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  • Rockefeller’s advice – 7

    Rockefeller’s advice – 7
    Nov 6 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Peace and blessings be upon the Master of the 100 and the Master of the 100. Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, are very much in harmony. From the principle of number seven, John D. Rockefeller says to his son, master negotiation with this framework. Number one, understand the environment. Number two, know your resources. Number three, find the opponent's weakness. Number four, clarify your goals. Number five, read their emotional state. Read their emotional state. He said, information is ammunition, emotion is opportunity. So he's talking about how to negotiate. Now, I want to share with you a very nice quote. And they said, you do not get what you desire. You get what you can negotiate. And this is very true in life. Many times we find people who are competent, but they do not get what they deserve. And all they can really do is complain and moan and groan about it and say, oh, you know, I should have got this. And I didn't get it. I say to them, ask yourself, why did you not get it? How can you get it? Because this quote, which I mentioned for you. I'll repeat that. You don't get what you deserve. You get what you can negotiate is a very, very, very true thing. So the point is, why didn't you get it? Because you could not negotiate it. Now, I just mentioned to you John D. Rockefeller's negotiation principles. Number one, understand the environment. Number two, know your resources. Number three, find the opponent's weakness. Number four, clarify your goals. Number five, read their emotional state. And he's talking about, therefore, then this is emotionless. He said information is ammunition. And emotion is opportunity. What I would submit to you is, again, my framework on this is different. My framework is in negotiation. The thing to think about. The way I look at it, when I negotiate, in my mind, I don't necessarily say this, but in my mind, I say, well, how can I help you to get what you want? So when I'm negotiating with another person, my thinking is, how can I help you, the other person, to get what you want? Now, you might say, well, this sounds crazy. Because in a negotiation, you should be worried or I should be worried about what I can get. My submission to you is that any negotiation for it to be successful, unless it's a very negative thing, just a one-way thing, like, you know, somebody is holding you up. It's a holdup. The guy is pointing a gun at you. There, you're not going to say, how can I help you get what you want? Although that might bear some thought. You know, I'll leave that with you. Tell me how you can make it work even there. But you might say, well, you know, right now, I need to get out of the situation. So how can I overpower this guy? How can I, you know, neutralize him? But other than that, in normal situations, for a negotiation to be successful, the most successful negotiations are win-wins, where both parties get what they want. And this is, in fact, possible. This is, in fact, possible. It's possible in far more interesting ways. This is, in fact, more interesting than we like to imagine. But since most of us have been conditioned or trained in the win-lose way of thinking, we never get past that. So we are always looking at, how can I get what, how can I get out of this? How can I get, what can I get out of this? Not how. What can I get out of this? And in the process, I kill the golden goose. That's okay. and rip open its belly and get all the eggs. The thing to remember is that in a good negotiation, both parties get what they want, and at the end of that, they also have a good relationship with each other. Now, I use this framework always in my family business consulting, and also in other places, but family business consulting,
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  • Rockefeller’s advice – 6

    Rockefeller’s advice – 6
    Nov 5 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds, and peace and blessings be upon the honor of the prophets and messengers. Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his master, peace and blessings be upon him, are very much in agreement. Now we come to the sixth point of Rockefeller's advice to his son, which was, he said, business is war, act accordingly. Now, Andrew Carnegie was his greatest competitor in the oil business. And when they built a pipeline threatening Standard Oil, which is Rockefeller's company, Rockefeller bought the railroad and he bought the oil transportation. He bought Monopoly from the railroad and dropped shipping costs and crushed his competitor. His advice was, attack where they are weakest, not strongest. Having said that, this is one point on which I do not agree. And I'll give you my reasons by telling you two stories. One is a story which I heard, which I also... confirmed it to the extent possible, which is in Saudi Arabia, in Makkah, in one of the big binoud stores. Somebody started a typical similar store. Binoud is a grocery store, big, big, huge big grocery store, grocery store chain. So somebody opened another grocery store across the street from them. With food and tea and whatever else. You know, whatever they're selling. So the manager of the binoud store, obviously, he