Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Modern Day Challenges
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my dear respected friends, Salam alaykum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh
Allah subhanaw taala says in this verse in the Latina oil, Rob
Boone, Allah indeed those people who say that our Lord is Allah,
which makes all of us in sha Allah or Rabona Allah, thermos Docomo,
then they are able to,
then they are able to
attain steadfastness on that. You know, when you say our Lord is
Allah,
many challenges come up.
Then to be able to deal with these challenges,
along Salera said that to deal with these challenges, and stay on
that path is not easy. To say that my Lord is Allah
requires a number of things, a number of sacrifices
that have to be made for us to be true to that word.
Again, the Prophet sallallahu sallam said In another Hadith,
call men to biller to Mr. Kim, say I believe in Allah then remain
steadfast. That's the difficulty, easy to say.
When I say easy to say, easy to say for us, but as those people
who attained the faith, it was not easy for them. So again, we're
speaking in our context, that Al Hamdulillah many of us were born
Muslims, we got it on a plate. Now, for us, it's about
steadfastness. And for those who didn't get it on a plate and who
strove for it, again, steadfastness. steadfastness is
defined as steadfastness is, it applies to every situation, it
applies to our aqidah steadfastness means to avoid the
extremes in beliefs, avoid the extreme in terms of what we
understand about Allah,
about what we understand about Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi
wasallam what we're supposed to understand about certain deeds
that we do, going into the extremes in that regard, is also
problematic.
So it's the comet steadfastness not only relates to actions, that
you shouldn't do extreme actions, but it also means you should avoid
extreme ideology.
Unfortunately, we're seeing a lot of that today. That's another
challenge we have today.
You have people who are slightly mentally troubled.
And
they've never met ISIS, for example, they've never met any
member of ISIS. They've just seen some of the propaganda online.
And somehow they click
because they also have a certain amount of you can say, harshness
within them, their
their disposition is a harsh disposition.
These are the kinds of ideas that they hold within them. So when
they see somebody calling to harshness, under the guise of
Islam, and they feel that they are worthless individuals who have not
attained anything in this world, then let me go in that direction.
That's what you call the vulnerability aspect, but that is
also going against the st comet.
So Allah says that, Verily, those indeed those who say that my Lord
is Allah, thermos, Docomo, and then do truly remained steadfast
that unnecessarily him will Mala Iike the angels will descend upon
such people.
Allah The Hafele reassuring them that you must not fear wala Tizen
and you must not grieve
what up Shirou and receive the glad tidings.
Listen to the glad tidings take the glad tidings Bill Jana, of the
gardens, because essentially paradise is primarily based on
lush green Gardens under which rivers flow
condemned to our dune that you would be promised that you were
promised. National Olia openfit. hayati duniya, we are Your
caretakers. We take care of you. Oh, Leah, a weenie. A when he is
called a weenie, because he takes care is mindful of the Sharia.
And it also has a passive meaning. See, the word worry has both
active meaning and a passive meaning what that means is what he
also means the one who care takes something else. And it also means
in the passive sense, the one who's taken care of. So while you
have Allah is the One who takes care and is mindful of the
boundaries of the Sharia, of what Allah requires from such an
individual. And based on that Allah is looking after him and
thus he is the one who's looked after. That's why the Hadith
mentioned which is mentioned Buhari and others, that when a
person gets close to Allah by fulfilling the obligations, right,
then they get closer and closer by doing the additional Knuffle
optional acts until Allah says I become the hand by which he picks
or touches the feet by which he walks the tongue by which he
speaks and so on, becomes divinely inspired and guided, doesn't
become a prophet can still make mistakes can still is still prone
to errors is not infallible, but is become divinely protected to as
divinely guided enable divinely enabled. That's a willy of Allah.
May Allah make us of the earlier
so? No, oh, LEAH Oh, confit hayati dunya waffle Hera, we will be
mindful of you in this world The angels are saying and also in the
hereafter.
No oleochemical highlighted in yellow here what a comfy hermitage
the heat and also common once you get there for you there then is
whatever your soul's desire, whatever your selves desire for
you is all of that
what a configure method their own and for is for you, there is
whatever you whatever you want, whatever you call for.
And this is New Zealand, mineral food Ibrahim, this is a
hospitality, special gift of hospitality from the most
forgiving and the Most Merciful One.
So now, Allah subhanaw taala then also says in the same Quran, wala
tiberiu, who are the shape on do not follow the footsteps of the
shaytaan Why is it called footsteps? Why is it called hatha
yoga? Why is it called hotword? Because shaytaan
comes through steps, small baby steps, first he he allows us to or
he forces us or convinces us I would say didn't shaytan can't
force anybody to do anything. We have to get that right. Why am I
saying that? Because Allah says in the Quran, will also be robbing
us. medica nurse Illa Hina has been shattered, was worse in
Hannah's Allah the US we Sophie sudo in us.
We seek refuge in Allah from
the shaytaan, who is the worst was the whisper
100 us but the one who retreats when you make the vicar of Allah,
who whispers into the * of people, not into the hearts of
people. If it was that shaytan whispered
with his heart into that kolu beingness then we'd have no
volition, we'd have no, we'd have no choice. But human is born with
free with, with free will.
We have free will. And that's why to retain that shaytaan can never
force us to do anything.
That's why he it's surrounding our chest. It's in our chest, not in
the heart directly with surrounding that he whispers and
thus we have a level of protection we have to allow him in.
Which obviously becomes very easy once setting up now you have to
remember that shaytan is the most knowledgeable about each one of us
because there's a hadith in Sahih Muslim which Manson mentions that
every time a human is born, there's a shaytaan that is
designated.
And then it goes on to mention that every time he whispers to us,
when we do the vicar of Allah, then he retreats. So now what
happens is that shaytan is whispering.
