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“Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.”
“Atiullah atiur Rasul wa Ulil amre minkum.”
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And a reminder for myself ana abdukal 'ajeezu,
dayeefu, miskinu, zhalim, wa jahl, and but for
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the grace of Allah (AJ) that we’re still
in existence. What do we have from our
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audience, inshaAllah. Salaams (greetings) to all
the people online watching. Allah (AJ) bless you,
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the posts on the social media platforms,
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alhamdulillah. InshaAllah the Instagram
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sharing it and sharing the post, inshaAllah
Allah (AJ) dress everyone and bless everyone.
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MashAllah the Muhammadan Way Army
is very strong, we're everywhere.
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As salaamu alaykum Sayyidi
Walaykum as salaam warahmatullah
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Sayyidi it's been extremely hard struggling
with my nafs and ego in the last nine days.
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Despite how much I've been trying
I keep falling. Is it related to
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Prophet’s ﷺ struggle from Makkah to Madina?
[Shaykh laughs] Nice try. Yeah, that's… that's
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a good one. Try to, when we fall short, try to
penalize ourselves. That not to give an excuse
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for it, ‘Oh this must be because Prophet
ﷺ was suffering in Makkah, Madina’. No,
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this... the suffering of Prophet ﷺ is not
something comparable. That's you know if you
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have real hardship and you've been crushed for 13
years like in the lives of the shaykhs. They've
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been continuously crushed and crushed and crushed
and crushed, so that's the inheritance. But when
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we just don't do what we need to do then punish
yourself. Give your zakat (charity), give sadaqah,
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make a well, do all these things that are a
blessing but it's hard on the nafs (ego). So that,
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that is a great struggle. So a part of this whole
process of tariqah (spiritual path) is to become
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in tune with yourself - your nafs and know how
to punish it and how to reward it. So when you
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want to punish your nafs then you do service, you
do khidmat, you do all these things to tame the
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nafs. Right? So why when you ride the horse you
have a whip? Well until you're good because they
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when they're really good they just ride with…
As salaamu alaykum warahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
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It’s Shaykh Nurjan.
Thank you for watching
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the video that you’re watching.
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…their legs, with their knees they can control the
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animal. When they're not good, you're going
to find in their hand to whip and they have
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to keep whipping each side so that the animal
will do as the rider requests. So more fierce
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is the nafs of people. So what are you whipping
it with? That's what's important. So if you just,
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‘Oh yeah, my nafs just didn't want to do it.
Maybe let's find a historical figure and give
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it's like that’. But no, say we have to punish the
nafs. Do more service, do more khidmat, do this,
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do that and that becomes important in the
tariqah to understand ourselves and how to
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struggle against the self. It's very important
because one of the things that people want to
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come and do khidmat (service) that, ‘Oh I want to
serve, I want to serve, I want to serve,’ as soon
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as you give the opportunity to serve, they don't
serve. Very dangerous. So that's when you begin to
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know yourself and you know that you're playing
with a dangerous reality. So it means when you
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want to serve, you serve and now you're under the
eyes of all of these realities. That's not the
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time to sit back and not serve. That's the time
to step up and really serve. Then you understand
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your nafs. So we've said that many times, all of
a sudden somebody likes chocolate, you offer them
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chocolate, say: ‘Why did you offer me chocolate?’
I said, ‘But I thought you like chocolate’. Say,
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‘No, but why you always offer me chocolate’. So
means they’re not understanding now their nafs and
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how their nafs is starting to play with them and
that's when you have to you know fight your nafs,
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fight your ego. When you’re called into service,
you serve with your life and your death,
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not your dunya comes first, nothing comes
first. Your service comes first. So the
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rest is just shaitan (satan) playing with you. So
that's what's important and that's what you know
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separates the mice from the men. As soon as they
understood that, their allegiance kicks in and
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they serve and you know all you need is a few
good men. You don't need thousands from around
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the world. Thousands may come and say they want to
serve and by the time you're finished, you got 10
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who are actually serving the tariqah and serving
the shaykh's mission. It's okay that you want to
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come but at least you'll find out about yourself
that you don't make it, you didn't sort of pass
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you know the recruiting level. It's like the army.
I don't know if any of you’ve gone to army school
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or to army. We had the fortunate ability to go to
an army school. So as soon as we were in there,
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you know you're recruited in and they break you
down at every chance. And, ‘Do this, do 20, do 50.
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Now sit like...’ They're continuously bombarding
you until you think you want to quit but they
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don't let you to quit. You know they just want to
break you down. But the same thing is for the nafs
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is that when we enter in, it's a opportunity for
Allah (AJ) to show us ourselves, so that you know
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not to be defeated by ourself. Because you entered
into the fight and now you found out you're going
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to be defeated by your nafs so that that's not
a good sign. That's why we said that that's a
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dangerous sign. So the blessings of service is
that as soon as you’re called into service, it
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has to be done. Do it! And then that becomes the
life of the shaykh. They're doing on you know many
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different levels and many different directions,
paying attention to everything and they're trying
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to train people like themselves. That you know
function on every level and that becomes a deep
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reality. ‘But Shaykh I have all these dunya
(material world) responsibilities,’ yes. But
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as long as you focus on dunya then your focus on
akhirah (hereafter) is not there. And that's not
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the way. Right? That's not the reliance, that's
not the example of your shaykh. The example you
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have to follow from your shaykh is when you follow
your khidmat, Allah (AJ) takes care of your dunya,
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means facilitates things for you. Not that you
just sit back and don't do anything – that's
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completely wrong but as soon as you do a lot of
service, you're deep into your khidmat, you're
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doing all these things, Allah (AJ) opens things
that you could never imagine. People that help
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you, people come facilitate, opportunities for
work that are not so intense. Means that your
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focus became heavens and the heaven focused on you
and that's what the shaykh is trying to get people
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to. But they'll never reach there if their focus
is on dunya. And say, ‘Oh well my dunya is going
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to fall and collapse’. I said, ‘Well we haven't
seen a dunya fall and collapse yet. It's still
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here. Look everybody's still playing with it.’ So
that's just shaitan making the fear of poverty.
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Shaitan operates with fear. So if any type of
fear comes to you, that's just from shaitan.
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But the system that the shaykhs operate from is
that their life is to focus on Allah (AJ) and
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Prophet ﷺ. As a result, everything comes flowing
to them, inshaAllah. So that's the same system,
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that's important and especially in these
days do your service, do your service,
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do your service, inshaAllah.
As salaamu alaykum Sayyidi
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Walaykum as salaam warahmatullah
How important it is to be crushed in
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the imitation Hajj (pilgrimage) to reach the black
stone, Khafa (hidden) reality? Please forgive me.
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How important is it? Yeah, that that you know
when we discuss these things, these are a lifelong
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process. So you're not going to get crushed one
time. Otherwise, most people would die if they
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go through that one event and Allah (AJ) crushed
them completely. Those, that's up to Allah (AJ) if
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He’s going to do that to a servant. It can be very
heavy that would be like Sabr e Ayub. You know the
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Prophet Ayub (as)... Ja… ya… Ayub.. Jake… yaku…
not it’s not… Ayub is in English.., is what word
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in English? The three council don't know or you
just keep smiling at me? [Shaykh asks audience]
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Jacob. Jacob Sayyidi.
Jacob is Ayub?
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Yes, Sayyidi.
That’s Yaqub [Shaykh laughs]. Okay,
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the other three council. Nobody dares? ‘Sabr e
Ayub,’ inshaAllah. The importance of Ayub (as)
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is what? That he had a lot and Allah (AJ)
wanted to test him and the angel said,
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‘Well he has a lot that's why He loves you
so much. You gave him so much’. He said, ‘No,
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this one if I crush him, he's going to love Me’.
And that becomes then the famous reality and story
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of patience is that He took everything away from
this servant – his family, his children, his life,
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his wealth, his possessions and then his health
and put him in such a severe difficulty that
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the angels were astonished and that his sincerity
and worshipness was like no other. And as soon as
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Allah (AJ) declared the test finished, immediately
restored his life, his wealth, his possession, his
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family, his children and his health all restored
back by Allah’s (AJ) ‘Azimat (Might). But for us
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our lives when we describe these stations
and being crushed in the way of Prophet ﷺ,
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it's lifelong. So every time you get humiliated by
somebody, say: ‘For the sake of this Akhfa (most
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hidden) reality and the reality of Prophet ﷺ, I'm
going to remain quiet’. So show Prophet ﷺ, ‘I have
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beatific character’. It's not one time. You're
going to be tested over and over and over and
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over and over by people of authority, people who
count, people who you looked up to, everything,
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every type of difficulty comes and Allah (AJ)
wants to see beatific character and that becomes
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lifelong being crushed for the sake of Prophet ﷺ.
And we described Nabi Musa (as) went through that
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by taking the humiliation of Sayyidina Khidr (as).
That everyone has to go through that to reach to
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Prophet ﷺ because this is Wahid (The Unique One)
Al-Qahhar (The Subduer). You want to enter into
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the oceans of Wahid and Oneness then all identity
has to be stripped. Qahhar – Allah (AJ) crushing
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everything so that it’s just one. You know all
the individuality has to be crushed out of it and
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it becomes just a ocean of light. So, these are
immense realities in which to strive and struggle
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for. But we start at the beginning for people
so people have to when they hear all of this,
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they first have to what? Make their muraqabah
(spiritual connection). Did they do the muraqabah?
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Are they super strong in their connection – is the
key to everything. Otherwise, how are you going to
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get to all these realities? You... muraqabah is
like your train, a bullet train. You want to get
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on and go to all of these destinations. Say, ‘Oh I
love all these stories and all these realities of
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destinations. I'm going to just… I'm going to get
there. I don't know how, I'm going to hitchhike
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there’. It doesn't happen like that. Everything
is based on making the connection to your rocket,
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your train. It's like a bullet train, as soon
as you get on ‘phew’ it take you right into
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that destination but that you have to master how
to make the connection and how to survive with
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that connection, inshaAllah.
As salaamu alaykum ya Shaykh
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Walaykum as salaam warahmatullah
Shaykh since I entered
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into tariqah (spiritual path), I'm facing a lot
of cockroaches as they were my biggest fear, even
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while closing my eyes or in meditation thousands
of them. What is the reality behind this?
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Cockroaches? Did we find out
the name for Ayub (as)?
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Job
Jobe. Jobe or Job?
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Job
InshaAllah, cockroaches – bad
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character. I think we have in other talks that
what is the punishment of the grave? It's the
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energy that we take with us. Close the lights,
put us in a box, you're there with your energy.
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People want to blame Allah (AJ), ‘Oh Allah (AJ)
going to punish you in the grave’. It's not really
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Allah (AJ) punishing you in the grave, it's Allah
(AJ) warning you, ‘Don't take those things in the
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grave with you’. As a warning like you tell your
children, ‘Oh you picked up a lot of garbage and
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now you want to go shut yourself in the closet and
turn the lights off?’ You're going to be surprised
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what starts to come out of your pocket and out of
you know what you brought with you. So it's what
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we take with us in the grave that's dangerous.
The bad character are like roaches. You know all
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the droppings. That going around and gossiping we
said before is like a rat and his droppings. Have
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you ever seen like a rat or a mouse somewhere?
They just make their droppings everywhere. That's
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what people get sick from the animal, is not
only the rat he’s not going to bite you that
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much because you're not chasing him. But it's his
droppings that make everything sick and everything
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contaminated. So, same thing people begin to act
like that, contaminate everyone with their speech,
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their actions, their gossiping. So then Allah's
(AJ) showing these animals, these insects, people
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have those characteristics. Wasp they hurt people,
they sting people. Fox, they're too cunning,
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too sneaky. Snakes they're just evil and wicked
and bad energy. So Allah (AJ) is granting people
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to have a khalwah (seclusion) before the big
seclusion. Means if they're meditating and
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doing their practices, they can begin to see
a lot of the manifestation of these creatures
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and these are important. Make your istighfar
(seeking forgiveness) and to rid yourself of
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these energies while alive because we don't want
to take those in the grave with us, inshaAllah.
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As salaamu alaykum Sayyidi
Walaykum as salaam warahmatullah
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Sayyidi I converted to Islam a few years ago.
I feel sometimes that around different people
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my energy level goes down and I can't understand
why my mood is so low. How other people's energy
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can influence you? Sometimes when I'm around a
specific person I feel her bad energy and feel
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like she's always wants the worst for me.
Yeah, we have different teachings on the
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energy. That you have to go through the
energy book and read the energy book,
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read the meditation book. So you know the books
that we have are part of the curriculum so it's
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important to read those. If you don't want to
read them then go to the website and read the
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articles on energy. That's you know, that's the
whole 101 of everything we teach about energy
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and connection and how to make your connection,
inshaAllah. Those things are very important.
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As salaamu alaykum Sayyidi
Huh, finished?
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Are you continuing, next question?
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Next question, inshaAllah.
As salaamu alaykum Sayyidi
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Walaykum as salaam warahmatullah
Is it okay to feel a jealousy towards service?
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It's okay to feel jealousy in competition
in religion. That Prophet ﷺ described that
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competition in religion is good. To compete with
your brother and try to do more and better and
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to be more of service and other people be of
service. So it encourages us to do more. But
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just to be envious that the person does and I
don't do is not good. Envious character is not
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good but to compete and say, ‘Oh you know, they're
doing a lot. I should go out and do more. They
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got a lot of food this week, I'm going to try to
get food in my area this week.’ So this is good,
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this is gives people a himmah and a zeal in
which to accomplish more and to do more and
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to do good deeds, so alhamdulillah. That’s
why the people who when we post pictures,
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they don't like it because they're not doing
anything. So they're continuously reminded
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by the SMC Muhammadan Way Army that look how
much they're all doing and everybody else is
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just sitting on the couch, not anything and then
making comments on our posts. ‘Oh why you have to
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show so many pictures?’ Oh, because that's all
they can do. So, you... we're doing the right
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thing because this is also liked by Prophet ﷺ is
post it to encourage them. That people should feel
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bad they're not doing anything. And if they're
doing good things, then alhamdulillah then go
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out and do more and do better.
As salaamu alaykum Shaykh
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Walaykum as salaam warahmatullah
Shaykh how much do we have to do
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to get accepted by Allah (AJ) and Rasulallah
ﷺ? Life is crazy busy and going by so fast.
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‘How much do we have to do to get accepted?’
[Shaykh laughs]. That's, that's a good one.
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You got to do 29.99 and then you're safe [everyone
laughs]. I don't know… what's the price and what
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can people do. That's everybody has their
own price with Allah (AJ). Right? You have
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a price for your salvation. What is it? You have
a number on your zikr (Divine remembrance), what
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is it? You know everybody has a safe. You know
when you buy a safe, you put a combination on
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it. Allah (AJ) gave you a trust and upon that
trust is a combination. How much you would give,
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how much you would do, how much you would
pray, how much you would make zikr, how many
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salawats (praises upon Prophet Muhammad ﷺ) you
would make. Everything, Allah (AJ) describes,
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‘Everything is written in Kitab al Mubeen’
– in the clear register. So you weren't sent
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here random. That's where you got to get out of
our minds thinking we're just a random creation.
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That as soon as we were put into existence,
Allah (AJ) wrote within our… what they call
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‘DNA’. Even now they find the DNA is your kitab
(book). Isn't it amazing that Allah (AJ) gives
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us a register? That were you're already on
a smart contract from heavens and everything
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was written on that contract. Everything you
would do. And if you went the bad direction,
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you'll never reach that contract because shaitan
veered you in the wrong. But if you move towards
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the right and then Allah (AJ) nudge you towards
guidance and then Allah (AJ) nudge you now
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get your tasbih (prayer beads), well then you
have a certain code you have to have reached.
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25,444,000 ‘Allahs’, 24,444,000 salawats for
example and you would have made those salawats
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and at that time ‘kshh’ [unlocking sound] your
heart clicked because this was your trust that
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when Allah (AJ) says, ‘We offered to them and
they said wa qalo bala - and we said yes.’
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So, Allah (AJ) offered these things to us and
we said, ‘Yes’. ‘I would come to the Earth and
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I would give this, I would do this, I would
serve this, I would be with him, I would do
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like this,’ and everything was written. You can't
be with somebody that has not been written for
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you to guide you. You have to reach towards that
guidance. You can't do or achieve anything that
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you didn't achieve what Allah (AJ) has written
for you to achieve. So it means our life is about
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doing as much as possible. There is no you know
29.99 minimum that you can get in and you know,
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‘I'm coming through the bargain door of paradise
and I just want to do the minimum’. This is about
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zeal and himmah in which to do the most that we
can do, save ourselves from these difficulties
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that are coming. Especially now when you see
everything everywhere. Disclosure coming. You
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know people texting, my kids were texting, ‘Oh
they're having a conference on UFOs’. I said,
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‘Well didn't I tell you that they were going to
disclose themselves?’ ‘Oh come on, what are you
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talking about it’. I said, ‘No these are the jinn
(unseen beings). They're going to actually come
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in one of these conferences to scare people and
to shock people.’ So this is just a matter of
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time. So with all of that, you don't think that
people would be busy and trying to do their zikr,
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trying to do their salawats, trying to learn,
trying to write, trying to achieve these
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protections and these blessings for themselves,
their family and their communities, inshaAllah.
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Subhana rabbika rabbal ‘izzati ‘amma
yasifoon, wa salaamun ‘alal mursaleen,
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walhamdulillahi rabbil ‘aalameen. Bi hurmati
Muhammad al-Mustafa wa bi siri Surat al-Fatiha.
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As salaamu alaykum warahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
It’s Shaykh Nurjan.
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Thank you for watching the
video that you’re watching.
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InshaAllah if you’re happy with the content
and happy with these programs please support
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the button below. The programs that we have for
our orphanage repairs, our water well – give the
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gift of life. Our mobile food vans, we have now 5
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Also be so kind as to leave a loving comments
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As salaamu alaykum warahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
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