Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – What Goes Around Comes Around
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The negative impact of miscalculations on people, including distraction, dread, and evil behavior, is discussed. The importance of expressing joy and avoiding evil behavior is emphasized, along with the need for a "refuge" to deal with negative emotions. The speakers also touch on topics related to Islam, including loss of love, divorce, and divorces, and the importance of shaming one's behavior for something that is not your fault. The speakers emphasize the importance of leaving negative emotions behind for others to avoid damaging personal relationships and the difficulty of being a god and mother.
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi wa salatu salam ala
UD Mursaleen. Early he was Sufi raka was seldom at the Sleeman
girthier on Elomi deen and buried
gone in the bo sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Kamara, who told me the
Hadith in Hassanein, hurry been under Rasul Allah He sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam a call, lotto Harish Shama totally Creek, fire
humble Hula, hula xojo Allah way of Tillich.
One of the things that people generally get up to when they have
some enemies or they don't like some people are they distressed
some people is that whenever a misfortune
comes upon them, then they get satisfied by that they rejoice at
that.
Now, while that may seem like some kind of revenge or some kind of
contentment for the huts, that when somebody has something wrong,
and you feel good about it, it's like you're getting your own back
without actually doing anything. It's like a free kind of revenge.
What we have to understand that it's actually quite detrimental.
And the reason is detrimental is that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam has specifically spoken about this, he's actually asked
for refuge from this, that all Allah don't make anybody rejoice
at my calamity or my misfortune. So this is a dua that Rasulullah
sallallahu isn't taught us. Now, unfortunately, some people become
habituated to this. They don't find anything wrong in doing this.
They don't feel bad about this, because some people might think
that Oh, I didn't do anything. I didn't do anything wrong to them.
This is deserving. Now the deceptive aspect of this is that
when a misfortune happens, when a misfortune takes place, and
afflict somebody, then generally because
misfortune is generally seen as a punishment by people that Oh, I
must have done something wrong, or he must have done something wrong.
That's why this kind of thing is happening. And that's why that
becomes problematic, because we think that misfortune can happen
to somebody only because they've done something wrong. Now, even if
they have done something wrong, it doesn't justify that we can
rejoice at that. That's why, why filler relates that Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, as this in this hadith of
telemovie, that don't express joy law to the shamatha, don't express
joy, Lea Creek, at your brother, your sister, don't express joy at
somebody else, meaning don't express joy at somebody else's
misfortune. That's the word Shemitah. In Arabic, the word
Shemitah in Arabic literally means alpha biblioteca, I do alpha
biblioteka Do we, which means to be satisfied, to rejoice to get
happy, and exhilarated that some enemy of yours has been hit by a
misfortune, but has been tested in some way has had an accident, for
example, somebody had an accident, somebody was going and then they
throw their dress, somebody's handbag got stolen, for example,
somebody's car got scratched, somebody lost their job, somebody
had a problem in their family, somebody got a divorce. All of
these things are reasons why somebody may may rejoice if they
have that evil in their heart. So learn to Hiroshima totally agree,
do not express any kind of joy at your brother's misfortune. Another
person's misfortune. Why fair humble hula, then Allah subhanho
wa taala. May, because Allah subhanaw taala may end up having
mercy on him, and compassion on him and, and relieving him of that
by His mercy. And then Allah subhanho wa Taala will, yep,
Tellico, which will, that he will engage you in this, he will test
you with this. So that's quite dangerous in the sense that, what
we have to understand is that the basis of all of this is that
this world is a world in which we all are equal.
