And then he was a descendant of the cousin of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam who is Jafar ibn Abi Al-Qalib, okay? So that's the first part of his bio His mother and this is for all the moms who are tuning in I'm a mother and I want you and I wanted to again honor Imam al-Lud's biography But also I'll honor all the mothers because we sometimes don't give ourselves enough credit But look at you know what we know of Imam al-Malud that his mother Mariam Bits Muhammad Malud ibn al-Nahi Was also very knowledgeable and she was her son's first teacher subhanallah Most of us are most of us are our children's very first teachers, right? But he actually memorized the Quran through his mother So again such a beautiful inspiration for all of us to reflect on as mothers and as children that the greatest School is is our is often time our home and our teacher is the greatest teacher that we have first teacher Anyway is our mother. Alhamdulillah. So he's a great scholar of his time authored many many books over 70 books And then you know, he passed away in the year 1905 So not you know, I mean, it's not that long ago, right? Alhamdulillah, but he did so much for our faith by providing this beautiful poem that Exams the diseases of the heart and we're going to talk about what that means in just a moment So now that we know a little bit about Imam al-Malud Let's talk about the next person that's really important to this because he brought this text Which is in classical Arabic to the Western audience He translated it from Arabic to English and then provided commentary, which is the basis Which is what we're going to talk about in this class as we go Dave, you know session by session We're going to talk about the commentary that she comes a use have provided So who is he? Well, we should all know him especially if those of us in California and the Bay Area because he is a Bay Area native Masha'Allah, but he's also a global scholar known throughout every region of the world Masha'Allah Tabarak Allah and he currently serves as president of the first accredited Muslim college in the US, which is Zaituna College Which is right here in Berkeley, California a huge honor for those of us again in the Bay Area and in California in general Alhamdulillah, she comes as a you know He we could say so many things about him and his acumen But Masha'Allah, he holds traditional advanced degrees Ijazad in Islamic law and theology as well as a BA in religious studies From San Jose State University and a PhD from the UC Berkeley the Graduate Theological Union Alhamdulillah, he was ranked by the Muslim 500 as the 23rd most influential Muslim worldwide huge honor Right of all the Muslims billions of people in the world Shahamza was ranked as the 23rd most influential meaning that his teachings Masha'Allah have spread to so many people and Alhamdulillah and most of those teachings are By way of books articles that he's written as well as classes that are available for people and lectures that he's made available online And so the books that he's published right here in this bottom Section include the border purification of the heart Which I just showed you the content of character another amazing book for parents again to look into the creed of imam at Tahawi and Agenda agenda to change our condition walk on water and the prayer of the oppressed Alhamdulillah all incredible Resources for us to have so Alhamdulillah Please keep both of them in your du'as as we go through this class because we would not be able to do this If it wasn't for their efforts and it's so important to be in a state of gratitude to our teachers and to those who again give us access and knowledge That enhances us and helps us on our spiritual journey. Okay, so with that said We're going to jump into this topic because I want to maximize the time that we have we have about an hour Maybe a little bit more if I take some Q&A's at the end, which I want to but let's proceed inshallah Why do we need to purify the heart this hadith? Which imam know we said is one of four or five hadith around which the entire religion of Islam is understood is Pretty critical to understanding why we have to do this process of purifying the heart and we're going to get into details again About what that means The Prophet said I'm sad that the hadith the halal is clear and the haram is clear and between them are matters Unclear that are known to most people whoever is wary of these unclear matters has absolved his religion and honor and whoever Indulges in them has indulged in the haram It is like a shepherd who herds his sheep too close to preserve sanctuary and they will eventually graze in it Every king has a sanctuary and the sanctuary of Allah is what he has made haram There lies within the body a piece of flesh if it is sound the whole body is sound And if it is corrupted the whole body is corrupted verily this piece is the heart So what does this mean the word sound right? It's kind of like strange because we think of sound we think of hearing we think of something that we hear But it actually has multiple meanings in this case. It means that if it's healthy, okay? So if the heart is healthy and you can we're talking specifically, you know We can we can interpret this hadith as the physical heart as well as the spiritual heart, right? And and that's what our scholars have done that it applies to both and and it's true from a medical or Physiological standpoint if you have a healthy heart then alhamdulillah everything in the body just seems to go smoothly A lot of people it's one of the number one killers is heart disease, right?  So this is why we purify the heart now another really important thing to understand is that there are different types of hearts, okay? So What we mean by that is here here are the eight types of hearts And we're gonna go through these the description of each one to understand that where People different people throughout the world are some people have different, you know, they don't have a sound heart They don't have a healthy spiritual heart or physical heart or again speaking about the spiritual heart here So these are there's eight different types of hearts that we learn through hadith or learn through Commentary or learn through aya's of the Quran and we're gonna now describe each one, okay? Here's the first one the dead heart in the Quran and chapter 50 verse 37 Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says that verily in this is a message for any that has a heart or who gives ear and earnestly witness the truth so he's talking about the Quran itself that for people who have a heart and Obviously, this does not apply to the physical heart because if you don't have a physical heart, you're not alive, right? We're specifically talking about the spiritual heart that for those people who have a spiritual heart That's working that's functioning and who actually listen and earnestly or sincerely are trying to learn the truth The message of the Quran is gonna touch their hearts So what that means or the opposite or what this aya tells us is that there are people that Their hearts aren't working that somehow something's gone wrong that the spiritual heart is dead Right and these are the people who do not know Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala the way they should they don't worship him the way He commands in the way that he likes and the way that he's that pleases him Instead of worshiping Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, they just do whatever they want to do it doesn't matter It's like oh, I want to you know, not pray because I'd rather go and you know Have some ice cream or I'd rather go watch a movie or I want to go on my bike and take a ride bike You know ride around the court So whenever there's something that has to be done as a form of worship to Allah They don't do it and even though they know that this might cause Allah's displeasure and wrath They still go and do whatever they want. So these types of people are what we would say There's something wrong with their actual spiritual heart in that it's not functioning and it's probably dead now Can it come back to life? Yes, that's the good news. Alhamdulillah how? They have to humble themselves make toba to Allah and then they have to be willing to Listen and take the message Right, whatever like to listen to the message of the Quran and to listen to the words of the Prophet I said I'm with sincerity. This is how this kind of a heart can come back to life So the hardened heart. Okay, now I want you again I'm using this imagery because I want you guys to think about what happens to the spiritual heart, okay When a person stops remembering Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala the way that they should and they stop You know doing what they should be doing in terms of fulfilling their, you know, Ibadah The heart starts to harden. Okay, the spiritual heart And so to prevent this from happening The answer that what we should be doing is always being in a state of remembrance as much as possible thanking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala feeling grateful for the blessing of existence For all of the blessings that Allah has given us our families for example our parents our homes the food that we eat the Drink that we have the drinks that we get to have the clothes that we wear all of the things that we have in life our Gifts that Allah's path has showered on us. He's blessed us with so we have to be in remembrance and gratitude to Allah And when we do that enough it prevents the heart from getting hardened. Okay, so that's why saying ma sha Allah Alhamdulillah subhan Allah insha Allah is so important to have as a practice a Staghfirullah right a lot of things we could say but as long as we're remembering Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala The third heart is the darkened heart, and if you notice in this picture, there's light, but it's not going through this heart Why because this heart is darkened and you know, we talked about the dead heart, right? Those who basically are just Indisobedience, they know that Allah's pranthana, you know is may may be upset with them But they continue to follow their own desires and those people. Yes, their hearts can come alive Through being attentive and actually witnessing the truth, but the people who still remain in darkness, right? That maybe they've heard the truth They hear the message and they're just not willing to accept it that those people they remain heedless They just are you know, they don't want to do what they're supposed to do They their hearts become darkened, right and that darkness is because they are Heedless, which means they're not fulfilling their obligations to Allah and then that what that does it actually makes them suffer in many ways They start to have Problems with their life in their life They may have mental health problems or other spiritual problems like anxiety depression fear They might start getting a lot of stuff and that's again. Sorry the reason for that is because a person who has peace in their heart That they have peace and they have light in their heart because they're remembering Allah's pranthana So when you don't remember Allah, this is the consequences that it starts to darken Okay, so what about the difference? So what's the difference between a darkened heart and a blackened heart? Well, we know from the hadith that the prophet said him said Verily when the servant commits a sin a black mark appears upon the heart So you want to look exactly like this picture, okay? Every time we sin every time we lie Every time we don't do our prayers on time or we do something that our parents told us not to do and We we make our parents upset or we do something that again is forbidden in Islam. Whatever that is The it's a sin and it it creates a black mark upon our heart now The hadith is hopeful because the prophets and said if he abandons the sin So if you say it's a whole lot you recognize your mistake and then you seek forgiveness and you make your tawba Then Alhamdulillah the black spot gets removed. It's like it wasn't even there and it's polished again But if you keep going back to the sin Then that sin or that dark blackness will increase and it just starts to take over the heart it's like the whole heart starts to get spotted with these black spots and then it looks like something like this right and Allah's Pran that it has an eye and the Quran also that talks about a covering, right? So this is what we mean that when a sin start to cover our hearts It's because of what we've done. It's our own sins, right? And this is why it's so important to make a Stuff for Allah every day the prophet said I want to make a stuff for Allah every single day And he didn't even sin But why is he teaching us to do that because he knows that we will fall into mistakes and sins But if we always go back to Allah inshallah, we'll be okay, okay? So the next heart is called the sealed heart, okay?  This is another heart and there's two more. Okay, so the locked heart This is Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala says do they not then earnestly seek to understand the Quran or are their hearts locked So this is really interesting, right? Because there are people who they have the truth and Hamdullah. They may you know, they're Muslim They they may have learned a lot of things, but for some reason They've put a heart a lock on their own heart And so this is the person is doing this to themselves, right? And that prevents them from reciting the Quran reading the Quran learning about the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam seeking knowledge Doing their prayers on time for whatever reason. They're just maybe Again, their nefs is too strong and they want to just do what they want to do But these are people who put a lock on their own heart. Okay, and Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is asking, you know Those people like think about what you're doing, right that this is you're the one that's putting that lock on your heart And then we have the blind heart. Okay, this is also important There's a lot of people who are just blind. So Allah's father says here Do they not travel through the land so that their hearts may thus learn wisdom and their ears may thus learn to hear? Truly it is not their eyes that are blind, but their hearts which are in their chests So there are a lot of people who don't seem to see, you know The importance of worshiping Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala of doing what they're supposed to be doing because They're forgetting they're forgetting that they were created for a purpose And so this is a verse is a challenge that says basically Go out and look right observe with your own eye How beautiful this world is look at the stars and the heavens and the universe and the sun and the moon Look at the waterfalls and the mountains and all of the beautiful things in creation the beautiful Animals that Allah's path has created some of them can camouflage and change their color Some of them, you know can can do so many incredible things So think about all of these Miracles in a way that we're witnessing when we look out into the world and Reflect that who how did this all come about if you're blind you're not seeing these things So that's why it's very important to be in touch with nature and to try to always go out and Maybe take a hike or go somewhere where that it connects you back with nature, right? I know a lot of children one of the things I love I love many things about children But one of the things I love about children is that you have a natural love most children do of nature You love to you know be out and about and you know whether it's you know Just being outside and playing in your backyard or going on a hike going mountain I mean to the mountains going to the beach You just like to be out and and look at the creation of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala So that's why children are always in this beautiful state of joy and happiness because they're in awe They