oh my Lord here I am a beggar before you reaching for your door in complete poverty all I have is my shame and humility possessing nothing to hold nor to mention even a begging B and beger slain from within my desires and yearnings corrupted because of his sins I have wasted away the treasures of De because of the self of mine I have cast it aside to of the heart at the altar of Pleasures Inn muh Al muham muham up to now by the father of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in this series to understand how to reach Allah subhana 's closeness in the light of the Ascension of the Prophet Alat wasam you have learned about how to wake up from this Earthly sinful heedless life and how it deceives you and it is not enough waking up let's say fire is in the house the house is on fire yes the first thing is that you should wake up but it is not enough waking up and still lying on that bed you will be still burnt out so to wake up and then you need to make an exit from that place this is on this Earthly life there is flames of Desire flames of passion there's fire on we are on fire now to get up or make an exit from this Earthly life sinful life you need to sit up and get a Bak a kind of a Bak from for you and as we said that the Bak has a four legs and they represent AA what is your world view what you think about Allah what you think about your the world and what you think about yourself what is your belief about Shan and Angels what is about Hereafter if this does not change then you have no Foundation you never going to change so belief is gives you a light a foundation by which your view changes word world view cuz if you still think the world is forever and bad things are okay to do there's benefit in there and you still think you are the major person not the being Allah subhana ta'ala is not at the center you are at the center of life and angels are the superior creation not the sh shtin and you follow them then you really cannot make a permanent change in yourself because all the time you are going to come back to your beliefs whatever they are so that's why the belief part is the most important part the F only gives you rulings once you have the foundation a world view a view a change of mind mind then what to do what not to do that's what the f does it just gives you rules and regulation it doesn't Force use so that's why there are many people who are knowledgeable but they are not acting upon their knowledge because dos and don'ts cannot encourage you unless you have in your view something to lose or something to gain so when you know that you will be loser if you lose Allah subhana tala's plan you can go in Hell or you can achieve Paradise these motivate you to follow the FI rulings and the rules and regulations so the persons whose beliefs will be weak or he if they're not weak he's not refreshing it he's not refreshing it now and then that's why in the Quran you don't find just a chapter on hell and then all details of hell is mentioned and then there's nothing for example there's 114 chapters in the Quran it's not like that one chapter is on Hell one chapter is on beliefs one chapter is on Paradise one chapter is on fi one chapter is on Salah one chapter is on Hajj one chapter is about Allah one chapter is about Shan one chapter is about dun you see it could have been divided like this Allah like human beings do but I think the my belief is that human beings are not clever Allah subhana is all knowing and all wise so how he have arranged his book that is the best and how human being they categorize things that is for studying for understanding maybe but to walk but to change the person change their life it is not sufficient so in the chapters of the suras of Quran you find a ruling of F at the same time you will find maybe after a few verses the punishment in the Hereafter of not following that ruling or the reward in Jenna of following that ruling or about shatan or about the greatness of Allah or about the universe you see you find a mixture this is what's going to benefit human nature that's how you should take the do of knowledge every day like this so don't for example study a book on AK and then put it down because the benefit of that will go away after a few days so what you want to do is now and then in the week frequently refreshing yourself about matters of Hell the reality of dun fake beliefs and there should be a kind of a mixture then inshah it's going to have effect repentance the third leg you have heard yesterday that what is the real Toba what is the Toba the complete and C Toba whatam what he considered Toba repentant person who is who is the person this ising people what had temporarily oh I've done wrong I'm not going to do it again and nothing else changes what one of the conditions of Toba is feeling remorse and things but the Toba does not complete with remorse just regret you're regretting and K killing people you kill a person then I regret I've killed him kill another one I regret again kill another one regret again Allah subh will forgive everyone if if this is forgiveness if this is mai if this is forgiveness then everyone is Forgiven they can every day they say 100 times doing again and again 100 time in a day everyone saying Allah forgive me Allah forgive me Allah forgive me you have forgiven people then no problem but that's not the real forgiveness Allah subh does not forgive like that so you go you go forgive me I've done a mistake if you have not fulfilled the conditions of that forgiveness the right person who understand he's not going to forgive you because he knows you have not fulfilled it's only that you'll do it tomorrow again please forgive me Allah after 40 days or so the Toba the the acceptance of Toba from Allah and 40 and these sahabah were day and night crying and weeping and at that time as well so don't be confused and deluded by Mafi and Toba and forgiveness I mentioned to you in the verse of Quran that this does not happen make sure this does not happen and you change you your attitude to asy life like it was mentioned about different things then really is that repentance and muah you also know then we said that wasam sitting on Mir sitting on the Bak went to M AA and that refers to good company and then from there to seven Skies for us what is the seven skies for us is the seven organs to purifying the seven organs and we covered uh some of them tongue eyes and ears and stomach today we are going to cover some more yeah Brotherman just read regarding hands footnote 26 40 uh the page 322 page 322 the person traveling the path must keep his hands from reaching towards unlawful acts for example he should restrain his hands from caressing unrelated people of the opposite gender uh this means touching n pressing this is referring to touching namam no matter you are uncle but it is notam for you for example or you are teacher so for the Alim or for the PE or the sheh it is not allowed to touch namam in for example doing a a dum or actually blowing or anything like this uh or any other person who touch actually this he should restrain his hands from using electronic equipment for example television radio computer Compu phone Etc towards unlawful ends he should restrain his hands from reaching towards the property of others in order to steal it he he should restrain his hands from writing words that will hurt people and so on so it means that anything which hands can do unlawfully that is if a person purifies stops from these things then their hands they are like on a very they are reached like the sixth skyim musl Muslim is that person from whose hands and tongue other Muslims are at peace a Muslim is that this is definition of Muslim of and then we are violating rights of people Allah subhana wa tala with the tongue and with the hand we are doing zul and all these type of like to use any electronic equipment television radio computer phone internet hands are used driving to places using hands things like this that's what in Toba it means that to cut off these means if you're misusing them