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. 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 Um, yeah, they had a long dress. Oh, I see it all the time with celebrities A lot of them will have their Their dresses just trail and behind What if you're holding the trail? Well, if that's your job, you know what?  You're getting paid. Some people need work You know, you don't want to tell that person that they're a bad person Um, 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's 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 um, you know 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 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 uh have 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 was referring to the sue event So it's a good question. Uh, 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 right 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 they're always women names We need to come up 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 sue event 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 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 uh, 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 if you are insisting on only wearing a certain brand or a certain Type of clothing and you refuse to wear like normal clothing or 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 Um, and 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 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 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? um So oh good question Can you compare for example with your friend that you have a better voice in quran? 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 quran class and the teacher is Helping you both on your skills to become better reciters and no more quran 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 uh 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 for 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 you 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 in every case if you won the competition of recitation according to the judges or not You're a winner with Allah subhanahu 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 oh, I have to win this Title or this award or this thing.  You're already a winner, right? So 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 subhanahu wa ta'ala and the prophets that I'm didn't like or they hate it, right? So sure any type of a intoxicant or drug or, you know, like alcohol Things that are harmful Sure, you can hate them because they they there's 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 Um, Let's see Thank you, sweetheart. Uh, raheel john. Thank you so much for your very sweet comment. They have to leave I appreciate your um, you're taking the time to thank me and your very, uh, kind message Salam aleykum to you and your brother. Let's see. Um, 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 shoes 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 they're 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 A loss pat that it 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?  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 Um, oh, thank you so much. Mashallah sister Shaisa for your very nice comment. Um Oh mashallah Okay, I think so I'm 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 Um, what are your okay? So I have another question What if you're trying not to make them feel bad or the person says something mean back, you know If someone is being like petty and they're mocking you don't go down to their level You know be above it. Just look at them and say I'm not going to do that because you're you know, 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 Um, and not to make it make give them the importance, right?   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, masha'Allah so um 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 Um, you know, it's all good if it's if it's out of love and there's a spirit of Um, of you know, just happiness and 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 when it's a problem. Okay All right. Alhamdulillah. So thank you everybody for being here. Just like more Insha'Allah, 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 Insha'Allah, we'll go ahead and then thank you. Just like a lot. Thank you. Amen And please say salams to your family as well all of you Thank you guys. Insha'Allah, we'll see you thursday. We'll end in Dua Is it All right, just like we're in Salam. All right, everybody Take care of that. Okay. Alhamdulillah. Bismillah Thank you everybody for your patience I am sorry for being a little late today I actually was recording another class that went over A few minutes and so I um quickly messaged Sister Hormero. She messaged me actually and I let her know that I'll be a little late So I appreciate your patience. Um, I want to get started with as we have been doing a little bit of a review So let's talk about Some of the diseases that we covered last week. Insha'Allah, okay So, uh, let me actually open up the chat box. Make sure you guys are all listening and paying attention.  Thank you. So the first disease. I'm going to ask you about, okay This is when you um When you think things that aren't necessarily true And one of the hadith that we're taught about this is that the Tongue will wake up every morning and tell the body to fear Allah Uh, what disease of the heart did we learn that talks about negative thoughts and you know, this Ability of the tongue to take you into that. Um direction Okay, there we go. Mashallah So we got afnan and bilal very good Both of you afnan and bilal message pretty much the same time with the correct answer So negative thoughts, I kind of gave it away in my um, I subtly put that in there to see if you guys are paying attention But you answered before that anyway So negative thoughts is the disease of the heart and this is called Su al dan or su al dan, okay So when you have basically, there's no evidence. There's no proof whatsoever You just have a bad idea of someone, right? So that is called su al dan And okay, so great. I'm glad you guys are on it now. Um This disease of the heart Has to do with let's see. I'm going to try to keep it a little Not so predictable because I see some of you think you're already putting in answers before I ask So that tells me you think I'm too predictable, which I probably have been Um, but okay, so let me see here Um for this, okay, let's see this now. I'm going to get you This when we talked about this hadith we related a hadith or a saying I should say a quote by imam ali Uh, radi allah an and he said that people are asleep and when they die they wake up Which disease of the heart related to that? To that quote Awesome, masha'Allah zoia and dania. You guys got it right away. Great job false hopes So thinking that you're going to live forever, right? That's the problem with It's a disease of the heart if you think that you're going to live forever It makes you careless and heedless, which we're going to talk about today In this world and it's kind of like you're walking around asleep You're not really Awake to the world, right? You're you're in a dreamlike state because you're not paying attention to what's really going on in front of you So very good. Awesome. You guys Okay, uh now this disease of the heart Had to do with suspicion And not being suspicious of people right having thoughts about people for no Reason right just thinking uh or wanting to Look into prying right prying behavior being suspicious. You're trying to find out information about people with really no reason Um, so let's see who got this very good. So raheel excellent negative thoughts. I went back to the same one I'm not going to be predictable you guys Okay, good job. You got it. So you might get a question uh or multiple questions on the same disease, okay So this disease of the heart has to do The prophesies that I'm taught us that it's very much related to kibir. Okay So this disease is related to kibir and which we'll talk about soon, but um The prophesies him taught us that no one has the weight of a seed of of this particular quality in their heart will enter a paradise What is it? Okay, very good. So amen. Uh, and if man, you gave us the english, which is vanity very good Um, and bilal also gave us the english, but uh, la la haydara. She came with both answers So great job vanity and a job.  You adore yourself. You love yourself That's vanity. And so it's really about the individual and themself and you're not Giving Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala any credit for anything. You're just oh, I love myself. I'm so smart. I'm so talented I'm such a good basketball player. I'm such a good tennis player or I can play the piano or I dress so nicely I have such nice hair. So you're just constantly very focused on all of your qualities, but you don't Give credit to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So that is a job And then kibir, which is what the arabic word for one of the diseases of the heart, which we're going to talk about next week is arrogance, right and arrogance is Is requires so it's different in that it requires other people So a vain person is just very consumed with their own feelings of importance But an arrogant person is not only vain, but they also Look down on other people. So that's the way that you tell the difference that Vanity doesn't require people arrogance does But they both can sometimes affect each other or one can certainly lead to it the other if you are vain and you keep You know increasing in arjab, you're likely going to develop arrogance, right? Where you start to look down on people and so that's why we talked about that hadith very good Okay, and so another question and this will be the last one and then we'll continue Let's see here This one Maybe a good one One that is not so predictable Hmm. Okay. So the prophecy I said when we talked about a hadith here where where He taught us that he who believes in Allah and the last day Must either speak good or remain silent Which disease of the heart was that about which disease of the heart did we cover when we talked about that? anybody know Very good. Okay. Awesome. So Ahsan came with the answer so as the negative thoughts. Yes to Have negative thoughts remember the danger of it is that it often leads to false speech or wrong speech and so That's why we related this hadith is because usually you can't keep negative thoughts to yourself So it actually is is dangerous in and of itself as a disease But it also leads to other diseases like gossiping and backbiting and speaking ill of people So that's why this hadith is remind it's a reminder for us that whoever believes in Allah on the last day If you're a muslim Just speak good. Don't speak ill of people so it stops the negative thoughts from from leading into even worse Okay, very good. All right. So let's go ahead And pull up the presentation One second. I just needed to do something. All right. So get your if you have notes So if you're taking notes, I don't know if you are but this is the time to get it because we have a new presentation And let me get that ready Let's do that. So we are on week third three thursday And here we go screen share boom share And present Okay, here we go All right. So you guys ready So today as we talked about last on tuesday, I told you guys we're going to cover these diseases this week So we already covered the first three false hope negative thoughts and vanity and now we are going to cover the next three Anger hudab heedlessness rafla. So we got the g's today. Okay today is the day of the g diseases Okay for arabic. Anyway, or rein not g. I should say rein So rein diseases, okay, and we'll talk about what each of these are. Let's go ahead and get started So the first one fraud rish This is a huge one. Okay huge because a lot of people Uh when they, you know, uh, think about You know making money or just getting ahead in life They shaytan will come into their hearts and tell them, you know to do things that are not right just because The greed or the desire for that thing just overtakes their heart And this is the problem with fraud is that it leads people to do things that are haram for example If you're let's say you're selling something, right? And some of you may know for example There's a website called craigslist. Okay, and now we have a lot more websites But this is just a popular website. Okay that a lot of adults Use to sell things that they don't want so they may sell like junk, you know But it's the way that they take the picture or describe that thing. Let's say it's a piece of furniture Okay, let's say it's a couch And um, a person will take the nicest picture filters, you know, make it look super amazing And they'll take the front of that couch and it looks like a decent couch And they set the price and now you have all these people going. Oh, that sounds nice. Okay. I'm interested and um And someone may even come and say I'm going to pick it up And then that person if they're if they have a rich what they'll do is they'll do a few things Okay, first of all, they're hiding the problems in the couch, which may be the back of the couch Maybe there's marks that they've painted over With with paint or there's gashes, you know, sometimes couches if they're leather or fabric They can have you can, you know, things can happen and they get cuts So this person may have completely hidden all of those things And what they'll do is if they're really crafty, they'll say, you know what? Pick up time you can only come at night time. Okay come at like after The sunset and the the buyer has no idea why right the buyer is like, okay If that's the only time that works for you, that's fine So they go and they go and at night time they're dragging this big couch from the garage or wherever onto the car So they're not even able to properly inspect the couch, right? This happens a lot And then they they make the money transfer they give the cash and now they go home and they Go on their couch and they're thinking it's gonna look just like that picture, right? It had it looked really nice and comfortable But they suddenly sink in the couch and all of a sudden the cushions collapse, right?  