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This is the opposite of what we're told nowadays. Follow your heart. Follow your feelings.

Follow your truth. Your truth changes from one hour to the next, depending on whether the

aircon is working or not. Right? So but follow your truth is the opposite of following Hikmah.

Hikmah means I've made a decision to follow something, whether it gets easier it gets difficult

I'm sticking with it. This new short series is based on the findings of Dr Saqib Hussein

in his PhD thesis Wisdom in Nukhuran, which was summarized and presented by Ostad Nurman

in front of a live audience. The link to the full paper is in the description.

I was expecting to see about 10% of you today but somehow you have made the decision again.

May Allah make it easy for all of us to get through the evening and I pray that you're able to retain

your concentration and be able to benefit from this discussion. I want to start by saying I felt the

need to do this lecture series because I think this is one of the most fundamental teachings of Islam

that is not focused on. We're not we're not emphasizing this teaching and by the end of this

program tonight I'm hoping you realize the value and the importance of Hikmah and why it's like I

said at the beginning yesterday why it's not some additional nice to have kind of thing some

additional extra curricular thing in the study of Islam it's actually something that binds all

of the teachings of Islam together. The word Hikmah is associated as a verb with Ehkan. Ehkan means

stitching together or tightening together. Remember I told you about the job on yesterday that holds

the face together. This is the same way Allah says about Qur'an. Ughkimat ayatuhu from the same

origin the ayat of the Qur'an were stitched together. So you have to look at the ayat of the Qur'an

is bound together. Ehkan in Arabic means you take a rope and you tighten it. You tighten it and

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