 Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem. Alhamdulillahi rabbil alamin wa sallallahu ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi. Alhamdulillahi. Thank you all for taking the time to join. We are just having some technical difficulty. Just going to get this all set up and finalized. Bismillah. All right. So we are starting this conversation today about deceptive desires. And really the goal of this conversation is to help us understand in detail what desires are, help us understand and find ways to curb these desires, and to help us figure out ways to channel the energy that we channel towards desires in a little bit of a different direction. We're in a world right now where all of us, every single person is obeying some desire or another. You and I, we are created to worship. We will either worship God, we will worship money, we will worship fame, we will worship followers, we will worship something or another. And the human being has a desire inside of them. It is a desire to want to worship something. But not all of us worship the right thing. That's just something for us to keep in mind. We live in a time where people say, oh, why do you worship God? Why do you have a religion? Well, even if somebody doesn't actually say outwardly that they're worshiping God, inwardly, they are worshiping something and they're just making that thing on a pedestal. They're putting that goal that they have on a pedestal, right? So in the old days, you would have the idea of very, very formal shirk. There's a statue that somebody makes and they're going to bow down to the statue. And now those statues are more figurative statues that people erect and they bow down to those statues. And those are the different types of things that you and I worship. So Allah actually asks in the Quran, have you seen the one who takes his Hawa, his desire as his Lord? And that's an important consideration for us to keep in mind, because you and I can actually be worshiping our desire. Somebody who has unleashed and not tamed sexual desires, can just be worshiping their sexual desires. Somebody who is not able to stop yelling at people and who's always getting mad at people, they're just worshiping their anger. They're really, really not able to control their anger. So in these conversations, we're going to be going through one desire a week, inshallah, if Allah gives us assistance. And we're just going to be talking frankly, we're going to talk frankly about things like sexual desire, talk frankly about the desire for fame, talk frankly about the desire for followers in this world of Instagram and TikTok and Facebook and YouTube and every single other social media platform it is that exists. Many of us, we are trying to always gain more followers. We're trying to get more likes, we're trying to get more people to validate us. And so we're going to talk a little bit about why that happens and what we can do to tame it and curb that energy in the right direction. So let's start a little bit with just what the framework for our desires is. So let's try and establish the framework for desires by thinking about how you and I are created. Allah says in the Quran that you and I are created weak. He says, that the human being was created weak. We are actually created with a very, very significant weakness inside of us. And this weakness actually makes us susceptible to so much more than we would want to be susceptible to. So you know, you would have those moments where you're like, I got everything under control. I'm conquering this. I'm conquering that. And the next thing you know, we screw up again. We fall short again. We slip again. And that's because that weakness that we have. Now, desire is also not something easy for us to control. Desire is something that is created by God to be strong. It's not supposed to be weak because it's not supposed to be easy. That's one framework I want all of us to keep in mind as we have these conversations. The framework for success in life is that life has challenges and life has tests. And if everything were to be super easy, well, where is the test? If God is trying to reward us with heaven, then there has to be certain tests along the way. And it kind of an exam to see, okay, does this person going to get an A? Is this person going to get a B? Is this person going to get a C? What type of grades are they going to get? And then based on that is the final outcome. So the natural propensities that we have are supposed to be difficult to conquer. Imam al-Razali, one of the chief scholars in the religion of Islam, he actually says that the most difficult propensity inside the human being to deal with is that of desire. And he says it is the oldest capacity in humans, in the man, and it is the first thing to be created in a child. Now, so this opens up the conversation. Is a desire a bad thing? Should we just eliminate desires? The answer is no, right? You have to have the desire to eat. I'm hungry right now. I need to go eat food at some point. If I don't eat, if I have no desire to eat, what's going to happen to me? Well, I'm going to eventually lose energy. I'm not going to be able to do anything. I'm not going to be able to do the work that it is that I need to do. I'm not going to be able to contribute in whatever way that is possible to society. And eventually, God forbid, you might actually die of hunger, right? The desire for the sexual desire that's created in the human being for a reason. You're not supposed to eliminate it. You're supposed to channel it in the right direction. You're supposed to channel that desire in the direction of permissible marriage. And then that allows somebody to, you know, appropriate, have kids and spread goodness and spread children in the world and hopefully spread Muslims in the world. So there are all