Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Curing Foolishness

Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi wa Salatu was Salam

ala cu Mursaleen. While he was Safi or Baraka was seldom at the

Sleeman cathedral Ilario Mateen, Amma died.

What I'm going to speak about is probably going to be quite

unusual.

Generally, people are used to listening to bands straightforward

talk, some encouragement towards something. What I'm trying to do

is to tackle topics that are generally not spoken about

individual topics that are generally not focused on

specifically. So there's two short topics that I would like to go

through today. One of them is foolishness.

And the other one is sloth and spiritual idleness. But don't get

too

frightened with the, with the titles, they just very simple

things that

many of us either have some experience with,

can maybe assist somebody else with Insha Allah, the first one

we're going to be speaking about is foolishness.

Foolishness in Arabic is called suffer,

suffer, Sophie is a foolish person.

One is, you know, we use this as

we use it to criticize somebody, don't be foolish. Don't be silly.

Now, when children are acting foolish, they just growing up

digital learning, they can act foolish. And generally we use this

that is foolish is being foolish, don't be foolish, don't mess

around. But that's just part of growing up. The problem is when

adults do this.

Now, why do they do it is the issue the way we're going to be

discussing this through Illumina, hello is a treatment of the

subject. He talks about he defines it. Foolishness is essentially

weakness of the intellect, in other words, is a type of a type

of stupidity or idiocy.

It's generally beneficial to find what the opposite of something is,

and then things become very distinct and clear. The opposite

of it is rushed aptitude to understand what you're doing and

to do everything in a purposeful way

to do things in a thought outweigh,

which is the strength of intellect.

Allah subhanho wa Taala says, Allah discusses fools in the

Quran,

Allah sufa wala to super her, and widecombe

do not give the fools their wealth that is entrusted to you,

especially if they are

either that you're holding it for some reason you were made may be

the person to look after their wealth, for inheritance, wealth or

something else. So Allah subhanaw taala speaks around because Allah

wants to take care of everybody, even the foolish person, they

can't be trusted. So Allah says, have somebody that can look after

them, that can administrate their affairs for them. This gives us

the Sharia view in these things. It tells us how Islam thinks about

everybody, ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada is thinking about every single one

of his creation, he creates everybody in different ways with

different challenges. So give not fools their wealth that is

entrusted to you, because they may wasted away. Then Allah says, when

you perceive from them intelligence, then hand over to

them their wealth, once you've understood that they've now

understood that people are not going to take him for a ride.

People are not going to swindle them and deceive them. Because

foolish people, especially if they've got money, they do get

deceived. People use them. Come on, let's go out to eat.

Come on, do this. Take us on a holiday. And the Okay, okay, yes,

I'll do it. For whatever reason, they'll do it. Just we don't see

this too much. But this is a fact.

Most foolishness is of course, he's going to be natural. It's not

something you purposely do. Right? So that's important to understand.

When somebody is foolish, a lot of the time it's natural. It's a

natural challenge.

However,

the problems with it, it can be curbed as to a certain degree, and

this is what we're trying to understand here.

Sometimes you can add to it.

Things that make it worse, meaning that foolishness can be exploited,

that people then go into a wasteful extravagance especially

if they've got wealth for money. I mean, children who are finished

like this who are not careful then people rob them people take them

for a right now, adults that shouldn't happen with them. So

wasteful extravagance that

could take place, meaning

if somebody if a foolish person has gained possession of wealth

without working and exertion,

then that's going to be really, really detrimental, such as, and

this is really sad, such as the children of leaders.

I mean, this Allah, Allah, Allah was speaking about in his time

judges, prominent people, basically, political figures, and

famous people, if they have children who have not been

nurtured properly, they've just been nurtured by nannies. And the

parents have been too concerned about their own life and their own

selfish motives. And they've left their children to be brought up in

a mansion somewhere or in a palace somewhere

with everything at their disposal, and they've got lots of money, and

they're foolish, they don't know how to be.

They don't know how to be considerate about their wealth.

For indeed, if one does not exert oneself to earn a silver coin, if

you don't exert yourself to earn a pound or $1, then spending it is

very easy.

I mean, I've got lots of it's a bank, but it's an endless

checkbook. Here, son, this is wherever you want to go. This taxi

account is yours, you can take it anywhere you want.

And what his friend is going to do, call your taxi, call your

driver, call, this is a credit card as well. This is your nice

platinum, American, you know, spend whatever you want with it

will come home late at night. We'll see you later.

Another causative factor is company that incites to spending

and discourages saving. Now, this is not something that will just

happen to a foolish person. This can happen to any of us, if we

leave if we live among spendthrift people, where they always just

spending spending spending. And because Allah has given them

disposable wealth, even if they don't own any wealth, you can

spend on credit cards these days, it's so easy to buy these days. So

if a person is incited to spending, and discouraged from

saving, the very economy that we live in, unfortunately, its entire

health is measured by their spending power, how much of people

spent on the high street, at Christmas, Black Friday, and so on

and so forth. That's what they look at how healthy community is

by how much people spend, not how much you save.