got worried. And, you know, he said, what's going to happen to our business and so on. But the owner of binoud, he responded and he said to the manager, send some of your people to help him. And he sent him food, he sent him tea. And he said to them, we have a Musalla here in the store. So at the time of Salah, you're welcome to come and pray here with us and so on. The manager was shocked because, you know, you're supposed to kill your competition. And here you're helping the competition. The owner explained very simply, and this is where our Islamic values and ethics and our aqidah and our faith are. And this is where our Islamic values and ethics and our aqidah and our faith are. And this is where our Islamic values and ethics and our faith are. And our faith must come in the way always for decision making. And he says that our sustenance has been determined by Allah. Allah SWT wrote what we are supposed to get. And they will not, a competition, they will not be able to take even one rial if it is already declared for us. It belongs to us. So why don't we try to get some rewards, hasanat, and help them? Now, this is the business philosophy which... is rooted in Islam. And I see this wherever people are following the religion, alhamdulillah. One of the places I see it is in Hyderabad. In Turbazar, there is... which is the bazaar that comes... that is after... when you're going towards your city, when you pass Mazamjai market, the... Usmanganj, which is the... not Turbazar, Usmanganj. Usmanganj, which is the bazaar that... comes after Mazamjai market. Usmanganj has a whole series of hardware stores. So they sell everything. I mean, you name it, they sell it. Including... you know, electrical fittings and lights and this and that. And all kinds of hardware. Now, almost all the stores... I'm saying almost as a safety measure. But all the stores... are owned by Buhari people. Every single one of them. Now, you go to any of those stores... and you ask for whatever thing you want. If that person doesn't have it, he won't tell you, I don't have it. He will give you a seat. He will order some tea for you. And he will send his... employee... to a neighboring store... and say, with the instruction that... this is what this customer wants. If they have it, bring it. And the neighboring store will give him that item... and... the item is given to you. He won't send you to that store. He'll get the item for you from the neighboring store. Now, the neighboring store... is his competition. Right?
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  • Rockefeller’s advice – 5

    Rockefeller’s advice – 5
    Nov 5 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the Prophets and Messengers, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family, and peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family, and upon his many, many, many. What is next? Principle number five. Rockefeller says, excuses are mental illness. Excuses are mental illness. My quote on excuses, I say excuses don't change reality. Think about it like this. Say you had your wallet in your back pocket, in your hip pocket, which is probably the worst place to keep a wallet. But most people do. So you had the wallet in your hip pocket. People also keep the wallet on the dashboard of their car, right up in front and under the windscreen, where it's visible to everybody, and then they have their window down, and somebody obviously, you know, puts his hand in, grabs the wallet and is gone. And you have lost all your, whatever was in the wallet, your ID, your credit card, your money. So say, for example, you had your wallet in your back pocket, and you were, you know, you were going to a railway station or a fair or some crowded place and your wallet, your pocket is picked. Your wallet is gone. So now if you come and explain to me and give me this whole story of how it was so, normal, natural, you did take precautions, but however, you know, these people are so bad and the world is so bad, and therefore your wallet got stolen, and you give me all these excuses and I say, absolutely, I agree with you. You know, it's not your fault, right? It is not your fault. Will your wallet come back in your pocket? It won't, because loss is loss, gain is gain. Loss does not change to gain just because you have an excuse. So excuses don't change reality. Rockefeller puts it another way, more powerful. He says excuses are mental illness. Then he says three excuses that kill success. I'm not healthy enough, I'm not smart enough, I'm not lucky enough. I'm not healthy enough, I'm not smart enough, and I'm not lucky enough. All of these are excuses. Paul Coelho says, if you want to succeed, you must never lie to yourself. And those are excuses. Lying to yourself is excuses. I don't have enough time. I'm so busy. The person who is accomplishing huge things is somebody who also has the same 24 hours. So I ask people sometimes this question. I say, what's your dream? So they tell me, my dream is this. Okay, fantastic. What's your life goal? They have not heard about that. They don't have that life goal. So if it's not a life goal, why don't you have this dream written down as a life goal? Okay, so I write it down. How does it become a goal? It becomes a goal when you put a timeline on it. So I will achieve this dream by this date. It doesn't matter if