 You have a time, you say, okay, I'm going to do this for five minutes. Level of, um, that measuring, right? And so if you can do 100 times, in the morning, it's very good to do. And 100 in the evening, it's very good to do. Um, and so this will clean the rest of the heart. The heart gets rusty as Allah says in the Quran, that it, that, um, uh, that, that there's a rest that develops on the heart over throughout the time. And the thicker of Allah, specifically in this case, it's the far clean that rest very fast. It's as long as you have some level of presence with it, inshallah. Okay. The name of the book online, the, the one we, we recommend is the weird, the Latif it's not a book. It's just a compilation of you can Google it, W I R D A L L A T I F, or you can search morning and evenings, uh, the highs of the prophets. Okay. So it's the fire. The next is some portion of, um, tahleel, which is la ilaha illallah that, that Allah says in the Quran, who often say this, right? And it's, as the prophets, some said in one hadith that the best is la ilaha illallah, should have a portion every day where we were saying, again, it removes anything other than Allah from the heart. La ilaha illallah is doing because we have all these mini idols in the heart. People, um, most people these days are not committing shirk with stone idols and stuff like that. They have all these mini idols in their heart, right? Mini idols are things that distract you from the worship of Allah. So, oh, this, this person and this celebrity and, uh, this job and all the different things that were, this, you know, Christiana Ronaldo and this player, you know, so on, constantly distracted. Everything is a distraction other than Allah. And so la ilaha illallah, there is no God, nothing worthy of worship. There's nothing worthy of attention other than Allah in reality. Right. Um, and then we do salawat on the prophets, that's the third one. Do. So all of these I'd recommend times every day, 100 times every day, Allah, and as we discussed about the class, that's very, very important as a command from Allah to salutations upon the prophets of Allah, the second, uh, action that should become consistent part of our life as we traverse this path is some daily knowledge that we learn every single day. We need to come up with, and so one of the best parts of this book that we've been covering and for those online, this is the book of assistance. Um, we've been doing this from the left for some time now. We're just getting to the khatim of the class. So that each chapter is like two pages, three pages. So for example, the chapter on intention, two and a half pages, the chapter on a regular thicker, okay, three or four pages, the chapter on knowledge, a page and a half. This, if, if, if somebody were to just get this book and review this every morning, you have your pray, fudger, you do the thicker, you open it up, read one chapter. Right. That's, you will see huge spiritual gains because all you and I need to do is little, little, little, and eventually the opening comes as the prophet said that the best actions are those that are done consistently. So this is why the, the, the path, the path of getting close to Allah is not the consistency. It's not a path of one day, someone just does like a thousand raka, fast the whole week, and it's just like this big, heavy spiritual week for them. And then after that, they don't even have like existing. And no, no, no, no, we have moments in life, ideally, if Allah invites us to Umrah and to Hajj where we do a lot of worship, all you do there is worship. But when you're really life, when we have work to do and families to tend to and so on, we have to sleep, eat, we have to go with these little actions that we can do. So that's why five, 10 minutes a day at minimum, we have to devote to gaining knowledge. If we can't read it because we don't have, we don't have the time or something, a podcast, there's so many podcasts out there. It's the spiritual podcast, it's a lot of podcasts. Um, that, that one I found tremendous benefit in is in tech, especially Hamza Yusuf, excellent podcast, um, that, uh, there's a column Institute in Texas produces these podcasts that have to see her and just other, other topics that are usually applicable for, um, people kind of in, in the West, um, there's an organization that has podcasts. Um, I mean, there's so many, there are really so many, but what is that while someone is eating breakfast, listen to a podcast while you're making your coffee, listen to something, right? It doesn't have to be this time where you like, you know, go into a room and put a thob on and then get the ood out and you're just in this like spiritual zone and now you have to learn your religion, no, no, no, anywhere, anytime, for the most part that to do this, right, driving somewhere on part to work on a morning walk, um, whatever it is, right, just to listen to something and that knowledge will add up and will add up, it will add up and what it will do is it will give the heart throughout the day, the heart wants. So just like your body needs nutrients, you need to, at some point in the morning, you've got to drink some water at some point in the morning, you have to eat some food or you need these nutrients for many of mean, if we don't have it, that's not a nutrient, but if we don't have it, we struggle, right? The body needs certain things to keep going. The heart, the spirit, they need what we're talking about right now, which is knowledge and thinker and so on. It needs, otherwise it will literally die. The heart can die. We'll just get rusty, darkened and blind and Allah mentioned the Quran, the heart gets deaf, dumb and blind. It will just stop the work that happens. All the corruption we see in society today is all about the hearts are dead. The spiritual hearts and these people are dead because they have nothing to keep it alive. But for the Muslim and the believer, our religion is one we're supposed to keep our heart alive. And so that's why if you ever feel like bored and lazy and you're just like, I don't want to, you're not feeling anything in the worship, you're just some things off. Most of the time, because it's an issue of the heart, you've got to find a way to purify the heart and to get back. That's where that's when you do an abundance of thicker and it makes sure to have knowledge. Usually knowledge is the part where most of us, we don't spend enough time. And in the time that we live in, it comes in an air on the Prophet, the end of times, knowledge makes priority over most other things. And knowledge is important because there's very few people who know and few people who have knowledge. The third is to have a regular litany, a regular practice of daily prayers. Okay, so this is after someone has gotten their farted prayers down to make sure to add in the extra prayers that Salah Salam would do. And these are at a, the goal should be the Hajj and Salat al-Toha. Those two, we should got to get to a point where we are consistently doing them, ideally at least once a week. And these will again, they have a very illuminating effect on the heart. The Hajj prayer is prayed any time in the last one-third of the night. So if Fajr is coming in around 6 a.m. these days, someone gets up at 5.30, 5.40, just quickly prays to Raqqat the Hajj that will have a huge effect on the heart. And it's prayed that wondering that you just pray to Raqqat like you would pray, but you make the intention and it is the time when in the, in from for the spiritual masters, this is the time of the most amount of spiritual gifts is being given in the last one-third of the night. As it comes in a narration that a lot descends and not a literal way, but figuratively into the lowest heaven. And he asks, is there anybody asking such that or he says, is there anybody asking such that I may give them? Is there anyone who wants forgiveness such that I may forgive them? All the a's are answered at the Hajj of time. So if you really want something, got to make sure you're up at this time. And for the one who really, what is the person of spirituality want? They want a lot. They're going to be up at every time a lot is that most that he loves the most, right? And this is a lot of them that he was always up at these times. Always for him, it was an obligate an obligation and he was always awake at the Hajj of time praying and praying and praying and praying. So that's the Hajj. Then there's a lot of Doha. Doha is prayed in to Raqqat, to Raqqat, to Raqqat. You can do up to as many as you'd like. Imam Hadaq was young in his biography. When he was young in his teens, 100 Raqqat Salat al Doha every day. That's how these people were. This great scholars of the past that they they didn't mess around. It was there was no time for them to mess around. There was no phones. They were just from young ages, teenagers. They were people. They were they were already men, Rijal. Then and at that age and they were constantly in this state of trying to get closer to Allah, trying to get closer to Allah. That's a goal we should just try to pray to and we'd be good. That's good for us in the time we live in. Doha is prayed anytime 15 minutes after sunrise until about 15 minutes before Doha in the mid morning time, in the mid morning time, inshallah. So that's the next thing. The fourth is a portion, a daily recitation of the Quran, daily recitation of the Quran. And this is very important. This is not only reading the Quran, which is very important in English. We're talking about reciting in Arabic that we have a portion where we recite the Quran in the language and it's revealed and we should we should ideally get to the point, read one Khatam of the Quran and some regulatance. If we can't do it once a month, once every three months, once every four months, at least one time outside of Ramadan, one time in Ramadan, not just once in Ramadan. The people of spirituality are not people who pick up Quran in Ramadan. Their Quran is always with them. It's the main app that's on their phone. They're with it. They're thinking about it. They're engaging with it. They're grappling with the meanings. It's this it's an active Quran is supposed to be an active engagement. It's not supposed to be passive only. There's