The reason he doesn't need to force us is because he knows what
makes us tick. He knows what makes us take additional steps. He just
has to show us one thing and
Oh, so
as I said, Every child that's born you get to shake on with them once
you shatter the Allahu anha
got a bit jealous about the Prophet sallallahu sallam, he went
out. He came back in, he said something. And
she said to her, he said to he said to her, it looks like your
shaytans come along. shaytaan okie
says, Oh, do I have a shaitan? With me? Said Yes, everybody has a
shaytaan
even new jasola Yes, even me. But my shaytaan various ways of
reading it has been subdued, or has submitted. Right? And then
there's another mean that they take is become a Muslim. Can
shaytaan become Muslim or not Allah Who Ireland, but he's
definitely submitted. He is ineffective, right, a slimmer or
slimmer, whatever the rendering is. So
there's a shakedown with every human being. Now this shaytan has
been with us since birth.
He knows everything we've been through. And it's not one shaytaan
to 10 individuals as keep running around. Like, let me catch him
quickly go no, it's one shape on to every human being.
He knows more about us than our own parents.
And because this is his vocation, he probably knows more about what
makes us tick than we do.
So he just has to make us think you see
Subhanallah Amina gets the challenges we're speaking about
one of the biggest challenges for men is what's the biggest
challenge for men?
Sorry.
Okay.
One of the biggest challenges for men is women, not for you, right?
Your biggest challenge is Nintendo Wii or something like this. What's
your biggest challenge?
Oh, that one? Okay. Yeah, you're lucky that's innocent, to a
certain degree.
What's the challenge for women?
That's the logical answer. But it's not necessarily the real
answer. I guess we should let the women speak for themselves. But
from my observation, when I've asked these questions, or other
times, it's generally
other issues of
beauty, the quest for beauty, the quest for
it's generally to it's generally to do with beauty, good clothing,
nice handbags, and so on, and so forth. In fact, they did a study
that even countries like Saudi Arabia were outside, you must be
dressed in black. Right? The only thing you can then show off with
is a handbag.
What else you're gonna show, that's why huge amounts go into
the handbags,
you know, the Louis Vuitton handbags and all the rest of them,
because that's the only thing you really show off with them.
Anyway, so shaper knows all of us, he knows that when a certain
people or a person sees a certain image that is going to strike him
that is going to strike that individual. And it's going to make
him go to a particular website, or particular websites, or whatever
the case is, and he's going to end up spending hours on there in
Haram. And at the end of it, he's going to regret it. But he's only
going to regret it afterwards, at the heat of the moment,
unfortunately, is going to go through and do this, which is one
of the biggest challenges that
Muslim men all over the world are facing.
Right. And there's no need for us to go into great depths about
these things. But that's what it is the shaytan understands what
makes us tick. Because he's been with us, he knows that every time
in the past, when he's come across this particular individual,
they've had an argument.
He knows that this individual, every time Ramadan comes, he's
going to argue with somebody about when the real it is, or when the
real Ramadan is, or what timetable is right or wrong. He knows that.
So he's just gonna whisper something, you know, is, it's up
to us to accept or to thought it.
Ignore him say something very interesting.
Now, what's this got to do with modern challenges where it's
because of how we're going to react to modern change. That's why
we have to form the basis of the human being first, our psychology
towards these things. If not, am says that look, we are constantly
bombarded by various different ideas that come into our mind.
Like, you know, on a normal, five minutes, you're just sitting there
thinking whether you're sitting in the toilet is the best time best
place to think really, because you're not distracted by anything.
Right? We are so busy today in our distracted lifestyles. We have no
time to think went to a friend's house and he's got magazines. This
isn't America's he's got magazines in his toilet. Why do you have
magazines? They're literally Time Magazine. You know, this is like a
wreck. It's not only places this way they call it the restroom.
That's why they call it that in America in Canada, they call it
the washroom, but in America, they call it they call it the restroom.
It's the only time you can get away from it all and before
yourself, do something for yourself for once. Right?
So, we are constantly, you know, there's various thoughts that come
through our mind. Good and bad. I should do that good thing I should
donate here. I should help this out. I should, I should I should
be, you know, doing my salah in the masjid. I should read some
Quran. These are thoughts that come into mind. Maybe they maybe
they are. Maybe they are that these thoughts are brought on by
something we see. Right? They are otherwise they just come in. I
mean, random thoughts you can call them and a lot of the time they
have evil thoughts or bad thoughts.
Thoughts about Xena thoughts about indulgence thoughts about
extravagance, thoughts about whatever the case is? These are
thoughts. Right? So thoughts are gonna come. That's the nature of
this world.
What we have you noticed that on certain occasions, we are able for
months, a month on and two months and three months on end,
to not allow these thoughts to become action, not allow these
thoughts to actually get beyond the thoughts. But other times the
thought comes in and immediately we act on it.
We notice that
the what that is that's the state of the heart.
Whatever the state of the heart is, that is what will sift that is
what will prevent will be the preventive factor of sifting out
evil thoughts from the good thoughts or good thoughts from the
evil thoughts depends on the condition of the heart. Because
you cannot stop thoughts from coming you cannot stop being
exposed to things we are living in a dunya that's full of challenges.
We cannot stop being that because again her Michoud is not really
praiseworthy in the deen we have to we are social creatures. That's
what we are created to be. And thus, the most greatest
accomplishment is to
remain strong while being within community and society while having
children and so on. That is what you call Kamal and accomplishment
not retreating somewhere. Yes, short time retreats are good, like
a tick off that we have. And even then our retreats are not to be
just isolated and alone. Our ethic off means that we come in the
masjid and we're still with believers because of Salalah Salah
some said anybody who frequents the masjid bear witness that he is
and what men so that's why even in our takeoff, there's no extremes,
we are still within with people, we're allowed to meet with people
who are meaning you just know nobody else.