It's not even comfortable And then they go around the back or they turn it flip it upside down and all of a sudden There's all these holes and problems and maybe even you know cobwebs got nose It might be just like I said a piece of junk that this person took so much time To present as something that it wasn't so I just you know, that's a piece of furniture But people can do this to a lot of things like a car Or even a house. There's people who Scam right this word scam you should know to be scammed is to trick someone to Have someone sell you something that is not Real or not true or not as good as they're making it seem So there's a lot of scammers that will scam people out of big purchase things, right? Cars homes jewelry So you'll go to the jeweler and it'll this has actually happened before which is very you have to be very careful If you if you ever get jewelry or like, you know, especially gemstones or certain stones To be careful who you take that jewelry to to clean it if it's a real diamond, for example There are some jewelers who are known to do this. They will Take your ring and go.  They trick they scam they steal And they justify it because they're greedy and they have Desires for material things that take over them. So you have to be very careful and that's why You know, Allah swt warns people woe to those who give less than what to do So this is a perfect example of someone who has gish So if you go and uh, you know in in many world markets and even in some markets here, like if you've been to sprouts, right? Um, they have those scales that you can go and weigh Your uh, like if you want to get certain treats or even beans and rice you can weigh the the item, right? And then you uh, you um, you go and purchase it Well in other places they have scales and have similar things But they might not give you the full weight Of what you paid for or they'll might take some off or they might not give you the best quality of what you want And they justify this because it's like, oh, I don't want my you know, uh food to go bad I have to sell it so it's old Let's say it's like meat or it's something that's been sitting out for a couple of days They will mix stuff, uh good stuff bad stuff with the good stuff And you don't know until you get home and then you take out let's say it's like a bag of fruits, right?  There why are all these rotten fruits in here? How did this happen? Well that seller they tricked you, right? So this is a perfect example of gish, but alas pandan has warning Never to do that. There's no justification to trick people. It's haram. You cannot do that and so There's actually a very famous hadith Where the provisionalism was once passing by a pile of food And he put his hand into it and his fingers touched something. So he was in a market, you know And he he saw some food and he he put his hands into it and he Asked the person he said what is this and the man said it got rained on because he the provisionalism touched Um the wet part right and so when he touched the wet part He was wondering why the seller, you know, why it was there in the first place What was this wet thing and the seller said oh well rain got on it And he said why didn't you put that wet part on top of the pile so that the people could see it? Right because if you see food that is dry from the top But then the middle of it is spoiled or wet You probably would not want to get the middle of it But if you're just scooping it up quickly and you're not paying attention It looks like all of it is dry, right? So he's telling the man Why didn't you do that? And then he tells him very clearly a warning He who deceives does not belong to me And then another report is he who deceives is not one of us Or he is not one of us who deceives all of them are saying the same thing Which is if you trick people to deceive people is to lie to trick people You are not counted as part of the umma of the provost. I said i'm he's telling you you're not in my umma You're not part of me. You're not part of my this belief this faith of islam Clear warning we as muslims do not trick people. It's haram. Okay Such an important disease of the heart and we should ask a lot to free us from it because shaytan can Make someone justify this especially if they're desperate for money You really need something you might think oh, man, it's okay They don't need to know that you know this phone Let's say you you're trying to sell your phone or your computer That it has all these problems and that there's a virus on it and that you know, it's missing a button I'm just going to sell it. Anyway, you know, don't do that. You can never do that You have to tell people everything that's wrong with the item Upfront and if they still want to buy it, that's on them But you trying to deceive them into buying it is totally forbidden. Okay All right So the treatment for a gish is to realize that a las panter is all knowing and all seeing and every single thing that we do We're going to be held accountable for and nothing that you get no money No food from fraud is worth it. It actually is haram. It's it's it's going to cause you harm Okay, anything that you get that's That you get from a haram source or because you did something haram There's no baraka in it and it can actually cause problems for you You could if you bought food with that money that you just Cheated someone out of it can make you sick. Um, there's so many problems that could come from that money or whatever you got From this transaction. So that's why there's no baraka in it whatsoever And there's no point to do it. You actually could invite harm on yourself Even if you think oh I'm going to make so much money and i'll do good with it part of it No, the fact that you got it to by tricking another person All of it is ruined. Okay, so you don't want to uh ever justify that kind of stuff and then also remember That the words of the promise license that you know to for him to say that you're not from among us or from me Is such a clear warning all the black that we would not even be considered a muslim If we do something like this. So you want to say is it ever worth it? You know, even if i'm going to make some quick money and I really want to get something else Um, or and or I think that oh, it's okay. There this person doesn't need to know everything These are all the whisperings of shaytan. He wants you to do something wrong And then he wants you to be uh, you know hurt by that thing So we have to ask us to respond that for protection, but that's the first disease. It's rich. Okay All right.  So there's a lot of things that can make us angry But when we when anger is a problem It's when it's for other than the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala because there's good anger which is necessary, right? There's anger when someone is doing something wrong and it's a clear, uh, you know Wrong action and an injustice towards a person or a group of people You we should that should anger us for the sake of Allah We should not look at that as something light and then that makes us Call I mean it makes us act, right?  So that's a form of healthy anger Anytime or or anger towards things that are or haram, right? Like for example The existence of certain things in the world should anger us like alcohol Alcohol there's no benefit to it whatsoever. It destroys lives Um, so many people innocent people have died from alcohol So the fact that alcohol exists and that people drink it and that it's in restaurants and it's in stores That should anger us when we walk down the aisle of A grocery store and we see bottles and bottles of disgusting alcohol It should fill our hearts with anger for the sake of Allah You know not anger where you're just letting your emotions out, but just like stop for a while. Why are people doing this? This is so bad for you and it ruins you know People's lives so anger Is is something again that when it's for the sake of Allah, it's healthy But if it's for other things that are not tied to the sake of Allah and it gets out of control And then you start to not just be Experience anger, but you become Anger that that's all you are you lose your your your sense of Calm you don't know how to you don't have adab you start to maybe say very hurtful things Abusive things or you start to get physical, right? There's people who when they get really angry They lose so much control that they may physically React and that could be Hitting something or someone pushing something throwing something breaking something So all of those are examples of when anger is out of control And it can be very dangerous, right? And so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and the prophet sallam throughout the Quran and the hadith We have warnings about those who are quick to anger and that let forget themselves and that they Completely get overtaken by anger.  So he's describing for us Who the doers of good are the people who do good are the ones who restrain their anger Who forgive people and who? spend You know for the sake of Allah whether they have ease or hardship So these are all great qualities that people should have Especially restraining your anger another Two hadith that are really important to know a man once can't ask the prophet sallam What was the worst thing that one incurs concerning God? What that means is, you know, what is the worst thing that could happen to someone To make Allah upset, right? And the and the or what could what's the worst thing that someone could receive from Allah?  So the man asked how can we avoid it?  So He's telling us clearly don't become angry Then we have another man. He came and asked the prophet sallam give me advice And so he's asking the prophet like he in remember the prophet sallam could say anything anything to this man The man just said give me advice But the first thing the prophet sallam said is do not become angry. So the man's like, okay And he um, you know, he hears it and then he says um Well, what's next, right? Because he's kind of like, okay.  So This is very powerful Reminders for us that human nature if we don't control these emotions a lot of damage can be done, right? So you always want to think about Not losing yourself to anger. There's nothing wrong with Having anger as an emotion because it's a human emotion But it should always be for the sake of allah inshallah, okay So let's look more at this because this is certainly not over one of the um scholars or scholars have uh said that That anger is similar to a hunting dog. Okay, so if you look at this picture here Here's a man and he has I believe it's a hawk. Maybe it's a bird of prey I don't know exactly what maybe it's a I don't know my sons might know But it's a hawk or a sunbird and then you have these three dogs and if you see What is the man doing? He is holding Them all by a leash. He is restraining Those dogs those dogs move by his command When he tells them to go they go when he releases the leash They they they go and when he tells them to come back They come back. That's the relationship that a man a hunter has with his dogs or his animals that Hunt before him. They're trained. They know exactly when to act and when to stop back right step back So anger the scholar said is like having a hunting dog, right without training And if you have a dog that can hunt, but there's no training It's never going to go and get what you needed to get And it's not going to point you in the right direction So it's of no benefit to you the dog that is trained will benefit you when you hunt And you let's say, you know, you're um, there are people who hunt for food You know, they don't have grocery stores like we do. They actually have to go outside And you know bow and arrow or gun or whatever they're using they hunt for their food and what they do is They rely on animals to go and Capture the food right these sharp They have sharp eyes right these birds of prey The falcon the hawk whatever it is it will be able to the eagle it will be able to You know, basically fly around the the area of where that animal was was hunted So if a man, you know uses his bow and arrow or a gun and he shoots down an animal From a far distance this hawk or this bird will be able to Let the dogs know where to go, right? So they all work in this amazing, uh, you know, sort of Synchronicity together But the dog is important because he's the one or she's the one if it's a female dog That is going to go and get the animal that you just hunted And then bring it back to the hunter, but if that dog isn't trained it will have no idea what to do It's going to go running around all over the place and playing a game of fetch and you're standing there going That's my dinner. Can you please go get the animal? I just hunted if you're really this is your lifestyle, right? So you need a trained animal. So anger in a similar way It's only useful if you have control over it and you've trained it It's actually harmful and doesn't benefit you if you don't train it So so important.  And is it benefiting you at all if it's uh, if you can't call it back because if you can control your anger Similarly, like blowing a whistle or maybe calling the name of your animal It will come back to you But if you have no control and that animal doesn't answer to your call Then that's what anger can become if it's not checked. Okay, so really important disease of the heart to understand Now there's a few different cures, okay, or ways to uh to treat this So first and foremost imam al-molud. He talks about this in the book, but um, also other scholars have talked about this Is to remember that extensive praise and goodness associated. Um, oh wait Did I cut and paste the wrong thing? Hold on. Uh, oh, sorry Oh, yeah, i'm sorry. No, no. I read it totally wrong. I apologize. Okay So the first cure is to remember that there's a lot of praise associated with being a forbearing person and having humility to be forbearing is to be patient that you're able to You know not give into those emotions and just have a really stable presence So we know that there's so much praise for that. So remember it's really good to have those qualities and then um See the ahmed zaruk, which is another very famous scholar said that the main reason that people get angry is because they're filled with themselves Their egos get in the way So our egos are nuffs when it is a very, um, you know, too strong It gets in our way, right?  I need to use my own brain, right? So very important. Now the next cure that imam al-malud recommends Is is recognizing that nothing takes place without Allah's permission There's no power or might except with Allah So remember that and to also remember right so that everything what that means is that everything that happens is Because Allah allowed it to happen And so if you're being tested in a moment where someone or something is upsetting you It's an opportunity for you to be the best Form of yourself, right? And so look at it as a test from Allah Instead of focusing on the individual or the person who's bothering you look at it Like why did Allah put me in the situation in the first place? What am I supposed to learn from this lesson and then you act right? And so and he also shared that remember that There whatever we do in this world Allah will also do that to us So this is called reciprocity if we are people that are walking around angry And not nice to people and you know have that Allah will show us the same He will show us his anger. So we have to be very careful We don't ever ever ever ever want to see the anger of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala So we should not be as the prophet warned us in the hadith before We should not be people who are angry and who are so that we don't get Allah's wrath, right? So these are just some of the things to think about there's a few other things that we can do So we're taught the prophet's lesson and taught us that when we are angry, of course, there are certain things that We can do in the moment, right? And in the moment we should learn how to respond So the prophet's lesson taught us that if we're you know angry and we're standing up, we should sit down Okay, so sit down immediately because Just by changing your position can sometimes change your mood, right?  All of that can come because just because you're standing up and you're feeling like that, right?  So That's what we should do and then we should seek refuge in Allah, right? We say Al-Babillahim and shaitan al-Rajim We try to stay quiet and then we're told to make will do A will do is very powerful because it has a cooling effect anger is It gets us hot, right? It's our blood pressure actually goes up our temperature goes up when we're angry because the heart is beating faster So there's a lot of physical things that are happening So once you go and you make will do that cooling effect of the water Just calms you down and suddenly you're able to maybe Think better about what you said and you know you kind of just have a better response or maybe you're calmer So make will do and then ultimately the best thing to do is to pray you ask Allah's Pantalla for guidance for control For forgiveness because if you've said things that you didn't mean or regret You need to go and ask for forgiveness from Allah first and then from the person or the people So all of these are ways that we can be in the habit of practicing our To get down from that state of anger and also breathing. I didn't write it here, but breathing Is very important, right? When you're in a state of heightened emotion when you're really really angry Just take a deep breath Hold it in Let go that can immediately calm you down just forcing yourself to change Your position and everything you're because otherwise your words are just going to keep coming And like I said the angers might it's like a flame. It just grows more and more So this is the way of calming all that down. Okay So here we say, um Okay Now this is uh, I know a little interesting image I found but I thought it worked perfectly With this hadith Once a man grew angry and the provost lies said him noticed how When the face shows extreme anger it resembles shaytan, right? So he said I have a word if spoken Will remove it from him. It is I seek refuge in god from satan the accursed, which is the english for Aoud the billah him and a shaytan the regime So this picture I thought was perfect because he's a man But look at what's happening to him his face is turning red. Look at the veins in his forehead He has steam coming out of his ears His teeth are looking sharp and quite scary. He's even frothing at the mouth, right?  It's iblis right iblis is Um is the one who angers us and that's why we seek refuge in Allah from him So someone's asking smoke doesn't come out. Yeah, our smoke doesn't come out We don't have that but we do get hot and sometimes You know sweaty So that's kind of what it's like, you know when you think of smoke from a boiling pot of water, right? It's it's heat. So think of it that way that we have heat that's coming out of us, right? So, um, but very important hadith to remember.  Excuse me. So now we're going to the last Uh one which is a rafla heedlessness. Okay Rafa, this is a very uh crucial one to understand. Okay a lot of this some of the scholars say this is actually one of the root diseases to to uh all of the diseases of the of the heart So rafla is purposely turning away from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Um, and it's it's forgetfulness, but it's it's like, you know, but you're just not You want to do what you want to do and there are people who remember we have will we have free will we have the choice Right to do right or wrong. This is the test of the human being So if you know what is halal and what's haram and you know what's right and what's wrong But you don't follow or obey Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and you want to just do whatever you want to do This is rafla, right? It's completely Giving in to your own desires and turning away from Allah and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala many warnings about About this he says and be not of the raflun, right the heedless ones And then he describes them they are those upon whose hearts Hearing and sight Allah has set a seal and they are heedless So because they turned away from Allah Allah has turned away from them and we never may Allah Protect us all from ever being amongst those who Allah ever turns away from or who we turn away from him, right? So, um Here is another really I think powerful image because it teaches us the difference between those who Remember their lord. They're not forgetting Allah, right? They are remember remembering Allah He says what the prophet said and said that the example of the one who remembers his lord In in comparison to the one who does not remember his lord Is that of a living creature compared to a dead one? So when we look at this image, we see very clearly There is a living vibrant beautiful Life giving because trees give life, right? They give life to all the insects that are living on them They emit oxygen for us to breathe. We give them our carbon dioxide They're benefiting creatures. They're benefiting the earth. They're People find shade under the tree Right all these animals so much good comes from a living Tree, right and that is the believer the believer that remembers their lord so much good comes from them They're beneficial to the world the one who is not remembering Allah is basically like a dead Tree that is in a desert and that really there's no benefit whatsoever from all right. There's no benefit There's no shade. There's no fruits. There's nothing. It's just a dead structure that stands in the middle of a of an arid dry landscape and It actually may even invite The attention of vultures and snakes and other creatures that really are harmful So all of this is to tell us that Which is the when you forget Allah. This is what it does. It makes you like a person Uh, that is just of no benefit You are actually even harmful in many ways right to people and to the creation of Allah So you are uh, you have the choice. What is it going to be? Where would all of us rather be if we could go into this picture on which side would we rather be on right? That's I think very clear So, um, this is I thought was a good visual for us to To understand ghafla Now, um, how do we treat ghafla? Allah swt that it says Warn them that on the day of regret which is the day of judgment when the matter will be concluded on that day Everything's done right? While now they're in a state of ghafla and they do not believe so one of the treatments is to remind people that On the day of judgment, you know, that's it. You're there's nothing you can do at that point So, you know, you need to wake up from your sleepy state and start to Make tauba go back to Allah swt that I asked for his forgiveness And you know start doing what you should be doing and warn people, you know in this world before it's too late in the next and then, um Also remember that our prayers our duas are not answered. Okay, so Here the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said in a hadith call upon Allah with certainty that he will answer you Know that Allah will not answer the supplication of a heart that is negligent and distracted heedless So the heart of a person who has ghafla Is in this state where even their duas will not be answered um, and so Very important you want to be free from that and so again There are people who will say they're muslim, right? And I just want to explain There are people who will say that they're muslim, but then they do not pray They may, uh, drink alcohol. They may gamble They may do things that are explicitly haram Uh, you know, uh, non, uh, halal foods So these people they know right from wrong They still say they're muslim, but for some reason they do not, um Prevent or they don't do what they're supposed to do They fall into sins and they become forgetful of their obligations to Allah So this is the group of people we're talking about right that they know right from wrong But they still choose to do wrong So we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala from protection from all of these diseases that he protects us from red from Rich from red up and from, uh, from heedless as rafla. Okay, so we always find that I forgive us all But this is the class for today We have one last class on tuesday where we're going to be going over The rest of the diseases and it's going to be a lot So we're going to have to move very quickly next week to cover six diseases instead of three double the amount But some of them do kind of overlap. So with things that we've talked about before So inshallah, we will um, you know, just try to move as quickly as we can But are there any questions? So i'm going to go ahead and stop the presentation And now we'll get to your questions inshallah Let's see any questions What about very good questions? So I love this question. Thank you. Amen. Um for asking I even asked about fixing broken broken things and selling them. There's nothing wrong. We call this refurbished So if you have a refurbished item, that means it was broken. There was something wrong with it It was old But you went and you tried to fix it enhance it make it working again As long as you are clear with the seller that this is not a new product, right? That it is something that you yourself maybe or you had someone to repair it But that it's that it was broken and you've repaired it. That's there's nothing wrong with that The point of rish is that you're trying to hide those things You're actually not being clear with people you're purposefully Hiding the flaws because you're afraid that if they know that it was broken, they won't buy it So you're just not even going to tell them in the first place. That's when it's fraud and that's when it's haram um What was the treatment for fraud? Did we did I not go over that? I don't remember now if I did I miss that one? I hope not. Um, let me see. I thought I went over it But I think we talked about yeah knowing that a lost partner sees all that you do, right?  Okay a salvaged vehicle is a vehicle that was in a car accident Or it was um taken by the government for some reason But it was there's something wrong with the car that it's not it's what we call a clean title It's not You know it has damage or prior history of damage those cars When you sell them if you're the seller you have to let the buyer know Oh, by the way, this car was a salvaged car.  I don't think I want to buy it because I don't have the money In case it has more problems down the line I need a good reliable car and then they go buy another car.   Oh, no kinza. I'm so sorry to hear that. Um, I hope you and your father and are safe Someone shared that they were in a in an accident and I pray that you guys are all safe um Let's see here If you're really poor, then are you allowed to deceive? No Uh, you cannot deceive people even if you're really poor. There's no theft There's no begging uh people. There's nothing fraud none of it is permissible whether you're poor Or rich it doesn't matter. It's wrong and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the one who provides So if you're in need We're supposed to turn to Allah if you're hungry and poor you turn to Allah and you ask him to provide for you And he will the money will come the food will come There are people all over the world who are homeless who are poor But they still eat every day or maybe every other day But they eat and they still have Something because Allah is the one who provides for them InshaAllah, okay um Let's see Oh, thank you lala very sweet. I look forward to seeing you on tuesday and you're very welcome She thanked me for taking the time to do this. Thank you for being here. Thank you for taking the time to be a part of this You guys are so sweet um Okay, very good. Bilal asked this great question. Thank you. Bilal. You said earlier that ghish leads to haram income How can you purify your haram income? We talked about this um when we talked about? Miserliness and we talked about the importance of giving zakat and sadaqa and realizing that none of that Diminishes your wealth. It doesn't take away from your wealth and it actually purifies your wealth We also talked about it. Um, what other disease remember? We did that washing now. I'm forgetting my stuff But when we did the washing of the clothing um fear of poverty we talked about it when we talked about uh Khuf al taqar we talked about how zakat and sadaqa purifies any haram wealth that you have Okay, yes, if you give sadaqa it will purify your wealth inshallah You know, we shouldn't uh knowingly have Haram income, but if you don't know If maybe some of your income is haram, then that's the way to purify it inshallah okay, um Let's see. I'm just wanting to make sure I get all the questions a lot of comments coming here um Someone asked what if a muslim killed a hundred people is he still a muslim? Okay, well there is a very famous hadith that actually speaks to that um where a man came this was a long time ago and he came to um Uh a christian, you know, and he said I have killed 99 people. I think it was a christian It might well i'm not sure actually don't quote me on that I think he was just a religious leader of his time in that time But he said that he uh, you know had killed 99 people And so then he asked him he said I want to be better. I'm Person, but I want to get better. I want to make toba I want to you know be get close to god.  