 Peace be upon you. I hope everybody's doing well. So, Insha'Allah, we'll continue on in the discussion. We'll just do a quick review of what we covered last time. And then we'll talk about the topic for today, which is focused on spiritual purity and importance of inward cleanliness and outward cleanliness. And so, Imam Haddad, he's going to relate and link the two. So, last time we were talking about the importance of prioritizing our actions and prioritizing the obligations that Allah has given us. And basically, the most critical aspect of this is for us to understand that there is an order of actions that God wants us to do, right? We want to make sure that we are first prioritizing the fara'id, the obligatory actions, and then from there that we are leaving the haram. And it's more beneficial for a Muslim to leave off all of the haram that they're doing and do all of the fara'id and do absolutely no voluntary actions, no nafil prayers, no sunnah prayers, no extra recitation. Then it is for somebody to be doing some of the fara'id, doing some of the still caught up in a variety of different sins, and then doing some nafil as a kind of like, okay, well, maybe this will help that person, but it's not the route of quickest ascension. The route of quickest ascension is someone examines their life and they say, okay, where am I at with my spirituality? And how do I start to work practically on things that I'm not really supposed to be doing? And it's mentioned in the books on patience that it's harder to have patience to leave a sin than it is to have patience to do a good deed. There's multiple types of patience. Among the types of patience that Imam Ghazali lays out, one type of patience is you need patience in doing a good deed, because you have to first have patience to get started with it, then you have to have patience to go through with it, then you have to have patience he mentions after the good deed as well to actually not go and tell people about it because you want to show off, right? There's patience required in doing good. What's more patient required though, more patience is required in staying away and refraining from evil. So refraining from things that we know we shouldn't be caught up in that we shouldn't be doing because the lower self, the nafs, it has a desire that's kind of drawing us and pulling us towards evil constantly. So that requires patience. And then there's patience with calamities and adversities. And then the fourth type is patience with other people and the problems people might give us and that's controlling our anger and controlling ourselves. But it's mentioned that the second type here of staying away from wrong actions is a very, very important type of patience. And so that's where we get into this idea of making sure to prioritize our religious obligations. And so among those obligations, we basically want to have a list of things that okay, of the farahid, are there things that I'm missing? Am I regularly missing a certain prayer? Am I regularly not waking up for fajr? Is there a certain, you know, on Friday nights, do I regularly miss Isha? Like, we prioritize those things. Instead of devoting our spiritual energy and our kind of bandwidth to think about Islam towards some extra good deed of which we've been talking about for the last maybe two months, without then prioritizing that farad deed. So the farad deed always comes first and staying away from the haram is also obviously of the utmost importance. Great. So now we'll get into the topic for today, which is on spiritual purity. And Imam al-Hadad, he links this idea of inward purity and outward purity. And he says that as a Muslim, you have to have both. You have to be inwardly pure or you have to be aspiring to be inwardly pure. It's not as easy as just trying to, just doing it. But it is actually very reasonable and easy, especially in the time we live in, to be outwardly pure. And to make sure we take care of ourselves and look presentable and make sure that we're presenting ourselves in a way that Allah SWT would be. Pleased with. So he mentions that the various benefits of inward cleanliness and that it comes in various narrations that religion is a foundation of religion is cleanliness and is purity. And that Allah SWT likes it when someone is pure. Allah, you're hibbet tawabeen or you're hibbet mutatahireen. That Allah loves the people who are regularly turning to him, those who are repenting to him. And he also loves the people who are regularly trying to purify themselves. Right now, most of the time we think about this and we're like, okay, that means I need to make with you. I need to do Russell and I need to make sure I remove nudges and dirt and, and, and, and, you know, filled for my clothing and so on. That's, that's a big part of it for sure, the outward cleanliness. But how often do we think about the idea of purity with regards to inward cleanliness? That's very, very important. So we'll start with that piece, right? Inward cleanliness is cleanliness in which somebody is focused on purifying their heart of bad traits, focused on purifying the heart of bad traits. What are examples of these bad traits? Could be pride. Someone could really be full of themselves, think that they're all that bragged to other people, regularly misbehaved, get arrogant, right? A lot of egotistical behavior out there these days and politics and the workplace and so on and so forth. So that's a, that's a spiritual disease. It doesn't like the people who are, who are prideful. Allah is the one who is, he is the only one who is allowed to be prideful. He doesn't like anyone else being prideful, right? Another disease that would come into this category that we want to purify ourselves of is envy and jealousy, right? Where we see what other people are doing and we're like, why does, why does he have this house and why does he have this car and why does she have this and how does that, how come this person is married and I'm not married. And then in a negative way, we start to get jealous of them. And we start to, without even really intentionally doing it, we're wishing, we could even be wishing bad upon them, right? But envy is the idea that you want someone to, you want their blessing to be taken away and that you want that blessing all for yourself, right? And that becomes very dangerous. And the Prophet of Islam said that envy burns good deeds like fire burns wood. So somebody could be completely doing everything properly with regards to their religious activities, outwardly praying, fasting, so on and so forth, but they could just be really envious. And without even knowing if they don't, if we don't learn the importance of the inward sciences, their good deeds are getting burned and burned and just taken away, right? It's like essentially getting erased. And that becomes a problem because when the good deeds get erased because of a disease we didn't even realize, right? The scholars mentioned someone could be in a major sin, but it's a major sin of the heart and they might not realize it's not adultery. It's not taking interest. It's not drinking alcohol, right? And so on and so forth, but it's a major sin of the