Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – What are the Devils Footsteps
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America, the brothers and the sisters dear friends
Ramadan is the month of the Quran and when we read in the Quran is
when we read the Quran, there's one mention of someone in the
Quran that we see often over and over again
that discussion comes over and over again there's a specific
individual that's mentioned is generally mentioned as an enemy.
So these are a few of the verses that relate to that
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So the koala hula him there are numerous other verses that talk
about the shaytaan. And Allah is essentially telling us about the
shaytaan. So in one verse, Allah says in the shaytaan, a locum I do
Fatah who, who I do
shaytaan is your enemy.
shaytaan is your enemy. So take him as your enemy. Like make sure
you take him as your enemy. So Allah is making, he's not hiding
anything from us. He's saying shaytan is your enemy, he is going
to seem like a friend, he is going to be an enemy that you're going
to have to have a relationship with a jeep. Not you don't have
to. But it's like people don't like the BBC, and other news media
outlets, but then you still go back to them to get the news.
Because it's the most convenient channel or it's the most
convenient app or whatever the case is, in fact, many news
channels, you don't trust them really, but you still kind of use
them. This weird relationship shaytaan it's just that it's very
difficult to escape from Shaytaan all the time, unless you're
constantly in the remembrance of Allah, Allah has given us a way to
do that. What I want to discuss today is basically the way
shaytaan works, the nature of the shaytaan
and how he's connected to us, and the best form of defense, because
at the end of the day, Allah subhanaw taala in Ramadan has
taken away the shaytaan and locked him up. So he's out of the
picture. We still sometimes actually feel like sinning in
Ramadan if Shaytan was out of the picture, and his shaytaan that
makes us commit sin. Why do we still feel like sinning in
Ramadan? I guess the simple answer to that is, most of the time in
Ramadan, it's not because of shaytaan that people feel like
committing sin.
Che turns out the picture. And the best way to tell this is that do
you ever feel like doing a new sin in Ramadan? Or is it an addictive
sin, a sin that we're already used to that we just feel like doing
again?
You'll have you'll see that it's hardly ever that you'd actually
start feeling like you want to do a new sin. You're not interested
in music, you don't listen to music much in your car and then
suddenly or in your earphones or whatever and Ramadan comes you're
like I want to listen to music. When I'm going to work, when I'm
going to domestic I'm gonna put some music on. You won't think
like that. If that's a new sin for you, right? If you've never
flirted, well, you're not going to start thinking about doing that in
Ramadan for sure. Right? Because even those who fled outside they
probably don't want to do it in Ramadan. So generally when it's
the new sin that generally comes from Shaytaan because he's the one
who whispers and was was ill Hanna's Allah the US we Sophie. So
do it in us. He's the was was was first means the one who whispers
the one who gives promptings in your ear who gives you ideas?
Harness means the one who retreats shaytaan that generally retreats
when we do any remembrance of Allah say Allah
hamdu lillah Allahu Akbar Subhan Allah stop fear Allah shaytaan.
retreats.
Right? But then as soon as we stop, he comes back. Allah says
Allah the US we suffer used to do in us, the one who whispers into
the chests of people. So do southern means chest.
Good job, he didn't say Kulu.
Kulu means hearts. Because if if shaytaan could do a direct whisper
into the hearts, we'd have no choice. Because something that is
beamed directly into your heart, you don't have a choice, to
accept, or reject, or to follow or not to follow, you just have to
because in your heart, our heart is what governs us. So it says
that it he whispers into the chest area, it's up to the heart,
whether we take it or not. So if we strengthen our heart, with the
remembrance of Allah, then we'll be more immune. It's like those
people who they say have a vaccine are more immune to getting more
debilitating diseases. Allah knows best, but it seems like the case,
right? Don't want to get into that controversy. But if you take
certain foods and certain nutrition, certain nourishment,
certain vitamins, you're supposed to have more immunity. Right? For
example.
