Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wa rahmatullahi wa rahmatullahi This short lecture that I'll be doing, talk or whatever you'd like to call it, won't be a smooth ride so I'm going to let you know now that just keep your brains engaged a little bit inshaAllah because one of the things that we get from our tradition that advises us and we have wonderful Qawai, like principles for life so everything that's good in like the world that's offered to us is like how to be and how to live, we have all of those principles and one of those things is that if whenever we speak we really have to have considerations as to why we're speaking, one should not speak simply because one is a speaker, this type of a phenomena that one is a speaker and therefore because you're a speaker now you have to go and do a speech somewhere is actually quite problematic and the person who has the biggest problem is the one who is forced to be a speaker on top of that then there's the community who has to, the recipients of a speaker it's basically speaking for the sake of speaking, we don't have that and we don't really welcome that, it's a quite a dangerous place to be, there's no surprise that in the modern world that we live in, in this modern the jolly system that everyone wants to be a speaker and every single thing that you have online just entices you to say something literally it says comment here even if you have nothing to say just put an emoji, put something but it's all designed to extract out of you certain things and our tradition is not one where you just want to be spewing out stuff and so that we have things that help us and assist us and so of those we have to ask ourselves first and foremost is it necessary when we're speaking and so in the same manner as a speaker I personally don't like to speak because it's more worries for my this life and the next life they say Naali said that the words that you use are houses that you imprison yourself in so you might want to consider which words you use in life and so it's not just the akhirah you have to be careful of what you say you also have to worry about it in this life so it stresses me out so I don't like to normally speak I like MCC and Munir Bhai and Masha Allah here I don't even know I was speaking on Friday and two days ago they sent me a message saying what's the topic so because I happened to cover this topic already when I was in Australia just a few weeks ago I thought less preparation time so that's why I picked this topic but I only chose the topic was because I think it's a very important topic in today's time I think that there's a lot of problems are happening in society especially when it comes to one's understanding of wellness and well-being and not just your own but that of your family and those who are around you you will see that a lot of this is actually by the system that we are now living in that's making us think a certain way and start to perceive things a certain way and believe certain things a certain way and that's why we have that hadith dua that I read which was Allah shows who show me the truth I read as the as the us but you would say Allah Ma'arini right or I show me as the truth as the truth truly is and give me the ability to follow it and show me falsehood as falsehood truly isn't great give me the ability to avoid it so we live in a time where truth and falsehood are very much conflated now and this is something that was was absolutely the Jalik this is one of the aims of the Jalis to start to conflate and to show things in an opposing manner so yeah so not only do we have to speak because it's necessary what we want to ask ourselves is it beneficial right and so of course it's something that's beneficial when it comes to this this topic of the Jal this is something that they they say that the Sahaba would say that the Prophet ﷺ when he spoke about it he spoke about the Jal as if the concept or the reality of the Jal was something insignificant and yet still so significant to the point that we were we were wondering that is the Jal in the palm trees outside in the date palms outside like that like that's how much the Jal was mentioned which is incredible if you think about it because if there was such an emphasis at the time of the Prophet ﷺ then what what should be the reality that if they're thinking the Sahaba thinking that the Jal is in the date palms outside the Masjid then you know 1400 years later where would we think that Jal would be at this point anyone on your phone just nestled in our pockets all cozy waiting to distract us with the pink yeah anyway so and so so this idea of the Jal so therefore you know I have then concluded to speak to myself so I'll be speaking to myself and then if you if you want to take notes for yourself then you can but I'm really just you know really genuinely just talking to myself now so so based upon that based upon then therefore the topic what time will we be breaking for the Salah eight o'clock so 750 okay and then do we resume after okay 25 inshallah okay so they'll be a break so if I'm able to be done by that time then we can be done inshallah if we're able to get it and I'll try to get it done so you guys can go and rest inshallah now so now when it comes to the Jal it's the idea of the Jal himself or the idea or the reality of whatever that is one of the things that we see is that it's not something as explicitly mentioned in the Quran so it's not something that it's like directly mentioned but there are many many hadith in relation to it and the Prophet ﷺ had mentioned some things that we exclusively as an Ummah get information in regards to the Jal that previous nations weren't privy to but incredible how all the nations were informed of the Jal now just to clarify I'm not actually going to do a talk on the Jal itself or himself and the reason I'm not going to do is because this is something that you all heard about this is something that you all had eat on the Jal everyone's heard about them growing up and these are out there already again I'm trying to keep it to what's necessary here so what I'm going to speak about I'm going to give you a heads up so as we go on this roller coaster journey you can keep up inshaAllah or maybe not keep up just get ready for the turns and there when to let go when to hold on what I'm going to do is I'm going to speak about the system that exists for the Jal to flourish for him to arrive there has to be a system in place and that system what we'll do is we'll speak about some of the aspects of that system most specifically in relation to the self so for us to understand how the Jal will appear it is important to understand that there will be a system that one of the interpretations is the Jal is a system all the interpretations of the Jal is a phenomena and there's many modern interpretations like the Jal is the camera and the big brother and one eye the satellites and so on and so forth and to be honest is probably a amalgamation of most of them but the most common one is the Jal himself will be a particular person but again I don't really want to speak about them what I want to speak about is that particular framework that we have and this framework I'm going to try to exclude from the framework maybe five or six key points now I will speak philosophical at the start so they will be what we would say is the philosophical or that you could say the philosophy of the job if I could say it like that and when I say philosophy I don't want anyone to freak out and think about so far what I'm trying to say here is the other these are the foundations of that world view now why am I speaking about that I'm not gonna there's not philosophy class and always a philosophy of the Jal class it's actually to understand that the world we live in has been designed and is predicated upon minds that have thought and as they have thought they have thought in a manner to invite the Jal and to invite a shaitan or satanic world view that things have to get have to become the Jalic in nature for that manifestation to really take place does that make sense so you have to understand that thought thinking was done so when we say philosophy philosophy here I'm what I'm saying is there is the thinking that was done so for us to first understand the thinking then I will I will link it to specific ways in which that thinking manifested and then I will speak about inshallah God permits the specific advice from the prophetic council in protection in relation to those things and the reason I speak more philosophical is because I can tell you the specifics and I'll give you specifics I can give you five of them and you can go home and you could try to deal with five but when Muslims and Muslims were good at this this is why all of our scholars were math mathematicians you always had this like logicians and mathematicians the beauty of maths is that it teaches you the ability to see universals and it's incredible if you go to the UK I don't know what it's like here for you guys but in the UK only the private schools the kids get taught logic they in the standard schools they don't teach logic why because they don't want to think you see when you can think you can see universals the universal would be what are the two the different that's universal between these two these two things here is that there is that they are both plastic bottles if I speak about just this one if my mind is not developed enough I would think I'm not speaking about this I would say plastic is dangerous but if you can't understand that this is the same thing even though it's a little bit different because I've drank from this essentially it's the same thing you have to understand essentially but if you can't understand essentials then you'll say oh he spoke about this but this is different this is in the case of the person who maybe listens to a lecture about the dangers of media and says no no I'm okay you know I don't watch TV you know and then bang bang man it's like no universally it's the same problem the gutters the same it's the same gutter you just need to understand it comes in a new form now it's actually they train people to be so dumb now logic is that's why they buy the new iPhones because it's the exact same thing and I mean just you know I recently looked at the Samsung 24 S24 ad and all the you know they offered AI is one of the key differences and other than that a better megapixel camera other than that the spec was the same and I thought how incredible that they will you know rinse people literally rinse people of every dime that they've got for the next sale and that has been designed from day one in school no offense to you before latest iPhone I don't need to feel too bad if you make you feel worse I got an Android and an iPhone so you know we're all in the same boat the boats going down and we're all in it but hopefully we can get find some life boats that's the point of this class I mean this is why we say you know in the morning salam and I know him for the alameen in that catalykin that's the mahasin in knowing about the new movie the whole verse the three verses they're just fascinating because it just reminds you that they will be the there will be this madness that takes place and there is a arc of safety and and for you to be at the arc of safety you have to really develop a next level mindset to which you know you have to be a mohsin anyway I definitely digress the point being is is that you have to be able to understand the philosophical foundations if I give you those inshallah you can see them greater when you go back home and so that's the aim here inshallah so that's why I said it'll be a bit of a roller coaster but hopefully I hope my my teaching skills as a professional teacher assist us in trying to break down they're not that difficult concepts to be honest to you so it's not gonna be hopefully it's not that long of a class either inshallah so I do aim to try to finish it beforehand so as I mentioned there are the Hadith in regards to the Jal I'll mention just one of them here and I this one really just highlights one specific aspect of the Jal in which we see that that one of the things that the Jal will have with him is that he will be he will be bringing it will be bringing with himself a water we just find that specifically there's things about Medina the safety of Medina and so on but anyway and so one of the traditions one of the Sahaba when he was asked that that that he was asked by Hudaifa between the Yemen that tell us about what you heard from the message of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Abu Mus'ud said that say Hudaifa said that the job will appear and with him will be water and fire that which people consider to be water will in fact be a burning fire and that which will be and that which people will consider to be fire will in fact be cool and sweet water he who from amongst you happens to face him should jump on to that which he sees as fire for that will be nice and sweet water right so there's another variation of that hadith as well and kind of confirming that that's in Sahih hadith now just that one hadith that I've mentioned there's many hadith as I mentioned that there are referenced here but that one what is what is he telling us fundamentally is the inversion of truth and falsehood that the whole the whole schema is to invert what is seen as good and what is seen as bad so people will see bad as good and good as bad in the same manner we have other signs of the day of judgment from the hadith Jibrail where we see that the slave girl will give is the slave girl will give birth to her mistress that that you will see that there will be an inversion of hierarchy meaning that the parents will then be treated in a manner as to be treated in a way that as if they are lower in status and that the children will have a higher status and so this is like you know fundamental anarchy how do you start to flip this type of a reality so when we look at the Jail literally the Jail his whole you know the term is a deceiver right with the most common used terms this I can give you know like through a whole list of things but ultimately he's a deceiver is one of the translations of when we talk about the Jail or you look at the essential origins of the word is to cover to cover dirt with gold or even even manure crap to cover it with gold that is the ultimate philosophy of what the Jail is trying to create is there is this perspective that what he's offering people will look amazing look like gold but in reality it's absolute crap and for us to understand this we have to understand that what does the Jail particularly represent his whole thing is to take people away from God he is to present a new God which will be obviously him himself he will be presenting himself as a God and the way he will do this is to present to people that which will be the most attractive to them and so what we see in the in the modern world now this this this and we see this with the dollar bill and we see the eye and we see the pyramid and so on I won't do a full arrivals video but just a reminder that ultimately the modern world view what is known as the secular world view that is fundamentally what we're speaking about when we speak about the the Jailic system that those who have brought about this understanding of the new world order they have the understanding that once we establish this as the new norm of living then the Jail will be far easier for people to accept so what does that fundamentally consist of so there's going to be about five points that I'm going to mention there the first is the secularization of the world and what what happens when you secularize the world what is secularization is to remove the governance of religion when you remove the governance of religion now you have essentially the governance of man right first you go from from divine governance now you have governance of man that's the first thing of what what secularism does when you start to have a system like this what does it then produce if you go and study any of this and I'd recommend people to study as if you can have good you know you have martial really good teachers in the Bay Area to be honest we should actually start to study because the modern world that we live in is in principle the first you know you could say the Usul of the modern world or the Usul al-Kufr or the first Akida point of the modern world is secularism is that is the removal of God or the removal of religion from existence so when you take it out of governance you take it out of individual governance meaning that your whole perspective of yourself now you will not look to the heavens to define aspects of yourself to make sense of yourself but rather you will look at if you take out God who's left who will you look at other people or yourself there's the only two ways you're going to go either I'm going to ask you hey um do you know where my soul is right right I will ask you or I will look to myself so this is the first thing that is the secularization there's many different forms in which this comes about but I just want to I want to highlight first of all the secularization and I'll go through all of these in more detail once you secularize now there is no God in the picture and so me and you are just trying to figure out this whole world what this does is this begets and brings about and really just you know produces this incredible skepticism because now we're both freaking out who's got evidence for the soul right with so so so what we believed in is it really true this skepticism scares the crap out of people it really did and and this is me kind of summarizing a lot of philosophical movements here but it starts to breathe skepticism to become ultra skeptics along with that so there's two things that have happened now along with this these are all happening at the same time they're all interlinked and intertwined some came a little bit before philosophically in history the Renaissance period some came a little bit after there's different forms of these the third thing that happens as you start to get now once we have a difference of understanding of truth right which was which was reality now we're questioning what is true so before truth was what al-haq right it was Allah's name we would take out whether you're from a Christian perspective or whatever perspective you take out religion then truth now becomes this tangible reality this is what literally reality comes from reality goes from a Latin word which is realist which means something that's just tangible so now your reality can become a tangible thing whatever you form look at like you know those balloons I made a puppy out of it well you can start to make your reality whatever you want it to be I mean and this is not far-fetched because we see in the world around us so people are starting to redefine their own reality you see what's happened there you will always this is an inevitable this is like logical steps you will inevitably get to that when we lose actual governance you see what we will then do is we will form our own governance our own governance will be either you pick it or I pick it and if you can find some you know if you can enslave him then why don't we both be the government and he's under us you see this one starts to happen the nefs the nefs has no regulation because there's no government anymore because there's no government nothing is now governing me nothing is stopping me or making me go forward except what will be my own whims and desires so then what happens is now we start to now redefine truth therefore there becomes this third thing moral relativity if you're making notes well done because since I've been in the States and every talk I've ever done there's been people be listening to all my classes and they've been making notes there's a reason why they're the ones who are running the world in the way they are so until muslims actually turn to classes and make notes you know so uh by alhamdulillah for your love I've already given you notes it's called a phone so just you know try to make these notes if you can it's up to you but I recommend that really make them become familiar with these concepts because these are the these are the foundations of the metaphysical frame of world that your children live in and you live in and if you're unaware of that then you're just you're just grazing in that farm that's what's going on here so it's it's a I'm not joking as I said I'm not here to entertain I genuinely you know I'm I'm here to remind myself of the truths of this reality around us so the third thing is is that moral relativity the fourth thing then this brings about so now moral relativity means what means that you define your good how you want to be and I define my good how I wanted to be because we're both skeptics so we don't know what good is anymore the fourth thing that this then brings about is individualism that you have your own crew whoever wants to follow him they follow him and I have my crew whoever wants to follow me follows me this individualism starts and if you don't like following us just make your own government and you can follow yourselves yeah probably remember the whole period of countries being born is a similar philosophy that was taking place oh can we have a flag as well can we have a flag as well we're different to them and everyone's making their own flags under the guise of independence and the guise of true humanity what's really being established is the revival of tribalism especially in the Muslim world but anyway let's not go talk about I don't want to talk about geopolitics I want to talk about personal relationships and I'll tell you how this plays into the home because in the home can't get past these the society is not going to nowhere get past any of these the fourth thing sorry the are we in the fourth or fifth right the fifth thing that this then brings about is an ultra materialistic perspective now sorry the fifth thing so before we get to materialism is rationalism so now because everyone's freaking out what happened in the in the in the modern world that's created the world that we live in is then as they became skeptical they realized well you're concluding things I'm concluding concluding things therefore I must have a mind and you have a mind therefore rational and reason becomes the godhead of everything right so rationalism that's where science survives so rush so rationalism comes about I'll tell you how this disturbs your home as well on this so everyone got makes sense yeah rationalism so once I've got rationalism so people are now ultra thinking where did people's feelings go how did they make sense of their feelings so this big get this actually created a whole movement in philosophy which was called romanticism and I'm telling you something when you figure out this especially if those are not married you'll realize why you're not married romanticism yeah and if you and if you are married and you're not happy this is it yeah so for those more maybe the millennial generation you guys are most affected by this so romanticism so what happened was people wanted to feel but the scientists couldn't conclude love and truth and honor and courage and virtues so human beings started to define their own experiences of love their own experiences of truth of justice and so on this became a very scary pattern I'll I'll go into this as well so those are about six points really they're five but the other two the last one is two two like under the same so rationalism or romanticism are basically the same thing all right it's the same thing but for two different one is basically ultra mind and one is ultra heart meaning too much mind and too much heart and I'll bring this all back so when you have a godless system what was the first thing that we said that starts to manifest is this secular worldview yeah the secular worldview fundamentally the whole idea is that governance is bad because the secular worldview came from get rid of the government and therefore you are your own government this empowering notion that was established this empowering notion in the modern south resulted that once man took out god from the picture who was replaced as being god the nefs right the nefs would be replaced as the new god because there's no governance there's no reason why not to indulge anymore because there's nobody pulling us back remember what did you say moral relativity so if you say that's wrong I'll say well you do you buddy I'm not harming anyone you see these I'm going to give you more of these one-liners that are actual one-liners that have shaped our whole world that people can consider it to be okay and for the young people who are here and there's not too many of you but take this into your schools and be serious about this that whenever anyone says to you this idea that well I'm not harming anybody this is actually highly problematic because there is no such thing as you know you can also be right and I can also be right because once you start to there's a degree of you so there's partial like there's your narrative and my narrative but if you think your narrative is completely right and my narrative is completely right then we will have a problem forever this is where they have phrases like one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter no he's not but if you accept this then you are accepting that well it's complicated it's not complicated you see how people are accepting this phrase because the worldview has designed them that there's not there's now when you start to when you don't have anything that's right anymore then you will fall for anything and that is literally how the jar will just sweep in because remember once he comes on the scene a third of the Muslims leave the faith how do you think a third of them are gonna leave one third you know that is here you can just count it here what that is statistically just with people in the mosque right now one third goes why because we have all been conditioned and how many Muslims speak like this how many Muslims speak with these types of terms and i'll give you a few more of them as well but but ultimately within the home i want to just bring it back to the context of your well-being and your relationships when you take out governance nobody is in charge of telling you what's good for you and what's bad for you the first place that the child is conditioned and you were all conditioned because all the disney movies did this is that the and all these tv shows and you can what i'm going to say now you don't make a connection is that who's the first governance in the home parents and what is the depiction of parents in media and who is the who is the biggest authority in the home the dad and is every dad and in the every dad in every tv show is a clown he's an he's actually portrayed as a fool and this is the conditioning and so if you think that your kids can watch this stuff and they're not actually registering it and considering you know my own son came in like i try to keep you know so i'm from a Pakistani kashmiri background and my wife is Algerian so we try to she starts to speak arabic and i'm trying to speak you know my dialect yeah and i could just if i keep it myself um so i try to say to him i say to him abu jan abu jan he watched one show one of the oma and ihana oma hana show and he came and he started saying he started calling his mom ummi he never says ummi the word like just one show not even a full show like 10 minutes he's like he looked at me but daddy i was like daddy what do he get daddy from he goes mommy subhanAllah this is the incredible and if you know your stages of development i mean i maybe i'll do the class i'm nurturing the child come from and i'll tell you if you don't get the child if i don't get the chance to do it really start to look at developmental stages because from from about from about seven to about ten maybe 11 is the stage of laib which is play but laib actually develops the taqlid which is the ability to follow meaning that if they didn't play properly where they were following if that child doesn't get good following and if that child is told to be a leader from seven to 11 then you're going to have a real menace on your hands because this kid cannot take orders anymore you see this way people don't like to follow even schools of thought sometimes you see because they they have not developed in their ability to listen and follow and the whole modern secular worldview designs you as the modern god so you have no reason to listen to the parent and to listen to the imam that's why everyone's got in fact secularism came off the back of uh of um institutionalized religion and that's why every person and i'm telling you i travel the world you know and uh you know teaching classes i'm telling you all of the children of the modern world including all of us we've all got traces of these they have such a difficult time with authority and with institutionalized anything the moment is institutionalized in their mind it is bad which is so problematic because anything that develops over time it will eventually become institutionalized institutionalized doesn't not equal bad but therefore what does this do if if i grow up with this mindset not only do you are your parents your worst enemies who are out to get you not only do you have that you now have the matrix which now you're ultra paranoia remember i told you about skepticism this is how it forms you see because now they're out to get me no one's out to get you but you but it feeds the mind because because nobody actually cares for me as in nobody has vested interest even the parent is not considered to have vested interest in the child so that's why then that child turns right and acts like the mistress to the to the to the mother you see this is how it's formed and it's formed philosophically you could read this just read about how this formed and so then you start to know to get this this understanding that everyone's corrupt and there's major trust issues this is another big thing if you know about your what you know relationships and well-being and so on a lot of people today have massive massive trust issues and a lot of that trust issue has been generated and cultivated by by understanding that the first ones you could you you trusted were actually against you in the first place this is all problematic you got to wait till that child either becomes a parent themselves or wait till they fully till they realize everything my parents did for me was good for me but until they do that and they listen to all this garbage on instagram and social media and youtube they will have a whole understanding that nobody gets me and and this this modern notion which i know a hundred percent a lot of you youngsters definitely and maybe some of the older people i've expressed this where but oh but i'm not like the rest of i'm different this false understanding that you're different how different are you really this is the case of every guy who starts who does who does it who does a crime anyone who does a bad relationship they all turn around say no no but we're different we're different this modern notion of we're different what do you mean you're different how different are you but the whole the whole formula has made them to be designed upon you are now your own governance and therefore you are now the the rule setter and if your rules who's setting your rules is going to be your own left so you have to have authority you have to understand that there is authority around you that is there to take care of you and you have to have trust with that authority whilst knowing that it's not going to be perfect but just because it's not perfect does not mean it is oppressive necessarily does that make sense yeah and i'm talking in the context of the whole moment of my you know your country for example right that's the first thing how obviously how is that counted well what do you say how would you how would you how would you count that how would you count a secular worldview how do you count secularism well i'll ask you right now anybody society i'll repeat it how do you counter the secularization in the how though how do we do it in the house in the house outside of how was the first learning point what approach do you take yeah so which part of the basics of the core of islam because i'll tell you sister a lot of people that follow they think they're following the core of islam and they're just regurgitating secular you know like how many cycle you guys all know this especially like in the younger generation in order that instagram how many psychological welcoming models are fed to you with islamic terms but are still secular frameworks they then they just look islamic with a few islamic terms but they're just still secular they're not just because it says it's like the coca-cola phenomena you take coca-cola of a slap mecca cola and all of a sudden it's islamic what made it islamic why because it's got an islamic term on it so this this is so there's a lot of things like that so it's not just about basics fundamentally i'll give you the answer is taqwa is the amount of taqwa one has the amount of literally if secularism is to take god at the picture you literally have to do everything that brings god back into the picture therefore anything that is taqwa is taqwa related god consciousness and that from will be from carrying your thicker beads with you but fundamentally in your home how do you how do you counter the secularization is by having a taqwa filled home as best as you can this is the absolute minimum so when you said go back to the basics yes sister that is the basics you got it that is to get back to the taqwa there will nothing that will counter secularization except the taqwa aspect because when you have taqwa you have faith then the jail won't be able to get you but if you because it's la ilaha the greatest belief in the weapon of the believer in the fifth of the jolly is what la ilaha is your iman the greater the iman that you have that is your weapon at that point but if you don't have that iman you don't have that taqwa you will fail so there's no escaping this except through by having taqwa that's the first thing we've only done the one thing should we keep going so i'll do the second thing the second one what did we mention was what uh yeah skepticism right so and skepticism and moral relativity so moral relativity now when you become skeptical unfortunately when you keep that secular worldview so now this child is like oh my parents had to get me or the school is out to get me or i can't trust nobody's is me against myself what does that breed it breeds all this notion and the young lads definitely know about this it breeds this understanding of what this idea now this sick idea of leave that which does not serve you this is things that all of you that will have heard about this now people i met a guy masha Allah such a good brother and he came to me he said you know it's how i like spending time with you but i don't spend time with anybody else who doesn't serve me i looked at him and they would he meet serve you who are you that you should be served like that you are the the one who serves you're there you're the abd you are not you are not supposed to have abd you see but if you understand that you're a follower of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam then having followers wouldn't distract you but if you don't remember you're a follower of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and you live with your followers this is and if you look at youtube all of them have designed their facebook's design like that as well now is changed that you have followers and people are following you there's only one person around the followers and they were the sahaba if you know and they were following the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam so that's the way our tradition goes but once you have this moral relativity now you are always right do you see this this narrative now now the parent you're against the parent and you're always right you would always be right because the world has trained you to understand that everyone's narrative is an equally fair narrative and it's not equally fair does that make sense it cannot be equally fair because both of them cannot be equally right in regards to something that would be a contradiction and it's called nonsense that's literally the definition of nonsense you also then start to breed moral relativity i'm taking it from geopolitics here and and ideological warfare to the home to the individual it then makes you also think because you're always right you can never be wrong these two things are formed into people you're always right and you're never wrong that then leads into then therefore now what's going to happen is if i'm always right and therefore i'm not wrong and you're always right and therefore you're not wrong then you do you and i do i i do i right i do my thing you do your thing these are the phrases that are formed you would have never had this in a traditional society in any traditional society muslim society christian society any other society this idea of you do you in fact the one who did their own thing you know the first idea you know the word idea the first idea was the first one who broke up broke up from the identity as in the group you know the group identity the one who breaks up from the group identity and forms his own identity that was the first idea because they were like why would you be so silly because you are clearly thought of us so the fact that you are separating yourself by just that one thing and therefore rejecting what you're a part of this is actually the first this was a literally you could see the origins of what idiocy comes from so this moral relevant relativity where you're right and i'm wrong you do you and me do me this creates a society of idiots because everyone's got now their own worldview predicated upon what i think is right this is my way and i have my followers and i do my own thing this concludes and i as mahala we saw this in a morning tv show in the uk i don't know if anyone saw this on on instagram or tiktok or something they this kid said my mom is irrelevant it was on a morning because my mom is irrelevant the guy said why is your mommy relevant he goes she has no followers and he said this with complete certainty you know what would be the equivalent of his iman if he had like he was a strong believer in nonsense that's how strong he goes yeah he goes because she has no followers and that was a worldview that he was designed in don't forget that this is the same worldview that we're all exposed to you see and and and so and so then then and then and then you read mahala narumi and you just and you really as this secular worldview where beyond the field of right or wrong i'll meet you there no you cannot leave the field of right or wrong because you are morally bad person but when your morality is your morality and my morality is my morality you do you and me i do i do my thing and this will form in the home where you see people living these ultra separate lives within the home where your identity was one under the surname of your grandfather or your father and now everybody's doing their own thing everyone's got their own device and i do i eat lunch or breakfast at my time when you were in yemen there was one of our teachers so i studied there 10 years of football sheikh now he he when i asked him and he's a convert to the islam i studied a text what i remember dad's text under him and i asked him like what was it really that pushed you over the edge in islam he said he said my muslim neighbors ate together he said my family never ate together this guy left his what the dean that he was from and joined islam because they ate together when you stop eating together the system that doesn't allow your family to eat together the human being inside them will go to where communal eating is and i'm telling you the modern form of that is these watch parties and those who know know some of you will majority will not know what i just referenced there but there are people who now will watch a tv show with a watch party online on youtube with 15 other 15 000 other people who are isolated from their homes but i have my digital community so i'm gonna watch you with a digital community and they're not eating with their own family but now they're having their own times because you know what sunshine you just eat whenever you wake up and when you eat together you increase enough so when you stop eating together what's going to happen i'm telling you now and i'm trust me tried and tested method if there's anyone you're trying to do like you're trying to outreach try to do that what too much of you are good people you're here on a Friday night in the mosque you're already sorted so this talk that i'm doing to myself i hope that you can do it to yourself when you're with your friends as well yeah because you guys are in safe hands if you're on a Friday night in the mosque you're in a good place all the saying try to test it if there's anyone you're trying to connect with listen to me carefully all right lads yeah you got a friend of you you're trying to connect to with just eat with that friend just eat with them yeah just just pay for the meal and just eat with them i'm telling you you are highly impressionable even your even these grown adults here are impressionable you think all of you designed you to pick you know you actually picked your own clothes that you're wearing you were you were conditioned to wear the clothes that you're even wearing right now but that's how that's why yeah but atah ilah says that the heart that Allah's made this heart like a soft lump of flesh to remind you how impressionable and delicate you are this is our reality the Prophet the Prophet said that person is on the Dean of their Khalil of their friend you know what Dean doesn't just mean religion here Dean also has a meaning Dean means a transaction that's why Medina is the city because in the city you do transactions that's the old word for Medina like what Medina literally means so where you do where you have Dean what does Dean mean it means what you trade your life for that's your Dean so just because you say it's Islam how i how we can work our Dean is to check what do i trade my breathing for what do i trade my life for and the best way to know that is when you wake up the first thing you think of if the first thing you check is DMs that's your Dean if the first thing you check is emails that's your Dean if you first thing you that's why Jenaid said that whenever you have a calamity where your mind goes first that's your Mahmud that's what you're worshiping that moment and where your mind goes first that's your that's who you're worshiping really there's Prophet said in some sense every one of you wakes up and he is a trader he's a vendor vendor for his soul either he trades it to free or he trades it for the hellfire you will be trading it for something you have a Dean no matter what you gotta consider what Dean are we are we opening ourselves up to so that moral relativity as i was mentioning here that this idea of everyone's right everyone's wrong this becomes highly problematic so and then what happens is then you say no no i choose to delay prayer time no prayer time is set there's objective relativity not objective morality not relative so because it's the prayer time set inshallah i would break for the prayer and then i only did a couple of them so more juicier ones to come inshallah if you benefited now like give us a thought if you can does not come here so nice to have you back and mcc uh so we will break her ishah prayer we'll come back okay all right so recover the secular so that's essentially the godless society right secular doesn't really shouldn't really be a separate one that's the foundation of all of these moral moral relativity right into the individual straight into the individual's worldview so once i am my own governing body i am now my own law setter right so because those authorities like parents etc etc were the the the wrong bad people uh now i know better this is the phenomenon of i know better me myself and i yeah then the skepticism now this is really plays into the mental health because now what you've done is is you've created hidden narcissism in it every person yeah yeah on top of that you've also created these kids are not careful they will be i mean it's not the kids i mean this is already established in the world we live in where you just have purely self-serving living that the whole living is self-service had that to the point where even the greatest of pleasures are rooted in and around the south that the more i can have the more i can bank the more i can please myself the better and more happy i will be in that tradition that's the nefs al amana besu on steroids yeah it's it's the worst sickness you're gonna find so now only do you have these obsessed uh these obsessed uh narcissistic uh uh uh minds that you're creating you're also creating these highly anxious individuals because when you have taken governance and you have taken law when you have taken morality right and wrong when you have taken it out the picture and you have also introduced to that if you have also introduced the skeptical aspect of the experience which is the you know what's true anymore you will absolutely create anxious beings crazy levels of anxiety that anxiety will be because i don't know what to do because you know why do you why do we like why does everybody love when they say you know back to basics keep it simple everybody loves that because it's easy you tell me what to do i do it like salah is such a beautiful reset because you drop everything and you go and pray it's like the best therapeutic activity you can do is accuse your anxiety quite quickly but if you do not and you stay in that world where you're not praying and you're just procrastinating and you're just waiting and waiting and waiting the anxiety will build up look at how much this is affecting the mind automatically just by the secular world view and look how they're all linked okay okay so now i'm going to comment a little bit on the individual but there's one more here oh yeah now this class essentially is ideological warfare training if you could even say that without getting flunged but but it's but it's that's what we're speaking about here and we're speaking about the philosophical foundations we're speaking about the ideological foundations now when these one two three have formed the individual now as we've just mentioned so we've mentioned the anxiety one day i'll make this into a nice graphic and everyone can stick it up in their rooms and cure their worries in the center just for Allah all right um anxiety what else did we said narcissism and what else what else did we say obsession yeah so these this is now just three of the things that are formed um of course once the individual it also becomes overly um overly uh zealous now because everything is rooted in me myself i uh the nafs al amara uh i have cookies i want all my cookies and i also want your cookies and guess what i can take everybody's cookies here this actually is part of the anger issues that you find raging in so many people and let me just bring in as well look what i told you this is when when i said it's a model of universals what that means is give me a scenario in life and i can run the whole thing through it and i'll tell you the most common problems in that scenario for example marriage so i choose marriage marriage when you have a secular mind frame of marriage the religion the taqwa is taken out of the marriage experience so you're getting married for the sake of the person you should never get married for the sake of the person this is the first problem because you're getting married for Allah's sake if you get married for that person's sake and a person will let you down that's just depression loading it's depression pending yes or no you see how obvious that is that's why if you listen to there's a wonderful talk called rights and responsibilities of marriage by Sheikh Hamza and the half of that talk is all taqwa you listen to half of that lecture for three hours and you're thinking where's the rights and responsibilities responsibilities of marriage right fascinating because half of it is taqwa hey along with that um if people haven't studied the the figure the law of fig then in that marriage there's no law setter so your way and like her way and and his way is now equal way so they're just fighting and it's like who's going to compromise and why should you compromise because there's no authority or reason to compromise and then and not only do you have uh not not not not just that you also have a problem with authority so now she the moment she they see sees an authority here she is out because her whole upbringing has been disney which is break free and and you know um marry the street rat right marry the street rat but the laws forbid marrying the street rat Aladdin if you're wondering um but but you see she's been conditioned into this thing which is break free from the governance because he doesn't allow me to truly be blah blah blah blah these are the same philosophical foundations of all your wonderful movements in and around these areas it's the same thing he's philosophically and meaning ideologically in its root it's the same thing anyway and then there's more i'll get to that bit later if you want if you remind me i'll do that more on the marriage stuff but anyway so we're just trying to do the home for now so we're spoken about the problem the child's response and obviously one's mental mental health now what happens now to the individual who does this individual become i mentioned those mental health issues they will manifest when this goes unchecked okay this when this goes unchecked this stuff will manifest in the Islamic tradition there was no separation you could say between the mental and the spiritual ultimately you could almost argue that the mental states were absolutely linked to one spiritual state yeah anyway so when you look at the modern individual what what what what modern person does this create it creates in the world of the young lads i wish they stayed i guess of my jacket wasn't cool enough for him this idea of the main character syndrome you know about the main character syndrome right so this is a phenomena that is very common amongst the young people that way the main character is essentially when you play a game it's subhanAllah like now the virtual reality dictates real reality so they take concepts from the video game and apply it to the real world so they say that be the main character in your life you are the main character and everybody else is what NPC a non-playable character as in they're so irrelevant they're not an actual uh they're just code they're irrelevant you can shoot them and nothing will happen to them they'll just be respawned this is this is actually how crazy and how bad it gets and all these young lads know entirely what i'm speaking about here not only do you what also that happens is now everyone's digital avatars this obsession with like how does my IG look do i have a bit moji blah blah blah again i'm look i'm not anti-internet and anti and everybody deactivate your instagram accounts yeah my point is is that these things should never be you should never be on any of these things unchecked that's the point we should never be on any of these things unchecked but but if you go in unchecked if the modern individual forms unchecked your your instagram account now becomes your digital shrine for them for the new god which is the south now the star of your own show you have your own tv channel it's called your whatsapp status or your instagram status and you know blah blah blah and it completely goes against uh the idea uh in our tradition where of of khidma like khidma has no place in this modern frame they like why would you do khidma have you been trying to explain khidma to like uh you know people are not familiar with the islamic faith and like they're so puzzled like why would you you know or volunteering but why volunteer to what degree would you volunteer especially when you go above and beyond like some other beautiful people here um and then you also offered a very subjective worldview this subjective worldview i'm not going to go too much into but if i was to go into it it would basically show how this modern sense forms which is well according to me yeah or well in my opinion in these types of phrases yeah well while i'm seeing what i'm getting me me me my my my as in as if your subjective experience has a greater understanding of what the actual situation is does that make sense so people's own direct experience forms and dictates reality you know that is just literally the foundations of bigotry and racism i saw one mexican guy do this and another mexican guy therefore all mexican guys do this you see what's happened there i saw one pakistani do this another pakistani therefore all so this is a really poor poor reasoning so you have limited or partial truths that sound very exciting but they would be long-term highly problematic but they would always sound very exciting why because they are subjectively true to the direct experience oh yeah that yeah a hundred percent i know that but i actually is there any real depth there this then leads into what we call this this term of nihilism which is that nothing has meaning now i'm telling you all of those depressive suicidal types thoughts they all come off the back of nothing having any meaning anymore there's no reason there's no greater reason to you see how they're just this godless worldview has impacted one's mental psyche to this degree you're not just agonio your noses or you know and subhanallah you know there's a i don't know how it is in america but in the uk you know the amount of people that are navigating something themselves you know i did a class some of you know about one of the main classes that i teach knowing a soft class there was a lady who came and she said oh you know really helped me i figured i'm a massage and i'm just so much at peace with who i am now and i said you're a good on your sister and she goes no you don't understand six months ago i was suicidal so i said oh you know sorry to hear that i said just take your time and you know then i seen her six months later and she said oh my gosh what is that the workshop changed my life i'm a life coach i said sister you were suicidal six months ago how did you become a life coach six months later i saw her she has an academy but she's training other life coaches join me on my healing journey that's the first flag red flag there because she's still healing you know i was a subhanallah i was on there we have a literature festival in the uk maybe i prayed for this i didn't realize i prayed for this but i always wanted to understand it sounds weird but i said that's really weird but i really wanted to understand what goes on in the mind of a drag queen you know what drag queen is yeah everyone was a drag queen and uh so i'm uh so i'm at the literature festival i'm speaking to my mrs and i'm talking about half of this stuff this is normal conversation i do my voice i didn't do like we didn't break and uh we're talking and then literally next to me i just looked to the side and there was literally a drag queen a dude getting ready so he was dressing up so so i looked over i'm sorry i must have been speaking like he said no no i find it really fascinating when you were talking about i said all right i said uh so what you think about he said no i i i can definitely resonate a lot of it resonates you know i can see because he i've been on my own journey i said oh so then i said i thought this is a good chance to ask i said that can i ask you a question because yeah i said why do you do what you do and he and he goes goes you want to know why and then he just pointed somewhere where he had like a bruise and then here and then another one he showed me like three or four bruises he goes you know i was abused i wasn't allowed to be who i am and um so i'm i'm healing so i read stories to kids this is part of my healing journey and i just looked and then my wife just said to him it's interesting you said heal healing journey and not your healed journey as in how's it working out there like the fact that you're doing this whilst you're still navigating things clearly shows that this isn't the appropriate response to have but it but it's the same philosophical thing where people are just getting one dopamine hit and now all of a sudden i'm out to save a bnc it's like just chill slow down so this is this is what i was talking about the start this phenomenon or speaker how exciting to be a speaker is a curse to be a speaker so should read all the love from that anyway so this this worldview where nothing has meaning anymore this is what they call nihilism and unfortunately you know this is when now everything is removed of meaning this is something that you know you might want to give him a good old poetry session with your wonderful start for doing john to really bring some life into into the form to show the meaning in things otherwise why be good you see this whole ideology leads to why be good this is the epitome of this is uh simsons and rick amorty and all this this is what they this is what it concludes this is what it's all about this is why it's built upon even one of the episodes i remember the character he then says he's back to dying he says god if you're true you know save me and then he gets saved and he says you know he just swears that god and he carries on it just it's just a summation of the of the because you see what they see this how this presented like i'm making really deep uh deep philosophical points kind of some it may be very maybe i'm doing an injustice i hope not um but this is this is not presented to you as hey welcome to the jolly world view this is presented as what humanism this is presented as oh i'm just just being human this is what it means to really be a human that's all these you know these actors and all this this is how they this is the reason why they accept and propagate this whole framing anyway and then you have the the rationalism aspect of it the rationalism aspect basically starts to conclude the world to be purely mathematical data observation so this so truth is not truth what we just project is what truth is this is what it starts to create so therefore you know who cares who cares who scarf this is you see this scarf is very dear to me because it came from a very special teacher but according to my scientific brain that's completely irrelevant to the to the reality of this right my scientific brain but but my uh my taqwa ihsan says do you know that this can heal this can heal like yakoom alaihi salam right the you know it cured his eyesight you simply some shirt it cured his eyesight why because i'm true meaning that exists in things but if you take that out what are you left with so you create these rationalists where now people are doubting any greater uh beauty and greater meaning in things because oh it's just a table chill out what's what's the big deal it's just a book what's the big deal these have become the phrase the phrases because the beauty has been reduced because somebody's been doing too many science and math classes and and what that also concludes is what is that your existence is oh it's not that deep you're just a you could have been anyone you could have had blonde hair it's random selection you see your existence gets concluded as random selection whereas in our tradition it's not random selection you are the the the result of how many beautiful pure unions you are you carry the name not just of your father but in that your grandfather and him and him and him and him and him survivors and warriors and legends that's who you are how can you ever have low self-esteem well welcome to the Jalik mindset where you are just another number whereas according to the more traditional mindset like when you go to traditional worlds you start to experience this and you go to Yemen and they say and what you know who's your grandfather and then you're like you know you write his name down what tribe do you belong to tribe i don't know if i belong to a tribe then they're like britani your new tribes they're like no no no i'm mughal i'm mughal subhanallah but this is this is what it creates this is the effect of the of the the Jalik mindset on one self-esteem so all these kids now are not just panicking and now are measuring themselves for material success materialism is also formed and then the other thing is is then how does love and how does goodness and how does excitement and how does all those beautiful feelings where do they categorize because science doesn't categorize them does it so what they did was then they started to say well the greatest feeling will be in the individual's material expression because the individual is material and the individual knows what it needs most and therefore my highest pleasure will be a greatest manifestation of my personal material meaning most money most beautiful x y and z and that would be my greatest pleasure of happiness reducing it down to receiving and not giving but anyone who doesn't know anything about pleasure is that the greatest pleasure far great if i have cookies for myself i'll i'll be happy at the start and then i'll feel a bit sick but if i give all my cookies away i'll sleep hungry i'll have a very full heart won't i that's the truth because the real service is in that that's enough salawama inshaAllah you become so free of cookies you say what cookies after having given them all away that's called nafs al nutma inna yeah that's the highest level but this is all nafs al amara besu and guess what his su and his su and his su and everybody else is evil all just thrown into and you are just amara they say you do like a computer you just get out the command of all of this and so even layla and majnu and all these beautiful concepts that represented divine love and this really happened by the way they took all of this and repackaged it in the form of bollywood movies and hollywood movies and people's whole direct experiences of love are formed of stories stories that were for the sacred and because classically