a portion where you listen and then there's a portion where you try to understand and you implement and it's an active part of the believer's life. And so recitation of the Quran at minimum, these three surahs is what we should aspire to. Surah Yasin in the morning, Surah Waqya in the evening and Surah Mulkura for that. Each of those they take roughly three to five minutes to recite once someone practices. Okay, 15 minutes total throughout the day, but you won't even feel it three minutes in the morning, five minutes in the evening, you know, and this can be done. You can integrate this into your day. That's the beautiful thing about our our religion unless it's the formal prayer and as long as you are that not touching the must have, you don't have to be in a state of wudu, right? Must have meaning the actual formal book. You don't have to be in a state of wudu. You can be warming up your dinner and reciting it, right? Like as long as you're getting it done, worry about presence after it's become a routine already. Presence is very important, but it doesn't mean again someone has to go sit in a room and do all these things. No, you can be out on a walk. You can be driving someone. Most of the time you'll find these the these thicker these car in while going throughout the day, right? Like that's most of the time you're not going to always have time to sit and do these things. But Yaseen, Waqia, and this has been the practice of the Muslims for over a thousand years, that you would go to most of the Muslim lands and you see average people just like mean average meaning just like any they were they were on this, they of course praying five prayers and then they were reciting at least these three surahs as they come in various narrations and various Hadith. And then of course there should be a portion of recitation where we go through the whole the whole Quran from beginning to the end of starting from Bukhara all the way until Surah Nas and we do that as we mentioned. Again, even if it's two or three pages a day, we'll get through it in a year and the has about 550 or so pages to get through that in a year, inshallah, but we we we we should start with it's very, very important. Then the weekly surahs as we mentioned, we discussed surah khaf right in one of the classes. So that's on Fridays. Surah khaf should be like as one obligations on Friday, ideally first thing in the morning if we can, we recite surah khaf. It's very important. And surah khaf takes a little longer. It's 110 verses. It takes like might take 10 20, 20ish minutes to recite, really break it up. You can break it up into chunks, right? Like five minutes after Fajr, 10 minutes after Jumma, 10 minutes after us and you're done. But it doesn't all have to be at once. The goal is make this digestible and easy to do, but to do it. The Prophet Sallallahu alayhi alayhi wa sallam said two amazing things about surah khaf one is that it will put in your week from one week next week. There will be a light because of the recitation of khaf. I mean, I know I know that it's a very dark place in that we live in in terms, I should say rather. And then the second is it's a protection against the fitna of the end of times, specifically the Masih ad-Dajjah and the one who comes that God forbid and we don't ever want this, but if the Dajjah were to to appear, the one who's reciting surah khaf consistently on Fridays and ideally even 10 verses the first 10 in the last 10 daily, that minimum the Friday part, they will be protected, inshallah, from the Dajjah as it comes in a narration. So yeah, question. Yeah, so it's a correct question. Yeah, that's correct. So so the question was that can you after Mughrib on Thursday? Yeah, so in as long as you start in what Islamically is Nassimah, which Juma begins the day for the Muslim. And it starts right of the following day. We it's not like there's not a concept of midnight that that is like a night. Right. So like right now if it's like eight or four hours, it would be today's Wednesday would be 30 and midnight, technically. Right. But for us, it's already the next day when it when it and then the next hijri day has already started. It comes in and Mughrib. That's why Ramadan, the first night of Ramadan, we pray Tarawee, right? Even before we fasted, fasted that day and then we fast. So yeah, you can totally do that. And that's also something someone could start before and break and just slowly get to the point where they where they do it, inshallah. So those are the five, the four, the fifth one. Finally, the thicker of daily activities. This is something that anybody who's trying to traverse the consistent on the thicker the door when waking up, the door when taking off your clothing, the door when putting on when using the restroom, the when leaving the restroom, the door after purifying yourself, the door that for entering a must shit, all these things. Again, they don't they don't mean maybe we learned them when we were young. We didn't build. If we could learn one of these doors every week, we'll know them in the next like six months. It will in the next few months. It won't take that long. But they're not difficult, but it's important because they're part of you get into a station of mindfulness and mind and that through taqwa and being aware of Allah in every moment, it's not this grand concept that someone is getting some huge spiritual opening by like engaging in deep philosophical spiritual discussions and esoteric discussions. That's not how it's through daily practice of the consistent, easy, sometimes boring things. That's how it works in our religion. You do these things day in, day out, day and day out, day in and day out. And eventually somebody attains and someone gets to a station where they now have a depth, a deep relationship with their Lord. It's not surface level anymore. And they want to do this and they want to get close to Allah and they yearn for it, right? And it starts with these things. So those are the five that daily dhikr in the morning and the evening that is the faratah La ilaha illallah salawat on the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that the second is daily knowledge to make sure that we start to spend some time learning. And then the first command in the Quran that was revealed is iqra to read. Knowledge is important. Iqra wa rabbuka l-akram Allah says that read and Allah will ennoble you. There's knowledge is a very core part of our religion. Then some portion of daily nafsil prayers for the recitation of Quran and some portion of the sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And if we do these things, this is obviously all in addition to the basic five daily prayers of we should we hopefully know that. OK, the next then we get to actually, no, I missed one. Finally, the last every of the a's for protection. This is what usually called the protection, the protection litanies that at minimum these are the this is what Allah says Iqra wa rabbuka l-falaq Iqra wa rabbuka l-naas and Iqra al-kursi three times each in the morning and evening and right before going to bed. But ideally somebody and talked about some of them in class that ideally we get to a point where we're doing more. There's if we do, for example, that we're the Latif in the morning in the evening, there's a lot of protection that's good. But no, we compile the a takes about six minutes of protection to do and it has other things and other other protection. And this is protection against all the things that could happen to somebody as it's existing in their life. God forbid getting in a car accident and some tragedy from happening and then also spiritual protection from the unseen from all the unseen things that could be going on. OK, and then we we we covered the importance really because of our following the Sunnah, but specifically about making to follow the Sunnah of the Prophet so I said inwardly and how we make it an intention. We make it a specific point to learn the correct belief of our religion, the correct Akida and belief, the correct Fiqh, the correct rules, Fiqh of prayer, the Fiqh of purification, the fasting and so on and so forth. Right. And we make sure that we are learning that and I believe that it's from one of the four accepted Madaheb Anafi school, Shafi school, Maliki school, Hanbali school, not from any of these new age ideas that popped up in the last 100 years where they said, get rid of the Madaheb note. There should be from a school really and we spend time learning this is that the correct opinion and the traditional opinion that's been transmitted. And then there's there's the inward of the Sunnah. It's hard to follow the Sunnah outwardly of the Prophet's is not difficult to do. It's very difficult to follow the inward Sunnah of the Prophet. So what's the inward Sunnah? When someone says something to you, rather than lashing out, you hold your tongue. When someone when you're in a situation rather than complaining and whining, you are patient when that somebody is being mean to you, you're kind to them. When someone tries to cut ties with you, you enjoy it. You you try to go making ties with them. It's not like an abusive or something situation. But these are the etiquette, the inward Sunnah of the Prophet's is on these traits. And this is very, very, very important, very important. And all of the higher origin or access to purifying the inward traits, the inward traits, you cannot attain closeness to the Prophet's is on without becoming a person of character. As it comes in a narration, the way to the day of judgment is good luck, good character. And that he said another narration that I was only sent to perfect noble character. That's the reason I was sent. That's in one one narration, right, because what is this religion? Come reformed the Sahaba. I mean, they became before they met the Prophet's, so they were some of them, at least were doing the crazy, most problematic things ever. I mean, literally their custom was to bury your daughters alive and that they would fight and kill people for if someone like this, you like, for example, if they do this, you know, now people like rap battles or they diss each other. They used to do it back then. They used to have poetry rap battles that they would diss each other. And