Pain & Faith | Transformation Power of Faith on Discomfort | Dr Najeeb | Information Session | IMS

[00:00:01]We hope you all are doing well. So I am Dany Ahmed and I'll be moderating today's session. Our today's session is an informative session and the topic is pain and faith. We'll understand this topic through neuroscience to truly appreciate this topic. I'll reflect on our chronic vers.

[00:00:23]We will certainly test you with fear, hunger, loss of wealth, life and fruits.

[00:00:28]It's surah bakra ayat number 155.

[00:00:31]Our today's presenter is Dr. Najib who will further guide us on this topic.

[00:00:37]There will be maximum 40 minutes for the presentation and then we will have the Q. May Allah put it in their words and allow us to benefit from the session.

[00:00:46]Dr. the floor is yours now.

[00:00:51]>> Asalam allayikum. My name is Dr. Nj Pangitbala. First of all I'm very thankful for Allah. uh please uh recite the rush bismillah rahim thank you very much for inviting first of all I'm very thankful for Allah for giving me opportunity to share my knowledge may Allah forgive me if I have a shortcoming anything good it's all from the blessing of Allah uh okay and first also I'm very thankful for IMS to allowing me to provide this platform uh to convey my share my knowledge wish to you and also like to thank the audience in spite of lot of things happening in your life you took time to come to this presentation means a lot for yourself and your family and for everybody because you're going to share the information correct so I'm thankful for that uh and my job is to convey the information to you and then it's up to you Allah knows the best Okay. Uh so let me start the the presentation. Hopefully you have uh uh followed the presentation in the past. We had a pretty good crowd now right now above 150 people. So that's good. So let's uh this is the introduction. So what I'm going to say uh these are things I'm going to concentrate and we'll go from here.

[00:02:19]So pain and faith this is a significant important topic.

[00:02:28]uh in my past uh somebody asked me the question and that is one of the significant question that when people are uh you know uh some of the people when they have good faith they don't feel the pain right why do you have the answer for that the neuroscience really explained the answer it has been known for more than 50 years so the question my job is is to make you understand what is pain, what is faith and how the transformation of power of faith on discomfort through neuroscience. So we need to understand that you know and that's a very important thing. So I will use the flowchart which I have used in the past uh so that you can think about it for those answers. Then I like you to reviewed I hopefully you have reviewed my previous presentation IMS. I have done more than uh eight I think so eight presentation in the last year. Each presentation is about 20 40 minutes and followed by 1 hour discussion and this is a continuation of that. So we learned something then move forward on that. So so it's a buildup. So when if you're listening to this presentation you have missed a lot. I'm just letting you know because you will be grasping lot of information and sometimes you will be blank because that has been significantly discussed in the previous presentation. Then I will go into the holy Quran verses because that is where the guidelines comes from means that's the golden rule means as long as the Quran says that and the neuroscience establish that's the pathway that's how the neuroscience work. So horicron voices are the golden rule and neuroscience trying to explain how it happens. So our belief is stronger right we need to understand how it happens where it happens. So if you know all the foundation correctly it will help you. And then I will go into the pain and uh faith then the neuric paradigms in the mind and body.

[00:04:40]Then also we need to think about cognitive network and thinking. So there's lot of education taking place.

[00:04:46]So you need to bear with me how it happens in your system. Correct? And how the mental and emotional resilience comes. Faith is all about resilience.

[00:04:56]Sometimes the faith is high sometimes low. Why?

[00:05:00]When you are started with a faith why it goes ups and downs. So you need to understand where the resilience is and how to get resilience. And then finally critical question and uh mega cognitive thinking correct and then we will go into question and answer session.

[00:05:16]Correct?

[00:05:18]So these are the question you should be thinking and you should think and have a good answer for that and this is where the presentation goes into detail. Correct.

[00:05:30]Does perception of pain comes from the brain or the mind or is coming from the heart?

[00:05:38]You need to know very clearly and what are the reason behind that because you cannot say I guessed it.

[00:05:47]We know the answer for more than 100 years or more than 50 years. So you should know by reason.

[00:05:57]So I want you to think that way. Does the belief affect the perception of pain? You need to understand what perception is.

[00:06:06]Right? These are very simple straightforward phenomena you need to understand correct. Does the physical pain affects the belief? Yes or no? And what's the what's the reason behind that? Think about it.

[00:06:21]Does the emotional pain affects the heart or the mind?

[00:06:28]Need to know what it is and what's the reason. Does resilience affects the pain and belief?

[00:06:38]Need to know. Does belief changes the delay gratification from punishment to reward? This is pure psychology helping the understanding the concept of Islam.

[00:06:54]Pure psychology.

[00:06:56]If you understand that you understand from psychology the depth of Islamic concept is is pain a paradox bringing you closer transformation or pushes you away.

[00:07:12]Why is pain something to escape or something to understand the situation?

[00:07:20]You know these are very basic question all of us goes through and the answer is there. It's in the Quran is in psychology and psychiatry in neurology.

[00:07:34]If we didn't look for it, that's our shortcoming. I just want to share with you and you need to go up and beyond.

[00:07:42]Wallah Allah knows the best. But I'm going to share my information to you and knowledge to you. Right? So answer to all these questions come from this flowchart.

[00:07:58]So if you have understood my previous presentation, I went into minor detail of this flowcharts and you know it has been updated. Uh so you know it has been updated so I added more information but you should know what is culp what is r what is navs and the cults are three different type. The nuffs are three different types amar lama and correct. What is ilm? What is akal? What is hayat? What is love? And what is hikmat?

[00:08:41]Right?

[00:08:43]These are all from Quranic concept. Right?

[00:08:50]So don't say that you don't know about it. I added more and combine psychology and psychiatry here. So you understand when Allah says so much about culp why there's a reason why kulp is so much emphasized. There's a reason why ilman was emphasized.

[00:09:15]May Allah increase our knowledge.

[00:09:18]Why? There's a reason behind that.

[00:09:22]Correct? So, I added up more information regarding uh neurology and psychiatry where they get connected and how do you learn from it. Correct? I may not go in minor detail on each one of them because it has been discussed in the past. But the answer to all these eight question is in this graph.

[00:09:44]It's our duty to understand Quran and psychology and psychiatry to get the right answer in the reason behind that.

[00:09:53]It's important to understand the reason because the faith lies in the reasoning.

[00:09:59]Is it the difference between a belief and a faith? There is a difference. So if your belief is strong then it goes to into the faith form right. So you need to know the reasoning right and go from there right. So going into further detail [clears throat] I went into detail about this also um uh what is culp what is ru and the navs.

[00:10:26]Yes, sorry. So, I went into detail what's the difference between uh ILM and Akal. You need to understand that, correct? If you don't understand, you will be little much confused. Ilm is the data. Akal is a software. Correct?