That's why the statistic from, you know, from some years ago, that

each person in America, whether they had their own debt or not,

whether they were in debt or not, if you took the national debt, and

you split it among everybody in America, it was averaged out to

everybody would be at $70,000 in debt. That was the average, even

if the you are not in debt, but the whole country's debt would be

that much. We are living in debt, essentially. It's just I think,

because we have a lot of political power. And many of the

institutions and the politics of the world is in the hands.

That's why we're able to survive, otherwise, we're, it's a bubble.

It's essentially that's what we're living in. And that's why we as

individuals need to be very considerable what we really have

and what we don't have, and we need to be careful about this.

Just now, Saudi has just spent so many billions to Trump prediction

money for the next so many years. It's just crazy stuff. They've got

two assets, they've got the hot domain.

And they've got Aramco and they want to sell part of the Iran

cough.

Okay, maybe it's de facto owned by somebody else anyway, but now it'd

be really owned by somebody else, or at least a part of it.

This is the world we live in. You might be wondering why, how, and

you feel so much grief about this, but it's dunya it's money. What's

the big deal?

The end of the day?

Just depends on how you look at it. We've got other we've got

other challenges, the more these attacks take place. I mean, I was

in Georgia when I heard this I was just a Hola Hola, como la bella

said, it's just going to make things worse for Muslims. I don't

understand why people don't understand these things. Like what

are they achieving through this? It's only going to make it worse.

It's just hamdulillah there seems to be some tolerance within the

community at large that the backlash isn't as bad as it could

be.

May Allah help me Allah assist.

I mean, it makes us feel bad. I remember 911 I was in I was in the

monument that I was in. I moved to America in 2000 as an Imam, and in

2001 it took place I still remember that morning a friend of

Mine was an imam in another town San Jose called muses. Do you know

what happened? I said, I just came back from Virgil.

And you felt it feels really bad. But life has to continue. And the

one thing that keeps us going, if we didn't have Allah, we'd be very

depressed. If you didn't have Allah that this is all in the

hands of Allah subhanho wa taala. At the end of the day, this is the

time to actually get back to Allah.

It's really a time to remove the sloth, the discussion that we're

going to have, it's a time that all is lost unless you're rid of

Allah subhanaw taala What else do we have? What else do we have for

ourselves? The wealth, the security, it can disappear and

vanish. In an instance, certain situations can be created.

And it could become such that tomorrow we, Allah preserve us,

Allah preserve, Allah help us. But don't rely on these things. Don't

rely on these things. This is the dunya that dunya is it as a world.

The dunya is essentially going to end and everything in the dunya is

that's its very nature. Some things just end after a longer

time than other things. Some things end shorter. We ask Allah

for earthier, we ask Allah for our view, we ask Allah for wellbeing,

ridding oneself of just purely natural foolishness is very

difficult. It has to be just managed, you know, when cancer

has, they say you have to do palliative care, you have to make

the best of the situation. Because natural foolishness is very

difficult to tame because it's a natural challenge. Natural

foolishness reading oneself is very difficult, which is why the

shadow the law giver, Allah subhanaw taala prohibits giving

them their wealth and commands that may be restricted from trade,

as most jurists deemed it mandatory to financially restrict

the wasteful fool, despite the fact that it can contradicts his

very humanity and effectively conjoins him to animals and

inanimate beings. What is that saying here, as a human being

whatever you want to do as an autonomous, independent human

human being, you should be able to do what you want.

But then the Sharia has said that if there's a foolish person, you

can sometimes put a bar on them from doing certain trade for their

own good.

I don't think we have anything like this in this country, right?

Anybody can do whatever they want, and just spend, but in the Sharia,

they can actually do this for certain people, if it becomes

properly established. One person used to get deceived all the time

is to go to the market, and people used to know Him. So they know his

his situation. So they used to call him

this watch, charge more money. And he used to poor guys to buy it,

whatever it was example, he told him probably salary. So instead of

Ulsan told him, whenever you go and do a trade, you have to say la

de la Veta. No deception. That is an agreement in your transaction

that's part of your transaction is a condition. I'm doing this trade

with you, I'm buying this iPad from you, these dates from you,

whatever it is, but lucky labutta, if I find out later, somebody told

me you just got conned, this is over the market value, then I can

come and return this merchandise.

So surely, it takes care of people like that.

Saying that if it can be treated, then its treatment entails barring

them from bad company because the bad company will exploit such

people urging the person to sit with intelligent and wise people

because the benefit of that can rub off. And from that experience,

a person who can become better good company is so valuable. It's

so valuable. It's even underscored here.

Algerie society it benefits even this case. So a person who is like

that if they are put into an environment of decent people, then

inshallah they will come out much more decent than they would be if

they were among people who are exploiting them. May Allah give us

the Tofik maybe this is not very useful for all of us because

unhandled law most of us are not foolish. But if we know somebody

and just to understand how the shady is taking care of everybody,

it's important to understand this