The Illusion of Time: How Every Thought Shapes Eternity | Live Reading from The Afterlife Manual

Summary

In this live reading session, the host shares insights from "The Afterlife Manual," focusing on the philosophical concept of time as an illusion. The discussion delves into how time is perceived in relation to Islamic teachings and human experiences. It touches on the idea that time, while an illusion, is a practical tool that shapes human actions and spiritual journeys. The talk also explores how thoughts and perceptions create the illusion of time, while emphasizing the importance of actions aligned with faith and spiritual growth.

Highlights

• Time is a practical illusion that shapes our spiritual journey. ⏰
• The balance between form and formlessness in life following Islamic teachings. 🌌
• Time in the Quran is about urgency and righteousness, not merely passing hours. 📜
• Our perception of time is influenced by our thoughts and spiritual state. 🧘
• Aligning actions with faith and truth leads to spiritual growth. 📈

Key Takeaways

• Time is an illusion but crucial for shaping our actions and faith. ⏳
• Understanding time's essence can lead to spiritual growth. 🌱
• The Quranic perspective offers a unique view on time, emphasizing urgency and righteousness. 📖
• Our thoughts shape our perception of time and reality. 🤔
• Balancing spiritual practices with everyday life is essential for personal growth. ⚖️

Overview

This live reading from "The Afterlife Manual" by Muslim Hub delves into the intriguing concept of time as an illusion. The speaker explains that while many see time as a mere illusion, it plays a critical role in shaping our actions and spiritual journey. According to Islamic teachings, understanding the reality of time helps believers align their actions with divine will, leading to personal growth and fulfillment.

The discussion extends to a Quranic view on time, highlighting its significance as not just a measure of moments but as a tool for achieving righteousness. The speaker uses various quotes and personal insights to emphasize how thoughts and perceptions shape our understanding of time. This notion suggests that by aligning our thoughts with spiritual truths, we can transform how we experience life.

Finally, the live reading encourages a balance between spiritual practices and daily life, urging listeners to see beyond the conventional understanding of time. It challenges individuals to reflect on their beliefs about time and eternity, encouraging an introspective approach to faith and actions. Emphasizing patience, truth, and perseverance, the speaker provides a thoughtful exploration of time from a spiritual perspective.

The Illusion of Time: How Every Thought Shapes Eternity | Live Reading from The Afterlife Manual Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 not started streaming let me just double check on uh YouTube I haven't okay fantastic okay so now we're streaming on YouTube in three two one there we go okay so ultimately illusion an illusion we need to Define it because for most people oh time is an illusion I'm just going to sit at home and do absolutely nothing for the rest of my life that's fantastic brother but that's not how the world works there's the you have to understand
• 00:30 - 01:00 the reality of nature but then you have to act practically in in a way that is an alignment to how Allah subhana tala wants you to be so that it's a Play Between the form and the formless between and between and the physical mind body right so it's a mix of the two and then we're going to talk about the in the Quran and is such a beautiful word because it has so much meaning it's
• 01:00 - 01:30 kind of like the end of the day the day ends according to the uh Muslims uh with the uh setting of the Sun so the new day doesn't begin at midnight for us the new day begins at M for us so it's it's it's like that final run and final rush inah and Allah subhana T chooses that time slot uh called Al which is you know right then and there and you've got that final Sprint towards the end of the day
• 01:30 - 02:00 to create a sense of urgency and then also means is to squeeze right so it's kind of like there's this kind of like pressure and this pressure to kind of give it your absolute all you know it's like that final Sprint in the marathon right to give it your absolute all and what is it why are we laughing with with all sorts of muscles on YouTube what are your thoughts on Neville Godard books I
• 02:00 - 02:30 just read some and I don't know what to say I really want your opinion inshallah we'll talk about that we'll get to them we we we'll get to Godard he's an interesting individual um for everyone on YouTube glad to see you there those that are tired of Instagram and want a real platform and head over to YouTube for a better um feed inshallah at least visual but you can stay here this uh hang up in an hour right Instagram I can
• 02:30 - 03:00 only do a live for an hour YouTube will keep going inum Dearborn masallah come to Dearborn I'm coming I'm I'm heading to Detroit and I've got a trip to Boston those are the two places where I'm set to go uh this year but inshallah Salam from New York City beautiful so today we're talking about the significance of time and I chose the word significance because although you know time is ultimately an illusion but
• 03:00 - 03:30 it's a very practical illusion and we want to understand what illusion means and illusion simply means things are not what they appear to be so you're not really seeing them for what they truly are okay um and uh what we call time which I like rert Spyro one of my favorite isn't something that passes it's something that we create and he also said time is an illusion the more we delve into it the more we realize that it is simply a measurement of movement not a force in
• 03:30 - 04:00 itself and another nice quote here he says you cannot step twice into the same river for other waters are continually flowing on time flies over us but leaves its shadow behind time is an illusion of the Mind an experience created by our thoughts as they pass through eternity that's beautiful and finally time is a created thing to say I don't have time is like saying I don't want to you know it's
• 04:00 - 04:30 it's an objection to God you're not truly surrendering what do we surrender to and how does time play a role in terms of our our own surrendering so let's see let's go through this so page 120 in the book the significance of time Allah tells us in that our activity in time or how we conduct ourselves in time can lead to either our failure
• 04:30 - 05:00 or our success so it's a very serious matter because Allah talks about you want to be new age Yogi you're sitting you're present all the time you're at a state of loss if you don't do the follow if you're not busy in time with the following four things then you're in a state of loss it's Allah's words he says
• 05:00 - 05:30 [Music] so is it by the passage of time time
• 05:30 - 06:00 surely humanity is in a grave loss except except those who have faith do good and urge each other to the truth and urge each other to patience and perseverance Quran uh chapter 103 Subhan Allah Subhan Allah there couldn't be a better word to take uh to take an oath on in this Surah by taking an oath
