 الحمد لله رب العلمين وصلاة والسيد المرسلين وعلى آله وصح بيجمعين برحمة هير رحم الرحمين جزاك الله خير for tuning in, I wanted to thank MCC for doing all the technical part and مفتاح Institute for broadcasting this and putting this program together جزاك الله خير for all your hard work and especially our beloved أبو حب مفتاح الوحب who has been in contact and such a blessing أبو بلسه and his family and all of the people at مفتاح who are working so hard to do the best thing for this team نحن نبدأ a new course and it's an interesting course because we're talking about one of the great poets and one of the great poets and teachers and masters and thinker and visionaries in the history of Islam as a matter of fact not just in the history of Islam but in the history of humanity he is respected by the East and the West do you mind closing the doors please, both of them so one of the things that we learn in logic and when you start learning about Dean or if you go to university is called definition like how do you when somebody tells you something and you don't understand you say define it, what do you mean by that and that's the essential of the essential about foundation of language foundation of conversation foundation of comprehension foundation of understanding it's definition you have to be able to understand what the other person is telling you majority of the dispute and breakdown of the families is over definition it's not over what they say it's about misunderstanding and mistranslating what they're saying that's why in English they say it was lost in translation which means what this person said this person didn't get the hardest thing to define one of the hardest thing to define is human being like how do you define the most sophisticated creature that Allah has created because through the human being through us we get to know Allah we get to know Allah through ourselves and then we get to know ourselves through the light of God because why Iqbal رحمة الله عليه وسلم said از همك از كنا راقير صخبات اشنا طلب هم از خدا خدي طلب هم از خدي خدا طلب he said abandon everyone if you want to know yourself and if you want to know Allah abandon everyone and go to the one the only one that knows you the only one that knows you the only one that knows you is Allah nobody knows you you think your spouse knows you you think your children know you or your colleague or your best friend nobody knows your reality they only know what you allow them to know but all the mysteries that is inside of us only Allah knows that nobody else knows that Allah knows why you shed that tear you can tell people oh I was hurt but the billions of cells that are just moving around to create that tear Allah knows what you went through all of that is known only to Allah Allah knows your joy the laughter why you laughed why you're happy why you're sad right all of that only Allah knows that we only know at the superficial level where we say oh I was just also happy okay but we don't know really what was that happiness so this has been the great challenge of the human being in search of definition of what is a human being مولانا رومي he tried to define it by saying دي شيخ بالشراق حمي جاش جر دشار كس دي with that ملولا انسانا موريزوك they say the sheikh was going through the streets in the city with a flashlight with a flashlight right or a torch light he said I'm so sick and tired of all these animals I want to find the human being where are the humans in the city and then they said جف تام يوفمي نسوات جس تام مول they said I don't think you can find a human being we've searched everywhere for it you can't find it جف انك يوفمي نسوات اون موريزوك he said I want the one that you can't find in other words being a human is so rare there's a lot of human being but being a human is very rare to find and this is why definition of the human being is very difficult how do you define this creature what Allah says when He says ربك للملائكة اني جائلون في الارضي خليفة he says behold the angels I'm going to create a Khalifa on this earth so what is a Khalifa a caretaker a maintainer someone who cares someone who loves someone cultivate the earth take care of the animal take care of the trees make sure everything on this planet the earth is fine and it's perfect the way Allah has created that's what I'm going to make that's the essence of the human being then the angels said are you going to make someone who's going to do corruption and they're going to shed blood see they have their own definition Allah has a definition they have their definition isn't this the person who's going to come and shed blood and they're going to do a lot of corruption Allah says اني عالم المالة تعلمون I know what you don't know Allah knows all of the definitions Allah knows the essence of the human being the angels don't know what's in our hearts nobody knows what's in the heart of the human being only God knows that only we know and God knows nobody else knows our heart I don't know what's in your heart you know what's in my heart Allah knows what's in my heart what's in your heart I only know what's in my heart and that's what we judge people ونحن في منطقة المفتاح نحن لا نستطيع أن نقول لا بأس لا نعرف اذا كان فرقا أستطيع أن أقرأ هذا لأنني أستطيع أن أخبرني إن شخص يردون أعتقد أنه أسوء أسوء أنه قد يعتبر أنه مفتاح وأنني أقول لقد أردت المفتاح وأنت أسوء من المفتاح لا أعلم ونحن نردون سحدي من السحدي الذي أتعلم هذا المفتاح ونخل نحن في نهاية المنظمة. ما هو المنظمة؟ فهي يوجد فتاة بشكل كبير من المجموعة المتحدة من الناس من الشرطة من إيران إلى المجموعة المتحدة ونقوم بشكل كبير من المجموعة المتحدة هناك فتاة في سعادة الإنجلي كما يجب أن تكون المجموعة المتحدة ونهذا هو one of the masterpieces of Sa'adi Shirazi who says بني أدم أزي يكدقرن كدر أفرينيش زيك جو حرن he says humanity, there are like one body imagine a human being as all human beings as one single human that's what he's saying we're all like, all of us are like one human because in the creation our essence is the same we're all the same whether you're black or white whatever you are doesn't matter we're all the same the essence is one our essence is all one nobody has a different روح that I have a spirit that's not from the same source that your spirit no, all of the روح came from the same source the same روح he said the same spirit that came into marrying and Jesus was born he said that was the same spirit that came into you as well he said bring out the Jesus in you right so there's no difference in our essence that we're all the same we might be different in our color of skin our height our hair these are all for what these are all what we call accident there's a lot of accident colors are accident right a rose by any other name would smell sweet Shakespeare said you can't change a rose when you change this color a white rose a black rose a green rose a red rose it's a rose they're all roses because the rosiness is there got it the rosiness is there so he says we are all like this one human we're all of the human being but Africa could be a hand Asia could be another hand Mecca could be the face it's all of this body part and then he says he said with one part from this whole body of human being is in pain give you example have you ever had toothache it's just a little piece like this big of tooth you have toothache is this just your tooth hurting your entire body suffers from just 2 days so Saadi is saying that when one part of this human family is in pain he said all of the limbs of that human family should feel that should feel the pain of the people in Afghanistan if you're here should feel the pain of people of Kashmir if you're in Zimbabwe doesn't matter where if you're a human being you should feel the pain of other people right and the least you can do is make dua for them some people can do things they can donate you know there's a lot of refugees people are helping the other people make dua and at least you feel like Subhan Allah you know when there was drought here in California we were you know my kids at school they were like coming and they were like no we make sure we make wudu we get a cup it was really nice conserving a lot of water because there was a drought was a drought finishes and I was reminding myself and everybody that don't waste water because there's drought everywhere in the world don't waste water like have have that connection that there are people who are in need of water and they don't have water so he's saying that if one part is in pain every part of this body should be in pain you should feel it have some type of feeling and then he says he says he said all you who are free from the pain and suffering of other people he said you don't deserve this beautiful title called The Human Being Benny Adam it's a title this is the greatest title a human can achieve it's higher than a PhD and this is what Mullah Jami in a poem he said he said son it's his son it's a story of a father and son and the son is really he has no other but his dad but he becomes like he becomes a hakim the ruler he become all this other and then he's trying to humiliate his son he goes to his father he goes father come you should tell me that I'm not even an Adam I'm not even a human look at me I'm the hakim of the city look at look at my house look at my servant look at all these people look at my education look at my degrees he said he looks at me and said I never told you you won't become a hakim I said look at my journey to Adam naturally I said oh my beloved son you won't become a human and even that was a sign of not him being a human for dis honoring his own father right so that's the essence what he's trying to teach here is what does it mean to be a human being he said if you are free from the pain and suffering of other people you don't deserve that title because that title does not come free it comes with that verse that we have made you as a Khalifa on this earth the definition of that is that you will be taking care of each other you will be taking care of the animals you will be taking care of the earth you will take care of your own body your own self this is the definition of a human being so he wrote many books but in these books the most popular one is gullistan which means the rose garden or the garden gull is flower and in stan as you all know like pakistan afghanistan hindustan hindustan is the land of the hind you know although pakistan is an acronym people think it's the land of the pakistan it was actually made of each letter has a meaning punjab or pee and each letter has a meaning but anyways so generally the british are very smart that's why they made that to sound like they put this stan at the end of it so anyways so you have Afghanistan the land of the afghan right so gullistan is a place where all these flowers grow right so a rose garden and the gullistan is very unique and in he he said that when you are happy the tree is 60 50 60 6 sorry that when you are happy the tree is 60 50 6 he said that I wrote this in a beautiful poem he says I wrote this book in year 655 because a lot of the books we don't know when exactly they were written so that's why a lot of the poets they write a poem in the in the thing so the gullistan this book this is not the gullistan this is actually a commentary on the gullistan by by sudi shah sudi so the gullistan is very short like the whole book is like probably this much or less because it's really the cream of poetry and it's what they call nasr musajaa nasr is prose right nasr musajaa is the type of prose that it doesn't have a wasn like a poem but it actually rhymes really well you read it it's really poetic and he's he is it's called the greatest nasr musajaa ever written in the history of Persian literature so this is really one of my favorite books in the Persian literature in this book he has a chapter the first chapter is that siratapot shahon it's advice or about the kings and they always started with that because there's wisdom in that if the kings are straight and good the whole society is going to be instead of tranquility and peace and if kings and rulers are corrupt everybody suffers from it and then the next chapter is on akhlaqa darwishan is in the akhlaq or ethics or of the darwish and then that's basically all the citizens so he's talking about that as a universal term and then the next one is in the virtue of qana'a of contentment and then the benefit of silence and then love in youth and then old age and weakness and then and then the effect of because in our tradition we have a thing called education and then education and then education and education is that when we call in our tradition to the teaching of adab so the gullistan was translated early on into different languages one of the first languages that was translated was in French and in France they learned Farsi and as a matter of fact one of the people who translated into German and French they actually knew fluent Farsi person and so when they translated into French and in the 1600s almost 350 or 370 years ago they translated into France and the first chapter was given to a person who was a government official in France Lazar Karnat and he he fell in love with it because it's an advice to the king to run a government and it's a beautiful advice it's not now we have John Stuart Mills who has his ideology of how to run a government so there's all these styles of running the government but Saadi has a style of running the government that is very ethical and it's the person we have a proverb they say do something that when you're barbecuing because all our proverb in French is about food because we always eat so when you're barbecuing do something because the sea traditionally wasn't made out of steel it was made out of wood the wood the little wooden ones so they say when you're barbecuing make sure that the sea doesn't burn and the kebab doesn't burn right so that balance is very important and that's what he's doing he's bringing this balance what he gives advice to the kings and then he also gives advice to the to the citizens because it's a two way relationship right so he لزار كارنات when he when he read this first chapter he fell in love with Saadi so he named his son Saadi he named his son Saadi his son was a genius he was an engineer and he died at early age some say 25 some say 32 but he died in a very early age in thermodynamic engine that there was no pattern back then but you know that's his invention you can even Wikipedia that it will come just put thermodynamic engine it will come Saadi called out and it says inspired by the great Sufi a Muslim saint of of Persia Saadi Shirazi the name so so then he has another son he names him Saadi as well he dies at the early age so his brother has a son named Saadi because of the two sons that they lost they found a love they had for this book and for this man this Saadi become the president of France from 1887 to 1894 so you have this man who is inspired his name is after a spiritual master and a Muslim poet and there are so many I once googled Saadi street and Saadi avenue all of these street came from France to Brazil because he was really a popular president so they are named after him so Gullistan was translated in 1634 the first time into other languages and in 1654 it was translated into German in its entirety and the person who translated it actually he knew fluent Persian he studied in Iran he learned Farsi and then 1848 then another translation into German and all of these translation are it's amazing some rhymes and it's beautiful based on the reviews that the people of that language did the first Gullistan that was translated into English by Richard Burton was in 1888 so he translated it into English but before that it was translated as a not as a full just as chapter as you know these 8 different chapters so some people they translated a few chapters for me and the first one was 1774 was by Stefan Sullivan he translated into English in 1774 but not the full translation anyways this book has been for the past almost 400 years has been on a tongue of the people other than the Persian they did in Ottoman Empire they had it as a classical text I know that in India they actually read the Gullistan and then like the the paper that I gave you guys this paper all of these poems were taught in India not to the Muslims even the non-Muslim schools I made a Hindu a Sikh lady in one of my programs and she said that she she had a memory she was in her 80s she had the whole thing memorized and she read the whole poem from memory because I was 6 years old when I memorized it in India she said in our school they didn't teach it as a a religious text they taught it as a text of ethics to teach people ethics so what happened is when when Saadi passed away for the next 100 years everybody copied Saadi's style so every book was in this style including there's a beautiful book Insha'Allah when I hope to teach the book it's called Baharistan of Mullah Jami Abdulrahman Jami his is probably the best one but a lot of the people I mean I have a list of here like 2 pages of list of books that I don't even know who they are that they copied the style but it was just like a lot of copycats let's put it that he started this new genre of how to do poetry so what we're going to do Insha'Allah today I wanted to go over this people didn't get it they can pick this up it's in here brothers and sisters this is from a book called Panj Kitab the 5 is called because it's 5 books in one so the Panj Kitab is the first book we studied after the Quran and traditionally they made us memorize the whole book but bad memory most of them are gone but this this poem the first 3 poems are very important because they talk about they do talk about things that are essential in our lives so we'll do this Insha'Allah see where we go from here so in the name of Allah he starts the book with the name of Allah the Compassionate the Merciful and then he says he start the book by calling upon Allah and this is one of the ways of the great masters spiritual masters they always start their book with calling upon Allah so he says oh Karim forgive us in the state that we are in we're not asking for forgiveness for my sins in the past for this for that oh the most generous forgive us in the state that we are in whatever state we are in we want forgiveness because in any state you can use Allah's forgiveness even in your peak state of obedience you can still use Allah's obedience because you can do better there are people who are doing better than you there's always room to be closer to Allah one of the secret of this poem is the word Karima and this is why that book the Panch Kitab is also famous as the book of Karima Karim is the name of Allah that the one who gives the generous one but there's other names that Allah has you could have used Rahima or the Merciful it would have rhymed the same Malika most of the nine names fits in there but why do you choose Karima Karim there are names of Allah that you ask Allah gives you Jawad like you say I have difficulty financial difficulty Allah help me you know alleviate this Allah I'm sick heal me Allah will do that because you ask He will respond to you right Karim is the one who gives without asking did you ever ask Allah make my heart beat this many times every day you know we don't ask for that Allah make me do the breathing constantly when I'm sleeping you don't ask for this stuff Allah don't give me a headache we don't ask for these things but Allah He does it all day He just keep giving to you right كم لك من نعمة عليا ولم تزل محسنة إليا He keeps giving and giving Allah through this name He gives without asking so Sa'adi is so smart He said if He gives all these stuff without asking how much would He give if He ask him through that name how much would He give if He ask him through the name that He gives without even asking so that's what I'm saying so what does He ask for the best thing You can ask for forgive us in any state that I am in any state that I am كهستم أسيري كمان دي هوا now He is going to qualify his first line with the second line why is He asking that because I'm a prisoner of my own nafs I'm a prisoner I know that my reality Sa'adi is saying I'm a prisoner of my own nafs so I want your forgiveness in every state right in every state that I am I want your forgiveness because the nafs is like a rope that's gone around my throat and it's just dragging me like an animal towards the things that I don't want to go right and the poet said he said the great lovers right they take that rope off their neck and they put the rope of God in their neck and that's what he said you know that and then they let God take them anywhere he wants just take them anywhere you want right because it's a rope it's just let go right let go to Allah but he's saying I still have the rope of my nafs around my neck and it's dragging me towards evil so please I want your forgiveness in every state of my life not all of them will do not all of them we don't have right will do will do except to you and the reason why for God in person we use the word to in person and the same way in Urdu they say and then they say right and farce we say and then we say so for example my niece is here she would never call me to she would always say younger I'm older right I can never call my older brother to because it's bad after calling me as a sign of respect but why do we call God to he said we don't have anyone except you and he wants to take a hint on that take it that no the reason why yes well yeah that's pretty good but the reason why is because is always plural as well so is a group of people you say you said I respect for someone it's like the royal we right like the king will say we it's only one right we are delivering this so because it has that plurality in it they use the word to for God so there's no there's no ambiguity is Allah you know Allah is one so that's the reason why they use to for God like yeah so there's no problem is that plural as well or no no it's singular right that's the difference yeah so in Persian it has the if you also say when you get up all that yeah exactly that's the reason I think that's the reason is because of the because of that fear of plurality so then he says I don't have anyone except you to come to a rescue فرياد راس is a very interesting word فرياد is to shout for help like if you're getting drowned in ocean you just shout from the top of your that's it he's doing فرياد right he's shouting go help him so he's saying I'm shouting from the top of