the date is sketchy. Put a date. Once you do that, then I ask people, how much of screen time do you have? How much of time do you spend on screens? And it's very easy. Your phone has an app which tracks that. So enable that app and it will track the amount of time you will spend on the screen. Average screen time for most people is between 4 to 6 hours. Six hours is a working day. What you are doing for six hours is called a job. And jobs have salaries. So my question is, if you are spending six hours on a screen in social media, what are you getting paid for it? Who's paying your salary for it? If nobody's paying your salary, and of course we know that nobody's paying your salary, then why are you there on that screen for six hours? As simple as that. Now if you are there on the screen for six hours, how on earth are you going to achieve your dream, which I'm assuming is not being on a screen for six hours? So your dream is something else. So if your dream is something else, how is that dream going to be achieved when six hours a day, eight hours a day, your face is in your phone,
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  • Rockefeller’s advice – 4

    Rockefeller’s advice – 4
    Nov 4 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:We come to Rockefeller's letters and advice to his son, Principle 4. It's a very interesting one. He says, money is fire. Use it or get burnt. And the commentator says that Rockefeller never worshipped money. He compared it to fire. He said it can warm your home or burn it down. It can feed the hungry or destroy the greedy. He donated 500 million and secured his legacy. The interesting thing to understand, as far as money is concerned, is that we live in an environment where we are taught to define ourselves in terms of money, to actually chase money, because we are told that money is what runs the world and therefore your net worth defines you and so and so's net worth is this much and net worth is that much. So effectively you're saying that a person is worth the value of his or her possessions. Now just think about that. Just the thought that your worth, who you are, what you are, your worth is to be measured, or that's what they want you to do, in terms of how many things you have. So whether those are shares in a company or whether they are your houses or cars or whatever, this is your worth. And the whole idea of this is because we live in an environment where the ruling principle is commercialism. The religion is commercialism. And the temples of that religion are the shopping malls, online or online. So you know you buy things with money, you don't say if somebody hasn't bought, if somebody has been in mộtv Bag Que Bagmon Hbt Л ath suppressor dan something bad and then goats come to you. And things like that. Actually I don't think I've done all that, only bought things for myself. And actually I do three things, is to encourage you to buy more. It's to encourage you to buy more, it's to encourage you to buy without thinking because I can always return it. While the people who are selling, they make money as long as they can register a sale. So it doesn't matter how long the person uses that thing which he bought, doesn't matter. As long as he can register a sale, he's fine with that. So therefore, it's something that, you know, therefore the money is what we are chasing. The fact of life is that money is the result of quality effort. So if you produce quality, money will follow. But if you chase money, then money is like a shadow. The more you chase it, the more it goes away from you. If the sun is behind you and your shadow is in front of you, then if you are running behind that shadow, you will never catch it because as you run, the shadow is in front of you. It's always in front of you. You can never catch the shadow. But if you turn around and you face the sun, then the shadow is chasing you. It's not the other way around, right? The shadow is chasing you. So that's how it is. If you are, if you are chasing the sun, if you are chasing quality, if you are chasing quality, then you find that money will come to you. You don't have to worry about money. But if you chase money, then quality will disappear. Because one of the first things that people do when they are chasing money is they are tempted to, I'm not saying everybody does it, but most people do it. They are tempted to sacrifice quality in order to make money. And of course, they will have all kinds of reasons they are doing it. They will make excuses and so on and so forth. But they will try to sacrifice quality and they will try to, you know, take shortcuts in order to make money. This is how the whole thing functions. People are willing to sell their honor because to make money, one of the ways of making money, a dishonorable, horrible way is to take bribes. People will do that. Shaitan tries to tempt them and say that one of the ways of making money is to take bribes. One of the ways to make money is to get into debt. That's how they send you credit cards free in the mail and they sign you on for nothing because then you start buying. You are in their clutches. As soon as you start buying, then of course you have to repay
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  • Rockefeller’s advice – 3

    Rockefeller’s advice – 3
    Nov 3 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to God, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the messengers and messengers of God, Muhammad and the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family and all his companions. From the book of John D. Rockefeller's advice to his son, the nine points. We have seen the first two. First of all, first point was hardship is your greatest teacher. Number two was failure plus persistence equals breakthrough. Third one, he said, love your work or live in misery. Love your work or live in misery. Now, he used to tell this famous story of Christopher Wren, the great architect and builder who was pivotal in rebuilding London. After the great fire of 1666, which involved designing 52 churches and St. Paul's Cathedral. He was an English architect and scientist and mathematician who was known for his work in the English Baroque style. And his legacy is connected to the new look of the city of London. He designed many of the most important structures like the Royal Observatory and the Hampton Port Palace and so on. Now, St. Paul's Cathedral is considered to be his masterpiece. And the design of the cathedral is a prime example of his architectural work and his architectural genius. The story of Christopher Wren goes like this. That he was at the site supervising the work when there were three stone masons who were breaking stones. Sculptors or stone masons who were breaking stones. So he asked them, he said, what are you doing? So the first of them, he said, you know, what can I say? I'm just breaking stones. So it was something like a punishment. This is a painful thing. I mean, why the hell do I have to do this? That kind of a mental attitude. I'm breaking rocks. He asked the second one. He said, I'm earning a living. So he was, you know, a step better than that. So he's not seeing the work as punishment. He's seeing the work as at least getting him some benefit. And he asked the third one, he said, what are you doing? He said, I'm building a cathedral. Now, this is, if you think about this, there's three people doing the same exact work. But one sees it as something which is a punishment. He'd rather not be doing it. The second one sees some meaning in it, but there's not really meaning in the work itself. But in what the work can give him, which is a paycheck at the end of the month or whatever period. But the third one is seeing that work as something which, you know, is a punishment. And he said, I'm doing this. It's a Migration Act, right? The fourth one sees something which reflects himself, which is his legacy to the world. When I was in the Plantations in 1991, 1993, we were planning to leave. And we wanted to, we lived in Kerala or the border of Tamil Nadu Kerala and that place had a beautiful teacote. So we thought we'd, you know, make some household furniture and take it with us. So we sent him back to马 Myanmar and told him that the旨 We asked, we got this carpenter, this Kerala carpenter, very famous for their absolutely fabulous work. So we got this carpenter, he came with an assistant and he told us how much wood we needed and so on. So we got the wood to make a dining set, so a dining table and six chairs. And he gave us a list of materials. So I told him, I said, you know, let me get all the material for you and then you can make, you can do the work. And he was on a daily, per day wage. So I didn't, for whatever reason, I didn't give it to him as a contract work, but I gave it to him on wages. So he was going through this work. Now he, one of the things he gave me was seven grains of sandpaper, his list, seven grains of sandpaper. So I'm thinking to myself, well, this. This is nice. This guy is going to sit around and he's going to be sanding this wood day after day and I'm paying for that. So I, obviously I didn't say that to him, but I said to him, I said, why do you need
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  • Rockefeller’s advice – 2

    Rockefeller’s advice – 2
    Nov 2 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds, and peace and blessings be upon him, the most merciful, the most merciful. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and peace and blessings be upon him, and peace and blessings be upon him, and peace and blessings be upon him. My brothers and sisters, we are looking at the nine letters of advice that John D. Rockefeller wrote for his son. Absolutely brilliant pieces of advice, which I thought I should share with you and myself. And the first one was, hardship is your greatest teacher. The second one, he says, failure plus persistence. Failure, not failure by itself. Failure plus persistence equals breakthrough. Failure plus persistence equals breakthrough. Think about this. Edison, Thomas Edison, failed 10,000 times. He failed 10,000 times. The wonderful story of his, which I love the most, because he is the founder of GE, General Electric, with which I have been working for many years. Working as a consultant from 1994. The wonderful story, two wonderful stories. One is, of course, is, they say that the light bulb, he got it right at the 1100th time or some such thing, right? So they said to him, well, you failed, you know, 1100 times or 1100 minus one. So 10,999 times. So it's, you know, you failed so many times. So he said, no, it takes 1100 times to succeed. That's how long it takes. So in many other