 How do I obtain tranquility in women and women arts? Very simple. But it needs big hearts to achieve it. It needs determined personality to achieve it. It needs purposeful personality to achieve it. You see how you are determined with your life? Give Allah less than quarter of that and it's enough. You spend from eight to nine or from eight to five at work. Islam doesn't expect you to give all that. And sometimes you go that five, seven, eight hours in a day, you come back empty hand. I promise you, if you give Allah less than quarter of what you give to your life, you'll come back full hand. Why can't we make Allah priority in our lives? Young and old. The first response is a natural response. And it's a very simple response. This response is that. You need always, now and then, reflect and go back to yourself. Tadabur. Tafakkur. Pondarin. Reflecting. Thinkin. Seclude yourself for ten minutes. Fifteen minutes. Do self-introduception. Why? Remember, the Allah default setting is love for perfection in you. That love for perfection, you remember? I mentioned it and last night I repeated it. That is Allah's default setting in you. If you don't seek Allah as a means of perfection, then you are a little bit going against your premodial nature, your fetura. I'm going to demonstrate that for you. Just to make things very clear. You see, insan, right from the womb of his mom, he seeks perfection, insan. Muslim, non-Muslim, she and it doesn't matter really. Insan as insan, right from the womb of mom, begin to seek perfection. How? It's when a baby is in the womb of the mother. The woman, the baby has two hands and two legs. What does the baby do in the womb? Moves around. Mades no bear. The baby moves around. What is that? Perfection. And when the baby becomes a real baby in the womb, the baby tend to realize that the womb is not enough. Need more than that. Sometime mom cannot sleep, the baby will be going up and down in the womb. Now baby arrives here, still yearning for perfection. Start crawling. When the baby emers in crawling, the baby will then start trying to stand on its feet. Yearning for perfection. Because crawling not enough. I need to stand now. Perfection. Now when the baby begin to stand, begin to move, pull televisions, pull distance, yearning for perfection. That's insan. That's the default setting. This is not just for the sake of the baby doing it. It's to tell us that our nature is to seek perfection. Now baby now walking, then the baby will start to express itself. Talking, speaking, learn from our children the yearning for perfection. Then you will go for education. You know you become big shot like the way I mentioned last night. Still yearning for perfection. And that is what is called as mentioned. If Allah would give permission to our fitra, promodial nature to speak, we will all hear the fitra saying, we are the lovers of perfection. Where is the way to perfection? Ya ni every insan in you, there is that boiling, you boiling for perfection. And I ask Imam Uqmainika, desallahu nafsaku zakeya, he mentioned that. O insan, go back to the book of your fitra and analyze your essence of fitra. You realize that it is written there on your fitra, IS-79 of suratul anam. Inni tawadja atu wajigi lilladi fatara samawati wa lardakhaniva. So point is trying to make that if you will go back to your senses, you realize that you cannot settle without wholeheartedly submitting to your maker. So the point I am trying to make is very simple point. But indeed, if I and you are determined to obtain tranquil soul, you need tafakur and tadapur. You need to spend some time reflecting. It could be this what others call meditation. So in Islam we are sort of meditation, not the way other people do, but we have it also. Wherever you sit, you ponder, you reflect. You switch off a little bit from the busy life. You can obtain that. Don't you see if sometimes you sit and you close your eyes for few seconds, how do you feel? You feel good. Sometimes you switch off the lights. You sit in one corner, just reflect alone. For few minutes you feel good. So the point I am trying to make is that if you truly want to obtain tranquil soul, first and foremost go back to your normal and original setting. That is, you are yearning for perfection. It's Quranic injangcha. How Quran tells us to obtain tranquil soul. The ayah I quoted Quran 13 verse 28. You see in that ayah Allah is saying you can only obtain tranquil soul through his remembrance. Through the zikr of Allah. We'll look at it later. What is that zikr of Allah? But I want to demonstrate something here. Look at this. Allah, beautifully. Those of you who know Arabic, you will understand this. If you analyze the ayah, Allah bring the fiil, the subjects that is tatma'in after the zikr. Object and subject. What does it mean? It means hasra. It means exclusivity. It means hey, without remembering your Lord you cannot obtain tranquil soul. It will become basam. To have nafsul mutma'in without God here. So look at how we're going to demonstrate it. A great scholar really analyzed this. And this is really fascinating. So you look at things that Allah created and he compared until he reached peace and tranquility. How? He said, when I analyze the relationship between iron and fire, I came to a conclusion that iron can easily be dissolved and melted by fire. So my conclusion is fire is stronger than iron. That's one. Then he went ahead and said, then I looked at iron and water. So I analyzed the relationship between the two. Then I looked at water is stronger than fire. Water is stronger than fire. Because no matter what the fire, you just pour water, the fire is gone. Then he continued to say, I want you to just pay attention. There's a point here, which is a very beautiful point. That now water is strong. But when I compare the relationship between water and cloud, I realized that no cloud pushes water. So cloud becomes stronger than water. He then went ahead to say, I didn't compare the relationship between cloud and air. Then I realized that no air pushes cloud. Then I came to a conclusion that air is stronger than the cloud. He went ahead. He said then I analyzed the relationship between air and mountain. Then I realized that look, mountain can contain air. So then I came at a conclusion that mountain is stronger than the air. He went ahead. He said no, then I went ahead and analyzed the relationship between mountain and insan. Then I came to a conclusion that indeed insan he may be very tiny and small, but stronger than the mountain. But no, he said I went ahead again with my research. And I compared the relationship between insan and norm, sleeping. Then I realized that sleeping is more stronger than insan himself. Then he said no, I went ahead again and analyzed the relationship between sleeping and worries, problems, issues, difficulties. Then I realized whenever I had issues, problems, I would not be able to sleep. Hence, worrying are more stronger than sleeping. Look at the last one. So then I analyzed the relationship between worrying and tranquility and peace. Then I realized that whenever I have a peace, the worries are not there anymore. So Allah said with the remembrance of Allah, the heart finds peace. Respect you for the problem. If there is peace at heart. We tend to forget about it. Isn't it? Why don't you work for that? Why are we not striving for that? For what Islam is calling us for? Now question, what is this vikr? What is this the remembrance of Allah? That Allah is saying without it you will not obtain tranquility. You will not obtain peace. Remembrance of Allah for the brothers and sisters mean two things. Meaning It means one. Knowledge about your creator. Not forgetting about your creator. To what extent do you know Allah? When I say Allah meaning his existence. That's vikr. You know how comfortable you are at work. Because you know it by heart. If you know it, you strive to perfect the knowledge. Why not about God? Why God is secondary in our lives? Zikrullah bimaana ma'arifatullah. To remember Allah meaning to know God. You know what? If you do not make things priority in your life, you will not find it. If Allah is secondary to us. So it looks simple. With the remembrance of Allah, I find peace. Ya Allah, I pray every day. I fast every day. Do you know what you are praying? Do you know what you are fasting for? Do you know the verse? We need to have a ma'arifatullah. The way you strive for your livelihood, you need to strive to know Allah. And you know very well. I don't want to take too much because I want to digress a little bit. At the end.