Hussein says you because you don't care about what goes inside

[39:32]your system.

[39:34]What happened to their hearts?

[39:36]And your hearts have been sealed.

[39:42]Why?

[39:39]One hadith tells us the effects of haram food is one of

[39:46]which the dua is not answered.

[39:48]Second of which the heart becomes hardened.

[39:53]A hardened heart.

[39:55]It doesn't happen overnight though.

[39:58]It happens after multiple times.

[39:59]It's like if you one day you grow and older and older

[40:06]and older and you notice one gray hair came out.

[40:08]It's not noticeable, just one.

[40:11]Then after a month, a second one.

[40:15]Then the next day, a third, a fourth.

[40:18]After a many years, the whole head has become whitened with hair.

[40:20]And then if someone who hasn't seen you for those years comes

[40:23]and notices, they'll say, "What happened?

[40:25]You suddenly became old and whiteheaded." They will tell you, "No, this

[40:31]is normal.

[40:32]It wasn't like it was yesterday." After many times, after days has

[40:36]passed, gradually it has a shift and a change in an identity.

[40:42]Just like what you consume, one won't cause something to be noticeable.

[40:47]one more so of haram food necessarily one drop of nasa let's

[40:50]say necessarily but after some time it will shape your identity that

[40:57]after just give it a couple years give it a few years

[40:59]or so you will notice definitely that your identity changes you could

[41:03]still pray like that person doesn't mind going to the haram atmosphere

[41:09]the haram environment but so long as there's halal food that's what

[41:12]happens at the end of the day it's pretty much a gateway

[41:17]A person doesn't mind this.

[41:17]Then of course they're not going to mind the big priority.

[41:20]And Imm Hussein says that's the reason why you ate haram, your

[41:25]heart became sealed and then at the end of the day what

[41:27]happened?

[41:28]You have been condemned.

[41:29]Allah subhana wa ta'ala emphasizes this so much for us that genuinely

[41:33]you are what you eat.

[41:35]So I would love to recommend there's a wonderful piece of literature

[41:41]that tells us a compilation of the effects and influences of both

[41:45]halal and haram food.

[41:46]One of them is some of these have been translated into English

[41:52]the medicine of otherwise known as in Arabic.

[41:56]This has been published with different authors as well.

[41:59]So just type medicine imam.

[42:00]It's a book.

[42:02]You can find it online.

[42:02]You can even find it on Isislam.org.

[42:05]org.

[42:06]There's another book called similarly the medicine of imminam where he talks

[42:15]about actual benefits of certain foods both physically and spiritually.

[42:19]Could you believe it?

[42:20]There's a hadith by imbal that tells you what you should avoid

[42:26]if you're bulimic.

[42:27]He has that narration.

[42:30]or if you're anorexic or if you're very heavy or if you

[42:33]have diseases internally or if you have migraines.

[42:36]He gives remedies on a physical level primarily on a spiritual level

[42:40]that certain foods if eaten too much also harden the heart even

[42:46]though they're halal.

[42:46]Certain foods are mustab.

[42:47]There's a mustab food by the way that has so many narrations

[42:53]recommending it.

[42:53]So little people eat it and it's actually good.

[42:57]I think it's probably just never in season.

[43:00]It's called safar and you guys know it as I think quint

[43:05]if I'm not mistaken.

[43:05]The hadith says this is from the most desirable of the fruits

[43:09]of the and the ambia and interestingly of the residers of Jenna

[43:16]as well that it's one of those praise fruits.

[43:19]It has taw has why would Allah just praise a random food

[43:22]just because Allah decided to give you opportunity literally at arms reach.

[43:27]There's raisins I believe as well.

[43:29]There are also uh watermelons and also pomegranates is very mustab to

[43:35]eat.

[43:34]There are certain foods maybe eat in moderation like Im Ali says

[43:41]do not create your stomachs graveyard for animals.

[43:45]Go easy.

[43:46]I remember in When you guys go, inshallah, you'll see if you

[43:54]ever go, especially in like hotels, when they um in the morning,

[44:00]in the afternoon, and at night, it's apparently, I guess, cuisine, but

[44:08]they serve at literally 6 a.m.

[44:11]kebab meat that was just cooked.

[44:14]The same thing, they serve it right after and at night.

[44:16]So a person will find themselves go through a whole day eating

[44:23]meat after meat.

[44:21]So I'm not here to judge anyone.

[44:25]I don't know people's health circumstances, but there is an ideal type

[44:29]of regimen of balance to eat as well.

[44:32]I'm not sure kebab is the most ideal necessarily.

[44:35]But in any case, you know, to each their own.

[44:40]Islam has laid out the criteria for us, however.

[44:44]And in this context there's also a ramification spiritually in the soul

[44:49]as well.

[44:51]Even even if you are unaware of the source of of your

[44:54]food, assuming it's halal as well, by the way, if you discover

[44:59]that the source was a nonhal source, there could still be an

[45:02]impact.

[45:03]This isn't being Mr.

[45:03]Strict, but this is to emphasize how significant your food should be

[45:08]in your eyes.

[45:09]That it's not something you just feed your kids randomly.

[45:11]Do you know what the source of food can be like to

[45:16]the child that's developing especially a developing child?

[45:18]One of the by the name of who was killed in the

[45:28]Persian uh reign of I believe around the n early 20th century.

[45:31]He was hung.

[45:33]He was a scholar and he was critical against the establishment at

[45:36]the time the 1910s and 15s around that time period.

[45:41]And so when they decided to hang him and they hung him

[45:44]publicly.

[45:45]That's how they would do this.

[45:45]This is an from and there's a photo of that too.

[45:50]It's a very distressing moment.

[45:51]You can see a crowd.

[45:52]The story is as such his son was in the crowd.

[45:55]His son was observing his father and he was congratulating people next

[46:01]to him.

[46:02]Congrats.

[46:03]My father was hung.

[46:06]And that was an observation that people found shocking that his son

[46:12]was congratulating on the execution of his father.

[46:15]And so it was inquired and they found out that his son

[46:18]when he was born the story is well established that his mother

[46:24]could not suckle him.

[46:25]She could not offer him milk.

[46:26]And so they decided in a moment of scrambling to find a

[46:31]mother that was able to provide milk, they found out that their

[46:35]neighbor also had given birth and that she had enough milk to

[46:42]spare.

[46:39]They took him, this newborn, to the neighbor who then breastfed him.

[46:47]After many years, they then discovered this lady was ill and was

[46:51]about to die.

[46:53]So they asked the sheh to come and recite a few words

[46:56]dua and reminding and reflecting that Allah is ram say the shahada

[47:00]she was on her deathbed when the sheh who was her neighbor

[47:06]who she was doing favors for in regards to taking care of

[47:09]her own son nursing him she said I'm never going to sayillah

[47:13]say it like never he says no she's probably going through the

[47:18]pains of death you know you don't think straight and then the

[47:20]family said no what do you We don't worship is Allah through

[47:25]Islam.

[47:23]In fact, we've discovered, we started off as Muslims that Islam is

[47:30]the wrong way and we despise everything Islam has to offer.

[47:33]In a nutshell, they were they despised.

[47:36]They had eminity to sadly when they saw that the son was

[47:41]congratulating on his own father's execution, they correlated the two.

[47:49]They said this person was breastfed from the milk of a mother

[47:52]who had despised B.

[47:55]Now that doesn't mean that predisposes someone just because of the source

[47:59]of the milk was a haram source necessarily that they will always

[48:02]be bad but it doesn't necessarily give them an advantage at the

[48:05]same time.

[48:07]Whereas on the flip side I'll give you a good example.

[48:10]There was a scholar by the name of Ayatah Jaffurhikh Jaffa was

[48:14]about 50 years prior to this incident.

[48:16]He was the grand merger of his region and he had passed

[48:21]away.

[48:22]When he passed, his mom was still alive.

[48:24]Imagine she's like a 100 years old at that point.

[48:25]When he had passed, they came to his mother and they offered

[48:31]her condolences.

[48:29]But they also said to her, "Your son was also a mer

[48:36]and he was mashallah." And so, while it's sad, you should be

[48:38]proud of the kind of son you raised, mashallah, a scholar, a

[48:42]contributor to Islam.

[48:44]So we know it's not easy but you should still be proud.

[48:47]She says no I'm disappointed.

[48:50]Like why?

[48:50]Because I expected more from him.

[48:54]He's like how?

[48:53]He was a at the end of the day wrote wonderful literature

[48:58]on the mass of Im Hussein.

[49:00]Really good material that he wrote as well and all of our

[49:05]she said because listen I'm disappointed because I wanted to see him

[49:08]do more.

[49:09]I do you know what I did?

[49:10]would never nurse my son Sheh Jaffar unless I was in the

[49:19]state of and I would always emphasize that the milk he'll receive

[49:23]was done with woo in mind it's one day I was a

[49:30]bit too tired and it slipped my mind and he was crying

[49:34]as an infant and I nursed him when he finished I realized

[49:37]no I didn't do woo and so as a result I had

[49:42]hoped I would receive.

[49:45]Instead I got they said still mashallah what do you mean first

[49:51]of all you'll never get to I im she says but look

[49:55]I set my bar high look at the effects of the source

[49:59]of what you're consuming even if the the thing you're consuming is

[50:03]halal sometimes that source may not necessarily be the most optimal it

[50:07]might give you a disadvantage it might give you an edge it

[50:10]might predispose you that doesn't mean that your actions are reflection of

[50:14]who nursed you necessarily but it is a source of baraka brothers

[50:17]and sisters.

[50:21]One time not to take too long the autobiography of some of

[50:28]our is so amazing of Muhammad famous in fact mystic spiritual well

[50:38]known for spiritual wayfare and so on and so forth died in

[50:43]early 2010s.

[50:43]Shehad says, "When I was young, I would study in in my

[50:50]early teens in I had gotten enough money to travel to and

[50:55]in I would always pray and and even I get to as

[51:02]soon as I get there to expand my studies in that's the

[51:09]place." He says, "The first night I wake up late on my

[51:14]salah.

[51:14]The second night I wake up late.

[51:16]The third night I'm barely even waking up.

[51:19]What's going on?" He says, "Which is significant, but nothing is as

[51:22]significant as the door to the city of knowledge of I would

[51:29]expect to be better on my spiritual path and journey.

[51:34]What's happening?" He says, "One day I was walking back from the

[51:37]haram late and I passed by the alleyways of what is called

[51:42]currently the district because in that district there are many shops and

[51:48]there are small pop shops.

[51:49]They're just like little small places.

[51:50]We can barely tell it's a it's a shop but the guy

[51:53]opens the door and you can see a little bit a small

[51:56]business here.

[51:55]It's still like that today by the way.

[51:57]Is still just like that.

[52:00]You go to and it transports you back to as if Yah

[52:02]Subhan Allah.

[52:03]You hear the stories of Ansari.

[52:08]They literally saw the same building you're seeing.

[52:11]Nothing changed.

[52:12]Subhan Allah.

[52:11]The same alley, the same mud building.

[52:14]He's walking through it and he passes by his butcher shop.

[52:19]There's a guy he would buy meat from and he notices that

[52:22]the butchers till today, by the way, I'm just saying.

[52:25]Just keep that in mind.

[52:26]The butchers would chop meat on a tree stump.

[52:30]So the palm tree, they would have the stump.

[52:33]It's a good board of wood to chop meat over.

[52:36]The thing is when they would close up shop and they would

[52:41]go to sleep, there are some small scraps of meat.

[52:42]Even if you would wash that, some of that remains.

[52:46]At night, dogs would come and lick that.

[52:49]The sheh said, "I noticed there were dogs licking whatever remained." The

[52:53]next day, the poor shopkeeper doesn't know this, that he puts the

[52:57]meat right on top of it, contaminating what is halal meat, but

[53:02]now from a source you're unaware of.

[53:06]If you don't know, it's not a haram aspect to you.

[53:07]What you ate not knowing was haram, Allah won't hold you reliable

[53:12]to it.

[53:11]But that doesn't mean it's not going to affect you spiritually.

[53:15]Imagine you drink uh a drink, but it has a drop of

[53:17]poison.

[53:17]Yeah.

[53:18]If you didn't know, that doesn't mean it's haram on you.

[53:23]But um that doesn't mean it it won't still hurt you.

[53:25]The soul is still sensitive to these things.

[53:27]And I eat the meat that I buy from him that's been

[53:33]contaminated from those dogs at night.

[53:34]Let me stop eating from this one guy.

[53:36]And so as soon as he had stopped, he said the very

[53:41]next day, as soon as I stopped, my prayer was on time.

[53:43]Immediately it became more on time and I would start waking up

[53:49]better.

[53:47]It appeared to be the case that you are what you eat

[53:52]that it reflects on your spirituality that it could even be an

[53:55]impediment to the progression that you are and that's why many of

[54:01]us sometimes if you look at when you pray to God and

[54:02]you make supplication you may not see responses check where your source

[54:09]of food is coming from.

[54:10]Check where your source of pretty much anything is coming from.

[54:13]Is there haram happening in my atmosphere?

[54:16]Is there music?

[54:19]Is there haram food?

[54:20]Is there a haram influence?

[54:21]These things hold back the dua hold back the dua that they

[54:32]lock up the dua.

[54:34]Why?

[54:35]Because there's a then happening.

[54:37]What about it's not a then it's not necessarily a defilement nor

[54:39]is it a sin.

[54:42]But there is something I could be more responsible for.

[54:44]Where I'm getting my source of consumption, what's happening to my heart

[54:48]as a result of this?

[54:51]These things, they go a very long way.

[54:54]Brothers and sisters, when we keep this in mind, we also should

[54:57]remember the humanity of the food that we have.

[55:01]Yes, the food is halal, the provider is halal, all this is

[55:03]perfectly fine.

[55:04]But at the end of the day, it's poor animal.

[55:07]How was it treated?

[55:07]I mean you have to have a you have to have some

[55:11]consciousness and what makes us so proud as Muslims at the end

[55:12]of the day is that in comparison to the industrial factory farming

[55:19]it pels to the humanity of Islamic the beha proper slaughter.

[55:23]Yes, I know these discussions might be a bit maybe bloodyesque.

[55:30]Let's not be too focused on the puns.

[55:32]But at the end of the day, you should be proud that

[55:34]you know your food didn't suffer before you consumed it.

[55:38]It wasn't something that was pregnant before it was slaughtered.

[55:40]It wasn't slaughtered in front of other animals in a site that's

[55:43]abhorent.

[55:44]It was so humanely processed that if you just compare industrial factory

[55:49]farming, if you just look at how the methods are used, you

[55:53]would become I wouldn't blame you if you become vegan all of

[55:57]a sudden.

[55:59]It is bizarre.

[55:58]It is scary.

[56:00]Captive bolt electric shock.

[56:02]What What is this?

[56:04]Why are you torturing the thing?

[56:06]um compressing, drowning.

[56:06]Look up the videos on Netflix.

[56:08]I swear I'm like, listen, I'm not I don't encourage veganism, but

[56:11]I don't blame after I saw that.

[56:13]What was that?

[56:16]That was horrible.

[56:16]Come to the role of Islam.

[56:19]You are so detailed in the Islamic law in the Islamic Jewish

[56:26]prudence that if all of these factors about like tens of which

[56:28]are not found, that food is not halal to eat.

[56:32]Once there was a study in Hanover University in Germany in 1978.

[56:40]They did the EEG comparison where they looked at the pain index

[56:48]where they put devices on cows specifically and they compared the amount

[56:53]of pain that the animal receives when it goes through the standard

[56:58]factory industry slaughtering compared to the Islamic slaughtering.

[57:03]The factory industry slaughtering the pain when they scaled it shot up

[57:10]just like that.

[57:10]just before the animal died.

[57:11]It really suffered.

[57:12]And by the way, this has bad effects on you like physically.

[57:15]Stress hormones are released.

[57:18]I don't know why.

[57:18]And you want that and all that just to have a chicken

[57:22]nugget.

[57:22]Why?

[57:21]Well, it's not worth it, man.

[57:24]If you just looked back, just just think and reflect.

[57:25]Is that is that worth it?

[57:28]I don't think it's worth it at all on a humanitarian point

[57:30]of view compared to the Islamic way of slaughter.

[57:35]Now, some might say, "Oh, you're just saying this cuz you want

[57:38]to promote halal food." It's facts.

[57:40]Go look it up.

[57:43]1978 Hanover University of Germany.

[57:44]The study was done and they released an issue to the paper.

[57:46]I know because I checked it before I came up here.

[57:50]Make sure the facts are good.

[57:51]They looked at when they compared Islamic slaughter that the scale of

[57:56]pain, it shot up to a small degree when it was slaughtered,

[58:00]equivalent to that of a paper cut.

[58:06]Why?

[58:03]Because as soon as the animal was slaughtered Islamically, the blood that

[58:09]gushes immediately makes the animal faint but not yet passed away.

[58:16]It in that state does not allow it to feel pain because

[58:19]it's knocked out pretty much.

[58:20]And then the rest of the process of the removal of that

[58:26]blood continues and then it passes away.

[58:27]But it bury it goes through of course it can't see the

[58:29]device that's being used.

[58:30]It can't be done in front of other animals.

[58:32]If it's sick, it cannot be slaughtered.

[58:34]If it's pregnant or if other animals depend on it, all of

[58:37]these kick in, has to be given water, faces the so many

[58:42]factors are kicked in and it should not suffer in the process.

[58:44]The device needs to be sharp, whatever.

[58:45]All of this comes through and it goes to sleep as if

[58:50]it had just a minor paper cut.

[58:51]It is much more significant and it makes you genuinely say, "Alhamdulillah,

[58:57]cuz I don't want the alternative.

[59:00]I really wouldn't want that." just to satisfy my desire.

[59:02]Where is my heart?

[59:05]A heart that has consumed whatever is placed in front of it

[59:09]hardens and has that of which the dua say the hadith says

[59:15]that says that that is teaching Ali this whoever eats haram Allah

[59:29]blackens their heart and their supplications are locked off.

[59:36]Just eating haram.

[59:38]Well, who cares about eating?

[59:38]It's not about just eating.

[59:42]It's about what goes on behind the scenes that led you as

[59:45]a Muslim to justify something like this.

[59:47]How does a person sleep at night knowing what happened in order

[59:51]for you to also even be wasteful at the end of the

[59:55]day?

[59:56]So, we reflect and we say alhamdulillah and we take advantage and

[59:59]not be wasteful in Ramadan Mubarak.

[60:01]As a result, we genuinely progress and our hearts lighten and we

[60:06]are blessed.

[60:07]And one of the best ways to enjoy these meals, brothers and

[60:13]sisters, is to do them together.

[60:15]One hadith by Imam says that the person who accepts an invitation

[60:19]to have they receive more than the fast they did on that

[60:27]day.

[60:28]that if you a recipient of an invitation forar accept the invitation

[60:33]you get more than than the fast you've done on that day.

[60:39]Now what you have to do is message as many people as

[60:41]possible and say hey should I come over or no it spares

[60:46]you from cooking the food and you get more than you would

[60:47]have if you just stayed home and and more is given to

[60:52]the one that hosts people in their residence.

[60:56]The hadith says per person you host a malik from the malai

[60:59]join and that if there's a difference of hadith on this but

[61:05]let's go with this number.

[61:06]If you bring four guests Allah brings four.

[61:09]If you bring more than that Allah brings an amount only he

[61:13]can count.

[61:15]And in that moment they begin to do for the person of

[61:20]the home and those in the home until every last guest leaves.

[61:23]So your next call of action is to invite guests and don't

[61:30]let them leave.

[61:29]Let them stay cuz you're like the are doing you know we've

[61:35]we've done a lot so we need you to stay here.

[61:36]make them stay and be blessed and be happy and Allah subhana

[61:41]wa ta'ala will bless us all and be mindful of what we

[61:43]have for truly this is a it's a be big beautiful blessing

[61:48]and Allahh like he gave it to us he can take it

[61:56]from us and we don't live to eat but we eat to

[61:58]live Alhamdulillah.

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