 As-salaamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh Ma'sha'Allah, I'm ready to say that anything you would say at this point to try to express our happiness in seeing the people that we dearly love and that we hope that are connected to not only in this world but the next, at this point we're not truly conveying the feeling in the heart, Ma'sha'Allah, I'm ready to say that, Ma'sha'Allah this room keeps getting more and more beautiful every time that we come in it, Ma'sha'Allah Ma'sha'Allah, Jameeraah, the Jama'at, Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala is that's beautiful and He loves beauty and that the outward manifestations of beauty is that if they are looked at correctly is that they help with inner manifestations of beauty and that everything, every sense of the human being that recognizes that beauty in accordance with that particular sense and so that there is a beauty that the eye recognizes, there's a beauty that the sense that we smell recognizes, there's a beauty that in relation to sounds that the ear recognizes, there's a beauty in relation to that which we touch and the things that we deem to be beauty, all of the five senses, but the heart also perceives beauty and the two reasons that people love ultimately that get back to that perfection and that get back to Ihsan so that we naturally are that created to that love and to be connected to that which is that beautiful or complete in and of itself and likewise is that being good is done to us and that we could talk about those meanings in relationship to our Lord Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala but also in terms of our Prophet ﷺ that no one was more beautiful and complete than he was ﷺ and that we can talk about three degrees of that beauty, his beauty of his physical body ﷺ, his beauty of his that character ﷺ and that is also inward spiritual beauty and the reality of his true nature that Muhammad ﷺ which was the most beautiful thing of all is that we're the veil to be removed to someone to see even the slightest bit of the internal light and beauty of our Prophet ﷺ and we would be unable to bear it. If we have certain thought that indicates is that we're the light of the disobedient believer to be unveiled to say it was filled up that which is between the heavens and the earth then what about the obedient believer, what about the righteous, what about the odia, what about the elect of the Godia, what about a Prophet ﷺ and also what about Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, you can only imagine that what is internal beauty that would have been like and then in terms of Ihsan is that when we think about everything that our Prophet ﷺ did and that the bearing of the trust of revelation and that assuming that trust and passing it on and the four foundational attributes that we attribute to the Prophet ﷺ messengers is that we know that they had a manner that they were trustworthy, we know that they had siddh, that they were truthful and we know that they did what was called Tabligh al-Risaala that they conveyed the message just as we know that they also had faqana, they also had that seditiousness, that the mental keenness and intelligence that was appropriate for a Prophet ﷺ and that when you think about everything that the Prophet ﷺ did for us and all of the burdens that he bore on our behalf, Salalah, I said how could you that have anything other than the love for our Prophet ﷺ, I did add you to say that in our hearts. InshaAllah we'll speak a little bit tonight about healing, in particular healing of the hearts and healing of the soul and I thought it would be good to approach this topic in the following way because that there is tendencies now within certain communities especially those who tend to deny the divine impact upon creation and disbelief in our Lord to look outwardly at the way things are and put them into question based upon the way they are and the nature of the believer is that when we look at Allah ﷺ creation is that we want to see the meaning behind it as the Prophet ﷺ said indeed that everything that is existing in creation is that they are meaning set up in the form of images and everyone who realized this is that truly a person of intelligence and so is that one of the words that we have for learning lessons is the word tibam it's to take a lesson from something and it relates to abwara yawwara which is to cross and so the idea is crossing that the obstacles that might be in the way for someone to understand that meaning and oftentimes that people get veiled by the outward form of things and they tend to lack an ability to understand the meaning that is behind it and you could look at it in the following way that when we talk about healing is that it is if that our Lord subhanahu wa ta'ala has created the creation so that is in need of healing at every single level you could start at the level of the cosmos in that interpretive verse like Allah ﷺ says in the Quraysh that everything is perishing that except his noble countenance and so that the universe itself has been set up to ultimately that lead towards an existence it's going to end some way now whether it's just going to keep expanding keep expanding keep expanding so that it cools down and then that's it or whether it's going to constantly continue to expand and then fold upon itself or whatever else is postulated about the creation of the universe and how it's going to end that ultimately loss of primatizing control and just as that we weren't there to witness the beginning of creation that Allah ta'ala says that or we did not cause them to witness the creation of the heavens and the earth likewise is that we don't know exactly that from our perspective other than what is we've been told in the Qur'an how that is going to happen but we know this is the nature of creation is that everything shape everything is right and that it is perishing it is moving into non-existence and that is a very profound verse and that you could look at that over art in an overarching sense in addition to the how we experience time just as you could look at it in that the moment to moment as that everything in reality is being that created and recreated created and recreated created and recreated and that by its nature that the world in other sub was not meant to be here permanently and then that you could look at this at the civilizational level is that we that people have studied in great detail the rise and fall of civilizations every civilization that rises rises rises and that eventually falls this is the nature of also kind of creation at the civilizational level is that there are is a rising of a civilization and a falling of a civilization and then you could see this at the societal dimension and you start to get here that you could look at this idea of entropy and the natural state of things to move into a state of disarray at not only the societal level which