Ethics and Etiquette of Servitude, part 3, Sheikh Dr Shomali, 9th July 2020

Summary

In this enlightening lecture by Sheikh Dr. Shomali, the focus is on the delicate balance of servitude, the wise handling of life's challenges, and the gifts bestowed upon those who commit to ethical living. Sheikh Dr. Shomali elaborates on a hadith from Imam Sadiq that highlights how genuine servitude leads to understanding, ease in managing worldly affairs, and resistance to negative forces like Shaytan. By aligning personal plans with divine guidance, the faithful servant overcomes distractions and remains focused on what truly matters. The lecture stresses humility, prioritizing spiritual growth, relinquishing unnecessary expectations from others, and truly committing to one's spiritual journey.

Highlights

• Discover how aligning with divine planning eases personal and worldly struggles. 🙏
• Learn the significance of servitude in fostering spiritual understanding and gifts. 🎇
• Understand the importance of releasing expectations to foster better relationships. 🤝
• Gain insight into how distractions can multiply and challenge determination. 🚀
• Embrace humility as a spiritual growth catalyst. 🌸
• Shaytan's power is minimized through constant vigilance and alertness. 🚫
• Explore the concept of real dignity as a divine attribute and not societal. 👑

Key Takeaways

• Align your plans with the divine plan to achieve knowledge and ease. 📚
• Focus on spiritual gifts as blessings that prepare you for higher understanding. 🎁
• Spiritual growth demands humility and minimal worldly attachment. 🧘‍♂️
• Expect less from others to maintain peace and humility. 🌿
• Managing people becomes simple when you have no expectations from them. 👫
• Overcoming Shaytan is about staying alert and aware, not just powerful. 🔥
• True honor comes from God, not societal validation. 🌟

Overview

In this part three of the lecture series by Sheikh Dr. Shomali, the focus is on understanding the ethics and etiquettes of servitude. Dr. Shomali discusses a hadith by Imam Sadiq about the path to knowledge and the importance of spiritual practices in aligning with Allah's plans. The lecture underscores the belief that servitude is an internal journey that reflects externally through actions and practices.

The Sheikh uses relatable metaphors to explain complex ideas, such as equating divine and personal planning to a company board and its executives. By differentiating between worldly goals and spiritual objectives, the lecture brings clarity to what aligns with true servitude. It discourages seeking validation from others and stresses that true honor and gifts are from God alone.

Listeners are reminded of the importance of humility, understanding, and managing expectations. The lecture also delves into the challenges of modern distractions and the need for focus. Dr. Shomali encourages the listeners to foster inner peace and direct their spiritual pursuits primarily towards fulfilling divine expectations rather than societal measures.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 01:00: Introduction and Gratitude The chapter begins with a phrase praising Allah – "Bismillah al-rahman al-rahim", which means "In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful." This is followed by expressions of gratitude towards Allah for being the Lord of all worlds and sending guidance through the beloved Prophet Muhammad. The chapter emphasizes a message of unity and relieves the listener from concerns, suggesting turning to Allah for help in times of need. It includes blessings and prayers for protection and well-being.
• 01:00 - 03:30: Hadith Discussion: Quest for Knowledge and Servitude The chapter titled "Hadith Discussion: Quest for Knowledge and Servitude" begins with a mention of food, specifically 'rellenos', then transitions into the speaker expressing gratitude to Allah for blessing them with the opportunity to conduct this third session on the ethics and etiquette of servitude. The text hints at a continuation of a previous discussion or lecture series about servitude, possibly stemming from religious or ethical teachings. The chapter appears to be centered on the values and practices associated with servitude and might include discussions involving hadiths or Islamic teachings related to knowledge and service.
• 03:30 - 07:00: Servitude and Planning in Alignment with Allah's Will Imam Sadiq emphasizes the importance of internalizing the reality of servitude if one desires to gain true knowledge. This involves understanding one's position and role in alignment with Allah's will. Servitude is seen as a precursor to wisdom and knowledge acquisition.
• 07:00 - 10:00: Engagement in Life and Focus on Allah's Commands This chapter emphasizes the importance of integrating practical actions with knowledge. It suggests that mere possession of knowledge is insufficient; one must actively apply it to see growth and sustainability in one's understanding. There is also mention of two aspects or figures: 'cattle or Budhia' and 'Lubell elmab,' potentially signifying components that relate to livelihood and divine guidance. The overall focus is on engaging in life through a committed focus on religious principles, particularly practicing the teachings to ensure the knowledge remains useful and impactful.