• 06:00 - 06:30 on Allah subhana is bringing emphasis to the importance of what is to come next the usage of the word denotes not just time but the passage of time what's more here denotes the last portion of the day before here it's a mistake I have Before Sunrise it should be Before Sunset It's the final Sprint in the relay ring
• 06:30 - 07:00 this is where you have to give it your all and finally in Arabic means to apply pressure or to squeeze Allah subhana T wants us to feel the pressure so we get to work and make the most of our alloted time so if this was the only Surah we had access to in the Quran it would suffice for us alhamdulillah it is profound Allah subh is saying as time passes is if you're not realized in the
• 07:00 - 07:30 following four qualities if you're not busy with the following then you're at a loss one Ean have to be realized in Iman two righteous conduct three calling others towards the dean of Islam and for having patience and here it's important thank you exis for the generous uh donation bar um because on YouTube we have uh oh
• 07:30 - 08:00 let's celebrate their first Super on a live stream fantastic let's celebrate brother how do you celebrate mashallah we'll give you a nice heart here is there a balloon we can trigger mashah let's see our best but so we need to change our perspective and work to strengthen our Iman so whenever someone comes and tells me like I'm weak man I don't have the motivation to do acts but I know so much about
• 08:00 - 08:30 Islam it's not the knowledge that motivates in and of its own it's Ean it's the strength of your light inside are you reciting Quran are you praying on time are you praying five time Salah are you missing your f are you reciting are you doing are you remembering Allah subhana tala in the daytime in the evening time are you reciting the M du these are you praying these are all things that strengthen one's Im so in order if if your if whenever you find
• 08:30 - 09:00 your righteous conducts are taking a hit then you know that there's an issue in terms of the strength of your Iman so always keep that in mind so we need to change our perspective and work to strengthen our Iman so that we busy ourselves day and night with righteous Deeds Allah says you got to get busy man you got to work you got to put in the effort it's not just all Hocus Pocus lovey doy presence and and Allah subhana
• 09:00 - 09:30 tal is all there is and it's not it doesn't work that way you know it's true Allah subhana T acts through these veils the veils of Multiplicity right the instruments in this world be they geographical be they seismological be they whatever you know uh emotional psychological But ultimately there is a Allah did create this world which is the Divine Matrix and we get to that but
• 09:30 - 10:00 there's a purpose behind it it's not it's not Allah subh just entertaining himself everything's done for a reason we need to change this perspective but however as we see from point number three which is calling others to Islam it's not enough that we practice the dean ourselves it's not enough that we just practice our de it's like oh masah I've realized the reality of everything and I'm alhamdulillah I'm praying five times a day and I'm doing it yeah but there's
• 10:00 - 10:30 a responsibility put on your shoulder uh by wasallam to deliver the message of and call people towards and Allah filled the Quran with the stories of prophets which is your user manual to see how you're going to deal with humanity and what this responsibility given to you is most people understand that Salah is f that fasting is f that zaka is
• 10:30 - 11:00 but most people are oblivious to the fact that is also inviting people calling people to Allah is incumbent it's obligatory it's f is waj on every single person so he says it's not enough that we practice The Deen ourselves we must have concern for others because the thing is it's so easy to kind of like worship alone in a room no nobody there's no there's no one to really test your patient
• 11:00 - 11:30 because the minute you get out there in the world and begin to invite people towards Allah and begin to call people towards who was called what by everyone INR he was the the truthful one the the trustworthy one the minute he said when he called them towards Allah he became he became crazy they called him crazy they called him a magician they called him a poet they called him also sorts of things and the first to stand up against
• 11:30 - 12:00 him were some of them were the those closest to him so what's going to happen this is why right after Allah talks about patience because you're going to need it when you deal with people and it's going to help you grow spiritually how will your mirror be polished if you're irritated by every rub we must have concern for others and call them towards Allah as well as long as we're focused on ourselves people will perceive us and call us righteous
• 12:00 - 12:30 masah such a righteous individual he prays he this he that he gets up for tud he's always inah of Allah and all that thing it gets to your head man you want to humble yourself go knock on someone's door and call him towards Allah that will for sure humble you he said um I say here as long as we're focused on ourselves people will perceive us as righteous the moment We Begin calling others towards that truth we will face
• 12:30 - 13:00 resistance and suffer and here this will require the last condition in the Surah in which we will need to put patience into practice the second half of this Surah has to do with our responsibility as followers of the final messenger of Allah and we'll unpa this dimension of our Dean in the second part of this manual that I hope to launch later this year my next book inshallah for now let's focus on the first two points any time that passes without Iman infused righteous Deeds
• 13:00 - 13:30 counts against us so one thing is the perspective to see it all what you're going through as creation of Allah the difficult situation the easy situation the your your the your child giving you a hard time your son or daughter giving you a hard time your maybe your spouse arguing with you whatever it may be that you're going through to see it as being created by Allah in order to test you and that so that's the IM part the
• 13:30 - 14:00 part is the response to that and and we're human beings so we're going to earn you're going to sin and you're not always going to win you're not always going to be perfect that's what is for that's what is for but you're going to have to try and put an effort and struggle to not react but to respond because reaction comes from a space of ego but response is kind of like comes from presence it's like well what does how does Allah want me to respond here and what was the way in which the
• 14:00 - 14:30 prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam embodied that type of response and manifested it and that's how I need to have enough knowledge of God's commands and the Sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam to know how to respond when people push back when people resist when people are mean when I go through difficult situations when I go through good situations when something happen good happens to us we're like oh M that's from Allah man I pray to last night
• 14:30 - 15:00 everything well what about when things start going bad everything's from Allah subhana tala but we attribute that to ours to the ego always so that's that but then you have to have do it with concern for others so with empathy it's not just about you the world doesn't revolve around you alone so you have to have concern for others and then you whatever happens in return to your response also be patient with