if someone dissed you too much, you killed them. You just kill them. And you see that type of behavior today. Of course you killed them, right? Yeah, you got that's what they would do. They got you diss me. I'm going to kill you. And that was the end. And so they would just go and then but not just killed. They would go to war. They'd be like, all right, this is my tribe and this is your tribe. And you diss me and my whole tribe is going to wage war on you and kill all of you for no reason, except because you hurt my ego. It was just crazy things they were doing. Incessive amount, excessive amounts of drinking and fornication and so on. Then came Nabooa, the say the best prophets of Allah, the best prophet to ever walk on the face of this earth, the best human being to ever face of this earth. So Allah, and he taught them and he was there that their guide and their teacher and he is the one who that through his teaching that these people become reformed people and they become people who used to be some of the people of worse character and they become some of the they were the people of the best character to ever walk the face of this after the prophets that they would be people, people who used to take out a sword when someone diss them and now imagine they're smiling and they're just taking it. They're they're responding kindly. So this is how good character works. And so the inward sonnas spend time learning the character traits of the prophets of Allah, so if we really, really want to be people of goodness, never mistake religion for worship that makes you angry, just this arrogant angry, better than thou person. That's not Islam. That's something there are Muslims these days, unfortunately, that they think just because they do more worship than somebody else, they think that because they pray their prayers in the masjid and they just behave in the most arrogant way and they yell at other people. I mean, I someone was telling me once that, you know, that the whole family is praying all the all the time and they're fighting and yelling and hard in the house. That's not what I don't know what religion that is, because Islam praying is not difficult at all. You could be thinking about it takes five minutes outside of prayer. That's supposed to be the reason why you pray in a Salat in the prayer. Allah literally says is a prevention, lewdness and foul behavior of the prayer doesn't prevent a behavior, a bad character. It's not working. And that's why our religion needs to be one of character. And if we become people of inward traits, there will be very few people who we meet who won't be inspired by us. That's how the Muslims were in the past, that they would have done so much work on themselves and Allah would have gifted this to them through their efforts that they would have done so much work. They would have done so much thicker. They would literally walk around. There is mentioned some of the some of the stories of people who first when some of the Muslims first to India and they had so much newer on their face and light and they treated people so kind looked at them and they said the Shahada. They were just like whatever whatever he is or I want to be like him. That's that they would because these people were luminous people of light. Who are out to us. But we need to get back to that state. And that's what we all aspire to be people of new light and of guided velocity where people who meet us ideally that we are just reflecting hopefully a portion of the light of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. That he is Allah says in the Quran that we sent the Kitab and the new moon, the manifest light and the commentators say that's the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam that he is new. He is new and that's why he doesn't have a shadow. If you ever see a hair of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam you can you'll know it's authentic hair and they still exist because it doesn't have a shadow. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam did not have a shadow because he is a person of new or a person of light. Fun fact in case I didn't know that. So now then he gets into the the need for everything we do to be halal and permissible. Halal and permissible. Right. And again, we're just summarizing here. There's a lot to get through but I should have been shot up. So halal and this is what food and income, these two must be from principle sources that it wants to traverse. If someone wants to practice Islam properly, this is important. But if especially if someone cares about their spiritual development, we have to be scruulous about our food and not just eat meat from anywhere. We definitely can't just go to fast food restaurants. We just that and fast food restaurants eat the meat. I mean, and we have to be very, very careful about where food comes from because the food is what nourishes the body and what gives the body the ability and the energy to do its work or it gives it a lack of energy because impure food from a health point of view, we already know that certain food makes you tired and slow and whatnot. But spiritually, that also happens. Slaughtered properly. Allah. Not in the name of anybody's name or that food that is not that come from that doesn't come from permissible sources. That food, if it's questionable, we should leave it. We should leave it because it will really dampen our spiritual progress and they take some time if we're not there yet, but we should aspire to the inshallah. And then there's income. And there's income and income is very, very important. We have to make sure it's from a Allah source. Right. This is just making sure we're not working in a prohibited industry, right? Industry where the majority of the money that industry makes is from Haram, meaning liquor. Obviously, we should know that they're working at a liquor store selling liquor, working at a for a company that you factor that that sell looks like now all these weed companies have popped up. Obviously, that should not be something they're working for. Any company that manufactures what happens at his manufacturing port or pig products. And again, this is where the majority of their their revenue stream and profit margins are coming from these things that companies mainly making their money off of interest, right? OK, banking institutions and so on. Right. And this is important. It cares about their spirituality want to make sure every part of their base rest earn money. Many of the vast majority of things part most companies is permissible, right? But but if it's just like got away from it, and sometimes those opportunities and we have to say no, right, because we have to make sure that we are people of that principle. And so so so we we covered on the importance of halal. And this is really just he mentioned scrupulousness in general regards to food. So just being very, very careful about food and about the sources of food and about the sources of other things that we have. That would mean in our in our time that we are we go one step more than what most people go one or two steps more than what most people go when it comes to the let's say I'll give an example, you're going to a restaurant, you're going to Denny's. And at Denny's there's a high likelihood that the same pan that they're making their bacon on, they're making their eggs on and they're making their pancakes on. High like that. I don't know for sure. But let's just say that's the case. You would go if you're trying to be cool, right, you would go and you'd ask somebody like, Hey, are you probably called before? Like, do you guys, you know, vegan, like, do you guys make your eggs on the same pan that you make your pan? And and they'd be like, I don't know. Let me check. And then, you know, that usually means that they do. But they might say, Yep, we do. And they're OK. Great. I'm not going to go there. Or they say, No, we don't. OK. Right. So it's like going above a little bit more. Right. If there's a place like that's we could go one place for dinner, that's like a place that's like, like there's a huge bar in that restaurant, like intense loud music in that restaurant. And there's just people who are completely drunk everywhere and just it's not a good scene. Then that's not a scene we should ideally be at. Right. Because we're just like angels go to the gatherings of Vicar and gatherings of knowledge and gatherings of goodness. The shea theme and the gin, the devils, they attend the gatherings of drinking and the gatherings of partying and the gather and clubs and so on. They're they're usually present at those types of places. And so just going into those types of environments, we are going to harm our scrupulousness. As an example, if you are at a you get invited to a wedding and now at some point in the wedding, things that are impermissible start to happen. Women dancing in front of men and so on and hot on for a man to watch that woman cast that if she would like. But so you just get up and you go, you get up, you leave, you go outside for that portion. You go and step beyond. You're not just like, oh, whatever, it's not the heart, it will attack the heart with this impermissible to watch. Scrupulousness in our times is to be careful about the shows that we watch in the movies that we watch. If there's if it's like highly inappropriate and a lot of inappropriate scenes and gore and so on. The one who's trying to traverse the path of spirituality won't watch it. They'll find something else to watch something else or to just do something else. Right. But it's like going above and beyond in these things, which have become lies in society. Right. But you try to be a bit more careful and that is very, very important. That is very, very important. And again, what we're talking about here is like. High aspiration, high him, right? It's if we can't do it, we just try our best and inshallah, a little rewards when we try our best. OK, so I'm trying to get through. A bit more quickly and then we get into the point where we spend a whole section talking about deepening the end. That deepened the prayer through focus in the prayer. And it's very, very important to do these things that we just all these things that we mentioned outside of the prayer. So