A MESSAGE TO BROTHER ALEEM AKA LORD ALEEM
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Summary
Brothers and Sisters, in this episode, we talk about how to find the true happiness that we all yearn for and how to overcome depression. In this message, we discuss a verse in the Qur'an and the Tafsir from Umar Ustaz al-Baqir regarding the desire for gold and silver.
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As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu brothers and sisters and dear friends hope you
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guys are doing well um obviously we're going to talk about what this video is and what the purpose
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is behind it uh before we get into that and brother uh imran is going to be sharing with us
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a verse in the quran and going into the tafsir a bit from um ibn kathir yeah so inshallah he's
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going to explain to us in detail how to find the true happiness that our hearts yearn for
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so obviously this message is to brother uh aleem uh as you guys know him you know he likes his cars
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etc you know uh mashallah you know he's got really nice cars you know may allah bless him and inshallah
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that wealth is for the good purpose of his instead of uh bad you know because obviously allah gives
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uh wealth to everybody but it doesn't mean it's for the good so inshallah is for his good and his
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family um now brothers and sisters you need to understand that every single one of us are created
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in a way where we yearn for something and some of us think that happiness lies with cars money girls
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houses whatever it may be and personally myself coming back from that jahiliya days this is what i
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used to search for and i thought this was happiness and i did chase it only that allah guided me and
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made me realize that these kind of things will never make you happy it just it just won't make
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you happy you know even though i didn't drive as much as nice cars as brother aleem you know i had
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my little voxor corsa but again i did yeah you know it still it did not make me happy no matter what it
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was no matter what car i had so obviously that's why me and brother imran i spoke to him in the morning
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and i said aki you know i saw the instagram of the brother and he looked like he's a bit upset and you
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know we all go through these stages in life as well so i thought you know what let's do a brotherly
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message because obviously you need to understand you're a muslim we're muslim do you get it you
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know if you know if you're going through something we should be there to help you inshallah so i
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discussed with imran imran you know went for the quran found some amazing verses so that's about it
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from me and inshallah brother aleem this is for you inshallah akim may allah bless you inshallah i'm
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going to give it straight to brother imran and he's going to share with you the ayah in the quran inshallah
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alhamdulillah wassalatu wassalamu ala rasool illahi sallallahu alayhi wassalam amma ba'd
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assalamu alaykum brother i want to talk to you directly inshallah ta'ala
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that he always does with everybody masha'allah yeah
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akhi kareem um basically first and foremost this is not coming from a place of hate in any way shape
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or form it's coming from a sincere place the prophet sallallahu alayhi wassalam said
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this religion is advice so i'm just coming at you from a perspective of brother i see you know on your
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instagram you was down you're a bit confused you don't really have focus in your life you said
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you're going through depression and i just want to reach out to you and just share something with
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you that i'm confident if you listen to me bro it will give you that clarity and eradicate that
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depression it will show you how to rather eradicate that depression in surah ahli imran allah subhanahu wa
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ta'ala says allah talks about a group of things that human beings naturally desire understand it's
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natural it's not bad it's not wrong to desire any of these things and allah's affirming that for us
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so some of these things and these are the main things that we really do desire allah says
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allah says that we have placed inside of the human being
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zuyi and i didn't nurse inside humans the desire for women because let's be real
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men like women women like men right you desire each other it's like one of the biggest desires out
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there right then upon that allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says also the holding of gold and silver now gold
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and silver that time to us means money cash you like money that was their currency we need to start in
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peace but then allah says something interesting he said he said and very fully bred horses
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like top of the range horses my brothers and sisters by extension who are listening what is the
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equivalent of full nice bred horses today because you get horses then you get the fully bred ones
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like ferraris maybe exactly exactly they remember horses were a means of transport for them the
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the ones that allah is talking about in this ayah khayla al musawwamati these are the ones that are the
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super cars of today and then allah said wal an'ami wal harth which is basically today's equivalent of
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businesses nine to five a good job and a nice income a nice career in other words so akhi allah's affirming
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for us that he put and allah's saying he did this he put inside you and me the desire for women the
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desire for wealth the desire for nice cars and a really good career but then allah said
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now listen this is the one the one who himself gave this inside of you now tells you about it
