How to Attain True Happiness & Satisfaction - Mokhtar Maghraoui (Pursuit of Peace Series: Session 2)

salam alikum warahmatu light I love avocado bismillah levira allah azza wa alhamdulillah hundun aleppo vigil early which he he will be a dream sultana or salat wa salam ala nabi hill I mean well Ellie beam also happy hill or it may mean women Tara whom BSN in Arahama Dean Alam October I mean whom I mean I remind myself first and then you my brothers and sisters always of the ultimate purpose for which we exist of the ultimate purpose for which we were created namely the fulfillment of a Budhia to Allah subhana WA Ta'ala Allah Azza WA JAL has created us and it is he who determined the purpose for our creation for before we were we had no will obviously and we did not come to this universe nor did this universe come by its own will and therefore it cannot determine by its will the purpose for which it was created since it was created not through its own will nobody asked me nor nobody asked the Stars before they were whether they wanted to be and for what reason they wanted to be because they simply did not exist and it is very reasonable and illogical to very easily accept that he who determines the purpose for which we exist is the one through whose will we came and Alonzo gel it is he through whose will we came and it is that will that determined the purpose of our creation a question of course that is still debated by many philosophers even today after millennia of human existence and Alonzo gels are Emma and munificence willed that the answer for us well handler is very direct very simple but very profound wanna khalaqtul jinna l-insa illa li are boon says allah sultan which means i created jinns and humans for the only purpose that they fulfill abu dear to me and when i and you forget this purpose then we strayed away from the route that allah so just designed for us in pursuit of happiness for you all know that we originated in Jenna that's home that's the original home in general and then we were made to leave Jenna you know why but Allah so Jill gave us another chance of Hanna with Allah and he says come back home I'm going to allow you to come back home and you come back home that home of happiness if you pursue this path so when we are born we are born to take that path to pursue that path back home remember that often times we forget that in the rat race of every day and we complicate the purpose of life and will obscure it while it is very direct and it is very simple and when we forget that again we forget the path of our happiness the meaning of our happiness and he who or she who arrives back home safely having taken the path designed by Allah social to take us back home that is the ultimate shade that is the ultimate happy one fan melody Noah and melody melody nacido fulfill Jannetty Harley Dena feeha modernity silhouette while our do allah masha or a bouquet for my homage tooth says allah so do ultimately those who are happy or will be happy are those whose abode will be Jenna dwelling therein eternally now what is happiness what is a sadder what does it mean to be happy we all pursue happiness in one way or the other so what constitutes this ultimate what constitutes happiness in this dunya that will lead to the ultimate happiness of Jannah let us first understand man asada what does saga mean if I asked any one of us to define happiness for me could you it's very difficult you have moments of happiness you feel moments of joy you don't even know how to describe them say there is something in my heart there is a an elation there is a an expansion of my heart there is an extreme sense of comfort there is no feeling of of narrowness there is no feeling of agitation it's all calm but some of the ulema are aha moment Allah and and I found the definition by one of them I believe it was an imam a blue hal dune and maybe before him people use this definition also but I first studied it through some work of evil dune when as matter of fact that work was about the world of the spiritual world the world of the calm and he says a saga he a ho Sulu led vetti when a me beastie fairy kalahari Satan mash to LA he mocked over Aloha it's very accurate definition and what does he mean by that he means by that the following happiness said he is the attainment of a delight and of a pleasure by the acquisition of each Mariza of each innate thing in us and I shall mention that in a little while I give examples by the attainment of the attainment of happiness by the acquisition of each ariza that which it desires in accordance to its own nature in other words the horizon or the instinct if you will for example the instinct of eating the instinct of drinking the extinct of copulating the extinct the instinct of anger the instinct arm of forgiveness the instinct of knowledge to seek to know an urge to know those instincts have their own nature for example the nature of the stomach in which resides the instinct of the desire for food how does it attain its own lever its own delight and pleasure in accordance to the nature that Allah made it and the nature of the stomach is to do what is to eat and to drink that's its nature and the stomach desires to eat so the stomach's happiness if you will the instinct of eating is satisfied when we eat because that's what it it likes by the very nature of it the instinct of let's say the anger the instinct of anger when is it satisfied it is satisfied when anger is externalize into some act of some violence that's when finally that instinct of anger is cooled off and is satisfied the nature of the instinct of anger desires to be satisfied in that way and so on what is a letter you can use this as an analogy for other types of instincts that Allah so JAL endowed us with or imbued us with and we are made of these many instincts each one attains its sadda at it's the light and it's pleasure in accordance to the way it is created and that is a desire and that desire depends on its nature by acquiring that desire in accordance to that nature we attain or that instinct attain happiness now many people have a sense of perhaps all of us have a sense of what brings me greater pleasure and more delight comparing let's say the instinct of anger and the instinct of eating and the instinct of knowing as we shall come to talk about it in a moment there are certainly levels of the degree of joy and of pleasure that one attains now for example what is the degree of happiness the stomach enjoys when it eats bread versus when it eats biryani right some people of course from the Indo subcontinent Indian subcontinent would say of course pleasure through biryani is much more significant than pleasure through bread an American would say perhaps through a hamburger you know give me a hamburger and my stomach is happier than bread and then biryani so there are levels of happiness depending on the object of satisfaction of that desire of that instinct there is an instinct in us that Allah also created these senses of of course besides the senses of touch none of of hearing and of seeing and of tasting all of which have their own way to attain happiness the happiness of the side is what in view of the nature of sight is to see things that are pleasurable to the eye and that's how it attains its Adam right the ear is by hearing sounds that are pleasurable to its own nature now if I asked you the question namely what constitutes the side of your help and when I speak of and I do not mean by that this flush I'm sorry this lump of flesh when we speak about helping this domain of sada and in the domain of Rohan yet and in the domain of the spiritual world as our element Sarajevo Allah Allah we do not mean by that the very piece of flesh that is inside my chest but we mean by that this Lahti farber Nia with this divine thing that is heavenly that is connected to the rooh however it is not this piece of flesh inside the chest but it