Once I came, I was a bit sick bit of cold or something. And I'd come
back from a trip abroad from I can't remember which country it
was. And I'm noticing that I've got a jacket or a coat on and
everybody else doesn't have a coat on. I was like, Is there something
wrong with me? Why am I feeling cold? And they're not is because I
had a lowered immune system at that time. So I was feeling colder
and more vulnerable to catching maybe, you know, a cold or feeling
cold, whereas others will find that they were normal. I was
abnormal there. Right? So likewise, what happens is that
shaytan is going to attack. But if we can develop an immunity, then
we can basically protect ourselves because you probably get viruses
in the air all the time. But if you have more immunity, then
nothing happens if Allah subhanaw taala doesn't want it to happen,
it's not going to happen as well. There's people in the COVID, who
literally the husband had COVID, or the wife had COVID and they
slept in the same bed and the other partner did not get COVID
What, what a system of Allah subhanaw taala it's up to Allah,
He does what he wishes. So now
what we want to understand is that shaytan is your enemy, so take him
as your enemy. We've generally been deceived, the Muslim ummah
has generally been deceived in the past by people coming to them as
though they're their friends, but yet they were enemies. Using that
apparent friendship to divide people, and to play them against
one another. That's how our major civilizations have been destroyed.
Major Muslim governance has been debilitated and incapacitated and
put on the backfoot it's happened throughout it's just, it's a
normal human thing, strategy strategy that they use shaytaan
but Allah is telling us he's clearly your enemy. But the
problem is very, it's a bit difficult for a lot of people to
resist the shaytaan.
So let's just finish the talk about Ramadan. Why do people still
feel like sinning? It's because of the knifes it's a habit. That's
what we feel like doing that's why we don't feel like doing a new
sin. Right so she turns out of the picture in Ramadan. Right now the
next point here
there's a hadith in Sahih Muslim, which says that
Allah subhana wa Tada whenever he creates any human being, there is
a shaytaan that is designated for them an individual shaitan
right for every single human being is not one shaitan for the Han
family, and another one for the Musar family, and one for the most
of our family and the Patel family or one for Redbridge and one for
the you know, Cranbrook area, or London or whatever. It's one
purpose and there's enough Shayateen to go go around.
Everyone has a shaytaan the province that allows them was
asked even you he said yes, even me.
But my one has been subdued. The province hasn't been given
immunity. You may have heard about the splitting of the chest of the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam when he was young, right, and then
it happened again, they say up to three times once before His
ascension, not the one before his first revelation. But the famous
one is when he was a small child, in one of those occasions when the
angels came, took out his heart, did that surgery, took out his
heart and took out a pot and he said this is how the shaytani
mink, this is the
I mean, I would probably say this is the shaytani chip. That's how
shaytaan connects to the human being. There's a chip in us of
some sort, some abstract chip, some really futuristic one, right?
That's what the shaytaan connects with. That's out to the process
and doesn't have that that's been removed.
So the shaytaan the bond designator himself doesn't effect
him.
Now the thing shaytaan knows about you more than anybody else,
meaning any other creature, any other creation. Shaytan knows
about us, our shaytaan knows about us more than our parents.
He's been with us since birth.
He's been with us all the time. So he knows exactly what makes us do
things. He knows that when I meet a certain person, this is what's
going to happen fireworks. Right. You know, a certain daughter in
law, when she meets the mother in law is going to be fireworks,
Allah protect, right? When a person meets, so and so there's
going to be haram that will take place, when a person gets online,
this is what's going to happen. He knows that so he just has to
whisper. It doesn't have to do much more. He has to whisper give
you an idea, remind, remind of the pleasure of a previous encounter.
And then you just carry on.
That's what it is. He just has to remind let me give you an example.
If you're a smoker, right, and Allah protect us and relieve us of
this burden, but if you're a smoker, if you've ever been a
smoker, the first guy that made you smoke.
Do you even remember who that is anymore?
The person that got you into smoking that friends so called
friends like, Hey, do you want to try a cigarette? Has anybody ever
at school told you you have you want to smoke?
Right? Be very careful of those people. That person is long gone.
But the habit stays and you're spending huge amounts of money.
You're messing up your health, but that guy's long gone, he may have
even given up smoking Subhan Allah, you know, may Allah make
this Ramadan a means of quitting smoking for people, it's, it's a
very debilitating disease. It's a very debilitating habit rather. So
can you understand what I'm saying? shaytaan just has to
prompt he knows what. So we have to be very careful about that we
have the way you develop immunity against the shaytaan is by
remembrance of Allah. When the heart becomes solidified, and
strengthened with the Dhikr of Allah.
Then it's less prone to those whispers, we can more easily throw
him away, we can easily more easily repel him. Just to give you
an example, a lot of people have said that they do Ramadan very
well, because shaytans out of the picture. They abstain from certain
sins that they've been committing, you know, whole of Ramadan went
very well they did not do it. And then on the day of eighth in the
evening, they messed up.
And they feel so wrecked, so despondent. I did Ramadan, so well
shaytans back out after Ramadan ends, and he tries to come with a
vengeance.
