Godliness – Rumi & Ghalib | Mufti Abu Layth

i want to speak a bit about this i think this is something that that is such a powerful lesson that we have to all take to heart because on one hand it combines elements of ambition giving forward of and then compassion you see empathy optimism hope these are the ingredients in all of this and this giving forward giving is an art

okay and it is truly giving is living and i want to speak a bit about this take a look at some quranic examples and take some lessons from that but you see with this because it's a matter of things like this uh giving ambition compassion empathy courage it takes courage courage to give all of these things are matters of the heart if we can say that obviously i mean yeah in many ways one could even say arguably in i don't know maybe from a neuroscientific perspective as well in

time to come since they have found a certain amount of neurons within the brain oh sorry within the heart albeit i think 40 000 or something which isn't that's negligible but compared to the billions of the brain but but it's still thousands thousands of uh neurons that are present now you see the heart speaking here metaphorically the heart also has its diseases of other is this greed this um [Music] i mean

this this kind of um this blinding hunger we see and it's interesting because it ties in with ambition because ambition is the positive version and this is the negative version and and this is why i i think it's so important to take a look at this right and then we'll come back to some questions so let's get started and what we'll do is i'll share the link later on as well and you can come on live with further

questions as well so all right now we're just bringing that back up and this is important as well tying in with all of this one is the unforgettable quote from maulana jalaladina rumi you've got this you start to walk out on the path the path appears but also this of and i think this is something really interesting i want to come back to

it's interesting because on one it can mean being it can also mean reality but maybe reality as we as we assume it to be okay so how it appears to us in its being that he says that this world

it is just a repetitive a circular trap damn trap it is nothing but an a a an illusory trap an illusion that ensnares and entraps you so be weary okay because ultimately what is everything that we know it is but an illusion

allah you know this is that's another one of garlic's that when there is nothing except you that it truly exists it truly with a capital t okay then what is all of this after all so ultimately in a binary sense it is only god that exists ultimately that our existence in comparison to god is but an illusion

in comparison obviously we have our existence but when you compare then it doesn't exist and so and this quota valid by the way i feel it's something which um in many ways just sidetracking for a moment i get sidetracked man so khalip he says many things which are of a deep mystical nature and this is why he says

you know spirituality or mysticism this what you have this esoteric kind of knowledge that ye the way you explain them he says we would consider you to be a wally a person of god if it were not for the fact that you're

an alcoholic but he says this as a joke this part because he says that you know he's just trying to he doesn't want to praise himself otherwise he does consider himself to be amongst the olia but that's you know up to him i'm not trying to get into that discussion here i'm just saying that people of wisdom have passed and we take wisdom from everyone okay you take the good and you leave anything that's bad nobody is perfect in that sense we take you know we hear something good we take it

we something we leave it you know yes those who hear the what he said and follow that which is best