Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – The Dictates of Faith
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Bismillah Al Rahman Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa salatu
salam ala so you did mursaleen while early he was sabe he you
about recover seldom at the Sleeman cathedral, Ilario, Medina
and Mulberry.
My dear respected sisters,
Salam alaykum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.
Alhamdulillah our very identity,
we by our very identity we are Muslimeen what meaning we're
believers.
Today what I want to do
is something very simple.
If you look into the Hadith, what you'll actually notice is that the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam has defined Iman in
different ways.
He's basically shown in numerous different a hadith that a believer
is like this, a believer is like that a believer is someone who
does this, a believer is somebody who doesn't do this. A believer is
a person with this type of character. A believer is not
somebody with that type of character. And you'd be amazed
that if you do a search for men, the word Mothman, in the Hadith,
you'll find numerous generations, you will find numerous
generations, and it will actually provide you a whole entire profile
of what it means to be a believer. It's quite amazing. Once you
actually start looking at those Hadith, you'd be surprised that
this is a manual of life. The Prophet sallallahu Sallam just
said it on so many occasions. on so many occasions, he said a video
that is like this video that is like that this is what I believe
it does. I believe it cannot be like this. And you can never be a
believer if you do this. You know, some things were said more
intensely than others. Some things were said more strictly than
others. Some things were just mentioned, as in the passing,
you've, you've got some amazing narrations. And I think we need to
constantly be reminded of these narrations to really make sure to
re evaluate what it means for us to be believers. The problem we
have today, around the world, we see many people doing things
within ourselves within our own families, our own neighborhood, we
see people doing things which don't seem to be very, if you
contrast that to what we see of the life of Rasulullah sallallahu
alayhi wasallam, what you see is you see behavior, prophetic
behavior, linked to the person of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam. So whenever you read about the Prophet salallahu Salam, you
hear about his behavior, you see his behavior, you see him doing
what he's doing. So you know that that's how the prophets of Allah
some acted, because there was no other way that he acted. However,
when you contrast that with what believers are doing, or what we're
doing, then sometimes it doesn't go together. So I think what I
want to do today quickly, is just run us through a number of Hadith,
I won't go into too much depth on each one, I'll just go through
some of the narration, just translate them just briefly
explain them, just to make sure that if it's something that we
have shortcomings about, it's something that we can learn from,
and we can improve on so that our profile as believers believing men
and women, we can also insha Allah have have these things as well
have all of these characteristics as well. One of the first things
that I'd like to mention about belief is the definition of
belief. Belief means a form of conviction, a form of belief in
the heart, it's not something you just do outwardly, it has to be
something inside. So when you've taken on a particular ideology, a
particular way, a belief, a theology, or philosophy, that is
what you call a belief in something where you believe with
your heart, when you believe in your heart, then it gives
expression to the rest of your body, your your tongue will speak
about it. In a normal situation, you will act it in that kind of a
situation, as strong as that belief is inside the heart. That
means that's how much stronger our conviction is. And the stronger
the conviction is. That's how much more it will provide its fruits
through our limbs. If we see that the fruits that are being provided
through our limbs are actually antithesis to Islam. They
contradict Islam, they contradict the way of the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wasallam. We don't feel too good about them, then we have to
understand that there's a problem here. The Yaqeen has an issue
there's there's a there's a problem with the Yaqeen aspect,
which means conviction, full belief in something.
So let's let's start with the first Hadith. The first one the
Prophet sallallahu sallam said,
it was true that of the Allahu Anhu relates earlier to you know,
an email or Kulu your cane is full Iman, that is what it is. I mean,
they're kind of synonyms. Yaqeen belief in a particular
number of tenets of faith. That is what it means to be a believer was
soberness will Iman and patience is half of belief.
Now that definitely needs clarification. What does he mean
by patience is half of belief well
Clearly most of the things that we have to do as believers, most of
the things that we have to do, and those which are demands of the
fact that we are believers, for example, abstain from this, that
looks really nice, I can't do it I'm a Muslim.