Right. I know, we're still at the beginning of Ramadan, but it's
flying already. Right, five, six days or however many have passed
or a passing. I may not speak to you again before Ramadan. But this
is one thing to keep in mind. If you can survive for the next few
weeks after Ramadan, then you will have a much better year. If you
mess up the day after Ramadan eid day or the day after, then that's
psychologically very debilitating. So be very careful on the day of
Eid. It is not the day when God looks the other way. You know, in
Stamford Hill where I was an Imam, there's one day of the year
there's a big Jewish community. And they celebrate I think it's
called Purim.
And they go kind of crazy on that day they go on the back of trucks
blare the Music start drinking you never see the very dignified
genuine, they're walking around they're very well dressed and
dignified and you know very solemn. But on this day they go
crazy says that God looks the other way.
So that's the kind of day they were delivered from somewhere
there's a historical story so they think they can just go out we
don't that's not eat for us either as a day of yomo Jaya is a day
when we get reward for the Ramadan efforts. Right? That's really what
it is. And Allah says, Eat and drink and enjoy the halal. Now,
the verses that I quoted at the end just to get an understanding
of how shaytaan works, and this is inshallah hopefully insightful so
that we can be careful. I'll give you an example. There's a girl,
right? She's 1112 years old, she has been to a Muslim school.
Right? She has not interacted with boys outside of a family. It's
from a very chaste, very religious, very productive home,
you know, very religious home. Now, they can't find a secondary
school that's not mixed. So she goes to a mix secondary school
high school academy.
And there's a guy there, and he says, Oh, you look really nice.
You know, you're really beautiful. You're gonna have a lot of people
saying that. Right? And you get a lot of guys saying these things
unfortunately, haram obviously. Now, what do you think her
reaction is?
is going to be like taba stuff a little bit of embarrassment.
right a bit of embarrassment. She has never dealt with this kind of
stuff. Do you expect this woman, this girl rather to go all the way
and commit haram on that first day that she is been praised. You
know, every few days is somebody saying, hey, you know your bag is
really nice and your clothes are very nice. You got a really nice
smile. Right? And saying other weird things this is flirting,
right? You think she's ever going to commit haram like straightaway?
No. It's a big taboo you can't do that generally doesn't happen.
Children don't end up in gangs.
The next day, right, there's always a trajectory. There's
always steps. And this is what Allah says number of places in the
Quran. Whether that be through hoto T shaped on do not follow the
steps of the shaytaan. several places in the Quran, Allah repeats
that same thing, don't follow the steps of shaytaan. Because then
Allah subhanho wa Taala says in Surah Noor, verse 21, he adds
something he says, and the one who does follow the steps of the
shaytaan shaytaan only commands people with unchaste things
immoral things and wrongs.
She doesn't command for anything, right?
It's always step by step, the process is always step by step. So
for example, let's give you an example. This girl, what's going
to happen then is that the onslaught is going to be on her.
She's there's going to be constantly guys on her back
because everybody else is doing it. So she is going to have to be
very protected. Slowly, slowly. One day, she is going to give a
smile back.
She is going to give a smile back. That's it, the connection is made.
Until now she kept turning away she was embarrassed. She didn't
say anything. She rejected the advances. One day, she is going to
give a smile back. That's that weak spot. She's going to give
that smile back the Shakedowns. They're playing, you know,
shaytans they're working hard. He likes you, you should be
interested.
It gives a smile back. That's it, the connection is made.
And then after, then after that, numbers are exchanged, then and
then the Hola Hola. Hola. Predict, step by step. That's what it was.
It's step by step. You'd never expect somebody to do that on the
first day. There's a guy who has just started working
right at a chicken shop.
Young college guy, he needs some extra money. He started working at
a chicken shop. Where else do people work? Their first jobs?
Retail that one? Yeah, maybe in retail go on stacking shelves in
Sainsbury's, for example, or something like that.
Now, what happens is that it's the end of the day. And there's a
customer that comes in, but you've done all the cash collection,
you've done all the, you know, the cash register, you've closed it
up, and then somebody comes to last and you've got some extra
chicken there to sell. So you send it to him. And there's three pound
50 there. What am I going to do? I've already done all the hisab
I've done all of the accounts. 350. I mean, am I going to like
open up everything and then do it again. shaytan comes to you step
by step.
You should just nobody's going to miss it. Just three pound 50
You could say one pound, you know, whatever. It's not much, who's
gonna miss it. make enough money anyway. That's the justification.