that we can have focus in the prayer and the prayer that inshallah will be a means for us to get closer to Allah if we have this intense focus, inshallah. And now this whole section we covered, this is all about what's called the hukuk Allah, the rights of Allah. You then have our spiritual path and that Imam Haddad talked about. That's about hukuk Al-Ibad, rights of people. This is the rights, first and foremost, of parents, of spouse, of your children, the family, close family, extended family, and then the rights of the community. And that's that are taught here. And again, all of this, again, we advise reviewing this in the book, but just to kind of quickly summarize is that we go above and beyond to maintain good relationships with everybody in our life who's close to us, especially with our parents and especially with our children. We love and beyond to maintain good relationship, meaning if they don't do the best to us, we still treat them kindly. Our parents go out of our way to serve them. We buy a call and say, what can I help you with? Right? If we could be doing, we could be doing one good one thing. Sometimes it's better to just not do what we want and say, OK, mama, I'll come over and I'll help you with something. Right? Like going above and beyond that that level that that's the above and beyond. That's like barely even getting to the rights of our parents. But in the time we live in, sometimes we're so independent, we don't even check in. And so it's important to do this, maintain good relationship with our community. This will have a huge impact on the heart as well. Sometimes we think that religion is only prayer and fasting and so on and so on. It's not the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam it comes with one narration. The one who takes care of the need of his brother. He said, it's more beloved to me than to take care of the need of a brother or sister than to sit in itikaf in my masjid for a month or two. The masjid of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Right? So imagine the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said it's better to take care of the need of somebody. Someone calls you and they need help and started reciting your Quran. What do you do? You go and you help them because you'll get a reward of sitting. What's itikaf? Itikaf is secluded worship that you do in usually in the final 10 nights of Ramadan. For the whole time you're in the masjid. You don't step out of the masjid usually and you're just there and you're worshiping Allah. He said, you get the reward of doing that level of itikaf in not any masjid, in the masjid and nabawi of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam for more than a month for taking care of what the need of any brother or sister. In Islam, imagine taking care of the need of your parents and the reward for that. They have a need. And so this is where we go, we try to find these opportunities and everybody will have something that is easy for them. Service is easy for people. Easy to take care of other people's needs. Sometimes it's hard. When you are traveling the path, you gotta have a dose of doing what's easy and what's hard. Because you'll never gain if you don't have pain. Some level of this idea of no pain, no gain very much exists. That's the chill. It doesn't want to work. It doesn't want to do these things. It hates waking up at the hajjah because it's cold in the morning and you have to make wudu. And then it doesn't like waking up for sahur. It doesn't like doing these things. Someone needs a ride to the airport. You're not even doing anything. You're just on the show. Yeah, I got all this stuff to do, but you got it. No, the one who's traveling, the path finds a way. No, okay, fine. You need a ride. Right, like the types of things. So serving people and taking care of people, specifically parents, spouse, children, and then the rest of your family and then the community is a core part of traveling the path. It's very, very, very important. We have to make sure we don't forego those rights or those responsibilities. The name of the book for someone who asked is the book of the Bi-Mama Headcat. And then we strive to help anyone who needs help or guidance in a gentle manner. We covered, we spent like almost two, just gotten this, two classes on this. Meaning that advising people, you see someone doing something wrong, and this happens all the time online. So specifically you mentioned that, and we buy in a gentle and kind way not to do it in private, not public, lambastic, and calling people out. That's not the way of our religion. If somebody thinks they're doing something wrong online and you're just gonna blast a bunch of comments at them, you're, this is so haram, and you're just a sinner and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Don't show this hadith in Buhari and, and you're just gonna post it publicly for other people to see. You are farther away from the sunnah than the person who was doing that thing. That's haram. I'll tell you that right now. You are farther away because that's all ego and nafs. It's all ego and nafs. Allah does not like it when someone does something like that. He says this in the Quran, he doesn't like arguing. And he does not like this type of behavior. The behavior of this is one where you see someone doing something and this, if it's online, you find a way to pull them aside, right? You might comment saying that, you know, could I direct you or could I have your email? I wanted to mention something to you. And you gently, I noticed you were doing this one thing. You know, there's a difference of opinion on it. Perhaps it's worth for you to look into it. Here's what I'd say, you know, I'm only doing this because I have love for you with a woman. And before you, that's the sunnah. The sunnah is to pray for the person before advising them and then to advise them with gentleness and with kindness. And usually we do this in person, but these days because so much of Islam discussions and whatnot happened online, the online world has become kind of very, very intense argumentative, sometimes just outright is really, really bad good manners and behaviors. And so in person, what we would never do in person, many times people go, they have no problem doing behind the screen, no problem doing behind the screen. And so it's from the sunnah of the prophet's son to be gentle, to be kind and to be merciful. I are advising. And we try to be very, very, very careful because it hurt the feeling of a believer is worse than taking apart the Kaaba brick by brick. Many of us have heard this. Taking apart the Kaaba brick by brick. Imagine if you saw somebody taking apart the Kaaba brick by brick, you would just, everybody would be on. Everybody. But we have no problem hurting each other's feelings. The fellow Muslims and say whatever we want, we come in whatever we want, we, and sometimes it's the people who are religious who do this more, who are outwardly religious. They think that, oh, I'm somebody and who is this nobody. And that's what the Nafs is saying. So they irrigates itself above somebody to tell them what everything they're doing is wrong. This is all we go and it's from Sheytan and it should be avoided. If you are traveling the path of spirituality, you see someone doing something wrong and you advise them with gentleness or you don't say anything and done proper work. Finally, we're getting to now the final part of it. If somebody follows all of these things that we mentioned, that he mentioned, the daily practices, the weekly practices following the sunnah of the prophet's son with diligence and spending time learning and so on and so forth. And then somebody is careful with maintaining family ties and going above and beyond to serve others. You eventually get to a point where you now start traversing what's what are called the al-Qaimats al-Yukin, the stations of certainty, which for lack, for a more kind of accessible term, it's basically the traits that Allah loves to see in his believers. And Allah is taking you on this journey from the first big trait and there's 10 that the scholars mentioned until the later ones, until you get to the last one, which is a complete state of love and intimate deep contentment with Allah where you're just annihilated in the love of Allah. It's all about that for that person. But it starts with what you mentioned. The first station is the station of repentance. And we, repenting meaning not one time, but it's kind of like more like the station of turning back to Allah always. There's going to be a some point in our life where we have the big repentance. That's the moment where we change our life. Maybe we were slipping up, we're doing things we shouldn't have been doing and Allah fires us to repent and maybe it's one come upon just we have a very sincere lay with the other or last 10 nights and we just cry to Allah and we turn back in. And then from there, Allah is just guiding us towards. Right? So that's, that might happen or for the person who doesn't believe to become a Muslim, right? To take their Shahada. Obviously that is their form of turning back to Allah. But then there's the weekly meaning, the mistakes we make. Sorry, I know I should have said I did it again. Okay, I'm turning back to you. Ya Allah, I'm trying, but I messed up. Ya Allah, I was, I missed you. Ya Allah, I missed this. Ya Allah, I want it. And this repentance gets more and more refined. More and more refined. So the beginning, it's repenting from business. Then it's repenting from the smallest. Then it's repenting from mistakes that aren't all necessarily always sins, but they could have been a mistake you made. Then it's repenting from a good deed that you had gotten yourself used to doing, but you didn't do. So there's people who repent for not waking up for at the Hajj. They apologize to Allah. They'll do a thousand times. I'm sorry, I've been doing it for days or a month. I didn't do it today. I'm sorry. Or they'll repent because they fast regularly and it's a fast turn. The stations of repentance, they never, there's no limit to that. The messenger of Allah, sallallahu alayhi sallam, would turn back to Allah 70 times a day in some narration, 70 times a day. What is he even repenting