Anything that can happen to somebody else can happen to us as
well, because we're all the same and equal when it comes to being
human beings. There is no difference between us. So nobody
can say that I'm absolutely protected from this until death
until our fate is not sealed without death, essentially, there
is no way that any of us can actually think that that said, I'm
not getting involved in this, I will never be involved in
something like this. There have been so many people who've said,
look how bad that person is. Look at what you know, he's done in his
life. Look how misfortune you know, look how much
how much misfortune he has, or whatever the case is. And then a
few years later, this person is engaged in the same kind of
problem. Don't laugh at anybody else. Because what goes around
comes around. That's a general rule of the world because
everybody's the same in this world, and all calamities that can
hit anybody, because that's just generic, right? It can hit
anybody. That's why the Prophet sallallahu Sallam is teaching us a
massive lesson here is that do not express joy at your brother's
misfortune, because it's very likely that Allah Allah
subhanaw taala can have mercy on him, which means that you relieve
him. Now he's in a much better state, she's in a much better
state. And Allah subhanaw taala has then engaged you or tested you
with that thing. For example, somebody got divorced, and you
started laughing at them, you started rejoicing at them, you may
have even gone and said something to them. And this is not saying
that go and taunt them in their face. This is just rejoicing even
secretly, because people know and people fear that others will
rejoice at their misfortune. So just the fact and you know, to
kind of give a hint about these things. So then somebody got
divorced, for example, you read, you know, somebody and another
person rejoiced that is later on mashallah, this person who got
divorced earlier, right, she got married to somebody way better,
she's now very happy. You know, she's got everything that she
needs. And then this individual, the first individual gets
divorced, right? So it's, it's happened so often it happens so
often. That's why there's another Hadith that's related by Imam
Bukhari. Anima Muslim from Abu Huraira, or the Allahu Anhu. And
that's where the prophets Allah has made a dua now, if you
concentrate on everything that relates to the lives and we're
seeking refuge from in this dua, it's the prophets of Allah Islam
said that I will do bIllahi min Jadwal Bala, what * Shaka
darkish Shaka was so ill cada was Shama turtle irida. He's the
Prophet salallahu. Salam is asking us to seek refuge from four
different things. And all four of those things are very tough. All
four those things are very tough. So I'll tell you what he says. The
prophets of Allah some said seek refuge in Allah from Jadwal Bella
Jadwal. Bella is Bella Bella means a test, a challenge, something
that comes about a misfortune, a difficulty, something that we find
it very difficult, then doodle Bella, the burden and the
difficulty and the pain of dealing with that. So one is that you have
a calamity come upon you, but you're able to deal with it. But
this one is when the pain of it, the burden of it, the difficulty
of it, the hardship of it is so great, that it really just it puts
you into great kind of misery and effort and turmoil. That's why
somebody was asked that, what is worse than the calamity itself? He
says that the worst the worst thing about a calamity is how to
deal with it is the difficulty of that brings you psychologically
the effect that creates around you. So the prophets Allah said
ask Allah for the protection from Jadwal Bella Bella is going to
come to us because Allah is going to test people in the world but
just duel Bella you could ask for it as well in general, but at
least Jadwal Bella which means to the pain of it, the hardship of it
is removed. What darkish chakra, which means that we attain
misfortune chakra is misfortune in the hereafter actually worse than
the misfortune of the world. Can you imagine how big all of these
are, how mighty pains all of these things are? How much of a
misfortune all of these things are, so to attain a Chaka Chaka,
as I said, is misfortune being lost in the hereafter not being
satisfied the Chaka Chaka is the opposite of sera sera is further
Huda rain, which means the success of the two boats Shaka is the
opposite of that, where a person is not fortunate in this world or
in the Hereafter. And so will cover an evil fate, an evil
destiny, that just bad things keep happening to me and it's all
written, it's all seems to be going wrong. So the prophets I was
asked for protection from that. Now, if it wasn't possible to
change these things, then the profits or loss I wouldn't have
asked for refuge from them. But because the prophets Allah sent me
saying, Ask refuge and seek refuge from these things, then obviously,
it proves that there is a possibility of these things
changing and they will change if Allah subhanaw taala accepts your
DUA. So those are the three things. One is the great troubles
that come with challenges that face us and fitness that face us.