is ultimately made up of individuals but especially at the individual level is that if you do not put that energy in to better society is that it will decay in and of itself that it will move towards that disarray in all in a number of different ways and this is definitely the the statement when it comes to the individual is that that whether it be our physical health or whether it be our spiritual health is that you have to put energy in constantly to maintain your physical health is that you have to put energy in constantly to maintain your spiritual health otherwise it will move towards a state of disarray and after understanding how this all works which is all pretty straightforward is that what we can conclude from that is it is as if our Lord supine what has set us up to be in need of healing constantly and in that regard you could look at it in one of two ways you could look at it like someone like Ray Kurzweil who is one of the that I would be that that the worst people that I've ever heard speak on that something of this that is that deeply that entrenched in a worldview of kofo where I would be that that will say ridiculous things that I don't even want to repeat the upshot of it is is that a complete sheer disrespect for our Lord in a way that he created things and that saying ridiculous things like how could I respect the human body that when it's so flawed and it can get sick completely that being blinded to the wisdom in the whole process it is as if that Allah is setting us up a need for healing so that we can realize the truth of the matter is that we are in absolute need of him in every single moment and once you realize that that we are in absolute need of Allah is that now you can actually start healing in the true sense of the word as long as that we have this that illusory understanding we are diluted by our particular state and how we experience the world and then we are cut off from that meaning of realizing that we are in absolute need of our Lord in every single that moment that it's very difficult for us to progress so then this begs the next question is that how do you and I fight this spiritual entropy so the purpose tonight is to focus on physical health although that is a very very important topic it's more to focus on the spiritual dimension of the human being in relation to healing to this of the soul what can we do what in type of energy that can we put in to that start this process and here we can look at a that section of memorabilia that is the hand of the dean that is taken from the book of intention sincerity and truthfulness where that after defining what he what is called silk which is truthfulness is that he gives us six different levels of truthfulness and that is important to note here and this is amazing the way the memos that he does this is that he just as he combines vices together he shows how they relate one to another likewise he combines virtues so over the weekend when we were in Aptos we were looking at the relationship of what happened to Hebron to Hassan how that anger when it is uncontrollable and it's the best of what can turn into Hebron which is ranker which if you don't uproot that from your heart is that it could turn into Hassan which is envy and those three vices all relate to another and that it was not careful one leads to another which leads to another and opens up all different types of sub vices that can completely that overtake one I would be that elite one and put them in a very bad state but likewise excuse me the virtues also are related to each other and so the intention is related to sincerity and sincerity is related to truthfulness and how does that work is that the intention is where we scrutinize all of the things that we should be intending or where you as you could say those things that motivate us of all of the different possible motivations one of the ones that will actually be sincere and pleasing to Allah but the difference between that sincerity and truthfulness is that all truthfulness all sincerity is truthfulness but not all truthfulness is sincerity in other words is that truthfulness is a virtue beyond sincerity and sincerity relates to that particular moment that you make the right intention and you have the right motivation which you could be much less but you might not be solid you could be sincere but be lacking truthfulness and we say truthfulness it doesn't really convey the meaning of sip fully because it we only think of when we say truthfulness one type of it which is actually its lowest degree which we'll talk about in a moment so every person who's much less is not as I said I saw that but every saw that is definitely mochis so then he was a list for us the six degrees of sin and he bases it on parahadith of our proper sada which indicates about righteousness he speaks of and how that truthfulness leads to righteousness and righteousness leads to paradise and then he said the servant will continuously be sincere will continuously be truthful until that he is written with Allah as a severe and based upon his hadith is that we realize is that there is a that first degree beginning foundational degree of truthfulness and then there's a path that one takes that leads them in the highest degree and that after the prophets and messengers according to the Quran is that we know obeys Allah and his messenger they will be with those that Allah has bestowed his favor upon from amongst the prophets the those highest saints or whoever you choose to translate it that you could say ultimate confirmers of truth however it is that you choose to translate that and then we have the shuhada while the martyrs and the righteous after the prophets and messengers this is the elect of the elect and that this is one of the reasons why the epithet of Sayyidina al-Baqarah is a Sadiq is that he was truthful to Allah in all of his different states and that this is also that in the nomenclature of the righteous the word that they use for the very highest station of all that they refer to as the Maqam the Siddiqiyah and you find this in the books of the scholars and it is the station of the greatest Siddiqiyah and the reason we should speak about these things even though that where we found them is if it's important to know them even if we are not necessarily from them we should speak about it so that we can know know that it exists so that we can come to love them and that love in and of itself is beneficial in the dunya and the ahra secondly is that if you don't know there's something higher to attain how are you going to better yourself in the first place is that it's good to know that okay there is a lofty goal that is out there that perhaps someone can possibly attain so that you can then have the requisite spiritual aspiration to at least that tread the path that if you can't attain that entire thing is that you've gone as far as that you can and so the first degree starts with siddh