So
what Allah wants from us is a heart that is able to withstand
the evil thoughts and not take them in. Have a natural, anti
logical anti antibiotic. What's What's the term? And, and then
natural antibodies, right? Natural vaccination, right? Whatever you
want to say. Although we don't want to say vaccination, actually
insert some of it so that you know that's that's dangerous. You can't
vaccinate yourself. I think you can't vaccinate yourself because
that means introducing an evil thoughts. That's the worst thing
that you can do. Right? So I think you have to create natural
antibodies in this case.
So homeopathy, homeopathy won't work here. Because that deals
with, you know, adding because the way they say it, see a lot of the
time when we do something wrong, we think to ourselves just one
more time. That's what we say one more time, then finish. But every
time we do it, it's like, Have you heard of Japanese knotweed? Who's
heard of Japanese knotweed? Right? You've heard of it, right. It's
some crazy stuff.
It's, it's a, it's a plant that was introduced in the 1920s
because it grew, mashallah very fast. So you could, you know,
bring up hedges and whatever. But to then control that is, if you
cut it off, it's it's has a self defense mechanism of some sort. So
if you cut, if you cut it off, it will actually multiply its roots
and go deeper, and then it will start creating other seeds from
there. So it just expands and it goes through cement, it goes
through walls, it goes through, you know, huts, and all that if a
house has that the value drops, mortgages won't lend to you unless
you've got a professional treatment in place. That's the
same as sin.
The more you do it, right, the more you do it one more time.
You're just digging its root deeper.
And the deeper it goes.
That is how much more difficult it is to uproot it eventually.
Initially, it's much easier, but that's how it is. So now, as if
neurochem says we can
going to be constantly bombarded by good and evil thoughts, images,
confrontations. We need the heart to be able to sift through this
the evil ones they just rebound and nothing happens. Thought has
five stages. You've got the hedges, the halter, Hadith,
enough's lung, and Isom right or hum and azim. So you got Khartoum,
hedges, hedges hedges is a thought that comes into the mind and then
disappears.
So you know, like many thoughts, they come into the mind, you're
sitting here, many thoughts are coming to the mind, you didn't
have to do anything, they just disappeared, right? And it just
kind of leaves a remnant that if you think about it, you may
remember it, but otherwise, it's forgotten.
Heart it comes in the mind remains for longer.
But without you having to without you don't interact with it, it
just stays for a bit longer, maybe because you, you start thinking
about it a bit more. But you don't have to you don't interact with
it. And then again, it goes out. Now, if this thought actually
remains there, and you interact with it, and you said, No, I
shouldn't do that. Yes, I should do that. Yes, that would be really
nice to do that. But I shouldn't do it. You know, you have a
personal dialogue with this person inside. That's called Hadith
enough's in Arabic, which means to speak to your soul, to speak to
your lower self, speak to yourself, if you can call it that
right.
Now, if it goes beyond that, now, if that's a good thought, all
good, we should be, we should be entertaining, good thoughts that
come in? And if it's evil thoughts, and we've gone to the
level of Hadith, and knifes, then that's getting dangerous now,
unless we're winning, no, we mustn't do this. But look, it's
only once. You know, it's only once it's so easy, you look,
nobody's going to find out. So that's the kind of dis dialogue
we're having. Now, if it goes beyond that, where it gets to hum,
right, where you have becoming client, now you've becoming
client, but you still haven't decided to do, you've done the
discourse, you've become inclined to do the good deed or a bad deed,
right. But you still haven't made a decision, full commitment and
resolution to do it. Once you've made the resolution then it
becomes what they call a hasm firm resolution, and you are sinful at
that stage.
Right? Although it's still in the mind, I give you an example.
person wants to commit Zina is prepared it all it's all prepared,
right? But
the other person doesn't turn up on that day, the dates you did the
date, you know, like let's meet at this time, whatever. But the
person doesn't turn up. Or you fell sick. It was raining, there
was a storm outside. Right? So although there's some difference
of opinion here, but they say that you are because you've made the
decision, it was external factors that prevented you from doing it.
This is basically the humaneness this is what we're dealing with
the constant challenge in our mind. Right. So now, what are the
challenges that are out there?
I don't want to just talk about sexual challenges, because that's
just that they're very obvious, though they tend to be some of the
biggest challenges that many people get involved in. But if I
was to look at our challenges, and maybe you can help me in this
regard, but some of our challenges are the following. One is
clothing and fashion
to keep up with certain trends and fashion when it comes to clothing,
and thus have to refresh your wardrobe. If not every year then
definitely every two years. And not wanting to be seen in the same
garment twice. I mean, once you get further up in that regard.
Once I went to a person, a friend's house, he was a friend of
mine
in America, in another state, so I visited him eventually. And he
took me from his garage entrance. I said why don't you take me from
the front door? Right? So the other time I did or no, he took me
from one entrance and there was another entrance that he didn't
want to take me from but once he did take me from there, and I'm
not joking, there were at least 5060 pairs of shoes there. That
were his mother's
5060 pairs just you know, proper Masjid racks. Like like a masjid.
Right? You thought there was a Jamaat going on or something
inside? So I said, What's this? He goes, please just just don't look
at that, you know, just come inside.
So, we've got issues like this, these are just shopaholics there
are certain people who are shopaholics we've got this problem
today, you know, moving over from fashion to shop, Amazon, you know
when you will because we can instantly
gratify ourself because now Amazon does same day delivery, right as
well. Of course it costs huge amounts of money. And if you know
they promote prime amazon prime so that you can test it out for a
week. Sorry for a month for free and get your stuff the next day
and
Uh, once you get hooked on getting here the next day is very
difficult get it after three days. Right? So the pleasure of opening
up a box, you know, the pleasure apostle comes, and you open up the
box, how does it feel? Right? And then you open it up, you take it
out and you get a sense of exhilaration. And then after that,
what happens? You have to do it all over again.