these different types of desires. Again, our goal is not to eliminate them. The goal is to channel them in the right direction and to curb them and to make sure that they don't control us. One thing for us to always keep in mind how we can evaluate where we're at as human beings. If something is controlling us, if something is controlling you and me, something's wrong. If you and I are in control of whatever it is that's inside of us, right? Ultimately, Allah is in control. But if we are able to control ourselves, then that means we're progressing along the path well. So never let something control you. Never let your impulse to, you know, just eat everything it is that you see control you. Never let the different things that you and I might be tempted to do. It might be tempted to look at. It might be tempted to engage with. Don't let anything control you because you and I are supposed to be the ones in control of our inner world. So let's talk a little bit about what desire is. And then let's talk a little bit about how we go about balancing it. So desire is a natural propensity inside of the human being, a natural propensity which makes us want to engage in whatever activity it is that we're talking about, right? So our goal is to bring this desire into a state of moderation. It is to bring the desire into a state of moderation. Just one second here. I just want to check something. All right. Sorry about that. So the goal is to bring the desire into a state of moderation. We want to bring it into equilibrium. So I'll give you an example. Let's say that somebody is like always overeating, like just all the time they're overeating, right? Well, the goal there would be to bring that desire of overeating into moderation of eating at normal times by doing what, what would we have to do? What the scholars recommend is you actually have to fast in order to bring the overeating into balance, right? How does that work? Well, if you fast, if you on one end of the spectrum is somebody who just eats everything it is that they see, and on the other end of the spectrum is somebody who is trying to regularly and constantly fast in order to bring the person who's overeating into the middle. You can't just reduce the food by a little bit. You actually have to start fasting and go on the other side of the spectrum. Because if you go on the other side of the spectrum, you are now able to balance this desire and bring it into the equilibrium that you need to bring it into, right? So that's something for us to really keep in mind. The goal is not to eliminate it, is to bring this desire into equilibrium. This is going to be the case with every single thing it is that we're talking about, right? You can use the desire for food to eat everything that's halal and that's haram. You can use the desire to enjoy to drink and to drink alcohol and to party. You can use those desires in the wrong direction. Your goal is going to be to channel them in the right way and ultimately to bring all these desires into a state of equilibrium. So another very, very common desire that we have, what is it? That desire would be the desire for the desire for anger, right? It's very, very normal tendency in the human being to get angry. So how do we balance this tendency to get angry? Well, what we're supposed to do is we're not supposed to eliminate anger. You don't get rid of anger, but you channel anger in the right direction because Allah says in the Quran that those who restrain their anger, He says, He says, that those who restrain their anger. So when you're really upset, when you're just about to unleash on somebody, the goal is to restrain anger as something I know personally I need to work on, right? That, that if I'm getting in a moment of anger, how do I go about restraining it? Now, if the human being completely eliminated anger, let's say that desire for anger was just gone inside of you. Well, how are you going to get upset about wrongs that are happening in the world? How are you going to get upset about social injustices? How are you going to get upset about things that people are doing that they shouldn't be doing, right? About corruption and all these other problems that happen in the world. How are we going to get upset about that? Well, that faculty of anger and that desire of anger is in there to help us get upset about the right things and to not focus on the petty stuff that is that we get angry about. So it's to again, bring it into equilibrium. So in this kind of treatment of desires, you have a variety of different types of people. So we're just going to roughly categorize the types of people that you have when we're talking about desires. And again, class is focused on deceptive desires. We're going to be talking, inshallah, about a different desire every single week. And the focus for right now is just to help us give a little bit of a framework for what a desire is. How do we go about understanding it? So you have somebody, and these are from Imam al-Fazali, he says, you have somebody who's like, never really ever had their desires aroused. And so they can really quickly respond to treatment. They can really quickly treat the desires and bring them all into equilibrium. That category of person I doubt exists in the modern world today, but maybe there's a couple people out there. If so, you know, let us know how you're doing. But then there's a second category. This is the category of somebody who recognizes when they're following desires, they recognize their kind of foul acts. And at the same time, they sometimes behave in the proper ways, but they're not necessarily in the habit of behaving righteously or of taming their desires. This person has to uproot the corruption and uproot the desires and then go through a process of self-discipline in order to actually tame the