• 10:00 - 15:00: Detachment from Worldly Desires and Determination The chapter discusses the importance of seeking understanding from Allah, with assurance that He will provide it. It also highlights Imam's mention of three significant points, focusing on the belief in the divine allocation of life's circumstances.
• 15:00 - 18:30: Distractions and the Importance of Focus in Spiritual Growth The chapter discusses the concept of focus in spiritual growth, emphasizing that true focus is not about material wealth but rather the alignment with Allah's will. It highlights that all resources and abilities are entrusted by Allah and should be utilized according to His plan. Spiritual development hinges on adhering to the divine plan set by Allah, who is the ultimate planner of all things.
• 18:30 - 23:30: Spiritual Gifts and Servitude The chapter explores the balance between following guidance and making well-thought-out plans. It emphasizes the importance of making decisions based on a higher authority's guidance while still responsibly and carefully engaging in planning and evaluation. This dual approach ensures that actions are aligned with spiritual gifts and servitude, maintaining a harmonious balance between divine inspiration and practical execution.
• 23:30 - 34:00: Managing Dunya, Shaytan, and Interactions with People The chapter discusses the importance of micro and major planning in dealing with worldly matters, including the influence of Shaytan, and in managing interactions with people. It emphasizes being wise, organized, and foresighted in order to create and implement effective plans based on the tasks provided by a higher power. Such plans are essential for actualization and tangible execution in dealing with daily challenges.
• 34:00 - 37:00: Humility in Expectations and Relationships The chapter discusses the theme of 'Humility in Expectations and Relationships'. It illustrates how organizations, such as corporations or trusts, set long-term goals, for instance, a five-year plan set by the board of directors or trustees. The managers and their teams are responsible for the execution of these plans, demonstrating the importance of teamwork and collaboration in achieving desired outcomes while maintaining humility.
• 37:00 - 48:00: Conclusion: Spiritual Progress and Relationship with Allah The conclusion chapter emphasizes the importance of a servant dedicating their attention and efforts to serve their master, focusing on what the master commands and reiterates. It highlights the relationship between the servant and Allah, stressing absolute dedication and obedience to spiritual progress. The chapter ends with the mention of a saying by Emily sallam that reinforces the dedication to Allah.
• 48:00 - 49:00: Closing Remarks and Preview of Next Session This chapter discusses the importance of recognizing and appreciating one's blessings from Allah. It emphasizes that once an individual acknowledges these blessings, fulfilling the obligations, such as spending in the way of Allah, becomes easier. The chapter also highlights the spiritual elevation and ease that follow when one commits to these teachings.

Ethics and Etiquette of Servitude, part 3, Sheikh Dr Shomali, 9th July 2020 Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 smell ar-rahman ar-rahim ahold of Allah who but I love in law in a year our theme alhamdulillah her I've been all I mean something long and also getting all gonna be you know a bit of course Emile Mustafa Muhammad Allah giving at all her in law CMO buddy get a law of Lara Dean until a lot all of our Jewish relief Allah Eugenie Missoula malted mcaren even ordered five a long after her Lena
• 00:30 - 01:00 Obama take mention rellenos as all and I will make aromatic a all wrong I am grateful to allah subhanaw taala for giving me this blessing of being with you today for the third session of ethics and etiquette of servitude I remember we were talking about the
• 01:00 - 01:30 hadith of Imam Sadiq alehissalaam to involve a three and we saw that Imam Ali sallam said if you want knowledge first you must seek in yourself the reality of servitude so fat loaf in Africa happy
• 01:30 - 02:00 cattle or Budhia and the second was what Lubell elmab is there Molly knowledge also must be put into practice if you want your knowledge to grow to increase and even to remain you need to practice and then a mama listen absurd must have
• 02:00 - 02:30 him in law you have ask Allah for understanding and Allah will make you understand so we talked about these things and then Imam alayhi Salam mentioned three important things one was that those who are servants they believe that whatever Allah has given
• 02:30 - 03:00 them and of course focus wasn't money but it's more general is from Allah and belongs to Allah and should be used in the way that he wants then he said they would also the servants of Allah would go by the plan of allah subhanaw taala he is the one who plans he is the one
• 03:00 - 03:30 that is making the decisions and we go by his decisions of course as we said in the Q&A last week and it was a very good question it doesn't mean that we don't plan it doesn't mean that we don't do things with careful assessment evaluation planning etc no it means that our planning which is very important
