 ورحمة الله وبركاته بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين الحمد لله الذي يجيبني حين أناديه ويستر علي كل عورة وأنا أعصيه ويعظم النعمة علي فلا أجازيه نحمده ونسبحه ونقدسه على آلائه ونعمائه ونشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له إلها واحدا أحدا فردا صمدا قيوما نؤمن له بالربوبية ونقر له بالعبودية من يهد الله فهو المهتد ومن يضل الفلا تجد له وليا مرشدة ونشهد أن سيدنا محمدا عبد هو رسوله الله وهمه صلى الله عليه وسلم أرسله بالهدى ودين الحق ليظهره على الدين كله اللهم صل وسلم وبارك وترحم على محمد وآل محمد كأفضل ما صليت وسلمت وباركت وترحمت على إبراهيم وآل إبراهيم في العالمين إنك حميد مجيد وصلى الله وسلم على جميع الأنبياء والمرسلين والأوصياء والصديقين والشهداء والصالحين وعطرة نبيك الطيبين الطاهرين وأصحابه الميامين وبنتبعهم بإحسان وإيمان إلى يوم الدين عباد الله أوسيكم وأوسي نفسي بتقوى الله ولزوم أمره أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وإذ قال ربك للملائكة إني خالق بشر منطين فإذا سويته ونفخت فيه من روحي فقعوا له ساجدين صدق الله العلي والعظيم اللي تقريب ما فعله شباب صفحه معاً صفحه والخرى بالمعلق المعلق هو قصة مجدد إني خالق بشر منطين في قصة مجدد فإذا صاويته أولاً أصبحته وصبحته ونفخته فيه من الروح أولاً هو روحه ونفخته فيه من روحه فقع له ساجدي ومن this intermingling between the dirt and a spirit, a spirit that has a divine trace in it ونفخته فيه من الروحه It is necessary for this journey in this life, for our journey It is necessary to create this internal struggle inside us لِيَبْلُوَكُمْ This life is about Bala It is about test, no one is going to pass this life without experiencing this test لِيَبْلُوَكُمْ أَيُّكُمْ أَحْصَنُ عَمَلًا We created you to put you into test ومن this test, the result of this test that lasts for many decades, seven years, eight years, nine years then either we deserve going to paradise or we don't deserve it We deserve something else, the result of this test and this life This blend and this mixture and this infusion between an earthly part which is the dirt, a team and a heavenly part which is the divine spirit ونفخته فيه من الروحه This is the reason for the struggle that we experience The internal struggle that we experience day in and day out In every life, in our life Because these are two powers that are trying to polarize us into two different directions The team, the element of material and dirt in us The earthly element inside us always tries to pull us down to the earth And to the products of this earth It tells us that you have to eat And once you eat, make sure that you are full When I have a friend who is overweight And the doctor keeps telling him that you have to take care of your health So he asked the doctor, what shall I do? The doctor said to him, don't eat the last three bites So this friend was telling me, he says to me I don't know where are those three last bites This is the problem Because he keeps eating and there is still room, masha' Allah So he does not know where to stop and say Okay, these three, I will skip them So this earthly element says eat, drink, enjoy Relationship, unrestricted relationship with the opposite gender, opposite sex Seek this, seek that, acquire this, dominate here This is the earthly element But then we have the spiritual element That always tries to lift us up To elevate us to levels of sublimity Levels of highness, spiritual highness, moral highness, moral dignity And this struggle is continuous The struggle does not end Don't think that the struggle ends when we pass the teen years When we become 20 years old or 30 years old Or some people think at 40 years old this struggle would No, the struggle is continuous Until the last day of this life These two powers are fighting with each other It's inside us The teen, the dirt says You have to be attached to this earth To this life, to this dunya While the spiritual element says You have mabadi You have principles, you have values And this struggle showcases itself In three main areas in our life We can see them Visible in three main areas One of them is Between selfishness and selflessness Selfishness and on the other hand selflessness This element shows itself This struggle, it is visible in this area Some people they live for the sake of themselves only Only themselves The most important thing in this dunya In this universe is them and no one else And others they live not for themselves They live for others You can see the difference The other area where we see this struggle Is very visible between the earthly element The teen, the clay, the dirt And the heavenly element The spirit, the soul Is what philosophers say المحدودية on the one hand The narrowness Execlusivity and narrowness Of the person, the confinement When he confines himself or herself Within certain narrow boundaries When it comes to his race He confines himself only