 إنه الحمد لله نحمده ونستعينه ونستطفره ونعود بالله من شروع أنفسنا ومن سيئات عمالنا ما يحدل له فلا مدلله ما يدلله فلا حاديله ونشدوا لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له وشدوا أننا محمد عبده ورسوله يا أيها الذين آمنوا اتقوا الله اتقوا الله حقا تقاته ولا تموتن إلا وانتوا مسلمون يا أيها الذين آمنوا اتقوا الله وقولوا قولا سديدا يسلح لكم عمالكم ويقبل لكم تنوبكم ومن يغطي الله ورسوله يتفعز فوزا عاديما أقوم بإمكانك أن تقوم باستخدام الله باستخدامه باستخدامه باستخدامه باستخدامه باستخدامه حتى انه هو سواء وقائده ومعنى باستخدامه وحياته وقائده ربما شرطة داية ونعامل لك أن محمد عبد الله سلو الله عليه واله وصحبيه وسلم is his final messenger, apostle, and prophet may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him his family his companions and upon all those who choose to tread in his path until the last day رحمة بعض الحمد لله أردت أن أجدتك ويجب أن أقوم بمعرفة تقوة الله لتكون أعلم of الله لتفير of الله لتكون أعلم of الله ويأخذ أن الله is at the center of our entire orientation and everything that we do ونشكر الله for gathering us together and manifesting the تقوة that we have of him coming together on the day of Juma to participate in this خطبة ونحن نقوم بمعرفة أنه يساعدنا to earn his pleasure وأنه ليس فقط يساعدنا as individuals but he's gathered us as hearts أريد أن أتحدث اليوم إمام مغزالي لدينا الكثير about the heart ونحن نفعل جيدا in listening to him أريد أن أتحدث اليوم about the heart والأسئل I have for everyone is what is the state of your heart what is the state of your heart إذا أحاول أن أتحدث عن شيء let's say I chose to talk about wealth then some of us might be blessed with wealth and some of us might not إذا أتحدث عن أن أتحدث عن the taking advantage of our youth some of us might be youth some of us might not إذا أتحدث عن some struggle or addiction that we have some of us might have that some of us might not but every single one of us has been blessed by Allah with a heart and we're supposed to take care of our heart and so I want to ask you what is the state of your hearts because if we look in the west the western world doesn't really think about the heart much as long as it's beating it's fine they consider it just a piece of flesh but in our religion the heart is not just not a piece of flesh it's the seed of our soul we consider in Islam that the heart is the seed of our soul when the Prophet when Allah swt revealed the Quran upon the Prophet ﷺ he didn't reveal it upon his mind or his akhul or his brain he revealed it upon the Prophet ﷺ heart and the heart is what keeps us alive not just physically but it keeps us alive spiritually as well and even if we look at the heart in terms of physical matter and physical form it's still an incredible remarkable thing the heart that we have on an average beats 60 to 70 times every minute that we are alive in the course of our day it's beating over 100,000 times in that time it's pumping over 2,000 gallons of our blood across about 60,000 miles of vasculature so the heart is an incredible thing 60,000 miles is 2 times the circumference of the earth and not only is the heart doing all of this it's also the one organ in our body that operates completely independent of the central nervous system which affects every other part of our body so that means that if the heart is removed in some cases with open heart surgeries and such they do that the heart still continues to be so Allah swt has made even the physical heart assigned for us that this is an important organ that we have and the heart is also the only thing that does not stop to rest at any point in our lives every other muscle every other organ every other limb will take a rest will stop at some point to rest to recover but the heart through our 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 years of life however long Allah has blessed us to live He has allowed the heart to function for us and in this is an incredible blessing it's and a lot of people you know people seek miracles all the time they do all kinds of ridiculous things to find miracles they get high they do drugs and and they seek out experiences but all you have to do is put your hand on your chest and feel your heartbeat when was the last time you did that the heart is an incredible thing so if you want to experience a miracle just remember the physicality of your heart and it's a reminder it's a sign for us it's also a reminder of our death because at some point this little piece of flesh that's the only the size of our palm will stop beating as well so the heart in just the remembrance of the heart there's a lot to remember but the heart is not just physical flesh as I mentioned it's what makes us who we are there's a spiritual dimension to the heart and the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم when a companion came to him and asked him about something whether something was right or wrong the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم told him إستفت قلبك consult your heart literally it means seek فتوة from your heart gain an opinion ask your heart to determine when he was questioning something right or wrong and this is contingent upon having a sound heart because a sound heart that is sound and in line it will be in harmony with the intention of Allah with the will of Allah so the heart is a very important spiritual cognitive capacity that we have and the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم tells us that a sound heart when it comes to something that is right there's tranquility that's found in it and if there's something wrong it'll bring unrest