• 03:30 - 04:00 comes as micro planning he is the one who makes them major plans so he gives us the task but we should be wise enough and organized enough and foresighted so that we can make a plan which is like executive plan something for implementation and actualization of his
• 04:00 - 04:30 general plan like for example as we said board of directors or trustees of a trust or a company they decide that in five years we want to reach this point then the managers and their teams they work on implementation of that so a la maestra name for the third thing was
• 04:30 - 05:00 that the servant will put all his attention and preoccupation at the service of his master and what he commanded and what he repeated then Emily sallam said for either Lemuria Abdulla nafsi FEMA have Allah Allah Allah Milken Hana
• 05:00 - 05:30 elated and if he would not see for himself ownership in what Allah has given him then spending in what he has asked him to spend would be very easy Hana becomes high-en becomes very easy so this is the first thing
• 05:30 - 06:00 the second thing is that because I explain this I don't go again into details I want just to focus on the new thing but this is a preparation and reminder the second thing was a lovable AB tad birra nafsi he along with a beret
• 06:00 - 06:30 or along with a beret Hana and I him i saw about you when we delegate and submit planning to allah subhanho wa taala then the problems sufferings of dunya become easy because we are acting within the general plan that he has set
• 06:30 - 07:00 up for us and number three is Ashtanga la la abdomen Amer allahu ta'ala van ha lawyer tafero home anymore mira even mobile hot a man knows if he is engaged only and pill occupied only with what his master has asked him to do then he would not have interest in
• 07:00 - 07:30 wasting his time and dividing his attention in Mira and we said maril it just to argue for the sake of arguing cheap you know arguing and discussing and no forth and back you know defending attacking we talked about Mira and mobile hurt a man knows that to say to people I am better
• 07:30 - 08:00 than you I have these achievements what have you done or you know compared himself to other people sometimes in the prison sometime in their absence he has no time to waste and even he not only has no time to waste he doesn't want even to expend his mental energy for this which is not less one time I would like to mention something here last week I said that in
• 08:00 - 08:30 future I think the greatest challenge would be and still I think it's happening who has determination and the success in future comes with determination so will be the battle of determination not money or weapon or etc this is my
• 08:30 - 09:00 understanding initial another time we can explain another thing that I want to add is that more and more being focused and concentrated becomes important and at the same time more difficult when we move forward our attention is more
• 09:00 - 09:30 scattered distractions are not only increasing they are being multiplied distractions so many distractions and success needs focus and concentration and needs to be selective to be very careful not only about your time but also about your attention so this is a
• 09:30 - 10:00 second thing that in align with our discussions I would like to highlight now let's continue with this beautiful Hadees imam ali salam says either Akram Allah houla up the behold his philosophy if allah subhanaw taala honors and shows
• 10:00 - 10:30 generosity to his servant by giving him these three things you know when it comes to spiritual qualities I'll do we have to work for them but many times what you do is just to prepare yourself for receiving a gift
• 10:30 - 11:00 because sometimes people ask for example about asthma is asthma a gift amoeba a gift from God or is their achievement if it is their achievement then how they could be infallible from birth if it is a gift why Allah doesn't give this gift to us so that we also become delectable sometime people ask this the answer is
• 11:00 - 11:30 Asma is gift even knowledge is gift upon many times talks about knowledge being given out I know hikmah is gift woman your turn height method oh dear higher antisera imam saw the valley salaam here for example talks about Allah Akram Allah will add the hottest a lot so
• 11:30 - 12:00 these are all gifts but these gifts are not given arbitrarily these gifts especially a spiritual gifts worldly gifts maybe they can be given as a test so that maybe you don't you know deserve it you are not you know qualified for it but even it's possible that if worldly gift given to be given to you and it's a
• 12:00 - 12:30 test for you whether you accept it or not that you use it properly or not that you are grateful or not but when it comes to spiritual gifts they come with good reasoning everything that Allah does has reasoning but the way he works in worldly gifts is different from the way he works with the spiritual gifts as spiritual gifts need
• 12:30 - 13:00 some kind of similarity or suitability so you do something and then based on that you will be given gift this is gift because what you did was not enough to achieve this but also this is a conditional situation is a gift which comes with conditions you have to qualify for it oh ok so imam sadiq ali salam says either Akram Allah who lab
