 Salamu alaikum everybody. I'm so happy to be here with you again. This is week three already, huh? We're coming towards the end, but we still have a couple sessions left. So we've covered a lot, masha'Allah, and let me actually pull up, sorry one second, go through the presentations so that we can get to some of the questions, which you guys know, right? You know all of this. I've quizzed you a lot about the author of the text, which is Imam al-Malud and the translator of the text, which is Shehamza Yusuf, right? You know all of this, masha'Allah, but we've covered all the eight hearts, right? So here we're just going to quickly go through them. We've covered all the stuff. Last week, we talked about three different diseases, and I wanted to actually quiz you on them real quickly. So let's just see here. I want to make sure I'm in the right one, right list. So we have 13, 14, 15. Okay, so we covered last week a disease of the heart that talked about when you do something, but your intention isn't for Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala to see you, but rather for someone else to see you. What is that disease of the heart called? And how did I, excuse me, allergies? We have the windows open today, so my allergies have been up. So anybody want to tell me what's the disease of, oh wait, let me check the chat box, sorry, it was kind of behind there. So the question is when you, good Mashallah, yes, me and you got it. Awesome. Ostentation is the disease of the heart where you are trying to get attention with your good deeds from other people, right? You're doing it for that neom. What is the Arabic of the word ostentation? Let's see who knows that. Very good, Raheel. Awesome. So smile, you got it confused. Riyah is, wait, hold on, did I read it wrong? No. Okay, I'm sorry, you got it right. So Raheel and a smile, you both got it right. I read it wrong. So Riyah is yes, ostentation, excellent. And we got Lala Haidara. Very good. So three of you came in with the answer. Awesome. Mashallah. And then Raheel is coming in with the next disease of the heart, which I was about to ask. You already jumped the gun and gave the answer. That's awesome. And you gave me the Arabic. Very happy. But let's see if others can remember as well. This next disease of the heart is when you put your trust in people, right? You're not, you're, you're looking too much at the people in your life and asking their help for everything. And you forget that all help or all assistance really comes from one source, which is of course Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So what is that? Very good Zoya. Excellent. Relying on other than Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So when you put your trust or you rely on other than God, that is a disease of the heart. And Mashallah, like I said, Raheel gave us the Arabic because anybody else give the Arabic. I want to see if anybody else can come up with it. Anybody else? The Arabic. Excellent. Raheel of course came in first with that answer and then Allah, excuse me, not Laila. And then Ismail, you said Allah gave something. You know, you'll get some points for that. So excellent. Mashallah. And then the last one, I saw some people also giving the answer for it, but those of you who don't know, because I'm the only one who can see the answer. Well, myself and sister Hamera. So those of you who don't know yet, what is the disease of the heart when you are not happy about something and you're kind of like, why me? Why did this have to happen to me? Right? What is that called? Okay, awesome. So again, Mashallah, Raheel came with both the English and the Arabic excellent job, displeasure with the divine decree. This is a disease of the heart. And it's very good. Zoya and Dania as well. You guys are coming through. That's fantastic. Mashallah. You guys are paying attention. I love it. So great job. We have so much to cover you guys because there's quite a few diseases of the heart left. So inshallah. Oh, and then yeah, we did another one. Oh, Raheel, you reminded me. I forgot. Whenever you're trying to, so there's ostentation is showing off. But when you want people to hear about your good deeds and you want to be popular and famous, that's also a disease of the heart which we covered, right? And that is sumat or seeking reputation. Very good, you guys. So I forgot that we did four last time. Great job. But we do have quite a lot of content to go through today. So let's go ahead and get into the presentation. I'm going to quickly go through the presentation for last week because we've covered all of this. We did, I mean, Tuesday. So Thursday is where we did these four, ostentation or lying on other than God, displeasure with divine decree and seeking reputation. So now we're going to go to week three. Okay, and I have a slide. Where is it? It's coming. Here we go. So week three. So Alhamdulillah. A lot of content left. So for today, we're going to cover these three diseases of the heart, false hope, negative thoughts and vanity. Okay. And the definitions are right here and we'll go over each one separately. Okay. So let's go ahead and jump into it. Insha Allah. False hopes, the first one. So false hopes is the belief that you will live forever. Okay. And that belief that, oh, I have all this time makes you heedless, which is careless, like you're just not really caring about your responsibilities as first and foremost as we talked about. The most important responsibility we have is to worship Allah. So if you start, you know, becoming heedless, that means you won't pray on time or you miss your prayers all together. Or you just kind of, you know, don't really care about doing good deeds as much because you're too busy thinking, oh, I have homework and I have to go, I want to watch this movie and I want to listen to this song or I want to play this video game or you get caught up in life. And then you keep thinking, it's okay, I'm young or I'm this, I'm that later on in life, I will, you know, do more good work. So why do I have to do it now? Right? I'm a young kid or I'm, you know, I'm a youth, I have all this time in my life. So that is actually a disease of the heart because nobody knows how much time we have. And whatever time we have, we should use it in good deeds, right? We should use it first and foremost, again, to worship Allah, and then to be good to His creation. So a person, again, like this, they just, they waste their time a lot. They who have this disease, they waste their time because they think they have this false idea that they have a long time to live. And so Alas Prada