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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 we're talking about the heart
he said there's a more so in the body
that if it's sound the whole body will
be sound if it's corrupt the whole body
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 he
actually describes the conversation that
takes place between 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 translation 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 we 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
heart at the sound heart convention in
Toronto Canada we'll be right back don't
go anywhere
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the and we're talking about the heart I
mean right now we live in a in the
generation where it's I this I that
iPhone iMac all of these eyes and we're
charging these things so how can someone
charge the heart if you now like they
know okay I can plug this in and my
iPhone get charged but how do you charge
the heart uh I think one of the most
significant aspects of connecting one's
heart to Allah is uh through the ritual
aspects that are requested of us and you
know God asks us really simple things
you know God has a right upon us he's
the one who has given us everything that
we have uh and he ask for us you know to
pray five times a day and those prayers
those cyclical consistent every day of
every week of every month till death
surprises us is a constant connection
the word for prayer is called Salah
which means it's a connection to God and
and and that's a you know it's it's a
profound statement that we connect
ourselves to him constantly in prayer
Our prayer it's not just simply saying I
need this and I want you to protect me
from that but it's more about Praise You
Know You began by saying Allah abbar
everyone said Allah abbar everything
that is done well and significantly
deserves an ovation you know uh if a
concert or a Pianist does something
great people listen to it they were
enthralled at the end of it they all
stand up and they you know it's like wow
and they applaud and it was in
appreciation and for us that standing
before God and the Declaration of
allahar nothing is greater for me than
God nothing is of more benefit to me
than God no one can help me more than
God no problem is too great than Allah
all of that solidifies the heart like it
makes your heart firm and it gives you
assurity and and and resilience in in
the Tempest of the world and the
difficulties that we experience so I
think that's the beginning point where
we seek to reclaim our heart that we lay
it be to the one who sees in it subhah
wa tala how what kind of advice would
you give for someone he just mentioned
to reclaim your heart so someone has
given their heart to
materialism they just want the latest
car and they feel that's going to make
them happy you know stick in and just
waiting for the next fashion design to
come out and they're just engross
intoxicated with all of the things that
are out there of entertainment and now
the heart is connected to all of these
celebrities and all of the other wild
stuff that's out there and now you just
mentioned reclaim you need to reclaim
your heart what advice would you give
for someone who tuned in right now and
they're like you know what I want to
reclaim my heart all right um I think uh
there's there's a number of ways but one
thing that I I usually suggest and
recommend people to do if you really
want to soften your heart and reclaim it
look at people that have less than you
you know today like you mentioned we
live in a day and age where we've got
iPhones and iPads and you know gadgets
and tablets and technology and it's
everywhere like even my watch beeps and
vibrates when it's time for me to you
know wake up in the morning the alarm
it's just crazy I get my messages you
can make phone calls like our life is
just revolved around the world and not
everyone has that and you know an
example that I like to use in terms of
you know just to make people understand
what I'm trying to say is remember those
who have less than you I remember when I
went to the Philippines at one point in
time and I asked the brothers and the
sisters you know what I said during my
trip I really want to go to the
slums and they're like the slum like
it's dangerous why would you want to go
there so they took me to the slums and
while I was there you know I saw
children who for us like today we see
children playing with iPads and the
parents don't even know how to use it
these children would go down to the
stream where the sewage water would flow
into and they would get little pieces of
like wood or straw or some piece of
cardboard from like someone's juice box
and they'd rip it rip it off and go back
up to the stream of sewage water flowing
down the hill and they would race it and
see whose piece of garbage reached the
garbage at the bottom before the other
kids and so that was their joy that was
their passion that's that's what they
you know felt happy with and to eat they
would go to the garbage cans the
dumpsters and take out the Bones from
the fast food chicken that we finished
eating they would take it out bring it
home chop it up again respice it fry it
and then add water to boil it into a
soup and that was their food our
leftovers that they took out of a
garbage from a fast food restaurant so
there's people that don't have what we
have and to I think sometimes we just
need to literally go down to the slums
of whatever City we're living in or go
to the you know whatever area has poor
people usually a downtown or Central you
know area of the city where there's
homeless people living and give them
from the best of what we have so go to
your closet take out your Armani suit
your you know Georgio armanis and your
perfume bottles and you know for sisters
get out some of your jewelry or whatever
or something that's useful for those
people so socks and clothing and nice
you know down duvet and comforters that
we sleep with and go and give it to them
and feel what it feels like to give
someone else what you enjoy and see the
smile on their face your heart softens
immediately great advice how about for
the person now the brother's like I left
you know my my my heart with that honey
at the club and she's like you know what
I'm just thinking about committing
suicide if I can't get this man and
she's living in fantasy land and you
have an opportunity now that they're
listening how can you get someone like
this from your experience to reclaim
their
heart
so the um what advice do you like to
give yeah so somebody who's literally
heartbroken uh there's you can say to
them look it's not the end of the world
there's lots of people there right uh
there's inefficiency for all of us
pardon the
analogy and the second thing is that
remind ourselves that Allah says in the
Quan that whatever you have is going to
end and whatever Allah has is always
going to last it's always going to be
there so we aim for what Allah has
that's Jenna we aim to get there if you
want Everlasting Love We aim to get to
Jenna cuz that's where we'll get that
love if you want Everlasting ing
pleasure we aim for that in jna and then
we will have it so just that perspective
that gets of course we all want uh
pleasure and enjoyment in this duny as
well but the perspective has to be there
that what whatever we have in this Dunya
is going to end it's going to wither
away the shine will wear off but
whatever Allah has in jna never will it
uh never will the shine off in fact it
will get even better and better just as
an example the people who go to Jenna
the prophet told us that a man will
leave his house in Jenna come back home
and he would say to his wife you're more
beautiful than when I left you and she
would say no you're more Handsome when
you left right so your beauty
increases day by day and your love
increases uh Moment by moment in Jenna
Subhan Allah how beautiful is that so we
aim for that and we keep that in our
minds for we're almost out of time
before we close it up now for the not
yet Muslims because everyone has the
potential to submit to God Alone to
worship the Creator not the creation and
they're tuning in we're talking about
God we're talking about the heart and
people are realizing that okay you know
what I can't get happiness and all of
these material superficial things but
now they're like okay I'll just go join
this religion that religion all these
religions out there how do I know what
you guys are talking about is the way of
life that's definitely from the Creator
with all these other different religions
claiming that they're the way and the
only way the right way how can I
differentiate which one is truly the way
from God uh ultimately truth is always
set apart from falsehood and you know as
a person who was born into Islam I I I
see you know I always ask myself um
would I come to Islam would I have
walked over to Islam had I not known it
uh by the blessing of having been given
it from birth and you know Subhan Allah
those who come into Faith uh you know
Allah describes in the Quran that
Allah's opened their chest to the truth
and you know the verses in the Quran
which is always the first step to Faith
uh for me um I always recommend to
people to read the Quran read it on your
own don't don't don't seek higher
interpretation just read and I I do
recommend you know the Oxford University
uh press Edition Dr uh halim's
translation of the Quran it's very
accessible to an English Market to an
English uh uh reader it's very clear
it's very polished and there's no added
commentary there's no uh added values
that are added to it so just read what
the man interpreted God's word as being
and you know I I I I just want to share
with you like an experience of one of uh
you know a PE uh one of my friends from
high school and he was uh over over at
my house when we were young and you know
I'd never you know shared the Quran with
him or said read this or you know
nothing like that and I walked walked
out of the room came back and he was
crying and he was standing near my desk
and he said I said what's wrong with you
I thought something you know something
happened I go what's wrong with you and
he goes uh you know and he pointed to
the Quran and he just tapped it like
this he said this is the
truth and he goes I want to be a Muslim
I said Allah you know why he goes well
you know I always wanted to read it but
I felt like I didn't want to ask you so
when you went out I just turned it over
and I read the first sentence the first
sentence I read it's the truth so I said
well what's this sentence and I look in
it and it was
from where Allah subhah wa tala
says those who consume the wealth of the
orphans unjustly they are ingesting in
themselves Hellfire now what I didn't
know about my friend was that uh he was
an orphan child and he was from one
foster home to the next and he was put
in neglectful homes where the money that
the state and the government paid
towards their F to him was usurped by
others it was gone in the form of liquor
and in the form of other things and no
one cared for him and he as a young
child grew up seeing that those who were
paid to look after him failed him and
the first verse that he opened and
looked at in the Quran moved his heart
that he said this is the truth the one
who did this to me God is Not unjust my
life is not something that was wasted
the tragedies I experience there will be
recompense and you know the brother now
alhamdulillah he's in Toronto married
with four children you know Muslim
masallah and you know the so I say to
you know uh our our brothers in humanity
our sisters in humanity read the Quran
you have nothing to to lose uh begin
from anywhere you like if you're a
Christian you want to read about what we
say about Jesus open the 19th Chapter
read about Mary uh you know the mother
of Jesus read his story his Immaculate
birth you know what we believe if you
want to know you know what are the
things that we value look at look at how
God describes you know Heaven and Hell
in the final chapters of the Quran just
read read read and that's the first word
of the
Quran the aim of it just read you have
nothing to lose give us some closing
comments
suggestions on the heart or anything
else we in a
tweet what you can f the Tweet where we
got two minutes so we want to get both
of you in so in a tweet give them some
advice some encouragement take it
away you know what Eddie it's tough to
do these tweets you keep giving me
tweets give him the Tweet let him start
with the Tweet with the uh I have a
friend from uh University it's going to
be a little long two tweets okay uh who
inspired me to take Islam seriously I
was just a cultural Muslim born in a
Muslim family he was a convert and I saw
him and I was so inspired by his uh
practice of practice of Islam we used to
in during exam time skip prayer right
during the exam if Salah came and went
we would be like whatever he said how
could you do that right he said I would
start he he would leave the exam go
outside and pray and come back and then
finish his exam Subhan Allah and that
just that action was so moving that all
of us who were young and saw him were
inspired so I asked him how did you
convert to Islam he said I read Surah
yusu the
translation and I said this has to be
from God it can be from a human being
give me a Facebook TW uh post all right
I'll give you a tweet uh you know you
need God and or sorry you know you could
recognize God when you're flying at
36,000 ft watching your favorite movie
and turbulence hits and you could feel
your heart and your throat that's where
you recognize the entire plane just
starts yelling oh my God and that's
where you realize you need God so
everyone needs God and everyone
recognizes that they need God they just
don't know it until some sort of
turbulence hits in their life and that's
that moment they say there there are no
atheists in fox holes have you heard the
saying alhamdulillah at the sound heart
conference with our beloved Sheikh thank
you so much we started with peace we end
with peace peace be with you Alum
and for the not yet Muslims tuning in
when you're seeking the truth and you
want to know the truth God Almighty
Allah the Creator will facilitate a way
and for those who have accepted Islam we
need to make it a full-time gig not a
part-time gig and then we will reap all
the benefits and have a sound heart so
at the end of not only the day but life
we can get to Jenna and avoid the
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