Can you remember the first time that you've got your new phone?
You know how we studied it, how we figured it out how we relished it
cherished it.
Now, just to keep up with new phones, do you get the same
satisfaction? Because how much more they're going to do? The new
iPhone is very similar to it just probably has a better Gorilla
Glass. Right? Maybe a better display, but it's hardly
significant. It's all in the technicality. It's all in the it's
all in the detail. It's sorry. It's all like my son. He tells me
your fault, I guess. So what do you get the phone that I have?
Right? The one plus two not promoting? And I'm just mentioning
it right? And he said no, because it gets too hot. I said, you're
reading reviews? I've never found it hot. What do you want to do on
there? That is going to make it hot? Yeah, some gaming people are
probably finding it hot and you just read it, they know it's hot.
So I'm not going to get it. Do you understand what I'm saying? This
is the kind of gimmickry that's going on out there,
how they're playing one off with the other, a lot of the stuff that
we read, it doesn't even apply to us. It applies to you know, they
take it to the extreme level, because these are flagship phones
from each of these companies, that they compete comparing with each
other, we don't even need to use the camera at that, at that at
that particular resolution. But we are forced into upgrading each
time. So our life becomes that one year, we have to upgrade our
wardrobe. The next year, we're upgrading our appliances at home.
The third year well, I mean, every year, we are upgrading our phones
nearly right. And then eventually it goes into upgrading your cars
and, and everything else because it becomes a full materialistic
world. Because we're never satisfied with anything. We're
never satisfied with anything. So that's one of the challenges. Now,
fashion, and clothing is that challenge. technology, new gadgets
is another challenge that we're dealing with. Now, I'm not one,
I'm not one of those who say all of these things are haraam. Get a
good phone, if you have the utility for it, if you're going to
use it if that's what you need it for. But if I've got to find
phone, and the next one comes up the next you know, point three or
whatever it is, then why do I need to get that just for bragging
rights? Just so I can say I've got the latest phone, or is there a
feature on there that you do really need? It's about making
logic or making very rational decisions based on that because
what we have to remember is that in Islam, we've got to we've got
two concepts one is called a Seraph Kulu which Allah says Gulu
was trouble Allah to sniffle, eat drink, but do not be of excess.
What is excess? We've got another verse in Surah traceroute which is
in L mobile Verina. Can we one a Shayateen mobile Vereen? So that
is the concept of tab D. And this is the concept of a Seraph. We're
told not to do a Seraph. We're told not to do it. But when it
comes to the breed, it says these are the brothers of the shaytaan.
So what is the difference between a Seraph and hubzilla It's rough
is excessive. But it's not necessarily haram.
It's eating too much. It's buying too much and then wasting it. It's
basically going overboard with certain things for no reason
whatsoever. That's what you call a Seraph going overboard on the
halal or permitted. The breed on the other hand, which is called
the Brotherhood of the shape one is actually where you take your
extra that you have, and you use it in the disobedience of Allah
subhanaw taala. So where our wealth is then going to be
utilized in the disobedience of Allah the same wealth that Allah
gave us, enabled us to have. We're using it that's why one of the
doors of some of the pious elders of the past like Hassanal bossy
Rahim, Allah, etcetera is that, Oh Allah, I seek your forgiveness
from all such sins that I committed using the same wealth
that you gave me.
Now, what a violation that is.
How much of an abuse of that wealth that is that Allah gives it
to us, and that's what we use it for.
So
there's fatwas out there Facebook is haram. I don't agree with that.
Right. YouTube haram. I don't agree with that. There are there
is the good and there is the bad and I think we have to have a very
pragmatic approach. Because if you don't and you
Not saying things are haram. Nobody's gonna it's very difficult
to say, you know, I mean, I think Pakistan banned YouTube, right?
That's why we used to get these emails, you know, we can't listen
to your lectures because they're it's but I'm sure they have ways
of getting around that, right? You can't banning things and
prohibiting things and saying things are haram doesn't work.
It's not real. It's not right. There's a lot of good on YouTube.
There's a lot of good on YouTube. But we have to educate and say,
though, there's a lot of good, unfortunately, because of the way
they have the algorithms. As soon as you finish one even you haven't
finished one, there's already advertisements on the side, and
some of them are very genuine, is have some weird juicy one out
there. Right? That is really che tonic, right? Because, remember,
shaytaan does everything step by step. That's where Allah says
while at the W Hotel, the shaytaan do not follow the CHE che steps of
the shaytaan. Because he takes it step by step.
There are many people, you know, there are people, the studies have
shown that people who have abstained from cigarettes for a
while, they just have to smell the smoke at one time, and they could
relapse, people who've been drinking and they've abstained for
many, many years, they have to be careful that they don't even smell
the stuff. Because otherwise they can have a relapse very fast. This
is the way the knifes is this is we need to know this, because
that's the way not novices. Likewise, people have stayed away
from watching haram. Sometimes, just by watching a normal movie
with some element of *, *, will cause the person the
next day to go and watch something because he's had that small strike
of it. And he just wants more of it after that the next day.
So these are the difficulties that we're facing, because it's around
us all over the place. So
what you see right now, we've now experienced augmented reality,
which is your Pokeyman go right, which is takes the surrounding
and we have many the the research in terms of creating alternative
realities is you know, we've had the Second Life, we've had all
these other new ones where if you think it's bad right now, it's
only going to get worse where you can actually design whatever
haraam you want in the future you will be able to design the Haram
that you want in the future.
And you can stay as a literally a slob at home doing nothing but
just in indulging yourself in your own harem
as the wealthy used to do of the past with real people. This is all
artificial.