You know, your friends are maybe going and having a night out,
they're going to go to a disco there's going to be a prom at
school, you know, the on graduation, there's going to be a
certain party where you're expected to dress in a particular
way there's going to be drinks. You know, you may be with some
friends and they may not Muslim friends in UAE, they want to go
somewhere. Well, it's gonna be difficult for you because inside
your it's been told that you can't do this. That's all based on
patience, the more patience we learn, the more we'll be able to
withhold from Herranz and wrongs and wrongdoings. So that's why the
Rasul Allah ism, he explained it
Yaqeen is full Iman and patience is half of your faith. The more
patience you learn, the more we'll be able to deal with things. What
is patience mean? Patience means
that we abstain from something and we're able to withhold our inner
urges, the desire to do it, we're able to comfort ourselves, where
we're able to make ourselves content, we're able to restrict
ourselves from something that we would that the nerves would like
to do. Now here, clearly, this tells us that there's something
going on inside, and that this is exactly what happens. You feel
like you want to do something, which is not right, then inside,
there's a desire to do it, because the nurse wants to do it, because
there's certain pleasure that you get out of doing so. But on the
other hand, the faith is speaking, the Yaqeen is speaking. And at the
end of the day, that's when the stronger the opinion is, the less
the opposing voice is going to be. The stronger our Yochanan
conviction and our faith is going to be the, the weaker, the urge to
do something is going to become so the more sober and patients we
learn in that that's that's going to be really, really helpful
because half of iman is, is patience. And then there's the
other aspects beyond that which have very less to do with with
patients. But patience is the underlying factor to all
abstinence from disobedience from staying away from disobedience.
Then the Prophet sallallahu sallam said Al Eman will be the OC two in
a short bow
In another Hadith has been almost sublunary Chava. But either way,
Iman is 60 plus or 70 Plus branches. So now what he's saying
is the Imam assume it's like a tree. It has 70 branches more than
70 branches, more than 60 branches, multiple branches. So
Iman is the structure that you're placing down. It's like the trunk
of the tree with all of its roots firmly ground, you have 70
branches out of those branches. And he's mentioned a number of the
different branches that this is a branch of EMA and this is a branch
of EMA and one of the lowest of the branches, as a bookseller,
some said is to just move something out of the way
so that it doesn't disturb somebody doesn't incur
inconvenience someone it doesn't harm someone. So there's a banana
skin on the floor is something lying down on the floor. So you go
and you actually take the effort to put it to decide the next
person coming along. So this is all in social compassion, social
etiquette as well. However, the province has some said will hire
or shut about terminal Iman, modesty, chastity, bashfulness,
shyness, religious shyness as such, this is a branch of faith.
But the way the Prophet sallallahu sallam said this, it's he said,
Iman has over 60 branches, and higher is a branch of faith. And
the reason why the Bronx Hill has some really singled out high up
and modesty chastity is that he wants to explain by that that
modesty and chastity if you have that particular branch is a very
big branch, then many of the other branches become easier, because a
lot of sins can be avoided. And a lot of the branches can be
can be practiced upon if you have higher from Allah subhanaw taala.
I said I wasn't going to go into depth in any of this, but I think
this needs to be explained a bit further. You've got a person who
is naturally shy, right? They just don't want to be in public too
much. They are very shy to speak very introverted personalities.
Right. There's that shyness. Then you've got somebody who is very
brash, who's very bold, who doesn't mind speaking, they can
speak to people, that's not an issue. So, does this mean shyness
is that introverted person and not the other person? Is that what it
means? No, the higher here that is referred to is not about the
nature of a person, the normal nature by on which Allah subhanaw
taala has, has has made us it's not necessarily that although the
person
Who is shy, will generally be able to act on this more easily than
the person who's going to have to really restrict themselves? Who's
going to really have to control themselves from speaking out from
exposing themselves, and so on and so forth. Because that's the way
they are. Some people just love to show off, they can't help it. Some
people just like to speak very loudly. They can't help it. Do you
understand? So yeah, it's gonna be more of a struggle, but at the end
of the day, higher doesn't refer to the Fitri just the normal kind
of shyness that a person has. The shyness must be qualified, must be
done for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala whether the person
is shy at heart, or not che at heart, do you understand so the
person was acting shady because of their nature, they're not doing it
for Iman, they're not doing it out of their love for Allah. It's not
based on the Iman, then it's just you got people who are not
believers, but they're very shy. There is no reward for that.
