Full Transcript for Beyond Cause and Effect with Ousama Alshurafa

I said, this need is not an actual flaw, but you were designed in that way intentionally. 00:02:55.919 --> 00:03:02.879 In fact, I would argue that this neediness makes us God's greatest creation ever. 00:03:03.599 --> 00:03:07.759 Because if you compare us to angels, angels don't have all these needs. 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:13.840 They have no need to sleep, they have no need to eat, they have no need to drink, for example, they don't get sick. 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:20.400 So they cannot experience God in all of his attributes and names. 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:25.919 For example, if they're not getting sick, how would they properly experience a Shafi? 00:03:26.719 --> 00:03:27.680 The healer. 00:03:29.199 --> 00:03:30.319 Just think about it. 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:31.599 Okay, they don't sin. 00:03:31.759 --> 00:03:32.879 Angels don't sin. 00:03:33.039 --> 00:03:35.360 How would they experience the name of Allah? 00:03:35.520 --> 00:03:36.400 Al-Hafur. 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:46.719 So this is why Allah was telling the angels, He taught Adam all of the names. 00:03:47.120 --> 00:03:50.560 The angels themselves, Ya Allah, you're gonna put on this earth. 00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:01.360 He says, I know what you don't. 00:04:04.639 --> 00:04:13.919 And he taught Adam the full name, so we have the ability to experience a true proper manifestation for all of God's names and attributes. 00:04:14.159 --> 00:04:19.279 That's what makes this insan so avaem, so great in the sight of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:44.240 And then so Allah says, Okay, so I am faqir, I am weak, I have needs, so I'm gonna want to fulfill those needs, and naturally, because I want to fulfill those needs, I'm gonna look outward into the world. 00:04:45.199 --> 00:04:54.160 And the moment you look outward, the moment you focus on the outside world, the magic show begins. 00:04:55.199 --> 00:05:01.759 But most people get caught up in the performance and they miss out on the magic trick. 00:05:02.720 --> 00:05:08.560 The test is not in the magic, the test is in figuring out the magic trick. 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:10.399 What are you talking about, Usama? 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:33.600 Well, in Surah Tul Insan, the chapter of the human being, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, Allah's talking about the creation of the human being. 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:35.519 I won't get into the details of the tafsir. 00:05:35.839 --> 00:05:37.920 Let's focus on the portion that we want here. 00:05:39.439 --> 00:05:43.120 I created this human being to try him, to test him. 00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:45.920 Now, oh Allah, what is the platform of that test? 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:54.160 We gave them the ability to perceive, the ability to hear and see. 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:56.959 So the test is in perception. 00:05:58.079 --> 00:06:01.360 And now we know what you see is not what's really out there. 00:06:01.519 --> 00:06:04.639 You're not getting a true version of reality. 00:06:05.199 --> 00:06:15.600 A deep dive into quantum physics or quantum mechanics teaches you that you create your own reality simply by the act of observation itself. 00:06:16.879 --> 00:06:21.839 And what you are actually getting is not reality, but a filtered down version of reality. 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:23.920 You are getting a projection. 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:29.600 We are in God's divine matrix, we are in a simulation. 00:06:30.639 --> 00:06:31.040 Why? 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:32.560 Because this world is a test. 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:33.120 How do we know? 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:40.000 Allah says in Surah Tilgah, inna jaanna, ma'a alan arti, zinatan ah. 00:06:40.399 --> 00:06:43.439 You will not find this tafsir in the modern tafsir. 00:06:43.920 --> 00:06:44.959 It's my take on it. 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:47.439 You can call me out on it if you want. 00:06:47.600 --> 00:06:48.800 But it made total sense to me. 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:54.240 Zina in the Arabic language, Allah says we've made everything ma'ah, not mend, mendil ati. 00:06:55.120 --> 00:07:00.480 But this is everything, all objects, everything we've created, ma'ad al-arti zina. 00:07:00.959 --> 00:07:03.040 What is the meaning of zina in the Arabic language? 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:06.560 In the tafsir will say adorment, as adorments, to beautify things. 00:07:06.879 --> 00:07:17.519 Robert argued that a man might beautify himself for his spouse, and likewise a woman may beautify herself for her spouse by maybe putting what on? 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:19.120 Some makeup. 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:24.240 And one of the your favorite makeups, ladies says, I, you know, cover up, right? 00:07:24.480 --> 00:07:25.519 What does cover up do? 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:26.480 It hides the what? 00:07:27.519 --> 00:07:29.279 The blemishes, the flaws. 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:33.439 If you want to get the real unfiltered version, maybe first thing in the morning, guys, right? 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:41.439 Side topic, but naturally you're doing some type of cover-up, and that's what zina is. 00:07:41.600 --> 00:07:45.120 Zina is a type of filter attached to the things you see. 00:07:45.279 --> 00:07:49.600 You are not getting a true version of reality, but a filtered version. 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:53.120 When do you start to see things closer to how they truly are? 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:58.240 Fakka shafna anka vita akah at the time of death. 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:01.360 Allah says, and now we remove from you your cover. 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:04.160 Fabasaru qaliyaw mah hadith. 00:08:04.879 --> 00:08:06.639 Now your vision is what? 00:08:06.959 --> 00:08:11.920 Allah doesn't say, although in the tafsir, the meaning of hadith here is from hiddah. 00:08:12.240 --> 00:08:16.079 Hiddah in the Arabic language means your vision becomes very sharp. 00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:21.040 Meaning you could see now what you can't see before, but the Quran is very interesting. 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:23.199 It actually

used the word for iron. 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:26.480 And iron is the only element that never existed on earth. 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:30.079 It requires a very, very high temperatures to exist. 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:31.839 So it was brought down by what? 00:08:32.240 --> 00:08:36.399 Supernovas that exploded, brought down by comets onto earth. 00:08:36.799 --> 00:08:38.720 And Allah says, What's the proof in the Quran? 00:08:38.960 --> 00:08:40.879 He says, Wa enzanna al-Hadith. 00:08:41.279 --> 00:08:43.840 When he talks about iron, he says, I brought down iron. 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:46.399 So is iron from this world or out of this world? 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:47.360 Out of this world. 00:08:47.440 --> 00:08:51.600 So it's like Allah saying, now you will see things that are outside of this world. 00:08:51.679 --> 00:08:55.440 Now you go from Alam al-munq to ala and malakut. 00:08:56.399 --> 00:08:58.960 You begin to see things that you couldn't see before. 00:08:59.120 --> 00:09:06.240 So Allah is telling us, Fajal Na Usameen al-Basira, the test is in perception itself. 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:12.000 You are getting a filtered-down version of reality. 00:09:12.159 --> 00:09:14.240 Okay, why is that significant? 00:09:15.519 --> 00:09:25.120 The kalimah of tawheed is actually not just a kalimah, it's a surgical procedure. 