kallisa and again we're presenting this in the following context that love that how can you and I fight spiritual entropy because if you neglect yourself is that the nafs at a moderate pursuit will take you in a direction that is that unhealthy for you there's no doubt about that and there is no neutrality at the level of the soul you're never ever just remaining that stagnant you are either increasing or you were decreasing you are either ascending or you were descending and that this the proof of that is is that chapter that we've all heard that imam ashabi said will this to be the only chapter that Allah revealed it would suffice will ask the in the inside of the proposal that relating us to time by time indeed the human beings are in loss illa and then there's an exception so what we need to do is to learn to live that exception and how do we do that it's in the following way the first way starts with the first degree of siddh is siddh kallisa being truthful in the things that we say and even though this is a that long discussion in and of itself all of the various things that one might potentially say that even though that they're not outright lies but they that might not be the whole truth either and i was speaking earlier about how oftentimes is that we just repeat things that we hear without fully checking them out and we forget the hadith of our prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that kefab and money can be but and you had be that you could you mess up it is sufficient to be considered a liar is that everything that you hear you just you just say it and social media does not help too much in that i and people say things and then that they share those posts and then all of a sudden it is across the world and it's been completely decontextualized and that unfortunately that people's honors are at stake and people get hurt and just because you're behind a computer and you tapping a button and you don't think because you're not seeing the reaction of someone for you that you're not harming someone or somehow that you're not taking to account for that i would have been that is that your tongue is in your pen is one of the tuli sands and by extension that the modern pen is the typing of the letters or whatever it is that you're doing on the computer it's an extension of that what would normally the way that people used to write with pens it's an extension of that and you are absolutely taking to account for that before allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and this is a very very dangerous state and unfortunately is that if you tell people that when they're typing to have taqwa right this is not something that people tend to think about is that to just pause and reflect upon what it is that i'm going to say at very least and there's someone that just mentioned to this to me recently is that that he defended someone and then people didn't like the fact that he defended that person and then some people that were upset that they weren't they weren't he wasn't taking their side on things and then the conversation was we need to make this person completely irrelevant like who says something like that like what kind of intention is behind someone saying something like what is in the state of someone's heart if that is the way that they are looking at their muslim brother and sister these are vices and unfortunately is that modern technology for the most part has compounded peoples that unleashing that of vices on the world and that it is something that is very severe that we need to have taqwa and that to think very carefully before we make a post is this from my notes is it not from my notes do we think that all of a sudden that because that technology has changed and the world around us is quote unquote progressing when it's really digressing and that we can somehow all of the traditional principles about the way we do things throughout the door is that the people the sides of your son say is that when you want to speak remain silent and when you want to remain silent speak now just imagine if people applied that principle to hitting enter and that are published on facebook that when you really want to say something right just wait and don't say it and then when you don't want to say something say it because if you really really want to say something the sign is is that it's from the notes and this is what they've always talked about that when that the three degrees that determine our actions is that the first one is is that the should yeah this is you have to know the sacred law and that once something is within the realm of permissibility even if there's a difference of opinion there's room but that's not the only criteria that's the basic level of criteria and that's the basic criteria the second level is is that you imagine would this be something that a righteous person would do this is why it's so important you should have had we should all have regular interactions with good people so that we imagine those people is it would they do something like this would they really say something like that imagine could you imagine for those of us that have been around teachers highest people could you imagine them saying let's make that person irrelevant like seriously would one of our teachers say something like that right absolutely of course not if they that reflect even the that slightest bit of character of Satan and Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam but the third criterion that they say which is subtle and you have to be slightly careful especially those of us that are trapped in the lower stages than us and that's the model is who is that if you really want to do that thing generally speaking when we're in that lower level of that no said a model you should wait and it might not be the best thing for us to do but again once you start calling people out on their desires and telling them to hold back into restrain themselves you're gonna have a lot of people that do not like you but anyhow it starts with simply saying having truthfulness of tongue and that that that applies to many different dimensions of our life that including the promises that we make and one of the discussions that we had over the weekend was what happens when you become angry and it becomes that much much much easier to move away from the truth or outright lie once you become angry and we talked a little bit about cognitive restructuring the importance of avoiding that certain words like always and never because it's on the verge of being alive is all of a sudden you become angry you never right you always and is that really true that that always happens probably not maybe a lot and not always is that true never probably not maybe but rarely but not never anyhow that we have to be aware of these things and that learn the prohibitions of the tongue learn that what relates to the tongue and that they also mention other things