Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Some Principles of Enjoining Virtue and Prohibiting Wrong (Amr bil Ma’ruf and Nahy ‘an alMunkar)
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The speakers emphasize the importance of protecting people from COVID-19, including American burial and the negative impact of social media on mental health. They stress the need for people to learn to handle criticism and mistakes, avoid drinking alcohol, and have a strong "monster" mentality. They also emphasize the importance of avoiding drinking alcohol and giving up on one's own feelings, as it may have been drinking too much.
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it's a pleasure to be here this evening. In no way it's a pleasure
to see all of you brothers and sisters. Spending the very
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to see you here and inshallah on this Saturday, mashallah identical
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here is not wasted. And may Allah reward the organizers, the
conveners of this program as well.
This concept of American burial for net young human connection,
very important concept because it's literally the way our deen is
preserved.
If after SallAllahu, alayhi wasallam, there was nobody to
command the right
to command piety or goodness, and prohibit from the wrong and from
the bottom. And from falsehood, and from the wrong ways and
deviance. And can you imagine we would have been
when you have imams in the masjid, when you have lectures like this,
when you have anybody telling anybody else what the deal is all
about, and what we should do and what we shouldn't do, and what's
good to do and what's not good to do. Whether that relates to the
fifth jurisprudence, whether it relates to the ethics or the
theology, regardless of what aspect of the deen it relates to,
it's all to do with American amount of money or even income.
However, just as no end we'll call an American my roof is such an
important aspect of our deen. There are obviously extremes
within it, which people sometimes reach and they shouldn't do that.
And there are also shortcomings with everything as they say in
Arabic, there's a fault and the freeze. If alternatively it means
to go beyond or to have a shortcoming. And today inshallah
we aim to
put down some parameters, we aim to put down some principles, some
general guidelines, I don't profess to encompass them all,
because that would be difficult because just such a vital, vast
and broad topic. However, some of the more salient points some of
the more famous or well known points that are applicable to us,
Inshallah, we'll try to cover them. Firstly, we need to clarify
one thing. I'll give you an example.
There was a
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of witches in Iraq today he was a great ascetic.
He went to Damascus a number of other places one day he sat down
to give does seek to counsel people to advise people, just like
the real assets and give advice to people.
So he sits down to advise the people and suddenly a woman, a
very pious woman, she comes up and she says, in poetry, she says,
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such an eloquent way to say these words to him. She says yawata
concomitant at servi. Yes, do COVID-19 BlueBee Oh, preacher, oh,
preacher, counselor advisor who has stood up to recommend people
to tell people who is telling people to stay away from sin, who
is trying to deter people from sin. Most of the lectures that we
have this is exactly what they wrote about. She says don't have
you are telling people you are prohibiting people you're telling
people to refrain one the moody will have cut whereas you yourself
are a sick individual. Marines marine Marines you are tell
yourself which cities
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other or ubica who took them in curry. Had you not reformed your
own defects before this? Had you not reformed your defects before
this? Or had repented?
repented? Recently? Had you not done that? Got an email with the
Yahoo TV remote your sitcom middle pulumi Had you repented? And had
you reformed yourself? Then with what you're saying your words? Oh,
my beloved, Ya Habibi. Oh my beloved, out of respect for him
since then for what you're saying it would have been found a
truthful place in the hearts of the people.
That she says that her I mean lady with 30 you prohibit people from
deviance and from wrong and tyranny, while definitely calorie
whereas when you are even telling people to not do these things, you
are doubtful yourself. You lack the confidence yourself, because
you yourself are maybe not following it.
He is advising others and she's Subhanallah advising him so
eloquently.
That is why, if not reachable, humbling, the great humbly scholar
he says that when the pious individuals, the pious scholars,
the place ascetics, when they look at themselves and reckon with
themselves, they're very fearful
they're very fearful of the consequences of the telling people
they're advising people. Somebody said to ignore Buster the Allah
one. What are you doing on the one hand, they wouldn't come? I would
like to conduct and enjoying the good and prohibit the evil I would
like to do our demographer here in America
don't like Naropa Sunni Allah one who said to him, in lump dosh in
the duction and the baraka herding is fine. If you are not fearful
that these following three Ayat would embarrass you and cause you
deviation then absolutely do so. Is that there are three iPads
which will cause you humiliation if you are going to start advising
people what are the three is at that moment NASA been deadly What
10 solar and fullcycle you command the people to do good whereas you
forget yourself. That's one eye. The other eye is limit the coluna
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it that you say that which you do not do yourself? Such a big lie in
the sight of Allah subhanho wa Taala is that you say things that
you do not do yourself. And then about sure Ava is Salam. Allah
subhana wa
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everybody stood up when his people were trying to mislead him and
telling him to do what they wanted him to do. He says, How can I go
against what I prohibit you from? I prohibit you from something and
then you're telling me to do that same thing, how can I go against
what I prohibits you from? So in our personal own saying to say,
look at these aisles, and then go and advise people and truly, truly
that is the case, I am advising you today if I think about these
ayat, I feel I have absolutely no qualifications and absolutely no
right to sit here and advice you.
More recalled, he is knowledgeable how many minutes or more with
originally, he was somebody said to him very great aesthetic,
somebody said to him, at that time for us hubback We do not advise
your companions, will you not sit and preach and give a lecture to
he says Accra, who? koulamallah I dislike that I will tell them
something that I that I don't do myself
is one of the 31 of the people who came after the Sahaba
he went forward to Lee he was the Imam he went forward to lead the
salah.
And he turned around and you know when the Imam he tells the people
to straighten up his stuffy water, then he tells the people to
straighten up, straighten their rows. He was straightening the
rolls and he said it still it still means straighten up remain
steadfast stand up firmly and in a straight line balanced on the on
the right on the roll. He says as soon as he said this, he fainted.
He fell unconscious.
Afterwards somebody asked him what happened to you. He said when I
said to them is the beam is still straighten up. I thought to myself
and I said to myself, what about you? You're telling them to
straighten up for the prayer but what about you?
And it's the ultimate Allah He taught for time. Have you remained
steadfast in the sight of Allah subhanho wa Taala for even the
blink of an eye and you train these people to stand up and tell
you these people to straighten out and to remain steadfast. See, this
is the way of thinking of the people who are really close to
Allah subhanaw taala because they think for themselves when they
speak. Just as I'm speaking to you. I'm supposed to be thinking
how this is supposed to affect me first before anybody else. It's
not supposed to be just for others.
