 All right, I'm there. So today we are going to be talking about the different types of desires that a human being has. And we're going to just do a quick recap in terms of what we covered last time. And then we're going to dive into a couple of the different categories of desires that you can think of that you and I might have. So last time we just talked more about the introduction and the framework for how desires work, what are the types of desires that we have. And this time really the goal is to help us develop a deeper understanding of why desires can be so negative for us, why they can hurt us, and why obeying our desires can be so harmful for us as human beings. So a couple of things for us to keep in mind first is that Allah swt mentioned in the Qur'an that the one who restrains their nuts from following its desires, that for them, heaven is the reward for that. So Allah alludes to this in the Qur'an regularly that if you control yourself, inshallah you're going to get a reward. You're going to get heaven or you're going to get some other type of reward for it. And so that's important because what we're seeing is that the path to heaven, the path to the pleasure of God, the path to goodness, is facilitated and really the path is set up in a way that we have to control our desires in order to get to the end goal. So if we control these desires, if we control our sexual desire, our desire for food, our desire for fame and wealth and all these other things that we have inside of us, we will be able to travel that path in a more effective way. But if you obey your desires, whether they are the apparent ones or the subtle ones, whether you're following the desire to outwardly go and do something that you shouldn't be doing because of a carnal appetite or whether you're obeying some inner desire to get noticed and you pray only so people can praise you and you give charity only so people can tell you how awesome you are and how wealthy and generous you are. Whatever desire you're following, that leads away from the path of heaven. And so that's just one major point for us to keep in mind here. And as you know folks have questions, the live chat feature at least in YouTube is working. So please feel free to chime in with questions. I'll do my best to address them, inshallah. So we covered, we discussed this just briefly, the types of desires that you have. I want to dive into it a little bit more in this class. So our goal is to go from basic carnal appetites to what are called the stronger spiritual desires. Okay. So as I mentioned, the goal is not to eliminate your desires. You do not have to get rid and be a desire-free person. Islam is not the type of religion that says that you have to become completely abstinent in everything and you have to achieve kind of a monk type of status. No. Alhamdulillah, the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, who is our role model, he married, he ate food, he fasted and he broke his fast, right? He didn't fast every single day, not so fast. Of course in Ramadan he did, right? But he would pray at night and he would also sleep at night. He married, he engaged in relationships, right? So this idea of complete abstinence from the desires that we have to completely eliminate them, that's not what we're talking about here. The goal though is to curb our desires. It's to get them in control. You don't want anything controlling you. Think about this as a human being. Only Allah should control you. Don't let something else you're lust or some desire for food or some bank account or some money or all these types of things control you. No. When you get an inclination they're like, oh, I have a decision I could make. I could go and buy a car and live within my means and buy a car that I can afford in either a 0% APR loan or buy a car that I can afford all cashed. Or you could get the, you know, super fancy, the Mercedes or the BMW or whatever it is and it requires you taking down an interest loan. Well, desire leads you to Haram. So you following that desire to be the big boss and to be the big shot and drive the car it is that you might want, but you can't afford it and requires an interest loan. We might not think of it as a big deal, 1% APR, 2% APR, but that's technically, I mean, not technically, it's very validly Haram. But which part of us, how do we go about controlling that? It's about limiting the desire for the person who doesn't have a desire in the first place to go beyond their means. Who doesn't have a desire in the first place for significant wealth or all these luxuries or status or these types of things. They're not going to go and do these types of things, right? So that's something for us to keep in mind. So now let's get to the way for us to travel from following these carnal appetites to actually achieving these more spiritual desires it is that the human being has. So the basic appetites that you and I have, we had the basic appetites of sexual appetite, the appetite for food, those that's what everything's built on, and then the appetite for money and the desire for wealth and the desire for status, those are other ones. Those are the things that pull us down. Those things pull us down. What you want to go to is you want to traverse up spiritual journey is a journey upwards. It's a journey towards a closer relationship with Allah. So in order to traverse upward, you have to desire things that are high up there. Does that make sense? So hopefully we want to desire what are called spiritual desires. So what does that mean? It means that we want to have a couple of things. There is a way to transform yourself. There is a way for Allah to transform you, for an inner alchemy to happen that rather than desiring these base things, you start desiring high things, like