• 13:00 - 13:30 because the his fellows if Allah honors a crumb in the sense of honoring and respecting or Akram in the sense of showing generosity with someone with these three and as I said it means you work for it and then you will get these things and the three means not to think your money is yours and spending the way that Allah once make him responsible for
• 13:30 - 14:00 planning and third was not to be engaged with anything other than what Allah wants from him his commands is probably no expectations so if these three are given to a servant what happens is that Hanalei at dunya very beliefs one hug you know we have few challenges all of
• 14:00 - 14:30 them become simple to manage dunya becomes very easy to manage for them is of dunya and difficulty of dunya for some ROI whatnot long fish editin varaha he bowls in one animal so loosely
• 14:30 - 15:00 what also dunya is a challenge and sometimes actually when dunya is more available it can be a greater challenge how many people with poverty remained pious how many people with money remain
• 15:00 - 15:30 price how many unknown people remain pious how many famous people remain pious how many people without power remained pious how many people with power remained price it's more difficult to remain humble and grateful and pious when dunya comes to you but in any case dunya is in both conditions a challenge
• 15:30 - 16:00 a chest feta matter but if we are servant of Allah Subhan servants of Allah support Allah and we have done these three things with money we have cleared our mind that this belongs to allah subhanaw taala and therefore we don't become greedy for possessing you know something that is not going to be lying to me you know if in the bank you know for
• 16:00 - 16:30 example there are two clerks and they know that the money doesn't belong to them they don't ask you know the bank manager you know please give you more money to dispense actually they want less so if they manage to have such attitude towards money if they manage to believe that Allah is the planner if they manage to put their attention
• 16:30 - 17:00 engagements in what Allah wants dunya becomes easy to manage they would have minimal engagement in dunya they are in dunya like anyone of the person but minimal engagement their body is engaged but when it comes to their mind and heart they have the least of engagement
• 17:00 - 17:30 we have been miss partially about our if that his body is with people but his soul his person is with his creator so dunya becomes easy we can talk about this a lot but I think for the time being is enough although we should never dismiss the possibility of us suffering
• 17:30 - 18:00 hope petunia so if we don't talk more about it it's not because we don't have this problem it's because right now our topic is this otherwise hobo dunya is very very difficult to get rid of it Antonia has different branches halal I had dunya wa a beliefs a beliefs also
• 18:00 - 18:30 would be not an enemy that cannot be defeated unfortunately we sometimes think that a bliss is too powerful to be defeated and therefore we somehow surrender be given
• 18:30 - 19:00 but beliefs according to the Quran is not impossible to defeat and actually even maybe I can say it's not difficult to defeat for the servants of allah subhanaw taala we are not talking about more Lezyne that Satan even is afraid of trying to deceive death but even mohtadeen pious
• 19:00 - 19:30 people who are have not yet reached the level of mullahs still for them it's not difficult to defeat Satan why maybe you say no Shaitaan is very very strong and you know we cannot defeat Shaitaan Shaitaan has deceived you know over the course of history billions of people he has all the experience of the you know I don't know
• 19:30 - 20:00 information all the allies so Shaitaan is very powerful my answer is shaytan's power comes from our Koffler Shaitan power comes from our forgetfulness miss young either when we are heedless or coughing if you are
• 20:00 - 20:30 honored Shaitan cannot do anything with you Shaitan has no way to enter into an alert heart no way the only way Shaitan can enter is when we are heedless or forgetful and we leave the door of the heart the gate of the heart open for Shaitaan Shaitaan can not open and lock
• 20:30 - 21:00 the door this is the power that Shaitaan has not been given a nama down to come I only called you you call from outside you cannot call from inside Shaitaan can call us can bring temptations but to the mind not to the
• 21:00 - 21:30 heart unless we let him in and a losses in decay - a phony carnal our Eva his plans are weak and also Shaitan is known enemy his audible moving and he's introduced to us from the time of adam alayhis-salam hara aduba unlockables
• 21:30 - 22:00 olgich an enemy which is known and introduced is less dangerous than an enemy that is hidden is secret if shaitan has experience we also have experience because we have history of momen and their battle all along the
• 22:00 - 22:30 history we know a lot about Shaitaan and about the way Shaitaan acts and we have been given lots of guidance by the prophets and Imams and only Allah and spiritual mentors and the plans of Shaitaan if you otherwise are not very difficult maybe on the surface they look you know very nice but if you go a little bit deeper the branches of Hope
• 22:30 - 23:00 of dunya are known so this is why we have to blame ourselves if we follow Shaytan Allah said in our body lace of the Kerala he himself on those who are servants of allah shaitaan has no authority over them no control over them is it true about every human being but
• 23:00 - 23:30 those who achieve servitude this becomes real it's not just potential because some people give some time to shape up but Allah has not given so done to Shaitaan in our creation and certainly servants of allah subhanaw taala have kept that so Shaitan becomes easy and again this is something that we
• 23:30 - 24:00 can discuss you know more but I think for the time being is enough and then well-handled people are become also easy what does it mean people become easy to manage again you know we have good people and bad people we have people who have rights upon us we have people who have enmity towards us we have different
• 24:00 - 24:30 kinds of people but for sure a major part of our spiritual journey a major part of our spiritual struggle is to know how to deal with people how to interact with people great part of religion especially in some religions like Islam is social and the way we
• 24:30 - 25:00 interact with people in general and people who have some closer relation like parents children friends believers I don't know or people who need more care lots of different groups of people that they have additional rights over us by themselves or Allah has given them a special rights that we have to observe so how to deal with people is a great
• 25:00 - 25:30 part of our journey actually I believe in Islam our relation with allah subhanaw taala and our relation with people are very closely connected they are not equally important because our relation with Allah is the most important but our relation with allah subhanaw taala in itself our relation
• 25:30 - 26:00 with allah subhanaw taala in itself involves the relation with people our way towards allah subhanaw taala passes through people and of course our relation with people has to be filled with love for allah subhanaw taala so like two sides of the same coin although
• 26:00 - 26:30 one is more important than the other relation to Allah is the most important thing but relation with Allah cannot be separated from relation with people and there are lots of hadees and you know things to bring to justify this and explain this but I think it's clear whoever into my understanding let me give you an story I think was in 2015 if I'm not mistaken I think was November
• 26:30 - 27:00 2015 that we had the conference at the University of Oxford and that was with Protestant churches different churches and it was hosted by one of the colleges in University of Oxford it's it was about faith and modernity and al hamdulillah it's published as a book so in one session we were talking about
• 27:00 - 27:30 spirituality and then I asked one of our Christian representatives who was talking about spirituality what do you think can be a good sign of progress in spirituality so if I want to see whether I have made some progress or not where I
• 27:30 - 28:00 am standing in the journey what sign or signs are there to measure myself I don't want that much to measure other people because we're in difficult and not that much priority for me my priority is to understand myself how much I have made progress so he mentioned some things and then he turned
• 28:00 - 28:30 the question towards myself back to me and he said what do you think can be sign or signs of progress and rise in spirituality and then it came to my mind that and I shared this answer with him and with a group that in Islam it seems
• 28:30 - 29:00 to me that when you will rise in the ladder of spirituality and you get nearer to Allah subhana Allah what happens is that you would have maybe I can say three things I think I mentioned all the three one you would have more peace in your heart
• 29:00 - 29:30 tranquility tranquility of the heart is very important part of progress number two which is the result of the first somehow or connected to it because sometimes it's a result but sometimes also contribute to it is that the time of your prayer would be very beautiful
• 29:30 - 30:00 if I am getting nearer to Allah Subhan Allah it should reflect itself in my moments of prayer in my moments of being with God talking to him and feeling his presence number three if I am closer to allah subhanaw taala my understanding of Islam tells me that I should be closer also to
• 30:00 - 30:30 people I should be more kind towards people more open towards people and I mean by people masses of people general public what I understand from the seal of the prophets of Allah so what understand from the Quran for the Mohammed Amin Allah lintel the home is that if you are closer to Allah you become more kind more merciful towards
• 30:30 - 31:00 people more accommodating more open if I become more rigid and if I become more I don't know kind of knowledgeable ah arrogant with people I feel superior to people I have no regard for people because they have not for example that much of I don't know knowledge or piety that I
• 31:00 - 31:30 have or I think I have this is not good anyway how to deal with people it's great part of our spirituality great part of our struggle whether good people bad people people who have rights about cross people who have showed enmity to us how to deal with them imam sadiq ali synopsis Hanalei at dunya a beliefs one
• 31:30 - 32:00 hug dealing with people becomes easy for servant of allah why because part of the problem that we have with people is expectations that we have from them I know they have also lots of expectations from us but I will talk
• 32:00 - 32:30 about how to deal with that but first for your peace of mind you should reduce your expectations from people as much as possible cut or Tamar and Muffy Aida knows the first step is not to expect from them for your dunya even from your
• 32:30 - 33:00 parents even from your I don't know a spouse from your children from your brothers sisters others as much as possible don't expect anything from them if they give thank them if they don't give don't blame even in your heart they are not my rabbit they are not my sustainer and I don't expect from anyone
• 33:00 - 33:30 other than my wrapper to give me my father can be very rich but I shouldn't expect him to give me he must be himself understanding and maybe he has good reasons to give me maybe he has good reasons not to give me or maybe he's a miserly person I don't know but I should not have expectation from him because many times problems start when people don't meet our
• 33:30 - 34:00 expectations if I don't have expectations from them then my relation with Allah is clear because I have not you know suffered from shark plus my relation with people remain also intact because they have not done something wrong or they have not failed in doing what I expected from them if they give me a little I am grateful if they don't give anything I am not blaming not
• 34:00 - 34:30 complaining to them even in my heart okay if you have such understanding because servant of Allah looks at allah subhanaw taala and believe that everything belongs to him and he is moved up there so he would not have expectation from people so this makes your relation with people very very good I have to visit my Rahim or my friends you know my relatives my friends I have to visit them maybe they are lazy maybe
• 34:30 - 35:00 I don't know it's not a priority for them I draw for any reason they don't visit me okay I visit them yes maybe they don't like me to visit them that's another thing then I can maybe reduce it keep it to the minimum etc but if they don't mind and just they are lazy or I'm not a priority for them whatever you know is the reason they don't visit me okay problem we invited them for something they didn't come they invited us recall
• 35:00 - 35:30 no problem this is servant of Allah servant of Allah is you know in a sense very humble but in a sense is too high to be involved in such calculations this Highness comes from of course humility it's not a matter of pride or arrogance it means that I am a servant of Allah subhanAllah and this is my pride my
• 35:30 - 36:00 honor I don't think I am better than anyone else but I have lots of things to do and lots of important concerns I don't bring my you know attention to this level then it comes to what we should do more people if you are a servant of Allah subhanAllah you are very careful about your duties towards people eat the rice that they have over you and you will be always doing your
• 36:00 - 36:30 best to deliver to them what you owe to them and if needed you are happy to sacrifice because you don't think money is important for you you don't think that you know for example worldly commitments are as important as such duties and also you are an
• 36:30 - 37:00 organized person you are a committed person so inshallah we will have lots of time to do justice to these things so this is all also in addition to the fact that Allah subhana Allah would make things easy for his servants especially by putting their love in the hearts of people when people see in you good Allah
• 37:00 - 37:30 and people see you have no expectation but you are just there to help they will be easily pleased with you most of people maybe more than ninety percent of people would be very easily pleased with you in the end of their you do your best if someone is not pleased then you do what Allah wants from you you cannot do mo jiza so dealing with people becomes easy in the sense that it becomes manageable then imam sadiq ali
• 37:30 - 38:00 salam says valeria to noble dunya Takao Thorin what afar Horan voila yet love or in the Nasser is an illusion vana yuddham who bought a land such person would not go after dunya out of Tecate Navajo he wants to have more especially once
• 38:00 - 38:30 they are more than others he wants to be always above others superior to others no such person has no interest in such things it's not that he has interest and he's forcing himself he has no interest in this thing what is the importance of me having more money or my house being you know larger than others so if they make this size I
• 38:30 - 39:00 should make it bigger if they manage to make it bigger I make it bigger not because I need this because I just want to be the person who has the best house in this village or in the city there mattress is this much or has this many we have to make it bigger this many number of people go to their modulus we have to make our male speaker why sometimes tackle and tough our whole can come even to religious activities we
• 39:00 - 39:30 have to be very careful it's the same thing for some people religious issues are not important so they keep it to money and house and car and busyness and you know we laws etcetera or some people religion is more important they should not bring these things to religious efforts really just offers more than anything else should be only for the sake of allah subhanaw taala and the
• 39:30 - 40:00 pleasure of allah subhanaw taala that's easy to say but it's difficult to practice especially very difficult to maintain maybe you start with sincerity but to keep it all the way it's very difficult so they don't go for taka front of a whole the culture means to say that you know I have more and hakama Takato and tougher whole is that you want to show
• 40:00 - 40:30 you're better you are hired voila a club or in de NOSSA senhora all over he wouldn't want to have dignity or honor is an illusion superiority with people and among people yes we want dignity and honor but we want dignity and honor to be real
• 40:30 - 41:00 you know it's like for example if you have a notes cache these notes should be notes that central bank of the country accepts not notes that you know I don't know criminals except or people who are info ignorant except they don't know this is fake is the dignity
• 41:00 - 41:30 Kurama honor ought to be in the law and I'm a commendable because he is the supplier and Allah is subtle in law then while there was only for a moment man kana you read or is definitely eyeless so essa is only coming from one supplier and that is a loss upon t'lani
• 41:30 - 42:00 he should recognize that you have as like this notes that the central bank should recognize so what's the benefit of me being respected by people but I have no respect with the supplier of respect and dignity and Allah no benefit but if I have respect with him if I am with him McCarron then other people also
• 42:00 - 42:30 sooner or later would appreciate and even if they don't appreciate which is very rare but suppose someone for all his life remains unknown no problem because the main thing is to come and he still has not come so he would not seek logical ubu randomness
• 42:30 - 43:00 in the sight of people in the opinion of people or among people means at the level of public evaluation he would not seek is an is dignity and honor all of his Highness and superiority no 10 cat doll aha Angelo Holland Athena now Yuri
• 43:00 - 43:30 do not all of one fell out there were no facade the hereafter is for the people that they don't want or no they don't want to be higher than others superior to others yes I want to be as close to to Allah as possible as wise as possible as patient as was it possible as generous as possible that's not a problem but this is different from
• 43:30 - 44:00 although for all of means that I want to be superior to people and if needed I am happy to bring them down so that I can be superior to them and normally these are not in real things also those who are seeking or loathe they are not seeking or love normally in knowledge or
• 44:00 - 44:30 hakama or generosity or you know kindness and selflessness no normally is inwardly things in money in I don't know power in fame etc mostly is power so those who even Yuri Doon because system can allow your regional government so if someone has an order of a love you read
• 44:30 - 45:00 the lower lobe it's a problem and this is why mom suddenly sallam said you know this this aria is very alarming doesn't say your saloon or your Luna no even people who have a rather tool all over when facade it's a problem so voila yeah there were a Yamaha bottle
• 45:00 - 45:30 and would not let his days or her days to be wasted to be bottle means to be served or to be a spent to be expired without achieving anything without serving the truth it's not a spendable hack it is a spent well bartered it is
• 45:30 - 46:00 without good reason good purpose without benefit without something that in calculation at least can be equal to what we are losing we are losing our life at least we should get something equal if not better hahaha I've valued the ratcheting mood Tuppy imam ali salam says this is the first degree of the pious means this is the
• 46:00 - 46:30 bottom line this is where the degrees of Tocqueville starts may Allah help us because if we don't have this much it means that we are not counted even as the lowest of the pious because our garage at the top more than this seems
• 46:30 - 47:00 to be a matter of more relation with Allah subhanAllah or more focus more concentration having nothing other than allah subhanaw taala in the heart as imam hassan ali sallam said into I alpha and tell the Sultan Ali are on Hulu ah-ha-ha - um you have Musa walk you are
• 47:00 - 47:30 the one who removed others from the heart of your lover's or your beloved ones ahead body if we take it her people more help so depending on that those who are they are a bar of Allah subhana Allah there is nothing in their heart Tellem you have busan like they didn't love except you so the lovers of Allah are multiple who
• 47:30 - 48:00 have reached this level of love for Allah Subhan Allah that there is nothing in their heart apart from allah subhanaw taala and Imam suddenly sallam said al akkari booze Salim ala D or Abajo lace if he hadn't sever the pure and sound heart is the one that meets his Lord
• 48:00 - 48:30 when there is no one other than him in that heart so this is the beginning of taqwa but it's a very good level and with this we can have happiness of the Hereafter but inshallah we can rise more I stop here because I would like to have some time for questions and inshallah business love we continue this discussion in sha allah next week
• 48:30 - 49:00 al-hamdu lillahi rabbil honorable