That's why Paul it says Mark couldn't do math McAloon was
offered double stack miracle what I couldn't do man was to call who
took what software can we do to worry who will hotwire when fear
be turned off to May Allah protect us from the States. He says that
not everybody who goes in defining some medicine or describe some
medicine uses it himself. Not everybody that prescribes will use
that medicine themselves. And not everybody who describes and
explains Taqwa to people is a person of Taqwa himself. And then
the point says himself, I have described up while I have spoken
about Taqwa had that come and he who took on until I became as
though I was a person of Taqwa because of what I was saying, but
we're even hotter. I'm in theory that Baku, whereas
the stench, and the bad smell of sins and wrongs and misdeeds, was
was emanating from every part of my clothing.
If we listen to these incidents, it tells us that none of us have
the right to do our bit Makarova here and won't come until we are
straight ourselves until we are perfect and accomplished believers
ourself. If that was the case, though, after Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi salam nobody would have done our part of
these were some cases they put things in perspective, however, we
need to understand it more comprehensively. And that's why,
despite all of this MRP Martin and he animal care is important to
enjoy the good and virtue and to prohibit from the wrong that you
see is necessary for the believers and for Islam to continue.
If
only the person who was inerrant and infallible, meaning a person
was perfect, and without any sin, if he was the only person
that was allowed to counsel people and tell people then after the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam nobody, nobody would have
been able to give any kind of advice
How we put this in perspective. That's why a poet says in London
Yeah, please leave. I'll see. I'll see in a minute and even look in
the mirror. Do you think there are seen among two or more people
coming here? I think I've seen a part of the Mohammedi that if
you the sinner was not able to counsel the other disobedient
people, if that was not allowed, then after Muhammad salallahu
Alaihe Salam, who would there be to advise others? Only he was the
perfect one.
If not, the dunya knowledgeable humbly relates his narration. It's
a it's a hadith that is weak, but it's not in dunya remixes from Abu
Ghraib and in the Allah one, that the prophets of Allah it was
something said will be tomorrow if you want more and more income. Why
even though that might only equal?
What Islam definitely equally?
This is from the Promise of Allah Barrios Allah commanded the right
and forbid the wrong
command the right even if you do not do everything yourself. This
is the practice of the Lord some saying this one how I did Monica
was in London
and forbid the wrong even if you are unable to abstain from
everything yourself.
Somebody said to hustling and bustling working on
such and such a person. He doesn't come to anybody. He doesn't give
what else he doesn't tell anybody anything. He doesn't give lectures
or anything of that nature. So and he The reason he gives is they
were explaining this to us in Boston, about someone the reason
he gives us a half one of koulamallah. I am fearful that I
will say something that I don't do myself. So Huston basally. This is
his response to this. He said, What are you and if I'm on my own,
which one of us does everything that he says
coming from Hassan and possibly the Morpher say the Mohammed bin,
the fuckery, the spiritual guide, I mean, in every aspect and master
of everything, hustle and bustle in the great debate, you say which
one of us does everything that they say, shape on would love to
be successful? I would love to mislead this this person and be
successful with him. That is why he is not commanding the right he
was actually considering the person to be wrong for not telling
other people because of the fear that they will not be that he
wasn't doing everything that he was supposed to do.
It's related from Imam Malik Imam Malik has raised for me my Malik,
you read from Ravi Ravi. Ravi is one of his teachers Robbie to
write is the was one of the great scholars of Medina Manawa.
He relates from him that Scientology may have said that.
If a man desist from enjoying the good, and forbidding the evil
until there is no evil within him until he's doing everything right,
then nobody would be able to enjoy the rights and nobody would be
able to prohibit it from the evil. When are you going to be prepared?
When will you be perfect? demonics that was Sadako woman. He He
shaved? He's told the absolute truth because who is there that
doesn't have that is perfect. That doesn't have any defect
whatsoever. Mandela the Messiah, woman Level personnel, as one of
the books says, he says men, the the Messiah who is the one who's
never done any evil, who's never done any wrong woman who has no
pocket who is the one that only has good deeds to his name
on one occasion or what have knock disease the great majority of a
century the great Amin and again he's probably one of the most
comprehensive revivals.
One day he said
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I give you this world I am giving the sermon to you. I'm delivering
the sermon to you. I am telling you, but I don't know what with
more sense than myself.
Despite that, I'm giving you the football first of Villa to relay
and that's why I make us default I seek forgiveness from Allah
subhanho wa Taala and I return to
one occasion you will
to some of his, one of his governors in another province
somewhere he wrote to one of his governors while he was the thief,
he was attorney for about over two years, about two and a half years
or something. He wrote a counsel to one of his governors in another
place saying to him,
if he was advising him about something that the governor had
been doing, but at the end of the advice, and at the end of the
letter, this is what he says to him. He says, We're in New Law.
I'm the one advising you about this, I'm counseling you on this,
we're in Neela Cathedral is off the island of sea, whereas I am, I
have the greatest excesses against myself, I've committed the
greatest excesses against myself, meaning I'm not perfect.