desires. That's the goal for this person, right? Then you have somebody. The third category is someone who like actually thinks that following your desires, like just unleashed following of desires is a good thing. And this person is generally going to struggle to change, right? But it's still possible. And then finally, you have the person who like boasts about being arrogant. They boast about like, you know, how many girls they slept with, how many people they've hooked up with, you know, and illicitly about all the different, you know, partying it is that they've done. They boast about these types of things. Now, again, there's nothing wrong with changing your life after you and I slip up in those areas, but there's definitely something problematic about talking from a boasting about all of the things that we've done that are actually bringing negativity and negative energy inside of ourselves and in society, right? So the person who loves corruption, who loves evil, they're very difficult to change. Somebody like the president of the United States who just left this presidency, thank God, right? Just completely just obviously corrupt inside and then his corruption was so bad inside that it just seeped throughout the whole country. You have hundreds of thousands of millions of people, in fact, who are corrupt now because of the fact that one person's corruption was so strong, it impacted others. Keep that in mind. You can have a light that's so strong inside that impacts others and you can have a darkness that's so strong inside that it impacts others. So those are the couple categories of people. Now let's think a little bit about how do we channel these desires? So we talked about what these desires are and we spoke about the different categories of people that exist and we also spoke about the fact that we need to bring these desires into some state of equilibrium. That is the goal, bring the desires into a state of equilibrium. You and I have to understand ourselves in order to really ever succeed in life. Keep that in mind. We cannot succeed in life if we don't understand ourselves in some way or another. What does that mean? Look, I can understand myself outwardly. Like, oh, okay, I look like this. I'm, you know, this tall. I weigh this much. I like these things. I'm interested in this. I'm not interested in this. This is the basic level of understanding. You can do that. But the goal of the human being, there's actually a statement that one of the righteous said that the one who knows themself, himself or herself, knows their Lord. The first process of starting to discover the meaning, you know, people ask you what's the meaning of life. The first way to start to discover the whole meat, the meaning of this whole place that we're in is to start to get to know yourself and it's to get to know the good and the bad. It's not difficult to get to know the good. Everybody likes to get to know the good. We love when people tell us, oh, you're like this, oh, you're so, you know, you're so nice and you're so kind and generous and, you know, you're good looking and you're helpful, but all the different things that is that people tell us that, you know, the ego, the noffs, it likes that. It's like, oh, yeah, yeah, keep it coming. You know what I mean? Like, keep the praise coming, keep the likes coming. They love, it loves that, but what's hard to get to know, so that's easy to get to know the good about yourself and it's important to know the good about yourself so you can amplify it. What's difficult is to get to know the bad about yourself. The things like, you know what? Where am I weak? What are my blind spots? Where do I struggle? What are the things that are a challenge for me? That's difficult, right? But that doesn't mean it's impossible. It does not mean that you cannot know the bad about yourself. It just takes a little bit more work. And so this is a very, very important aspect of this journey of spiritual purification and this journey of spiritual progress to actually uncover and deeply think about the parts inside of us that we need to work on. But in order to know that, you got to know what your inner world looks like. So we're going to talk a little bit about that. So you and I see every day we see the outer world, right? We see everything going on, everything that's happening in the outside that our eyes are able to see. There's also something called the inner eye. The inner eye is a part in us that's able to penetrate and see the inner realities of people. And first and foremost, understand our own inner reality. This is something that the more somebody progresses spiritually, if Allah wishes to gift them with this, they are given this gift. And this is based on Hadith of the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. He says, beware of the Firasah of the Mutmin, beware of the piercing inner sight of the believer, because barely the believer sees by a very, very powerful piercing sight, right? So let's understand what this inner world looks like. You and I have a couple parts. You have what's called the nafs. So imagine the nafs is in the middle, okay? Then you have the nafs is the ego. It's the lower self. Then you have the door to the spiritual world. And that's called the Ruh, the spirit. And then you have the nafs, which is the door to the dunya. It's the door to like all of the things it is that can pull us down about this world, the fame and the followers and the money and the sexual desire. So that's the nafs. The nafs is the door to the world, the dunya and the world. The spirit is the door to the spiritual world, the unseen, right? The idea of spirituality is the more you work on refining your spirit, the more access you have to these unseen lights and unseen breezes, which bring about tranquility and calmness and all these other