{"id":6430,"date":"2015-04-01T12:35:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T10:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/?p=6430"},"modified":"2015-05-18T15:51:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T13:51:48","slug":"ridding-the-love-of-dunya-from-our-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/?p=6430","title":{"rendered":"Love of Dunya \u2013 root of all evils"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sermon-browser-results\">\r\n\t<h2>Love of Dunya \u2013 root of all evils<\/h2><br \/>\r\n\t<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/?p=84&#038;series=4\">Islahi Majlis<\/a>, at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/?p=84&#038;service=1\">Musjid ut Taqwa<\/a> on March 30, 2015<\/span><\/p><br \/>\r\n        <div class=\"sermon-description\"><p>It is important to understand what is classified as \u201cDunya\u201d in order to eliminate \u201cHubbud-dunya\u201d \u2013 love of the world from the hearts. Dunya refers to all those things which distract us from and make us negligent of Allah- this is not confined to material things as is commonly misunderstood, but could include acts of spirituality if it falls within this definition. Having a balanced understanding of Dunya will help us to adopt a middle path and not go onto either extremes of over-indulgence or undue deprivation. Both cause spiritual decline. Like a ship needs water to sail, we need Dunya, but when it enters our hearts, we will \u2018drown\u2019 spiritually. People often complain of not tasting the sweetness of Ibaadah; this is mainly because of being \u2018bitten\u2019 by the \u2018snake of Dunya\u2019. The cure\u2026 \u201cDie before you die!\u201d, for a dead man craves not for worldly things.  <\/p>\n<p>Duration: 00:40<\/p>\n<\/div><br \/>\r\n\t<p class=\"sermon-tags\">Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/?p=84&#038;stag=\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/?p=84&#038;stag=classified\">classified<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/?p=84&#038;stag=distract\">distract<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/?p=84&#038;stag=dunya\">dunya<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/?p=84&#038;stag=dunya\">dunya<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/?p=84&#038;stag=evils\">evils<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/?p=84&#038;stag=hearts\">hearts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/?p=84&#038;stag=Hubbud-Dunya\">Hubbud-Dunya<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/?p=84&#038;stag=ibaadah\">ibaadah<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/?p=84&#038;stag=important\">important<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/?p=84&#038;stag=Love\">Love<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/?p=84&#038;stag=middle\">middle<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/?p=84&#038;stag=Negligent\">Negligent<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/?p=84&#038;stag=root\">root<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/?p=84&#038;stag=spirituality\">spirituality<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/?p=84&#038;stag=understand\">understand<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/?p=84&#038;stag=world\">world<\/a><\/p><br \/>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"sermon_file\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6430-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/?p=84&#038;show&#038;file_name=islahi-2015-03-30.mp3&#038;_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/?p=84&#038;show&#038;file_name=islahi-2015-03-30.mp3\">https:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/?p=84&#038;show&#038;file_name=islahi-2015-03-30.mp3<\/a><\/audio> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/?p=84&amp;download&amp;file_name=islahi-2015-03-30.mp3\">islahi-2015-03-30.mp3<\/a><\/div>\t<br \/>\r\n       <p>Recent Audio:<\/p><br \/>\r\n\t<table class=\"nearby-sermons\">\r\n\t\t<tr>\r\n\t\t\t<th class=\"earlier\">Previous:<\/th>\r\n\t\t\t<th>Same day:<\/th>\r\n\t\t\t<th class=\"later\">Next:<\/th>\r\n\t\t<\/tr>\r\n\t\t<tr>\r\n\t\t\t<td class=\"earlier\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/?p=84&#038;sermon_id=718\">&laquo; Quran \u2013 an amazing gift & miracle - Hifz Jalsa<\/a><\/td>\r\n\t\t\t<td align=\"center\">None<\/td>\r\n\t\t\t<td class=\"later\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/?p=84&#038;sermon_id=720\">Women's Rights: Inheritance &raquo;<\/a><\/td>\r\n\t\t<\/tr>\r\n\t<\/table>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Islahi Majlis \u00a0| \u00a030-03-2015 \u00a0| \u00a0It is important to understand what is classified as \u201cDunya\u201d in order to eliminate \u201cHubbud-dunya\u201d \u2013 love of the world from the hearts. Dunya refers to all those things which distract us from and make us negligent of Allah- this is not confined to material things as is commonly misunderstood, but could include acts of spirituality if it falls within this definition. Having a balanced understanding of Dunya will help us to adopt a middle path and not go onto either extremes of over-indulgence or undue deprivation. Both cause spiritual decline. Like a ship needs water to sail, we need Dunya, but when it enters our hearts, we will \u2018drown\u2019 spiritually. People often complain of not tasting the sweetness of Ibaadah; this is mainly because of being \u2018bitten\u2019 by the \u2018snake of Dunya\u2019. The cure\u2026 \u201cDie before you die!\u201d, for a dead man craves <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span> for worldly things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islahi Majlis \u00a0| \u00a030-03-2015 \u00a0| \u00a0It is important to understand what is classified as \u201cDunya\u201d in order to eliminate \u201cHubbud-dunya\u201d[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[2022,2023,50,2020,118,114,665,1398,97,2024,740,1660,1192,2021,609],"class_list":["post-6430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islahi-majlis","tag-classified","tag-distract","tag-dunya","tag-evils","tag-hearts","tag-hubbud-dunya","tag-ibaadah","tag-important","tag-love","tag-middle","tag-negligent","tag-root","tag-spirituality","tag-understand","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6430"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6513,"href":"https:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6430\/revisions\/6513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}