has a connection with that plead with that piece of flesh inside the chest but we don't know exactly how that's the Cal you are talking about and now what constitutes the happiness of your own to answer this question you have to use the definition that we mentioned earlier and first try to and the nature of the what is the origin of the hull what is the world of the hull what is the dimension of the hull is the dimension of this cult that we were talking about here is it the same dimension as the stomach or the hands or the tongue or the eyes or the ears that are all physical and four dimensional is it is it the answer is no the origin of this Kulp is a different world is the world of the ruin the world of the room that's the origin and the nature of this hull it is not a physical material four dimensional nature it is a Rohan in nature beyond these four dimensions a slower man enemy of mine animal our way the origin of it is from the world of the ruie the elements in the world of the ruie how are they satisfied if you study the Quran and in surah al-baqarah as allah sultan speaks about the Malaika and in other ayat and what rasulullah saaw lesson teaches about that world we know that the elements that exist in that world that originate in that world attain their satisfaction by marathon by in by knowing with the Malaika in the presence of Allah so gel for example they are purely rooh the melodica received direct knowledge from allah so giad without going to school the aim of the melodica that they receive and that's what they are there for and that has consequences of course as we shall see later their aim is direct from Allah so jelly it is ill hear me if you will it is not mocked a sub in other words they do not go to school and they do not sit with you and with teachers in order to receive knowledge and to to analyze it in their minds and then to synthesize and so on but it is knowledge directly infused in their being the colbys of that world the color is satisfied when it is nourished with M with Marisa the Cubs joy the albs happiness is the attainment of Ellen the attainment of knowledge the attainment of marathon in a way that is very natural we know for example that the MBA of a margin the prophets the messengers of Allah soldiers receive knowledge directly into their hearts through way through way and that's direct knowledge there is no teacher is that knowledge is luffa cut for ruin that knowledge is breathed if you will into the very being of the individual of the nabi and that is l Moonville way directly into the hull but that's M maybe we are not am being our kind has its origin yes in the world of the Ruhr but it is mounted on or inside this physical wordly earthly four-dimensional body and therefore this bulb that we are talking about if you will as two windows or two eyes if you will or it direct itself in two ways one towards the earthly four-dimensional nature because of our body and we live in this world and the other one is looking is directed like a radar towards the rouhani origin of it and the other part of the radar is directed towards the earthly part of it because it is also mounted in something worldly and therefore the way we attain elm in this dunya by two ways le moon mocked essa and politicus well moonhunter et al ill hem the part of my cult that is directed towards the earthly material physical aspect of my existence draws its in by that which you all do every day when you go seek knowledge you use your senses your eyes and your ease in your and your ears and your and your touch and your smell faculties and so on to observe the observables and then take that and build an image with it in your mind and then analyze and synthesize that's how we know in this world from the level of this world and that's what you may call the empirical approach of seeking knowledge now I am sure many of you have experienced joy of knowing haven't you even as students when you go to school and the teacher gives us a problem to solve and then we work hard on that problem using the empirical approach and then we work hard sometimes for hours sometimes for days sometimes for weeks and months depending on your level of learning and of research and so on and then you find the solution and that joy that is generated cannot be compared or will it or can it be compared to the joy of eating the sweetest of dishes which one do you prefer really I think those who have tasted that joy would not at that moment exchange the sweetest of dishes in the world with that moment of joy and of happiness that overwhelms your heart that's why some even people some secular people who have no notion of the divine they say when they do science sometimes and and the pleasure that it brings them they say it's like it's a religious experience don't they it's a religious experience what it does to the heart it's it's a spiritual experience they even call it that way because of the enormous amount of sad that it brings to their hearts but also we notice that the amount and the degree and the nature of that side and I'm going to keep using the word side and now you know what it means happiness depends doesn't it on the object of knowledge think with me for a moment it depends on the object of your knowledge for example the person who acquires the knowledge of how to paint a wall the art of painting walls and buildings the joy of knowing that by a person a painter and the joy let's say of learning Zappa and knowing FepA both bring joy to in the individuals but is the joy attained through FepA like the joy attained through knowing how to paint a wall is the joy attained let's say through appreciating a blacksmith's art and to know how to be a blacksmith is that joy comparable or like the joy that a person would attain by learning grammar or by learning astrophysics and by having an insight into the great questions of the beginning of the universe the amount of sadda the nature of that cider is different isn't it you have experienced it yourself just think about it what is this telling me and you and I'm leading to a point here it's very fundamental what does this tell me and you that the side of the hull which is knowledge indeed and that's a greater sadder than the sadder attained through the external senses it is also telling me that that sadder through knowledge depends on the object of knowledge depends on the object of knowledge what is it to be known right somebody if it tells you come on come on let's go and watch how this guy plays basketball that's an element which knowledge some knowledge some we say or don't waste my time I'm not interested in that but then if you tell that type of person come on come on there is a shape here teaching about a soulful or teaching about exegesis of the Quran or about how to understand the beginning of creation so yeah where is he it generates something different in you or me then let us come and watch a basketball game let's see how this basketball player plays so again the object of knowledge is very important in determining also the extent of sadda now knowledge has a source right what is the source of all knowledge and I'm speaking to Muslims and even if I were not speaking to Muslims to people who believe in God the answer would be the same there is nothing nothing that compares in the side that generated with knowing the source of knowing do you understand forgive me but I even heard secular scientists secular scientists saying that the greatest of all joy and fulfillment is to know the mind of God this is the way they put it but Allah and Vanna Khalu and kuvira but the point is there is no greater delight no greater Sodom of knowing than knowing the source of knowing beyond any any sad and that is the ultimate sadder of the culpa that is the ultimate sad of the cult because the nature of the Culp is heavenly Israel Hani and it seeks in accordance to that nature to be exalted to its own world and its own