heart. And that's very, very important to keep in mind. So we're not going to cover every disease, but other examples of this like excessive love of the dunya, right? That's the point of the believer's life is not to fall in love with wealth and with making all the money in the world and with being the richest person in the world and so on and so forth. That's not the point of our life. We can do well in our dunya, inshallah, but our goal is that we keep the dunya in the hand and not in the heart. Like, okay, I'm here. I got to do what I got to do. Maybe if Allah blesses somebody with wealth, their intention is to serve the Muslims and serve the massages and so on and so forth. But the love of wealth comes when someone starts to get a little bit more money and now they're spending it very frivolously, right? And more haram starts entering their life. Like, oh, it's not a big deal if I buy this one thing that's probably not the best thing for someone to have and buy an outfit that's probably not the best for someone to wear. And then it just goes and now I have access to hang out with people who might be hanging out in more expensive places and maybe someone starts to slowly get involved in haram. So these are examples of inward diseases. Now, it's a farah, an individual obligation for the ummah of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam to learn the diseases of the heart and to work on them. That is mandatory. It's just as critical as learning all of the other things you and I are required to learn. And it's often neglected in the time we live in. And so you have a larger percentage of Muslims today that there's a lot of outward action and there's very little akhla, very little character, right? And the character, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said in the hadith that those who have the best character will be closest to him on the day of judgment. O kamakal or he said something similar. The good character and he said that he was sent to perfect noble character. That's one of the main, he emphasized, that's one of the main reasons he was sent to teach us how to behave with people. And we see in the time we live in, it's not that much good character. There's a lot of just rough conversations and rough behavior in the public sphere and so on and so forth. It's not people are not doing things with dignity and with humility and with respect anymore. That's kind of gotten tossed at the window and it starts with when the heart starts to become corrupted, the character then becomes corrupted. And once the character is corrupted, the individual becomes corrupted. Once the individual is corrupted, the family around them becomes corrupted. And once enough individuals and families are corrupted, the society becomes corrupted. And that continues and continues as is mentioned in various hadith in the day of judgment till at the end of times will be the absolute worst people will be around at the end of time. And so as the Muslims, one of the way to ward that off is that we focus on purifying ourselves. We focus on purifying these diseases. And so with regards to the one mentioned with Envy, just double click into that a little bit, right? Like in the Instagram age that we live in, it's very easy to just be scrolling and just be getting really jealous, right? Oh, how come he did this trip? How come they went there? How come she went here and so on and so forth? It's very, very easy to get into that negative type of emotion and that becomes a disease in the heart. And now that disease, the more you feed the disease, the more it stays, right? So at some point someone has to just cut it off, be like, dude, this is toxic for me, right? All these things coming out about Facebook right now are in the last like couple of months. I mean, everybody already knew this, but it's coming out more publicly and about how toxic of an addiction it actually is and how many negative impacts it has on the youth and on society. And again, as a corporation that's just focused on making money, right? The internal or the message is, yeah, we care about it, but like what's actually being done to curb and mitigate the harm. Very little, very little, if anything is being done, right? And so we have to guard ourselves. We have to know, okay, how do I have principled engagement with technology so I don't start to become, the technology does not become a way for me to get access to more sin, right? And a way for me instead, the technology becomes a way for somebody to, you know, communicate more with others and so on and so forth. And then maybe access to good, but that's where the diseases of the heart. Once you know them, you'll know, okay, this disease exists. These behaviors and these things I engage with and these people I engage with and these technologies are going to hurt me in it. And these areas and these behaviors are going to help me purify that, right? And so what he mentions is that the heart should be pure and that someone should be focused on being more pure inwardly than outwardly. And they should be pure outwardly. You should be beautiful outwardly, right? And all of the spiritual virtues and we'll talk about that in a second, but more virtuous inwardly, right? So people, when they engage with you and they think about you, they're like, man, that person just is so good to be around. That person just has such good character. That person is just so generous. They're so nice. They're always accommodating. They're never, they, there's always, you know, we all have those people, maybe we are those people, may Allah forgive us and protect us wherever just difficult. Muslim is not a difficult, not difficult. They're not difficult. They're not like always firm and difficult and everything very gentle and they're expansive. Generally speaking, there's a trait called magnanimity that the Muslim is generally a magnanimous person, right? And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was the most expansive and gentle and magnanimous of all people, such that it even happened that of the level of inward purity that he achieved. And one time there was a, there was a man who came into the Masjid of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, the greatest, among the greatest Masjid, the right, the first or second greatest Masjid that exists alongside the Haram, the Makkah. And this man started to urinate in the Masjid, literally just openly started to urinate in the Masjid. Now at times Masjid like straw and dirt, right? And the Saba obviously like are just like freaking out with what's up with it. They're not that freaking out in the way we would think of it, but they're very much like getting vehemently like, you know, upset what's going on. And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he doesn't go at the man. He doesn't say get him away ASAP. Go, go, go. He says, let him finish. That was his response. Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, let him finish. Let him finish what he's doing, right? So then he finishes. And then the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam doesn't go and get angry with him and being like, you idiot, don't you know anything? This is God's house. This is how some people behave today. They will be in the leadership position in Allah's house and they will be literally yelling at people, like people who do not deserve to be yelled at, right? And yelling at children and so on. So this is not from the Sunnah of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And so then he, what did he do? He went and he told him, this is the house of Allah, right? He explained to him very calmly, we don't do, you know, this is not the restroom. He explained to him where they go for that, for relieving themselves, not a place to relieve yourself. We worship Allah here. He explained to him calmly, right? And then the man understood. He was teaching him. And then the Sahaba, they cleaned it up, right? They did not make it a huge thing. And then it wasn't being talked about for weeks on social media after that. Like, can you believe it? This dude is such a bimbo. I just can't believe that he did that, right? That wasn't the approach. It was like, the mistake happened. He didn't know. He was forgiven. And with good akhlaq and good character they handle. And that's very noble character. And Allah says that you are on a khulq al-adim, you are on a vast character to the prophecy sum. That level is not attainable for us, right? We can mimic it, but we're not going to be on that same, same, same exact hook. We try our best to follow in his footsteps. And the inward following of the prophecy sum is a following of character. Yes. It was mentioned more than once that they said that the prophecy sum was more generous than the free-blowing wind. That was the analogy they gave of the magnanimous. Right. The prophecy sum is mentioned in different narrations that he was more generous than the free-flowing and free-blowing wind. And when the wind is blowing and blowing and blowing, now imagine somebody who is giving and giving and giving more than the breezes of the wind. That's how generous the prophecy sum is. Every single character trait that is a perfect, that is a good character trait to have, nobility, generosity, dignity, integrity, truthfulness, patience, contentment, vigilance, and so on and so forth, the prophecy sum. He perfected it and he taught the Sahaba how to perfect it. So it came that these people were the most ignorant people that were there basically kind of around in that, not only the entire region, but generally in that part of the world at the time. They're literally in a state of jahlia, which means not just intellectual ignorance. You're talking about this like a complete ignorant state with your character as well. How they would just like get angry with each other and compete. Wars would start because someone would diss somebody. And that happens in our time today as well. People fight and people lose lives because someone disses somebody. And someone, you know, just looks at someone in the wrong way. That it was that level of jahlia, that level of ignorance. And within a generation, not even that many years, the prophecy sum came and the Sahaba, completely hundreds of thousands of Sahaba and of people who were there transformed into people who then went and became guides for other people. That was the level of inward purity. So when we say, Allah, you're hebbal tawabin, where you're hebbal matutahirin, this idea that Allah loves the people who are purifying. It's not just about having woodu down. Somebody is like super, super, super focused on woodu. Beautiful. That's great. But also wonder how pure is the heart that is regularly getting defiled, right? I remember one time one of our teachers mentioned that he, he like his car got scratched, something and he was just like, oh man, my car got scratched. And his, his mom was like, if only you cared this much every time your heart got a scratch on it. How much more pure would you be? And she could say something like that to him. Obviously that would probably not be the best thing for others to say to someone, but if every time the heart gets a scratch, every time a sin happens, we look at something we shouldn't be looking at. We behave in an incorrect way. The person of astuteness will be aware as something's off. The heart will start to become, get in a state of trepidation. The heart of the, of the believer who's treading the path is generally going to be in a state of tranquility. As wrong starts to happen and as sin starts to manifest and as anger and other nafsani traits start to come about, egotistic traits start to come about. The person starts to become more and more in a state of anxiety and a state of worry and a state of panic and a state of trepidation, right? And that's one signal. Something's off in the heart. Something is off in the heart. And so Sayyidina Abu Hurair Ali Allahu Ann narrates that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said that verily Allah does not look at your appearance or your wealth, but he looks rather at your heart and your actions. Allah is looking at your, your heart spiritually, right? And the only thing that's going to matter on the day of judgment as is mentioned in the Quran, that Yomah, the day in which neither wealth nor children will benefit somebody. What does that mean in our time? All the status, all the fame, all the cars, all the power, all the followers, none of that's going to matter. Nothing. The only thing except the one who comes to Allah with the pure and sound heart. That's what's going to benefit somebody on the day of judgment. And the sound heart, the reason why you and I pray and the reason why you and I fast and the reason why inshallah you and I pay zakat and so on and so forth. It's not just some, some ritual we do so we can go through the motions. It's become like that in our time, but it's so that we start to become more and more purified. Qadhaf lahman zakah wa qadkhaba man dasaah as Allah says in the Quran that successful is the one who purifies themselves and destroyed is the one who isn't. And that is the goal of this religion is to ascend in stations of purity and get closer and closer to Allah. And the main sign of that is how pure is someone's character. The one who has, they mentioned the one who has outstripped somebody in good character who has, has outstripped someone in their spirituality. The one who has the best character. It's better to be somebody of really, really good character and not that many optional extra actions than somebody who might do a lot of great extra deeds and recite Quran and so on and so forth and just complete jerk and just rude and wants everything their way and just like so, super just angry, angry all the time with everybody. And some, the worst is when the anger is linked to religion. We should never be people who link our anger to religion and never be people who show our children or our loved ones or family members that like that when they do something wrong religiously that now anger is the answer. No, sometimes the firmness and anger is needed, but it's not the answer. You cannot find examples in the Sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ where that will be the predominant method. Most of the time it's done with gentleness and done with mercy. And we only sent