what? You start desiring love of Allah. You start desiring tranquility. You start desiring peaceful moments so you can worship Allah. You start desiring knowledge. You start desiring moments where you can learn. You start desiring sitting with wise people who can teach you. These are the types of things that human beings can actually start to channel their desires. So rather than somebody who's like parting all the time or clubbing or just caught up in all the different things that we can be caught up with, especially in Western society, you start to channel those desires into the right direction and start to focus on what would be called these higher value spiritual desires. So that is very, very important. That is the goal of this path for us to take the carnal desires and for us to traverse. Instead of just following the carnal appetites, we try to follow the we try to shift those carnal appetites upwards and we instead eliminate the carnal aspect of them and we start to channel them towards spiritual desires. So now you and I know the goal. What's the goal? We got to get from A to B. We got to get from the situation we're in right now to a higher situation where we start desiring the right types of things. Now this is a journey though. It's not easy. This journey requires inner work and inner balancing. What you and I want is we want to figure out what are the different keys that will unlock different parts of us that will allow us to traverse this journey. Right? So self-mastery is what becomes important here. You and I might have heard of this concept self-mastery. It is the idea of literally mastering your nests, of mastering yourself. Your self, your nests does not dictate you. You are not a slave to your nests. You are not a slave to your desires. You are a slave to Allah. If you are a slave to Allah, you will desire Allah. You will love Allah. You will want Allah. You will yearn for Him. Allah says in the Qur'an, those people who have a yearning and they're aspiring to Allah. He mentions that. So that's who we want to be from. We want to be from the people who have this desire to get close to our Lord. That's not going to work if we're caught up in all these other types of things. So we have to reduce those things. We have to channel the energy in the right direction. But it requires hard work. It does require hard work. So just think about it like this. If somebody who wants to play a game, let's say they're playing a sports game, the Super Bowl just happened, and the team that won the Super Bowl, for them to win Sof Tom Brady and his team, for them to win the Super Bowl, you think it was just like there's chilling all the time, drinking and hanging out and eating food? I doubt that. No, they were working out. They were hustling. They were practicing. They were up early and working out. They are in different various games. They are, of course, winning all the different games in the season. And then they get to the Super Bowl and then they have to work really hard in that game to actually win. So that required work. But the work paid off. It paid off in a reward. You got a ring and you get a trophy and all these types of things, and you get bragging rights to say you won. But other than that, the reward is limited to this world. But they put in the hard work, the sweat, the blood, sweat and tears in the hard work in order to hustle to make it happen. Now think about this. You and I, we have a chance to put in the hard work to conquer ourselves and we get way more reward than the simple reward of winning a Super Bowl or getting some money or some prize or status in this life. That's nothing. We get the reward of, inshallah, eternal jannah, eternal jannah, eternal paradise, no worries, no sicknesses, no problems, no challenges, all calmness and tranquility and hanging out with the prophets. May Allah bless all of them and bestow peace and blessings upon all of them, right? No family tensions and problems and illnesses and COVID and all these types of things. And let alone blessings upon blessings upon blessings, abundant blessings that Allah showers upon His servants in paradise. But it takes hard work to get there, right? It comes into hadith with the Prophet ﷺ. He said that paradise is surrounded by difficult things. And so it makes it easy to get to and that hellfire is surrounded by beautiful things. And so it's you, you, you, you will yearn and incline that the desire in you will incline towards the path of the hellfire unless you and I tame our desires. When we start to tame our desires, our self becomes okay with the hard work and the self mastery needed in order to achieve the best outcome, which is the outcome of traversing the path to paradise. So let's talk a little bit about what types of desires exist. So you have the obvious ones and then you have the subtle ones. So I think I've already mentioned the obvious ones, like a lot, but I'll just mention again, sexual appetite, appetite for food, the desire for money, the desire for fame, the desire for significant amounts of wealth, the desire to be in charge, the desire to be famous, the desire to have followers. These are all like in the last couple are very much linked, right? You'll see people in this society, they will do everything it is that they could and they'll be really promiscuous. And generally speaking, they have no control over their food and their diet many times. And then after they get to a certain point, it's not about that stuff. Like, now I got to make as much money as possible through whatever means as possible. And then while they're doing that, what are they spending their money on? They're spending money and people are spending their money on activities that they shouldn't be doing, going clubbing and this type of thing over and drinking, having