 بسم الله الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على رسول الكريم وعلى آله والصحبه ومن تبع سنةه إلى يوم دين السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته مرحباً بكم again another episode of your weekly Islamic chat show live by Islam and we try to have different guests and different topics and today inshallah we have a guest who is visiting us from the UK and we will be talking about a very important topic which is the actions of the heart it's something that a lot of people don't think about we always think about keeping in shape looking good on the outside looking trying to work out and keep our bodies in shape and health but more important than all of that in reality is our hearts so to discuss that today inshallah is brother Abdulrahman وستاذ Abdulrahman Hassan السلام عليكم وعليكم السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته جزاك الله خير for coming جزاك الله خير so obviously you are over here for a short period of time but we want to talk today and obviously you thought of this topic because as I mentioned it's a very important topic and it's something that many people don't pay attention to and you say actions of the heart and some people even say what does that even mean what are actions of the heart actions we do with our bodies what's our heart got to do with anything so shall today we want to shed some light on that inshallah بداً الله الحمد لله رب العالمين الرحمان الرحيم والصلاة والسلام وعلى أشرف الأنبياء والمرسلين سيدنا ونبينا محمد وعلى آله وأصحابه والتابعين لهم بإحسان إلى يوم الدين أما بعد جزاك الله خير for having me fast with brothers and ma'a'il and great yujannah to Firdous inshallah and this concept of the heart I tend to find it's a concept that many of us me included we take it very lightly and it's something Allah subhanahu و تعالى gave it many importance and the prophet ﷺ the prophet ﷺ he said in the hadith المسلم نريت لنصحيح من حديث أبي هوريلا إن الله لا ينظر إلى أجسامكم ولا إلى صوركم ولكن ينظر إلى قلوبكم وعمالكم الله سبحانه و تعالى doesn't look at the person's physique and how big and how short and how skinny and how their complexion their color, skin color Allah doesn't look at any of that but what Allah looks at subhanahu و تعالى is the person's heart so if it's something that Allah is observing and he's looking at then it should be something that's very important in our eyes and even the Quran that we read today that is something we are commanded to ponder over الله سبحانه و تعالى he says أفلاية تدبرون القرآن أم على قلوب أقفالها do they not ponder on the Quran or are there locks on their hearts so you can see that there is a connection between the hearts and the Quran and if a person's heart is not alive they tend to not ponder over the Quran and their heart over time dies out so now without a doubt it's something we all need to give a lot of importance to and also allow others to understand the seriousness of the heart I mean something that came to mind and recently was going through one of the lectures of one of our شخص here one of our شخص here in the UAE and it was an explanation of the famous book of the Fouti Hadith of Imam An-Nowi and he got to that Hadith which says الله أنه في الجسد مدغى إذا صلاحة صلاحة جسد كله و إذا فسدت فسدت جسد كله الله وهي القلب you know that indeed there is a muscle of flesh in the body if it is sound and correct the whole of the body will be sound and correct and he was explaining that many people they say yeah you know I don't pray I do all these different sins but I have a good heart so he was saying we cannot say that because I suddenly said here that if the heart is pure and correct and straight this will be apparent in our deeds so again this points just like you mentioned the Quran points to the relationship with the heart and the Quran they're connected they're not pondering upon the Quran they're not taking heed الله is pointing to the fact that this may mean that you have a lock and your heart is covered so we can see here as well it's not enough for us to say I don't pray but I have a good heart yeah you may have good aspects and parts of a good character but the reality is if your heart was really pure and good this would manifest itself in the in the actions that we're talking about