cut off them you can live without phone you can live without internet people have been living but you cannot live without Allah really you cannot live without Allah subhana wa ta'ala because you'll be destroyed living without phone or anything is possible so save saving yourself like said Al Muslim this of is to make you do Toba and become a good Muslim and these people at many people at this time who say who are say we are sh we are Mas they really are not even teaching these things to people and thinking they are getting very high teaching them little bit of zik and eating together and did a bit other things really they are not teaching them even things to become a good mus Muslim let aside things to become a w a friend of Allah so that's why we say the people ask this course is not the tarq like any other tarq it is from the baby level to higher level to teach the person to P make a person a good wake up others say that you come to us we'll guide you you come I am the sh you come to us I'll guide you our say that even people don't come you go to them and you actually wake them up if they asleep the other say we are sitting in the center we are not bothered if the people who will come will teach who doesn't come let him go in hell from one house to another house on the street and they say that always the Thirsty comes towards the well the well doesn't go towards the thirsty when the person doesn't have thirst then how is he going to come towards the well then somehow the well have to approach him to create thirst or the greatest ocean of and well of guidance was and if he if you go in the streets of Makkah sometime in the festivals of mush in Makkah to give dawa sometime in the cities of T sometime in other locality who is greater than him and these and other people Scholars and peers and M they are supposed to follow allaham where are they following him they're just sitting on their wage and their money in the mask and if come 10 people come fine they're happy less people have come Less Problem less question they are 20 people come in the Mas or zavia they're happy but yes for to do take money they'll go on TV they'll go on everywhere actually give me give me give me give me but to give them they don't give we are matter so these are people who are selling the dean for D to yeah matters so we have an example in the life ofam not in anyone else's whoever is closer and following him he is the real Alim he is the real the prophet was asked who is he has very much knowledge of actually this thing and Prophet the one who most fears Allah he is Al if it merely knowledge but he doesn't have and Allah subhana said in the Quran the really people who fear from Allah are the this means the one who fears Allah subhah wa ta'ala and be obedient they are the in the sight of Allah and his messenger other is merely narrating knowledge that is good as a means so they should be teaching these what simply they are causing conflict with each other this is Wabi this is this is when you have the truth allaham also preached the truth but when you preach the truth the falsehood automatically goes away falsehood actually just goes when the light come Darkness goes away but if the darkness is there and you're not bringing light just condemning The Darkness Darkness is bad curse on the darkness etc etc nothing is going to happen that's what but if you Light One Candle of Truth and Amal and practice that he will take Darkness away so that's why we say light yourself first and bring some light somewhere and then inshallah from one candle another candle can be lit yes brother the wrong is the act of Disobedience which the lower self desires the path is interested in taking people who experience the world from an ego Center for example I want this I want that I like this I like that I don't like that I hate him he offended me how could you how could he do this to me who do who does he think I am his slave I am pretty smart I am good-look I am ugly I am happy I am depressed and so on and making them into people who experience Allah's creation from an Allah Centric nonegocentric point of view uh before we go into this the next part where traveled major part was the this is the tongue ears eyes hands that's how they have related to the heart and mind as you are seeing and you've heard the message which brother elas was giving it is very worrying message we are closing ey thinking nothing is happening in the Unseen World Allah does not know anyah anything about us what we are doing nothing is happening does Angels do not know it's not like that Allah say to them practice Allah is will see see your and the messenger and the believer so they are the good ones are being valued now even and we are giving this very serious message that if we do not change we are not willing to sacrifice then imagine in fire of hell what's going to happen fire of Hell someone related these people who listened to songs and who a singer was a singer died and someone saw them in the Kash in the Barak which punishment the singer that because she or he have been singing and things that something like the it says the core of the earth something like the core of Earth was entering their private parts and all the time coming out of their mouth because of the this sin of singing with or and they were why the punishment reflects what person because the songs and all these things are which are lewed and meaning we mentioned with the unlawful songs that they entice people towards doing bad things Oben things Zena and all these things or and then everyone then when anyone was listening the the person who saw the uh this related this he said that when anyone was listening in this world their song they were being lashed by Angel with every song which anyone listened and then the Visionary also said that I could not bear to see what other punishments were coming on them as well like their head their Angels were plucking each hair of them and with every pull all the the mind and brains were coming out and again they were coming together and so be serious and mercy upon you no one is going to save you there except Allah and your Deeds it's much serious matter comfort zone sitting comfortably and doing sins and little bit of pleasure here and there and there imagine being in that state they are very very serious matter because other people are even after their death they've not repented and they've died if theyve not repented and died with every son like said killed the son of Adam alisam they were both brothers and he did something wrong he killed him and now said every person who is killed thereafter on life of Earth he is also given a portion of that punishment because he was the first one to do and now we can also see that those people who think we are descendant of a prophet we are descendant of a w even if we do wrong thing we Adam a direct son he has not forgiven you are the son ofam it's okay you killed your brother doesn't matter you are a son of a great person person say I am my great grandfather is was a w of Allah and I am the devil of time it won't matter but what they what what they are unless actually that you change if has Adam alisam son and new Alam son who are one of the great prophets they had been punished because of wrongdoing and today who are giving you I am descendant of such a such peer I am gine I have this you know you will be also forgiven because of me I can pray for you and things these people are just taking you on a trip a trip to Hell themselves and you as well so be sure these are the stories of Quran of N alisam and hasz Adam alisam yes if the minor sins are doing major sins they are protecting them then people are forgiven minor sins are forgiven because of many Amal then barats of ancestors also come but if a person is rebellious then it's a matter of uh great concern so don't be con confused by it okay we read it note 26 43 42 now yes carry on the person traveling the path must try to bring to mind throughout the entire day that Allah is watching over his creation and that he knows all