you as a mercy to all the worlds. If he is sent as a mercy and Allah begins with Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim with the most merciful, the all compassionate and mercy and mercy and mercy are emphasized and we want Allah to be merciful with us on the day of judgment. Why can't we be merciful with other people? It's because something's wrong with the heart. The heart has gotten corrupted and the inward purity is in there. And when the inward purity is not there then the beautiful traits don't come. And when the inward purity is there it becomes like a soil that now the inward traits began to be planted and then now beautiful things start to emerge from that person. Yes, please. Could you explain to everybody what a pure heart is? What does that mean? I think it should be a thought going on within you. Yeah, definitely. So the question was what exactly is a pure heart? And how do we understand what a pure heart is? There's a couple of different components to a pure heart. The first is the purified heart according to the scholars is one in which the major evil traits have left that heart. It's the pride, quick to anger, ostentation and being proud of or showing off religious deeds and being a narcissist and being obsessed with someone whether it's looks or it's their position or so on and so forth with love of the dunya, heedlessness and just not being aware of that Allah is watching. Those are among some of the more core traits that someone has to work on. There's dozens of others but those are some of the core ones. And then the second is the heart that's been adorned with the beautiful traits. Amongst those somebody who's regularly turning who's humble before Allah that's one of the core traits who's regularly turning to Allah who's patient with Allah's decree and patient with other people who has mercy and love towards other people who is a grateful human being shukr, sabr, shukr these are all critical traits that the pure heart has. Someone who then gets a station of contentment with Allah's decree. A situation of stations, right? Somebody is basically climbing and climbing stations till they reach the station the nafsil mutima inna and the nafsil mutima inna is the tranquil soul and essentially you could say corresponds with the pure heart. Somebody has reached the station, the nafs starts off the ego starts off known as what's called the beastial soul the animal soul. It wants relations and food and drinks and sex and all these things. That's what the ego wants. At its core animal self, it's no better than animal. If the Muslim does not wean the nafs and wean the ego, it stays at that level. It stays at the level of what's called the nafs al-amada and then it goes to the next level as you start to wait as someone starts to wake up and work on themselves it's known as what's called the nafs al-awama it's all Quranic words and themes that we're mentioning and that is what's called the self-blaming soul someone starts to be like, oh I shouldn't have done that I probably shouldn't be doing this thing I should probably work on myself here and it gets to the point eventually where someone attains the state of the tranquil soul so that essentially then could say corresponds to the pure heart and the heart that's the bad has left it the good has entered it and now virtue is essentially stemming from it doesn't mean that person can never slip, of course not but the dominant traits are goodness that's the dominant traits versus the dominant traits being and so on so with regards to the ways in which we can attain this what we should probably start to do to attain this is we should, there's two books I would recommend one is a book that's been written and a poem that's been translated by Sheikh Hamza Yusuf called Purification of the Heart highly recommend getting that working through it it defines all the diseases of the heart and how to purify someone and there's a lot of diseases we might have because in our time there's things that are just common place but we don't even realize this is a bad thing to do like always comparing ourselves to other people that's very normal now that's not a spiritually virtuous thing by any means the muslim is just content with what they got why do we, there's not but social media has made it such someone's always comparing, comparing so that would be one book and then if somebody is once they're ready Imam al Ghazali has written 20 books on this 10 on the destroying virtues not destroying virtues, the destroying vices and 10 on the saving virtues all compiled in the what's called the the revival of the religious sciences which he goes into detail extensive detail about each single disease why it exists what the spiritual aspect of it is how does then somebody start to work on it and gives very very practical cures and somebody works through that and implements what has said inshallah they will very much emerge and start to then become amongst that group that we mentioned inshallah because purity will become the focus so 10 on the destroying vices and then 10 on the saving virtues they're known as the last 20 books of the Ahyala Medina so those two would recommend and then among the other things that's mentioned then we'll get to the external purity is that somebody should be more concerned about their inward appearance than their outward appearance so sometimes we like really really really want to make sure we look good hair is combed, makeup is done properly, everything is all all in place but then like there's all this stuff bubbling inside that we don't give attention to and that we don't want to meet Allah in that state where we cared more about our looks than we cared about where Allah looks because Allah doesn't look at your looks he doesn't he wants us to be presentable and decent dignified people for sure and clean as we'll get to but he doesn't care about you know how someone looks and are they super fitted and so on and so that's not Allah looks at someone's heart and so if someone is devoting at minimum we should be devoting equal time to it if we're devoting 30 minutes a day to getting ready and making sure we're looking in a certain way and so on and so forth we should at least be devoting 30 minutes a day to examining our heart but the better station is someone is devoting way more time and they're like okay I'm good with how I'm looking and I'm gonna now work on what's more important right because usually when someone says I just don't have any time you ask them well how much time do you spend doing this activity and this activity and so on and so forth and really the answer is I just don't want to prioritize it right it's just about how much somebody prioritizes things so it should be that somebody's focus on inward purity is more than their focus on the cosmetic appearance that somebody might have it's more more more of a focus until it gets to a point where the inward becomes the majority of focus so we'll get now to the next section but before we do that is anybody have any questions at all about this what we've talked about so far okay we'll move on to the next one so now he gets into like just again in the spirit of practicality very