actions of the heart even the Arabs they say every vessel it sweats was inside it you don't really need to know whether a cup is cold or hot by putting your finger in it you can just know the temperature of what's inside the cup by just grabbing it from outside and it's the same if what you're seeing in your heart is actually upright and your righteous in your heart then it's true it would manifest in your limbs and that's exactly a statement of Abu Huraira رضي الله تعالى عنه which some of the scholars they try to say that it's a statement of the Prophet but it's not authentically correct to attribute it to the Prophet authentically attribute it to Abu Huraira himself that the Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم that Abu Huraira said القلب ملك العظا فإنطاب الملك طابة الجنود والرعايا وإذا خبث الملك خبثت الجنود والرعايا and he took it from الى وإن في الجسد المضغة إذا صالحت صالحة الجسد كله وإذا فسدت فسدت الجسد كله الى وهي القلب he took it from that hadith is that the heart is actually the king of everything and if the king is upright then the army which is the limbs here right now is going to be intact is going to follow the command of the heart and if the heart is corrupt then the body and the limbs is going to be corrupt so it's without a doubt I mean coming back to the point of the Quran again if you look at where the Quran originally was is nowhere else except in the heart the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم وإنه لتنزير رب العالمين نزل به الروح الأمين على قلبك لتكون من المديرين بالسان العربي المبين the Quran we have placed in your heart we put it in your heart so the relationship between the heart and the Quran and the heart it's always consistent الله says in another ayah بل هو آيات بينات في صدور الذين أوتر علم that the Quran is actually something that's in the heart of the believers so it's always that concept it's been consistently being blow back again in صورة القيامة الله سبحانه وتعالى he says لا تحرك به لسانك لتعجلبه إن علينا جمعه وقرآن that we're going to gather the Quran in your heart don't move your tongue with jeepreen when you're reciting the Quran don't worry we'll bring it and compile it in your heart so a person's heart is something that they should consistently worry about because if this thing becomes corrupt then everything about your life is going to be corrupt and that's why also the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said التقوى ها هنا التقوى ها هنا التقوى ها هنا فأشار إلى صدري ثلاثة مرات he said تقوى اللايس هيا تقوى اللايس هيا تقوى اللايس هيا تقوى اللايس هيا and it's true تقوى that a person will attain a great place in Jannah تلك الجلة التي ينورت من عبادنا من كانت تقية like Jannah is inherited by those who have Taqwa and again a person can have Taqwa unless it resides in their heart أصوه إن الند آيات الله سبحانه وتعالى he says وَإِمْمِنْكُمْ إِلَّا وَارِيدُهَا كَانَا عَلَا رَبِّكَ حَتْمَا مَّا مَّقْضِيَّا ثُمَّا نُنَجِّلَّ دِيْنَا التَّقوى وَنَظَرُ ظالِمِنَ فِيهَا جِثِيَّا then everybody is going to go over the Surat everybody and everyone is going to drop into the Hellfire then Allah سبحانه وتعالى he does an exception استثناء which is connected to the West وَإِمِّنْكُمْ إِلَّا وَارِيدُهَا كَانَا عَلَا رَبِّكَ حَتْمَا مَّا مَّقْضِيَّا ثُمَّا نُنَجِّلَّ دِيْنَا التَّقوى وَنَظَرُ ظالِمِنَا فِيهَا جِثِيَّا and the only people who are going to save are those who are pious and the reason why is because they protected their hearts what also fascinates me was in Ramadhan I stood over Surat al-Baqarah when I was reciting it and I looked at Surat al-Baqarah the way it starts if you look at Surat al-Baqarah Allah سبحانه وتعالى he says ألف لا ميم and Alif لا ميم الله أعلمه بمرادئ سكوت حروف المقطع only Allah knows what he means by سبحانه وتعالى even Addu-Abdu-l-Kathir and Abu-l-Hajjaj Al-Mizi and Sheikh-ul-Sam-Taymi and others they try to say that the wisdom behind it is known not the meaning but the wisdom why Allah used it is to say to the Arabs the Quran is made out of letters that you know like Alif, Maglam and Meem which you are unable to come with the likes of the Quran then Allah says ذلك الكتاب لا ريبة فيه هودا للمتقين لا ريبة فيه ريب is the doubt of the heart so straight away Allah is saying there is no doubt in this book