my lung and I don't have anyone to come to my rescue except you you're the only one who can rescue me and this is in every situation in your marriage situation in your business in your work with your parents with your friends with your children and everything you have issues who are you going to go to you're going to go to Allah and if you do that calling and this is the calling a lot of people you know they say you should call like an orphan who has lost his mother and just desperately looking and anyone that she sees with the same clothing grabs no it just grabs it and it's not even it but that calling is what Allah loves when you call in desperation he will answer Allah will always answer that so he says we don't have anyone by you to come to our rescue right توي أوسيان خطابة خطابة توي you are يا الله أوسيان أوسي is Arabic any words in Farsi that how is from Arabic so any word that you see in Farsi that has those four letters its origin is Arabic so أوسي is an Arabic word which means sinners people of disobedience you are the one توي you are the one who forgives the أوسي who forgives the أوسي who are بس period right بس خلاص finished there's nobody else who can forgive except Allah right نجاح دار مارا زراهي خطا so then at the end of this one he says please يا الله now he's doing it he's asking he's begging please يا الله hold me protect me don't let me go on the path that is خطا خطا is is it obviously is an archery term when you miss the you made خطا خطا is a mistake right خطا is also a sin and sin is to miss the mark as well right so you don't hit the bullseye it's the same in the christian in the muslim it's the same root it's from the same root word so he's saying توي أو سيان را خطا باقش و باقش right you are the only one so now he's saying نجاح دار مارا زراهي خطا protect me from this path that is خطا this path that's not going to hit the bullseye I want you in the 12 step program for the alcoholic anonymous he'll say why do you know that I was I was helping a person who was someone who was going through that and I had to go through the 12 step to see what they're teaching but anyways one of the things is let go and let God let go and let God like you have to let go of that I am unable to do this and this is why one of the things I hate about corporate America and I think it's it's disgusting to see that in a Muslim organizations when people who use the word I I want this I'm going to do this I did this who do you think you are like how do you do it like how does I do anything if the machine of Allah is not there can you do anything why didn't the knife cut Ismail he tried he got the knife put the son down trying to cut but it's not cutting because you can't do it if Allah doesn't want it you can't do it why didn't the fire burn him they can't it has to be the machine of Allah in order for it to happen so we always use the word we insha'Allah we will take care of this we will do it like that should be and it would also humble people it's the word I it's just so weird for me to see that in the Muslim institutions as well so he says and now at the end he is being smart and it's always good to be smart because they ask Abu Hanifa about the dua for the Ka'bah right because he was smart I said when you see the Ka'bah for the first time your first dua is accepted me and him we made Amr together with her too so I always tell him that when you see the Ka'bah for the first time your first dua is accepted me and him we made Amr together with her too so I always tell him you know people like they ask for something I want that job and then okay you got the job or whatever but they ask Abu Hanifa what should we ask for that dua when we first see the Ka'bah because you know that's the dua that is accepted I said ask Allah except all my dua after this dua so that's smart right so all your dua you become the person everybody will come to you so he's being very smart in the last line intelligent and he's saying خطى دار جزاء can you just all my خطى all my mistakes all my sins just put it aside and just delete them for some of them and then give me reward and said because Allah changes خطى into blessings Allah does that He can do it right He can just all if you have remorse for a sin and you shed tears for that sin that you did Allah will elevate you at rank so high that you couldn't have got it through worship but you did a sin and you remorse the remorse is so bad that you just keep getting elevated right so this is the one for Allah now here's a secret of this poem you'll get it then the second one is in the praise of the Prophet ﷺ and he says زبان تابو الدردهان جائقير سنوية محمد ودل بزير he says for as long as you have your tongue in your mouth what's beloved to your heart is the praise of Muhammad ﷺ right and it's so interesting that they knew the psychology of the self the spirituality of the self that there's a connection between your tongue and your heart what's the منافق it's a definition of a hypocrite in our tradition a منافق is the one who says on their tongue what's not in their heart that's what they say oh it's a منافق he told me I'm so beautiful and then when behind my back he said I'm so ugly that's a منافق it's hypocrite they say on their tongue what's not in their heart they don't think you're beautiful but they say it to you right so a منافق he is saying here that if you want to know what your heart wants is the praise of Muhammad ﷺ that's all it was as all what the heart just if you do all day اللهم صلى الله عليه وسلم محمد تب القلوب ودبائها وعافة لبدان وشفائها ونور الأبصار وديائها وقوت الأرواح وقذائها وعلى آله وصحبه you know just a heart attack give me more give me more because it's food for the heart right give me more it's joy just the name محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم right so he said for as long as you have your tongue in your mouth in the way poets do they make it so beautiful they just say just say praise of the Prophet ﷺ everybody has their tongue in their mouth right all the time so he's reminding you all the time just do praise on the Prophet ﷺ because that's what your heart wants if you want in happiness it's in the heart حبيبي خداو أشرافي now he's going to qualify why he said that is the حبيب of God حبيب الله حبيب الله you know there was the Sahaba were sitting by the Hateem and they were talking and they were talking about the other prophets and one of them said سبحان الله ليسا is مسيح الله موسى is كليم الله and Ibrahim is خليل الله and the Prophet ﷺ passed by and he heard it it's أنا حبيب الله and I am the حبيب of Allah and the حبيب of Allah the beloved of God is also the one he speaks to is also a messie all of that is in the beloved but a خليل is not a حبيب a كليم is not a حبيب the مقام is not that مقام the one that you love is the highest right the one that you love is the highest صلى الله عليه وسلم so he says he's حبيبي خداو he's the حبيب of God and then he said أشرافي أشرافي he's the most one of the things I love about this poem he doesn't say أشرافي أشرافي he doesn't say the best of human being the best of creation he said the best of the Prophet he doesn't even want to compare him to us he doesn't it's an insult to compare him to us he's just comparing him to all the infallibles the Prophet who are sinless he said amongst this elite group of people the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he's the أشرافي he's the leader يا إمام الرسلي يا سندي انتباب الله محتمدي right he's the Imam of the Messenger he's the best who's the Imam who do we put forth as an Imam the best the one who knows the most Quran the one who knows has the most knowledge the one who has the most ethics the most the best أخلاق right anyone in the Hanaf the last reason is the man who has the most beautiful wife and why did Abu Hanifa put that in there because the one who has a beautiful wife their eyes are not on the other people they're not looking at the other people like even to that level of subtleties right so he says حبيبي خدا أشرافي أنبيه كأرش مجيد أشبه المتقا and he says okay do you want me to give you more qualification of who he is the art of God is his pillow this is one of the most amazing things that anybody has ever written about the Prophet ﷺ this life متقا is someone that you something you lean on this is like a متقا right now and متقا is a pillow like usually people get a pillow put behind their back and they lean on he said what did he lean on the أرش of Allah on the night of a strong marriage right he went to the أرش of Allah سبحانه وتعالى above the art when his shoes when his sandals when his sandals that's why we put the نعال on our head or on our heart we have the نعال نعالين you know the shoe the symbol of the shoe of the Prophet ﷺ on our head right نعالي كبير أفغان حميم باركاب تارج سر سلطان تارج شنين بادار he said I'm sorry he said do you want to know who the Prophet is let me tell you he said may it remain from his shoes became a crown on the head of the kings the Muslim kings they were with the sandals of the Prophet on their head he said that's the mark of his shoes he said that's who he is and may it remain like that for eternity إن شاء الله so he's saying let me tell you who he is so you don't tell me why I'm asking all the time because the arch of Allah was his pillow like he was above he went above the arch then he says صور جهنجيري يكرون براق كبير زاش كسر نيل رواق he said he wrote this براق now one thing about the براق is very interesting that a lot of people think because they had wings and it was flapping probably and going from Mecca to Jerusalem now Saddy explains it how the براق went he said براق put his hand forward like a you know you know how the deer they cross over a fence they put their hands forward he said they put his hands forward and in one half went to Jerusalem just in one half it wasn't a struggle a flap the wings were just decoration that's what it was this is decoration just to make it beautiful for our prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and then he says it went through this palace with a plethora of shades of blue lights now if this is not a I don't know what it is this is Saddy was born in year 1201 probably around 1201 some say 1204 and they died 1299 he was ونحن في الوقت من مولانا رومي ولكن إذا كنت تظهر في حب تلسكوب فوروز في المنطقة كلها تظهر بلون ويبدو ككسل كيف أعرف ذلك كنت أعرف ذلك إنه جميل كذلك إذا كنت أخبرنا أنه هو الشخص الذي أردت إلى أرشاب الله هو حبيب الله هو أفضل من أرشاب الله هذا هو why I am asking you إذا كنت ترى هذا المنطقة always when you read it forward try to read it backward as well when you read it backward it takes you step by step back to the point so it will actually help you understand it this is who he is he went to the arts he wrote the barab he went through the seven heaven now all the time because your heart would be at ease and at peace so for the sake of time we'll do the last one I usually do each one in an hour hour and a half session with the students but this is an online session so we'll just try to make it short and brief and I'll go too much in the detail of the language so the next one the last one is the nafs now خطاب من نفس خطيب جملة and gives a خطبة so the first one is مناجات it's a munajat in the درغة of the one who accepts your munajat and the second one is in praise of the prophet now the third one is خطاب من نفس a lecture خطبة to the nafs because he knows you can't be nice to the nafs they're all those people who destroy themselves خلصان عمرة أزيزة غزاش مزاوز جيطو 40 years of this precious life that Allah gave you has passed and 40 is used as a symbolism here for a great portion of your life right because they say traditionally by 40 you should be really sad of what you're doing because after that it's just a continuation of what you accomplished خلصان عمرة أزيزة غزاش 40 years of your life passed but your infantile state hasn't changed you're still a child not in a fitra nature he's not talking about fitra nature he's talking about childish nature I want this, I want that I want this, I want that like in other words you're still milk drinking milk and you haven't grown to say hey I gotta get off the breast get off the milk just that growth hasn't come to you you're still a child why? all your life this 40 years right what did you do your companionship was your howa and your howas that was your companion and your passion parties just feeding the enough whatever it was not even for a moment you could have done something nice something good something beneficial something rewarding not even for a moment you could even take a moment off to do that all your life you did this not even for one moment you could have done that there's a taste in virtue in ethics there's a taste if you if you get that taste in your mouth right like if such day is done with love you can taste your worship your worship خالي سجدومة الدنيا هبساك تيس لسجدس as everybody can do that so that's what he's talking about that if you do virtuous action there's a taste that will enter that you will not do you will not go back to sins and a lot of people who sin and disobey they never really tasted the beauty of this deed they never tasted it they never did how many people have prayed night prayer where everybody was asleep and they kept praying until they broke down and if you do that and you tell me you're going to sin after that you come and hold me responsible because if you do that one night for our law it will change your life for eternity I'm telling you it will change your life I know people that their entire life change with one night but they stood and prayed and they cried and they talked to our law until they found themselves and when you find yourself God is in the heart of every human being but if you lost yourself like the bumper sticker don't follow me I'm lost if you lost yourself like how are you going to find God right there's a beautiful story that Saadi has about a man who wants to go to Hajj and he's going and this man asks him where are you going because I'm going to Hajj and then he says he said I don't think you will ever make it to the Kaaba it turns out that it's why you say that he said because this is the path to Turkey you're not going to Turkey you're going to a turkey to Turkestan right so anyways the point is that you have to find yourself and then you'll see the light of God and then he says which line do we do the second we did the second we did that ok so the question is how are you going to make it to the Kaaba and not to the Masa'a I don't want to make it to the Kaaba I don't want to do it now the person who says I don't want to do it is the same thing the moon in the moon has the same negation don't from the same word we say I'm doing he said don't lean don't lean on this life because life has no pillar to lean on generally if you go to a Masjid with all the pillars everybody goes lean on the pillar everybody loves leaning on the pillar especially in Medina and you get tired you go lean against a pillar he said don't lean because you will fall into this abyss in other words be always upright and vigilant right say I believe in Allah and then be upright be vigilant so in other words don't fall into the sleep don't relax you always have to be like the rabbits the ears are going always because predators are coming from every side you have to protect yourself مابوش أيمان أسبوزي روسكار never ever feel safe from the great game of life and that is where everybody falls into where they think I'm good I think as I mentioned the story before there's a man that came and I give him advice don't go they're going to to a city of a sin city a place where a lot of sin happen in gambling so I don't even want to mention the name and he was really into the Dean and the whole Shabang and he said I'm going to go with my friends and I'm going to do that one to them so where are you going so I'm going to this city and I said man that's a bad sign I wouldn't go to that city it's do you have travel of Masiya this is a travel of sin you're not we're not allowed in Sharia to go places of sinfulness right you know people so in any case I told him I said don't go Alhamdulillah my Eman is good I studied I've been overseas for a year blah blah blah I'm going to go I said so we got a big van there's 15,000 in Japan all my old friends are going I said man one versus 14 is bad odds and I even told him even in Jihad I'm going to go away one one against four but you're going against a big odds no no no my Eman is and then I seen for like a while after a few months I saw him beard and everything is gone I said tattoos coming out oh man what happened and I knew I knew exactly what was going to happen because the odd was you know you don't want to go against those odds so he's saying don't feel safe from the great game of life it will find something to just drop into this abyss and once you fall into it it's really hard to come back and people can come back by making toba but it's just you get exhausted after a while and most of them they don't come back but inshallah so now look at the sequence of this there's two ways of looking at it so you're starting the poem with God's way of looking at things God is telling you listen ask help from right here ask me God is saying ask me for help I'm the one who can take care of you you have issues in your house you have issues with your parents you have issues at your work you have issues with your health ask me I'll take care of you but ask like a child crying right when he has a story he says that that about a man who owes a lot of money this island the sheikh he owes everybody money he just keeps borrowing and he says he's a righteous sheikh he keeps borrowing and then he makes food he has no money he has a line of people and people are like what kind of sheikh are you and people start calling his name and then this guy comes this kid comes like 670 old kid he's selling cookies he goes oh you're selling cookies I'll buy all your cookies he says really he gets all the cookies he gets the people he goes well I don't have any money I'll give it to you and this kid starts crying he's like I'm an orphan please anyway he's just like what can I do I have no money look at all these people in line and then this person comes he goes oh you're a sheikh I have this bag of gold going for you and he goes oh ok thank you very much and he gives all the people and everybody's gone happy and what was the secret of it he said when you ask God you have to do it to a degree it's like a pot that you put fire and fire until it boils over he said it was a cry of that child that boiled it over and Allah send the rescue because Allah knows my intention I'm feeding people I'm like keeping any money for myself but it had to be that I had to take it to that level and we ask Allah but it's sometime when you just really are desperate when you ask and I've seen it I've seen it with my own eyes people who went to Ahmedabad with us and they went without such difficulties and I know like a woman who went with us she said her son couldn't have children and they were made for over a decade and she said the only time I'm going is just to ask Allah I said just go to the the cabin just hold on I'm crying for hours and then so 2 years later they went back with the child and the son and the daughter-in-law to give gratitude but it has to be a wheel it can't be this fake give me this give me that so he starts from that and then he's saying my prophet that's my beloved send prayers upon him and then he's saying listen you have to take care of your nafs you have to control your nafs now our perspective with this nafs we look from down up we got to take care of this nafs first and then once you have the nafs in control I got to praise the prophet once you have that you go through this because all the doors have been shut to God except the door of the prophet that's the only way you can get to God time if Jesus was through Jesus at the time of Moses was through Moses at the time of Abraham was through Abraham but now until the day of القيامة is through the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم and I don't have my for the let me see if there's any text I think we're done if there's any questions from here or online I don't have my my laptop next to me maybe the money can send me a text was it clear okay الحمد لله صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم will start the actual good stone of Saadi with Teamount God willing we're continuing God willing And it gives us a sense of wisdom, and the week number two of a four week program. Last week we talked about the great poem of Saudi on the definition of human beings, and we also did a... from this famous writing of a book called Kerima or Kajganj, we did the first three poems on Allah and his messenger and the Nafs. لذلك اليوم سنبدأ الجولسطان ولكن قبل أن نبدأ يحدث عن سعدي الذي يفعله من الكثير من الناس هو أنه يسمى مسلح الدين هو صديق مسلح الدين هو أبي كان يعمل على أطبق العالم as a low post وكان يعطي شيراظ المدينة الذي يحبه يوجد الكثير من المدينة في جولسطان يجعلك تحقيقها ويوجد كثير من المدينة في المدينة من المدينة كثير من المدينة مثل حفرس يأتي من شيراظ ومدينة لكنه يترك شيراظ في عام 16 هو عام 16 ومدينة ومدينة هو سوف يجده يجده أريد أن أعلم هذا myself لذا الكثير من الناس لم يذهبون إلى أعلم أن يكون أسكالر أو أعلم أو أعلم لقد كانوا أعلم أنهم كانوا أحببون الله ومسجره وردوا أن يكونوا أعلمون عن their دين لذا يوجدون في هذا المسجد ومن المشكلة الأميسية about the year of his birth أنه was born in year 6 or 6 of حجرة which is the same year that Fakhreddin Arraazi died لذا يوجد always you would see with the death of a great scholar you know the birth of another scholar happened but people are unaware of it because he actually saadi emerges way he leaves when he's about 16 he's gone for about 32 years on this travel he just goes to Nizamiya the famous university that Imam Ghazali used to teach there by Nizami al-Mulk in Baghdad and Baghdad is a Persian word it's a Farsi word it's not Arabic Fakh means city and Daud means justice the city of justice so he's there in his studies in one narration he studies 17 years there and not only studies but he becomes a teacher there and he mentions the beautiful line about Imam Ghazali who was there before him about 120 years before saadi so then he keeps travelling he goes all around the world he ends up in India he ends up in China he's a world traveler but during his travel he is the Quran says travel and see the author see what we have created and also see what we brought and what we destroyed so it's a lesson