the person traveling the path must continue to do this until there are no periods of time during the entire day in which he is unaware of Allah's watching over his creation now as I was saying that we are going towards from the seven organs when then went to where Prophet went in the night of Mir the cabba above the heavens although there is a this cabba this cabba is also all the angels of the previous the lower Heavens they also worship Allah subhana in direction of this so there's a part of it on every Sky every sky has a which is under but on the top the highest one and the most closest to Allah is Thea on the above the seven Heavens there allaham went and saw the angels were doing the of the so what does the B or the Caba of heavens and the angels surrounding it what does it mean for us for us it means purification of the mind your brain is like the b m and the thoughts which actually are such and circling are like the having pure thoughts once you reach this stage it's as though you've reached there that's your Miram in between Mir this came he reached here for me and you after seven organ if we think our mind and the thoughts wondering in the mind should be pure like angels we have reached b m so look purification of the Mind Angels doing ta this example of thoughts in you so try to understand it's like reaching we are not going to go in Heavens or anything for us this is the Ascension for us this is the journey to Allah subhana wa ta'ala seven Skies represent seven organs and B M represents the mind and the angels represent the thoughts so we are going to learn about the mind now so brother Usman if you you can come on and everyone on page 3 uh9 from the or page 318 from note 268 which is the purification of Mind once the person traveling the path has the seven body Li body limbs under reasonable control he should proceed to learn how to control his thoughts also the first thing such a person should realize is that thoughts come from multiple sources okay so once the she is saying that once you have controlled seven organs under reasonable control then he should proceed to learn how to control his thoughts also purification of the mind and the first thing such a person realizes that where the thoughts come from then how thoughts are made and how to stop them suppress them redirect them how to actually stop thinking bad thoughts so firstly we know the sources yes number one a a inspiration from Allah for example a thought about Allah's Unity okay this is the thought which is called ilham inspiration of Allah the something good coming to you it can come uh from Allah subhana tala thought of Allah's unity and only Allah this comes any knowledge uh inspiration good thought it can be from Allah subh like be Whispers from Shan and his army of Jin and human beings also a thought that causes doubt in one's belief or centers around acts of Disobedience and Haram so Second Source can be Shan as I said that he has the power to send thoughts in you it's like a wire you connect with computer and you can send images in the computer that's how shatan can do as well and he does this to those people who are neglectful who are forgetful of Allah subhana wa tala because if the screen will be blank only then something will come and if something is already showing on the screen good then the other thing cannot come it will just stay wherever it is so persons whose mind screen is with Allah Shan cannot penetrate that so second one source can be where it can come from Shan so a person is not sinful because of shanic thoughts unless they accept them entertain reflect upon them put them into action so a person should not worry about unintentional thoughts unintentional thought meaning which you do not want they're coming even if they are bad very bad it doesn't matter you are not sinful for that unless you do two things you put them into practice or you like them if you dislike them and don't put into practice of Muslim said Allah has forgiven my um overlooked my umah from thoughts bad thoughts until they manifest them unless they manifest them through speech or action so Prophet sallai wasallam has said that any thoughts come to my um from Shan or bad thoughts even Allah subhah wa taala will not hold them accountable unless they don't put it into action they don't act upon it and they don't speak about them to other people so this is a very very useful Hadith old Hadith useful but for regarding mind and thoughts because some people get very upset we getting thoughts no you don't bring yourself but un intention to let them come and go they won't bother you okay number three message from hidden Angels a thought that centers around the act of so sometime in the books it come there is an like Shan put bad thoughts there's an angel whose name is mim MIM mulim means the one who does he puts good thoughts in the person you you know don't do this this bad thing pray go here so these thoughts when they're coming from they can be from an angel and bad thoughts actually from Shan number four every day thoughts from the person's own conscious a thought about one's relationship with another human being type D thoughts are usually affected by what the person sees hears smells tastes touches or feels inside so fourth is from your own NPS from your own NPS on own conscious and own mind and they will be mixture of depending upon what you have been hearing what you have been seeing who you have been meeting what you have been smelling tasting touching feel or feel inside so the NS thoughts are like this they will come in you because of these things it's also important to note that the thoughts can be divided into five categories in relation to the state of heart that they lead to so regarding are they Haram or Mak or they are five now we are coming to the next category so five categories first one thoughts that lead to a f or vag state of the heart such as loving Allah the prophet Sall wasall they are one type of thoughts it is virtuous virtuous thought lead to something which is waj like loving Allah his messenger so for example I say to you we do Thea we said think about Allah think about the name of Allah ponder over creation look at the Madina Shar of the prophet's mask and think about these are thoughts but they lead very to to Allah and his messenger wasallam love and greatness some people ask how can we look for Allah subhana wa tala's name where is the evidence for that I say that Allah said Allah has said in every my creation are my signs so if in the sun is there you look at the sun you find the sign of Allah Allah said they Ponder they do and reflect over the creation of heavens and earth so if looking at the moon is a sign of Allah if looking at the sun sky rain Trees Animals if looking at you even is a sign of Allah you are creation of Allah as well what to then you were asking a question about looking at the name of Allah subhana tala that what what is that that is the greatest sign to Allah subhana wa tala looking at trees outside rivers that Allah ponder over them think about them they are signs to Allah they are sign board to Allah subhana tala and a person say this signboard to Allah subhana wa ta'ala is the other creation and Allah's name itself is the greatest signboard to Allah it is the name of Allah the person the being itself so this is category one thought which lead to number two th that lead to Mand mean meaning optional rewardable n states of the heart such as preferring others over one oneself in one's heart uh must now we go on page 319 thoughts number three that lead to muah states of the heart such as happiness or depression which are not lawful or unlawful we can say but they are just muah lawful so thoughts which leads to happiness or depression or any these thoughts would be considered lawful mu number four thoughts that lead to makru States the heart such as miserliness of heart thoughts which lead to makr states of the heart and finally thoughts that lead to Haram states which we are going to cover inshallah soon of the hearts such as arrogance Envy