[00:10:42]And then you have different type of ilm, you know, may nafi or ilme correct non-beneficial versus beneficial. And how the hayat and hikmat helps you correct and the akal is nazer was only correct beneficial versus non-beneficial [snorts] helps you also correct so we discussed that thing and it affects your cal and the cul is the one who decides what to do and the nerves helps the culp in a bad or good direction. Correct. Perfect. So we have to understand this is the uh flowchart from the Quran correct pretty much Quran and Hadith that you have the culp culp is affected by ilm and akal correct you need to understand the difference between ilm and akal you cannot sit on and say that they are the same ilm is the knowledge the data non-Muslim also have a data akal is something different so you need to understand how it works and what is requirement for the akal when You want to have hikmat you need akal correct? So there is a requirement for the akal that hikmat requires the akal with the il correct and all those things. So this was already discussed in the past that how the muslims have so much higher level of thought process when they have hikmat or hayat. Right?

[00:12:17]And this was very much explained in the previous task. Correct? So at least you have idea.

[00:12:23]These are the previous presentation. I wish you have listened to it. I went into minor detail. There are eight of them. It's available 24 hours, 7 days a week and you can listen to it or u and there's it's a 40-minut presentation followed by 1 hour discussion. So you can do that. Okay. These are the different verses I'm going to go through it before I do the presentation. Like surah bakra we will certainly test you with fear, hunger, loss of wealth, life and fruit. What is that? Allah is test checking your faith correct and pain when you lose all those things. Correct?

[00:13:03]Allah is telling you. The second is surah bakra uh verses 286. Allah does not burdens a soul beyond what it can bear. Right? or Zorenia uh indeed hardship comes with ease indeed the hardship comes with ease that's a significant verse you need to understand psychology when hardship come with ease why Allah is saying ease hardship with ease you need to understand why Allah is asking what is it right psychology explain in detail uh surah bakra vers 214 messenger and those with him said will uh when will the help of Allah comes. You know these are the these are at the time of all the turbulence and all those things Sahaba were tested for their faith and they were asking this question and Allah put their words over there. So we need to understand surah Bakr also indeed Allah is with with the patience. Why Allah asked for the patience?

[00:14:10]Why?

[00:14:12]And then surah Allah does it not know you that Allah is observing all things?

[00:14:18]Nay, let him know that if he does not stop, we will drag him from the forlock. The lying sinful lock.

[00:14:31]Very important ayat. Why Allah emphasize lying sinful to Abu Jahal?

[00:14:41]There is a significant information given here. A lot of people don't even think about it.

[00:14:50]Borlock is just one area of your body where you do sitta the front uh or the the area where you do the sishta the forehead nothing else. So the forehead area where you think where you of course you have to have a memory then you going to think then you're going to lie you will do sinful act that's mean you are going away from your faith so Allah is telling where your location is this is Allah's wording and you cannot deny that a lot of people deny this thing and that's a problem.

[00:15:36]Okay.

[00:15:38]Surah Anam. Surely those who listen to our revelation with open mind will accept the truth and for those who are dead closed mind Allah will bring them back to life on the day of judgment and and then him will be returning for their recompense. Right? Surah Taha my lord may increase my knowledge.

[00:15:59]and surah araf certainly we have uh designed many gins and human being for for hell and those one who have kb I use the word kulb because that's exactly Allah says with which they do and uh do not understand they have eyes with which they do not see they have ears with which they do not hear like animals and even worse There are those who are heedless.

[00:16:33]Such a hikmat is mentioned here. We just light this ayat without pondering.

[00:16:40]Correct? To understand all these ayat you need to understand about yourself, how you think, how you understand things. Correct? For that you understand have to understand your anatomy. You understand neurology. Correct? You have to know the system, the cardiology and all those things to know that well. So that's so let's come to the main core topic. You can have a physical pain or emotional pain. Correct? These are pain but where they affect it affects your lyic system, prefrontal causes, singulate goddess and other areas of the brain. This is where the pain affects.

[00:17:21]So pain is basically uh sensory stimulation but it need perception where the perception is perception only takes in the brain to acknowledge this is a pain.

[00:17:39]So don't change the definition because you didn't get it.

[00:17:45]It's in written there. So please don't change the definitions.

[00:17:51]Correct? The perception of pain takes place in the brain. No other organ takes the perception of pain. We already and I will establish it. Right? That's another story. If you don't want to follow it, that's your choice. But we know for more than 100 years the pathway, the system, how it works. Do fMRI, do MRIs on the spot, you will get the results. So if you don't know and you have your own idea that's your thought process but that does not works in real life right so you need to understand where it works and what is the facts don't make facts into your what you think that's called cognitive biases that's why we don't understand Quran so well because we have cognitive biases and fallacies because we make our own thought as that what Allah is saying Allah said in the Quran in Arabic But we change the translation to our thinking and then create cognitive bias and then say why we didn't understand it. Of course you didn't understand because that's what not Allah said. Allah said in Arabic you translate to the best of ability but maybe at that time that translation is not the best translation and so you're following the translator not what Allah said.

[00:19:14]So that's the difference of cognitive biases.

[00:19:18]Follow Allah not follow the translators meaning that is what Allah will ask you. You have given 30 40 50 years of life. What did he do right? So you need to understand where is the facts are rather than think that way. So all the pain of emotional pain goes to your limbic area which is in the brain. Now you have emotional pain leads to emotional reaction. What is emotional pain? It is a signal like for example you see from the vision a painful thing going on that's create emotional pain and you get emotional reaction.

[00:19:58]Emotional reaction is a expression like fear and sadness.

[00:20:03]So see understand emotional pain leads to emotional reaction but it's happening in the brain in the mind. no other organs right now. So don't add things which you don't know.

[00:20:17]So let's come over here. The neurotransmitters from neurology from psychiatry you have pain. These are different neurotransmitters. Substance P, glutamate, endorphin, GABA, norepinephrine, serotonin, right? Lot of them are similar but they have tracks in the body how they pass on the information.

[00:20:41]And this is what you need to understand from neurology, psychiatry also. So perception is interpretation of sensory input by the brain.

[00:20:53]Remember it's by the brain. So the pain comes, the signal comes and it has to be received and understood.

[00:21:01]If it's not understood, it's not a pain.

[00:21:04]Correct?

[00:21:05]And where is understood? In the brain.

[00:21:08]So these are the uh pain uh neurotransmitter and neurom modulator.

[00:21:13]Neurom modulators are the one that increase or decrease the uh the effects of the neurotransmitters. Correct. Now perception and mood. Perception and mood take place in your brain. It has been proven in neurology and psychiatry. By the way, psychology is study of mind. So why we keep on telling it's coming from the heart?