to see these things my goodness look at the Roman Colosseum at one point they were the rulers now it's just a bunch of rocks remaining so this is just a learning about life so he travels and then he gets this is the time of crusaders so he actually became a prisoner of war and they put him in these they dig tunnels so they put him in the tunnel and he digs for 7 years he's digging tunnels for the crusaders then the Muslim government they actually they actually buy all of the prisoners of war and they give them gold instead of to do a trade-off and one of the people that gets freed from this dungeon that he was in but what struck me the most and people who have read I know Sidhi Hashman and Abdel Redd many times what struck me most about his work you don't see any sad line in there where he complains all these crusaders they did this to me I was in the dungeon he doesn't complain about anything because they believed in Qadar this is from Allah who brought the crusader Allah brought them who brought the Mongols Allah brought them they always looked at themselves and they said what wrong have we done that we deserve this if we fix ourselves then Allah will fix our situation right then Allah will fix our situation but if we don't if we keep blaming others oh it's the American it's the Russian it's this it's a Cuban we are not looking you know one of the great Indian how it غالب said he said عمر پر غالب يهي بول كارتارها دول شهره ورأي نصف كارتارها he said you made this mistake all your life for غالب the dirt was on your face and you are wiping the mirror and that's what a lot of the modern people are doing they are wiping the mirror they are looking at themselves and the journey of Sa'adi is a journey of looking at himself finding himself in order to find Allah because if you are lost there is a beautiful bumper sticker it says don't follow me I am lost if you are lost yourself you can't help anyone and you can't get to any direction any place that you want to go there is an amazing story in the Gulestan of Sa'adi there is a man who is going to the Hajj so Sa'adi sees him and he says where are you going I am going to the Kaaba and then he starts the journey just keeps going Sa'adi shouts at him he said ترسم نارسي بكابة كين راح كتومي ربيب تركستانا he said I don't think you will ever make it to the Kaaba because this is going to Turkmenistan he said you are going the wrong direction so the point of his travel was to learn وَمَا خَلَقْتُ الْجِنَّ وَالْإِنْسْ إِلَّا الْيَعْبُدُونِ we have not created the jinn and the human except to worship as Allah says but how do you worship Allah through knowledge you have to know how to worship him you have to know how to make wudu how to pray there is rules and regulations that you have to learn so he learned all of that to worship Allah in the most appropriate way in the way that Allah wants him to worship him so he goes on this journey and when he comes back right سادئينة بقدام راف وَبَسَارْبَهُ زَوْمَا he said I went on my feet and I came back on my head it's a beautiful person's problem in Arabic they say على راسي على عيني you know on my head on my eyes with the person the same thing we say بسارة شاشم you know on my eyes I there's many meanings for this line but I think that what he's saying I went as a person of the nuffs my feet was in the dunya and the dirt but I came with a head an intellect that is connecting me to Allah سبحانه وتعالى because intellect is that light it's a light it's a new so he comes back so after 32-33 years of just traveling he comes back and he the king of the time and that's why his name is Saadi because his name is Saadi obviously his name is but he takes the name Saad because of Saad Zangi Abu Bakr Saad Zangi he was the Khalifa of that time of the he loves him and the king loves him and honors him and this is it's very important to know these are not like we have in our modern time oh علماء سلطان these are the scholars of the feet of the sultans no no no these are the people who rectified the sultans because if the top is right the bottom is going to be right if you have a corrupt leader and I don't have to mention anything about any of the the people in the world look at the Muslim world look at the world look at the Muslim world look at the world I mean only a couple of countries you can say okay there's a good leader the society is flourishing everybody is happy but if you have a corrupt leader it trickles down all the way to the corrupt police officer on the street so they were trying to fix things from the top bottom because it's much easier to do that if you have access to that so because they had a lot of love and respect for Saad he would give him and so in 1258 1255 of the Gregorian calendar of the Christian era he literally like the bee that gives honey when it's ready the entire book just came out of the post on like the entire book it just but you know once Shaykh told us a story about Hajj Nur-Din you know you guys know Hajj Nur-Din the calligraphy right there there's two calligraphy of him right there on the wall Hajj Nur-Din there's this amazing Chinese calligrapher he does Arabic style Chinese so somebody went to him and he said can you write my name on the paper and he said yeah so he went like what's your name he told his name and then so he went like that here's your paper that'll be 30 bucks and the guy said that took you like 10 seconds 30 dollars he said yeah it took 10 seconds but it took me 30 years to master it it takes time and a lot of the people if you look at the history of Islam they wrote their books at the end of their lives nobody wrote books when they were young everybody who wrote books when they were young they regretted it like for me I taught a class a few classes in Milan in Rumi and then like in 2013-14 and I wish I could go back and just delete that and redo it a lot of people said it was a great class I said yeah but I wish I what I know now is like I shouldn't have taught that class literally it could be done much in a much better way but anyways so he came and then so he just gave like birth to this book the Bostan Bostan became the most popular book and the Persian literature so after in the Persian literature it's the Quran the most printed book and then Hafiz Shirazi the most printed after the Quran in the history of Persian literature it's the Diwan of Hafiz and that's because of the Persian especially the Iranian they love that book and then it's the Gulistan in the Bostan of Sa'adi so it's like the most popular books that you can have one of the things about Sa'adi when he went on this journey he slowly found himself and a lot of people they want to find himself in one day they want fast food spirituality fast food like hey I want to become a fucking three months is there a course? no there's no course for three months there's no course for three months it's a lifetime journey you go on this and you get it you know but Mawlana Rumi said he said he said once you put your first step on the path you're already on the last step because he said there's 99 step to God right it's step by step until you get to the Divine Presence he said he said it's just protocol you have to do that's all the rest of it is protocol but it's the first step which is the hardest step to get to turn away from your nafs your ego your desires in turn toward Allah so on this journey he meets a lot of the Qulamah including Ibn Josey not the famous but his grandson who was also a great scholar he studies under him and he has a beautiful poem he says مرا الشيخ دانا مرشد شهاب دو ان درس فرمود بروي آب يكي انك در نفس خود بين مباش يكي انك در جمب بين مباش he said this great sheikh شيخ شهاب الدين صحر وردي no فرج he said that he gave me two advice when I was with him he said the first advice is never never see faults in other people when you see other people don't see faults in them you know one of the scholars said you should treat everyone as a Wali of Allah as a saint he said how do you know they're not going to become saints at the end of their lives so that idea of looking at people with good opinion of people having a good opinion not having a bad opinion a person and the people who want to know about this in English young people there's a beautiful talk that John Foster Wallace did commencement speech it's called this is waters on YouTube and it's worth watching because the whole concept is about about the world like how do you look at the world so he said that he told me that okay don't don't see faults in other people but he said also in yourself don't be pleased with yourself don't be a person it's an age of nafsi nafsi it's me me me I'm so amazing I'm so everybody's about themselves and they put all these stuff a quote from themselves like oh I'm so amazed I said this thing and really it's funny like a lot of these things are you don't know whether to laugh because you know sometimes the worst of stuff makes you laugh so he comes back but what does he achieve in this journey the greatest thing that Saadi achieved in this journey is visible very clearly in in one of his poems which he says that he finally fell in love with Allah love is that you can't claim love those who've been in love they know right those who know they know those who don't know they don't know right this is this is what uh Mawlana Rumi's father somebody asked him about love he said those who know they know those who don't know I can't explain it you can't explain love he said that uh when he came back he said I fell in love with Allah and all I could think about is my meeting with him that's it and the Hadith what she says if you make all your anxiety one anxiety of meeting Allah on the day of judgment Allah would remove all your anxiety in the world if your concern is all like I'm going to meet my lord but his concern was different it's not about oh are you going to forgive me are you going to throw me the hellfire what am I going to that wasn't the way he said uh that uh he's uh it's a beautiful poem about his death uh yeah I actually I'm losing my memory because uh I got only two hours of sleep last night but anyways yeah okay so he says دران نفسك بميران دران رزوي تباشا when I give my last breath and I die and I say goodbye to this world and leave the world I would die with this immense desire in the hope of just seeing you but don't أميدي هم جان كخوك كوي تباشا and I'll give my soul and die because I know I'll become the dirt of your dominion I'll become the dirt that you create بوقت صبحة قيامات كسار زخوك برورا بغفت كوي تخيزا but just the jury too باشا and on that day of reckoning on the day of judgment when I rise from this grave I would rise with my first speech where's my Lord I'm talking to you and everybody is in the day of judgment is nafsi nafsi they're trying to find something he said I'm just trying to find you on that day I'm in search of you on that day people are running away يومي فرور مرئ من أبي و أمي و أمي و صحبتي و أبني this is the day the children are running from the parents the parents from the children the mothers from the son and the dog everybody is running away from each other it's nafsi nafsi day they said even on that day that everybody is running away from each other I'm running to you y'all خديسي روزا نجو يام جولي بهيش نبو يام I don't care about paradise I don't care about the roses of paradise in the center of paradise I'm not even going to smell the roses of I'm not even going to tell all the stories of paradise you know people said they talk about paradise all these amazing stories they said I'm not going to talk about it I'm not even going to smell the flowers of paradise خديسي روزا نجو يام جولي بهيش نبو يام I'm not going to do any of those because why because all I want is to see you I don't care about these things all I want is to see you that's it because the vision of God you know in Ramadan there's a beautiful hadith أصعب فرحة a fasting person has two joy فرحة in the story وفرحة عند اللقاء ربي though the joy of breaking is fast and the joy of meeting his Lord and the reason fast is not for eating food people make that mistake they say oh eating food and breaking no completing this act of obedience that you abandon from everything it's so that the reward is so immense that on the day of judgment you will just be in the set of ecstasy just realizing how much reward and then the next one is seeing Allah on that day right مي بهيش ننو شم زدسة سقير is one مرحبا بادت شي حجاد كمس تروي تبو الشم I'm not going to drink this pure wine of paradise from these you know this maiden of paradise the sake he was going to give me the wine I'm not going to drink that he said why would I need wine when I'm already intoxicated with you with your remembrance and there are people who are intoxicated with the remembrance of Allah anyway so this poem I think summarizes Saadi's life about what happened to him he became a lover of Allah سبحانه وتعالى in a servant of Allah so then he gave these two books in 1255 he gives us the Gholistan in 1256 he gives us the Bostan 1256 the next year he gives us the Gholistan Gholistan became the most popular book in Persian literature and you know we studied Gholistan at 7 to learn the language but we studied Gholistan at 70 to understand what is he talking about to learn about our lives so it's a book for all ages so the book is start with the Dibacha which is the preface or he has this beautiful and I just picked a few lines just to go over so people can see what he is talking about so بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم he said زيد النعمة حر نفسه كفرو ميرواد مومد حياته وشون بر مي آياد مفرح زاد بس در حر نفسه دو نعمة موجوده وبر حر نعمة شك رواجه this is called نسرة مسجع this is a it's not a poem and this is prose but it's a prose that actually it rhymes as you read it but it's not it's not a poem and Sahadi is one of the the one who started this style of writing and everybody copied him we talked about that last week about the the styles of writing and detail so he said من نت or من نت in Arabic is praise is also means indebtedness when you're indebted to somebody in other words I'm praising Allah and I'm indebted to Allah right حزا و جالس is honor عزيز is short for عزيز جليل as well the two names of الله سبحانه و تعالى كتو أتش that his طاعة طاعة again is Arabic word it means worship right كتو أتش his طاعة his worship موجب قرباته that it brings you closer to him so what is he saying here it is very important for people to understand this concept he is saying that phrase me to Allah that when you worship him he draws you near to him you get closer you get this مقام of قربة you're not going to get any well you're not going to get good health you're not going to get money you're not going to get a car you're not going to get anything of the junior when you worship Allah why is that because because the hadith said prayer is light worship is immaterial so the reward right هالجزا والإحسان إلا الإحسان دقرا isn't the reward of something beautiful something that is the same why do we fast six days of Shabbat after Ramadan to show one of the reasons to show a gratitude for Allah thank you Allah for giving us Ramadan so we're going to fast for six days the same jins جينس to say thank you Allah for Ramadan right so he's saying that Allah is going to give you قربة what Allah who نُرُصَمَا وَاتِي وَالأَرْ Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth so if Allah gives you well for your worship or he gives you a nice car or he gives you a nice house that is ذُلُم that's oppression and Allah is not a valid because on the day of judgment you will hold you will hold you are not accountable which you can't but you will say I worship you and then I got a car what is that because the قربة of Allah this closeness that you get is priceless and that's why worship of Allah سبحانه وتعالى is priceless so this is the reason so now he's saying وَبَا شُوْكِ الْأَنْدَارَشْ مَزِيدَ نِعْمَا but if you're grateful Allah will give you more نِعْمَا Allah will give you good health if you're grateful for your health Allah will give you more money if you're grateful for the money Allah will give you beautiful children if you're grateful for your beautiful children لَإِنْ شَكَرْتُمْ لَأَزِيدَنَّكُمْ the Quran is a formula if you're grateful it's a conditional sentence if you're grateful Allah says I will increase you in that to be more grateful right so like a lot of people say how are you doing I'm sick I have so much pain and then you ask him like two years later even more pain now well you didn't learn the lesson you complain Allah will give you more to complain about but if you're grateful Allah will give you more to be grateful and this is why our grandmothers that generation they never complain شكرا الحمد لله they were in pain شكرا الحمد لله like always شكرا الحمد لله but that's how they got better because they were in the set of shukr now who are the people who are shocker the most that will it matter they're scholars they're on it they know this they know this verse they're always in set of shukr so what is that why do you have scholars that are poor aren't they grateful for the for the food that they get aren't they grateful for the clothes that they have aren't they grateful for that little hut or room or tent that they have why isn't Allah increasing them in that when they're grateful and they're poor allama and I've seen poor allama well here's the reason the first station of gratitude is to look at the نعمة ya Allah thank you for this shirt ya Allah thank you for the clothing ya Allah thank you for the house that I have ya Allah thank you for the that's the first level and Imam Ghazali says it very beautifully he said there are people they see the pen so that pen writes really well they see the hand oh that hand writes really well and then there are people who see the artist wow that artist these scholars they no longer see the pen or the hand they see the money the one who gives the نعمة that's what they see so their شكر as well is giving them قرمت الله because they are what is their شكر for ya Allah it is you that's doing this for that they are grateful for they don't see the world it is meaningless to them everything that's the world in it is meaningless so then he says حر نفاسك يفرومي رواد مومد حياتا every breath and I know like in our tradition Afghanistan we have to memorize this when we were like 7 years old I know like people sitting here they just read it from memory but every breath that you inhale it gives you life it prolongs your life if you don't breathe and you can't live you die right وَشُنْ بَرْمِي أَيَادْ بَفَرْرَحِزَا but when it comes out it actually gives you good health now this is one of the قرامات of سعدي how did he know that that when we exhale everything that is not needed in the body it actually takes it out so you have a healthy body at every breath Allah is doing that giving you life keeping you healthy giving you life keeping you healthy so he is saying that فَسْدَرْحَرْ نَفَسِي دُونِي مَا مَوْجُودَا so know my beloved that in every breath there are two نعمة there are two blessings one for inhaling to get life one for exhaling to keep it keep you healthy so there are two نعمة and every blessing وَبَرْحَرْ نِعْمَا تِشُكرِ وَجِبْ isn't it mandatory to be grateful for every نعمة that Allah has given you shouldn't you say يا الله thank you for this blessing and he is saying this is where you know in the chess game is checkmate he just checkmate all the human being literally he is like okay do you think you are عبد شكور let me show you for every breath two شكور you have to get so now because you have to be grateful to what Allah has given you so now he says عز دخص الزبورة كي برايا كاز أهدي شكراش بدا رايا he says show me someone who has a tongue in the hand to be grateful to Allah سبحانه و تعالى to this degree who and the reason in the in the in the he said the reason why he used the hand is not just the hand he is talking about the جوارح the hand the feet the eyes the ears because they all have their شكر right they have to give شكر for every limb of the body right the kidney is the heart so he is using one as a representation of your entire body so he said whose hand and in other words whose limbs and whose tongue has the ability the power to be شكور اعملوا عالة داودا شكور و قليلون من عبادة شكور او فعملوا عالة داودا قرآن يقول be grateful work and be grateful because Allah says very few of my servants are grateful very few of my servants are grateful so he says then he has a poem now بندهم one big is a تقسير خيش اوه زر بذرغا خداة عاوان ور نسى زاوار خداوان ور نسى زاوار خداوان كبا جيوه عورا he said so here's what I'm gonna give you and advice because there's no way you can be as grateful as Allah has given you the blessings right he's not telling you not to be grateful you should be شكور throughout the day this is a beautiful مقام a مقام that someone is a shocker always and you can see people who are شكور they're always happy as well because they see everything from Allah but he's saying it's better that all of those servants who have shortcomings which every one of us anybody see I don't have any shortcomings they're either insane or they're an angel everybody has shortcomings كل ابني آدم خطاون the Prophet SAW every son of Adam will sin will just obey will make mistakes right so he's saying so let me give you an advice it's better for all of us who have shortcomings that we just go to Allah for brokenness and just say يا الله forgive us forgive us وَرْنَسَزَا وَارَخُدَا وَنْدِي أَشْكَسْنَاتَ وَانَتْكَبْجَرْ وَرَحَ because no one on this planet can be grateful to the amount of blessing that Allah has given them it's impossible nobody can do that right so but gratitude has station as well starts with the that station of seeing the nama and then goes all the way to seeing the one who gives you the blessing right seeing Allah and everything that everything is in hand of Allah this is the station of happiness this is when you're really happy you won't have any problem if you have that as a model of your life that everything has it's from Allah what can I do you know like we you know just a personal story our accounts got hacked and somebody like took all our stuff but just I woke up the next day everything was gone like everything you had in your whole life it's just gone like there was nothing in there kind of panic I'm going to account account change password change I don't even have access to anything literally nothing I've access to so I was sitting there I was like you know you get