Well, you will come in the cathedral later are giving the
cathedral and Emery I'm not the one who is fully adherent with
every one of my matches,
and whether or not likely to fall, but if a man does not advise his
brother, Hatha Yoga, Kima NAFSA, who, until he has perfected and
made firm himself, even with the work of the nurse, and theme that
people would just take goodness to be,
people would just take goodness, to be just guaranteed, they
wouldn't take it seriously. And this is one of the wisdoms. He's
saying why people should still do our remodel when they are local,
even if they're not perfect themselves. And we must listen to
this podcast, he says, We're even lower for an hour after if this
was not the case, and people did not tell each other, then there
would be no concept of amendment paraphernalia, and we'll move on
left, that concept would be lifted well, even less to hinder the
Muharram. And the unlawful would be made halal, because there'd be
nobody telling anybody to do wrong. What happens is that when
we sit in a hotbar, when we sit in a lecture, and we hear something
that we've had 10 times before it solidifies in us that we mustn't,
we shouldn't be doing this thing. But imagine that we were never
told about the roles that we do that slowly, slowly, one rung
calls towards another rung, the door to the way to Hellfire is
downhill all the way to Paradise is uphill. So essentially, if
there is nobody ever telling us and we never hear any of the
verses of the Quran, or the Hadith of somebody telling us you must do
this, you must do this, that you will just become worse. The health
eventually the Herranz will become Khaled
will come the worry who was thoroughly laid in the car to fill
out and then there will be hardly anybody left to give nasiha to
anybody? And if that is the case, then what are in the sheet on what
are why don't we will do nothing by what I had to move out of what
I can learn from Shaytaan. Exactly. This is exactly what she
found once he wants nobody to tell anybody
about any wrong that they do to censor anybody to tell them to
criticize anybody for any wrongdoing that they do to tell
them off. And he does not want anybody to tell anybody to do the
good things. Essentially, if you look at it, Christianity has
become like that in the Western countries, maybe not in some of
the Eastern countries where they still have some of their earlier
tradition, not completely, maybe some of that tradition. But in the
West, it's become a very secular world in the sense that if you do
that in your bedroom, it's okay. If you do it in public, and it's
not something that is that is not taking the rights of somebody
else, certain things that are kind of determined by the trend of the
time really, not really by any religious scripture, then it's
okay. In fact, a tiny bit of time, especially those who listen to
music, the constant theme in everything is Do as you please do
as your heart tells you essentially do as your knifes
tells you do as your shaytaan tells you that's essentially
what's being spoken about in all of these songs that people who
listen to them when they use in their iPods and so on, then this
is what's been drummed, do as you please do as you can pretty much
you know this. If you look at all the famous most of the famous
singers, those who become big become famous as such, this is a
constant message do as you please. And for us to go and tell
somebody, even the Muslims that are feeling bad to even tell other
Muslims when they see them doing something wrong. That's the
problem, and hustle and run group activities is getting to the core.
But this is exactly what the shaper wants us to get to is that
nobody tells anybody else. And if nobody tells anybody else to do
good and remind them of good. And nobody tells anybody to abstain
from evil that eventually will be forgotten. I mean, aren't there
many things that you hear whenever you listen to a football or a
piano lecture that you had heard 10 years ago, and you wanted to
correct yourself in that? But then you'd forgotten about it. And
suddenly somebody's telling you, this is such a simple thing
they've told you but now you just suddenly realize that yes, this is
something that I must be doing. I heard this such long ago and I
shouldn't be doing this
Can you imagine how our Ramadan would become if there was nobody
to give us a pre Ramadan lecture? Or remind us in Ramadan what to do
and what not to do.
And this is exactly what shaytaan once we are also becoming effected
by this. In fact, it's become such a problem nowadays, it's become
such a problem nowadays, is that
people don't even people are not even willing to tell somebody
else's child that they see doing something wrong.
Forget adults. But traditionally, even in the West, traditionally,
even in the West, it used to be that the whole community looked
out for the youngsters that the young person was nurtured by the
whole community, you couldn't do something wrong and get away with
it. If you were caught at the back of somebody's flats when they were
young, when you were young, somebody would have told him you
nowadays, it's not like it.
In fact, sometimes if you tell people you'd be in trouble. So
it's really a confusing aspect of them. This really needs to be
reoriented. Otherwise we Muslims are being affected by this in the
same way. And it's very important. Of course, as the as Mufti
Muhammad said before me, there needs to be a way to do this. I
mean, we're not saying that this needs to be done in a military
style, that this needs to be that you need to go out there and you
know, waging jihad against this, you know, in this manner, that's
not the point. It is it's a jihad but it's a jihad of, of gentleness
of wisdom. That's what we need to understand.
So I'm gonna have not done it is this is exactly what he's saying.
That's why a poet says what are the limits for why he should feel
the power it was solid National Art Well, nobody will either
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being what to load Katherina. First of all, you know what to
load Katherina festival for sovereign cache in machine B, what
will not stop it will either Medinah fissara, Hana, Pune via
the baby. This is a poem that was written many 100 years ago. But it
shows the situation that we're dealing with today. In the modern
context of individualism, secularism, we this is exactly
what it says we're limited for why he should feel power, the meaning
the vulgar and and chastity and the wrongs they've spread
throughout the lands, even out to the suburbs are solidness outward
and moody and the people, they have actually become supporters of
the one who's doing wrong. So if you are telling somebody else, you
will see that everybody will support that person. Hey, why are
you telling you?
Why are you telling him? What's our national Good evening, that
that people have just become supporters of the person who is
under suspicion for doing something wrong with a criminal
either lying to our former colleagues, if I'm to tell them
off, if I'm to criticize them, if I'm to try to get them to do the
right thing, they they make fun, they criticize my words, they
criticize me, they criticize my words, the mouthfeel only been
till cover up, because now those defects have spread among the
people. They are so widespread, that they don't want to listen to
anybody turning them off. And subhanAllah I mean, just think
about it. Some of us are dealing with this in families, but get the
society you know, one is that you've got a very strong when you
come back home, it's mashallah you don't have a problem. But the
problem is that we've got an issue with the society. But when you
come home, the whole family is like that. And maybe it's just you
and one other person in your family that's trying to remain
straight. And you're told no for that.
And they give you examples about this. It's a major challenge. It's
a major problem.
But this poet several 100 years ago, is depicting the very
environment that we live in today. Then he says, what to look for,
what to look for a faster way now. They would love that we stop
telling people so that we are all the same, so that we all equal in
doing wrong with all independence, for foreigners to cache in
machinery, so that people all become in that confused, become
more confused like that. People are all the same in that same
confused nature, running around without any knowledge. What could
not stop people in America, we used to, we normally like to get
some medicine when we have an illness. When we are afflicted
with some kind of illness. We would like to go and get some
medicine but for Salah Hello Guna. We will be the BB our destruction
now is at the hands of our very doctors.
It's a major challenge that we're dealing with today.
One of the famous or the models across the world knowledge of a
company released he says once he sat down
to advise his congregants, they don't get it, people that used to
come to listen to. And on that one occasion as he sat down, he looked
at me. And he was a huge amount of people. And among the huge amount
of people, he saw some people, he could tell that their hearts
soften that, because of the rocker and because of what he had said to
them, I mean, he's he's assessing the effects of what he's been
speaking about. He saw some people, he saw many people that
the hearts have softened out, their eyes are weeping. Their eyes
are whipping. So he says to himself, he is speaking to
himself. He's speaking to himself. This is
what's going to happen. If all of these people because of me will be
successful,
and will gain salvation in the Hereafter, but not you
and you will be destroyed and you will perish in the hereafter.
Then he says, Oh Allah, He makes a dua to Allah. Allah Humann
encoding Tada Yeah, hadn't been either. Oh Allah, if you have
decreed to punish me tomorrow, if you have decreed. And if you have
decreed for me to be punished tomorrow, for that totally hurt
will not be either.