They make they charge enough already. So we're allowed to cheat
them. Right? Because they charge too much already. I mean, you
signed up for the charge, you know? So
then what happens is that so you, you say no, no, no, hola, hola.
Hola, como de La Villa. Next time, same thought that thought will
continue unless you're connected in the vicar to Allah that thought
will continue. And then eventually one day and say, yeah, man, put in
my pocket. But you know what, I'll put it in my pocket. I'll give it
to the boss tomorrow. That's the real excuse that I'll put in my
pocket. I'll give it to the boss tomorrow. And then after that, you
forgot the next day.
You forgot the next day, and you forgot. And then after that it was
just too complicated. And then you'd spent the money by mistake
and then it's like, oh, forget, he was gonna find out. He never said
anything. So he probably didn't realize he didn't check the
cameras, step by step. Then after that, you will become a bit more
brave.
So this time was two to three pounds. Then a 10 pound note who's
not going to miss it. There are so many people in this retail
business that complain of the employees cheating them. I mean,
you guys, businessman, anybody businessman here, right? It's one
of the beans of business. You can put cameras you can do what you
want. And sometimes the guy is a good worker. So and then they
blackmail you Subhanallah these are the perils of doing business.
Right?
It's like I'm teaching you how to do this.
I'm not teaching you how to do this. I'm telling you that this is
the steps that you do not take from the beginning.
Let's take another example. There's two partners in a
business, they've just started business together. And you know,
each one is in charge of a certain aspect of the business.
Again,
a bit of cheating here and there, I can make this bit of extra
money. And subhanAllah, sometimes you've had in businesses where one
of the partners will actually go to the client, or the cost
potential customer and say, buy from us, but I'll give you this
price. But then you give me a side, amount on the side so that
the official money coming into the business that we're going to
share is a certain amount. But then the other part you get me in
private, so I make more money than my partner.
You would never do that. First you start off with small things, then
it goes to begin, these are criminal started. They started off
with small things. Friend of mine, works in prisons as a chaplain.
And once he was, you know, these are young offenders between I
think 17 and 20. Or something. It's a special prison for young
offenders. Right.
One of the kids in there he was talking to this Maulana the sheikh
about he says, I blame my mother for my being impressed.
By what did you make you do on steel? Now, what she did was, you
know, when we used to go to people's houses, you know, when
you go to your relative's house, and when you're a little kid,
do you ever remember wanting to take your cousin's car? Or cousins
toy that can I take it home? Do you ever remember doing that? We
never do that.
I'm asking you.
Have you ever thought of taking your cousin's toy home so that you
can play with it at home? Yeah, I mean, every child does that.
Right? What does? What do the what does the host family? What do the
parents say? Generally? What do they tell you? Take it right. laid
out.
Right? Let it go in go like, let them take it. It's a bit
embarrassing. Say no, no, no, you can't take it. Even if they don't
when you're taking that off to say, let them take it.
His mom, she never used to say no, he's like, Yeah, I mean, good
parents. I say no, you can't take it. As bad habit. You can't just
take everything you see. We've got taught enough toys at home, here's
what you say, Oh, we got enough toys at home. They don't even play
with their toys. It's just something new.
Here's my mom never used to say they just let him take it on
either. Right? Let it come in. I don't know for what reason she's
just very calm or just too laid back or whatever. So he got into
this
culture you can say of entitlement that I can take whatever I want.
So slowly, slowly, he started when you know the local shop. He used
to go and take from there, steal the local shop used to go
and steal. And nobody go to Shabnam supermarket. Okay. Right.
He used to take I'm getting used to the area, right learning the
names of the local shops. So he would take take something, it
became, it became worse, he got his sister involved, to watch out
at the corner of the aisles and so on. And then it wasn't a local
shop anymore. It became the mall. I don't know which model it was,
it became a local mall. And he would use his sister and others to
watch out and then eventually, remember, you will always get
caught. Just remember children, you will always get caught. You
may escape 1234 or five times, but eventually you will get caught.
Right. And generally when you get caught, it means you've done it a
few times, unless you're very lucky to get caught the first
time.
That's happened as well. I know a few people who they got caught the
first time they tried and Hamdulillah that didn't get it,
there was a small one, but that put the fear of God in them, you
know, so they didn't do any more. Now this guy is in prison and he
blames his mom.
Again, it was a trajectory it was step by step do not follow the
footsteps of the shaytaan. So you have at school, you'd have
somebody who tells you go and do this, go and do graffiti. Now. How
do you feel about that?
No, no, I can't do that. What they're going to do is they're
going to put peer pressure on you. I have to speak to the children.
They're here. I can't ignore them. That's why it's become sorry for
the elders. Right. You guys are not going to be interested in
graffiti. But so they're gonna start to pressure you they're
gonna call you chicken. They're gonna call you all of these
things. They actually did a test they actually did a
a test on this where they got some guys to get these kids and try to
get them to do graffiti. And you know, who were the ones that
resisted? Were those who had a very solid home solid relationship
with parents.
They had that Congress said, No, I'm gonna go from here and they
ran off. If you don't run away, and you stay there, try
fit in? Why are you trying to fit in? Because you don't have a good
relationship at home. That's why you're trying to fit in with
friends. If you've got a good reader, you don't care about bad
friends and parents have taught them about that, then they kind of
resist May Allah protect all of our children.
Some of the examples of this
for the adults, wives are constantly complaining, my husband
is being flirtatious. I'm going to use these complicated words. So
to keep it a bit veiled. My husband is very flirtatious after
ours is on the WhatsApp. Right? And she's getting paranoid a lot
of the time it's from that side, it could be the other way as well.
And then you talk to the husband is like no man, that's just
innocent banter.
It may not be halal banter. He says it's innocent, though,
because he says I've got a boundary. I will not do the act.
Right. But don't you understand that you're really messing in his
heart on what you're doing. This is the trajectory of the shaytaan
SubhanAllah. Think about this.
The freshers day, hours of your day of anybody's they are the
morning, waking hours and the first half of the morning, right?
There's many people who are spending this
in the company of the opposite gender, because they have to go to
work in a mixed environment. And
you have to dress up to go to work, and so on. You've got a wife
at home. But you've got these stunning other people at work,
you're on projects together, you're doing tasks together,
you're experiencing
the capabilities of one another. And humans are
humans, they really inclined towards good qualities or
capabilities and strengths. You're sharing successes. You're sharing
failures, high fives, and whatever else there is right.
And you come home and you're tired. And then you start
comparing,
speaking the language, you start comparing, and then your marriage
is on the rocks. Because this one isn't as bright as that one. This
one isn't as charming and as attractive, doesn't carry
themselves in that certain way. Maybe she's gone to work as well
as she's also tired from work. Right? Allah make it easy. These
are sometimes inevitable things that people find themselves in.
May Allah make it easy. May Allah make it easy. These are all the
steps that have shaped on so many marriages break, they say that one
of the highest
records, or highest days of divorce is on the third of
January.
Because they have Christmas parties where everybody lets their
hair down, and it goes crazy. And marriages just it's the time for
destruction of of marriages. Christmas time is the destruction
of marriages, Christmas parties.
Same thing, you see something that is haram. But it's not that bad.
It's just something that stunning, you know, something that is very
attractive, but it's still haram for a man to look at. So you look
at that. And then after that it just gets worse and worse and
worse until people end up in * and they're addicted
and they can't do anything about it. It started off with something
small. It started off with one step. It may have started with a
friend trying to show you something on their phone.
That's why these high schools that banned phones are should be should
be celebrated. Because they're the worst things that you can have. If
you have a
high school that doesn't allow phones to be used on the premises,
then that's really good because that is where most of the trouble
is beginning nowadays.
steps of the shaytaan some other issues like mashallah, you've
learned to pray and you do all of your prayers. You do your father,
you do your sunnah, you do your wajib, of course and you do your
Knuffle prayers as well. And then eventually you get a bit busy. So
you start dropping your knuffel prayers. You drop going to the
masjid for your prayers, you start delaying your prayers. You still
praying them though, you start delaying them, then comes a time
when you make them up all at night, this period. I you know,
I've really messed up I do try to get all my prayers done before
before I go to sleep though, right because of x, y and Zed it started
off where the person was doing it well. These are trajectories,
these are steps. This was shaytaan does. He carries on like this
numerous examples, numerous examples. I guess the point here
is not to give every example there is but it's to give us an answer
how shaytan works. His starts bit by bit giving a taste, breaking
one taboo one stigma and then he can
is on until it gets worse and worse, we need to put a stop to it
from the beginning and to strengthen ourselves. And the most
amazing thing, despite all of this shaitan Allah says about the
plotting of shaytaan that in the K the shaytani can adore Eva that
the plotting of the shaitaan is actually very weak.
Whereas for men, when Allah subhanaw taala spoke about the
attraction to women he says in Qaeda Hakuna Aleem
that your challenge is much greater, but when it comes to data
is is is weak. How is it weak because as soon as you make vicar,
c'est la ilaha illa Allah stockfeed Allah will the biller
shaytaan goes
but you might think sometimes I'm in namaz, I'm in Salah and I'm
thinking of a sin. Salah is full of vicar because think about it.
If you do think of a sin insula is not going to be a nuisance, it's
going to be an addiction. It's the knifes that's craving it.
That's all it is, is the knifes that's craving it
that is what Ramadan is for. Allah has taken shaytaan all the defeats
that is two forces of evil in our life when the shaytaan shaytans
out of the picture. The second one is that knifes the soul the ego
that generally works based on habit. So Allah is telling us now
abstain from permissible things food, drink and
intimacy in the daytime, the halal things to do generally, you're not
allowed to do them. So what happens is then the self stopped
asking for you for food or drink during the day because like, okay,
he's fasting. So we've just overcome the self. So it should
just become easier to overcome the self after Ramadan from
wrong things. Because if we're told to abstain from Halal things
and we're getting used to that, then we should become it should
become easier for us to abstain from haram things. That's what
Allah said. Yeah, you hold the denominator cote, Bharati calcium
Kamakoti ballerina mean, publikum La La Quinta. Takuan fasting has
been prescribed upon you just as it was on the people before you so
that you can gain Taqwa. So the purpose is not that just for
Ramadan, we be different. But it's more like a training ground. For
example, as young children, I mean, our parents teach, don't
they teach us to respect our elders? They do, right? Our
parents teach us to respect our elders. Now is that just for when
you're small and you can start disrespecting them when they get
when you get older, you understand that that is actually respecting
them for the rest of your life. That's the training, we're
supposed to carry it on. Likewise, Ramadan is a training ground to
get the taqwa in Ramadan, not just for that, that one day of Eid
comes everything goes back to what it was before Ramadan, but to
carry on it's a training ground every year Allah gives it to us.
May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us the trophy. May Allah accept
from us May Allah protect us from the hotel world is shaped on the
steps of the shaytaan be very careful about the steps are
shaytaan try to recommend try to get clever recognizing this is
shaytaan. Man, let me run a mile out with a bIllahi min ash
shaytani regime, may Allah give us a trophy to do that this is useful
for adults and children because we're all prone to shaitan is
after all of us. Right? That's why let us develop immunity and
Marcela. There's one person who told me that in Ramadan, he really
made an effort that year. And then after that, the extra effort that
he didn't Ramadan for, you know, for the next seven months after
Ramadan, he didn't even feel like doing the sin that he was used to
doing. He didn't even feel like it.
Right. Then after that he started becoming weak. And I don't know if
he pulled it through or not. He says, a year or two later, I again
made a huge effort in Ramadan, lots of DUA and UScar, and
everything. And then I did kick off as well, he said, and he said
this time, the immunity that I got from Ramadan lasted nine months
or 10 months.
No, actually, yes. He said it lasted for nine months. Yes. Now I
remember. And he said now I started feeling weak again, study
feeling inclined. But he said Look, I can't mess up. Now. This
is the first time in nine months without the sin. So then he said
I've only got two months left, until I get to my sanctuary, the
next Ramadan. And he said I managed to pull it through. That
was my first time in so many years that a whole year had gone without
a sin. So Ramadan is extremely powerful. And if on top of that,
you get Hajj that gives you a another boost of thing another
boost of fortitude and immunity as well. May Allah make Ramadan, that
source of immunity for all of us and give us the highest reward and
may Allah make this Ramadan better than any Ramadan before it for us,
allow us to be closer to him than we've ever been before working
with that one and he'll hamdulillahi rabbil aalameen. The
point of a lecture is to encourage people to act to get further an
inspiration and encouragement, persuasion. The next step is to
actually start learning seriously
to read books to take on a subject of Islam and to understand all the
subjects of Islam at least at the basic level, so that we can become
more aware of what our deen wants from us. And that's why we started
Rayyan courses so that you can actually take organize lectures on
demand whenever you have free time, especially, for example, the
Islamic essentials course that we have on the Islamic essentials
certificate which you take 20 Short modules and at the end of
that inshallah you will have gotten the basics of most of the
most important topics in Islam and you'll feel a lot more confident.
You don't have to leave lectures behind you can continue to live,
you know, to listen to lectures, but you need to have this more
sustained study as well just like a law here in Santa Monica when I
have to live record