hassad they are these so bad thoughts about are the the Haram thoughts are the five last F last one the fifth one is the things which we need to stop which is necessary to stop these thoughts because they become intentional at that level a now we go into how to control how to control these thoughts purification of the mind so now the two basic techniques used in Tasia in the state of um uh mind two basic approaches or techniques yes brother there are two basic approaches to thought control a suppression a stopping the thought altogether this is the method taught by the teachers of the path and is the hard harder one want to learn B redirection I.E to start thinking about something else as the mind can concentrate on only one major subject at a time this method is easy to learn and employ even by those who are not traveling the path so there are two basic techniques one is suppression how you can suppress or stop the thought by force this method is little bit difficult we'll go into some detail how you can use that as well but the others which our mash and mostly they use and they tell people is redirection so redirection means that you just start instead of suppressing the evil thought that this shouldn't be there you're going to break it into parts and then stop it you just start thinking about anything lawful about Allah subhana wa ta'ala about the messenger wasam or anything what about bread you're thinking about Haram things and now you start thinking about bread and your work and money and things that's fine so redirection we'll go into it's very easy to follow because the mind is you only have one mind at any one time it can't think of two time two things so this is the principle behind it the secret behind it the Mind cannot at any one time think of two things exactly at one because you only have one mind you're one person so your bad thought is coming instead of fighting with it it will come more and more in you you just start thinking about your work your family AK D jna anything and it's going to go away because it can't be there it's like the computer screen you see if I'm showing this picture then I'm showing this picture the next one actually uh only one picture picture for example come in the mind at a time so if this is there then actually the other does not come so when I going to press it then other is going to come this one that's a separate one so if this is the regarding the thought of Allah and his messenger is there now the evil thought you see the whispered part have gone so understand you are like this screen that's how your mind is as well it can only think of one thing at a time so when the evil comes you just change the screen think about goodness and the evil will go automatically rather than when you start fighting with it then it will stay there but you are fighting with it the thought is not going to get the image is not going to go away but these are both techniques are used by m know and in we are going to go in little bit of detail how you are so now although little bit this is now little bit difficult but try to understand we should also use our mind learn the art of thought control learn the art of thought control by this is something which you can learn this is called the like you can suppress suppressing technique so brother learn the art of thought control in order to learn thought control the person must understand that a complete thought consists of four parts yes now if you would not know what the what the thought is how what is comprises of how are you going to control it when you don't know how many parts it have what's the reality you can only control then what is a thought if someone ask you what what is a thought and you if you just say it is thought is a thought well that's not understanding so the thought complete thought consists of four parts yes a a visualization of a subject B A visualization of a predicate C an affirmation of a link between the subject and the predicate d a conviction confirmation that the above link is true now I will give you now this example I read for you although this is little bit difficult to understand so example is already given so let's say someone says so and so for example Basher for example Basher is a worthless person I believe I believe it I believe but you that's implied you say bashid is worthless person this is a thought has come in your mind example so in here bash is the subject bash subject worthless person is the predicate first part of thought is the bash the so and so second is you're mentioning a a bad quality about him in your mind he's bad person for example is is the word that affirms the link between the subject and the the predicate this word may also be implied and not mentioned verbally to bash is worthless person is is the link you see that's how the thoughts is developing if the link is broken you broken the thought really or you break anything of these four the thought process can stop the thought process can stop so Basher is and bad person so these are three things Bashir is the person you're talking about is is you're linking it with the bad quality and fourth one is I believe it you think it's your assumption it's your assumption I assumption I believe it is the conviction or confirmation that the link is true so you believe the link is true that's what's called bad opinion bad opinion that's why we say you shouldn't have bad opinion of Muslim bad opinion of people and how bad opinion happens is with these four things Allah they don't let these things link they separate them they separate them they actually disturb and the the sequence of it at the very final very uh initial stage so Shan cannot play with that thought then but we are just we take that full thought assumption yes he must have done this he is this he is wrong many many assumptions many many things you have done there so then it says these four parts Parts uh make up the complete thought these four parts do not happen simultaneously but happen sequentially sequentially in time one after time in order to suppress thoughts the person must learn how to break this natural four-part process when it first starts so when the subject is first visualized in the mind so how you do it for example this is the thought Thea this is the thought there if you deal with it at that level it has four parts 1 2 3 four parts it's going to vanish away it can't exist Like Water for example water the chemical make oxygen hydrogen atoms oxygen two hydrogen one oxygen item if you separate becomes hydrogen hydrogen oy water so the throat consist of these four atoms one you take away the sequence breaks Allah subh say in the Quan so a person should deal with an initial stage so in order to suppress thought so person should learn this how this can be learned practice by constant day long practice for about half a year six month they have said but we say about 30 days in our course in 30 days this is achieved the first level of purification this is done by invoking a blank state in the mind which crowds out the bad thoughts subject and predicate every single time the bad thought starts occurring from the time the person wakes up until the time goes back to sleep this is one way second way to do is or it can be learned by placing oneself in extreme difficult situations supervis continuous solitary remembrance of Allah for a few days as such will lead to a State of Shock in which thoughts stop then the person can attempt to constantly stay in the State of Shock by repeating his previous difficult activity but this is a really difficult exercise in that Muhammad course very easily a person is asked that for 30 days you just observe any sinful thought any bad thought comes just don't entertain it just reject it you do it 30 days in day in day out the Mind becomes trained then to some extent then there are next levels of purification then he says something more about thoughts but we'll leave we can uh go in the the details of the 10 levels of purific ation of mind that how you can then connect to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala how you can connect to Allah subhana wa tala in muh we cannot go in detail of those 10 levels after a person have cleared his mind he doesn't entertain bad thoughts he's he's taught the technique how you can remember Allah subhana wa taala even through worldly activities so for example you are working you are going out you are walking you're cooking you're cleaning you're doing business even those things can remind you of Allah by using that technique and what is that Technique we cannot go in detail very simply I mentioned technique is that whenever you do something lawfully you're going to sleep you're going to eat you're going to meet a person you are going to wherever in the heart you say to Allah subhana wa tala oh Allah grant me goodness in whatever I'm going to do and save me the evil of it what I'm going to do this thought connects you with Allah for example you're going to meet a person you're going an interview you say oh Allah in the heart only enable me to speak rightly If this job is better for me give me so these thoughts are going to connect you with Allah subhana tala if a person is misbehaving with you he is swearing at you you still can apply this in the heart say Allah let this person stop save him from the these bad things bad speech and the uh effects of Shan and give me sa for example you can apply even you're going to toilet you are you can actually you still pray to Allah subhana so it's a state of mind that connecting with Allah you can at the second level you can acquire so whatever worldly you are making sandwiches or you are making whatever cars you're going to your work or a letter comes in the post you can think you can train your mind to say Allah be save me from if any evil in in there save me and give me the grant the good and if there is any problem help me if the letter is regarding that anything you can apply this and then whole of your working life cleaning household cleaning bringing up children they all connect you with Allah subhana wa tala and the messenger Sall Al wasallam because you do it in the way of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam very briefly touching upon the second stage of purification and the second major level of Mir after that you see we started from here we gone to the seven Skies seven organs of the body then the purification of the mind and her mind where did Prophet go after after this went towards where jelam could not go towards the of Allah subhana wa tala Beyond be beyond the L tree where the house of jiel is where Jam lives even beyond that went towards the meeting Allah subhah wa ta'ala towards the of Allah so what is the for us what is the AR for us throne for us for AR for us the throne is our heart purification of the heart purification of the heart is the throne for us we going on Throne of Allah subhana tala which means the purification of the heart so purification of the heart from Bad qualities what are those bad qualities and those things now we are going to go towards them what we need to clear so if you turn to the page which we were reading first page number 323 and from the note will start from 26 to 43 26 the person traveling the path must try to bring to mind throughout the entire day that Allah is watching over his creation and that he knows all the person traveling the path must continue to do this until there are no periods of time during the entire day in which he is unaware of Allah's watching over his creation basically this is the purification of the Mind in Muhammad level five in that a person tries to achieve this there are 10 levels in level five and also from the beginning person stes tries to achieve this state Allah is with me Allah is all aware watching over his creation and me and he develops this quality that most of the day he stays in this thought he's dealing with people but through Allah's presence he's speaking with people through Allah's presence he's talking he's doing work everything but through Allah's presence he like his everything filters through Allah subhana tala's presence now we are coming to the important part of the states of the heart so the feet is quite simple not traveling not driving not traveling towards places of sin to meet unlawfully people and do any unlawful acts so the person traveling the path must watch over his heart all day along and make sure that it does not go into the the following 20 major unlawful States or qualities be 20 bad qualities of the heart and soul of a person should stop purify that's what purification of the heart refers to yes number one number one showing off for people by performing acts of worship for them rather all acts must be done for Allah alone so what does this mean this mean r that you are worshiping Allah but internally you are trying to achieve fame and name and praise from people you praying you are doing giving charity doing good deeds and working teaching learning Quran teaching Quran or helping the needy and poor but in mind back of mind you have people will praise me I'm going to get a good name this is called R so you are not really worshiping Allah subhana tala outwardly you're worshiping Allah and inside you're worshiping yourself ostentation showing off doing is for other people The Good Deeds number two number two conceit of feeling that one is doing a slowly slowly and very clearly conceit or feeling that one is doing a tremendous good by worshiping Allah rather it is Allah's favor on the servant that he is letting the servant worship him this is called as well that feeling that one is doing a tremendous good by worshiping Allah subh rather it is Allah's favor on the servant that he is letting him the servant worship him because we sometime enter into this state people tend to think I am doing some favor to Allah I'm experiencing hardship and I'm doing favor and I explained the other day that no person does favor to Allah Allah said in the Quran if you do good you're doing it for yourself you are the beneficiary not Allah whoever does it is he's doing good to himself he's taking himself in J not Allah in J Allah is free from these things and who does bad it is the sin will be upon him like I mentioned the some punishment of the grave of a singing person said every person will be the one who is his fan of and the sahabah became very happy we are very happy today because we are your fan we love you more more than we will be with you resurrected and treated with them like they will be treated they are they are models to Hell model fashion model that don't come into this state that you are doing any favor to Allah or his or the messenger or to the P you are doing good for yourself when you go to the doctor do you do a favor to him doctor it's a great favor I've come to visit you or he is doing favor to his feating you his illnesses are removed your illnesses are removed you are giving good qualities to the and and you go they facilitate they purify you but the false one does those are people of and always said we don't ask any any Mal any money in Return of this they do it they say my reward is upon Allah subhana wa tala what will you give me if even if you want to give me but these people are people of Dunya dogs of dun who come in the Robes of the pious and looting people's money inside they are devil wolves and outside they are in the skins of the Robes of H kizar they dress like people are not going to be defrauded if you don't actually uh them for paper which is nothing if you don't spend some your money time and effort you won't value that thing value for example on the car your son is there car is there car up 50,000 car son is your son preci he scratches the car why because the love of the car the effort the time and money you spend meaning anything Isam said your hearts will be where your money is so send your money to Allah so your heart also goes towards Allah send your money above the heavens so you can your heart's inner self can stay in heaven as well conceit not meaning that don't go into this state but how gets purified is not by listening now you have to practically take the course of self- purification and go stage by stage only then these qualities come in you we are just mentioning that some of them yes number three number three becoming enamored with or relying on something that is not important for example the world money physical strength Etc rather only Allah should be ened with UND dependent upon this means that Reliance upon Allah subhana tala he is the possessor of good honor shifa beari whatever he Wills he can give other things are just slaves sun moon stars people all other things are tools and slaves of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so some so having a Reliance upon Allah subhana not to have give importance and relying on something that is not in the world money physical strength rather only Allah should be relied upon and dependent upon uh that he is the one for example if medicine can give you shifa then every person would have been have had shifa they can't same people with same disease they both take medicine and they don't actually one becomes cured one doesn't same medicine one person is mentioned some years ago he killed himself but meaning from his own point of view he killed himself but you can't even die without the will of Allah subhana wa taala he cut his throat and someone came there after some time and there was a doctor in them he actually saved outwardly him so he killed himself but he was saved so we can't even die without actually if Allah is not will no we can live so depend upon Allah is honor comes from Allah not from clothing cars money this is how it looks but honor does not come like this there are many many rich people they presidents of the world millionaire do you have more honor of them in your heart or more honor of aah Andia in your heart just ask your while the and many of them were not rich people outwardly this means it's Allah who has put honor in your heart he puts the honor whoever he Wills of whatever he Wills number four number four arrogance or thinking that one is worth more than other people or creatures because of some perceived superior quality for example having more wealth being of a more noble lineage or ethnic background having greater social rank being physically stronger or braver being more intelligent being more beautiful Etc rather the person should know that he like all of Allah's Creations is merely a slave so this refers to when you have become self centered than arrogance you think you are better than others because of other people it might be something like wealth like Allah subh said Allah does not look at your wealth and your colors and forms and your bodies but Allah looks at your deeds and hearts or someone can can say for example that I am more better because uh Noble lineage ethnic background if he is good for him it's an honor but it's not a thing which you should then belittle others ethnic background Punjabi I am Bali I am Indian i Pakistani I am Arab Prophet said no superiority over Arab or non-arab or non Arab or over Arab so these people still these disease exist I am from that lineage no harm in there for identification purposes but if you use it as actually to boast upon others and thinking that oh he is from that so some people for example would not marry or would actually say that no we are this is from that tribe I'm not going to marry our daughter should marry this person from our tribe Etc so said is by only oh Humanity oh human beings you have been created from one man and one woman one female man you are all ethnic backgrounds and your different kabas and tribes and different professions are there just for identification purp you can identify each other the most Honorable in the sight of Allah is the most the most obedient the most person who follows Sunnah of wasallam he is the most honorable no matter he's from Africa from Australia from America from England UK from wherever they are there old sons of Adam Daughters of having greater social rank being physically stronger or braver being more intelligent being more beautiful these are Gifts of Allah subhana wa tala you should be rather more humble number five resentful Envy or wishing that another person did not have some good thing that Allah has given him rather the person should be pleased with whatever Allah gives to him unto others jealousy Envy wishing that other person did not have something good that Allah has given him rather the person should be pleased with whatever Allah gives to him and to others when Allah gives me and him as well and this is disease which eats up said hassad eats up Good Deeds like fire eats or Burns Out wood that's why these parts of are necessary for every Muslim yes number six malice or harboring ill feelings towards others rather the person should realize that all people are Allah's creation and as they are and as they are for a higher purpose number seven yes anger for other than Allah's sake rather the person should try his best to restrain anger and change his mode of thought number eight being unhappy with what Allah sent or decreed rather the person should accept and feel tranquil with all things good and bad that are from Allah number nine fearing poverty rather the person should know that his sustenance has been already written and decreed by Allah number 10 loving wealth rather the person should stop loving everything besides Allah and besides the acts people Allah loves so this is loving wealth and M this is the mother of all evils love of because actually then a person doesn't think of Halal Haram relative or non- relative he just want dun he can kill people he can defraud people he can even do zul on the oppression upon the poor and needy now he nothing can stop as I said Ali said the love of dun is like loving the daughter of shatan and if you love him you marry him if you marry the daughter of shatan which is dun then shatan becomes your your father-in-law and daughter and father-in-law together are going to actually destroy you cover 10 inshah we'll cover next but these are the very we have touched upon the states and qualities of the heart which are dangerous which are bad qualities which shouldn't be there and this is don't forget the Mirage the third stage of uh the purification of heart is like reaching the Throne of Allah this is the lesson for us in there now we'll take any question if you have my question is relating to touching of non meams and to do with the shaking of hands and more specifically to do with the situations where we go into things like meetings for example and there's four or five people standing there shaking your hands and one of those persons might might be the opposite sex so you are going along and they all got their hands in you shaking and then you come across the opposite sex and they've got their hand out to shake your hand as well how do we try and deal with that situation firstly um you should know that touching namam is unlawful unless it is in like um medical nature or something extreme circumstances shaking hands is also un that's why never did Bear of women with hand in hand he would verbally do it or actually the MH would sometime give their CHS they'll hold the women will hold or they will have a tub of water and they'll put a hand in there and they'll put a hand in there for example there are different ways which without touching meaning you can so if if it's not allowed for Bear which is for Allah subhana ta'ala then for just shaking hand for the women would not be allowed but now there are two scenarios one is this a Muslim Society people are aware of all things that it's wrong it shouldn't in those scenarios the person should abstain completely Muslim they know it's wrong but they made it a culture now they know when you are going to abstain they are going to know they are going to know that you ha why you have done it and and this is your tawa and you should abstain actually and you should do what prophet wasallam did he women also gave her their hand to him as well now there are scenarios like you are in non-muslim country people are not know they don't know at all for them as well if you are you know you are going for meeting best thing you avoid for example you can beforehand mention to them their director they ask if there any needs and things specifics and say that I don't want to offend anyone or anything but this is the rules of our religion and this is for respecting women because this is to respect women we don't touch them it's not that we disrespect them if you can mention it so you can pre mention it but if you come to such weak state that actually you cannot really you are embarrassed and you feel that you know you you you are just pressurized to do it then if you do it at that time because they don't know anything still it will be makru it will be it's not allow but after that nicely very nicely tenderly gently mention that I've done something which is not normally allowed normally I do and this is in order to respect women so in future please excuse me of this and explain to them so that you'll meet again and again and they will know so this is the scenario firstly is the Muslim who knows avoid them completely non-muslim explained to them before if not you not able to explain once you done it after that say that and they will appreciate you more that you've done something you know which you don't do normally for them just to make them they can give a good um you can say example of Islam good name Islam for example uh someone was given a medal or uh by Queen the queen medals and obes and all these things or you know so someone was given a special uh gift uh that he should go and get it from Queen the melon and he went he was a Muslim he went there and the queen wanted to shake hand and he did not Shake hand with the queen he said it's not allowed for us he took the medal but he did not this this this is not something to laugh but something to cry we are shaking hand with every Petty wom and someone who actually lives here in these countries and how and the queen didn't mind she said that is very respectful that you are you you stand by your values what your religion teaches we start out with that if somebody does get a bad evil unwanted for during the day of zik and they manage to remove it by redirection at that moment of at that moment in time do we need to say in our heart or mind or do we just pretend it never happened if they are doing zik then they are already in Z of Allah subhana wa tala prayer they don't for example need they are already in remembrance of Allah but if they were just sitting doing nothing or doing any worldly activity and these thoughts then yes it means that oh Allah I ask forgiveness from this bad thought and I Turn to You So a person can do but if you're already doing prayer and zik then you shouldn't doar because that can affect your prayer and break you or in the heart you already remembrance of Allah subhana tala you already in connection with Allah soar connction you with Allah but if you are in another activity and then this happen then you doar yes Alum you mentioned about thoughts that you're not sinful for thoughts that you're not responsible for how do you distinguish between thoughts that you are responsible for and thoughts that you're not responsible how you distinguish between thoughts which you are responsible for and which you are not responsible for and and the brother is mentioning that I mentioned that we are not responsible for some thoughts and the distinguishing is very easy any thoughts which are involuntary involuntary thoughts you are not responsible for that's how you distinguish voluntary thoughts you are responsible for or in some cases if the thought is involuntary in the beginning so Shan puts something in your mind evil you not sinful for that but then voluntarily you extend and you make an extension out of you plan it that the moment where your intention and your power of voluntarily you will enter in that thought that Mo moment of time you'll become responsible that moment of time unless otherwise if is unintentional coming million times it's not bothered Shan puts uh a thought about let's say a new film has come out or about some unlawful activity or defrauding someone you are not sinful for that but rather you'll get virtue for disrupting it you'll get reward from Allah subhana tala by suppressing it even but if you think yeah yes that's good idea it never came in mind before I should not think how you know you can do then actually from that moment you are responsible and if you still suppress it after you still get reward but once you do the action then you get the thought of the sin as well as the action once you put it into action then you get the thought of the sin as well uh and and action but if before putting into action you neutralize it then it there's a great reward for you as I said the prophet wasam said no matter what bad thought is coming if you don't put into action Allah subh T forgives has forgiven to my umah all those actually person is liable for punishment but Allah has forgiven out of his grace and mercy that I'm going not going to punish you upon your thoughts but inshallah if you take the course of purification then this is going to me you will know it more detail and practically you can learn how to really keep your mind mind pure uh the question is relating to as uh your good s was mentioning that people who create music and rubbish films and filth and all the rest of it the when the end users use those uh films and music then the producer users uh will get the same punishment what I want clarification for the record is that uh the people who are involved in the distribution and the shops and the shop sellers uh they will be punished exactly the same can you please clarify Allah subhana wa ta'ala is the best judge everyone will be punished according to their level of contribution and involvement so there will be different degrees for for example mentioned punishment for for alcohol that anyone who makes alcohol who SWS plants for to actually s the grapes for for alcohol who transports alcohol who who actually 10 type of people they said they all in the punishment so a person should be very careful but obviously to the degree you are involved your punishment is going to be according to that so the most difficult question regarding this is what can you do that if you have been singing or doing something Distributing things and in this business and now people will listen to you even though you've died or you've repented then then the AMA said If a person repent sincerely and according to his ability he make announcement that whoever have my songs and things that I am not responsible I ask you to destroy it and wherever he he has given contracts he takes them back whatever he is able to he destroys and makes announcement in public announcement and that I repented and this is sin after that then this person will not be punished if he dies so there is a way out for these people and but if they without repenting they die like kabil died though then they will keep on getting sin um I know the mind purication is on the second stage of the self- purification course but I was just thinking for the benefit of viewers online maybe and um brothers who haven't started the course or who might not be starting the course while we're here would it be an idea just to give a quick summary of um I'm just looking at the picture on the wall now of that maybe a five minute summary I don't know if that would be beneficial or not really I have given the two levels of basic they are the basic we cannot we are not here to go into details of course whoever wants watch the DVD come to us we are to cover the main parts of just touching upon this is purification of the mind and that's how you do it and that's the benefits of it this is the purification of the heart these things you shouldn't have these things you should have we are covering those things we are not going into if you ask me I can go in one of these detail and spend so much time in this I would like to do and I even feel