and trouble in the heart so at this point it's important to mention a beautiful analogy that Imam Ghazali brings Imam Ghazali wrote a 40 volume collection called أحياء ألوم الدين amongst his dozens and dozens of other books and this is remarkable how many of us can even sit through 40 books just reading them and he's written 40 of them for us to take from and benefit from his 21st book is called أجعب القلب or the marvels of the heart the wonders of the heart and in it he's talking about the inner secrets that that is the heart and he gives us a way to look at the heart so the analogy he gives is that the heart is like a mirror and if you look at a mirror what does a mirror do? it reflects usually we look at mirror and it reflects us and so the heart to Imam Ghazali is like a mirror and what it's supposed to reflect is the light of of الله سبحانه وتعالى the light of the divine the light of guidance the light of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and that's the function of the heart that's the purpose of the heart but what can happen to a mirror? you know we've all seen our mirrors cloud up maybe after taking a shower so our mirrors can cloud up they can get dirty they can get muddy they can get rusty they can even shatter and they can break so the what he says is that we are supposed to take care of our hearts we have to make sure that it doesn't get cloudy and the way we do that is by polishing the heart polishing the mirror that is the heart and the polish of the heart is the remembrance of الله سبحانه وتعالى it is zikr so by doing zikr by keeping a lot in our minds we keep our hearts open to what it's supposed to do which is reflect the light of الله سبحانه وتعالى he gives us another analogy he gives us another example that the heart is like a command center it's like the headquarters for the armies and the armies are the rest of our limbs in our body and so the hands are armies the tongue is an army the mouth and the ears these are all limbs and they whatever they do they go out it affects the state of our hearts so every action that we take with whichever organ that we're using and limb that we're using to partake in that action it has an effect on our hearts either positive or even or negative and so it's important for us to to consider what is the state of our hearts and how are we using these limbs of ours because we all know that they're sins and usually the sins that we think of are physical sins that we take part with our with our bodies either it's something like stealing or killing which we do with our hands it's backbiting or slander that we do with our tongues it's with what we listen to or what we gaze at that we're not supposed to listen to or gaze at so usually what we think of when we think of sin are physical things but there's also this this aspect of what we call the sins of the heart that the heart can actually take actions as well and the sins of the heart include the seven deadly sins greed lust envy gluttony laziness and so forth so we have to be cognizant and aware of the states of our hearts and the sins that our hearts partake in beyond just the sins that our limbs partake in and starting off where ending where I started off I remind and remind each and every one of you to consider and question what is the state of your heart with all of this in mind أقول القولي هادا وصفر الله لي ولكم لسعر المسلم بسم الله والحمد لله والسلاة والسلام وعلى رسول الله وصل الله وعليه وعليه وصحبه وسلام We've been speaking about the heart and the importance of of having sound hearts It's a bit of an abstract and theoretical discussion discussion so I wanted to bring it back to something very especially the young people We live in the digital age and this age one the part what's part and parcel of the digital age is social media We live in an age of social media where people there's so many social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram and Twitter and Snapchat and so forth So I've been thinking about this a lot and I really think that when social media debuted and came out Shaytan had a field day he was like having the time of his life because he's like how can I use this to drive people away from the remembrance of Allah and I'm not arguing that social media is inherently evil you know we're all on it and there's an argument to be made of why we should be on it but what we have to remember and be aware of is that the doors it opens up for us or the doors it opens up for evil and we really have to be cognizant of that I'll give you an example if you wanted to backbite 2030 40 years ago you would have to have another person to backbite with or slander right but now all you need is to be sitting behind your phone talking on the phone beyond a YouTube comment and you can slander and backbite all you want all these internet trolls that's exactly what they're doing it's a manifestation of this sin which is backbiting that social media and technology has opened up for us similarly if you look at the example showing off this is sin of the heart showing off ostentation showing off at some point you would have to go outside of your house and go or invite people to your house and then manifest showing off by doing something now all you have to do is posted an Instagram photo or a Facebook photo so social media has opened up the doors for us to sin in in many many ways and we have to be careful of that I've been thinking about this and it's like every single one of the seven deadly sins you can find on social media and some of the social media platforms are more