practical elements right so like now someone should be focused on outward cleanliness and he says that once when someone starts to keep to obedience that will facilitate their path towards outward cleanliness they'll generally want to be a more presentable and clean person right and so that's also very very important the Muslim is somebody who if especially if they're able to Allah has blessed them with the ability and the home and the wealth and so on and so forth it definitely comes across as like a dignified clean person so he mentioned a couple things right somebody and I'm going to get into like the details here because it's mentioned that goes into the Sunnah of like literally how someone should clip their nails and floss and brush their teeth and use them as flocks I'm going to get into the details there but doing so because he's mentioning that if you line yourselves up with the Sunnah of this this will be a path for someone to be outwardly clean and then that will also be a path for them to be inwardly clean the Muslim at a high level is like should you know look up here nice make sure that their hair is proper if they're going out with their hair make sure that their teeth are clean that their nails are clipped that they smell nice right we do not want to be the people who in the masjid are like everybody's like oh man this dude I can't wait till I'm done with the Salah we don't want to be we should go and you know there's always free it there and other things in the masjid that we should at least apply that if we feel like hey it's a really hot day outside and maybe I need to apply that right but we want to be generally speaking even the the a good smell from somebody right it's considered like a charity because someone is is a good scent I should say not a good smell a good scent from somebody right and so that's the level of focus that a Muslim has the Prophet Salah Salam he taught us all this but he didn't actually need all this because he was naturally fragrant Prophet Salam they would go and they would collect he would sweat they would go and these little bottles they would collect the sweat in in the bottles and they and then he one time saw I'm doing that he said why are you collecting this he said oh I'm we mix this it has a perfume because it smells so good that's his sweat would smell naturally fragrant he was always naturally fragrant Salallahu Alaihi Salam right completely just there was noor on someone's on his face because of how pure he had attained the state of inward purity of some the more also someone attained the state of inward purity usually the more that will manifest in outward beauty as we see with example of the Prophet Salam and say the use of Alai Salam and others so he mentions a couple of specific things also will kind of quickly get through this with regards to following the Sunnah of the Prophet Salallahu Alaihi Salam in this right so he says okay the Muslim should always have their like nails clipped right he says start with what you do in the Sunnah is that you start with the right index index finger right and you work your way through the full right hand until somebody goes and ends with the right thumb so they go like this way and then they go this way right and then they end with this that would be the way that we follow the Sunnah start with the Shahud finger and then somebody should do the same thing with the toes someone starts with the all the way on the right the right pinky toe and goes all the way to the left and he says that this should not be left for more than a few weeks at a time right like he you should someone we should be very very it's a religious act to make sure that someone is clean their nails are clean their nails are cut and so on and so forth and they're presenting themselves in a dignified way right Khadkaramna bani Adam and we have a noble bani Adam as Allah says bani Adam is a noble bani Adam is the only creature that walks like this everybody else you have like cats or any other pets they just they just have all four of their paws and they're walking on them the bani Adam walks like this right and is has a dignity to them and so they should we should carry ourselves in a dignified way internally humble with Allah but definitely carrying ourselves with dignity right and carrying ourselves in a very very presentable way and then you know you say mentioned that somebody should be attentive to making sure that they're removing the dirt from their face that they're removing if they're removing anything else that comes onto their face and again that idea of looking looking nice and looking presentable and the third category mentioned this is surprisingly emphasized in the Sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ which is the cleanliness of the teeth as we know the Prophet ﷺ and some hadith would be using the miswak all the time like not just during the prayer right there's the using the miswak during the prayer which is a natural it's from the Arak tree usually it's like a natural toothbrush for those who don't know the miswak or the Siwak it's like a natural toothbrush that has a lot of other health benefits that have recently been discovered but in addition to that the teeth stay clean they didn't have toothpaste and you know like Phillips toothbrush at the time and even if they did the miswak would still be better because it's Sunnah and so that's something he meant so the dental health is actually really an emphasis for our religion so he mentions okay some of the Muslim is going to clean their teeth often they're going to make sure there's no food in between their teeth they're going to floss often right this is one that I'm not good at my wife is always writing me that I need to floss more but it is definitely an important part and making sure there's nothing in between the teeth is critical because it links to overall bodily health right so what we don't want to be is we don't want to be that person who's like just so doing all the religious stuff it's like beard hasn't been trimmed face hasn't been washed like totally scruffy and everything but like someone thinks that they're on it right that might happen like when someone is in a state of ehram because you're not allowed to do that in a state of ehram right and ehram meaning when you go but otherwise someone has to take time out because it's from this one and it would be count as we mentioned the second chapter that was the chapter on intention it's all about intentions somebody is emphasizing this and they know that Allah likes it when someone looks nice and presentable so those are the three right with the no with the nails with the teeth and then same thing with brushing your hair someone has a beard making sure they're taking care of their beard regularly combing it oiling it making sure that they're looking presentable and then smelling nicely as well right and he mentions that for men it should be such that other people around you can very clearly smell it and for women it should be such that it should not be as apparent right but if someone would come closer then they would be able to smell the scent of the perfume and then there's other sonezal probably some using