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in our
World
right now we
we live in very much
in an age of
of images
in an age of
aesthetics
we have
image projections of
things like, human grateness
so grateness come to be defined by
the things that you see
you might remember in fact, I don't know if you do, but..... Shakespear
He once
Wrote and he said some people are born great
and others, acheive grateness
and other people have grateness thrust upon them
but Shakespear would never have imagined a world when......
you would simply have to
pay a publicist
to make yourself, look great
and that is the age of which we live in.... we live in an age of
of aesthetics and artificiality,
artificial greateness, projections and the best way to understand this
is to think about celeberaty culture
think about, the image of the celeberaty
an individual who lives by an image
The image is created and then they live in that image
and that is very different to those who uphold, ideals
and the ideal is not something you create
it's something that was created
by religion or history or culture throughout the ages
and then that
ideal
is something that
you serve
it doesn't serve you, but you serve the ideal
so the first thing to understand is
many of the things that we speak about
you gotta, divorce yourself slightly, distance yourself from
the way that you view the world
we view success and failure
by images!
Largely.......
by images of success
by failure. By images of failure
when the companions of the prophet asked him
SalAllahu Alayhi Wasalam
who is the most wise person? who is the most segation? the wisest individual?
and to that the prophet replied......
the one remembers death the most is the wisest person
and the one who.....
prepares for death the most is the wisets person
so perhaps
in our minds we would think of wisdom
and intelligence along different lines
about how to make the most money
about how to enjoy yourself the most, and how to this and how to do that
but here the prophet of ALLAH
taught us something so new
but it wasn't simply about making the money and everything else, but it was about....
the end of everything
the end of everything is when we reach ALLAH (SWT)
and we have DEATH
right in the middle
that will break all of the things that we
enjoy and
loves to enjoy and want to enjoy
and the prophet of ALLAH would say
increase in your rememberance
of the very thing that will destroying your pleasures
increasing in your rememberance in the very thing that will destroy
all of your pleasures
so you might want to do this and you love to do that and find them enjoyable
but remember the thing that is awaiting every single one of us
that is gonna destroyed all of these things
and this was a matter that was at the heart
of the prophet himself and his companions and all of them
and they would come and ask him about this and they would
meet and sit and gather and discuss
about their very end
about death itself
EVERY SOUL WILL TASTE DEATH!!
that is inevitabily that nobody on earth will escape that
every single one of us
whether it's tomorrow or day after or today in a few years time
or a decades time
but everysingle one of us will experience that reality of DEATH!!
and so then it gave the prophets companions a different framework, a different mindset
that we're not simply living for temporary enjoyement
that I will live like this
because i'm going to die today
or tomorrow as if, like they say you only live
ONCE!!
and based upon this paradigm
this ethos of you're only living once, that means you would therefore do whatever you
want to do
because you're only living once
our perspective is entirely different
if you only live once
and it's true
but it means that you only have one chance
you only have one chance to be the best you could possibly be
not the worst you could be
artificial fame
everything artificial!
there used to be a time in the 18th century, the 19th century when atleast you had some
element of
heroism, the hero
was individual people living in societies like these and the hero was known
as being the doctor
or the teacher
and they would prefer to be anonymous
not to be
famous, but to be anonymous, to keep themselves to themselves, and people would know
that's were the doctor lives
you know he's a great person because he's doing something for somebody
and the teacher the same
today you have youtube!
so you wanna
yourself into this artificial greatness. You gotta do the most insane thing
outlandish thing
and video it on youtube
and then you will get your million hits
your million views, everybody will see you
in the words of Neil Gabler we are the most
illusioned
people on earth
and our illusions are so real
we can live in them
they are all household names and our brand names
there how they dress howwe talk how we speak
how we behave, defined by celebrity culture
so you act the way celebrities act
you talk like them, you wanna dress like them and you wanna be like them
but it's all a fassad because it's all based on an......