• 15:00 - 15:30 that and accept it have when it comes to that so we can't blame the times for our current state nor can we blame time for our problems by saying we just don't have enough time many people I'm so busy I don't have well first of all you choose not to have time because you choose where to put your focus and effort in the day so this I don't have time is typically things children say you know mature adults they never say I don't have time they say I choose not to put my attention and effort into this
• 15:30 - 16:00 thing that you want me to do that's what it's not that you don't have time it's a choice apparently something else is more of a priority to you than than this whatever this may be however um we choose how we spend our time we are accountable for it it's all on us ourselves IM shaf said he says we blame time though we commit uh though we
• 16:00 - 16:30 commit the wrongs time has no evil except the sins we commit in time so time in and of itself is not a good or bad thing it's God's matrix it's how we're supposed to you know go about our lives but now we're going to delve a bit deeper and break down time to really understand what it's like and this is where it gets which
• 16:30 - 17:00 is for how you fill your time the prophet s wasallam was in a constant state of VI meaning obedience to Allah subhana tala that's our live in the moment this is what for a Believer it's what's God's command in the present moment and then surrendering Islam submitting to it wholeheartedly IM for the sake of Allah with sincerity seeing
• 17:00 - 17:30 the situation coming from Allah subhana tala what book is he reading he's reading his own book called the afterlife manual every muslim's guide to happily ever Hereafter you can find and access this book on Amazon again the afterlife manual every muslim's guide to happily ever Hereafter so a deeper dive into time warning this section on time is quite deep and heavy to comprehend so you
• 17:30 - 18:00 should read it several times no pun intended uh let's examine our actual experience of time we'll soon see that time is a useful illusion have you ever had an experience in the past so now we're talking about experiences okay we definitely had many thoughts of the past but even those thoughts when we experience them we experienced in the present moment so if I tell you what did you do yesterday you go into your bank of thoughts memories and you say okay
• 18:00 - 18:30 yesterday I had this for dinner that for lunch or whatever it may be where is that experience of those thoughts taking place yesterday they're taking place now okay so now let's talk about the future the future I want you to imagine what you're going to do tomorrow okay you close your eyes say tomorrow I'm going to you know uh sit down and you know have a very nice meal with my family uh we're going to have uh pasta and this
• 18:30 - 19:00 and that you begin to imagine I say where's this happening in the future he says no those thoughts when are they happening now okay so thoughts of the future happen now and when do they unfold do they unfold in the future let's see who's paying attention let's look at the chat when do they unfold see on the chat on YouTube there we go sorry it was stuck for a bit say when do they
• 19:00 - 19:30 unfold now exactly so the thoughts of the past so your memories you you never you don't have a past isn't that trippy you don't actually have a past the past is in your head cuz you access it and those thoughts that you're accessing you're accessing now you've never had an experience outside of now but now is not a series of moments or like it's not like these little little you know there's like this is the the Future
• 19:30 - 20:00 Point and this is the past and the now is this like very small tiny infinitees unit of the now and then there's a bunch of Nows no there's only one ever presentent now the now is timeless the now is the what these new age people refer to uh did the feed cut off I don't know I don't think so yes the only only the now is real
• 20:00 - 20:30 it well so then your thoughts in your head are not real the base and it's not a fully accurate statement we'll get to that but really thoughts that are kind where you're accessing the past are typically called memory and thoughts where you're typically Imagining the future are called imagination but they're both thoughts and they always happen here and now so breakfast this morning and dinner last night and this live are happening in the
• 20:30 - 21:00 exact same now that's the trippy part you've always you've never never ever had an experience in the past or the future and if we Define time if we Define time as I feel so trippy now WIS wisom or wisdom not sure how you pronoun it's like uh I feel so trippy
• 21:00 - 21:30 now now is trippy you trip up the mind doesn't like the now because the mind can't access the now it's why you never live in the moment you are the moment you know trying to find the Now is like trying to look for your eyes can you imagine what Natalia is like what is he on about how many joints did he roll this morning alone leaves it like she is like oh yeah
• 21:30 - 22:00 there is no past there is no future there's only the now yeah so it's true though you've you've never had an experience out outside of the present moment and if we Define if we Define time as the duration between two events right let's actually Define time as the duration between two experience two events so this is the
• 22:00 - 22:30 only event I know of is the event that unfolds in the now this is event number one this live you know this live this is event number one me holding my coffee in on a live this is event number one now the duration time is the duration between two events so now I have to find the second event that's not in the now so can you go and travel in your mind to the Past he's like what do you can you act yes you can but can you go to the
• 22:30 - 23:00 Past can you actually travel back to the F back to the past you can't nobody can do that can you travel into the future can you me and you no you can't now you can you can think about the past you can think about the but those thoughts about the past are happening now so go ahead and try to find me event number two the event number one is this the live where I'm holding this and that's happening in the now we need another event that's not now we
• 23:00 - 23:30 need an event in the past but there is no event in the past cuz it's always unfolding now or we need an event in the future but we when it unfolds it unfolds in the now the future is just an idea in my head and the Past after the now unfolds is just a memory another thought in my head so the thoughts are happening now and experience is always happening now so there's only one event I can't find the other one I I'm looking all
• 23:30 - 24:00 over the place for it so if you can't find it it's not there and if it's not there you can't have time because time is the duration between something in the past and the now or the now and the future and if there is no future and there is no past except as constructs of your head then there's only the now so experience is always and people like I need to understand this and then they're like they put on their thinking