If you have decreed me to be punished tomorrow, then do not
tell these people that you're punishing me Do not reveal that
I'm going to be punished tomorrow in the hereafter don't reveal it
to these people.
See ya let them they can't we can. He's an island. He says, The
reason I say this to you is not for my own self. I don't care
about myself, but see other than economic, which means to protect
you, Your Honor, I'm speaking about you and I am going to be
punished tomorrow, do not let do not let my punishment be revealed
to these people just so that they they could continue to feel that
what I had said to them were true words.
Essentially, he says so that people will not say that Allah
punishes those people who used to direct us to do good, just to
protect the need of the people and to protect the image of the
people. And then he calls up to Allah subhanaw taala. This man is
has martyred if you can tell, because the people are
magnificent, they speak to Allah. They know how to speak to Allah
subhanho wa Taala to invoke his mercy and invoke his compassion.
So firstly, he says, I'm not being selfish about this. I'm doing this
out of your honor. Then he says, ILA him particularly in a video,
oh my lord, it was said to your Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, up to even obaidul When AFIC kill this. Abdullah in
oglebay bingsu, the great one AFIC killed him because of the rumors
he had spread and the problems that he had caused, and the
prophets of Allah and refused to kill him. And the reason that the
prophets of Allah gave to people for not killing him was that
people will begin to say that Mohammed kills his own people.
Because people will it was a fledgling religion that was trying
to sustain itself. It was not diplomatically politically
convenient at that time to kill Abdullah in obedience. And the
Prophet sallallahu sallam said, no people are going to say that this
is this prophet, he kills his own people because people saw Abdullah
obey as one of the Muslims because that's what he would express
outside.
So he says to Allah subhanho, wa Taala your profits Salah is and
refuse to kill, underline, obey just so that people don't say this
about the proximate cause of why because the law didn't obey was
attributed to the law. So as a Muslim, so then he says to Allah
subhanho wa taala, that he was only externally attributing
himself as a Muslim to personal Allah adios. He was only outwardly
saying that he's a follower of the prophets of Allah is Allah and the
Prophet was in desisted from killing him. And, Oh Allah, I am
in every state attributing myself to you as a true believer inwardly
and outwardly. So why would you punish me?
Why would you punish? Allah subhanho wa Taala is more generous
than the Prophet Muhammad salallahu ideas.
And he is invoking that generosity. He's teaching us how
to make dua in this case.
He didn't say something else to
it, his daughter, he, he's like is giving this whole lecture. Then he
says, there was another man who had a position
among one of the sovereigns, he was well connected. Somebody
wanted something from this king, and he went to this particular
person who had a contact with the key and he said, You need to help
me out. So he helped him out and managed to get him whatever he
wanted from the key and then he started to kind of boast about it
say
think that anybody who gives us a task like this, we will make sure
we complete it because we've got the context.
We have the context, we have this relationship with the king. And
that's why anybody will gives us the responsibility like this will
do it. So he was kind of speaking about it like that.
So then this person says to Allah subhanho, wa taala.
Oh Allah, you are the most noble of the noble and the Most
Merciful, of those of you who grew up who act with mercy.
So how can you make somebody who has put his hopes in you fail? If
that person is boasting about how he can get you through whatever
position you want with the king, then you are the king of kings?
How can you let anybody down who's put his trust in you and was used
you as the Savior?
So now we've established that, although it's a difficult matter,
but it is important that we command the rights,
the virtue, and we prohibit from evil. And we have to deal with the
modern blameworthiness of it.
What happens essentially, nowadays, is that you've got all
of these people that are revealed, that are exposed, the newspapers
are after these people all the time. So you've got this major
pastor, priest of a mega church in America, who was against
homosexuality, right as he should be. And he is condemning left,
right and center in America, this still just for your information. I
don't know what the case in Norway is. But in England, it seems to be
a done deal, the Conservatives and the labour, they are all non
conservative in this matter. When it comes to America, you've still
got a valid debate, and you can have a problem with it openly. And
you will not be politically incorrect as such. I'm not sure
what the What does story is in Norway, right? That's for you guys
to worry about. But the main thing here is that this man then was
caught with another man.
But I mean, there's no doubt about it. That's bad. He is a big
proponent. He is a big voice against homosexuality, and that
he's quoting that
hypocrites. They took him down. Right? They took him down.
Now the point is this, I'm not supporting him. We don't know what
his struggle was. There is a concept of struggle and trying to
do the right thing.
By so this is just one example, by stories of this nature. What it
does for people is that if they are involved in anything, and this
was obviously this is the big deal. I mean, not everybody gets
involved in it, if they if they're against it, you know, I mean,
that's, that's a big deal. But the point I'm trying to make here is
that there are many other small things, this kind of thing leads
us to conclude that if we are involved in these things, we
should not be telling other people.
The way we should look at it, based on the things that we've
just read, and other parameters that our enema had mentioned to
us, is that if we are trying to abstain ourselves, for example,
one day acumen on the one much of the time we spoke for a long
period about anger. And he said, The reason I'm speaking about this
is because I feel I have a problem with anger.
And I want to deal with it. So I'm doing this research, and I'm
speaking about it so I can benefit myself from it as well. If we're
struggling with something and we're trying to do it, then we're
human beings and we will fail.
Just because we have failings, it doesn't mean we can't do our
remark over 90 monka now I know that homosexuality, example is an
extreme example, right? That's an extreme example.
But in general, this is what it is. However, let us look at some
of the some of the etiquette some of the parameters of Americana
when the honeymoon come. And I think this should give us a better
understanding of how to deal with this. Firstly,
the person who is doing a market maker he needs to be in Ireland,
about what he is commanding or what he is prohibiting. He must
know that that is absolutely wrong and Haram as to what's happening
and why he is condemning that act. If there isn't a valid istilah
nonaddictive lifted off in every detail of means a difference of
opinion. There's some people who normally like to say, if there is
a difference of opinion of any Tom, Dick and Harry, which means
that any person whether they are
they are as they are to be considered meaning the difference
of opinions to be considered a valid opinion or not. If it's a
valid opinion between aroma
authoritative experts on the on the topic, then obviously, then
you need to proceed with caution and whether you should do among
the local, you need to maybe consult in that regard. But when
something is definitely established to be a haram,
then prohibition must take place. And likewise, if it's definitely
something that is established to be a good and there's no filter
by, I mean, it can't be much if we laugh about these things, or
differences of opinion about these things, then the good must be
enjoyed.