[00:21:41]That's called cognitive bias.

[00:21:44]Correct? If you're studying from psych psychology with the study of mind. If you want to study heart, you go cardiology. Right?

[00:21:55]So understand that. So perception and mood these are the neurotransmitter.

[00:22:01]Correct? These neurotransmitter like serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin, this a bonding, cortisol, endorphins, norepinephrine, these are produced. And memory and faith, they are all connected. And these are all connected.

[00:22:14]For faith, you need to have a memory system. Without memory, you cannot have faith because how can you have faith if you don't have a memory?

[00:22:25]Correct? And what are the neurotransmitters? serotonin, dopamine, acetyl, oxytocin, glutamate, norepinephrine.

[00:22:32]Memory is the storage and [clears throat] recall of sensory information.

[00:22:37]You need a memory system.

[00:22:40]Correct? So where is the memory system?

[00:22:43]So before we go into memory system, let's go talk about pain. So these are pain receptors. I'm taking from clinical neuro anatomy. These are the open nerve ending. The pain receptors where is they are there.

[00:22:57]I will go very quickly now. We have a pathway like these areas where the uh neuro neuro receptors are and it's passed through the lateral spinalic tract from the spinal cord goes to thalamus that's in the brain. Then it goes to different areas of of the brain to modulate. Understand what type of pain is it? Sharp pain, deep pain, dull pain. All this happening in the brain still has not got to the heart.

[00:23:31]Do you understand? It's still in the brain and the brain decide what to do.

[00:23:37]Whether I proceed further or I block it.

[00:23:42]Now give you example of blocking hazat Ali.

[00:23:47]When he was in the prayer he didn't have pain. Why? That's the answer.

[00:23:54]He has a blocking mechanism from here to here. But he goes into the prayer mode.

[00:24:01]The the faith is so strong that is blocking the pain in the brain. We know in psychiatry and neurology that's how it works. So now you understand why he never got the pain when there was a arrow in his or he is cut so badly because his faith was so strong that it was giving all the inhibitors that pain was not perceived although there was a pain stimulus coming out but he was not perceiving it.

[00:24:32]That's from neurology and psychiatry.

[00:24:35]We all know that.

[00:24:38]So there you go. Still heart is not involved here. Correct? This is perception. These are different type of pain. Superficial pain, deep pain, neuropathic pain, visceral pain. It goes over the through the spine um [sighs and gasps] from the spinal cord to the talmic area different region of the brain. They are mod modulated over here as well as modulated over here. And then it decide whether to do or not.

[00:25:07]uh and it influenced by the brain to increase, decrease, nullify what to do about it. This all happening in the brain, not in the heart right now.

[00:25:18]And if the brain stop it, shut it, you're not going to feel it.

[00:25:24]Correct? Still not heart is involved here. So brain has this capacity. So you need to understand what and this is all in neurology and psychology and psychiatry for more than more than 100 years. You can go through it and has been proven again and again.

[00:25:45]Uh this is the structure of the brain. I went into detail last time I explained these are the pathways you have when you get the impulse or anything you get salient network which is autonomic uh thought process which is happening over here the lyic system you respond right away or if you uh take a little bit time it goes to the frontal lobe correct surak correct thinking process and the prefrontal cortex act think about it sending you information here to calm you down. Then we have default mode network.

[00:26:21]Deeper thought where you are in prayers when you are in deep thought there's other area of the brain that kicks in.

[00:26:27]It's called deeper thoughts. This is called default mode network which we have it neurology goes into detail and then further you have mega cognitive regulation system which is in broadman area 10 which is actually located over here in the prefrontal cortex that controls all these three all these three to decide what to do that's why Allah like the sister because you put your ego down you put everything down in front of Allah What are you putting down this area?

[00:27:02]You're putting your identity that everything belongs to Allah. All your knowledge is Allah. You don't have it.

[00:27:10]Allah loves that. Correct? There's a reason why Allah loves some things and we need to understand that concept coming. If you understand neurology, you get the point across. Right? And it's called uh mega cognitive regulation which take place over here.

[00:27:30]uh in the previous presentation I went into zi common sense and critical uh sense correct and these are the pathways these are all the things I discussed in the past you need to know awareness you have consensus but u you know that's a default mode network and I explain how to develop default mode network these are the pathways where you get moral accountability awareness of Allah in a common sense it's a daily uh routine when you do it you but in critical sense you do the frontal lobe but not to a higher degree correct I went into detail so I'm not going to spend time this is the pathway in the brain you know you have that memory center which is hypocampus this is one of the major memory system correct and vententral temented area which reduce which release the neurotransmitter to the reward and the punishment pathway they always active every second and the prefrontal cortex This gives impulse back and forth and you decide this is the pathway already established in neurology and psychiatry. If you don't understand this is how it is correct. So it's very important to understand what is mega cognition is a management all thinking in the mind. It's a critical thinking in the quality of thought. Mega cognition is the drive of all thinking.

[00:28:48]It's like a engine. Magna controls connect and optimize thinking. This is what it is. the it lies in the frontal lobe. So neuroimmune uh cardiovascular circuit is the new theory which is right now uh established the how the uh brain connect to the all of the body and is published in cell uh journal of cell in 2023.

[00:29:11]This is the human brain. This is the prefrontal cortex where you think frontal lo this is where the memory centers all the things and all those things. So this is oxip low which is the back side of the brain and this whole brain is connected. This is actual human brain. So at least you have idea. This is how all the connections in the brain take place. I'm just giving you outlook.

[00:29:32]So how the memory system works. So if you have faith, you have memory.

[00:29:35]Correct? So you have declarative memory, non-declared memory. You know declarative memories relates to the events and the facts. Correct? And the non-declared memory is a procedure memory, perception memory, classical condition and nonassociative learning.

[00:29:49]Correct? So these are memory system in your brain.

[00:29:54]That's where the faith comes in. Right?

[00:29:56]Faith without memory does not exist.

[00:29:59]Correct? So you need to understand it's all and this is how they they connected each other throughout the brain. So I'm just explaining all with all these receptors. This is all in the brain.

[00:30:10]So when you see from the eye as as one of the eyes says it's not you see from the eye the initial image is formed in the eye. It goes through optic nerve, optic tract. It goes into different areas of the brain. Brain analyze it. So you basically see a vision in the brain, not in the eye. That's the initial sensory stimulation in the eye. But then the brain decides what to what is this?

