 I feel my heart beating fast. My heart is beating fast. My heart is burning. In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. May peace and blessings of Allah be upon the most honored, the Prophets, the messengers, and the Beloved of Allah, the Merciful. Our master and prophet, Muhammad, and his family, the good, the pious, and the curse of death upon their enemies, There are three topics to tackle today. The first topic is for all believers to adjust their passions into content or contentment. Because passion is temporary and content is stable. Content is connected to your intellect and passion is connected to your heart. Thus, any situation you are in, any situation that occurs, when that situation or stimulus ends, your passion will end. However, contentment is stable. Stability is an evidence of someone going through one past for the past 80 years. Illness couldn't affect them. Aging couldn't affect them. For what reason? It's because they have that stable content in them. For example, Al-Alam Al-Amini, the most renowned Shi'a author of the book called Al-Abakat, he used to read when he's standing until he gets tired. Then he would sit and read until he gets tired. He would switch to his left side until he gets tired. He would switch back and live on his right side until he gets tired. For what reason did he do that for? He insisted on equipping himself with knowledge to defend Imam Ali, to defend Ahl al-Bayt, al-Sirat and al-Salam. He had that content in him. Same as a person who goes through one past for 80 years, 90 years, nothing could affect them because of that content that they have in them. Therefore content is stable and passion is temporary. Now we know that there is love towards religion. There's an ultimate love that people have towards religion. But if it was a passionate moment, we have to adjust that passion into a stable content. For example, you have a daughter at home. Once you try to tell her to do something specific, but you threat her, if you don't do this, I will beat you, God forbid. She will do what you asked her to do because she's afraid of your threat of getting beaten. Therefore, once you don't supervise her and you're not around, she won't do what you asked her to do because she does not have that content in her. She only did what you asked her to do because she was afraid. However, if you try to convince her to put that content in her, even if she's walking with a bad group of people, don't get worried. Even if she's in a bad environment, if you are not supervising her, don't get worried. Why? It's because of those seeds of content that you implemented in her. Your children try to implement those seeds of content in them so that even when you're not around, you don't worry about them because passion is temporary. I'll give you an example of a story that happened in history. Of a man who came to Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa alayh. He told him, O Prophet, I do not love anything in this world more than committing adultery. The people who were around the Prophet yelled at him. They hit him. They said, go away. What are you saying? Rasulullah told him, come. Don't cure something wrong in a wrong way by hitting or yelling. It's not a solution. Rasulullah said, come. Keep approaching. The man kept approaching until his knees touched the knees of Rasulullah. That's how close he was to the Prophet. The Prophet told him, he used logic. Listen to this logic. He told him, do you have a mother? The man said, yes. He said, do you like someone to do that to your mother? He said, no. He said, do you have a sister? The man said, yes. He said, would you like someone to do that to your sister? He said, no. Rasulullah said, whatever you don't like for yourself, don't like it for others. The man left. He said, I went to the Prophet liking nothing more than committing adultery. And I left from the Prophet hating nothing more than committing adultery. He put that content in him. He did not yell at him. He did not hit him. He did not threaten him. He used logic. Likewise, if you have a daughter at home in a situation of hijab, for example, you want your daughter to wear the hijab. Don't force her to wear the hijab. Don't yell at her to wear the hijab. Because even if she did wear it, that will be temporary. Try to convince her. Try to use the words of intellect of why she should wear the hijab. Make her a haflat takleef. And all the girls that attend this haflat takleef, for them to understand, to have this content in them of why they should wear the hijab. If they don't have that content in them, then they are in danger. Whose responsibility is this? It's the mother's responsibility? It's the father's responsibility? Because the West will pull our daughters away from us. Don't think that this isn't a serious issue. The internet is in every home. Television is in every home. With yes and no, it isn't sufficient. Open the doors of conversation. There are barriers between parents and children today. Open those doors. Open that barrier. Open the doors of conversation. Speak to them. Put that content in them. So that even if you're not around them, they are not in danger. With saying yes to your daughter or son and no, it isn't sufficient. Try to implement those seeds of content in your children. This is the first topic. The second topic is to adjust our passion that we have towards our religion into a stable contentment. Secondly, I would like to talk about to turn off the fire, the problems. And what I mean by turning off the fire, I mean the serious problems that you see in communities today. The serious problems that you see that happens between two couples today, between families today. You see, there are three types of people. Because in the communities, if there is a change of history, change in war or change in technology, problems would occur with or without. So imagine there's change in technology, change in some countries in war. More problems would occur. You would always see those three characters. The first character is the one that creates problems, that makes those problems. So you'd see a person who would go to community A and talk about community B. Then they would go to community B and tell them what community A said about them. That is one type of character. You see type two character where they are the watchers. They just watch. They see two fights happening, they don't interfere. Two problems happening, they don't interfere. One beating another, they just watch. The third type of character is the one who interferes to turn off the fire, the problem. Imam Ali, peace be upon him, he himself used to interfere. Rasulullah, peace be upon him, he himself used to interfere and turn off the problems. Try to help, especially if you're asked for help. Imam Zayn al-Aabdeen, peace be upon him, he had never ever said no to anyone, not even once in his life. He never said no once in his life, only in this tashahud. When you say la ilaha illallah, meaning no Lord but Allah. They say that if there wasn't no for this tashahud, if there wasn't for this tashahud, his la, his no would be na'am, a yes. He'd always help. So if you see a problem that happening between two brothers, two sisters, two communities, two friends, don't be the one who creates those problems and don't be the one who just watches. Try to be the one who interferes to help solve this misunderstandings. There was this Sheikh, a scholar, it was a hundred years ago, this story. His name is Sheikh Zayn al-Aabdeen al-Mazandarani in Iran. He was praying his morning prayers in a mosque with his helper and he was going back home. Suddenly a lady stops him. She tells him, sheikhna, my husband kicked me out from his home and I have no place to go. And my husband follows you, you're his scholar. Can you tell him to return me back? The sheikh looked at his helper and said, change your direction. They went to the house of the man's house, her husband's house. He knocked the door. That man opened the door. He saw his scholar, sheikhna come in. He said, no, I just tell you one word. Your wife wants to come back to you. Return her back. He said, yeah, sure, let her come in now. One word. With one word, you could help solve a problem. And with one word, you can destroy a whole community, a whole generation. Don't forget to be the one who helps to turn off the fire. The last subject that I would like, and the last principle that I would like to conclude this lecture with, is to fulfill the time, the empty time of the youth, our children. Those youth today, on their spare time, if they have an empty time, their leisure time, this is where the shaitan begins. This is where the shaitan starts to speak, to ruin, to destroy a person. Because that person is empty, they have wasted time. It's our responsibility to fulfill their time, whether it's summer holidays, whether it's winter holidays. If we are a community center, make programs for them. Maybe to teach them Quran with adding some sports. Maybe to teach them more about Ahl al-Bayt, give them awards, motivate them. So that they don't have this empty time. If the community doesn't help, then us as parents, it's our responsibility. Don't just depend on communities or programs that would help your children. Us as parents, it's our responsibility to give them to fulfill their empty time. How many orphans are there in this world? Maybe just in Iraq? Five million orphans. How many orphans are there in India and Pakistan, in Syria? Those orphans are the future generation. They feel empty from inside. Try to adopt an orphan, and what I mean by adopt, you don't have to make them live with you. You can spend money on them. You can check on their health status. You can invite them for dinner, invite them to your house with your children. Make them feel, fulfill that empty time that they have. Because they don't have a father, they might not have a mother. They feel empty, and in that empty time is where the shaitan begins and starts. Don't just think about yourself and your children. Think about the children around you. Think about the orphans around you. So step number one, for the believers to adjust their passions that they have towards religion into a stable contentment. Step number two, problems that occur in communities, in centers, in places, in families today, try to interfere to help this misunderstanding and not ruin. Step number three, as much as we can, we should fulfill in the time of our young youths so that the shaitan does not enter and destroy them. And peace be upon our master and prophet, Muhammad, and his family, the pious and pious. The distance between us is the path to a group of problems. The religious problems, the moral problems, the spiritual problems, this young man who lives in the distance, It can be translated as a step, and this step will be the beginning of many steps.