like I've told you a thousand times really like one two three ninety a thousand times right and exaggeration and that and also that things like someone calls and you don't want them to know you're there tell them I'm here if those are your children you've now taught your children how to lie now there's other ways around it you don't necessarily have to answer the phone if he did not answer the phone or you could just simply say that um can she call you back later can he call you back later or something like that there's other ways around it and we have to be careful with innuendos what is known as they that that's our or misleading expressions things like it because that you can use it for haja for a need but you do have to be a little bit careful there and that's where you're kind of in a situation where that you need to kind of get out of it and that you if you've told the absolute truth that it would that puts you in a compromising position but at the same time that you can't outright lie and um you know this is an example going back to someone uh asking uh if you're there or something like that and actually the costly example is that when the good man was asked about you know the created nature of the Quran and that he counted on his hands that the that the Zabur and the Torah and the Injil and the Quran they are all created and he meant by that his fingers and not the books right that's an example of a misleading expression anyhow that simply sand is important putting that energy in to have truthfulness of tongue but then there's five degrees after that so as difficult as it is to control a challenge that every successive degree is more difficult than the first not that we panic but we realize is it like anything else in life is that we need to restructure the way that we approach our lives to take these matters and make them the most important matters in our life the second degree is sultania and this is where that truthfulness overlaps with sincerity and that is that striving to be sincere and sincerity is a process and the reason it is a process because all of the manifestations of insincerity relate to passions or the caprice of the soul so there are attachments to the world every attachment that we have to the world potentially could lead us to be insincere in that particular way if we let that particular desire get the best of us but understanding what the nature of sincerity truly is if you want to get right to the point that the essence and the highest degree of sincerity relates to two things one of them is awareness and the other one relates to the motivation the awareness is that Allah ﷻ absolutely deserves to be worshipped He deserves to be worshipped that motivation is you're doing what you're doing to fulfill the command of Allah that is the essence of what sincerity is and that if that's in someone that when you go through difficult times because the vast majority of us when we experience the vicissitudes of life we have ups and downs we're happy and we're sad and when we're happy we tend to have more energy to worship and when we're sad we tend to have less and that when you have the motivation behind your worship be fulfilling Allah's command with that awareness that He deserves that worship you detached it from yourself because suddenly with it when you're happy or sad and you let that affect you when you stray from that intention that was just mentioned is that you are in a sense worshipping for yourself but when you detach that that you recognize this is for Allah ﷻ subhanahu wa ta'ala then that what you're doing is is that you are preparing yourself to be able to move to the higher degrees of sincerity you can also say is that it is to have the only intention behind your worship be a desire to draw near to a that takes time though to really truly attain and the beauty is is that according to Imam al-Azadi is that depending upon the degree of sincerity versus inciscerity in the heart is that it's like a proportion that counsels it out so if you're 75 sincere 25 insincere subdue the subtraction and then you get 50 percent of the reward for what you do is that if you're 40 insincere 60 sincere you still get reward for 20 percent and then in the other way around as well if it's 70 insincere 30 sincere is that there is that less that punishment involved as a result and so we should strive to be sincere the third level is that beyond the intention which is what is called as having the truthful at the level of resolution and that resolution differs slightly from the intention the intention the place of it is one of sincerity but resolution is where that intention becomes so strong now what you're doing is setting yourself to actually do that act and so resolve is important and that it is that something that needs to be there in order for us to fully that carry out the intentions that we make and in that process of decision making is that everything begins with a thought and then after a thought that you have what is called the man is that the way that you incline or that disincline that's even a word towards that thought and then the third stages is where you do give hookup is that you judge that thought and that inclination with your intellect but your intellect has to be fueled not only with knowledge well you could say most importantly with sacred knowledge and then also experience and then intention comes at the fourth degree so it's thought inclination judgment and intention and then you could say in a sense considered a fifth step or a that further a final step that relates to that fourth step which is as resolution and then what you have after that is action and so is that being that have been truthful and or awesome and what awesome is really about is must bring up within yourself that ability to actually do what it is that you've intended and then you could really kind of consider these very closely related maybe in the same degree but the third degree excuse me let's see this is the fourth degree now is what he calls that as sick then what's that but awesome is that where you are truthful and you fully carrying out everything that you've resolved to do and you will see this that we will we will experience this constantly in our lives we attend the hutwa that something impacts us that we make an intention to that really make that a part of our life and all of a sudden you go out to lunch after and then you start spending time with people and those strong intentions that you made in the hutwa by Moghrib time so there's no trace of it then and this is where truth when this comes in is that you might say I want to donate some money to this particular cause and that you're there and that in the moment that you've decided to do it and then is that you go home you start thinking about all your bills and college and everything else that you have to save money for and then maybe I'm not going to donate to that particular cause and actually say that a very small percentage really that total donations I've heard numbers but it is that no one that has been tried and tested and had to do a fundraiser which is that that they actually a relatively small percentage of people to make pledges actually go through with your pledges and that anyone that put on a fundraiser you can ask them that and and that's a very that's very common place but if you're truthful is that if you set out to do something and money is just one aspect of that whatever it is that you set out to do is that you hear this kind of love this saying set a watch up on the prophet 500 terms a day could change your life and that then you make an intention to do that but you have to have resolution meaning the intention has to become strong no I'm really going to do that and part of resolution is where you go through the planning phase of how you're going to do that so not only am I going to I'm going to take the time to okay I know what I'm going to say and I know that I'm going to get myself a rosary so that I can actually do it with my so pot and I know that I'm actually going to do it at work when I'm walking from wherever my car to my office at such and such a time and then that force stage relates to that day when you actually are there in that situation that you do and so that this is a part of truthfulness and if you think about your own state and our own states there's a lot of things that we hear that we want to make a part of our life but because we're lacking in this trait is that it doesn't become a part of who we are there's two more degrees as well the fifth degree is what is called a sip cool for that man is that where we are truthful that in all of our deeds all of the acts that we do and what that means is is that you give 100% of yourself to whatever it is that you are doing is that every ability that you have to give to the moment is that you give into that moment to whatever it is that you're doing and so that if you're listening to a football is that you give 100% of your intention is that with all of the etiquettes inwardly and outwardly is that you that that recognize is that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala is making that person say what it is that they're saying and that you that I quote you follow the that instructions of the Qur'an and that you that that listen to what is being said and that you implement the very best of it and so that even if that some things that are said that you might disagree with or that you don't fully understand what is being said or whatever is that still don't let that blind you from the good that might be in it even if you've heard something repeated 1000 times is that see it as a gift from Allah to you that you needed in that particular moment and listen very carefully and intensively and so forth and so on the same thing goes for the prayer the same thing goes when you visit the sick the same thing goes when you spend time with your family that live in that moment and that try your best to give all of your energy to that particular moment this is what is known as siklim al-amad and then the highest degree of all is what Imam al-Azari calls a sikwafi maqamat ad-din being truthful in the various stations of the day being truthful in the various stations of the day and what he means by the stations here are the maqamat ad-yaqeen the stations of certainty so the station of repentance the station of fear the station of hope the station of patience the station of gratitude the station of renunciation the station of trust in Allah the station of love the station of contentment all of the different stations of the day but when we say those words is that the hope is is that as we've grown and progressing our day is that we learn about them because the reality is is that we should have learned about them when we're children is that the very first text that I was blessed we've been speaking much of today about that sikhopi when baby or blessed teacher that uh that really someone's like a father from waritania and the story of him being brought here and teaching and so forth and that that initial class has started that's in Santa Clara which comes with translating and alhamdulillah that uh recently I was able to get copies of the recordings that I had but every single there's 22 lessons and I had every single one except one I lost something and then I remember that I was on my way to Syria in 1999 and as a poor student who barely got on that plane after having borrowed money that I couldn't take my baggage on because I was overweight and um that's all I had to anyhow I couldn't take the baggage so you couldn't take it on so I I put it in a locker and asked a friend to pick it up and he never did and oh my goodness I had so many precious things and they're among them with those tapes and um for years that I didn't have uh that's uh didn't know anyone else that had reported that and then recently someone had sent me my love lesson and then we have that's a digital version stored in the cloud somewhere hopefully that's uh we should probably do hard copies of it as well but anyhow that this is something that you study in a very basic primer this is what we studied in the last section of ibn Asha you learn about the mochana to the yuki this is far-dying knowledge this is knowledge that isn't an individual obligation for every Muslim to know that these things exist and then you spend a lifetime trying to inculcate them within yourself but the knowledge of them is extremely important and to be thinking about these things and to be reminded of these things I would love to see that the khutma series is set for the next running three months as of every week that they're doing one of the mochana to the yuki and and these are the types of things that we really need to be exposing ourselves to everything that we just mentioned about siddh these are the six ways that we fight the entropy of the soul is it by putting this energy in in that particular way and that this is the way that someone becomes a siddh is that when you master all six of those levels is that then that you have attained a very high station in this deen and he will be beloved to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala if we look more specifically to some of the verses in the Quran that relate to healing is that we know that our Lord says subhanahu wa ta'ala will be revealed in the Quran is that we reveal this Quran that as a healing in mercy to the believers and so that the Quran is a shefa this is one of the that names of the Quran is a shefa it is a healing in and of itself and it is a healing in a number of ways the foundation of all healing that lies at the realm that lies at the level of the spiritual and although there are multiple different types of healing that can take place is that the most important in the heart of all the and it has to lie at the level of the heart and the soul if we no matter how healthy we are in every other aspect of health is that if the heart and soul is not healthy it is not considered to be true health and that we can look in this regard at multiple dimensions or degrees of health and we can talk a little bit about the following is that you have spiritual health which you also say is religious health and then you have another that unique category which is that rational or intellectual health it's a separate category there are some people that are not rationally healthy they're not intellectually healthy meaning is that their minds are weak they don't know how to think properly they don't know how to examine things that they don't know how to draw conclusions they don't have insight into matters it's a specific type of health then that there are ways and tools that you can learn to go about strengthening that your rational abilities so that that you attain more health that you become healthier in this regard and then you also have another distinct category of psychological or mental health and perhaps you can include the emotional in that as well as it's a distinct category in of itself is that there are such things as mental illnesses it's not always Jim there is such thing as a mental illness and that there also is a distinct category obviously physical health which is we can't relocate health merely to the physical but it is a very important dimension of health but then you have two others that are exterior to the human being you could talk about social health is it you'd be surprised that someone is spiritually healthy they're that you know rationally healthy psychologically mentally healthy physically they're doing great but they just they're not don't want to interact with people they don't know how to interact with their spouse they don't know how to interact with their children they don't know how to interact with their neighbors they don't know how to distinguish between someone who is struggling and in someone who is that firmly they're rude in their team they don't know how to interact with that people that might not be a muslim they don't know how to interact with people that are struggling they don't know how to interact with people that have had trauma in their life and so forth and so on this is an enormous category is that social health is a distinct type of health and that learning how to interact with people and that how each person will interact with is unique and learning techniques to they come to the understand that person that is before you and how that you're going to deal with that person and what it is that you say to them and what is the intention behind it and so forth and so on that is a distinct category of health and then finally is that we have environmental is that again this is exterior to the human being but there's no doubt that it affects the human being at oftentimes many of these other levels if you put someone in the wrong environment is that it can affect them drastically spiritually it can affect them drastically rationally and that psychologically and oftentimes even physically so anyhow that these six different degrees of health is that when we talk about the foundation the most important part is the spiritual health is that we've always recognized is that there are degrees of the soul some of them say that there are three other than others say that there are seven but there's degrees and the more that we move from the lowest degree which is the nuts that are moderate to suit the nuts that incites to evil and that we work on ourselves and then that we move up to the nuts and Obama the reproachful soul we start to state ourselves to account is that we're not content with our state that we want to do better we want to get our things together is that then we will be that healthier and then that it ends if you say that there's three in the nuts and multiple indents the tranquil soul and then if we're going to add the other four because we said some say they're seven that some say that there is a sub stage that between that today's two and three which is enough to move him up the inspired soul and then some say there are three stages after the multiple indents which is the holiday and the model via the one that is that pleased and well placed and then you have the nuts of camp this is the complete soul this is the one that is that moved up to the highest degree of purity and then this is someone who that they're each one of these stages is that there's signs and characteristics signs that someone is actually in that stage in characteristics of that particular stage that then manifest in the human being as a result and so that we can't have a discussion about spiritual health without understanding that the soul and that unfortunately as well can not have a discussion really about progress without understanding progress of the soul there is absolutely no meaning to any type of material scientific or technological progress without progress of the soul no meaning to it whatsoever it will lead to utter chaos is that the more we quote unquote progress in some of those areas and others that we didn't mention outwardly but we're not progressing at the level is that it will lead to chaos and it will be destructive and that in fact is that the things that we see happening around us that are signs of the time that we live in are telling us something they're telling us something is that whether it be nature itself and everything that we see happening in nature or whether it be that what's happening on the hands of many women as a result of what they're the things that they've done these are signs telling us about the nature of the soul something is wrong but is that we have to relate it back to our own that understanding which is one of progress and so that in order to truly have that spiritual health is that there's a few things that we have to take into consideration the importance of living a life of meaning and when we say that we know that we've been created for a purpose but what does it really mean to live a life of mean at the most esoteric spiritual level it's the way that those who have attained the higher degrees of perfection in this religion is that the essence of living a life of meaning is to perceive that the means of the manifestation of the names or attributes of the lust of kino and tata around us and even though that's a state of unveiling that in the higher degrees of this of that realization is that we can begin that by taking the first steps in the right direction and this is why that when we that talk about we actually did a class there are years ago on the name of Allah and that the hadith of our prophesies and it speaks of the names whoever enumerates them that will enter into paradise there's three levels the first is that could legitimately be considered to be enumeration is to memorize them that's level one at least we should all memorize the nana names of