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And this is something that we hope will become aprt of our culture of those who use in western lands
and muslims will come and see that we’re doing something the Prphet did till Umar , till uwais al qarni,
and the prophet asked umar ra to make dua of uwais al qarni
And you dear seeker will not be able to rise ot the commandsmendst of allahk,, I fyou do ot minoitor
your soul if you
We need to be in a state of muraqaba, a state of vigilance, to watch over your heart and limbs till you
are aware
We have to organize our time
Secret to blessing in time and higher degrees of spirituality is to devote certain aspects of
worship in specific times, days, months, seasons, etc
From the time you wake up to the time you sleep
Islam is comprehensive
Yahya rhodus-believed in one god but he didn’t have a religion, as was attracted because of Allah, that
you could regiment your life and have different things to do throughout the day and there’s a system,
and even for example; laws relating to entering laavoatory
If anyone tells you these things are insignmeifncat, they don’t know anything, they are insignficiant
There is no way to get the end result, if they don’t take these etiqueets seriously, Imam Ghazali
mentiones ( ) something applys to them
(Balance between being soft and hard), if you’re not grounded in his deen, then you have yaqeen
(certainty) that:
Do not bring anything that has the names of Allah, and the name of the Prophet , minimize it as
much as you can , do not enter with a bare head(protection, as angels draw to places where
there is goodness but devils ), being quick in being in the bathroom is a sunnah (adab), or a bare
feet(wear slippers0
o Point is there is a relationship between inward and outward
o Reality in this world and unseen
Aisha in another context: When Abu Bakr RA was buried, and prophet was
buried, he would visit , but when Umar RA entered, she wore the headscarf
Even though she knows they went to the barzakh
I seek refuge in filtha impurity and from the defiled and those who defiled
How to teach?
First memorize
Then inform (even with kids, without scaring them)
o Reality to unseen and to know about good/bad people, evil, teach and warn them about
evil
All praise be to the one who takes from me what harms me and what benefits me
Nutrition is amazing , our body is amazing
Get ready with cleaning material, toilet paper, and water before getting to alleviate myself, as when you
enter the washtroom what if water runs out or there’s no one to help you
Do not wash yourself with water in the same way you relived yourself:
Same organ,
You raise your clohes slowly as you sit down, position ourself ina way that fi someone enters the
washroom, none of them would see private regions of another even in the way
Nor face direction of prayer (in the front/or back), house-wall in the way9in shafii
Do not do it in a way where people are talking ang ather, nor where people in a standing water, animals
burrow, hard earth or into the wild to prevent splashing. That in the relationship is balanced (between
having waswasa, and that no one cares), someone is soiled by it, wash yourself and move on,
Do not stand to urinate, but if you need to use your left foot to stand (the prophet did it, it was
obligatory for him to do as he was clarifying that it was haram to stand up)
Use stones (toilet paper0, or water, best thing is to use both wherehte rurinating or defecating
And that the second best is to use waterm,a dnt that even if water is present and you only use toilet
paper and that is sufficient , but to wet toilet paper is a problem (best to use either toilet paper/),
problem with wetting toilet paper, water is not flowing so you’re just spreading filt all over yourself
(question for myself: couldn’t
Using stones: 3 clean stones wiping on unclear area (you have to take legal dimension into the context in
spirituality), particularly in shafii school, if you are just going to use toilet paper/napkin, you have to do 3
times, but if 3 is not sufficient, then go to higher odd numbers (so you get blessing of , only use left hand
to clean yourself, handing something to someone(in a different context) and eating (right), unless your
right hand is dirty then it’s okay to hand something to someone using the left hand while eating (like
passing plates)
Allah purify my heart from hypoicry adnd protect private region from indieciny
If in toilet, some would say it’s haram or atleast offensive to mention name of Allah
Ou’re not supposed to talk when in restroom (adnan apu, toilet example)
Scrub hands with wall/stone/soap, especially the one you used to clean yourself and you scent it(for
obvious reasons-to bring good scent into t aplace of bad scent)
It’s not recommended to see the private part or what comes our of it
It’s not permissible by sacred law to be naked in one’s own room by ourselves
May Allah open our hearts to implementing great ethics, as a result experience that amazing light that
comes to our heart, may we put everything in put it’s place, and have the command of tahwakku; islam,
iman and ihsan