inclined to certain sins over others so it's something we really have to be aware of every single and someone should you know endeavor to write a book about the dangers of social media and what of the spiritual sins are manifest in the social media and I think about that until now maybe I'll do that at some point so we have to realize that social media is not some neutral entity we have to think about the fact that these companies are hiring marketing professionals social media managers engineers computer scientists some of those careers we might pursue ourselves to what to do what to get us to buy into their platform to be addicted to their platform and just stay on for just six more seconds so that when we scroll down we scroll down to the next post and continue doing that over and over again why to sell us products because it's commodifying us it's commodifying our attention and making it something for their benefit and we really have to wonder like are we is this social media driving us towards Allah or away from Allah are the people who are following are they the people of Allah are they the righteous people and the pious people are they reminding us to be remembering of Allah or are we following things that deviate and take us away from Allah whether towards sin or even just like not being not remembering Allah so we really have to be aware of who we follow what we like there's a saying and it might be attributed to the prophet I'm not entirely sure that tell me who your friends are and I'll tell you who you are and I was thinking about this and it's like nowadays all you can say is show me your news feed or show me your social media feed and I can tell you who you are because it really reflects and that's why the advertisements that they show can be so accurate to what we're interested in because what social media and these people are doing is that they're trying to take our attention taking our interest and it really manifest who we are so we have to make sure that not only the way we walk out and when we dress it reflects who we are we also have to make sure our social media reflects who we are but to make sure to follow good people righteous people a lot of our teachers and scholars are on social media there are a lot of good forms of entertainment that are on social media you have to be cognizant of making sure that that's what's keeping our attention and because the thing is that there's a war being waged with our attention especially the young people and it's not just social media it's also video games and movies and TV and music I mean I'm sure all the young people here play Fortnite and it's a tragedy in my mind you know like hours and hours and hours that are going away spending playing one video game and they're doing the same thing over and over again and these things are meant to be addictive and in that time we could be remembering a lot we could be memorizing Quran but even beyond this spiritual and religious stuff we could be learning new skills we could be benefiting people we could be improving ourselves and from all of those things and so if we want to have sound hearts and pure hearts and be attentive to the remembrance of Allah we have to be careful and be aware of what social media is doing to us we have to be careful about what we're consuming because there's so much Haram music out there's there's so many Haram movies and videos and probably the majority of these things are unacceptable so we have to do our best and find good forms of entertainment that's out there and there are plenty of options I mean I get in trouble a lot for I won't stop talking about the show on Netflix it's called Resurrection Air to Rule and I'm sure many of you have watched it and to those who haven't you know really check it out it's much better than Game of Thrones and all of the other terrible shows that are out there it's a Turkish show that tells the story of Air to Rule Ghazi who is the father of Usman the first who founded the Ottoman Empire it's an incredible show that I just did a podcast with a friend of of mine about it and it's like it can teach us so much about because it's showing us lived Islam these people are praying and they're fasting and they're going out and fighting the enemy and they're going and and it shows you how to be a father it shows you how to be a son a wife a husband it it really reflects and manifests our values and there's nothing dirty about it there's nothing unclean there's nothing filthy in the entire show so there are things like this that they're great alternatives that are being created that's just one of them that we can we can bring us back to the remembrance of الله and allow us to have a pure heart and the sound heart and the clean heart and we ask الله سبحانه وتعالى that He allows us to to have purified hearts يا مقالب القلوب صبت قلوب على دينك يا مقالب القلوب صبت قلوب قلوب على طاعتك يا الله make us firm and our hearts firm upon your religion and upon your obedience يا الله purify our hearts keep our hearts clean heart's clean of our youth and for the elders and allow us to turn back to you at every moment الله سبحانهاته اصل على سيدنا محمد وعالسيدنا محمد كما سلت علا سيدنا ابرهيم وعال سيدنا ابراهيم انك أميد ومجيد الله مبارك علا محمد وعال سيدنا محمد كما بارك علي سيدنا ابراهيم وعال سيدنا ابراهيم إنك أميد اللهم صلى الله عليه وسلم على سيدنا محمد الفاتحه لما أغلق والخاتمين لما سبق ناصر الحق بالحق والحدي إلى سراتك المستكيم وعلى عاله حق قادره ومقداره الأذين سبحانه ربك رب الليزة يما يسفون والسلام علي مرسلين ورحمد لله رب العالمين أكيم الصلاة