[00:30:42]Is it a human? Is this it's what type of information you're getting? Is it a good or bad? It's painful or not. This is all brain does it. There's no heart involvement right now and the brain has decided yet that this is the information. Later on you send the information to other brain uh from the brain to other part of the body but the brain decides this thing. So you need to understand this concept. This is how the track in the brains are. This is all happening in the brain. So if somebody is saying it's happened in the heart they need to learn more about rather than have cognitive thinking cognitive biases that these are all the connection in the brain and that's how it works. So you have this reward and punishment center always works together and go forward and we need to understand with the faith it controls these things and the prefrontal cortex controls it. So we need to understand how it works. This is the fMRI. So when you think this area lits up in fMRI it tells you which area of the brain activates when you're thinking right so it's all happening in the brain not in the heart these are all the connection how it's connect from the brain to different part of body these are all taking from frag matter right so this is it finally you need to understand resilience faith has resilience ability to bounce back from difficult times require thinking habit adopting the standard paradigm. Right? So resilience is very important in our faith.

[00:32:18]Resilience is a habit that sustain the faith. So if you read Quran, Quran first talk about patience.

[00:32:26]Correct? Why patience first?

[00:32:30]When you have something not favorable, Allah talks about patience.

[00:32:36]Because in psychology it tells you because your prefrontal cortex kicks in.

[00:32:41]Your default mode kicks in right and that requires time to have patience and then you have to have trust. Correct? So that is very important connection you need to have correct followed by prayers and understanding. Correct? So what happens with the prayer is basically you are connected to Allah to understand all this concept. Right? You give all the higher power to Allah and learn from it.

[00:33:11]Correct? And to have understanding. So prayer is very important to develop resilience that it tells you to calm down to a deeper mode default mode network and then you have a bigger thinking and understanding. Positive mindset and gratitude. Gratitude is significantly important in Islam. Why?

[00:33:32]Because reward and punishment kicks in.

[00:33:36]When you have a punishment phenomena, when something bad's happened, if you have faith and you have a understanding of the concept of Islamic, that pain transform into reward.

[00:33:53]That's the gratitude through gratitude.

[00:33:57]When you have gratitude, the pain become reward.

[00:34:01]Then you will like Allah okay may Allah forgive me for my shortcoming and give Allah more testing for me right that's what the concept is so pain and punishment is always kicking in but the gratitude pushes the pain to the reward phenomena and when you have a reward phenomena you are looking for a positive mindset this is positive mindset that's what Muslims have so you need to understand from the brain how things it works critical thinking to the book correct when you do the book what you're doing metacognition you're thinking about it and which psychiatry or psychology talks about it correct and coping stress man uh management by creating healthy boundaries so you have a system in your when you control breathing your autonomous calm down correct when you're walking it calms down so your your uh response to stress stress goes down. So you have a uh flight and fight reaction goes down and you have a thinking process kicks in because you are not under threat, right? So you need to have healthy boundaries and positive social support. That's what it is. Why you have five time prayers? Well, there's social support. So you get support from each one. So you're not by yourself. These are great understanding that brings your resilience back. Right? These are the great concept of Quran which we understand from psychiatry why it was said to you why it was forced to you that please do that and that develop resilience okay so let's come to all these questions correct and I told you these question will be answer based on the flow job right um and then we can go through it so the first question is does the perception of pain comes from the brain or mind or the thought and if you look at it it's come from your brain because perception is understanding of the pain and perceive it what it is is it a pain or it is something else so where to receive I have already told you it's receive in your mind in your brain so it is from the mind or the brain not from the heart right you need to understand right the [clears throat] second The belief affect the perception of pain.

[00:36:32]Belief is acceptance. Correct? Belief if it's higher then you develop faith.

[00:36:39]Right? So belief affect the perception of pain. Definitely it affect the perception of pain because it's all happening in your mind in your brain.

[00:36:48]Correct? So the more stronger belief have then you have perception of pain comes and you can modify your pain or modulate your pain just like hazat Ali did right so it's coming from your belief have that thing correct the next question is does physical pain affects the belief yes physical pain affects your belief but if your faith and uh belief is strong it modulates that correct this is coming over here It does affects. The next one is does the emotional pain affects the heart or the mind? And we have established beyond to my best of knowledge that the emotional pain affects the mind because all the emotional the lyic system is in the in the brain. Correct?

[00:37:41]So it is the brain where it is get affected your mood symptoms like a deep brain stimulation you know you put deep brain stimulation a person who is depressed come out of depression very quickly in a matter of hours who is extremely depressed we have different modulation for for the depression and other things which we do correct so it affects your brain correct the other [clears throat] one is does resistance uh resilience affects the pain or uh and belief. Yes, the resilience affects your pain because it decreases your pain and increases your belief and resilience lies in your mind.

[00:38:26]Right? You think you go towards Allah.

[00:38:29]Right? The next one does the belief changes the delay gratification punishment to reward. Yes.

[00:38:37]What is delay gratification? Delay gratification is a phenomena where you have patience. When you have patience, your nuffs is going towards.

[00:38:49]When you have naps is more satisfied is not bothered by right and then it will help you and the ailment which we talk about it with the help of love and hayat will help the cult to get to kalpis right so delay gratification is significantly important why psychiatry explain that is the pain A paradox bringing you closer or pushes you away. It depends on your faith, right? And faith is where is in your mind. It's in your brain. So when you think about it, what did you learn? What is your faith? What is your memory? And that tells you is the pain something to escape or something that understand the situation.

[00:39:43]Faith uh pain make you realize. So the people who are have our moment they are being tested. The people who are not we feel there some misery. So the pain make you realize it's Allah is testing or Allah is Allah is giving a punishment. Right? So you need to understand from thinking process. Right?

[00:40:11]So that's my end of the dis uh presentation. If anybody has question, please most welcome to ask us question.

[00:40:18]>> So moving towards the Q&A session. Make sure to keep the questions relevant and precise. Um and if you have more than one question, ask the best one here. And for the rest of your questions, the feedback form is being shared in the chat box. You can ask your rest of the questions in the chat box. Those who have questions raise your hands and I'll unmute you and you will ask the questions.

[00:41:05]Okay, that's patience.

[00:41:17]Correct. You know, patience again is required. You know when you testing that's the first thing you do to do sub first of all to understand why correct you need little bit more time to understand that correct up understand from the frontal loes you're doing the right thing you're following what is required by Allah then you have to do sabar correct but if somebody is doing wrong then Allah said you have to act on it then sabar has his own limitation. Correct.

[00:42:02]Right. The sub has its own healthy boundaries and where you don't follow the subur but you do proactively things you're required to do. Correct. Islam says that. So Islam has a definition where it stops and where you do something more than supper.

[00:42:21]Headache correct mental health issues.

[00:42:34]Correct.

[00:42:56]correct. So limitation, right? Hopefully I answer your question.

[00:43:05]>> Sorry for the inconvenience. Abdullah, you may ask your question please. G Abdullah.

[00:43:10]>> Uh I have a question. I'm struggling with a habit that I try to quit and I manage to stay away from it from sometime like 1 months or 3 months but then I end up going back to it again.