kohl he would use this kohl on his eyes and other things that have a lot of other benefits to them but at minimum the nail someone's keeping the nails the teeth the hair the face and the rest of the body should be pure and then the other piece is that's like at the bodily level and then the other piece is at the clothing level right so like we should make sure if we can afford so have clean clothing have clothing that does not have if we get something that's filled on it or dirt clean that off quickly right that's that's out and we kind of scrub it as well if possible and so trying again to be in a very very clean clean state if we shouldn't be you know forget if we drop food all over ourselves make sure that we change before we go into a state where we need to present ourselves nicely so on so these are all things that are often thought of as just sometimes we forget that these are actually part of the Dean and part of the sonezal of the prophets of Allah and then he gets into maintaining your someone's hair as well under the armpits and in the private areas as well and so that he says that that should not ever exceed four or five weeks someone should make sure that they are regularly trimming and clipping and these are very very important things for the Muslim this level of cleanliness and even for Muslims we know when we use the restroom and so on and so forth how important cleanliness is to the Muslim and it's like now just now they're discovering things like the days and so on and so forth but generally you just kind of wonder like how did this society go on for so long and they just the idea of cleanliness is not that important the Muslims were the ones who introduced actually a lot of the cleaning habits to the Europeans when they went into that area so then he goes into we'll pause there real quick does anybody have any questions about what you just mentioned or any questions as far yeah you said it's good to know all the bad things could you list all the bad things at the heart those memorized but in the purification of the heart they're there and I can look them up in my notes for the maybe 10 or 15 I have noted down but there's like probably 25 30 ones there's like 10 core ones that's what Imam Ghazali identifies and then there's what he calls them as like mother traits and then there's like the offspring traits other questions okay yeah go ahead yeah yeah a shower would count as in Lu of Wudu yes especially in the even if you don't make any intention for Wudu right so in Hanifi school you do not need Nia for Wudu as long as you get water there's four water called Arkhan of Wudu you have to have water here right you need to have one fourth of your head that you wipe over you need to get water from your fingertips that's inclusive of the fingernails inclusive of fingernails so things like nail polish will compromise Wudu it's kind of an often ignored thing but we gotta make sure we remove that up to the elbows and then up to the ankles water up to the ankles that's at least in Hanifi school what are the four essentials of Wudu and everything else is something we should do brushing or rinsing our mouth our nose and so on and so forth but so you don't have to have intention though if you just jump in a swimming pool or you take a shower you have Wudu does that make sense the next category then is basically make sure we know the major impurities that we can get into a state so there's two states of purity there's what's called a state of minor ritual impurity which is when someone needs to make Wudu all the reasons someone might lose Wudu and then there's a state of major ritual impurity where someone will compromise and that's usually done either if someone, a woman was on their menstrual cycle or if somebody had sexual relations or a wet dream or so on and so forth someone will need major ritual purity there'll be a state of major ritual impurity and they'll need to make what's called a whistle and so we've got to make sure that we know and that we review and kind of study how do I make sure I'm making Wudu properly how do I make sure I make whistle properly someone is cleaning appropriately this isn't a long discussion on thick so I won't get into all the detail like books and books written about the details of just the thick of Wudu and the thick of whistle at a basic level we have to know okay when am I out of Wudu and when do I need to make how do I need to make it and most of us know that and when am I out of what's called the state of whistle and in the state of Janaba major ritual impurity and now the believer should quickly rectify that very quickly try to enter a state of major ritual we should not go long periods of time in a state where we are majorly majorly ritually impure obviously for a woman after the menstrual cycle is done we're not talking right now about during that period and so he mentions in the books do not stay in the state of Janu for a long period of time and make sure that once somebody is cleaning themselves after the state of major ritual impurity that they clean themselves very very thoroughly so that any of the nudges that was from whatever action had taken place is completely removed and then if someone has any clothing that was soiled and so on and so forth we have to make sure we wash it we do not want to enter the state of prayer in a state where we have impurities on the clothing and then he gets into the and then we'll get into the idea of Wudu and why is Wudu inwardly important so sometimes we think Wudu is like oh I got to do Wudu because I got to pray there's a lot of other benefits to Wudu among the benefits of Wudu is that it is known as the weapon of the believer because it keeps Shaitaan at a level of distance so Wudu is the weapon of the believer we want to as quickly as often as possible especially in the time that we live in with all of the haram that we are exposed to we want to try to make Wudu clean and if we lose Wudu we want to try to make and if you're about to enter into a difficult conversation with somebody where you think there's a chance of arguing for sure make Wudu otherwise Shaitaan is going to be he's going to come with you in that conversation and he's going to try to mess things up if we know that oh I'm about to have a difficult conversation with my spouse I'm about to have a difficult conversation with my mom or with my dad or with my children or with a co-worker whatever it is someone's about to enter a tense meeting make sure to be in a state of Wudu because this now becomes a weapon that there's Shaitaan that are literally that's mentioned in the books that they're lurking to find the Muslims that are in a state of impurity and it's easier for them to attack so remember every spiritual action has a force field and there's a spiritual force field someone puts around themselves and so Wudu as Prophet Salaam mentions is a weapon of the believer yes and I've heard also there could be some rakat some prayer before you go into a big conference right but a big conversation or difficult conversation try to also pray to a rakat for ease in that conversation you can make the Nia what's called Salat al-Hajjat the prayer of need and intention