love to see all of the great things that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala has made and created, right? So your hearts are mashallah fully you have great sight right a lot of other people we need to Learn from you because you mashallah have this this natural ability to see things that sometimes adults don't always see Okay, so Alhamdulillah So may Allah protect us again from all of these hearts and then the heart that we all want This is the one okay, so we covered seven so far There's eight this is the heart that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala wants all of us to have and that we should all want to have Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala says the day on which neither wealth nor children will be of any benefit Except for whoever brings to Allah a sound heart. What does he mean by that? He's saying that on that day the most important thing that you can come to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala with is You can't you know buy Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala's happiness with you You can't bargain with Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala It the most important thing that you can do is make sure that your heart is shining bright And healthy and sound there's that word again sound right which really means healthy vibrant alive Right and the prophesies said verily Allah does not look to your faces and your wealth But he looks to your spiritual heart and to your deeds So this is again another reminder that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala doesn't care How tall we are how small we are how much what color our hair is what color our eyes You know are or what you know other things that we have in terms of our physical appearance None of that matters. He doesn't care about how much money we have None of it the most important thing that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala wants from us is a really Sound healthy beautiful sparkling shiny spiritual heart. So How can we get that? Well, that's what we're doing This is what the whole class is about the whole class is to teach all of us How we can try to keep our hearts from getting diseased, okay? So this heart that I just described is Kalbun Salim that word sound in Arabic It's Salim and here is an I again in the Quran from chapter 26 verse 89 This says what? So when the only one who will be saved is the one who comes before God with a heart devoted to him Right a heart that's devoted to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala If Ja'a Rabbahu be called in Salim again He came to his Lord with a devoted heart, right? Very important that our hearts are clean for Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala So oh, sorry, I forgot to give you guys the warning Okay, if you can't look at things that are kind of you know with the human body I'm gonna put a picture up, but I want you to see it. I hope that you guys are okay with looking at it I know we have some kids that are 11. We have other teens that are much older So I'm gonna put it out there and let your parents hopefully decide whether or not you can look at this It's not too bad, but I think it's an important visual, okay? So how do we achieve a devoted heart a clean heart? Well, look at this picture on the right You see that healthy heart, right? That's what we all start off with every single person that's born, you know Healthy all infants. We're given this beautiful fresh piece of you know flesh in our body That just does what it's supposed to do really well it pumps blood and it brings us, you know Full health throughout the rest of our body, right? But over time because of things that we do there's people who eat really bad food But then there's other people who do things like drink alcohol, which is haram in Islam, right? Or they smoke cigarettes or they smoke other things or they do other You know type of just wrong things those things have an effect on their heart And it starts to do this what we see in the damaged heart It starts to cover the heart with disease, right? The heart is no longer working, right? And that's why those people sometimes have a hard time breathing They have a hard time, you know doing anything walking a few steps can for some people be really difficult And it's likely because their hearts have just been damaged for so many years And you know, it just prevents them from living a normal healthy life So the spiritual heart is the same way over time if you don't if you're not aware of the diseases of the heart What can happen is it starts to take over the spiritual heart Just the same way like the damage that you see in this physical heart, okay? So that's why it's so important that we first identify What the diseases are because if you go to a doctor, right and you say doctor I'm experiencing some chest pains and I think my heart hurts he he or she will send you for You know some testing they'll look into your heart and they'll then tell you these are the changes that you need to make If you want to get your heart to be healthy again They'll tell you to stop eating this stop doing this exercise more That's all advice to get your heart to be healthy again But you have to first identify where the problems are so for the spiritual heart. It's the same exact thing You cannot fix the heart if you don't know what the diseases are that affect the heart So that's what we are going to talk about in this class. So let's go ahead and look now. There are 20 diseases of the heart, okay? This is a long list, but we're gonna go over all of them by the end of the class and this is just the first 13 Here's the rest so I'm gonna go over each one of them and kind of give you again some commentary So that you understand what they all mean and how human beings can develop them Like how can someone get a disease spiritual heart? Well, we're gonna talk about that So let's go ahead and jump into the very first Five or six. We're likely because of time we had to do an introduction that we might not get to all of these I think we're probably only going to be able to do the first three, but I still wanted you to see them So let's just quickly look at this list The first one that we're gonna talk about is called miserliness or stinginess Okay, again the the English words are on the right column The middle column has the Arabic words and then the definition is in the right column So the Arabic word for being stingy or miserly is bohol, okay? And this is the definition is someone who is Holding on to their wealth and not spending it when it's necessary and they're being stingy or greedy They don't want to let go of their wealth for whatever reason, okay? So this is a disease of the heart for many reasons because which we'll get to okay But if you can imagine again in Islam the prophet salam when you study his life You know one of the things that he was very well known for was how generous he was he was always Helping people he helped everybody. He even helped animals. So if his generosity Wasn't just for you know, his family or friends. He helped complete strangers He helped people from all different backgrounds and he even helped as I said animals So to not be a helpful person or a generous person or a charitable person is To go against the way of the prophet salam that right in and of itself makes being stingy a very big problem Right and again, we'll get into that in just a moment The next disease of the heart is called wantonness which is butter and this is being way too Exuberant joyful, but that leads you to be reckless in your Extravagance and I know those are probably big words for some of you I'll explain what that means is that you a lot may have given you a certain lifestyle, right?   Okay, but when you have an adult that has that problem It can really be become a big issue, right? And I'm gonna again talk it more in detail once we get to that The third disease that we're gonna cover for today is called hatred and this is Arabic and this is when you hate someone for really no reason no justifiable reason And it's definitely it's not for the sake of Allah because there's sometimes, you know If you hate something anything it has to be for the sake of Allah You can't just hate for no reason, right? And so we're gonna talk about how that disease can also really affect a person's overall spiritual state Okay, so those are the three that we're gonna cover today and then I'm gonna leave it open for some questions, hopefully But let's go ahead and get to the first one. So miserliness, okay? This is again bohol in Arabic So I want you to at home with your parents if you're there to repeat the words because you should know how they sound miserliness and bohol Okay, ha with a ha bohol now. What is that here? We have reminders from the Quran and hadith Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said that those who are miserly and enjoying miserliness on other men and hide what Allah has bestowed upon them of his bounties and We have prepared for the disbelievers a disgraceful torment So Allah is warning us very clearly that if you're a miserly person and you hide You're hoarding to hoard something is where you basically are just collecting, right? You're gathering things for yourself, right? And I don't know how many of you are paying attention But when this whole pandemic started a lot of people were running to the stores to get what? Piles and piles of toilet paper piles and piles of hand sanitizer And there were a specific people who got so much that they cleared out the stores So all the local stores in their cities They didn't even have any of these things available because one or two people took all of it for themselves This is completely wrong in Islam You can't do things like that because there were so many people who needed that stuff, right? They needed it to keep their families healthy and safe, but the amizer doesn't care about other people. They're selfish They're only thinking about themselves and then they hoard things maybe even more than they need There was actually, you know even shows I remember watching a few of them that go through people who have this disease of the heart and they go it they're you know It's like a documentary kind of which is where it's like a little news story where a camera crew will go into the house of a person and then kind of you know just show what how they live a lot of people have a disease called hoarding Okay, and hoarding is where you just can't help yourself You just want to gather as many things as possible Some of these people if you go into their homes, you know what happens you can't even walk through the front door You have to go through a window or a side door because the things that they have Get gathered or accumulated over time are so much that they go all the way to the roof of the house So can you imagine and some of these people like they have one specific thing like I remember watching one woman You know what she loved to buy? She loved to buy dolls So she would buy she was like an older woman So it's not like a little girl who just loves dolls. She liked to collect dolls So what she did is she bought so many dolls that they were taking over every room of her house So this is what happens with people who hoard right? They just keep taking and taking and taking not realizing this is wrong You're not letting other people also have their share and so it's a disease right of the heart the provost And I'm also said spend in charity and do not count it Lest Allah count it against you do not hoard it right do not be miserly lest Allah withhold it from you So this is a clear warning that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala if you are a hoarder Someone who hoards or miserly that Allah will withhold things from you too, right?  This is really important to understand now This is an interesting fact Some of you may know this some of you may not Did you know that in arabic the arabic language the word for miserly or miserliness is compared to something really unpleasant That all human beings experience even you pretty much all of us We have all at some point in our lives experiences because it's just natural Thing but it's not very pleasant. Okay, and I'm gonna tell you what it is So check this out The miser ardently clings to what? His wealth, right And he hoards it up The word for cling in arabic is masek. Okay, everybody say masek. Okay What is masek? This is derived from another arabic word, which means constipation Omg, right? I see your smiling faces and laughing faces. I knew this was gonna get you guys to giggle a little bit But just think about it for just a second That the person right who is constipated is what they Are holding on to something that's actually harmful for them to hold on to Because you need to go right when it's time to go you need to go But if you can't go because your body has a problem What happens is it causes you problems, right? So miserly people are compared to a person who is in that state because they're clinging on to something That actually poisons them, right? What do we mean by that? When you have wealth and Allah swt has given you abundance of something In islam we have to give part of our wealth away, right? We give zakat. We give charity Why because that is a cat and in sadaqa that we give Cleans or purifies all of the other wealth that we have So it's kind of like a detox, right? Because we don't know if all of the money that we have is is halal So we give it part of it away so that Allah cleanses the rest of it for us But if you're a miser, what you do is you don't give sadaqa. You don't give zakat You're holding on to your money for whatever reason And so you're they compare you to a person who's in that constipated state That's why it's something so odious something so repulsive, right? We don't want to be misers just like we don't ever want to be in that physically very very uncomfortable state, right? So remember that word the word masak Remember what it means. Okay, so another also just to for those of you who might Again want to quicker definition? miser A miser is someone who's also cheap. Okay, so cheap people Stingy people miserly. Those are all the words that you need to know to understand this disease of the heart Now, how do you get rid of it? Okay, so important because as we talk about the diseases We also have to talk about the cures, right? We can't just Identify the diseases without figuring out. Well, how do I make sure I don't ever ever ever ever become a miser? Well, let's look at what our scholars have told us They've said first number one thing is to remember death Okay, remember that wealth is accumulated over time and a lot of people work hard if you look at your parents They work really hard every single day to give you the life that you have, right? They go to work early. They sometimes deal with really difficult people They're not always in the best state. But why do they do it? Because they have to they have to provide for their families So when you accumulate wealth, it takes time But also one of the things that we know about this world is that death can come at any time, right? And so you have to be grateful for what Allah gives you and use it in its appropriate time Without thinking that you have time to spend because we don't know we have no idea how much life We have in this world, right? We always have hope and we should always have the best Hope with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala But rememberance of death will humble us to know, you know, what what am I holding on to this for?  