Once you get into this alternative world, and you it suspends
reality.
Humans become used to doing that
there are movies out there that are not about humans, but they're
about either Lego movies, they're about would you call it cars is
that Cars cartoon movie? Right?
You know that one right? Was it what's the guy's name that red car
Lightning McQueen there you go
you seen the Tyson Okay, what's your name Shama? Zekeriya, masha
Allah, Allah make you big olive inshallah okay, you're going to be
an alum inshallah.
Inshallah.
So
I'm just trying to be as candid as possible, I want us to think our
way through this, what is this very easy to say things are halal
haram very easy, but I want us to understand the dynamics behind all
of these things, how these things and the amount of research that
has gone in this to make things successful. Amazing, because, you
know, the the philosophers of the last 100 years or so they
discovered they started talking about the knifes right? So the
advertising industry paid huge amounts of money to figure this
out. That's why What do you have in advertisements?
It all it's all appealing to your enough's. Every slogan is
appealing to me. Just think about it.
Pure decadence, Magnum, you know, pure decadence. Indulge yourself,
just do it.
Right. What else is there? Release the devil in you.
And you, you know, we're not we don't even have any aversion to
these things. We understand where it's coming from. It's speaking to
us directly and thus, outwardly. We don't even have an aversion to
these things. Because we've accepted them. We've accepted
this, that it's fine. We understand what it means. He
doesn't really
mean the devil, do you understand, but it is the devil
What else you got
released the devil in you indulge yourself
Subhanallah go enjoy, there's just so many all of them, they strike
around us, you see it and then you want, you want it. Now, when you
understand that that is the ploy here, then you will start making
more rational decisions. When you can't make rational decision, when
you don't understand the industry behind this, they just want your
money, they just want huge profits.
Then normally, the only people they're going after basically are
people in a cigarette manufacturer know this massive thing, like
don't label your cigarette in, in, you know, in nice colors and, and
things like that, keep it a plain simple packet, and so on and so
forth. But until we don't understand this, we're not going
to be we're going to be part and parcel of the entire system. So
it's to have a real good understanding of this. So that's
technology, new gadgets, conforming to certain trends. Most
people tend to be followers.
Very few people think for themselves and make their own
decisions. Most people just follow a role model, whether they follow
them some, you know,
absent mindedly realizing they're following somebody or not, that's
a different issue. But most people tend to be followers. And that's
why it's so easy for people to mislead others.
So that's why Allah subhanaw taala says do not follow the hotword,
the shaytaan the steps of the shaytaan because that is what it's
going to lead to. Then on the other hand, as Muslims living
here, the kind of challenges the other challenges and when until
now we spoke about challenges of the knifes the other challenges
that we have is in terms of practicing our faith. So one of
the biggest in that regard is racism, right? The racism that we
see creeping up, you can call that racism, you can call it whatever
you want, right? The discrimination that we have in may
not be racism, it could be discrimination, whatever, whatever
you want to call that. How do we deal with that?
How do we deal with that? It causes people to react in many
different ways. The people who are weak have faith. Again, this is
just another challenge that's coming. Like I said, this is not
just a mere thought this could be a remark. This could be somebody
putting somebody's hijab, this could be somebody putting
somebody's niqab off, this could be somebody shouting something at
you. These are various different things that are coming at us. How
do we react to this? One thing that we all have to realize is
that being a Muslim is not easy and it's not cheap. Because as the
prophets of Allah Islam said, Allah in a sin, Atala he Hadiya.
The valley the merchandise of Allah is expensive. Allah in the
sinner, Atala Hill, Jana, and merchandise of Allah is the
gardens is paradise. And we have a concept called the sub. I remember
once I was going to do Juma and I was going through Euston Station,
which is one of the big stations of London. And you've got all of
these people, very important people passing, passing through
that station, you know, probably ministers and, and executives of
companies, people, you know, at the helm of a lot of these kinds
of major corporations that are, you know, that are part and parcel
of the way the world is today. And you're going past and you start
now imagine if a poor man was going past and he has suffered
abuse, he has suffered injustice, right? Just imagine a person from
another country who suffered a lot of injustice. How does such a
person hold on to their faith?
How does a person like that hold on to the fate when they see the
injustice in the world? Where they see that others have huge amounts?
And they have nothing? Can you imagine how much of a challenge
that is to the faith?
The one thing the one thing which keeps people from becoming
despondent from becoming despondent is the belief in the
afterlife in Yeoman hisab. On the day of accounting, accounting, the
reckoning, if there was no day of reckoning, if there was no concept
of
if there was no concept of Jezza and reward and punishment, then
can you imagine what kind of despondency would be in this
world? That's why people have faith, whether that be the Muslim
faith or the Christian faith, because they have this concept of
belief in the hereafter and justice. As long as that's built
in, they tend to be better they tend to be more at ease, because
you will think that Okay, today we are in a world where it's unjust,
I am being persecuted. I am being discriminated against. But
tomorrow on the Day of Judgment,
nobody will be oppressed. As you know, even an iota is amount.
Nobody will be oppressed Allah subhanho wa Taala will give
everybody their fair do
that is Mancha, may you know
Billahi while Yeoman Arca See, in many Hadith, it says the one who
believes in Allah and the Last Day, the one who believes in Allah
and the Last Day, everything in between, they don't mention and
the prophets and so on and so forth. Because it's belief in
this, these are the two major beliefs. Everything else is in
between, yes, you have to believe in everything else in between the
books, the Scriptures, the the prophets, and so on, so forth. But
it's the last day which keeps us and allows us that I know on that
day, if I don't get it, if somebody is taking your piece of
land, in Pakistan, or India, or whatever the case is, you've tried
everything, it doesn't come back, the only thing you've got what
have you got them.
