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Guarding Against the Snare of Sloth

Hamza Yusuf

CHAPTER

The Dark Side of the Soul

I've met some people that I was disturbed for days after and this is different from people who've done bad things Yeah, no, I think they did bad things because they were evil. You know we have a tradition that says that there's a there's a black spot the prophet said so lot is and there was a black spot on the heart That everybody's born with but as you do bad it grows until it takes over the entire heart. My father once asked my father Do you think people sign on a dotted line with the devil? And he said no, it's a long series of negotiations.

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Speaker 1
I've met I've met several and
Speaker 2
And this took time to discover or this was written on their faces a few of them I could feel it just being in their presence and
Speaker 1
If I told you you would know some of them, but I'll just keep it to myself I've met some people
Speaker 2
that
Speaker 1
I was disturbed for days after and this is
Speaker 2
different from people who've done bad things
Speaker 1
Yeah, no, I think they did bad things because they were
Speaker 2
evil. I'll tell you a story was not exactly illuminating I remembered we had a long long ago a conversation or seminar forgotten and the question arose have you ever known anyone is truly evil and a man in his 50s I think it was a summer seminar in Santa Fe But this one year my mother-in-law That seemed to be a fairy tale I think it's
Speaker 1
I think there's people that have so succumbed to the dark side of their souls that You know we have a tradition that says that there's a there's a black spot the prophet said so lot is and there was a black spot on the heart That everybody's born with and that as you do bad it grows until it takes over the entire heart and You know I once asked my father Do you think people sign on a dotted line with the devil? And he said no, it's a long series of negotiations.

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