00:09:27.120 --> 00:09:31.360 Because if you examine the kalima, there's something fascinating about it. 00:09:32.159 --> 00:09:34.080 It's non-dualistic. 00:09:34.480 --> 00:09:36.320 It doesn't begin with affirmation. 00:09:36.399 --> 00:09:37.600 What does it begin with? 00:09:38.559 --> 00:09:39.360 Negation. 00:09:40.159 --> 00:09:41.039 Ashadu? 00:09:41.360 --> 00:09:42.960 When someone becomes Muslim, what do you say? 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:44.720 Say, brother, please repeat after. 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:46.320 Take its hand, mashaAllah. 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:47.200 Say ashadu. 00:09:47.919 --> 00:09:49.039 And when does that mean in Arabic? 00:09:49.200 --> 00:09:49.679 Ashadu. 00:09:49.919 --> 00:09:50.480 I bear? 00:09:50.639 --> 00:09:50.960 Witness. 00:09:51.200 --> 00:09:51.759 Witness. 00:09:51.919 --> 00:09:55.840 And someone that is witnessing something, can you witness without perceiving? 00:09:56.080 --> 00:09:58.879 So Allah says, Alimul Raibi Washahada. 00:09:59.039 --> 00:10:02.000 You could truly sense an artist's hand when you hold it, mashaAllah. 00:10:02.559 --> 00:10:07.360 It says, Aali mul Raibi, Allah is the knower of the seen, perceivable. 00:10:08.559 --> 00:10:11.279 Sorry, the unseen, ray, washahadah. 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:14.240 The opposite of ray is what you perceive. 00:10:14.399 --> 00:10:19.519 So it's as if Allah is saying, not as if, but he's saying, Ashadu and la ilaha. 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:31.840 Whatever you perceive with the senses that I've given you, these eyes, these ears, smelling, hearing, tasting, touching. 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:35.679 It's not happening from there. 00:10:37.679 --> 00:10:38.720 Illallah. 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:42.320 It is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that is doing. 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:44.879 It is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that is acting. 00:10:53.120 --> 00:10:57.279 The act belongs to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Himself. 00:10:58.159 --> 00:11:12.080 So it's an actual surgical procedure letting you know as you look out to the world, because you want to fulfill these needs that you have, and you begin to see the play of cause and effect. 00:11:14.080 --> 00:11:14.960 Oh, rain? 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:22.559 So winds have to blow, blow, and then the clouds begin to form, and then rain comes down and vegetation grows. 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:24.879 The play of cause and effect. 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:29.919 But who's familiar with Pavlov's dog, the experiment? 00:11:30.159 --> 00:11:31.200 Scientific experiment. 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:31.600 Yeah? 00:11:31.840 --> 00:11:37.120 Beautiful experiment where Pavlov pretty much proved classical conditioning. 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:43.039 Brought a dog and said, okay, typically if you put food in front of a dog, dog salivates and eats the food. 00:11:43.759 --> 00:11:45.759 So he said, Let me, I want to try this experiment. 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:47.120 He brings a bell. 00:11:47.600 --> 00:12:01.120 And so he rings the bell, then puts the food in front of the dog, the dog salivates, eats, repeats this process a few times, and then eventually one day he rings the bell but doesn't place any food in front of the dog. 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:02.399 What happens to the dog? 00:12:03.039 --> 00:12:04.320 The dog salivates. 00:12:04.559 --> 00:12:05.120 Why? 00:12:06.559 --> 00:12:07.039 Condition. 00:12:07.200 --> 00:12:08.480 This is called classical condition. 00:12:08.639 --> 00:12:10.080 He associated. 00:12:10.559 --> 00:12:11.759 Pay close attention. 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:14.799 I'm very, you know, particular with my choice of words here. 00:12:15.039 --> 00:12:16.320 He associated. 00:12:17.120 --> 00:12:20.720 Because as believers, do we associate anything with Allah? 00:12:21.840 --> 00:12:24.879 We worship Allah and we don't associate any partners. 00:12:25.039 --> 00:12:28.559 Partners are not just idols that you may prostrate towards. 00:12:28.720 --> 00:12:31.440 But your belief that money can benefit or harm. 00:12:31.759 --> 00:12:40.559 Your belief that medicine cures, although Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, So what's the point of medicine for the believers? 00:12:40.720 --> 00:12:42.159 To test your faith. 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:43.919 Do we leave medicine behind? 00:12:44.080 --> 00:12:44.720 Absolutely not. 00:12:44.799 --> 00:12:49.519 Because Ibn Kayim says, leaving the worldly needs. 00:12:49.679 --> 00:12:53.279 It's like if you if you deny worldly needs, that's blasphemy. 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:55.600 Because Allah created them. 00:12:56.399 --> 00:13:02.320 We are not denying them and we are not leaving them, because leaving them

is ta'filul hikmah. 00:13:02.559 --> 00:13:03.840 Allah has a hikmah. 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:05.440 The doctor needs to earn a living. 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:09.360 If everybody just made dua and were cured, doctors would be in trouble. 00:13:09.600 --> 00:13:12.559 There's a system, the divine matrix has to work. 00:13:13.039 --> 00:13:15.440 But there's an order in which you go about things. 00:13:15.600 --> 00:13:21.919 The believer, your ila is the one your heart first turns to in the time of need. 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:24.320 Not who you claim with your tongue. 00:13:25.200 --> 00:13:29.759 My wife, my kids get sick, and my wife calls me, Saama, yes, we ran out of time and all. 00:13:30.960 --> 00:13:32.720 Did you pray two raqahs? 00:13:33.600 --> 00:13:35.039 Did you ask Allah? 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:36.399 Did you give sadaqa? 00:13:36.720 --> 00:13:37.600 Did you make dua? 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:39.200 Check, check, check, check. 00:13:39.279 --> 00:13:40.720 I'm gonna go buy medicine now. 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:44.480 There's an order about which we go about things. 00:13:44.720 --> 00:13:48.480 So we don't leave, bin Qayin, he says, terkul esbabi rahbaniya. 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:55.519 Leaving it is monastic in nature, it's like, you know, the way of the monks, and that we don't do this, we don't turn our backs to dunya. 00:13:56.000 --> 00:14:02.960 In fact, we engage dunya fully, but our hearts remain with Allah Fali ⁇ Maqsadul ikrajul ma' juyub. 00:14:06.720 --> 00:14:09.679 The point is not to remove money from people's pockets. 00:14:09.919 --> 00:14:12.399 The point is to remove money from people's hearts. 00:14:12.559 --> 00:14:28.159 I would even argue that the true enlightened person in at some point in their lives they might have a point where they're like they feel like they have this, they go through this phase where they're against materialistic things and they might denounce the world and leave their jobs and focus on worship. 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:32.720 But eventually the true enlightened person goes back to materialistic things. 00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:35.840 Because he's not scared of it. 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:38.320 The point is not not to worship it. 00:14:38.480 --> 00:14:39.759 We don't fear it. 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:41.679 We don't worship it. 00:14:42.080 --> 00:14:43.759 And how do you know you worship it? 00:14:43.919 --> 00:14:46.000 You break God's command for it. 00:14:47.279 --> 00:14:49.120 And Allah will test you from time to time. 00:14:49.279 --> 00:14:53.039 He'll put you in a situation where here's my command and here's the worldly needs. 00:14:53.360 --> 00:14:57.919 Are you gonna consume the money although it has interest associated with it just because it's more? 00:14:58.080 --> 00:15:00.399 But I tell you, don't come close to interest. 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:04.720 Yeah, but then how am I gonna, you know, I gotta put food on the table? 00:15:04.879 --> 00:15:06.960 Yeah, so who's al-Razakh?