At the sub, you call that a sub, which means anticipation from
Allah to reward you. And to give you a justice, that is important
to keep that always in mind, keep the concept of the sub in mind.
And believe me, we need this Attis or we need this lesson of a sub so
much today. Because although Alhamdulillah, we're still faring
much better than many other people in the world. But we could have so
easily have been transplant planted with somebody in another
country, we could have been in Syria, eating from cardboard, as
the only sustenance and somebody else could have been here enjoying
ourselves with the foods that we have the sub we all have to do.
But keep that in mind that your faith will require you. And the
whole reason all of this is based on the fact that this world is not
the final about if this was the final about it be a different
story. But because there's another about to come, this place is just
the trial, this place is just the testing grounds. That is where
it's all going to be about if that's the only thing that keeps
us ticking.
And we have to develop that thoughts of the hereafter. Because
developing a thought of our death.
There's there's a hadith which mentions, um, I just read it
recently, and I wasn't able to take on it, sorcerer and
everything. But it meant the Hadith mentions that if a person
remembers their death 20 times a day, 20 times a day, they will be
resurrected as the Shaheed
Shahe, the martyr, who has given himself, we can't give ourself.
But if we think of your death, 20 times a day, you will probably
reach the same spiritual dimension that they did. Because death is a
wake up call. Death is the moderator. Death is what keeps us
steady and balanced. Because you know, you wake up and you have all
of these great ideas. And you think tomorrow I'm going to die.
What am I going to do with all of this? And then you hear that? It's
the rock art rock a yacht, the small prayers you did that's going
to benefit you. When you think about that, you will do that extra
two rockets. When you think about that, then you will do the extra
two rockets. Otherwise, what four? Why would you do that? If there's
no hereafter? Why would you make an extra prayer? Why would you
make prayers at all?
The only reason we would do this is if we think of our death, the
more you think of your death, the more you will get closer to Allah,
the more you will get closer to Allah.
In terms of thinking about death, there are three individuals there
are three people people are categorized in three different
ways. One is the person who death thinking about death is actually
harmful.
Right? Why would that be the case, because that person is so
indulgent in the dunya in the world, that thinking of his death
only makes him want more and more before that happens. He dislikes
death. He wants the world so much, he feels bad. And he tries to find
ways of longevity, longevity.
For that person thinking about death is actually worse because he
only makes him more dunya more Doonesbury. Then you've got, you
get two other people, you get the one person who is on the beginning
path on the beginning of the path. For him, though he understands
death and that it gets you close to Allah and it's the door to
endless bliss and everything else. But he dislikes death, not because
he dislikes wanting to meet Allah. But he dislikes the fact that he
doesn't have enough time, he hasn't had enough time to be able
to prepare himself. So the only reason he dislikes death, right?
Is because I don't have enough time. I won't have enough time to
make amends. I won't have time to reap enough and send it forward
for for my agenda for my paradise. I won't have time to seek
forgiveness from others I'm not ready. That's why he dislikes. Now
the person has gone beyond this stage. They love death. They're
willing to go at any time
because they know that they want escape from this world. But again,
the rules are often said Do not ask for death.
The highest station is that you just leave it to Allah while you
continue to work hard and continue to be balanced on the on the road
of st karma.
So death is really really helpful. Mortality, the thought of
mortality is very, very beneficial.
because it cuts our extreme dreams, which is not to say that
we shouldn't have dreams have as many dreams, but our dreams should
allow our hereafter to be taken into consideration. I mean, look
for a believer who believes in the Hereafter, if he is making choices
just for this dunya and hereafter doesn't figure in there at all,
then that is very unprecedent that is extremely wrong and short
sighted because everything we do has an impact on our hereafter.
And there's nothing to stop you from gaining anything permissible
in this world. But just figure the hereafter into it. So if you're
making a decision, think okay, I want this. How is it going to
impact my hereafter?
So you ask based on your hereafter give me an example.
You're looking to buy a house you don't have a house and you're
struggling, right?
How much other houses around this area?
MashAllah moved as Freeman it's a joke
Subhan Allah in London, for 400 is the minimum you can spend for a
half decent house 400,000
In my area where I am currently renting it's 1 million pounds for
a normal three bedroom house. So 100,000 You guys are like joking
man.
You know, Subhan Allah, Allah, Allah give you all house.
But what I'm saying is, I know somebody London was looking for a
house. So he thought to himself, he says, Look, I'm making all of
this dua to Allah, give me a house, give me a house. Dunya we
do at the end of the day, it's an essential, right? It's a big need.
Right? So then he thought about the hereafter. He said his
daughter then became Oh Allah grant me a house in this world and
grant me genital Fritos.
Now, is there anything wrong with that, though? I didn't take
anything extra. But he then thought if I'm asking for a house
in this world, why can I ask for the best house in the hereafter as
well?
And hamdulillah the guy got a house recently. So he's hoping now
that because Allah because his doors were always together, he's
got this one. Inshallah, that one's there as well.
But do you? Or do you see the perspective I'm trying, I'm trying
to train our perspective. It's about how do we bring Allah into
everything? How do we bring Allah into everything?
That's what we should be. That's what Allah wants from us.
So it's just about refining our thought process, you can still
have the same enjoyment as long as it's halal enjoyment. But it's
just done with Allah in mind. And that's what's important.
So we are facing discrimination in many areas we have to do at sub.
But number two, we do have to up our game. That's what's important.
We do slack in many areas, our dower to non Muslims in any kind
of effective means is non existence that is active that are
we talking about? Very few people are doing active Dawa. In fact,
we're not even doing our passive data, which should be the feature
of every believer and what's passive data is just to act like a
true Muslim. Nobody is going to go and re read the biography of
Rasulullah sallallahu, the Syrah
why should they?