that I don't want to but we won't cover anything so the two basic level I already gone through that firstly is that for 30 days the first level of purification we are not presenting the course of purification to people here we are teaching you the tools who are on it and who want to uh convey it to others so if other people who are onlookers don't understand I don't mind it's not for them for them it is a different discourse courses which is actually for purification or for presentation of the course this but I still will say that I've already mentioned that the first stage that for 30 days a person is asked to stop from sinful toward entertaining it and 30 days they actually practice that and for more second stage is how they can positively connect their mind to Allah subh his messenger how they do that is that through every worldly activity whatever from getting up to going to toilet to wherever they're going into war or whatever they can use their heart and mind to pray to Allah subhana tala to ask goodness from him and ask him from Save evil uh save them from the evil of that action uh for in worldly activities they can connect to Allah and the first stage disconnects them from all sinful and then they are levels I think if anyone reaches these two is also saved from hell others are just for Spiritual progression I'm um 62 years of age but I have sat in m and Etc I I like to say that even though I've been on theq for almost 10 months I have tremendously learned a lot and practically from sitting at C and uh I don't know how I can put this into words but I think uh what you are teaching here H at the level to for a lay person to understand in a simple words Allah rewards you and those brothers who are go on the three can Etc can I know I have benefited from this already the keeping up to putting this into practice is going to be a test and I hope that we can stay set faster inshallah this is a prayer of yours may Allah accept it and really this is the like you are saying the which our youth women at home other people outside even non-muslims they can't disagree with these things they need these things as well they want these things as well for their generations for the to be a good citizen of the country to be a good Muslim you need this thing to be successful in a you need so we that's what I'm saying that you focus people who are here you are more important you understand or not so from tomorrow I want all of you to understand no matter UNL or see it on the internet people will come first day I'm not bother I'm not sitting for them so I'm sitting for you because we I give discourses six seven discourses all through the week and they are for normal people some but these are for you so I want you to understand the four ingredients of the thought every one of you discuss it between yourself or however until tomorrow cover the subject the predicate and the link and and and the result which have mentioned if you understand you can explain to others as well four things what how a thought is made of how to disrupt and suppress it and how to learn that art and if you try it you will see wonders that it just breaks up the the sequence because Shan puts these things as full uh whole as a whole in us and we take it as a whole but but if we know how to actually disintegrate it then he can't become very successful so inshallah you what you are saying it is necessary that's why whole world is waiting and they want uh people human beings ginat others they want actually to reach Allah subhana wa taala or they want to become good Muslim they want to become good husband and wife or good human beings good citizen but all in the world is happening is only the is given to them lecture after lecture books after books channels after Channel but no practical guidance where which they can concrete which they can develop over one two years and be of those Pious people and you can be why you don't become the tool of it according to your level you can become tool of it benefit yourself and others so that's why I encourage you to participate in the um trips which we going to Saudi Arabia to Morocco to Pakistan to give this message because some people will accept this message some people will still not don't but we are giving the message for those people who will accept and it's our duty to convey the message to others who want and regarding this there's a conference going on peace conference on 24th September which the brothers announced normally I am not we are an umrah on these days when this conference takes place alh and after Islam tadri Ali and other who are doing it to call non-muslims and Muslims and to present wasallam uh message of Peace for all how he gave the message of peace to humanity and how Humanity can come in peace by following the prophet sallallah Ali wasallam so Hindus Buddhist they all will be invited and then they will be presented the teachings of R wasallam so there'll be maybe 10 12,000 people so and they only nominal uh they have put A10 uh fee 10 ticket in vble Arena so most of us if we 100 150 people of us our men and women can go they go put a stall there as well mix and mingle in the people listen to your for yourself with non-muslims as well as there'll be Muslim about 10,000 it's a good opportunity to give them the message practically the leaflets plus listen to the AMA and others we many people can't go in other countries 12,000 how much harder it will be to reach 12,000 people on your own you go to so many cities and but there are 12,000 people together so they'll listen to the message of the Prophet wasam personality and then get the message of the method and the ofam if they can get so with we are not going to present the course is not there but you can give the message to the audience people sitting here uh and people who just come to visit that place and then their trips coming to Pakistan America Canada Morocco Japan turkey these so wherever you can participate according to your financial and other but get your name into those people that when a person meets wasam he recognizes you that you are one of those people who have traveled for his Dean as well and leaving your children and families behind and sacrificed him because these people will be very close to Prophet Alat wasam CH September this is D opportunity for you and participation and they have also invited us to do participation and then there are many every month Brothers go here Birmingham London and to different places in jamaat weekend there's Mondays Gathering Thursday's Gathering that is the way to partic participate now the good news is about similar thickness book and uh similar CES have been prepared for children as well of purification men and women brother yaser and kasim has been working more than one year now it just needs printing now we are finding a printing uh printer for it from here or Pakistan who can print it well so for that one course will be for children it is a water down version which even 78 years old can understand whole of the course there are sheets for them there are zers for them their levels for them but at their level so they can from very young age become acquainted with it and then inshallah when they will get adult or 14 then they can go on the actual course the thereit upstairs if you want to have a look at it so this is something which we leave as a legacy behind conveying the message that's what left he left a book and he left a message and a way and a methodology and his sayings and people from centuries are benefiting if you do that also people will benefit over centuries and you will get the reward for it and you will get actually higher level closeness to Allah subhana wa taala how much we are going to live butal is saying 60 I am 40 you are 30 you're 20 time is flying very quickly and soon we are going to be in the graves and then we won't get this opportunity to come back even if we say to Allah subhana tala every minute we will be giving dawa and practicing Dean we are not going to get now we have now we have and we are sleeping sub