within his race Only within his culture Only within his religion Only within his neighborhood His country, his community Versus someone who is universal Someone who knows that he's a member Of a greater society Called Earth The people of Earth Not the people of Iraq Or Afghanistan or Iran I'm a member, I'm a citizen of this Earth Maybe my government gives me a piece of paper Says this is your citizenship Document, passport It has no value I'm a member of this universe Universal view Not regional Not regional view The day the Muslims are going to be successful And productive When they reach out to others They don't keep Islam for them As a private commodity Only they enjoy it They don't allow others to enjoy it When you open up to others A narrowness A narrowness A perspective A life A approach versus openness An open-mindedness You have a free spirit You can transcend these artificial boundaries That we created for ourselves Just a few days ago Two people came to the office They love each other They are young They want to get married But their parents are against them Because someone is from this nationality And the other is from another nationality And both parents Of both those guys The parents of the man and the woman They oppose They say you have to marry from within your own culture Your own culture You can't Where is it in the Quran Allah says marry from your own culture Where is it in the hadith of the Prophet The Prophet married almost 13 wives Each one from different culture And different religion too And different color too Where is it? This is narrowness This is when a person confines himself Imprisons himself Within artificial boundaries Man-made boundaries Versus someone who is universal Who is a global And his thinking He has a free spirit And the third area Where we see this conflict Very visible Profound and visible Between the earthly component of us And the heavenly component Is the struggle between reason and desire And we have this struggle on daily basis On daily basis Hourly basis There is a fierce fighting Fierce clash Between Aql reason on the one hand And passion and desire on the other hand Plato says That man is composed of three powers One is reason Second is spirit And third is desire Or passion He says whenever we allow Desire to overcome reason Then we find unhappiness We're going to find confusion Do you see some people who tell you I'm confused I don't know what to do I need help I'm confused I'm lost Why he's lost? God wanted him to be lost God created us So we are lost And we are confused He does that deliberately To hurt us God does not want you to be lost He wants you to We created vision External, internal Inner vision for you To find your way To chart your way I don't want you to be lost Or confused It is you who choose Being lost in this life When we allow desire To knock down the reason Then he becomes lost and confused And he becomes unhappy in his life The results are not good results Gharais and desires always are demanding Ever demanding Pressing us Go after this Go after that Go after this goal Go after that material goal And this is This would not end These demands would never stop Would never stop And desires tell us Go and don't ask why Or how If you are hungry, eat Don't ask about the source of the food Whether this food is lawful Or unlawful It belongs to me Or it does not belong to you Don't ask about this money You need money Get it From wherever you can Whatever means Drugs, alcohol Theft, robbery Stealing, fraud Get it You need this money These are the desires The Aql says no Aql says you have been guided by You have something called in this life Principles and values Qiyam principles You have to go by the book With these principles Allah says you are hungry Yes, you need food فَالْيَنْضُرَ الْإِنْسَانُ إِلَا طَعامِهِ Look at that food Examine it before you eat it You need money Yes Definitely you need money to survive Look at the source of income Don't go after the unlawful source Don't make your life miserable And the life of those who live with you miserable Just because you need money Because sometimes that money is going to destroy you Because it came from unlawful source And we need you to build yourself With your wealth With your money When we follow desires We use ourselves to the level of animals Sometimes Quran says in Surat Al-An'am Even lower than animals Lower than animals Because animals when they eat They are hungry, they eat When they are full They don't go after the food anymore They leave it for others Some people they are hungry, they eat They are full But still they fight And they don't allow others to eat the food In them Animals do not have reason They don't have عقل We have reason This is the difference This is the difference