I'm excited we're in Toronto Canada for
everybody tuning in and we're at the
sound heart convention we know what
happens when the battery goes dead phone
goes dead what about when the heart goes
dead we're seeing the consequences of
that depression is on the rise
people are becoming despondent falling
into despair suicide not only amongst
adults but
teens people going to the doctor for
this ache and that ache but he can't
write a
prescription for the heart AE but I'm
going to tell you who can when we come
back here on the dean show don't go
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show greetings of Peace greetings of
Peace have you found any more have you
found a group of people who are more
inclined towards peace you know they got
us all over the news like we're the you
know barbarians who are all about war
and fighting and whatnot but every time
we greet each other you see this peace
going on have you ever met any other
group of people who are more inclined
towards this your
comments I wanted to kind of break the
eyes because some people now when they
tune in and as soon as you mention Islam
Muslims tuning out so I wanted to let
them in to see kind of what we talk
about and one of the most important
things is the heart and I had mentioned
that people going to the doctor for all
sorts of aches but is it true that even
the doctor he cannot even though he's
writing a lot of prescriptions but can
he write a prescription for the
heartache um definitely uh you know
there's doctors there are are doctors
that specialize in the heart and they
make the blood flow in certain areas or
they unclog blood clots and so on and so
forth but Subhan Allah you know getting
to what you were saying with the Salam
and the peace and the Heart Right Subhan
Allah it's absolutely amazing because
people feel that peace in their heart
when they give Salam to each other you
send the blessings and peace of Allah
subhana wa tala upon that person you
walk by someone else and you
say you're literally saying May the
peace and blessings and protection and
safety of Allah be upon you and so that
person walking by immediately their
heart is like I'm calm I'm peaceful this
person just made a nice prayer for me
that may God protect me and so that
person feels peace at heart
alhamdulillah isn't that beautiful and
we're at the sound heart convention we
talk about the heart I open up you know
I give an example you know when the
battery goes dead phone goes dead we
need to recharge but now the consequence
of dead heart so obviously now I also
mentioned the one who has prescribed a
prescription for the dead heart so let's
go take it to you and what are your
comments on on what I had just said
about the heart and the one who can
write a prescription because we talked
about the one who can't but about the
one who can write that
prescription Allah is the one who
created us
he created us our father Adam Alam from
dust and from him all of his progeny uh
so our bodies are from the Earth
intentially but our soul is from Allah
and our bodies we feed our bodies from
what grows on the Earth but our soul is
fed by what Allah has revealed uh the
the Soul Food the food for the heart is
in Revelation like Allah
says
and likewise we have revealed upon you
oh messenger of Allah uh a
soul from our Command and that's the
Quran that's Revelation so Allah is the
one who's prescribing the cure for our
hearts and that's in the Revelation that
he sent in the Quran and in the actions
and the statements of the Prophet
exciting and I just jumped into it but
let's go ahead from the right to the
left now shik adage d y ibraim like it
was
yesterday we were at the PE we turn on
peace and we were at the peace
conference overseas so I'm excited to be
with all you guys thank you for being
with me here on the dean show in Toronto
Canada so let's continue talking about
the heart how important is it to have a
sound heart and how can you get to
having a sound heart uh one of the
amazing things about the Arabic language
is that you can describe one thing in
different ways and there's really three
important statements that Allah uses in
the Quran uh to talk about the one thing
that we translate as heart or proverbial
heart so there's a word uh which is
called the heart was given the
description of the ever shifting and it
goes from one side to the next sometimes
you haveing High faith and other times
the plummets other times there's
depression sometimes there's Elation and
sometimes there's sadness and that heart
as it shifts from right to left and from
good to bad and from Sunnah at times to
and from happiness to discontent its
control ultimately is in the hand of
Allah and one of the most private duas
we only learn of this Dua from the wives
of the
Prophet say the habit of the Prophet was
to always ask Allah to keep his heart
steadfast keep my heart firm upon faith
and it was this private thing that you
would hear him say in his home not out
of doubt in his mission but out of
solidification for what he really s so
that's the first description the second
is uh fad and the word fuad is it's it's
like a proper Arabic term for the heart
there's also the concept of s uh the
chest which envelops and holds the heart
and the S you know it's that place where
IM enters and whenever Allah talks about
faith he
says Allah has open their chest to the
light of faith and it's a meaning that
the chest is open the heart is is bare
and that faith has pierced it there's no
uh you know nothing that separates it um
one of the things uh uh the second term
it's about that emotional heart and at
times it's that sinful heart and Allah
says
in the hearing the sight you use and the
malicious intentions and movements of
your heart all of that you will be
questioned about it so those three
levels of hearts are really really
important in ascending from an emotional
stat to one of solidifying and and and
and bearing our a heart to people uh and
and to Allah and third finding and
knowing ultimately that we need Allah's
support to remain firm upon faith and
love uh in the face of tragedy and
sinfulness and adversity someone who's
tuning in and they've heard this word
Allah for the first time how would you
just in a tweet describe Allah three you
know the in the amount of words you got
two three two three sentence so now
someone who's just heard this word for
the first time how would you
describe Allah Subhan Allah it's
actually a little bit difficult to
describe Allah in a tweet uh because
there's so much to actually or so much
is attributed to Allah subhanahu waala
but if I was to uh simplify it for
someone who simply came online or you
know began watching and uh and and is
wondering what is Allah who is Allah
like we say there is no true God worthy
of worship except Allah right and Allah
is the Arabic term for God a deity that
we worship uh and it is an Arabic uh
word and so Subhan Allah Allah subhana
wa tala he is the one who created us and
everything in the universe and if I was
capable to elaborate just a little bit
you know to touch upon what really
affects our hearts with regards to Allah
you know it's the depths of the night
when a person is going through uh
extreme hardship in their life and
they're stressed and depressed and you
know there's so much that's going on for
them and it keeps them awake in the
middle of the night like they wake up at
2:00 having this nightmare and they
don't know what to do with themselves
they can't control themselves they're
panicking a typical Panic or anxiety
attack and Subhan Allah as Muslims what
are we trained to do like we're trained
to go make W and pray at that time right
the night prayer and so when you bow
down and you put your head down to the
ground submitting to Allah I think at
that very moment we feel and understand
that there's nothing really left for us
on earth except to submit to Allah
subhanahu wa taala and that that
coolness that calmness that patience the
uh you know the relief that a person
feels from the Stress and Anxiety that
they that might have startled their
sleep is no longer there because they
fully and truly submit to Allah subhana
wa tala and the and what tops it off is
that when they're literally making that
suud and their head is down to the
ground and they're asking Allah
subhanahu waala from the depths of their
heart Allah is asking his angels who is
asking from me at that point in time in
the early stages of the morning or the
last part of the night and the angels
are saying so and so is asking you so
and so is asking you and he's granting
forgiveness and whatever that person
wants that's true
submission
aeet would that fit in a tweet would
that fit say he is God the one and only
the absolute the Eternal for me if I was
going to Tweet I would
say Allah is who no one can be Allah is
who no one can be and Allah was before
there was a was
allahar and Allah will be when when None
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the sound heart convention and I had
mentioned when I opened up the
consequence of having a heart that's not
sound I had mentioned people becoming
despondent falling into despair
depression is on the rise suicide not
only amongst adults but teens is this
true what are your um is this a
consequence now of not having a sound
heart it's definitely it's definitely
one of the consequences of not having a
sound heart the just wanted to point out
something from the Quran about
this there's a story inah Bak the second
chapter of the Quran where M Moses he be
him goes and commands the Israelites to
sacrifice a um a calf and uh they keep
refusing they keep putting it off they
keep slacking off they they keep asking
questions about it uh what's the color
of this calf can you tell us more about
it ask your master what is it and
eventually they end up doing
it and Allah at the end of this whole
chapter
says after this your hearts addressing
the Israelites your hearts became
harder they became
hard as if they were
rocks so the the point is
that even harder than rocks the point is
that
disobey disobeying Allah being
disconnected from Revelation being uh
having these barriers between us and
Allah's book and the Sunnah of the
Messenger s wasallam by keeping uh by
keeping making these excuses and
deferring uh saying maybe I'll pray you
know I'll pray there's still time I'll
pray there's still time before you know
it time's gone by just having that
constant attitude that makes a person
heart very hard and in this case for the
Israelites it made it harder than a
rock and a consequence of that was what
befell them afterwards so all of these
things that we see are consequences of a
hard heart the cause of it is disconnect
from the Revelation or just deferring
slacking off from uh applying or
following the revelation of Allah sh
tell us when we see people around us
that are at the higher
anchel and people look up to them people
such as Robin Williams for instance who
not too long ago committed suicide and
you have many people following his
footsteps but they have all the money
they have the status they have the fame
what seems to be the problem
here um well you know Allah subh says in
the
Quran
basically wealth gold silver wealth
different things that we have and Allah
subhana wa T tells us that he gives us
these things and he beautified the world
he beautified this dun for us with all
of these things that he mentioned and
from amongst it is that
wealth now Subhan Allah when a person
acquires wealth you'll notice that some
people who gain so much wealth their
lives are you know being broadcasted to
the entire world and Children and Youth
want to be like that they want to have
the bends they want to have the bling
bling and all that fashion and
everything but Subhan Allah what what
they don't see is what happens when all
the cameras closed at the end of the day
and that person goes to sleep and stops
tweeting and is no longer on Facebook
and so on and so forth what's the
condition of that person's life like
they might be extremely lonely they
might be suffering from you know not
having a social life and so on and so
forth so that wealth doesn't really
bring happiness now Allah subhana T
tells us that he beautified the world
with these things for us that doesn't
mean that we should not be wealthy
people that doesn't mean that we have to
give up wealth rather Allah subhana T is
telling us to use that wealth correctly
so we're told how to use wealth that you
gain wealth in one hand you spend it in
the other hand you're not paying
attention to it meaning you get wealth
you spend wealth and it never gets to
your heart it remains in your hand use
it as a tool to get through life and to
enjoy the bounties and blessings that
Allah subhana wa T has given us so you
can either use the wealth positively and
get to Jenna or you can use that wealth
in a way that could actually make you
more depressed because you are filling
your life like she arage mentioned you
know there's food for the body and food
for the soul and when you use all that
money on your body but you're not
filling your soul or your heart with the
connection with Allah subhana wa tala
doesn't matter how much money you have
there is a Japanese lady it was just
recent in the news she had won the first
place for being the oldest
woman at 117 years of age I don't know
if anybody read
this and it was interesting when they
had asked her what was it about her life
now that she can attribute her longevity
and she said this is quoting her that I
put God first and I was good with the
people so we see now can we attribute
and they've done some studies and I want
you to comment on this people who do put
the Creator first you know they live
less of a stressfree life I mean we all
have tribulations that we go through but
when we hold down to the Rope of God now
we somehow seem to not fall deep down
into despondence and despair we seem to
get out but on the flip side people who
don't have this rope that they hold down
to this connection with their maker what
happens uh I think you know it's it's a
telling example that when one feels
connected to to the greater being to the
one who is in all control uh it kind of
releases a lot of the stress that we
have on our mind and uh you know in our
heart uh it's okay to not seek to
control everything and one of the
downfalls I think of of many societies
and our communities is that we live in a
way where we want to to micromanage and
control every single aspect of our life
and we're not just willing to just give
something up to God and just say you
know this is something that God you know
has determined for me that I must endure
and
overcome we you know we all belong to
God we to him we will eventually return
and you know the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam um you know the final
moments of his life were a sure sign
that all of us will experience tragedy
and one of the things about the death of
the Prophet Sall alhi wasallam that we
don't think enough of sallallahu alaihi
wasallam is the impact that it had on
those who lived with him you know there
were people who would be given uh a new
child you know and he would look at his
child just a few days or months or years
after the death of the prophet and
instead of feeling absolute Joy at this
new gift to his life he would be
saddened and he would say I wish
Muhammad had seen this child I wish alai
wasallam had been here to Bless the
Child make Dua for him so you know there
was a sense of in in their Joy they felt
his loss and in their tragedy you know
when someone dies in your family you
would say I wish they had died earlier
in the time when the prophet was here
sahu alaih wasallam and for us as
Muslims we really re really re need to
reconnect our Liv
and realign it with that
ofam um it doesn't surprise me that
someone would have longevity of life
because they have trust in other than
themselves and that they have aim and
faith in other than their strengths and
for all of us the strengths we have the
successes we have the education that we
have there are moments in life where
that will all fail us and all that is
left as Allah dramatizes in the
Quran when they ride on the ship and the
waves begin to
play everyone at that moment says my God
help me and sometimes we just need to
say yaah Allah I submit to you just
submit submit is isn't this what Moses
did and Jesus did and Abraham did they
all submitted to the will of God it's
it's all about giving yourself
completely to the true power and you
know uh the names and the attributes of
God tell us about him you know when you
spoke about Allah and you know the the
proper name of God the Lord the god the
only one worthy of worship but of his
names and attributes things that
describe him is Al the one who has all
ability Al the one who none can have
strength except from his strength you
know uh the the source of all Providence
and blessing right so this totality of
focusing ourself in a god- Centric way
is empowering and this was the way of
all the messengers the prophets that God
Almighty sent because it was the call of
everyone that preceded Muhammad all of
them from the beginning of Adam until
the end of humanity now speaking about
the last and final messenger of the
proph Muhammad peace and blessings be
upon him who had mentioned in a
authentic tradition can you comment on
this because it's goes with what talking
about the heart he said there's a Moro
in the body that if it's sound the whole
body will be sound if it's corrupt the
whole body will be corrupt can you
comment on
this and then he said that that morsel
is the heart the heart the heart now
there is I just wanted to the on the
heart speaking of the heart and having a
sound heart the prophet mentioned a
narration uh in which he mentions
there's a man who uh lost his child a
young child an infant and Allah L he
actually describes the conversation that
takes place between Allah and the angels
uh and Allah obviously knows exactly
what happened but this conversation is
described by the prophet so that we can
learn something from it and take away a
very important lesson he describes that
this Allah says to the angels that you
took the soul of the infant of my slave
the angel said yes we did that was what
was commanded to
us he asked did you take away the apple
of his
eye the fruit of his heart is literal
translation the better transition will
be the apple of his eye the joy of his
life and they say the angel say
yes what did my slave say when this
tragedy
happened the angel
said
he praised you and he
said to Allah we are we belong to Allah
and we will return to Allah and then
Allah said build a house in Jenna for
this slave and call it the house of
praise the point is that this man
Anonymous not named in this narration
this could be anybody this could be
anybody in the crowd anybody who's
listening anybody who suffered this
incredible loss this could be any of
those people this is a person who's
demonstrating what it means to have a
sound heart that they have this
connection with Allah even in the most
difficult time in their life when
they've just lost their child they're
still able to remember Allah and not
just remember Allah thank Allah and
remind themselves that we are in fact we
belong to Allah and we will eventually
return to him those the the uh those
actions at the strike of the most
difficult Calamity that shows uh the
true soundness of the heart we're
talking about having a sound the sound
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