Abu Taymiyyah – 15 Lessons From The Quranic Destroyed Garden Surat Qalam London
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Wedding day
comes an ayah, instead of being thankful to
Allah what do many people do? They throw
this wedding party where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's
laws
are annihilated
and destroyed.
Violations that take place, may Allah
forgive them. Instead of being thankful,
music, gender mixing that take place in these
wedding calls my brothers, my sisters. And then
you wonder as to why so many things
start going wrong in your life.
You disobeyed Allah
after he showed you that which you love.
He brings another example as well. Makes dua
constantly
as he gives him good grades, and the
day the day he gets his good grades
instead of being thankful to Allah, what happens?
Throw the party,
blast the music,
being disobedient to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
After everything Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gave you,
this is how you end up returning the
favor, my brothers and my sisters. You remember
Allah and you're afraid from that sin.
It is a huge opportunity
now
for you to experience
what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said.
Whoever is conscious of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
he will give him a way out.
And he will provide frame when he doesn't
accept. You turn away from the Haram, look
at the doors that Allah opens up for
you. You can see if you want on
your time.
Sheikh Hamza,
who's very, very tired, had a long, long
flight, and then he was very
generous to come here. And,
bless us with his recitation.
My brothers and my sisters,
today, we have gathered here in the house
of Allah
to go through something extremely, extremely important.
And perhaps, insha Allahu ta'ala, discuss the
story
that is mentioned in Suratul Qalam will change
our perspective
on life as a whole.
There is a part of Suratul Qalam
where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala speaks about
a garden that he destroyed.
And there are a number of lessons that
we can take away from this incident.
I have 15 points written down,
and I'm hoping insha Allahu ta'ala unless you
guys are like Al Imam al Bukhari
or Imam Shafi'i, or Al Imam Abu Hanifa
Tarahmatullahi,
or Imam Malik,
Imam Muhammad, and the rest of these great
Imams,
who had such sharp memory.
Unless you're like them,
alright,
don't write it down.
I don't think that's the case, so I'm
really, really hoping
that every single one of you guys can
write down these benefits that may well be
life changing,
and it changes our perspectives
for the better.
Allah
says,
which basically means my brothers and my sisters,
Allah
says
Allah says,
Indeed, we tested them just as we tested
the people of those gardens.
Who is Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala speaking about?
Allah
is speaking about
how he tested the people of Makkah.
The people of Makkah, my brothers and my
sisters, who are extremely ungrateful,
they violated the limits of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
They went against what Allah Azzawajal told them
to do.
They had blessings after blessings,
One after the other.
And the greatest of these blessings that Allah
sent to them was
the messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And they knew
that he was the prophet,
salawatur rabbi wasalamu alaihi.
But they rejected and denied them.
So Allah
tested them
with a lack of safety and security,
after they were so blessed.
So Allah makes mention of this incident
to alert them. Look what happened to them,
and look what may well possibly
end up happening to you.
When they
took an oath,
that in the morning,
in the morning,
they are going to
take away the crops and the fruits
that Allah
blessed them with.
How did Allah bless them? They had a
very wealthy father,
who left behind his garden,
which had crops, which had fruits.
Right? This father of theirs, my brothers and
my sisters,
used to give charity from
this blessing that Allah had showered upon him.
There would be a part that he would
benefit from, and there was a part of
that which he
would go and give as charity.
Right?
So instead of them continuing this legacy after
he passed away,
they took an oath that they were not
going to give anything
from this garden of theirs that they have
now inherited
to the poor.
Right.
In fact my brothers and my sisters,
as Ibn Khazeer mentions, Falam
Mehmat, after he passed away, they inherited it.
Look what they said.
Our father was foolish. He was dumb. This
what they're saying about their father,
after they departed from this world.
Right? This garden that they have inherited from
their father, they are now making what? A
mockery out of him.
Right. He was foolish. He was dumb.
Why was he dumb and foolish? Because he
used to give a part of it to
the poor.
And look what they said, if we now
prevent them from taking a part of it,
right, we will have more for ourselves.
They said about themselves,
indeed life has become expensive, we have a
lot of children.
So why should we go and give it
to the poor? Let us
benefit from it, and we'll
utilize that which we have.
Right?
So what happened? They said next morning, we
are going to go to this garden of
ours,
and we're going to remove its fruits. We're
going to cut it all off.
And they never said, insha Allah.
Right. While they're asleep, Allah
sent a fire
that destroyed everything they possessed.
All of these blessings that they had, right,
Which would give them their bread and butter.
They would put food on the table for
them.
Gone by the night.
For us,
it became like the dark night.
And they began to
call each other out.
Right?
In the night before everyone wakes up, right?
The poor, they want their share of this
garden, right?
By the time they wake up,
it's time to harvest. They said, no. In
the night, we will go. Before everyone wakes
up and before they see us taking from
our gardens,
we'll take everything.
So when the people see, they will see,
okay there's nothing there, and there's nothing for
them.
So they woke each other up in the
night, and they began to
call each other to go to this
garden. As they were walking,
they began to whisper to themselves.
While they're whispering amongst themselves,
right,
Not a single poor individual will enter into
this garden
this morning.
Right.
Wagaduwala
Har Din Qadireen,
and they thought that they had the power
as they claimed.
They thought that they could execute their plan.
So they came to the garden and they
were in disbelief.
Right? No, no, no, no. This is not
our garden.
Our garden doesn't look like the dark patches
in the night because it was burnt.