devastated because it's like okay who's going to pay the rent and who's going to pay all these stuff the bills and everything because you have zero money literally and and all your you know all your investment it's just gone somebody just anyways this was a few months ago be careful everybody should have extra security this is the number one thing now happening in America is it's fraud on your bank accounts and on cryptos and other stuff but anyways so I'm sitting with my wife and you know you always you never want to bring things down like that to your wife say okay we lost everything because you know it's very difficult for them because they see you as the one who's bringing working and bringing the money and they have that security and tranquility and they can they can really you can shadow them the whole world they get depressed over these things so so I was making it that easy you know this account was one of my account was hacked okay and then I thought she was just okay I said because all her accounts was hacked and then she looked she goes did we pay her as a card this year I swear to God first thing did we pay her as a card properly this year did we counted everything properly I said I think so but I can double check I usually pay more she said we must have done something wrong and that was a whole thing and for me it was like I've been reading these things but she's living those things like it's different you know that people who have that connection so and obviously you do what you have to do but you know it took a while about three three months but Alhamdulillah we were able to recover a lot of stuff so but anyways the point is that you have to realize everything is from Allah and what wrong have you done that this come to you like people always ask about political situation in our country and I just you know the best example is say now Ali when they went to him and said when say now Abu Bakr and Omar were in charge like look we are like amazing خلافة no fighting now ever since you know with man and you took over like we are fighting and we have all this corruption and all these stuff what's you know what do you say to that he said when Abu Bakr and Omar were the Khalifa and they had people like what's the man in me under them now we have people like you under us that's the difference right so it's you know you have to really think about yourself again we go back to that that you know you can't keep wiping the mirror and saying that why why have dirt in my on this no it's not the mirror it's you you have to wipe your face and clean it but people don't want to do that but gratitude to the great station the greatest station and this is what you can have in the knowledge you have you have three levels of knowledge right so this is you're learning something yeah I know is seeing that thing in practice like what the story I told you I saw this in practice and with my wife just practice that I witnessed it but then there's living that is that experiential so he said if you look at the lovers he said شكرا نده اشكرا استوفاها مالها he said you are so grateful for your beloved you love someone what do you do give them flowers you know give them a Gucci purse give them all these gift of the world because you love them you buy all these stuff and you give them the diamond ring he said that is at the very beginning of gratitude that's at the beginning anybody can do that anyone can do that they can buy flowers they can buy stuff and give it to people هل مالها خدرا بده شكرا نشا وشكرا نشا he said you want to know the highest level of gratitude why don't you become the gratitude and become the gift that you are the gift and you are the gratitude so when you go home you are the gift she doesn't need a gift because you have become the symbol of gratitude in a gift if they ask your wife or your spouse what do you want as a gift I want my spouse to come home or what about a Lamborghini I want my spouse what about the next so that is the high level the same thing with a teacher and a student when the student says oh my teacher because he is the gift right so he continues the time باران رحمة بيهسابه حمجا رسيده وخان نعمة بيهدريغه حمجا كشيده one of the thing about these lines those who speak Persian farce yudari you would see the perfection in the language there's nothing you can do to make it longer make it better there's nothing you can do to make it shorter and better you can make it shorter it's not going to be as beautiful as meaningful you can make it longer it's beautiful as meaningful it's perfection of language in Persian literature the rain of his mercy that you innumerable you can't count the rain of the mercy of Allah the rain of his mercy has reached every corner of the world Allah has two names at the beginning of the 9 N الرحمن الرحيم right رحمان and رحيم the difference between them both of them are mercy one is universal mercy one is particular mercy the universal mercy goes to everyone whether you believe in him or don't it goes to you whether you're a muslim a kafir a fire worshiper an idol worshiper an atheist an agnostic whatever you are you get the universal mercy you get the food you get the clothing you get the oxygen the air you get the health you get the friends the family all of that universal mercy Allah gives you but then there's a specific mercy it's only for the believer right so he says باران الرحمة this is the رحمة universal has reached every corner of the world is there a place that Allah is you know you can't see the hand of providence there وخان النعمة to be the خان means you know it's short for this the cloth that you eat on right the table cloth what we call in the table the cloth of the the cloth of Allah has reached every household everybody gets their food everybody have food to eat the reason why each and every one of you are here today is because your parents had food from the time of Adam until now if they didn't have food they would have died and you wouldn't be here Allah Allah provided the sustenance for them these are and our said that we believe that Allah was before he created people that needed the so he didn't get his name because he had to give us the even before there was a creation but Allah was right not that this is right again لانجل. حردا is a curtain. حردا is also a veil, right? The veil that's between you and humanity. There's a veil between me and you right now. There's a veil between you and I. Only you know yourself and Allah knows. Nobody else knows you. We know you based on how you tell us who you are. And we know you, some of us know you based on our view of you, our perception of you. And this is مولانا رومي's cry was that everyone became my friend and got to know me based on their opinion of me. Nobody wanted, nobody was interested in hearing what I have to say about myself. Generally that's the rule. That's the case. People just, they assume about you what they want to assume. They don't care to listen to what you say. But the only one who knows you is Allah in yourself. But then Allah put a veil between you and the humanity, right? قد أغر برد برد أورا. سروي كورا عدم ه. It was a funny famous poem that if Allah removes the veil from the work of human being, from the actions of the human being, he said how many fossils will become mullah instantly. And how many mullahs become fossil instantly, right? That's the reality, right? The hafiz had this problem with all these preachers because they came with their عباة and the turban and their قباة and all, you know, this جلوة, right? This جلوة. That they, they put on this show on the مبار. And this is what is on King جلوة در محرابة مبار ميقنان. He said look at the all these preachers. They come on a member and they put on this جلوة. This show is beautiful, right? The turban and the عباة and the speech and the eloquent. He said but when they're in their private life, they do other than what they preach. In other words, his father is saying what a blessing that Allah has built because otherwise you would, you will not even listen to most of the people, right? So he says that this veil of your نموس, of your privacy, of your honor, of your dignity, of your soul, of your, of those things that are precious to you that you don't want anyone to know. Allah does not rip this curtains so people can see. Right? He does not. Even if you send disobey him and you fornicate. Even the fornicator, Allah doesn't show him that this person is a fornicator. Allah doesn't do that. He veils you. There's a secret in that and I will talk about it. وَوَزِي فَيْرُوزِي بَخَتَي مُنْكَرْ نَبَاً In this sustenance, that allowance of your sustenance because everybody has an allowance, right? So whatever you get, that's your allowance. That's why you should be happy whatever you have. Allah has already written what you're going to get. You should work. You should strive. You should, you know, you know, Allah has given you hands and feet. You can't. ياري has a beautiful story. I was trying to do it, but it's a very long poem. But it's a beautiful story about about a robot in a lion. So this this this this robot Fox, right? Or Coyote. So this Fox is crippled. His handicap. So this man passes by goes subhan Allah. How does he eat? How does he get his food? And then he sees a lion goes and attacks a deer and and hunts it and rips the deer apart and eats it. And then he throws away all the extra food that he's for. This throws it in the air. And it lands right in front of this crippled Fox. And the Fox start eating this. Me. So the next day he goes, he says another incident happened. This lion did it. And then he throws it accidentally or whatever. It's just he's like subhan Allah. Allah is the رسول. I'm not I'm not going to do any work. I'm going to sit. So he said, he just sat down and said, I want to give my words. Allah is feeding the crippled Fox. He's going to feed me. So he sat for a day, two days, three days. Nobody's breaking any food. No family. No friends. Nothing. And he's starving and he's starving. And one thing about spirituality in Tasawwuf, people, you know, one of the practices of the people on this path is they don't eat a lot. And the reason why I don't eat a lot, because when you eat, you you fill yourself and you can echo. When you're empty, you echo. That is the echo of truth. But we don't hear. That's what when you go in a valley and there's a mountain on the other side and you say something, it echoes you. It echoes back to you. So after a few days, when his stomach is empty and he's starving to death, he goes What's going on? Like, you know, you give the crippled Fox and I've been starving and I'm a believer and I do thicker. I didn't get any food. I'm dying. Right. And then the echo of his own soul says Go become a lion. Be a roaring lion. Don't don't sit like a crippled Fox. Right. Don't sit like, Allah didn't create us to be crippled Fox. He created us to be lion. Go out and do it. But no whatever you get, it's from Allah and it's written for you. Allah is the one. You give it to whoever he wants, whatever he wants, whatever quantity he wants and be grateful and Allah will increase as the poet said at the beginning. So this is very important because you see how the atheists and agnostics are super duper rich and believing God. So he says Allah will not cut the salary. What is, you know, what is supposed to go to them. If they just believe in him. If they send and just believe in him, Allah will not cut their salary. They can have it. Why is that? Why is that? Because all of this world and everything that's in it, everything in this world and everything in the heavens and the earth, the galaxies and the star and the moon and the sun and all these now they're saying in Mars that these stones are worth their price less. All of them, you combine it. One breath in paradise is more expensive than everything in the world. One breath, not to exhale, just inhaling. Because with the first inhale of paradise, every pain, every suffering, every anxiety that you had, everything just washed away. And you enter the state of ecstasy and happiness. Complete joy for eternity. So this world, if it had any value, Allah wouldn't give those who disbelieve in them a morsel of food. But it has no value. It has nothing. And only people who connect with Allah سبحانه وتعالى would know this. Because through that connection, you would come to know. So he says. They said. We talked about why they use the name Karim last week. Because Karim is the name of Allah that he gives without asking. But if you ask through that name, how much he would give. So he said. That you have these unseen and exhaustible treasure houses. And you're giving to to fire worship. To disbelievers. To atheists and agnostics. You're giving them. Look, how you're treating them. You're giving them food. You're giving them family. You're giving them friends. You're giving them good house. You're giving them. Do you still not could joke any matter? How could you deprive your friends? When this is the way you deal with your enemies. If this is how you deal with your enemies. How would you deal with your friends? And Allah who well you. Allah is the welly of those who believe. And the welly is a protector. He's also a friend. Allah says. I am your protector. Allah is the protector. Allah is our welly. Allah. This is the relationship that Allah has put. How could he deprive us from this. If he is doing this generosity. He's showing to those who disbelieve in him. It's 359. I had a little bit more to go. But I don't think I can finish it. But I'll just finish this. Just briefly. Because I want to respect the time. We started a few minutes late. So that's I think the reason. Generally four o'clock we should wrap up. Maybe a couple minutes. InshaAllah. So he says. Because. He said when a sinful servant lose instead of disobedience. And then. And then he feels remorse. And he goes. And Allah is not even looking at him. Because he's just a sinful horrible servant. Right. And then again he goes to Allah. And Allah does not look at him again. Right. I don't even want to look at you. Because this is a sinful disobedient servant. Then he goes. And this is what we talked about last week. Is when you go to Allah in a state of brokenness. And you just break down. And you just cry. And you become your own self. You're not doing this as a show. Where it says. Ya Allah. No. It's just language. You know. Chandazin is more of Majaz. Chandazin Al Fawzo is more of Majaz. Roomie says. How much of this. You know. The eloquence you're trying to put on. Your metaphors. And your similes. And all these. So how much of that. Allah. Says that. Suz-Khaham. Suz-Baham. Suz-Saw. I want burning. That's what I want. I want people to come to me. When a burning voice cry. Break down. So he goes. The next time he goes. He keeps going and going. Allah doesn't want to look at him. And then he goes. And crying to Allah. And then. This is a حديث خطسي. That's in this book. Again. For a lot of people who are on a path of knowledge. Especially at the مفتح Institute. This is a poetry class. So it's not an أقيد أو رفق class. So just. We'll take the poetry part. And then. If you want to snack for the حديث. And this and that. You can. And most of you can. You know. Look this up. But. Most of these things are used. In order to teach us a lesson. So sometimes they use. A حديث that are weak. But. The meaning is sound. But they're using some of those. In order to teach. And drive a point home. So this is not a حديث class.�. قد إستحايا. و لأ يسله و غيري فقد غفر إب ضحو. دا AA. اس. And then Allah says. He said I accepted his prayer. And I give him what he wanted. Because I feel embarrassed. From the sinful servant. يجب ان يسألني ويسألني لكي تفهمي فهي يجب ان تتحدث عن هذا يقول يقول انظروا في جنروسة الله المسدق يساعد من الجنروس من الجنروس الله يشعر على ما هو الشعب هو سبب ، الله يقول ، اشعر على ما هو لا يجب ان اخبره ، حتى لو هو سبب سبب سأخبره هذه هي المعاقات السحدي الرحمة الله عليه وانتظر اننا في حالنا نحن في حالنا مرحبا حيث يأتي الوقت لأن الناس يتواجدون منهم من الحقيقة من الله وإنه المسجر وإنك سترى في next session إن شاء الله سوف نتحدث about his connection to the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم which is really marvelous you know how much love he had I wanted to today showcase his love of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and his journey on this path but his and then inshallah we'll do stories from the gulistan where he teaches the kings he teaches the citizens he teaches the lovers he teaches the people of adab I mean he just he's a teacher he's an amazing teacher they follow on the footsteps of her Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم who was the greatest teacher that ever walked on this earth إِنَّ مَا بُعَلْتِ بِمُعَلْلِمَا I was sent only as a teacher the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said so it's amazing to be on this journey I love these teachings because it melts the hearts it makes us human beings it makes us people that we can actually connect with ourselves connect with Allah and use these in our daily lives these are not things that you can just read and just put it on the shelf but no rather these are things that you can practice and put in the life and I think that to start the day is that we all should start doing gratitude practices and one of the things that they have done in the modern science they did people who have depression they did a study that if they do gratitude practices every day they would say I'm grateful for this I'm grateful for this they mention a list of gratitude some say 10s of the 5 but it actually removes their depression so I think that if you can do that every day we pray after the prayer just be grateful to Allah for saying Allah I thank you for good health just people we think good health it has to be part of our life now Allah can make you sick and once you're sick then you would know the value of good health you don't know something until you lose it so just if you do that for me this is some people I like I hate it but if you do a lesson and you don't take anything home to practice you just wasted your time so if we just do that for this week is what we do a gratitude practice that every day we just show 3 things a day to say Allah we have good parents there are people who have horrible parents I know converse that they had really bad life grown up so if you have good parents who are loving who have good parents who have good children who have good health who have a roof over your head because the blessing of Allah you cannot do great so you can just go on for eternity and just thank Allah for all the stuff that he is everything that he is doing and also things that he is going to do in the year after insha'Allah so if there is any question insha'Allah but if not thank you for the team here at MCC for making this happen the hosting here locally thank you for an opening all the brothers may Allah bless all of you and the team there I hope to see you next Saturday for the third session insha'Allah I hope to see you next Saturday peace be upon you بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على سيد المرسلين وعلى آلية وصح بجميع عوذ بكلمات الله التهامات مشارمة خلق بسم الله الذي لا يضر مع اسمي الشيئ في الأرض ولا في السماء وهو السماء العالم ورد الله بلاحي العالي العديم الحمد لله جزاك الله خير for everyone who is here thank you to MCC نفتح for making this happen جزاك الله خير for the hard work of all the brothers and sisters that نفتح براء المفتح especially may Allah bless all of you and protect you and bless you we are on the third of the fourth week of saadi the Gulistan of Saadi which is a book of wisdom and reality a book of teaching of the great Persian mastic master of Calam and also he was he was known as wordsmith because he had such a eloquence in his language very precise and meaningful and beautiful at the same time so one of the thing about words are that a lot of time when people speak it goes through our ears and we hear things and we listen to them but sometimes when people speak it actually goes straight to our hearts and those are the words that has meaning in our lives and when when somebody says something and it affects you spiritually not just through your ear but it affects you spiritually and you get this awakening through these words because the words that rise from the heart enters the heart the words that comes from the mouth it doesn't pass the ears and these people if you look at their lives they were like the the honeybee it takes so long for it but once they're ready it just comes out and everything comes out from the heart of the human being and goes into the hand and into the pen and for some it doesn't even go to the hand and the pen it just comes out from the tongue and other people write it because they're already in a state of complete love and just love of Allah and a messenger that they don't even have the ability and those moments are write it like مولانا الجلالة رومي who didn't write anything of the Masnawi except the first 18 lines the 26,000 lines of the Masnawi was written by students as he eloquently just said those lines proclaimed them and just recited those lines so he صحدي رحمة الله علي his words are in reality words from his heart and he one of the things that words that comes from the heart is it's not fake it's not phony it's not a lecture you prepare and say I want to say this in order there are there are signs of speech where you learn that you know exactly when people are going to clap you know exactly when people so you and they say those lines and they have a pause in that moment because they know the clap is going to come next it's an art and anybody if you have the time and people want to do that they can learn that science which is a waste of time because again you're doing it you're doing it for the clap and this is one of the things in our religion is جزاء وفاق on the day of judgment whatever you do for whatever intention you did that for that's what you get so I give an example if you donated money in order for people to say oh what a rich man and generous man he has you just donated a lot of money on the day of judgment when you wanted your reward from Allah Allah says no you didn't donate for me you donated it for the people who can they would say oh what a generous person he or she is and they said that about you so what do you want from me you got your reward because you wanted so the same thing the same person who goes to the battle the مجاهد he says I'm