What is our bill Mark roof, what is my roof and what is not your
annual volume card? Let's look at the literal meaning of these
things before firstly,
the word one card, one card is that which encourages sharp that
which the Sharia has prohibited or considered blameworthy in a sense,
so the blameworthy the wrong thing, which is looked down upon
not by just anybody, not by a particular culture, but by the
Sharia itself. And essentially, this refers to the Haram and the
mcru. In general, the Haram and the macro, the absolutely unlawful
and the macro, which means the undesirable, then you've got
the word my roof, my roof comes from man, out of a shop, that
which the Sharia recognizes as a good deed within it. That which
sacred law recognizes as something as part of Islam, it's a matter
of, and this could include the logic, the obligatory, the
mandatory, the form, the logic, nothing, whatever is necessary,
like solid and so on, or the men do, Mundo refers to the sadhana
was to have, which means those things that those acts which are
recommended in general. So essentially, that's what it is.
If it's a watch, if the activity is an obligor, and a fault and a
mandatory activity, or action, or a deed or a responsibility of some
sort, or if it's haram, that it is watching to do, I'm going to be
mindful not here anymore.
Because the level of it is very high you have it's worth it to do
or not if somebody is not praying, it's wanting to do our environment
in a particular way. Again, this is not in a military style of
speaking. Right, it has to be done with wisdom.
Number one, if the act is not, for covert you virtually, or haram,
for that matter, meaning absolutely prohibited, then
it's most to have to do a lot of and
it's not obligatory, because the act itself is not obligatory. So
why should you? Why should it be obligatory to tell people to fast
on Monday and Thursday, for example.
It's a sunnah act as such, it's a good act to do, you can recommend
it nicely, but it's not wise to do so.
There are other moments mentioned, as I covered before, that it's not
necessary that the only person who can download for nine monka is the
one who is pure himself is not restricted such people, those
people will be more effective. But it's not necessary only for such
people. That's why in Mt. Haramain,
adjoining the famous, famous theologian, teacher of Imam, Al
Ghazali. He says that
you know, the person who is in charge of serving liquor, because
it's his job
while he's serving the liquor, if he has to, because he's in some
serious desperation, you're he's supposed to whatever, he must
still tell the people not to drink.
This is the level that amount of income should be done to this
level that he's serving them individually. You shouldn't drink
this, and I'm serving a two week shouldn't drink this.
More so along with the services, which is I mean, it's going to
sound crude to us. Even President he says that if a man is in a
state where he's ordered him to fornication with a woman, and he's
fornicating, you should tell her to cover the face.
Minimize the wrong I mean, I know this sounds weird for us today in
our context, but it's showing that our mind when they look at these
or maybe hypothetical examples, right? I mean, who's going to do
that at that time, but these are probably hypothetical examples to
underscore a point, but I'm gonna Marfa name has to be done. And the
reason why I bring this up today is just to give us a sense of
understanding of why it's lost. Believe me today the issue is that
when you look at the type of American Heart Disease, within two
years, he had people the talk I mean, what do we nowadays when you
meet somebody you want you know, when a few brothers get together,
a few sisters get together. Would you speak about us nowadays?
Probably the cause that somebody has bought. The latest phone is
the best one. I've got a Samsung, we know this is a really good
phone. Isn't this one, your latest iPad? These are the things we
speak about.
The women, I mean, they'll probably be speaking about, I
don't know, the latest handbag or something. Right? Or the sale
somewhere for certain makeup or whatever. I mean, I'm not
stereotyping. I mean, generally when if you don't do it, I'm
gorilla. Right. But that's the kind of normal discussion that we
have.
You know what, I'm not diseases time within two years. Within two
years, the general piety had gone to such a level that if you
started, if you met with people, you'll be you know, what you were
discussing? You will be discussing how many cooperates just didn't
have to make up? Hey, I've really done all of mine only got like
five left? How much Quran Have you memorized?
There was a genuine encouragement towards these things. Now,
clearly, we live in places where we are bombarded day in and day
out by all sorts of things around us, we're going to be affected by
it. And now it's become such that we just don't know how to do it,
Margaret and Margaret, even in a nice way. We would rather just
ignore it and let it be. And that's the sad fact here.
We don't even know a nice way to do it. And the people,
unfortunately, who are doing it are doing it in a military style.
And that's the problem.
Because as Mufti Mohammed said before, as well, that the Hadith
that was a question came about, that if you censor someone, you
remind somebody you told somebody about a sin that they committed
many years ago that they make Toba from. And you do not desist from
doing that. And you continue to do that Allah subhanaw taala will
also involve you in that scene as well. Right, which is really a
scary heavy, it's raised by materiality. But the point there
is that some people they say that
I don't know why they find people who have actually become better.
Because they say, well, we don't know that may Tober. So what
people have autonomy to actually clarify this, because he was, he
was unable to do so beforehand. He said that the Toba aspect
is that that it's not something we can know about, nobody's gonna
make an open door everywhere. This is something that's concealed
between him and Allah subhanaw taala. So you must have personal
one, a good opinion about your brother that he must have made.
That is the general piety. That's the true perspective, that if
somebody's committed a sin, we must look at it and say, well, he
didn't seem to be doing it again. He must have made Toba.
So we mustn't say Well, I haven't seen him to, you know, I haven't
seen him to top US, I must tell him off cut, you find other
people. You know, this is like, the guy comes to me. And he says,
this is girl that I work with. I'm giving her down for the last two
years, but she won't accept a call you find that 1000s of other
people. What's wrong with this girl, we're gonna get married to
this a similar kind of case people are very disoriented in terms of
what they must do and what they must not do. So the first thing is
that, as Allah subhanaw taala says, was the coming complementary
ruler, hiding where all the demography will have an argument
that there must be a group of people among you that do this,
enjoy the good and forbidding evil. I mean, it's a frontal
keyfile, which means it's a communal obligation, there must be
some people doing this.
There must be some people doing this. But if you just leave it to
the Imam of the masjid, what about when you're having a family
gathering and you've learned something, you must extend this,
for example, the cases that we get some show posted, Muhammad has the
same problem. I can probably say that in the last four months, I've
probably received, you know, as many for at least people who phone
up and they say I am divorced my wife three times.
Right? I divorced my wife three times. What can I do now? They
know what the problem is. But they tried to find it upwards. So why
did you give three divorces? Because I was that's what I
thought I had to do.