And number two is attaining misfortune. Number three is a bad
fate and destiny. And the fourth one is Shama to Florida. Now, all
of those things are big things. And with that, the Prophet
salallahu Salam is also saying in the same line, Shama Teulada,
which means that my enemies rejoice at my misfortune, because
one is you have a misfortune, you have a way of dealing with that
maybe so if something happens, you got an accident, whatever, you're
able to overcome that. But when other people are laughing, there's
not much you can do about that, especially when you don't even
know they're doing it, but you think they're doing it is just how
do you deal with that kind of thing? So Shama to Florida is
very, very, very bad. May Allah subhanaw taala protect us from it
that's why the prophets Allah Lord Islam, In another Hadith narrated
by Imam Hakeem from Abdullah he didn't even know he burned from
Abner Amara, the ALLAH and he says that the province that a lot of
summons do ours can or a school Allah He SallAllahu Are you some
year Drew? This is his dua, Allah Humala to Schmidt b i do want her
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Oh Allah don't
let an envious, jealous enemy of Mine rejoice at a misfortune.
Rejoice at anything that happens to me. So this tells us something
else, generally speaking,
although not always, but it's generally going to be people who
are jealous and envious, or have something against us. And it
doesn't have to be jealousy that there may be somebody who's not
jealous of us at all. But they just hate us for some reason,
right? Most of the time, I think it's going to be that they're
jealous of us though. Because if they're jealous or something,
something bad happens, then it's like something free misfortune
has, it's like a free misfortune has overtaken your enemy and
somebody you're envious of is like an enemy in a sense, but it
doesn't have to be somebody who is like that only. It can be. It can.
It can be just an enemy in general. You're not You're not
jealous of them, but you just don't want to see them in a high
position. You want the you want their failure. So that's why when
something wrong happens, so the Prophet salallahu Salam is summing
it up here by saying that don't let any of my enemies who are also
envious of me rejoice at my calamity.
Very similar dua that Harun Alehissalaam makes. What happens
is when Musa Ali salaam went for that special meeting with Allah
subhanho wa taala, and that special in intimate discourse with
him, when he came, he was told on his way back that your people
behind you have started worshiping that calf, that golden calf, he
had left Haruna Allison on behind to look after them for the
Maharajah Musa Illa comi hot burner Asifa. Right, he came came
back extremely perturbed, he'd gone for a great thing, he just
taken them and extracted them out of the clutches of Pharaoh out of
all of that misery and slavery for that whole generation that were
there. Now they they're free, and Subhanallah they turned to this
because of you know somebody and because of their own foolishness.
So he'd left how to run Islam behind. So now what happens is
that whenever generally, you've left somebody in charge, and
something wrong happens in their charge, you're going to get really
angry at that person because you can't really do anything to other
people because they're foolish anyway. So he comes back grabs
his, the head of his his brother, and this was just one way of
showing their kind of concern or anger or some of us didn't
actually say that maybe he was trying to tell him something. But
either way, it seemed to look like he was you know, he was doing
something to his brother so immediately moves out a hold on it
Sam says to his brother, learn to Schmidt BL the Walter journey mile
calm his body mean, don't let our enemies don't let the enemy
rejoice at our, at my misfortune. You know, he gave his reasons why
he couldn't do anything, because he's, uh, he explained that if he
tried to stop them, the group would have split into two and that
disunity in that particular case would have been worse, because
then there would have been no control whatsoever. And he
probably hoped that, you know, things would have come right once
Musa alayhis salam came back as they did when he took care of
SAMity. So when 100 Isom was was dealt with this way by his
brother, this is what he said. He says, Look, don't make it such
that our enemies will rejoice that is that now there's infighting
between the two brothers is even worse. Don't express that outside
and do not now make me as part of these oppressive people don't
don't join me with them as well don't include me with them as well
and you know, in the way you're punishing me because this is not
very wise something to do. So he makes the same kind of dua because
it's just much worse. That it's much worse than dealing with your
own problems yourself that somebody else has to laugh at you.