from? When he's teaching us, but for him it's this perpetual, perpetual increase. The repentance is the first station. The next is the station of what's called hope and fear. That somebody will go between these moments where they're in a state of hope, in a state of awe before Allah and fear. And hope and fear, this will happen where you're in a state of expansion and things are facilitated easy and then in a state of contraction and things are difficult and sickness hits you and tribulation hits you, God forbid. And problems come in your life and both are from Allah. Expansion, contraction. But you're supposed to travel the path such that till the point where somebody develops a state of suburb through the contraction and gratitude through the expansion, right? And so then these are the next stations, the station of patience and the station of gratitude, suburb wa shukr, where somebody is in a state of, that when difficulty comes, we're patient. When good things come, we're grateful. And then there's some people when difficulties come, they're grateful. That's the station of the prophets. That when meeting the people to Allah for teaching their lesson is supposed to be taught in that difficulty, right? And sometimes you have to be patient even through a blessing. You might have everything is going well in life but patience in that is not doing when everything is going well. You have to restrain yourself. Sometimes things are going smooth, no problems at all. You're just like, oh, well, what if I try this? What else is doing it? Right, the next one they'll come to in a different way. So there's patience in all these stations. So you traverse the station then of suburb and then get to the station of shukr. You get to the point of the next station is detachment from the world, meaning a sense of, you're just detached. It doesn't mean you don't work and you don't earn money. No, you're just not attached to it. You're not obsessed with it. Not this like kind of Silicon Valley intense obsession that we have with tech IPOs and making money all the time and just this kind of like next level worship of money that happens at least in my experience in California. There's that just someone's like, I'm working so I can live. My point of my life is not work, right? I saw a picture of an Elon and he took over Twitter and now they have a bunch of sleeping bags and beds at Twitter because they're just working overnight shifts. I mean, that's just like to build a social media platform. Like, you know, okay, one thing to build your rocket ships and whatnot, but to build a social media platform you're sleeping at work all the time and then overnight. It was just, it's the level of obsession with the dunya, right? That's where we have to be away from and detached, detached that, okay, I have money, but it's in my hand and my heart. I'm not obsessed about it, right? And then you get to the point of what's called where someone is trusting in Allah and Allah will make them experience certain things to really make their trust firm. It's easy to say you trust in Allah when everything is good. Trust comes when things get hard, layoffs come, job goes. All right, now I got trust in Allah because Allah was the one providing that job in the first place. It wasn't new, it was from Allah and so the trust comes in, right? That's God forbid someone gets sick and they're just like, am I ever trusting Allah that it's gonna get better? Trusting in Allah is a very important station to get to. And again, these are, when you travel through these stations and when someone gets these trades, it is, these are different lights, different lights. You can imagine you're holding up another light and the light of sugar and the light of towing and all of these then create a kind of comprehensive light to help them travel the rest of the path until they reach a station where they are very near to Allah. And then after Tawakul and trust, then you get to the later stations of divine love and contentment with Allah. That just where you love Allah and you are really experiencing a loving form of worship of Allah. You sometimes people pray because our parents told us. Sometimes we pray because we don't wanna go to hell. All revalid reasons to pray. There are a few group of people that they just pray because they love the one who told them to pray. They're just like, y'all, I love you, be close to you. And you describe in your book, all these traits of the people you love, Allah, your Hibasabirin, the people of patience and Tawakul and so on, want to be among those people you love. And so I want these traits and then I just wanna worship you as much as possible. And this is really limitless at this point, right? Where it just, there is no limit to the love that somebody can experience for Allah because Allah is infinite. He's not finite. So that love then can be very, very, very limitless, inshallah, for someone asking, where is the class? It's in, we're in Oakland, California, lighthouse, my shit. And then you only get to one point where you're just content with Allah, content free. And there's a big difference between being patient and being content. Being patient is like, oh man, this is hard. Okay, I can do this. Y'all, Allah help me. And you're just like trying to get through it. Sometimes you're just like on top and other times they're okay. I can do this and then you're paid. That's, you're oscillating back and forth. But contentment is you're just like, I'm gonna worship Allah. Especially whoever meet, usually like our grandparents, especially those who are very worshipful, like they're in the station of just contentment. They could be going through problems and pain. They're just like, I'm gonna do that. And you just see it in their face. They're just like completely content with Allah's degree. Completely content with whatever's happening to them. So the love and contentment, these are stations that are linked. But all of these things then they happen when someone travels the path and takes the small steps we talked about earlier seriously. And then they get to these experiences and they'll traverse experiences and they'll have the tools for how to navigate it. Otherwise you'll get stuck because it is a journey. It's not a, it's not a, just you're not, you're not just standing there or you're moving and you need these tools of thicker and of knowledge and obviously of prayer and of the pillars of the religion and so on to get through the journey. And then ideally somebody has a guide that's helping them navigate the journey. And the guide for the great Shiuq of our religion and the great spiritual master who learned from the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam who then taught the Sahaba who then taught many of them they went to Ahl al-Bayt and went through Sayyidina Imam Hassan and Imam Hussein and then they, then it was taught to Sayyidina Imam Hassan al-Basri and then it was taught to many of the other great Imams all the way up until there's people who still have that knowledge preserved and linked with their knowledge from their knowledge, from their knowledge, from their knowledge down to the great Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and through Sayyidina Ali ibn Abi Talib and Sayyidina Fatima Zahra to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam or they can just list all of their chain of knowledge and the guides that guide people to Allah, right? You don't find people who guide you to Islam find people who guide you to Allah because Islam is the vehicle to help you obtain knowledge and we don't worship the religion we don't worship the rules that's why all this, we were in the day and the constant back and forth people have but provide your reference for this and there's constant this in this realm of outward knowledge and there's very little portion of inward because there's still, we're still stuck at Islam there's loads of this Islam, Iman, Ehsan, Irfan it keeps playing, there's levels and we want to get to the deeper levels and that's where the guide becomes important and when we don't obviously the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is the guide for everybody and of course Allah, his name is Al-Hadi the guide in reality is Allah Allah will always give guidance but he gives people means, right? He gives teachers and so on Muhammad had in this book, he is the giving us basically as a spiritual guide and a spiritual scholar master he's giving us the tools, he's giving us the tools and then perhaps we'll find somebody who can assist us in implementing and otherwise, Alhamdulillah, we have the books, right? to facilitate and facilitate so with that, we'll just kind of close out if there's any questions and then we'll just say the final closing, yeah Well, I was just gonna add to what you're saying that they say that having correct methodology at the beginning and after more, you know enlighten the end, so that's what you're talking about methodology and then the other questions makes it permanent, so you want to practice correctly so you have a good end? Yeah, no, it's a lot of hair for those online who didn't hear that the idea is that Sheikh Ibn As-Saleh, he mentions this in Hikdam that the one who has an illumined beginning will have an illumined end the one who does things right at the beginning inshallah, they'll get it Allah will help them get it right at the end, right? Meaning these basic steps were basic they're not basic, but these steps we're talking about the foundations, very important to get it correct because inshallah, we ask Allah for guidance of him and we hope that at some point we get to this station where we actually are and if it is not in this life that in the barzakh when we get to the grave and to the next life, that's the goal but the foundations, there are levels of jannah we, and the only thing the believer will regret in jannah, the only regret does anyone have to regret the only regret the believer has in jannah? that they do more, there's no other regrets in jannah the only regret is why did I not do more when I was in that life? why did I not do more to thinker? I did not learn more that's the regret you'll never regret a show you missed or an episode you'll never regret that you'll never regret the party