so in other words there is nothing that is going to go towards straight away the heart is being spoken to هودا it's guidance for who للمتقين we just mentioned that it's in the heart هودا للمتقين الذين يؤمنون إيمان the ussal of iman and the foundation of iman is in the heart الذين يؤمنون all of that Allah mentioned the heart the heart the heart then He mentions after that the disbelievers الله سبحانه وتعالى والذين في قلوبه مرض those whose hearts are sick whose hearts are ill فزادهم الله مرض and Allah increased them in their own they are the ones who don't want to take the Quran on board so the Quran is always drilling this concept of that the heart has to be alive and that the heart has to be something we give a lot of consideration to You mentioned in the people who have the sickness in their hearts and then you mentioned the heart being alive it reminds me of a statement you know roughly going of إيمان القين where He put the heart into three types He said you have like the living heart and you have the sick heart and you have a dead heart and He said the living heart is the one who is always in remembrance of Allah is always following good always doing righteous deeds and then you have the sick heart and in reality most of us probably fall into this category if not the majority of us where we have the khair and we love the khair and we do some of the khair but at the same time we slip and we fall into the sin and He said this is the heart that most people are in and they need to they have a sick heart and they always need to work for the cure it gets better it gets sick and then He mentioned you have the dead heart and this is obviously the heart that is completely void of إيمان is completely full of شرق so this also shows us that even the scholars have classified the heart in different ways I mean even moving on from that إيمان القيم also had a very nice saying He said you know just like we have silverware in our house that needs to be if you don't clean the silver you don't polish it it may get very dirty rusty even so He said likewise the heart requires to be polishing cleaning and He said the way to polish it is from إستخفار ذكر asking Allah for forgiveness and remembering Allah He said this is the way to polish your heart to keep your heart clean constantly remembering Allah and asking Allah for forgiveness you're right the statement that you mentioned of إبن القيم رحمه الله the book that He mentioned at the beginning is called إغاثة للهفان في مساعد الشيطان which is basically the way that الشيطان traps the children of Adam and tries to destroy them and إبن القيم the reason why He paste that book about and the idea and the reason behind it for Him عليه الرحمة الله was that الشيطان promised He said to Allah سبحانه وتعالى لأول ينهما جمعين or Allah I'm going to misguide all of your creation meaning the children of Adam all of them I'm going to misguide them but الشيطان admitted that there's one group of people who won't be able to misguide this is a testimony from Him and admitting that He's unable to do who are they إلا عبادكة إلا عبادكة منهم المخلصين المخلصين the slaves who have sincerity but where's the us where's the sincerity أعمال القلوب it's the actions of the heart in other words الشيطان is trying to say that a person who has control over their heart a person who's sincerity has lied in their heart I won't be able to get to them I won't be able to misguide them and so that's why إبن القيم then divide the heart into قلب which is ميت قلب which is مريض قلب which is سليم and based on that a reminder of the ayah الله سبحانه وتعالى He says يوم لا ينفع مالون ولا بنون إلا من أت الله بقلب سليم that they money wealth, children everything you've collected and you've given so much importance to it won't basically help you except the one who comes to Allah the day of judgment with you I mean at that ayah you can relate that to the Hadith you mentioned earlier that Allah does not look at your appearances or your wealth He looks at your heart and your deeds سبحانه وتعالى so we see that not just from such a Hadith even from this ayah it's the sound heart which is the heart of obviously firstly obviously توهيد and the fact you know good deeds I mean we focus a lot on this program to the viewers out