nature that's Adam that ultimate sada is to be compared with whatever side you and I envisage and perceive but my question our question tonight or today is am i aware of my side in my where of what constitutes sadder am i aware of this path of achieving sadder or not the extent of my awareness of that sada depends on the extent of if you will the extent of the degree to which my heart my ALP is polished it depends and I shall speak of that in a moment it depends on the state of my Neffs it depends on the state of my nerves now when do I know that Michael is not in a normal state let's say Michael is sick when is my ellipse sick when do I know that my alb is sick let me help you when do I know that my hand is sick when do I know that my tongue is ill when is my ear ill when when each one of those does not perform the function for which it was created when each one of those does not perform the function in accordance to its own nature right when is the stomach sick for example if somebody suddenly starts eating dust and likes to eat dust and doesn't want to eat dates and bread and meat when we say well this stomach is sick because it is not performing the function it is naturally meant to function when is my hand sick when it no more for example is able to lift something or to write in accordance to its own nature when is my tongue sick when is my ear sick and so on when is my column sick I must know what's the function of my own what's the function of Michael we have established already that it is to seek in to seek my reefa to seek munis to the source of knowing and then not battle I as Odin and then that leads to the love the beep help the deep law for Allah so till then if my Kulp if your calm has suddenly not this interest Michael bore yours is not attracted to now is not attracted to mattify if Michael bore yours does not find its sweetness its joy its pleasure its happiness in knowing in in and in being through that in mirror to a bar social and instead it likes and finds the light and pleasure and happiness in other things therefore by the very definition given earlier my son is sick and when my aunt is sick I am deprived of the true essence of happiness the state of my cub is the most fundamental state in my being my called as matter of fact is the most prized trust or possession in this universe it is so prized my pulp that shaitaan the ultimate power of evil its ultimate purpose in this dunya with the human beings is to control the heart of the human being that's what Allah and Rasulullah saw Mario Salaam have taught that's why he who she who comes to Allah as Odin with a cult that is Salim has indeed attained happiness in this dunya Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah and most importantly in era the state of that heart is what is most fundamental the state of that heart is my hope now remember and the challenge and the moral challenge moral challenge at the head Dialga Lukie i seek happiness and there is moral challenge what is moral challenge we're learning the moral state or the the hope if you will I shall come to it's more official definition in a moment is the state of my help how is my colleague that's my whole look if you will why is that because my column is influenced by my nuts on one side the lower state of being and it is influenced by the ROI from the other side again that that al that has one part of it if you will looking and drawing information and like a radar turned towards the ROI and part of it also towards the nerves and since the row is from the world of the row nothing ill can come from it then the ill that comes comes from where from the nerves so if my nerves is very ill if my nerves is very sick if my nerves is very greedy if my nerves is very selfish if my nerves is an Amara and I shall come more tonight then my column reflects the state of my nerves especially if the state of my nerves overrides the influence of the ROI on my column do you understand and the whole loop takes or I'm sorry the Kolbe takes the features of your nuts they define the hope which we translate sometimes as the the moral state or me movie I like to translate it better as the inner image your hope is your inner image whereas your helper is your outer image we know that rasulallah Salim taught us when we look into a mirror to say Allah whom and has sent a healthy fats in a loopy way Harry Woody Allen are he told us to say so no very seldom when we looked into a mirror Ya Allah what means your law you have beautified my outer image so beautify my inner image and the world is who loca so the whole is your inner image and that inner image is defined in in words by some orlimar man bacala is hayatun Rossi Hutton finis toss to ruin al 'value be useful in modulating mean really thick Renoir away yeah note that Angela Pugh hi a Tony Rossi Hutton Phillips toss door one has a value Basu who Latino Eucerin in higher if occur in Valero me which means your holo-call your inner-image is a state of your maps are ours AHA constant it has reached steady state in other words it's a steady state it's a constant state of your nerves as a consequence of which actions are generated externally with facility and ease without recourse to design and pre thinking in other words a person who reacts in hair you know what hate means that quality of some people handle a they are naturally they have naturally had it comes very natural so we say the whole of this person is head but when somebody like me struggles to show hair that is yet to be my who look in this definition yeah and now hey a tomorrow's Hutton Phoenix so as long as I'm struggling and Haldol and that's good but it is yet to become the way I look inside that's the way I'm trying to look inside and as I struggle and trying to build the inner image of hair but until and unless I reach the level of when hair comes naturally from me I do not claim the hope of hair the hope of generosity a person who is generous if a person gives sometimes in accordance to this definition then we do not say that the inner image of that person is generous but we say this person shows generosity and until that generosity becomes natural in my nerves I don't find a struggle to be generous you know what I mean most of us do that don't we which is still go to Al hamdulillah but I have not yet achieved that state the hope of al Karim of generosity until and unless it becomes very natural it comes very naturally from me now since we said the whole look is a state of the nerves a whole-new of the nerves could be miserly nur's could be greed could be anger could be attachment to wealth to dunya could be the desire for Authority for leadership could be any hole of mesmo or who look none doing so if the external acts generated by this inner state of the Neffs are external beautiful then we say the hope is beautiful if the external act generated by the Neffs inside is ugly we say the hope is ugly now the state of my palpable remember depends on the state of my nafs and therefore the hope of my will be the who look of my nafs generally already I hope at this point we realize that that's a de that pursuit of sahaja has these challenges remember many of us pursue happiness by attaining different types of food and different types of drinks and and by marrying different men and different women and by buying cars and big homes and and sometimes by acquiring territory and sometimes by killing and and sometimes by designing and so on and so forth that's how many people pursue their happiness and they believe it is happiness the challenge is the moral challenge is to know that true happiness and ultimate happiness also depends on the state of your old now the next point because the state of my pal depends on the state of my nuts have got to know what Neffs I have right goodness do I have inside in some Oh Lamar mmm Lord Allah again drawing from the Quran and the Sunnah of Rasulullah saw Alison help us through