you didn't go to never, but no, the regret is why did we not do more? why did we not learn more? why did we not do more to thinker? because they're stations and you'll see people who are in jannah that for those the highest station in jannah with the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and they were just like common people like meaning they were just people in our time they weren't, they're not necessarily how about your spec, how did you get there, right? they were like, well, I asked Allah, what did you add? we, oh, I was asking Allah, something else instead, right? so, but they also put in effort there was work put in there was work put in so we want to be people who that in the moments of we take our time seriously we take and we'll probably just we didn't cover this in the final summary but just it is a to arrange our time until we get to a point where every moment of its day has structure to it such that we find the blessings in each of the moments and the time we live in if we start our day and we have no plan for that and then we have this device, this phone our day we'll just go away go by and we'll have no idea what happened we'll all be on this media platform reading the news and then we'll do this and then we'll watch that next thing you know the whole day is gone and we haven't accomplished anything because we got distracted and so spirituality is also about structuring our time in such a way that we don't get distracted but that we are or when we do get distracted we know, oh no I'm supposed to be this at this time I'm supposed to be learning right now I'm supposed to be working right now I'm supposed to be with my with my family right now I'm supposed to be doing bigger right now and so on until the ends and we're just exhausted and we go to sleep and we start we start over inshallah so with that if there are any questions inshallah, we'll do that yes, question let's say somebody is lying it's almost like a struggle it's almost like painful is that like while you're doing yeah oh yeah I see a good good question the question is somebody is trying to do thicker but it's particularly difficult to get out and so why would that kind of be the case right and versus like other types of talk and other types of speech good question so the most of speech is from the Nafs most speech so when you're just talking about the FIFA World Cup or about you know politics whatever else it is it's usually just from the Nafs it's very easy because the Nafs enjoys it the vikr of Allah is from the spirit it's from the and so it's heavy on the Nafs the Nafs doesn't like it just like it doesn't like to wake up for Fajr al-Hajjud it doesn't like to fast it doesn't like it it doesn't like a vikr so when you start to make a vikr more regularly the Nafs will find ways to bring you down and it will actually be oh no don't you want to do this instead like it will it will resist and you have that's why you have to just keep going and you have to push it and you say no no no it's the same thing when you go to the gym the first time your body that's your Nafs your Nafs is lazy it doesn't want to do oh you're gonna go to the gym just eat some Cheetos right doesn't want to do the work it hates doing work but at some point you start the workouts and the runs and the swims and whatever someone enjoys it they're actually like oh if I don't do it you feel off the same will happen with vikr at some point that you keep doing it and you just have to power through the time when it's difficult and you'll start to enjoy it but you gotta give yourself breaks as well so like if you try to do let's say like someone is like yeah I'm gonna try to do vikr for the whole day it's gonna be very difficult that you're overwhelmed you have some breaks to treat it the scholar as they mentioned and we're not really this is not an analogy we're always used to because we have animals in the same way like riding animals and whatever they always mentioned riding animals in the books they say the nuffs is like the riding beast or the donkey or the horse where if you don't control it'll control you it'll throw you off but you have to tell no no no I'm in control and I'm going to make sure that when you are good I'll give you a treat right okay I can take a break you can have some chocolate whatever else right but when no I'm actually serious if you ever do something for a long period of time like a lot of worship give your nuffs something sweet at the end so you say okay you did good you let me focus in the worship and then you go back to you know whatever it is that you need to do you have to be diplomatic with your own ego with your own nuffs in these situations and then eventually the nuffs will just get used to it it'll just be like okay fine I know it's time for the dikker but then it'll try to distract you like oh think about work and think about this and then you have to be like no I have to bring myself to presence and so on does that make sense? okay yes question how do you use no good how do you use sincerity just the fact that Masha'a you ask the question of sincerity that's the first thing so if you want sincerity you already have a you're already on the road and challenge of sincerity right because people who don't want to see they never ask they never even think about it right so that's the first thing the second is you will see that you will do that thing in public and in private equally and you'll be more desired to do that in private let's say what I mean by that sincerity let's say in like giving charity as an example you're at a big fundraiser and someone is like gonna give ten thousand dollars and you're like I'll do it just so everybody sees that you do it but if you were to go online and get that same ten thousand and all the people are gonna clap for you would you still do it? right for the sincere person yeah in public right sincere person if whether they're praying at the Masha'a and someone is watching them pray all their extra prayers praying their extra prayers at home it doesn't make a difference so if you notice yourself in private it's harder to do things than it is to do them in public that's a sign that sincerity was not always wasn't pure it doesn't mean it's not there it just means it's not the pure sincerity and then the other thing is if you like talking about certain things and worship more than you like actually doing them that's a sign that sincerity is weak right so like you do it a little bit a lot about it yeah I did it on Monday I was such a good fan I was like I come on it's like the fast ends at four forty five these days or four fifty like it's really not that hard right but for the but for some people they will find where they're extra you bother into conversations and the sign of what's called the Riyadh which is the opposite of sincerity which is ostentation and bragging so the sincere person you don't mention your good deeds you keep them private between you and Allah and the other the other sign you want to look out for is do you feel a sense of um almost I don't know shame is the right word but kind of do you feel a sense of shyness before Allah when it comes to certain act this will be an inward feeling right so do you kind of like yeah Allah I shouldn't have done that right or I'm I feel like I'm not being super sincere if you feel that deep down inside like you're not being sincere okay that that that is a sign that you want to be sincere and you need to now in that moment ask Allah to rectify the sincerity say y'all can you correct my sincerity because I would try to do this right from the beginning but as I went through it it got corrected this is where the vigilance the morakaba and presence with Allah important because when you are trying to be sincere you need to be aware Allah is watching you and when Allah is watching you it doesn't matter who else is watching you right and so you kind of bring that to mind is that does that make sense yeah yeah well I think like the intention of action is Allah versus having like towards your ego something else would depend so let's say it's like I'm like is it sincere do you want to be sincere Allah or do you want to do this because I'm like this I see okay okay you're getting into very refined sincerity that's a good question so question is for those online that how do you know if you're doing something for the sake of Allah or do you're doing something because you like it the sign will be so for example at some point when someone is experiencing you will start to go a thicker you'll just you'll feel really good you'll say sweet it'll you won't want to do anything else you just want to go sit in a room and do some thicker and it'll just start and then there'll be a time Allah takes that sweetness away and you still want to do the thicker in the sweetness isn't there because if not then you were doing it for this not for Allah and it's very refined in that sense because the sweetness is a gift to kind of get someone used to something but at some point it gets difficult and the worship must continue right it's not that you you you don't do it long always but you still continue right there's times where you really enjoy something and if that enjoyment goes away you still have to find time if it's if it's part of the spiritual path any of these things we just mentioned we gotta find time it's time for example knowledge knowledge that's fun to learn for some people it's dry and boring for people to learn if you're seer about getting Khulal you'll spend time learning all the dry and boring knowledge if it's dry and boring to you because you know Allah wants you to learn it right sometimes like the knowledge of the details of and I'm not saying this is in a bad way sometimes it's not always the most exciting to learn like oh which type of water is purifying and do I need to make Wudu and which part of part of my elbow does Wudu need water need to reach and so on you have to know it though you don't have to memorize it and then keep going right if you want to learn about all the other spiritual concepts and these things but we don't even know that the basic thick yet because it was a little bit more dry that would be a sign if we just do what we like versus we do what Allah wants us to do does that make sense did