there who may have got a you know a misconception of what توهيد is so we always try to emphasize of the importance of توهيد you know that the worship is only for Allah it's not for the companions of the Prophet peace be upon him it's not to go to his family it's not to go to anybody so called so called saints in the graves this worship and this dua everything is only to Allah and that's the fundamental principle of having a sound heart you could have masha Allah thousands of raka'at thousands of units of prayer and sadaqa but if you don't have this pure worship your deeds so true so true again the poet once said رحمه الله تعالى و بعد فك توهيد علم ينبل على العلوم كلها و يفضل قد أو جبر الرحمن منه منه قدر ليس يسيح الدين حتى يضر like after all knowledges and sciences there is a science which a person has to have understanding of and comprehension and that is this knowledge of science of توهيد or mother علم توهيد without it ليس يسيح الدين حتى يضر that person's religion is not going to be authentic is not going to be correct unless they know it and again الشيطان إلا عبادك منهم المخلصين the only slaves I won't be able to misguide those who are sincere خلاص is what إخلاص ونالي الله صف القلب من إرادة إنسواه فحدر يا فطن إخلاص basically means that you're not intending to do anything for anyone other than Allah سبحانه وتعالى you're saying, you're speaking you're doing, you're acting in accordance to what is pleasing to him سبحانه وتعالى and it's amazing because سبحانه وتعالى you see some Muslim brothers and even some sisters who are healthy in terms of their diet and they are even healthy in terms of their size and their weight they spent time in the gym and that same brother is struggling to get out of his bed to lift his duvet to go to the Masjid and pray صلاة الفجر but he's able to lift a 100 kg weight this now shows you that what it really revolves around is not your physical appearance it's really your heart and if your heart is alive and it has power and it has strength وليدالك ودي the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and say when he saw the ساقين of عبد الله المسعود إنها والله by Allah أثقل عند الله من جبل أحد is more heavier in the eyes of Allah than the mountain of أحد it's not necessarily because his legs are they weigh a lot but because of the heart of this individual is great so big and powerful so again I realized that we as even du'ats who are in the field of da'wah sometimes we don't really give importance to the heart and what we need to do with our hearts nurturing it and dividing the أعمال of the قلوب into the categorizations that they are so what is what is fundamental what is it that we need to work on right now make sure that we have with us and what is it that we that are secondary they're not I mean you find a Muslim person today he makes the secondary thing the whiteness of his top محمد المسيرين سلوكم من مبيضوا في ثيابه مدنسوا في دينه how many people whose garments are very white clean but they are tainted in their hearts their hearts are very dirty so it's we give we forgot to prioritize what is important and what isn't and like you said you know all of our deeds they boil down to the heart if the heart everything comes from the heart you know the essential things that we have the actions of prayer obviously that are outward actions but the essential parts of our belief you know like the pillars of iman these are all based upon the heart you know the iman بالله وملاعكته وكتبه ورصوله ويوم الآخر وقدر خيره وشرر these are all these are all actions of the heart it's not something you can you can't manifest your belief in the angels as such or you know and pretty much those pillars whereas obviously the pillars of Islam are pretty much or outwardly you have the shahada which is an outward action you have the salah which is an outward action you keep paying Ramadan you're fasting it's an action Hajj again is an action so so many of our fundamental beliefs they come from the heart it's true there's a story that ابن السعيد mentions in his كتابة طبقات that ميمول ابن مهران who was a who was a who was a who was a who was a who was a who was a who was a who was a who was a who was a who was a who was a ميمول ابن مهران was a writer for عمر ابن عبد العزيز so he felt that his