going to go to the battle for you so they can say what a great warrior I am so the day of judgment he says Allah I give you my life no no you didn't give you didn't give me your life you gave you a life for this act that everybody says what a what a warrior that man is so everybody said what a warrior that man is so what do you want from me جزاء وفاق you got your reward already from the people so they didn't write their books to be best sellers but Allah makes things best sellers right so every hadith scholar they write a book called the 40 hadith there's so many arabain 40 hadith that's been written in the history of Islam there's a hadith of the prophet SAW whoever learned 40 hadith in fact this is that he will be with me in paradise it's a beautiful thing to memorize 40 hadith and practice those hadith so that's one of the reason why a lot of scholars write the 40 hadith now if you look at the history of Islam with probably hundreds if not thousands of arabain was written 40 hadith there's only one arabain of Imam Nawawi that just goes generation after generation after generation after generation it gets translated into like Persian and Urdu and French and German and English and Russian all these languages and it still keeps going right when you say we see arabain and Nawawi Imam Nawawi is 40 hadith why is that there's a قبول in that he didn't do it to be the best seller but Allah made it the best seller because his intention was for Allah I want to do this for Allah and for the love of Allah and his messenger so these people when they wrote their poetry they actually wrote it in order to because they had so much love and you can see that love in the poetry there's a man beautiful man he was not a Muslim in Punjab and he and as you all know in India and was modern in Pakistan in India they used to study Saadiz Gulistan and Bustan as a as a text book not as a book of poetry and this is one of the the tragedies of our time that we study these as as poems but they study the poem they study it as book of philosophy they study it as books of politics they study it as books of and ethics because all of those are in these books they're trying to teach lessons through their stories and insha'Allah when we get to some stories today from the Gulistan but this man was reading he was not a Muslim was a Hindu and he was reading the Bustan of Saadiz and the Bustan of Saadiz starts with with a beautiful praise of Allah and his messenger so he's reading this and listen his biography biography and I have an amazing man and then his I think his great-granddaughter is still that's the one that I got a copy from their library that has his note on the book a photocopy of it one of the beautiful people in Pakistan saw that they send it to me but anyways he he reads this poem and so he's studying this book so he reads the Gulistan he comes to this line on the praise of the Prophet ﷺ and he keeps reading and reading and he said when I got to this one line my tongue keep repeating the same line over and over again when I got to this one line it's like you know when the CDs get stuck and they just keep repeating they go in a loop he said my tongue went in a loop and I couldn't go to the next line I couldn't move to the next line and I keep repeating this and I keep repeating this and this is the line where Saadi says مهولا سعدي كراه صفا طواندا فجوز باركي مصطفا he says Saadi says and he says to himself and this is one of the thing that when the poet give an example and they use their own name they call that all the time you know Hafiz does that Saadi does that مولانا رومي does that all of the poets they use their own name so he says او سعدي right in other words I'm giving this advice to myself it's the greatest advice so take it if it was bad I wouldn't give it to myself he says او سعدي it is impossible to be on the path that is pure it's impossible to be on a path that is pure because the path that's pure would lead you to a place that is pure الجنة النظيف الجنة النظيف الجنة النظيف is pure is clean and pure and you have to have this path of purity to get there you can be on the path of خبث of fil and expect to be in paradise no each one has a road the paradise has a road and the hellfire has a road so he sings سعدي if you want to go to this perfect place right a place of beauty and perfection it is impossible to go except to walk in the footstep of محمد المصطفر that's impossible to get to paradise to be with Allah to be on the path of purity it's impossible محالة سعدي it's impossible no way that you will find this path except you walk in the footstep of محمد المصطفر صلى الله عليه وسلم so this man said my tongue it started to get into a loop and I couldn't go to the next line and I keep saying this line keep saying and he breaks down and he says أشد أن لا إله إلا الله أشد أن محمد رسول الله so he becomes a Muslim and then he becomes he goes on the path of learning in spirituality and his name is now his name was بابا شامي he has a big shrine in Punjab and thousands hundreds of thousands of people go visit his shrine and he had thousands of students and become a big big scholar he has a book he has letters beautiful book so become a big big scholar and a spiritual master as well but that was all from this one line of صعدي's غلسطان so people have been affected we talked about لزار كارنات in the first session about this French man who reads the غلسطان of صعدي in the 1600s and he he names his son صعدي كارنات and then his son passed away at age 25 he names another son صعدي كارنات who becomes the president of France and you know in the history of France they have a president named صعدي كارنات and he says named after the famous Persian poet and spiritual master so الحمد لله these people had an effect because these words were not simply written to be famous or written to be get an award but they were written because they had immense love for Allah in his messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم صعدي for the sake of time we will start the غلسطان on the first bob bob is a chapter and they say باب أول that's سيراك فاوت شاوان the first bob the first chapter سيراك is obviously it's the same word would be useful like سيراك فاوت نبو when we have books of life of the Prophet ﷺ it's so he's talking about the سيراك of the king so he's going to give us what should be the أخلاق of the king this is a this is a formula for how to be a leader because each person is a king but they're unaware of it we are the king of our home if you're a father you're the king of your home and everybody's your citizen you're your wife and your children so you have to take care of him so how do you do that if you're a minister you're a king if you're a governor you're the king of that state right if you're a mayor you're the king of that city so there's there's levels so his advice is not just for the king as a bob or a bob or a real king or a president but it it goes from the top all the way to the bottom all of them how to deal with with this situation that will come to you so he starts with the hikaya number one will start for the barakah will start the first story from the gullistan in chapter one on the the characteristics of the kings بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم خاتشا يرا شنيدم كبكوشنان عسيري إشاراتك this is he said until when i heard about this king who had a someone a seer is a prisoner who talked about it in the first session so he the the kings just you know إشارة is indication so a lot of the kings they say go ahead and kill him go ahead and put him in prison they just have symbol they go like that so he does the إشارة and then like that get rid of him so he's whatever he did i don't know maybe he was guilty he was the treason so there was something that he did that the king بيشارة درون حولة نومي دي ملكره دشنوم دهدان غيره فسقة دفتان this bichara obviously bichara is the universal word now everybody knows this devastated poor man in this hall this is in this hall of hopelessness right so here's a man who's standing there he says kill him okay and of my life he's just hopeless there is no hope hope is what makes us gives us sanity hope is what makes us go forward hope is what makes us eloquent hope is what makes us beautiful because you have hope that things will change right but now he has no hope it's done the king already commanded that he should be killed so at this point became hopeless he started testing out the king he just started saying foul word whatever came out of his mouth he said that we have to be strong and we have to be strong and he said there's a famous proverb everybody always wise men said whoever's life is over whatever's in their heart comes on their tongue they can't be a monophic at this time to say oh thank you king you're amazing no I'm just going to say you're horrible you're this your that whatever comes out you're going to kill me so why should I be nice to you right in my heart I hate you فهي أخبره أنه يخبره أنه يتكلم هذا أكثر هذا كان كتابة في هذا الكتاب هذا يسمى نصر مسجح كتابة التي يوجد بعض الأطفال لكتزرورات شنمونات غريز داس بيغيرات سارة شمشيرة تيز في وقت دورورة دورورة هي when when when it's necessary لذا لدينا دورورة في إذا كنت تتكلم للأسفل لن يوجد فتاة فهي يوجد دورورة وكذلك ثم هناك أشياء حرامة لكي تأكل ويصبح حلال لأن حياتك أهمية حياتك حياتك حياتك حياتك هو أول شيء حيات شريع حياتك مقاصد شريع one of the five مقاصد one is the preservation of life لذا في ذلك الوقت يمكنك تأكل حياتك حياتك ولكن لا تأكل لأنك تأكل لأنك تأكل حتى أنك تأكل حياتك حتى أنك تأكل حياتك لذا هذا دوروري فهي يقول هذا هو حال عندما يصبح دوروري مثل إستطاع فقط حياتك يقول حياتك سيجد حياتك فإذا حياتك سيجد حياتك سيجد لأنك يجد يجد حياتك لذا هذا ما هو إذا إذا يأس الإنسان وقال الإسان كسر هذا يجب أن يكون كسر على هذا فتح يأس يأس يأس يأس لذا يجب أن يكون كسر سوري يقول يأس يأس يأس يأس يأس يأس يأس يأس يأس يأس يأس يأس يأس يأس يأس يأس يأس يأس يأس يأس يأس يأس يأس يأس يأس يأس يأس يأس يأس يأس يأس يأس يأس يأس يأس ملك فرسي چي ميغي ياد the king asked what is this man saying what is he shouting about so obviously the king is sitting on the top and then there's all these words that are and then there's the people and then there's the man standing on the floor so they don't have access to the king that close he can't hear the man and I think that's one of the reason why the king didn't raise his voice because we wouldn't be able to hear it this is before there's that he just went like that one of the Continuers isko and he's a good man of good character and good they use it in Persian poetry فقام الغيذ وعافين من الناس وعادًا أنهم يتعلقون أنهم أعيانهم بهم فلتر they eat their anger when they're angry they just they they just suffocate their anger and they forgive people ملكرون رحماتهم the king had mercy man i just told him to kill him and he's saying that you know those those amazing people what are they that they have you know when they're angry they they they you know they take the anger down right this is the and then and they forgive people they have you know forgiveness so the king had وَأَصَّارَخُونَ أُوُدَرُّزًا so he said you know don't kill him let him go he's free to go وَزِرِ دِيْغَرْكَ زِدُ أُوُبُوُدْ go off there's another وَزِرِ another minister and he he doesn't like this وَزِرِ he's the opposite like there's the ethical one there's nothing so one is a democrat one is a republican right so it's like in our country that would be the the style ابنواجين سماره ابنواجين سماره نشو يدر حزراته باوت شوهن جوز براستي فخنغفطان people like us in other words we are the وزراه we are the right hand and left hand of the king we are the people who are supposed to you know represent to the king the cases in its true form we shouldn't be lying about this like we shouldn't lie to the king about this issue we should only speak the truth to the master to our king اين ملكرا دشنام داد وناصل صغف this man just cussed at our king and he said foul stuff about him ملك روي ازين سوخان درهم اول he said the face of the king kind of like me he starts he starts frowning with this word that he said وغوف and he said كتغفتي the lie of this was he i actually liked it more than the truth you just spoke his lie was more beloved to my heart i liked it than the truth you just spoke but your truth the foundation of your truth was dirty you know in this culture say man that was just dirty right that's exactly what he's saying you were just dirty today that was a dirty game in this place here's a man you know saved his life he's going to change too right because now the king forgave him and so the thing is that also about these stories one of the thing that some of the lies that are permissible is that when people are fighting right family is viewed and community viewed but when i talk to him again ever he said that and then you're trying to make peace which is you know what i was with so and so and he said something he was like man i miss so so such a good man we should do barbecue together it was so funny i miss his presence he never said that he said really i mean i miss him too man it was good i don't know what happened we just stopped fighting and got separated because yeah that guy said he missed you so then they start he's taking the good news between them and they become friends again that is what's permissible because you're you is مسلح you're trying to put hearts together right but unfortunately most people do the opposite now you know they make bohtan in stories about people and one thing about bohtan that people have to be careful because a lot of people in our culture they're unaware of bohtan it's different from lying it's different bohtan is when you make something up that never happened right you say oh i went to so and so and he said about you he never said that you just made that up right or you say hey oh i saw your your daughter in a club you know there's a مرحب for الله when i saw your son drinking a beer right he never did so here's here's the the the the sin the sinfulness of that is absolutely horrible so what the most horrible thing human being can do and only people whose heart has turned black spiritually and they're completely fouled they do that built with hatred on the day of judgment الله will ask you remember that story you said that that boy was drinking alcohol because you can't lie on that day right in your tongue will say it Allah said okay what is that i want you to make that happen make that a truth certainly it wasn't i didn't create that i didn't it didn't happen it wasn't part of the divine plan that manifested so now what i want you to do is to go ahead you have time the judgment is long and this person is the humiliation of everybody looking and watching and seeing that what they did because on the day of judgment one of the reason why the day of judgment is 50 000 years 100 000 years in narration is because you have to watch the movie of your life your entire movie you have to watch it and not only that thousands of people that you know everybody here they watch the movie of your life everything that you have done everything that we have done we will see it in and better than hd in 4k right because angels are recording this is one of the things and it's not out of a hatred it's out of love how many pictures of our children we take how many videos of our kids we have on our phones because we love them الله has so much love for us that he has angels recording us 24 7 but then what do we do in return shameful acts but they'll all be on the big screen and everybody will see it the prophets will see it your teachers will see it your parents will see it your grandparents will see it everything everybody will see these movies of your life and then you have to oh you made this book thought about this person and the person doesn't know and they're standing here i thought you were my friend right the humiliation just by itself just by itself you know one of the prophets said طب ام بغنه كرده عادت شكونه he said these beautiful long nights what am i going to do with this that if i don't worship Allah i don't worship Allah in these beautiful those long nights or for worship he said because my top my my nature is just used to become habitual like Aristotle said if you do something it becomes habitual right you do it until it becomes habitual people who are habitual sinners i am a sinner by a habit what can i do and then he said that they say that he is كريم this is what i heard he's kareem he's generous and he forgives sins that's what Allah is kareem he forgives is it even if Allah forgives i'm going to deal with the humiliation of that day just everybody watching me and seeing what i've done and this is one of the things that she said that i think it was a game changer for me it was paradigm shift like literally this this is if this doesn't change your life i don't know what well i don't know what well because we are all sinners كله ابن عدم خطاون every son and daughter of Adam they make mistakes they sin we're not angels he said that الله gives you an opportunity to edit your own movie of your life the editing suite is in your hand you can edit and cut any scene you don't like in your life and you know i don't want that scene i don't want anybody to see that scene you can edit it by making toba toba is the editing suite of the movie of your life and if you make toba from something there were people who i know a person and in this community was an alcoholic and he changed his life he abandoned alcohol and he became a person every time i would seem i would go to him i said make to offer me no no no i'm a sinner you know you make to offer me i said make to offer me there's a thousand of my draw is not even one of your draw because i know you edit it you cut it he hates alcohol he hates the name of it he has a hard time going to a liquor store he can't even walk on the aisle in the grocery store that have alcohol because he made sincere toba so on the day of judgment nobody will see his drinking because he made toba sincere toba to allah and that's what they're trying to teach us in this so if you make up a story you have to make that come true on that day so yeah so a lie that is that is there's benefit and it is better than this truth that has so he says people of people of knowledge and intellect and wisdom they have said دروغة مسلحة عميز بيك روستي فتنانجيز this is again another proverb from the gulistan of sadi he said that a lie that has benefit is better than a truth that has fitna that brings fitna in the community all right so you have to be careful and then he has a poem whoever is in that position and this is the position of not just the king again the position of being near your father right the the one that's close to the father and their sibling and then you you want to you want to say good things about them right the person who is in a company you're close to the ceo the person who works at the at the masjid right and then they have people so if you're close to the one who makes the decision maker right if you're close to the king he said he said it'll be very unfortunately if they speak anything that other than beauty they should they should just speak beautifully and say beautiful thing and elevate people and not put people down so then he has فريدون was the great king of persia a lot of people think that my father named me after that because a lot of the free duns in persia their name after him but he didn't name me after the king he named me after uh فريدون مشيري who was one of the last great poet of of iran uh one of my favorite poets uh so he named me after him uh this this beautiful poet he died i think maybe 20 years ago so anyways um so he said it's written on this king's palace so جهان this world oh my brother is not going to remain for anyone in other word one of the thing that the great master of spirituality of بلخ he was a prince of بلخ and he he let go and went on a path of asceticism we talked about it about his story and he he got to this place and this man was living in this really a big mansion and he said wow whose house is it because it's my he said uh he said uh who's caravanserai is this caravanserai used to be like the hotels back then if we used to go and spend the night and then traveling go to the next destination so they have the hotel system like we have now they had the zavius for the spiritual path uh and then they had the caravanserai is it who caravanserai is this what used to be or something this is our house really we lived here before it was uh before that my grandfather used to live here what happened because he died and we are living here whatever before that it was my grandfather bought it from the head of the qabila you know he sold it he used to live here so what happened he said yeah then he died and he left so he said he said i'm telling you to caravanserai everybody come spend a few days here and then they leave so that's the reality of the world so he's saying oh my brother this world has no وفا it's not nobody can take anything with them right you only to go with the shroud of death connect your heart to the one who has created the jahan the world in bus period that's it so instead of putting putting the junior in your heart no this you can't put the junior in heart put the creator of the junior in your heart don't lean in this world right the world goes is this what i had to chill you have a long time it's all right just enjoy your life do us that well right this is the new allister crawley and the crawley out and and you know like what like jay-z has the t-shirt do us that well do whatever you want you know you only live once yeah you live once but it should be a life of meaning but this is not the life you know out of the five lives that we have this is the shortest life of all the five lives we have the the pre-creation the pre-world which is we were souls in front of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he created our souls that's one life that's a long life we were there Allah knows millennia's right and then we had the life of the life of the junior right and then we have the life of the barzakh that when we die we go into the grave and there's a life in the barzakh people you know animal a salam has been in the barzakh since then all of the the his children have been in the barzakh till now right whoever dies we go in the barzakh it's an interspace between this world and the next and then the day of judgment 50 000 years 100 000 years just a day of judgment right that's another life and then the the next life the final about paradise inshallah for all of us or those who need to