Soul Food for College Students
Aug 21, 2026 · 7 min · 4 segments
Become a sustainer at http://rootsdfw.org/sustain
Ameen AlmallahHost
Um, inshallah, today we'll be continuing our theme of the pursuit of happiness.
Um, we started off speaking about Imam al-Ghazali, rahimaullah, who was the mastermind of this equation and this concept of happiness that we talked about.
We discussed why this is important, and we discussed the first step to attaining such happiness, and that is to know yourself.
That if an individual wants to truly get to a level of ultimate contentment, ultimate happiness, feel like, you know, there's no struggle, there's no hardship, there's no difficulty that can be thrown into my face, except that my heart is happy.
There's a very big difference between the apparent and the, the internal state of a person.
Oftentimes, not only do we judge other people, but we judge ourselves based off of the apparent manifestation or representation of ourselves.
Therefore, when somebody goes in front of the Kaaba for the first time ever, and you go there, and you're mesmerized, but then you look to the dude next to you, and he's like crying and sobbing, and it's like, "Dang," like, "I clearly am not like that.
I have so much to work on." Like, "Why can't I be like that?" But the reality is that it wasn't about the number of tears or the tissues that needed to be...
And that feeling can only be understood through the understanding of yourself.
Or in other words, it is the first step to attaining your n- knowledge of Allah, and therefore understanding the purpose of our existence, and then attaining salvation.
And so last week, we ended with the statement of the ulema where they say, "Man arafa nafsahu, arafa rabah," that whoever knows themselves, they will know their Lord, 'cause they'll be real about who they are.
Um, inshallah, today we'll be continuing our theme of the pursuit of happiness.
Um, we started off speaking about Imam al-Ghazali, rahimaullah, who was the mastermind of this equation and this concept of happiness that we talked about.
We discussed why this is important, and we discussed the first step to attaining such happiness, and that is to know yourself.
That if an individual wants to truly get to a level of ultimate contentment, ultimate happiness, feel like, you know, there's no struggle, there's no hardship, there's no difficulty that can be thrown into my face, except that my heart is happy.
There's a very big difference between the apparent and the, the internal state of a person.
Oftentimes, not only do we judge other people, but we judge ourselves based off of the apparent manifestation or representation of ourselves.
Therefore, when somebody goes in front of the Kaaba for the first time ever, and you go there, and you're mesmerized, but then you look to the dude next to you, and he's like crying and sobbing, and it's like, "Dang," like, "I clearly am not like that.
I have so much to work on." Like, "Why can't I be like that?" But the reality is that it wasn't about the number of tears or the tissues that needed to be...
And that feeling can only be understood through the understanding of yourself.
Or in other words, it is the first step to attaining your n- knowledge of Allah, and therefore understanding the purpose of our existence, and then attaining salvation.
And so last week, we ended with the statement of the ulema where they say, "Man arafa nafsahu, arafa rabah," that whoever knows themselves, they will know their Lord, 'cause they'll be real about who they are.
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