iman and his heart was becoming a bit he was losing his iman was reducing as we know the iman يزيده بطاعته وينقصه بالبعصية so ميمول ابن مهران felt that so what did he do he went to حسن البصري حسن البصري was an individual known for his religious practice it was also known for his knowledge and his righteousness now what we can take from the حسن البصري at this particular point is that this علم نهل العلم ميمول ابن مهران في حدي ذاتي him alone is an but he realized that when his iman reduced that he had to go for cure but we only we only think of that when it's a medical problem a physical problem how many of us feel like my iman is reduced I now have to go for help and support go to the علم ask them for advice maybe go read a book that will benefit me and increase me in my faith so ميمول ابن مهران he came to the house of حسن البصري he knocked on the door and when he knocked on the door the slave girl of حسن البصري opened the door she said man who and he said ميمول ابن مهران and she said يا شيخ السور ما أبقاك فيها this زمن السور you evil sheikh who has made you remain at this evil time so he cried ميمول ابن مهران excessively حتى أغشية عليها تليفينتر so حسن البصري came out so ميمول ابن مهران and at that particular time ميمول was with his son so he went in and then he said to him ميمول ابن مهران he said to حسن البصري can you tell me something I have found in my heart weakness can you tell me something in which it can help me and support me حسن البصري he said to him عوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم أفرأيت إما التعناهم سنين ثم جاءهم ما كانوا يوعدون ما أغنى عنه ما كانوا يمتعون this ayah الله سبحانه وتعالى he says أفرأيت ديو سي or محمد أفرأيت إما التعناهم سنين if we give them joy of a period of time ثم after that جاءهم ما كانوا يوعدون they are given what they were promised they go to the final abode ثم جاءهم ما كانوا يوعدون ما أغنى عنه ما كانوا يمتعون the things that they were enjoying and they were having fun with it won't benefit them because now الله سبحانه وتعالى has come over them so when he read those ayat he cried ميمون cried so much حسن المصلي he said now جزاك الله خاني يوكليف so when he left ميمون ابن مهران said to his son ميمون ابن مهران son said to Mimoon ابن مهران father why is it the Hassan al-Basri from all of that which he could have said to you why did he just choose to say those verses he said my son he has said something if you only understood what it was and you understood the weight of what he just said to me it would have affected you highly so this is something that you find in the Salafu Hadil Ummah that they used to go for cure when it came to their hearts and every individual على وجه الأرض who is on the face of this earth will always get affected their hearts will either reduce and sometimes الله سبحانه وتعالى will allow your Eman to increase now as far as you know talking about the going for the cure immediately came into my mind that verse ألا بذكر الله تطمئن القلوب indeed by the remembrance of Allah the hearts feel at ease so we have many ayat we've been talking about that talks about the corrupt hearts and the good hearts and connecting the ebadat with the heart and like you said not pondering upon the Quran is something that can lead to the heart being covered or blocked or locked but we also have a verse there clearly saying that ultimately the ultimate being content your heart being content is with remembrance of Allah صحيح والله you know that even in surah الله سبحانه وتعالى says ألم يأني للذين آمن أن تخشع قلوبهم لذكر الله وما نزل من الحق ولا يكون كالذين أوتوا الكتاب من قبل فطال عليهم الأمد فقصت قلوبهم كثير منهم فاسقون this ayat they had distanced themselves from the remembrance of Allah فطال عليهم الأمد فقصت قلوبهم كثير منهم فاسقون ثم قصت قلوبهم من بعد ذلك فهي كالحجارة أو أشدو قصوة so their hearts are now hard and tough لا يعرفوا معروفا ولا يمكنوا منقرن the person can't recognize the good and he can't reject the evil his heart has become upside down it's like trying to pour water in a cup that's upside down there's no water that can go into it so the prophet told us in the hadith عليه الصلاة والسلام إذا أدنب عبد يدنبن نكتت في قلبه نكتة سوداء whenever the slave does a sin his heart a black dot is placed on it فإن تابه وإن أب if he repents and he comes