says about such a person that when death comes, they're going to suddenly wake up and they'll say, man, I wish I had sent ahead some good for my life. Like I wish I did more good deeds because now it's too late once we die, right? It's too late. And then Imam Ali told us, he said that, you know, most people, people are asleep and then when they die, they will wake up. So what does that mean? Right? What does it mean to wake up after you die? Well, the idea that people are asleep is something we should kind of better understand, that there's a lot of people who are walking around us in a sleep-like state, right? Because when you're asleep, what are you doing? You're dreaming, right? So there's people, again, who are in a dream-like state. They're walking around, they're talking to people, they're going to work, they're eating, they're just doing a lot. But they think that this world is, you know, going to go on forever. And because they're walking around in a dream-like state, they are forgetful that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala expects them to do certain things and they have to do those things. And that also death is imminent, which means it's always around, right? Death is around us and people are dying every day, every minute of every day. Even within seconds, I don't know the exact statistic, but every, we could probably say maybe every few seconds someone is dying, right? So we have to be realistic. And then also that the day of judgment is real. So when someone, when we say someone is asleep and then they wake up when they die, that means that all of a sudden the dream of the world is over. And they realize like, oh, now I wish I had more, done more good deeds. So it's a very dangerous state to be in, okay? Having false hopes. So how do we treat it? Well, you have to, as we said, remember that death is real and inevitable and that no one and nothing escapes it. And then understand that life has phases. So a lot of you who are youth, right? You're in a phase of learning, of having fun. It's a very exciting time to be a child. But once you get older, as you get older, you're going to get more and more responsibilities. And those responsibilities are important. And you can't let that fun of youth start to affect your responsibilities, that you just keep wanting to play like a child for your whole life. All you care about is fun, fun, fun and entertainment. That is not right. And that's not to say you can't have fun. Of course, we should have fun. Allah made the dunya enjoyable for us. But we should not live to have fun. And that's the difference. So if you want to play with your Legos or you want to play on the computer with a video game or you want to play a board game or you want to do art or play an instrument or anything, a sport, that is something that you can do once in a while just because it's enjoyable. But if that's the only reason that you like to wake up in the morning or all your day is just that thing, then you're going to forget Allah. And a lot of people, that's what happens to them, they'll get so caught up in a movie or a video game that they completely forget to worship Allah. And I'm going to tell you like how these things can be so addictive. I watched a documentary, which is like a movie last week about the dangers of certain things about the internet and video games. And part of that documentary said that there was a group of people, I won't mention the country, but there's a country where the people are so addicted to video games. And I want you to think about this because it's real. And they actually showed a room full of people on their computers playing video games. But they said that it's very common in that country that the people are so addicted to their video games, they actually wear diapers. Aouda Billah. These are adults, they're not children, they're adults who Aouda Billah, because they don't want to break from the game. They think that it's okay for them to sit in their seat and just wear a diaper so that they can continue playing their games. Aouda Billah, I mean that's a level of extreme that we should all say Astaghfirullah, we should never want that, but this is the danger of thinking, getting careless with your time and thinking oh it's no big deal, you know, I'm just gonna, I have plenty of time when I'm older and then I'll do things, so let me just keep having fun, fun, fun. No, when you reach the age of adolescence, which your parents will talk to you about hopefully if you don't know about it yet, but it's the age where a child starts to become more like an adult. Well in Islam, when that happens, then you are considered what, which means that you are now accountable. So you have to start doing all of the same things, you have to start fasting and praying. You are treated like an adult and so you can't just think oh because I'm still in school and I am treated like a child maybe by other people that I shouldn't do my responsibilities. No, we have responsibilities to Allah and we should fulfill those responsibilities and then we also know that we worship Allah and the real fun is in the next life. Jannah is where we're gonna have a lot of fun and we don't have to worry about going to the bathroom in Jannah, so there's no need for diapers, we can eat and we can enjoy life and everything is great inshallah, okay. So that's what the treatment is to keep your mind focused. Death is always near, I shouldn't think I have that much time and I should remember to prioritize and worship Allah as he deserves, inshallah. So this is the treatment for the disease of the heart. So let's go ahead and go to the next disease. So negative thoughts, this is su'adhan, okay. So su'adhan is a very serious disease of the heart because it's just having suspicion or bad thoughts about someone without really any evidence, right. There's nothing at all that you would that would tell you that someone is a bad person or that you shouldn't like them except for your own thoughts. So it's not like you saw them do something bad or you believe that they were guilty of something bad because there was evidence, you just have a suspicious mind or heart and then you start to think really bad things about them. Well, this is not permissible. Allah is the one that tells us in the Quran, oh you who believe avoid suspicion for some suspicion is sinful. So when you have, you let your heart become suspicious of people, it's not good to do that unless that person, like if someone comes and they have, you know, they have let's say their hands in their pocket and one and their finger looks like, you know, or