[00:43:24]Sometimes my iman feels uh strong and sometimes it becomes weak.

[00:43:30]Could you please uh guide me on how can I stay consistent and avoid falling back into it again?

[00:43:44]Correct. It's a very common thing. They do they do something they able to sustain for a month and then they fall back. Correct.

[00:44:00]Correct. You need to understand that because conscious mind and unconscious mind correct there is 80% information is coming from unconscious mind towards going towards conscious mind. Okay, we all know that which involves the emotion which involves lot of factors. Correct?

[00:44:23]Unconscious mind and conscious mind are very active.

[00:44:28]The conscious unconscious mind will come. So you're lost here, right?

[00:44:56]Correct.

[00:45:03]It's a habit.

[00:45:08]Previous presentation on habits. How to improve your habits? What are the factors required to increase good habit and what happens when you do bad habits and difficult? So up presentation it's a whole one hour presentation and you will learn a lot from that. Did I answer your question now I will take question?

[00:45:38]Uh I have a question. What we can call that thing the pain type thing we feel in our heart that feels like it's inside the chest heaviness and thing whatever it is. What's that?

[00:45:53]>> Okay. So give me an example so I can explain better.

[00:46:02]That's what you're saying.

[00:46:04]>> No.

[00:46:06]>> Okay. So explain to me so I can explain better.

[00:46:23]Okay. So, heart attack.

[00:46:26]That's what you're talking about.

[00:46:28]>> No, no, no. It's a type of sadness, I think. So, >> okay. Sadness.

[00:46:40]Okay.

[00:46:44]Neurology, psychiatry, study of mind.

[00:46:47]Neur psychology study of mind. Correct.

[00:46:52]Yep.

[00:46:53]>> Cardiology study of heart. Correct. Yes or no?

[00:46:57]>> Yep. Yep. Yep.

[00:46:59]>> Okay. So, you read cardiology. Does it answer your question?

[00:47:06]Yes or no?

[00:47:08]>> Okay.

[00:47:09]>> Do you understand? You're going to picking a wrong book or wrong subject.

[00:47:15]If I look at the renal disease for depression, you're picking a wrong area.

[00:47:23]Correct?

[00:47:24]So you need to understand what are par.

[00:47:27]Going back in detail for hundreds of years, we exactly know the sadness is in your brain.

[00:47:36]We have done ECT, electroconvulsive therapies. We have done TMS, transmagnetic stimulations. We have done um deep brain stimulations. We have done surgery in the brain and the person get better. Correct? We have not open up the heart to get better. Right? So we are looking at the wrong direction. Even if you look at any textbook of cardiology does not talks about it but we talk about heart as the pro the actually the problem is I will tell you what's the problem is it's coming from the word correct correct translator follow very simple question I love to follow what Allah says Allah what's the exact meaning of the is the exact meaning of you have to go to classical Arabic Quran classical Arabic correct the meaning of from the classical Arabic is to understand something that's controlled or something that change direction or change position. These are the three meaning of the from kb.

[00:49:10]Now translator meaning heart following the translator follow what Allah says.

[00:49:25]Subhan Allah.

[00:49:29]It's not correct.

[00:49:31]Subhan Allah means floating above everything. That's the exact meaning.

[00:49:38]You need to know quantum physics to understand this concept.

[00:49:44]Majority of the time is written which is not the exact meaning. So it's the it's the problem is translated did the best they can but it's not the correct what Allah is saying.

[00:49:58]So we need to understand Quran the best way not what the translator said and when the translator we follow the translator so we have we are not guiding ourselves so you need to understand to get the knowledge from the original source that's why you have Quran again correct in Arabic study Arabic no Arabic no other knowledge correct and then understand Quran, you will be much better off. That's my suggestion to you.

[00:50:33]Allah knows the best.

[00:50:36]We can ask another question if if you don't have a feedback or anything.

[00:51:02]Welcome.

[00:51:16]Sometimes sometimes means how many complete detail answer last presentation.

[00:52:17]That's why I suggest you to listen to my previous presentation.

[00:52:23]Complete detail briefly.

[00:52:27]There are two things. There is a spiritual illness and there is a mental illness. Correct?

[00:52:35]Correct.

[00:52:41]Correct.

[00:52:43]Diabetes.

[00:52:48]Correct. So, spiritual illness, spiritual illness, spiritual disease, mental illness, mental disease, right?

[00:53:01]So mental illness or disease like major depressive disorder, Alzheimer disease, correct, anxiety disorder, obsessive, spiritual treatment, you will get better. Plus you have to follow your faith.

[00:53:36]Correct. So even if you do treat her disease accept death.

[00:53:56]Correct. So reason.

[00:54:41]importance.

[00:54:50]Coming back to this, we need to do when we required mental illness regarding the fear. Fear is the same concept. Correct? You can have a fear later on develop anxiety later on develop other anxiety disorder. Correct?

[00:55:09]So you need to develop that. So faith is very good to help you but it does not helps all the way. If somebody has panic attacks and panic disorder, faith is not going to always help because mental illness mental illness.

[00:55:59]Hopefully I answer your question.

[00:56:04]>> Thank you so much.

[00:56:07]>> So my question is that um related to neurobiology um I wanted to ask that how can since our brain it is neuroplastic and it can we can rewire it. So how can we change or rewire our brain so that we can become more strong mentally and more um you know disciplined >> that's a good that's a good question so uh depends on means psychology explained you completely detail at the end correct if you look into psychology the age of four you have what to do to improve your brain or your mind the right way of approaching things. Correct? Uh when you develop gratitude, correct? Or you have inductive reasoning, deductive reasoning. When a child develop inductive and deductive reasoning, correct? So there's a pathway psychology explained to you. Correct?

[00:57:07]Psychology, right?

[00:57:15]Earliest age maximum number of brain receptors are waiting for learning the language. The first four years of the 5 years are the best time of learning language.

[00:57:34]quickly brain is waiting for the sound because after a while the brain if does not hear the sound it eliminates those neural connections because it does not needs it correct so it's better to use psychology to understand and psychology goes into detail each each group and each age group you can do that so specifically you need to ask me what you want to develop Can you tell me so I can guide you?

[00:58:06]>> Yeah, actually I meant for for an adult like if we want to be more disciplined or we want to be more strong like like for example developing a habit of reading as an adult or Yeah.

[00:58:20]>> Did you uh listen to my previous presentation? I actually went into the uh explain self-esteem to develop confidence. I also talk about uh you know habits, how habits are formed, how to develop a good habits, how to minimize bad habits through neurology and psychiatry. Explain that. Did you got a chance to listen to that?

[00:58:44]>> Um no, I will check it out. Thank you so much. Actually, today is the first time I'm listening to you.

[00:58:48]>> Okay. Yeah, definitely. It's available 24 hours, 7 days a week.

[00:58:52]>> Thank you so much.

[00:58:55]>> Next question.

[00:58:57]Now I am taking Sultan's question.

[00:59:03]Asalam >> sir.

[00:59:06]>> Sir hope you're doing well. Uh sir I have a very personal question. I mean in my previous I am 23 years old right now.

[00:59:16]>> Do you want to share personal information to the world?

[00:59:20]>> I mean yes sir I I really do want to.

[00:59:24]Not not a bad thought.

[00:59:27]Okay. So I just want to be very clear because the whole world will know and listen to you. So you are aware and you are going but we have to stay within the paradigm of ethics. Correct.

[00:59:39]>> Just my experience. Just my experience nothing else. And there's nothing uh uh bad about it. Just so you know.

[00:59:48]>> Setting the limits always.

[00:59:50]>> All right. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect.

[00:59:52]>> For your yours and for other people who's listening. No worries at all. All right. So, uh I I have listened to your uh whole of this presentation. First of all, I would like to ask that where can I because you've mentioned it about four or five times. If you might look into my previous presentation the number one where can I find that so that I could have a look into it and >> so let me answer that.

[01:00:16]>> So let me answer that. If you go to IMS uh website and put my name Najib's lecture it's all of them are there it's on YouTube. So that's the answer to your question.

[01:00:29]>> All right. Perfect. Perfect. And number two now sir because if if somebody very close to me or to my one of my family members and I have had not good experiences or uh I was using some substances in the past which had caused I don't know in my research that it has caused some damage to my brain and as the previous uh girl who asked the question that how how can we rewire or How do we know that the damage that has been done uh to the brain by using those substances how how can we actually uh recover from that?

[01:01:11]>> Okay. So answer to that question is now you have realized and that's it's good thing that you have realized it you know you're going in a positive direction you're not so remember you have to develop resilience correct come out of it and move in a forward direction you learned from your mistake not go back correct that's what your goal is so you have to develop healthy habits I went into healthy habits correct people in other countries have alcohol issues and other things and they suffer a you know and they have to come out and develop resilience correct so I have went into minor detail in habits self-esteem and all those things that's all available on YouTube you can listen to it self-esteem will help you develop confidence you know the Islamic self-esteem you need to develop that and those all things so it's all available on my YouTube presentation in detail so that will help you >> all right thank you thank you very much >> you're most welcome we can go The next question >> now I am taking Zoha's question.

[01:02:15]>> Asalam alaikum.

[01:02:17]>> Welcome.

[01:02:19]>> Uh I just wanted to ask uh uh like I don't deny that the main center for thinking is brain but the recent studies have proven that our heart have its own independent nervous system.

[01:02:32]>> We just call it brain.

[01:02:34]the recent studies now I don't exactly know the name of the scientist who have discover scientists or the who have discovered the studies or given his point but the researchers have found and proven that our heart is independent nervous system which is called his little brain and it has approximately more than 40,000 uh neurons so what are your opinions on that >> good question I'm glad you asked this question right this is your heart I was expecting this question correct this is how your uh brain connect to the heart and goes back correct we already know that about that up till today in medical college in any country this is how it's been taught right so if the new study comes I will go into right now I will tell you about the new study But up till now a medical doctor knows the brain controls the heart. It's not the other way around. Correct? Listen to me because you will have questions. So you go to a medical doctor and say that I have depression from the heart. He will send you somewhere else. I'm not going to say where he's going to sit. Right?

[01:03:56]Anywhere in the world. So that's one thing. This is my presentation.

[01:04:03]I went into uh I have means training in psychiatry then I went to geriatric psychiatry then fellowship in geriatric psychiatry then into research then publish paper based on memory system and then published it.

[01:04:20]So if you want to listen to a Muslim who have done research went into autopsy of a human brain of 313 and look at the diagnostic cardia that's me correct so I'm looking for somebody who can tell me something else because nobody up till now has proven the other way around. Now one you are talking about I am aware of it by the way this is what uh actually molana muri talks about when he's talking about your when Allah says cult that's mean mind check sura page number 42 volume 4 in udu so at least you aware is there now if you deny it that's your choice voice malana maduri explained that and surah alak also explained that right so that's it so you cannot deny surah alak cor right now coming back this is the new study if you are saying that 40,000 this came into uh uh in 2023 talking about impact of nervous system arteries heart and neuroimmune cardiovascular uh circuit hypothesis correct And actually if you go into minor detail since I have done complete research on that I have read this correct it talks all these system and it all says that is a nervous system that controls everything. Now the one you're talking about is neurocardiology first time published in 1994.

[01:06:08]That's the first edition. The second time it was published in 2004, the one of neurocardiology you talk about mini brain the 40,000 neurons correct since 2004 nothing has been published from that book and this is published in 2023 you can review it understand it it goes in detail how the nervous system works and why you're going against the Quran when Allah is talking about in Quran and surah alak is Quran more important Then something else you need to think mean Quran is the golden rule right surah Allak says sinful lying forlock you don't need any evidence it's written in black and white correct so let's follow what Quran says correct so I always follow what Quran says and see where the neuroscience explain and even if you go into detail we went into like for instance This thing can you explain in heart where this system works?

[01:07:15]Because we know in brain it works. So we need to understand which neurons are in the heart that works right. It has to be mean there has been 100 years we have know that it's brain works but nobody has proven where are those and in the case of memory losses like Alzheimer disease and all those things we look at the memory functions correct when your memory is gone you don't going to think about it correct and that is in the brain not in the heart so that is a misconception as I mentioned to you is coming from the uh the translation of culp because we connect with the heart not knowing the alosa which is a classical Arabic says that understand that is center or changes shape that's what Allah is saying so I want you to understand kulb as cul rather than somebody translating it into heart it should be called hopefully I answer your question but it's a good question you can ask your >> okay my question is regarding the few questions earlier but you didn't give the proper answer to that like I understand that hello >> am I audible >> yes >> okay >> u so my question is like from few questions earlier where you mentioned that like you basically mentioned that the pain is perceived in the brain. Right?

[01:08:54]So I understand and I believe that.

[01:08:58]But my question is this that when we think of a tragic past, we feel some stingingness in our heart. It feels like that someone is pinching a needle in our heart, a sharp pain >> or sometimes a tightness of chest or sometimes you know the one you mentioned dilia but all of these are three different scenarios right but it's still sometimes it rel it's related to memory but it happens in the heart so what is that thing that that's a very good question I'm glad you asked that question okay So give you example. You saw accident right? Somebody died in front of you.

[01:09:44]That's what you want me to explain.

[01:09:46]>> No. All of those three scenarios not just >> pick one scenario then I will answer each one of them. Pick one.