00:15:08.240 --> 00:15:12.000 That's because we haven't understood or read the Quran like it needs to be understood. 00:15:12.080 --> 00:15:13.600 This is what brings me to the next part. 00:15:14.159 --> 00:15:19.200 The first verses, I put a lot of thought into this recently, subhanAllah, Allah sent me my khidr. 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:22.639 I just performed hajj this year, alhamdulillah. 00:15:23.840 --> 00:15:25.200 And Allah sent me a person. 00:15:25.279 --> 00:15:32.080 I never shared this with a lot of people, but he sent me someone during this trip and I considered him my khidr. 00:15:33.360 --> 00:15:41.679 Someone so knowledgeable, so humble, outside, you know, doesn't like the cameras, doesn't like to be filmed nowhere online on social media. 00:15:42.559 --> 00:15:46.480 And I sat with him and I and he recognized me and I recognized him. 00:15:47.200 --> 00:15:48.639 And he said, I have something for you. 00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:51.039 We never, it was the first time ever meeting. 00:15:52.559 --> 00:16:01.679 And then we discussed the verses, and and it hit me the moment, it just didn't take a lot, but we were discussing the first verses to be revealed on Prophet Muhammad were what? 00:16:05.200 --> 00:16:08.159 You're in Bradford's literature festival. 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:10.159 I think reading is quite important. 00:16:10.399 --> 00:16:12.799 The Prophet was unlettered. 00:16:13.919 --> 00:16:20.320 That wasn't a flaw or naqs or any type of when the Prophet, typically you read because you want to gain knowledge. 00:16:20.480 --> 00:16:24.799 The Prophet was fully taught by the one with all knowledge, didn't have a need to read. 00:16:26.720 --> 00:16:28.639 But he was unlettered, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. 00:16:28.960 --> 00:16:30.720 So why does the angel say ikqra? 00:16:31.919 --> 00:16:32.559 Read. 00:16:33.279 --> 00:16:34.639 Continue, finish the verse. 00:16:41.919 --> 00:16:43.279 And then it hit me. 00:16:43.759 --> 00:16:47.120 Allah saying, read in the name of your Lord. 00:16:47.600 --> 00:16:48.639 Lord is Rab. 00:16:49.840 --> 00:16:52.159 Rabda is your caretaker. 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:53.759 You have needs. 00:16:54.080 --> 00:17:04.079 Allah wants to, is going to fulfill those needs, and those needs are actually homing devices installed intentionally in every one. 00:17:04.319 --> 00:17:07.839 Hunger is a homing device for God's name, Al-Raza. 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:13.359 Sickness is a homing device for God's name, as Shafi. 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:18.000 So they're supposed to draw you to God's names. 00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:21.279 Now Allah's saying, read in the name of your Lord. 00:17:21.440 --> 00:17:22.640 What are the names of Allah? 00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:24.480 How many names does Allah have? 00:17:24.880 --> 00:17:25.759 How many? 00:17:29.039 --> 00:17:31.039 Most of us think 99, right? 00:17:31.440 --> 00:17:32.960 General knowledge, true. 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:34.079 Infinite. 00:17:37.359 --> 00:17:39.200 It's one of God's names. 00:17:40.319 --> 00:17:42.000 Not the word breath. 00:17:43.599 --> 00:17:45.200 Your actual breathing. 00:17:45.599 --> 00:17:47.039 Your infinite names. 00:17:47.359 --> 00:17:51.759 But Allah is saying, read in the name of thy Lord who created. 00:17:55.359 --> 00:18:08.240 Because when Allah talks about creation in the womb of the mother, he talks about khalkham mimbadi khalk, faqalatna la alaqata mudra, fa laqna al-mudrata idama, faqasalna. 00:18:09.680 --> 00:18:15.039 As the embryos going from one form to another, Allah's using the word khalq. 00:18:17.359 --> 00:18:18.960 One creation after another. 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:29.680 And then in another verse, Allah says, To him belongs khalqh, creation, and the command. 00:18:30.559 --> 00:18:31.839 What is the command here? 00:18:31.920 --> 00:18:33.440 What do you think the command is? 00:18:34.720 --> 00:18:36.960 Umrullah in Arabic. 00:18:37.119 --> 00:18:38.160 What is Amrullah? 00:18:39.200 --> 00:18:40.079 Who knows? 00:18:41.839 --> 00:18:43.599 What is God's command? 00:18:43.920 --> 00:18:44.799 I'll give you a hint. 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:51.680 Yeah. 00:18:53.519 --> 00:18:57.279 Nomenclature, soul, spirit, depends on what you mean, but it's soul. 00:18:59.359 --> 00:19:00.640 They ask you about the ruha. 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:06.640 Tell them, O Muhammad, tell them it is from the command of my run. 00:19:07.279 --> 00:19:09.119 Do you know what Ruh is in English? 00:19:09.359 --> 00:19:10.799 In modern nomenclature? 00:19:11.039 --> 00:19:11.599 Who knows? 00:19:11.759 --> 00:19:16.000 One of my favorite speakers here in England, I don't think he's a bad friend, Rupert Spira. 00:19:17.680 --> 00:19:19.359 He's a non-dualist. 00:19:19.759 --> 00:19:21.920 What does he, what does he term? 00:19:22.799 --> 00:19:23.920 What is Ruha? 00:19:25.519 --> 00:19:26.640 Consciousness. 00:19:28.319 --> 00:19:29.359 What's prior? 00:19:29.680 --> 00:19:30.400 What comes first? 00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:32.079 Matter or consciousness? 00:19:33.359 --> 00:19:34.000 Consciousness. 00:19:34.240 --> 00:19:36.960 Have you ever is there anything you're unconscious of? 00:19:38.720 --> 00:19:40.319 Even in deep sleep. 00:19:40.640 --> 00:19:42.960 You come out and say, there was nothing. 00:19:43.200 --> 00:19:45.519 It says, what knew there was nothing? 00:19:47.440 --> 00:19:49.680 You had a feeling that there was nothing. 00:19:50.720 --> 00:19:52.400 Consciousness recognizing itself. 00:19:52.640 --> 00:19:54.480 Amrullah is consciousness. 00:19:54.799 --> 00:19:56.640 Can you have anything without consciousness? 00:19:56.720 --> 00:19:58.000 That's the projector. 00:19:58.240 --> 00:20:01.519 Most people are busy looking at the screen. 00:20:01.920 --> 00:20:04.880 And they see all these different words, forms, shapes. 00:20:05.039 --> 00:20:07.519 But if you go and you touch the screen, what is there? 00:20:07.759 --> 00:20:13.200 You don't find, if you're

watching Mission Impossible, you don't grab Tom Cruise and take him out of the TV screen. 00:20:13.440 --> 00:20:14.240 What do you find? 00:20:14.480 --> 00:20:18.960 One indivisible screen taking on the shape and the forms. 00:20:19.440 --> 00:20:21.680 Imagery, pixels, changing colors. 00:20:22.079 --> 00:20:28.960 But if you were to, right now, if I were to block the projector, the light that is coming, what would remain? 00:20:29.440 --> 00:20:29.920 Nothing. 00:20:30.079 --> 00:20:30.880 And what is Allah? 00:20:31.039 --> 00:20:33.279 Allahu Murusama waati wa ar. 00:20:33.759 --> 00:20:35.839 Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth. 00:20:35.920 --> 00:20:37.440 The secret is in ruh. 00:20:40.319 --> 00:20:41.359 Consciousness. 00:20:42.240 --> 00:20:45.599 So Allah is telling you, ikhra bisini rabbi kaladi khalak. 00:20:45.920 --> 00:20:51.119 Then he says, to him belongs halq, form. 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:54.799 Walamr and the command consciousness. 00:20:58.319 --> 00:21:01.039 Form fails consciousness. 00:21:01.599 --> 00:21:02.799 In a sense. 00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:06.000 We don't see ruh. 00:21:06.640 --> 00:21:07.599 We see form. 00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:10.400 And we got caught up by the magic shell. 00:21:11.759 --> 00:21:27.119 And that's why when you look out in the world and you begin to believe in cause and effect, although in reality, if you take out a pen and you have a piece of paper, you know, just the contingency argument to prove the existence of God, right? 00:21:27.279 --> 00:21:43.440 If A depends on B, and B depends on C, and C depends on D, and you keep going, and you look at it just from a mathematical point of view, A over B times B over C, what crosses out? 00:21:44.319 --> 00:21:46.799 The B's, and you're left with A over C. 00:21:46.960 --> 00:21:47.759 What does that tell you? 00:21:47.839 --> 00:21:51.920 That means as long as something is dependent on something else, it is not the true cause. 00:21:52.160 --> 00:21:58.480 But then if you keep going infinite regression forever, you have to have the unmoved mover, that is God. 00:22:02.640 --> 00:22:10.079 So Allah says, if we go back to this, he says, Alalahul Khalkulla'am, why is this important? 00:22:10.240 --> 00:22:12.000 Because Allah's talking about khalq. 00:22:12.880 --> 00:22:14.480 But he's saying read. 00:22:15.359 --> 00:22:22.079 So form and all the signs and everything you see in the universe, if he's telling you to read his khalq, khalq is his what? 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:24.400 His handwriting. 00:22:25.599 --> 00:22:27.839 So he's not telling you to read a book. 00:22:28.160 --> 00:22:30.079 The book is the universe. 00:22:30.480 --> 00:22:32.880 He's telling you to read the universe. 00:22:33.839 --> 00:22:35.039 Read the world. 00:22:35.279 --> 00:22:39.839 But you have to put on, you have to have ikra, bismi rabbika. 00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:42.000 Here it's a mode of perception. 00:22:43.440 --> 00:22:45.200 How you perceive the world. 00:22:45.440 --> 00:22:46.720 Bismirabika. 00:22:47.519 --> 00:22:59.279 Now when the nur of iman, the light of true traheed, enters into the heart, this is why you'll never find the word light mentioned in the plural form in the Quran. 00:23:00.079 --> 00:23:02.720 There's no anwar, it's always nur. 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:05.680 But darkness is always mentioned. 00:23:05.920 --> 00:23:09.599 You'll find it mentioned both in the singular and the plural. 00:23:10.160 --> 00:23:19.759 Because when the light, light enters into the heart of the believer, it pierces through the veils of multiplicity and gets to the one behind the many. 00:23:20.799 --> 00:23:28.160 If I give you a book written in Chinese, brother, and I ask you to read it, would you be able to read it? 00:23:28.480 --> 00:23:31.519 No, unless you speak Chinese and I chose the wrong person. 00:23:32.559 --> 00:23:32.960 Right? 00:23:33.119 --> 00:23:33.599 You can't. 00:23:33.680 --> 00:23:36.079 What would you tell me if I told you to describe what you see? 00:23:36.160 --> 00:23:36.640 What would you see? 00:23:36.799 --> 00:23:37.359 Tell me. 00:23:41.200 --> 00:23:44.880 But now I give you a book in English and I ask you to read. 00:23:45.440 --> 00:23:49.359 You would go beyond the words to the meaning behind them, right? 00:23:50.000 --> 00:23:54.160 In fact, I would say that sometimes if you're reading a novel or a book, what happens? 00:23:55.599 --> 00:23:58.640 You begin to think, what's the author getting at? 00:23:59.200 --> 00:23:59.839 Right? 00:24:00.079 --> 00:24:02.720 Like, I think this might happen in chapter two. 00:24:02.960 --> 00:24:04.799 You begin to really get things. 00:24:06.000 --> 00:24:08.000 Because you speak the language. 00:24:08.880 --> 00:24:10.799 So what's the language of God? 00:24:11.680 --> 00:24:17.039 His names, the light through his names, he's saying, read in the name of thy Lord who created. 00:24:18.640 --> 00:24:20.319 So we're like, okay. 00:24:20.640 --> 00:24:22.720 I would say, memorize this. 00:24:34.000 --> 00:24:35.359 And I'll explain. 00:24:35.920 --> 00:24:39.359 First one is read in the name of thy Lord who created. 00:24:39.839 --> 00:24:43.039 Learn to see with your eyes properly. 00:24:43.519 --> 00:24:47.599 But you're not seeing with sight, you're now seeing with insight. 00:24:48.160 --> 00:24:51.839 You're not seeing with basar, you're now seeing with basiya. 00:24:53.119 --> 00:25:00.720 So you're you're not distracted or caught up by the events, you understand what the author is getting at. 00:25:00.960 --> 00:25:03.119 And who's the author of the universe? 00:25:03.359 --> 00:25:04.880 Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. 00:25:05.920 --> 00:25:18.079 So this play of cause and effect is a type of trick, but the believer now is able through a proper understanding of tawheed to pierce through these veils and understand that they're just a show. 00:25:19.680 --> 00:25:22.240 The sun does not give light. 00:25:22.960 -->

00:25:24.960 Allah is the one who provides light. 00:25:25.119 --> 00:25:28.880 The sun is a veil for that fact. 00:25:30.720 --> 00:25:32.160 It's just a show. 00:25:33.279 --> 00:25:36.880 It's a meaningful one and it needs to appear that way. 00:25:37.200 --> 00:25:41.519 But it's something you negate with your heart, saying, No, Allah is the one that provides. 00:25:41.759 --> 00:25:44.720 When you get thirsty, no, Allah is the one that quenches thirst. 00:25:44.880 --> 00:25:48.880 I'll drink water, but it is Allah, it is his command in water that quenches thirst. 00:25:49.039 --> 00:25:53.039 If I come to my brother and say, right now the angel of death just came in here and he took. 00:25:53.200 --> 00:25:54.319 Can you see me? 00:25:54.640 --> 00:25:55.680 Can you hear me? 00:25:56.160 --> 00:25:57.039 Can you speak? 00:25:57.279 --> 00:25:58.160 Can you move? 00:25:58.400 --> 00:25:58.799 Yeah? 00:25:58.960 --> 00:26:04.640 But if the angel of death comes and takes his soul, same hands are there, can they move? 00:26:04.880 --> 00:26:06.640 No, same legs, can they move? 00:26:06.799 --> 00:26:08.400 Same ears can they hear? 00:26:08.640 --> 00:26:10.240 Same eyes can they see? 00:26:10.480 --> 00:26:12.240 Same tongue can it speak? 00:26:12.400 --> 00:26:14.079 What was removed from you? 00:26:14.319 --> 00:26:15.200 God's command. 00:26:15.920 --> 00:26:16.880 Which is God's command. 00:26:17.039 --> 00:26:19.759 So when God's commands remove from you, can the eye see? 00:26:19.920 --> 00:26:22.799 So in reality, when God's commands in you, can the eye see? 00:26:22.880 --> 00:26:23.839 So you see with what? 00:26:23.920 --> 00:26:24.880 With God's command? 00:26:25.359 --> 00:26:27.359 And you hear through God's command? 00:26:27.599 --> 00:26:29.680 And you think through God's command? 00:26:30.160 --> 00:26:31.440 Consciousness. 00:26:35.519 --> 00:26:37.599 This is called ta'armuff. 00:26:38.000 --> 00:26:40.480 Getting to know Allah through His names. 00:26:43.200 --> 00:26:47.680 And He placed these needs in you because they're, like I said, homing devices. 00:26:50.640 --> 00:26:50.880 Right? 00:26:50.960 --> 00:26:55.839 When you're kind of like trying to vocate gold or they're homing devices. 00:26:57.119 --> 00:26:59.039 Intentionally created this way. 00:26:59.599 --> 00:27:04.240 And then the second part of the verse, this is fascinating. 00:27:04.480 --> 00:27:07.920 This is Allah says, khalak al-insan amina alak. 00:27:08.799 --> 00:27:10.960 He created insan from alak. 00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:13.759 You know what alak is? 00:27:14.720 --> 00:27:19.039 The leech-like form in the womb, what does a leech do? 00:27:19.839 --> 00:27:20.799 Claims. 00:27:21.839 --> 00:27:23.039 Attachment. 00:27:23.759 --> 00:27:26.480 So khalak al-insan, now it's no coincidence. 00:27:28.240 --> 00:27:30.799 There's an Arabic word called ta'alakah. 00:27:31.359 --> 00:27:33.519 To become attached to. 00:27:35.519 --> 00:27:43.519 So your origin

story, whoever tells you the human being is not supposed to be attached to anything, it is wrong. 00:27:44.240 --> 00:27:47.680 You're just you by nature, your origin story is attachment. 00:27:47.759 --> 00:27:50.880 We just you're just attaching to the wrong thing. 00:27:51.680 --> 00:28:05.039 Because you're seeing the power, the sort of illusionary power of worldly means, money, power, status, connections, you begin to believe in these things. 00:28:05.359 --> 00:28:09.519 To the point where you might even sell your soul to gain these things. 00:28:09.759 --> 00:28:14.880 Because you see their effect, because now you're attached to them because you saw their effect. 00:28:15.119 --> 00:28:16.880 But God is telling you no. 00:28:21.759 --> 00:28:25.680 You see, the fire, did it burn Ibrahim? 00:28:26.640 --> 00:28:27.839 It never did. 00:28:30.240 --> 00:28:39.359 But Allah didn't remove the fire's ability to burn because fire doesn't burn, it burned. 00:28:39.519 --> 00:28:40.640 He just commanded it. 00:28:42.079 --> 00:28:43.519 He removed its permission. 00:28:45.440 --> 00:28:47.920 Fire can only burn with God's command. 00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:51.680 That's why we say God He operates in three ways. 00:28:51.839 --> 00:28:55.920 He operates through means, without means, and against means. 00:29:02.240 --> 00:29:05.359 Because that's the system, the divine matrix, the test. 00:29:07.920 --> 00:29:16.559 And then he sends the prophets with this kalima to tell them, not Prophet Muhammad, every single prophet called towards the same thing. 00:29:17.680 --> 00:29:21.119 Worship one God, don't associate anyone with him. 00:29:21.440 --> 00:29:27.440 And follow me, the Prophet of the time, based on the rules given to me by God, which is in your best interest. 00:29:27.599 --> 00:29:30.240 Then the Prophet would die and another Prophet would come. 00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:50.640 And it would be La ilaha illallah Adam Rasulullah, La ilaha illallah Nuh Rasulullah, La ilaha illallah Raisa Ruhullah, La ilaha illallah Musa Khabibullah, La ilaha illallah Ibrahim Khalilullah, La ilaha illallah Muhammadun Rasulullah, the final, the seal of all Prophets. 00:29:52.319 --> 00:29:53.200 All preach the same thing. 00:29:53.279 --> 00:29:56.000 It's us human beings who played around with things. 00:29:56.480 --> 00:29:59.119 Reality the message has always been the same. 00:29:59.440 --> 00:30:01.039 Believe in the oneness. 00:30:01.680 --> 00:30:05.279 And now even quantum physics, everything is going towards that. 00:30:05.440 --> 00:30:06.160 Tawheed. 00:30:06.640 --> 00:30:12.319 If you really dig deep and read and understand what you're reading, you'll see that that's what they're calling towards. 00:30:12.559 --> 00:30:14.960 We don't have enough time to get into it today. 00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:16.480 But it's fascinating. 00:30:16.640 --> 00:30:21.359 You become attached to these things because you see their ability, but then the verse says, no, no, no, no, no, no. 00:30:22.079 --> 00:30:24.480 The Prophet comes with the hadith wa'am. 00:30:43.200 --> 00:30:58.000 If everybody, um, angels, powers, money, nuclear warheads, uh, all the leads of this world, the powers, the kings, the forces come together to try to benefit you with something, they cannot benefit you except with something God has written for you. 00:30:58.240 --> 00:31:02.799 And if they all come together to harm you with something, they cannot harm you except with something Allah has written against you. 00:31:02.880 --> 00:31:07.920 Rufia At al-akhlam, the pens have been raised with jaqsat-suf and the papers are dry. 00:31:08.160 --> 00:31:20.319 Literally speaking, when the pens have been lifted and the papers are dry, this means that this is the all of knowledge. 00:31:21.279 --> 00:31:24.079 If this is all you understood, this is all you need. 00:31:24.319 --> 00:31:25.680 Ulhu Allahu Ahar. 00:31:26.400 --> 00:31:27.759 Allah Samat. 00:31:28.319 --> 00:31:33.680 Not only is he one, but he doesn't need any of his creation, and all of his creation is in need of him. 00:31:33.920 --> 00:31:37.599 So he operates through means, but he also operates without means. 00:31:38.400 --> 00:31:46.880 He feeds Mariam in the Mihrab with fruits of the summer and the winter, and fruits of the winter in the summer, and she's locked up in a room. 00:31:47.599 --> 00:31:50.880 Every time Zakariya enters the mouse, what's going on? 00:31:51.359 --> 00:31:53.119 Where'd you come up with this? 00:31:53.680 --> 00:31:55.759 Qalatu Aminlah. 00:31:55.839 --> 00:31:56.640 It's from Allah. 00:31:59.119 --> 00:32:01.200 He provides from whom he wills. 00:32:01.519 --> 00:32:03.920 Immediately Zakariya starts making raham. 00:32:04.240 --> 00:32:07.039 He gets the point for a son. 00:32:07.279 --> 00:32:08.720 And Allah grants him. 00:32:08.880 --> 00:32:11.599 Because he realized Allah doesn't need the means. 00:32:12.079 --> 00:32:14.000 And then Allah operates against the means. 00:32:14.160 --> 00:32:19.839 Ibrahim is sitting in the fire, eating food for 40 days, coming down from heaven in the fire. 00:32:20.640 --> 00:32:24.720 When asked what was the best time you spent on earth, he said, the time in the fire. 00:32:24.960 --> 00:32:29.839 Can you imagine just sitting in the fire made by humans just chilling, eating, doing your thing? 00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:31.200 What a sight. 00:32:31.759 --> 00:32:34.880 What would that do to your conviction, to your servitude? 00:32:35.119 --> 00:32:39.839 That's why in Hajj, this whole thing was all about Ibrahim alayhi salam. 00:32:40.079 --> 00:32:48.240 The sacrifices and the trials from one after the other that we learnt about during Hajj, Brother Al-Kaisar was with me on my Hajj trip. 00:32:48.559 --> 00:32:49.680 It was phenomenal. 00:32:49.839 --> 00:32:55.359 It was like the first test, throw my body, sacrifice myself to the fire. 00:32:55.759 --> 00:33:00.480 Standing by Tawheed, that was the trial of

Tawheed against all of society. 00:33:00.799 --> 00:33:01.839 Everybody's against me. 00:33:01.920 --> 00:33:03.680 I stick to God's command. 00:33:04.400 --> 00:33:07.200 Then you're comfortable with your home, migrate. 00:33:07.599 --> 00:33:12.559 That was the test of leaving your comforts behind for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. 00:33:13.200 --> 00:33:17.920 Then leave Hajja, then leave her, your son in a barren desert. 00:33:18.079 --> 00:33:19.039 That was the test. 00:33:19.200 --> 00:33:21.599 Surrendering in that way was the test of what? 00:33:21.759 --> 00:33:28.559 That was the test of you know trusting in Allah against all visible means. 00:33:28.960 --> 00:33:30.799 No water, no food, a desert. 00:33:30.960 --> 00:33:31.920 What's going on? 00:33:32.720 --> 00:33:34.400 Then the ultimate test. 00:33:35.759 --> 00:33:37.279 Sacrifice your son. 00:33:38.160 --> 00:33:39.599 Slaughter your own son. 00:33:39.759 --> 00:33:40.720 Did the knife cut? 00:33:40.880 --> 00:33:42.880 By the way, he actually went for it. 00:33:43.200 --> 00:33:48.000 But the knife didn't cut because the knife only cuts through God's word command. 00:33:48.240 --> 00:33:49.200 But he went for it. 00:33:49.359 --> 00:33:50.160 What test was that? 00:33:50.240 --> 00:33:51.599 What trial was that? 00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:54.559 He gave him his son at an old age. 00:33:54.880 --> 00:33:56.319 That was a gift from Allah. 00:33:56.400 --> 00:34:01.279 That was the test of loving Allah more than any gift that He's given you. 00:34:02.240 --> 00:34:14.159 Then when He passed all these tests, then He says, Now call people towards Hajj and they will come running on their feet from all over the world. 00:34:14.320 --> 00:34:18.159 There was no microphone, no marketing strategy, no audience. 00:34:18.320 --> 00:34:19.920 Look at Mecca today. 00:34:21.119 --> 00:34:25.519 Because when there was nothing but Allah in its heart, when he called, that call was effective. 00:34:25.599 --> 00:34:27.440 Now we call people towards Islam. 00:34:27.599 --> 00:34:32.639 They're like, but you're following and running after the same things of these worldly things that we are after. 00:34:32.719 --> 00:34:34.719 What how are you any different? 00:34:36.639 --> 00:34:43.519 We have a responsibility not just to give dawah with our words, but with our hand, with our state. 00:34:44.559 --> 00:34:47.519 Nowadays I'm finding Muslims are out there to get you. 00:34:47.599 --> 00:34:54.320 Like if you succeed in any way, unfortunately, I have what two and a half million followers on Instagram, for example. 00:34:54.559 --> 00:35:01.840 And then you have all these people that are constantly like if I say one thing here or one thing there, the people that are attacking you are mostly the Muslims. 00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:02.880 And I think about that. 00:35:02.960 --> 00:35:05.199 I think thousands of people have embraced Islam. 00:35:05.360 --> 00:35:06.480 Allah's used me for that. 00:35:06.639 --> 00:35:08.000 That's His grace. 00:35:09.039 --> 00:35:11.440 And I think to myself, what do you guys want as Muslims? 00:35:11.519 --> 00:35:11.920 What do you want? 00:35:12.079 --> 00:35:17.440 You want us to take each other down and you want all these people that are benefiting not to benefit for what? 00:35:17.599 --> 00:35:18.880 To prove what? 00:35:19.440 --> 00:35:21.519 So we're out there to get each other. 00:35:21.679 --> 00:35:22.000 Why? 00:35:22.159 --> 00:35:24.719 Because we didn't understand the next verse. 00:35:24.960 --> 00:35:26.960 Ikqra wa rabbuk al-akram. 00:35:28.320 --> 00:35:33.599 So the ta'alluq, we said, Allah wants you to know him through his names, ta'arruf. 00:35:34.239 --> 00:35:38.239 But he doesn't want you attached to worldly means, he wants you attached to his names. 00:35:38.480 --> 00:35:39.360 Ta'aluq. 00:35:39.840 --> 00:35:42.960 And then finally, ikra wa rabbuk al-akram. 00:35:43.199 --> 00:35:45.920 This is taqhalluq, your akhlaq, your character. 00:35:46.079 --> 00:35:50.480 Allah wants you to deal with people and treat people through his names. 00:35:50.880 --> 00:35:53.920 Someone comes and calls you out and says, You did that, that was wrong. 00:35:54.159 --> 00:35:55.519 So who do you think you are? 00:35:55.679 --> 00:35:57.280 Don't you know who I am? 00:35:58.639 --> 00:36:00.079 Here, what are you supposed to be? 00:36:00.239 --> 00:36:01.599 Humble yourself. 00:36:02.239 --> 00:36:05.840 Because Allah's, one of Allah's names is that. 00:36:06.480 --> 00:36:09.840 Yeah, and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala can honor and he can disgrace. 00:36:09.920 --> 00:36:11.280 So Allah says, What in the Quran? 00:36:11.519 --> 00:36:13.440 Awilatin alamin? 00:36:14.320 --> 00:36:16.960 We have to humble ourselves amongst the believers. 00:36:17.119 --> 00:36:18.800 You know what, brother, you were right. 00:36:19.039 --> 00:36:23.280 I got too excited at one of the football games after Egypt lost. 00:36:23.360 --> 00:36:24.559 I was devastated. 00:36:25.440 --> 00:36:33.440 And so I put up a post about Morocco, and I was like, you know, two billion Muslims are giving you bay'ah to beat. 00:36:33.679 --> 00:36:34.239 Who are they playing? 00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:35.039 Morocco? 00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:37.119 France, just making sure. 00:36:38.159 --> 00:36:39.039 Beep beep. 00:36:39.119 --> 00:36:43.440 You know, giving you bay'ah to beat the French and the Wawaqbada bit excited. 00:36:43.519 --> 00:36:47.519 So one brother, some chef came up and said, Brother, come on, what is this? 00:36:48.000 --> 00:36:49.360 What do you think we're doing here? 00:36:49.519 --> 00:36:50.719 Fe Sabi did that? 00:36:50.880 --> 00:36:52.639 Like, what's happening? 00:36:53.039 --> 00:36:57.039 And he and he called me out and he thought I was gonna like kick back and this and that. 00:36:57.199 --> 00:36:58.800 I went on his feet, I said, you know what? 00:36:58.960 --> 00:37:00.400 You're absolutely right.