Um, there's no hope for you.  This is a pretty awful person, right in terms of what he's done So he's killed a hundred people But he makes he wants to make toba. He's not muslim. He's never You know had good guidance before and he wants to become a better human being so He goes and he finds a muslim, uh, you know, and he asks him he says You know, can I uh, or I want to become a better person? This is what I've done Can I will your god forgive me and that man tells him yes, but you have to leave This place that you're in because the place that you're in is not good It's corrupt and it's part of the reason why you are you've done all the bad things you've done So go to this other place and he told him where to go And he said over there Are really good people and they will make you better. They're believers, right? They're muslims muslim is a believer, right? They're they're people that will Make you better. So just go to those people So he was so happy because he never thought That he could be forgiven for all of the crimes he'd done and here someone gave him hope So he was so excited that he ended up, you know going To that place and on his way Something interesting thing happened. He died. Okay. So he dies Now when someone dies, there's two different angels that come if they're a believer and they're muslim Well, the angel of rahmah comes right and that angel comes to take the soul and then uh, the If it's a non-believer or a bad soul, then the angel of torture comes, you know There's different angels and they each have their own job And so that person because they're not destined for, you know, they they they were a bad person That angel takes them. So when they both come, they're like looking at each other like, huh? What are you doing here? What are you doing here because it's usually one or the other not both Um, and of course, alas pandal is knowing He's witnessing everything and he's he he decides to send jibril alaihi salam to go and give them You know instructions on what to do because they don't know what to do So when jibril alaihi salam comes he they explain to him what happened and then he says he says the order the command is That you have to measure The distance from Where the man was like where the city that he was leaving from To where he was going and whichever place he was closer to where he he's passed away. He's died on the road Whatever place he was closer to the angel will take him So if he's closer to the place the bad place The angel of torture will take him and if he's closer to the good place the angel of mercy will take him so They measured the distance and he Was one hand spanned So a whole distance of the hand closer to the place that he left from So at that point the angel of torture was ready to go take his soul because that's what the command was And then angel jibril said wait And he said i've been commanded to what do what to constrict the earth So that means he brought he squeezed the lands together So that he was now closer to the place he was going And then at that point this is all from Allah right because Allah can forgive anyone He wants to and he saw the sincerity in this man That he wanted to be better and he wanted to be a muslim he wanted to be a believer And so even though he was taken and his soul was taken before he could do all of those things Allah still forgave him and he accepted him as a muslim and the angel of mercy took him So this story is related to us a lot of lessons that we can take from it, right? About anger and the danger of it but also of the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala So to answer that question for the person who asked Allah is the only one who can judge Us according to what we've done and he's the only one who can forgive or not forgive So it's entirely up to him. But that hadith Is specifically about someone who killed a hundred people. So that's why I thought it was important to share it Um, thank you for asking. All right, you guys we have gone over our time and again, I apologize for starting a little late Thank you for being here. Thank you for spending your your afternoon with me We look forward to the to tuesday's last class inshallah And uh, I yeah, there's a lot to cover. So inshallah, we'll start on time We might go a little bit over let your parents know But thank you so much again. Oh, thank you captain Jazakullah. I love having you in this class. May Allah reward all of you and decrease all of you inshallah We will um, thank you. Amen. Thank you so much Again for your for your lovely comments and we need your doors. Remember, it's the last 10 days We need your doors. You guys your doors are very powerful I'll take a child's doors any day any day you give them to me.  I know we're just talking about how Time zipped by but subhanallah here. We are Seven classes with you guys and I really appreciate those of you who've been in attendance Have been on time coming every week, and I hope you've been benefiting from these classes So just like we'll hit and we always want to accept all of our efforts. There's so much to cover today So i'm going to make this quiz that I normally do with you guys I'm gonna just kind of shorten it a little bit because we have a lot of Of information to go over today. So last Third to thursday, excuse me thursday.  You're not you're just not taking things seriously What disease of the heart describes a person who is knows about Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala But isn't taking their faith seriously and then they end up falling into sin Who's got this I got answers, but nope those are not the correct answers you guys um No No, not yet. I don't see a correct answer. Normally you guys are on it where um Where is I don't see nope Hello captain uh Don't cry on the inside So sweet So, yeah, I'm asking about very good. There we go. It's an excellent heedlessness That's the disease of the heart. It's when you become to become heedless is become is to become careless You're just too distracted with life With how exciting things are so you're not doing what you should be doing. Okay, very good. So this next disease this is when you React in a way to something that is imbalanced and it can lead to harm And you know, it's an emotion that we have but you you if you don't have balance Then it can control you. You're not controlling it anymore Okay, very good. So we have an answer From yasin in the english, but what's the arabic yasin? Gotta come with both esan bay. That's what i'm talking about You gave me the english and you gave me the arabic. Good job. So it's a gada a gada been anger So remember to do that. Okay daniel also a good job All right, so then the remaining one I hope you know this is when you're trying to get rid of something or sell something Or you're maybe presenting yourself in the wrong in a way. That's not true Right, so if you're selling something and you're hiding defects You're hiding something that's wrong with it or you are trying to misrepresent yourself What is this disease of the heart called? I'm looking very good. We have raheel excellent Or wait, i'm sorry esan day. Forgive me. I saw I got the names are coming too fast esan once again You've got it. Masha'Allah. This is rich, which is fraud. Okay, great job. Again. I'm sorry to cut this portion Short, it's just that we have so much to cover. So I need to use my time wisely. Okay All right, so let me go ahead and present or pull up the presentation Bismillah, we are at week four I'm going to get the present screen I should be super fast by now at this, huh? All right, here we go So inshallah you guys can all see me and see the presentation So week four we've got six diseases of the heart to cover. Okay more than normal, right? We usually have three so double the amount. That's why we're going to get started. So Bismillah Let's go ahead and look at what we're covering. So we're going to cover a rancor We're going to cover boasting and arrogance. We're going to cover displeasure with blame antipathy toward death Obliviousness or obliviousness to blessings Derision, okay So all of this is going to be explained to you as we go through this Bismillah I'm just gonna again check the chat box. I see messages coming through. All right. Let's go Bismillah number one. Okay. This is extreme anger. So ghadab. We know is anger That's out of control and imbalanced real is the result of unchecked anger that leads to violence So when you are overwhelmed by your anger to the point that you actually cause harm to another person or something This is real and rancor is it's kind of this, um, you know inciting the disease that wants you to do something Beyond just feel something because ghadab is your feeling Whereas will want you to act on that anger. So it's a it's a much worse form of of anger And so here we have Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is telling us in chapter 59 verse 10 Our lord forgive us and our brother and who became who came before us in faith and do not place into our heart's rancor For those who believe our lord, you are kind and compassionate So we should be making dua to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala asking protection From this disease of the heart because it's such a toxic disease, right? And then anis of ematic reporter that the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said To me so he's speaking to anis when he was younger, right? He was anis was about i think 10 years old When he um became came into the service of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam So he said oh boy if you are if you are able every morning and evening to remove any rancor From your heart towards anyone then do so Oh boy that is my tradition and whoever revives my tradition has loved me and whoever loves me will be with me in paradise So asking you know removing these feelings from your heart is going to bring you closer to the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam So it's such an important thing to do and we should not ever want to have these types of negative feelings Because they're not in line with his way. Okay So that's a real let's look more into this So one of the things about real that we have to understand is found in this quote by alia ben avitalab.   Um, how does it feel it doesn't feel very good, right when you're scolded in a harsh way and it's all often Like maybe every day there's children. Unfortunately, they're in homes where someone's always yelling at them You know someone's always telling them what they're doing is wrong and this can turn into really difficult or More complex emotions for that child because they're feeling shamed, right? This adult or maybe it's a sibling, you know, it could be other people too But it's a way of an older sibling, right? It's a way of shaming someone in a really harsh way when you scold them, right? They may have done something wrong You know, so it's it might be that they need to be stopped and to be corrected But the way that you correct a person really have to be careful because it can cause more problems So this is what he's saying is that when you scold Someone and I used images that would relate to Some of you because it's a youth class, but even adults scold people all the time, you know, you have Parents who are elderly scolding their, you know, older adult children Spouses are scolding each other Siblings scolding each other into adulthood. So this isn't behavior just for children even employers, you know A boss may scold his employee in front of people, right? A teacher may scold their student So this is just a normal human thing that happens when someone loses their their comportment, right? They're they're just they're being there. They just lose control so This advice is to say when you do it too often, this is what happens It actually leads to rancor and hatred on both people's On both on the part of both people if I am always scolding you, you know, and shayton is loving it Right. He's the one who causes all of these negative emotions between people He might put hatred in my heart towards you Rancor in my heart towards you Because I'm annoyed. I'm annoyed that I'm always having to correct your behavior And so I start having all these resentment feelings, right these negative feelings But the one being scolded like here in this first picture, you know That child you see that finger right in someone's face It feels really bad to have to have someone, you know, shame you You it's very natural that a person who experiences that often Even for someone that they originally love like a parent or a teacher that it turns their heart Against them and it invites this very toxic emotion called real rancor So this is why we don't do that in our tradition. We don't shame people even parents You know have to be reminded not to shame people, right? We have to be very careful and and cover people's faults Take children to the side if you want to correct their behavior, but the shaming is a big problem now the Pictures here, you know, look you see this boy.  So you end up, you know, just losing your adept And so and like I said, all these pictures show the effects of what happens when you school too much Really important for children to understand this but also parents if they're tuning in To understand this as well all of us educators adults have to be really careful When we're interacting with people that we don't do this because it's it's never there's no benefit in it whatsoever Okay, so let's go to the next slide So if we see here the prophesies said him now the opposite right his total opposite message subhanAllah He says you must be gentle Verily gentleness is not in anything except that it beautifies it And is not removed from anything except that it disgraces it So we have to be gentle in pretty much everything that we try to do right?  They're actually in a positive state Because they're both understanding that this is you know, a teaching moment and we're going to move past this That's how conflict should be handled. Okay, so How do we remove if you have a real in your heart? Well, one of the advices that imam al-Mudud offers is that you show good will to the person That you have rancor for so if you have real towards someone where you really are just so Angered by them that you're like, oh, if I see them, I'm gonna just punch them or I want to hurt them because that's what real is Remember it's anger that makes you want to hurt someone, right? Sometimes siblings, for example, they feel this way if you are in a family where you are all You're bickering a lot with your brothers and sisters. First of all, that's pretty normal But if it ever enters your heart to want to do something to harm them That's what this is and you have to be very careful from that. Okay Because a lot of things can happen in a heat in the heat of the moment They say in the heat of the moment if your anger gets the best of you like we talked about last time You can cause a lot of harm. You can harm someone permanently God forbid So you want to be very careful with this disease of the heart But a good thing to do is separate, you know, the heart from the heart A good thing to do is separate, you know, initially if you're if it's a fight or an argument And then try to force yourself to do this where when you're in two separate spaces, you know And you know, you're if you're this takes time in practice So don't worry that if it's hard or it almost sounds impossible to do Over time as you mature it will be easier to manage your emotions Where you just start to think about the good of that person Because you know, especially if they're in your family or they're close to you They're as good in them. It's just in that moment over that particular issue All you can see is the bad and you're angered So you can't see it But you want to force yourself to do that because the more you do that the less Likely that you will allow real to enter your heart, you know that you'll realize that's a wrong thought I shouldn't think about harming my, you know, sibling or whoever, you know, I shouldn't think about that That's haram. It's wrong. And so you'll start to push that out of your heart Also, you want to recognize that One that by having good in your heart, you actually Deprive yourself of Allah swt's forgiveness, right? So the brothers I said warned us here or he's relating to us Hadith Qutsi that Allah swt has said about his forgiveness on Mondays and Thursdays, right? Allah swt that forgives People except who forgives everybody except for two people and those are the two people who are fighting two believers who are fighting They don't get Allah's forgiveness So when you have Ranker in your heart in your heart, you're You're not being forgiven. Ya Allah, you know, that's that's the worst state to be in That Allah will not forgive you and he says to the angels when they come to tell Him that these two are fighting. He says Leave them until they set things are right between themselves. Like he's not forgiving them and he's turning from them We never want Allah swt to turn from us and to not forgive us. So this is why it's such a dangerous disease of the heart, okay All right next we have Let's see here The next disease and i'm checking time just to make sure I don't go over So we have Fakhr and kibir and this is boasting and arrogance. Now, you're going to see some similarities with You know what we talked about last time vanity or a job, right? Vanity is a form of arrogance. And so this is the extension of that. So let Let's look here. Um, first, you know, these diseases are the diseases that are associated with iblis. Okay Um iblis remember he had envy, right hasad for adam alaih salam But he was also incredibly arrogant with Allah swt. He actually talked to Allah swt when he, you know, commanded him to Um to make sajda to adam He spoke in a very rude and disrespectful way and which is why he is who he is But he says to Allah, do you see this one whom you have honored above me? Right stuff for Allah. He's challenging Allah. Like how could you? Uh, you know choose this one he's talking about adam alaih salam above me If you delay me and now he says if you delay me until the day of resurrection I will surely destroy His descendants like his children all the children of adam except for a few so iblis is you know Full of arrogance. Astaghfirullah for him to speak to his own creator that way, right? And then he says in another verse in chapter seven verse 12 He says What um, one of those panthera says to him asks him what prevented you from prostrating when i commanded you? And he said what qala ana khayru min i am better than him So this is boasting, right?  Why should i why should i bow to him? Right, astaghfirullah. You created me from fire and created him from clay and then astaghfirullah So we don't want ever to have any qualities that are close to iblis ever And alas part that says Allah does not love the arrogant and boasting one So he specifically tells us in the Quran that these two groups of people That he doesn't love them So you never want to be yadda bilah from any group of people that alas part that doesn't love, right? So that's why it's so so dangerous. So let's look you might recognize these pictures, right? boasting and arrogance are paired together because arrogant people Look down on others and make them feel inferior. So You know you're arrogant because you think you're superior to other people And then the boasting is what the words that you say to make them feel that bad, right?  I'm better in my studies. I got this grade, you know I'm you know, I did all my work and you just started showing off all these things, but you're doing it for the Intent of making the other person feel bad because you truly think they are lower than you you look down on them Just like again these two images that we have this is the perfect example Of what arrogance does it leads or boasting it leads to this type of behavior, right? All right, so the treatment for boasting and arrogance first we realize that all the good that we have Is from Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la and that we always have to be in a state of gratitude Right and that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la knows Everything we do he's fully aware. So it's a you know, same treatment that we found for for a jib and some of the other You know diseases that we talked about ostentation So Matt all of these where you just start to forget that Allah is the source of all of your blessings And that he can remove them at any time. So you want to remember that Whatever thing you're boasting about or arrogant about they didn't come from you You don't have them because you just were you know have them They were given to you and they can always be taken from you Okay, so that's one of the ways to put that fear in your heart, but this is not acceptable behavior um, also You never want to walk around thinking that yourself yourself anything, right? And this is where you want to check your Self-image is it tied to The way that I dress the way that I look is it tied to these superficial things right about me? Or is it about my character? Like what are the things that I'm so prideful about? But uh, check yourself if you ever you know connect your Self-image to the things that you have because it might put those feelings of Pride and arrogance in your heart. So these are also Very important and this is the same slide we used again for the previous diseases of the heart So you might recognize them So let's go ahead to the next disease. Remember we have six to cover and I want to make sure That we are um on on target here. So Let's see one second Sorry Bismillah Okay, so we have displeasure with blame is carat of them. Okay, and this is Not liking ever to be corrected or criticized even when it's constructive Constructive is what constructive is when you When someone is trying to correct you because not to make you feel bad about yourself or feel down But they're actually trying to help you right so sometimes you might have Your parents or teachers your cousins or siblings someone Correct you right but they do it in a way that is Makes you feel like they're mocking you right that's clearly wrong And and it's okay to feel like well, that's not nice because the believer whenever we should never be humiliated or humiliate ourselves So it's normal to not like When someone seems like they're mocking you while they're correcting you like if they're telling you what's wrong with you Why didn't you know that? Oh gosh, you're so not smart, you know If someone says that to you and then they tell you what the answer is or what you should do better That's totally wrong. You know that person is also now being boastful, right? It's a form of arrogance to do that to show That you are so much smarter and that you're this person that you're correcting doesn't know So we don't do that, right? But if someone is trying to just teach you Something and you yourself don't like it. You just don't you don't like them ever to tell you that what you did was wrong And immediately you have an attitude problem.  If you're a muslim You want to be the best person that you can be So if your fellow muslim or friend or whoever is trying to help you To become a better person you don't take offense to that you actually look at it like thank you Thank you so much because I want to remember Present my heart My qalbun salim to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and I want to um I don't I want to be free of all of these diseases of the heart. So if you can help me cleanse my heart You're helping me. Thank you. That's how you look at it, right? And so you have to have a very good attitude about that But if you feel embarrassed if someone, you know, if you make a mistake let's say you're in a classroom setting and you get the wrong answer you raised your hand and then You got the wrong answer and then you're you sit with that and you feel bad and you feel like you're annoyed And embarrassed and you kind of want to hide and maybe you never want to go to the class again This is all part of this disease of the heart Okay, it's you're you're having a hard time because your nuffs doesn't like to be wrong And then if you think about what others Think of you you're too worried about their opinion of you them liking you More than you're thinking about the truth or Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala This is also another sign that you have this disease of the heart So you want to be very careful and pay attention to yourself because sometimes, you know these things like I said They're subtle but if you um if as a as a muslim you're always looking for two things truth Right and to please Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala these are the most important things for us So if someone, you know, if you have a problem with that and you'd rather Not be You know have an honest Exchange because you'd rather cover your faults and pretend like they don't exist Because you're too worried about your image then you're not thinking about the right things, right? So really important to distinguish that okay, so Here's the treatment for displeasure with blame. It's to be more concerned about being a witness to the truth Right, that's what we said believers are concerned about what being a witness to the truth even if it's against themselves Right Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us in chapter two verse 143 And thus we have made you a just community, right?   They're not concerned with the truth They're concerned with their image So they don't care about whether or not something is right or wrong. They care about if they look Right and they don't look wrong. You see the difference very important to know And then we should have modesty before Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Instead of focusing on being embarrassed in front of people, right? Our priority should be to have modesty before Allah And that's why you know, you want to really think about why do I care what people think of me?  So you have to think of the opposite I need to make Allah happy and this is actually also explained to us There's a hadith that says the person who works on pleasing people And and not pleasing Allah Will the people will never be pleased with them and Allah will not be pleased with them And the one that focuses on pleasing Allah's path that are over the people Allah will be pleased with them and then he will make those people pleased with him So it works to your advantage To put Allah subhan Allah first Because he will be happy with you and then he'll make everybody else happy with you And you'll you'll see the difference. You'll see being you'll be treated with respect People will want to listen to you They'll you know, invite you to things because you're prioritizing Allah But if you're doing it for other people, they're not there's you know, as I say haters There's a lot of haters in the world You could spend so much time doing good for people But they'll always find something to pick on and you know complain about and you'll you'll see it in your life That human beings are not easy to please So why put all of that energy in pleasing them whereas Allah is easy to please And then he has the power to uh change your circumstances so that you find ease in your life It just makes sense, right? So prioritize All right, the next disease of the heart This is called antipathy toward death This is a disease of the heart because it tells us if you have a Problem where death the mention of it, you know that if someone mentions something dying or someone passing away That you can't handle it, right?  No, no, it's too depressing. I don't want to talk about I don't talk about Spooks me out freaks me out scary You have to be careful because that means that you likely have too much of an attachment to this dunya And you like this dunya so much But you don't realize that by attaching yourself to this dunya You're causing more distance between you and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala because the way for us To meet Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is to leave this dunya, right?  And so that's how you look at death. It's not like this terrible thing.  For all of us hate death, right? And then he corrected he said Salaam he said no Rather that is only at the moment of death, right? But if he has given the glad tidings of the mercy and forgiveness of Allah He loves to meet Allah and Allah loves to meet him And if he has given the tidings of the punishment of Allah he hates to meet Allah and Allah hates to meet him So this is important right because It's okay to think of death and be a little spooked out by it But you don't hate it in the sense that you don't You can't see that it's you know leading to that meeting with Allah So to to Dislike the idea of it. It's a normal human thing. Most of us don't you know Want to think about those things just like this sahabi said he said it very honestly Nobody who loves death, right? It's sad. It's a sad thing. You lose someone, right? So Um, that's not the point here. We're not saying you have to love losing people We're talking about is not having this feeling towards death that you Forget that it is as I said a passage to the other side where you meet Allah So you just have to look at it like it is what it is We're all going to pass and that's why Allah tells us in the Quran He says every soul shall taste death, which is just a fact everything dies Flowers die.  There's roadkill every day on the roads. We see poor animals dead Flowers of trees, you know, there's so many things that die stars stars die, you know, so um The point is is everything dies and that's just the nature of this dunya Uh, alas that I says in chapter verse excuse me 62 verse 8 The death from which you flee will overtake you Thereafter you will return to the knower of the seen and unseen He will then inform you of all that you had been doing So death is coming for all of us when it happens Allah knows but we don't We don't run from it We just accept it as part of life and we are grateful for every day He's given us and we make the most of every day. He's given us Okay, that's that's how the attitude is about death and then here we look I like this sort of imagery right because we've got to have be honest Look at the phases of life. We all started in this childhood infancy stage and we can become toddlers Little kids and adolescent pre-adolescents and teens then adults, right? It's kind of just moves into these different um, you know Ages and and then look at the end of life, right everything kind of We go into this growth period and then it starts to come back down. We're getting smaller We're shriveling up our bones get shorter people who are tall and their youth suddenly they don't have as much height Because we kind of just start to come down a little bit This is the nature of life and then we return to the graves, right? People come inshallah they make da'a for us because there's a whole, you know Phase that happens between this world and the next life called the barzakh and that's where people who have passed on They're in that realm And inshallah they're in a good state all of our loved ones. They know when we go to visit them This is all in the knowledge of Allah But we have a positive understanding and then we know that again We're all returning back to from where we came from we came from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala And we return to him which is why we say inna lillahi wa inna ilahi raji'un when someone passes away Because it's just the natural Thing that happens, right okay So how do we get over the fear of death, right? Because again, we said that it is Reflexive to have You know To be afraid or to be not, you know, just death makes you uncomfortable But you have to remember that there is comfort in death for the believer, right? We see it as a As leaving this place, right? Because the dunya is a place of discomfort if you're looking at it We have sickness. We have we have pain grief loss There's a lot of hardships that come in this dunya and that's by design So when you look at leaving this place of problems, right of filth like, you know Dirtiness, there's things that are not pleasant even smells Sounds that are not pleasant foods, you know things that taste don't taste pleasant There's a lot of things that are not pleasant in this world When you think about leaving this world and going to the next world where everything is the opposite It's amazing. It's incredible. It's beyond our imagination. It's everlasting nothing dies Everything is clean. It's uh, it's fresh. It's new and it's within minutes and you know Seconds whatever we want in our mind will come before us. So there's just think about that So that's why when we again Think of leaving this place. We don't look at it as a final act We look at it as a transition. We're going to the the next better place, right? It's an upgrade And then here's a quote from a famous Scholar who says she have a habit. He said that in death there are 1000 Reposes, sorry, there's a misspelling there. It's supposed to be reposes No n for the muslim as long as you are in this world There is not a cell in your body that does not experience pain, right inflammation, right? That's a form of pain inside the body and disease Once you are out of this world all of that ends So when we leave this world all of that pain that our bodies go through right where we are We need to stretch and we need to twitch and we need to do this and that and drink And eat this or go get an ice pack because I have pain here. I need a Tylenol I need I need medication. I have a fever all of that that happens to human beings throughout our lives It comes to an end and we finally have repose reposes like rest Okay, and then the prophesies that I'm encouraged the remembrance of death Those who do will be blessed with certain qualities So if you remember death often and not as a sad thing where you sit there and think about oh my god Going in the grave and you freak yourself out. No, we're talking about just that It's a reality and it can happen and we all go back to Allah And you just kind of are aware of it happening that you become more content Which means you are satisfied in life more You have a lack of greed and covetousness. So when you remember death a lot, you don't you're not really Concerned with the dunya. So then you become more generous and you're not as greedy, right? And you have more energy to achieve good deeds Because you are You know motivated that you know life isn't precious time is precious And you need to make use of your time. So you have that motivational drive And then you have you're increasing in toba. So all these amazing things that happen as a result of The remembrance of death. So this is a way that we treat antipathy towards death. Okay So next disease is obliviousness to blessings. Nisya Nisya Nirmah This prevents one from recognizing the blessing that he or she has And makes them display in gratitude to Allah swt and then negativity to his creation When you are a negative person, right? You're just not Ever grateful for what you have you always find flaws. You're always complaining Nothing's ever good enough for you. Um, and your attitude about life is just negative negative This is the danger of this disease of the heart is that it makes you ungrateful to Allah But also you just have an energy that nobody likes So a lot of your people who have who know people that are like this or have this disease They don't want to ever want to be around them Never if they are sitting somewhere at a let's say at school or at a coffee shop and or at a restaurant And then they see that person coming They want to turn and hide.  I don't want to see them Why because they're so negative. They're always complaining You're I can't I can't handle it. It's such negative energy. It makes me feel bad So do you want to be that person? No, nobody wants to be that person that people hide from, right? Um, so the Prophet's like said, I'm also taught us whoever's not grateful to the people is not grateful to Allah That means couldn't ask them if you're not grateful to people Then that means you're also not grateful to Allah. So this is How we have to understand it's so important to be in a state of gratitude and this is what this disease does It takes you out of the state of gratitude completely. You're blind to the obvious blessings Allah has given you So something just to keep in mind So, you know in order to prevent this from taking root, we have to increase our gratitude, right? How do we do that? Well, we have to understand that there's three different types Of gratitude the first we call it shukr. Shukr bil qalb And this is gratitude of the heart This means to be grateful from the core of your hearts and have iman Shukr bil lisan is to be grateful by praising Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala with his attributes, right praising him And then shukr bil jawara are your limbs and this is by doing good things with the physical body That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave you you do good deeds. You pray your prayers on time. You're fasting You're giving zakat. You're giving help. You're giving advice. You're teaching You're actually using the body in the right way. That's a form of shukr So you it's not just sitting in with your tasfi and going alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah. That's not enough That's just lisan, right? You have to look at it as all three That's all three years are important. We have to have all three forms of shukr And then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us also that he never changes any blessing He has bestowed upon a people until they first change what is in themselves Okay, so just to keep in mind if you want to change your negative situation Maybe your hot life is hard and that's why you're negative Then this ayah is the answer to you that he will not change your condition your state Whatever it is. It's happening for you until you work on yourself So you have to start doing this what we're doing here. Let's get the nefs You're cleansing your heart.  Okay And so Also, it's very important that you get the practice of being more grateful Like it's something that you actively do Why because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us if you give thanks I will give you more.  I thank you Allah Thank you for everything that you give me and really saying it out loud or in your own heart and enlisting Those things, you know, there's a lot of you need even non-muslims There's research like there was these two scientists who did a study Here it's by sacramento, uc davis But they did a study where they took people who had all these like health problems And real big issues going on in their life And what they did is they had them do a Gratitude journal they started getting in the practice of of journaling and really Recognizing all of their things that they are grateful for And just by doing that for you know a few days or a week or month or so They their physical symptoms started getting better They're sick whatever injuries or problems they had What they're as they said like their body was healing and then also emotional healing from you know, whatever depression or anxiety or things that happened trauma in their life And like all of these really positive things started happening for them The only difference was that they started doing this. That's it They started changing their mind and taking focus of their brain instead of letting negative thoughts come in Which oftentimes are from shaytan. He's the one who's whisperers, right? He likes to make us feel bad you Cast him out of your heart by increasing in gratitude And so you want to make a list like this and of course the first and foremost thing You should always be grateful for is to know Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and the provost That is the greatest blessing of existence is that we know our lord and we know his beloved And then of course you look to your family and home life Your health your friends your time the fact that you have time to do things Safety it's not in the list, but you know safety food and drink Nice clothes material things all the things that you have But think about them deeply because there's a lot of people who don't have even one fifth of what you have How many kids don't have their parents? How many kids are born as orphans? They don't have more than one Outfit they only have one pair of clothes.  They don't have shoes They don't have toys you have some my kids they have a toy room I'm telling them all the time like be grateful for your toys Do you know there's children who's never who've never seen a toy before they've only played with sticks and rocks They they have no idea what a lego is They have no idea what a doll is they've never in their life seen these things or electric stuff forget it They don't know what electricity is a lot of people in our world are living in really difficult situations so You have to be grateful to a lot that he gave you such an amazing life You know and that's why the more you do this Then you're spared from this terrible disease of the heart where you don't even you can't even mention The things that you're grateful for that's what people like this are they're so negative Nothing's ever good enough, right? And then to remember the more grateful you are the more you'll get Allah. So generous so This is the last disease of the heart and this is called Hes which is ridiculing Okay, and making fun of people humiliating caricaturing lampooning Anytime you try to take someone down and really just mock them to a place Where they're humiliated you have to know right away. This is haram on every level Allah's power that tells us in chapter 49 verse 11 Oh, you who believe do not let people mock another people For it may be that these are better than them Nor should women mock other women for it may be that they are better than them and do not taunt to one another Nor insult each other with nicknames Really powerful reminder that you if you're someone that just likes to mock groups of people like there's a lot of people Who make racial jokes, you know, they like to make fun of certain groups like certain races And they'll you know do terrible things to point out the things that make them look different or speak different like languages whatever But they'll either you know, they'll just mock groups So this is what i'll say don't mock groups of people and then he's also saying don't mock individual people because It could be that one is better than the other so very um clear warning that this is haram, right? So let's look at this I mean anybody who's ever been in a situation where you felt bullied, right? It's a terrible thing to be the receiving end of that because Especially if it's I mean, they're shaming, right?  So it's a horrible feeling And then there's a lot of sometimes harshness Because in their words, so it's not just they they might they might be taunting, you know making sounds But oftentimes they come with words that are also very hard to hear very damaging. So this is why we say Words can be weaponized. Okay. What does that mean? A weapon is what it's something that you you you discharge and then it sends Something to a target and it's supposed to harm that target, right? So your tongue has the ability to discharge the same way a gun or an arrow bow and arrow It can discharge words That come out and then they land on whoever you're speaking to So if you weaponize your words, that's what it's like to the one who's on the other end of it It's very painful To hear that and so, you know, we never of course want to be those who bully and mock Every male love forgive us but to see that it's um, you know, it's it's like what we saw with scolding It can have a really negative Effect because not only does it cause so much pain as you can see in these images They're all crying because it's hard to hear people teasing you and mocking you But you know what the the danger is that this if shaytan Is around and he will try What he can do is basically Take that those feelings of shame that the person being mocked feels And turn it into rancor He can do that very easily Because he'll take this uh bullied soul and he'll just work on them. How could they do that to you? You know, they're such terrible people. You should teach them a lesson. Who do they think they are? And this is why all the blood you've had we've had many times in history throughout history where the bully The one who's bullied excuse me turns into a bully Because all of that those feelings make them feel that they have to Get back right this revenge enters their heart this need for revenge And that of course is from real because it's the anger of being shamed And being mocked that turns into wanting harm on the other person. This happens every day But throughout human history much of uh our greatest Human tragedies have come out of this Uh happening, you know that that someone or a group of people were mocked And then they came back fierce Fiercely and attacked even worse than what happened to them. So we have to seek refuge from this It's a terrible disease of the heart, right? So let's look at um the treatment First of all, we should know that this is a sign of ignorance right away There's many reasons but you know one incident is when the prophet musa he was asked by his people because he told them he gave them an order To sacrifice a cow and when they heard that he wanted them to do this They replied are you mocking us? Like why would we do this and his words are clear? He says I seek refuge in god from being ignorant Which means the one who mocks is ignorant, right?  This is why you know, they kind of hold themselves a certain way and then they do the whole pointing of the finger It's very it's called posturing when you posture You're showing that you think you're stronger and better So you puff yourself up and you then you talk down to people So this is why a lot of bullies that's how they do and that's why you see bullies in school for example They'll pick on kids that are smaller or younger Because they like that power dynamic to show I'm stronger and more powerful than you, right? It's also How the blood arrogant, right? And so this is why we have said nani said Do not belittle anyone for he or she may be a saint of god. What does that mean is that Everybody in the world nobody knows who they are to Allah Just because someone might you might not like them or they say something to you Doesn't necessarily mean they're a bad person. Maybe there was a misunderstanding. Maybe something happened. For example, I'll give you an example So This is just I'm making it up, right? But this happens all the time. It's a hypothetical hypotheticals like, you know This is an example But this scenario has happened Many times to many people because I've heard it from people and I know what happens You're at the masjid.   This is called what su-adhan remember?  Is there a bad intention on her part to disrespect you to ignore your greeting? No, she's a human being But you're not seeing what is happening because you're assuming the worst That's why we have to make excuses for people those air pods if she has air pods or a headset are hidden from you And you're just you know seeing her walk past you But the reality is known to Allah And that's why you don't judge people because you don't know Who they are to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala one of the scholars said about umar, you know Omar ibn al-Khattab. He was um, you know a part of the the mushriqin before he accepted islam And so there's a famous quote that says that umar Was beloved to Allah even When he was worshiping those idols When he wasn't muslim because in the knowledge of Allah Allah already knew who umar was and who he was going to be and That he was going to die, you know as one of the greatest companion or you know second greatest companion of the Prophet's life Right.      So we have to be very careful and then also that Allah's father says here know that those who mock people in this life Will be mocked in the hereafter For it is a divine law that God recompenses people with the like of what they have done so On the day of judgment a lot of the things that people do the evil people do in this world They will have that same thing done to them In jahannam. So this is why you want to be very careful out of the black From ever doing anything that displeases Allah because he'll teach you A very serious lesson. Yeah the below later down the line that you don't want to learn So may Allah protect us from all of these diseases inshallah. So that My dear beloved children um Is the end of this presentation. So just to because we do have a little bit of time And someone I saw briefly ask about a summary Let's try to do what we can in the few minutes We might have to go a little bit over parents. So if you're able to please keep your kids here for just maybe 10 minutes more Um after the hour because I want to try to do it A summary of this inshallah. Wow, there are a lot of slides. I I forgot how much effort this was But it was worth it. It was worth it for all of you. You came here every single Day and I truly truly appreciate that. So let's look here. We started with purification of the heart This was the what text of imam al-molud al-molud and he is a martinian scholar, right? And then we have What do we have about him? We have I'm sorry, she comes to yusuf is the what? Who is he the translator of the text, right? So, um, here we go. This is biography. We went over these details, right? And then we talked about she comes that he is the president and founder of zaytuna college right here in the bay area remember Alhamdulillah make da'a for both of them. Do not forget imam al-molud. Do not forget she comes to yusuf You have to make da'a for them if you enjoyed this class You should make da'a for them before you make da'a for me if you're making da'a for me I hope you are but you should make da'a for them before you make da'a for me, okay Um, and then we talked about why it's so important to purify the heart because the hadith, right? The prophet doesn't told us there's a piece of flesh that if It lies in the body if it's sound the entire body is sound and if it's corrupted The whole body is corrupted. Verily this piece is the heart. So subhanAllah is so important This is the number one thing that we are going to present to Allah on the day of judgment It takes uh, it's so important that we focus our entire lives on keeping this heart clean So then we talked about the eight different types of hearts And we said that there are uh, there's a dead heart, right? Which is here then we have the hardened heart and each heart has its own problems. Okay, so that's own Qualities that we need to understand how it happens how they become this way The darkened heart the blackened heart the sealed heart the locked heart The blind heart and then finally the sound heart the kalbun setting. This is the one that we want So we just described the qualities of these hearts then, uh, we went into comparing and contrasting the effects of disease on a physical heart and the effects of disease on a spiritual heart that it's very similar it hardens Right and it prevents the heart from working the way that it's that was designed to work Same with spiritual diseases. So here are the list of the 25 diseases that we have We have uh, miserliness wanton this hatred iniquity love of the world envy blame or the modesty blame or the thoughts Fear of poverty ostentation relying on other than god Displeasure with divine decree seeking reputation false hope Negative thoughts vanity fraud anger heedlessness Ranker boasting and arrogance displeasure with blame antipathy toward death Obliviousness to blessings derision subhanallah all of these we went through And we're just gonna again go through them we went through bochal Which is miserliness we talked about how it's related to the word mesek Which is or comes from the word mesek, which is uh, you know the same from constipation because when you have bochal You're holding on to something that actually harms you right and we talked about that We talked about butter to have this unbridled Feeling that you just can't control yourself that makes you prideful and do things in excess Right and the disease of we talked about bochal having hatred You know again of others it makes you an unjust persons. You have to be aware of hatred Right. Um, then we moved on to iniquity buggy harming anything in creation without justice or just cause excuse me You can't just go around harming things or people, right? This is haram. There has to be a reason if you're protecting yourself You're feeling in danger. That's one thing. But just because you feel like it. No, there's that's not an excuse Uh, right. We talked about love of the world Habbah dunya the dangers of attaching yourself to this place because it makes you distracted from the remembrance of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala you'll start to Do more sins you'll fall into sinful behavior And then it'll increase you in many of the other diseases that we're talking about Because habadunya according to some of our scholars is the root of of all diseases Then we talked about how again the prophet said warned us that Towards the end of time would be like the the foam of the ocean We would be weak there would be a lot of us But we'd be weak and it's because of habadunya It's because we're too preoccupied with money money money money. We want all the nicest things. We want the cars We want the homes. We want the jewelry. We want the delicious food. We want everything It's like we just want to consume eat money And that's why the prophet told us that the son of Adam his mouth will never be full Truly until he's in his grave and it's the dirt of the grave that fills his mouth So here we see this character here. He's just stuffing his face with money Well, it's never going to be enough because that's what habadunya does. It's like an empty bottomless pit And this is the other problem too is that you start daydreaming You're not thinking about the stuff that matters, right? You're not thinking about Allah or the prophet or giving and going to the masjid and doing good works Because all you're thinking about is what getting money and getting things that you want, right? So the remembrance of death is how you treat that And then we talked about also the different categories of of love of the world, right? And then we talked about hasad and how again when you Have hasad you have envy for other people you want them to lose whatever blessing they have We distinguish between jealousy and envy jealousy is having that feeling Of that there's something missing that you want and that you But it's not necessarily tied to a person envy is where you actually have Someone that has that thing and then you want them to lose it. They're distinct But they're very related as well and both of them you want to remember death This is a good way to get rid of it. We also distinguish between Healthy and be right you get that when you're competing with Other someone else for the sake of the pleasure of Allah. This is called a ripta and this can be done primarily in two ways which is When you see someone of wealth and you want to have increased wealth because You want to do good works with that wealth and wisdom if someone has knowledge You want the same knowledge because you want to also be able to teach So in these two cases is perfectly fine to have ripped them Now we moved on and we talked about the The rest of these diseases here, which we'll get into blame or the modesty, right?  