Speaker 1
Our dean gave us a really amazing balance. Allah gave me obligations in my prayers every day. Allah told me certain things are prohibited for me. Allah told me certain things are prohibited for me to eat. Certain ways of earning money are wrong for me. Certain pleasures or whatever, there's only a halal way to get to them and all the halam avenues are closed from me. And in every other matter, Allah, just as long as I'm living a purposeful life, there's nothing else expected from me. There's not much more than that expected from me. So for example, I asked, jokingly asked some of you guys or some of you gamers and some of you, Gasha Allah raised your hand in Nadi-la-Hiwanda dei-rajau. You know, it's okay to have some lahu. It's okay to have some entertainment. It's okay to play sports. It's okay to play a video game every once in a while. It's fine. There's nothing more. Where does the harm come from? Our religion gave us principles. If you're not violating any of the principles, then you're fine. If your entertainment or your work is taking you away from the mandatory remembrance of Allah, it's taking you away from what you should be doing, then there's the extreme. By the way, there's the opposite extreme too. I'm not doing enough for my dean. I need to study more dean. Okay. Well, you haven't spent any time with your wife for two months. Yeah, but I'm studying dean right now. Well, spending time with your wife is actually a part of your dean. Playing with your kids is a part of your dean. Earning is a part of your dean. Right. Keeping in the idith fsika, your own person has rights over you too. Quran even says, don't forget your own portion in this life. Allah made us appreciate. Like, you know, for example, if I was studying all day, and the Quran says, what happened to us, and the farms and the winds that blow, that have beautiful smell in them, how am I going to sit there and rush and understand this ayah? In order to appreciate this ayah, what would I have to do? To go outside. Waze this ul-sir-uf-il-Ardi, go travel in the land. Fondurun kefabada al-hah, take a look how did creation begin? You know, I can't do that sitting and studying or doing vikr. I have to go, that's the vikr too. That's why the ayah, the ultimate vikr of the week is jum'ah, and then it was that phantashir-uf-il-ar-gull. Go spread out. Wabtah al-bumfabada wa thkuru-lah hakathila. So there was this three-dimensional view of the vikr of Allah, yes, sometimes, dahu entertainment is okay in some quantity. But that, the thing with these things is they easily become addictions, and when they become addictions, you go deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper in them, and you don't know when to stop. Right? And that's, at that point, it's taking you away from the remembrance of Allah. Okay, and that point, it becomes a problem. By the way, some people become workaholics, don't they? They're always thinking business, they're always thinking, oh, gotta open up the next door, they're always thinking, gotta make them more more profits or keeping track of the stock or whatever else you're doing, Bitcoin or whatever, you know? Anything that immerses you so much, that now your basic remembrance of Allah is going away. Your obligations to family are going away. You're not even, you know, your connection to the Quran is disappearing. Then this is where you have to draw a line. So Allah mentioned these two things because these two things are actually so dangerous, so powerful, the jahra and lahu, that they can even take someone away from the profit standing there. They're that powerful, so don't underestimate them. Deal with these, we have to do business. Entertainment at some level and distraction at some level is a necessity in life, but make sure you understand you're dealing with something that can easily go out of valets, that can easily become very powerful and start replacing the remembrance of Allah. Notice also something, a final quick observation, the two observations about the use of these two words in this ayah.