• 24:00 - 24:30 [Music] cap and they're thinking and they're the problem is every effort you put into understanding into experiencing not understanding every effort you put into trying to experience the now is a step away from it because trying to live in the now is trying to stand up and take a step
• 24:30 - 25:00 towards yourself you're already the now the the body mind is the the the you already the now so like that's what I mean when I say trying to find the Now is like trying to look for your eyes you can see everything outside of it sort to speak because they're objectified but the eye can't see itself
• 25:00 - 25:30 right can't although it's because it is itself it's so trippy but it's true so this whole time when I was in history class I was wasting my time no pun intended um yeah history is what someone wrote then now what some what really happened history is what someone wrote
• 25:30 - 26:00 the past or the now is what really happened oh my God so you mean this whole time we've been just living in the now yeah until you get up in your head and you start to like trip up on how you don't why how come this is happening to me and all the problems in my life and I'm just like and there's this issue what issue do you have now if if there are no thoughts what issue do you have now so all your issues
• 26:00 - 26:30 and problems and anxiety and depression exist because you identify with thought you think your thoughts are you how are your thoughts you if you say I think there is someone thinking if you say you know my hand so the it's mine the hand is mine it's not me it's mine it belongs to me there's Duality so just in the way you Express things you know my headache my hand my
• 26:30 - 27:00 body so if it's belongs to you it can't be you what is that I have a headache I this that I think it's not I think therefore I am it's I am therefore I think so what is all that stuff what what do we what is it there so what I'm saying is it time is the
• 27:00 - 27:30 construct of the Mind the the think of it as time is what eternity looks like when filtered through thought and space is what infinity looks like when filtered through perception so it's like think of the soul the r the spirit and you take the mind which is made of thinking and perceiving and you place it on the r it's not really the r is just modulating as mine but yeah just for the analogy
• 27:30 - 28:00 and you place this virtual reality headset made of thinking and perceiving so every time you have a thought time is born you experience time but really all time is time is what eternity Allah is infinite and eternal time is what etern eternity feels like when experienced through when the r if the r if the r is looking through that
• 28:00 - 28:30 virtual reality headset called the mind let's call it the mindset placed on top of the and the r is looking out through that instrument wherever you turn there is the face there is the essence of God the essence of God I know to be infinite and eternal and if the essence of God is infinite and eternal every place I look has to be infinite and eternal it
• 28:30 - 29:00 is but you're only perceiving it as space and time you're not perceiving if someone can um s if I if I may ask you to please do me a favor and remove that thing from the the ding-ding thing cuz I think they're unloading un loading it's it's in the Kaba over there it's a black box you have to kind of go through yeah and then just if you go between the stairs yeah yeah just unplug it and leave it there
• 29:00 - 29:30 I'll plug it once we're done so it's like ding ding like a little bit less of that inah so if we are the now why do we tie our camel for for the future because the the of course you have to because the world is there's form and you have a choice because Allah decided to give you choice now we're talking about realities don't mix the two we'll talk about Muhammad
• 29:30 - 30:00 and the Practical aspect we're talking about it but that you have to understand first the reality of nature the reality of things and then we'll add that layer to it so Allah subhana tala at this point created so then you look out and instead of seeing eternity you instead of seeing Infinity you see space because you're looking through the virtual reality headset of perception ction the mind is made the
• 30:00 - 30:30 mindset the virtual reality mindset is made of thinking and perceiving because everything you experience in your life can be boiled down to thinking and perceiving what do you mean you know this is a microphone no that's what the Mind calls it and labels it what is its reality I see it that's seeing I touch so I sense it it sends it feels
• 30:30 - 31:00 very weird so there's sensation texture right and I hear it and then it when I speak through it there is this [Music] sound so an apple you see it you want to drink some coffee bis I love Turkish coffee may Allah reward the Turks for inventing this thing
• 31:00 - 31:30 okay remember Neo The Matrix taste is a construct of the mind all there is to taste is the awareness of it all there is to thoughts is the awareness of it ASMR yes you are getting sleepy okay so the bottom line is what here why are we talking talking about this stuff why does it does it is it
• 31:30 - 32:00 useful it's useful because don't take life so seriously man the reason half the umah is depressed is because they take their life too seriously you it's you can't take it seriously and you have to take it seriously at the same time so don't take it so seriously like the world doesn't revolve around you like there's much more to it and it's ultimately all God's you know Matrix but Allah subhana when you're far from
• 32:00 - 32:30 him when you're not praying he's going to create something called depression and shove it in your heart it's a creation he's going to shove something called anxiety in your heart he's going to shove [Music] fear Allah says o one of the battles I'm going to I'm going to instill fear in the hearts of your enemy oh so fear is a creation of Allah yes emotions
• 32:30 - 33:00 too so good luck if you're far from Allah he says whoever turns his back to my obedience [Music]
• 33:00 - 33:30 [Music] whoever turns away from my obedience I'm going to give [Music] him constriction you know the thing that the wife and husband always practice on each
• 33:30 - 34:00 other you've heard that right nead is like complaining and nagging and nead okay and problems after problems because if you don't come to Allah out of his sheer grace and mercy he'll pull you towards him with the chains of tribulation problems emotions this it's God's Matrix these are God's soldiers Jun depression is one of God's soldiers good
• 34:00 - 34:30 luck if he hits you up with it right and then you try to fix it by going to see a psychiatrist who who he himself is depressed he doesn't even know what if you're seeing someone that is you I'm not against going to a mental health practitioner but like go to one who understands who's a believer that understands like that the real the root cause of your problem if you're not praying and you're not obeying Allah is that and he's sitting there trying to give you pills and solve beating around the bush to take care of the the the
• 34:30 - 35:00 main issue I'm talking as Muslims as non-muslims we got to take them step by step but that's the problem you don't need these pills that you're popping if Allah subhana T decides to cure you can he not cure you yes he can I'm not don't stop taking your pills you're going to come and say brother said it's all in Allah's hand I'm cured man it takes time it takes time it takes time yeah all in due