Right? So they continued looking for their garden.
Right?
So they said, No, no, no, this is
not.
They thought amongst themselves that they were lost
and then reality kicked in.
Indeed, we have been deprived.
There was a brother from amongst them,
Ausatuhm
a aadeluhm,
from the most upright out of all of
these individuals,
who said to
them, didn't I tell you all not
to
carry this out?
Didn't I tell you to glorify Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala used to remind them of Allah
azza wa jal. Don't do this.
You know how we are reminded all the
time?
Don't do this, don't do that, and we
start making names
for those who sincerely advise us. They are
the haram police.
Right? The haram police.
He was there advising them. They didn't take
the advice,
right?
So
they began to then
take heed
to glorify Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And they realized their mistake, so they admitted
to themselves that indeed we have been oppressive.
We have wronged ourselves
for. So then they squared up to one
another, and each one started blaming the other.
It was your fault as to why this
all happened.
And then they said amongst themselves, woe to
us indeed
we have violated the limits of Allah
So they said perhaps Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala
will replace this with that which is better.
Indeed now we will return back to our
Lord. It is Allah
that we desire.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, he then says,
such is his punishment.
As for the punishment of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala, it is far greater.
If only the people knew.
There is a punishment in this dunya.
Many people think my brothers and my sisters
that when you sin, the only time that
you will be held to account for these
sins is when you meet Allah. You are
gravely mistaken.
We are punished in this world, and then
the punishment of Allah as the wajid in
the hereafter is far greater.
Isn't this a punishment in this dunya?
What they had to experience
with those very bad evil intentions that they
had?
Fifteen benefits, my brothers and my sisters, I
want to take away or extrapolate from this
kisa
that is extremely relevant and relatable.
The first benefit, my brothers and my sisters,
Allah
can take away your blessings in a heartbeat.
Right.
These blessings that we take for granted my
brothers and my sisters,
right,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala can take that away
in a heartbeat.
You know, I always tell those brothers and
sisters who listen to music about that verse
at the beginning of Surat Al Baqarah.
If Allah
willed,
He would have removed
their eyesight, He would have removed their hearing.
Indeed Allah
is capable of all things.
Right. It could go in a heartbeat. Let
me tell you guys about my friend
who is still currently in hospital, my brothers
and my sisters.
Alright.
You guys heard of Stamford Bridge?
Where's Stamford Bridge?
Chelsea football stadium. I don't think any of
you guys wanna go there at this moment
in time. Right?
They're not doing great.
When I went to visit him in hospital,
he was in Peterborough Hospital. The brother is
actually from Leicester, but they took him to
a hospital
in Peterborough,
went to visit the brother.
This brother, my beloved brothers and sisters,
one afternoon, he was in Stamford Bridge.
And while he was there,
lying down on his hospital bed,
right,
He showed me, look,
this is how I was.
By the evening my brothers and my sisters,
he collapsed.
Not because he was hit by a car
or someone came charging into him or there
was this freak accident that took place.
He said, I just collapsed.
This brother lost his ability to speak.
He lost his ability to walk.
He was in a wheelchair,
right? He was in a wheelchair from that
point on.
And there he is.
There he is my brothers and my sisters,
lying down
in a British hospital
on a hospital bed.
Right?
He showed me the picture.
And every time he needs to communicate with
us, he'll take that whiteboard, you know, that
he could just remove very quickly with that
tab,
and he writes
down whatever he wants to tell us.
This man, my brothers and my sisters,
had the ability
to move around so freely.
He lost all of that
in a heartbeat.
I could quote verses.
I could quote a hadith, my brothers and
my sisters.
However, when I mentioned these stories
of real life incidents
that are happening in today's day and age,
it might strike a nerve.
You could lose everything in a heartbeat.
Right?
Allahi is seeing him on the hospital bed
brought us the tears.
From watching a football game in the morning
or in the afternoon,
by the evening he has lost everything.
Right?
He shouldn't say everything because he still had
his iman.
Right? Take as another incident.
You guys heard of the earthquake that happened
in Syria and Turkey, right?
Everyone heard about it?
Did you guys hear about that
incident involving an individual
who was booted out of his home by
a landlord?
Anyone heard about that story?
This man, my brothers and my sisters,
couldn't pay the bills,
couldn't pay the bills. Right?
And it seemed that the landlord was merciless
and eventually booted him out.
And then the earthquake came,
right,
It tore this landlord's home to the ground.
So the Syrian man, I believe it was
Syrian no, not Turkish, Syrian.
Syrian man is being interviewed
and he said I don't wish bad onto
him. However,
currently both me and him are sharing the
same
tent.
You
could lose all of your blessings in a
heartbeat.
Take it for granted, right?
These ears and these eyes
that we use to disobey Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
They lost their garden overnight
thinking that they could plot.
Right? Thinking that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
not watching them.
Right?
And that was the end result.
Before you become a victim, my brothers and
my sisters,
right,
take heed from what we are saying.
Right?
Ibn Uqayr ibn Talayr alaihi has a very
powerful statement. He says,
never does one,
never does one disobey Allah
with something
except
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will destroy that.
You know, brothers and sisters, how many times
I've seen a brother buy a nice car,
and he uses that car to pick up
girls.
He uses that same car
to blast music,
and it's only a matter of time before
he has lost that car, my brothers and
my sisters. Only a matter of time.
Or something happens to the engine
because he's revving it too much. Yeah? Well,
that's what you thought.