so there's actually a story of a man coming to one of the great spiritual Abu Hassan al-Shadli and he came to him he said oh Sheikh teach me alchemy alchemy is the science of turning lead into gold okay yeah why don't you go renew your Wudu first you renew the Wudu then he says okay for the next one year every time you break your Wudu renew it immediately and then pray to a rakat pray to a rakat every time you break your Wudu and renew it and renew it and renew it so the man continues to do this and continue to do this and he's then by the end of that year one of the days he went to a well and he brought out he went down and out came a bucket of gold and the man didn't really care for it anymore right because the inside had been pure he didn't really care about the dunya anymore and he just let it go and then the sheikh made him a caller to Allah and basically made him a teacher and said okay now call people to Allah go and earn the gold for the next life don't worry about it for this life but this is mentioned in it's mentioned in Prophet Sallam heard the footsteps of Sayyidina Bilal in Jannah and he said oh Bilal I heard your footsteps in Jannah and this is while he's in this life Prophet Sallam obviously is able to do a lot of things so he's in this life and he hears the footsteps of Bilal in Jannah and he says what is it that you know that I heard your footsteps in Jannah and he mentions that there was nothing he could think of except that every time he broke his Wudu he would renew his Wudu and he would pray to rakat that's a very virtuous thing it was difficult to do in our times but even if like every now and then we can make sure we renew our Wudu when we get into the state that somebody should try their best at least on Fridays I think nowadays everybody takes shower often but at least on Fridays you do a thorough whistle with the intention of whistle you make the intention to make sure somebody gargles three times gets water in the nose in this area all the way up three times and then fully cleans the entire body and with the intention and water should get everywhere thoroughly and that would be a whistle and someone should make that Nia on Fridays as the month of Ramadan enters as you're doing spiritual actions and you're going towards major important religious days to definitely make the intention to whistle in addition of course to when somebody leaves or enters into a state of Jannah so the main main main emphasis in all of this is that there's the inward purity and there's outward purity and the inward purity is going to be assisted the goal is the inward purity again we mentioned the day of judgment the only thing that will benefit somebody is a pure heart on the day of judgment but to get to the state of inward purity somebody has to implement these aspects of outward purity these aren't small things right we should not take it lightly we should not say like oh yeah the whole you know we'll do a thing I'm not really into it like I'll just pray what's the big deal I took a shower this morning anyways and there are people who think like this now they want to question aspects of the religion and they want to superimpose modern ideologies on it to make sure we stay away from that because that will limit and constrict our path not only towards outward purity but towards inward purity and the Muslims should aspire to be somebody who is so pure that other people gravitate towards them throughout society other people want to be around them and want to learn from them and want to be somebody who who talks to them and sits with them and wants to hang out with them and so on and so forth because of the beauty of their character because of how jovial they are and how merciful they are it doesn't mean that everybody is the same way but there's definitely certain core character traits that we all want to aspire to inshallah to get to yeah, yes, question I would add that it's something where if you can please speak to this every moment like if you see any little thing out of order put it in the proper place every little thing you can do you know you build it in that character right and so if somebody gets to this trait it's actually one of the traits of virtue and it's a station someone can reach which is known as scrupulousness where somebody anything that comes whether it's an action that they do whether it's a thought that comes whether it's something that's wrong and so on and so forth that they immediately rectify that they're very careful about their income they're very careful about their food they're very careful about all these other things and then they become purified and it's actually one of the routes towards inward purity is eating pure food because Allah mentioned in the Quran Halal in case slaughtered in the name of Allah and purified food and pure food and so that is a major route towards inward purity if somebody is not necessarily there yet right where they're not really like emphasizing eating halal meat and so on and so forth it's understandable right we live in the west it's something we want to progress towards though because there is a major link between eating pure and doing pure huge link because all of the parts of the body ultimately are being produced as a result of the nutrients and the food that you get and if that food is impure then the actions that the body does could potentially be and will generally be impure and so one will be more inclined towards sin so the first thing we should do when we start to get into a state of messing up and slipping off is where am I at with what the intakes are food intakes and spiritual intakes and so on and so forth and then we begin to work on it yes right if somebody does a lot of vicar while they're making food and preparing food and cooking food that will inshallah be a source of purity and healing for them and because the benefits of zikr are so many so inshallah we'll just take any questions and then we'll go ahead and then if there's any questions someone asked what if the swimming pool has impurities in it do you still have to would do if you're not knowing someone has done something impure in a pool there is a principle and thick that depends on the amount if you're talking about a large body of water for somebody who asked the question about impurity in the pool if you're talking about a large body of water the impurities will be cancelled out by the amount of water in there but if you're talking about a little bit of water you have to go and make your wassaila or you're with yes yeah well no for sure they're asking because I mentioned that even if you just jump in a pool you technically according to the figure you would have would do right but ideally someone washes the chlorine and so on and so forth before they enter the pool someone says can you please advise on how if I have a service dog I'm deaf I do not know the answer to that Cindy do you know the answer to that that if somebody has a service dog and they don't have the ability to hear that the way that they would go about praying they would just have to make sure whenever they did if the dog's alive they got a lean thing it would be a little bit extra right if the dog's