 بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم باسم الله الرحمن الرحيم باسم الله الرحمن الرحيم أمي أشخاص وإنخفضون This is the brothers and sisters السلام عليكم جميعهم ورحمة الله وبركات لكم many a welcome to another session here with us on Digging Deeper here on Emma O'Saen TV where we are exploring the دعاء that we recite almost every day hopefully every day after our daily prayers لنبدأ مع اللهما أدخل على أهل القبور الصرور وإن شاء الله في هذه السحن نحن نترى إلى نهاية تلعب دعاء اللهم أشبع كل جارع كما أعرف أنكم تعلمون now ولكن لكي أردوكم من أحدكم who it maybe your first time watching this series نستخدمنا من مجدد من المتحدة in title Manifestations Of The All Merciful by شيخ خلفان to guide us through this great دعاء ونحن كذلك قبل if you would like to jump ahead you absolutely can because this book is readily available for you online at al-islam.org and I'm sure you can get a physical copy if you'd like but let's get going so اللهم أشبع كل جارع oh Allah satisfy every hungry person now on the face of it it's not a hugely deep and profound and I need to contemplate on this kind of statement I'm not here to take away the seriousness and the heaviness behind this statement I'm more just saying in terms of I need to unravel the meaning behind it it's not one of those it's quite clear cut it's oh Allah satisfy every hungry person we will of course go a little bit deeper but I just wanted to say that in the beginning it doesn't really come across initially as something very depthful but there is something really interesting within this and I think it's one of my favourite lines in The Darab will come to it now as I mentioned on the surface level this is still a very profound and weighty statement and I just gathered a few stats here for us to really recognise actually how important an issue this is so we don't just kind of gloss over it the UN's food and agricultural organisation actually estimates that there are about 815 million people in the world who are hungry i.e. who are suffering from chronic undernourishment so not just hungry actually chronic undernourishment 815 million people that's about 11% of the world's population off them 9.1 million 9.1 million die every year from starvation or hunger that's the equivalent to around 25,000 people per day dying of starvation so whilst I'm saying yes it's not a line that we have to really unravel unpick words etc it still has a very profound weight to it in the current climate that we live in and it's not something that we should underestimate to look into this though we'll start again on a relatively simplistic level the first lesson that we take of it is really related to I guess what we're doing in this month largely which is fasting now of course when you're asked what's the significance of fasting when you study study and listen to more and more things you learn that the reasons there are plethora of reasons as to why fasting is such an incredible form of worship to our last person it's something that takes us so close to him something that's so dear to him and so useful for us to get closer to him however one of the typical things that we usually taught and then as usual on the tip of our tongues is that we fast because it helps us realise the challenge of those who are not as fortunate as us as us the rich if you like because we have food readily available and there's actually a hadith attributed to Imam al-Sadiq where he discusses the philosophy of fasting and he says and I'll quote Allah the Exalted in Glory سبحانه وتعالى desire to maintain equality between his creatures and make the rich person experience hunger and pain so that he may have pity on the weak and mercy on the hungry one I think pity is not a great translation there but we get the gist of it so that we can experience the pain such that we can look upon those who are hungry with mercy so we can feel for them so that we can do something about it and as I mentioned a previous session that you know Alhamdulillah there is some great initiatives that happen during Shah Ramadan specifically around giving to those less fortunate than us and that is another highly advisable form of worship for us during this holy month which is to give in arms and charity in صدق so to begin with I think you know let's just recognize on a surface level that no one this is a very very very critical problem that still goes on in the world and number two this is a chance in this month at least for us to recognize the benefits that we obviously have by having food readily available at the table but I do want to pose this question which is with that being said how many of us myself included my family included my friends included still fall guilty of excessive consumption in this month and potentially wastage and that's a hard-hidden question it's not one that I think many of us are like oh I've never thought about it that way no no we're all fully aware of it but considering the state we're in at the moment maybe it's something for us to actually really try and reflect on it's a very clear message in that line that yes oh well I've satisfied the hunger of everyone who's hungry but am I taking what I have for granted am I actually being wasteful in what I have and also am I trying to do something to solve those people's hunger and as I mentioned before it's something about saying these lines of the دار but more so deeper down do we actually believe it do we have conviction do we actually want to solve the hunger crisis in the world because if we do I don't think the character I think of one who does would be to be so wasteful in their consumption of food especially in a month that's meant to be about restraint and control of yourself and own desires but as soon as Margaret hits as soon as she hits that's out of the window so that's just one first lesson for us to take away now to go into this in a bit more of a different lens different angle I really find this an amazing topic of discussion and that is that when we read this line of the دار or Allah satisfied that every hungry person my question is who is a hungry person who is someone who is hungry and the question