I get kind of most of the question yeah okay okay okay inshallah um yes question questions the question for those online and that how do you do you are starting to habituate yourself right and start to develop certain habits that will help you basically like kind of become more present and to purify the heart is that and build good habits yeah question so this has has two elements to it when it calling good habits that that the scholars mentioned the first is that you have a statement to your day that you start kind of that day or that week with that intention that I'm going to this thing at this time and I'm going to do it no matter what unless something comes up that Allah just like you know changes the day the direction of the day or some emergency or something like that but you have that kind of intention okay um this is an example of this would be like the beginning of the week you're like okay this week every day I'm going to pray fudger at the masjid let's just say right and that's like a very good habit that will create light especially if it's important to pray fudger in congregation ideally at the masjid and it will create light in the rest of the day and pray fudger in congregation will end with the direct protection of Allah according to one narration so now somebody says no matter what I'm going to do this and you create that intention now the second thing you're going to do is you're going to find all the ways that you could be lazy or you could be fall short in that habit and you will block them out okay not waking up so you don't you're going to save teen alarms okay you it's cold outside you're going to put your jacket thermals and your beanie and your glove all right next to where you wake up so there's no excuse it's cold when you get out of bed you're going to have a space heater next to your bed right and you're going to turn it on as soon as you wake up you come up with all the practical things and this is where the practical aspect of spirituality is very important why Imam Hadaad gets into the details of what you have to do because it's easy to make the intention right but it's hard to actually follow up sometimes and so then you create that and then you do it the first day and that day you reward yourself with something I'm going to treat myself to a mocha latte because I woke up for most of the places are open after your time you pull out repeats or something get yourself something nice straight and you won't you but don't do it every day because it'll get really expensive but you reward yourself for that day and you're okay still kind of nice and then this do it up until it becomes a habit most of the habit literature it talks about 40 days and our religion there's also a concept of about 30 or 40 days to really solidify something you do it for three, four, five, six weeks until it be solid at that point you won't need to devote attention to it anymore it'll just be a routine meaning you'll just if you don't pray fudger in the match you'll some you'll be like why did I what did I miss that I messed up like because it'll be such a big that goes for every habit of when it comes to worship and then there's the other side of it when it comes to leaving bad bits and so this is now it starts the same thing with intention but this is where there is an element of protecting yourself just like in the first scenario you're adding good things to do you protect yourself from all of the roads to the haram that could be happening so if someone is really struggling to you know they're cursing all the time or they're backbiting all the time okay you think about practically you literally write down you know when I hang out with this person I backbite a lot and when I watch the show I curse a lot and when I listen to this song or whatever it is I curse a lot and I do and you're like okay I'm gonna eliminate eliminate eliminate and do you slowly work on eliminating those things until you get to a point or that happens and the aside just like you rewarded yourself something good now when you slip into something bad you've got to take something you do you cursed or you said something okay that's 20 rakah that you got to do tonight and you force yourself to do the rakah the nuffs won't backbite later then because it doesn't like to do 20 rakah at night it won't want to do it again right so you have to add just like you know the the coach sports if you if you play sport and you do something they'll say okay 20 push-ups 100 push-ups 20 laps whatever it is right you you treat your nuffs like this way where it's it's a constant back and forth and so sometimes it's a reward other times it's a punishment and then you will eventually balance out to the point where those habits with consistency and the doaa we should always make is what's for what Amma and Deen the Amma is this upright fantasy where we're just consistent day in day out day in day out that's why they say and one of the scholars mentions that the miracle for the one who you know it's possible to achieve what's called a karama a miracle is not to achieve some supernatural event or to have some amazing spiritual experience or dream the true miracle in our religion is to consistently do things day in and day out day in and day out and just stay firm on the path that is that is actually a sort of a miracle because it's so hard to do and then you need so much help from Allah and of course getting all of this and I didn't mean it but I showed it at the beginning is a deep reliance on Allah at the beginning while you ask Allah Ya Allah I can't do this myself I really need and you just ask and really the help will come he'll inspire you in some way or another to kind of help you with that habit does that make sense great any other any questions and this is just a question and then I'll see online if there's any questions we're mentioning yeah every day we just try to spend some part of the day getting knowledge you know one one thing that is almost like getting you know obtaining that knowledge you know there's a lot of different things you can learn and there's like YouTube videos podcast and it's almost like information overload mm-hmm um so what I find that just don't retain a lot of it doing suggestions yeah good question the question is around knowledge and so there's there's an overwhelming amount of information 100 percent of the case how do you learn the knowledge such that you can retain it right yeah good question so the the learning some portion of knowledge every day is kind of like a it's like a spiritual boost to may help you throughout the day that requires study and that's where it's a difference between like your to the podcast on the way to work to get some benefit and you might actually sit down with it later let's say get to your destination and you take some right and so there there's three things that I want you to do first is someone comes up with a little bit of a structure so what we recovered recovered in the text is a portion of thick knowledge a portion belief most people are usually fine when it comes to the aki that they believe but should generally have a standard understanding of what we believe Allah and about the angels and the messengers so and then and then a good time on the knowledge that Imam Haji discussing in this book which is the knowledge of how to purify the heart and they a curriculum of okay these podcasts and let me cover this section I'm going to try to work through one every day and I'm going to spend 10 minutes or during during it taking some notes right that would be here and the second thing you do is you spend time you're trying to retain retain happens when you when you memorize or you listen to something over and over again like if you ever watched SpongeBob or something as a kid and now unfortunately I wonder that not as we filled our heads with this kids because so many unnecessary songs anyways back to the of retain by repeat repetition practice certainly and memorize it and then and then you'll review the memorization a review so you'll have a portion of time now where you were listening to the podcast and now you're we're actually not listening you're reviewing the notes from last week's podcast so you can retain it and then the third is implement you must implement the knowledge to solidify it and that's the most important thing because knowledge is all thought about facts and figures so you create some type of plan that we just mentioned you learn that there's a certain thicker to do in the morning you start as soon as possible to do that thicker in the morning you know so I thought that you try to pray that prayer if you learn that it's good to pray in the moisture you try to show up to pray in the mom and and try to make that a priority you implement when you implement the knowledge you know a lot gives you access you don't know it's from the Quran to strive in a certain way and you implement what you know Allah will teach you already what you don't know and so then you can continue to go on and continue to go on so that's where the the structure the curriculum and the kind of direct study supports the retention of the knowledge does that make sense yeah the question online someone asked can you pray the hajjud in salah and jamah yeah many of the scholars did permit pray jamah my general recommendation would be the hajjud is the prayer you pray alone with you and Allah and the other prayers you pray in jamah that's the son of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam where he was praying fajr dohr asr magrib isha in jamah and he pretty strongly really strongly encourage men to pray in jamah and for women is totally fine to pray at home and but the hajjud he would pray alone with Allah so it's it's kind of up to you but if you can pray alone that's also that's very good the morning and afternoon dhikr is more rewarding than Quran at those times yeah that's that's true so in there there are actually times where things are preferred and in the time of the morning the asbah al the dhikr of the morning time is more rewarding than doing other things at that time so right after fajr the best thing someone can do spiritually after they've prayed fajr is to do the dhikr of the morning it's better than recitation of Quran recitation of Quran