something looks like maybe it's a gun or a weapon. That's not being suspicious without evidence. You could look at them and go, that person looks really suspicious. Why are they walking around with their hands like that? Is that a gun in their pocket? Oh my gosh, that's, and you could, you know, protect other people because you're acting on that thing thought. But that's, so that's not what we're talking about. This is just having a bad thought about someone for really no reason at all. And that's why it's not permissible. And then the other thing is that we have to remember, when you have negative thoughts about someone for really no reason, the danger is that it's usually going to not stay inside of you. Those thoughts want to come out. So you want to wait till your friend comes or your sister or your brother. And then you want to say, Oh, look at that person. They look so weird. And then you start both of you mocking them and making fun of them. And I bet you they're like this and I bet you, you know, you start talking really badly about a person and they're totally innocent. They've done nothing. So this is the danger is that you start to what lead to bad words. And then you got another person involved too. And now whatever they do is also on you, right? So negative thoughts are problematic in so many ways. They're just showing that you have a suspicious heart, but then also leading you to gossip and to bring someone else into sinful behavior with you. Because when you gossip, you need someone else there with you, right? You're doing it together. So this is why the Prophet said and warned us that he who believes in Allah and the last day must either speak good or remain silent. So this is a warning about speaking good. But of course, like we said, negative thoughts, if you don't stop them, they'll lead you to not speaking very good. And so it's a disease of the heart that can cause so many problems. And so this is also another really important hadith to remember. Every day when we wake up in the morning, our limbs, right, which are different parts of our body, as is in this picture here, they actually all go to the tongue and they say, oh tongue, fear Allah, like fear Allah tongue, because the tongue gets us in trouble and it's connected to negative thoughts. Like I said, if you have a bad thought about someone, it's not going to stay inside you. Eventually, it's going to want to come out. And then now you're lying maybe about someone, you're gossiping, you're spreading slander, which are all like, you know, really haram, they're not acceptable. So this is why your body aware of the danger of the tongue asks the tongue like fear Allah. And then it says, why? Because we're going to be punished or rewarded based on what you do. So if you're straight, which means you speak the truth and you fear Allah, then all of us will be good. But if you're not, then you get all of us in trouble, right? So your hands, your feet, your eyes, your ears, all of it is like basically telling the tongue, stop getting all of us in trouble because you can't control yourself, right? And but again, the tongue, it doesn't act on its own. It acts on what's going on in the heart and in the mind. So this is why you have to be careful of those negative thoughts, because it will eventually lead to negative actions for the whole body, right? So very important disease of the heart for us to know. So the treatment, this is the process I'm telling us very clearly what not to do. First, you stop being suspicious of people, okay? Then you don't look for faults in other people and you don't spy. Stop trying to find someone's problems. You know, some people, that's all they do. They just watch people all day long and look for things that are, that flaws in them or faults in them. Or they, you know, like you'll be in a classroom setting or in a meeting or at the masjid. And there's people who just like to watch other people do something that's going to embarrass them, that they can laugh at, that they can mock. And then they go and tell their friends or whoever, oh yeah, this guy in the masjid, you did this and then guess what happened? Then you did this. And then you're just looking for, you know, it's not a good thing to do because all you're doing is spending time wasting your time actually, and speaking ill about another person who's totally innocent. They came to worship Allah or do something, you know, whether you're at the masjid or somewhere like the library or a restaurant or anything. People are there to do something and now you're just making fun of them. You know, it's really wrong. So you don't look for faults, you don't spy, you don't watch people, right? And he also says, do not be jealous of one another because sometimes negative thoughts come from jealousy and hasad, right, which we talked about before. Do not desert, which is like to cut your relation with one another. Don't cut off ties and do not hate one another. Oh, and oh Allah's worshipers be brothers, which Allah has ordered you to be, right? So all of these are ways that we can protect ourselves from having negative thoughts. They start with those suspicions, right? Don't have suspicions in the first place and don't actively try to find things that you can talk about someone else about. Don't get yourself involved in that type of deed because it's a bad deed and it's haram. And it's usually, like I said, that kind of stuff suggests that you're likely jealous or you have envy of the person or you're just someone who likes to waste your time doing things that are wrong. So in every case, it's not acceptable and that's why the Prophet is warning us not to do these things. So this is how we, inshallah, stop those thoughts and to remember that the angels are recording everything, right? All of our good deeds are being recorded so nothing will be forgotten. You want to be very careful that if your negative thoughts turn into negative actions that Allah is counting all of that and that's what you're going to be held accountable for on the day of judgment. So don't think it's just going to, you know, nothing's going to happen, right? Be very careful. So that's the disease of negative thoughts. Now the next one is, let's read this one here. Did you know that there are some people afflicted with this next disease and they can't help but see themselves as very, very special? They actually walk around very proud of themselves and often looking down on other people. They completely reject the fact that every good that they have is from Allah SWT. So in this picture you see, I'm sure you can see what they are. They're just a bunch of eggs, right? But if you look at this egg on top, it's got some special things, right? It's got a shiny color and it's wearing a crown and it looks at itself as better and that's why it's walking actually on top of these other eggs and they're definitely not happy about it, right? But there are some people that walk around this way because maybe Allah gave them wealth or He gave them beauty or He gave them privilege and power. Maybe they come from a family that has a lot of power and whatever it is that they have, they become very what arrogant and vain about it. And we're going to talk about this word, okay? Vain. What does that mean? So vain or vanity or jub is a disease of the heart where someone is so full of pride for their for their blessings. They could be about their appearance, which is the way they look or achievements. So you could be vain about your schoolwork. Let's say you got really good grades, you know, and your teachers, you were top of your class and you won some awards at school. That can make you vain where you start to think that you're really good and you're better than other people, right? And when you get stuck on thinking that it's coming from you, this is the disease because to say that, Alhamdulillah, Allah gave me a blessing. Alhamdulillah, I'm so grateful for that blessing. There's nothing wrong with recognizing the gifts that Allah has given you but when you think that you are the reason for those gifts, like you're giving credit only to yourself and then you treat other people a certain way, this is clearly a disease of the heart because Allah is the source of all of our good and we're going to talk about that in a second. So the Prophesies 7 here tells us eat and drink, give charity and wear clothes as long as that does not involve any extravagance or vanity. So what he's telling us here is enjoy the blessings of your life, right? Eat and drink. Allah's given you a life where you can enjoy good food and good drink. Alhamdulillah, that's great. And give charity wear clothes so you can actually wear nice clothing and be a charitable person, right? Be a generous person but don't do it in a way that makes you feel like you're better than other people or with extravagance which is you're going over the top, right? If you eat and drink and let's say you only eat at the best restaurants, okay? I can't ever eat at this restaurant because it's not, you know, it's not clean enough for me or it's not this enough for me and you just kind of are very boastful about the fact that you want to eat a special kind of food and it's, you know, very decadent which is like rich and maybe it's a very expensive meal but that you walk around and you just carry yourself like look at me, I'm so better. I only eat at the best restaurants, right? And that's all I put in my body or when you wear clothing, you also do the same thing. You only wear brand name clothing and oh, I would never shop there, right? I would never go to that store because I don't, their clothing just is so below my style. I need the best of the best and so this kind of attitude that you are better than other people and even that can happen when you're being charitable. There are people who are very arrogant even when they're giving to other people, they're acting like they're, you know, so generous and you should be so thankful that I'm even looking at your direction and giving you money or giving you food or whatever that they're giving. So here this is a clear warning like do things because we're human and we live in this world, we can do certain things and enjoy those things but make sure you do not do them in excess which is what extravagance is where you're going over the top and you're just being really a little bit too much, too extra as they say or you're doing it with vanity where you think that you are so special that you're better than other people and you know we're going to explain a little bit more about this. So now arrogance is very closely related to Egypt, okay? The difference is that arrogance requires two people. So if you're an arrogant person and that's coming, it's one of the diseases we'll cover soon, boasting in arrogance it's coming but if you're an arrogant person you need other people right to display your arrogance too. Like so you walk around again treating people like they're less than you and not good, right? Good enough. Vanity doesn't need another person. Ojib is really just about a person being so full of themselves thinking that all of their good is from them that there's no mention of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that you know they're not really thinking about all of the great gifts that Allah's given them and they don't make gratitude to Allah but rather they attribute all their good deeds to themselves. So what Ojib and how they're different is the attribution, right? They're both attributed wrongly but it's also the audience. For Ojib, you don't need an audience. You're the only audience. It's you. It's you thinking that you are good looking because you have great genes or your skin is you take care of your skin and you have a great sort of makeup routine if you wear makeup or your hair is so nice because you take care of it but you constantly keep again putting the focus on yourself, right? And then kibbut or arrogance which we're going to again talk about soon is where you think all of these things and then excuse me you actually treat other people like they're less than you and you puff yourself up in front of people. Both of these qualities are interrelated, inshallah, okay? So and inshallah, I'm sorry, we'll talk about it more when we get to boastfulness and arrogance but it's important to understand that they're very, very closely tied. And then, you know, the danger again of vanity and arrogance is that it allows this pride and arrogance into the heart, right? And the Prophet ﷺ told us that no one who has the weight of a seed, of a single seed of arrogance in his heart or her heart will enter paradise. This should make all of us never want to ever have a job or be boastful, show off, right? We talked about ostentation, riyadh, we talked about summa, we talked about all these diseases of the heart which really is about showing off and, you know, being and allowing these things because they kind of all work together eventually, right? You start to develop all of these diseases of the heart but at the root of it is that you deny that the good that you have is from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and all that matters is that he is pleased with you. And instead, you start focusing on other people and trying to show off to them and then you start thinking you're better than them. So this is how it all works, right? So it's a trap of shaytan. And so, you know, in this hadith, when the Prophet ﷺ said that about the weight of a seed of arrogance in his heart, someone was like, but what if like a man loves to have beautiful clothes and shoes, right? So he's worried because he's like, uh-oh, I don't want to have arrogance but at the same time I like to have nice stuff. What about that? Is there anything wrong with that, right? And then the Prophet ﷺ replied, he said what? Verily, Allah is beautiful and he loves beauty. Arrogance means rejecting the truth and looking down on people. So this is not about not having nice things, okay? You can definitely like nice things and have nice things. It's about your attitude when you walk around in those nice things or when you're, you know, again, getting certain attention for things. How do you see yourself with regards to other people? That's what this disease of the heart is talking about. So let's again, explore this just a little further. So here's this hadith again, the same exact hadith, right? So I want to make it clear. The seed that we're talking about, look at these are seeds. These are multiple seeds, okay, in someone's hand. Now, when he tells us that the weight of a seed, he didn't say a lot of seeds. He said a seed, right? One seed of arrogance. So you can see how tiny a seed of arrogance is. And he's telling us if you have that much arrogance in your heart, you will not enter paradise. We have to make a lot of toba from this disease of the heart if we have it and ask Allah to remove it from our hearts and to ask him to protect our hearts from it because we don't want to ever think of ourselves in a way that is arrogant. Whether that means we just are so prideful of what we have and we walk around even within our own hearts and go, oh, like, I have such nice eyes and my teeth are so white and my hair is so beautiful and my skin is so this, you know, like, whatever the thought is that comes to you that makes you feel prideful is a dangerous thought because you're not remembering. It's all from Allah and he can take it away any minute. There are so many people that had, you know, a lot of good and khayr in their life and everything was going well and it was taken away. A lot of stories. Like, if you ask your parents to tell you the story of Prophet Ayyub, and see how he was tested, he had everything. He had a great life and then Allah tested him and took everything away and see how he responded. But that can happen to someone at any time in their life. So if you start to think these things, that's the danger, is that you can have them taken away from you. Instead, always say, Alhamdulillah, thank you Allah for all of the blessings you've given me, for my health, for my wealth, for the parents I have, just constantly remembering it was all from Allah. It's not from you. And even if you go further, like in school and you get into a good college and you get a great job, eventually inshallah that'll happen for all of you where you will succeed, you want to always remember that every part of that success is from Allah, all of it. Even if you did the hard work, excuse me, even if you stayed up late and you worked on a bunch of projects and researched papers and did a lot of work on tests and exams and you did all the work yourself, you can't say that it's your work that led you to that success. All of it is from Allah because Allah is the one who gave you the means to do it. He gave you the brain, the capacity, the time, all of that comes from Him. And if He didn't give you those things, you wouldn't have been able to achieve any good in your life. So this is how we push back against those thoughts, is no, it's all from Allah and I'm just going to always say thank you to Him instead of letting my heart get puffed up and thinking of myself as something special because a lot of them, you'll find that adults and other people in your life, they'll start to compliment you more on certain things and this is how some of these diseases can take root because those compliments feel good. It's nice to have someone say, wow, you play basketball so good or oh my gosh, you're such a talented writer and you speak so nicely and look how well you're dressed and oh, I love your hair and oh, you know, and they just throw all these compliments at you. It's very natural for the human being to like those things, but you have to remember if you start to believe that those things are from you and then you let that to make you feel special like that egg in the beginning, there's definitely a problem there. Okay, so back to the hadith and you see the different pictures here, right? The man was worried about all the, he loves to have beautiful clothes and shoes, nothing wrong with that, right? Allah loves when we take care of things and we beautify things and we have beautiful possessions because he himself is beautiful. So to love beautiful things is not the problem. It's when you let those beautiful things make you feel that you are what better and you look down on people. So if you look at this picture, this is kind of how you want to imagine someone who is full of arrogance, whether they are arrogant, have arrogance or vanity because they both can have the same attitude of feeling superior to other people. They just feel like they're more special, extra special and they see the world in this way where it's like, I am so big and important and I matter and you're just this tiny little person and you don't matter very much. This is stuff for a big problem, big disease of the heart we should all ask Allah for protection from. Okay, and so how do you treat vanity? Well first, as we've been saying, you have to realize that Allah is the source of all good and you have to be grateful to him always. Never stop in your gratitude to Allah and you have to remember that he's aware of everything we do. So those thoughts that you're having and don't think that you can hide those thoughts. If they're there, he knows they're there. He knows everything. And so remember to check your heart, to go inward, like when you're having a thought about yourself, let's say like I said, you're in a competition at the Masjid or maybe you're in the Boy Scouts or the Girl Scouts or maybe you're in something else that's happening at school. If there's some type of a competition going on and you start thinking of yourself as like, you know what, I'm going to win. I'm really good at this. I'm so better than