And then when I get really angry for him, for that person, so I
started sending him off. I said, would you understand three from
who actually do three? Then you know the card that they play? I'm
not very religious. I'm not very educated in Islam. So
why don't you get three from Why didn't you do to attend? Or five
or six? Why three? Where's the magic number three.
The other day accent actually explain this. And actually,
somebody asked a question he said that. I've got a friend who's
given one divorce somebody called me up actually. He said I've given
one divorce.
My family is telling me I must give three.
So what should I do? I say go and tell off go and tell this many
people if you don't do this kind of own part of a network and there
are so many marriages and families in great hardship today. Because
it's a common misunderstand
And that DeVos has to be three.
It should be one is sufficient. I said to the participant one, as in
what do you think Allah is so weak that he hasn't put enough power in
one that you have to use three? Like you have to use three, three
stones and the next one is enough. But that's just a
misunderstanding. So I mean, I'd like to take you on as well gone
to 10 people of your family that one divorce is enough. So if they
ever want to divorce one will be enough. That way, you can actually
get back together if you regret it, which they always do.
The second point is
that
when you are told by somebody nicely, or otherwise,
it must be a long one who says in the article is no during the line
you call will act it up enough to be toxic.
It is one of the greatest of sins that a person is told
to fear a lot because of something wrong they're doing and they turn
around and say, You must just look after yourself.
Don't you say that so many times,
it NumbersUSA the along saying that it's one of the greatest of
sins to do that. You don't like it? That's fine. You will not like
it somebody tells us something wrong. For example, once I
remember, I
didn't have any washed clothing and I had a new tunic a new
juggler.
Pull it out of the packet went for salats gave the football what all
the man from the community. He grabs me afterwards he says shake
your your jumper is too long.
Right? It was probably borderline, but it wasn't completely about
dying to like totally free.
Subhanallah How does that sound? How would you feel if you were
told that
you have to take it hamdulillah JSOC. Allah Fado, we don't stand
as a when he was just borderline disaster last
night afterwards. So if you do find somebody extreme, you tell
them afterwards that look, you know you're a bit extreme, you
should take it easy, but not at that time because they're willing,
if somebody can do if somebody's coming to tell you, they're
willing to fight with you. Normally that's the case.
On one occasion, there's a shake was giving a lecture. And some guy
didn't like his opinions, his ideology got up and he started
shouting at him. The sheiks sat down, he said, I just wish that
your knowledge is superior to your HELOC.
So the way we deal with this thing, but let me just tell you
something, if you are going to do overwhelming look, if you're going
to tell somebody something, there's research that that shows
that there's a particular way you can aside from the wisdom and the
way you should come to something else as well. It says that if you
want to criticize somebody, and you criticize them while they're
standing up, they will be much less tolerant than if they were
sitting down. And if they're sitting down, they're going to be
more or less tolerant than if they were lying down. The best way to
criticize somebody is to get them to lay down.
Seriously, don't ever grab somebody, a lot of time this
happens, you find something I haven't talked about global
warming you, you take them around the site, and then you start
speaking to them standing up, they're not in a stable state. You
do not do it like that. Invite them to tea, or whatever. Right?
sit them down, make them lie down, and relax, put the pillows down
every now
and then do it. And then and then it will work. But even worse, I
mean, it's just the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said,
If you are angry, sit down. And if you still can't read, you know, if
you're if you can not get your anger under control, then lie
down.
He said this without any research like this, this was this was this
was his inspiration. This was what he recommended. But today, this is
what research shows.
But it'd be if you want to do that. That's the way I remember,
as an imam in my community in America, there was one brother
Allah bless him. He knew how to he knew how to tell you what all you
were doing. You know, for example, sometimes you've said something or
you've made a mistake in an aisle or D for something, you would
never come up straight off to the barn or the football and say, you
know, you said this wrong, not able to do that.
A few days later, I'll be sitting down in the masjid. I'm giving you
my own examples, right? I've learned the hard way. Hamdulillah.
But I've learned I think I don't mind criticism.
Because in the publishing business, for example, if I send
an article to somebody, and they come back and say, Marshall, it's
very nice. I will never send it back to the editor. You're not
useful for me. It's I don't I'm not sending it to you to tell me
it's nice. I want bread lines. I want you to improve it. So you
learn how to learn criticism. Right? Get somebody to criticize
you tell us some nice brother who's polished to come in
criticize you to learn criticism, otherwise, you will never learn
criticism, you'll never be taken, you will always become defensive.
And you will you will justify. Anyway, this product would come,
you would sit down next to me and speak about something else.
Totally off topic, right? How's it going to stand the other, you
know, you just get comfortable. And there is a notion of knowing
that on that day, you could reset so and so it's actually did you
say this, it's actually supposed to be like this and images. And so
you know, it's that is one of the practical ways of wisdom, it's
very important to think about these things and do this.
A person needs to know about a jarhead should not adjure Hill
should not do or will not.
Go and educate yourself about whether what you're commanding is
really to be commanded. And it is as obligatory as you think it is.
And that is the widespread opinion among the rhythm among the rhythm
of normal people. And then go into it, don't just take in your mind
to go and do it a military style. Number two, very important.
If you feel the rhythm of God, for example, he writes that if you if
you feel that you're combining somebody or prohibiting somebody
is going to lead them to a greater sin, then you should desist.
For example, somebody's drinking. And if you go and censor them or
tell them however you tell them unless, you know you've got away
wisdom, and you can tell nicely, if you feel that they just saw out
of it, that they will then go on, for example, to kill somebody or
commit Zina or whatever, then you should apps you should actually
desist from telling them.
Some people have this as so black and white, there's no color in for
some people, they just see this is totally black and white. Right? I
need to tell them, I don't care if they listen to me, I don't care if
they do anything. I don't care if he gets angry, I don't care if he
beats me up.
I'm going to have to say this and that's not right. There's a way to
do this, the more someone has not told us to be military about this.
The third thing is that you must have a dominant opinion that what
you say is going to benefit them.
You must have a dominant opinion that if that what you say to them
is going to benefit them
then
you must you must tell them if it's
if you are not sure but it's a 5050 then you still must the
habits not larger.
If you know you're going to benefit them it's wiser
to tell them
the Hadith, the famous Hadith, which I think was the Muhammad
read as well. Man Raha matzah, Lawson's and Monroe have in common
common for Yuliya will be in the mere static clubbiness early for
in the static for the politicking, whether other Funnyman that those
of you who see wrong must correct it physically with their hands, if
they are unable to do physically what does that mean unable to do
physically? Because you fear that you will not be able to deal with
the response, you will get the consequences of it, then you are
then you suffice with telling them by the tongue. If you can also not
do that, then you must at least feel bad about in your heart and
the promise of loss and said that is the weakest of actions. That is
the weakest of status of Eman. Some have said email here means
action, which is a major aspect to the man. But the main thing is
this to put into practice in a modern perspective, you watch a
soap opera, right? I don't know what you guys watch here. Right?
But EastEnders or whatever it is that people watch. You guys have
something like that. Some Norwegian something like a Swedish
or Scandinavian or something. I'm sure you must have right? Because
soap operas are such, you know, so important for people, right? It's
just it's definitely not happening, right? Anyway, the main
thing is this. You've got a guy who goes into he's trying to
attack this girl.
It's all made up, but that's what they're trying to do.
When you're watching this, what do you feel?
Where are your sympathies? Think about it. There's a home about to
take place this guy is going to come and sit and they're not
married. You know whether it's in Hollywood or Bollywood. It doesn't
matter whether it's a Pakistani soap opera, right or Indian soap
opera or whatever it is, or a movie or film whatever you call
it.
There's always this love scenes that romantic scenes and they're
about to commit Zina.
And it's very romantic. What happens
Where does the sympathy like using
if you're saying the point
but if you are if you're like yeah Coco Coco, you know, there's, you
know Subhanallah we'll learn each other for the man who is their
status beyond that.
I mean, we can't stop it. We're not vocally you know, we're not
even vocally expressing anything against it, we're actually
watching it and supporting it. And then we're not even feeling better
we're actually involved in it.
We're actually involved in I mean, subhanAllah just think I'm not
passing any fatwa on anything. It's just about self reflection
where is our iman with these things?
That if we see a wrong happening and become physically or verbally
corrected, we must at least think bad about it here we're not
thinking bad about it we're supporting it we urging them on
even though they can't hear us.
May Allah give us a true understanding of this
finally,
one must never do this. I mean, again, there are so many points
it's just cutting it short. The one thing we must never do justice
Allah soprano This is what the justice that is very important you
we must not spy on people. More ARE WE ARE THE Allah Vaughn who
some people's some
analyzing monger the Allah winners rule after such disturbance and
discord among the Muslim community, the 10 years that
Margaret with your loved one who was you can say characterized by a
great amount of stability and peace and understanding not that
everybody's hearts were together, but he was able to keep them
together. And a one thing that
is related like our data, only Allah Who says that more Are we
really allowed to have this one expression from the Sunnah lesson
Christendom and he used it, which was that the promise that Allah
will get loved one report that the prophets of Allah YT was an upset,
in Nikka. In, in in America, our art in nursing of subtle oak into
and of syllable, that if you go behind the hidden aspects of
people, you will corrupt them. If you look at the countries of the
world where this where they where they get this in, which is pretty
much you know, most countries they do this, but those who do
something on you know, the three lockdown military states, that
this is what happens in Syria, that is the you see the
consequence of that in Syria, you will destroy the people you will
corrupt the people. The reason for this is quite clear that everybody
does something wrong.
Until it is not blatantly in your face, it is not necessary for you
to under suspicion, government to humbly borrow from the human
condition. One the rhythm I mentioned, unless you've got a
very strong suspicion and it's, it's up dominant, it's a dominant
opinion. You must not go after people and and try to find out if
they really did it or not. And then try to prohibit them that is
not your responsibility.
For example, saying that in the wild.
He relates the eponymous Rudra the Allah one who was brought a man or
somebody came to him and said that so and so when he goes his name
was his beard is dripping with wine. We can drink so much his
beer is dripping with wine and never beer. Right?
I thought like that was really the Allah one who said, in codeine
tahina. unemploy, justice we stopped from spying on people.
Yes, if something is clear,
they didn't see him drink. They saw His beard was wet and
dripping. So they thought that he had been drinking so they can
complain. And he said, we only receive clearly we will we will
prohibit them from this hadith related by my without my without
also relates a number of other Hadith from the subjects. The main
thing is Abu Aslan. He says that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said in a kind of a lengthy study, but the main thing is he
says,
Do not make gleyber of the people. What are the overall double? Don't
go behind the hidden aspects. Don't try to find out what they're
doing at home, whether they are going to that nightclub or not.
It's not your responsibility. Yes, if you see it, it's a different
story. For example, one one occasion I was walking down the
main street in Santa Barbara one night, a brother said I want to
show you what goes on. I want to show you what goes on just so that
as an Imam, you're not blind that you don't you know you're not
oblivious of what's happening. So we're walking down the street.
It's called State Street. And we were walking outside a bar
when you guys put it about and the bouncer at the door. He goes, he
sees me. He sees us and he says I've got one of your guys in here.
What are your case is in
right? Now that he's told me, I didn't go in there to look. But
now that he's told me, I think it's my responsibility. So I still
call him out. So it's his quality brother comes out, it didn't seem
drunk on Hamdulillah. Right. And I only spoke to him and everything.
But I didn't like condemning myself, you know, you need to come
to the masjid. This is not the right place to be in because I
don't drink I don't drink. I'm not saying anything to you. Right? I
didn't see you drink. But this is not the right place to be living.
I mean, that's what I can say, I'm not going to condemn Him for
drinking, because I didn't see him drink. I didn't smell it, or
anything.
So you're our bond when a worker needs to be done within a
particular limit, only up to what you can see otherwise, beyond that
you will corrupt the people by telling them off too much. Another
example that many of us deal with, you suddenly become pious, right?
You suddenly become pious, Allah has given you enlightenment, he's
inspired you, you suddenly become very much on the righteous. You've
got your brother or your sister or your uncle or your mother or
father or son or daughter, for that matter, anybody. They're not
changing as fast as you are. The Hidayat has not come to them as
fast as you are, what do you do? The mistake that we make is we go
on about it and on about the non about it, and we tell them that
every time we see them, then what happens is they don't want to see
us anymore. So they avoid us they go into the other room, then they
start complaining about us. We feel that if we don't tell them
we're making mistake, this especially is a big challenge for
parents. And this is a big challenge for parents if they
don't see their children doing the right thing. Have token Allah
subhanaw taala I know one individual used to drink our I
don't know that he used to drink I only I see him today as a scholar.
He's a very popular scholar.
Somebody told me afterwards I only knew him afterwards. He said you
know the scholar right? Who's mashallah so inspirational and so
on. I remember in the days at university, he used to be a very
popular man, very popular guy needs to come in his room and
needs to drink their water bottles all over the place. I could not
believe it. One day, I got to meet his father. And I found out where
his hidayah lay
his father, mashallah, despite being so wealthy, and I could tell
that he must have been the one making to offer.
So yes, you tell them, but not bang on about it every day, as we
say, Don't go on about it every day, otherwise, they won't want to
see your face, then eventually home. So it's about telling them
nicely once in a while, and eventually it will happen.
Eventually, they will change inshallah with the dua of Allah
subhanaw taala, do Allah dollars 100 prayer, and that not telling
them everyday that they don't want to sit in the same room as you. So
no spine? There are a number of a number of other things, which
is, when you see somebody doing wrong, don't go and condemn them.
They may not know that they do it.
Or if it's about it, if it's about a good thing that they're not
doing, they may not know that it's virtuous to do this. So why would
you assume that they do know and then you go and condemn them. So
that's why they read them, I recommend that you go and educate
them, as you told Nice to see you, you know that this is wrong.
You find the right way to do it, sit them down line and down. And
all the rest of you say you know that this is wrong. And then you
talk about it. Then Darla said that first of all is doing with
softness, you talk to them nicely. And eventually if that doesn't
work, then you then if it's somebody that will be affected by
you will be affected by you, then you can use a bit of harshness as
a bit of strictness. But never start to hate the person who is
eight that actually
one of the complaints that people without beards are people who
don't, women who don't cover properly have against women who do
cover property or men with beards or folds or you know, turbans or
whatever it is, is that they look down upon us as soon as they see
us and that is wrong.
That is not the way of who we must feel that this person has
potential. Just like I have potential also negative potential
as well as positive potential. And there have been cases where the
person who was considered to be
not very religious has suddenly become religious and the other
person Unfortunately, his negative potential came into action. So
never look down upon people always focus on the action. Always try to
please Allah subhanaw taala because I do not see the deen is
not seen. These are a few of the things that we can do. Another
thing that you must have as one of the characteristics which was the
Mohamed alluded to, that I must mention a suburb
is necessary to have a lot of patience. The problem that we have
thing with people who don't have a nylon cord that do not have
patience is that then people don't want to listen to them. You have
to have a lot of patience. I remember I spoke about a
particular group that are considered to be very deviant in
ideology kind of agreed upon.
I spoke about it the first year I was the Imam and one brother, he
took offense to them. And he said, they call themselves Muslims. We
must not condemn them. I mean, lots of people call themselves
Muslims. Right? He took great offense to it. And he said you we
mustn't dispute it, you know, we mustn't have disunity, and so on
and so
forth. Three years later.
The same man is condemning us a well.
I'm thinking Subhanallah it took three years for him to understand
this.
What happens is people come in and they want to change everything
immediately. You cannot change things immediately. Think of it
one way. And this is the final, final account I mentioned to
finish.
Imam Abu Hanifa was a man who had great insights into people.
And he really nurtured his students. So there's one of the
students who came from bussel event where he was based in Kufa.
Basra was the other Muslim city that was at some distance away.
One of his students from buzzer edemas was burnt and bhakti. He
came in studying the Bible Hanifa for a number of years when he was
about to leave and depart back to his hometown. You've all heard if
I said to him, he gave him some advice. He says, Don't go and rush
into your local masjid, the big mystery of bustle and adopt a
pillar and start to give your doorstep and say color money for
color money. Because the traditional way of teaching was
that the masjid, you had the pillars and then one of the one
scholar will be sitting by this pillar, not on by the piano,
another one by that.
And they will give their thoughts and it will be maybe five dues
taking place at the same time. There is no problem. Right? So he
says, Don't be hasty in doing that. And the reason he said that
is that the people of Basava had their own scholars that they
looked up to and Kufa, they were not very sure about any failures,
because his mother and his his fifth had not proliferated yet.
However, recyclability he goes there is, you know, he's really
pumped up from all of his studies and everything he thinks he's got
a lot to contribute, and so on. So immediately he goes to a parent
pillar, and he starts to give it to us, within a few days is kicked
out with us. We don't want to hear this alternative opinions. We
don't want to hear about anybody else.
We did not listen to your previous advice, things, you need a lot of
patience, things interpret slowly, as opposed to this another
district. So your leader, his name was Zophar. He was also originally
from one of the big tribes of Buffalo.
He studied them from Abu Hanifa for a number of years, when he
their first year in human back to bustle, he did not start his own
task, even though he was of a higher standing numbers manual.
But he went and joined in the other gurus in the other lectures
that were taking place, he went and joined in there, whenever
there was an opportunity, he would give his input and you say, look,
there is another opinion about this, he would not mention your
money, first name, you would give another opinion in certain say,
oh, there is another opinion about this. Slowly, slowly, they turn
that they noticed him and they said, This man comes up with some
really good opinions. He He expresses some pretty good
opinions. So they asked him who's not these opinions? These opinions
have now already made a place in their heart. So he says, well, as
they said, Who's are these opinions that this is honey for
from Kufa, that's great. Slowly, slowly, then the head of humans
are proliferating and Basra's. Otherwise, if you try to rush us,
and if you try to impose things on people, it doesn't work that way.
Our Marlin Invoker needs attacked me, Lord, patience, and you need
love wisdom. May Allah subhanaw taala give us the trophy. May
Allah subhanaw taala allow us to do on a low level, this is what
I'm saying. It's not just for Imams to do in messages. It's not
just left to programs, you and I can do this on a low level, we
just need to do in wisdom, you've got somebody your friend or
somebody talk to him nicely, but it's not a good thing.
It's not a good thing to do. Right, somebody is not covered
properly. And I think you'd look at it not for the men, the girls,
you know, the women that I think would look much better with the
hijab on it's good for your modesty and so on. Also understand
that you must come from them, to them in the right direction when
people come and they say there's a person interested in Islam, give
me a book about Islam. Normally, what I asked him is what kind of a
person is this person? Is his spiritual is a philosophical, or
is he not any of the tools? Or is he mathematic? You know, what's
the background? Then you give a book accordingly. There needs to
be you need to do these kinds of things in that way. Now most
primatology was the Tofig May Allah subhanaw taala allow us to
enliven this institution of Commonwealth and anchor in the
proper way so that it doesn't become a blameworthy institution.
May Allah subhana wa tofi
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