Okay wasting your wealth is just Splurging buying things for no reason just kind of being careless. Okay about your wealth We should not do that and we should learn how to spend it for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala That's a balanced view just doing both, right? And then this is a really important point. So I want you to pay attention. Okay The miser is considered the ultimate loser Why? Because they don't use their wealth in this world because they're holding on to it, right? They don't want to spend they're holding on to their wealth And then in the next life, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala holds them to account Which means he's going to ask them about it, right? He's going to say why didn't you use that wealth that I gave you to help the orphans Or to help the refugees or to help The family that was struggling after their house went on fire, you know Or to help this person or that person Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is going to ask every single one of us How we where we got our wealth from and how we used it So the miser is going to be in a lot of trouble on the day of judgment But then if you think about their life on in this world, how sad because Allah's given you all this wealth But you don't want to spend it. That means you're not even enjoying your wealth You're just holding on to it for no reason. So this is why the miser is considered again a double loser Okay, important to know may Allah protect us all From miserliness. So inshallah say amen. Okay, we have to make dua to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala That he cleans our hearts so that we don't ever get these diseases, right? So it's so important to make that dua yalla. Please protect me from miserliness. I don't want to be Ever in this category of people, right? And also another thing that the scholars say is that the miser is usually someone that nobody really likes Not even other miserly people So kind of funny but not really just the idea that they're so, you know Like disliked that even other people like them don't like them. So think about that. We never want to be like that, right? So the next disease Is wantonness. Okay, this is called butter or butter in arabic. Okay And what is this this Allah's part that again verse Chapter eight verse 40 46 to 47 He says Do and do not be like those who leave their homes filled with excessive pride About their state about all right showing off before people and preventing others from the way of God And God encompasses what they do And then he also tells us he reminds us how many cities have we destroyed that exalted in their livelihood? Here are their homes now uninhabited after them except for a few What is that he's warning us that there were people throughout history That had a lot of wealth and they were very they're big show offs They like to show off and they had all this pride But they didn't do anything really good with with their wealth. They they instead used it excessively They they they Spent on things they didn't need right and that is Something that now the only thing that remains about them are the big homes that they used to go around and you know Show off about because they themselves were destroyed. So Allah reminds us that you know This world is something that's not going to last forever And so don't think that again You just having the wealth that you have and spending it on whatever you want that you're not going to be asked about that Right, it's important that we know there's a it's going to end at a certain point And we're going to be held accountable. So let's look at this Wanting wanting is the definition again is being so full of oneself and proud of one's lifestyle and standard of living That it becomes difficult to show restraint and control one's desires Okay So a person afflicted with this disease wants more and more and more of something Even if they don't need it just because they can have it So this is a form of greed, right? It's a form of greed to be To have this disease of the heart and a lot of people like especially adults what happens to them And this is by the way happening everywhere a lot of adults They end up falling into debt and what does that mean if you fall into debt It means that you Are spending more than you have and how do people do that? They usually go and get credit cards and you know get loans from other people They borrow money from other people And they do things that are just not right because they're trying to Live a certain standard of living like a lifestyle. So they'll buy like really expensive cars But guess what it's not with their own money They're borrowing money whether from a bank or their father or their mother or their brother So they basically can't control this desire to just spend spend spend And it ends up harming them and their families because if you can't control that Then it's going to you know affect everybody It's a and a lot of people they have you know Their their families fall apart because they can't control this disease of the heart So very serious disease. Now, how do we protect ourselves from it, right? Important to know that the treatment is similar to what we're doing right now. Okay We are all experiencing hunger, right when you deprive yourself you go through that process of Saying i'm not going to eat. I'm not going to drink What does it do it just instantly reminds you right of Of all the things that maybe you went a little overboard with it humbles you You start to appreciate what you have more you because usually when you just keep wanting things You lose the value of it, but once it's taken away you remember the value of it, right? And so another important thing to which relates to that picture that I showed you of the heart Is that a lot of different religions not just to slam Have what we call shared like universal beliefs that we we share the same idea about things And so among them is that too much food Actually harms the spiritual heart. Okay, and in fact could kill it So this is connected to wantoness because a lot of people who have wantonness Are are excessive in everything they do not just spending on wealth and material things but also on eating Too much and what happens is their spiritual heart becomes hard hard hardened Okay, that picture that I showed you of that heart that looks like a rock That's what happens to people who eat too much or who drink too much or who do anything In excess spend too much if you don't have restraint. That's what's going to happen to your Slowly basically killing your spiritual heart and the interesting thing the parallel Is that the same thing happens with the physical heart? When people eat really rich foods or and eat too much of it like if you're eating a lot of fried foods and Sugar and just things that are not good for you. They're you know, they're not Healthy foods that would promote health, but they're actually dangerous foods What happens is your heart actually becomes hard hearted with something called arteriosclerosis And this means that the arteries in your heart are hardened. They start to get really really hard Right and so similarly when you eat too much food your spiritual heart starts to also become hard So fasting is one of the ways to actually prevent yourself from getting this disease of the heart InshaAllah another one is to also seriously reflect on death And the hereafter And this includes, you know, the various scenes and states of death because death is a process, right? And then to think about the grave walking on the sirat, right?  We we have the soul travels the soul was somewhere with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala then It came to the womb of our mothers and then we're born into this world And then we're in the barzakh, which is the stage between this world and the next life And then we have the next life So it's important to know those steps because then it reminds you that you know what? You have to be better and you have to stop Being too greedy and wanting too much and showing more more control of yourself, right? And so then the last disease that we're going to cover is borad This is hatred very important because it's so Common a lot of people unfortunately They have too much hate in their hearts So let's look at what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and the prophesies that have taught us First Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says oh you who believe stand out firmly for Allah and be just Witnesses right witnesses who are just they're people of justice and let not the enmity and hatred of others Make you avoid justice Be just that is nearer to piety and fear Allah verily Allah is well acquainted with what you do So Allah is telling us right away that if you are a hateful person, you're not going to be just full, right? You're not going to be a just person So we need to know that what's closer to Allah and what's going to please him more is being just So we cannot let hatred take over our hearts the prophesies that i'm also said By the one in whose hand is my soul You will not enter paradise until you submit to Allah And you will not submit until you love one another Spread peace and you will love one another Beware of hatred for it is the razor So he's using this word razor sharp thing object, right and he says now he clarifies I do not say that it shaves hair But rather it shaves away the religion So hatred is something that will chip away at our faith at our hearts at our spiritual hearts We cannot let it enter our hearts, right? And so again just to expand on this a little bit One of the consequences of allowing this disease of the heart to grow is that it Inevitably it makes someone unjust that we're you're if you can't let hatred Enter your heart for people for no reason. Oh, I don't like this person because I don't like the way they talk Or I don't like the way they walk or why do they have to you know have this kind of Shirt on sometimes people can get really silly, but they'll find really really ridiculous reasons, right to To not like someone and then they let that dislike turn into hatred And you see this happening a lot not just you know with adults But sometimes even children right children can bully and they can be really mean to each other for no real reason But it's because again, they've allowed this to enter their heart And so what one of the things we have to understand is also what how this takes effect Well, what hateful people do is they tend to focus on one specific thing, right? So you What you focus on one thing you don't like about someone or someone and then that fuels the hatred It just starts to make you feel more and more bad towards them And then what that does is you can't even see all their good qualities anymore You don't see anything but that hatred now we have a word for this This is called and it's a little bit sophisticated, but I trust that you guys can learn this It's called confirmation bias This is when you think have an idea of something and then you convince yourself of it And then that's all you ever see about a person or or anything Then you just think that that that's your that's the truth for you But the truth is it's not reality at all You've convinced yourself of something and then you keep looking for that thing And then you think that that's all there is in that person So that's why it's so wrong because we're very You know, most people have goodness in them, right? Most people are good It's just that maybe they had a bad day Maybe if someone said something to that and it wasn't very nice Maybe they were just having a bad day and you have to be more forgiving Instead of what getting straight to this feeling of hatred, right? Which is why um, you know making excuses for people which we're going to get to soon What that means is a way to remedy and to remove this disease from the heart, right? And so that point about again that you can't be hateful and also be a fair person at the same time is important to remember So how do we treat this disease of the heart? First and foremost, we have to acknowledge that one of the attributes of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is al-wadud Which is the loving one. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is full of love, right? And there's so many beautiful hadiths where he talks about his love and his mercy One of my favorite hadith I was just telling I think my kids yesterday or the day before Was about how many parts of love Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has, right? He has he says there's a hundred parts of his love Only one part of that love Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has put on the earth So that means that every type of love that you see All the animals all the you know forms of love between human beings mother child Sister brother uncle grandmother, you know husband wife all that love Is what only from that one tiny part of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's love the other 99 parts He is saving for us the believers on the day of judgment So love is such a big part of our deen and we have to be loving people, right? And we also have to remember that hate Is the absence of love so if you can have a hateful heart Then that means that there's a problem because in your heart love is removed And we have to help put some more love into your heart, right? And so that's why we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala always to protect us from this disease By by giving us love in our life and increasing his love for us Inshallah we can hopefully overcome it We also Want to be active proactive, right? So if you ever have bad feelings towards someone it could be a classmate It could be anybody a stranger what you want to do is stop And think about what's going on in your heart listen to your thoughts Or you know pay attention to what your thoughts are and then say You know what I don't really know everything about that person Is it really fair of me to think all of these bad things about them? That's not right. I shouldn't do that. Astaghfirullah. Allah forgive me You know, I want to actually be better. So I'm gonna do something even more More than just say astaghfirullah. I'm gonna do something better Which is what to make dua for that person So that's one of the ways that you can remove hatred from your heart Is that you go the next step you take it, you know to the next extra step and you say I'm gonna make dua by their name. So you actually if you know their name if it's a stranger, you don't know their name That's okay. You could just say that person right Allah knows who they are and you say, oh Allah give that person guidance Always that's the first thing you should ask right that they're guided Because we want everybody to have guidance and we want everybody to To know Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and for him to be pleased with them And then you can make other da'as that you want for them Okay, so very important to do that and to do with sincerity and then to remember the hadith, right Allah the prophet said him taught us that none of you has achieved faith until he loves for his brother Or sister what he loves for himself. So this means that if you really want to be a good muslim You have to love Other people the same way that you love yourself, right and you should want for them what you want for yourself This is how we become the best muslims that we can become And uh imam know we by the way said that this hadith is universal brotherhood, right? It's not just for your family if you have a brother in your family or your muslim family But it's for all humanity that we want All people to have to be better and to be in a better state So that's how we inshallah grow in our love for other people and that Love will remove the hatred from our hearts inshallah ta'ala So i'm going to stop here you guys because We are just a little bit over time or almost at the end Rahim This is our second session of purification of the heart Thank you again all of you for being here We covered a lot of information on tuesday and i know I watched the video afterwards and i know it was going a little fast at certain times And i apologize if i was going too fast, but i'm going to do this sort of summary every class before we get into the new material So don't worry and if you have any questions the chat box is open But it's uh, oh it's going to come to me and my co-host sister homera who is also here and she's going to facilitate So if you have certain questions about anything that i'm saying at any time feel free to use that chat box And just you know, let's uh, enjoy the rest of this uh this program together inshallah. I want participation especially right now So right now i'm going to just do a quick refresher by first asking some questions to see who is really paying attention on tuesday, okay so first Can who can tell me the name of the author Who wrote the poem That was written in arabic We went over his biography Okay, so if you can type it in the chat box. I have someone who already mashallah gave their answer very quickly I love it. I love that you are on it, but i'm not talking about the translator Okay, i'm talking about the person who actually mashallah noor. There we go Noor got it jazaki la khair and noor you wrote the right answer imam molud or imam al molud, right So imam molud is The one who wrote the arabic text, okay, and he's the one whose poem The next person Translated so now if imam molud is the one who wrote the arabic text Who is the one who wrote the english? translation of his text Okay, mashallah. There we go. We got bilal We got yasin and actually before all of you He he answered first san, right? You're the one who said Hamza yusuf first so that was very good mashallah, but that was for the translator So good job at least you guys know the names of these two very important people So imam al molud is the one who wrote the arabic Text, okay, he wrote the arabic poem about 200 years ago Shea hamza yusuf who's still alive and well. Alhamdulillah. He's here in berkeley. He translated it into english So make sure you know his name. It's very important You know before we jumped into the all some of the diseases I described a couple or a few more than a few I should say different types of hearts Who can tell me first the number how many hearts? Are there described in the quran hadith or in the commentary of some of these texts? Very good. Mashallah. You guys are all getting the right answer. So let's look at the chat to see who answered first Um, I think this is is is han, right? It's it's on or ishal ishal and zaynah Okay, so I have ishal and zaynah Mashallah and then raheel. Very good. Alina nor all of you gave the right answer. Mashallah. Amen Yasin saqib aisha very good ismail Mediam awesome job you guys you guys are paying attention. I love it. Just like a lot of hitting Okay, so now a quick question of all different hearts That we covered Which is the most important one? Which is the one we should all have and we should all want to have Very good. Mashallah. You guys are coming with the answer so quickly. I love it. So Okay, Yasin nor misha Ishal very good aisha afnan mariam Um alina. I love alina. You said the shining heart everybody else said the sound heart very good So the shining heart the sound heart very good Does anybody remember the arabic word for it because that's the english meaning Who can tell me the arabic word or the term? It's a term Okay, who remembers the arabic? Let's see Oh, mashallah mariam. You got it. Kalb salim or kalbun salim. Very good mariam. Mashallah. Tabarak Allah Awesome job. I wish there was like a point system, but very good. Okay, excellent Now we're going to go to the first three diseases that we covered who can type the first three diseases Okay, very good. We got miser or miserliness stinginess Or okay good and mashallah issan you wrote the arabic awesome. You wrote bohol. I love it So you gave me some of you've given me the english some of you are giving me the arabic. Oh, this is awesome Very good. Okay. Let me just quickly pull up my uh slides because I want to make sure I am um Have have everything ready here. Okay. Bismillah. Okay. Very good. So let's see. I'm sorry. So go back to the chat So you guys got miserliness. What's the second disease of the heart that we covered? So we covered miserliness, right? Which is bohol in arabic Very good. Mashallah wantoness. Yes, and butter awesome. Ahsan and afnan.  Mashallah. Very good noor. I'm going to see who else remembers the third one The third disease of the heart. Give me the english And the arabic if you can remember the arabic as well Okay, let's see very good. Ehsan got it. Great job. So mashallah noor. You got all three Excellent raheel yasin aisha. Great job. So bohud, right? So we covered Miserliness, which is bohol Wantoness, butter and hatred both you guys rock. Very good job. Thank you guys for for mashallah giving me Again that sense that you were paying attention and that you retained which means that you're remembered What we talked about that's really exciting. All right, so now we're going to go ahead and move into today's lesson Okay, so for this i'm just going to quickly cut out my camera So you guys are not going to see me and then i'm going to Go into the screen share So you guys will see my Desktop as soon as I expand this. Okay, let's see. Bismillah One second you guys. Sorry I'm gonna do that This should hopefully be So let's see Why does it not expanding Huh Sorry guys. I'm trying to make this expand. It was working just a second ago But let's quickly check why this isn't working Bismillah Presenter of you. Hopefully it'll come right on. Okay. Just give me one second Bismillah There we go. Yay. Okay So thank you again for your patience. Here we go. So now you guys should be able to see the entire screen Not a tiny little screen. So we're going to go through the slides some of the slides that we saw last time and We'll go through all of these hearts which we talked about. Oh, there's that picture Okay, and here's the full list of the diseases of the heart This is what we covered the first three we covered last time which is miserliness stinging us Wantonness and hatred which you just talked about now. We're going to go into number four Which is iniquity or transgression? Bari, okay? Bari in Arabic and the meaning of this is it's hatred for other than the say or excuse me Harming anything in creation without a just cause. Okay, so if you ever cause harm to something without reason This would be bari. Okay, so let's go ahead and talk about bari We're going to fast forward through all of these because we already went there. Here we go So bari is harming anything in creation without a just cause which means without a good reason If you're going to harm something like sometimes, you know, you'll see Adults or kids just people walking down the street and then they see A bug and they just squash it Right, why would you squash an innocent bug? That's not nice That bug was just living its life. It didn't do anything to you So we don't harm things without reason, especially if you're just, you know, walking by something or you see people pulling out Grass or flowers, you know when they are at a park, you'll they'll just go and just start pulling at things We want to be careful not to cause harm to anything, right? In creation, so those are just smaller examples but of course this can be a big problem if it's not checked right because With the diseases of the heart some people can have like just like with any disease you can have Like a mild kind of version of it or like a really serious So a mild version would just be wanting to like destroy things, right? Just harming things destroying things destroying property destroying Like I said innocent creations like bugs and animals kicking a cat or a dog. These are all haram. You cannot do that It's not permissible, right? But when it gets In a worse form this can be very very dangerous because it can lead to a lot of terrible things happening, right? So the word bagh is derived and this is again important to know Because it explains the meaning and how we got the meaning of this disease of the heart It's derived from the arabic root word for desire So bari is desiring something so bad that you're willing to harm someone or something else for it Like you're you know, whatever that thing is that you want You're willing to destroy something else. This is why it's such a dangerous and terrible disease of the heart So Let's talk about how this can be come in a in a bigger form in the worst form possible, right? Bari is something that leads often to obsession with power So if you look at some of the world's most notorious leaders like the worst leaders throughout history They were afflicted with this disease, right? And they caused mass Genocide genocide is when you kill a lot of people at the same time For no reason just because you want power. Maybe you don't like a particular group of people, right? And throughout history that's that's definitely happened where people have harmed Entire Villages cities groups of people just just because they they wanted to and for no good reason Just because they didn't like them or they wanted power So bari can bring a lot of harm if it's not treated, right? It causes this disease again of power and wealth Other people that are also have this problem are criminals Right people who steal for example or who destroy other people's properties? Why do they do what they do? It's for you know, maybe they want something right if a if a thief goes into Someone's home They're not caring about the safety of that family or those people inside the home They just want what they want But maybe if they're you know confronted by someone they will hurt them because they want to run away Before the police come and catch them. So they basically really don't have that value for human life And they'll do whatever they can to get what they want, right? Which is why it's so dangerous. So Criminals thieves they have this disease But another group of people Also have a version of this disease and that's something a term that you might all know which are bullies Okay bullies want sometimes to become popular or liked by certain people or they want power Right like a they want to have other people scared of them So what they do is they'll ridicule mocks sometimes even fight people who are less, you know Maybe weaker than them or smaller than them all just to get something for themselves. So they don't really care So this is why again, it's such a dangerous disease of the heart Allah's proud that tells us and warns us about Barry right he says that all faces shall be humbled before him the living The subs the subsisting eternal hopeless indeed will be the man that carries iniquity on his back So he's saying that the person who has this disease of the heart is going to be hopeless On the day of judgment that means that they're not going to be safe because they Caused so much harm to people in this life that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is going to call them to account He's they're gonna have to face him and then The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said Who's islam or uh, sorry abu musa reported that they said they asked the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam a question They said oh messenger of Allah whose islam is best right and he answered The one from whose tongue and hand Muslims are safe so Making sure that you don't cause harm to people right with your words or your hands Is a big part of being a muslim so you cannot have buggy and be a practicing muslim at the same time If you're someone that causes people harm With with your words or like I said with your hands. This is definitely something we have to treat we have to stop that behavior, right? So inshallah that is what we have for buggy and here's the treatment for it So the first part of the treatment that imam al maulud suggests is Having certainty that the day of judgment is real And that every single person is going to face Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala And be asked about why they did what they did and that nothing escapes the knowledge of Allah, right? He Knows everything. He sees everything and he's the most just All people are going to be asked every single one of us will have to Answer for what we did so we should know that and once you know that firmly Then it should protect you and prevent you from From iniquity from bari from doing this where you harm other people Another thing is to remember death Okay, remembering death is similar because you remember like I have to leave this world So whatever power I want whatever control I want whatever money I want. It doesn't last It's going to eventually it's not going to matter because I can't take it with me when I die, right? And we don't know when that time is for some people they live a long life other people Maybe not that long, but the point is all of us We only we don't take anything with us when we die, right? That's the only thing we take with us is our good deeds, right? Or our deeds and then we're going to be asked about that on the day of judgment So very important to remember these things frequently and the more you remember them it prevents you from having bari Okay, so that is the first disease that we're going to talk about today Now the next one is kind of related because Certain parts of bari or bari is is fueled by the desire for something, right? You want something and therefore you're willing to hurt people for it So that desire is what we're going to talk about now when we talk about the next disease of the heart Which is love of the world or an arabic hubad dunya. Okay So the love of the world is something that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala warns us about in the quran Because it's something that can distract us, right? It can take us away From worshiping Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So he tells us here in chapter 6 verse 32 He says and the life of this world is nothing but play and amusement But far better is the house in the hereafter for those who are pious. Will you not then understand? So he's trying to tell us like don't get too caught up in this small World a short world because it's not going to last very long compared to eternity, right? We're going to be here For a short time and we should just focus on what we're supposed to do which is worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala And then the next life is so much better. It's longer We're going to be with our loved ones and we won't have all the problems and the issues that that we have in the dunya So basically stay focused And then he says let not this present life deceive you Which is to also just kind of warn us like don't be tricked by the dunya Because the dunya can be so distracting right if you like I said start working worrying about money and clothes and cars And all the different things you want You'll just forget to do other things, right? It's that's the power of the the dunya is that it can basically take you away from your responsibilities to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala To your parents your family your work It can just take you away because you keep wanting more and more and more so The provisional actually gave us many different hadith that talked about this disease of the heart But there's one in particular that really talks about The time that we're living in now, right? Where he says that nations are about to unite and call each other to set upon you Just as diners are invited to a plate of food So then someone asked is it going to be because of our lack of numbers that day? Will we be small in number? So what the processing just described he said that the muslim umma Is going to uh base there's going to be other people that are going to come and just kind of start taking From our lands, you know, like the the muslim lands throughout the world The way that a person who's really hungry comes to a dinner table and just jumps on a plate of food So they were kind of confused because you know, they were strong people So they didn't understand like how could that be and so their immediate Thought was maybe it's because we're not going to be that many There's not going to be that many muslims And that's why we're going to be so powerless like all these countries are going to be able to invade our countries And take what they want. So that's what they were thinking, right? So they asked is it going to be because our numbers like we're going to be small in number and the provisional said no You're going to be many On that day, but you will be like the foam that floats on the ocean So the provisional is telling us is that the the in terms of numbers population Muslims are going to be very like there's going to be a lot of muslims But there's uh, we're going to be like the foam that floats on the ocean And i'll explain what that means in a second and then he says Allah will remove the fear of you from the hearts of your enemies and put Wehan into your hearts. So two things are going to happen. These Forces that are invading in muslim lands. They're not going to be scared of you. You're not Strong people. They're not intimidated by you. You're weak basically and And they put wehan into your hearts, right? There's some wehan. So then they were like, wait What does that mean? So they asked oh messenger of Allah, what is wehan? And he said Love for the dunya and hatred for death So what he's basically telling us in this hadith is that That that we even though we have large numbers, right muslims are large in population We become weak and we're so weak that other Forces can we'll start invading our countries and taking things from our countries So some of you may know people from certain parts of the world I for example was born in afghanistan, right? There's many other people who Were born in different muslim lands who have had this experience where Other governments other people came into the country took what they wanted and left, right? It's happened in iraq and syria and so many other places in the muslim world, right? And so Why does this happen? Well the prophet said i'm told us it's because we he's putting the responsibility back on us, right? He said that we have an love for the dunya Right, which is and we'll talk about, you know the different types of love that we can and can't have And we have a hatred for death So we don't want to meet Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala because death is really one step closer to meeting Allah, right?  They don't want to meet Allah So if you have both of these Problems or issues then it's is it, you know Any wonder why you see so much of the muslim world in the state that it's in it's because we need to Not have these diseases of the heart, right? Both of them are diseases of the heart love for the dunya and hatred for death So now let's just examine this a little bit more, okay The froth of the ocean this is a really good analogy Look at that man in the first picture how small he looks in compared a comparison to the foam, right? The foam of the ocean depending on where you're standing can go really really far So that's it's a pretty, you know large swath of foam that you're looking at here And this is just one little, you know area up in the world But oceans are huge they make up the most, you know Part of the of the entire globe, right? It's water So but look on the right picture and you see that it's like soap, right? Doesn't it look like soap, right?  It's light. It's airy. It has no weight Which means it's not something strong, right? It's not something strong So the problems I still am use this analogy to say We're going to be a lot. There's going to be a lot of muslims and right now there's about Almost eight billion people in the world And one I think about 1.5 or 1.6 Billion muslims in the world So we are one eighth one eighth of the world population and mashallah muslims are in every part of the world Okay, we're not just in certain parts. We're everywhere But even though we have that many numbers, are we as strong? No, we're not we're like the foam of the ocean and why because Too many of us are afflicted with the disease of hubba dunya Okay, and what is hubba dunya? Here we go This is hubba dunya You wanting all of the best of the best of the best of the best You want a huge house. You want the nicest car. You want gold and jewelry and money And the you know eating the most lavish meals and all the nicest accessories You just keep wanting and wanting and wanting that you It starts to make what in your heart greed, right? It builds this other disease of the heart greed where it's just never enough Right, and this is kind of what we talked about on tuesday wanting this wanting this is you can't control Your desire for things you become prideful So these all these diseases kind of you know affect each other If you have wanting this or love of the dunya You're probably going to share a lot of the same qualities Which they are that you just keep wanting more and more and more and you start to have So you have greed and you start to have pride, right? So these are the dangers of Having hubba dunya is that it makes you keep It leads to these other dangerous diseases right greed and pride So again, we're looking at You know extra when you when you're doing when it's out of balance. It's excess. It's too much Hubba dunya is when that desire for these things takes over you. Okay, and so Let's look at again the other consequence of hubba dunya because not only do you get More greedy and prideful, but you're probably going to become very forgetful So this is the danger is that if you spend all your day Daydreaming about money and about all the nicest clothes and food and the big house and the fastest car And just all of that stuff you're going to start to forget certain things that are very very important Number one, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, you know, this is the problem. This is what shaitan wants shaitan Remember, he's our greatest enemy. So he wants nothing more than for us to forget Allah Forget our prayers forget the prophecy said him and so what he does is he distracts us by making the world Look so shiny and like exciting and fun fun fun that that's all we want We just want to have fun and just have the best of the best things So people afflicted with this disease of the heart. This is what they do They'll just sit home and they'll just be thinking about all these things. But then guess what happens They forget to pray They forget the prophecy said him Right. They forget Allah. They forget to give charity because they're too worried about making money for themselves Um, they they don't want to fast because they want to eat all the best foods and just spend, you know All this money on on the best experiences going to the fanciest restaurants They forget to go to the masjid They forget to study and to learn, right? We're supposed to learn every day of our lives. We should be learning something, right? They don't spend time with their parents. They forget to take care of their family Pay their debts because usually you can't keep this lifestyle If you have hubba dunya, you start to get credit cards and start borrowing money And so you get debt. Okay. The debt is when you owe people something So a lot of people with this disease also have wantonness Which is the which we talked about too that it makes them go into debt. Okay They also forget to stay in touch with their friends Take care of their responsibilities. Take care of the earth They don't care about taking care of the earth Because all they care about is wanting whatever they want, right? And that's why uh, they'll spend a lot of money on clothes and other things not realizing that The more money you spend on things the more it causes, you know pollution in the world, right? We there's a lot of pollution that happens because of factories and all of the You know cheap materials that that go into making certain products So as a muslim we have to what be more responsible with our spending and not just keep spending spending spending And then the last thing or another thing is death You don't remember death and that's the very thing that you should be Remembering to protect from this disease of the heart, right? So very important to know the consequences of love of the of the world now Um The next thing to remember is the you know the treatment. How do we treat this? Well, we said remembrance of death, right? That's one of the ways that we can treat this the provost license said remember often the destroyer of pleasures Okay, and he meant by that death that death destroys pleasure And so all those things that we taught that we showed in that picture They're all things that are nice nobody's saying they're not nice But again if it takes Over you the desire to want those things and all you care about is having things and you know just being Seeking out whatever desires you have Then it's a problem So the best way to remedy that or to fix that is to remember death Okay, and then also another treatment is being balanced In how to love the world and all that it contains In a way that's pleasing to Allah because The opposite of or the you know loving the world is not necessarily a problem in and of itself It's when you love the world to a point That you love it more than Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala more than other things, right? You just keep wanting more of the dunya and you don't want to ever leave the the dunya because You want to extend your life as much as possible so you can eat drink Go on vacations and just have a lot of fun go to parties They're fancy clothes. That's the problem, right? So there is a way to have a balanced love for the world And that's part of the treatment as well. Okay, and here it is So first we have to understand that there are five categories of love of the world, okay So there are things that we have to love obligatory why jib Recommended man doob permissible mubah Reprehensible makrooh and forbidden haram. So basically what this is is every single thing in the dunya Can fall under one of these categories? right, for example something that you should love is what the Quran right the book of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala The seerah of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam things that we have in this dunya right the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam himself The kaaba there's you know the the masjid and nabui Basically any house of Allah or any good place? We should love those things, right? And then there's the recommended right the permissible what you can like what you can Love it's permissible for example to love certain foods or even like we talked about on tuesday if you have a Love for really nice expensive things. That's not a problem It's if you don't have a balance with that love that you would be willing to harm someone to get that thing, right? Let's say for example You go to a store and you see a watch and this watch is so beautiful and you're like oh my gosh It's the most beautiful thing in the world. I want this watch. I want this watch.  You can do this this and this and you start saving your money, right? There's nothing wrong with if you saved your money and you said I'm going to go buy buy that watch because it's a nice thing and you worked hard for it, right? but if you Wanted that watch and then you thought about it and you said oh, man. It's like 500 dollars I'm never going to make 500 dollars. How can I get this watch? What can I do and then you know shayton will come and he'll kind of give you an idea He'll say I have an idea Go to the store and distract You know the the person at the checkout place and just go grab it real fast, right? This is how shayton works. He comes and he whispers to us things, right? So he might put that thought in your mind and now all of a sudden astaghfirullah You have what this is iniquity, right? This is causing harm because of your desire the desire is so much You can't help yourself. You're willing to harm someone or something for it, right? So we have to be very careful of that but as far as wanting the watch that's perfectly fine, right? Um, something reprehensible or makru would be for example to Delay your prayers. Okay We should pray on time when the prayer comes in As soon as you know that it's the haras or maghrib. You should pray If you make a habit out of delaying your prayers This is not permissible or it's a reprehensible. It's makru. It's disliked. Okay. It's not haram. It's not, you know Uh, it's certainly not, uh, you know recommended or permissible. It's makru So you have to know the difference that everything in the world falls under one of these categories and then the forbidden We know are haram.  That would not be very good at all to to uh, to love those things which Allah dislikes So love of the world is about having a balance about understanding that everything in Allah's creation Falls under one of these categories. Okay And then the prophesies that i'm warned because remember where when we talk about Love of the dunya being a disease of the heart that does not mean that the answer for it is to hate the dunya No, no, no, astaghfirullah The prophesies have actually told us and warned us do not curse the world The fort god created the world and the world as a means to reaching the knowledge of god So what he's saying is that don't think that You know the opposite of hubba dunya is to have a bad View of the world and to be like, oh, I hate this place and I want to leave And I can't wait to go to jannah and you have a very bad opinion of the dunya No, we should have balance. There's good in the dunya and there's harm in the dunya And we love that which Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala loves and we don't love that which Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala doesn't love That's how we look at the dunya and that's balanced People with hubba dunya, they don't have balance They love too many things that distract them from the worship of Allah. That's why it's a disease of the heart But to say I love Allah's creation I love the sun and the stars and the moon and the Parks and the rivers and the lakes and the trees and the oceans and the beaches And the good delicious fruits and the vegetables and the beautiful animals That's actually very good. We should we should be grateful to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for The beauty of the dunya that he's placed us in because he could have placed us in a dry planet like mars, right? Mars is dry. There's no barely any water there. It's like a giant desert He could have put us in a planet like that But he put us in this big Huge beautiful Basically garden, right that it's so amazing and there's just so many things that we can Appreciate when we look around all the colors that we see and the different variety of animals as we said, right? And flowers and flora and and trees These are all reasons that we should have what immense gratitude to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala So the balance is so important to treat haba dunya You have to have a balanced view and the best thing to do is just to say i'm gonna love everything that Allah loves Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he is what the most beautiful and he loves beautiful beautiful things So we can always Love that which Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala loves and he he dislikes foul things, you know things that are not good So we should also dislike things that are not good. Okay Very good. Alhamdulillah. So that was the second disease The third disease is called envy or hasad. Okay, what is this? This is a huge disease of the heart Okay, and a lot of people are afflicted with hasad. What is it? It is a form of Jealousy, which we're going to clarify because sometimes Envy and jealousy are used to to define hasad, but they are slightly different But before we do that, let's look at what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says specifically About this disease he in chapter 4 verse 54. He says or do these people envy What Allah has bestowed upon them from his bounty Okay, and we'll again explore what that word means and then he says seek refuge from The evil of the envier when he envies, right? And this is we all know this this surah, right? Qul awudu bi rap al falak, right? Insha'Allah, we all know this surah. This surah is describing the envier.  What happens to the wood? It starts to crackle, right and then very quickly you see it Just there's smoke and then all of a sudden there's this roaring fire If you come back and check on that after a few minutes part of it will be gone The wood is turned into ashes, right? So here he's warning us that having hasad Which is a type of jealousy and again, we're going to define it in a minute Is so bad that it eats up good deeds like fire eats up wood So let's understand the difference between envy and jealousy because like I said, it's usually used a lot the same way Um and jealousy or envy is the desire to have something that's not yours. So basically Let's say you go to school, okay Or you're at the mall or you're at the masjid or wherever and you see someone who looks your age Okay, maybe they're 15 16 maybe they're 12 13 But another person who looks your age and they're the same as you if you're a boy He's a boy if you're a girl. She's a girl You look at them and they're wearing a shirt that you like Maybe it's got something on it that you like too.  That's not fair. I want that It would look better on me and you start having all these really really bad thoughts That's envy, right? It's spite. It's basically this desire that turns into this resentment Towards the other person, okay Where you just really don't even like that person anymore and you wish they didn't have it because it bothers you It bothers you that they are wearing it and that you're wearing something that is maybe an older Thing or that you've had for a while or what it's not as exciting So you the envy just turns the into your heart into this, you know, really resentful, uh, you know Thing that that you just can't think anything positive about that person, right Now jealousy is an emotion, right and it typically refers to the negative thoughts And feelings of insecurity fear and anxiety Over an anticipated loss of something so if you're worried about losing something That can be jealousy, right? Like oh, I wish I didn't uh, you know, I Like if you're comparing yourself to somebody else that they have something But it's not that you necessarily want them to not have it You just wish you could have it too or if you already have it You're you know, you wish that you didn't lose it. So there's these it's a different feeling It's not about the person themselves that you're looking at. It's just about your own insecurity That's jealousy, right? But envy is actually wanting the other person to lose what they have So it's not just that you like it and that you want it for yourself and that you're Insecure over it. It's that you actually want that other person to not have it anymore And that's why it's so much worse. So envy is much worse than jealousy, right? Jealousy can just come from like I said so many different things that may happen to you and it may not even involve another person It's just Something that you want, right? Whereas envy is directed towards another person and that's why it's so dangerous Okay So what's the treatment? Well, first again, and we see the same thing keep coming up if you notice most of the diseases of the heart The treatment is almost all of the ones that we've learned so far is remembrance of death, right?  So for some people they're going to have a lot of money But guess what having a lot of money is a big responsibility And if you don't do what he expects of you you're going to have a lot to answer for right So it's not always so exciting if you think of it that way For other people he might have given them knowledge and he expects That they teach and use that knowledge to teach other people, right? So every the everything is given By Allah, he gives to people according to what he wants and therefore There's no reason to be jealous because you have certain things blessings that other people don't have right We all have things that not everybody else has So the best thing to thing to do is not focus on what other people have But rather focus on what Allah's given you and be grateful for it and remember again That death when it comes you don't take anything with you Except for your kalbun salim, right? That's all we should want to take with us more than anything else. We want that Sound heart, right? But nothing else really matters So that's why the remembrance of death is so good. And then imam al ghazali also said what And this is to help clarify, right? Because not everybody who has these feelings is Afflicted with the disease itself, right?  Like it's it's like all stuff for why wish I didn't think that about that person Or that thing that's a really good sign It means that inshallah you don't have envy Because it's natural sometimes to just see something that someone else has and like it That's okay It's but remember envy is when you don't want the other person to have it anymore And you wish that they were to lose it. This is where it gets really bad, right? So if that feeling has ever come in your heart All you have to do is say astaghfirullah. May Allah forgive me and inshallah Try not to have that feeling again And remember that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the one who distributes everything, right? Okay, so one thing to Clarify here is that there is an acceptable type of envy and it's called ghipta. Okay And this is being competitive For the pleasure of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Okay, that's called ghipta. And this is perfectly fine So there's the harmful envy which we just talked about and now we're talking about the acceptable form But there's two particular things that you have to have ghipta for. Okay So you can have ghipta here is the hadith. There's no acceptable envy in ke ghipta except for two people One who has wealth and spends it towards good causes The other is one who has wisdom and teaches it to others So what this tells us is that you can have this competitive good ghipta For a wealthy person Because you will see them that they're able to do so much, right? They're able to maybe build a masjid for the for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Or you know a given charity to all these different really important causes And so you look at them and you're like, oh, yalla, I wish I could have Wealth too because if I had money I would do this that I would do that and I would buy my mom a beautiful home And I would buy my father this and you want to just give your money for good, right? That is ghipta and that's perfectly fine And then the other type is when you see someone who has wisdom, right? They're knowledgeable Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has given them knowledge of the dean or maybe they Went to school and they were able to You know do really well in school and they're now working and helping so many people You can have ghipta for that type of a person because What you're doing is saying well if I had the same opportunity or the same blessing that they had I too would want to do good works So everything is connected back to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala with ghipta It's not that you don't want the other person to have it It's not because you have hubba dunya Where you just love power and money and wealth and status and all you're focusing on is wishing to have those things This is about doing good to please Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and that is permissible. So we can definitely have that Okay, so inshallah. I think this is yeah, that's the end of the presentation today you guys So let me stop here because I'm going to do about three a day. I don't want to overwhelm you guys There's a lot of content. Okay, so I want to make sure that you guys, you know have clear answers To your questions if you have any so let's go ahead and use the remaining time that we have for q&a So inshallah. I hope you guys enjoyed the presentation today. We talked about Iniquity, right? We talked about Um hubba dunya. We talked about envy. Mashallah. So three Um diseases of the heart, but let's go ahead and hear from you guys. I'm going to check the chat box now Okay Bismillah. Wow, there's a lot of questions here that's Is it okay for one to envy without knowing that they are envying so very good, but I think uh You asked that question and I answered it, right? If you have This feeling and you're not aware of it There's no responsibility on you, right? We're not held accountable for what we don't know So if you ever had that feeling then just say it's okay because you didn't know that you had envy And now you're asking Allah to remove it from your heart that oh, Allah Let me be happy with what you've given me and not worry about what other people have And actually be happy for them too, right because that is even better If you're if you see someone succeeding if you see someone have something Right, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that you haven't completed your faith, right until you love for your brother or sister What you love for yourself? So if you want really strong faith like iman And then you want to be happy for when you see someone else have something say alhamdulillah. That's great Allah gave them that thing that shows that you actually understand that it's more Uh important to please Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and to be content with what he's given you Then to ever let these feelings of hasad and jealousy enter your heart Where you um, you know want audibula Harmed on someone else just because you can't control your own desire, right? The desire is so strong that you actually would want someone else to lose it. That's why it's just not right, right? Okay, so let's look at the rest of these questions. You guys have so many mashallah um Okay, so someone asked and this is a good question because it's important What if you're scared of death and how to remember death, you know being scared of death, especially for some of you who are younger It's perfectly understandable You know, you're just starting your life and all of a sudden you're being Told about death it kind of can seem like well, you know, that's uh, that's a little too much for me And that's understandable But we kind of have to look at this from a different lens when we say to remember death That doesn't mean to get dark about death and just to start thinking about all the scary parts of death It means to just think of it death as a like we're all travelers, right? And that's how you have to really look at yourself is that alas panopada He created the soul to travel through different worlds. Okay, so before we were here, for example Where were we right before we were born? We were with alas panopada and then he put our souls Into the womb of our mothers and then we came into this world So we we are we've already been traveling. We just don't have a memory of that So when you think about death, you want to just think about it Like it's the next part of your travel, right? And it's not something to be scared about because you're getting closer to alas panopada And as long as you have belief and iman inshallah, then you'll be okay, right? That's the most important thing and that's why alhamdulillah your parents are doing their Responsibility of teaching you your religion of teaching you who alas panopada is of teaching you who the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is Teaching you how to pray teaching you how to Have all of these things to know all these things inshallah so that when you go to the next part of your travels Which for most of you inshallah is going to be a long long way from now So you don't want to think about it like oh, it's going to happen tomorrow No, we're just saying that death is a natural part of life Everything it's just kind of a cycle of this world, right? And so when the our time comes inshallah It's just the next part of the travel and then the final place the final destination Is inshallah going to be in jannah where we're all going to be together with our loved ones And it's going to be the most exciting time and we can't even come you know compare anything to it Nothing we've ever done in the dunya can compare to what's going to what's going to be waiting for us in jannah So you want to look at death like that like well if I want jannah I kind of have to go through this part of the travel, right? I can't skip it But that's it not to get dark about it. Okay And so I hope that answered your question. Let's see. There's a lot of good questions here. Masha'Allah Okay, so very good question about killing a bug if it's annoying or in your house So there's a difference the example I gave was on the street Minding its own business or at a park or in this, you know school yard or in the sidewalk even, right? That bug is living its life.  There's some very poisonous spiders for example And you're afraid is this going to bite me? Is it could it harm me? That's different right and in that case. Yes, you can absolutely protect yourself if you have to My boys they're on the the chat here. We have this plastic bottle and it's called a spider catcher Okay, well, that's what we called it. It's really just a plastic container from an old I think is it almonds? Maybe a sink can go grab it but it's basically just a container that we got from cosco and Once the almonds or whatever was inside of it finished Then we put a label on it and it's called our spider catcher So what we do is if we see a spider anywhere in the house We quickly go grab the spider catcher and we scoop it up and we take it outside That's what we do because we try to be very mindful about life in general So if we see bugs that are not harmful or maybe that are you know that they're not moving fast and flying at you You could easily scoop them up then we'll do that but everybody's different. I know some people are very You know, they have phobia right arachnophobia. That's a real thing They can really get like you scream if they see a spider, you know, you have to preserve your life and if you feel Scared to that level head inshallah, but try to Again, if you can not kill if there's no harm, that's the point of it Okay, as long as there's no harm especially in nature like we should never Kill things in nature. That's just really not right because that's not in our home That's that those things are where there should be a lot created The world for all of us to be in right and it's not fair to say. Oh, I'm just bored right now I'm going to go squash a bug for no reason all the black. This is actually completely forbidden. Okay All right, so let's see Um, can you still okay? Isn't a person going to become sad if they think about death So I hope I answer that question I should because if you think about death as just death itself Yeah, you might be sad, but if you think about death as really just a part of the journey to jannah It's not so sad, right? So it's really the way that you think about death Okay, but the point is is when you remember death what that's reminding you is Watch it. Watch yourself, right? You're telling your nefs and shaytan. No, I'm not going to um I'm sorry one second. How did that happen? Is seen Okay Yeah, sorry you guys That got um, I don't know how that happened, but we are not taking over the cameras Okay, please because this is being recorded So don't take over the cameras Let's see here Okay, Bismillah. So back to the questions here Um My dad there's it So I'm just going over because I'm getting some repeat questions here. These real diseases Okay, so yeah, we do have someone who said I'm naturally scared of spiders Um, yeah, if you're really afraid that it's going to bite you that's understandable. Okay. Um Yes, if you are You know working with an animal and you accidentally hurt it There's nothing that's okay. You know as long as it's accidental things accidents happen, right? Sometimes you might Run into it or poke it and it gets hurt Just, you know, try to take care of it because animals do have feelings, right? There's that beautiful Story of once when the prophesies said I was with his companions. They were out somewhere and he kind of left for a little bit and uh What and one of the sahaba he saw a bird's nest And he just thought hmm. I want to go take it So he just took a nest full of little eggs and chicks And he put it in his, you know Part of the