It just feels like you know the walls are watching you that's how
bad it gets. That's why a you ballet salon is famous story. It's
known about him that he was afflicted with all of this great
diseases and loss of family. Everything that he lost you know
the famous story of a you Valley salon, somebody asked him
afterwards, a U shaped him in Bella ik Girnar a shed or like a U
shaped him in Billerica and shed the lake, which part of your test
from Allah subhanaw taala, which part of this test of yours was the
worst for you was the most difficult for you?
So he said Shemitah Teulada he said the rejoicing of my enemies,
people who didn't you know, like me for whatever reason people
would oppose me for whatever reason, when they saw this coming
to me Subhanallah it's like your enemy has been vanquished without
you doing anything. It's like a free kind of, there's just so much
potential there for people to rejoice and take it wrongly. So
that's why our Dean tells us about personal ethics, because it's
really between us and Allah subhanaw taala if something
misfortune is happening, happening to somebody else, then clearly
there's a lot of room from our human nature and human weakness to
just rejoice at that because we've not had to do anything and they've
been afflicted. But what we have to remember is that if we do
rejoice
And that person, especially if that person is not wrong, and this
is just a test or he's made Toba afterwards, they've they've
repented afterwards for whatever they're wrong was even if you're,
you didn't like them for a good reason in the sense that they are
doing wrong. If they've made Toba especially if they've made Toba
then,
more so, the effect the bad influence of that will come upon
us as as I will mention. There's a poem a poet says from a Shoe Man
Kadesha DB Nafi. What are Motoman called Murta cobbly? Be Mohan
Liddy. So for my Schumann, Kodaira Shabak, the benefi, wala Motoman,
CADCA, Mankad, Murta cobbly, wala moto Mankad, Murta, cobbly B
mohale. Lady, basically, this is just a Rule of Life, what the
point is saying is that
the continuous living, or the, the remaining life of the one who
lives off to me is not going to benefit me,
the one who lives after I die, and who continues to live, that's not
going to be to my benefit. And neither is the death of the one
who dies before me is that going to make me live forever. So if
somebody dies before me, it's not going to make me live forever, I'm
going to die within the next so on, you know, the next few months
or years, or whatever the case is. And if somebody does carry on
living more than me, well, that's not going to benefit me either. So
it should be a non issue, it should not be something that I
need to be concerned about, that somebody carries on living, or
somebody dies before me, it doesn't make a difference. It's
all up to Allah subhanaw taala. Because that's what happens
sometimes, if your jealousy if you're jealous of somebody, you
wish that he would just just date disappear of this earth. So that
that's it, you know, you don't have to look at the you don't have
to look at their achievements anymore, or their successes
anymore, because they're gone. Right? There's just no option.
There's no possibility, but there's just no point, you'd
rather rather ask Allah subhanaw taala to relieve us of this kind
of thoughts. That's a better thing to do. Because at the end of the
day, both concepts are just, I just expectations, I just hopes, I
just desires that I desire that somebody
I desire that somebody die, I desire that somebody's not there
anymore. Well, why desire that? Why can't we be desired that I
don't have this problem anymore? You know, and that's a possibility
as well within the realm of possibilities just about positive
thinking. That's why I remember once I was with a, with another
Sheikh, in, it was a program we attended together in America and
his son comes crying to him, he's about 12 years old, his son comes
crying to him. And he's saying, you know, so and so a local boy, a
local friend of his, you know, somebody that he hangs around with
at school and other things. He's been doing this and the other
team, you know, and he started saying bad things about him. So
the Sheikh said to him, why are you praying like that against your
friend, or against this local local lead? Instead of that, why
don't you pray to Allah subhanaw taala that Allah make him a good
person and Allah allow us to come together that will be better
otherwise, you'd have to deal with this enmity all your life. But if
your friends if your friends or you can get along amicably, then
there's nothing wrong with that. So we should is positive thinking.
