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Wednesday, 19 December 2018 1:38 AM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 19 December 2018 9:48 AM ]

This episode is a brief section of Yasmin Mogaheds speech at the Muslim American Society and the Islamic Circle of North America 16th Annual Convention in Chicago.

She says: when we are in pain, either individually or collectively as a community or globally or as an Umma, we tend to just try to treat the symptoms, we just want to pain to go away but we dont actually treat the root cause of that disease. We all are in pain individually in our lives. We are in pain collectively, we are in pain politically. But the question we have to ask is why do we have this fever? Why are we in pain? What is the sickness that is causing this pain? When deprive our hearts of the most essential need that the heart has and that is the spiritual oxygen. That is the remembrance of God.

Then she examines various diseases in our hearts such as: love of this life, which makes us politically weak. This is actually a spiritual disease. The second disease is coming out of love of this life, which is envy. The disease of envy is destroying our body as Umma. The cure of envy is being grateful of what God has given to us.

The other disease is doubt. Doubt is not a disease of intellect, it is a disease of heart. And the cure is through dependence to God. Losing of good character is another disease. Losing the quality of honesty and quality of mercy for one another, compassion, empathy, and as a result we are become diseased. The cure is that we have to go back to unconditional honesty. And finally she talks about the disease of despair.

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