cases, you know, put together, they say that he failed 10,000 times. Now, the most wonderful story of Edison is that his lab caught fire. So he had this lab in a, you know, like an outhouse. So, you know, they have these, what they call granny cottages, which is just off the main house. There would be a cottage where your elderly parents or parents, for intending, they were supposed to stay there. So they're close to you and you take care of them. And they're still, they have their independent living. So this kind of granny cottage, so, you know, maybe it was a, it was a room or a shed or whatnot. So that's where he did all his experimentation. That's where he did all his discoveries or inventions. So all his work, all his work was there, you know, whatever his current experiments and current inventions. Inventions in progress. He had all his documentations and so on. So all of that stuff is there in this, in this building. And one night it caught fire. So it was a huge conflagration. The whole place was completely on fire. And there was no way that, you know, that fire could be put out or anything would be saved. So John D. Rockefeller's, no, no. Edison, Thomas Edison's son, he says that I, when I saw the fire, I went looking for my father. I thought he was going crazy with grief and with, you know, with this sense of loss. So, and I was afraid that he might do something, you know, to, which might harm himself, which might harm himself. So he said, I went searching for him. I see him standing there with his hands, gloves behind his back, looking at the fire. And he said, son says, when I got to him, he says, go call your mom. She'll never see a fire like this again. Go call your mom. She'll never see a fire like this again. So son says, well, you know, I was absolutely astonished at his equanimity and the fact that he was not, you know, screaming with grief or something. So he asked him, he said, Dad, this is all your work, right? This is everything that you have. All your inventions and all the, all the writing and all the documentation and everything else. Right? I mean, you just watching it burn. You, you know, you're not, you don't seem to be bothered. He says to his son, how many people have a chance to make a completely new beginning? Just think about that. How many people have a chance to make a completely new beginning? Slate is wiped clean. Right? Now you can think about this and say, well, if I was living a life, you know, as a drug addict. And I,
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  • Rockefeller’s advice – 1

    Rockefeller’s advice – 1
    Nov 1 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. Peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and his family. Peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and his family. My brothers and sisters, all praise is due to Allah. One of the beauties of Islam and of winners in life is that they are open to learning from everywhere. And that's what I also recommend. One of the things I want to share with you is Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller's advice to his son. This is being written in terms of nine specific principles. So let me read out the list first. He says, First principle, Heart-shaped, Hardship is your greatest teacher. Hardship is your greatest teacher. Secondly, Failure plus persistence equals breakthrough. Failure plus persistence equals breakthrough. Third one, Love your work or live in misery. Love your work or live in misery. Fourth one, Money is fire. Money is fire. Use it or get burned. Use it or get burned. Fifth one, Excuses are mental illness. Fabulous. Excuses are mental illness. Number six, Business is war. Act accordingly. Business is war. Act accordingly. Number seven, Master negotiation. Master negotiation. Number eight, Reinvest everything or lose everything. Reinvest everything or lose everything. And number nine, Reputation outlasts riches. Reputation outlasts riches. Inshallah, We will talk about these in detail. We do not even know. We do not know in detail. Deliberate intellectual Cathedral Training, Research of heteroplane technology, Fidel zas genius. What a ape there, Clean equatel, Guaranteedministry, But rather maintain iron economy and Not make humane decisions. But preserve equality, wildそんな welfare hundred billion in today's money but his greatest creation as they say was these letters his letters to his son so the first principle is saying is hardship is your greatest teacher now young Rockefeller Johnny Rockefeller faced crushing poverty and constant rejection crushing poverty and constant rejection his response I am grateful for the struggle it built the character that built the for Joe it built the character that built a for Joe and he says that success requires deliberate suffering conscious suffering really if you think about it we human beings seem to learn mostly from I won't say from the book but from the book but from the book but from the book once a entirely but almost entirely from hardship not from peace if I am if you ask me to think of or if I ask you to think of ten people ten people just randomly ten people who you know almost invariably those who you think about who are successful in every way whether it's material whether it is material whether it is material whether it is material whether it is is material whether it is