• 35:00 - 35:30 time how to keep a balance between taking life seriously by seeing that it's first of all like the the fact that it's God's Divine Matrix it's a game it's a simulation but understanding the rules of the game and understanding that your your your Eternal future is going to be determined through how you you know like perceive this world and understand it and how you act in it so your actions are recorded So it becomes
• 35:30 - 36:00 serious in that fashion but when you busy yourself you know you've got your tud you got your VI you got 90% of the um is not even praying Salah it's like brother I have a hard time waking up for fer of course you're playing twitch and you're on your Nintendo and your PlayStation's till 3: in the morning you want to wake up at 5: to pray F give me a cut me some slack here I sleep whenever I want I do whatever I want and somehow I want all this to work out for me look at the lives of the companion and how they were so noama did not say to stop taking
• 36:00 - 36:30 meds Usama said that you need to understand the root cause of the issue okay that's what Usama is saying and then slowly if Allah cures you then you won't need the meds but most people are suffering from these mental health conditions because Allah's making them suffer ultimately to bring them back to his Dean most people are so far from the religion they have all these problems in their lives and it's it's kind like you walk in a room and the room is dark and you're trying to you're looking for your
• 36:30 - 37:00 keys but you're looking in all the wrong places why are you looking cuz your your keys are basically where where the the light is not shining but you're only looking at where there's light you're not realizing it's hidden right there so sometimes everybody's trying you walk into a room that's dark and you take out your sword and you're trying to get rid of the darkness with your sword you can swing all you want be the strongest man in the world all you need is to turn on the light darkness is the absence of light some sufis used to believe that
• 37:00 - 37:30 there is no such thing as darkness that it is that just the absence of light there's difference of opinion on the matter needed this live sheh wow okay I'm glad you had glad you found it to be Wow inshallah Let's examine our actual experience of time we'll soon see that time is a useful illusion have you ever had an experience in the past I kind of went through all this uh just naturally without reading it from the book but
• 37:30 - 38:00 really quickly we definitely had many thoughts of the past but even those thoughts when we experience them we experienced in the present moment your actual experience of the world is always in the now or the present moment in fact the breakfast yesterday or this morning when you actually had it the time was now the dinner we will have tonight or the next when we have it it will be now the experience manifests and then disappears our access to that experience is now limited to me memory but we're not talking about thoughts memory or imagination we're talking about our
• 38:00 - 38:30 actual experience have you ever had an actual experience in the past has anyone ever had an experience in the past has anyone ever experienced the future why do you think that when you're really anxious to get something I ordered this thing on Amazon and it was like Prime delivery bro so it's going to arrive in like 48 Hours man because I've got like Amazon Prime bro and then he orders and he's like really anxious to can't wait till I get it can't wait till I get it can't wait till I get
• 38:30 - 39:00 it check the mail did it arrive yet check the app orders is it here yet no it's out for delivery that Line's not moving it needs to move you're just sitting there you're like you're like a crack taking up heroin you're like all up in your head right and then and the bottom line is what you finally get
• 39:00 - 39:30 it the package arrived take out the knife and you open it up and what do you find there it is and then there's this immense sense of just like relief and you think like I'm so happy right now cuz I finally got what I want it that's not why you're happy you're happy
• 39:30 - 40:00 because all this time that you were waiting to get that thing there was a lot of resistance in your head there was a lot of you didn't want to be here and now you couldn't when is it going to come when is it going to come when is it going to come your mind is just rushing right you have this anxiety you're excited to get it and then finally when you get it so the mind just and you dip into the now because the now is the absence of resistance to what is
• 40:00 - 40:30 and when you're constantly in your head you're not in the now you're in the in the construct of past or construct of future uh memory and Imagination and you're your you're pingpong ball between those two so so that's what builds anxiety but when you're anchored in the moment because you finally got what you wanted that relief is the release of tension of resistance to what is because you no
• 40:30 - 41:00 longer need to resist the now because here it is and you dip into infinity and that happiness is best you returning to your true nature you understand so that's why why do you think time passes really fast when you enjoy what you're doing because you're like your attention is kind of brought into the thing at hand so like you love to
• 41:00 - 41:30 fix things you're a jeweler and as you're working and like really enjoying your craft so your attention is Bor to the now and you're no longer worried about what's the the what's coming or you know reminising about the past or you're like what's going to you're fully here and now so when you're fully here and now there's no what mind activity as much and when you're not plugged into the Matrix that what do you think I'm plugging from The Matrix means living in the now means being your true self and
• 41:30 - 42:00 so when you unplug from The Matrix and you're here and now you're in the present uh moment so you you you you you time travel so to speak you're beyond time and so you're like oh where did that hour go but when you're just like I don't want to be here you're sitting in classroom remember those school years I'm like when is this class going to f cuz you're up in here so time feels like
• 42:00 - 42:30 it's like really really slow and the hour feels like ages see how it works so if you want to you know like what is is being presence remembrance but what are you remembering that remembrance of like like wait a
• 42:30 - 43:00 second I am the so rather than like you're sitting there and you're like when you're in a true state of remembrance and you're anchored in the present moment if you have access to what it's a window unto the Divine you feel seren Serenity also here could mean in in the state of
• 43:00 - 43:30 presence the hearts find Tranquility they find peace because as Salam is here and now so it's really hard being somewhere you don't want to be and really easy being somewhere you want to be my life takes a completely different spin you