You you actually may turn away when you see a situation that needs justice and needs your attention because you You don't have a balance. You're you're thinking too much about maybe your image or other people You're not thinking about doing the right thing. Okay So then we talked about our thoughts, right? And how to control our thoughts that we have anywhere from up to 60 000 some say, you know Even more than that thoughts a day 80% of our thoughts are are negative 95% are actually repetitive And so we have to be very you know control the flow of our thoughts, right? And make sure that if we have blamed more of these thoughts That we know that those are from shaitan and we should not entertain them Those are thoughts about the nature of Allah swt that we can never Know him beyond what he's already revealed to us through the 99 names through his book But trying to imagine him is just all from iblis. We don't do that And then thinking about thoughts about other people, right? Just assuming the worst like we talked about earlier So then when you think about bad people in the absence of any evidence just your own thoughts and minds and suspicions It leads you to Having this disease in the heart playing with the thoughts fear of poverty is similar or kind of tied to hovedunya You just want want want it's insatiable You can't let go of your wealth when you should which is also similar to miserliness So it really contributes to a lot of other diseases growing from this idea that oh my gosh, i'm not going to have enough I'm not going to have enough, right? And so you're all you're doing again is you're thinking about money which makes you Um compromise your principles and your religious values So you start to uh, you know forget all the things that you're supposed to do to with Allah swt For Allah swt that is that your worship of him But also for your family because your mind and eyes all I can see is money money money money Okay, and so you want to be very careful from that and then also the importance of charity Um, this is how we Protect our hearts from it because we know that we our wealth never diminishes when we give for the sake of Allah swt So this is how we increase our reliance on Allah and remove this disease of the heart We talked about Yes, just this that was the point about charity cleansing your wealth Then we moved into the next um disease of the heart, which are ostentation of the eye This is when you show off and you're getting trying to get attention from people For the deeds that you're doing and these could be religious deeds or otherwise You just like the attention you want people to you know see you and you're not doing it for the sake of Allah Subhanallah anymore. This is a called what the minor shirk We want to be very careful from this because you are all the associating partners with Allah Which is the worst of all things that we could possibly do is to say Allah has partners Well, when you start to do things for people and not just Allah, that's in a way what you're doing You're putting those people as if they're the same as Allah in terms of your importance So you want to be very, you know in terms of the way you're prioritizing them So you want to be very careful never to uh to fall into this very very dangerous thing We also talked about how sneaky it is that it can creep into the heart the same way that a black ant on a black rock And on a dark night can undetected unknown and it's very subtle So it's something that you have to always check your intentions always ask yourself Why am I doing this is it for the sake of uh being seen and having titles and oh You know people praising me and complimenting and making me feel special or is it I don't know about that right um, and then we talked about Having trust in any other than Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala right? This is when we call on other people and we don't put our trust in Allah We never beg for example begging is considered reprehensible. It's not a good thing to do We turn to Allah and then of course if we need really Help, you know assistance with something we can look to our masjid or our you know There's sometimes different organizations in our community that offer services to people That's different than begging begging is going and making people feel uncomfortable and asking them to You know to put themselves in a burden for your sake, which is why the process said that it is better for you to um, hold on let me get here Where's that hadith did I skip it already? I think it's on the previous one. Sorry. Yeah that you um No, there's a hadith about selling wood. Did I miss it? I think I missed it. No, I don't want to misquote it But there is a hadith that says the bros awesome said that it's better for you to the sell wood You know collect gather firewood and sell it then to go and beg people Okay, so I don't know where that hadith disappeared. I thought it was in here, but that's okay. Mashallah. So here are the answers for For that for relying on other than god, then we moved on to displeasure of the divine decrease This is when you can't you know, why me? Why did this have to happen to me? Something happens. Something breaks. Something falls You can't get into maybe a class or some program that you wanted to go to or a trip He falls through maybe you had a vacation planned and then it doesn't happen Why why why why whatever it is that you're you know upset about and you're denying the qadr of Allah This is the disease of the heart And so we talked about that and then we moved on to seeking reputations. So Matt, which is similar to Ostentation, right? You want people to hear about all of your good works not necessarily You don't have to see you but you want reputation you want people to know what you're doing So you kind of throw in, you know things here and there because ultimately it's like you're you're chasing fame, right? You you you're chasing that carrot, right on a stick And so we talked about that and then the dangers of it Right very similar to the uh, then we went into false hopes negative thoughts and vanities So tula lama, this is where you think you have all the time in the world and you can do whatever you want And you're not really thinking about Um, you know the fact that life is unpredictable and Allah can take you at any time and when you do that and you have too much Hope then you become what heedless area? Careless with your worship of Allah because you keep procrastinating everything. I'll do it later. I'll do it later I'll do it later. This is the danger. That's why Imam Ali said people are asleep when they die They wake up So you have we have to wake up before we die, right? And that's uh, we can't have false hopes when we do that So remembrance of death is important negative thoughts to and then this is when you just again think badly of people for no reason It's haram And the tongue is you know every day our limbs wake up in the morning and it admonishes the tongue because It says fear Allah for our sake. We're with you But we're going to be rewarded or punished based on what you make us do So if you're straight, we'll be straight if you're crooked, we'll be crooked so the tongue is You know a very dangerous and we have to be very careful with what we say because negative thoughts Leads to negative speech. That's why we're mentioning this You can't just have a negative thought about someone and keep it inside of you You you usually almost always want to share it with someone else. Did you see what so-and-so did? Can you believe them? Oh my god, I can't stand this person and now you've committed a riba, which is why it's so dangerous. Okay Then we talked about um, this is arjab, right?  This is all arjab. It's vanity And you're basically self obsessed then we have Uh, we talked about again how the process and warned us about because arjab and arrogance are tied. They're connected, right? They warned us about these diseases, right? And so there's a lot of Things we covered this in today's class as well.  This was on last thursday We talked about gish, which is fraud where you're trying to trick people into something that they're not fully aware of Just to get something out of them some material gain, whether it's money or a job or an opportunity But you're trying to use trickery in order to do that. This is completely haram, right? We talked about the story of the process and the food, right? And then we um talked about aghada anger and how anger for other than the sake of allah. SubhanAllah is can be easily You know It can cause harm and it can lead someone to lose their cool and control So we have to restrain anger many many hadith that talk about that And then we said that the the scholars have used this analogy that it's kind of like that hunting dog You have to command it. You can't just go wild on its own. It's not going to help you It's not going to do what it's supposed to do anger has a purpose. It has a utility So you have to rein it in and then keep it on that leash until you need it again But it shouldn't control you okay Then we talked more about how what to do if you're angry, right the processes advice When you're angry if you're standing sit down if you're sitting down recline make wudu pray That coolness from wudu calms the fires of of you know anger and then of course say Because the shaitan and shaitan will run from you We talked about how once the prophet saw a man. He actually looked like You know his face got red and kind of like shaitan and the process and told him again I have a word if spoken it will remove this anger from him all the way So then we talked about khafla right and how people become heedless and forgetful of allah And the dangers of that and how that happens is because they again know right and wrong But their love for the dunya makes them completely turn away and the process told us the danger of being Not in the remembrance of allah versus being in the remembrance of allah is the comparison Of someone that has life and someone that's died or something that has life and something that's died And here's that image for you to see the comparison the contrast the contrast And the heedlessness is treated by remembrance of death All right, and then knowing that your prayers are not answered if you're heedless, right? So if you have any desires or wishes in this world, you're not going to get them if you behave heedlessly Then today we covered all of these rancor right we talked about all this so I don't need to review Fakhhar and kibir We talked about khafla dham. We talked about khafla mothe and then we ended on or missyadun naira and then we ended on Okay, so alhamdulillah. That was your quick superfast review For whoever asked for that. I hope that was helpful to you inshallah Let's see. I know some of you might have to go. I don't want to keep you But I do want to see if there's any questions you guys and I want to thank you again I will try to see if there's any questions, but I want to thank you again for Being such a engaging and awesome audience. Well, ahi you made my ramadan very special It was a lot of work to put all this together But like I said, you were so worth it because every day when I would work on this I would imagine the sort of excitement that we would have in our Q&A's when you guys would be rushing to answer It was so cute to witness that and all of your amazing questions and insights That you've had throughout these seven sessions have meant a great deal to me I really really thank you from the bottom of my heart for spending your Tuesdays and Thursdays With me or if you're watching them on at other times, whatever time you're giving to this. Thank you It truly truly means a great deal Now, let me see if there's any questions inshallah and In comments from you because I'd love to hear from you guys too Anything that you think we can do better next time. This is the first time I'm doing it this on this format for youth Usually I've taught it a couple times now and it's you know weekly sessions Lower slower pace certainly, but yeah, let me know if there's not anything else here. So I don't think I have any questions Yeah, I don't see anything here or maybe I'm just not Thank you, it's not John very sweet So the cure for displeasure with blame did I not go over that?  But to be appreciative that when someone corrects you That it's a good thing and to thank them for it All right, so How did that we stayed over a little bit? Let's see these comments you guys are sweet. Thank you. It's time for the office to you Raheem. Thank you for this class. Oh, you're so sweet. Just like your luck hidden. What a nice compliment Mashallah. Thank you a the man. Amen. Mashallah. Thank you You guys really appreciate it. Thank you captain I'm so I'm so curious about who captain is because your name the others I know who they are their names are a little clear, but I'm very curious captain. Who's your who are your parents? Do I know your parents? Let me know who they are Alina, okay, sweetheart Alina. Well, I hope I can see you and meet you Alina one day Inshallah, but thank you all for your very kind comments. Just like more head and keep us in your door. Okay Okay, we'll say give give your mother my mother my salam inshallah, please but keep me and my family in your doors and I hope you guys have an amazing rest of your month. Remember tonight is a very very special night Very special. So make sure your du'as are strong and if you haven't written them out yet You should maybe write your du'as. Okay, because tonight is a powerful night Inshallah all the nights of Ramadan are powerful, but there's something special. Of course, we know about the 27th So write your du'as out, you know and really think about it. It's kind of like what we talked about with that gratitude, right? So inshallah, I really hope to again see You all in the near future in better circumstances. Hopefully then on lockdown Jezakumul ala ukhaydan, please make do it for all of the mcc staff, especially our dear brother Muneer Who's going through a challenge right now in his personal life make do it for him and his family That all his father brings them all ease Make do it for sister. Homera my co-panelist who's been amazing. Okay. She's been here every week staying Even though she has a full-time job and she has to work and she's got meetings And she probably does not want to be on a computer all day long, but she has facilitated and made this class possible I think sister. Homera so much for her time May Allah bless her and all of the people at mcc who make these programs possible and all of you again And your families may Allah reward all of you. Jezakumul ala ukhaydan will end in du'as Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam wa alayhi wa sahbihi wa sallam tasneeman katirah Bismillahir rahmanir raheem Wa la'asir inna l-insana la fi khosir illa ladina aminu Wa amir salli hati wa tawasabu l-haqi wa tawasabu l-sabar alhamdulillah Allahumma balighna Laylatul qadr inshaAllah Yes, make that du'a ya Allah. Please let us let us experience Laylatul qadr inshaAllah inshaAllah amin Jezakullah khaydan Alhamdulillah. Salaamu alaykum