spiritual whether it is physical our people who are people who started in poverty of people who started with nothing now are people who started in poverty of people who started with nothing now poverty I don't necessarily mean somebody was bringing on the street but poverty I don't necessarily mean somebody was bringing on the street but someone who had to think about spending money somebody who for whom money was spending money somebody who for whom money was not easy for example hand me down hadn't had it down close from their siblings or not easy for example had me down hadn't had it down close from their siblings or have anything to say on my children is that I had to close my children's or from their parents, they made choices. I think the biggest, most important strength that comes to us from being poor, from not having enough resources, is to make wise choices. Because you cannot have everything, you're forced to choose. Everything is a choice. Every single thing is a choice because you can't have everything. So the smallest things,
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  • Tazkiyya before Ta’aleem

    Tazkiyya before Ta’aleem
    Oct 31 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:Khilal Ramadan Rahim, Alhamdulillah, Rabbil Alameen, Wasalatu Wasalamu Alayhi Sharifil Abiyyil Mursaleen, Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wa'ala Alihi Wasallam, Tasleeman Kaseeran Kaseera, Faman Badu. My brother and sister, it's very, very important to think about the purification of the heart, tasiyat al-nafs, for learning Islam. People come to me and say, I want to become a great speaker. And I say, that's absolutely the worst place to start. because before you become a great speaker, you have to become a great worker, like a person who does amal, who lives by Islam. This desire to speak and the desire to tell people what to do, this is a huge trap. Sahal bin Abdullah, he says, it is not lawful, it is not possible for light, for the nur of knowledge to enter a heart in which there is something that Allah dislikes. Just think about this. These are things which are so critically important that we need to reflect on them. He says, I repeat his words, it is not lawful, it is not possible for light, for the nur of the knowledge of Islam to enter a heart in which there is something that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala dislikes. And he says, the source of this, this statement is the statement of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in Surah Al-A'raf, Allah said, I will turn away from the verses which are arrogant in the earth without truth. And if they see every verse they do not believe in it, and if they see the way of the right path, they do not take it as a way. And if they see the way of the wrong, they take it as a way. That is because they have denied our verses and they were not the way. And in the verse of the verse, Allah says, He says, I will turn away from my signs those who act unjustly with arrogance in the land. Allah is saying, I will turn them away from my signs so that they will not get to that. And even if they were to see, even if they were to see every sign, they still would not believe in them. If they see the right path, they will not take it. But if they see a crooked path, they will follow it. This is because they denied Allah's, our signs and were heedless of them. May Allah Ta'ala protect us from being people like that. Sufyan bin Ureena in his tafsir, he says Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will deprive them from understanding the Quran. SubhanAllah, we see how, what is the wages of arrogance, how arrogance will destroy you if you are arrogant. May Allah have mercy on us. Arrogance is the first trap of the ulama and the umara, of the rulers and people with authority and of people who are people of knowledge as in they know the theory but they are, you know, their hearts are sealed because they have arrogance in them. So when they become... Ulama, when they graduate from this or that darurum, they start considering themselves to be great scholars and they spend their time criticizing other people without looking at themselves and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is saying such people, I will prevent them from seeing. Right? Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is saying, I will prevent them from seeing. Muhammad Yusuf al-Firyabi, rahmatullah alayhi salam, he said, Allah is saying that we should not be afraid of the people who are not in the right direction. He said, Allah is saying that He will deprive them from reflecting on the Quran and taking lessons from it. Ibn Kathir, rahmatullah alayhi salam, in his tafsir of this ayah, he said, Allah punished them with a terrible punishment of ignorance because they were arrogant. So whoever allows, now we talk about the taskiyatul nafs, we talk about purification of the soul. I remind myself anew that all of these talks of purification of soul are worthless if we do not actually go and purify ourselves. For example, imagine. Imagine that you have just come back from a run, you are sweating, you are stinking, your body is full of sweat and dust and muck and God knows what, right? And you are watching this absolutely passionate speech about the benefits of bathing,
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