Allah says you want to get married Fulfill your desire There is a lawful way for it You need to get money There is a lawful way for it You need to eat To have food and drink There is a Halal way for it Don't go through these Don't go after these Through the unlawful means Therefore The عقل أول ما خلق الله سبحانه وتعالى العقل There is no blessing that God has given Man better than عقل and reason The Hadith says لا دين لمن لا عقل له No faith for someone who has no reason He would not have faith ولا مصيبتك عدم العقل No tragedy, no loss أكثر than losing one's mind And one's reason وما قسم الله بين العباد ما قسم الله تعالى بين العباد أفضل من نعمة العقل الله gives many bounties and gifts To someone who gives children To someone who gives money To someone who gives power To someone who gives beauty But then The best gift of Allah That He distributes among His servants Is عقل and reason It reminds me of a story of Haroon The Abbasid Caliph Haroon He had an advisor Who kept asking him Every evening to drink To share the drink, alcohol with him, wine And this advisor kept refusing لا يا أمير المؤمنين I'm not for it One night Haroon said Tonight you must drink You have no choice You must drink I'm your leader I'm an Amir المؤمنين Is asking you to drink alcohol So he said to him But before you force me Let me ask you a question Answer my question He said to him Why did you choose me To be your senior advisor Is it because of my family Is it because of my wealth I'm a successful businessman He said no You are a broke You are penniless He said Is it because of my physical attraction He said no Definitely not for that reason He said Then why you chose me To be your senior advisor مستشار He said Because of your brain He said Then if this is the case يا أمير المؤمنين I don't even know your father Or your family He said Is it because of my wealth مؤمنين Don't force me to do something Where I lose my brain And if I lose my brain I lose my position with you I lose my job You want me for my brain And if I drink alcohol I'm going to lose my brain And if I lose my brain Then I have nothing left The only thing I have The only asset I have is my brain Do you want me to lose it Someone was telling me The other day that Do you know why Divorce in America Is on the rise Higher than other countries Compared to Europe The rate of divorce in America Is higher And Europe Compared to the Middle East Is much higher He said Because most of these decisions For marriage Are made in cabarets And night clubs When they are drinking Under the influence They meet each other Under the influence Both of them are drinking Heavy drinking Then they fall in love And they decide to get married And in Arabic we say What the wind brings The wind also takes away Something that comes under the influence Is going to go away Also under the influence This is why They don't make a rational decision They don't make rational decision This is why Islam says Stay away from wine Alcohol Stay away from that You're not going to see Pleasing results in your life When you drink And when you allow your family To drink This is not good for you Stay away from it Use your brain When you make a decision Use your pure brain Do not contaminate this brain This is a God-given gift Keep it strong Keep it healthy Keep it away from these intoxicants When Adam was created First thing جبرايل came to him He said Allah says You have three choices If you take one The other two are going to leave you Allah says Either Giving the choice Between We give you reason Or we give you Shiness Or we give you Faith, religion So which one are you going to choose But remember If you choose one You are going to leave Leave you and go He thought for a second He raises his head And he says I choose عقل I choose the reason So جبرايل Turned to shyness Hayat and Deen And he said to them Leave him Leave him and go They said No We are not going to leave him لقد أمرنا الله سبحانه وتعالى أن نتبع العقل حيث سار أن الله سبحانه وتعالى أن جميع هذا العقل يذهب بعده لا تتبعه منه عندما يوجد عقل يوجد كل شيء في الإسلام و عندما يوجد عقل يوجد عقل ماذا جميل يقول صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول نوم العقل نوم العقل أفضل من سهر الجاهل يوجد عقل even when he sleeps he is more productive than someone who does not have reason he is ignorant and he is awake the productivity of someone who has sanity and reason even when he sleeps is more than the productivity of someone who is insane but he is awake نوم العقل أفضل من سهر الجاهل إسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والعصر إن الإنسان إلا الذين آمنوا وعملوا الصالحات وتواصعوا بالحق وتواصعوا بالصبر صلى الله وسلم على سيدنا محمد وأهل بيتها الطيبين الطاهرين بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين نحمده ونسبحه ونقدسه على