tabs at the bar that are like thousands of dollars, right? Just overdoing and living this excessively lavish, unnecessarily exuberant, extravagant life. Then, oh, that's not enough. Well, now I got to be in charge. Maybe I'll run for office. Maybe I'll be, maybe I'll try to get to the CEO status in my company. That's still not enough because the nuts is never full. Now I want to be famous. I got to run for office and be famous. I got to be in charge of people. I got to be powerful. I want followers. Now everybody can get followers because of these different social media platforms. You see the desire goes on and on and on. And it never leaves you. It never leaves you. It different desires target different people depending on the age you're at, but you see this in politicians all the time. I mean, I see it even in the president of the United States, the past president, all these desires were extremely manifest in his life journey. And up to the point where the desire to be in charge was so manifest that he was trying to stage a coup in order to stay in charge. That's just desire and all nuts. Definition of nuts is that right? The nuts cannot handle losing. The nuts cannot handle people when they don't praise you. And so that example was an example of pure nuts. You and I follow example of spirit of the Prophet. Who is a spiritual, who is our spiritual guide, right? He is the Prophet. He is the one who teaches us how to attain stations of spirituality that draw us nearer to near to Allah. Excuse me. So those are their parent desires. Those are obvious. The nuts, it likes those desires. You know, it likes those desires. And so it's obvious. But remember this, the Nus, one time, one of my teachers told me, he said that the Nus will try to take its share of everything, including obedience. It will take its share in obedience. And Ibn Ata'ilah in the Hikm, he mentions this, that the Nus wants its share in everything. So now let's get into obedience. Why does the Nus want its share in obedience? Well, what the Nus wants here is it wants its, it wants to be noticed in some way or another. So with disobedience, it's very clear. What is a Nus not? What is a Nus getting? It's getting fulfillment of these different appetites. But when you start worshiping Allah and you start trying to get close to him, you start following the religion, you want to, now what the Nus says is like, how can I get, how can I get a portion of this? So it says, oh, you should pray so people can tell you, look at how great you are. Oh, you should do this so people can say, look at how religious you are. Oh, you should say this so that people can praise you. Oh, MashaAllah, MashaAllah, oh, you should do this so people can like your status. Oh, you should post this religious statement or any statement, whatever, so people can praise you in this way or another. Oh, you should do this, give this much money so people can, can, can tell you how generous you are. Oh, you should learn knowledge so people can say, wow, look at this guy, look at this girl, she knows so much. This is the Nus trying to get its share in obedience. And this is very much a possibility. It comes in a very, very, very famous hadith with a promise of some indicated that one of the first people to be thrown in the hellfire will be the scholar who taught people so that people could say he was knowledgeable and the scholar who recited Qur'an so that people could praise him, not for the sake of Allah. And this is what's happening here is that the desire, the Nus is taking its portion of the worship and the desire, this is called, these are called apparent subtle desires. So you have obvious desires, you have the subtle ones that are hidden. Once you break past the obvious desires, you've got to work on the subtle desires because if you don't, you can still be ruined. You can still be ruined in this life. And in the next, Allah protect us, but it's not just about defeating the apparent ones. But Allah starts to help you. Allah helps always. Allah says that he, that he takes the believers out of darkness and into light. And Allah is the protecting friend of the believers and he takes them out of darkness into light. And so know that Allah can take you out of the darkness in a desire into the light of trying to obey him and the darkness of obeying him for the wrong reason into the light of obeying him for the right reason and the darkness of insincerity to the light of insin of sincerity. As allah to Allah, he will inshallah do it. But we have to put in the effort Allah says in the Quran that whoever strives in our way surely we shall guide them. So you and I have put in the effort and we know that hadith where you go to Allah walking and Allah comes running. You go into him a hand span, he comes an arm span. So we put in that effort. But the apparent desires are there. So don't discount them. Don't think, oh, you know, I'm not drinking. I'm not smoking. I'm not clubbing. I'm not, you know, on Tinder all the time. I'm not doing and if you are doing all those things, there's a lot of hope. Allah will forgive you inshallah and Allah will facilitate a path of goodness. Don't let anybody ever tell you like you're too kind of sinful or messed up for salvation. No, nobody has that right to say anything. Allah is a Rahim. But some people might think that, oh, you're caught up in these types of things and once I leave them, oh, I'm good. I figured it out. I'm bound for heaven. I got my spot reserved in heaven. You know, it's not how it works, right? Because there's still work to be done when I have to work on a daily basis and a weekly basis on ourselves. The nafs will always try to trick us with something or another. Tricks are up its sleeve trying to get to you and the desires have to be conquered in order for the nafs to be defeated. So as we just mentioned, now there are a couple other things to keep in mind. The more you obey anyone desire, the stronger it gets. As I mentioned last time, it's like feeding. It's like you feed that desire. So the more you follow, let's say with sexual appetite. This one's obvious. The more one follows their sexual appetites, the more they're going to want to continue to engage in illicit sexual relations, right? And so you have somebody who's just not able to control themselves here. The more you eat and overeat, the more you're going to want to overeat. So this culture in the U.S. of buffets and this type of thing, it encourages regular overeating and unhealthy foods don't help with that. And then of course, you would know that the country has no obesity problem. So this is because desires are followed. And then you have like ads come up like seven up or a sprite, which everyone says like obey your thirst, right? These are targeted ads to make you obey the nafs. It's really just saying obey the nafs, right? Obey your thirst, obey your desire. So it tries to get you to obey that desire for food or for beverages and whatnot. So that being said, simple solution here. You lessen the amount that you do of that thing and it will start to get better, right? People who have pornography addiction, let's say, which is a very big problem in the Muslim community, unfortunately, but it is a problem. And unfortunately it's not talked about that much either. The more one works on themselves and reduces the amount that they are engaging in or watching, the more they will be able to conquer that desire, doesn't go away completely. That desire has to be eventually curved then into a halal situation or one gets married is able to release that in the right way. So that's the kind of high level path. But here's the tricky thing. When you get into the subtle desires, we have a parent ones and subtle ones. When you get into the subtle ones, the more you follow the subtle ones, the more your nafs will trick you into thinking that you're all that and you don't really need work on yourself. So the other ones, it's obvious that you and I know, okay, for doing something very obviously haram, okay, I got to stop. But the nafs doesn't work like that. When you start to say, oh, I'm going to worship so people can notice me or I'm going to speak or I'm going to learn so people can say this about me, this type of thing. I'm going to try to get followers so that I can get more and more influence in the hearts of people. What's happening here is that their words affect you in a way you don't know and the people's eyes and their gaze at you in all the different ways that they're following you affect you in ways you don't know. And that gets subtle because it makes the nafs stronger but the nafs tricks you into thinking that it's becoming weaker. So hopefully this makes sense. As you get more and more religiously oriented and worship oriented, the nafs will get to a point where it's like, look at you, you're all that. You're the most religious person in your family. You're like, you're the person who like, you know, your family wears a job, it has a beard and this, this and that and nobody else does that. Look at you and then what people end up doing is the nafs tricks them so much and I've seen this happen that they'll spend all this time talking back, talking smack about other people because they're going to look at this person and that person doesn't do this and this person doesn't cover theirs and this person doesn't dress like this and they're just losing all their good deeds and backbiting. Meanwhile, they're puffed up thinking that there's something that's the nafs. That's desire being followed and we ask that Allah protect us because there are very subtle things that can completely ruin our good actions, right? So the path then is a path of self-control and the path is a path of working on ourselves and rejecting these impulses and rejecting these desires when they come and we have to just be on guard for whatever subtle one comes up or a parent one comes up. So I'm going to just give a kind of very general review of how the scholars recommend curing this stuff and then we'll get into specific ones in the future conversations. So at a general level, if you and I are into something, if we can reduce it, stop completely, it's good, but gradual reduction is better than not stopping at all. So let's say that somebody like smokes a lot of weed, right? Okay, smoking a lot of weed. It's very common now these days. It's legal in many states in California. It's legal. People are smoking. Okay, well, you're like, okay, I want to stop smoking weed. Hopefully you should want to stop. It's not good. It's an intoxicant. It's considered haram by contents of the scholars. I'm sure people already know that. There's not really need to discuss that, but so you want to stop. Well, you might not be able to stop clean. If you can stop clean, Alhamdulillah. But what you do is you gradually reduce it. So you're doing this much, you reduce it to a little bit less. Okay, less frequently, less frequently, whatever device you're using, you use less of it and less of it, right? And you slowly reduce the amount such that the desire goes away. And you replace it with something less evil. Okay, so you might go from weed to like hookah. And then you, because you just like the act of smoking, and then you leave the hookah and you go to, you know, chewing some gum or something like that. And then you eventually leave it completely, right? The entire idea of the smoking. So those are, those are ways gradual reduction works for obvious desires, but leaving at the completely is better. That's better, but it's not easy always to do that. So gradual reduction is a method that we have and that we're able to follow. Now there are a couple of remedies for us to keep in mind. They're what are called over the counter remedies, and then they're called specific remedies. Okay, so over the counter, these are like, you know, basic remedies that scholars have given us that, okay, this will work in general to curb all of your desires. And then there's specific prescriptions you and I need to be given for individual things that we're going through. And a very qualified spiritual guide can help us with those things. So over the counter, five things are needed. You can nail these five things. If we can nail these five things, we'll be inshallah in a very good place. And may Allah assist us. First is you and I have to have the determination and the intention to work on ourselves. We have to say, I want to work on myself. I'm not just going to be a person who's complacent. I'm going to improve. I'm going to work on myself. That's the first. The second is we add in regular doses of being hungry and fasting. So fasting curbs desires. It diminishes desires. We all know this. And Ramadan is coming up. May Allah allow us to reach Ramadan and get us, give us the full barakah fi khairul luth falafia of Ramadan. But Ramadan helps to eliminate these desires. So what you do is in your daily regimen tasks and portion, even if you don't fast for the whole day, where you just don't eat all the time. You want to have hunger because when hunger is there for portions of time, hunger facilitates the suppression of desire because a full, when you give yourself everything it is that your nuffs wants. I want food now. I want this now. I want french fries now. I want ice cream now. Just get it as soon as you get an instant gratification. The nuffs gets built stronger and stronger and stronger. So you and I have to curb that. So the first is determination and intention. Second is some regular amounts of hunger and fasting. Third is consistent amounts of worship and thicker. So we have, if you and I are trying to work on ourselves, we got to get in a worship regimen, a worship routine, not just like, this is an addition to the basics. The basics are important. This is five prayers and beyond. So you add in extra prayers, right? You add in noato prayers, you add in the Hajr prayer, you add in extra adhqar that somebody would do. The three things I would recommend adding when somebody is doing their fard in order to help curb this. First is the regular, what are called sunnah muakkada. They emphasize sunnah after each prayer or before each prayer, of which in the Hanafi school at least is two before fajr, two after lohr, and two after maghrib and two after ishah. So those would be good prayers for us to make sure we do. Second thing then is to do the sunnah adhqar, sunnah adhqar of the morning and the evening, right? You can find this thicker in compilations. There's one called where the latif that I would recommend. W-I-R-D, a latif that is a compilation of the sunnah du'a as the prepositional madhu every morning and every evening. Try to do that at least once a day in the morning time. And in addition to that surah yasin would be good to read every day based on various hadith or the prepositions. I'm encouraged us to do that, especially in the morning time. And then the third thing is to add in the hadjib prayer when possible. So the hadjib prayer is the prayer that is a special connection, it brings a special prayer between you and your lord. This is prayed at any time from after ishah, right? And before fajr. So ideally somebody gets up 20 minutes before fajr and just prays two rakat at the hadjib and asks Allah to help them in whatever situations they're facing. This is known as the hour of- Allah's asking, there's a hadith kutsi that indicates Allah comes down in no anthropomorphic way. He comes down at that time and asks, is anybody asking that I may grant them? Is anybody asking forgiveness that I may forgive them? Is anybody have a need that I may fulfill? This is the time to be close with your lord. So determination and intention, hunger and fasting, worship and dhikr and regular, then the fourth is turning to Allah in complete sincerity and begging him for help, begging him for help. If you and I want to work on ourselves, we can't just like take this stuff, you know, in a relaxed way, we got to ask, we got to ask with sincerity and beg Allah, Allah help me. The scholars recommend doing it in a way that you were, as though you were drowning, like you were so in need of help, not like Allah help me, like Allah help, like really from the bottom of your heart, begging him, and inshallah Allah will answer. And the fifth is spending time alone. This is an important ingredient. We can't always have our devices with us. It just means virtually as well. We can't always be with people who right now most of us are alone anyways in quarantine or in, you know, COVID situation. We have to have some moments. It's just us in solitude, solitude thinking about what's going on in life, giving ourselves time to process our thoughts, spending time alone with our Lord. Here's to the five, intention and determination, hunger and fasting, worship with and ticker, turning to Allah and begging him for help and spending time alone. You'll see that somebody who's gotten the basics already down and then starts doing this stuff, you will start to go through spiritual transformation. This is tried and tested. This is a science. This is not just some made up thing. Tried and tested science by of course, the Prophet ﷺ and the Sahaba to begin with, and then all of the greats who came after them that have continued it. So this works, but we have to put in the effort. This is the medicine. You and I need medicine. We have sicknesses. We now have the medicine. What do we do in order to curb our desires? Let's know what they are. Let's figure out the subtle ones and the apparent ones. And then let's know that when we embark on a path to work on ourselves, Allah will facilitate it for us. Allah rewards the intention. The intention of the believer as it comes into hadith is better than the action. So make the intention now, whenever you're whatever you're whenever you were able to when you're watching this or afterwards or some other period of time, make the intention. You want to work on yourself. You want to work on your desires. You want to work on curbing these desires and you want to work on getting closer to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and inshallah Allah will facilitate that and may he make this immensely easy for you and immensely easy for all of us and facilitate all hair and all goodness. We see some questions in this live chat. So if anybody has questions, please post them and we will we will answer them inshallah. So somebody posted here, I'm conflicted. My ADHD is something that is making me shift my focus and struggle with khushu. Please talk about people who suffer from these mental struggles every day. So this is regarding focus in prayer and concentration from my understanding and your struggles are limiting you with that. So first of all, thank you for sharing and thank you for asking me the question. The first thing to note here is that Allah only tasks you with as much as you can bear. So Allah says in the Qur'an He only burdens a soul with as much as it can bear. So Allah will not burden you with the difficulty or with the limitation or with the struggle more than you can bear. If you can bear it, Allah knows though what you can bear. You and I don't know. Allah believes in us more than we believe in ourselves. So Allah says, okay, you can do this. I'm going to put you to the test, but I believe you can do it. You and I are like, I can't do this, right? But Allah knows we can do this. So that's the first thing to keep in mind. And if you're struggling with something, it's a test from Allah and inshallah Allah will leave you from it and Allah give you complete shifa and cure from these difficulties. Just know though that Allah is testing you and that he believes that you can improve and get better and work on yourself through that test and that difficulty. Second thing to keep in mind then is don't beat yourself all over when you don't have khushu when you're not able to focus because of the situation that you are in. It's okay because Allah is testing you in that situation and he knows you're going to have weaknesses, but the desire for you to want to improve is already beautiful. That's the third thing is take basic steps for khushu in the prayer it's recommended in the beginning to recite. Before you start the prayer, then before you engage in your farth prayer, engage in at least some sunnah raka. Some sunnah raka is where you try to get focused. The third thing is to make sure that the area you are praying in or that you are trying to do thicker in or whatever it is is clear. It's not full of a bunch of stuff because you need focus and concentration and then try to make sure that the noise is fairly limited. Then just try to have focus. I'm going to make it a goal to be focused in one raka or half of one raka or a quarter of a raka or in two raka whatever you're at. It's okay if you don't achieve full khushu in four raka. I mean that would be such a miracle if we had that. Allah give that to us. But just start with something basic. It's okay if at fajr time you're tired and you're not able to focus necessarily. You and I know we have those things to work on. But begin with these solutions and inshallah it will help. So let's try that out and let's inshallah see how it goes. If anybody else has any questions please feel free to type them into this chat. Any questions related to this conversation about desires or something else that's relevant please feel free to type it in. We'll wait just another 30 seconds or so. And if not then we will go ahead and end with the dua. Okay well I'll see if anything comes up and if not then I'll just go ahead and end. And if anything comes up please type it in. Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem, Alhamdulillah. وَهَمَسَلَيَّاسِينَ مْحَمَدٍ وَالَعَالِيْ وَصَحْبِيَسَلَّمْ لا إله إلا أنت سبحانه كني كنت من الظالمين يا الله يا رحمان يا رحم يا قريم يا حنان ومنان يا زجلالي ولكرام يا فتح يا الله please open up the doors of your mercy for us ya Allah please pour your mercy upon us ya Allah please facilitate goodness for us and our loved ones and all the people it is that are watching and that intended to watch and that intend to work on themselves in our Muslim community and in anywhere in this world ya Allah inwardly and outwardly assist them ya Allah with your special assistance please help us with all of our problems and challenges please remove the anxieties and difficulties and stresses and problems and challenges and illnesses whether those are mental or physical or spiritual or psychological that we have ya Allah ya Allah you are a companion and our sister and our source of assistance and you are the one who helps us please help us ya Allah please help us ya Allah you are the one who assists please help us with all of our problems please cure us of all of our difficulties and our challenges and please give us the ability to get close to you and please allow us to control our desires and to live a life that is pleasing to you as-Sallallahu Alai paina Muhammadin wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sahbihi wa sahbihi Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alameen Alhamdulillah Jazakuma ala khayr Assalamu alaykum inshaAllah we'll see you next week inshaAllah