That's just mashallah the way they are. But when a person is shy,
they're going to have other shortcomings in the sense that
where they do have to stand up where Iman requires you to stand
up and defend something, say something, do some unbelievable
Fernando Mancha, you know, come on the right hip, the rock, etc. They
won't do it. So there are shortcomings in that, but
generally, it's a better state to be in. However, the way for both
types of people is to restrict themselves from what Allah
subhanaw taala told them to restrict themselves and be shy of
Allah. That's what this refers to. So this is what you call higher
Imani. It's Imani modesty, bashfulness, which means I am not
doing this because I don't want Allah to see me from doing I don't
care what others feel. But this is what it is. It's for the sake of
Allah. So that's what you call a higher Amina Iman and if somebody
has that where they have this consciousness of Allah subhanho wa
Taala not wanting Allah subhanaw taala to see them in a particular
state because Allah has prohibited it then that is what what it means
that it will be one of the main branches of Imani will help them
in many of the other branches because again here is kind of you
can see the second underwriter after EMA and once you have EMA
then you should have higher that's why another Hadith mentions that
higher and Iman go together. If you lose higher, you can very
easily lose Iman because of that. So these are really really
important that they go together and they underwrite everything
else.
That's why the Prophet saw some sort of higher will ima who
Khurana Jimmy and for either roofie huduma, Rafi on Earth, that
higher and Iman, they are basically compatriots they are
together, they are partners, they stay together, they come together.
And if one goes the other one will go eventually. Because Iman
requires higher from Allah subhanaw taala. So don't
misunderstand how to meet just shy in front of somebody else, but
then having huge dirty thoughts in their mind and dirty desires in
their mind that they can't control and then they go do something bad
in public in private, even if they don't do it in public. Yes, it's
still good. It's better. You know, you don't expose your sins, but
still the point is that it should be full higher in front of Allah
subhanaw taala. So then the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam. In another Hadith, the Brosa. Lord Islam says Salah
Coleman couldn't be here whether the Halawa tell Iman now people
are going to be you know, we generally ask that, where's the
pleasure in our faith?
So if we're supposed to have faith, Allah subhanho wa Taala has
promised sweetness of faith. If a person is a true believer, true
men, he is going to he or she is going to acquire Halawa to Iman,
how do you get that? So in the next video, LeBrons tell us and
tells us that fella Coleman couldn't see he was at a Halawa.
Tell Iman, if somebody has three traits, three things if a person
has they will experience the sweetness of faith, they will
experience the sweetness of faith, mankind Allah, mankind Allahu wa
rasuluh habitually he must see well Houma
when Allah subhanahu wa Allah and His messenger are more beloved to
them than anything else.
Now think over that for a moment. If Allah and His messenger can
become more beloved to us than anything else,
then we will start feeling the sweetness of faith, because then
we'll be really focused. Number two, woman harbor Abdullah yo Boo
in learning Allah. So now it's not just about focusing on Allah and
His messenger. We still live a human life. we're social
creatures, we deal with others. So then the prophets Allah, some said
in terms of that, whoever loves a servant, whoever loves somebody
else, only for the sake of Allah. So no ulterior motives. We don't
love somebody to get something from them. We love them because
Allah told us to love people. We love them because Allah subhanaw
taala told us to love our mother and father, our children, our
spouse, our relatives, the poor, the people in general do things
for them. We do it for the sake of Allah subhanho wa taala.
Woman and finally one a year cry. a year older Phil gouffre birthday
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person loves his faith so much a person loves their faith so much
that they would totally find it reprehensible just the thought
even that they be returned from faith to disbelief again, they
find that so bad, they find that such a bad thought
as though it's the same as I would dislike to be thrown into the
fire. That's how bad it is for me to lose my faith, or Hamdulillah.
I would say that in terms of that we're probably all quite confident
in that regard that we love our faith, we may not be very
practicing. But we do love our faith. I think that's the case.
However, there's obviously different levels of this. And
in order to get the sweetness of faith, we'll have to have all
three of these things. So on a social level, we love people for
the sake of Allah. We love Allah subhanaw taala and His Messenger
more than anybody else. And we hate that faith would ever be
taken from us. So all of these aspects, they have to be taken to
a level and then there'll be sweetness of faith. Then the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said In another Hadith
explaining a different he said that the dermal Iman the Catarman,
Iman, Munroe, the Avila he Robin will Islami demon will be Mohammed
in Rasulullah that that person has tasted faith. He just said tasted
faith. So really tasted faith is not just a conceptual belief, a
theoretical idea in the mind, it becomes a reality when you
actually start tasting the sweetness of it. So another way of
saying the previous generation who gets that the one who really is
happy with Allah as his Lord, no doubt whatsoever. I can't have any
of the Lord but Allah, you know, I don't have any interest in
anything else. I am totally satisfied despite all the
difficulties. I'm willing to do them. So Allah becomes
Allah subhanho wa Taala they are completely satisfied with Allah as
their Lord. With Islam as the deen they have no doubts, no qualms no
regrets? Absolutely not. They don't feel like oh, why why am I
like this? Why am I like this? Maybe I shouldn't have been a
believer. Maybe I shouldn't have been born to Muslim parents. They
wouldn't have had to do this. You know, something of that nature.
I'm sure sometimes children may go through this growing up when
there's a massive
attraction for them of something else.
And then we Islami been out where we Mohammedan rasool Allah and
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam as the messenger.
Then the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, Salah man, Gemma
Hoonah Sokka, Gemma al Iman, there are three things that if you
combine them together, and you have them, you acquire them
altogether, you would have acquired Iman, now, again, the
precise and is describing different things as ima. Somebody
might say, well, there seems to be a contradiction in these
narrations is this email or is that email, it's all Iman, this is
what Iman does. But the prophets, Allah is not there sitting in
trying to give a seminar, an exhaustive thesis or seminar or,
you know, a PhD or something on every aspect of it. This is a very
practical approach that he took on when there was a need to speak
about this, he would speak about that you say that is Eman. If
you're a believer, that's what it should be like.
If you're a believer, this is how you should act, if you're a
believer that this is what you should have. So if you have all of
these three things, you will you would have gathered the main
aspects of iman, and what did he say, an insult form in Nasik.
So he's describing him as something different to what we've
already heard before in the other generations, what are you saying?
I'll insult from enough sick, justice from yourself? For
anything that you do? You need to act justly, even if others aren't
acting injustice. So when you deal with anybody else, it needs to be
injustice. Someone else may deal with you with injustice, you have
to deal with them with justice, regardless of the situation. You
have to be just in every state because that's what your iman does
for you.
That's what your Eman does for you. That's what your iman tells
you a dictator, if your mind is strong in your heart, you will
deal with people with justice.
So for example, you went into Morrison's the, the supermarkets,
and you bought a number of things. And somehow it was very busy, the
person who's serving you, the day don't have much time. They were
busy or whatever, they overlooked a product and you went out and you
saw that they hadn't charged you for it. Now, you know people try
to justify these things in the weirdest of ways. They say, you
know, you've heard that this is a
Zionist company. Right? They'll make up this you know, some
telescope, whatever they'll say, this is a Zionist company. So it's
okay, we can rob them. You know, it's just not Insaaf it's not in
Insaaf right?
If you had been overcharged, would you have gone in and said I've
been overcharged for this product? Or would you have left it? Let's
just say there was a seven pound product, right?
And you just overcharged. And you you discovered that on your
receipt? Are you going to go back in? Or not? Most likely you will.
So if you're gonna go in for seven pounds for yourself, then this is
seven pounds that they undercharged you, you should go
in. Now, don't don't tell me that, if I'm, you know, I don't mind if
they overcharged me, I wouldn't go back in because I don't have the
time that doesn't justify, in fact is more necessary. It's more
important to give back something that you've been under charge for,
then to take something and not care about, and then to not pet
and then to have overpaid, really, because at the end of the day, for
the first one will be rewarding the hereafter. If we've been
overcharged for something, we didn't do anything about it, we
couldn't bother, we may be rewarding the hereafter. But for
the other one, you we will definitely be taken to task so
I'll insult them enough sick. Number two, we're about to lose
Salah Manila, random, spreading Salam to the universe.