wonderful gifts that help somebody. In the middle, I misspoke earlier, in the middle you have the heart. So there's a little heart. You have the heart in the middle. You've got the spirit on this side. You have the nafs on this side. Now, the more you obey your desires, the stronger the nafs get. So the nafs is like, it's like you're working it out, right? You're working out this arm, the stronger the nafs gets, right? The more you obey and you, sorry, that you, that you don't obey the desires and that you, that you follow the practice of self-discipline and you work on yourself the stronger the spirit gets, right? So now the spirit is getting a chance to work out. And then in the middle is the heart. Now the heart is going to be influenced by whichever side is stronger. The heart is just this kind of like, you could almost say this like innocent bystander and all this that's getting influenced by these two sides, right? This isn't easy. The heart has, the spirit has angels that are helping it. The nafs has the devil and are the shayat, the various shayatin that are helping it, right? So these are the different types of desires that these are the different categories of the inner world of the human being. Now, what is our goal? The goal is when people say the idea of like purifying the heart, right? It is about taming the desires so that the nafs doesn't get strong. You want to weaken the nafs, right? So like my non-existent biceps here, you want to make them completely go away on the side of the nafs. And you want to make the other, the spirit strong. You want to make the spiritual biceps strong. You want to make the spirit in a very, very formidable place, right? That is really the goal. What happens, that is the heart starts to get purified. And now you can actually start to listen to your heart. People say, right, this idea of like, oh, you got to listen to your heart, but you can actually start to listen to your heart because you know that the heart is in a state, sorry, I'm just plugging this charger in. You know the heart is in a state of, what about this? The heart is in a state of purity, right? So when the heart is in a state of purity, you can start listening to the heart, but don't follow your heart when it's not pure. That's going to mess you up because you actually could be following the nafs. Most of the time we are following the nafs. Most of the time when people say that I'm going to listen to the heart, it's the nafs has been working on us for 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 years. And so really the heart is like this small little thing that's just gotten overtaken by our desires. So that's very, very important to keep in mind. And then, and I don't want to get too, you know, hopefully it's not too confusing. Next time, you know, see that whiteboard I'll try to draw on that whiteboard. Hopefully you'll be able to read it. I've heard that my handwriting is very legible, but Claire, that's why we have keyboards and you can type. All right, on the left. So the inside of the nafs, the last thing is there's this thing called hawa. That is the word for desire. The hawa is like speaking to the nafs, right? In addition to Shaytan is like, do this. Oh, do that. Do this. Come on. Just look one more time. Do, you know, go. It's all good if you, you know, go and work that job that you shouldn't be working and, and, and, you know, go and go gamble. It's all good if you drink a little bit. A couple more hits of that pipe is not going to do anything. Go take a hit of your big pen, right? It's the hawa is literally like whispering things partly inside of us. It's the desire inside of us. It can also get strong. It makes enough strong. And we haven't even spoken really much about Shaytan. Like the devils are here to make things even worse for us, right? They actually continue to nudge at us, nudge at us, nudge at us in order to make the nafs stronger. So all this to say, goal is what? Eliminate, sorry, curb the desire, make the nafs weak, make the spirit strong, you become strong, life becomes easier to navigate and inshallah it ends in a good outcome. That's the kind of very, very basic formula that you and I have. But our goal then as these desires come is we just want to keep trying to bring them into equilibrium. We want to bring these desires into equilibrium. So now I'm just going to talk at a very, very high level about the ways in which these desires are formed inside, okay? So you have different parts in you. And these are all based on a framework established by the scholars of the spirituality, especially Imam al-Hazali. And they basically talk about, like I said, the nafs, the rouh, which is the spirit and the heart. You also have these like faculties working inside of you. And they're basically teaching you or they're bringing you down, right? So you have what's called the rational faculty, which is the intellect. The rational faculty is supposed to be in control and in charge. The intellect is supposed to be telling you what to do. So do this, don't do that. That's why knowledge is so important. Gaining knowledge is so important because the intellect becomes more powerful. The more powerful the intellect is, the more in a good way. We're talking about spiritual knowledge here, not just like going and learning a bunch of facts and figures and then, you know, being intellectually arrogant. That's not what we're talking about. We're talking about the more and more the intellect knows and understands the religion, the more it's able to guide the rest of the body. Got it? Then you have another thing inside of you called the appetitive faculty. The appetitive faculty is the faculty inside of you, which primarily governs the desire for sex and the desire for food. These are what are called the chief mother desires inside the human being. Somebody