alive if it's on a vessel or any part of clothing they would wash that thing six times and one time with dirt six times just once and how about while they're praying so would they they would just have to make sure whenever they're praying it would just have to be clean so like the dog if the dog first in a certain area packing it up before it prays here they should be okay because a lot of it will be excuse because the dog is in the service right so if somebody is and that's the one who asked that question about if someone has a service dog that you would want to make sure you are doing your absolute best to kind of purify any part where dogs alive or any other fluid has gotten and then try to wash it multiple times try to make sure the area that you're praying in is vacuumed and generally clean if you do your best though to do that inshallah there will be there you'll be okay right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right should be okay. Any other questions or mine? Any other questions here? Yes. So question was on when someone is in their menstrual cycle, what is the ruling on reciting Quran and entering into the masjid? So the general ruling, at least I'm gonna give the ruling that I know from the Hanafi school and then if Sunni Adam wants to chime in from the Shafi school, anybody from the Maliki school or Humbley school wants to chime in please feel free to do so. So it is unless, yeah so reciting from the Quran is not something somebody should do when they're on the menstrual cycle. In the Hanafi school it's not permitted to do on the menstrual cycle. Entering a place that is formally designated as a masjid, not like a community center or like a space that has prayer plus a multiple other things. It's formally designated as a masjid but also be considered haram to enter while someone is in in the state of major ritual impurity, not just while somebody is on the menstrual cycle. Someone is in a state of major ritual impurity, aka all the other things that lead to major ritual impurity, right? Major relations and so on and so forth. They cannot recite Quran and they cannot do this. The only exception is that there's certain du'as from the Quran or certain a certain weird or litany that somebody does often, right? And from what I've heard that there are opinions that permit someone to do that, right? So du'as or litany that someone is regularly reciting as we talked about in earlier chapters about the weird that somebody might do. It might be verses from the Quran there. That would be considered okay. Anything that you would add to that? Yeah, it's kind of a consistent ruling there. Yes? Yeah, this is someone who's talking about a service dog. Right, yeah, the general well the maliki's have some flexibility in that but the general ruling is yeah that Muslim should not have dogs. Yeah, that's a general. But again in the time that people we live in now, people are gonna have to kind of figure it out if they have a pet, right? That's not have the dog specifically. Yeah, other questions? Any other questions on the sister side? Yes? Okay, so the order in which you pray or miss prayer if you miss something. So if let's say you miss, let's say you miss the her and it's us or time, okay? In that case, you would pray your door, right? And then you would pray your us or if you have ample time for us or left. Okay, if there's if there's like you got five minutes till us or ends, you need to finish your us or right? And then you would actually do your door after mug, it's kind of complicated. And then let's say it's Maghrib time, okay? And Maghrib Maghrib is a prayer which requires a fair amount of immediacy. So if you miss Doher and us or someone is at work or caught up and they didn't pray Doher and us or right, they would pray Maghrib first, then they're paid over an asset. And so if there's five prayers or less that somebody has missed, you generally pray them in the order in which they were missed, right? If there are 500 prayers, someone is missed, right? Maybe a couple of years of prayer, you don't have to pray them in order. You just make them up as you can. You make them up as you can. So you just say, okay, I'm going to knock out like somebody might decide fudger is easy to work out to I'm just going to do all my fudger is a year one. And then year two, I'm going to do all my Doher's and so on and so forth. Does that, does that answer the question? So yeah, would I would you add anything to that? Any other questions? Any questions? I think there's a, there's a shahada, right? Oh, Masha'Allah. Masha'Allah. Bismillah. Yeah, yeah. Come to the front. So you got it. Come. No, no, no, no, come on. Yeah, whoever wants to take shahada, Bismillah. Please come. Just get a chair for her. Yes. Okay, so we'll do it. Inshallah. I'm just going to quickly walk through what you're and then we'll do it in the Arabic first, and then we'll do it in English. Inshallah. So those anybody who is watching on live stream, Masha'Allah, there's a sister here who's got to take a shahada. It's always good for everybody to join in as we as we do it the second time. The first time we want to make sure it's done properly. So, Inshallah. Masha'Allah, Masha'Allah. So has somebody kind of generally explained to you the core tense of Islam, the belief then in the oneness of Allah, the belief that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is the message of Allah, and the kind of requirements of entering into the into the religion and just give me your general review. Okay, excellent. Okay, so hold on. I mean, repeat for me, Inshallah. Masha'Allah, we'll do it just two more times. So it's always good to do it three times, Inshallah. Ashhadu an la ilaha illallah wa ashhadu anna Muhammad Rasulullah. Ashhadu an la ilaha illallah wa ashhadu anna Muhammad Rasulullah. So you just now you repeat that I bear witness and testify that there is no deity worthy of worship, except Allah. And that I bear witness that the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is his messenger. That's what we just decided. So Masha'Allah, welcome. This is a very, very honorable day. And thank you for blessing all of this. Masha'Allah, really, really, really big gift. You have now entered into the most beautiful and extensive religion, and all anything you did in the past is erased. It's gone. In that moment, you just had the Shahada, everything is erased, Inshallah. And now you've just entered as though you are kind of completely reborn. So, Allah bless you, may He give you immense success and Taufiq and striving on the path of this Deen and may He bless all the people who are your friends and your family members and all the people who might have kind of helped you along. And the sisters, please please, please greet her and, you know, make sure to welcome her. Inshallah. And the brothers of course will do so from a distance. Any any any questions or anything you might ask Allah. And brother, his class won't be next Wednesday. Oh, yeah, I should announce that. Yeah. So next Wednesday, no class, it's the holidays for most folks off Thanksgiving holidays. So no class will resume, Inshallah, the following Wednesday. No class next Wednesday.