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you know what this is this is just from the provision of this worldly life
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what's about to come exactly yeah allah's saying this is just all of this these big women cars all
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these things it's just it's just the worldly life but with allah in the law but what allah has for you
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with him that's not in this world what allah has for you with him is even better if i was setting
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phones you came to me to acquire this phone and i told you bro i made this phone i sell this phone
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i know this phone guess what it's a rubbish phone are you gonna buy it no because the one who created
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the phone the manufacturer of the phone is telling you akhi this phone is a waste of time don't purchase
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this phone you're gonna be like yo okay i mean you're losing business but i'm not about to buy this
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phone the same with akhi the one who created this uh who created a woman who created this
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this super powerful rides and cars he created a mind that manufactured these rides who created wealth
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who gives us wealth businesses gave us these opportunities he's telling telling at the end
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that you know what it's not even worth a penny to me we can have women money cars it's fine you can
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have a night obviously as a wife not like women on the street or whatever have you but the thing is you
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have to have these things in balance you have to have them with something else as well they can't be your
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objective they can be a means towards an objective but then they can't be the sole reason and purpose
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for which you live now i'm not going to leave you hanging there bro and and and and and i want you
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to and and i want to explain to you something right so what i want to do is i want to take you to the
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next ayah because in the next ayah allah subhanahu wa ta'ala what he does is he tells you that which is
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better remember that's which which with allah is better and allah said you know what else is better
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is earning allah's pleasure bro you know when you work and spend your entire life trying to
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accomplish something and then you look towards those who you look up to and respect the most for
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their approval like your parents for example if your parents come to you and tell you i am displeased
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and disappointed that hurts but if your parents and if they are the ones that really mean the world
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to you and they say you know what my son i'm pleased with you you could have nothing you could
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have just just brought home a little drawing you did at school in year nine and they told you that
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that will make you feel like you're on top of the world i mean allah is when allah is pleased with you
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that that is real pleasure that is real happiness now the question comes what is the relationship
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between having a spiritual relationship with allah and mine and your happiness well it comes back down
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to mine and your essence you see allah mentioned that these things these things in the previous
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verse money women cars that he put this pleasure inside of us it's because they're not bad no one's
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saying it's bad to have really nice things it's yo allah put that desire in you and the reason he did
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that in us was because that it feeds our body remember we're made from two components we're made
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from our soul and we're made from our body sometimes we act like we're just a body not a soul the body is
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a material thing so it requires material things in order to feed it right it needs food it needs the
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body can't be like actually fed you know with things that are immaterial you need to put material
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tangible fruit in your belly right to feed you but notice that the body where did it come from it came
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from the ground because allah created adam our father from the dirt that came from the ground
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now we feed our bodies nice our bodies are healthy but guess what we don't feed and we deprive and we
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starve we don't feed our soul our souls are starving and hungry and you know when you say i'm feeling an
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emptiness inside you your body is not feeling an emptiness your body is healthy my brother but it's your
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heart it's your soul your soul is feeling weak the depression is a result of having a disconnection
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with how to actually feed and nourish your soul so you've got a very hungry soul right now bro now in
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order and why i promise you my brother the only way to get over this void you feel in your life is to now
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fill that soul up with healthy things now where does the food for the soul come from which is a very
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rational question to ask well it comes from the same place the soul came from the same way the food for the
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body came from where the body comes from the food for the soul comes from where the soul came from
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where did the soul come from the omur the command of allah okay the soul came from allah
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allah gave us that soul so guess where the food for the soul comes from
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it also comes from what allah gave us what did allah gave us
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He gave us something that is from Allah's direct speech
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The very basic way is through the five daily prayers
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So anything that we place our happiness and desires
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And also I'm just going to share two verses in the Quran from you
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And Allah says only with the remembrance of your Lord
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But obviously try to get this message out to him