who cannot control these will not be able to control any desires, which is usually what you'll see really corrupt people. Again, like the past president of the US who completely was just unleashed with his sexual desires and just was not able to control any other desire on top of that. It eventually led for a corrupt desire for power. He tried to even hold on to power, tried to stage a coup. You see where this leads. You see how evil just one or two untamed desires can make somebody and then how far that darkness spreads. So this appetite of faculty, it governs the desires inside of you, the appetite of faculty, talking about the desire for food and sex. We'll talk about those in the coming weeks, inshallah. The person who's able to control, the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he said, he said, the one who's able to guarantee me what's in between their mouth and what's in between their private parts, I can guarantee for them heaven. That's talking about the food, right? According to many of the scholars and the tongue overall, like in terms of being able to control your tongue. And so you could also say anger and the private parts meaning sexual relations. Excuse me, somebody's able to control these two. The prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said he can guarantee them heaven because they're very, very difficult to control. Excuse me. So all of this to say that you want your intellect to be in charge and you want the intellect to govern you. That's what you and I want. We want the rational faculty to be in charge. And then we have the appetite of faculty, which is the faculty which controls most of our desires. We want that faculty to be in submission to the intellect. Those are the two kind of basic ones that we want to cover for today. So our goal then over time is any desires that we have, we just think about it. This works for all traits, but specifically for desires, you just want to bring it into equilibrium. So it's like somebody is completely doing, let's say we mentioned food earlier, let's say sexual desire. Someone is just on tinder all the time or they're addicted to pornography, all the things that are very, very prevalent today. And if you're a parent of somebody who is a teenager, especially teenage boys, just be very aware that it's highly likely that they're getting exposed to very, very dangerous and haram imagery out there that in a time when their desires are just developing and stimulating the desires in a very, very wrong way. So these conversations are very important to have as families. So we have this desire that can get out of control. Someone in that state would need to regulate that desire, right? There's spiritual medicine someone can apply it. The provost of somebody indicated to us that if somebody, sexual desires are out of control, they should fast and that will help tame them. Why? Because these ones are linked as we just mentioned and they help clean the inner world and they clean the desires and they bring it into equilibrium or they can get married and permissively they can then engage in sexual relations that will help channel and that desire in the right direction. So that's a perfect example of how to bring something in to balance. We just want to slowly and slowly bring these things into balance. And so our goal then over the course of these conversations is we're just going to be talking about the very, very obvious desires and then eventually we'll get into the more subtle desires that exist inside of the human being. The more subtle desires are those desires that the desire for religious people to notice you in religious gatherings, the desire for people to praise you, those types of things and then of course we'll talk about the more obvious ones like sexual desire, desire for food, desire for excessive desire for money, the desire for being in charge, the desire for power, the desire for people to listen to you, the desire for arguing, all those types of things we'll try to cover. And then the more we can bring this into equilibrium, if Allah wills, the more successful we're going to be in our life. And so we'll end here with a story of somebody who's a very, very important figure in the history of Islam in America, Malcolm X. So for those who know the story of Malcolm, Malcolm, every single desire it is that was out there, Malcolm, before his Islam was engaged in it, right? Hustling, dealing, gambling, drinking, smoking, I mean everything it is that you could think of, right? This sexual relationships. But then Malcolm X, he eventually found the nation of Islam and then eventually Hamdullah he found Islam. And you saw somebody who, and it's not like it's just like a magic switch that happens and someone just completely stops all the stuff that they were doing before Islam. There's still work that has to be put in. And you saw somebody who they might have been the person most deeply engaged wherever they were on the streets, let's say, or when they were hustling. There might have been most deeply engaged in certain desires and then they were able to curb those desires. And then what happened? Not only did he curb those desires, he got all of his desires into equilibrium and then he channeled the most powerful desire. This is a secret. The most powerful desire are not the weak ones. It's called the highest desire that you and I have is the desire for knowledge. If somebody becomes really into learning, especially having the desire to know Allah, the knowledge of Allah, then the desires that are inside of them, the other desires will automatically start to get tamed, inshaAllah, because they will be focused on a higher purpose and they will already put some work into taming those desires. So what happened with Malcolm? When Malcolm was in jail, he would read an insane amount. He