caravan and then they started walking and the prophesies suddenly eventually joined them and when he joined them All of a sudden this bird from up top started flapping its wings really really like vigorously Which just means like intense, right? And so he looked up and then the prophesies that I remember one of his miracles is that he could communicate with animals Very similar to to who which other prophet? Let's see. Who knows which other prophet could communicate with animals Right, but he could very good mashallah. Hassan so he could communicate like um prophets who they meant So he understood from this bird that What was happening that someone It's a mother bird that someone took her babies So then he immediately turned to his companions and said which of you Has hurt the feelings of this mother bird and taken its babies and then that sahaba was like, oh Sorry, it was me and then he ordered him to put it back where he found it So the brawl says i'm in the words that he used he's telling us what That animals have feelings. Okay That's really important for us to remember because They do have feelings and so if you accidentally heard it I used to have a cat and there were times where you know We were playing around and she would scratch me and then I would kind of paw at her and we were playing But if I ever felt like she like I did something to her I'd be like, oh, I'm sorry juju You know there's times actually she would sneak past me and I'd almost accidentally trip over her, you know But I felt bad because I you know accidentally. I didn't know she was there So you we have to remember their animals. We're going to be held accountable But just to to be you know nice enough to at least say sorry and to try to make them feel better But as far as it being a haram or a sin if you do it on purpose. Yes, of course, that's sinful It's haram, but if it's an accident inshallah, okay. All right, so let's see Um Very good question. I have a question about bari. Is it where narcissism comes from? You know, um Potentially what you know, it could it could very well come from that I mean if you are willing to hurt other people for power Then it's likely that you have you know this problem that you or this belief that you think you are Better and more valuable Uh, you know as a as a human being than other people and that's really the root source of narcissism, right? You think of yourself as better than other people and you're willing to hurt other people if you have to So in a way inshallah All right. Um, so very good. All right. Thank you guys We have come to the end of the session and you guys a lot of your questions were Um, or very good questions. I think that I thank you all for for um, participating MashaAllah, that was awesome And uh, we will have um, inshallah Let's see. Sorry. Let me check the date the next class we have is going to be next Tuesday. Okay, so one week from Well, no today's thursday I was going to say one week from today not one week a little less than a week from today We'll see you inshallah at the same time from 5 to 6 p.m. For the next three maybe four sets of uh, of Diseases inshallah Okay, so inshallah. We'll see you guys. Let's go ahead and end in dua. All right Bismillahirrahmanirrahim To believe it. All right. Alhamdulillah. Thank you guys again. I hope you enjoyed the class inshallah We will see you next Tuesday. All right, and if you have any further questions Hold on to them for me and come back next tuesday. We'll get to them eventually. All right. Assalamu alaikum everybody wave I'm gonna go through the whole camera. Yay. I get to see all your beautiful faces. MashaAllah. Thank you for being here Alhamdulillah. All right. Take care and have a wonderful wonderful iftar. Okay for those of you who are fasting If you're not fasting make dua for your families make dua for all of us. Okay. We need your du'as. Your du'as are very powerful All right All right. Salamu alaikum Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Asalaamu alaikum. Rahmatullahi wabarakatuh Again, Salamu alaikum everyone. Alhamdulillah. We are here for our third session of purification of the heart Thank you for being here I made a few announcements before we officially began to those who are here early just to again Keep everybody on the same page. We've switched over to the webinar format So the chat box is open and I invite you to participate via the chat box I'll ask you some questions right now because I want to begin inshallah And we'll begin like we did last time with a bit of a little bit of a quiz Okay, so if you remember from last two sessions that we had Or if you have notes, maybe you want to take those notes out and quickly look them over. Okay And the first question I have is who can tell me Who the original Author is of the text the arabic text that we are talking about here Okay, because there's a person who lived 200 years ago about 200 years ago Uh, very good. Alhamdulillah. So we have some answers. Good job So i'm just going to make a slight correction because all of you have answered the same answer So his name is actually imam al-molud. Okay, so a lot of you are responding imam molud Which is fine. It's like a quick way of saying it but the accurate Name is imam al-molud. Okay. I just wanted to clarify that very good So alhamdulillah. This is imam al-molud's text and he lived about roughly close to 200 years ago Um, who is the person who translated? The the book from arabic into english. What's his name? Very good. Mashallah Excellent. Okay, and what uh, where does uh, shea khamza all of you, mashallah Who are answering had if you were the first to come in very good and shamina second bilal third Awesome. Great job you guys. Amen as well. Great job and leila all of you are answering it wonderfully Where does uh, shea khamza currently live? Where is he situated? What part of the world? Bay area. Oh, there we go. We got bay area and then we got yasin with the correct answer berkeley very good So he's in berkeley. Uh, does he have a special um, you know place that he works at? And if so, what's the name of that place? Who can tell me the name of the place? Very good. Mashallah. Amen. You came in there and had it as Had it you said zaytuna, but amen got the full answer for zaytuna college. Very good. Awesome. You guys sorted yussef Bilal yasin, um as well. Awesome. Okay, so next, um, we we right away talked about the Uh, a certain number of hearts Who can remember the very first heart that we talked about? Okay, there were a certain number Um of hearts you can tell me if you want the number of hearts, but what was the first one that we covered? Very good. Mashallah. So ismael answered eight Awesome. Good job ismael and then yasin came with the first Heart as the dead heart. You guys are on it. Excellent. The first heart was in fact the dead heart very good And what's the last heart called? If you can give me the arabic name even better The last heart that we talked about Very good. Amen came in with the sound heart. Awesome. And what's the arabic of the sound heart? Mashallah. Very good. Shamina. Awesome. Great job. You guys you guys are doing really well. Mashallah. Okay, so, um, we covered a few different, uh, you know diseases already Who can remember the very first disease that we covered? The first one Okay, yasin came in with miserliness. Very good. What's the arabic? Bilal you answered me before I even finished that question. You are awesome. Great job. And it's done very good You guys know the arabic terms. Awesome. Uh, what is, um, the disease of the heart now I'm going to switch up the questions a little bit to try to pay attention to the definition.  It's too exciting and that leads to, uh, extravagance Uh, very good. Awesome. Afnan. Great job. Wantonness. Very good. What is the arabic, uh, of wantonness called? Afnan again. Look at you. Masha'Allah. Very good. That's so exciting when you guys get it right like that. Awesome Okay, so there's another disease of the heart.  Okay. It's like lightning Uh, you're gonna type it out the english of it What is the english meaning of the word? Who can tell me board? Wow. Afnan man. Masha'Allah.  You're coming really quick Super fast. Masha'Allah. You guys are awesome. Okay next This is the disease of the heart where you harm People or things for no reason whatsoever. You're just not having a good day and you you you feel like you can hurt something Awesome. Bilal came in with it with the word iniquity. Very good. Bilal. Masha'Allah Who can tell me the arabic Name of that Bilal, you're like right there with me. How you know what I was gonna ask, didn't you? Very good We got Bilal. We have Ehsan and Afnan.  It's bari bari, right? Great job. You guys I am so impressed. Masha'Allah Okay, this disease of the heart the Prophet s.w. Said in a hadith. He was worried that towards the end of time We would be like the froth of the ocean and he said we would have wahen In our hearts and then hit the companion said what's wahen? Yeah, Rasulullah, and he said this disease of the heart. What is it? Very good. Masha'Allah. Ehsan bake awesome love of the world Heba dunya. Now you're on it. See that's what I love. Ehsan you went with the English and the Arabic in one answer Pay attention you guys. That's a really smart way of getting the full answer, right? He's showing me He knows both great job. Masha'Allah TabakAllah Okay, then we went on to another disease of the heart. This is when you See something in someone and you can't Control your desire for it and you actually want them to lose it. What is the Arabic of it? There we go. Masha'Allah. Excellent. So Yasin got this Ehsan again came through Bilal Shamina All of you you guys got kind of all answered at the same time. It just came rolling in. Amen Taslim. Good job. Awesome Very good. Alhamdulillah This is a disease of the heart that the Prophet s.w. said it consumes your good actions like fire Consumes wood What is the name of that disease of the heart? Let's see who was paying attention It consumes your good actions like fire consumes wood Is it jealousy? I kind of tricked you guys there and some of you fell for it, but Shamina Or i'm sorry. Who is the who did I see aisha came through it is envy you guys envy Remember envy and jealousy are kind of used, you know oftentimes You know to mean the same thing, but they are slightly different Envy you want the other person to lose what they have jealousy You just want it and you're insecure about things. Okay, so that's why where it comes from whereas envy is just really You know about having it and wanting the other person not to have it so very good and has said very good How to thank you is the Arabic word for envy excellent You guys are really doing wonderful. Masha'Allah. Tabarak Allah What is okay? This is the trick question or not trick question This is the bonus question. Let's see who can get the bonus. Okay, if you get this one Masha'Allah Allah's you're really paying attention So let's say Ahmed. I'm just making up someone Ahmed sees Bilal and Bilal is memorizing Quran And he's got juz i'ma memorize and now he's on to the 29th juz and he's doing really good And then Ahmed goes man, I wish I could be like Bilal He's got so much Quran memorize. Why can't I do that? I'm gonna go find a teacher and I'm gonna do this. What is that called? Yes Bilal got it Masha'Allah. How how perfect is that right because Ahmed and Bilal Bilal you're you're on it. Masha'Allah. This is ghibta. Okay. Ghibta is what? Ghibta is a good form of jealousy, right? It's when you're competing for good things So when you're trying to gain knowledge, what's the other reason that the Prophet ﷺ said you can have a ghibta for? So if you're it's good jealousy, right? It's good to compete with with someone for this. So one is Knowledge, what's the other thing who can remember? Come on. You guys can do it. You've been doing amazing so far Wisdom and knowledge kind of go hand in hand, right? Because you have to be wise, you know Or if you have knowledge, hopefully you're wise, right? Um, okay, very good. Afnan Masha'Allah. It's what your your gave is I think a pretty good answer and Yusuf as well Wealth or Sadaqah. So the means to To do things right? So if you see someone who has a lot of wealth, you can have Ghibta for that person as long as your intentions are good, right? You want to please Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so you have that jealousy like oh I wish I had that kind of money so that I could do a lot of good in the world, right? Like help orphans, right? This is a great cause, right? Or build a masjid. So there's a lot of Great things that you should be doing with the money and if you have Ghibta for someone who's wealthy That's okay or for someone as knowledge. You guys are so amazing. Jezakim al-Akhirah. I love that you guys are paying attention and you're remembering stuff that makes me so, so, so happy So may Allah bless all of you. Now. Are you ready to start our third session because we're going to introduce you to three new diseases of the heart You guys ready pay attention now. Okay, or any take some notes If you want to let me go ahead and pull up my presentation to make sure that we are ready So my first screen share Bismillah, and I you should be able to see my screen and now we're going to go into presenter mode and boom Okay, you guys see it. Yeah, inshallah. Let me actually pull up the chat so I can see what you guys are saying um So what do you guys see on the screen? You see week two Sister has said looks perfect Okay. Alhamdulillah. Thank you. Jezakim al-Akhirah sister. All right. Here we go ready So week two we had week one last week. We did two sessions. This is where we're at now So we're going to cover these diseases this week inshallah. Okay For today's session. I only did the first three Just because I I didn't have honestly enough time to prepare more and also number 10 is a big one And I want to kind of focus on that a little bit more on thursday So we'll get through the remaining four inshallah on thursday. Okay, but for today We're going to go over blame worthy modesty Which is hayat demim and then that is holding on to One's wealth. Uh, oh, I'm sorry. Did I not oh no? I think I unfortunately forgot to Um cut and paste the proper column here on the right. Let me go back to the previous slide I hopefully have it here somewhere. We're just going to do a quick rewind rewind to here. This is uh, Where did we go not here here? All right, so we're going to go to number seven eight and nine. Okay, so my bad I forgot I didn't properly cut and paste this definition part of it. So I apologize So number seven blame worthy modesty is shyness or cowardice that prevents someone from addressing a wrong Or inquiring about a need. So what does that mean? It means when you are too shy to act in the in a time where you should act Let's say you're listening to a teacher like myself or maybe you're at the masjid and there's a khutbah going on And they say something that is um, not clear like maybe I say something too that's not clear And then you're like, oh, should I ask or not? Should I say something? Should I raise my hand and go teacher teacher? I didn't understand that right sometimes Our shyness prevents us from acting when we should So we're going to talk more, but that's just a quick example of that. Okay Blame more these thoughts These are thinking about things that are prohibited. Okay, like if you're just letting your mind Kind of wander on and you're just thinking about things you shouldn't think about and we'll talk about what we mean with that Okay, but anytime you have thoughts that are just really pointless or it's a waste of your time That would fall under bloom already thoughts and then fear of poverty So that is when you're so afraid of you know, not having enough food or wealth or material things That it creates this anxiety in you and it almost basically kind of destroys the way that you live your life Right a lot of people and it's somewhat kind of could be tied to Miserliness because if you have a fear of poverty it might lead you to become someone who's hoarding their wealth Right because it's like, oh no, I can't spend too much money because I you know I'm going to be poor or I'm going to not have a home to live in or and those thoughts can kind of just really take Someone to a very dark place where they lose, you know, complete trust and all us upon that So we're going to talk about those three diseases today. So let me now fast forward really quickly Let's see how fast I can go. Okay, and I'm going to click as fast as I can. Okay But how fast was that? Nope, here we go. Here we go. Wrong one. Okay, so here we are we are on Again blame worthy modesty. So first before we even get to blame worthy modesty, let's be clear about what the word modesty means, okay So most of us we know this word. It's a very big part of our Faith, but sometimes we need to really have a broad understanding of modesty Because it's not just about our clothing. Okay, a lot of times when we hear modesty It's reference to dressing modestly, right? But it's more than that It's about being humble and not showing off and when we say showing off this obviously includes Showing off our bodies, right, which is why we dress we cover We dress modestly because we don't show off the things that are private, right? Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala told us to be modest in the way that we dress So it's about not showing off our bodies or our good deeds skills strengths Whatever gifts Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala has given us if he's blessed us with if you're a modest person You don't show off. Okay, why because you're confident You don't have a need or a reason to be a show off Someone who shows off they're insecure, right? They're insecure They feel like I have to show this because then I get attention and if I get attention It makes me feel good about myself Muslims we don't look to other people for attention.  You see them all the blah and as the temperatures get warmer They start, you know wearing inappropriate clothing, right? And when they do that Our job as Muslims because we don't judge people, right? We do not judge people We say that Leave everybody to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala and I have actually a really good story That that I'm going to share in a moment about not judging people But but what when we see someone who's dressed in an inappropriate way We show our modesty by what lowering our gaze, right? So here Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala tells us tell believing men to lower their glances and guard their private parts, right?  You cover your area a private area that is pure for them God is well aware of everything they do and then say to the believing women. Oh, excuse me. Ah, where am I? Sorry, you guys I'm Butterfingers here. Okay ah I'm trying to move this little chat box because it's in the way of the text. So I apologize Okay So say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty That they should not display their beauty and Or an events except what must ordinarily appear, right? Our hands our face that they should draw their veils over their bosom So you see where hijab we cover ourselves, right? This is how Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala instructs Muslim men and women to dress we dress in a modest way, right? And I'm just going to quickly tell you guys a story that this really actually happened to me I was once um At an airport and this is a long time ago where I was younger and I didn't know a lot of things and I thought that You know, I'm better than people because I was wearing hijab And so I did I kind of let my arrogance self righteousness, which we'll talk about right? It's sometimes you get a little too You think of yourself as better and this is dangerous as a disease of the heart But if you don't know it's a disease of the heart then you can have it So when I was much much younger this happened to me where I was In hijab and I was at the airport And I was waiting for my ride and all of a sudden I see this woman and she gets out of her car You know, she's uh, you know when you're at the airport and you're waiting for people to pick you up You have to kind of wait there and all these cars are coming and going So she got out of her car and she was dressed very uh inappropriately She was wearing shorts very short shorts and like, you know a tank top And I just looked at her and I judged her I did I thought like wow why is she dressed like that? It's so wrong and I had all these negative thoughts and then subhanallah She ended up it was kind of a very strange experience for me because I'm just waiting there I don't know her she's a stranger But she ended up closing the trunk of her car and she saw me And then she started walking towards me. So I'm like, whoa, what's going on? Why is this woman who's like a stranger walking to me? Right, what is she gonna say and I'm like, you know, so I kind of was like a little like You know just paranoid like what's gonna happen now All of a sudden she comes and she stands in a very humble state very humble She has her head down and she goes salamu alaykum I know I'm not dressed very appropriately You know, may Allah forgive me. I'm a muslim. I'm a convert And I'm raising my son to be a muslim I saw you and I was so happy because I thought maybe you can help me give me some Recommendations for children's book because I want to raise my son as a muslim So she's saying all of this stuff to me subhanallah, right? She's not dressed modestly. I'm dressed modestly But this is where we look at the hearts, right? Her heart was in such a good state because she recognized her mistake She was humble and she wanted to be better But I led arrogance in my heart, right? I thought I was better and I was judging her And then Allah he's the one who made this whole event happen, right? She I There's no way I would have ever thought she was a muslim the way she was dressed But Allah wanted me to have that experience because it did it changed my mind about a lot of things I I started to really look at my heart more and say, oh sigh How could you have let your heart become so filled with arrogance that you walk around judging people because of the way that they're dressed, right? That's not for you to do You you don't judge people. We don't judge people. We we know what's right and what's wrong But we leave the the judgment to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, right? He's the only one who judges so when we say that yes, we live in a society where a lot of people Are not dressed appropriately Our job is not to look down on them because they don't know many times people don't know This woman she was a convert and she was trying to be better So, you know, just like islam took 23 years to complete some people they take time getting a good habit So we just have to leave the judgment alone. But what we do instead of judging them We turn our gaze away And we wish well for them that Allah guides them, okay?  She was much better than me and that was a humbling moment for me And I'm so grateful to Allah that he did that for me because it literally changed Everything my perception of everything was different than I started looking at the diseases of the heart And realizing I had a lot of them and that's how I Hamdullah benefited from this amazing Science of you know purification of the heart. So, okay So now what else do we know about modesty? Okay? Here we have another hadith Where Qur'an ibn aliyas reported that we were once with the messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam When modesty was mentioned to him and someone said oh messenger of Allah is modesty part of faith And the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said what rather it is the entire religion Subhanallah, so this is a very big part of being a muslim Then he said verily modesty abstinence reticence of the tongue but not the heart And deeds are all part of faith they bring gain in the hereafter and loss in the world What is gained in the hereafter is much greater than what is missed in the world So why did I put that phrase reticence of the tongue but not the heart in yellow? Because this is telling us that reticence means when you're holding back right you're holding back Um, we should hold back with our tongues when we uh, you know, maybe there's a situation And that that uh, you know, we don't like or you know that where the judgment might take over We shouldn't comment but not in our heart in our heart. We should be very clear about what's right and what's wrong Okay, and that kind of ties into what blame worthy modesty is So let's uh be a little bit more clear here So again modesty something's a whole religion every part of us we should uh, I mean Our part of our faith thing is uh modesty is a big part of that but we have to understand that this um Quality has to be in balance right between one's spiritual heart and one's conscience So here we have praise worthy modesty activates the conscience right and protects the spiritual heart It helps one to lower the gaze Protect the heart from being exposed to things that bring it harm But blame worthy modesty Impairs the conscience and by extension the spiritual heart It prevents one from acting or speaking up when it is necessary And it invites cowardice into the heart to become a coward, right? That's what blame worthy modesty does you're you're not very courageous When you have blame worthy modesty and this is not part of our faith We should be people of courage with a lesson on about it, right? So let's look again at some examples. So for example, as I said earlier Not asking questions about one's dean out of shyness So if you're ever not clear about something but because you don't want to embarrass yourself with your friends In the class or you you know, maybe in a situation where you don't know all the students You feel a little awkward about talking remember this you don't want to have blame worthy modesty It's much more important that you speak up and you don't have to speak up right then and there Maybe after the class, right? You can go to the teacher and say Mr. Or you know sister or brother or who you know, sheikh or sheikh I didn't understand when you said this. Can you please explain it to me?  And so at the bottom you see this hadid here At each uh, the prophet's wife May Allah be pleased with her said How excellent are the women of the unsought? These are the women of medina, right? They do not allow shyness To prevent them from asking questions and understanding the religion So she's making an observation here that says what that look at how amazing these women of the unsought are they Ask their questions. They're not clear about something. They're not going to go. Oh, I'm just gonna That's okay. I'll pretend like I understood it, right and it this doesn't have to just be for religion You know, let's say you're in a math class or you're in another class You know, you should you know have the courage to always if there's some knowledge that's being taught to you And you don't get it to make that a priority instead of yourself, right? It's not about how you appear because very wise people are okay admitting that they don't know Imam Malik who was one of the great four imams Uh, you know of the schools of fiqh that we have he was known to very commonly say I don't know when people would ask him questions He would say I don't know and this shows not that he doesn't have knowledge But the opposite that he's actually very wise and he had I mean he was very very knowledgeable He's one of the great imams, but he had the humility to know when he didn't know Right and so we shouldn't let our shyness of not knowing Prevent us from knowing that's what blame worthy monstay is one example Another is not standing up for someone who's been wronged. So if you see a situation, let's say there's a bully Right and he's bullying or she's bullying someone and you're just standing there You know, what's wrong, but you can't find the courage to Say something right or to do something to put a stop to it We find this problem everywhere now in schools and in other places a lot of People not just youth, but like adults too They freeze up and they don't say something when they should and then they watch and instead unfortunately with phones now They're recording it, you know So it's like here you're watching someone get beat up in front of you and instead of acting You're just going to record the video like that's really not good Right because you're you're not helping these people at all the one who's doing the The harming and the one who's being harmed both of them need help Right and that's what most Muslims are called to do the process and told us we help You know the oppressed and the oppressor and we help the oppressor by stopping him from being oppressive So you want to separate people when they're fighting because you know the one is getting hurt But the other one is also causing a lot of damage. So let's Help both of them if this happens, you know, especially with friends or people that you know You should be worried about both not having the courage to Stand up to an unjust person. So in the first situation, you're not protecting someone who's being harmed But in the next situation, it's where you you're not confronting that person Who's doing the bullying right and saying listen what you're doing is wrong and you need to stop it This is all you know part of again What what can take over someone if they have blame or the modesty And then also not participating in something worthwhile and beneficial out of shyness So this is similar to um, you know What we've talked about which is you see something either that's harmful that you should address or that's beneficial But your shyness prevents you from getting it like the knowledge, right? Or let's say you you know, everybody all of your cousins and friends want to go somewhere And um, maybe you uh, you're kind of like let's say they want to go roller skating Okay, and you've never roller skated before but the idea of it is like oh man I don't want to do it because I I don't know how to do it and I don't want to go and embarrass myself Um, so then you you don't go you end up going.  You might learn a new skill But there's a shyness there that prevents you that's blame worthy modesty. Okay So hopefully this disease is clear now. How can we get rid of it? Or how can we treat it? Well, the first thing is that you put the pleasure of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala before anyone else Okay, you're always thinking as muslims were always always always thinking first Will this make Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala happy or will it not make him happy? That is it with everything that you do from the moment you wake up until the moment you sleep That should be your thought process and everything because everything we know as muslims our deen is complete. Allah's given us answers About everything through the provisional example But our deen we know right and wrong and we know and if you don't know that's what you have your parents for and other people You ask questions But in your mind you that's how you check yourself and that's how you prevent shaytan From making you do things that are wrong. You have that question Is this going to make Allah happy or not happy and then you act right? But this is how we should be so if we start putting that into practice You'll find that Even if you're uncomfortable something if you're thinking okay if Allah will be happy with me I'll do it Then inshallah that courage will start to grow in your heart because you're always thinking of making Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala happy with you Okay, and um I see a quick question. I'm seeing the chat box, but i'm sorry I'm not able to answer every question, but this one is an important one that I do want to talk about real quick If you're scared of getting hurt, okay Now the word vulnerable comes from uh, I think it's greek or latin from bonus, which means to be open to injury Okay, um, and it means to be open to being wounded Okay, that's why we're when