classification approaches to learn more about our nafs in order in sha Allah Allah to enable our husband to be in state of health and therefore to undertake the path of happiness and hopefully to achieve it in Charlotte I'll what Neffs do I have there are four types of nafs if you will there is what we call the nafs that is bohemian all of us have that or a degree of it there is enough that is subway there is enough that is Shia Tony and there is enough that is malonic all of these forces are inside everyone which one dominates which one do i nourish which one overrides the others that's the type of nafs I have and unfortunately unfortunately that's the state of Al I have and let me explain there is the Bohemian F's or the cattle like CA TT le cattle like goat and sheep and a cow and so on and we are speaking of sad or remember happiness what is the happiness of a cattle likeness is the happiness of a cattle how does a goat or a cow or a sheep or a buffalo for a llama attain happiness what is there what is there the major characteristics that define the satisfaction of these types of animals eating what else drinking what else and I think I heard it sleeping somebody said sleeping sleeping yes and one more pardon yes major characteristic pardon I can't hear that breathing right freedom or they don't know what freedom is we give them freedom Allah gave them freedom I mean I don't know that you and I have entered into the mind of a cow to to know that they care for freedom but what is one of their major characteristic to keep them alive to survive is breathing copulating these are the major characteristics of bahama and if i want to have a behemoths and each one of us has that call we like to eat and drink and sleep and copulate men and women and if my focus in my life if when I go to work and I come on the weekends and every day and every night my focus is to nourish my bohemian ifs then I will be looking for all different means nowadays sophisticated means to eat and drink and sleep and copulate and I give them fan fancy names don't I in sleeping I invent ways water beds and I worked so hard so that when I get home I do what I eat I sleep in a copulate and watch TV watch TV to the what to increase my sense of desire for eating and sleeping and copulating and so on I can't wait for the weekend to do what finally to relax what does relaxing mean most of the time what is it partying partying means what more food more drinking more sleeping more copulating so if I want to build the nerf that is a Bahama that's what I should nourish and I built the family of the Heron and I built a culture that is a bohemian culture and I build a civilization that is Bahama civilization and I invent ways to satisfy more and more of that so if I want to develop an F that is Bahama and that should be my focus the next Neffs is a Sybil in office from Sybil or predatory a predator how does a predator attain its happiness how is the predator satisfied in addition of course to the cattle bike features a predator has something that the curve doesn't have a hyena hmm or a tiger or a dog white dog they all have characteristics that are very distinct from those of the cattle what is that praying that is PR ey i ng not not praying but praying that is attacking killing usurping territory dominating acquiring more land more territory destroying the competition right that's the beastial snuffs that's a predatory nervous and the one who wants to build the predatory nafs or has a predatory nerves then nourishes this predatory instinct in addition to that and guess what when one uses those predatory instincts to do what to attain more of the cattle like happiness there is a stage even more serious in within the naps within the self in yours and in mine and that is the Shaitaan eNOS Shaitaan Shaitaan has a characteristic how does Shaitaan finds his or her or its satisfaction I don't know what their Shaitaan is a male or a female because Shaytan is not of the earthly world is of another world if the world of the jinn so let's call Shaitaan for the sake of purpose let's use the it Oracle of definite article in it or pronoun I mean I'm sorry it now how does it achieve its happiness how does it achieve its satisfaction what is characteristic of Shia pani tendencies conspire design plot inside to evil inside to harm inside to disbelief inside to arrogance inside to lordship to make a person Lord inside to God shape to make man gods these are the characteristics of Shaitaan the nature of Shaitaan is Shia bonny and it satisfies itself in this way and nerves that is shaytani satisfies itself in this way and there is the Millea key nerves while hamdulillah that is that call inside you and me also there is that state of nerves that is malarek your angelic or the divine attributes if you will within you and me there is a rural nerves that is raw honey that is Maliki and the nature of the rooh is is it earthly no it's heavenly how is it nourished that nature by eating and sleeping and copulating and drinking and usurping and so on and conspiring and designing and plotting and hurting and inciting or is it by attaining theme and Marisa to be near to its origin of course it is the second one and there is that yearning that Allah so just put in the nufs of bani adam' that yearning to its own origin remember I start with a journey back home there is a yearning for that going back home there is a juror that yearning for attaining that which brings that ro that Nath's ro Hany nearest to its final destination now which sniffs do I have which sniffs do you have it could be one of these it could be combination of cattle like and predatory like a combination of shaytani like and and cattle like or it could be many icky like and chaitanya like but the shaytani like predominates the Millea ki like which one do I have the way my dear brothers and sisters the way I externalize myself in the world tells me a lot sometimes about my nerves but also if I take time to reflect if I take time to meditate about my nerves I shall learn a lot about - what tongue do I have what is do I have how do I use my ears how do I use my tongues how do I use my hands how do I use my intellect how do I use my sexual organs how do I use my stomach how do I use the bounties of Allah social around me tells me a lot about the state of my nerves in addition to what I reflect within me and I sit in a moment of solitude and retreat and I focus within me to know that I learn also about what Neffs I have and if I have the cattle like nerves for instance what happens to my pursuit of happiness then my happiness will be the happiness of her forgive me of a cow yet I don't realize it sometimes if my nervous is enough that is predatory then my happiness is the happiness of a predator and so on which one do i nourish regularly which one do i nourish from when I wake up in the morning till when I go to bed my dreams tell me a lot about my nerves the types of dreams I have subhanAllah teach me a lot about my necks for those who want to know their lives Allah made dreams in a sense as a rama for us to know how ourselves some dreams clearly tell me about enough sore mind that is like a cattle or like a Shaitaan or like a predator those who have dreams of subhanallah of one of them so Pamela look at this dream I forgot the name of the woman in the early Teddy period she saw in a dream that she was in this beautiful garden beautiful and then she's entering that the beautiful garden and she sees these beautiful people there in that garden beautiful people beyond what she can describe and there she saw a man known in her time who had passed away a man of element of taqwa again I forgot his name because this story that I'm telling you it was just impulsive as I'm speaking to you and which is beautiful story and she sees him there in the Jannah surrounded by these beautiful people serving him and then suddenly she hears someone announcing the name of a person he is coming and this person who is reclining in that garden who was this known and renowned man of ailment of taqwa stood up in expectation of the entrance of this person who was announced to be coming he is coming and as this part of the dream came to was seen by her that she wakes up and it was during the day and she wakes up outside her door that is the genesis of the person whom she saw in the dream being announced he is coming Subhan Allah look what Allah so Jill gave them off inside of the world of the melaku if you will look what types of Dreams were talking about the top of dream where somebody sees someone else sees let's say sufyani blue oh yeah you know Sufi an authority and tells him and asks him he sees him in the dream or she sees him in the dream and the first question that comes to mind it's in the dream what did Allah do to you that's the question what did Allah do to you you know what I mean by the types of dreams tell us a lot about the types of Neffs I have some of us our dreams are are about cattle like predator like and shaitana like fulfillments i don't want to ask anyone the question whether did you ever see yourself in that world subhanallah the other one sees this woman in the dream and she was a righteous woman and asks her in the dream this is how they talk to each other in the dream she sees her in this beautiful white dress in this beautiful garden and then she says to her Oh hallo how are you and she responds I am with him to learn in a greatest delight and then she asks her in the dream what gave you that position that station look at the discourse in the dream and that she replies that Vicar of Allah soldiers that are used to perform every night before I sleep my dreams tells me a lot about my nafs and therefore also educate me about how is the path of pursuit of my happiness and then I know my challenge my moral challenge my moral challenge is to nourish which sniffs at the expense to which nerves my moral challenge is to nourish my mana Ikki nuts that nerves that is nourished by in and by my reefa that nerves whose satisfaction is meanness to the source of knowing allah subhana wa ta'ala to nourish that nerves at the expense of the other states of the maths so when that nafs is nourished and the other states of the nerves in particular the cattle like and the predatory like are given only that which is necessary for survival and for helping the mana achiness then I have achieved equilibrium then I have met the challenge the moral challenge in pursuit of happiness pursuit of happiness again as you well know my dear brothers and sisters too many is the acquisition of property the early fathers of the early American Constitution when they spoke of the pursuit of happiness these are not my words these are the historians words they meant by that attainment of property the right and the freedom to attain property I hope that that changed but I know it didn't change in many people's when you and I see cattle like tendencies in the world and predatory like tendencies in the world and shaytani like tendencies in the world all in pursuit of happiness I in turn and drawn to that type of happiness because - is that type of Neffs but sometimes I don't know sometimes I don't know and ignorant they say is bliss but ignorance is not bliss sometimes I don't know and therefore I pursue a path of perceived happiness that is not really happiness I feel happy in inverted commas but happy yes like a cattle like a hyena like a Shaitaan yes but once I know and it is a rama from allah soldiers to know hopefully I begin to embark on the challenge to take on the challenge to take on the challenge to bring balance to the states of my nerves so that my pursuit of happiness is maximized my attainment of happiness is optimized indeed and how can I deal with this enough how do I do that once I know - if I know note that you always start with I know right if I don't know I can go anywhere knowledge is empowerment knowledge is empowered if I don't know I am powerless that's why knowledge of the source of knowledge is the ultimate knowledge and it leads to the ultimate happiness but it always begins with I know if I don't know I have not even begun the process so the process begins where knowing pursuit of in seeking in the schools that you have built the message that you have all are important and necessary and vital means for attaining in that in which enables you and helps you and helps us undertake the path back to Allah soldier back home not any rhythm there is fatty in there is aimed at when you take that in it's a fatty diet because what we need for the sniffs to be balanced is number one and there is L that is following and there is M that is for Rockefeller aim that is obligatory on every single individual Muslim there is no difference in that in between a scholar Ali mujtahid and a non scholar an alumina Dean of Aurora every Muslim must know there is no difference between you and a mujtahid you must know it and the mush dad must know it obviously we have no excuse with Allah surgeon on the day of judgment to say Ya Allah I didn't know when it comes to full anion and the cleansing of the pulp the polishing of the pole the Teske of the nerves the knowledge that is necessary for it and the practice of it or that in that is for the lion also as you know the knowledge of how to perform la is for wine the knowledge how how to establish the car when you have property is for buying the knowledge of how to fast properly is for gain the knowledge of how to perform hedgy is for lying the knowledge of how to remember Allah so gel is for the rain and so on the knowledge of being an engineer or a scientist is for the key fan is a collective duty if some people are doing it not everybody has to do it if some people are functionally fulfilling the needs of a community in terms of one of the worldly needs then not everybody has to but follow the lion everyone has to and maluma me Nadine above Aurora everyone has to and I cannot begin begin my path back to Allah as Odin without this in I just cannot we do not go to Allah with ignorance we do not allah azzawajal defines the mission of rasulullah saaw value seldom within the context of the purpose of creation namely the fulfillment of a Buddha to Allah Sojin within this context Allah so this defines the mission of rasulullah saaw very solemn as a mission of imparting knowledge and second of polishing and purifying the nerves quality bath alumina rasoolum in home yet you Ally him AIT he will use a key him where an imam will keep a bow and hikmah tower in carnem in a beautiful valley moving allah clearly in this ayah and three other ayats very explicitly in the quran and many other ayat also in the quran allah so gel tells us how to attain that happiness how to get to the to finish the journey of Oba Diah successfully back home by two things in number two this gear how do I beautify this inner image how do I do that in and test Kia if I asked you and I like to do this just to enable us to understand examples in the physical realm or in the physical world how do you achieve beautification or embellishment of your external image how do you get that external image that you want to achieve that you want to have that that body and the new dream of that body we live in a culture the dreams of of that type of this type and that type of body this type of external image and that type it's a health conscious culture it's a Sports conscious culture what what do you do to have that beautiful external image to have that beautiful Hulk and what do you do exercise and wunens huh workout the gym that's exercise what else dieter you all know diet and exercise diet and exercise there is so much food you like to have but if you want that external image I'm not going to eat it you go to the extent if you have to go through surgery to remove some of your organs to have that external image that you want because you truly want it right and then exercise your instructor asks you to do 10 push-ups in the beginning sir are you crazy I can't even do 3 he says go ahead you want that image you must do that say yes sir or yes madam or they become such a reviewed trainer or Shia and masha'Allah their orders their orders are unchallenged wisdom suddenly becomes their share since they were born so yes you go ahead and yes you go ahead and you go ahead and you go ahead and you go ahead and a month later you do 100 pushups and then when you look at yourself in the mirror you like what you see and then it gives you more courage to do more because I want that now what to what extent do I want that internal beautiful image that my that's my moral challenge and if I want that internal beautiful image then I must diet and I must exercise but what is the diet for the internal beauty what is the food for the internal beauty and in mmm and not any once a week once a month or once a year a regular diet of a strong proteins will no fatty in no fatty in very same that is fatty what is fatty in any reelin that does not help you walk on the journey back home any realm that is not useful in fulfilling the purpose of my existence namely particular good a leader as Odin is fat evil and I don't want to give you examples in my dear brothers and sisters in exercise and what is exercise in this case mujaheddin F's liking that physical exercise you go against the limits of your physical body right in this Neffs exercise you go beyond the limits of your nuts capabilities right so if your nerves wants to talk you restrain the nerves from talking talking and the tongue leads to devastating consequences you refrain from talking you restrain yourself from talking and if you're armed and equipped with the knowledge of what talking may do to you of harm and of what not talking may lead to the beauty of your inner self then you build energy anger you want to be angry especially when someone rightfully makes you angry you want to externalize that anger but if there is no exercise of the Neffs to restrain that anger then you will express anger when the moment comes for anger you will externalize it to tell you or to tell me ok when you are angry simply don't be angry - no it is not going to be very useful to know it only because if I have not practiced if I have not trained myself constantly through this process of nerves training Ortez kiya - nerves and it has its own procedures then when the moment comes and somebody makes me angry and I'm not ready for that then I'm gonna blow into his fair blow up in his face why because that summer is not my whole look remember how I defined who look I at on Rossi Hutton Phoenix suburb patients for example Congress is yet to become a constant inherent quality of my inner self it's not who look yet why is it not who look because I have not had either in or and I have not trained - to acquire that hold up like I trained my physical body to acquire that hunk you go against fitness and the more you go against the nerves gradually subhanAllah the more energy you build for inner peace subhanAllah and for the ability to deal with these moral challenges in this pursuit of happiness and I'll give you an example the physical example is there the more you go against the limits of your body the weaker or the stronger the body becomes the stronger the body becomes and if the stronger the body becomes the more push-ups are going to be able to do right panama the more you go against the nerves the more you will build up spiritual energy that will enable you to do more and to face that challenge successfully the more you give your lips what it wants and that is obeying the physical body and the limits of the physical body like in the physical world the weaker the nerves because if you obey your body and you never exercise you don't even walk what happens to the muscles of the body they will weaken and then you try to run hundred meters and you can't even breathe and your muscles hurt so bad if you have not done it for a while to a false true I know you know but Allah so jenissi set parables for us in the physical world so that the person in pursuit of the way of allah Sojin uses them to understand the world of the nerves in fe Delica l'avorton and bab-oh you will observe and so on in these physical laws of the universe there are reasons and ways of reflection and lessons to be learned by those who reflect and I like also to give this example to encourage us to work out the snuffs in this moral challenge and to truly pursue happiness and of course that requires knowledge and it requires a will and the will develops and something also very fundamental for that to occur is the du-ha do i do i do i do i ask allah as so gently to help ask allah so if to put you on this course you can't do it alone so i said the example I like to give also sometimes about the sniffs and going against the nerves that it truly gives us energy and Allah gave us an example in the physical world also that we even right through equations at the physical realm we go upward and we go downward and and we have straight rows and straight trajectories does anyone if you have a choice whether to walk on a straight path this straight or to climb the hill which one will you take straight or if you have if somebody tells you climb this incline in 45 degree inclination or go downhill which one do you prefer go downhill right that's that's the nature of the physical body and what happens the for if you if you choose to go downhill the further downhill you go what happens to coming back up the more challenging the more difficult to climb back up right now subhanAllah we also learn in physics basic physics that when we climb up a hill what happens to potential energy we build up potential energy potential energy increases subhanAllah when you go against your body when you go uphill the potential energy increases that you use later if you walk straight or you go down it you lose it or you use it depending on whether you go downhill after that or you go straight after that when you walk downhill what happens to the potential energy it decreases you lose potential physical energies of Han Allah Subhan Allah that's why it's difficult to climb back up that's in the world of the physical and in the world of the nerves in the field of the nerves when you walk uphill what is walking uphill in the field of the nerves is going against the nerves this obeying the Neffs challenging the nerves you build spiritual potential energy the more you'll give the nerves that's the downhill Road you lose spiritual potential energy and that's why somehow Allah when we give the nafs more of what it wants it becomes difficult to be patient it becomes difficult to do good it becomes difficult to obey Allah as Urgell the more we give the nafs the more challenging the road and the more we come back the nuts subhanAllah the more we combat the nerfs pertaining to the whole the desires and the and the shares if you will of the nuts the easier the path isn't it those of you have perhaps experience that you get to the point from our being difficult in the beginning and when you go on and on and do other things against the Neph subhanAllah that power becomes easier and easier and easier and easier gradually until such a point when the DA you cannot do without it like before that you could not do without disobedience will al Vila and even later in somewhere in the course of this journey even you will get Clare from that path truly pleasure delight delight Impa that some people cannot just understand what a ma'am and half a mo camera be when enough sand in our foreign mail generator here NOAA says allah azzawajal but also he says panama Tala inner inner in the part of the of the surah that says fasten Wasilla you Sara Amma man bacala Astana work available isne face a new user ooh-hoo Lily Sora and before that huama man