Allah
destroys that.
Alright.
The Arabs, they have a saying.
Arabs, they have a saying.
The one who has haram relationships,
he'll be struck with poverty.
There are many weak narrations
that mention
a loss of wealth
and also a zina in the same
narration.
I mentioned both of these things in the
same narration.
Right?
Even messian salallahu alayhi wa sallam told us.
One is deprived of provision because of the
sin that he carries out.
Alright.
Let me tell you guys something else.
You know, Instagram, I receive a lot of
messages, a lot of messages.
Just about every message I received
pertaining to someone who has
a * addiction.
Always in that same message, he mentions,
always in the same mention in the message
he mentions
that he's also struggling financially.
Right. Just about every message that I receive
of someone saying that he is now what?
A * addict, right at the end mentions
I've got financial problems.
Right.
Because of the sin that you fall into,
Allah will take away provision from you.
You have a nice iPhone, Sahih,
iPhone 14.
You drop it and the screen smashes.
Screen smashes.
Now you have to ship out what? A
£150
to fix the screen?
Or a car crash.
You've lost out.
What do most people do here? They start
blaming everyone except themselves, Sahib.
That's one of the benefits that will come
on to insha Allahu Ta'ala.
Wa Alakina Shayeet my brothers and my sisters,
a lot of things start going wrong in
our lives
because of what we have earned with our
own hands.
And a lot of the time we make
excuses for ourselves.
We are in denial,
right?
Instead of being thankful for our blessings, we
throw it back against Allah
Let me share this verse with you guys
that came down in the battle of Uhud.
When the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
alright, was attacked by the mushrikeen.
Let me just make something very clear here
Because I know some keywords may trigger
some informants who might be sitting here.
Just in case we have anyone here that
works for channel 4 or ITV
who's looking to cut something out,
I'm here to spread peace and compassion.
I do not incite violence
towards anyone.
Does that make sense my brothers and my
sisters?
It's coming back to why I was saying,
the prophet was
at war with the mushrikeen,
mushrikeen. Right?
And I'm not here recruiting,
just because we're speaking about the Battle of
Uhud.
One of the verses that came down was,
wa'asaytumimbaadima
raqumathiboon.
Messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam told them
told 50 of his companions
not to come off this mountain called Jabir
Rumah.
For those who have gone to Al Medina,
and you visited
where the Batutu place, there's a small mountain
that people go and climb and take selfies
on.
Say,
small mountain. 50 of the companions were under.
The message told
them, don't come off.
Right? Even if you see the birds snatching,
the warriors of the ground.
But then when they thought that they won
the battle,
they began to argue amongst themselves, halal's the
battle has been won, let's get off.
Some of them are saying, Al Ghaneem, Al
Ghaneem, Al Ghaneem, Al Ghaneem, Al Ghaneem, Al
Ghaneem, meaning the war booty, the war booty.
Right?
And they were told, then the messenger
and he ended up attacking the Muslims from
the back. This led to the messenger sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam's helmet being crushed,
his tooth being broken and his face being
gashed.
Allah
You disobeyed Allah after
he showed you what you loved.
Shaqab Nur Uthaimin comments on this and he
says something very, very profound, my brothers and
my sisters.
Says, you have a sister
who makes dua throughout the whole year, you
Allah grant me a pious husband.
May Allah grant all you sisters who have
attended a pious husband. Say, I mean.
And you guys as well. May Allah grant
you all pious husband no. Sisters.
Sisters.
Yeah. I said it was conviction. Sisters.
Nothing else, guys?
I don't think anything else allowed. Right?
Like,
makes die for the whole year.
And then when Allah
grants her that blessing
of this husband
and the wedding day
comes ania,
say,
hey, instead of being thankful to Allah
what do many people do?
They throw this wedding party where Allah
laws
are annihilated
and destroyed.
Sahih.
Violations
that take place. May Allah
forgive the Muslimeel.
Right.
Instead of being thankful,
music,
gender mixing that take place in these wedding
holes, my brothers and my sisters.
And then you wonder as to why so
many things start going wrong in your life.
You disobeyed Allah
after He showed you that which you love.
He brings another example as well.
Makes dua constantly,
right?
That he gives him
good grades. And the day the day he
gets his good grades instead of being thankful
to Allah, what happens?
Throws a party,
blast the music,
being disobedient to Allah
After everything Allah
gave you, this is how
you end up returning the favor, my brothers
and my sisters.
Right.
You know Yusuf alaihis salatu wa sallam, when
he was locked in that chamber
by the wife of Al Aziz,
alright, It's locked in the chamber by the
wife of Al Aziz.
By the way, Yusuf alaihis salatu wa sama
was granted half the beauty of
mankind. Alright.
So she found an opportunity when he was
serving her
to now
commit a zina with him.
And this is when she said, hey Terek,
let's get it on.
Right? She locked all of the doors and
she thought this is her moment now,
right,
to commit
Fahisha with Yusuf
No one's watching.
It's just her and him and of course
Allahu Thala athuhumma
Allah is the third.
What did Yusuf
start doing in this situation that he was
in?
Mufassirun,
they looked at his verse and they mentioned
two meanings.
Yusuf alaihi wasalam said here,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala was so good to
me.
And because Allah was so good to me,
how can I now go and disobey him?
Where was Yusuf alaihis salatu wa sallam and
where is he now?
He was in the dark pits of a
well, brothers and sisters,
in the middle of nowhere.
And now he is what? Growing up in
a palace.
Look where I was and look where I'm
now, and now I'm going to disobey Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Alright. Adam of Faisirun, they mentioned, he began
to remember the favors of his master who
was so good to him, allowed him to
live and grow up in his palace.
And now I'm going to stab him in
the back and cheat
on the one who was so good to
me.
On your
under that blanket.
Right? And the shaitan is whispering.
Right?
Remember the favors of Allah Allah
did so much for me. I don't think
we've ever woken up my brothers and my
sisters, and our fridges were empty.
And if it was empty, we had
We had the money to go and fill
that fridge right after.
Right? And when you do that my brothers
and my sisters, you remember Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala and you're free from that sin.
It is a huge opportunity now
for you to experience
what Allah
said.
Whoever
is conscious of Allah
He will give him a way out.
And he will provide frame where he doesn't
expect.
You turn away from the haram, look at
the doors that Allah
opens up for you.
Doors of provision, doors of so much good.
But the shaitan keeps whispering,
if you don't do this, then you'll probably
lose out.
Still got another 14 guys.
I'm gonna run through them.
So what was the first one?
I got a little bit excited there. I
went on for a little bit. What was
number 1, brothers and sisters?
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala could remove our blessings
in a heartbeat.
Don't forget my friend brothers and sisters,
right,
who is no different to me and you.
Right? He lost so much.
Some of these body parts that we take
for granted.
However, that which makes me happy, my brothers
and my sisters,
is that
this calamity actually brought him closer to Allah,
and this is now the second benefit.
And this is also what we learned from
the story.
Right?
Didn't they turn to Allah
after they were struck with that calamity?
Right? Allah
He said, quoting them,
Right?
And then they later on they said
Now we're going to go and return back
to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
A calamity my brothers and my sisters that
brings you closer to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
is better than a blessing
that causes you to go far away from
Allahu jala firollah.
Are you promised this with me?
Sometimes certain calamities come our way, we are
shrunk with a huge financial loss.
Maybe if you had that, you would have
been an arrogant,
haughty individual who walks on the face of
this earth.
Right?
It caused them to come back to Allah
And that friend of mine, my brothers and
my sisters,
he began to gravitate towards
Allah and most importantly his salah
was something that he would not leave off
again.
It brought him closer to Allahu Jallafirullah,
and that was not the case before.
Right.
Ibn Taymiyrahmatullahi
he
says,
If it wasn't for the calamities
and the trials
that one experiences,
he would be struck with arrogance.
And arrogance, my brothers and my sisters, not
light matter.
Right?
How many people do I know, my brothers
and my sisters? They were gangsters,
truck dealers.
They were hit really really hard
and that's what brought him back down to
earth.
That's what brought him back down to earth,
that calamity.
That trial that he was struck with, maybe
his legs were broken. He found himself in
a wheelchair all of a sudden.
He wouldn't listen to anyone.
Now
he's what? At home,
humbled.
But before, he used to walk on the
face of this earth
as if he's the greatest man on earth.
Right?
These trials and these tribulations, these calamities,
humble individual.
But from the rahmah of Allah is
that he causes you to go through his
calamities because
it cleanses you.
It brings you back down to earth.
Right?
So always benefit number 2 my brothers, my
sisters.
Calamities that bring you closer to Allah
is far better than blessings
that bring you away from Allahuja lafi'u Allah.
Would you agree that this is something that
happens my brothers and my sisters?
Money comes out of nowhere.
Is this money actually bringing you closer to
Allah? Or is it what? Bringing you further
away from Him?
Benefit number 3.
It is highly possible that the father
that left behind
this garden, my brothers and my sisters,
didn't teach them about the importance and merits
of giving for the sake of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
Hence, why they plotted the way they did.
Write down my brothers and my sisters,
the role of the father
in that child's life.
Yes, he was righteous. Yes, he used to
give.
However,
did he give them the correct Islamic education?
This is the point here.
Because the way they reacted or the way
they carried themselves
is perhaps not the way that
someone who is very well educated
would.
Are your brothers and sisters with me?
If the father has been telling his child,
look, these are the merits and the benefits
of giving, look what Allah is going to
do for you. Right?
It's very highly unlikely that that child will
just go against that advice if this is
something that
was repeatedly mentioned to him.
Alright. Number 4 my brothers and my sisters,
if you don't teach your child accordingly,
they may well curse or insult you after
you pass away.
And I'm speaking to all of you young
people here. A lot of time when we
speak about parenting,
young people switch off.
If
you want to get married.
The married brothers, they're not putting their hands
up.
So all their wives are in the women's
section.
They're scared that the camera is gonna catch
look.
Everyone wants to get married, right?
You know that excitement of getting married, my
brothers and my sisters, do you think it
lasts long?
Ask your parents.
I mean, that excitement, you know, when,
your desires have gone through the roof
And the guy's roasting.
After he gets married, my brothers and my
sisters okay. Next thing now.
What's the next thing that you begin to
wish for?
To have children.
Alright. Begin to wish for children.
Even after you have children, my brothers and
my sisters, reality will kick in, and you'll
say to yourself, okay, I've got a child
now. I want to bring them up in
a good manner.
Most people who are smart and intelligent, my
brothers and my sisters,
even if he's lived the worst of lives,
he does not want
that for his child.
So why am I saying that this issue
is very relevant to you guys?
Be extra careful who you pick as a
spouse.
You may not see it now, but you'll
see it later on.
If that spouse, my brothers and my sisters,
is someone who is absolutely wasted.
Alright.
And they're not people who want to actually
better themselves. You're going to really, really struggle.
Today, I hear about sisters who want
husbands with a road or with a touch
of road.
Sisters want husbands or spouses with a touch
of road.
Allahu Atbar.
What is that even supposed to mean?
What is that even supposed to mean?
That's the kind of mindset?
Calm down guys.
Taeib, today
you have that touch of road.
What tomorrow?
What is it that you want tomorrow my
brothers and sisters?
How many sisters were advised don't go with
this guy and vice versa as well?
They were just focusing on the looks and
nothing else. Not the akhlaq and not the
deen, which are the 2 things that a
woman should be prioritizing
above everything else. No one is saying that
you can't get someone who's good looking.
No. It's something to take into consideration. We're
in a,
sexualized society. If you're not attracted to your
spouse,
right,
you come home,
you want to have that sort of, you
know, good feeling of seeing your wife and
vice versa.
Right? You have haram all over you. So
there has to be that level of attraction.
When the messengers of Allah, aye a s
sama, said, concentrate
or a woman is married, Tunka Halmuratul Irba,
she's married for four reasons.
The one that was given emphasis to the
deen, right? Did the messalize them say you
should disregard the other 3? No, that's not
what he means. Yes, deen is number 1
priority, but also beauty
and other aspects are taken into consideration, even
the lineage
should be taken into consideration.
There has to be a level of attraction.
From the objective of marriage is that it
helps you lower your gaze. So if you
marry a sister that you're not attracted to
or vice versa,
then you're not fulfilling one of the objectives
of marriage. Does that make sense?
Does that make sense? So it's important.
So it all starts with the spouse that
you pick.
And it is the mother who's going to
be spending a lot more time with the
child.
She's a road girl.
What you guys laugh for?
It's a lot of
road
goes. Just someone that you found from outside,
right, who has absolutely no morals and values,
what's going to happen to your child tomorrow,
my brothers and my sisters?
Right. Eventually, you break up and she's the
one that's got the rights
over a child in this country. The law
is not on your side, brother.
The law is not on your side. Remember
that.
You know, my brothers and my sisters, as
someone who
distributes inheritance,
you guys know inheritances. Right?
When you pass away, you've left behind a
£1,000,000,
it gets distributed in a manna
that
gets distributed in a manah
according to the law of Allah,
til kahududullahi.
You know how many times I've seen
children cursing their father,
even though the father, my brothers and my
sisters,
he left behind a lot of money
to keep them afloat for maybe the next
20 or so years. 1000000
he's left behind.
Day and night he would work for his
children,
ensuring that after he passes away, they have
enough.
How many times have I seen that?
After he's departed from this world, after he's
died,
his children, they are at each other's necks.
If he could take the life of his
own blood brother, he would do that.
Right? You can see murder in his eyes.
Looking at him, he's got murder in his
eyes.
Right?
Why is this happening brothers and sisters?
The father, all he care about is putting
them in a good financial position.
But my brothers and my sisters,
look what the messenger
said.
That's not an individual who has
responsibility
placed over his shoulders.
The day when he dies, he dies as
a deceiver.
Yes, he deceives his own children. How?
Maslid al salallahu alayhi wa sallam said,
He did not advise them accordingly.
He did not give them the correct Islamic
education.
If we don't know, brothers and sisters, how
do you expect our children to know?
I think we, it's right to say we
are 2nd generation
Muslims in this country,
or maybe 3rd, Sahih.
If we as a generation don't know, brothers
and sisters,
would you be surprised tomorrow if your child
walks home and he's holding a Christmas tree?
I wouldn't be surprised.
And that is because we're not educating them.
Or the child comes home, and just to
make it very clear, I don't have my
own views and opinions.
Right? The child comes home and he says,
dad, which pronoun should I use?
Guys are laughing. Walla, I'm getting phone calls
all the time, brothers and
sisters.
Confused?
And then you as a parent, and we're
having this now, right now.
The parent
starts getting angry at his child. Why you
get angry?
We took them to these
schools and these universities,
which are breeding grounds for all types of
isms.
I'm really holding back guys.
And everything else.
And then they come home and their minds
are polluted,
and they're asking questions, and then you're getting
upset. Why are you getting upset of father
or auntie?
Because you don't know, right?
Brothers,
you guys and sisters who have attended,
I really really fear for the next generation.
You know I fear for them?
Because the problem is with us. We are
uneducated.
We are not actively going out to learn
our religion.
Right?
We are not learning the basics.
The kids, mashallah, they know. Pythagoras theorem, a
squared plus b squared or c squared.
The periodic table has been memorized at the
back of his hand.
Condensation,
evaporation,
alliteration,
and all of the other shaytans that are
out there. Right? They know it inside out.
Well, at one time, a couple of years
ago, I actually stood outside of the Masjid
and started asking them, what is the meaning
of Islam?
Not a single one of them could tell
me.
We ask them about pie. He goes, yeah,
I know, I know. Pythagoras theorem.
All I'm not saying is to put anyone
down, my brothers and sisters, this is the
reality.
Right?
So also number 3?
Your children may curse you after
you pass away if you did not educate
them accordingly.
Isn't this what he said about him?
Our father was foolish and dumb.
And I've witnessed enough times, my brothers and
my sisters, even though he's left behind millions,
and the Jannah has made haram upon the
father
Jannah has made haram upon him, not because
he didn't put a roof over their heads.
No, he did all of that. Because he
did not advise them accordingly.
And every single one of us, insha Allahu
Ta'ala, is going to get married,
and we're going to have children.
Comes a responsibility,
guys.
What are we on?
5.
The righteousness
of their father
could have got them saved from this punishment.
The fact that the father was righteous,
fact that the father was righteous.
We mentioned there was a possibility that he
did not educate them
properly, right? But he was still righteous
because he used to give
to the needy and the poor.
And perhaps, maybe because of his righteousness,
they ended up benefiting from it.
Right? Due to the fact that
this calamity brought them closer to Allah
And you being righteous, my brothers and my
sisters,
right,
it can go a very long way with
regards to
the good fortune that comes the way of
your children.
Sayeed ibn Musayid, my brothers and my sisters,
right,
and there's this verse in Surat Al Kahf,
which I'm thinking I'm assuming all of you
guys have memorized.
The 2 young men,
right, who lost their father.
Right?
And then there was
a lot of wealth
that was buried under that wall.
Anyways, you can
go to a story there.
But Khadir
said to Musa,
There was treasures in there,
and Allah
wanted them to benefit from it later on.
Anyways,
they say
this individual was 7th generation.
Sorry. These kids were
benefiting from the righteousness
of
their grandfather who passed away 7 generations ago.
Right?
They say his name was Qasih.
He was from the pious. Ibn Abbasi said,
Because of the parents being what? Righteous, Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala preserved them.
Every time he wanted to pray the night,
pray my brothers and my sisters, he would
look at his child.
Every time he would look at his child,
my brothers and my sisters,
and he would say, I do more prayers.
I do more and more prayers.
Just so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala can rectify
you guys and preserve you.
And then he would cry and cry and
recite this verse,
Their father was righteous.
Your children brothers and sisters,
your children
that you plan on having,
right?
Your righteousness could go a very long way
and what ends up happening to them later
on
when you depart from this world?
Be smart and intelligent and think long term
with the decisions that you make right now
brothers
and sisters.
Number 6.
Number 6.
I've only got another 10 minutes left.
You're wrong.
Number 6, right?
Being self critical when things go wrong.
This is one of the most important
benefits that we can take away from the
story, guys.
Alright.
When reality kicked in, they turned to themselves
and they said, indeed, we have wronged ourselves.
We were oppressive.
Right?
My brothers and my sisters, when things go
wrong in our lives,
we as human beings
tend to take the easier option, which is
we start pointing the finger
at everyone except ourselves.
Agreed?
We are in denial.
We don't want to accept that we might
have some blame
to that which is happening.
Right?
Some of the righteous of the past An
Ibn Taym Rahmatullahi mentions this. He says,
I disobey Allah,
then all of a sudden I begin to
see a change of attitude in my wife
and also in my riding beast.
This really really, well, I changed
the way I look at a lot of
people's problems.
Sometimes I get invited over to arbitrate between
a husband and wife. They're going through a
lot.
Right?
And it's not rocket science to see why
they're going through so many problems in their
lives. It's not rocket science to see. Well,
Allah, it's not.
Right.
Things are going wrong in their life, my
brothers and my sisters.
I remember one time there was a sister.
Right? I was dealing with her and her
husband's problem.
I said, why do you think all these
problems happening?
She said, because I'm getting closer to Allah.
Because I'm getting closer to Allah. And because
of that, Allah loves me to making me
go through all these problems.
I asked her one question.
After this one question,
she began to melt.
She went into meltdown.
Alright.
I told them why they're going through all
these problems.
Because they're eating haram money every day.
Right?
The sins that we fall into has a
direct impact on our marriages and our day
to day dealings.
Also I told her, because of the way
she dresses,
and the way she carries herself online, she
has an online profile.
I don't think anyone who has gaira, protective
jealousy, would allow his wife to go and
do that.
Or dress like that and put these kind
of pictures up there.
And I advise them as well with all
other things. But the point of the matter
is a lot of us were in denial.
The sins that we fall into has dire
has a direct impact on our relationships with
the people, whether it may be our spouses,
whether it may be our work colleagues, whether
it may be whoever it might be.
You will begin to lose a lot
because of your sins.
He said somewhere else,
You never disobey Allah Azawajal with the position
that you have. You know, the position that
you have, your status in society.
It could be that you're a Sheikh, it
could be that you are an Imam, it
could be that you are a manager, it
could be that you're a counselor, you have
a position in society.
Right?
You let your guard down,
you disobey Allah
my brothers and my sisters, you could lose
that position that you have.
And then you begin to feel sorry for
yourself. Always a witch hunt from everyone.
Everyone's against me.
How's your private life?
Let me tell you guys, my brothers and
my sisters, how an individual drops. I call
it how one drops in the eyes of
the people.
Ibn al Juzir Ahmad Tullahi says the following.
He says the following.
And it shows us how we need to
be very self,
a very retrospective, self critical of ourselves.
He says,
I saw many people of knowledge. This is
very important here.
They stopped being conscious of
Allah watching them when they were alone.
So what did Allah do to them? He
caused the good things that are mentioned about
them in public to disappear.
Today people are praising you, sir. They're saying
good things about you, and then all of
a sudden tomorrow,
you're absolutely nothing.
People all of a sudden now are speaking
negatively about you.
You can point a finger at everyone,
but the smart and intelligent individual, my brothers
and my sisters, comes back to reality
and accepts that I may be going through
all of this
because of sins that I carried out behind
closed doors.
This is how you drop an eye to
the people, my brothers and my sisters.
Have you guys heard of Mohammed al Musireen?
Puyahando, you've heard me say this story before.
1, 2, 3, 4.
Muhammad Seerin, my brothers and my sisters, he
was from the
students of Abu Hurair
as Suyuti mentioned. I believe it was 5,342
hadith that he narrated.
Muhammad Sirin is a student.
Muhammad Seireen, just to show you guys how
they were
okay. I've got given the hunt. 5 minutes.
I'm done, guys.
5 more minutes. We're done.
He was thrown into prison. You know why
he was thrown into prison? Does anyone know?
He was thrown into prison. Can anyone tell
me why?
He said he was broke.
That's what you call a touch of
a road.
He bought some oil,
and as businessmen what they tend to sometimes
do is they buy things on credit, they
sell it,
and then they pay the credit to Bakshah.
That's exactly what he did.
Took him on credit,
they he went to start selling it. However,
all of a sudden he found a big
fat rat stuck inside of this oil,
and he had to pour everything out.
He had to pour everything out.
He's got a problem.
He had this incurring debt, and because he
couldn't pay it back, he was thrown into
prison.
You know what he said, brothers and sisters?
I degraded
a broke man that I saw
30 years ago, he degraded him. He saw
him, he was broke, had nothing,
and he began to speak down on him.
And he said because of what I've done
30 years ago, I'm going through it right
now.
How many of us think like that?
And when sometimes the calamity and the hardship
strikes,
that it may well be because of a
sin that we committed.
Alright. Alright, brothers and sisters,
and I've seen this happen to so many
aunties.
Aunties, they degrade others
because of what they see other young women
doing.
Look at her.
Look at her. She's like the
The street girl, and they start making all
of these very negative remarks about her.
Forgetting that she has a daughter.
How many brothers and sisters? How many?
How many? I have seen.
Instead of being thankful to you Allah,
you know, you guided my daughter.
She's always at home. She's righteous.
And making dua for that girl who's going
through this very negative problematic trial,
I think in Samani they call
it degrade.
Reseneration, my brothers and sisters, even though it's
weak,
never does one degrade another
for a sin except
that he will carry out the same sin
before he dies.
You know, back in the day, my brothers
and sisters, there was this brother who was
with me in Yemen.
He would send fatawa,
Islamic verdicts to brothers in West London.
It is haram for you to wear trousers.
And anyone who wears trousers,
cannot come and give reminders in a masjid.
And he would say, I'd rather get my
trous I'd rather get my
knee chopped off
than for me to wear trousers.
You say this.
And he was really, really harsh for these
people. He would degrade them and everything.
In Yemen, we lived in Cuckoo Land, guys.
Very out of touch with reality. It was
a village.
No internet. Well, there was a bit of
internet, but it was very hard to use.
He comes back after the war
because Yemen went into turmoil, right?
Everyone had to leave
and he has to start working, right? He
has to move on with his life.
So much time goes past, still no job
because every job you have to wear trousers.
And then guess what, brothers?
Eventually, he gave in. He started working in
London Heathrow.
He didn't just have to wear trousers, he
had to wear purple trousers.
Who wears purple today, guys?
Extremely colorful,
zah.
Things may happen because of
what we have uttered and the way we
have behaved.
Being self critical of yourself when things start
going wrong.
This is point
number 6.
So Ib'no
al Juzi commented on this incident of Muhammad
al Sirih, and he said,
There's never a time when I go through
hardships and difficulties
except that it is due to a sin
that I committed. And then look what he
says,
I might start making excuses for myself
for.
You know when you start making excuses for
yourself? Because I might start doing that, and
then I begin to see the punishment
of Allah becoming even more less.
I'm just going to give you guys the
final points, and I'm gonna have to stop.
Write down number 7, guys.
The blessings that you have
the blessings that you have is a test
from Allah.
How are you going to conduct yourself with
these blessings?
Wasn't this a blessing that they had, these
people?
Who possessed this garden?
Instead of being thankful, instead of doing that
which Allah told them to do,
they thought, oh, they could deceive Allah
by going in the night before the morning
to take all of these blessings that Allah
upon them.
Right?
Number 8, my brothers and my sisters,
they showed humility
and humbleness by admitting their mistake,
and they weren't stubborn.
It is a fadilla. It is a virtue
to admit your mistakes, my brothers and my
sisters.
Right.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala raises you when you
admit your mistake.
Instead of being stubborn in your ways.
Number 9,
being wary of having bad intentions
or intending to do evil.
You may have that firm determination
now, not just the thought. We're not talking
about thought.
Because there's 5 levels of intent.
There are 5 levels of intent I'm talking
about. When you have that intention now to
go into haram,
you're on your way to doing that.
Right?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala may well destroy you
or whatever else you're trying to accomplish.
Hadith
of the 2 who square up to one
another,
Listen up my brothers and my sisters. For
those even in the month of Ramadan
who are looking
to rip people to shreds.
The messenger is saying, when 2 Muslims, they
square up to one another,
both the killer
and the killed are in the hellfire.
Companions ask, stay, we understand the killer, but
what about the one who was killed?
Messenger salah says,
He himself had,
right, that firm determination
to go and take his life as well,
right?
But the killer got the final blow,
but he still wanted to do the same
thing, sir, except
that he lost.
Both of them are in the * fire.
And we are held to account for us
wanting to carry out this evil, brother and
sisters.
The more righteous the place or the more
righteous the time, the worse
it is.
Even when you're making these very bad intentions
to carry out that crime.
How many are we on?
9. This is now number 10.
Number 10, right?
Number 10. Withholding from paying zakat can lead
to the disappearance of your wealth.
Put your hand up if you had like
£365
in your bank for the last 12 months.
Actually don't put your hand up.
The brothers might come after Yahhi, Allahu'alam.
It's something as small as that brothers and
sisters, where you have in your bank which
go or which stays there for a whole
year, which you didn't have to pay 2.5%
on.
I have Leighton's hot,
How many is that?
Number 11, the impact of evil and righteous
companions.
Right?
They
began to call one another.
Right?
Late night,
Early morning. Let's go.
And then there was that righteous individual who
used to advise them all the time.
Right?
Then I tell you the righteous who used
to advise them all the time, which they
didn't appreciate.
If only they listened,
that garden may still have been there.
He used to remind them of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
That righteous person that you mock, you call
him what? The haram police, you make fun
of him.
Allah is saving you, right, from a punishment
in this world before the hereafter.
It's people like that they should hold on
to.
Even if you feel as if, oh, he's
just always
he wants care for you.
Your true friend,
right, is the one who really advises you,
my brothers and my sisters. The other guy
who ex you on, this is not a
true friend.
If you look at the word, friend in
the Arabic language, how do you say
it? Sadiq. Alright?
The root letters are what,
which means truthful
or to be truthful.
The one who's truthful, he's the true friend,
no one else.
Number 12.
Sahih.
The greatness of Allah
knowledge.
Before they were able to execute that plan,
Allah Azzawajal took them,
or dealt with them. I'm just going through
them. I'm done. Abshit.
Abshit.
Abshit. Yeah. They're gonna come after you. Okay.
Number
13.
113 now. Right?
When you mistreat the weak or the incapable,
there is someone who is more stronger and
mightier and greater than you,
who will deal with you accordingly.
Number 14,
How
Allah
deals with the people with the opposite of
the intention, You need the bad intentions.
Sometimes you want to do something that is
bad, but then Allah
will deal with you
with the opposite.
This is
and How many is that?
I got one left, sir?
How Beneh?
We got 2 left or 1?
Scholars have taken 2 views.
He's got 14 written down. He's got 14
written down as well.
Go on. Last one.
Yeah? Number 15 guys and this is the
most important. And I've already kind of like
touched on it.
How having beneficial knowledge could have saved them
from this calamity.
Sahih.
Then Allah Azza wa Jal punish them.
Alright?
Then Allah
punished them, my brothers and my sisters,
and took away what they had.
Right?
Scholars, they mentioned, my brothers and my sisters,
if Allah has blessed you, then look after
that blessing. How do you look after that
blessing?
By being thankful, by doing what Allah told
you to do, that's knowledge.
They didn't have that, they thought they could
get away with it. They undermine the greatness
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And what he's
capable of doing?
Knowledge could have saved them and knowledge is
what is going to save us, my brothers
and my sisters, in today's day and age,
and also when our children come along tomorrow.
Are you brothers and sisters with me? You
can get angry, you can get upset, you
can sit around feeling sorry for yourself when
things start going wrong or when our children
come home with all types of afkar ideas.
But if you have the knowledge, why did
he get angry?
Sit down with him, remove the doubts that
he has, and equip him with the tools
to repair, wallah, these doubts that may come
his way.
The knowledge will help you to navigate around
the doubts, the shubuhat and the shahwat,
and the temptations.
Right?
I don't just give lectures, my brothers and
my sisters, get people excited.
There is an objective behind it for us,
my brothers and us, to become serious with
learning our deen.
This is what we need today.
And this is what the enemies of Al
Islam don't want, for you to learn your
religion.
They wish that you could remain ignorant,
and there your minds are hijacked.
That's what they want.
And the solution to all of that is
knowledge.
I thought I'd leave that all the way
to the end because it's the most important
benefit.
We'll stop there insha Allahu ta'ala. I just
wanna take a moment out to thank the
administration of the masjid,
all the brothers who helped make this happen.
Guys, I'm
guys, it's not respectful to go before it's
finished.
Right? I want to thank the administration of
the masjid who allowed
this program to take place. Honestly, I'm so
happy to see all of these growing faces
pack the masjid out to the brim.
I ask Allah azza wa'am to bless every
single one of you guys.
Right? And I want to thank you all
for coming to the masjid, when you could
have been doing a 101 things on a
weekday as well. Some of you guys I
know came straight from work.
Alright.
May Allah bless you all. Jazakumullah khairan. Waasana
Allahu alaykum.
And I want to say one last thing.
Don't look down at individuals who may have
come to the masjid, maybe dressed in a
way that you're not accustomed to seeing.
We've been getting the biggest trappers coming to
the masjid.
And for you to start looking down at
them, you are wrong.
They have every right to be in a
masjid,
just like everyone else.
The masjid
is not just for the audayd, the old
uncle that you see sitting in the front
row.
It's for everyone.
Right? Ramadan is for everyone, guys. And likewise
my sisters, you may see a sister wearing
hijab in a certain way that you're not
accustomed to.
Right? It might well be a first time
she's putting on a hijab or coming to
the masjid. Don't be the reason why she's
pushed away.