No Doubt Course (Session 2): 10 strategies on how to deal with your and other people's doubts (2020-11-09) #

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0:00:28 and sisters and friends and welcome to
0:00:30 no doubt
0:00:31 10 strategies on how to do with your and
0:00:34 other people's doubts and this is week
0:00:37 number two week number two brothers
0:00:40 and sisters and friends so what i'm
0:00:43 going to do now
0:00:44 is i'm going to summarize what we did
0:00:46 last week it's always very important to
0:00:48 summarize
0:00:49 it helps the internalization process it
0:00:51 helps the learning process
0:00:53 and it helps the ideas to be
0:00:58 placed into the mind so we could recall
0:01:00 them effectively
0:01:02 if and when required so
0:01:07 my dear brothers sisters and friends
0:01:09 last week we
0:01:11 spoke about
0:01:14 and shahawat now if you remember
0:01:18 there was a difference between
0:01:22 shahawat and shahawat
0:01:25 means your blameworthy desires
0:01:29 okay your blame were the desires
0:01:32 and which is the plural
0:01:36 for is
0:01:39 something that is a doubt
0:01:42 that's a destructive doubt and it
0:01:45 basically
0:01:45 tries to distort the deen of allah
0:01:48 subhana wa ta'ala
0:01:50 or to make you uncertain
0:01:54 about the foundations and the
0:01:56 fundamentals of
0:01:58 islam now
0:02:03 we also said that the
0:02:06 shubha the destructive dao
0:02:10 really comes from the word
0:02:14 to resemble something else tush bihu
0:02:17 so if you remember as faiyumi said
0:02:21 is so called because it resembles the
0:02:24 truth
0:02:25 and ibn tamiya says something very
0:02:27 similar that
0:02:28 you know the from that perspective
0:02:31 is like something that has a tinge of
0:02:36 truth
0:02:37 but it's not really true and he uses the
0:02:40 words
0:02:43 which is a of truth in a way
0:02:46 now what he meant by this is that well
0:02:49 since that people
0:02:50 take shubuhat seriously
0:02:54 it's because they seem to have some
0:02:57 truth there is a tinge of truth but in
0:02:59 reality
0:03:00 they're based on a falsehood so if you
0:03:02 remember very clearly clearly
0:03:06 they are like a wolf in sheep's clothing
0:03:10 it's a wolf in sheep's clothing
0:03:13 it's falsehood dressed up as
0:03:16 truth okay and
0:03:21 obviously before we talked about the
0:03:22 definitions we spoke about you know
0:03:24 what is the desired state of the heart
0:03:26 in fact what is the heart
0:03:28 in the arabic tradition it's comes from
0:03:31 the root which means something that
0:03:33 turns around and upside down
0:03:35 it does it does it changes in it
0:03:39 and it wavers that's the nature of the
0:03:41 heart
0:03:42 and the desired state of the heart is
0:03:44 that it must be sound okay
0:03:46 it must be sound we know this in the
0:03:48 quran in chapter 26 verses 88 to 89
0:03:51 and obviously the hadith in bukhari a
0:03:53 muslim very famous hadith as you know
0:03:56 there is truly there is a there is in
0:03:59 the body and most of flesh
0:04:00 which if it is sound the whole body is
0:04:02 sound and when it is corrupted the whole
0:04:05 body is corrupted truly it is the heart
0:04:07 similarly the quran says in chapter 26
0:04:09 verses 88 to 89
0:04:11 and he talks about the day that nothing
0:04:14 will be of benefit except the one who
0:04:16 comes to allah with a sound heart
0:04:19 so we said the challenge here is well
0:04:21 how do we ensure
0:04:23 that the thing that does the thing that
0:04:25 wavers all the time and changes and goes
0:04:27 upside down
0:04:28 and turns around that we keep it fixated
0:04:31 onto the hak
0:04:32 fixated on the belief of islam
0:04:35 and firm on the belief of islam
0:04:39 well that's what this whole course is
0:04:40 about and we spoke about the concept of
0:04:43 japan in islam that it has
0:04:45 it's like it's not a button that you
0:04:48 press or a lever that you pull
0:04:49 but rather your pain is this kind of
0:04:52 gradation
0:04:53 of certainty there are levels of
0:04:55 certainty and we spoke about
0:04:57 hakalia we spoke about and ain't
0:05:00 and we gave examples of the difference
0:05:02 but it's all still within the realm of
0:05:07 now obviously in the beginning we spoke
0:05:08 about the essential metaphysical
0:05:10 backdrop which we spoke about the fitra
0:05:12 the innate disposition
0:05:14 as you know the word fitrah comes from
0:05:15 the triliteral stem
0:05:18 and you have words like fatron and
0:05:19 fatarahu which
0:05:21 basically lexically is implying that
0:05:23 something has been created within us
0:05:25 uh to acknowledge allah subhanahu wa
0:05:27 ta'ala and to worship him
0:05:29 and this is based on the hadith sahih
0:05:30 muslim as you know and
0:05:32 that hadith in particular tells us
0:05:35 that you know the fitra can be clouded
0:05:38 it doesn't use the words clouded
0:05:40 but basically it talks about the parents
0:05:41 and the parents make him into another
0:05:43 religion a jew a christian or megan
0:05:45 so we like to use the kind of analogy of
0:05:48 the fitra being clouded
0:05:50 and this whole understanding of the
0:05:52 innate disposition the natural state
0:05:55 of the human being is also echoed in the
0:05:58 quran in chapter 30 verse 30
0:06:00 and we spoke about the two main views
0:06:02 okay the two main views of the fitra
0:06:04 because we want this to be in line with
0:06:06 kind of the general understanding of
0:06:08 islamic orthodoxy we don't want to just
0:06:10 pick a particular view
0:06:11 so the two main views of the fitra
0:06:13 namely one view from evin tamiya the
0:06:15 other one from ali ghazali
0:06:17 one view of the fitra is that it has a
0:06:20 form of proton knowledge primary
0:06:21 knowledge
0:06:22 that in the fitrah is knowledge that
0:06:25 god exists and he deserves to be praised
0:06:28 and worshipped
0:06:29 and that there are some basic
0:06:30 understanding of objective moral truths
0:06:32 and values the other understanding of
0:06:34 the fifth is it doesn't contain
0:06:35 knowledge but it directs one towards the
0:06:37 truth
0:06:38 nevertheless if your fitra is clouded it
0:06:40 won't be able to direct you towards the
0:06:42 truth because
0:06:43 it's like driving a vehicle and not
0:06:46 being able to see
0:06:47 uh the through the windscreen and also
0:06:50 if it's
0:06:50 if it's fitrah if the fit right is
0:06:52 clouded rather
0:06:54 and it has truth within it some pro
0:06:57 proton knowledge or primary knowledge if
0:06:59 it's clouded
0:07:00 the truth within won't be awakened so
0:07:03 we said that
0:07:06 they can act like clouds that prevent
0:07:08 the fitter from directing itself to the
0:07:10 truth
0:07:10 or they could act like clouds that
0:07:13 basically prevent us from
0:07:14 awakening the truth within and
0:07:18 this is a very important point i said to
0:07:19 people who are skeptics or not muslim
0:07:21 listening to this that you should stand
0:07:23 in the possibility that this
0:07:24 metaphysical
0:07:25 understanding or this metaphysic or this
0:07:28 first principle make
0:07:29 sense of the idea of doubts and faith
0:07:31 and belief and so on and so forth
0:07:34 then after that what we spoke about we
0:07:37 spoke about
0:07:38 the isms there's currently you know
0:07:42 a tsunami of different isms and schisms
0:07:44 that are trying to take over the hearts
0:07:45 and minds of muslims and non-muslims
0:07:47 atheism skepticism liberalism extremism
0:07:50 post-modernism nihilism
0:07:52 and now i have i have i have coined
0:07:56 a new thing now as a result of the
0:07:59 defamatory cartoons of the prophet
0:08:00 sallallahu alaihi wasallam
0:08:02 there's also i call them what do i call
0:08:05 them again
0:08:06 i call them extremist
0:08:10 secular ideologues
0:08:14 honestly brothers and sisters and
0:08:15 friends if you understand what's going
0:08:16 on in france at the moment it's an utter
0:08:18 joke the arrogance
0:08:20 the arrogance they don't even see it
0:08:21 that's how that's how bad it is they're
0:08:23 so arrogant
0:08:24 they can't see their arrogant and the
0:08:26 hypocrisy of this so-called freedom of
0:08:28 speech stuff is this
0:08:30 utter nonsense utter nonsense um i
0:08:32 actually suggest every single one of you
0:08:34 go to go to the
0:08:35 sapience institute youtube channel
0:08:38 youtube.com slash
0:08:39 sapience institute there's a video that
0:08:41 is going relatively viral
0:08:43 and it's an analysis and a breakdown of
0:08:45 these secular extremist
0:08:47 ideologues that they don't have a
0:08:49 philosophical foundation they're
0:08:51 incoherent
0:08:51 baseless they're uncivilized they're an
0:08:54 uncivilized
0:08:55 bunch yeah and
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0:08:59 i look forward to engaging with such
0:09:01 people because they need to be civilized
0:09:03 they need to be educated and that's
0:09:05 the the role of the muslim the role of
0:09:08 the muslim
0:09:09 is not to be arrogant but to be humble
0:09:12 and to basically
0:09:13 teach people with compassion and wisdom
0:09:15 and tell them what the truth is and to
0:09:17 help civilize people from an ethical
0:09:19 point of view because the
0:09:20 clear and apparent contradictions and
0:09:23 hypocrisy coming from these secular
0:09:24 ideologues
0:09:25 is frankly shocking shocking
0:09:29 so you may not know why i'm having this
0:09:32 small little rant
0:09:33 but if you go and watch the video i
0:09:35 think um i think you
0:09:36 definitely appreciate what i'm saying
0:09:38 and you know it was actually uh
0:09:41 a kind of quasi-academic critique of
0:09:44 uh what's been going on as well so
0:09:46 anyway point here is
0:09:48 that all these isms and schisms are
0:09:49 trying to engulf the hearts and
0:09:51 and minds of muslims and non-muslims
0:09:53 right
0:09:54 and then we spoke about last week we
0:09:56 spoke about the three main areas and
0:09:58 sources of doubts which was uh
0:09:59 taken from a research paper by japan
0:10:01 institute which is called what causes
0:10:03 muslims to doubt a quantitative
0:10:05 analysis and this was really good
0:10:08 because
0:10:09 you know it reinforced my own personal
0:10:11 experiences and i think that's personal
0:10:12 experiences of other people have been
0:10:14 engaging in this type of work
0:10:15 and the three main areas are more on
0:10:17 social concerns philosophical scientific
0:10:19 concerns and personal trauma and
0:10:21 we unpacked what personal trauma meant
0:10:24 but obviously that's going to be
0:10:25 unpacked further by dr uthman latif i
0:10:28 believe
0:10:30 and then we spoke about the 10
0:10:33 strategies
0:10:34 now most of these strategies are for
0:10:37 before and after
0:10:38 the so when the destructive doubt
0:10:42 starts to enter and when it actually
0:10:46 enters the heart
0:10:47 so these strategies most of them are for
0:10:50 before and after but some of them are
0:10:52 only for before and and one of them
0:10:53 are for after as well and
0:10:57 this leads us very nicely to just
0:10:58 quickly go through and
0:11:00 see them again the first strategy is
0:11:03 first strategies to be aware
0:11:04 the other one is to not give it any
0:11:06 attention the other strategy is to make
0:11:08 a distinction which we're going to
0:11:09 unpack today as well
0:11:11 the other strategy is a very important
0:11:12 one is about your environment
0:11:14 your friends your social environment
0:11:15 understanding of social norms and social
0:11:17 psychology
0:11:18 and how you can affect our cognitive
0:11:20 apparatus
0:11:21 and how we conclude and the conclusions
0:11:25 that we come to you
0:11:26 we're going to speak about study islam
0:11:29 is going to
0:11:30 provide a brilliant webinar on showing
0:11:32 that if you have
0:11:33 an understanding of of islamic knowledge
0:11:36 you traverse the path of islamic
0:11:37 knowledge
0:11:39 these shubu hat they get dismantled and
0:11:41 annihilated
0:11:42 honestly even when it's like contentious
0:11:44 issues
0:11:45 in in in the islamic tradition and you
0:11:48 will see that when you traverse the path
0:11:50 of realm
0:11:50 of knowledge then the the the doubts
0:11:54 become
0:11:54 annihilated then i'm going to come back
0:11:57 and
0:11:58 we're going to explore the idea of
0:11:59 critical thinking which will expand upon
0:12:01 some of the key areas of doubt such as
0:12:03 philosophical scientific and ethical
0:12:05 areas
0:12:05 teach you some islamic thought islamic
0:12:07 theo philosophy
0:12:09 and how to apply critical thinking and
0:12:11 feel philosophical thinking
0:12:13 on these matters so you become empowered
0:12:16 then we're going to be talking about
0:12:18 find specialists deal with your trauma
0:12:20 which is
0:12:21 a big session because there's different
0:12:23 types of trauma of course
0:12:24 personal external internal etc focus on
0:12:28 your heart which is the number one
0:12:30 and make dua supplications the reason
0:12:33 focus on your heart is number one
0:12:34 because this is an area of the heart
0:12:36 and the heart is weak it does it changes
0:12:38 and wavers
0:12:39 and we must spiritually strengthen the
0:12:41 heart and i believe it's going to be
0:12:43 doctors my teeth he's going to show you
0:12:44 how to do that how to engage in
0:12:46 spiritual practice and by the way
0:12:48 i need this more than anyone here so
0:12:50 don't think because i'm delivering this
0:12:52 that i'm sorted
0:12:53 no not at all delivering these webinars
0:12:55 are part of my own therapy
0:12:58 so make dua for me and i'll make da for
0:13:00 you may allah bless every single one of
0:13:03 you
0:13:03 and grant you all with sekina with
0:13:05 spiritual tranquility and with
0:13:07 yakkin and with conviction and forgive
0:13:09 your sins and my sins and grant you the
0:13:11 best in this life and
0:13:13 mean so
0:13:16 today we're going to be talking about
0:13:17 the first three strategies
0:13:20 be aware don't give attention and make
0:13:22 the distinction
0:13:24 okay so that was a good summary
0:13:26 alhamdulillah we did that in about 10
0:13:28 minutes that's not too bad
0:13:30 so be aware brothers and sisters
0:13:34 be aware be on guard okay
0:13:37 you know i always like using martial art
0:13:39 and boxing analogy to apologize i'm not
0:13:40 a violent person per se
0:13:42 but i don't mind a little bit of a scrap
0:13:43 in a ring now and then
0:13:45 just to you know exercise the good old
0:13:48 they could have boxing and wing chun
0:13:50 skills maybe but
0:13:51 obviously we do within an islamic
0:13:52 ethical environment
0:13:54 but the point here is you know i'm using
0:13:57 these examples so just to
0:13:58 awaken something within you because when
0:13:59 you're about to have a fight right
0:14:01 saying a boxing ring
0:14:03 you know you can't go blindfolded right
0:14:05 you know unless your name is bruce lee
0:14:07 and jackie chan all mixed together then
0:14:09 you know you need to start
0:14:10 you know peeling your eyes as they say
0:14:12 and just be aware and just
0:14:14 any little twitch and movement if you
0:14:16 don't have that sense of awareness that
0:14:17 physical and mental awareness you will
0:14:20 get smashed
0:14:21 in the words of our beloved khabib right
0:14:24 so you need to be aware and this is
0:14:28 something that you might think well
0:14:30 this is common sense well absolutely but
0:14:32 usually the thing with common sense is
0:14:33 not very common
0:14:34 unfortunately and and when we talk about
0:14:37 be aware this is
0:14:38 one of the strategies that you need to
0:14:42 implement before the before the
0:14:45 destructive doubt
0:14:46 uh comes to your attention
0:14:49 because if you know that something
0:14:51 presents a danger
0:14:53 and that it exists it allows you not to
0:14:56 be a victim to his evil it's
0:14:58 evil rather so you have to understand
0:15:00 that shubu hat
0:15:01 exists i am telling you the greatest
0:15:04 minds in this world have had shubuhat
0:15:08 the greatest minds i believe there was a
0:15:09 dialogue even with the famous student of
0:15:12 ibn tamiya the 14th century theologian
0:15:13 ibrahim
0:15:14 and he was asking his teacher about how
0:15:16 to deal with shubuhat
0:15:19 so even those with him and those with
0:15:21 knowledge and those
0:15:22 who are you know the greats and the
0:15:24 giants amongst us
0:15:25 they suffer with shubu
0:15:29 they have some type of engagement with
0:15:32 these
0:15:32 destructive doubts and that's why the
0:15:34 tradition is here
0:15:35 the islamic intellectual spiritual
0:15:37 tradition is here to help us navigate
0:15:39 that space
0:15:41 so even with contemporary people
0:15:45 contemporary thinkers and contemporary
0:15:47 dua to those people who
0:15:48 share islam and convey islam on a basic
0:15:51 and even academic level
0:15:53 you know i engage with these people i've
0:15:54 known them for years i know myself
0:15:57 well not in a kind of arrogant way you
0:15:59 know i know myself i don't but you know
0:16:01 you get the point
0:16:01 like i i know what i've experienced even
0:16:04 with me
0:16:05 i give an example i had someone i
0:16:07 believe who and
0:16:08 forgive me if it's inaccurate picture of
0:16:10 what happened because my memory is not
0:16:11 great
0:16:12 but i sat with someone who left islam
0:16:16 who left islam i gave them an answer
0:16:19 that convinced them to the degree they
0:16:21 came back
0:16:22 but my but when i gave the answer to
0:16:24 myself i wasn't really convinced with it
0:16:27 but what i mean by convinced it was an
0:16:29 intellectual matter for me was a
0:16:30 spiritual matter like my mind
0:16:32 knew that my answer was great but my
0:16:34 state of being how i related to myself
0:16:37 how i related to others
0:16:38 specifically how i related to myself and
0:16:40 how i relate to allah subhanahu wa
0:16:42 ta'ala my state of being
0:16:44 was dislocated from from its ideal state
0:16:48 it was dislodged right
0:16:50 and that was because of my spiritual
0:16:52 practice i there was a correlation
0:16:53 between
0:16:54 a kind of very basic you know hanging on
0:16:58 the thread spiritual practice
0:17:00 and my level of certainty
0:17:04 there was definitely a correlation and i
0:17:07 even see this in my own life
0:17:09 you know sometimes when arrogance seeps
0:17:11 in and what i mean by arrogance is a
0:17:13 sense of urge
0:17:14 because sometimes when you know the
0:17:15 islamic spiritual tradition you know you
0:17:17 try and prevent yourself from being
0:17:18 arrogant because you might know the
0:17:19 blatant signs but there's a greater
0:17:21 spiritual disease which is urgent is
0:17:24 self-amazement
0:17:25 this is like self-arrogance when no one
0:17:27 is around you could have self-amazed
0:17:28 women in a room in a dark room and no
0:17:30 one's watching you you could be like
0:17:31 wow i've developed such a great course
0:17:34 called no doubt look i'm amazing right
0:17:38 i haven't said that to anyone for
0:17:39 example i said it to myself
0:17:41 but that is a spiritual disease why
0:17:42 because i'm saying i am the intrinsic
0:17:44 source of this
0:17:46 of this great act or this great work but
0:17:48 in actual fact in the islamic spiritual
0:17:49 tradition what does allah say in the
0:17:50 quran
0:17:51 it wasn't that you that threw allah
0:17:54 through
0:17:55 so we're just basically a manifestation
0:17:57 of allah's
0:17:58 names and attributes we are an empty
0:18:00 tool that allah uses to manifest his
0:18:01 mercy and his guidance and his
0:18:04 and his and his power and his glory and
0:18:07 all of these things
0:18:08 if you think that you are the intrinsic
0:18:10 soul cause
0:18:11 there's a massive problem about
0:18:13 understanding yourself
0:18:14 and understanding allah subhanahu wa
0:18:16 ta'ala because it's as if you make you
0:18:19 yourself and allah almost equal partners
0:18:21 like you know you have a say in this
0:18:24 right you have no
0:18:25 say hamza has no say what does hamza
0:18:27 know
0:18:28 right it's only because of the blessings
0:18:30 of allah subhanahu wa
0:18:31 ta'ala it's only because allah has given
0:18:34 hamza the ability
0:18:35 and it's because allah is the power
0:18:38 behind all of this
0:18:39 hamza had no say in this if he wants
0:18:41 allah tomorrow he could make me
0:18:43 crippled disabled and not be able to
0:18:45 speak or anything
0:18:46 within an instant right and i could do
0:18:49 nothing about it i am utterly dependent
0:18:51 on allah
0:18:52 subhanahu wa ta'ala and this is why when
0:18:54 you have our job when i notice urju in
0:18:56 my own heart
0:18:57 that i see that my spiritual practice is
0:19:00 affected all
0:19:01 my spiritual practice not being great
0:19:03 affects my heart at the same time
0:19:06 so yeah basically i've gone through
0:19:10 these things too
0:19:11 you know and this you know everyone
0:19:14 everyone is susceptible
0:19:16 everyone even the
0:19:19 sahaba the best companions the best
0:19:22 people after the prophets have worked
0:19:23 this planet are the companions of the
0:19:25 prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
0:19:27 they were worried about nifak what is
0:19:30 nifak hypocrisy
0:19:32 they were worried about nifak i believe
0:19:35 one sahabi he
0:19:39 he saw around 30 sahabah 30 companions
0:19:43 being worried about their nifak being
0:19:46 worried about the hypocrisy and i
0:19:47 believe it was
0:19:50 one of the giants of the companions of
0:19:52 the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
0:19:54 he chased one sahabi one companion who
0:19:56 had the list of
0:19:57 the monarchy the list of the hypocrites
0:20:00 because he was worried if his name
0:20:02 was on that list if his name was on that
0:20:04 list so if the companions who were like
0:20:07 the custodians of islam
0:20:08 custodians of the belief of islam they
0:20:11 internalized the theo philosophy of
0:20:13 islam
0:20:14 they conveyed islam they went through
0:20:16 the hardships and they preserved islam
0:20:18 these people themselves they were
0:20:19 worried about nifak
0:20:21 which reminds me of a statement of
0:20:22 sufyan al-thawri one of the greatest
0:20:24 scholars
0:20:25 in islam he basically said that he was
0:20:28 so worried about his intention
0:20:30 right which relates in some way to
0:20:33 shubha into the heart he was so worried
0:20:35 about
0:20:35 his intention that i think he had he was
0:20:39 internal bleeding or there was blood in
0:20:40 his urine what about abraham ibrahim
0:20:43 alaihissalam i think this is in chapter
0:20:45 ibrahim
0:20:46 go to chapter ibrahim chapter abraham it
0:20:49 says it very clearly
0:20:50 he supplicated to allah for him and his
0:20:54 family not to fall into idol worship
0:20:56 this is the destroyer of the idols
0:20:59 supplicated to allah
0:21:01 for him and his family not to fall into
0:21:04 shirk into idol worship
0:21:06 do you see my point here this
0:21:10 this because they had the correct
0:21:12 understanding they knew
0:21:13 the dangers of shubu hat they knew
0:21:16 dangers of these destructive doubts
0:21:18 and they also knew that really
0:21:21 the one who controls hearts is allah
0:21:24 subhanahu wa ta'ala
0:21:26 don't have this kind of urge this
0:21:28 self-amazement that you have got it
0:21:30 sorted
0:21:30 you've been waking up for fajr and going
0:21:32 to the mosque you think you're someone
0:21:34 special
0:21:34 then when that happens what happens you
0:21:36 don't go musk anymore
0:21:38 you fall into major sin and i'm telling
0:21:41 you if that happens is because of some
0:21:42 kind of urge of some kind of
0:21:45 some kind of self-amazement in your
0:21:46 heart because you felt you were the
0:21:48 cause of your own piety
0:21:50 and that's why i say sometimes things to
0:21:51 my family and other people
0:21:53 i see one of the greatest diseases the
0:21:56 greatest spiritual diseases or the
0:21:57 greatest form of arrogance is spiritual
0:21:59 arrogance
0:22:00 right spiritual arrogance you know
0:22:02 you're pious
0:22:03 you're praying five times a day you're
0:22:05 doing your remembrance you're reciting
0:22:07 the quran you're close to allah
0:22:10 you don't do anything wrong but
0:22:13 in your heart you believe it was because
0:22:15 of you
0:22:16 you believe it's because of you and that
0:22:20 is one of the worst forms
0:22:21 of arrogance that one can be in
0:22:24 it's it's a deluded state it's a deluded
0:22:26 state and we have to remember
0:22:28 as well that it's only through the mercy
0:22:30 of allah subhanahu wa
0:22:31 ta'ala that we're going to be saved
0:22:34 anyway even the prophet sallallahu
0:22:35 alaihi
0:22:36 said that he doesn't know what's going
0:22:37 to happen to him unless it's
0:22:39 it unless the mercy of allah envelops
0:22:41 him and we know there's a famous
0:22:43 tradition
0:22:43 that you know there's a kind of question
0:22:47 on the person on the day of judgement
0:22:48 you want to be saved by your deeds or by
0:22:50 allah's mercy and then
0:22:51 the guy says his deeds i think he gets
0:22:54 asked the question three times
0:22:55 and then if he's his deeds then you put
0:22:57 your his deeds on one side of the skull
0:22:59 and his eyesight or his eyes
0:23:02 on the other side of the scale and the
0:23:04 blessing of the eyes
0:23:05 just overpower all of the deeds that he
0:23:07 can do then he get and then he's
0:23:08 eligible for hell and i think he says
0:23:10 and
0:23:10 you can correct me if i'm wrong i'll
0:23:12 double check the prophetic tradition
0:23:14 later
0:23:15 but he's like i know no no i want to go
0:23:16 to practice because of mercy
0:23:18 and that's and that's it and i remember
0:23:20 i was speaking to sabor ahmed once in a
0:23:21 canteen and i was like uh
0:23:23 you know i just i have nothing else man
0:23:26 all i could rely on was allah's mercy
0:23:27 and he said saying so beautiful and he
0:23:28 made me choke and cry
0:23:30 and he said that's all you need and it's
0:23:32 so true that is all you need is allah's
0:23:34 mercy
0:23:35 anyway the point here is brothers and
0:23:37 sisters you should understand now do not
0:23:38 take
0:23:39 shubu hat lightly do not take
0:23:41 destructive doubts
0:23:42 lightly these are a tool that dark
0:23:46 forces
0:23:46 negative forces you could call them
0:23:49 obviously
0:23:50 shaytanic forces they're there to
0:23:53 ensure that they are attached on your
0:23:55 heart and they drain your iman they
0:23:57 drain your conviction they drain your
0:23:59 conviction in islam and your faith away
0:24:02 and and this happens and this happens it
0:24:04 happens to the best of us
0:24:06 it happens to the the the
0:24:09 some of the great giants of our
0:24:11 intellectual spiritual tradition so
0:24:13 you know hopefully this is enough for
0:24:15 you to realize don't drop your guard
0:24:18 you know in a boxing ring when you're
0:24:20 having a sparring session or a fight
0:24:23 you know it you have to keep your guard
0:24:25 up especially when you're beginning
0:24:27 the trainer would always say keep your
0:24:29 hands up the minute your hands are down
0:24:31 you're going to be eating punches left
0:24:34 right and center
0:24:35 keep your hands up to give you that
0:24:37 defense okay that's one of the basic
0:24:39 things that you learn
0:24:40 in even martial arts and boxing okay so
0:24:44 it's very important that we're aware
0:24:46 that they exist do not drop your guard
0:24:50 and this is extremely important
0:24:53 and the lesson for you and others is
0:24:55 very simple it's very simple
0:24:57 the lesson for you and others is very
0:24:59 simple just think about this analogy
0:25:02 imagine you are in a shark infested
0:25:04 waters
0:25:05 okay you're in shark infested waters and
0:25:08 these
0:25:08 these are human flesh-eating sharks
0:25:11 and these sharks are like you know
0:25:15 them a metaphor or an analogy for
0:25:19 the conflicting world views and the
0:25:21 shubohat and
0:25:22 the destructive doubts you're not going
0:25:25 to throw yourself into the ocean
0:25:27 in actual fact someone really stupid
0:25:30 or maybe even arrogant would throw
0:25:32 themselves into the ocean
0:25:35 now what islam gives you in terms of his
0:25:38 intellectual spiritual tradition it
0:25:39 gives you a way that if you were to go
0:25:41 into the ocean you can navigate to safe
0:25:43 areas in the ocean so you don't get
0:25:46 eaten by the flesh eating sharks
0:25:48 but the basic lesson here is if if
0:25:52 you're not in a position to deal with
0:25:53 shubu hearts then
0:25:55 the default position here is that you do
0:25:58 not
0:25:59 you you do not enter the ocean
0:26:02 you're aware that the ocean exists
0:26:06 and you're aware that flesh-eating
0:26:08 sharks are there
0:26:09 so give that awareness should prevent
0:26:11 you from entering entering into the
0:26:13 ocean
0:26:16 so this leads us to the second the
0:26:19 second
0:26:20 sorry not the second strategy which is
0:26:24 do not give it attention now this is an
0:26:26 interesting one
0:26:27 because this is before the chopin before
0:26:31 the destructive doubt
0:26:32 really enters into the heart but it's
0:26:35 somewhat
0:26:35 maybe sometimes may it might be at the
0:26:38 stage where it's latching onto the heart
0:26:40 so it's still a quasi before the shubha
0:26:43 is really entering in your heart to
0:26:45 drain
0:26:46 your iman to drain your conviction to
0:26:48 drain your spiritual intellectual
0:26:50 conviction
0:26:51 at the same time it could also be at the
0:26:53 stage where it's
0:26:54 sitting on the heart and before it
0:26:55 really enters
0:26:57 so the strategy here is when you start
0:27:00 to
0:27:01 have a shubu heart
0:27:05 then what you need to do is stop avoid
0:27:07 and ignore
0:27:08 okay stop avoid and ignore
0:27:11 for example say you're on social media
0:27:14 and you go to a youtube channel and it's
0:27:16 run by christian missionaries right
0:27:18 and there are unfortunately a few
0:27:20 christian missionary channels that are
0:27:22 there to try and
0:27:23 misrepresent islam okay and they've been
0:27:26 doing it recently for example
0:27:28 they've been talking about the so-called
0:27:29 preservation of the quran
0:27:32 and they're saying because of the
0:27:33 existence of the art
0:27:35 the different ways of reciting the quran
0:27:38 they say
0:27:39 that means there are different qurans
0:27:40 which is absolutely ridiculous
0:27:42 it is like so unlearned then you don't
0:27:44 know whether to laugh cry
0:27:46 or give them an intellectual slap
0:27:48 obviously not a physical one we you know
0:27:51 the prophet saws said there is no
0:27:52 harming and no reciprocating of harm
0:27:54 but an intellectual slab here and there
0:27:56 is no is no is not bad
0:27:57 it's okay it means that you are ticking
0:27:59 yourself with assertiveness and you're
0:28:00 teaching people
0:28:02 to be sincere with the tradition but
0:28:05 some people haven't studied the art the
0:28:08 aprov
0:28:09 they haven't studied you know the the
0:28:11 fact that the quran is the multi-form
0:28:13 text
0:28:14 the fact that the quran has a consonant
0:28:16 to doctors that is preserved
0:28:18 by mass reporting also known as
0:28:21 mutawatar
0:28:22 in the islamic tradition mass testimony
0:28:25 so
0:28:25 they don't understand these things right
0:28:28 so
0:28:28 if you're gonna since you know shubahat
0:28:31 exists
0:28:32 and you know now that that you've since
0:28:35 you've gone on to this channel
0:28:36 the shopha has come to you yeah so
0:28:40 you've heard about it but it's not
0:28:41 really entered into your heart it's
0:28:43 maybe
0:28:44 latched on but it hasn't really entered
0:28:47 what you need to do if you're not
0:28:48 equipped
0:28:50 or what you need to do as a primary
0:28:53 strategy because don't forget we've got
0:28:54 all these other strategies that we could
0:28:55 adopt as well but
0:28:56 as the primary strategy is you stop
0:28:58 avoiding ignore
0:29:00 that's what you do now this does not
0:29:02 mean the the
0:29:03 the destructive dao of the shubahat are
0:29:06 are strong
0:29:07 no they're not strong they're
0:29:09 intellectually weak remember
0:29:11 they are resembling resembling the truth
0:29:15 but their force
0:29:16 it's true it's falsehood dressed up so
0:29:18 it's it's falsehood dress up as truth
0:29:21 it's a it's a wolf in in in sheep's
0:29:23 clothing
0:29:24 so we have to understand that it's
0:29:26 because our hearts are weak
0:29:27 they waver that our hearts do that
0:29:30 they engage in wavering and changing
0:29:33 and the nature of shubuhat are like
0:29:36 parasites that
0:29:37 suck your iman suck your intellectual
0:29:39 spiritual conviction
0:29:41 and you just need to run away from them
0:29:42 if you go on to that channel and you've
0:29:44 heard the shubha
0:29:45 and it's starting to like sit onto onto
0:29:47 your heart but it hasn't really entered
0:29:50 stop avoid ignore stop avoid ignore
0:29:53 stop avoid and ignore
0:29:58 and really that's the prophetic advice
0:30:00 run away from them and we know this
0:30:02 from the famous hadith of the jan it's
0:30:04 an authentic hadith
0:30:06 in abu dhabi the messenger of allah
0:30:09 sallallahu alaihi wasallam said
0:30:11 peace and blessings be upon him whoever
0:30:14 hears news of the false messiah
0:30:16 let him flee from him by allah by god
0:30:20 a man will go to him considering himself
0:30:23 a believer
0:30:24 but will instead follow him because of
0:30:26 doubts he will present
0:30:28 so you we have to have to follow this
0:30:31 prophetic advice and this doesn't
0:30:32 mean that you can't if you're if you're
0:30:36 trained or you have good people around
0:30:37 you you have a good environment and you
0:30:38 adopt the other strategies that we're
0:30:40 going to talk about in the next couple
0:30:41 of weeks
0:30:42 you know it doesn't mean that you can't
0:30:44 be someone who deals with these shubu
0:30:45 hut
0:30:46 of course you can if in the right
0:30:48 context but as a standalone
0:30:51 strategy you know if you go to these
0:30:53 areas that you
0:30:54 don't really know how to deal with them
0:30:55 and you haven't adopted the other
0:30:56 strategies
0:30:57 it's just flee run away
0:31:00 stop avoid and ignore
0:31:07 and this is very interesting because uh
0:31:10 ibm
0:31:11 in his characteristics of the hypocrites
0:31:13 he says
0:31:14 whoever falls praise to the claws of
0:31:16 their doubts will have his faith
0:31:18 shredded to pieces
0:31:20 whoever allows his heart to open to the
0:31:22 vile tribulations will find himself a
0:31:24 burning furnace
0:31:25 and whoever lends an ear to their
0:31:27 deceptions will find them coming between
0:31:29 him and firm belief
0:31:30 indeed the corruption they cause on
0:31:32 earth is a great but most people are
0:31:34 unaware
0:31:35 and this is this is apt advice
0:31:38 this is very important advice because
0:31:40 sometimes we think we're so arrogant we
0:31:41 can deal with any intellectual spiritual
0:31:43 challenge
0:31:44 now remember do not have any
0:31:48 intellectual
0:31:48 basis or foundation okay
0:31:52 and we have to understand it's falsehood
0:31:56 dressed up as truth but we have to
0:32:00 understand
0:32:00 ourselves and our own hearts
0:32:03 and you know we understood the
0:32:04 metaphysical backdrop there are some
0:32:06 self-evident truths in islam that are
0:32:08 non-negotiable
0:32:10 such as the fact that god exists he's
0:32:12 worthy of worship and some
0:32:13 aspects of basic morality
0:32:17 and we have this fitra that if we
0:32:21 if it's clean if it's not clouded that
0:32:24 truth
0:32:25 will be awakened and obviously for the
0:32:28 other opinion if it's
0:32:29 if it's unclouded then it can direct
0:32:31 itself towards the truth
0:32:33 but actually i like those clouds in some
0:32:36 way
0:32:37 so we don't know how many clouds we have
0:32:41 over our fitrah that's preventing us
0:32:43 from seeing the truth within or
0:32:45 preventing us from being directed
0:32:46 towards the truth
0:32:48 so we shouldn't have this kind of
0:32:49 internal arrogance that we think we've
0:32:51 got it
0:32:52 obviously when you adopt the other
0:32:53 strategies that you're going to learn
0:32:54 throughout this course
0:32:55 such as finding a specialist having a
0:32:57 good environment studying
0:32:59 islamic knowledge critical thinking all
0:33:01 of these things
0:33:02 yes you'll be in a position to be able
0:33:04 to deal with this
0:33:06 but as a default position stop avoid
0:33:09 and ignore especially if you don't have
0:33:13 the other strategies in place
0:33:20 and if you remember what i said to you
0:33:22 this
0:33:23 strategy is really before the
0:33:25 destructive doubt
0:33:27 goes deep into your heart so what i mean
0:33:30 here
0:33:30 in the title it says if it enters well
0:33:32 if it starts to sit on the heart and
0:33:34 before it goes really deep and it's
0:33:35 maybe entered a little bit
0:33:37 there is something that you should do
0:33:40 stop and seek refuge okay and this
0:33:44 this is based on the two authentic the
0:33:46 the the authentic prophetic tradition
0:33:49 in bukhari and muslim as narrated by
0:33:51 al-bukhari and muslims
0:33:55 may allah may allah be pleased with him
0:33:58 he reports that the messenger of allah
0:34:00 sallallahu alaihi wasallam said
0:34:03 will come to one of you and he will say
0:34:05 who created this and that
0:34:06 and until he says to him who created
0:34:09 your lord
0:34:10 when it comes to this let him seek
0:34:13 refuge
0:34:14 let him seek refuge in allah and stop
0:34:17 such thoughts in another narration the
0:34:19 prophet sallallahu
0:34:20 alaihi wasallam said let him say
0:34:24 i have faith in allah
0:34:28 i have faith in allah
0:34:31 now obviously there is a philosophical
0:34:33 response to this and even in our islamic
0:34:34 intellectual tradition
0:34:36 he talks about something like this even
0:34:39 even even tamiya about
0:34:40 the absurdity of the infinite regress of
0:34:42 causes right it's absurd to have
0:34:44 you know someone creating god or
0:34:47 something creating god because then what
0:34:48 created that thing if that goes on
0:34:49 forever then you'll never have creation
0:34:51 in the first place
0:34:52 now obviously i don't want to get into
0:34:53 that for now you can go to the sapience
0:34:55 institute website
0:34:56 if you go into the menu i'm going to go
0:34:59 to
0:34:59 read and go to answers uh you'll be able
0:35:01 to find
0:35:02 an answer that's that that's titled who
0:35:05 created god question mark and it
0:35:06 thoroughly
0:35:07 uh deals with it on a logical
0:35:08 perspective talks about a law of
0:35:10 causality talks about the absurdity of
0:35:12 the infinite regress of causes but what
0:35:14 i want to focus on here
0:35:16 is the prophetic advice the the advice
0:35:18 of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
0:35:19 wasallam because he gave us some really
0:35:22 good advice because
0:35:23 if you think about it it he
0:35:27 was saying he's clearly highlighting
0:35:30 that harboring such
0:35:31 thoughts about allah have a spiritual
0:35:33 basis it's not just an intellectual
0:35:35 thing
0:35:35 right because you know when you convince
0:35:38 someone about the absurdity of the
0:35:40 infinite regress of causes when you
0:35:41 convince someone about
0:35:42 the kind of illogical perspective of
0:35:45 saying that
0:35:46 the uncreated creator is created which
0:35:48 is ridiculous like saying you know
0:35:49 there's a square triangle
0:35:51 you know when you when you convince them
0:35:52 intellectually their heart is still
0:35:54 wavering about this issue
0:35:56 so it's very profound advice the prophet
0:35:58 salallahu is saying that this is not
0:36:00 basically
0:36:00 an intellectual doubt per se it's it may
0:36:03 have underlying spiritual causes
0:36:05 and the prophet salallahu is giving us a
0:36:07 spiritual solution which is seek refuge
0:36:09 in allah
0:36:10 seek refuge in allah stop such thoughts
0:36:13 and in another narration say i have
0:36:14 faith in allah
0:36:15 make that kind of spiritual affirmation
0:36:17 okay
0:36:19 make that spiritual affirmation it's
0:36:20 interesting ibn tamiya writes about this
0:36:22 he says it is known by necessity in
0:36:24 human nature for all who have sound
0:36:27 nature among the children of adam
0:36:28 that the question is invalid it is not
0:36:30 possible for the creator of the cr
0:36:32 of the creation to have a creator if he
0:36:34 had a creator he would be created
0:36:36 himself
0:36:37 and will not be the creator of
0:36:38 everything
0:36:40 but notwithstanding it's very important
0:36:43 to understand that
0:36:45 these this type of this type of
0:36:47 destructive doubt
0:36:48 is has a spiritual basis so follow the
0:36:51 spiritual advice first and foremost
0:36:54 seek refuge in allah stop such thoughts
0:36:58 and let him say i have faith in allah
0:37:00 subhanallah what to add
0:37:05 so what's the lesson here for you and
0:37:07 others what is the lesson
0:37:09 the lesson is if you dive into the sea
0:37:11 what's going to happen
0:37:14 what's going to happen if you dive into
0:37:15 the sea
0:37:20 if you dive into the sea
0:37:23 what's going to happen is you're going
0:37:25 to get wet
0:37:28 so if you don't want to get wet what are
0:37:30 you going to do
0:37:33 don't dive into the sea no this sounds
0:37:35 really simple
0:37:36 but you know i want to simplify the
0:37:39 lesson here as much as possible
0:37:41 if you dive into the sea when you dive
0:37:43 into this you get wet
0:37:44 if you don't want to get wet don't dive
0:37:46 into the sea you avoid
0:37:48 the cliffs you avoid areas where you can
0:37:51 fall in
0:37:52 you avoid crowds where people can push
0:37:55 you in
0:37:56 you avoid the wind if me you know if
0:37:59 that's going to push you into whatever
0:38:00 the case may be
0:38:01 you avoid and you stop yourself
0:38:05 from falling into the sea because you
0:38:07 will get wet
0:38:09 you will get wet so instead of spending
0:38:12 time
0:38:12 drying yourself or putting the right
0:38:14 equipment like this gentleman has
0:38:16 in the picture with his scuba diving
0:38:19 suit and the oxygen and the glasses
0:38:21 you know those these are all the
0:38:22 strategies that we're going to use that
0:38:23 can help us
0:38:25 you know uh navigate the sea of doubts
0:38:27 properly for sure
0:38:29 but in the beginning if you don't want
0:38:31 to get wet then don't get into the sea
0:38:34 stop ignore and avoid
0:38:38 now i want to make it very clear here
0:38:39 before we go to the final distinction
0:38:41 that we're going to talk about today i
0:38:42 want to make it very clear
0:38:44 that are annihilated
0:38:47 based on the fact if you adopt all of
0:38:50 these strategies
0:38:50 if you study islam if you have critical
0:38:52 thinking you study theo philosophy you
0:38:54 study islamic creed
0:38:56 you you strengthen your heart i truly
0:38:58 believe the islamic intellectual
0:39:00 spiritual tradition
0:39:01 has what it takes and it has the tools
0:39:04 intellectual spiritual tools
0:39:05 to annihilate all of these doubts for
0:39:06 sure but
0:39:08 the the strategies we're talking about
0:39:10 thus far
0:39:12 uh especially for those who don't have
0:39:14 those things in place
0:39:15 and not just that and it's also to make
0:39:17 you realize that you should have a
0:39:19 default position don't have the
0:39:20 spiritual arrogance and
0:39:22 or this epistemic arrogance that you
0:39:24 think that's i'm able to do with this
0:39:26 when you get into the sea you're going
0:39:28 to get wet
0:39:29 so you have to understand that these are
0:39:32 the default things that you should put
0:39:33 into place
0:39:34 when dealing with and obviously when you
0:39:37 go through
0:39:38 the rest of the course you'll understand
0:39:39 that the strategies that we're going to
0:39:42 help you with they're just phenomenal
0:39:45 they'll eat up
0:39:46 muhat like like candy inshallah
0:39:50 so the next the next
0:39:54 the next strategy strategy number three
0:39:58 is to make the distinction
0:40:00 make the distinction which basically
0:40:02 means make the distinction between
0:40:05 the heart doubts destructive doubts
0:40:08 valid questions and waswasa
0:40:11 and shaytanic whisperings sometimes the
0:40:15 problem is we think all three are the
0:40:16 same
0:40:17 or we confuse them and we conflate them
0:40:20 so this is really again before the
0:40:22 and before it enters
0:40:25 and it could be and it could be for
0:40:26 after as well but
0:40:28 generally speaking is for before and
0:40:31 maybe where it's when it's just latched
0:40:32 on to the heart but hasn't really
0:40:34 entered deeply
0:40:35 this would help you to deal with this
0:40:38 effectively so let me first
0:40:40 tell you why making distinctions are
0:40:41 very important now
0:40:44 someone who's not knowledgeable okay
0:40:46 let's see if you could use the chat
0:40:48 or the questions here actually use the
0:40:50 chat because the questions are there's
0:40:52 about
0:40:52 43 questions already so use the chat
0:40:54 there's nothing there at the moment
0:40:56 and just use it for this does anyone
0:40:59 know the difference between these plants
0:41:01 or these trees or these leaves or these
0:41:03 or this greenery or foliage or whatever
0:41:06 you want to call it does anyone know
0:41:07 what these are
0:41:10 does anyone know
0:41:15 nope no one's typing anything
0:41:18 so you have the slides in front of you
0:41:20 and you see three different pictures of
0:41:22 obviously three different
0:41:24 types of plants
0:41:28 do you know what they are
0:41:34 you know what they are
0:41:39 nope they're not daisies
0:41:46 nope they're not clover i don't think
0:41:48 they're clover
0:41:52 i only know the middle one okay
0:41:55 this is a good exercise because
0:41:58 at this stage we do not have the
0:42:00 distinction
0:42:01 because distinctions empower you at the
0:42:04 moment
0:42:05 for someone like a layman like myself
0:42:07 all i can see
0:42:08 is fine they're different colors and
0:42:10 shapes but you know what they're just
0:42:11 plants man
0:42:13 i don't have the distinction to empower
0:42:16 me
0:42:17 to know what plants they are and how to
0:42:20 use them
0:42:21 i repeat i do not have the distinction
0:42:26 i cannot make the distinction between
0:42:27 them to understand
0:42:29 what plants they are and what uses they
0:42:32 have
0:42:33 for me at the moment all i see is
0:42:35 different color plants
0:42:38 but when i have the distinction that
0:42:39 they're medicinal plants
0:42:42 echinacea feverfew and ginkgo
0:42:45 and i not only know their names but i
0:42:48 know how to recognize them
0:42:49 and i know which plant is good for which
0:42:53 element
0:42:54 then now i have a distinction that
0:42:56 empowers me
0:42:59 this is why it's very important to be
0:43:01 able to make distinctions
0:43:05 making distinctions are very important
0:43:07 and that happens through
0:43:09 a relation between yourself or someone
0:43:11 else or even a book
0:43:13 that helps you to think about
0:43:16 making clear distinctions
0:43:20 you need to be able to make distinctions
0:43:23 in your life and with these so-called
0:43:25 doubts or whisperings or
0:43:28 questions that you may have they're not
0:43:30 the same
0:43:32 you need to be able to be
0:43:35 you need to be empowered via
0:43:39 the use of distinctions because if we go
0:43:42 back
0:43:44 when you have no knowledge of these
0:43:46 they're just different kind of plants
0:43:48 but when you're empowered through
0:43:50 questioning learning etc experience
0:43:52 relaying with others relaying with
0:43:54 information
0:43:55 now you have distinctions one is
0:43:58 akineshia one is fifty one is ginkgo
0:44:00 akinishi is good for the immune system
0:44:01 fever fear is good for so on and so
0:44:04 forth and ginkgo is good for so on and
0:44:06 so forth
0:44:06 and you know the medicinal plants you
0:44:08 could recognize them and you know
0:44:09 when to use them how to use them what
0:44:11 dosage now you've made distinctions
0:44:14 and it's through these distinctions that
0:44:16 give you power
0:44:21 and they empower you spiritually i
0:44:22 remember i was in pakistan i was giving
0:44:23 a lecture
0:44:25 and i think i was talking about the
0:44:26 mercy and forgiveness of allah subhanahu
0:44:27 wa ta'ala
0:44:28 when allah says yeah ibadi o my
0:44:30 believing servants do not despair of the
0:44:32 mercy of allah for allah forgives all
0:44:33 sins
0:44:34 she was crying and she visibly looked
0:44:36 like a practicing knowledgeable woman
0:44:39 hijab jibbab etc she had the whole
0:44:42 attire
0:44:43 but she was crying and for what i
0:44:45 remember
0:44:47 she thought allah would never forgive
0:44:48 her
0:44:52 she didn't she wasn't empowered
0:44:54 spiritually or even intellectually
0:44:56 she couldn't make the distinction
0:44:59 between her sin and allah's forgiveness
0:45:05 because our sins do not limit the
0:45:07 forgiveness of allah subhanallah
0:45:10 our sins do not
0:45:15 limit the mercy of allah wa
0:45:21 and the minute she was able to make the
0:45:24 distinction
0:45:25 she broke down into tears and she was
0:45:28 empowered spiritually
0:45:30 how is that going to change her life now
0:45:33 how in such an amazing way like the past
0:45:37 will become the past
0:45:38 she will take responsibility she'll do
0:45:40 toba
0:45:41 she'll repent and if she falls into sin
0:45:43 again she knows exactly what to do to
0:45:45 gain the mercy of allah
0:45:47 but you know the doors of mercy are
0:45:49 always open
0:45:51 and whoever closes them that's the
0:45:53 shaitaan by definition
0:45:56 whoever closes the door to allah's mercy
0:45:58 is technically a shaytan
0:46:01 because it's always open you need to
0:46:03 learn how to walk through them
0:46:04 and her distinction was she could
0:46:09 now understand that allah forgives all
0:46:11 sins and there's a way to walk through
0:46:13 that door of mercy
0:46:14 so distinctions give you power from that
0:46:17 point of view
0:46:19 so we need to be able to make
0:46:20 distinctions just like the first slide
0:46:22 concerning this distinction section
0:46:25 there were just three plants
0:46:27 and all you can see are just three
0:46:30 plants
0:46:30 you can't recognize them they've got
0:46:32 different colors different shapes
0:46:34 but they're just three plants for you
0:46:35 because you're not empowered with the
0:46:37 distinctions
0:46:38 you haven't made a distinction but the
0:46:41 minute
0:46:41 through relating with others relating
0:46:43 with information experience
0:46:45 you know that one now is akineshia the
0:46:47 other one is fema feud the other one is
0:46:49 ginkgo
0:46:50 and you know the medicinal plants and
0:46:51 you know what dosage you could use
0:46:53 for each different element now you've
0:46:55 made the distinction that gives you
0:46:56 power
0:46:58 and this is why we need to be able to
0:47:00 make distinctions when it comes to our
0:47:02 hearts and you we need to just make a
0:47:05 distinction between
0:47:07 shaytanic whisperings make a distinction
0:47:09 between
0:47:11 valid questions and shupa and shubohat
0:47:15 and doubts so let's now learn about
0:47:18 making the distinctions okay and that
0:47:20 will give us spiritual intellectual
0:47:21 power
0:47:22 the first one is waswasa spiritual
0:47:26 whisperings shaytanic whisperings
0:47:28 negative whisperings
0:47:29 now here here is what you need to
0:47:31 understand vice versa
0:47:33 are thoughts that you do not agree with
0:47:37 you do not believe in you don't believe
0:47:40 that they are justified and you have a
0:47:42 psychological aversion to them
0:47:46 let me give you the proof of the islamic
0:47:48 tradition
0:47:50 in sahih muslim the prophet
0:47:58 may not be pleased with him said some of
0:48:00 the companions of the messenger of allah
0:48:02 hussain came to the prophet said to him
0:48:04 we find in ourselves thoughts that
0:48:06 are too terrible to speak of he said are
0:48:08 you really suffering from that
0:48:09 they said yes he said this is a clear
0:48:11 sign of faith
0:48:14 in a related prophetic tradition in
0:48:16 sahih bukhari abu hurairah
0:48:20 said that truly allah has overlooked for
0:48:24 my ummah
0:48:24 for that which is whispered or the which
0:48:28 is thought about in the lower self as
0:48:30 long as it's not act upon it or speak
0:48:31 about it
0:48:33 so we have a few things here
0:48:36 the sahaba the companions had a
0:48:37 psychological aversion they obviously
0:48:39 didn't agree with it they didn't believe
0:48:41 in it
0:48:42 and according to the prophet sallallahu
0:48:44 alaihi this was a sign of iman
0:48:46 it's a sign of faith and the strategy
0:48:50 here is do not
0:48:51 act or talk about them and ignore them
0:48:55 simple as that and these are whisperings
0:48:59 they're not destructive doubts and do
0:49:00 not allow them to become destructive
0:49:02 doubts
0:49:02 by taking them seriously i like to talk
0:49:04 about the mind is like this
0:49:06 this clear sky blue sky and sometimes
0:49:09 these whisperings are like dark clouds
0:49:12 let the dark clouds disappear man
0:49:15 don't hold on to the dark cloud thing it
0:49:17 is yours and
0:49:18 the minute you hold it it's gonna rain
0:49:21 full of doubts
0:49:22 yeah just let it go
0:49:25 when i first became muslim oh my god
0:49:27 you're gonna laugh at this yeah
0:49:30 so obviously in when you do the prayer
0:49:32 obviously the prayer is the most
0:49:34 important spiritual act you can do to
0:49:35 connect with god
0:49:38 and you know the islamic prayer is not
0:49:39 just a prayer you're asking for
0:49:40 something it's a movement it's a sound
0:49:42 it's a remembrance it's
0:49:44 a contemplation a reflection it's a
0:49:45 supplication it's a asking it's a
0:49:48 it's a divine dialogue it's it's
0:49:51 phenomenal
0:49:52 it's like a spiritual program yeah um
0:49:56 and when i first became muslim you know
0:49:59 obviously you have to be in a state of
0:50:00 abolution when you wash your like
0:50:02 a mouth nose face uh you wipe your head
0:50:05 behind the ears
0:50:07 wash your arms hands feet etc yeah
0:50:11 and uh when you're in that state you
0:50:14 could break that state so obviously
0:50:16 in the islamic tradition when you pass
0:50:19 wind you break that state
0:50:20 and also when you have pass yeah but
0:50:23 there's a there's a there's a
0:50:24 there's a jurisprudential understanding
0:50:25 of what pus is it's it looks like
0:50:27 passport has to smell i believe as well
0:50:30 i have to uh look back on my learning
0:50:33 but
0:50:34 just take it for granted for now it has
0:50:36 to smell but anyway so what happened
0:50:38 what was the wasp
0:50:39 for me when i saw a white dot on my arm
0:50:41 for example
0:50:42 i know it sounds really weird and stupid
0:50:44 but i'm giving you this so you know it
0:50:45 happens to everybody
0:50:47 when i saw a white dog on my arm i was
0:50:49 like that possibly could be pus
0:50:52 it didn't fulfill the criteria of plus
0:50:54 it didn't smell it didn't look like plus
0:50:55 but
0:50:56 i i just thought it could be then i felt
0:50:59 i don't know where it came from so it
0:51:01 could have come from anywhere
0:51:02 so what i used to do change all my
0:51:04 clothes and have a full shower
0:51:06 i think maybe sometimes three four five
0:51:07 times a day it was crazy
0:51:10 it was absolutely crazy man but okay
0:51:12 alhamdulillah i'm over that now
0:51:14 but you get over that with elm you know
0:51:16 with gaining knowledge
0:51:17 and stuff like that but if i knew this
0:51:20 strategy this was just a whispering
0:51:22 then i would just basically just avoided
0:51:24 it
0:51:26 and completely because that is one of
0:51:28 the the the strategies don't act
0:51:30 and talk about it and just clearly avoid
0:51:32 it
0:51:35 uh another issue is when i spoke to
0:51:37 someone this was
0:51:38 a while back it was a brother's wife
0:51:42 and you know we had a skype session all
0:51:45 of us together i think was skype
0:51:46 or we had like a whatsapp session and
0:51:49 you know she sounded very learned and
0:51:52 you know from experience you can tell
0:51:54 when someone has
0:51:55 a vatted doubt on all and for me this
0:51:57 was
0:51:58 101 it was basic understanding this she
0:52:01 had
0:52:02 just whisperings wasp negative shaytanic
0:52:05 whisperings
0:52:06 and he was over things like oh i don't
0:52:08 know god exists and i was like look man
0:52:10 prove to me god exists and she was
0:52:12 brilliant she was articulate
0:52:13 she great knowledge of theology i think
0:52:15 it was over this issue
0:52:17 anyway but she was really articulate i
0:52:18 would ask her questions you know what
0:52:20 how would you answer the question
0:52:21 yourself and she answered it brilliantly
0:52:23 right
0:52:24 but she's still having this kind of like
0:52:25 non-intellectual whispering and she felt
0:52:28 that
0:52:28 oh my god maybe i'm not muslim what's
0:52:30 going on all of this stuff i said listen
0:52:31 to me
0:52:32 you have answered the questions your
0:52:34 theology is on point your philosophy is
0:52:36 on point kind of thing your
0:52:38 your intellect is great you could answer
0:52:40 the questions so why do you still have
0:52:41 this this is
0:52:42 clearly a shaytanic whispering what you
0:52:44 need to do is totally
0:52:46 ignore it even if it consumes you for
0:52:48 the whole day
0:52:49 and over time it will disappear
0:52:52 and many people have adopted this
0:52:54 strategy and it's fundamentally worked
0:52:56 fundamentally it has worked for them
0:52:58 because they have
0:53:00 been able to make a distinction that
0:53:01 these are just like shaytanic
0:53:03 whisperings to prevent you from coming
0:53:04 closer to god
0:53:05 you don't really believe in them you
0:53:08 have an aversion to them
0:53:10 and you have a psychological aversion
0:53:13 and you don't
0:53:14 agree with them that's a sign of iman
0:53:16 that's a sign of faith
0:53:18 now all you need to do is don't act upon
0:53:20 it don't speak about it and just ignore
0:53:21 it
0:53:22 so
0:53:25 that's whispering so we made a
0:53:26 distinction with the whisperings on
0:53:28 let's just repeat
0:53:29 you have a psychological aversion you
0:53:30 don't believe in it
0:53:32 you and you um
0:53:35 uh yeah and you don't believe it has any
0:53:37 kind of intellectual strength
0:53:39 that's a sign of faith and what you need
0:53:41 to do is don't speak about it don't act
0:53:43 upon it and totally ignore it if you
0:53:45 follow that strategy
0:53:47 shaytanic whisperings will just
0:53:48 disappear if you don't they may
0:53:50 end up becoming shubu hearts okay
0:53:54 so questions
0:53:58 questions are not whisperings and
0:54:00 questions are not
0:54:03 don't confuse make a distinction here so
0:54:06 how can we make the distinction that
0:54:07 questions valid questions are not
0:54:09 shaytanic whisperings and they are not
0:54:12 shubahat
0:54:13 well the way to make the distinctions is
0:54:15 number one
0:54:16 that they don't undermine your belief or
0:54:19 make you distort islam in any way
0:54:21 okay they don't undermine your belief
0:54:24 like the basic foundations
0:54:27 and they do not distort islam in some
0:54:31 way
0:54:31 and remember the the companions of the
0:54:33 prophet muhammad had valid questions too
0:54:37 and you need to understand that we're
0:54:38 not gonna know everything we have
0:54:40 epistemic limitations
0:54:42 so if we're sincere and we really
0:54:44 believe in islam and its foundations we
0:54:46 believe in allah we believe it's worthy
0:54:47 of worship we believe in the prophet
0:54:50 then no questions are not
0:54:55 questions are not destructive doubts
0:54:58 so how can we make the distinction in a
0:55:01 practical way
0:55:02 for example
0:55:06 you may have a question and you may ask
0:55:09 something like
0:55:10 you know there is a prophetic tradition
0:55:12 of the prophet muhammad sallallahu
0:55:13 alaihi wasallam
0:55:15 and it basically says that the sun
0:55:19 prostrates to god and asks its
0:55:21 permission to continue
0:55:22 its orbit or its movement to that
0:55:25 nearest effect
0:55:28 how do you understand this in light of
0:55:30 contemporary empirical reality
0:55:33 now you're not undermining god's
0:55:35 existence you're not undermining the
0:55:37 fact that he's worthy of worship you're
0:55:38 not undermining the prophet salallahu
0:55:41 believe in this prophetic tradition you
0:55:42 know it's true because it came
0:55:44 from the one who was inspired by god he
0:55:47 it came from the final prophet
0:55:49 muhammad but you have a valid question
0:55:52 and then you get it answered you're like
0:55:54 oh you know that's a very interesting
0:55:55 question because you've
0:55:57 accidentally maybe imposed an empirical
0:56:00 dimension in this prophetic tradition
0:56:01 this is more
0:56:02 metaphysics you know where is the
0:56:05 forehead and the arms of the sun for it
0:56:07 to prostrate so it's frustrations not
0:56:08 the way that you know
0:56:09 it could be that it's just obeying the
0:56:12 laws of the universe that god put in
0:56:14 place
0:56:14 simple as that so gave you more
0:56:17 distinctions
0:56:18 yeah gave you a really good answer to
0:56:20 really satisfy that question right
0:56:23 so that's like a valid question you know
0:56:26 insincere you want to dismantle
0:56:28 the basis of islam you don't want to
0:56:30 distort the fundamentals of distorted
0:56:32 islam in any way
0:56:33 it's a valid question you still believe
0:56:35 in allah you believe it's worthy of
0:56:36 worship
0:56:37 you believe in the finality of the
0:56:39 prophet muhammad sallallahu alaihi
0:56:41 he's the final prophet he's inspired by
0:56:43 allah he is
0:56:44 he taught us how to worship allah and he
0:56:46 is our guide
0:56:47 and our spiritual master and so on and
0:56:49 so forth but this
0:56:50 you know you believe in this prophetic
0:56:52 tradition because you know it's
0:56:53 authentic
0:56:54 but you just can't understand it okay
0:56:56 that's a valid question
0:56:58 do not do not allow that to turn into
0:57:02 in super hearts into into a super rather
0:57:05 don't allow that to be a destructive
0:57:06 doubt now
0:57:07 because when you have distinctions then
0:57:10 you'll be able to
0:57:11 take control over your spiritual state
0:57:13 to some degree by the will of allah
0:57:15 so it's a valid question i'm going to go
0:57:17 to a specialist which is the irony we're
0:57:18 not the irony but the interesting thing
0:57:20 is that's one of our strategies that
0:57:21 we're going to learn throughout the next
0:57:22 couple of weeks
0:57:23 when you go to a specialist they'll give
0:57:25 you these answers or even
0:57:26 learning islamic knowledge yourself
0:57:28 you'll be able to give you these answers
0:57:30 because we're standing on the shoulders
0:57:32 of giants
0:57:33 our classical scholars you know unpack
0:57:35 these answers for us
0:57:36 in principle or specifically in our
0:57:39 tradition you know we have a very rich
0:57:41 tradition we're standing on the shadows
0:57:42 of giants
0:57:43 but the example i want to give you here
0:57:45 was to show that that is a valid
0:57:47 question
0:57:48 and you could just you know do have a
0:57:50 narrative with yourself have a dialogue
0:57:52 i believe in allah i believe is where
0:57:53 the worship i believe in the prophet i
0:57:55 believe in the authentic prophetic
0:57:56 teachings okay good
0:57:59 and i believe in this particular
0:58:01 authentic teaching but i don't
0:58:03 understand it
0:58:04 so i'm going to ask a question perfect
0:58:08 not insincere it's not distorting islam
0:58:11 it's not affecting the foundations of
0:58:12 islam no problem
0:58:14 obviously there are other questions that
0:58:16 you may want to raise here when
0:58:18 sometimes someone may come across that
0:58:19 they have a valid question about the
0:58:21 foundations of islam
0:58:23 well the same thing applies you can have
0:58:25 a valid question about the foundations
0:58:26 of islam but i still believe in the
0:58:28 foundations of islam
0:58:29 right because the reason you believe
0:58:33 in the foundations for other reasons
0:58:35 other than that question
0:58:36 right so for example i can believe in
0:58:38 the authenticity of the prophetic
0:58:40 traditions
0:58:41 based upon testimonial evidence
0:58:45 because a scholar that i respect and
0:58:47 trust has
0:58:49 told me it's authentic but i may have a
0:58:52 question thinking well
0:58:54 how do you know it's authentic and maybe
0:58:56 i want to go deeper into
0:58:58 hadith the science of hadith the science
0:59:00 of prophetic traditions and
0:59:02 how the islamic scholars authenticated
0:59:04 prophetic traditions right
0:59:06 so i might have a question about the
0:59:08 foundation of the sunnah
0:59:10 the foundation of the act the actions
0:59:12 and the behaviors and the statements
0:59:14 and the consent and the silence of the
0:59:17 prophet sallallahu alaihi
0:59:18 i may have a question about its
0:59:19 foundation but still believe in it right
0:59:21 so i could i could i could still believe
0:59:23 in it and not want to distort it
0:59:25 and not and not uh
0:59:28 and and not want to undermine the
0:59:30 foundations of islam in this
0:59:32 case the foundations of the prophetic
0:59:33 way the sunnah but i have a question
0:59:35 about the foundations that's not an
0:59:37 issue as long as you can make that
0:59:38 distinction
0:59:40 it would only be a shubha if that
0:59:43 question itself
0:59:44 makes you deny the sunnah and makes you
0:59:47 ignore
0:59:48 all the other valid ways of establishing
0:59:50 that that is the sunnah
0:59:52 that's the problem so in a nutshell
0:59:56 questions are not what sir valid
0:59:59 questions are things that don't
1:00:01 undermine your belief or leave you
1:00:02 distort is distorted some in any way
1:00:04 the sahaba the companions had questions
1:00:06 we're not going to know everything we
1:00:07 have epistemic limitations
1:00:09 we're never go never gonna know
1:00:11 everything even when you study the
1:00:12 western philosophical tradition
1:00:14 epistemology the study of knowledge one
1:00:16 of the sources of knowledge is testimony
1:00:18 authentic testimony
1:00:19 just like what dr elizabeth fricker said
1:00:22 given that my
1:00:23 limitations as parametric i'm never
1:00:25 going to know everything basically
1:00:27 i have to refer to the authority of
1:00:29 others we see this
1:00:30 in every sphere of our life when i go to
1:00:32 the doctor
1:00:34 and i give them give her my or him my
1:00:36 symptoms and
1:00:37 he or she gives me medicine i don't
1:00:39 start questioning her background
1:00:41 questioning his background questioning
1:00:43 his medical expertise and i okay i may
1:00:45 go for a second opinion but the point is
1:00:46 i don't question them to that degree
1:00:48 and when i be when i'm given the
1:00:50 medicine i don't start questioning the
1:00:52 chemical
1:00:52 structure of that compound right
1:00:56 i don't have the knowledge i submit by
1:00:58 virtue of the fact that i have epistemic
1:01:00 limitations limitations of my knowledge
1:01:02 and i have to
1:01:03 uh submit to the status of others in
1:01:04 many ways and this exists in every
1:01:06 domain of knowledge even in science
1:01:09 has progressed so far you just have to
1:01:11 rely on the safety of others you can't
1:01:13 do it yourself even if it's a repeatable
1:01:15 experiment
1:01:16 you don't have the time you don't have
1:01:18 the resources you have to focus on this
1:01:20 specific thing
1:01:21 this particular domain or knowledge
1:01:22 within science as you relate to other
1:01:24 domains of knowledge but you have to
1:01:26 accept that and refer to those other
1:01:28 domains of knowledge without even
1:01:29 investigating yourself because you just
1:01:31 don't have
1:01:32 the epistemic uh apparatus or
1:01:35 resources to do that or access you just
1:01:38 have to rely on the sales of others
1:01:39 it reminds me of the debate i had with
1:01:40 professor lawrence krauss and i wanted
1:01:43 to
1:01:43 expose his metaphysical presupposition
1:01:45 because he said you know everything
1:01:47 all knowledge comes from touch and feel
1:01:49 you know the empirical world and i
1:01:50 wanted to expose that presupposition
1:01:52 and he said you know what other sources
1:01:54 of knowledge and i basically said
1:01:55 testimony and he almost naked at me
1:01:57 i said well let me show you this and i
1:01:59 said do you believe in evolution he's
1:02:00 like yes
1:02:01 i do the science i said why you don't
1:02:03 know have you done all the experiments
1:02:04 yourself and he said no
1:02:06 well there you go your belief your
1:02:09 conviction even a scientific conviction
1:02:12 concerning evolution is fundamentally
1:02:14 not just based on your own experiments
1:02:16 is based on external reading of other
1:02:18 research and experiments which you
1:02:20 haven't done yourself
1:02:21 even if they're repeatable so we can't
1:02:24 run away from testimony meaning that we
1:02:25 have
1:02:26 epistemic limitations and you know we're
1:02:28 not going to know everything so
1:02:29 questions are valid don't worry about
1:02:31 that as long as
1:02:32 we're sincere and that we believe in
1:02:34 islam we don't
1:02:35 undermine or doubt the fundamentals we
1:02:37 could still even question the
1:02:38 fundamentals
1:02:40 if we still believe in them because of
1:02:42 other reasons and we would know like
1:02:43 well how
1:02:44 do the scholars do this or why is it the
1:02:47 case i believe in allah i know he's
1:02:49 a worthy of worship but i want to
1:02:50 explore this a little bit further
1:02:53 so let's unpack that in the q and a as
1:02:54 well inshaallah so finally in this
1:02:56 section
1:02:57 doubts very simple
1:03:01 it's a falsehood that undermines the
1:03:03 fundamentals of islam
1:03:04 or distorts the religion in any way
1:03:08 okay and it makes you be to be unsure
1:03:11 about the truth of the fundamentals of
1:03:13 the islamic faith
1:03:15 once that happens then no that is a
1:03:17 shabbah
1:03:19 those are those are destructive doubts
1:03:22 that destroy the fundamentals of the
1:03:25 islamic faith
1:03:26 they destroy the religion and they
1:03:29 distort of the religion in some way
1:03:31 and if you've come along to the point
1:03:33 where
1:03:35 you're affected by shubahat in that way
1:03:39 hopefully making the distinctions will
1:03:41 help you but if you're already affected
1:03:44 then the other strategies are going to
1:03:46 help that you're going to learn the next
1:03:47 couple of weeks such as
1:03:48 learning islamic knowledge correctly
1:03:50 holistic
1:03:51 islamic knowledge taking care of your
1:03:53 heart from a spiritual point of view
1:03:56 critical thinking learning about islamic
1:03:58 philosophy theo philosophy islamic
1:04:00 thought
1:04:00 asking a specialist when you go and deal
1:04:02 with all of these
1:04:04 it deals with once the shop has entered
1:04:07 you and that's why these first three
1:04:08 strategies were really
1:04:10 mostly for before the doubt has affected
1:04:13 okay so making a distinction helps you
1:04:17 when the hasn't really entered your
1:04:19 heart and is draining your faith
1:04:22 because you make that distinction to
1:04:23 this to make a distinction between your
1:04:26 destructive doubts your valid questions
1:04:28 and your waswasa
1:04:30 because sometimes we may think we have
1:04:31 destructive does but they really just
1:04:32 was wasan you know how to deal with it
1:04:34 now
1:04:35 and you may think you have a destructive
1:04:36 but they're just really valid questions
1:04:37 so you know how to deal with it now ask
1:04:38 someone
1:04:39 yeah which relates to another to the
1:04:41 other strategy we're going to learn the
1:04:42 next couple of weeks which is ask a
1:04:44 specialist
1:04:45 or or learn islamic knowledge
1:04:47 holistically
1:04:48 which is another strategy but the point
1:04:49 is making a distinction between shubohat
1:04:52 waswasa and valid questions helps you
1:04:56 if you just have wasan if you just have
1:04:58 valid questions
1:04:59 but if you'll be now if the shubha has
1:05:02 not only attached itself to the heart
1:05:03 but it's time to drain your faith
1:05:05 then what you're going to learn in the
1:05:06 next couple of weeks is the strategies
1:05:09 that you're going to adopt
1:05:10 to remove them completely inshaallah
1:05:15 so the lesson for you and others here is
1:05:17 very simple
1:05:21 medical symptoms right
1:05:24 if we're able to make a distinction
1:05:26 between different set of medical
1:05:27 symptoms then we'll be able to find what
1:05:29 the disease is and find the right
1:05:30 medicine
1:05:32 but if you're a doctor that thinks all
1:05:34 the medical symptoms even if they
1:05:35 contradict
1:05:36 each other and they change and they're
1:05:37 different and the different set of
1:05:38 symptoms they
1:05:39 you're always going to say it's just the
1:05:40 flu then when you give them
1:05:42 the medicine it's just not it's not
1:05:44 going to work
1:05:46 so this is the lesson for you and others
1:05:49 is this is very similar to a doctor when
1:05:51 we learn about symptoms
1:05:53 and how the nuances of symptoms and the
1:05:55 subtleties and how they correlate to
1:05:57 certain diseases and what medicine
1:05:58 we need to give a doctor has the
1:06:02 distinctions
1:06:03 between different set of symptoms that
1:06:06 enables him and empowers him or her
1:06:08 to be able to say what disease you have
1:06:11 and what effective
1:06:12 medicine he or she is going to give you
1:06:14 if they didn't have the distinction
1:06:16 then we're gonna you know if you were a
1:06:19 doctor
1:06:20 you didn't have the distinction then
1:06:21 your patients are always gonna be sick
1:06:23 yeah
1:06:23 likewise we're always gonna be
1:06:25 spiritually sick or intellectually sick
1:06:27 if we can't make a distinction between
1:06:28 waswasa spiritual negative whisperings
1:06:32 valid questions and shubohat so
1:06:36 making the distinctions as we just did
1:06:37 today and understanding how to make
1:06:39 those distinctions
1:06:40 would help you especially if you just
1:06:42 have waswasa or just valid questions
1:06:44 but if now you know you have a heart
1:06:47 that it's affecting you in that way it's
1:06:48 not only attached to your heart but it's
1:06:50 draining your faith in your iman your
1:06:51 spiritual intellectual conviction
1:06:53 and to the degree that making
1:06:56 distinctions won't help
1:06:57 then that's what the other strategies
1:06:59 you're gonna learn in week three and
1:07:01 onwards
1:07:01 is gonna help you annihilate okay i hope
1:07:05 you
1:07:05 annihilate so next week we're gonna be
1:07:08 talking about your environment that's
1:07:09 gonna be
1:07:10 i believe it's gonna be doctor with
1:07:12 manatee for
1:07:15 and let's just go back to the strategies
1:07:17 just to remind you we went through be
1:07:19 aware no intention to make the
1:07:20 distinction
1:07:23 now you're in now the following weeks
1:07:26 we're going to talk about your
1:07:27 environment
1:07:28 studying islam critical thinking finding
1:07:29 a specialist dealing with trauma focus
1:07:31 on your heart making dua now that's
1:07:32 going to annihilate
1:07:34 the shubha and the shuba heart that have
1:07:36 affected your heart okay
1:07:39 now we said already being aware is
1:07:41 really before
1:07:42 the affects your heart and attaches
1:07:45 itself and
1:07:46 goes deep in and drains your faith and
1:07:48 giving it no attention is also for
1:07:50 before
1:07:51 and making the distinction is really for
1:07:52 before but one can argue might be for
1:07:55 after as well
1:07:56 and i'll tell you why because you may
1:07:58 think that you have a shubha but after
1:07:59 making distinctions it's not shubaha
1:08:01 anymore
1:08:02 it's just a quite valid question or it's
1:08:05 just a
1:08:07 it's just a waswasa and you know i had
1:08:09 to deal with that now
1:08:10 it's a sign of iman ignore it don't talk
1:08:13 about it
1:08:15 don't speak about it don't act upon it
1:08:16 just ignore it it's a sign of iman based
1:08:18 upon the fact that you have a
1:08:19 psychological aversion to it you know
1:08:20 it's not true and it has no basis
1:08:22 okay so
1:08:26 really if you're someone who has
1:08:29 been affected with super heart then the
1:08:32 the rest of the weeks are really going
1:08:33 to help you in a huge way
1:08:35 a huge way there'll be spiritual tools
1:08:37 and intellectual tools that would
1:08:38 annihilate
1:08:39 the shuba heart the destructive does
1:08:41 that you have even to the point if you
1:08:43 think that you're not muslim anymore
1:08:44 insha allah but the reason we have to go
1:08:46 to the first three because it helps you
1:08:49 depending what stage you are
1:08:50 and not only that remember this course
1:08:52 is about helping others as well
1:08:53 so it will give you the distinction to
1:08:55 be able to
1:08:57 give the right medicine to the people
1:08:58 that you're dealing with and given the
1:08:59 right advice on
1:09:00 on what strategy they should use or what
1:09:03 combinations of strategies
1:09:05 they should use so
1:09:08 this is the end of the second week
1:09:20 you