They are going to see the behavior of certain believers in the world,
certain professing believers in the way they act and they're going
to think Mohammed is like that La hawla wala Quwata illa biLlah
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was such that he gave as
many excuses as possible, not to kill somebody. Abdullah IGNOU obey
been saloon, the chief monastic and hypocrite of the time, well
known, commonly understood known that he was a hypocrite. And he
would do many, many things which instigated various rebellions and
problems and fitna and issues, it was documented, well known proof
was there. But the prophet Saracen refused to kill him. Why? I don't
want people to think that Mohammed kills his followers. Very bad
publicity. Very bad publicity. Now you've got these individuals who
are doing totally the opposite. They are finding excuses to kill
people, innocent people, they're finding excuse to kill innocent
people. Others are watching that. Others are seeing this and of
course, Marcia, the media augments these things and makes them more
than the reality. Right? And then the backlash is suffered by us.
Because we don't have a sufficient antidote to this in the form of
such great behavior that people can figure out that yes, that is a
marginal there is a margin of that society. Those are just isolated
individuals. Not every believer, not my next door neighbor. Not
anybody else is going to do the same thing.
We've got a lot of passive power to do which means to act
Our best behavior, whether it's at work or neighbors, or whatever the
case is, because a lot of people find it very difficult. How do you
give dower to somebody? Like none of us are sitting there with them,
you're going your neighbor, brother, you must become a Muslim.
You know, this is the Quran and, you know, stop being like, like a
preacher like, where are these? These Jehovah's Witnesses that
well, you want to be? Right? It's difficult.
Not everybody knows how to give that. But you can give a passive
that well, can you not
be an excellent brother, for example, there was a
brother who does market stalls in a non Muslim area predominantly,
or near Cambridge, he was telling me that a friendly person he knows
he's got a non Muslim neighbor, the wife is fine. The woman of the
house, she's fine with them. But the husband just has some major
problems with these guys, right? Pakistanis religious.
And he said, if it was not for the fact that you know, I'm a
practicing individual, I would have beat him up by now. That's
how aggravating this neighbor is. So one day what happens is now
look at this, one day, what happens is this neighbor has
invited has, has got these workers over
to do the garden, right? The fencing in the garden.
So at lunchtime, he tells us, he goes and speaks to them and get to
know them.
And he goes and tells his wife to make your towel or whatever it is
right, you know, and he goes and gives them food at lunchtime. It's
they're not they're not working in his house. They're working in his
neighbor's house, who is very antagonistic towards him. Can you
see that? So he gives their workers
and mashallah, they are extremely excited about this. Because
sometimes the same people that they are giving the they are
working for, they don't offer them anything, they expect that we're
just going to pay you you, you get your own sandwiches, right. And
these guys net next door, neighbors are providing the food
here. So they must have told their boss, the manager of the company.
So the next day he gets he gets a, you know, a knock on his door, and
he's the manager of that construction company. So like, you
know, I'm really surprised that what you guys have done, this is
very surprising that you know, we're not working for you, we're
working for your neighbor. What is it? Why do you do this? You know,
this is a man who's got a conscious, he didn't just pass it
off as okay, maybe freak accident, right? He actually is thinking and
there are a lot of thinking people out there who we need to speak to,
we need to, you know, expose ourselves to in the right way. So,
the guy sat him down, give him some tea and explain to him look,
this is our faith, just be nice to your neighbor, and so on profits
or loss and homeless lives and so on. And this is the Quran and so
on. And subhanAllah they developed a relationship. The person started
studying the Quran, he would consult with him every so and so,
you know, every week or two weeks? I can't remember the period of
time, then he became a Muslim. Now look at the seed and look at what
germinated I asked him about your neighbor, he still antagonistic.
Fine, you didn't get him but you got somebody else. Look at the
benefit of it. Simple act, simple acts. I've got a one of the
Northern towns, I've got a
like a relative who works for British Gas. It's a heavily
populated Asian town as well. Right? Lots of Asians. I won't
mention the name of the town, but it's a city of a small city.
Anyway, so I think if you have a cathedral EuroCity or something,
something like that. Anyway, it's one of those. He works for British
Gas. Now right now British Gas is going and changing everybody's
meters to smart meters that I got direct connection. So there's this
big movement to do this. He tells me every single
every single English person's house that I go to
English, you're all British. Right? I don't see any English
people here.
I see a lot of British people but I don't see any English people.
Anybody English here?
What is debatable.
But But what I mean is you're not Anglo Saxons in origin. You're
Pakistani Indian, you know, Gujarati or whatever. Right?
You're British British passports. And we're British. Now. Although
some people say look, your English as well, though it doesn't have to
come from Origins, the language and so on. Now the story, but the
point is, you know what I mean? He goes to an Englishman's house,
every single Englishman, whether it's poor or rich offers you tea
and they get very offended if you don't take it. And you go
sometimes I'm doing five, six meetings a day. I don't have
equity. So you have to take the tea go outside and you know,
water the plants if you have to. Right. But you get they get
offended.
He goes I go to our people's houses they don't offer to
our own Gujarati Pakistani houses they do not offer to
Yo yo yo
Just a worker. Yeah, if you guys are done with Al Hamdulillah all
our people they will, you know, if you ask for water, they will give
you Coke, right? You can punish I recover money
for whatever reason, but when it comes to strangers like this, they
just think like And subhanAllah you know,
I've got two brothers who are friends who do who sell mobile
phone accessories in markets, open markets. So I said which market he
says one St. Albans. One is Saffron Walden. And one is I
forget somewhere else all would call good area. Areas, right. I
said, How come you don't go to Wolfram stowmarket? You know, in
London, it says you can't work with our people.
They will pick up something, which is his brother 510. You thought
dope on Kimmel, and we'll throw it down? Look, if you don't want to
buy something, then put it down respectfully and say JazakAllah
sorry, you know, whatever. I can get it for 50 Pence, well go and
get it for 50. Princeton, do you understand? He says, These people
that I work with in these areas, they got respect. They'll pay the
price. And they'll thank you on top
that he's not being exorbitant, but he's making a living.
Do you understand we have, these are our lucky habia as we call
them, right, our degenerated character issues. So
the other people see them. Other people see these things. So we're
not doing enough passive data. In fact, there are places in Europe,
there is a country in Europe, where initially,
the host community was very good with its immigrants. But later,
what these immigrants started seeing is that you had to move
past similar, you know, you can just write that I don't work or I
work only this much or that much. And you can always move to que
pasa you know what I'm talking about. And they saw that man,
these guys are milking our system. So they turned against them. And
now there's a lot of xenophobia based on this.
So a lot of the time we do bring these things on, we don't help
ourselves by doing this. Are we asking for too much. And remember,
one scholar said something very interesting. And I'm going to
finish that once got us on something very interesting. He
said, to change the society is not in your hands, it's in the hands
of Allah.
You only have so much ability, but to change yourself is in your
hands.
To change yourself is in your hands. You have ability to change
yourself and work on your family. That is what will eventually make
change in the society. We are constantly worried about our
society but not worried about ourselves. We're not willing to
make the first sacrifice. We want the society to change we want
the King of Jordan to do the right thing. You know, we want king,
king, King Khalid to do the right thing. Right. And we praise our
Diwan you know what we we celebrate this kind of thing. And
we complain about all of the other leaders, but we don't want to work
on ourselves on an individual level just between me and my
brother, me and my neighbor, me and my customer or me and my you
know, whoever it is, that's very important discernment here, very
important understanding here that socially, let's leave it to Allah,
we start focusing on ourselves, we will see the bulk of it right, of
course where we because most people don't have any effect on
culture, on effect on the social but yes, if you are in a position
where you can help that well, that's part of your individual
responsibility. May Allah subhanaw taala grant us an understanding
may Allah grant us insight May Allah subhanaw taala protect us
because we need the insight to see the new challenges that are going
to come about let's make a quick dollar inshallah.
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salli wa salam ala Sayyidina Muhammad wiener Elysee you know,
Muhammad Allah Burdick was salam.
O Allah. We are Your servants who are sitting here of Allah, we are
full of sin we are self confessing sinners of Allah we ask you for
forgiveness of Allah, we ask You for Your Mercy of Allah we ask You
for Your clemency, O Allah, we ask you to deal us with your
compassion of Allah we ask you to do this deal with us with
gentleness Oh Allah, Oh Allah. We you don't have to establish any
proof against us. We know we are sinners. We've committed sins in
the openness of daylight. In the darkness is of the night of Allah
there are sins that we have. We still remember there are those
that we have forgotten. Oh Allah, we're still we have sins that have
become part and parcel of our life. And no longer do we even
consider them sins anymore. Oh Allah grant us understanding.
Grant us purification. Grant is life of Taqwa and purity of Allah.
Fill our hearts with your obedience of Allah make your
obedience beloved, in our heart. Oh Allah make your disobedience
hated in our heart so it's easy for us to abstain from it. Oh
Allah. Oh Allah. We are tired from now. Fighting against the CHE
Get on. And Allah we have seen in this world that when a child stops
and cannot walk anymore, then the father picks that child up. Oh
Allah we have also become weary from fighting against the shaytaan
Oh Allah we want you to assist us and help us. Oh Allah pick us up
and make us yours. Oh Allah grant us your love and the love of those
whose love benefits us in your court. Oh Allah make our
surroundings conducive for your for your obedience of Allah. We
try and we fail. We make Toba in the morning and by night it is
gone. Oh Allah we make Toba at night and by the morning we have
failed. Oh Allah, this is our style. This is our lifestyle.
These are our failings of Allah we ask you for your assistance of
Allah we ask you for enablement of Allah, we ask You for Tofik of
Allah, we ask You for Tofik of Allah, remove all of the forgive
all of those sins that have brought wrath into our homes. Oh
Allah, we asked you forgiveness from all of those sins we have
committed, that have turned husbands against waves and waves
against husbands that have turned our children away from us and that
have turned and made enemies between ourselves. Oh Allah, Oh
Allah, we ask you for forgiveness from such things. Oh Allah, we ask
you for forgiveness from all such problems. Oh Allah, there are many
things that will challenge us there are many things which are
challenging us. And there are many, many more things which are
in store. Oh Allah, we ask that You grant us the ability to remain
steadfast. Oh Allah, grant a steadfastness of Allah grant us
steadfastness of Allah grant us insight of Allah grant us
discernment of Allah grant us the ability to see the truth as the
truth and allow us to follow it and to see the wrong as the wrong
and allow us to abstain from it. Oh Allah do not just make us
products of this world, that just follow this world that just
indulge in this world. And that will just remain for this world.
Oh Allah, we want you to make us of the euro, oh Allah to have
focus on the earth era of Allah to have salvation in the hereafter to
reap the endless bliss of the hereafter. Oh Allah, we ask that
You grant us the Kenema on our deathbed. Oh Allah that you bless
all of those who have
who have made Islam thrive in this country. And oh Allah now for us
to continue that role and take it to the next level, to meet the
challenges that are being brought up. Oh Allah, those of us here
whatever vocation we may be in, grant us success in those
vocations make us make us successful. Oh Allah make us
contributors, oh Allah and protect us from all the fitness that our
surroundings may bring to us. And finally, we ask that you send your
will finally we ask you, that you send your abundant blessings on
our messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa salam, and that you
grant us his company in the hereafter. Subhan Allah be
kurobuta is it here? I'm NIRC funa was Allah when Allah Marisa you
know