[01:09:52]>> Okay. First this one bad reason.

[01:10:05]Okay. So fear fear of losing a job or something correct somebody is leaving you or some disaster is coming or correct >> yes I'm correct okay >> yes yes okay so brain let me ask look actually So develop correct system network which is autonomic thought process right away thought process develop that thought process goes to your lyic area from the limbic area to the hypothalamus and hyp Hypothalamus through different areas of the body.

[01:11:11]Nervous system, autonomic nervous system activate, reward and punishment activate.

[01:11:20]Punishment kicks in reward suppress. You had a fear, significant fear and you have a rightway response coming and that goes to the spinal cord. It goes to your uh to your heart with through the vagus nerve which is decrease the stimulation of heart rate and all those things you feel like heart is slowing down right coming from your brain correct frontal lo this is the called central executive network which is called alternate thought I explained in the previous presentation the detail so you think about it when you think about it.

[01:12:01]It gives response back over there to the limbic area, the hippocample area which is the memory area. It calms down. When it calms down, it's sent back over there to the hypothalamus which is the center of autonomic response. It sends all the stimulus back to the spinal cord. Spinal cord goes to the bra uh to the heart and it reg it goes back to restate itself.

[01:12:24]Correct? So that's it. The the third one is default mode network. There's a deeper thought which is in different area of the brain where you are in the state of you know prayers, deep thought when you think about it, it calms you down. So it's all in your brain. It's all in your brain and it passes on to your heart as well as other areas of the body. Sometimes you have twitching, correct? Sometimes you lose sleep.

[01:12:50]Sometimes you have GI problem. You can have up upset stomach. Correct? where it's coming from? It's coming from the brain. Everything is controlled by the brain. It's send it back to your body by nervous system. So it is your brain that sends back. We already know for more than 100 years. We have a system. We can test this thing on on the spot. When a sub person is developing, we do fMRI, right? When we do fMRI which is MRI with a functional one, we give a task to a person to do or read something and we scan the brain and we have a increased blood supply in that area of the brain.

[01:13:32]So it's all in the brain transmitting back to the heart and other areas of the body. Right? When you have stress your diabetes get worse, your other things get wor chest pain. Right? People get chest pain under stress. So all starts from the brain and it's transferred back to the heart and other organs of the body. Hopefully I answer your question.

[01:13:56]>> Okay. So the rest of the two two scenarios are the same. It okay >> starts or initiates in the brain and then goes to the heart.

[01:14:04]>> Yes, >> you answered my question.

[01:14:09]>> Thank you Sida Siddras. I'm taking your question for now.

[01:14:16]Um >> asalamikum >> Tom.

[01:14:24]>> Um uh the question I want to ask is that uh you explained that the pain whether it is emotional or physical it comes from the brain. So are you basing this only on the research that has been done up till now? Has no research been done regarding the heart uh or the control of the heart over this pain or uh just because neuroscience says that it is so so on on the basis of that we are concluding uh that uh only brain is controlling the pain. Um uh this and and there is also a phrase um they say that somebody died of heartbreak.

[01:15:12]So >> okay >> even doctors use it. So is this not something that is considered because uh in surah uh in surah al hajj uh the verse says that it is indeed not the eyes that are blinded but blinded are the kulub within the sudur. So are you trying uh are you implying that maybe we are not considering the meaning of the um kulb and the sar in a correct way? Uh are you trying to say that the kulb and the sar do not mean heart and the chest rather it means some part of the brain?

[01:15:56]>> Yes.

[01:15:58]Uh that's what >> okay so let me answer your question correct you're talking about surah arav this is what you're talking about >> surah al hajj >> oh surah hajj okay that's fine it's just the same uh it also says over here um we have nine many gins and human being from hell those who ones who have cull uh with which they do not understand they have eyes but they do not see they have ears but they do not here correct they are like animals or even worse correct this is from but you're talking about so we need to stick to what Allah has said right very simple you and me will agree on that part correct that's the right thing right now the translator has translated to the best of the knowledge so if you're following the translator this is not necessary it will be 100% all the time correct right means subhan Allah I give you example the translator has not translated correctly right we I explained to you right before that whatever the thought process is they did that right so you need to understand the translator has the shortcoming but you need to follow what Allah is saying because I will follow what Allah says not what the translator said right so when we look into alusa which is a classical Arabic. I explained to you what's the meaning of the kalb also. So as a s as well as fad these are three terminology used related to that correct they are very similar and you have to understand the akal and ilm also correct because where's the akal where's your ilm correct where is the hayat correct these are all in your where's ask you in surah alak right the lying sin for folk we cannot deny that it's written over there.

[01:18:04]So if we change then you are creating controversy in the Quran. Right? Allah is already said in surah your forlock.

[01:18:15]So so this is where it is. We have understood the best we can but we need to focus what what kb means and we can get that answer from classical Arabic or ala and then use the knowledge of to understand what Allah is saying right and when you put everything together you realize that your belief your memory system your aka your ilm uh all is in the brain and that's why surah Allak makes sense so I cannot go against surah alak and if you looking at molana mudi in timur I showed to you he mentioned again again when we are talking about dill it means mind correct so malala maduri spent 202 to 30 of research in Saudi Arabia and then publish the female Quran. So read about it. There are other scholars who have said that. Zakir Nike listen to his videos. He goes in minor detail about he's a physician. He goes in minor detail and there are a lot of other physicians or scholars have said that.

[01:19:38]So it's up to you what you decide. But you have to understand does it make sense? If you learn about neurology, psychiatry and Quran, you have to understand put together why Quran is saying that because if you put uh cal as hard then surah Allah become a problem.

[01:19:59]You need to understand we cannot have controversies right and it makes sense that if you have the right meaning of the meaning of a cul then it makes sense something that understand because the brain understand something which is in the center brain is the center something that change you change your thinking process so it make understand why brain is what Allah is trying to say that's why you have a memory system. That's why you have a you have ill, you have a diet. Correct?

[01:20:35]Otherwise the problem comes is if we say it's the heart then we will find excuses because brain you will find the reason why you're doing what is unconscious mind is doing how it's developing your unconscious mind provoking it correct I went into the autonomic thoughts alternate thoughts what are the process in the brain that pushes you bring waswas in you shan bring waswas correct and I ask the same question when you read Quran how it goes to your heart people cannot and explained properly.

[01:21:21]You have to tell me the pathways where the image is formed on the retina to which nerve it goes step by step. It's all in the brain has not reached the heart brain decide what to do.

[01:21:37]So I when I ask this question people don't have the answer because there is no answer.

[01:21:43]So I'm just telling my what is the neuroscience says what's or or if you're not then go to cardiology and learn from it. Cardiology has not found anything and the whatever is found I have given you the new uh research and everything in the last 50 years research showing the brain is the one control and I gave you the example and the book which you are talking about was last published in 2004 right so it's up to you whatever wallaham Allah knows the best but I'm just letting you know you need to learn more what's going on and how things are in neuroscience And this is has been established. So it's up to you whatever you want to follow. I'm not the one who is advocating but I'm just giving the information because I've spent enough time looking into the detail on the topsy of the human brain and published papers. Correct. So to let you know correct that's my but Allah knows the best.

[01:22:47]Muhammad F Ali go ahead and ask your question.

[01:23:00]>> My question is that in verse number 56 Allah skin receptors. I'm not denying or disagreeing with you the whole conversation and the whole presentation.

[01:23:43]The paradigm change correct correct to a different paradigm. Correct. Yes or no.

[01:24:01]So when a paradigm change how we are using the same system of the earth paradigm has changed there is no time sensation is different.

[01:24:21]change lot of equation change. Do we know everything? No. I am not in the dozak right now. So how would I say what the science will say? Science has no idea. Correct. Do you make does it make sense to you?

[01:24:34]>> I am unmuting Marin Tah now. You can ask your question.

[01:24:40]Go ahead.

[01:24:42]>> Asalamikum.

[01:24:46]Firstly I want to know the long discussion I have listened. I just want to know are you totally detaching heart the organ heart which we uh means in English which all the members are discussing that organ heart you are detaching it is of no value. Yes or no?

[01:25:07]And my second question is about neurology and I am in confusion about music. Means I have heard and I have experienced that whenever we have uh uh we are listening music all the neural system in our brain all the areas of our brain start working together and it is a kind of therapy I use for myself. But uh when I go for uh our theology Islam there are contradictions on that. So I want to clear about the science and Islam about music and my first question is there no value of this organ heart at all or is there anything >> okay so heart has means it's ultimately very important you know if you stop the heart how you think correct means brain and heart works together correct means if you stop the heart uh and the brain is alive then you're still alive as as long as the heart is pumping. Correct?

[01:26:12]But if the brain dies and heart is working, then the heart will die. That's a simple fact. Heart and brain works together. Correct? So, we're not disregarding heart. Heart is there to survive so it can supply the blood supply to the brain. Correct? Just like you need water. You cannot take away water and say I can live without water.

[01:26:36]Does it have water as important?

[01:26:37]Significantly important. Correct. So the heart is significantly important to human body. But heart has its own boundaries. We cannot make heart everything knowing that heart does not have those boundaries. Correct? Uh so we need to so that's why we understand cardiology right we read cardiology and we understand what are the limitation of hearts. Correct. Well heart does not think. So why we put heart as a thinker?

[01:27:09]Akal is not in the heart. We know that right? So we have to understand where is the boundaries of the heart is but heart is very important.

[01:27:19]>> Okay. Can we say that it is only for hard duty means pumping the blood in the body? No. It is >> it's more than that.

[01:27:28]>> It's more than that.

[01:27:28]>> What's that?

[01:27:30]>> It is more than that. It's more than pumping.

[01:27:33]>> What's that?

[01:27:34]>> It is love. You read the cardiology.

[01:27:38]>> Okay, >> this is a whole science. I cannot explain the whole cardiology in this short period of time. Right? How do a lot of functions but heart does not have memory.

[01:27:52]If you're comparing memory of the brain versus heart, heart does not have that memory.

[01:27:58]That's the point.

[01:28:03]>> Okay. Thank you. Uh for the second question I want to >> I am taking your question now.

[01:28:09]>> Actually I want to get answer for my second that very important.

[01:28:13]>> Okay. So BT I answered that uh this as far as music is concerned it affects your brain definitely and why it goes against the slam because slam has its own criteria regarding the music because the music will take you to a different direction and if you and basically that's why you will uh skip the prayers or doing good things so that's why it goes into that direction so that's why Islam wants to you to uh remember Allah, think about Allah rather than going in the direction where uh it will avoid uh going towards Allah. So that's why it is so that's why Islam says that and the music has phenomena attached to that. So that's why means Islam forbid going in that direction. That's my understanding.

[01:29:06]Allah knows the best.

[01:29:08]>> Thank you very much.

[01:29:13]Now I'm taking the last question.

[01:29:18]Abdullah, I'm taking your question and I'm unmuting.

[01:29:24]>> Can you hear me?

[01:29:26]>> Yes.

[01:29:28]>> Okay. Uh I have two related questions.

[01:29:32]Um the first is how the front side of the brain uh while prostrating that is sagda helps in controlling our thoughts. Number one and the second is how can we somehow fix our brains weights to positive side because it is said that when we are in sagda we are nearest to Allah. So I want my neurological weights to lock at that position. How can I do that?

[01:30:03]>> A good question. Okay. So, you think from from your brain, correct? Or you think from the heart? So, you think from the brain or from the heart?

[01:30:12]>> From the brain, obviously.

[01:30:13]>> Okay. Good. So, that's very important to understand because how your thought processes, correct? So, when you are in sa what is your thought process? You are letting your ego down. Correct? You saying to Allah, I don't have. You give all the praises. You have all the power.

[01:30:33]I don't exist. Correct? You give the blessing and I will move forward. So you're basically you're putting your ego down. You're putting your intellect down and asking Allah's blessing. Right? And when you're putting in that direction with Allah blessing, it will help you.

[01:30:53]Right? That's why Allah likes you to be in sa correct? Allah likes you to uh do the dua in sishta because you're putting your ego down. You're putting your brain in that phenomena that your ego is down.

[01:31:10]You're letting it go and you're asking for Allah's help. So you're changing the system of away what the shaitan says correct that you are the almighty. No, Allah is almighty. Correct? So Allah will help you when you have that thought process. So you're going into deeper mode, default uh metacognition level, right? And that will help you your brain re channel that way. Right? Also I explain in the habits the detail how to develop good habits and bad habits and you have to read some more about the uh psychology of the brain neurology of the brain. So it will help you in that direction. My previous presentation goes in minor detail about that that will help you. So hopefully that will help you to answer those questions.

[01:32:07]questions. We have the feedback form for it.

[01:32:17]So let's conclude this session. This session has been truly meaningful and insightful. May Allah guide us to act upon this knowledge. Um thank you all for being such a wonderful audience.

[01:32:34]>> Thank you very much for coming. I am thankful for Allah to giving me this opportunity. May Allah forgive me if I have a shortcoming and anything I said right, it's from the blessing of Allah.

[01:32:45]Um and we'll go from there. Hopefully you uh benefit and please uh review previous presentation on IM uh website all I have eight presentation already done for the last whole year. So it's available and you can review and learn from it. If you have any questions, please give us a uh send me uh the information and I will do my best to answer that. Jazakah, thank you very much for coming.