It's about trying to change your posture. It takes a while to do
this, though. It takes a lot of people because we're, especially
if we've been grown up with a lot of negative feeling towards people
and we feel that people deserve certain responses or certain types
of attitude, then that's where it gets much more difficult.
There's a another Hadith related from more arthro The Allahu Anhu
that Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, Men i era Ha hoo
be the men lamium Would Hatoyama who had they are Mela, who? Man ha
ha who be them. Ben lamb Yamato had diametre. Who this is that
really, really frightening Hadith that anybody who turns another,
another person with a sin, then the person who's taunting will not
die until he also falls into that same sin. That is where it gets
there. That's why I'm a double nominee explains this, that this
is referring to a sin that the person has made doba from. So
anybody who taunts reminds brings up in a negative way, a sin that
somebody had committed and kind of taunts him with it, and that
person has made over from it and responder repented from it, then
the person who's doing this is not going to die until he's also
involved in that which means that he will get involved in this and
that's
it's happened so many times.
That that is that is really this hadith is related by Imam Timothy.
It's a weak Hadith but it's really a it's related by Martina meany.
And it's been
observed that this generally happens. And number two, you know
somebody might say well, he hasn't made Toba. How do you know like
He keeps doing it. That's why he keeps doing it.
Yes, he keeps doing it. But how do you know that he hasn't made Toba
and then done it again,
this is a fresh sim, because we're told to make doba every day, you
know, we're told to make a stick for every day and to repent to
Allah subhanaw taala. And as we also probably make Toba from
something, maybe do it again, not everybody is able to just make
Toba once an end of story, a seeding kind of dough, but it's
just not always the case. So the safest approach is you just don't
do this. It's prohibited just just don't do it just consider it to be
completely prohibited.
Now, what about the case where somebody is really a bad person,
and then in doing that bad, they were just really, you know, for
example, a lot of these tyrant rulers or tyrants,
gangster people, mafia people, just people who go and kill, left,
right and center indiscriminately, just violent people of that
nature. What about them, and something bad happens to them?
Again, you have to be careful, though, you can be definitely
satisfied that the world has been relieved of such a person. So you
can be you know, there's a way to deal with this where, yes,
Alhamdulillah It's a relief that that person's gone.
Right, that that person is going to handle, it's a relief that, you
know, like, for example, some of these against the Muslims in
different countries who have been aggressively intrusives You can be
relieved about that. Absolutely. And you can be joyful in that
sense that hamdulillah in that sense, but when it's to another
brother or sister, and it's not something like that, it's just
that you're jealous of them. See, there's a difference. One is as a
violent person. Now, Al Hamdulillah people have been given
respite, they've been given delivery from this person's
violence, that's something to be rejoiced, but not when it's
something that is just somebody something bad happening to just
somebody who you have an enmity for or jealousy for, for no reason
whatsoever. That's why one of the other scholars who said to Shuksan
got the Hubba, Badu us nanny for the habit, US nanny. Basically,
this is just somebody record recollecting some of his own
little tragedies in this regard. He says that, once I
once I criticize somebody, and taunted somebody for some teeth
that they had missing, people do that all the time, right? They say
these different words that they have for people whose teeth are
missing in different languages. So he said once, I just wanted him
for that. And that was just, you know, some of his teeth were
missing and probably had a glaring gap. And then mighty thought went.
So it's, essentially we're all going to be afflicted by similar
things. It's just a matter of time.
And if Allah doesn't like it at all, what we did then hardass then
it's going to happen even further. And that's why Another person said
also, one of our two Illa imra tinleigh hillbilly for another XO
Jetty manleigh Redo. He said, I looked at a woman that was not
halal for me to look at, you know, with a lustful gaze probably. And
what happened then is that my wife started to look at people I didn't
want her to look at. So it's being effected in a like manner. May
Allah subhanaw taala protect us from the calamities of our deeds,
because YBNL Josie, the great scholar of Baghdad, one of my most
favorite, he says, that this is happened so much to such a degree
and he was a very perceptive, perceptive person, very intuitive,
very had great amount of basura. He had a great amount of basura
and insight, and he is somebody who had really, really assessed
himself. If there was a man of Maha Sabha, then you know, these
are the people. He said that whenever a man has to be alpha
tone, Wallah hormone, wala Lee who soldering in B cell in RFO. That's
what he says. He says, that never has any kind of calamity come upon
me, any kind of grief struck me, or a constriction in the heart
where I felt bad about something, except that it was because of a
slip that I made, and I recognize that slip. So essentially, he was
keeping track of all of his actions. That is because of this
that I did that this has happened, he's immediately tracing the
connections, had the young quinone and akule has been che il Fulani.
You know, I had assessed it to such a degree and I recognize that
that I would be able to say that this is because of such a deed.
What are Obama to oh, well to wheel and fee he better do for our
Kuba is that sometimes I would try to interpret it differently and
try to not connect the two and not say it's because of this and then
I would see the punishment of it afterwards. So he says that
generally it's whatever wrong I mean, just taking this further.
It's not just about
what we say and talk to others about their see
or rejoice at somebody else's misfortune. It's not just about
that it's any wrong that we do. Right and Iran that we do, it will
come back in some form of shape, unless we make Toba to Allah
subhanaw taala. But when you've done it to somebody else, when
when it's rejoicing at somebody else's calamity, it's got nothing
to do with us. That in that case, it's even worse. That's what these
Hadith are saying. That's why
he's, that's why the suggestion is that for him to heal in Sunni and
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facula Islam is an amino, that you should always look out for the
effect of a sin that we commit. Because very seldom does a person
remain safe from that. And well, eh, the head filbur person should
avidly try to repent to Allah subhanho wa Taala because it's the
only thing that can relieve us of the misfortunes that come from
such such a thing. That's why Moodle Rock has this poem, he
says, are a to Salah, Helmer II Bisola li or a to Salah *,
Marie. Yes, Lu Lu, y de him the old facade the the facade the way
I should have it duniya before Billy Salahi where you follow
Burdell motif, Lee? Well, well, Eddie, what that means is, he says
right to Salah al Maliki yesterday who Allahu what I have seen of the
piety of an individual is that his family will be pious and righteous
were a de him that will facade the either officer and if he becomes
corrupt, then they will also be struck by the illness, they will
also be struck by the illness of corruption as well. They will also
be corrupt because of that. And he then says, We assure forfeit dunya
before the salah he it's only from the grace of your righteousness
and piety that a person will gain honor. And when you follow back,
they'll motivate anyone who already and not only will a person
become honored, and because of his the grace of his own piety and
goodness, not only will he benefit from it, but he will also be
protected after his death in terms of his wealth, in terms of his
family and children. They will also be protected after his death
because of the piety that a person had in their own life.
That's why there's another dua
mentioned in that hadith Allahu Mafalda Newbill Islamic law Eman
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Ramallah has hidden, which means Oh Allah, protect me in my Islam
and I'm standing protecting me in my Islam, even when I'm sitting so
in all my states, protect me and protect my faith, faith. And then
along with that, you know, loss of faith is massive. So protection of
faith is asking for a great thing, a very significant factor. So if
the prophets Allah, Islam is also adding to that, or if in this diet
that's also added, which is, and do not let my don't do not let an
enemy rejoice at my calamity, not a hassad not a jealous person.
Now, that's all related to this world, which we're all affected by
we see the effects of this. And we've seen it with other people
how what has come around has gone around. But the the worst thing
which we haven't seen yet is going to be on the Day of Judgment.
That's going to be the worst situation. Because
our enemy if we're worried about our enemies in this world
rejoicing and you might think well in the Hereafter, you know who's
going to rejoice everybody's going to be concerned? Well, shaytaan is
going to rejoice, because shaytaan will say in the hereafter as Allah
subhanaw taala relates in the Quran, Wakata shaytaan, la Malko
the el amor in Allah where are the Kumar idol Huck were to come for
stuck for left to America and Leon e commensal, Don Illa and Darrow
to come first step to step two li fala Tulu Mooney, we're Lumo and
Fusa calm Burnaby Masahiko warmer and tomasetti in Nika. Fatuma,
shocked to moon him in Kabul, in the volume in and home Idebenone.
He becomes his major preacher in the hereafter he'll shaytaan will
say when all the decree has been, all the decree has taken place,
and when the matter has been decided, he will then say that
look, Allah promised you something. Right? It's clear Allah
promised you something. And that was the true promise. Allah
promised you the true promise. I also promised you some things but
he doesn't mention what His promises were like. We know what
his promises. Allah promised you the true promise. I also promised
you something. And
for all of to come. I obviously went against my promise. Warmer
kerneli Alikum insult on I had no power Illa under Autocom I just
invited you. I couldn't force you. I invited you. And you answered
me. You responded to me first Egypt totally fell out. Hello
Mooney. So now
Don't send some me. Don't tell me off. Don't blame me. Lumo and full
circle, blame yourself,
man, a babysitter, Heiko mama and Tomasi Lee, I can't help you, you
can't help me in this situation. Because in Nikka, for to be a
shock to Mooney Munich club. Now, I am a golfer of the fact that you
used to consider me to be a partner in the past, the fact that
you impacted me before and basically worshipped me before, I
deny all of that right now. Because under 30 mean, they have a
severe punishment. Now, that's what shaytan is going to do. And
he's our enemy. So if we're worried about in this world, where
a misfortune hits us, and people are rejoicing at that, that could
be short lived tomorrow, it could all be we'd get success again. But
in the Hereafter, if there is misfortune, then it's misfortune.
For a very long time, if not forever, right, depending if it's
a believer or non believer, but at the end of the day, shaytaan will
rejoice. So we need to turn to Allah subhanho wa Taala and change
our ways. One is we make Toba. But the problem in our lives today is
that many of us who are concerned about the hereafter make doba they
do so far, they feel bad. But unfortunately, we're the most
difficult thing for most of us is that we have certain sins, which
are so rife in our community, that we don't even think of them as
wrong. And you will see people who pray and do all the good things,
who are concerned as well. But a lot of these, you can say
ingrained, culturally acceptable, or prevalent.
deeds and behavior is still prevalent within us. And that's
very difficult, for example, just thinking, justifying the fact that
you can rejoice at somebody else's calamity libre, and things of that
nature, they're just so just so normal that people do them. So
although on one side, we're concerned about these things, but
until somebody doesn't highlight it a few times, for us, it's not
going to come. I don't know if this topic is, you know, being
discussed enough to be honest, this rejoicing at somebody else's
calamity. That's why, if you do mention it enough, then there will
be people who will slowly slowly slowly
start leaving this attitude and start recognizing that we also
have this problem. Because as you know, as you see, you can
sometimes only recognize a bad habit of yours, when you're among
people who don't have that same bad habit, because we are the
mirror of people. And if we are among a community who does the
same thing all the time, then we don't really see that we're doing
anything wrong. And when you suddenly see others in that same
situation from another community, right, and they don't do the same
thing. Then you start realizing, hey, look, they act differently
because they're acting different to expectation. So a lot of the
time, it's not easy. That's the challenge. It's not easy to get
rid of.
Calamity, get rid of these ingrained, subtle sometimes
generally accepted or prevalent attitudes in our community. May
Allah subhanaw taala give us basura May Allah subhanaw taala
give us this self introspection and understanding and then
overall, allow us to actually relieve them, where does it
concern inshallah they will be away and Allah subhanaw taala will
help while he did that run and he'll hamdulillahi rabbil aalameen