in the previous session أخني كل فقير who is the faqir who is the poor is it just the person that I see in the street who doesn't have a house to live in therefore is living on the street or that poor we realized that maybe I am the poor because I am completely relying on the only rich entity ever which is our last because everything ends up with him similarly here when we say satisfy every hungry person is the hungry person just the one who is hungry for food or is there another definition for hungry in this respect for hungry for food is there another definition for food now when we look to the Quran and this is quite interesting in Quranic terminology food does not always refer to the materialistic understanding of food which once we understand what it can relate to actually makes us see this entire line from a completely different angle entirely so in Quran we have clear references or sorry in the Quran we have different understandings of the word for food and one of those that is pointed to actually comes from surat 80 surat and this word طعام in Arabic for food for food in this verse the verse goes بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم فلينظر الإنسان وإلا طعام then let man look at his food so you're probably now thinking why did I make such a big deal out of it because that doesn't sound very miraculous then let man look at his food and I'm saying then maybe there's a different translation of course and of course I've given us the answers to what is behind this verse and this is where this answer comes as to what is this new translation if you like when you're understanding of food so in relation to this surah in the تفسير البرحام by Sayyid Hashim Bahrani the Sayyid quotes a tradition that is narrated in Al-Kafi attributed to Imam Al-Saleh where a man called Zaydah Al-Shaham comes to the Imam and asks him asks Imam Al-Saleh this man's food that is spoken about in this ayah what does it actually mean what does it stand for and the Imam Al-Saleh Imam Al-Saleh was reported to have said to have replied علمه الذي يأخذه عن من يأخذه the knowledge that he acquires from whom does he acquire it so this is the Imam responding to a man asking him in this surah العبسة verse 24 فن ينبر الإنسان وإلى الطعام and then let man look at his food what is this food what is this man's food what is this actually talking about and the Imam says علمه الذي يأخذه عن من يأخذه the knowledge that he acquires from whom does he acquire it so I'll put it into translation then let man look at his knowledge that he acquires from whom does he acquire it so now we see a new translation if you like or a new lens by which to see the word طعام in Arabic typically meaning food now being the understanding that this food is actually knowledge just to look at that حديث in its own isolation the knowledge that he acquires from whom does he acquire it maybe it's a command from the Imam to say go and analyze where have you got your knowledge from look at your knowledge assess it where has it come from just be wary of which sources you're using anyway that's that's a side point so what we're trying to understand here was in this line اللهم أشبع كولجة الله satisfied every hungry one i.e. the one who is hungry for food as we would typically understand the Imam is now saying or through this we can understand that there's a different understanding of the word of food which is now knowledge الله satisfied every hungry one and maybe how we can understand now the one who is hungry for knowledge question surely we're all hungry then because we should all be hungry for knowledge because we know the Prophet said that very famous prayer that many of us say in our daily Salah and say oh my lord increase me in my knowledge the Prophet is in ongoing and unlimited pursuits of knowledge never ends and of course us Allah's knowledge is infinite and it's constant and we're in pursuits of this just like the Prophet is oh my lord increase me in my knowledge oh God is in that but how many of us truly in pursuits of knowledge how many of us are hungry for knowledge how many of us are trying to take time out to learn to develop to seek knowledge coming back to that first premise we mentioned in the intro it needs to be some of this it needs to be something that we really believe that it's something from within are we just saying yeah Allah okay and I'm wasting food on the table and I really don't actually care about seeing any knowledge there needs to be that yearning for it you see scholars in the holy seminaries in the seminaries in the holy cities and they've been studying for 50, 60, 70, 80 90 years and they're still at it yet another book yet another thing they're listening to yet another this yet another that it's never ending and this is a question for us I think one beautiful thing that gives us is that it's actually quite similar to this quarantine that we're experiencing it gives us time that I don't think we realized we had or at least we deprioritize certain things which made that time get full and now I mean you know what maybe I've got time to reflect I really think you know am I actually bothered about seeking knowledge is that actually an important thing for me or so so I should be able to satisfy every hungry maybe that's a for us to go satisfy my craving for knowledge now شيخ الفان goes on in the book to then he talks about the the more common understanding of hungry hungry for food and it's worth reading that we're not going to cover that in our session but it's highly I highly recommend that you have a read through that chapter because it's quite interesting as to how he discusses those who go hungry and you know why that can be the case etc but we won't look at that just now I just want to continue on this trend of knowledge which is that the question then becomes okay if we're hungry the way to satisfy that hunger is of course to eat and شيخ الفان talks about how you can get that food if you haven't got it what is it that you need to do and equally from a knowledge perspective how do you actually go about satisfying that hunger for knowledge how do you go about satisfying yourself