be purified in the fire right so all this junior is assured is 60 70 years right that's what the professor salam said that the average of my umma is between 60 to 70 years so he'll live 100 years it still is nothing so he's saying don't lean in this world because it's not it's not long it this is not long you know saadi talked about the first session if you remember he said don't lean in the junior because he has no pillar because he just fall you always have to be vigilant and when I think about animals they're always vigilant right this is uh they ask him said how did you learn muraqiba like so he was mentioning one of his teachers they said that the the people of spirituality most of them they learn muraqiba from cats and muraqiba is like to be just instead of awareness on you know your focus is one and that focuses الله سبحانه وتعالى obviously right but he said that we learned he said I learned it from a cat he said how do you learn muraqiba from a cat he said there was a mouse hole and I saw a cat waiting for the mouse to come out and just and just take the mouse he said this cat the eyes were not swirl focus on this and ready to attack the moment I said if a cat can do that for a mouse I can't do that for Allah I can't have muraqiba for Allah and that's how they came and everything is an example in the creation of Allah سبحانه وتعالى so he says don't don't just chill and relax in the world because this world as giving as bots you know as giving you know raised so many people like you before and killed so many people and ate it this is the nature of the world it raised you know you get raised in this world you eat the fruit of the world you know the the fruit of the world the water all of these stuff and then okay get raise you and then boom and then it kills you and it eats you back so he said this is the nature of this دنيا جو آهنك رفتن كنة جانبها شبار تاق مردن شبار روحة when it's time for you to go the melody of death comes beautiful word آهنك مردن the melody of death comes he said does it matter if you die on a on a concrete or on a dirt or on a or on a five-star bed gonna die you're gonna die it wouldn't make a difference so don't be diluted by the things of this world all right now these stories generally the way i because it's the live stream is is on the other side of the the u.s um generally i get the feedback from the attendees to see what they think but we'll we'll continue so if anybody has feedback on these they can they can send an email to me inshallah and i would love to uh look at it and see your take on so again uh advice to the kings to the leaders to the head of the household all of them we can apply these teachings so we'll go to um um i think we'll finish this i'll do one more uh he says uh again we are in bob our wild first bops and see that about your hawn on the characteristics of the kings hekaya number 12 so he says yakea is muluke b and soft one of the muluke b and soft is is uh what he's talking about is a king a leader that is oppressor he's an oppressive king that that is doing volume that is doing that oppressing these people as about that he said which of the ibadah of worship Allah it has the most preference with Allah like what is the best ibadah i can do amongst all of the ibadahs all of the worship so this this king who's an oppressive horrible king is asking which is the best ibadah for him to do from this goff he replied is it for you the best worship is you know this afternoon in the sunna to do an afternoon nap you don't have to do it it's really it's just he said so people are free from your oppression for a few minutes when you're sleeping and there are some people you know it's like man i wish you sleep more right because when they're awake they're just like having on the world so in any case so this is an his uh his uh trying to teach us now a melik that is that is an oppressor that's bad melik you know how do you deal with that and he was sleeping in the in the early afternoon because the sunna to sleep out in the early afternoon after dawn it's a sleepy soul قيدوله in the sunna to do it it's actually very healthy they actually did a study uh that uh an afternoon nap uh even a shortest uh 30 to 45 minutes it's actually good for your health to do it obviously we don't need that to know because our professor said of everything that he did is wisdom in it as well you get the reward of sunna and you get the benefit of good health if you can he said i saw this oppressor sleeping in the middle of the day i said this man is a man of fitna of trial and tribulation it's better that he keeps sleeping oh to the one who sleep is better than the state of awakening the one who sleep is better than his awakened state a life like that a bad life like that is better to be dead turn to be alive right so the poets they said that there's there's two people that they they said that death is better than their life one is the one who's oppressor because they they're alive they just be professing people and the other one uh those people who have no benefit for themselves and for others they just have no benefit for anybody for anybody he said if if uh right a tree that is dead air and dry with no leave nothing he said it's better to use that for fireworks at least you can use it and start a fire and cook something with it then have this tree that is dead ugly there's there's no benefit in it and people like that tree the same that it's not a curse but it's a thing this is another nice one i like it it's a but it's still this is first chapter hekaya number uh 29 one of the وزرا one of the the وزير the minister went to زونون المسري who was a uh a spiritual master a scholar in in a man of the heart in a wise man and he asked for advice that's what he means here uh that he said that listen day and night i'm busy with the خدمة of the sultan of the king he's a وزير he's a minister is the right hand man of the sultan he said day and night i'm i'm just occupied with with the surface of the sultan و بخير أش أمي دورة و أنا always hope that he would give me good that he would you know good will come out from him to me and he would do good and everything that's good that that that would happen from the king was أبوبة أش ترسان أبوبة means that when you get punished for a sin right if you do something wrong they punish that's أبوبة so and then he said that i'm afraid that he might if i make a mistake you will punish me for my sin for my disobedience well i'm just fear that a lot but i'm hopeful always that he would show goodness and beauty زونون بغيريس to go زونون and mystery this wise man start crying and he said in the way that you are serving your sultan i would be amongst the elite of the world and this is one thing that people really need to take into consideration sometimes we actually do more for people than we do for our love like literally people do they have more fear of their boss than they have of our love they have more hope and and and science than they have and dealing from our love the our first thing the first door that we go because our loss closed all the doors it's only one door that's open the door of our love you go to our love and after that everything else that you do if you're sick when you go to a doctor you know that he's a he's a that's a subah الله is the one who heals الله has you have to go to this doctor it's part of the how الله created it but you have to believe that this this is from الله the medicine when you take for healing that medicine الله is putting the healing in the medicine he can heal you without the medicine as well but the son of Allah is that you have to use the asma you have to use the asma this is the way he made the world right but he can heal you but i'm medicine simple as that you can do that but this is no take the medicine i'll heal you through that medicine this is how الله created we don't believe medicine heals part of it i can't say i have a headache تيلانور is going to fix me تيلانور is going to fix me isn't it love الله is going to fix through this time he is the one who healed and he put the healing in that right so he said i would be amongst the siddiq if i worship Allah the way you are honoring your king now siddiq is why didn't he use i'll be a wali right why siddiq why not a modern wali there's four categories of people the quran mentions right and that's the four category الله says be amongst these four category like if you're you know love them try to be them there's one that you can't it's closed already the door so من النبيين وصدقين وشهدين وصالحين amongst the who if this is about the day of judgment be amongst with the prophets we would like to be around the prophets we can't be prophets right but we should start to be with the prophets صلى الله عليه وسلم and other prophets and then siddiqين the truthful that's why ابوباق الصديق has the highest مقام خير الخلق الله بعن النبيين he's the best of Allah's creation after the prophets ابوباق الصديق he's the best of all he's a siddiq it's a highest مقام right now عمر ابن خطاب is a شهيد is a شهيد of محراب he's a mortar of the محراب من النبيين وصدقين وشهدين وصالحين everybody صالحين are the righteous people so a nabi a prophet has a siddiq inside of him has a شهيد inside of him and has a صالح inside of him so all of those are in a nabi a nabi is a siddiq is a شهيد is a صالح all of them a صديق has a rank of a شهيد and a صالح and a شهيد has a rank of a صالح but a صالح is not a شهيد a صالح is not a siddiq got it so that's in a in a siddiq is not a prophet right so he said i'll be amongst the siddiq because those are the people who have the highest مقام where Allah سبحانه وتعالى okay so so the first one is ملك the second one is ملك what is with the كسره one is the second one is with the ملك means the king ملك means the angel so he said if the وزير had the same feeling towards Allah as yeah towards the king he would become an angel he would become an angel okay so um we'll do one more it's 355 and we'll close sorry maybe we can finish these on the next session the next one so the next one is a باب of دروشان and اخلاق of دروش the reason why he does that he starts with the king then he goes to the citizens the relationship between the two the powerful and the powerless how to deal with each other one of the the people of the head of the tribes he went to a person who was detached from the world what do you say about this worship or this ordinary worship like that about him so it's فلان which means so-and-so about so-and-so that people are saying really bad things about him bad things about him what do you say about him he said he said i don't see any deficiency in his outward and i don't know anything about his inward i can't i can't see his heart allah's allah's told us to judge people by the outward not by the inward because we don't know the state of the inward if somebody's a monothek but they're praying at the mosque which is just assume they're good people and they're praying at the mosque right always have hustle and run have a good opinion of people you know a lot of people say well he's not a Muslim why is not a Muslim well this is why he's bad is that the criteria now that we can say everybody that you meet they should just you should just think that they're Muslim honestly you should i mean i was shocked to see some people and and one of the one of the guys at the store some Muslim guys it's true story though and on the night of Ramadan we're trying to flirt with this girl and a Muslim in a in a suit store trying to buy a suit and beautiful white american girl and blond eyes blue hair and he's he was doing that and so anyways and then uh there's a conversation between him and his friend it was man isn't tomorrow Ramadan and like and and then the girls is are you guys Muslim and and and he said yes uh yeah we are he goes is what is tomorrow a day after and they said it's tomorrow so i'm looking forward and the guys like wait a second you're Muslim but yeah i'm from Bosnia and she was like her Arabic was just so you think that you should always assume people are Muslim unless they they tell you they're not a Muslim so this is a really you know we should have good opinion of people so you're saying i have a good opinion of his outward because i didn't see anything wrong with it and i can't see his inward our law is not allowing us to see the inward of the people we are not judging by the inward so he says whoever has the clothing of of a of a ظاهر in inward that outward looks good just assume that they're good and that's it and you don't know what's inside of it and this is a very beautiful word in in Arabic in person is the person who is the religious police especially in Ramadan they have it traditionally in the Muslim country they would go make sure people are fasting and they don't eat on the streets right so but he says a motor said the religious police he has no ruling inside your house so if you're if you're not fasting inside your house that religious police cannot come in into your house they don't have the right it's your private that's protected so you're saying that this is the house of a man inside their heart leave them to Allah Allah will judge them that that day he didn't ask us to judge them and خلاص just go by the outward and one of the things with with uh with this society is that a lot of the things that needs to be in the house is becoming public domain now that those things that are in the house is it's like you know in in this language in this culture they have a property they say don't bring out your dirty laundry out in front of others right don't bring your dirty laundry don't talk about stuff that is supposed to be in the house one of the scary حديث is about the the the Prophet ﷺ telling the Sahaba that don't you know shouldn't fornicate on the street corner like on the it is like how could somebody do that he said if you talk about what you did in the bedroom on the street is as though you have done it right this whole concept of sexuality remains in the bedroom and that doesn't come out whatever people do in that bedroom is nobody's business but they shouldn't bring it out now unfortunately it's a culture that everybody whatever they have to come out and proclaim that and all these young Muslim youth they're confused they think that this is the norm that's not the norm it wasn't like that when i went to high school you didn't talk about these stuff because if you did you would be you'll be attacked you'll be beaten up right so but it has changed over the past 20 you know quarter of a century things are a lot a lot of the stuff has changed but for Muslims we shouldn't even be talking about these things if somebody wants to talk about say listen whatever whatever you are whatever you do it's between you and your lord and yourself i you know hey i don't want to talk about it so those are the things that's what he's saying that we should just judge by the outward and not by the inward and inshallah it's 401 and we respect the time there's a couple more in here and in the last page i will do this inshallah next time this is actually one of my favorite one the the sufi sheikh and the thief story so we'll do that next time and inshallah we'll do a couple of other from another from the other chapters there's there's there's different chapters in the we will try to do at least like one from each chapter so you get a taste of what saadi's talking about what is his advice so he's then the next the chapter on love is really amazing you know old age love which what we call in this country they call it midlife crisis uh which actually is a bad name it should be end of life crisis because people ruin their life uh you know i i i know somebody in our community that came in um i said where's uncle you know so and so i mean he's pretty old because i call him uncle and i'm pretty old you know so he said oh uncle left and he got married and he's wearing shorts and on the beach in this country i'm like uncle has grandchildren yeah the grandchildren got in high school uncle is in the late 60s at least right yeah but i don't know it's mid midlife crisis i said that ain't no midlife crisis that's end of life crisis like how long you expect to live right so if you know the thing with with with with these uh unfortunately with this culture you're never safe right it's always like people don't don't ever don't ever say oh i'm nothing's gonna happen to me i'm fine my email is strong and that's those are the people that would lose it all of those people say nothing they're so arrogant about it just be humble so you know الله help me الله you know you saw الله i'm doing my best and try to stay away from people that would take you the worst thing in life young for the young people i know there's a lot of a youngster with miftah the worst thing in your life is number one is your friends either the best or the worst your friend can take you to hell or literally be a partner to take you out of the hell and put you in paradise if you have good friends if you're bad friends you're a bad but you know you know that a bad friend is worse than a poisonous snake and that's the reality of it because a poisonous snake obviously it hurts your body but it's in the bad spirit it hurts your body and your faith and your your religion so that's number one thing and number two is this is these gadgets if you can control this don't let it control you if you control this you're a successful person you're amongst the people of sa'ada but if it's controlling you it's kind of like you know the person they say that is it the the horse takes in any direction it wants the sleepy rider if you're a sleepy rider is the horse that takes you in directions but if you're a visual and rider it's you that's controlling the horse if you can control this horse then you're in good shape you know where it's not controlling you other than that i think you know inshallah it will be fine but those those are the two main things inshallah these lessons are just for life reflect on them see what it means to you what it means in your life what it means in your mosque what it means in your household what it means in your society most of the problems of the muslim work this good son of sa'adi used to be on the table for every president in France as a gift when they took office after sa'adi come on they had that for for for century that's that was a gift everyone who came in that to be the gallistan the the chapter not only just the chapter on the king but the chapter on the darwish as well on the on the citizen and on the four people of the country and that's why they use this and then we have another way we have john stewart we have other style of governing you know the uh macky valley style as well and we have we're seeing that this is the you know is what uh bishar al-assad is doing in syria that that's under the style they pick up those that they don't pick up this this style of of teaching which is founded in wisdom and mercy in wisdom and mercy and this is one of their stories in the gallistan and where and he talks about a uh annousheer one of our deal annousheer one was one of the kings of persia and he was famous for the idle for the just king he said that one day he went hunting and they they hunted a deer and they brought it they slaughtered it and they barbecued it as they were grilling it and they said they realized they didn't bring any salt and food without salt there's no taste in it right you have to have salt so annousheer once sent uh one of the the commander told us one of the soldiers should go get some salt from the from one of the stores in this in the city so he was getting on his horse to go get salt annousheer one called him and he said make sure that you pay for the salt when you when you get it from the store and the soldier said oh my master oh the king what is that what is a little bit of salt that i take from them and bring for the king if i don't pay for it and he said the foundation annousheer one tells the soldier and there's a beautiful example and you would see how i just look at pakistan look at Afghanistan uh look at all of the muslim countries just look at them and you would see that how true this example he said all oppressions start very small and they keep building and they keep building and they keep building he said if the adi then comes and he goes he says if a soldier of annousheer one gets an egg from his store the lieutenant will get the chicken and then the commander will get the lamb and then he will go he said by the time he gets to the commander in chiefs he will take the entire village apart and take everybody's well food and everything but all start with salt just a little worthless salt right so he says no pay for it so we don't we don't put the foundational break up oppression we don't want to put that and unfortunately in many of our countries not the foundational is there but the walls have been built and the castles have been built and and and and take it and reversing this is only one way it's only one way it's through عل it's through knowledge it's through education and people once they come see this book was taught and and a lot of the muslim countries non muslim countries hindu seeks that i made seeks that have more glist on memorize than i do literally they have even they were like five six years old they memorized it so their people and they implemented it in their life so if we implement these things we can change we can bring a revolution of of character that's what's needed there's too many revolutions around the world every muslim everywhere you go is destroyed like you can't we don't even have a vacation spot for muslim everywhere you go is like you know you want to go and you want to see is just we need a you know اخبار said he said تري خديم اغر انقلاب هو بيضا عجب نهي هي كيه شارسو بدل جحيم that if there's a revolution within yourself if there's internal revolution the revolution of the heart an ethical revolution it is then that your surrounding will change you can't change your surrounding by force where you can change it with love ربا بلس فحاني said if love exists amongst people then who needs justice you really don't need justice if there's love we justice is needed in absence of love and we're living in a society that there's no love people have no love their most support goes to pakistan and afghanistan from immigrants who live in america and in uk and in europe than the people there and those people are much wealthier than the people who are sending from here