would literally be reading and they would close the jail, they would close the lights at a certain time and Malcolm would have a light that he would be reading with. And then when the guard would come by to just check on every single cell, Malcolm would close the light and close the book. And then the guard would leave and he would keep reading. That's how much his desire for knowledge increased. And then his desire for learning about Allah, learning about Allah's religion increased, such that he became somebody who was into learning and then into spreading knowledge and spreading justice. And that desire became so strong. It's a good desire, right? It's a good desire because our goal is to channel the desires that pull us down. You and I have desires that are pulling us this way. There's to slowly channel them, bring them onto the horizontal playing field, and then slowly channel them vertically towards Allah. What does that mean? We can desire Allah. You can desire Jannah. You can desire getting to know Allah. You can desire the love of Allah, all positive things. If those desires become powerful enough in the human being, these lowly desires that you and I have, they become, we stop wanting to follow them because you're like, dude, there's so much more I could be doing, right? Who cares about this? Who cares about getting high when I could be getting like spiritually high in the right way, right? Like who cares about these things? So these desires, so he channeled the desires from literally being dragged down and then he started to be pulled up a magnetic pole. And he, he channeled these desires in the most positive direction. Alhamdulillah, he was then able to go out and he was able to spread immense good, bring people who are struggling with significant parts of their life back into goodness. And he was able to become one of the most, if not the most significant Islamic figure in the real, in the history of the United States. I mean, Subhanallah, Malcolm X. Look at, look at this type of impact that he had, all because he was able to control his desires and he was able to bring them into a state of equilibrium. So that is the type of potential that you and I have. We can't let the lowliness of desires, the lowliness of this dunya, the lowliness of all these appetites that we have bring us down. That's what animals do. The animals, they just, all they want to do is like they want to eat. They want to be with other animal. They want to copulate. That's all animals want to do. That's not what you and I were created for. We do that stuff at a limited level. We bring it into equilibrium and we focus on what's important in life. What's important in life is getting the desire to be focused vertically on getting to know Allah, the desire for loving Allah, the desire for loving the messenger of Allah, the desire for spreading clear, the desire for spreading good, the desire for serving. All these types of desires are positive ones that we can bring about once we tackle the the basic ones. So inshallah, we'll spend the next couple of weeks talking about the basic ones. We'll talk about how we work on them. And then of course the work comes in and we have to, it's a lifelong struggle. It's a lifelong journey that we put in that we have to put work in to taming each and every single desire. We work on ourselves, then we try to help our families and then our communities, societies and so on and so forth. Allah says in the Qur'an that He does not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves. So we got to work on what's in ourselves and Allah will start to change our condition, change the condition of our family and then hopefully He will allow us to help change the condition of the society that we live in to help bring it out of the state of immense corruption and immense obsession with the wrong type of desires, bring it into equilibrium. So we pray that Allah blesses everybody. We pray that He blesses the efforts that we're trying to make and we pray that He assists everybody. We'll do a short prayer, a short dua and then we'll go ahead and end. We're going to try to keep these classes 30 to 35 minutes inshallah. So we'll do Wednesday every evening, 7 p.m. PST inshallah, 7 to 7 30. Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem. We ask that you accept this. We ask that you pardon us. We ask that you allow us to curb our desires and to channel our desires in the right way and to bring them into a state of equilibrium. We ask that you put barakah and all of the efforts it is that people are doing. We ask that you spread your religion. We ask that you allow the Prophet ﷺ to be pleased with all of us and we ask that you are pleased with all of us and we ask that you forgive all those it is that have passed away from COVID and from any other disease amongst the umma of the Prophet ﷺ in the recent days and in the recent weeks and that you grant them the highest stations of paradise and all those who are sick in our families and the families of our loved ones that you cure them and that you remove all difficulty from our life and from their life and that you bring immense barakah and immense khair into our life and anybody who it is that is here that is struggling or that intended to be here or that it is just making any good intention anywhere in the world that has any difficulty Ya Rabbi Al-Alameen that you remove all their difficulty that you bring khair and ease and positivity and happiness and optimism into their life that you remove all of our anxieties and depressions that you should bless all of our affairs inwardly and outwardly in this world and next. Salallahu ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala alihi wa sahbihi as-salam. Alhamdulillah Rabbi Al-Alameen Thank you so much. Salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi