(Imam W. Deen Mohammed gave this First Sunday Public Address on Oct. 2, 2005, at the Homewood Hotel, 17400 S. Halsted, Home-wood, II.) PART 5 The Prophet said, If you dont use your five senses to take care of your affairs presently and for the future, you are going to lose the ability to use your five senses. Why? It is because you are not alone; there is the enemy of the human being who has been around longer than you. He is older than you and wiser in the ways of the world than you. The Bible calls him the most subtle of all the creatures on the earth. That means he is the one that you are most likely to overlook. His presence and his wisdom keeps him hid from human view. It is hard to find him and to detect him. And his ways of reaching you through your weaknesses are so subtle and so hidden and so intelligent, that the average one cannot withstand him and cannot keep back his advances. Hence, the Muslims, we say: I seek refuge with G-d from the Rejected Satan. Muhammed the Prophet is reported to have said also on the five senses to his learned disciples, followers and students, If anyone would wash five times in a river, the person would be clean of all impurities. Now we know some of us can get so filthy, we could wash 50 times in the river and still be unclean. He was not referring to a physical river. A river is a directed flow of water. What the Prophet is saying is that if you clean yourself with your five senses being put in a stream of spiritual obedience that pursues the same Object or keeps in the same Direction, never reversing, never going off its course -like a train on its tracks, if you keep to that, you will be purified, you will be cleansed. We have many who have kept to their religious devotion and have their spirit for their Creator and have done that constantly over long periods of time and have realized that they are blessed to be protected from the suggestions of the Satan and protected from the temptations of the world and ungodly people. Sometimes, the situations they are in are like virtual hell; every description they find in the Book of hell, they see it all around. And they feel the agony of the burning fire touching others, while they are spared. So we know the Power of G-ds Word, and we know He has created us to get that Power by our sincere and constant devotion, never giving up. The five senses can take us up, that is advance our life, and the five senses can take us down. G-d says, Whoever spends on his own soul -spends on the upkeep and advancement of his own soul in accord with what G-d wants of him - will certainly be successful. And the one who does not spend on the good condition and advancement of his own soul will certainly be a loser, losing everything. When Muhammed the Prophet was addressing the five senses, he was addressing the things that operate in our human nature - in our body, in our mind, in our soul, in our spirit - operate there to assist us and bring us closer to the great life and great end that G-d wants for us. Another reference to the five senses is in the Bible, in the New Testament. It says that Christ Jesus, peace be on him, was approaching and saw a woman washing at the well. He said to this woman: You have had five husbands over you, and the one you have now is not yours. Was he talking about the five senses of smell, sight, hearing, taste, feeling? No. He was alluding to those senses as key factors in the problem, but he was not addressing those five senses directly when he said, You have had five husbands over you, and the one you have now is not yours.” He meant, you have had five senses ruling in your life or in your nature. And you have had a life given to you that compliments your nature and preserves for you your five senses. But now you are following rituals and culture that G-d didnt give you. The world gave you that. You are following a sixth principle that shouldnt be your husband and shouldnt be our mother. That is the wayward culture, the culture influenced by The Satan, himself.
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