everybody else and I'm so much smarter than everybody else. I've got this. Even if it's a thought in your own mind, you have to stop and go, stop the law. Why am I thinking that? All good is from Allah. I shouldn't ever think that about myself. And just ask Allah if you want to win, you can certainly compete, but don't do it with those thoughts. You want to check yourself. And then to remember, Allah tells us here, above all those who have knowledge is the All-Knowing, that is God. Allah knows everything. And what comes to you of good is from Allah. So every good thing that you have is from Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala. And every bad thing that happens to you is from your own self. That's the rest of the Aya. But anyway, so the other thing is also you never walk around with arrogance in your heart because of the way you're dressed, your accomplishments, education, work, wealth, your lineage, if you're cultural, you know, some people are very culturally proud. You know, they like to say, well, I'm from this country and I'm this and where I come from this family, none of that matters to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala. What matters is what we talked about in the first session, kalbun salim, that beautiful heart that you take to Allah. That's what matters more than anything. Not all of these other things. So you don't want to let those things make you feel arrogant towards people or vain. So here is another hadith that's an important one. Because it clarifies something here. So when the prophet said him was teaching people, right, he said, whoever drags his garment out of pride will not be looked upon by Allah on the day of resurrection. So what that means are there's some people in this world, especially in that time, and even there are places where they still do this, like royalty or people who are who see themselves as very high bread, which means like they are, you know, come from a very high family. And, you know, they see themselves as maybe they have power or wealth or name or status. They will sometimes wear clothing that drags on the floor. And a lot of celebrities actually do this too. If you look at some of the big awards that celebrities get for movies or music, you know, or even just other big events that celebrities go to a lot of times. Most of the stories about the event are with the clothing that they're wearing, and they'll go on the runway or the red carpet, sorry, not the runway, the red carpet, which is where everybody comes before they go into the event. There's like hundreds of cameras taking pictures of these people, and they are coming out of their cars. Sometimes some of these people, because their outfits are so like this, they're very long, they have assistants like people who are helpers carrying their dresses, like women and sometimes men too, if they're wearing like a long coat or something, but they'll have like people that work for them behind them carrying this long train. And it's just dragging on the ground, but they do it to say, I'm so wealthy, I have so much money that I can wear a dress or a suit or a coat or whatever. And it can just drag all over the floor behind me. And everybody will know that I have come into this room because I'm so important. This is the attitude that a lot of people have when they dress this way. It's a very arrogant attitude. So when Allah says whoever drags his garment out of pride, there won't be looked upon on the day of judgment. Abu Bakr, who was his best friend, he got worried because he's like, what? Like dragging the garment, like my sometimes my robe, you know, they used to wear certain clothes that were sometimes it would fall to the ground or slide down. So he was like, oh my gosh, I don't want to have be part of this group of people. So he panicked and he said, one of my robes slides down, if I'm not cautious, like if I'm not paying attention, what do I do? And then the provost I sent him, what? He calmed him down and he said, very clearly, verily, you are not doing it out of pride. So this Hadith tells us first what we shouldn't do, but also to remember it's the attitude that we're talking about. It's not just the action because Allah, the provost has taught us, right, إِنَّمَ الْعَمَالُ بِنْيَاتُ which is every action that we do in this world is judged by our intentions. So Allah is looking at the heart of the person who does this because some people, maybe it's their culture. Like for example, someone's actually asking about wedding dresses in the comments. That's a good point because in many cultures, the wedding dress should have a train. It's kind of like part of, you know, being the bride. So is the intention of that bride to walk around saying I'm better than everybody? No, most brides don't think that. You know, most people are good people. They don't have that arrogance or a lot of people. But when you, so that's like a cultural thing. But if it's done with the intention of pride, this is where it's really wrong, right? And this is what we're talking about. Vanity, where you walk around and even though this Hadith is talking about dragging the garment, you also want to look at wearing certain clothes but still feeling prideful because as you get older and then you guys start working and getting your own jobs and money, you might want to buy some really nice clothing and you might want to start getting some things that you could, you know, couldn't afford when you were a kid. But now that you're making your own money, you want to buy maybe a purse or a wallet or a car or anything where there's something that makes you feel really good being wearing that thing. But check your heart and check your intentions because if in your heart you start to think like, look at me, I'm so cool. I have this, you know, brand name purse or look at my watch or my glasses or my hat or my car or whatever. I'm so much better than everybody else. This is what we're talking about. It's a, it's a disease of the heart of being overly vain and thinking that you, you know, did it that it's all because of you that you have those things and you forget that Allah is the one who gave it to you and then it leads to arrogance, which is you start to think about other people that they're less than you. And all of this is completely wrong in our faith. We do not engage in that type of behavior. So we stop it at the root, which is Alhamdulillah wa shukrullah. Thank you, Ya Allah, for everything you've given me. And I recognize that just as you gave it to me, you can always take it away from me and I'm just grateful to have it. And that's it. You