00:37:00.639 --> 00:37:03.360 I dropped the ball, I got a bit too excited. 00:37:04.559 --> 00:37:07.519 And I apologize and thank you for bringing it to my attention. 00:37:07.840 --> 00:37:08.960 I just took the post down. 00:37:09.039 --> 00:37:12.320 And if you ever see anything wrong again in the future, please let me know. 00:37:12.400 --> 00:37:14.079 Because I was thinking of this verse. 00:37:14.320 --> 00:37:15.360 The khaloq. 00:37:15.599 --> 00:37:17.920 Treating people through Allah's names. 00:37:18.639 --> 00:37:20.000 Stepping on the ego. 00:37:23.760 --> 00:37:26.880 Successful are the ones who purify it. 00:37:31.360 --> 00:37:48.000 So we want to treat people through Allah's names, being kind to people, giving people the benefit of the doubt, having a good opinion of people, not waiting for them like a cat waits by the mouse hole for them to slip or trip and I told you so. 00:37:49.119 --> 00:37:52.320 But to give them the benefit of the doubt, to pray for them. 00:37:52.480 --> 00:37:56.960 If you feel jealousy towards someone or envious of someone, you go, you pray for them. 00:37:57.199 --> 00:38:00.239 That's the way to cure your heart from that disease. 00:38:00.559 --> 00:38:04.400 And ask a Shafi to cure your heart from those diseases. 00:38:05.119 --> 00:38:12.480 So now you have ta'a ta'aruf, you're getting to know Allah through his names by properly reading and decoding. 00:38:12.639 --> 00:38:16.960 Why do you think dunya decoded got over by the grace of Allah now? 00:38:17.280 --> 00:38:22.559 Dunya decoded the series on YouTube has cost one billion views. 00:38:24.079 --> 00:38:26.320 I had no idea. 00:38:27.039 --> 00:38:31.199 But it's because what I found is that people are really thirsty for this. 00:38:32.079 --> 00:38:34.639 The definition, decoding dunya, what is the definition? 00:38:34.800 --> 00:38:37.280 This is my talk tomorrow, it's about success. 00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:43.039 My book, The Afterlife Manual, that you can find on Amazon, it's a plug. 00:38:45.039 --> 00:38:46.000 And ashamed. 00:38:46.239 --> 00:38:47.360 Please buy my book. 00:38:48.079 --> 00:38:49.440 It's on Amazon. 00:38:50.400 --> 00:38:55.039 But the Afterlife Manual talks about defining success. 00:38:55.360 --> 00:38:57.360 Most people today are doing what? 00:38:57.760 --> 00:39:04.159 They're busy collecting things we were never allowed to take across to the other side. 00:39:07.280 --> 00:39:14.000 And our understanding of success and numbers and what number, how many followers does one app that makes a person nowadays? 00:39:15.199 --> 00:39:16.719 How many followers? 00:39:17.039 --> 00:39:21.280 Do you know who has the most followers on Instagram? 00:39:24.320 --> 00:39:26.480 Do you know how many followers he has on Instagram? 00:39:26.800 --> 00:39:27.679 Anyone know? 00:39:28.320 --> 00:39:31.039 685 some million followers? 00:39:31.599 --> 00:39:32.400 MashaAllah. 00:39:33.039 --> 00:39:34.960 But there's someone with

more followers than him. 00:39:35.039 --> 00:39:36.079 Do you know who he is? 00:39:37.039 --> 00:39:37.920 Iblis. 00:39:38.960 --> 00:39:39.519 Shaitan. 00:39:40.639 --> 00:39:42.559 So is it a sign of success? 00:39:43.039 --> 00:39:45.440 How many times is Iblis mentioned in the Quran? 00:39:48.960 --> 00:39:49.599 11. 00:39:50.400 --> 00:39:51.840 Do you know why 11? 00:39:52.159 --> 00:39:54.159 How many commandments are there? 00:39:54.639 --> 00:39:59.039 Our cousins in the Jewish faith, they have how many commandments? 00:39:59.360 --> 00:40:00.000 10. 00:40:00.800 --> 00:40:06.320 So if you cross to the 11th, you consider that transgressing, so it's satanic. 00:40:07.199 --> 00:40:09.920 So at least was mentioned 11 times in the Quran. 00:40:10.079 --> 00:40:13.360 Shaytan, a multiple of that, 88 times. 00:40:13.599 --> 00:40:18.079 That's why when the lady did magic on the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, how many knots did she tie? 00:40:19.199 --> 00:40:19.840 Eleven. 00:40:20.719 --> 00:40:24.639 And then the Prophet, the verses were revealed and Mu'awatian. 00:40:27.760 --> 00:40:28.320 Let's count them. 00:40:48.559 --> 00:40:49.760 Eleven verses. 00:40:51.440 --> 00:40:53.199 Everything in the Quran. 00:40:53.519 --> 00:40:57.519 Because it's there's like I I met a beautiful family yesterday. 00:40:57.599 --> 00:40:59.599 I was just kind of like roaming on the street. 00:40:59.679 --> 00:41:02.159 They're like, oh my god, and they parked the car and they got out. 00:41:02.400 --> 00:41:06.880 The beautiful family's like, I can't be you're here, and I told my husband I'm gonna see you. 00:41:06.960 --> 00:41:09.199 There was such a beautiful meeting. 00:41:09.360 --> 00:41:11.440 And the brother was like, What are the chances? 00:41:11.599 --> 00:41:12.400 I'm like 100%. 00:41:16.239 --> 00:41:19.039 Because he's the orchestrator. 00:41:19.920 --> 00:41:26.000 You know, the the the you know, we see our own like in the words that we use, it's like, what are the chances? 00:41:26.480 --> 00:41:28.880 The chances are not just high, they're like 100%. 00:41:29.679 --> 00:41:34.800 When you understand that he is the one, there are there is no randomness in our deen. 00:41:34.960 --> 00:41:40.480 Nothing is random, everything is wa kulla shay in khalaknahu be mikad. 00:41:42.000 --> 00:41:49.280 Everything appointed in an exact, accurate way, intentionally by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. 00:41:49.440 --> 00:41:51.760 I'm a bit jet-lagged, so I just made some notes. 00:41:51.920 --> 00:41:58.719 I always make notes, I end up never using them for but I just wanted to make sure I didn't miss anything that I wanted to share with you. 00:41:58.800 --> 00:41:59.840 Oh, the hadith. 00:42:00.239 --> 00:42:02.480 So I just wanted to say, maybe we end with this. 00:42:02.719 --> 00:42:10.639 You have spent your entire life negotiating with pens that were lifted before you were born. 00:42:11.599 --> 00:42:13.679 Everything was written by Allah. 00:42:14.000 --> 00:42:18.960 You spend your whole life negotiating with pens that were lifted before you were born. 00:42:19.039 --> 00:42:25.119 So I want you to go home tonight and start negotiating with the one who wrote it all out. 00:42:35.599 --> 00:42:37.519 I wanted to leave some time for questions. 00:42:37.599 --> 00:42:39.519 There's about 12 minutes. 00:42:39.760 --> 00:42:43.760 They told me we had the option to do that, so I think they're gonna go around. 00:42:44.000 --> 00:42:45.599 But I don't mind you just speaking out. 00:42:45.679 --> 00:42:46.559 Yeah, there we go. 00:42:46.639 --> 00:42:47.440 Thank you. 00:42:51.039 --> 00:42:52.239 As salamu alaykum. 00:42:55.199 --> 00:43:03.360 I really appreciate it because um me and my family we have listened to a number of variations of this particular talk of yours on YouTube, so I really appreciate that. 00:43:03.920 --> 00:43:10.719 Um I think what we'd like across the pond in Britain is this ability to see Allah, to recognize him. 00:43:11.039 --> 00:43:14.960 And I think that's really missing and it's really key listening to your talk. 00:43:15.119 --> 00:43:18.320 And as you said, the pens have been lifted, so it's no coincidence. 