Allah either that in just wrote from that or is that in poem forms there are poems as well that have put the nana names in poem form that make it easier for us to memorize but the second degree in enumeration is that we understand its means and so that you systematically learn the names of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and what they mean and then that is preparing you for the third level of that of this which is that you take the share you take on the share that is possible for the human being and then it can even get further where you talk about the different degrees of that right um these are amazing things to talk about and that it shows us again and again and again is that how much work we have to do in this regard but what happens is once you come to know the names of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala you can start that training yourself to see them and striving to see the world in that particular way and to be reminded of that when something happens that you don't like is that what's cool what's really going on that maybe there's a name of Allah manifesting I need to learn and so that's the essence of living me and um I remember that uh being on a trip one time with my teacher and we were on our way to Indonesia and it turned oh excuse me we're actually on our way from Indonesia to Australia and he had a visa and a visa had expired and we didn't realize it and until it was too late we were in the we went from Jakarta to Bali and then they looked at the passport and the visa had expired and so I was a bit frustrated with the organizers like you didn't have the common decency to look at the passport you know to see that if there is if it's still valid or not and um that my teacher was sitting on the bed and he was just completely relaxed you keep in mind we come from Jakarta to Bali which is a distance and you know how that is is that when you're getting ready to travel and then all of a sudden you don't travel it's very hard for you your plane is delayed or you actually missed your plane that's not an easy thing to bear and so we're sitting there and I noticed that he was just completely relaxed and I just started looking at it and then he starts reciting poetry and then that he starts reciting poetry that is that very that special poetry with meanings of the love of Allah and so forth and there was a bit of thought even you could tell that he was in a very beautiful state and I think he noticed that myself was in a bit of a different state as I was sitting over there and that he looked at me and he says he says yeah yeah he says that the knowers of Allah the art of him he said is that they witness Allah that in giving they witness Allah when he gives and when he prevents they witness Allah in times of giving and in times of prevention and they said and he said that they actually see prevention as a gift and then he says this is the only thing that you learn on this trip he said it would be sufficient for you that to learn how to that see prevention as a gift wow what an incredibly amazing concept that you could really that see that blockage that you come to across those in your life and just something you can't get beyond that but you see it as a gift it would that would be life changing if you could if you could implement that anyhow is that that learning to that bringing meaning into our life in that particular way but also too that the secret to healing at the level of the spirit is to realize is that that the that the self is not the center of the universe is that we have to that realize is that that even though human beings have this incredible ability to know Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is that you can never truly know your Lord is that when the focus is on the self and this is one of the greatest gifts that we can offer to the modern world really is to de-emphasize the focus of the self and that there is a long discussion that we could have and how is that the traditional view that many religious people had that was destabilized and ultimately uprooted and changed such that the human being and really what we mean by that is the enough so that the human being was placed at the very center and that they're through a trickle down effect that many of the people that are operating around us this is the way that they view the world and that we have to put things in their proper place and then there's no doubt both of those dimensions will ultimately lead to the decision-making process of the human being which is that essential for us to have this spiritual health and if we would go into more detail about the other aspects of health is that there's a lot more that could be said about that and but is that the Quran and the teachings of our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is that they have been sent as a shifa they have been sent as a healing and I quoted this Hadith before but I want to remind ourselves of it because I really believe it is an incredibly important Hadith for all times but especially our time and this is the Hadith that creates and it gives us a metaphor of the believer being like a bee and that I want to quote the longer narration which is in the Musnad of Imam Ahmad and that it is you'll see what is mentioned here is that it's mentioned in the context of the signs of the end of time so in other words when there is turmoil that when things are going wrong that when things are not the way that they should be how should the believer be right I didn't mean to say it's never be and then the believer should be like a bee but that this is what our Prophet says Inna min ashaata sa'a al-fush wa tafaqsh indeed from the signs of the end of time are indecency and you could translate the second one although it's the same your word people going out of their way to be indecent so there's some people are just indecent but then there are other people that see other people being indecent and they go out of their way to being indecent and they end up being more indecent than those who are just indecent and if you've traveled the world you'll know exactly what I'm talking about there are people that just want so much to be a part of this world that they think other people that are living is that they go out of their way to be like that and they end up that being that that's more difficult to deal with oftentimes than people who are just indecent and kind of let other people be because people that are going out of their way tend there's you know a that way that they end up treating people who are not indecent that ways that even people that aren't like that do and then the Prophet said wassua al-jiwaa is that there will be a lot of bad neighbors and a severing of family ties and then look at this one when you're taman al-kha'im or you're hawin al-ameen that people that are really treacherous is that they will be trusted and people that are trustworthy they will deem to be treacherous and so everything is that upside is that the true people that have this trait of trustworthiness is that they won't be trusted and the people that really shouldn't be trusted are trusted I mean how many people in the world does that apply to them if you really think about people high up I mean we know what happened last Friday and we know people that are in charge of you know very serious things and are these the people that really should be in those positions like what are their intentions what are their agendas what are their ulterior motives you know and what is their character that what is their just common decency forget character what is just common where is their common decency and so that this is a sign of end of time but what does our Prophet say in this hadith he gives us that two metaphors well matlal al-mu'min ka matlal al-qit'at al-zahl al-jayda the likeness of a believer in these times is like a piece of gold Qul qida aalayha that fa khalusat it was put to the fire and it became more pure wa wuzinat falam tanqus and when it was waved it didn't diminish so again the idea that we've always heard is that testing relates to putting fake gold upon the fire which will expose its fakeness whereas true gold will become more pure but then the Prophet said and the likeness of a believer is like a nahlah the believer is like a bee and the Prophet said he ate from the pure and wholesome things and then he excreted and emitted that which was pure and wholesome and that in the another narration is that the Prophet said that waka'at yani it landed in the sense like on the paddle or whatever it is it is taking pollen from it didn't break the paddle right nor did it spoil the flower in other words is that that what is our Prophet teaching us is that in situations where things have just gone awry the things are crazy is that be like that be focus on the beauty and things focus on the good and things that try to acquire like the bee is that the best of everyone and everything that is around you that try to understand the best of every possible things that happen to you in relation to your experience of the divine decree try to find something beneficial for yourself in relation to that divine decree and something that will bring about benefit to you and it's a very profound hadith you know about that this metaphor of a human being being like the bee and that if we implement these the teachings of our Prophet said it will lead to the extreme good and all of our lives and it will bring about felicity and this will end the next and make a lots of fun with that give us to free can open up the doors goodness for all of us and you know i really believe as we move forward as a community that really in any time especially in our time is that we really need to create spaces where people can come to heal and we need to have a discourse of one of healing is that there's a lot of pain and that you might think that everything's okay because people come they put on their best clothes and everything seems okay when we sit quietly in the room but there's a lot of pain and the more and more that you come to find out about people that you think are totally normal and balanced like wow there's a lot of pain and there's a lot of suffering and that even though we have a lot of freedom here in that a place like the united states of america that there is a lot that people go through that especially those that convert to this religion and that even though they might be stable and fine for five years but at the 10 year mark or the 20 year mark or the 30 year mark you never know that when things in your past are going to come to the surface and resurface and how they're going to resurface and what that's going to that do to you and this is why it is absolutely essential is that we never ever ever forget the big picture and that big picture is is that every single one of us is an absolute need that of healing and a lot to add it is the healer that is the du'a of our Prophet and that in this beautiful du'a that our Prophet taught us to say that when someone is that physically ill that oh Allah Lord of people that remove that all illness and that cure that this person and that there is no cure except you're here there's no healing except you're healing that bless this person with a cure that leaves that no sickness whatsoever and no pain no sickness and no pain and i really believe that this is very important that we develop a discourse of this we develop that a way of teaching the community that is rooted in this and so that people can come into that whoever they might be and it's likely going to be a very diverse environment people have different levels people have different levels of commitment and so forth but everyone should feel and what has a right to feel that they are welcome to that move towards a healing of the soul if it is indeed something they want to do like anything else is that you could go to the best doctors you could go to get the very best that treatment but you have to take treatment so that our job is to create environments for that to happen and that the each individual has to make the decision to put themselves in that environment and that really when i think about the blessed places that Allah ta'ala has that spoke from his grace allowed me to be is that they're like spiritual hospitals and everything around them is set up in that way and that you would be surprised that the states of people that where they're at and how that they come and that you know humbly not that we can ever allow the situation to cause us to lose hope we have to maintain that hope and that inshallah as we do this inshallah Allah will accept us and that the beauty is that Allah ta'ala that once they heal us we will become healed and the most important type of healing is at that soul lover level and that then that as we transition from this world to the next and inshallah become purified and receive that the great gifts that our Lord has in store for the believers that from today that we will remember that all of the pain and suffering that of this world accept in the way as a that really that hidden blessing behind all of the difficulties and Allah ta'ala give us hope we can bless with all of our prayers and reward everyone in this community and that bring us together time and time again and may we all take a path of healing and heal all of these levels isn't that ta'ala may Allah ta'ala put ta'ala reconnect us back to our fitrah this is all to attain everything that we desire more than we desire may we achieve that greatest goal possible in this world in the next connect us all to our Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam who is the tip of the blood right now he is the healing the healer of the soul sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and the cure of them sallallahu alayhi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and praise be to Allah