much wealthier they have more money but they don't have their own people they see them suffer they don't care and that's what we need to change we need to have a internal revolution of the heart a revolution an ethical revolution that we change and bring these teachings to life and we'll see within a generation you can change our societies إن شاء الله زاكا لحيدنا السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته next week is the last session إن شاء الله and we will close this chapter on the gulestar أعوذ بالله من الشيطان رجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على سيد المرسلين وعلى آله وصاحب يجمين أعوذ بكلمات الله يتحمى تم يشارما خلق صلى الله عليه وسلم محمد وعلى آله وصاحب يجمين برحمة الله الرحمن الرحمن first of all apologies for being late one of the thing that say you say نصر said that he said I would like to be a muslim in every way except being late because it's becoming like the culture of the muslims to always be late but our Prophet ﷺ was the most on time person in a tradition that he was never late for an appointment and he always honored time because time is sacredness from Allah and Allah swt is by time because Allah doesn't swore by anything insignificant so while I swore by this time of because it's it's sacred Allah is a creator of time and we are stuck in time and space so we should honor that but I do apologize for being late for your patience إن شاء الله today is the last class of the four week course on the Gullistan of Saudi Shirazi one of the thing about the poets that separates them from everybody else is that the foundation of Islamic teachings is what we call the أخلاق or the ethics of Islamic teachings is أدب and without adab there is nothing in our civilization I'll give you an example if someone has a lot of money and they have you know they're very wealthy and they even give charity without adab nobody appreciates it so if they just throw it in your face here you go here's a hundred thousand dollars for your mosque just throw there's no adab in it so that money has no value if you give a gift to someone without any adab right even if it's an expensive gift and you throw it at them it has no value right this is why the the person they said that even a leaf of a tree which is the most worthless things on the planet because they just keep falling right everywhere there's leaves of tree if you give it with أدب like a درويش would give it has more value than you know if somebody gives gold without أدب so knowledge what is the foundation of knowledge so there's a prerequisite in every science there's a prerequisite so you can't go get calculus if you didn't have pre-calculus right can't get algebra if you don't have so all of these sciences that we study like English class when you go to college I have a classmate of mine with the college together here with the college they you do a test and then if you English is good they give you the English 1A if it is not good they give it a well when you were back in college 100R which was like the writing and 100W was the you know the writing in the reading classes so those are the classes you have to take that in order to get to English from 1A and then so you're ready for it so knowledge in itself this this this علم that that Allah is talking about in the Quran and our Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم presenting to us has a prerequisite to it and the prerequisite of learning is أدب you have to have أدب أدب in reality the meaning of أدب obviously means comportment it means but the reality of it is to put things in the proper places that's what أدب is so there's أدب of dressing right so you know everything goes in its place so you you put the ring you know the the sunna fingers you know these are the sunna fingers right that the صلى الله عليه وسلم put the rings so you don't put the ring you know some people put it in here and it's just it's lack of أدب like literally he was an أديب the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said that he is perfected that level of أدب and this is أدبني ربي فأحسنة أديبي الله has taught me أدب and how beautifully he has taught it to me so he learned أدب from الله taught him how to be because this is he is the best exemplar that Allah put on earth so we can emulate him right so he's this is the pinnacle of of of أدب that he's that he's embodying in his action in his words so what separates the poets from everybody else is that they have أدب with words so they put words in the proper places I'll give you an example if I tell you a line in prose right because there's like if you if you get like people who are interested in Farsi you can get the Musnari of Rumi commentary by Gulpinadri the great Turkish scholar so what he did he put the he put the poem the actual version Farsi poem and then he put the Nasser he put the the poem in a line just like in in prose so what it means because a lot of you they read the line and they can't really understand it fully so then he put it like just in regular Farsi like in in prose and then he did a shout on it but if you read the line first it doesn't affect you when you read the poem it affects you why is that because the line is there just it's kind of like it's like two buildings you look at one is a building that was built just for purpose built for let's say dormitory or for an apartment complex where they say how could we make a building where a lot of people can fit in there and the least amount of space right then you look in another building that they built it how could we make this a beautiful building that architecture is alive in this building so when you look at this building you're like oh my you're awestruck when you look at the other building like it's it's just it's uh it's a building another building you pass by it doesn't even attract your eyes so look at it second time but a beautiful building you keep looking and you stop and you want to take a photo because it's amazing the same thing with poetry poetry is like the they're like architecture like actual post like architect that they they beautify word because they put it in in beautiful places so one of the things that the poet said they said look at your face he said look at your face if you take the eyebrows from there and put it below the eyes you will be ugly it's perfect where is it at? الله has designed everything it's it's like the adab of the face how everything is exactly where they're supposed to be right the eyes the nose the teeth the lips the everything in the human body is exactly where they're supposed to be and that's it's it's you know that's where we have the potential to become people of adab out wordly and inwardly so they have adab with words and that's what affects people and this is one of the thing that in our tradition poetry was at the foundation of teaching i don't remember having a class with one of our teacher dr. barakatullah حفظ الله with you know we studied under him that every class there was a line of poetry or something that would a proverb that he would bring up and the thing with poetry and proverb is that it explains something so complex in a very simple way you have for the proverb English proverb Persian Arabic every language have proverbs but proverbs they come from poetry is the the gullustan of sa'adi is filled with proverb but they're all poetry in motion it's words in motion that becomes poetry so we will finish today inshallah going over a few more of the stories from the gullustan of sa'adi a book of real masterpiece of Persian literature it is probably one of the greatest books that was ever written in the history of of literature not just Persian the likes of it is impossible to find in within the Persian literature either because nobody could everybody kind of like salute the gullustan so it's a book and in a category of itself there was a lot of copycat that came there's a lot of people that try to imitate it uh nobody can imitate this this style uh because he was such he was such a genius and he was uh as we mentioned in the first session what he went through in life the the 30 plus years of traveling and being in a dungeon of of the you know during the crusaders and and just all of the life experience because one thing that مولانا رومي says is that if you look at the ney which is the the symbolism for انسان الكامل in the musnary uh the the flute is that if you look at the ney because he started his book when he started his book with the ney like بشنوه ني شون هكو ياتميكو and i'd listen to the read that the flute it's telling his story he said the reason why it sounds really good there are a few things and you know uh the scholars have talked about this but i i was fascinated by the ney for many many years and and i've been doing a lot of research on the ney like what's why would he use the ney why not a guitar why not something else why the ney as a symbolism for himself for rumi that he's saying he is the ney there are a few aspects to ney one is the outward of the ney if you look at the ney uh abdel qadr bedil the great poet of india said as as he said the reason why ney reached this maqam this high station of of singing this beautiful tune is because it abandons the leaves what are the leaves it's called right these are attachment that on the path of spirituality have to detach yourself from the things of this world so a ney detaches itself from the leaves so they it's smooth on the outside then it's everything that's inside of the ney they take it out right everything it becomes hollow from the inside and those are what we call spiritual diseases of the heart like kibir and you know we call arrogance and envy and uh similar in all of these diseases of the heart spiritual diseases of the heart they take these out of the ney so it becomes empty from the inside from everything that is other than our law in that in then that's not done see a lot of people go through the first step maybe i'm a zahid i don't have any attachment to the world but fill the inside they backbite they think they're better than other people oh i'm a zahid i'm better than other people i give up a night prayer i'm better than other people and this is in this story that we're not going to cover because it's it's just a lot of there's a lot to cover in this book in this story zahidi mentions about uh you know a man who gets up for fadr prayer and then there are people who are sleeping and he prays and then in the morning he said oh these people were sleeping while i got up and did my fadr and made the du'a and did the tahad he just goes on about his ibad and look at these guys they were all sleeping in in the seat of gifla and forgot about god and then zahidi said i wish you would have slept and not pray for you then to get up and then look down upon everybody that it gives you arrogance that you're better than anybody and then you're backbiting the whole day collecting sins and seeing people as as lower than yourself so your sleep would have been better than your prayer as a prayer of arrogance a prayer of of just showing off a prayer that i'm better than other people so one of the things they do is that but you have to do is the detach from outside and then the hollowness from the inside but one of the most important thing that a lot of people don't talk about is is still the nays that are going to sound there's no sound will come out of it until you have the holes you have to have the holes in the nays in the flute so once you in that is what we call the experience of life the experience of life will will mold you into something amazing if you see what's coming if you see what's coming if you see what Allah is doing with you and some people they don't you know roomy said gharbahar and if you get irritated with every rub how do you expect to be polished and turn into this beautiful perfect mirror right so that's what destiny does and if you're patient with it and if you learn the lesson from these the point of all of the trials and tribulation in life is to learn the lesson if you don't learn the lesson you will you will repeat the same the same thing will come over and over again until you learn the lesson that is all from الله سبحانه وتعالى and you have to submit so that's the nays is the experience of life and in sa'adi did that all his life and then when he came back to shaira's about 32 34 years after he left when he was a teenager that's when these poems just came out of him and and it was right outside was beautiful like the nays inside was hollow like the nays and he had the holes of the experience of life and that's when it came out and it's so beautiful so that's very important to know that that these things um it takes time um when when the musnabi of roomy the first chapter he wrote the second chapter there was a long delay between because you know he there was death in the family and also uh uh one of his student passed away as well but i hear so there was there was two tragedies in his in his life uh and one of the thing that when he starts the second chapter he says this musnabi it delayed for a period of time you need time in order for the for the blood to turn into milk and that's what happened when roomy gets pregnant it's it it they start having milk right but it takes time in the pain of pregnancy they have to go through uh in the pain of child but so he said until you don't give birth to this child the spiritual child of yours and in other words you don't go through this hardship of life this difficulties these moments this the night the sleepless nights and travel and whatever you have to do you said the blood will not turn into milk so there are difficulties in learning knowledge there's difficulties in in in getting these moments in the station of spirituality this is not fast food nation where you can go and say hey can i get my burger with extra cheese on top and it comes within 30 seconds now this is like when you out when you want real food it takes a whole day to prepare the real food sometimes two days you have to get this stuff you have to marinate it but that's a different food than than a burger but now is everybody wants fast food spirituality and fast food knowledge you know six months course become an island i'm like man what was that when i was young okay so we will do um uh we couldn't do this uh the last two i don't know if you guys have it or not but there was a the last week they only printed one page it was three pages but if you don't i'm going to read it out loud out loud so this is about it still we are in in the chapter two of the gullistan on the bob of the uh darwish uh that are the characteristics and character of an ethics of the darwish and darwish is the people that we call them the people of the door uh they're the people who are who have no attachment to the dunya no attachment to the world they don't have anything of the world and they don't want anything of the world they just that people just busy with themselves and their lord they're just busy purifying themselves and going through the the uh all the the things that they need to do um in order to get closer to الله and busy with their worship so it says دوز دي بخوني بارساه درومد بارساه means a zahid we've talked about it it means someone who is detached from the world in persian zahid is obviously a more universal term that use in arabic in persian and ordo but parsa is a is a is a is a farsi word دوز دي دوز دي is a thief خانا obviously is a is a house uh and parsa is a zahid دوز a thief and goes into the house of a zahid this man who is detached from the world خانا دوز تيزي نايل no matter how much he searched around the house he couldn't find anything in other word uh there was nothing worthy of stealing from the house like he goes and he looks everywhere and there's nothing you know and thief has worked very hard and you have to understand people who steal they don't just walk into somebody's house to steal they do their research they're watching who has what and then they have to find out a way how am I going to enter which wall am i so they really they put effort into their their the wrong action but there's effort put into that like it's just a random guy just walks in and steal no they actually calculate everything yeah uh there's a lot of movies like the western movies that that actually show that like how uh people are a fan of uh avengers but like the anguish uh movie how he like before he steals something he has all of the information and the maps of the house and all that before he goes in right there's also obstacle that comes in when he goes steal you know they have money but then like it's supposed to be somewhere but then he goes you can't find it right because people constantly move their value from one place to another okay so so no matter how much he searched in the house he couldn't find anything to steal their tank should he was really upset like man i i was really hard to come and steal something and there's nothing in this house there's a head he kind of had a feeling he opened like you know cracked his eyes and he he saw that there's a thief in his house he's looking for something to steal so he had a expensive galleem galleem is a carpet and usually it's like the handmade carpet that's the only valuable thing he had and it's a sleep on it so he rolled and he took it out of like that was his little mattress basically sleeping on the floor with a little with a little carpet so he took the carpet and he threw it on the way where when the thief is exiting the house so he can see it and he takes it with him so he doesn't leave disappointed from his house i mean what kind of people were they like you just have to think about it and now this is the poem he said i've heard that the people of god these are what we call ريجال الله the people of god they don't even want to hurt their enemies they don't want to break the heart of their enemies how could you achieve this station right to become a ظاهر to become a parsa to become a man of god right to become the name how to become an insan al-qamil to become a saint how could you reach that مقام that station when you're always arguing and fighting with your friends that's how they treat their enemies how do you think the parsa and the ظاهر and the man and woman of god treat their friends if that's how they treat their enemies so he's saying you would never achieve that مقام because you're always arguing and fighting your even the people that you claim that you love them your friends واتشاد بيشمير so the people of اهل صفاء اهل صفاء is the people of purity the people like ظاهر the people who are uh parsa and pure either in front or in the back either in front of you and in your back because there's two relationship people have this is extremely important to know the relationship we have when we are together then relationship we have when you know the back in person it's a beautiful word because when you depart you turn your back towards each other and you depart you go your separate ways so now you know what are you going to talk behind his back is you're going to be the same you talk to him in front of his back what are you going to talk in front of her or is going to be the same behind her and this is one of the tragedies of our time and i know you know when you do counseling it just it breaks your heart to see people who are friends for like 10 20 years and they found out that their friends will be training them and they were talking about them and a lot of stuff that happened in their marriage life and their family life with their parents with their teachers with all in at work it's all from their friends and those people that they expected the leech and this is why the great one of the greatest gifts in life is to have a good friend and we've been blessed to have like really good friends and this is now it's kind of impossible to have to find somebody that actually is a good friend who who is the same in front of you and the same behind you who someone in in one time i mentioned this and a friend of mine called me right after my class we were i think it was we were in conia we had a car out of a teaching class at rooming and i said their friends i think about my friends is that if i have to leave or something happens to me right i have to go somewhere and my wife is home alone with all our belonging and our wealth right which one of my friend i would trust to say hey go sleep in my house to protect my wife and my wealth and i know that he wouldn't touch either one right and that's how i think and that's how i know like who are my friend these are the people i trust so immediately one of my friend called he goes uh freydun if ever happens to me you are the only one that i said listen you were number one on my list too but i have four people on that list which is amazing to have that like you know that kind of that kind of people in your life in any case and one of them sitting in this class is one of my good friends and i trust them with my life uh you know people that you know for three decades just trust them so that's that's the that's the prerequisite for trust yeah because all these young kids that your kids when they're a teenager comes and my friends my friends said okay you think they're friends we'll talk about it 20 years ago if you remember their name then they're your friends so he said the people of احلى صفار whether in front of you or behind you they won't say behind you they will not say any i've i've his deficiency it's a very important word to to learn this word because when you have a given example if somebody is is drinking alcohol right good man hardworking man family man but why drinks alcohol he has that that's a that's a so he is good he just has an if he removes that he's he's all good right so you can remove عيب عيب is it is an attachment to you it's not part of you got it so it's not your احلى so in logic you have essence and you have accidents right so not accident like car accident but accidents in the accident for example the color of a rose is the accident it the so you can't say oh that's not a rose because it's not bad even if it's white it's a rose even if it's blue it's a rose the rosiness is different from the color so عيب is not your essence so people there are people who are good people they give charity they pay five times a day they fast and Ramadan they are beautiful but they have foul language they always use that f mom they just they have foul language that's an عيب they can let that go they can purify themselves they can say you know what i'm not i'm not gonna speak foul again and i know people i mean we grew up in this country in high school we used to i mean there was normal but there was a point in my life that i said i will never ever use foul again in my life and there was point that i really wanted to use it you just you get frustrated uh in this dunya and i said i made an oath to myself and my lord i'm not gonna use it so you can do that people can control their tongue if they want to so that's the thing is عيب is something so if your friend has an عيب that's not part of the essence for example you have a friend that smokes cigarette or you know or backbite you should tell them in a beautiful way so they can remove that عيب and become that حرصة to become that ظاهر that person that is pure from inside and outside instead of talking about it behind their back where they're not there to defend themselves right so we don't know Allah knows like the people's situation so he said they were not uh behind you they will not talk about your عيب and and in front of you in other words the word means you know they don't die for you one of the worst relationship is what i call an extreme relationship so when you we can friend with somebody or your family members and then when you see them you're amazing you're great i miss you i love you you just keep going and it's the whole عيب you're like that and then when you leave it's done that is a fake relationship that's our real because if it was real it would continue after that as well like not you know you would text every day you will call that's you know that's like ليلة مجنون relationship with like 24 hours a day nobody's like that so he's saying don't go to the extreme in front by over praising over loving over doing thing and don't go to extreme in the back we say oh you know what look at hand talk about this look how hard he works he neglects his children you know just tell them listen you're working too hard it's good you know you're supposed to work hard that's a good thing but remember just just maybe take a couple hours extra off a week spend with your kids they miss you too you know it's important beginning you say it in a beautiful way أدبائي one of the things that i love about the gulistan and you can see this he is giving advice to all of us but look how beautiful he's given it to he's not telling you oh you stupid man who's wrong with you you know if it comes to your house you probably get a gun and shoot him look at the people like that's how what he's saying he's just teaching us a lesson in a beautiful way so always going to give him advice please do it in a beautiful way so he says that in front of you uh they they don't die for you they don't overexaggerate but behind you they don't see you right that's that's the real the people of purity and if you have friends like that you should do two units of shukr prayer that Allah has blessed you with friends like that okay so he has a point but we will go to the next one because i just looked at the time we went there by 20 minutes okay so we'll do one more uh this is again أخلافة that we've shown uh hikaya number 13 uh so this is the story number 13 second chapter of the of the gulistan people translated obviously in english and other languages people want to follow it in the original in the translation so he says كزاخ مَا بَلَنْ دَاشْتَ وَبَهِهِ اِجْدَارُوْ بِهْنَمِشُوْ i saw this this plan here doesn't mean nothing so he says i saw a parsa again the word parsa comes here i saw a parsa uh in near uh a river that he had this zachum and in other words he had this this uh he was sick and this this he had this this wound that was really uh uh incurable it wasn't getting healed like literally it was uh it was it was horrible it wasn't getting healed no matter how much medicine he would take no matter how you know doctors will come medicine he wouldn't get healed right no no medicine could uh would help him for a long period of time he was just uh uh in pain and suffering and in depression sadness you know range range means someone who has range and range is when you're when you're down right when you have pain and suffering when you're down in pain and sickness can bring you down and make you depressed and this is one of the reason why hospitals they all have that nice light blue color they paint it because it makes you happy so people go there are sick people so at least their symbolism of happiness and now you know one of my friend my cousin uh beloved cousin of mine had a surgery a kidney surgery he he donated his kidney and we went to visit him at stanford hospital and i went to his room walked in i saw it it was like a five star resort and amazing view giant window this beautiful he i said wow this is amazing he was like i told the doctor i'm ready to go today like i feel good but i really don't want to leave this room because it's like a really nice room so the nurse came in and i said is it because you want them to be absolutely wanting this will make them feel happy and better and the colors and the window and it's all purposely built so they can get here faster so so this man is basically he's he's down with this because obviously he doesn't have that that hospital or that view uh but he says but he's in a state of gratitude شكر يا الله شكر يا الله so he's he's doing uh شكره الله سبحانه وتعالى non stop is in شكره الحمد لله شكره الحمد لله فرسي دن داش so they asked him why are you instead of شكر in the attitude but what are you making شكر for right here you are you have a chronic disease painful wound that's not being healed you're taking medicine nothing is healing it and you're in constant pain and suffering why are you instead of شكر you reply شكره انك بالمسيبات يغرف دوره نبما سيبات so if you can see those two word مسيبة and معصية right both of them are Arabic and you know why we talked about this before any word that has the word sawd in it is from Arabic it's not original potion so he says that i'm showing gratitude because i'm afflicted with the مسيبة with a trial and tribulation from Allah not with the معصية not with a state of disobedience and sinfulness in other word i rather have pain i rather have a wound i rather be sick than to be healthy and use that health against my creator indeed instead of sinfulness in معصية and this is the wisdom that people don't understand sometimes you get sick and you're at home and you can't do it you can't go out they say oh i wish i could get better and then people said you don't know if you're better you might be in a nightclub dancing if you're better you might be drinking if you're better you might be fornicating you're better you might be stealing so Allah's wisdom we don't know so he's saying Alhamdulillah that i'm sick but i'm not a state of sinfulness and disobedience to my lord so if my beloved right is killing me in a worse way right because there's there's multiple way of killing like the poet said you know there's a thousand ways to get to get killed but death is one right you die but there are a thousand ways of getting killed there's an Afghani joke i'm sure you will enjoy this but you can only make fun of your own culture if somebody else doesn't you get offended but you can do it out of your own so they say there's three Afghanis who were who committed crime and they said you're all all of all three of you need to be killed so they stood them in line they said you have three choices so the first choice is is the sword and we chop you until you die oh man that's bad the second one is the gun and the bullet one bullet and then you're done third one is the gluten you just put your head you drop it it's the fastest and then you're done for the one man say man just do the fastest you know i don't want to get tortured so they put his head down and they release the gluten it came right before his head it blocked it stopped and the man said oh man he must be innocent let him go so he got jam so they let him go he's happy he's dancing he's going to the second one say what he was now when the gluten too you know he's hoping you know he gets jammed the hands they put his head down it comes right before his head it gets jammed and it stops and then he said oh must be innocent let him let him go to the third one say what do you want he said obviously the gluten is out working properly so get the gun please so there are many ways to get killed but all of them goes to one so he says if i'm getting killed by the beloved i died with a lot of torture or whatever way it is right i don't want you to think for a moment that you know because if you're being killed if you're being tortured and killed it's you know you it's painful right and people cry it's it's human nature like you know nobody's made out of steel or rocks so people cry so if you are if if you see he's saying the if you see me crying if you see me in the just in he said i don't want you to think that oh i'm worried about my my my my life but i'm oh i have pain so that's not what i'm crying for that's not that's not why don't the the don't let the form that you see dilute you that's not it because when you're getting killed obviously someone is going to cry obviously someone is going to be in a state of uh just shouting or whatever he said i'm not crying because i'm being tortured or because there's pain on my body no no no i'm saying what wrong did i do what wrong what sin did i commit what wrong what sin did i commit that my beloved is upset at me and he put me through this that is what i'm worried about i'm not worried about oh i'm going to be in pain i'm going but what sin did i do that Allah is sending this calamity on me right that Allah is upset at me that's what i'm worried about and this is the foundational teaching of sa'adi we're living in a time that is the exact opposite of what you just read whenever something happens what's wrong with other people why is he doing this why and sa'adi in the entire gulison there's so many lessons in here as a matter of fact i was reading another uh this chapter last night again and in this chapter he has beautiful advice that you know when calamities come everybody thinks about what did i do why is Allah sending to me what wrong have i done how could i rectify myself how could i fix myself this is the the the vision now the easiest way is to point finger at other people but like they say whenever you point finger at other people three fingers you're pointing at yourself one at the other because really it is our fault everything that happens we plant the seed every actions of ours has a metaphysical reality you can't have it you know if you if you know one of the best commencement speech is ever given uh in the within the western culture that the muslim culture that uh that i've seen there might be better ones but that thing is john fawcett wallace uh and it's on youtube and everyone should watch that every muslim should watch that it's called this is water and in that he talks about uh he gives all these stories about he said you know you're driving down the freeway and then here's this guy what is this you know lady with a huge suv you know a 12 cylinder that drives by you and you're in your you know you know in your car trying to save gas and save the planet you know and he said like what's wrong with this guy and then you see this guy just cutting you and then going like a crazy madman right and you almost had an accident and just like what's wrong with this person and then you're going to the grocery store and then there's this overweight person in front of you with with hundreds of stuff on on her shopping so that when is that going to be over i'm standing in line and and so all of these incidents he talks about like and then at the end he says what if you know what if that lady in the large suv had a car accident when she was young and she feels insecure in a small car she has to drive a big car otherwise she can't drive just out of fear what if the man who was driving he has his child in the hospital and he's just called that he isn't he's about to die so he is just trying to get to the hospital to give blood or something so he's telling all these in that basically the whole talk is from our perspective is about what's not done you have good opinion of people like when you when something's you know when things happen you make an excuse the professor said make 70 excuses for people right and that 70 doesn't mean you know one through 70 that means just keep making excuses for people like we live in an age that nobody wants to make an excuse of if you do one wrong many of the divorces in our community and unfortunately it's on the rise and uh many of the divorce in the community everyone that that that i was involved to to uh mediate has been over stupid stuff and i tell you something sometimes i it was really hard holding myself from laughter like literally when they were saying this would either this which i'm like really like uh we all should have been divorced day three of our wedding like literally if you go by that concept of oh no like people have to be patient you know you just have to have first love that like not everything that everybody says they mean it and one of my favorite thing is you know in in the uh in the person uh literature is about the the cursing of a mother because the mother they they curse their children like they literally say may you die like a mother would say that which they get upset may you die you know may you may you go to hell like they say these stuff to their children and until you don't become a parent you don't know like there's no way i can explain to you the love of a father to a child there's no until you're a father you know those who don't know those who don't know don't know right children would never know what does it mean to be a father what like how much their father loves them and how much their mother loves them they would never know this until they become a father themselves and then it's too late because now their love has gone to their children that they can't give that level of love to their parents because everything within human being is limited there's nothing unlimited and and within us right even the breath are limited your certain breath you inhale exhale once it's done you're gone say say say goodbye to your life the last breath you inhale you can't exhale because it's done it's a chest with with uh number of breath that are allocated for each and every one of us some of them has only one they they they are born they inhale they can't exhale and they're done some has thousands and whatever number of breath it is that's what our laws allocate it so everything is is love is like that too so people you know that's why like when people give all these love to the material things where do you have the love for our law and his messenger and your children and your spouses and your parents and your family and community so that's the thing that you know like a lot of these these things they fall apart is because we always we don't give an excuse to our spouses to our children like sometimes children say stupid stuff and then we try to uh uh you know court martial them right like literally i remember when i was young i said a lot of stupid stuff uh i still do sometimes uh i actually had a conversation i'm uh one of a good friend of mine i've been helping him out uh coaching him for a few years and he's a beautiful man convert uh very very smart super duper smart and uh so he said we were just talking right before the class like that's one of the reason i was late i think i didn't look at my watch and he said that i say stupid stuff so uh and i'm turning at this age so i and i said you know uh of the qadr bedel رحمة الله عليه سيد uh he said even if you're the most intelligent human being on this planet know that madness is like a shadow walking with you you can you can say something really stupid even if you're a genius and how many geniuses we have seen they said stupid stuff like people like you know like everybody like i don't want to mention name but even in the west western culture that people who are like you know how could this man were like four phd say something so stupid like all these people who are you know they think they know religion and look at their their view on Islam this is stupid stuff like really like you didn't read anything about Islam what did you read what do you know and you're supposed to be an expert on Islam and the same thing with engineering but but the most thing is within marriage people sometimes say stupid stuff right but especially one of the thing you don't want to do you don't want to court marshal your children with everything that slips out of your tongue you pretend as you didn't hear it that's the better way right if sometimes they say stuff out of anger or or they just want to but if you just do that it will have a better so they would know that oh five minutes he didn't hear it right you pretend you didn't hear you just keep yourself busy and then like and then you pretend as a normal conversation hey what's going on you want to go do this you want to eat so this way relationships are not ruin because once that door opened where there's no honor and respect between father and the son and the daughter or the mother and the son and daughter that that that's that's a dysfunctional household so you have to make sure uh but then you discipline discipline them through teachings and also through being a character just stops if you are not practicing which you preach it's not going to work in the household so uh three fifty six so good timing um I think I covered everything in here is everything was everything on that cover today yeah okay awesome so thank you very much to everyone here thank you زاكالخير to uh uh مفتصاب الوحب زاكالخير for all the brothers and everyone who's watching this and uh الله بلاس all of you and this is the work of the great uh ساعدي شيرازي اهل السنة والجماعة سمي scholar uh from حرجة from Iran but is modern to Iran and he with the immense love for Allah the Prophet ﷺ the خلصة and if you if you read the the بوستان and just the first home of the بوستان it will tell you how much love he had for Allah for his messenger and for the صحابه and the same so and well and with the greatest home ever written about the Prophet ﷺ and there's a lot of home like the بوستان and the most amazing home but when I'm talking a poem I'm talking about the shortest poem about the Prophet ﷺ ever written and with the with the highest meaning that everyone in the Arab world and the Ajamm work memorized it and it was in the when I went to Turkey it used to be hanged in the blue mosque in four corner because this is four little lines and in each line was in four direction on a huge on a huge frame calligraph very beautifully but now they're being renovated as people know in the top coffee so insha'Allah hopefully when it's done they will put those back in there so he says about the Prophet ﷺ in the shortest most succinct phrase of the Prophet ﷺ who he is and that is natural is the entire أخلاق of the Prophet ﷺ that everything about him is at the level of perfection is all of them are beautiful and perfect he was the most perfect human being physically that Allah created and we know that he was more beautiful than use of right he was more beautiful than use of and إقبال said you know look at the beauty of use of he said when they saw the beauty of use of the woman is starting to cut their fingers right they give the orange they start cutting their fingers he said my beloved the Prophet ﷺ is so beautiful that when the moon saw his finger it cut in half شق القمر the splitting of the moon happened because of you know when the Prophet ﷺ his fingers pointed to the moon مولانا رومي he said this is moon is one of the lovers of the Prophet ﷺ there's only one he said there are countless number of lovers of the Prophet ﷺ like the moon right he said he said if you look at my heart is the splitting of the moon at every moment it's the splitting of the moon at every moment and I'm going through that moon when one time I'm going through it at every breath right this is this is the way of our people these people are lovers of Allah and his messenger and these are the books that they left in order to increase that love and also to live an ethical life a life based on أخلاق a life of rectifying our wrongs being good to ourselves because our bodies are right over us and being good to other people and seeing the beauty in Allah's creation and seeing beauty in everybody else and not seeing عيب and deficiency and as he said in one of the stories he said I don't see the عيب in him and I don't see the غيب right I don't know the unseen so what I see outwardly I say I don't judge people by saying oh I think he has bad intention how do you know he has bad intention Allah knows the intention it's in the hearts of people so don't look at people with their eye of deficiency look at people with eye of beauty and say that which is beautiful or keep in silence like the pops Allah said and practice these these these teachings because if we don't practice it we have done it the service to Sa'adi and the work that he has done and left behind so maybe we can take each one of us one thing from from this and that would be not to talk behind our friends and not to excessively praise them in front to be to be just beautiful people because extreme is from shaitan and balance is from what Allah loves in the Prophet ﷺ love everything about the Prophet ﷺ was balance and we have made you as the middle umma and Allah has put this verse in the middle of surat al-baqara literally is in the middle of surat al-baqara so there's this miracle this verse all of the verses are miracle but just being a person of balance now go to the extreme in this side and that's right the same way as Salah said that the all of the virtues is that which is in the middle so you can be a person of bravery but if you become too if you go too far to the right you become reckless right if you go too far to the left you become a coward but that in the middle is right in the middle is that which is balance and my love is people of balance إن شاء الله و تعالى جزاك الله خير صلى الله و تعالى رسينا محمد اللهم صلى الله و تعالى رسينا محمد انتبى القلوب و دوائها و عافة لبداني و شفائها و نور الابصاري و ديائها و قوة الارواح و فذائها و على عالي و صاحبين برحمتك يا رحم الراحمين صلى الله و تعالى رسينا محمد جزاك الله خير and thank you very much and I bless all of you إن شاء الله