آلائه ونعمائه ونشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له وأن سيدنا محمدا عبده ورسوله اللهم صلى وسلم وبارك وترحم على محمد وآل محمد كأفضل ما صليت وسلمت وباركت وترحمت على إبراهيم وآل إبراهيم في العالمين إنك حميد المجيد وصلى الله وسلم على خلفاء نبيك وأصيائه وأهل بيته علي أمير المؤمنين وقائد الغر المحجلين وعلى البضعة الطاهرة والله سيدة نساء العالمين وعلى سبطي نبي الرحمة وسيدين شباب أهل الجنة الحسن والحسين عليهم السلام وعلى علي ابن الحسين ومحمد ابن علي وجعفر ابن محمد وموسى ابن جعفر وعلي ابن موسى ومحمد ابن علي وعلي ابن محمد والحسن ابن علي والخلف الهادي المهدي جعلنا من أنصار هواعوان حباد الله أصيكم وأصي نفس المقصرة المذنبة بتقوى الله ولزوم أمره رؤية عن سيدنا ومولان الإمام أمير المؤمنين عليه السلام أنه قال الدنيا كلها جهل إلا مواضع العلم والعلم أعمل به والعمل كله رياء إلا ما كان مخلصا والإخلاص على خطر حتى ينظر العبد بما خطم لح صدقة أمير المؤمنين عليه السلام أحد من أمر أمير أمير أمير أمير أن هم امير أن فت Hae بأمير our أمير أمير أمير أمير ي...! وح may أيضan يحضر أوشع ابي...! حيث هذا الحياة. لقد قمت بها بها. تلك الموضوع الخاصة والدسطينيشن هو الآخرة. ومن أراد الآخرة وسعى لها سعيها وهو مؤمن. فأولئك كان سعيهم مشكورة. إذا كنا نحاول ذلك الدسطينيشن then you're going to be successful. فأولئك كان سعيهم مشكورة. We're going to be grateful to them. We're going to observe what they do أمير المؤمنين يقول الدنيا كلها جهل. It's full of ignorance. إلا مواضع العلم. Whenever there is a piece of science, a piece of knowledge. علم. Also علم والعلم كله جهل. علم is going to be darkness. Accept the part that you practice. You put into practice. Otherwise you store it in your brain and you don't practice it. What's the benefit? What's the benefit? The Hadith of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم says when sometimes some of the scholars are cast down in hellfire. Scholars. يتأذى أحلو النار الريحهم. Even the people of the hellfire are going to suffer from their odor and their stink and their smell. Because they know that a scholar has been cast into the fire. The Prophet says those scholars are the ones who preach but they don't practice. They know they have علم but they don't put it into practice. It's like a doctor. A doctor who cures the whole community but himself whenever you see him he's sick. He's a mechanistic care of himself. What do you say about him? He tries to heal others while himself is sick. ألمام الصادق صلى الله عليه وسلم says إن العالم إذا لم يعمل بعلمه زالت معظة له من القلوب. العالم the scholar if he does not practice his knowledge he does not put it his admonishment to the community he's worthless does not even go into their hearts they don't listen to him he cannot change because he himself has a problem with that. من تعلم العلم ولم يعمل به هذا حديث الرسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم من تعلم العلم ولم يعمل به he's learning but he does not practice حشاره الله يوم القيامة أعمى he's going to be gathered on the day of judgment so Imam Ali says والعلم كله جهل إلا ما عمي لبه even the knowledge is going to be darkness except the part that you practice you put it into practice والعمل كله رياء the work that we do is not dedicated is not sincere إلا ما كان مخلصة except what you really seek إلا ما كان مخلصة والإخلاصة على خطر your sincerity, your dedication, your earnestness also also in pearls and danger إلا except the end of your journey if the last few days last few weeks if the end of your journey if the last few days if the end of your journey if the last few weeks months years of your journey is safe then the entire journey is safe حتى ينظر العبد بما يختم به wait until see what is the result of your last part of your journey sometimes you begin strong and healthy in their own direction halfway through you make a U-turn don't you see some people they started with good faith pure faith but then dunya changed them they married the wrong person sometimes his wife was good but the son, the daughter they corrupted them sometimes a partner from outside a neighbor a coworker, a friend in his family a family member, a relative they deferred them حتى ينظر العبد بما يختم به the important thing is حسن العقبة that's very important what is the last chapter of your life when you leave your life how is it are you still strong in your faith or you say I was 30 years ago 40 years ago I was good Muslim now I'm not a good Muslim that does not count حتى ينظر العبد اللهم اخفر للمؤمنين والمؤمنات اللهم اجعل عواقبة أمورنا خير اللهم لا تخرجنا من الدنيا حتى ترضى عننا اللهم امونا على مرضانا بالشفاء والعافي اللهم وحد كلمة المسلمين على الخير والبر والصلاح والتقوى يا أرحم الراحمين وعدجل في فرج سيدنا ومولانا صاحب العصر والزمان إن الله يأمر بالعدل والإحسان وإتائذ القربى وينهى عن الفحشاء والمنكل والبغي يعيضكم لعلكم تذكرون صدق الله العلي العظيم وصلى الله وسلم على سيدنا محمد وأهل بيتها الطيبين الطاهرين