Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari

That is step number one.

And as we conclude, you know, Imam Ibn Ata'illah, he said in one of his hikm, he said, مَتَا أَوْحَشَكَ مِنْ خَلْقِهِ فَعْلَمْ أَنَّهُ يُرِيدُ أَن يَفْتَحَ لَكَ بَابِ الْأُنسِ بِهِ That whenever you feel that Allah has isolated you or removed you from His creation, made you feel like you were all alone or that you were not connecting with others in the way that you would hope, know that it is because He wants to open a door of proximity for you to Him.

And this is the closing message of today's khutbah, my dear brothers and sisters.

Have we taken those opportunities to foster this love? To reconnect with this love.

That's not the point here.

The point is rather to clean our lens and our filter so that we have a better grounding in our tradition, and we're able to approach and access and use mainstream psychology uh you know for that purpose that we don't get drawn into the purpose that the mainstream psychology sets for us because a lot of them don't even believe in god don't have the idea of god and if they do bring in like virtues or anything positive or The intentionality is not really like doing it for the sake of Allah or Allah's pleasure.

That's not how they conceptualize these things.

So we don't want to engage from that perspective.

The fact that they feel guilty is a blessing.

There are people out there who wouldn't even care.

The fact that you care about your drinking and about sinning and your relationship with Allah makes you a very strong believer.

So let's use that.

We have that kind of relationship.

But Ibn Ata'illah is so beautiful.

Ibn Ata'illah Al-Iskandari.

He was the, Skandari is Alexandria.

But he was a Spanish, you know, Muslim saint.

And he wrote this book called Al-Hikm.

Is it aphorisms or hephorisms? Aphorisms.