opment moran phenomena Tata Mitaka man otter man aha note what taka taka daka busines face a new esc roo-hoo lily you saw a man and ah hello Astana Barilla Westerner work available is na fashioned USC ruling looser are one of the inherent meanings in this earth Allah is that a lie saying that the one who obeys allah azzawajal allah when you give your nafs wants to keep but you give you go against the nets to give is not what usually the nafs likes to do what taka and taqwa requires shield requires fighting struggling and turquoise comes from Wacha which means to shield to protect the to defend and when you do that so you're gonna struggle what does Allah soldier says fessor new yes sir oooh hula looser ah such an individual this is one interpretation we shall make his or that for him or her z we shall direct him to that which is easy that is the path to Allah becomes easier doing good becomes easier it feeds on itself the more good I do the easier the path becomes for me the more desirable that path becomes for me and the opposite of keeping the Gila the Gila to keep to given us what it once was Tana and feel that he or she is self sufficient facade rasuluhu is saw this person's path on the way to Allah will be achieved will be difficult that's why my dear brothers and sisters this natural law that allows Arjun created in the universe of the nafs is that when I obey Allah surgeon subhanAllah obedience becomes easier and easier and easier and when I give the nafs what it wants then subhanAllah obedience of Allah so doing good becomes difficult how difficult it is to wake up for Fajr isn't it how difficult it is to wake up for forgery how difficult it is to forgive how difficult it is to give how difficult it is to restrain one's anger and not to externalize it how difficult it is to focus in salon how difficult it is to focus in a room how difficult it is not to succumb to the dangerous attractions around me of mom calm difficult difficult difficult incense we we reflect all the universe I'm sorry what's around us reflects what we are what's around us reflects what we are that's all it is the way the universe behaves with me the way the environment responds to me actually is another way to know myself or la Isla de la Isla the way the environment the human environment the animal environment responds to me is in a sense the reflection of what I am and if it is difficult and it is because I am difficult and the degree of that difficulty depends on the degree of my difficulty and if I disobey Allah as elgyn if I do wrong if I violate the rights of Allah and the rights of the creatures of Allah Soudan then rest assured somehow somewhere sometimes my rights will be violated by someone else or something else no doubt about it my challenge and your challenge my dear brothers and sisters in this pursuit of happiness is to know happiness and to strive for happiness and to strive for happiness is to strive to reform my Neffs to go against - not to simply go along - and there is a lot that we can say but this insha'Allah Allah would be enough for this occasion and I ask Allah so did for you and for me to give us the strength to pursue in and to give us the strength to undertake the process of cleansing and of polishing of arnaz in ourselves so that one day my heart is polished and I go to Allah a surgeon my heart fully polished and Salim and then I will be truly saved and truly happy I could only have a while stuck for wall of Emanuela kun in alto suburban from inna llaha when cultivated a leak from in FC women jelly women a Shaitaan I also be Leahy and whose akhira be here and sir and I said anything correct and useful it is from Allah anything incorrect or wrong or useless it is my own ignorance the weakness of myself and the impact of Shaitaan upon me I seek refuge in Allah that I remind you of him yet I myself forget him salam aliekum wa rahamtullah work it just a lot higher on dr. mcgaubey for this enlightening opening of the heart lecture indeed knowledge is the happiness of the heart we ask Allah Japan or Dada to increases in knowledge as he commanded his prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam in surah Taha baccara visit near Elliman inshallah we will have more opportunities tomorrow to hear more on the topic now we want to have questions we have about half an hour or so before modeling for your questions and I would like you to be brief in your question specific and hopefully within the lecture and then if it is outside the lecture state itself sir from locking you can raise your hand and the sisters we can see you'll find you could raise your hand and stay to your question and please stand and ask your question to the lecture directly is finding winners is part of right the question is do I understand that this struggle is fighting if you will as he put it of the nufs is this jihad yes indeed it is jihad there is no doubt about that first of all linguistically you know that jihad means to struggle against something else whatever that thing is and also jihad and if Sahu means one exerted himself or herself to the utmost and jihad or mujaheddin of the nafs is indeed one of the aspects one of the dimensions of jihad that allah azzawajal talks about in the quran and rasulullah sallallahu seldom talks about in the sunnah and for example Allah so Allah says Allah Sultan Allah so Jill said in the Quran when Lavina Jaya do fina then idea now subbu Lana for example and those who combat those who perform jihad fina in other words for us in us in other words for being with us near to us in our way those who shall guide to our ways so the result of that mu jihad of the nafs leads to nearness to allah sultan allah rasool allah sallam said in an authentic text al-jihad do after you jihadi certain ilysm reported by Ali Hassoun inand this is an authentic text Afflalo jihadi man jaaa had enough cell fever till areas dodging after you jihadi man jihad NFC who fever till a surgeon which means the most virtuous of jihad is that jihad established or practice or performed by he who by whom or who that is who she struggles or is in jihad against his or her nerves for Allah as algin the most virtuous of jihad in the meaning of this text is the jihad established by a person who is in jihad against his or her Neffs for Allah so that is in the way of Allah so G so yes it is indeed a jihad this way yeah and she but out of these there are in one way two types of hidden of guidance for example allah so allah says in the collector daemon Abeba or like in Malaya a diminution which means you are not the one who guides that is to the straight path whom you love but it is Allah so John who guides whom he pleases on the other hand Allah so Allah says in the Quran in Nicoletta ad in Osawatomie stuck in describing a result lost Larsen again truly this means truly you guide to the straight to the path that is straight the first type of hidaya is he dare to towfield the he there from allah so Jill we as people of al-sunnah wa l-jama'a we believe that the source of it is Allah so Jill he dared to field in other words in a sense what is that original move on that gets me sometimes suddenly I start thinking when I was not what happened there is something that happens there is a breeze there's this beautiful breeze that one day it was always there but one day suddenly it touched my heart and I suddenly feel something I didn't feel before suddenly I'm afraid when I was not afraid before suddenly I understand when I didn't understand before suddenly I care when I didn't care before that's he dare to tell fake from Allah Sojin struggle by the way and you touched on at a very very important issue that's very fine my struggle alone alone as movement I always have to know does not do it without allah as oh gee I could be struggling and stronger I could be laboring like in the physical world I could be laboring like a donkey but the product is very very minimal and somebody labor is less and produces more somehow sometimes well that never from Allah so Jian let breeze from Allah so Jian that he dared to tell fig I must always wait for it I must work hard and work hard and wait for that breeze to blow one day and to take my heart along just like the farmer who worked so hard but works hard but doesn't know when the rain comes but he knows he needs the rain and only when the rain comes when that wind comes with that rain then there will be fruits so ayan you must labor must work hard and work hard because you never know when and we use all the times that we have for at some time there is a breeze of Allah so Dell that comes if I'm not laboring at that moment I'm not going to pick it up that he dare to tell Vic that thing that begins in your heart suddenly and then and then it bursts into a Toba into G sincere Tovah but before tell whether there is something else my heart must move there is something there's gotta be some lack of comfort in my heart there is something that must be there before I embark on Toba for example and that's he died from allah surgeon in Malaya D nyesha Verma Tasha Oona Allah insha Allah and that's part of auto head of Roble via please note this is we must know this we must believe in this because that is part of tawheed aloo bhujia and our action and doing I must do even though I know it is all up to Allah a surgeon must work must do that's part of tawheed aloo bhujiya orto hidden aloo here and there are handle the people whose minds and whose hearts have been illuminated by the nur of Allah so gel and for them this is very very clear for some it may seem as not easily reconcilable the hidden Raghuveer requires that layer Khun Allah Masha Allah a surgeon there is nothing that happens in this universe literally nothing physical or emotional or intellectual a move or the absence of a move without the will and the knowledge of Allah soil that's the hidden rubia and that's and when you have the two hidden rubia Subhan Allah you're calm you're calm attains peace hasta la la la vela either allow some of us have to hidden Budhia and no tehy Dorobo via and that's very difficult life is going to be very difficult we're going to spend moments and times of agitation of restlessness of anger there's a lot of anger when there is lack of of internalization of Tejeda rubia lot of anger a lot of lack of Suberu out of hastiness and Touhey DeLillo Budhia requires that we do react cause and effect and the fact is up to Allah as Odin we must do that is they dare to film the first one and the second one is he there to your shed to guide us to do and to act and that's what Russell Aslan is Ellen's mission is to guide us to do too Budhia to do but the guidance to begin if you will that's a lion sergeant and that's why those who know a lot fear Allah a lot those who know Allah love Allah a lot those who know allah fear allah a lot a lot of that yes sister how do you make your inner self beautiful and happy and happy okay let me let me then what I said earlier let me a young sister let me give you let me end this let me give you something practical and let me give you something practical as I said first of all learn learn learn sit at the knees at the feet of the early man learn at the feet of the scholars with devotion and with the humility and humbleness learn learn learn regularly and with focus when you sit to learn try to focus that's very important number one number two try to listen to yourself when your self talks to you you don't hear it with your ears but you hear it with your heart right there is there is something inside of you that is talking to you you can't hear it no one hears it because it's not four-dimensional try to listen to that and don't give it what it always wants don't give it what it always wants number three you have seven keys to your heart you have seven keys to your heart those keys leads to gates those gates shy upon uses them to control your heart and mine and those gates are your very characteristics and mine safer to call us a fatty greed love for wealth for power arrogance law for leadership and so on these are the gates that shape and users we open them he doesn't force himself if sight on it doesn't force itself into my heart or yours we open the gates for Shaitaan by developing these characteristics however that's another discussion but the keys to those gates are available to you and me keep them in your control and what are those seven keys who knows them do you know them okay I'm going to give you your keys to let you know about your keys to your heart that Shaitaan uses to make your heart and mine filthy and sick and ill that is your seven senses if you will by senses I mean joeri in the Arabic language your eyes watch your eyes watch how you use your eyes where you look at what you see what you read what you watch it is in our control when I watch Haram or makrooh or that which give the Neffs what it wants through the eyes Shaitaan finds the door open Allah said to us in the Quran that Shaitaan has no authority over us except by that which we allow him or it in neighbor deal a sallekhana him sultan ulema in Tabaka Mina Halloween la ilaha caffeine abductee family rebellion your eyes your tongue is the other key watch how you use your tongue that's another key that Shaitaan uses to open gates to your heart and mind that's far a sunless Larson says two things that lead most human beings to the fire of hell dragged onto their faces that which is between your teeth and that which is between your legs watch your tongue keep your tongue in your control the less you speak the better you are the more you speak the more or the less control you have of your nests of your gates of shaytans control no doubt about it third key your ears what from morning till evening how you use your ears what sounds you listen to what words you listen to what conversations you listen to do they concern you or do they not concern you your eyes what do you use them for to look for the deficiencies of others and to delight in in in exposing the deficiency deficiencies of others your ears how you use them keep the key your stomach how you use your stomach what goes into your stomach watch that very carefully your sexual organs watch very carefully how you satisfy those organs either you have the key or Shaitan has the key there is no third alternative and watch your hands how you use your hands and how you use your hands in whatever way are you using your hands in a way that the hands in a way that is intended by Allah is urgent this tool that is the hand they might use it the way it is intended to be used by Allah as Odin or the way I choose it to be used young sister when you go to a tree and you break a branch you have given the key partly to shine on because the hand is not meant to break a branch of a tree that's damaged when you hit that someone unjustly then you have given the key to Shaitaan when you write something with your hands unfair and untrue and unjust you have lost the control of your hand to Shaitaan you have given the key to shape on and so on your legs the seventh one your feet your legs how do you use them where do they take you where do they take you how do you use them if they take you and you use them to and in ways that Allah Soudan intended for them to be used then you're safe and the keys in your hands otherwise you gave the key to Shaitaan and you see how knowledge knowing how these are meant to be used by Allah helps me in my use of them properly but when I don't know I'm going to use them most likely in an improper way knowledge coupled with this all the time does it help so today when you leave here watch those seven keys watch them for everyone for the young and for the old keep everyday those keys in your control

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Length: 111min 22sec (6682 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 17 2011