and actually the solution for the more materialistic notion of food and then the knowledge side of food if you like the solution is common and we'll just focus on the larger side but we'll look to the Quran for the answer in سورة البقرة chapter number 2 verse 282 الله سبحانه وتعالى says وَتَقُوا اللَّهَا وَيْدُوا عَلِّمُكُمُ اللَّهَا and adopt وَتَقُوا اللَّهَا adopt تَقُوا and Allah will teach you you hungry for knowledge Allah saying I will teach you on the premise that you adopt تَقُوا وَتَقُوا اللَّهَا and equally سورة الأنفال سورة number 8 verse 29 يا أيها اللبين آمنوا انتَقُوا اللَّهَا يجعلكم فرقانة oh believers if you be or if you have تَقُوا I'm going to be careful how I translate تَقُوا so oh believers if you have تَقُوا Allah shall enable you to distinguish the truth from the false so we see that تَقُوا is a prerequisite or is the solution to satisfying your hunger for knowledge fine we can now stop here okay finished خلاص thank you for this session because now we know I need to go and have تَقُوا but the question now is what is the meaning of تَقُوا and I smile because every single time that I've sat with someone of great knowledge they've always said we've always had a session about تَقُوا basically it's a very important thing that they'll always turn around and go okay this requires تَقُوا who knows what تَقُوا means and then there's this whole discussion that oh is it piety it's not piety okay what it is so I want to very briefly explain what تَقُوا is from one of these lessons that we sat in just so and that this is not in the book I think it alludes to it slightly but there's a plethora of of work around what تَقُوا actually means and I'm just going to give you a small glimpse into that because I think it's quite useful for us to for us to conclude on إن شاء الله and to reflect on as well so usually when we hear the word تَقُوا the first thing usually comes to our mind is probably something like piety and then I usually ask what does piety mean because honestly I couldn't tell you what pious means the only thing that comes to my head when someone says pious is that I think of a guy in a cloak who's very polite and very you know and that's that's all I really think about so I don't find it a very useful translation and I think scholars would say it's not a very accurate translation either so what is تَقُوا so تَقُوا comes from وقايا which comes from حف which means to protect so the question now is to protect what and from what so someone with تَقُوا i.e. someone who protects themselves a مُتق they're protecting their nafs they're protecting themselves against evil against indecency we're saying that تَقُوا from وقايا comes from حف which means to protect we're saying this is a protection of your nafs against evil and indecency and by doing so the result of this protection is that you have awareness of Allah you're aware that Allah is watching that's why you're doing this you're aware that He's watching so sometimes we'll hear people say it doesn't mean piety but it means God consciousness but actually understanding the whole you know story behind it that it's you're aware that Allah is watching you're every step that as I record this I know He's watching me I know He's looking into my intention I know He's looking into my heart I know He's looking into has everything that I've bought to make this happen from a حلال income I know He's watching my every single move and as a result I am extremely careful to protect myself from evil from indecency from anything that is negative constant protection this is one basic understanding of تقوة and if I were to summarize it in this way we're familiar with the notion of توبة of repentance seeking forgiveness توبة is needed after you've committed a wrongful act whereas تقوة is the protection of your soul before you commit the act because you're wary of Allah watching over you you want to protect yourself you want to protect your soul and we spoke about this we've come onto this discussion because we said that تقوة is a solution is a prerequisite to satiating yourself from that hunger of knowledge of seeking knowledge so it's a really beautiful discussion that can go on and I highly recommend that you go to those that have learned to dig into this notion of تقوة because it really is a never-ending discussion this just gives a different way إن شاء الله thinking about it اللهم أشبع كل جاعة it's four main points that we've looked into firstly, it's a very explicit line that I think gives us a stark reminder of the hunger that we see in the world today and we spoke about some of those statistics 850 million experiencing hunger 9 million dying per year i.e 25 000 per day so it's still a stark problem that we face day in, day out لكن مهم لنا أنه ذلك لا يتفضلونه في فعل هذا المنزل لذلك خائقا تصبح خائقا بحمل الخاص لهمettle jigar ف�� has some of us to check ourselves on are we are we just saying satisfy the hungry ones but I'm but I'm abusing the food that I have the wealth and sustenance of risk Allah has given me second we then said that you know of course there is this وصدد جيداً للناس وعنا من بلدان أن ندفعنا لك تحضيراً وما يحتاجون لنا to have an understanding, a glimpse of an understanding and to the challenge and difficulty that those who are much less fortunate than us go through and therefore we can have mercy on them and try to help them and actively help them so we actually enact on this line of those that are at the rear sight. ونحن نحن نصف بشكل كبير في هذا السؤال ونحن نظر على العمل أسفت طبعاً على المساعدة العليه السلامة في حالة إلى العبر العبسة ويحدث عن هذا السؤال عن أحيان الناس ويحصل على أحيان الناس ونحن نفتح الأسفل إلى تأكد هل نحن أنت ممتع للنسبة لنحن نحن نحن نعمل ونحن نتساعد بالتأكد هل نحن نعمل ربما ان نسوي عنها. و if we are hungry for it, one way to satiate that hunger is by having تقوى and then we concluded by looking into a slightly deeper understanding of the word تقوى but still very surface level. So inshaAllah that concludes on the line of اللهم اشبع كل جاءة الهيامين and inshaAllah you'll join us for the next line of this تعاو. والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله ومركاته.