I believe in the tenets of Islam, love God very much. However, there is one thing that I'm struggling with...
Why is it that I don't feel refreshed when I watch Islamic sermons on youtube, for example. Also, I was in an Islamic class at mosque last weekend and also felt the same way. I come away with a tense feeling, not a spiritually pure, relaxed, happy feeling. Like when I watch the videos, looking into the speakers eyes, I feel even their eyes aren't lit up with peace and love, and their tone of voice are usually very automatic sounding, tense. This sensation I'm getting is honestly the main reason I have held back. The idea is to surrender to God everything, so shouldn't folks have a lighter shinier disposition? Where is the joy and enthusiasm?
If it's there, I pray Allah swt unconvers my eyes and opens my spirit further.
It depends on the people you've watched and listened to. I have come across some who have peace, love and joy emanating from their very presence and others who appear to have the contrary.
However, I think you should realise that (in general with anything), 'excitement' wears off after some time. Someone new to something will be more excited about it than someone who has had that thing for a long time already.
A person who finds Islam after many years is likely to feel like he has found a hidden treasure and do his best to take maximum use and benefit from it and be keen to propagate peace and love etc. in the initial stages whereas someone who grows up with it, while still having the same deep down desire, will be more used to the feeling and either take it for granted or treat it as a routine (on some days, I feel I need to stress, because people have their good and their bad days). Nobody can maintain a total 24/7 peaceful glowing state for every day of their lives.
Had the non-believer known of all the Mercy which is in the Hands of Allah, he would not lose hope of entering Paradise, and had the believer known of all the punishment which is present with Allah, he would not consider himself safe from the Hell-Fire http://www.muftimenk.co.za/Downloads.html
Like when I watch the videos, looking into the speakers eyes, I feel even their eyes aren't lit up with peace and love, and their tone of voice are usually very automatic sounding, tense. This sensation I'm getting is honestly the main reason I have held back. The idea is to surrender to God everything, so shouldn't folks have a lighter shinier disposition? Where is the joy and enthusiasm?
If it's there, I pray Allah swt unconvers my eyes and opens my spirit further.
For the very same reason, I fell in love with Shaikh Habib Ali Al Jifri,
his eyes light up, his visage is infected with love for the Prophet pbuh and his mannerisms are exemplary. And that's just the start, his lectures are spiritually very fulfilling - for me at least.
We need to keep in mind, each person is different. I believe Allaah(swt) is aware of these differences and therefore encourages different types of people to become speakers and teachers.
Some of us relate best to those with a joyful method of presentation. Yet, there are those who do not relate well to them and see it as being frivolous and not sincere. They learn and relate best to those with a stern, intense method of teaching.
But, overall it is not the method of teaching that is important, it is the content that is. We should seek out teachers that give us cause to think about the message and not the teacher/speaker. Seek those that leave you thinking about what was said and not about the one who did the speaking.
Here we can be active in what we learn, by discovering what type of speaker we each learn the most from.
Evaluate our self and discover what type of speaker we learn the most from and seek out opportunities to learn from that type.
Keep in mind if we remember more about the speaker than what was spoken about, that probably is not the speaker we will learn much from.
Also keep in mind that because we do not learn much from a speaker, it does not mean the person next to us is not learning. Very few teachers/speakers have had the ability to be able to teach all people. I suspect that is a gift that was reserved for the Prophets(PBUT)
I believe in the tenets of Islam, love God very much. However, there is one thing that I'm struggling with...
Why is it that I don't feel refreshed when I watch Islamic sermons on youtube, for example. Also, I was in an Islamic class at mosque last weekend and also felt the same way. I come away with a tense feeling, not a spiritually pure, relaxed, happy feeling. Like when I watch the videos, looking into the speakers eyes, I feel even their eyes aren't lit up with peace and love, and their tone of voice are usually very automatic sounding, tense. This sensation I'm getting is honestly the main reason I have held back. The idea is to surrender to God everything, so shouldn't folks have a lighter shinier disposition? Where is the joy and enthusiasm?
If it's there, I pray Allah swt unconvers my eyes and opens my spirit further.
You're coming back with the feeling that you aren't feeling refreshed - for that too you should thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala - there are people like me who sleep through lectures and come back get on with life with no positive changes :-/
But I do have a solution - inshaAllah will post it as a new thread so everyone can benefit.
Imam ash-Shafi`i said:
"Whoever takes knowledge from books loses the regulations."
(man akhadha al-`ilma min al-kutubi Dayya`a al-aHkaama). [Reported by Nawawi in the introduction to "al-Majmu"]
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