don't, you know, go beyond that. Okay. So that is the last disease of the heart that we're going to talk about today. And then we will have our next session on Thursday. So let's go ahead and go to questions, inshallah. I want to hear from you guys. Who has some questions, some comments? Who wants to know more about these diseases of the heart as we've been talking about? Let me look up here. Someone said, okay, there was a celebrity at the Grammys who dressed that way. Yeah, they had a long dress. Oh, I see it all the time with celebrities. A lot of them will have their dresses just trailing behind. What if you're holding the trail? Well, if that's your job, you know what, you're just doing your job. You're getting paid. Some people need work. You know, you don't want to tell that person that they're a bad person. A lot of these people, like I said, it's just their job. They have no choice. They have to do it. But so Lala is asking, is a wedding dress with train okay, as long as you're not doing it in vain? Well, I think, again, because it's a culturally accepted tradition, I don't have a clear like fatwa or anything that says yes, wedding dresses are okay. But we can take the meaning from this hadith that says it's really about the intention because sometimes you might have a garment that just is made a little longer than maybe you would have liked, but you needed to wear it at a wedding or some event. Can we say right away that that person is arrogant and or prideful No, it's about the intention. But it's preferred to try to avoid any type of display that could maybe make people think that about you, you know, that you are that way. So if it's avoidable, you can avoid it. But I can't, you know, I don't have a clear answer as far as our certain dresses okay, because they're culturally accepted. It's more just to say that the intention is what we're looking at, inshallah. Okay, someone is asking you only talked about hating on people. So are you allowed to still hate on things? So I think this is referring to the su'adhan. So it's a good question. I mean, I think it really depends on the situation to have negative thoughts in general to be a negative person is really not a good quality. You're likely not going to have a lot of friends if you're always they call them the Debbie Downer, for example, which is like a term that's referred to someone who's always down, who's always like, just negative energy, right? Negative Nancy, I don't know why there are always women names, we need to come up with negative Ned, there is actually negative Ned, so it's not always women. But the names are just like, like, they're just names that describe people that sometimes have way too much negative energy. So you should not make it okay to say, oh, I'm not gonna have su'adhan on people, but sure, on everything else, I'm just gonna walk around being negative. No, try to have a positive view of things, right? Try to be balanced. And if something is, you know, bad, sure, you can think badly of it because it is bad, right? You don't have to think positive about, you know, a swamp or a sewer, you know, that's gross, it's dirty. So you can be like, to something like that. But, you know, when it's just things in creation or objects, you don't need to walk around with a negative attitude. Okay. Let's see, we have a lot of other questions here. Can you wear expensive clothes? We did talk about this in previous sessions. There's nothing wrong with wearing nice clothing, but it's really a matter of how much, right? Like, if you are insisting on only wearing a certain brand or a certain type of clothing and you refuse to wear like normal clothing that other everybody else wears, then there might be, you know, something you want to look at there. But if you like to have some nice things and you're looking at quality because sometimes more expensive things are made really well, they're tailored and they're made like with better stitching and, you know, better fabric. I mean, you like to keep, there's nothing wrong with that at all. As long as again, you recognize that these are gifts from a lot and you're not extravagant. Extravagance is like where you're doing it too much. It's not balanced. It's, and it's likely again, because you think of yourself maybe as better. And so there's other problems there that you want to look at. If that, if it leads to behavior where, you know, you just want to go and like I said, you are exclusively only wanting to wear a certain type of clothing. And there are people like that that are very kind of snobby when it comes to these things. So that we want to avoid that, right? So, oh, good question. Can you compare, for example, with your friend that you have a better voice in Qur'an? Would that be a good competition or bad? That's a good question. You know, if you're both like studying to be reciters or you're both in a Qur'an class and the teacher is helping you both on your skills to become better reciters and no more Qur'an, there's nothing wrong as long as it's a healthy competition. But you shouldn't, you should want your friend to also succeed, right? So this is where want for your brother, what you want for yourself really matters. Because just, you know, being in a competition with someone that you, that your friends with is, is fine as long as the spirit of the competition is full of love. And it's not, you know, something where it's like, I don't want you to succeed because I want to win. That's, you know, not good, like they call it sportsmanship. Sportsmanship is to say, may the best person win and really, truly mean it. So if you're in a competition with your friend and you're both working really hard, you succeed, he succeeds, you should want him to succeed or her, if it's a girl, and you should keep going until the judge or whoever it is, your teacher decides who the winner is and be happy for them. But if it's like you're competing to the point where you really don't want them to win because you have to be on top of it and that makes you feel better, that's definitely a problem, you know? So that's not a form of healthy competition. Healthy competition is wanting good for everybody and celebrating like just the excitement of the competition, you know, like, oh, we just, we got to compete with each other. It was fun. And then letting it go because at the end of the day, especially with Quran, there's nobody who loses, you know? If you, you're a winner in every case, if you won the competition of recitation according to the judges or not, you're a winner with Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala because for you to spend your days practicing and trying to become better at the book of Allah already you've won, you've won more than you could even imagine. So just don't make it a big deal like, ooh, I have to win this title or this award or this thing. No. When Allah sees especially if you're a youth and you are so connected to his book, you're already a winner, right? So Alhamdulillah. Okay, we have a few more minutes left. I'm scrolling to see these questions, making sure I don't miss because I always hear it, well, at least for my kids. Mommy, you didn't answer my question. Is hating on cigarettes bad? Sure, that's a great question actually because when we hate something, hate is a very strong word first of all, right? But when we hate something, it should always be tied with whatever displeases Allah. So you can hate things that you know Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala and the Prophet Muhammad didn't like or they hate it, right? So sure, any type of an intoxicant or drug or, you know, alcohol, things that are harmful, sure, you can hate them because they have no benefit. It brings harm to the world. It brings harm to people, right? So that's perfectly fine. That's a good question. Thank you for asking. Let's see. Thank you, sweetheart, Raheel John. Thank you so much for your very sweet comment. They have to leave. I appreciate your, you're taking the time to thank me and your very kind message. Khuda hafiz, salamu alaikum to you and your brother. Let's see. I have another question. So I have a question that says, what if someone was wearing really nice shoes and then his friend was wearing like ripped shoes, right? So the shoe that his friend is wearing is not in a good condition. And the guy with the nice shoe says mine are newer and better, right? Is this permissible? Well, you guys, I hope you know the answer. If you're going to make someone else feel bad because their clothing or what they have is not as nice as you and you want to show off and say mine are better and nicer, that is not good at all to do because as we just said, Allah swt may have blessed you with nicer shoes, but your character isn't very good, right? If you do something like that, that's not having good character. Good adab is not ever making someone feel bad or looking down on them and mocking their things and making them feel like they are less than you. That's bad adab. So even if your shoes are good, the bigger issue is that you have bad character and that means that you're probably not in good state with Allah. So you should ask Allah to remove that from your heart that I don't want to ever make someone feel bad because of the way they're dressed and then comparing with my stuff because I have nicer things. No, that's not humble. You should have humility and as we've been saying, know that whatever good Allah has given you, he can always take it back. So and the quickest way for that to happen is to show arrogance, right? If you show arrogance, the blessings will be removed from you and the opposite is true. If you show gratitude and humility and you're kind to other people and you do good deeds, Allah will increase you in your blessings. So it's up to you. What do you want? You want to risk losing all the nice things you have or you want to keep them, right? So inshallah, you shouldn't do that. Oh, thank you so much. Mashallah, sister Shaisa for your very nice comment. Oh, mashallah. Okay, I think so. Trying to jog my memory. I think so. I need to know how old you are because this is a youth class, so I'm not sure if I'm talking to a youth or an adult, but thank you, sister Shaisa, for your lovely comment. I hope to meet you again. Okay, so I have another question. What if you're trying not to make them feel bad or the person says something mean back? If someone is being petty and they're mocking you, don't go down to their level. Be above it. Just look at them and say, I'm not going to do that because you're wrong and Allah is not happy with you. If I say the same thing back to you or I give you a comeback, then I'm the same as you because you said something rude and not nice and now if I'm trying to defend myself and do the same thing, how is that any better, right? So when you have people that are mean and rude, it's just better to just let it go and not to give them the importance, right? Because if you sit there and you go back and forth and back and forth, you're telling them that I'm going to give you my time, but your time is very important and you should say, nope, I'm not going to waste my time on that. And that sounds actually a much stronger message to that person because they want you, you know, sometimes people are incite you, they want to make you angry, they want to make you mad. So if you're like, I don't, I'm not doing that. I got better things to do than waste my time on that. It'll upset them even more because they're like, oh, I really wanted them to get a reaction out of you. So that's actually a more powerful position to just say, nope, not having it, and to walk away instead of giving in, fighting, arguing back and forth. And then everybody's kind of like, okay, this is pointless. And either or that, or it could turn into something heated and you end up causing a bigger problem, right? So why do that? Just walk away. You're in a position of power and control. And the other person's just left there by themselves with nobody to complain to. So you win. Okay. Mashallah. So, so I get another question. This will be the last question. Then we'll end it. If someone has nice shoes and another person has a nice shirt, is it okay to tease each other? So whenever you're competing and it's all out of love, you know, it's all good. If it's out of love and there's a spirit of, you know, just happiness and teasing in a gentle way, there's nothing wrong with that. But it's when it starts to get really mean and you're looking down on people and you're letting that into your heart. That's when it's a problem. Okay. All right. Alhamdulillah. So thank you, everybody, for being here. Jazakumullah khiran. InshaAllah, we will see you on Thursday. Okay. So come back for our, what is it, fifth class? No, sixth class is on Thursday. All right. InshaAllah, we'll go ahead and then thank you. Jazakullah khiran. Thank you, Aiman. And please say salams to your family as well. All of you. Thank you guys. InshaAllah, we'll see you Thursday. We'll end in dua. Subhana rabbika rabbil izzat. Ya ma yusifoonu. As-salamu ala ala al-mursaleen walhamdulillahi rabbil al-alameen. All right. Jazakullah khiran. As-salamu alaikum, everybody. Take care.