evolution
an image creation
but just image and think in your own mind, if you have a celeberity
and that celebrity is without the makeup artist
is without the fashion designer
is without the clothing
you know this is that what i've already drank poses without the lighting is
without the music of the company says all right
onstage
that clinton's investment in the
a celebrity able
but with all these things are in place
you become mesmerized by the moment
i think it will be slow says one thing
and that becomes
she was that until the very and you want to die in that state which is why it now
intensively in life
but index itself people want to be celebrated in that
when i was one of these are
a long time ago i was thinking the most popular song
people like to be with a back in a funeral
at a local goes along with us on what we need
by rewarding
none of the bull's nose numbers in
dot correct
so even if someone is such an evil and
while she was alive
committee and that's not a racist state v authentic about individual
but at the end of the day you want to be remembered
like an angel
says evidence until death
the aids
this belief
but i want to stay in the problem
well in that holds and i think that when i mean if and when that people who say
that you need to death if you're running away from
the or were really long
will need
well i think we won't need
internationally
but won't be trying to run death is still chasing and it's just waiting for
him
the instructions about what is the prime minister federal will monitor your whose
running back to our
brother running away from online
bob back to our middle-class itself
almost at
will be in running back to all of the crowds are
acai liberal arts and a half of it all off
hobble along as well
wealthy alternator
and let me see allow a lot of the city
as with the issue
handy for many competitors
the broader live multinational over the city of lawrence's name
because right now
does it mean that
you know i don't like the issue the audit american movie vis
will live with that
made up of not letting me know
and the public that he began to explain to me
needs and and and
well uh... lady walking along
he was also if you decide
i have to look as well
finishes with me you know i can and i think migration survival
well scientists say this
why should a sort of what i was
when deciding comes face
annual chess
just in time
and with industry
at that moment in time they were largely a la jolla laws that we have
and whether it's the other and all of the time i want to see
meeting is on what is it your accident dot haha
is it or not we will open cynthia
and these are
oftentimes acceptable and sometimes
noble mrs
you might want to be successful
including which is done
you might want to have a good good house and i've been talking about what
happened was always spying
but the problem was alright enjoy his students
it all the thing that happened on monday
i'd just one out
a good education
i had a good job at the top
acrimonious
and that's it and i will tell you that state
active black women
that is an incomplete lab
because greatness impala islamic hardliners
islam
doesn't pass i wanted to find a lot
if you can find all of your life
worldwide
completely changed
if you can find a lot
adult life always present
but you have to be here
does a hollywood
stating his life
you know i have to do and visible
yourself
to account
thirty days and young people and i had contributed to the
you're looking at the end
ma understanding anything
so i don't see him in the tone of voice of reason at dom dom
we have not
dot generation
iceland was not at all
into the c_s_o_ establishes people ceo's office
correcting breathtaking
if there are people in the past and you know where
insanity
organs that you're a great
it's not very much
individuals in human history and changed history
to grace under fire for that
general woman's over your shoulder resisted the nazis in nineteen forty
was still don't know if it's ok
exactly seventy years ago it was
she was a normal synergy
traditionally with our or are
what could have and i think that this is not one hundred centennial coming up
of a woman who actually did a lot of things
we're gonna start which was young
because she saw what the result of light
and they are
all the adaptation of the stratton
re-activate
ideology
pursuits for campos images via
i want to give all of us are
dramatic action
and in my hand in afire three policies
there are individual walter lippman in the nineteen twenty
when we began to arrive and i'll
one human beings
were being white
primarily a european identity comes along
determining
double header
we were always the most of these
it will do that
and he said that that's the reason for sentinel
right now he is usually say if you've got to bring together this summer
that is all we would need to get there
is getting ready for yourself
and as of this
and they see it contained all the time
that is enough
as of today and what is it that uh... will have already relapse
cable t_v_ satellite tv
and hundreds of channels
how difficult it was unusual
appetite
andy
so there's so many things that anything you want to stay there
from civilization with them
my room
you wonder about it from a four by one of us is antagonizes returning to normal
sent here
at this time it's like me and some of these things
perot's will track for quite a while