00:43:18.480 --> 00:43:27.760 But only a couple of days ago, Sheikh Mikhail Smith was doing a talk about Al-Kahum and really the fact that Allah is in independent and we, like you said, are dependent upon him. 00:43:28.159 --> 00:43:36.480 So I think it's beautiful timing, and sometimes life, like you said, doesn't allow us to see that we are dependent on Allah and that relationship is really important. 00:43:36.800 --> 00:43:39.440 We end up forgetting the ghafla so much for the reminder. 00:43:39.679 --> 00:43:41.119 Welcome Harizakum Lahay. 00:43:41.199 --> 00:43:48.079 I'm actually because of this ghafla, I actually just um finished a mobile application. 00:43:48.880 --> 00:43:52.800 Uh thank God for Mufti Claude and Sheikh Chat GPT. 00:43:53.599 --> 00:43:56.159 We can create applications much faster these days. 00:43:56.239 --> 00:43:59.360 It's called the Yakadvah Awakening. 00:44:00.079 --> 00:44:13.360 And the idea beh behind this app should be released next week is you get notifications on your phone that are like 30 second voice notes in my voice recorded that catch you in the middle of whatever you're doing and checks on you. 00:44:14.000 --> 00:44:17.039 Were you present with God or not in that state? 00:44:17.440 --> 00:44:20.320 So I'm just letting you know that I'm thinking about these things. 00:44:20.639 --> 00:44:26.639 But to get to a point of where presence is not just a state, but a station. 00:44:27.199 --> 00:44:32.880 Know the difference in uh between someone's spiritual state comes and goes. 00:44:34.079 --> 00:44:43.440 So you might spend some time reading a lot of Quran, meditating, praying, tahajud, fasting from food, and then you develop a certain spiritual state. 00:44:43.599 --> 00:44:51.280 But but then after a while

you may engage in idle talk and backbiting and this, and very quickly the state leaves you. 00:44:51.840 --> 00:44:56.079 How is it that we can turn these spiritual states into spiritual stations? 00:44:57.280 --> 00:45:05.599 And what's fascinating is some of the greatest saints they got their spiritual enlightenments in places they would have never expected. 00:45:06.880 --> 00:45:10.880 One of the greatest awliya got his spiritual revelation in the washroom. 00:45:11.440 --> 00:45:15.920 And the Mashayah used to say that that happened so that he wouldn't claim it as his own. 00:45:16.239 --> 00:45:18.239 That was God's way of protecting him. 00:45:18.480 --> 00:45:20.239 Because if we say that's my work. 00:45:20.559 --> 00:45:30.559 So I want to also say from this that part of the negation, there are actually five things you have to negate before the Kalima of Tawheed ever takes a firm grasp on your heart. 00:45:30.960 --> 00:45:36.800 And that's negating the doing of the universe, not the universe, but that doing of the universe. 00:45:37.039 --> 00:45:39.039 Negating the beloved eight. 00:45:49.840 --> 00:45:54.719 Five on relationships, uh, fathers, brethren, tribes, all that. 00:45:55.119 --> 00:46:01.280 Um about money, money you businesses you're in and money that you've saved, and one on lifestyle. 00:46:03.199 --> 00:46:08.000 Allah says, if these are more beloved to you than Allah and his Rasul and striving in his path. 00:46:08.480 --> 00:46:10.000 Because at the time, why Allah? 00:46:10.079 --> 00:46:16.480 Because at the time of death, Allah, whoever looks forward to meeting Allah, Allah looks forward to meeting them. 00:46:16.719 --> 00:46:22.400 But whoever you know does not look forward to meeting Allah, Allah does not look forward to meeting them. 00:46:22.559 --> 00:46:26.000 What makes you hold on to life and not wanting to look forward to meet Allah? 00:46:26.159 --> 00:46:28.239 Your attachment to these eight things. 00:46:28.719 --> 00:46:34.400 So I tell my wife, I said, I know you love me and I love you and all that hocus pocus, but love Allah more. 00:46:34.880 --> 00:46:36.639 You're better off that way. 00:46:37.199 --> 00:46:38.960 I have to leave you one day. 00:46:39.280 --> 00:46:40.480 He's always there. 00:46:40.800 --> 00:46:41.280 Right? 00:46:41.599 --> 00:46:43.039 So that's the second. 00:46:43.119 --> 00:46:46.159 The third is negating your own self. 00:46:46.559 --> 00:46:47.760 Anna Anna. 00:46:48.239 --> 00:46:58.960 There's a Sufi saying, it's beautiful, it says, Oh Anna, the egoic I. 00:47:02.239 --> 00:47:08.159 It's just corrupt by its, it's just the way it's put together, its essence is corruption. 00:47:12.320 --> 00:47:15.760 Oh you that is creating a barrier between me and my beloved. 00:47:16.480 --> 00:47:22.800 That nafs thinking that I, even the Arabs have something, when they say anna, they say, Awudu billahim in kalimatana. 00:47:23.199 --> 00:47:29.119 Part of our culture when we say, oh, I did this, I seek refuge from the I, the egoic I. 00:47:29.760 --> 00:47:34.239 So that I did, I accomplished, I have, I'm so awesome. 00:47:34.559 --> 00:47:49.760 And a lot of, you know, because in modern life, I mean, because I I think also part of the Bradford Literature Festival is addressing Muslims that are kind of struggling between that balance between having the you know their faith and modern life. 00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:52.000 Like how do you make that balance? 00:47:53.360 --> 00:47:56.400 Let's save that for tomorrow, inshaAllah. 00:47:57.360 --> 00:48:04.960 But so the nafs, and then finally, um Al-Ashya, the the the previous nations, Yaqeen. 00:48:05.119 --> 00:48:18.159 If you notice the stories of the Prophets, every story of a Prophet that Allah sent to his people, their people had a specific trade or a specific quality to them that they had a lot, that they over-emphasized. 00:48:18.320 --> 00:48:33.440 Like add their physical strength, shu'ai, business, um each one like uh firaun, uh, karun, money, and then the Prabhupada will come and say, No, your success is not in that. 00:48:33.920 --> 00:48:46.159 Your success is in you to being grateful for that, which means remaining within the boundaries through your actions in a way that shows your gratitude for these things, not to transgress God's boundaries and those things. 00:48:46.239 --> 00:48:47.119 That's true gratitude. 00:48:47.199 --> 00:48:49.920 Gratitude is not alhamdulillah, that's hamd. 00:48:50.239 --> 00:48:51.360 Gratitude is action. 00:48:54.079 --> 00:49:02.320 And finally, al-ashia il mubashira, negating the things that are immediately around the heart, like things you're daily, kind of like sleep. 00:49:02.480 --> 00:49:06.960 Because most people, oh, if I don't sleep at least 10 hours a day, I don't feel rested. 00:49:07.119 --> 00:49:12.480 If you examine that sentence, there's corrupt conviction in that, that sleep gives rest. 00:49:12.719 --> 00:49:13.519 You should sleep. 00:49:13.599 --> 00:49:14.159 It's very important. 00:49:14.239 --> 00:49:16.639 I work out daily, it's very important for me. 00:49:16.800 --> 00:49:18.480 So recovery is a big part of it. 00:49:18.800 --> 00:49:20.559 They tell you sleep eight hours. 00:49:20.800 --> 00:49:34.159 That was actually, I heard, introduced by a mattress company as a marketing ploy to ensure that you know you're sleeping eight hours a day, kind of like cereal was introduced for breakfast, cornflakes back in the days, whatever it is. 00:49:34.400 --> 00:49:41.440 So, no, the the the that that that's not um that's not what it is. 00:49:41.679 --> 00:49:50.880 They found that actually back in the days, the way Shakespeare and others, even like beyond Islam, they would sleep four hours, they would wake up for two and then sleep another four hours. 00:49:51.119 --> 00:49:53.519 So they would get a lot done in the middle of the night. 00:49:53.599 --> 00:49:54.559 That's tahajjud. 00:49:55.840 -->