to his senses his heart is clean and it's made white and if he carries on and he keeps doing it the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said his heart becomes tainted fully then the prophet recited the ayah كلا بل ران على قلوبهم ما كانوا يكسبون and then their hearts became tainted and darken because of that which their hands have fought forth this point I think there's a very important point that I need to mention there's an ayah in the Quran it's the last two verses in Surah Al-Hazam الله سبحانه وتعالى he says إن عرضنا الأمانة على السماوات والأرض والجبال فأبين أن يحملناها واشفقنا منها وحملها الإنسان إنه كان ظلوما جهولا ليعدب الله المنافقين والمنافقات والمشركين والمشركات ويطوب الله على المؤمنين والمؤمنات وكان الله وفور الرحيمة الله سبحانه وتعالى he tells us something very powerful and I think it's a solution for this particular issue الله tells us that he has placed he has entrusted أمانة with us we were the ones who accepted and amana this amana that's mentioned in the verse is something Allah entrust his slave with it's whatever you're entrusted in is called an amana الإمام عبدالله من عباس the noble companion سعيد من الجبير ضحاكم من المزاحم أبو زيد قتادة من دعمة السدوسي and others they said that the amana here means أحكام التكليفية the rulings of the sharia we have accepted it but then الله سبحانه وتعالى he said since we did accept it this is what we are إنه كان ظلوما جهولا we are what ظلوما جهول and I'm going to come to that part of the verse but then after that الله says ليعدب الله المنافقين والمنافقات والمشركين والمشركات ويطوب الله على المؤمنين والمؤمنات الله matches three groups of people المنافقين المشركين والمؤمنين these three people are the people in regards to the amana that they were entrusted with the religion in which they were entrusted with the المنافقين who were the first they accepted the amana externally and they refused to accept it internally they didn't let it settle into their heart the مشركين rejected externally and internally as for the believers they accepted the amana internally and externally and those are the three types that الله mentioned سبحانه وتعالى here then Allah سبحانه وتعالى He tells us إنه كان ظلوما جهولا the children of Adam are ignorant and that they are oppressive we are ignorant and we are oppressive this is our default position this is how we are as human beings نبي الله إبراهيم made a supplication to Allah he made a supplication he said ربنا وبعت فيهم رسول منهم يتلوا عليهم آياتك ويوزكيهم ويعلمهم الكتابة والحكمة إنك أنت العزيز الحكيم ووالله سنطفهم يقومون who will do two things for them what are the two things يوزكيهم ويعلموا يوزكيهم is the opposite of ظلم ويعلموا is the opposite of the ignorance الجهل those two characteristics إبراهيم once for us to lose those two characteristics and not to be it that's why when محمد narrated in his Musnad that the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said أنا دعوة أبي إبراهيم I am the supplication and the manifestation of the dua of إبراهيم in another place الله says هو الذي بعت في الأميين رسول منهم يتلوا عليهم آياته ويعلمهم الكتابة و الحكمة ويزكيهم إنك أنت ويزكيهم إنك هو الذي بعت في الأميين رسول منهم يتلوا عليهم آياته ويزكيهم ويعلمهم الكتابة و الحكمة و إن كانوا من قبلوا لفي الضلال مبين إن شخص يوجد إجنور و شخص يوجد هو و إن كانوا و إن كانوا من قبلوا لفي الضلال مبين لذا لذا every single day of our life لذا يجب أن نقوم with two things we have to come with علم and we have to come with تسكية إبراهيم قال the minimum that is needed from knowledge is a يقين and the minimum that is needed from تسكية is صبر and with those two he said و بالصبر واليقين تنالوا الإمامة تف الدين with patience and certainty the person will reach leadership and he got it from the آية و جعلنا منهم أئمة يهدون بأمرنا لما صبروا و كانوا بآياتنا يوقنون if a person wants to be يقين and a person who has the patience إنما المؤمنون الذين آمنوا بالله و رسوله ثم لم يرتابوا و جاهدوا بأموالهم و أنفسهم في سبيل الله أولئك هم الصادقون و الثم لم يرتابوا they have no doubt and the patience and the patience is مطية لا يضل راكبها it's a riding beast it's a boat that if a person goes on he will never get lost so with patience واليقين تنالوا الإمامة و الإمامة و الإمامة the knowledge that a person needs to nurture himself to make sure that