Menemukan Kedamaian Batin (Finding Inner Peace)

Assalamualaikum wr wb. 

In the 82nd ayah of Surat Al-An'am, Allah azza wajal tells us something Ibrahim as. said to the people "Fa'aayyu Al-Fariqayni ahaqqu Bil-amni in kuntum ta'lamuna (6:81)". In the previous ayat, which of the two groups do you think deserves peace more? internal peace more? And so this ayat is about who attain peace in their life. People suffer from all kinds of emotional imbalances, depresssion, sadness, anger, anxiety, you know? How do you attain peace and is there a relationship between faith and peace, internal peace? emotional, psychological states of peace. 

Allah says "Al-ladhina 'aman walam yalbisu 'ilmanahum bidhulmin". Those who truly came to believe and did not disguise their truth, or their faith with wrongdoing. in other words, wrongdoing is a disturbance in your, not just on the outside, when you do "dhulm", you are disturbing something on the outside or someone on the outside. But in this ayat, beautifully it is as though Allah is desbribing that when you do wrong to someone else you have actually disturbed something inside of you. Then Allah says if you are able to not do that and not wrong others and not do wrong, not do injustice of any kind "ulaaika lahuu al-'amnu", those are the people that deserve peace. they will have peace. they will have peace inside of themselves. SubhanAllah ! 

You know how many times do we see nowadays soldiers that come from war that have witnessed atrocities or been in setting where there was no oversight, committed atrocities or were silent witnesses to atrocities that their brethren committed during wars, they come back and commit suicide. Or they have nightmares or they are not able to have relationships, not just for physicial trauma. Physical trauma is something else, but just from the emotional trauma of what they have experienced or what they may have even had to do. Or they did and got away with. Well, they got away with it in the sense of the authorities and the government and all of that. But their insides have been damaged. They dont have any peace anymore. And they can not live with that. There are people who commit any and all kinds of there is subhanAllah people that are in the entertainment industry and in music industry and maybe they are not even the top celebrities but people that are in particular kind of industry that has to do with just sinning and just wrongdoing. You know? they are in clubbing industry. They are in one of these dirty industries. These people have to literally stay on drugs to be at peace because they are just, they are terrible to themselves and others when they are not in that state. They have to literally numb themselves away from reality to be able to cope. Just to be able to cople. Just to be able to deal. SubhanAllah. Allah says people who truly found faith, they found something they could not find in a club, they could not find it at a party, they could not find it in a drug, they could not find it in alcohol, they could not find that peace anywhere. You know? And for those of you that are not into these terrible things, maybe you are just into entertainment - watching movie after  movie after movie after movie. And it's just messing you up on the inside. It is just tearing you apart and the only thing you can do is fill that empty space with more entertainment and more entertainment and more entertainment. It just doesnt stop. And one day you just to cut it down.

Hopefully you cut it all together in this month. And then you go to the masjid and you feel this peace and you have not felt it in a long time so you can tell the difference between the toxic waste you have been putting inside of you, spiritual toxic waste and now this cleaning, just the listening to the Quran. Just putting your head on the ground with everybody else. Just those few minutes even, what that does to you. And at the beginning when people come after a long time to a masjid, they say "I gotta get out of here quick. Is there a movie playing nearby? Can I do that instead?" I see a lot of young  people especially want to hang out, outside the masjid. And they are all on their devices. Nobody is at peace. Nobody is sitting calmly. You know? This is what iman does - it gives you calm. It gives you peace. You are not jittery. You are not disturbed. You are not just constantly in the need for some other fix. You know? whether for your eyes or for your brain, for your tongue, for your limb - you are not looking for that fix, you are just at rest. SubhanAllah! 

They are the ones that are committed to guidance. In other words, Allah is saying that this without commitment its only going to come and go. You are going to have to show some commitment to be able to hold on to that peace. Allah azza wajal in another place in the Quran, He says "Ala bi dhikr Allahi Tatma'inu Al-Quloob" - you should know, that by remembering Allah, hearts become calm. They become tranquil, they become at ease. Thats what this ayat is about, wallahi, the world every human being on this Earth is looking for peace. They are looking for tranquility inside of them. Something is bothering them and they just say to themselves, you just say to yourself, "if I just had that I'd be happy". And to put it in different words, being happy- "If I just had this much money, I;d be happy. If I got this girl, I;d be happy. If I had this car, I'd be happy. If I had this house, I'd be happy. If I lived here, I'd be happy. If I bought that device, If I had that video game, if I dod this, if I did that.." we always set these goals and say, "I'd be happy". Guess what? The ones you set for yourself before and you said you will get there and you will find satisfaction in. This is the ayat. That Allah azza wajal teaches us through the words of Ibrahim as., timeless words, it was true back in the day, it is still true today. SubhanAllah! The people who can truly find faith and they dont replace their faith with wrongdoing. So even if you are muslim, it doesnt mean you have peace. Maybe you are replacing your faith with wrongdoing. 

You need to stop doing the wrong, cut that out , may Allah make us all the people of peace and may Allah make us all among. 

BarakAllahu walikum, wassalamualaikum wr wb.

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