00:49:58.800 So I was sometimes like, wait, I gotta ruin my tahajjud. 00:49:59.039 --> 00:50:07.440 Like I have this practice where I'll get up for an hour or two at night to meditate, you know, make dhikr and pray, and and I have a certain regimen. 00:50:07.599 --> 00:50:09.920 I talk about it in Dunya Dikodid. 00:50:10.159 --> 00:50:13.519 Um every Muslim should have a marikam of that. 00:50:13.920 --> 00:50:20.960 Um no, because what they're not accounting for is the spiritual strength that you get from that. 00:50:21.119 --> 00:50:26.159 So now you don't need as much sleep as someone else because you have tamadina, you have peace. 00:50:26.880 --> 00:50:37.599 See, there are two formulas in the Quran, and one of them ishat and whoever turns his back to my dhikr, my remembrance, he will have a life of dunak. 00:50:38.239 --> 00:50:40.320 Danak is such a strong word in the Arabic language. 00:50:40.480 --> 00:50:43.599 Allah is dykh, constriction, noon is naked. 00:50:44.079 --> 00:50:45.599 It's problems after problem. 00:50:46.000 --> 00:50:46.960 You know naked. 00:50:48.719 --> 00:50:51.760 That's how tough to translate in English. 00:50:52.000 --> 00:50:53.679 I'll try to look it up later. 00:50:53.840 --> 00:50:59.119 But um and qay is qadr, just one problem after the other. 00:50:59.360 --> 00:51:02.559 But here it's not the remembrance, it's the obedience in the tafsir. 00:51:02.719 --> 00:51:04.639 Man arada and dikri and y'a. 00:51:05.599 --> 00:51:08.960 If you're not obedient to Allah, no matter where you go, you're gonna have problems in your life. 00:51:09.039 --> 00:51:12.000 You're not gonna be having you're gonna go sleep at night, something's off. 00:51:12.400 --> 00:51:15.199 Because he's the one that controls these emotions. 00:51:15.599 --> 00:51:18.159 That you can't circumvent Allah. 00:51:18.480 --> 00:51:20.239 There's no way, there's no back door. 00:51:20.559 --> 00:51:24.400 Allah Himself says, Fa'eynat, where are you gonna go? 00:51:25.360 --> 00:51:28.559 This is His simulation, his creation. 00:51:29.119 --> 00:51:31.760 So figure it out before it's too late. 00:51:32.079 --> 00:51:37.679 Before that you hear that sound, and most of the time, you know, have you ever had one of those dreams that you died? 00:51:38.480 --> 00:51:45.440 Right, and then you panic and you come back, you're like, oh my god, I got my what if you know the next time that happens, it's not a dream. 00:51:46.480 --> 00:51:48.159 And you're actually done. 00:51:48.400 --> 00:51:49.199 It's game. 00:51:49.280 --> 00:51:50.719 This is not PlayStation. 00:51:50.880 --> 00:51:52.159 This is pray station. 00:51:52.400 --> 00:51:54.079 You don't get three lives. 00:51:54.480 --> 00:51:56.480 Once you're dead, it's game over. 00:51:57.360 --> 00:52:07.280 So if I want you to go home with anything today is go home and be like, okay, I need to change, I need to like do something about my life, draw nearer to it, figure it out. 00:52:07.599 --> 00:52:08.559 Nothing is worth it. 00:52:08.800 --> 00:52:15.840 Don't don't trade eternity for 60 to 70 lousy years of this life. 00:52:16.159 --> 00:52:17.199 It's not worth it. 00:52:18.880 --> 00:52:20.320 What time do we have? 00:52:22.480 --> 00:52:23.440 One more question. 00:52:24.960 --> 00:52:26.719 Sorry for the long answer. 00:52:33.679 --> 00:52:38.880 I just wanted to pick up on something you said about working out is really important to you. 00:52:39.039 --> 00:52:43.599 I just wanted to know is that connected to the Islamic perspective? 00:52:44.719 --> 00:52:45.199 Beautiful question. 00:52:45.360 --> 00:52:46.159 Beautiful question, yes. 00:52:46.320 --> 00:52:52.559 The Prophet she's asking, is that kind of also comes from a spiritual tradition, like, or you just work out. 00:52:52.719 --> 00:53:00.639 See, I I don't, they always ask me, how do you balance between uh dunya and deen, this life and your religion? 00:53:00.800 --> 00:53:03.440 And my answer is always there is no balance. 00:53:04.800 --> 00:53:06.400 And for most of you, it's like, what do you mean? 00:53:06.480 --> 00:53:10.480 I said, well, to balance something, you've got to kind of put it on a scale, right? 00:53:10.719 --> 00:53:13.039 And so you have to divide it up and put it on a scale. 00:53:13.199 --> 00:53:24.800 You can't separate deen from dunya, because deen is a mode of perception and view, a way of life that you go about living your dunya. 00:53:25.440 --> 00:53:32.960 So in that way, everything, even you know, the way I eat, I don't eat to fulfill my hunger or satiate my hunger. 00:53:33.119 --> 00:53:35.519 I eat because God commanded me in the Quran to eat. 00:53:35.599 --> 00:53:36.559 He said, eat and drink. 00:53:36.719 --> 00:53:37.840 There's a very big difference. 00:53:38.000 --> 00:53:39.119 Yes, I get hungry. 00:53:39.360 --> 00:53:43.280 Yes, I think of food, but I try to practice thinking of Allah before food. 00:53:43.440 --> 00:53:45.599 And then I move towards the means. 00:53:45.760 --> 00:53:50.000 But knowing and negating that you don't satiate my hunger, Allah does through his command. 00:53:50.159 --> 00:53:58.000 So, and to answer your working out question, the Prophet said, Al-mu'min al-Kawi, khayrun wa ahabu ilallahi min al-mu'min al ta'if. 00:53:58.400 --> 00:54:01.280 The physically here is not talking about spiritual strength. 00:54:01.440 --> 00:54:05.440 It's known amongst scholars for those that this is talking about physical strength. 00:54:05.679 --> 00:54:10.800 Al-muqmin, the strong believer, is better and more beloved to Allah than the weak believer. 00:54:10.880 --> 00:54:11.920 This is physical strength. 00:54:12.000 --> 00:54:12.480 Because why? 00:54:12.639 --> 00:54:16.320 Because they can serve people more, they can have more taqhalluq with humanity. 00:54:16.559 --> 00:54:19.280 I I when I'm playing around with my kids, this was recent. 00:54:19.440 --> 00:54:24.719 I only started taking care of my health when I was, I started at 45, I'm 48 now. 00:54:25.360 --> 00:54:29.599 So I started very late, but right now I hired a trainer for my wife. 00:54:29.760 --> 00:54:31.039 She trains five days a week. 00:54:31.199 --> 00:54:32.559 I train five days a week. 00:54:32.719 --> 00:54:43.119 We have a nutritionist, we eat a certain way, we avoid certain foods, we're very particular, and uh, it's made me a better person to my family, my kids, wife, friends. 00:54:43.280 --> 00:54:47.119 I'm able to serve better, I feel better, even in my worship, everything. 00:54:47.280 --> 00:54:54.960 But worship is not, it's not like God is on one, you know, like most people have a list of things and God is an item on their list. 00:54:55.119 --> 00:54:56.880 But I'd like to call it the God list. 00:54:56.960 --> 00:54:59.119 Everything is a function of God in that list. 00:54:59.360 --> 00:55:01.119 Look at life that way, it's very different. 00:55:01.280 --> 00:55:02.400 I hope that helps.