• 43:30 - 44:00 know have you ever had any experience in the past no has anyone ever had an experience in the past no has anyone ever experienced a future no or is it simply a thought in the form of imagination that is also unfolding now any experience we have is fleeting or perishing its very nature is that it comes and it goes it never remains like they say it too shall pass right you've heard that saying what I'm saying here is that time is a meaningful and useful
• 44:00 - 44:30 illusion we only experience the present now and by the way another trippy thing for another day is that experience is always one experience is never dual that my hand on the mic is not it's my mind that labels Duality subject object my hand on the mic but if you remove the senses from it then all there is is just a vibration which is basically awareness all of it is one and
• 44:30 - 45:00 again another hint at the now and the time and and the mind is when you're in deep Sleep you don't feel time and it's not a coincidence that when you fall into deep sleep you no longer experience time you look at the clock it's midnight you go to sleep you wake up it's you look at the clock at 6:00 a.m. but you didn't dream at all you were in deep sleep the whole time assuming you wake up and if it's like how long were you sleeping like like a a moment but but
• 45:00 - 45:30 you look and it's like 6 hours pass you're like whoo because the mind in deep Sleep is not there to register the experience so what all you are at that point [Music] is there's no longer mind the nefs is the mind so Subhan Allah so when you're waking State there's thinking and perceiving and then
• 45:30 - 46:00 when you fall asleep there's thinking without perceiving so you're one layer closer to your true self but there's still dreams so you feel time to some degree right and but you but it bends in dreams it's not the same as when you're waking and then when you go into deep sleep thinking or imagination is removed so when without thinking and perceiving there's without mind what's left mind is is creation the of
• 46:00 - 46:30 Allah and so the mind is not there to register so but then when you and then when the mind's not there you wake up you're like where would I didn't experience time because mind wasn't there it's mind that registers time it's the it's the movement of thought with every thought time is created so when time is when you're in a state of deep deep sleep first thing is you think oh I wasn't there um there's an there's is a absence of
• 46:30 - 47:00 awareness Rupert Spyro says his best he say it's not an absence of awareness it's an awareness of absence what is aware of itself awareness but there's no mind to register experience form so so that's another hint at it so as long as your mind is heavily active and you're engaging it you know there's that illusion of time so the the the the what is the the the Matrix The Matrix is
• 47:00 - 47:30 mind when you define mind as thinking and perceiving so the activity or movement of mind he said what I'm saying here is that time is a meaningful and useful illusion we only experience the present now time is born at every instance that our minds are active time and here this is a beautiful quote from Rupert spy he says time is what eternity looks like when filtered through
• 47:30 - 48:00 thought time is what eternity looks like when filtered through thought the activity or movement of the mind creates the illusion of time what is the mind the mind is not the container of our thoughts and perceptions the mind is our thoughts and perceptions so every time we have a thought time is born time is the Matrix and Matrix is God's testing field remember this verse
• 48:00 - 48:30 he who created time death and life to test you which of you is best in conduct death is a symbol for the end of something just as life is the symbol for the beginning of something something with a beginning and an end is in time Allah is saying we he created time to test us who is best amongst us in conduct and if time is born every time we have a thought a feeling or a perception is a mistake here perception
• 48:30 - 49:00 is not born with with um time is not born through perception space is born through perception then time is born whenever we have an experience time is by its nature Human Experience thank you for your generous contribution brother may Allah Grant you and everyone watching this now and in the future thank you so
• 49:00 - 49:30 much may Allah give you the same allahar always very masah generous I don't think there's been a live where she hasn't given something may Allah reward her okay uh but this is not you don't nobody has to give this is not this is the optional through this you get excited about something you want to donate something alhamdulillah you don't it's all it's all good insh okay
• 49:30 - 50:00 so but if experiences have a beginning and an end what is it that observes or Witnesses those experiences are we the witnesses of our own experiences when a thought appears that same thought eventually disappears so if you are your thought every time a thought left you a piece of you would go with it it just doesn't make sense cuz you always I am right when a thought appears that
• 50:00 - 50:30 same thought eventually disappears and is replaced with another thought do we disappear with the first thought is it our experience that we witness a thought when it appears and then lose ourselves When the Thought disappears or is it our experience that we're always there witnessing the events as they rise and fall experiences come and go but do we come and go with them when we experience thoughts we separate ourselves so I'm talking about I the r the witnessing presence not I
• 50:30 - 51:00 the body mind you have to distinguish otherwise you'll be confused experiences come and go but do we the r come and go with them when we experience thoughts we separate ourselves from the rising Thoughts by saying something like I thought that you were coming tonight or I thought that you cared about me there is an eye that thinks this eye can't be the thought itself because it claims ownership of the thought there's space
• 51:00 - 51:30 there right there is the thought and the eye that had it this means we cannot be our thoughts we are that which Witnesses or observes thought the witnessing what about our physical bodies are we our bodies let's examine that thought for a minute when are our heads or bodies hurt we say things like my head hurts or my body
• 51:30 - 52:00 aches something is claiming ownership of the body when we say my head we're saying the head belongs to us so it follows that we can't be our heads or our bodies let's repeat this thought process with our feelings we find ourselves saying things like I feel hungry or I feel tired something is claiming ownership of our Sensations or feelings the hunger or fatigue belongs to the eye that claims it hence it
• 52:00 - 52:30 follows that we are not our feelings that Which experiences thoughts feelings and perceptions doesn't end every time a feeling thought or perception comes to an end that which Witnesses experience is always there even in deep Sleep When mind activity comes to a halt something is aware of the fact that time wasn't present so what is it that's aware of of experience that comes and goes aware of
• 52:30 - 53:00 time that comes and goes but itself doesn't come and go it never comes to an end it's not born and it never ends because it's God's command the it's Everlasting but not in time for it is not limited by time because Everlasting gives the notion that it's like within time but no everpresent Everlasting just is not limited by time what does it sound like I'm describing here if it sounds like