That could mean saying salam that could mean just spreading the, you
know, the beauty and the peace of Islam throughout the world. But
definitely spreading A salaam to the island, not just to those, you
know, but to everybody. You're walking on the streets. See
another woman? Right? You see, you see another sister, you give salam
to her.
Right? So you sometimes people think that hijabi women on ecobee
women are too aloof, they look down upon others, they they don't
give salons etc. Never let that be the case. If you're if you're
dressing a Muslim, if you're dressing like a proper believer,
then your action should be even better than that. Because actions
are really important because they are that what build that what that
is what builds up the society. So it's extremely important in that
regard. So spreading Salam well in Falco Meenal, it will infer
communal Qatar, which means to spend in the time of need. When
there's more need, you spend more. So you're focused on spending in a
particular way. So this is the price. And if you gather all of
these three things together, you've gathered emaan together,
and believe me, it does take a certain trait in the heart to give
salam to everybody spread it far and wide. Number two to spend when
there is need, and number three, to have total justice, only a true
believer will be able to do this. So this is just the way of a sort
of loss and loss. I'm explaining to us another one. The prophets,
Allah some said, but I have been in law will uphold the law,
without authority in the woman and in the fact that is detrimental,
Yvonne.
Whoever loves for the sake of Allah, whoever loves because of
Allah because Allah told us to love people. That's why we love
them not for ulterior motives altruistically, we're above Allah,
those and he, if he does hate somebody or something, it needs to
be for the sake of Islam, for the sake of Allah, because Allah told
us that's wrong, so hate that act, for example, hate the act of
fornication or whatever, whatever it may be, because of that reason,
why tal Illa. Allah He gives, again, for the sake of Allah
subhanaw taala. And he prevents for the sake of Allah subhanaw
taala. So everything is done for the sake of Allah, when all of
that God consciousness will come together for can stack metal,
Iman, then a person has completed their faith.
A nominal believer cannot do this.
When we love people, we have other ideas in our minds, if we hate
somebody is generally for a person's selfish grudge. All
right. And if we give to somebody, sometimes for a good cause, for
other times, it may be to get something back. And if we prevent,
it's obviously for greed reasons. You don't give somebody what they
do is inheritance issues and so on. It's genuine, generally for
for selfish reasons. If a person can rise above all of that, and do
all of these things, only when it's required by Allah subhanho wa
taala, that they have complete faith.
What does that tell us? That tells us that if we cannot do these four
things, our faith is not complete, if we have shortcomings in any of
these things. This is the benefit of learning these are highly to
constantly evaluate ourselves on
the next one, the Prophet sallallahu sallam said, a
commandment meaning Iman and I said oh, hello can. So he called
the command of faith, perfection of faith. Is that a person? Sorry,
the most perfect believer, must complete believer accomplished
believer is the one who is the best in character
in their dealings with others. Not rough and gruff, not rude, not
mean not, not harsh, not would you call it vulgar, and not cursing,
not swearing, as will be mentioned in another
Ready, but a person has this accent or home Hello Can the best
in character, walk the aisle hall here awesomely nice to him, and
knowing that there's the great potential of abuse between men and
women, where men generally because of the bigger body build, and so
on and so forth, their domineering status, and so on, they will abuse
women. So that's why the prophets, Allah says, After mentioning, in
general, that the most accomplished believer is the one
who's best in character, he then said, and the best of you, the
superior, superior among you, the choicest of you, is the one who is
best to the women.
So if a believer wants to be a true believer, he better have a
good social
behavior, he should have a good social understanding, and he
should have good marital relations, he should have good
spousal relationship, because that is what a believer is required.
And the prophets Allah has actually said In another Hadith,
that I'm the best to my room. So he showed that he's got the, the
quality there, I'm just going to mention a few other diverse
narrations here, allow me now to talk about
the item of Islam, the world of Islam together and what we should
be thinking about our brothers and sisters around the world. I mean,
a little miracle bonyen, you should do about the WHO bargain,
again, men believer that Allah is describing, right? The believer,
for his belief for his fellow believer is like a structure. They
strengthen each other. If you have bricks that are just placed
together, just randomly, they won't structure each other, you
will topple it over. But when they're placed in a particular
way, it has to be done properly in a particular pattern, then it will
stay strong together. So there's a way to do that. If you just
haphazardly throw the bricks together, put on one two on top of
the other. And you don't put on one here one day, and then one in
between, and then you know, have that pattern, it's not going to
stay strong, it's just going to be all string and they're all going
to just fall down. They're just going to crumble. So likewise, you
may have hundreds of believers together, but don't let it be a
crowd, be it make it a cohesive whole, have a pattern where it is
care for each other. And thus they strengthen each other look at the
beautiful way that Rosa was explaining this. So the problem
was it goes all the way from personal actions in a states to
social issues to hold global issues of how a person should be
thinking about their brothers and sisters around the world. Number
one, Abu Huraira the Allahu Anhu relates when he can help me to be
liable young acid failure, cool. Hi, Ron Ollie, Osment, whoever
believes in Allah and the Last Day, say good. Otherwise, stay
silent. That could just avoid so many problems. Don't do
commentary. Don't just speak about too much things. If you want to
speak make sure what you're going to say is good, have a good aspect
to it. Otherwise, just remain silent. On Can you get me to
biller who will Yeoman or him Whoever believes in Allah and the
Last Day again asked me to believe for new cream Jarrah
on a your neighbor.
Part of your belief is to honor your neighbor. It's not just a
good thing to do. You also do it for your belief, woman carry you
will be liable yo will asset value cream lifer. And if the person who
believes in Allah and the Last Day, he should be, he should honor
his guests.
So the next time we honor our guests, we do it for the sake of
Allah and suddenly, things will just become easier. You know,
because when guests come, the main task of the guests, the domain
burden of it comes down to women of the house generally because
they don't want to have to cook holiday, two weeks of preparation,
the earlier you know that you're going to have guests, the more
preparation you have to do, the more shopping that you have to do,
right.
At the end of the day, if you knew you're doing it for the sake of
Allah subhanaw taala it will just suddenly become easier that you
will be rewarded for five hours of cooking for 10 hours of cooking.
Right? And I'm not just saying this in a misogynist way that you
know, just to make it easier for the women to do I mean, socially
speaking in our culture, that's that's the way it happens. So I'm
actually making it easy, you're gonna have to do it anyway. If
that's your family demands you to do so. Right? So Subhanallah much
of that burden comes on the woman but the man has to help out he
used to go and get the shopping and so you couldn't just leave
everything to it. There needs to be some aspect of it. That is all
part of Eman believing in Allah and the Last Date something like
just being good to your guests. Subhanallah
then the prophets Allah says another one. He says my UC will
McMenamin wasabi in wala na Sabine Wallace a common water hasn't had
the Al hum yah hoo hoo Illa Kofi Ravi means
that any kind of trouble that reaches a person, grief, worry,
illness, sickness, concern, anxiety, any kind of thing that
troubles the mind.
If you connect yourself with Allah
moment you are rewarded for that your sins are diffused Your sins
are eliminated, people's sins are eliminated because of difficulties
that they go through. This is men now you see will not mean again
men. This is one of the perks of being a believer if you have to
have a difficulty come on to you which is going to happen in this
world because it's the nature of the world. You know, you got
knocked out you had to just your walk in Sunday Rain and You know,
you got drenched anything simple simple things like that. You just
kicked your foot on something you hurt your leg, whatever it may be
called Pharaoh. He said, I mean say your sins are removed.
We got everything going for us. And that's why one of the My
Favorite narrations is again about a believer adjuvant will not meet
the promise Allah some said so Hebrew me releases I Jabin the
Emeril McMahon
such an astonishing affair such a wonderful situation is that of the
believer why?
For him number of people who hire every state of his every matter of
his every affair of his his good, how
does it matter, whatever it may be. So at the end of the day, if
somebody is offending you, somebody's offending Islam, and
you feel hurt, because of that you get rewarded for that.
Subhanallah
you get rewarded if you feel hurt.
Now, we don't want to encourage people to offend Islam or the
Prophet salallahu Salam because of that, right? But the fact that it
happened and the person feels hurt about it, because you know, you do
have a lot of believers they think why other you do you do have a lot
of Muslims who actually think that why are these other my fellow
Muslims? Why are they making such a big deal out of this is just
some humor there. So they've been, they've been they've bought in,
they bought into this concept of freedom of speech to such a degree
that they think it's okay to do and we should just ignore it. Just
like the like the Christians ignore when Jesus is abused.
Subhanallah you've got that idea. You've got that idea and pushing
among, you know, minority of people. Well, the most of the
Muslims, they've just been hugely rewarded because of this
difficulty that has reached them that their profit has been abused.
So then the Prophet sallallahu sallam said when he when he said
DACA, in law didn't mean in this state of affairs that you know,
every matter of this is good. This is only for the believers because
of their belief. Number one in Asaba to Surat chakra, if a good
times come upon them if prosperity comes to them, and they are
thankful chakra they are grateful to Allah subhanaw taala for
whoever that's good for them. And if some harm reaches them and they
patient, then that is good for them as well.
The prophets of Allah some then said things like, what it means
what a believer must not do. So Lawson said lie isn't his only
Haney isn't your whole movement. A person who is committing who's
fornicating when he's fornicating is not a believer.
So a believer cannot be doing these acts and if he does, then
Iman is leaving his heart. It will come in afterwards again, but he
does leave. Likewise, a person doesn't drink haram intoxicants
when he's drinking while he's a believer. You can't be a believer
when he's doing that the man goes, Hey, I can't be here. If you're
doing this. What is it up here yesterday? Well who are McMann and
a person can not be stealing while he's still a believer. So this is
beyond the actions of a belief. The Prophet said Allah some say
Allah you will not have to come into your head barely see him or
your boolean of say, none of you can be true believers until they
love for their brother what they love for themselves. What they
love for another person what they love for themselves, the prophets
Allah some said Allah you hippo Allah, you know ahead, Mata Hakuna
Hebei let him in Where did he or what did he want nasty Marine,
that none of you can be perfect believers until I the prophecy
blossom says become more beloved than their own family, their own
selves, their own children and everybody. So these are all
aspects of belief, then that Allah the Prophet sallallahu also tells
us that just because you're a believer, it doesn't mean you need
to be so soft that you get run over by everybody. So he says La
EULA will not meet him in Geneva he did not retain that. A believer
is never bitten from the same hole twice. So you get scammed and
you're not going to become scammed. And it doesn't mean
you're a believer so you'd be so docile so silly so stupid that you
get run over all the time and people take advantage of you No,
that's not how I believe we should be I believe we should be
intelligent as well. So you got numerous hadith of this nature.
Final one method I don't mean method who Natla Natla method what
many methods that could also even watada by even the bat the example
of a believer is the example of a honeybee. It eats the good the
best and it also leaves the bad
Just so he eats from the nectar, it goes around flowers, it's by
fruits. It's by the best of the plants. And then after that what
it gives us the pure honey as opposed to the bee as sorry as
opposed to the general fly. Where do you see flies over blood? Right
you have some blood, the sun you'll see all flies they didn't
know how they find it you know they've got like tune in for that
on on excretes excretion on anything that's wrong. You see
flies there. When it comes to the honeybee, you will see it only on
good things. That's the nature of it. The believer is like the
honeybee. And so has become such that honey so beautiful, that
people actually start quoting you know, their beloved honey, because
of the beauty of that they're saying that the every believer
should be honey every believer should be like the honey bee
taking the best and giving the best. May Allah subhanahu wa Tada
give us the Tofik to reflect over these and improve our shortcomings
wherever they are because really this is the manual of life. And
there are so many more Hadith I just chose a few of them. May
Allah subhanaw taala give us the total frequency with Dawa and Al
hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen