Abu Eesa Niamatullah – The DevilS Deception – 7 Islamic Remedies
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So in Surah Zuhruf then, in verse 75,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, لَا يُفَتَّرُ
عَنْهُمْ وَهُمْ فِيهِ مُبْلِسُونَ This is what I
wanted to focus on, so they will remain
in utter despair.
وَهُمْ فِيهِ مُبْلِسُونَ They will remain in utter
despair.
لَا يُفَتَّرُ عَنْهُمْ Means that they will not
be given any respite.
There will be no respite for them.
وَهُمْ فِيهِ مُبْلِسُونَ They will remain in utter
despair.
That's the actual meaning of this verse.
It's referring to the criminals, not just the
Mujrimeen, but specifically the Kuffar from the Mujrimeen.
And they are in the hellfire now.
And there is absolution.
The game is up and they're now paying
for their sins.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala chooses one
word to reflect their state whilst they're in
the hellfire.
And again, we're talking about now done, absolution.
This is the Kuffar.
And the word is مُبْلِسُونَ So now we're
going to focus on this word in this
point of Tadabbur.
All right.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, first of all,
when you look at مُبْلِسُونَ, what's the first
thing that you notice?
Noun, well done.
Noun, permanency, game over.
This is not temporal.
If this was like they would despair here
and there, that means like, oh, so I've
got a chance then.
That there might be a time where I'm
not.
No, you are مُبْلِسُونَ, you are done.
It is permanent.
It's fixed.
You're always going to be like that.
That in itself is the first realization.
Allah intentionally wants to do that.
The second though, the word comes from the
verb أَبْلَسَ and أَبْلَسَ means to despair.
But to go further, it also means to
be broken.
To go further, it also means to give
up.
Like, you know, you're so battered.
You're so broken that you've just given up.
It also means to grieve.
أَبْلَسَ, the مُبْلِسُ is the one who is
in an intense state of grief.
Okay, you're feeling all of these meanings, yeah?
So you're now getting a vibe now that
the one who is مُبْلِسُ is broken, has
given up, is despairing.
But now another level of depression, grieving.
And here's the key, they are silent.
And we're saying he's silent.
What's the connection between someone who despairs and
someone who's silent?
Well, you can see immediately when you look
at some of the videos of court, you
know, court cases or whatever.
When they're just told after all of the
evidences and everything has been put forward and
everything, Kiani, whatever.
And they found that he's guilty and you're
now in life and whatever.
There's nothing literally else to say.
You know, like when you've exhausted everything and
you've put forward all of your secondary, back
up your third and your fourth.
There's now nothing left to put.
Also, some of the scholars mentioned, you know,
when someone just knows they're guilty and they
know that they're guilty and they know that
whatever I could have tried to have blacked
it, I couldn't black it, can't black it.
And I know that I'm guilty.
I mean, this is the human condition.
You know, when you watch football and you
see a penalty shout.
You can see the difference, right?
And it's weird because it's a kind of
like, it's a bit of a game.
Because if you leave it natural, right?
Then a person that knows that there's been
a completely shocking error, then what do you
mean?
Whereas the one who's absolutely guilty is like,
Oh my God, I can't believe I did
that.
He's not arguing at all.
He knows that he's been done.
He's guilty.
They've got me on 15 different cameras.
I don't even know why I'm bothering.
Which shows how crazy is the people who
know that there's 15 cameras and say that
I didn't touch it.
You know, when they're looking at the camera
of them, rubbing the ball and everything.
Yeah, I mean, so you can see that.
And the irony is, is that you are
meant to.
Therefore, at the human level, if you have
actually done the crime, meant to somehow change
your persona.
And if you haven't done the crime, you're
also meant to somehow show faux indignation.
And if you don't, you're going to cost
your team.
So the ablasah verb indicates a complete and
utter total despair.
And Allah describes these people as mubalisoon.
And this is also the reason why Shaitan
is called Iblis.
SubhanAllah, it's as simple as that.
He literally is the biggest loser, the most
guilty.
He's got nothing of defense or hope or
exit or way out.
He has nothing.
And once you've understood this, folks, once you've
realized that Iblis took sin, took sin to
a whole different level, right?
Just makes his entire existence about evil, make
his entire existence about rebellion.
You now realize that he's just given up.
It's all over.
There's nothing left, nothing left to play for,
nothing left to fight for, nothing, Yanni, whatever.
When you've given up all hope of redemption,
it's not just despair, you're finished.
And so he's out on a burn.
Literally, he's out on a burn.
He's going to burn everything down.
So when you burn everything down, you go
to Allah and you say, can you give
me some powers to burn everything down?
I'm going to come at all of these
people that you think are so great and
so special.
I had my doubts and I just, you
know, the reason why I, you know, I
didn't fulfill your order.
I'm better than these people.
And I was certainly better than him.
No way am I prostrating to him.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala passed the judgment
on him.
And then after that, he still hasn't given
up.
He didn't make repentance.
He didn't make, I'm sorry, I made a
mistake.
He still believes in his ignorance that we're
all the big fools that he sees us
to be.
So he asks Allah for that permission that
we see in Al-A'raf and we
see all over the Quran, that I'm going
to come at them.
I'm going to come from below them and
from the front and from the side.
I'm going to make them change the creation.
I'm going to make them do the madnesses
of madnesses.
I'm going to prove to you that I
was right.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala goes, go
ahead, knock yourself out.
Literally, he says to him, knock yourself out.
And whoever really is of that ilk, they'll
be following you to where you're going to
go.
But you will not be able to attack
or come close to my Ibadiyya Salihin, to
my righteous servants.
And these plans are elaborate and they are
all over the place and they focus on
key aspects of the human character.
Okay?
And I want you to know that from
our point of view, we have the responsibility
of A, identifying the threat and B, knowing
our enemy as well as we can.
If you know the threat, what they're going
to come with and then who is it
coming from, we're going to be in the
best place to deal with it.
So I'll answer the second question first.
You are dealing with someone who doesn't care
for you and everything that he does and
pulls you towards every way that he embellishes
it and makes you look amazing is just
absolutely a suicide mission that he himself is
on.
And that's what you got to remember.
And he's been made very, very clear to
you by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
That's why Allah always says that he's Aduwwun
Mubeen, not an enemy, but a clear enemy,
a clear enemy.
Not one that you have any doubts about
or that this is a freedom fighter or
this is a rebel.
This is outright terrorist hardcore.
There is no, I mean, ideas of moralistic
judgment here at all.
He's done, done, done.
And so I put a few things forward
that this is maybe an opportunity for you
to write some of these down that I,
in my opinion, can summarize the various most
popular ways that shaitan affects us as practicing
Muslims.
Okay.
The first is to remember straight away before
you write down what he does that you
recognize that guy's got no power.
The guy goes, no hope.
He's all in for absolutely everything and that
he's a coward.
He's a mug.
The prophet has told us that he's nothing
and Allah has told us that he's nothing.
And we have to, first of all, believe
that before anything else, before we identify his
games.
If you don't believe that, then all of
these will be insurmountable mountains.
These will all be impossible tasks.
So first you've got to trust Allah when
he tells you that he's got nothing on
you.
Once you believe that, know that his main
tricks are the following.
Let's start from the first one.
The first one is deception.
He makes you believe things that are not
as they are.
And if you keep it this simple, these
phrases that I'm asking you to write, they
speak volumes.
He makes you believe things that are not
as they are.
The principle of deception.
The second one is the principle of greed
and need.
He uses these natural inclinations because we are
naturally inclined to need and greed.
He uses these natural inclinations inside of you
to make you vulnerable to exploitation.
The principle of greed and need.
The first one is very easy.
I don't need to say anything about that.
But the second one, that's why you should
never, never advertise your need.
Okay, when you start to speak and make
your need bigger than what it is, it
will then become clear to Shaitan that that
is your weak point.
If you keep making your need as some
really big thing, because everybody has needs, bro.
But if you're advertising to everybody, like a
simple example, you know that in the secret
services, they don't take people with husbands and
wives and kids and whatever whatnot.
And if you do, let's say if you're
captured and you've got a family, you'd be
an absolute idiot to say, what's my wife
going to say?
What's my kids going to say?
They'll say, fantastic.
You are literally the worst spy in the
history of spies.
Then they're just going for your kids and
that's it.
You don't...
You understand the example?
So Shaitan is like that.
Everybody has someone that they love.
You don't need to put it forward to
that.
Everybody has a weakness.
You don't need to advertise your weaknesses to
the world.
Everybody has some needs and some greed, but
you don't need to make it so, so
big for yourself.
And if you don't see your need as
so important, like, yeah, you know what it
is?
Like pain, like a headache.
It might be really much.
But if you're the guy goes, Oh, I
need paracetamol.
You know, in the Hanbali Madhab, taking paracetamol,
painkillers is seen as maqroob.
Yeah.
Painkillers specifically.
And subhanallah, it's extraordinary because obviously clinically, we
know exactly why.
Because the more paracetamol you take for low
level, you know, level two pain, you're creating
tolerance at such basic level that soon, and
if you have a migraine, you're going to
want to flip in morphine.
You're creating a big problem for yourself, not
right now, but you're opening yourself up for
what's going to come later and it's going
to be a massive headache for you.
Right?
So they're saying instead, hold out with the
paracetamol until it's absolutely impossible to whatever.
Let it develop into something so that you
can show that, yeah, your need and the
need was there, but take it to its
absolute furthest end before you got to act
on it.
When you're acting on it then, then people
were like, you know, that guy's got tolerance.
We're probably wasting our time with that guy.
He had the need before.
He could have cracked early, but he's got,
you know, he's got that mental toughness.
People will speak about you different.
People will see you different.
You get my point?
So everybody has needs, but you don't need
to tell everybody and make yourself so miskeen
to your needs because Shaitan will fully exploit
that, fully.
The principle of urgency, number three, he makes
you feel that there's only little time left
to do that action.
The principle of urgency.
All right?
He rushes you, doesn't make you think straight.
All right?
Makes you think, I've got to, I've got
to.
Who said that?
Why?
Who?
Yeah.
When did you ever say, I want to
sleep on this?
And a person turned around and say, I
need to know now.
Then you say, well, I'm sorry, I can't
tell you now.
You know, you've lost it.
That's it.
If you're honest with the person who's putting
the pressure upon you and say, honestly, Wallahi,
I'm respecting you.
If you want me to give you a
cheap answer, I can tell you right now.
But if you want me to give you
a considered answer, let me make sure, let
me do this, let me sleep.
Shaitan is the one who does Al-Isti
'jal.
Okay?
Remember that.
Number four is the principle of distraction by
putting you into a state of Ghafla.
Ghafla means heedlessness, mindlessness, makes you lose your
mind for a moment, distracts you.
And whilst he is distracting you with the
smoke and the mirrors, what's happening is that
he's inducing permanent changes in your heart.
So whilst he's got you distracted looking at
this or following that or thinking this is
a quick win, whilst you're there and you're
off guard, he's actually going straight for your
heart and making a permanent change.
And the worst is you didn't even notice.
So number four, the principle of distraction.
Next one, the principle of the masses.
I call this one the principle of the
masses.
He uses large numbers.
He uses large numbers of people around you
doing the same thing to convince you of
its sensibility.
He uses large numbers of people around you
doing the same thing as you to convince
you of its sensibility.
It's doing the same thing that he wants
from you, I should say.
Right?
Yeah.
And that's a comforting thought.
Right?
It's a comforting thought that you know that,
I mean, everybody kind of got it wrong.
He does it as well.
He does never ever go with the principle
of numbers.
Always.
And this is good now, because whenever you
hear that, but everybody does it, you should
say, well, that's exactly his argument.
Let me just pause.
That's what I want you to do.
I'm saying that these principles are the things
that you should just keep in the back
of your mind that when something like that
happens, just pause and think, am I just
standing being played here or what?
I just see any accepted the whole numbers
game just like that.
The principle of social compliance.
He knows, he knows the strength of social
and cultural pressure and he uses it against
you to do that, which even you don't
want to do.
That's the killer of this principle.
The principle of social compliance is that he
recognizes that you're under pressure and he recognizes
you don't even want to do it, but
he uses that pressure against you to just
go along with the crowd.
That could be not wearing hijab, for example.
It could be going along to a certain
party scene because you just, Yanni, you know
the people, what they're going to say if
I keep pulling out.
They already cussed me.
I made an excuse once.
I made an excuse twice.
Now they're saying, man, you're a waste man.
If you don't come up with this third
time, we accepted the excuses twice from you.
Why are you not coming out?
You don't even want to go, but he
understands the pressure point.
So this is an important point, by the
way, right?
In fighting strategy, when a person goes into
a fight, you've got various strategies.
One of them, of course, is to focus
on the strengths of you, yeah?
So if you know, for example, that you
can knock a person out, then don't wait
20 seconds to allow him to wrestle you
to the floor because then you're dead.
If you are the knockout king of kings,
you've got 20 seconds to knock that guy
out.
Otherwise it's finished for you.
You get my point?
The second strategy would be to focus on
his weaknesses.
So it's not that you've got anything special,
but you know that he's really weak.
He's got a broken rib.
So don't waste any time.
Just get out of the way and just
give him one tonk in the rib and
he's going to be finished and that's it.
A third strategy is to know what you
are very weak at and make sure you
protect that at all costs.
The rest of it we'll deal with, right?
This third one is the single most important
strategy when fighting Shaitaan.
To know your vulnerabilities and know that Shaitaan
knows them.
Here's the thing.
Again, to use a fighting example, when people
get injured, fighters, a boxer, two boxers, two
combat fighters, whatever it is, when they get
injured, what do they do?
It's not like football.
It's not like cricket.
In a football and cricket, because they're team
games and because it's a very intense kind
of sport, there's no way you can hide
an injury.
If you've broken your toe, you can't be
chosen for the first team.
You'll get found out very, very quickly and
you've got the rest of the team to
kind of, you know, you can't let them
down, right?
And so you're never going to be putting
yourself forward.
In boxing and in fighting, it's the exact
opposite.
When people are preparing for their big fight,
millions are on the night, by the way,
huge viewing figures.
Many of the fighters have broken a toe,
broken a hand, broken their ribs, seriously injured
in the run-up to it and training,
but they'll never let on.
They will never let on.
They will pretend they're fine.
When they come to the weigh-ins and
the press conferences, they'll pretend everything's fine.
Cannot display a weakness to the other party
because they'll know it and then they'll target
it and the game will be over.
And so what do you do?
Everything is about learning and adapting to make
sure you don't display the weakness and then
in the fight itself, you don't expose the
weakness so that he doesn't know.
Well, guess what?
When it comes in your fight against Shaitan,
he knows your weaknesses already and so he's
coming straight at those weaknesses.
He's targeting them from the get-go and
so therefore your strategy is different.
You go into the fight knowing, knowing he's
actually going for my weaknesses.
So I'm weak when it comes to money.
I'm weak when it gets to my cousins,
you know, whatever they do.
My group of girlfriends, they're going to push
me towards this, that, whatever.
You've got to know your weak point and
you've got to be able to protect yourself
against that weakness.
Otherwise, you're seriously going to be in trouble.
And then the last one is a principle
of hopelessness.
His worst, his most devastating and his most
powerful one, his most efficient one.
And why is that?
Because he knows it best himself personally, bro.
The guy's got personal experience.
He's got all the skin in the game
with that one.
The principle of hopelessness, okay?
He makes you do the crime without him
doing anything.
Think about it.
That's his whole MO, right?
Because he's not actually doing it.
He's not pulling the trigger.
He's not doing the first move.
He's not doing anything of the haram.
He makes you do the crime without doing
anything.
And then he makes it so hard for
you to seek help because you are actually
now the guilty party.
And so what happens?
The same as him.
It's all over.
I'm done now.
So I might as well carry on.
Carry on, do more.
Why wouldn't you?
Like I said to you, Iblis is himself
the perfect mobilist.
Once it's all over, they might as well
go full in.
That's human nature, by the way, in good
things as well.
I mean, in anything that once you're in,
you're in.
Khalas, what's the point?
So the same.
Once I'm in sin, I'm going to *
anyway.
So khalas, yeah, I might as well, right?
And so this hopelessness is a really powerful
tool of his.
And you've got some point with this last
one.
That's the final one that at some point
say to yourself, no way am I going
to be played like that because I'm not
dealing with someone like that.
I'm dealing with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
who's told me that I always have a
way back.
But shaitan is saying, no, you don't.
You don't.
You hypocrite.
You hypocrite.
You don't.
How can you come back?
Man, you're as guilty as you are.
I didn't do it.
You did it.
You loved it.
You enjoyed it.
You want to do it again.
So he knows everything, man.
Khalas, forget it, man.
Just carry on.
And you've got to be there and saying
that.
Yeah, you know what it is.
I know what you're playing.
I want you to think about that because
hope is our biggest gift and our biggest
weapon against Iblis.
When you look at every single thing that
we've got in our arsenal against all of
these six, seven, eight principles or tricks, the
single biggest thing that we have is our
hope in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Everything else you can say, I'm the most
skillful.
I'm the most practicing.
I'm the most recited.
I'm the most memorized.
I'm the most knowledgeable.
All of this is great in all of
its right place, but none of it will
come close to the fact that you have
hope in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
He will be the only one that will
bring you through and he's told you that
time after time after time after again.
Now you know Iblis' game, right?
Hope is our biggest weapon.
It's our biggest gift from Allah.
It's our biggest weapon.
And just remember that Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala knows that you're going to stumble.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala knows that you're
vulnerable.
He knows this.
He knows his game.
He knows that you're in that situation.
He knows that we get done over, but
he's there for you.
He loves you.
He's supporting you.
He's cheering for you.
And you've got to just suddenly at some
point say, you know what?
I'm going to take some of this love.
I'm going to use some of this love.
I don't know why I keep telling myself
that I'm not worthy of it or that
it's for everyone but not me.
I mean, how stupid would you need to
be?
I mean, what a loss of self-confidence
and loss of self-worth.
And what a dark place that you must
fall into if you believe that you are
so special that Allah hates you.
Honestly, bro, there was a sister not long
ago.
Unfortunately, I don't know what, she was mashoor
or she got some sihr or she got...
I don't know what happened to her, to
be honest.
She could have been mentally ill.
She could have been, but I think it
was sihr.
Anyway, lost her mind.
You're not this.
You're not that.
You're not this.
You're that.
You give...
I said, girl, let me tell you something.
You're not even that important for me to
hate your guts, bro.
I don't have the time to hate you.
Who the fish are you firstly?
And I just want you to think that's
me saying that.
Yeah, someone who's being really stupid and irritating.
And I think to myself when I see
the people who say they're depressed and God
hates me or whatever whatnot.
I'm like, bro, you're not that special.
You're not that special.
That God hates you.
What a statement of arrogance.
They're thinking it's a statement of pity.
It's actually such an arrogant statement that you
think that you're so, so important that Allah
out of all of the world to choose
of the evil flipping dogs of this earth
chose to dump out you to hate.
It's weird.
There's a lot of weird stuff out there.
And again, it's shaitan, you see.
It's shaitan.
He basically, he blows our minds.
He makes us think the craziest things, the
stupidest things.
No, it's a disrespect.
Wallahi, don't disrespect yourself.
Don't disrespect Allah.
Allah loves you, bro.
If you've got any connection to Islam, you
have no idea how much Allah has been
looking out for you.
You have no idea, man.
Go and look at the people who have
got no Allah in their life.
I mean, spend some time with those people
to realize how fortunate you are.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala knows best.