• 53:00 - 53:30 Allah's attributes then keep reading there's AI that is often misinterpreted it says it states it's that says you know is the Battleground between naps and and people that you know they thing is brother wisdom or
• 53:30 - 54:00 wisdom sorry if I'm you know crucifying your name here but like they're all the same thing bro everything is a modulation of R you know the neps is what the r is when it's experienced as the body mind when it's directed towards intelligibles the form is just that an appearance the reality of it is God's the the R so
• 54:00 - 54:30 to speak modulates vibrates as body mind so you've it appears as body mind but the wave is not separate from the ocean you can't say the wave is an expression of the ocean they're both made from the same water right so careful when you say is the yes and if you know what you're talking about there's a place for these terms
• 54:30 - 55:00 [Music] read so there's there's a play of God's light that a sort of a prism that refracts that light to give the colors of you know experience but the N of Allah is colorless so here Abu reports that said do not curse
• 55:00 - 55:30 time for it is Allah who is time in Muslim the word in Arabic though often translated as time is not time or is time is the present moment it is the infinite now it is one over time as time or t is we want time to approach zero because there's no time so what's
• 55:30 - 56:00 one over something approaching zero meaning as the denominator is getting infinitely smaller and smaller and smaller what will happen to the whole number when you divide something by a number and that number you're dividing it by is getting smaller and smaller the smaller the denominator the bigger the the the result so if if the denominator is getting infinitive Infinitis uh small then the whole had is
• 56:00 - 56:30 be the answer is approaching Infinity so I mean as an engineer and anybody that studied calculus exactly but for some people this might be like a bit too much forgive me but we have to go through it it is the that's why I give the warning that this section is deep so for some people it's going to be like they just unlocked Heaven you know for some people is like it's too much man I feel like
• 56:30 - 57:00 I'm just like stoned after this section it is the infinite now it is one over time as time or t approaches zero when time is there meaning the ego or mind is active with experience the value for time is one and so 1 over 1 equals 1 which is the egocentric ey the less we are caught up in experience the faster time begins to approach zero the faster we approach Infinity the less
• 57:00 - 57:30 we are caught up in experience the less you're letting what what's happening to you in life bother you and get to you the faster time begins to approach zero meaning the faster it comes to an end and the faster we approach Infinity Okay jump onto YouTube before the I'm almost done I'm wrapping up but please jump on to YouTube if if this uh if this uh Instagram comes to an end okay it says the less we're caught up in
• 57:30 - 58:00 experience the faster time begins to approach zero meaning the faster time comes to an end the because you're less caught up with mind activity the R so to speak So the faster we approach infinity or the nearer we feel to Allah because it's the ego mind that stands between you and God when you're less caught up with the thoughts in your head you're more present and who's here and now we are closer to him than his own self Allah says the jugular vein that supplies blood is basically your
• 58:00 - 58:30 Lifeline so if Allah is saying I'm closer to you than your own Lifeline so you're getting in God's way basically you want to be God's medium to shine in the world not so how do you do that you polish your mirror the mirror has to be transparent to reflect God's light otherwise every time you sin a black spot appears on the heart the prophet wasallam said meaning your heart becomes less and less able to transmit that
• 58:30 - 59:00 light because it won't reflect it CU what what will a Black Mirror reflect what kind of light will it reflect so you've got to polish it with VI and removing Haram from your life so these people that just want to be present and close to Allah yeah sure Allah might give you glimpses to that reality but to be stationed in a state of presence you're not going to achieve that while you're like your heart life is filled with Haram you just but it's
• 59:00 - 59:30 not the end of the world don't jump off a bridge or something like make Toba start to slowly you know fix things one by one from your life and inshallah you'll see the difference before you know it right brother making me feel trippy and guilty just you know don't know what to tell you so let's wrap up so Infinity Allah is the infinite witnessing presence Allah is the Allah is the inter
• 59:30 - 60:00 Eternal now his how else could he be closer to us than ourselves the now is not an infinitism unit of time and there is not a series of moments the now is timeless and there is only one moment in which all experience manifests think of Allah as the infinite witnessing canvas of experience the images and drawings on the canvas are experiences experience is simply the coloring of the canvas another way to think about this is as an infinite screen the movie on the screen
• 60:00 - 60:30 the screen is never in Parts it's the movie on the screen that appears in in in form and multiplicity and it seems to be divided there's no divisions in the screen itself it just takes on those the the coloring of the pixels basically give give the movie its appearance but there's no reality to the movie just like there's no reality to your body mind just like the T the screen is the
• 60:30 - 61:00 reality of the movie The R is the reality of your your form all you find is one indivisible screen that momentarily takes on the shape of all these different images on the movie all there is to experience is the screen you can't say that the movie is separate from the screen the movie doesn't exist apart from the screen on which it plays or stand out from the screen the word exist in Latin means to stand out from Rupert spy mentions this as well the movie is simply the coloring
• 61:00 - 61:30 of the screen yet the experience of the movie cannot exist without the screen in the same way the world doesn't stand out from Allah subhana tala it doesn't have real existence the world is the activity or the act of Allah Dunya is God's motion picture who wants some tickets [Music]
• 61:30 - 62:00 this is Allah's creation Now show me what those Gods other than him have created in fact the wrongdoers are clearly astray imali says means meaning all the created realm is the act of Allah so if Allah is the witnessing presence if he is the witnessing ey then what am I I am I
• 62:00 - 62:30 Allah we are not one with god listen because this is where most people drop it and they start talking about Oneness of being and they don't get what they're talking about they just want to sound smart okay listen you are not God you're not there in reality you have no existence you sub IST so we are not the nefs huh the nefs