no one ever read layla majnu for shazia next door right it was all for sacred and beyond but now we got reduced to material and experience and that's what the highest pleasure in what's shown in this worldview is just a moment of material happiness subhanAllah how sad we're sacrificing that and our traditions classical tradition sacrifice was the greatest so after having gone through all this and the beauty is yes this is a little bit complicated but it's not that complicated but what we can see and then obviously image-based society so not only do you have now the the main character syndrome and npcs and so on you also then have the individual shrines and everyone's measured from what's what's seen and what's apparent and what's cool and you know how many sneakers do you have as if that's the greatest uh no offense i know it's a big culture here apparently it's popping up in the uk but it's just fascinating that you know anyway yeah i mean just i it fascinates me but because the the remember part of the jollic system is to flip the script so you see the john wants a man to be like a woman and a woman to be like a man that's part remember the first had even showed was the fire as the water and the water as the fire it's showing you inversion of realities so where the man originally was like you know he was out to you know like one of the best things that all these young men if you boys haven't done this yet make sure you do this in your life is sacrifice the animal you will never feel a greater masculine moment in your whole life than when you sacrifice the animal but if you like blood oh no this is fitra's violation fitra being distorted so inshallah go i hope uh some of the you know we got i think uh one of the kai tribe members at the back mashallah he's got a nice hat you know i'm sure he sacrificed few animals in his time you know where like that we just sacrifice the animal so inshallah he will you know star something like that i'm sure you guys can start to bring this restoration and these all these masks should be starting to you know look at how we can restore these types of things this is real life you know you weren't supposed to be like this you stay doing you know computers like this and then you drive a little car like that 90 miles per hour building your negative charge yeah what do you think you're gonna be like then you go get married look at you look like a puppy hold me uh you were supposed to hold the man is he's the holder she wants to be held now they got him saying hold me and she's like all right come here let me hold you as well you see it's comical but it's actually sad we're only crying we're only laughing to cry there to hide the tears and then the and then the brothers buy sneakers here's my sneaker collection oh it's fascinating i really i don't like to have people's feelings i don't like to have people's feelings if you really like them just get a few of your really nice ones and sell the rest you know you know you do you know get a part-time job somewhere and some real money and give it to your mom and you know the real restoration of what it means to be anyway so let's go let's go through some of these now i'm gonna bring in the prophetic answers for these so the first one for secularism is always gonna be there's a reason why they all carried the Sibhas the Tasbees the old school fidget spinners yeah they were the original ADHD things yeah you just have a Tasbee wherever you go la la la la yeah because you need something you see you can never be mindless they are crying about mindfulness yeah you can never be free of thing you always you need a reference point so you got to have anything that's going to restore so that's why i say to you all you're all in safe hands because you're in the mosque at night this is one of the big big miracles of our time yeah so really especially you guys you know well done man may Allah bless all of you young lads you know being here and i hope you're here because you want to be here not because your parents told you to be here but still i'll take that over you're not being here at all yeah but but get to that point where you can be here because you want to be here the second thing moral relativity the only thing that will reinforce objective relativity will be your studies in your akida and your fake and i'm telling you now that nothing else will establish a common place of what truth is constant truths you know people even getting anxiety from Netflix you know this people's food is getting cold while they're trying to but they're panicking on what to watch they're incredible the fallacy of choice as if you need a hundred options do all these old school people will tell you life is better when you had five channels you know and then what does this do now you be in your room and watch your channel and i'll watch mine in this room anyway and then the women at least the women back in the day they watch the drama and the boys watch the action channels because the fitras want to attack now the modern boys are watching drama and the and the and the modern women are shown to us as action women all these modern movies have done that right you've got this thick thin lady taking out a full SWAT team of 50 highly trained professionals and everyone's like oh that's them that's literally the gianic line to show you something as it's false and now all these sisters are they're weightlifting you know i'm not saying no go Jim go Jim yeah what i'm saying to you you know is just consider while the framing so you're not going into any of the extremes because the point is this anything that this has to offer you the insan al karmil the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam already had to offer you so if secularism gives you empowerment ikbal already told you what your empowerment is there's no bigger there's no bigger independence than for you to be independent of dunya and dependent on Allah that's what hasbun Allah wa ni'mal wakil wa alaihi to wa kultu is that he is my wakil so when somebody gives you beef you say so you don't say talk to the hand say talk to Allah he's the defense so this is what so when you get that when you get you learn your dean you have actual morality and you don't have to have a shaky one the skepticism will only be uh uh dealt with with iman all modern insecurities will be taken care of by having a security i'll give you an example imagine you got a nose and you don't like your nose and you say oh my gosh look at the worst nose if you remember you see in the modern world what people do is they have a jacket and they say what are you wearing and they give the brand name oh it's Prada yeah as if that makes it okay like you see the modern gods yeah so so what's the brand what's the brand name of your nose who made it who designed it Allah it's because you're worth it so you so you now when you so when you look in the mirror you say Allah maqam has you made me beautiful make my character beautiful and you reinforce that i have the best nose because god made it and and it takes real strength it takes a real real mujahid strength level to be like do you know this is the best nose because Allah made it and there's no other nose i'd rather have do you know that level the only security you're ever going to get is with Allah swt nothing will cater for your insecurities and if this hasn't shown you it's an age of insecurities and people are just freaking out everywhere so that would only be dealt with iman iman literally means to tie yourself down you know like um issue if you see this you know this you see it's not it can't go too far can it why because akada akida literally ties you down now that's that's what that's how you roll that's what you're about that's your principles no one can waver you on that the kind of strength like mark max level strength bang try it again i think i'm phased right that see that there that's what we're trying to talk about here rational romantic they say your feelings and your greatest happiness is moments of pleasure that you just gather there's no greater pleasure that you can gather except in the khidmah and in there that none of you truly believes until you love for your brother when you love for yourself right this is all these will be taken care of with etha preference over the next person and i'll tell you young lads as well you won't know this until you live it you won't know what it's truly means what it truly means for you to have true pleasure until you have served if you have not served you will never understand what it means to really understand what will fulfill the void the void is only fulfilled by service by khidmah always that's how you that's how you still have romances then you still love your family and you still love your wife and you still love your people and your son and whatever but you love them for a far greater reason not just for that their sake alone because guess what they're going to let you down as well yeah yeah read imam ghazali's al-kimib happy just for more details he literally says in there you know your body's being lowered into the grave and you hear your wife and child crying are they crying for you or for what they used to get from you right so don't get too connected to them it just reminds you just Allah and from Allah everyone's bearable but without Allah why should i listen to you you see for you for you kids don't start that conversation just listen to your parents okay rational so we have in our in our tradition a place for our mind right your mind is your akal that allows you to navigate the inner kingdom so imam ghazali says that you have the inner sheikh you have the pig and you have the dog right the dog is your action right that's your that's your dog but the dog will take orders from the sheikh if you learn the dog will be in check and you can make sure the pig doesn't eat too much but if the sheikh doesn't know if the sheikh doesn't teach the dog the dog is going to end up chasing the sheikh so your intellect is chased by your passion by your by your your own will and the inner pig just grazes forever and it just eats all day imam ghazali says so you got to use your mind by seeking knowledge nothing will change the world you know we live in a sad time now because you know Palestine and everything that's going on in in sheikh abdu l-qadr jalani's time they said to him they said what are you doing teaching in a mosque do you not see and he was talking about this key purification you know and they said do you not see that Palestine is in the hand of the non-muslims what are you doing teaching this stuff and he's and he's and uh but he was on a long vision you see he knew that the change won't come out there unless we change our deeper level our personal level you see when you establish deal with this the change will happen and what happened within a hundred years who was one of his students of of of that was Salahuddin Ayubi who not only was he a kurdi he was a adri he wanted to be a scholar all of his life and then when the order came bang now when you have imam proper you don't get waived these things won't get you when you don't when you when inside they don't exist anymore you freed Palestine within then they can't they can't buy you where why is all our Muslim countries then they're not showing up because they've been bought out and you know and we can't look at them because we need to ask ourselves where are we bought out you see and then we have so these two are taking care of taking care of so ultimately it's seeking knowledge and then your individual actually becomes rich that's an approximate some said to true rena true richness is not richness of things but to be rich in the soul and I say Nali said it's not that you don't own anything is that things don't own you so shake your kubi said make sure you make the other oh Allah put lots of money in my pocket but don't put a penny in my heart fantastic huh so you know I was in the other the podcast in Australia and all the guys was like brother sark you know your classes it's like people get a lot of benefit in this world and the next world it's such a a groundbreaking approach I said when you're talking about groundbreaking in the Quran we want good in this world and the next world and Islam will give you good in this world and the next next world and don't tell me that mark max wasn't an amazing individual and he was free of all of this that's where true superstars are not the ones who just self-serve image-based societies you just realized never judge of physical outward the prophet said God does not look at your forms brother he looks at your hearts and your actions so so you never judge so so go on social media do what you gotta do but don't live on there it should be a never an actual extension of who you are never and these genics have learned anyway of the millennials um fascinating materialism again that's what Zuhad is that the material doesn't own you the first Ghazwa in Islam was what was the first battle in Islam brother are we not all fighting battles every day the first battle taught us the first principle of the believer in battle what's that never measure by outward material because if we measured by outward brother wouldn't have happened but we didn't measure by outward that's the problem some show this you don't measure by they got more people than us doesn't matter don't worry about technological warfare they got more they got bigger guns don't worry about bigger guns because when you got the faith yeah what happens you see Palestine you see you see jannah at the barrel of the enemy's gun right that's the level you form that's what happens when we develop that and then we are the complete the true the only tradition that's the complete opposite of nihilism we have a thousand unlimited meanings and indications to God even in this even in this usb wire where there's a thousand signs of Allah we will we never let this become meaningless now in this class this wire has become an Alam has become a whole world you know why because Alam is the tool to come to know God and this is the instrument in this class so this is now partially a sacred usb wire that's how profound Islam is that everything is venerated and that's why you become an incredible Muhsin because everything is just Allahu Akbar huh then you then you then what you end up doing is you build blue mosque you build al aqsa you that's what you build because now the sacred stone that no one will ever see you know next time you go to turkey go to the wudu area you know this is be a good sign of when the Muslims are making a comeback check the wudu area yeah you go to turkey if you guys know what i'm talking about and you go to the wudu you know they're making wudu if you look under the the the little mini domes that they have they have the most incredible designs and and who's ever gonna look there but you didn't do it for the people did you and you do it for god you're creating excellence the world has never seen before that's why there was no there was never great armies and and civilizations like the Muslims and the believers so that's how we can see how the Jalik world view will take us apart all we need to do is be regular in adhikar and takwa study and seek knowledge and if you do those two things everything else you'll you know you'll couple yourself with some other principles like you know to not be image based and so on and and it's not hard no matter how complicated this is in as a problem the solutions will always be easy just you know but but when you know the nature of the devil and you know the nature of the framework then of course you can battle it and you can be conscious of it earlier inshallah other than that of course as i had mentioned that the ones that we've always heard about that nothing will provide you that protection such as for example surah kahf will be the protection first hand the last hand to regularly read and seek refuge from the fitna of the jal and you know one thing you guys should again young people you know my mom gizal is called hudja till islam because he tested it try this yourselves the friday when you don't read kahf don't intend to not read it but if you don't read kahf on the friday surah kahf yeah the first 10 or the last 10 if you can't read any just read the last 10 verses of surah kahf protects you from the fitna see how your week goes when you don't read it and then see how your weeks go when you do read it and you will see that because you don't have that protection you become more susceptible to certain things that when you do read it you don't fall into i mean you when you will know god in a way that people will just not be able to know because you will have lived it when you live it trust me you're going to be a you know your mind knowledge of Allah will just become profiling you almost feel like this whole life is just Allah's designed it just so that you can come to know him and be beautiful inshallah like you will know pray inshallah and i do advise myself first and foremost and then i just share inshallah some wisdoms for yourself and um you know be careful as you go through this life inshallah may Allah protect us all um but remember the also the advice was that don't try to take on the job right run and that's why you see many of our teachers they they decide not to have the instagram account or they decide not to be in those places because when you were there at that time you know what's going to happen so you want to fight it so you're not there at that time may Allah protect you all inshallah i'm sorry if i want to be extra if there are any questions if anyone has any questions you can ask we're up with the i'd like to mention that we see the esaq will be doing a workshop this sunday 45 in itself it's for 236 30 there's still time to register and for those watching online there's a live stream link as well live stream option on there as well so well we'll take questions now let me take one online off the philosophy major here how does the current adaptation we're seeing of john stewart mill's harm principle factor into these that the gel world even forces i don't know that yeah i don't know very great yeah good one though let's get us off all the next you want to read about it no it's excellent and you know i would say is is that like you know um just it's just a couple of terms you need to get familiar with that's all it is they're not that complicated principles you just got to read about them get to understand them and i'll tell you these ideologies they have nothing on what islam has to offer so i have no because i might not know it it's not it's just a strength in islam is a piece of cake but i don't know it so we'll be wrong for me to comment on that but i will say is is that just for those who are thinking about the sunday class it's not complicated like this in the sense like it's not this ideological deep that's literally prophetic statements for protection very straightforward but very again relative to how to protect yourself in regards to this but it's it's more the direct kind of statements the prophet aslam would have and i hope that you know all of you if you're able to come do come to it don't worry about like being able to attend or like you know just take a bit of time come to the class uh don't worry about like finances things like that these are irrelevant things just do it so that you know you are able to make it to the class inshallah this protection is in the words of the prophet aslam yeah not in south history yeah can make the class just send us an email we'll take care of your questions now yeah i will say um for that question that was emailed if you can just email me that question whoever that was online okay and uh if you email me and then we'll have a conversation on that show very quiet group tonight thank you so my question is that um like i guess basically my whole life i've consumed everything that you talked about um on the board there so what steps can we i know you highlighted something but what else can we do to undo the damage that we that has already been done and then like you know in my case like you know responsible for our next generation as well yeah so good question i mean look like i said we're all uh we're all recipients of this yeah but i shared this little story when i was away uh i don't know if i'd shared in america or australia or what but so i don't know which was that i don't know if i shared this but anyone has to hear it again i'll tell you a little interesting story so so this became a personal journey of mine where i want to but like one of the things that one of our teachers said was that you know we will never get to the to the level of the of our tradition that was in the past unless we we drink from the from the wells that they drank from meaning literally going back to those places studying with those teachers those protected environments so so i went to a lot of different places in my studies one of those places was in yemen in thirteenth in other words and when i went there and i spent a year there and it's very interesting in that whole year i i never saw a woman's face just societally we lived in madrasa mostly anyway but even whenever we were out there were niqabs and it wasn't like a it wasn't like a sharia police niqab it was more like a prophetic standard niqab society like the umma hat of the the believers the mothers of the believers type of a level of living when i came back i didn't realize what was happening when i came back i was sitting on the bus so i was sitting in the car in front of me was a bus and at the back of the bus was a picture of a very famous pop star lady so you know when they when a picture like when they look at the camera when they take a picture then you in the picture looks like it's looking at you right so i'm sitting there using my phone and so i see this lady's looking at me all right and what i did was as i noticed she's looking i moved so that the panel blocked her view from me yeah and then i and then i realized what just happened my fitra had become restored to when i was young to when i was like shy that this lady's looking at me yeah and i was like i was about to cry i thought it's actually possible the meaning that any harm that was done can be undone like that so never give the harm any more power that people talk about the harmful gaze everybody talks about the nazar and stuff like that right oh my cousin did some juju on me or whatever yeah there's the healing gaze the healing where there's the negative eye there's the positive eye you see the positive eye and you feel like you know amazing that's the same eyes the professor some looked at people and they became sahaba they looked at somebody they became taba'in they looked at somebody they became taba'in that's how powerful it was that just by the gaze these became the three greatest generation this became the greatest generation these three generations so you know like and the way to protect it is just following as much of a sunnah lifestyle as possible because a sunnah lifestyle is the best fitra lifestyle it's all there we woke up on the on the fitra of islam right and the religion of our professor islam so just follow the sunnah and your restoration will all take place and the more you do it you would our tradition doesn't say like do it outwardly and fix that person you fix yourself they will see the impact so you know so don't give that too much power we're all recipients of it yeah alhamdulillah here we are on a Friday night to no merit of our own but Allah's mercy on us you know in this madness world that it's out there these guys can do a million things on a Friday night but alhamdulillah we're here so Allah's protect you so take the protection that Allah has done and the restoration and believe in the promise of Allah you follow the sunnah and and you will become like the sunnah you following the sunnah is mirroring the promise of islam maulana rumi you know i i share this cute little maulana rumi says what do you buy what do you gift yusuf what could you possibly gift yusuf they say what you gift yusuf is a mirror because there's nothing you can give yusuf because everything he's the he's minister of egypt and you know you gift him a mirror so what do you give the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam you gift him a mirror meaning the most prophetic version of you and you will have the power and the light of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam shine through you and the protection and all of that will be there so you know 100% that fitra will be restored just get back to all of us get back to as much natural living as possible you know and then the duwaza akhaba on sunday like they are you know i'll tell i'll give you one of them just one quick one remember in the lion king you remember the timon and pumba you know what did they say to simbah it was the famous line they said to him akuna matata right what does he mean he means no worries for the rest of your days yeah we have a far better version in our tradition it tops it we just we read it every morning in the relative but what is it mashaAllah kana wa ma lam yasha'lam yakun mashaAllah what Allah willed kana happened wa ma lam yasha'am what he did not will did not happen it closes the chapter on any drama you got currently i didn't get the job that i worked so hard for mashaAllah kana wa ma lam yasha'lam yakun wa la hawla wa la quwwata illa billah move on i didn't get married to someone so even though for three years i thought if she was going to marry me mashaAllah wa Allah willed kana i don't i take power away from her that's what we say la hawla wa la quwwata illa billah she's not the power move these none of you guys have the power you don't have the power except when you're with god then Allah will move amazing mountains mountains will be moved through you mashaAllah kana wa ma lam yasha'lam yakun wa la hawla wa la quwwata illa billah and you just imagine how you can function from that and that is our akuna matata amazing isn't it but so much but powerful and strong and direction filled kibla filled so we're sitting on we got the power there's many more okay questions questions let's raise your hand there we go sorry i i wasn't here at the beginning um so i hope i didn't miss so going back on narcissism and me me me so the idea is that how we should stick to basics so my idea is like if we stick to basics and raise the next generation shalwa like that the problem is is that the idea of living in the west you know they're going to get exposed somehow no matter how much we try and we've seen that with our own eyes and going back like the sister said that's our struggle of you know this toxic feminism and masculinity that is far away from the umma so my question is is that how do you do it to a point where um they're not a stranger to the outside world at the same time you stay inside that circle you know a lot a lot of you know there's lots of different answers to this but one of the things i would say is that when you make them comfortable when you when you make them comfortable in knowing that you will be a stranger to some degree there's a comfort in that look at the jewish community look how they've established and mobilized they stay so strong on their principles excuse me they stay so stay so strong on their principles yet they are part of society because they have a really healthy sense of understanding of the self look i'm gonna trust it's all in identity it is all in the identity of the child you know we survived so many things when we were young was because we were just we didn't identify with that we were different we just identified that we don't roll like that we don't we just don't do that whether it was pakistani whether it was muslim whether it was muslim british pakistani whatever formulations we had whatever terms they are you have to remember that if you want to be from the pure ones as to the young lads i would literally be like you have to understand that you will be an alien to some degree and our tradition says and glad tidings to the strangers because you know i had this one kid came to you know we were at this one burger shop and he came and he was like you're interested in islam i got a few questions so he came and this you know i said to him so you know he asked a few questions on islam and then i said i asked him a few guys i said what got you interested and he said look i i just saw people like and he mentioned like maybe five sins and he said i just i didn't want to identify with that like that's the reason and then he became muslim there and then he literally just there and then in the chicken shop you know it just became muslim that it's all in the identity of the children and i've seen people who are seeing kids who get homeschooled in the teenage years yes they become a little bit weird and then they then socially they they will they will find their place in in society school is just a testing ground for for the world so if they can find their if they can find their feet within uh whatever community experience you give them they will find their feet in that place but i would say trust that and i've seen you know when i was studying arabic i was there were many students who who were uh homeschooled and were doing phd's and i saw how they had come to a degree full circle but you know but but they will but the whole aim is that they are not a part of society because if we make them so comfortable they're part of society this is the problem of i guess the da'i as well like because you try to do that that one but then you get the traces of where you go out to like everybody has this you have those friends you don't want to sometimes chill with but you have to chill with them and then you leave picking up a word or you might have backbite and you're like donnie you know what happened so part of it is that protection and you're not going to just get that protection from free so i would say make comfort in knowing that you're different and you know there's beautiful hadith the prophet the prophet says that a lot is amazed at the young person who restrains his passion or he doesn't show his passions instantly like you will become a superstar like if these boys here or even the women here like if you turn down a chance of being alone and engaging in the most you know bad behavior with the opposite gender but you can say no to that you get the reward of a mujahid you get the reward of a mujahid what's the reward of a mujahid if you can say no to a woman who offers herself to you before your blood reaches the ground when you pass away your place in jannah is secured that makes these young inshallah should make them be like that's why i want to roll i want to be to that level so you got to create comfort in not conforming to society and the young young people love that because they all want to be special so show them what real special special is oh i used to walk around we used to be walking college with our jubas on we used to you know we were like 16 17 8 i used to get buses in the most non-muslim white areas because we were like we were mujahids like that was like our front row you know and it we were so comfortable in that i remember going to my workplace and i said to my uh you know and i got this from my elder sisters because they were working in in like the most normal shops and they would pray at work and i remember going and saying hey rachel i got to go pray she said why would you do i said i don't do anything i do we just we just pray but that was character building on another level so that reinforcement by seeing my siblings my older sister doing my other sister my other brother doing it i was like yeah that's with those with those special people and it's anything it helps you in your journey you know as young people they you know and the young these are the movers and shakers if they don't do it you know we'll be in trouble we're too busy the rest of us now we're a bit older but you know trust it in charlotte's you got it uh speaking of our youth but youth has a question on our unicorns michelle so uh so you were talking about how like when anything happens you're just supposed to say michelle okay so what is like those whatever happened to you can you change that by making that like is it is it more beneficial to ask our love to return whatever you took from me i mean you can't ask that you can't ask that one of the beautiful things that Allah gives you Allah gives you choice even in your da'as you know i i i made da'a today for something a juma and then i laughed because because i felt it was like Allah told me in that moment like you know i don't do that but i just asked yeah so i can still ask but at the same time what happens as you go through life is you start to learn the sunnah of Allah how Allah does things and you start to realize that well Allah does things in a very particular way and the more you come to know God the more you know how he does what he does when that happens you you know so you may still ask those questions but you will start to have a more of a faith in God knowing that in that moment i didn't like it but maybe long term i'm going to see why that wasn't good for me and so then Allah will show you so no you know we do have moments to ask that the real superstar look think what the Prophet ﷺ did remember ta'if they threw you the stones on him he comes out and he says to God if this is what you want for me then let me and essentially what he's saying is let me be to the level of what you want from me so the believer doesn't say oh Allah this is hard you know oh if you're going to if you chose this for me let me be strong that i can take this on the Moroccans they used to make this du'ayah ish taddi asmat tanfariji what they would say is when difficult times happen they say oh Allah make the night more intense so that the dawn may come so so what they would say is basically what their mind was Allah believes in me in this moment that's why he gave it to me so how can i doubt myself you get it so you believe in yourself by believing in Allah because he put me in that situation so i've i got it within me so Allah okay i wanted the red ta'fi but you gave me the green one all right you know oh life you can give me the red one red one but if it's the green one for me then the green one it is and and in fact you might say oh Allah actually now i love the green one because you chose it for me you see this level this is what the believers are like because there's one the Prophet some said the moral movement is hate so the believer knows that anything Allah does for you is the best it's just the best there's a one Imam Ghazali says if you had all knowledge and and all power if you had absolute knowledge and absolute power you know have you seen Aladdin Aladdin the cartoon hmm oh okay good well in there there's the genie he gets these superpowers at the end there in Imam Ghazali say if you have all knowledge and all power you will choose for your life what Allah has already decreed for you meaning you start to realize that this where i am is perfect and so yeah then you start to celebrate whatever Allah has chosen for you so you you can do both because oh Allah i still wanted to marry her but you know if it's not meant to be okay done inshaAllah thank you any other questions maybe we could wrap up with the city inshaAllah we have one online if you could give us one piece of advice to address of all the challenges of the job system what would that one piece of advice be oh i think i did i spoke i spoke about that but i would just say read surah kaaf you know just keep it regular for yourself um and remember surah kaaf is not just what you read like a spiritual thing there's a lot of stories in surah kaaf that tell you great lessons and a lot of those lessons are actually what build a resilience to this that's one of the beautiful things in surah kaaf is there stories there that build a framework that counters this but it doesn't make you like musa alaihi salam like why did you why did you do this yeah but constantly he's getting like uh uh don't ask again oh but why'd you do this uh what and then he reminds you that in the moment you'll say to god oh but why did you do this and Allah is telling you no no no you just wait and see so when you read surah kaaf regularly you're always reminded weekly reminder is wait and see so one of the beautiful surah kaaf is they are weekly stories that you you you actually need to hear so i would say really just really in english and revisit those stories and revisit the morals of those stories the lessons there's so many of them inshaAllah may Allah give us all strength and really spiritual conditioning and strength i mean that's what life's happening is spiritual conditioning when you can handle a yes to that Allah will throw you another moment you stay strong before you know it you'll become a sign of god people will be like how do you do it man that i i'm telling you this i swear people will say how do you do this who are you why and you'll just be like it's not me it's god that's who it's always haven't been inshaAllah he's the only he's the real yeah anyway might not protect you all Allah bless you and you know thank you for coming as well it makes me happy when i see people coming so you made my heart happy as well people are seeking knowledge and learning and you guys all now inshaAllah leave with lights and take those lights share them with your communities and Allah bless you all have a good night inshaAllah