then would be the next thing that they would do after what the sunnah is because the thing you can do is the sunnah all right any question okay anything else online is these are Wednesdays so yeah for we're starting inshallah we'll start a new topic next week the seven obstacles on the path to God it's going to be we're going to cover a book by Imam al-qazali a really really amazing book the lad that is kind of a bit more intermediate now in spirituality so it would encourage everybody you know to to come inshallah so we'll just we'll start that next week and then we'll keep going inshallah until the book it's done and for those online that class is at seven o'clock seven fifteen ishah at seven p.m. pacific time at california pacific time and then we start the class fifteen seven twenty or so and you usually we target it's usually done by eight fifteen but today we're doing the summary and the conclusion and so it took a little a lot longer actually the name of the book is ibn haja ibn al-abideen ila jannalameen but for that one the pack gonna go through in the same exact way I'm gonna because the book is a little bit on the longer side so it might take like way more classes to actually finish the book so I'm gonna try to just summarize the core concepts so for those who can get the book and follow a law I'll bring it next week and show everybody and it's really good but if we won't be kind of going through a chapter by chapter page by page it will be a lot more of kind of this this is the country yeah yeah imam al-azali yeah yeah yeah oh who imam al-azali no I was saying that I he told them that he was imam al-azali yeah I said oh yeah exactly imam al-azali yeah yeah that the probably a great scholar who unified all the the core sciences of this religion in the history of Islam imam al-azali morning to most of scholars he's called Fajr al-azali so we'll cover those inshallah next week we'll start that next week okay so we'll just end then with a with a dua someone said what is the book called the book we were covering is the book of assistance and then we'll announce the new book next week inshallah yeah just the last thing that and imam al-azali covered this last week is he ends the book by saying if you have Allah you don't any and if you miss out on Allah you've missed out on every life that's kind of a sum of this book and everything we've been talking about that if we attain Allah and nearness to Allah and knowledge of Allah it does miss out on we'll have missed out but if we don't attain closeness to Allah and we don't have a relationship with Allah what do we really have at the end of the day because Allah is the one who is with us in pre eternity is with us in this life is with us in the next life is with us in the great he's the only one who's consistently always there for us he's always going to be there for us and he yearns for us to get close to him he loves for the person it comes in one of the books of the earlier prophet that Allah is waiting for the one who's gone asleep to turn back he's literally waiting for them to turn back to him because he wants people to get close to him Allah is a Lord who loves for people to draw near to him and he makes it easy he says a little bit I'll come near to you an arm you come near to me walking I'll come to you running and so you should just strive do our absolute best to just go to Allah a little bit and watch inshaAllah what happens and it starts with the engine and then we leave the rest to Allah and so we'll close with the A'ab Bismillah A'am A'am A'am A'am A'am A'am A'am A'am A'am A'am A'am A'am A'am A'am A'am A'am A'am A'am A'am A'am A'am Ya Allah we ask you Ya Allah that by the barakah of this blessed text that we just read Ya Rabb Al-Alminan by the barakah Mama Haddad Ya Rabb Al-Alminan by the barakah of the Prophet Sallallahu alaykum Ya Allah we ask you Ya Allah that you allow us to analyze these meanings and that you allow us to purify us and that you allow these meanings to be accepted deep into our hearts Ya Rabb Al-Alminan we ask that you accept all of these attempts to learn Ya Rabb Al-Alminan that you part of anything it is that we may have said or may have discussed throughout this time Ya Rabb Al-Alminan that was wrong Ya Allah we ask that you allow us to be become people of vikr and of fikr and of yakin and of nearness to you Ya Rabb Al-Alminan make us people who to be close to you Ya Rabb Al-Alminan we ask that you allow the realities of vikr and the realities of this religion fi khai wal laf wal afya to penetrate into our hearts make us firm uponян Ya Rabb Al-Alminal give us hope ya Allah we ask that you will make us people of knowledge and make us people of inward knowledge and of outward knowledge make us people who implement knowledge make us people who urn to learn more learn more Ya Rabb Al-Alminan answer your questions draw us near to you. You are the guide and you are the Lord, you are the Lord of Light, the Lord of Guidance, the Lord of Mercy and the Lord of Goodness. We ask you by your mercy and by your goodness and by your Nur, we are in times where it is very difficult to do anything good, where it is very difficult to be on this Deen, we are just doing our best, we are barely hanging on. We beg you by your mercy to assist us and to facilitate us and to give us salvation and sanctification in this life, Ya Rabb-ul Alamin. Ya Allah, to save us from the fire, Ya Allah, Ya Allah, to save us from the difficulties of the grave, Ya Allah. We ask that all of us and all of our loved ones and our family and Muslims in this community and also in the ummah of the Prophet ﷺ and our parents and our children and our spouses and everybody who intended to be here but not be here, Ya Rabb-ul Alamin. We ask that you give everybody Ya Allah khusna al khatima that you allow us to Muhammad ﷺ that you make us people of this life that you allow us to actualize and internalize this tawheed, Ya Rabb-ul Alamin, Ya Allah. We ask that you allow us to see everything from you and replace immense tawakul in you, Ya Rabb-ul Alamin, Ya Allah. We cannot do this by ourselves, Ya Allah. We are very, very poor in front of Allah. We have nothing, we are nothing, Ya Rabb-ul Alamin, Ya Allah. We need your assistance in every way, Ya Allah. Ya Allah, we have sicknesses and we have problems and we have worries and we have anxieties and we need your assistance. We ask that you cure our problems, cure our illnesses and remove our anxieties and remove our problems and have fardah and essence on the Muslims, Ya Allah. Help our Muslims, help our fellow brothers and sisters in Palestine and in Palestine and in Yemen and in Afghanistan and in Myanmar and in the Uyghur Muslims in China and all the Muslims in Syria and in Libya and all of the places, Ya Rabb-ul Alamin and Kashmir and all the places, Ya Allah, that are struggling, Ya Allah. Ya Allah, they are struggling, Ya Allah. They have been struggling. We ask that you give them rest and that you remove the tyrants and the oppressors from them, Ya Rabb-ul Alamin, Ya Allah, and that you give them goodness in this life and the next and that you give them immense reward for their patience, Ya Rabb-ul Allah. We ask that you make us people of thicker, Ya Rabb-ul Alamin. We ask Ya Allah for the meanings that we have talked about in the khattam that we have talked about throughout this class that you allow these meanings to come into our Arabic. I mean, we ask you, Ya Allah, that they make us people who are guides to you, Ya Rabb-ul Alamin, Ya Allah. We ask you that you make us people who are into your Quran, Ya Rabb-ul Alamin, who regularly recite your Quran and who regularly remember you and we ask that you remember us, Ya Allah. I mean, we ask that you allow the traits of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam to be, that our traits to be like his traits, Ya Rabb-ul Alamin, to the best of our ability and through a gift from you, Ya Rabb-ul Alamin. We ask you for a gift, Ya Rabb-ul Alamin. We ask you for a divine gift, Ya Rabb-ul Alamin, Ya Wahhab, you are the one who gives gifts and you are the one who gives openings. We ask you for gifts and openings and nearness to you, Ya Rabb-ul Alamin. We ask you to remove our problems and our anxieties and we ask you for everything good. The beloved of Allah, wa alayhi wa alayhi wa sallam ask for me and all protection from all seher and all nazar and all envy and from the Masih at the Jal and from the fitna of the times that we live in, Ya Rabb-ul Alamin, protection, Ya Hafid and wrap and wrap us in your protection, Ya Rabb-ul Alamin, and wrap our children in your protection and our spouses in your protection and our parents in your protection and our siblings in your protection and our family members and anyone else in our community, Ya Rabb-ul Alamin, will lead protection and allow us to reach a state of safety, Ya Rabb-ul Alamin, and make our graves filled with noor and filled with light, Ya Rabb-ul Alamin, and allow us to enter Jannah hand in hand with the beloved of Allah, wa alayhi wa sallam, allow us to meet him at the Haudh on the Day of Judgment, Ya Rabb-ul Alamin, allow us to drink water from his blessed hands, from his blessed pool, Ya Rabb-ul Alamin, Ya Allah, give us love of the prophets and make us people who assist him, Ya Rabb-ul Alamin, make us people who when he sees us, he's proud of us and he's happy with us, Ya Rabb-ul Alamin, Ya Allah, please allow us to be people who the prophets, Ya Rabb-ul Alamin, with Ya Rabb-ul Alamin, and allow us to be with him, Ya Rabb-ul Alamin, and with him in this with his meanings and with the teachings and in all of the other ways that are possible and with him in the next life, Ya Rabb-ul Alamin, allow us to enter Jannah hand with the beloved of Allah, wa alayhi wa sallam, and allow us to be with him in Jannah for the world. We ask you for everything good, he asked for him, we ask you for work, make everything that he asked for the protection form wasahalallahu wa sallum abarraq. Ala sayinah Muhammad al' Nabi, al-Ummi wa la alahhi wa sahbihi al-salam, Alhamdulillah, searched our God, wa alayhi wa la ala wa alayhi wa sahbihi al-salam. Wa ila mahala ila alt ba Ila emo Abud Sing. Wa ila imo Abuse every day.닾-un M dubiefan al-M I'm sorry, I went a little long today, but inshallah.