• 62:30 - 63:00 is what I'm talking about we are not one with God and we are definitely not God in the full spectrum of reality we're not really there we don't exist there is no spoon Neo we don't exist we simply subsist through Allah we are through God's command we are the action of Allah the act the the it is critically
• 63:00 - 63:30 important that we do not mix the essence of Allah with his actions Allah is not the created realm but the created realm is made from his command B he can neither be bounded by nor limited by any of his Creations time and space are his creations and he subhana wa tala is beyond space and time
• 63:30 - 64:00 time is what eternity looks like when it is viewed through the lens of the finite mind and space is what infinity looks like when it's viewed through the lens of the finite mind remove the mind and you're left with the presence of God to borrow a concept from the do domain of electricity and electronics think of the Mind as a resistor and the presence of Allah as current I equals V / R current equals voltage over resistance the higher the
• 64:00 - 64:30 resistance mind the lower the current the lower the resistance the more we can sense the presence of Allah what are you resisting or not resisting the present moment the now why is the Mind resisting it it doesn't like it because it can't access it because the mind is a construct of past and future it can't grab the now the minute it tries to it's trapped in
• 64:30 - 65:00 time to experience the now we need to stop traveling in time and be present before you start thinking this is all woohoo New Age spirituality stuff here what on Earth time travel we thought that was impossible I assure you time travel is not impossible Allah knows best but in my opinion we're time traveling every single day every time we drift in thought we're traveling in time we're lost in the Wormhole of time through Vick or remembrance we snap out of our
• 65:00 - 65:30 minds or out of time it helps to think of time as experience and the now or the Timeless present moment as the recording witness of our responses to experience and he Capital H is with you wherever you are in time a thought appears and that thought has the potential to instigate an action with a particular intention good intentions can yield righteous actions while bad intentions can yield
• 65:30 - 66:00 devious actions the moment we make a good intention to act upon a thought and or act upon that thought Our intention and action are recorded in our book of Deeds called kab kab Allah is keeping tabs on you kab Allah is keeping tabs on you which keeps tabs on us if the moment is timeless and the past and the present present are Just an Illusion and all experience unfolds here and now then
• 66:00 - 66:30 it's not really how we spend our time on this Earth that matters but rather how we respond to the experiences that Allah downloads or generates Allah says downloaded from the experiences are downloaded the aat the downloads or generates in our
• 66:30 - 67:00 minds the downloads of experience are of two types experiences that are from Allah to us and those that are from Allah in us we can't and let's finish up with this paragraph We can't control what's from Allah to us or what's from Allah in us examples of things that are from Allah to us include the family we're born into or the car crash that left us severely injured what's from Allah in US are things like our heart pumping or our liver functioning we have no control over any of those things
• 67:00 - 67:30 neither the things from Allah to us nor from Allah in us but now what will what we will be questioned are that we will be questioned about are our uploads the actions that are from us to Allah things like whether we decide to pray or not and whether we fasted or not or whether we lie lied to our bosses or not or these are or whether we lied to our wives or not which is permissible by
• 67:30 - 68:00 the way every man you should note this down every you are allowed to lie to your wife in certain instances but you should learn it doesn't mean you lie and deceive her when she wears that beautiful dress and comes to you and says how do I look don't tell her she looks like a garbage can here you tell her she looks incredible even if she looks bad you never tell her she looks bad this you're allowed rely on okay you should do it in a way where it's genuine
• 68:00 - 68:30 and but like I'm being a bit phous and exaggerating a bit to make the point But ultimately you know there are times where you're allowed to lie you know to just because women are more emotional than men so you have to kind of guard th those emotions um and of course I I know all the the the feminists in you are like well do we get to lie to the men too I know ask your local scholar see what he tells you about that I'm sure there are times where you
• 68:30 - 69:00 shouldn't also break your man's heart like the lady that asked me for crying out loud on Instagram my husband uses I discovered oh maybe I shouldn't yeah I discovered that he uses the super blue pill the VW right and should I should I let him know that I'm in on his secret and I was I said something to the effect that basically don't break his ego poor guy let him just let you're not really lying but you don't have to go and tell him that you know if the guy like that
• 69:00 - 69:30 said something to the effect like if he thinks he's a f if he's a thinks he's a Ferrari but he needed a little bit of an engine boost or something like that let the guy you know turn on the nitrous oxide it's all good inshallah just sit back and enjoy the ride things like whether we prayed or not the downloads good uploads often lead to favorable downloads or circumstances from Allah while po download uploads often lead to unfavorable downloads or circumstances from
• 69:30 - 70:00 Allah let's stop there inshallah tala so we stopped it can someone record this sister Manel I'm going to ask you because you're my mallah you're always uh attending the classes and taking notes and stuff page 133 inshallah tala page 133 the uploads and downloads of Destiny where we talk about the black
• 70:00 - 70:30 mirror and and Destiny I'll go deep into Destiny because most people really don't understand how that works they think they do brother if Allah decided on everything why am I being put on Hell who told you there are things that the decisions that you're going to make that you're going to be held accountable for but I'll get into the details later inshah wow kab yes kab the key and the tab keeping tab yes I'd rather him be
• 70:30 - 71:00 honest but I don't have a feedback person that cracked me up I'm saying Allah created time the fact that Adam assigned a timeline of 20,000 how else would he know okay too complicated sure not me catching the live nearing the end these always happen when I'm at work yeah that's okay these are recorded uh sister or brother I don't know who ra a is yeah sorry you have a black icon so it wasn't appearing as a separate from in okay ra just you have it recorded you missed a superb live um hopefully he
• 71:00 - 71:30 saves it yeah they're saved Habibi when will the next live be the next one will be for the book of wisdoms um inshallah on Saturday um and uh that brings me to the final mashallah the signups for the thing have been incredible for the spiritual cleanse I might have to close it soon um so for the 10day cleanse anybody that hasn't signed up uh yet I is it still on my uh Instagram
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