they get rid of the disease the illness of the heart is العلم بالكتاب والسنة that a person learns the Kitab of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and not the person that's why the ayah says و يعلبهم الكتاب والحكمة the wisdom the wisdom is meant by السنة as Allah سنصورت رحزاب و تكون ما يتلع في بيوتك من آيات الله every single day you're learning the Kitab and you're learning that السنة فالسنة النبي وحيان ثاني عليه ما قطأطلق الوحيان و إنما طريقه الرواية ففتقر الرواي إلى الدراية that the person is making sure that they nurture themselves with the Quran and the sunnah تسكي is basically to get rid of two things or to attain and achieve two things التحلية والتخلية التحلية والتخلية التخلية let me start with that it basically means to get rid of مرض الشبوهات والشهوات the illnesses of doubts and the illnesses of desires and التحلية means that a person adorns himself with good characteristics this is a summary of what a person can cure his hearts with and make sure that they nurture their hearts properly okay, Insha'Allah we'll just hold that of the Hamam before the break you obviously gave some what we want for me in the last 10 minutes or so we want to give the viewers some examples and maybe some methods and some acts that can are very good because obviously certain acts are very good for purifying the heart and and there's also acts that are very opposite to that so we want to focus some kind of advice for them and what would you recommend for the viewers on ways to some good actions of the heart first of all that they should participate in so what they should try and stay away from that can have the opposite effect on the heart now in regards to the things that a person should do is number one supplication we are weak and we need الله سبحانه وتعالى الله is the one who tosses and turns the heart of the creation we need to increase in saying that دعاية مقلب القلوب ثبت قلبي على دينك our Allah the one who turns and tosses the hearts of the people our Allah make my heart steadfast in your religion so this is something we need to do if the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم used to do this then we should the Prophet حديث أم السلام رضي الله تعالى عنها she said that the Prophet عليه الصلاة والسلام whenever he would pray قيام الليل the first thing he would open his قيام الليل would be اللهم فاطر السماوات والأرض علم الغيب والشهادة أن تتحكم بين عبادك فيما كانوا فيه يختلفون إهديني لمختلف فيه من الحق بإذنه إنك تهدي من تشاء تقين so the Prophet of Allah is asking Allah for guidance also you can see that في صورة الفاتحة الله سبحانه وتعالى يقول إياك نعبود وإياك نستعين إستيعانة is to seek help from Allah but why is it that إستيعانة has been taken out of عبادة because إستيعانة is عبادة but why did Allah take it out the Ulama in the language they call this عطف العامي على الخاص but what it means here right now is that it is so important إستيعانة to seek help and aid from Allah that it was made parallel and equal to عبادة itself when it was taken out of it so the reason is because عبادة should be done عبادة should be done or it comes through asking Allah شيخ الإسلامي ابن تيمى it was said that whenever a matter would be hard for him he would say يا معلمة داودة علمني ويا مفهمة سليمان وفهمني so supplication number one ask Allah the Prophet used to say عليه الصلاة والسلام ربيات نفوسنا تقواها وزكها أنت خير من زكاها أنت وليها ومولاها أو الله purify our hearts purify our soul so we need to supplicate إن الله حيي كريم الله is shy and he is very generous إذا رفع إليه عبد if a slave lifts his hands up in the air لم يروتهما سفرا الله will not turn your hands back to you and I believe it if it's not the same hadith another hadith it says that إستحي that Allah feels for lack of a bit of words a kind of shame to shy exactly to not reject but to return back his slave empty handed exactly so we need to first of all supplicate to Allah that every single day our Allah keep us steadfast upright the second thing that a person needs to do is to nurture himself in knowledge I realize many of the people who really don't know the enemy who is Iblis عليه العين الله Iblis has studied you he has learnt you he knows the ins and the outs he knows what you know he knows what you want so he is using it against you so you need to study your enemy and the way that you can is by looking at the Quran looking at the sunnah of the Prophet عليه الصلاة والسلام and increasing yourself in توحيد as we said before وبعد فت توحيد علم ينبلو توحيد is علم which is نبيل honorable and a great science it's a great knowledge for a person to learn and that they study it and it's something that comes to mind when you mentioned that is that many people think you know I'm a Muslim I'm not doing I'm not doing any kind of associating I'm fine I don't even why should I need to learn about Shirk I'm a Muslim I pray to Allah I'm safe from it but then we know that Ibrahim عليه الصلاة والسلام his dua is you know asking Allah يعني you know like to keep him away عبد العسلام صحيح Ibrahim عليه الصلاة والسلام the one who was put in the fire because not willing you know for what he did and not willing to give in and be quiet about the Shirk they were committing and on top of that and he's the one who destroyed the idols and on top of that he is asking Allah to keep me and my offspring away from Shirk so we can see here that anybody could fall into it which is why we have to learn you know what is Shirk and you know what it is to stay away from it you know بالذلك دا سوا دا براسة عسلام السلام عبد الله من عباس يا غلام إني وعلي مكلمات إحفظ الله يحفظك إحفظ الله تجيط وتجاهك إذا سألت فسأل الله وإذا ست عنت فست عن بالله وعلم أن الأمة لو اجتمعوا على أن يفعوك بشيء لن يفعوك إلا بشيء قد كتبه الله لك وان اجتمعوا على أن يضروك بشيء لم يضروك إلى بشيء قد كتبه الله عليك رفعات الأقلام وجفة الصحف إبنة عباس is young at this time he's a young boy he said يا غلام إني وعلي مكلمات إحفظ الله يحفظك and in one of those in the part of the hadith what he say وإذا سألت فسأل الله if you supplicate and you call it الله alone so the Prophet consistently consistently made sure that توحيد was bought the companions and many people as you said before they haven't really understood as Ibrahim said ربي جنوبني وبنية أن نعبود الأصلام and we were commanded to follow Ibrahim الله says سبحانه وتعالى ومن يرغب ومن يرغب عن ملة إبراهيم إلا من سفها نفسها ولقد استفينه في الدنيا وإنه في الآخرة لمن الصالحين إذ قال له ربه أسلم قال أسلمت لرب العالمين ووصى بها إبراهيم وبنيه ويعقوب يا بني إن الله استفى لكم دينة فلا تموتن إلا وانتوا مسلمون so we were commanded to follow نبي الله إبراهيم in the concept of توحيد and making sure that we that we come with توحيد The next thing I would advise is a person for them to give their heart and come with أعمال القلوب is that the person lives between three stages three manazel المحبة والخوف والرجة and if you look at the groups that became deviated each group has taken on one of those مثل in the Sufiya they taken on محبة only they believe and they worship Allah based on only love the khawarit and they worship their love and their worship of Allah based on khawf and the murji they came and they were based their love they worship of Allah based on the raja hope أهل السنة والجماعة is that they based on three of them المحبة والخوف والرجة and if a person lives between those three stages correctly and he would make sure that every single day he is consistent on making sure that he doesn't let his actions of the heart go wrong and they are the foundation of the actions of the heart I mean the love and the hope and the fear reminds me again which is about Ibn al-Qaim because Ibn al-Qaim was very potent in many of his wisdoms and his heart moving you could say reflections and he described this love Ibn al-Qaim as like a bird with the body and the wings the three elements the body and the wings and if one of them is missing the bird is finished basically he can't fly can't operate correctly so he always had these ways of giving us very reflections and a ponder upon it's been great having you on جزاك الله خير and I'm sure we could keep on talking but as they say there's a limit to the time and hopefully when you're back in town again we'll have you on for some future episodes جزاك الله خير جزاك الله for having me and جزاك الله خير for the viewers again for joining and watching us and insha'Allah by the will of art we will return same time same place here on live by Islam and I'll leave you as always insha'Allah نزب السلام وسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته