Abu Taymiyyah – 21 Gems From The One Who Killed 99 Ustaadh Melbourne
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Before I start the lecture, I just want
to take a couple of moments out
to thank
Sheikh Abuayman.
May Allah
honor him
and also his son, Sheikh Usama, and everyone
else.
For those who don't know, Sheikh Usama
was actually my
classmate
for many, many years,
and we got to know each other in
the 1st semester. And he used to tell
me
about his father,
and I was also told by others
how his father has been a pioneer
of the
dua
from a very, very long time ago.
May Allah
reward them both.
You guys have people of knowledge amongst you,
so it's incumbent upon us to benefit from
them as much as we can.
Also, subhanAllah,
when I saw the Sheikh praying,
sitting
down, it reminded me of some lines of
poetry.
In his
Because the messenger of salallahu alayhi wa sallam
said in a hadith,
If the imam prays sitting down, you should
also pray sitting down. However,
at the end of the messenger of life,
what happened?
The last of the 2 incidents that that
took place was that the prophet
sat down
when leading the salah while everyone else behind
him was standing up.
So some of the scholars I mentioned that
this second ruling abrogated the first, and you
don't normally see it. So, subhanAllah, as soon
as I saw it, I
I remember them lines of poetry, and I
thought I would share it.
My beloved brothers and sisters,
Hadith al Aliyom.
Today, the topic of discussion
is about the one who killed a 100.
And the plan is to derive
20 benefits. I've given this lecture before
in the UK,
in Greenlane Masjid, Birmingham.
And at the time, I only derived 5.
The other day, I delivered this lecture again,
and that time was 18.
But now we hope, inshallah, to do one
better.
I don't like to deliver the same lecture
wherever I go. We always try to
add as many benefits
as we can.
So this hadith, my beloved brothers and sisters,
is a hadith that every individual from different
walks of life can benefit from.
Whether you are young in age, whether you're
old, whether you're a male or a female,
whether you're a drug dealer, someone who works
in a brothel,
right, whatever it might be.
This hadith, wallahi,
it solves
many of our social issues.
If only we took out the time to
really reflect and ponder.
So this hadith, my beloved brothers and sisters,
was narrated by Abu Saeedan al Khudri
He said that the messenger of salallahu alaihi
wa sallam said,
Messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, indeed,
there was an individual who came before you.
He took 99
lives,
and then he asked about the one who
is the most knowledgeable
on the face of this earth.
Yes.
The barbaric,
bloodthirsty
individual.
He asked
about who is the most knowledgeable on earth.
He was smart enough to do that.
He was then directed and steered towards a
Rahib.
Who's a Rahib? A monk.
He asked him.
He said to him, there isn't. What did
he do? He ended up killing him as
well, completed a 100.
He continued in his quest of finding redemption.
He was then
directed towards a person of knowledge and asked,
fahallimin Tawba,
is it possible for me to be forgiven?
He said, nam. Yes. There is.
However, what you need to do is
Go to so and so place.
Indeed there are people
who worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
and worship Allah with them, and don't ever
come back to these lands.
As indeed,
they are lands that carry a lot of
evil. So that's exactly what he done.
He left, packed his bags, and got off.
He was halfway
in his quest to the land of redemption.
What happened?
He by he died. He passed away.
So the 2 angels came.
The angel of mercy and the angel of
adab.
Each one
said that I am more entitled to taking
a soul.
And the reasons that they put forth was,
the Angel of Rahma says,
Indeed this individual was repenting.
He went forth
with his heart
solely wanting Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
As for the angel of Adab said in
he never ever done a good deed, and
because of that,
I should take his soul. Allah
sent a third angel,
in the form
of a human
being.
And what happened at the end, I'll mention
at the end of the lecture
to judge between them. Allah azza wa send
his third to judge between them, and we'll
mention that right to the end.
So the first benefit that we can take
away from this hadith,
the narrator is who?
Abu Saeed,
my beloved brothers and sisters, the famous companion,
he was top 6 from amongst those
who narrated the most hadith from amongst the
companions.
Even Hafid
Assiyyut Irhamatulaiyah in some lines of poetry says,
When speaking about those who narrated the most
hadith,
I believe was number 6.
A beautiful benefit that we can take from
his life
is what
Ibn Abi Sufyan
mentioned when speaking about his teachers.
From out of all of the young companions
that the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam had,
is
saying, there wasn't
anyone from amongst those young companions who was
more knowledgeable than Abu Sa'idin Khudi radiAllahu ta'ala
Anhu.
He strove hard at a very young age
to take in that knowledge.
And, oh, my brothers and my sisters, when
we learn something at a very young age,
carving into a stone.
It tends to stick.
Elders today, they want to memorize the Quran.
And one of the common things that I
hear from time to time is
our elders saying, I wish
I memorized the Quran when I was younger.
I may pick up the Quran now, and
I start memorizing, but it slips away
so much more quicker than maybe a youngster
if he was to start memorizing and learning.
And as the saying goes,
you can't teach an old dog new tricks.
Isn't that so?
So much
even though we will say that the companions,
they started seeking knowledge at an older age.
Many of them started at an older age,
so he is in all doom and gloom.
However, it is more preferable that individual
benefits from his youth while he has the
opportunity
while he has the opportunity. Don't think to
yourself there's too many mashaayikh around.
You have Sheik Abuayim and Sheik Usama
and the rest of the mashaikh. When will
the people ever need me?
Isn't it possible for them to depart from
this world at any time?
And then it will be your turn to
benefit the people.
Right? Abdullah ibn Surud radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu would
say,
upon you is to seek knowledge before it
is seized.
Indeed, you don't know when that time is
going to come when the people will be
in need of what you have.
Agreed?
Today, no one's benefiting from you, but tomorrow
there comes that time, and a person of
knowledge
wherever he goes, he could be in the
jungle, and there are people there. He will
be beneficial for them.
And you don't know what could end up
happening and where Allah will take you.
So benefit from your time like Abu Sa'id
al Khudi radiAllahu ta'ala
Anhu. He took advantage of his youth.
The 7 who will be under the shade
of Allah the day when there's no shade
except His.
Right? One of them is a youngster
who spent his youth
learning about the deen of Allah
Benefit number 2, and I need somebody to
write down.
Do we have anyone who's going to write
it down? Unless you're like Al Imam al
Bukhari,
who has photographic memory and can memorize everything
that he hears.
There are a lot of benefits, brothers and
sisters, that we're going to be taking that
you will look back at
years down the line
when maybe, what, wanting to advise your kids.
Right? When wanting to advise your kids, or
maybe you need it for yourself that you
can take inspiration from.
There's a line of poetry
where the poet said,
It is a master that Talib, he carries
Kunash. You know what Kunash is?
Scrap paper.
He writes when he rides, and he writes
when he walks.
And, of course, because we're living in the
time of the millennials,
I had to change up the line of
posture a little bit.
Nobody carries scrap paper with them today. So
I tweaked a little bit and I said,
It is a must that the Talib, he
carries Ibad. It's like a freshy way of
saying iPad,
just so it rhymes
in Arabic.
He carries with him an iPad.
He rides when he rides, and he rides
when he walks.
I've been saying this quite a lot. For
a very long time, all the way up
until recently,
because I'm a die
hard
Apple fan.
I've
been making a lot of dua for Steve
Jobs.
Have you guys heard of Steve Jobs? Who's
Steve Jobs?
He created.
A war. Let me ask you guys a
question. Is it allowed for somebody to make
du'a for a kafir after he died?
No.
You're not allowed.
So I was making diaphragm all the way
up until recently, and then one time someone
said, what's that?
Just to let you know, Steve Jobs died
in 2011.
Why?
Why was that making die for him? Because
some of these apps on here like notes,
it was a huge benefit to me in
my life, Sheikh Usama knows. I sit in
a class.
People are thinking I'm messing around with the
phone or maybe on social media. Whatever the
sheikh is saying, I would write it on
the notes.
Right? I need to retrieve my information.
You just put in the search, put that
word in, and then it comes up. Even
now in the lecture I'm giving, from time
to time, a benefit comes to mind, and
I write it down.
And you can't do that, in fact, with
scrap paper because it could easily get lost.
Maybe you can, but it's very difficult to
keep up with. You could use it for
books. These phones are double edged swords
that can be used for a lot of
benefit,
and it can also cause a lot of
harm.
Taib.
Who's going to?
Taib. I'm gonna rely on you because sometimes
I just go on and on, and I
forget what number I'm on. Type.
2nd benefit is the permissibility
of narrating stories from the children of Israel,
not the Israelis today.
Ya'qub alaihisattu was was called what? Israel.
Right? And the offspring of Israel that came
after, and there was a lot of incidents
that took place. So it is permissible
to narrate the stories of the Bani Israel,
providing the narration is uttered by the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
and it's also authentic.
For indeed,
you can walk away with profound lessons
and amazing benefits.
However, if the Ahlul Kitab, the people of
the book, the Jews and the Christians, they
narrate a story to us that this and
that happened,
We don't accept it nor do we deny
it. It could be true, but we don't
have an authentic narration.
There's no way to prove that this is
actually authentic because it wasn't uttered by the
prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam, and the chain
is not there. Does that make sense? As
the messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam mentioned.
The third benefit, my beloved brothers and sisters,
is
this barbaric,
bloodthirsty
human being
was smart enough
to inquire about
the one
who has the most knowledge
when needing a fatwa relating to his affair.
Even though, subhanallah, he was of this kind
of individual killing people, he killed 99.
Now he needs
a fatwa, an Islamic verdict pertaining to his
religion.
Who does he go and ask?
That ignorant person who's sitting in the cafe,
who's barely ever studied, and then he's giving
out fatawa?
I remember one time, subhanAllah,
one brother told me, right, there's a guy
who gives Fatawah and Tim Hortons.
I think it was Samir that said it.
Sheikh Samir.
And I was like, who? He never told
me who he was, and I still don't
know.
Right?
A guy that would sit, Tim Hortons,
hasn't gone out and studied, and he's given
off a towel. You guys know Tim Hortons,
by the way?
It's a Canadian thing.
I think you guys have
Oliver something. What is it called?
I think that's a Sydney thing then. So
this hasn't arrived. Yeah? They were like, Oliver,
something is like the big deal. It's like
the Tim Hortons.
Tlaib,
he was smart enough to go to the
one who's most qualified.
Agreed?
Honestly, brothers and sisters, right,
you wouldn't speak about anything related to engineering
because you're not qualified.
You wouldn't speak about
that which relates to
the mechanic's job because you're not qualified.
Why is it that we might feel comfortable
to speak about the deen of Allah azza
wa jal and there's absolutely nothing wrong with
it? Because I'm a Muslim, I can just
speak about the religion and say what I
want.
Well,
I
remember, subhanAllah, in the COVID period,
it's just after it finished, but it was
still
going around.
Right?
The masajid will open. I was going around
giving lectures in different masajid around the UK.
Just about every message that I go to,
people are asking me, what's your view on
the vaccine? Allahu Akbar.
Last time I checked,
right, last time I checked the CV, it
didn't have a qualification on medicine, brothers
and sisters.
Why should I give a verdict?
Why should I speak about something that is
above the pay grade or above my head?
Someone might be, brothers and sisters, on a
ventilator. I remember there was even a time
when my little brother, salaam yarhamah, he was
on a ventilator.
You go ask whatever sheikh you want.
He's going to say to you, go to
the people that are most qualified.
Go and seek advice from
2 trustworthy doctors.
As Allah says in the Quran, 1st,
Ask a person of expertise.
Right?
People, subhanAllah, I don't know here in Australia,
but in the UK
and I said this in a packed Masjid.
Some people have blood on their hands
because they gave verdicts without knowledge.
When it first started, even I started becoming
influenced by these guys who kept on saying,
Walaiah, the COVID is not real.
The COVID is not real.
And I thought maybe it is a conspiracy,
like a lot of people are saying.
And at one time, brothers and sisters, I
dropped down on my knees. Yes. I was
afflicted with COVID.
The pain that I felt, wallahi, I've never
felt in my life.
I was getting my will ready,
writing down, okay. This is going to go
there, and this is going to go there.
The pain that I felt, I never ever
felt before.
And even then people are saying, oh, no.
That's just a minor cold. It's not a
big deal. Don't worry about it. You can
walk around Adi.
While we're being taught to isolate
the severe headaches, the severe
throataches, and the earaches, and the head and
whatever, Never felt anything like that. On Eid,
I prayed inside of my room that I
was in
sitting down because of how weak I felt.
And then people are going around saying, it's
a conspiracy. Don't worry about it. It's not
a big deal.
I'm not
someone who has a position on the issue
of vaccine. I don't even need to be
giving a position. It's not my job. I'm
not pro nor am I anti. That's not
my role.
But the point of the matter is, brothers
and sisters, when a lot of people start
speaking
and it could lead to loss of life,
would you agree that you have blood in
your hands?
Was his brother. I remember, subhanallah, they told
me after he passed away.
He was afflicted by COVID. Everyone was like
to him around him because in Birmingham, it
was a big deal. There was a lot
of anti vacciners.
He got afflicted by it, and he just
took their advice, and then he's about to
die. You know what he said? This was
one of the last things he said.
I really wish I didn't listen to
them. I really wish I didn't listen to
them. May Allah have mercy upon the brother,
because he was a good brother, Went to
Kuwait to study.
Sima Talib
al-'ul passed away.
Right?
You don't have to comment on everything and
anything, brothers and sisters. You know it's also
very ajeeb.
Right? And I know there's a lot of
marriage problems here in Australia.
A sister has a decent marriage.
Right? It may well be even, subhanAllah,
very, very good.
We know in marriages, there's always going to
be ups
and downs.
Is there a marriage that is perfect?
Anyone who walks into marriage thinking that it's
going to be perfect? Wallahi, you're
deluded. That's a fantasy type of mindset that
you have with regards to what marriage is.
There are bound to be
They're gonna go through problems.
It's not going to be perfect. There are
always going to be problems. So it may
well be that one time, she's experienced some
difficulty in a marriage, right, and she's with
her friends. And the way human beings are,
they confine
in those that they love and their friends.
Isn't that so?
As some of the scholars mentioned.
And insan was not called an insan
because except because he forgets and also because
he needs to seek pleasure in in people.
That's why you always after getting married, you
want a child, and after child, you're craving
for that grandchild and and
you're always craving for something. You wanna seek
pleasure in something.
Iblis
sends his troops
to a shaitanah,
A female devil that is
walking around on
the streets of the west.
And this good sister,
who has a pretty decent marriage, begins to
confine in this girl
about her problems.
What does this shaitanah do? This devil that
has been sent, how can he do that?
What kind of husband is this? He should
be doing this and he should be doing
that. Ma'asha Allah Tabarak Allah. No. Is she
married?
Has no experience, and also what? No knowledge
as well. And she's advising her.
And then this woman who's married, she said,
oh, yeah. You're right.
You're right.
Goes back to husband and starts dealing
with her husband in a very, very problematic
negative way.
Who gave her advice? This woman,
No knowledge, no experience.
Is
one of my favorite quotes. He says,
How beautiful in silence
on issues that are sensitive?
And then look what he says.
How often have we seen someone destroying himself
because of something that he uttered? But we
never ever saw someone
leading himself to destruction for being silent. Have
you guys ever seen something like that? He's
just silent. Does anyone blame him?
It is indeed
great corruption
that one
speaks about everything that he hears.
Stay in your lane.
You wanna speak about a deen? You wanna
comment?
Go and study the deen of Allah which
is something that many people don't wanna do.
It requires a lot of effort, a lot
of time.
Right?
It's not easy. Just as I would have
speak about
issues related to
medical science, because I don't know anything about
it.
I have my first cousin
who's like the Mufti. You know how the
Mufti gives Islamic verdicts?
He works in a hospital, and he has,
like, the same Mufti role.
Those who are going to be carrying out
the operation, they call him beforehand. Oh, how
much of this should we add of medicine,
and how much of this drug should we
add? And he gives the verdict, and then
they sign off.
I call him. Whenever I get sick,
call him, Siraj,
What should I do? I have another cousin
who's a specialist
on irrelated issues. I call her whenever I
have an irrelated issue.
Everyone should be referred back to
regards to their specialty.
How many is that?
3.
Jamil.
The 4th benefit, brothers and sisters,
lack of knowledge
got the monk killed.
Lack of knowledge could either get you killed
or could be the reason why people are
killed. Agreed?
Madalil,
he asked him. He was unqualified.
He says, you can't be forgiven.
Completes the 100 and gets him killed as
well.
We also have an incident in time in
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
My brothers and sisters from the companions of
the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
on a very cold night,
had a storm pelted at his head and
it split open.
He fainted.
After waking up, he realized that he was
in a state of janaaba. He had a
*. So then he asked the people
around him, what do I need to do?
Do I need to take a ghusl?
A purification bath, or can I make?
They said you have to take a,
a purification bath.
He does that and guess what happens? He
dies.
Became
so furious.
And he said,
They killed him. May Allah will kill them.
Why didn't they ask
if they didn't know?
The cure for ignorance is what? To ask.
Because ignorance, brothers and sisters, is a. It's
a sickness.
Got him killed.
Right?
I'll tell you guys something that I experienced
when I was in a Yemen back in
2012.
Right?
Prior to going to
the Naj, which is an institute where we
used to
study,
prior to going there,
me and my cousins were in San'a, which
is the capital,
which is the capital.
Wallahi, brothers and sisters, we would leave 1
AM in the morning to go and grab
tea, and there was safety and security. And
this is sometimes a blessing that we undermine.
Yes. Was there corruption going on in the
lands? Of course, there was, and we will
not defend
any
leader or ruler that is causing this.
It's haram to defend
that which is wrong, as Allah says.
Does that make sense?
We were able to leave. At 1 AM
in the morning, there was safety and security.
We would go, have a dessert, and come
back.
Tayeb.
I go to study.
Right?
And prior to going,
a lot of the revolution that was taking
place in my homeland, Al Yemen, and I'm
gonna speak for my homeland,
it was starting up
starting up. People were camping on the roads
and everything. They wanted to revolt against the
tyrannical oppressive ruler, if you wanna call him
that.
I go
to the north of Yemen, which is a
village in between mountains. We used to live
in a mud house.
In between mountains. The water used to come
once every 3 days or once every 2
days.
We're hearing that the capital
has turned upside down.
The ulama, they were saying to them, listen,
guys.
Stay in your homes.
Don't come out.
Yes. We know that he's like this and
he's like that, but still stay in your
homes.
What did Sheikh Khalifa Tamir Ahmedullah alaihi mentioned?
100 and 100 of years ago.
He says,
He said, you will struggle to find
a people who revolted to remove the evil
of their leader
except that it led
to that which is far worse.
It's a challenge that he puts out
throughout history.
And the fact that someone may say, don't
revolt, it doesn't mean that he's defending
the filth and the evil that a particular
leader is coming with.
Let's make that very clear.
The scholars, they were saying, stay in your
homes. Don't do anything, please. You're going to
turn the country upside down,
and the ulama they have inside, they have
basira.
They can see what? They're very long sighted.
You know what some of the people would
say? These guys, these guys here, they're what
Scholars who only know about menses.
You you know, menses, the monthly period, and
postnatal bleeding. They don't know anything else.
What happened
brothers and sisters?
After the revolution took took place, go and
ask every Yemeni that is abroad. Would you
prefer to live
post Abdulazali who was a ruler at the
time or after?
Pre and post, that's what they call it.
Right?
Every single one of them will say,
I wish the days could go back to
how it was before they ousted him out.
Yes. He done this and he done this
and he done that and he was like
this and he was like that. That was
present.
But we had safety and security.
Many of us, we wake up we wake
up living here in Australia,
and the last thing on our mind is
that someone's going to roll up
and start firing at you, unless, of course,
you're a drug dealer.
But the rest,
go to sleep. Do you even think about
being shot? Does it even cross our minds?
Doesn't.
Right?
Everyone ended up suffering. There was only some
people that did whatever they done, but everyone
ended up suffering. Remember my grandmother, may Allah
mercy upon her. She had to suffer as
well.
Some was sitting in her home. When the
adab comes, when the punishment comes,
he ends up what?
Afflicting everybody involved.
Right?
So many people along the way were killed.
Lives were lost. Blood was spilt.
Mothers lost their children. Fathers lost their children.
And only later on, a lot of the
Yemenis
realized what the sheikh was saying was actually
correct. So we will see, subhanAllah,
delegations, like thousands of people coming to
the Majes to visit
before they cancel them
before they cancel them, but now
they realize, yeah, we should've just probably listened,
and they started respecting them more.
Also, there's a that we learn.
You will be held liable. If you're unqualified
and you begin to speak about whatever it
might be I'll give you guys the example
of a doctor.
If a doctor who's qualified now operates
on a sick person,
and he does his job accordingly,
but
due to the operation he ends up dying,
is the doctor held liable? Can you turn
around and say, oh, doctor, you need to
give me the blood money?
Can you say that? Abadan.
Because the Sharia has given him has given
him a permit to what?
Carry out this operation, because he's qualified.
But what if you're not qualified,
And then you end up taking a life
while looking like a doctor.
Prophet
said,
Whoever acts like a doctor.
I remember when we was in the jam.
We used to hear about those rumors used
to go around.
Some of the doctors,
they just, what, forged their certificates.
So the students will be scared. Should we
go to the hospital or not?
Allahu'ala whether that's true or not.
There's rumors at the end of the day.
Some actually forged their certificates.
One time I even asked a dentist, is
this something that happens? He goes, yeah. It
happens.
So I said to him, is there any
here? And he goes, no. No. No. There
isn't.
I personally asked the doctor that.
Right? People forge.
In today's day and age, it's very easy
to forge and get stamps and pay somebody
some rishwa. If people were
paying money to get the vaccines done,
I think everything else is possible as well.
Right?
I know people that were paying,
to be what?
Fully vaccinated,
and they never got the vaccine done. Forged.
So in today's day and day, things can
I can see some heads
dropping? Allahu'ala whether you guys done that. Only
Allah knows best.
Do you guys get the point? It can
be forged.
And then this individual
ends up killing or taking a life, and
then they find out that he was never
a qualified doctor, he's held liable.
Likewise,
have you now give a verdict on an
Islam?
Like what happens when people go out for
Imra or Hajj?
Someone does something, and then he asked the
people around him, oh,
do I need to pay a penalty?
There's people that start giving, yeah, yeah, you
have to pay penalty. You know how much
the penalty is? 500 riyals. I believe it's
something like $270,
Australian dollars,
maybe. Something along the lines of that. So
then he goes to the office and pays
it, and then he comes up to me
and he asks, oh, I did this.
Is there a penalty? I was like, no.
You don't need to pay penalty. He goes,
I just paid a penalty.
Islam allows him now to go to that
ignorant person that gave him that verdict
and to take that money back.
Right?
For Aynah who has one? He's held
liable. Number 5,
or number 5
now? Number
5, brothers and sisters, the fact that the
people told him to go to a monk
shows the lack of knowledge in the community,
and they had a role to play
in getting him killed.
Because he asked. Right? He asked.
And everybody's saying to him, yeah. That person
of knowledge is there, that monk.
He's a a person of knowledge, a devout
worship. Is he a person of knowledge?
A lot of the time, we don't distinguish.
We may see a guy with a big
beard,
He's got big Juba,
and everybody starts running towards him because he
moves his head like that.
Just because he has
the gift of the gap and the look
because in today's day and age, especially in
the west, if you just have a bit
of
when you speak in English,
and you dress a certain way, you wear
that imamah,
and you know how to speak, you'll go
a very long way.
People will listen to you.
Do you guys agree with
that? Especially now in the era of the
millennials where YouTube has given a platform to
every dumb dick and Harry.
Just go by the camera, put it in
front of you, get a mic, stick it
on,
stop preaching.
And then we, whenever we need, instead of
going to the right people. Right? We go
check Google, we type it in, and then
this guy pops up. Oh, Oh, let's see
what he has to say. I got my
on start. Let me go back to the
people.
Yeah.
Does that happen or not? Of course, it
does.
They themselves didn't know, and they directed him
to this individual.
Lack of knowledge in the community, brothers and
sisters,
could lead to a loss of lives. And
I'll tell you guys as someone who
is a qualified inheritance distributor, wallahi.
The jahl revolving around
this concept of inheritance,
the amount of fitna that it causes in
the community, and not only in the community,
but amongst families.
But a lot of brothers, they're about to
take each other's lives
because of some dunya that was left behind,
and we're sitting there dealing with it.
And instead of going to a person who
knows about these things, what do they do?
They go to
the legal court.
And then all sorts of things start taking
place
judging by the book of Allah, and he
doesn't realize that he may even lose his
religion by doing so.
Number 6. Right?
The eagerness of continuing and not giving up.
This man
took
99 lives
and makes it a 100.
Right?
He still continued
Even though, subhanAllah, he was of this caliber.
You hear people saying today, I'm a lost
hope. I'm doom and gloom. Right? There's no
light to the end of the tunnel. I'm
going to the hellfire.
Look at this man.
This man
who's a barbaric,
bloodthirsty individual
took a 100 lives, and I'm going to
keep saying these words
for the sake of emphasis.
He was smart enough
to continue.
There's no hope for me. I've been indulged
in sins for so long.
Khalas. The 7th benefit, and this is one
of my favorite.
This bad experience that he had
with a person of religion,
it didn't lead him to writing off all
people of religiosity.
He still went looking for someone else.
Let's speak about Twitter again.
Twitter, brothers and sisters,
if you wanna cancel somebody, it is the
best platform. Right?
Sometimes there's a particular scandal that takes place
pertaining a person of religion.
Right?
Even, subhanAllah,
some time ago,
some things came out about a person,
right,
who gives dawah,
and all the sisters are commenting under the
Instagram post saying, move it onto Twitter
because you'll get more publicity and whatever have
you.
You may have had a bad experience, and
then people start making general
sweeping statements
about all the people of religion. Is that
do that?
The messenger told
us in hadith,
From the worst of the people in the
eyes of Allah.
Arajul,
there's a man who insults another.
So the one who's been insulted, what is
what does he do? He ends the ends
up insulting
that individual and the rest of those in
his Kabila, in his tribe.
He disses all of them.
And this is pretty serious, brothers and sisters.
I'll tell you guys why. And I really
want the feminists
to listen to me.
A lot of these sweeping
general statements, especially that we hear from
our sisters,
You may have had a bad experience with
a guy,
and then you start saying that all men
are trash.
You Suruwala.
Let's be honest with ourselves.
All men are trash.
They let me ask you guys a question.
Right?
What's the world population today?
7,800,000,000?
What did did you say that? Or did
someone else?
7. 7,000,000,000. Last
time I checked, the thing was 7.8.
We'll go off with 8.
How many of the 8,000,000,000 are actually women?
Are there more women or less?
More
Right? This is why the men should marry
and keep marrying, and there's more women waiting
and around.
Even the mister alaihi wasallam said that there
will come a time when the ratio of
men to women will be what?
1 to 50. And, by the way, I'm
not encouraging anyone to do to. I just
wanna get out of here safely.
My thought looks nice. I don't want people
to start throwing things at me.
Right? A ratio of 1 to 50. Let's
just say there are 5,000,000,000
women, 3,000,000,000 men.
When a woman says,
all men are trash,
Isn't she now taking
the burden of all of these 3,000,000
when she says, all men are trash?
Because of the sweeping statement that she has
uttered,
generalizing everybody.
You know, I used to look at the
hadith of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam when
he said,
One, he may say one word, one word,
and when saying that,
he doesn't give him much care and concern.
He just says it, and he enrages Allah
And because of that one word he's thrown
in to the hellfire
for 70 years.
Now it makes a lot of sense. Right?
When somebody utters that kind of statement, 3,000,000,000
sins have just been moved onto
your scale of bad deeds.
That's why we need to be extra careful
with what we utter. And the same applies
for men as well. I remember in the
in the university.
Right? I was actually speaking to his teacher.
He had a bad experience in his marriage,
and he started saying all women are devils.
I was like,
you can't say that.
Accept the one that Allah has mercy
upon. And even then, you're what? Doing of
a few.
Sometimes a bad experience
can lead you to having certain views
and ideas,
which is problematic.
And no one is perfect.
So I'd tell the sheikh,
Maya is not a devil, I told him.
Even though we go through headaches and trouble
and
But to say, devils, that all women are
like that.
Number
8,
sir. Number 8, brother and sisters, a person
of knowledge being accessible to the people.
A person of knowledge being accessible to the
people.
The imam's role, brothers and sisters,
if we're honest with ourselves,
is very unappreciated.
It's not a 9 to 5 job
or 8 to 4 job where you go,
you sit, do your work, and you go
home, and you forget about your duties
at work.
Imagine, brothers and sisters. Right? And I'm sure
a lot of us have gone through difficulties
and we needed advice.
Imagine a people of knowledge
all closed themselves off.
Where would we take our sensitive
inheritance related issues?
Where would we take our marriage related issues?
Don't you think that the world would be
full of chaos?
If the people just went back to themselves,
like you go to the imam of the
masjid, you go to a student of knowledge,
you ask him for advice,
and Allah
blesses
this advice because it's a prophetic one. He
took it from Allah Azzawajal, his messiah alaihi
wa sallam.
Does that make sense?
Well, I really, really is unappreciated.
He gets a phone call at maybe, what,
12 AM. He's with his family about to
go to sleep.
It may well be that he has to
what? Put his jacket on leave because
husband and wife
are killing one another at home.
Sheikh Tal,
he could either make the decision, you know
what? Can't be bothered.
It's outside of my working hours or he
has to go and deal with this issue.
So the Muslim said,
The one who integrates.
Right? The one who integrates
and mixes with the people,
and he's patient with them.
This person is better than the one who
closes himself off.
Does that make sense, brothers and sisters?
It's really, really isn't an easy job. Wallahi,
we should be kissing
the imams. Like, when I hear about Sheikh
Abu Iman that's been around for so long,
and he's still going, wallahi,
it's really
brings a lot of joy and what they've
done for the community all of these years.
And then somebody comes along, he doesn't hear
what he wanted to hear and starts disrespecting
a person of
experience and someone who's been around so long.
Being silent of the truth spreads uncertainty
and is the leading reason for the spread
of ignorance.
It is a leading reason
for the spread of ignorance.
When some and I'm going to use as
an example without dropping any names.
When some leading figures, brothers and sisters,
remained quiet in the USA
or
they blurred the truth.
Because what happened once upon a time, brother
and sisters,
a very well known
influential speaker came out on Al Jazeera, and
he was asked
about same * marriages.
And I'm just quoting brothers and sisters.
I don't
express my own views and my opinions.
I just quote the scripture, and I'm going
to inshallah to Allah read out,
the freedom of speech,
rule, and the right to offend that was
implemented many, many years ago
that they themselves came with. We're not here
to express
or to entice violence,
homophobia,
right, or anything along the lines of that.
When they came out and they started saying
things like,
we agree with it politically,
but we don't agree with it morally.
The amount of confusion that is caused
where people became extremely, extremely confused, so much
so.
Wallahi, a brother said to me. Right? A
brother said to me,
when you go through some of the university
campuses, right, you will struggle to find a
hijabi
that doesn't have the rainbow colors
on her chest
as a badge.
You will struggle.
And perhaps this was the cause
of the leading figures either blurring the haqq
or what?
Keeping quiet.
My brothers and my sisters, think about this
point for a moment. Right?
We live in a democratic country
where one is allowed to express
or exercise his right
of speaking freely.
Why is it that everyone's allowed to say
what they want, but it's not reaching a
point where one is asked about his gender,
he hesitates.
Someone's asking him, are you straight? He begins
to think twice. What should I say and
what should I not?
So let me read this out. On the
freedom of speech and the right to offend,
following the Charlie Hebdo attacks,
which took place
in January 2015,
numerous politicians and leaders around the world
boldly asserted
that their nations will never give up
freedom of speech. Likewise,
they affirmed the right to offend
in a free society. Have you guys heard
of David Cameron?
David Cameron was the previous prime minister before
Boris Johnson and before Theresa May.
Okay? Look what he said.
David Cameron, the UK prime minister stated,
it is very important in our countries
that we have a freedom of expression.
You are allowed to offend people. That's what
he said.
And we're not even offending anyone. We're just
quoting that which is in the scripture.
I just wanna take a moment now to
thank the Australian government for allowing me to,
enter the country to express
or to exercise
my freedom to say whatever I want as
this is the law. Right?
So you are allowed to offend people
that you might not agree with
something as often,
something
as often,
I see things I do not agree with,
but I believe in the freedom of speech
and the rule of law.
These types of remarks were made
by politicians
in order to defend the right of French
cartoonists
to depict
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
who of course is revered
as a prophet of God by 1,500,000,000.
That was this was the stats then, but
now it's 1,800,000,000.
1,500,000,000
Muslims
spread across the entire globe
Through immoral,
deliberately
provocative, and
insightful *
caricatures that they were making about our beloved
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
In his 9th January 2015
article titled,
we must always be free to criticize ideas
like Islam.
Forget about freedom of speech. In some places,
we're being stripped off the freedom of silence.
And perhaps maybe because
this three
step strategy
has been fully implemented
and utilized.
What is this three way strategy
that came about in the 19 eighties by
2 Harvard graduates?
It is called desensitized,
jam,
and then convert.
This was the three way strategy that they
had. What does that mean?
When you desensitize
and you talk about something all the time,
all the time, all the time,
then you say, halas halas hint.
I've got the point now. You become desensitized
to it because it's always happening around you.
What's the second strategy that was used then
and is still being used?
Jam.
The moment somebody says something,
there's scaremongering
taking place.
He's ostracized. He's canceled. He's spoken about negatively
and so on and so forth.
The media
comes after him and so on and so
forth to scare the people that they shouldn't
say anything.
And then the 3rd step strategy is what?
Convert. You'll be easily converted
to whatever is being propagated.
And we can use this 3 step strategy.
Right?
How is beneficial for us?
Where we speak about certain things because it's
dying out. Look at it this way, some
of the scholars and the writers of the
past past, they will say,
whenever the sunnah, whenever an act of sunnah
goes missing in society, you will find
is brought to life. Agreed?
And that is because the sunnah is not
being spread. And likewise we can say this
here. Because the haqq is not being propagated,
you will find
that which is normative Islam will fade away.
That which is normative Islam will fade away.
And people will start normalizing
that which was, even in
British society,
was considered immoral.
All the way up until recently.
Right? In the west, a lot of that
which we see today,
according to them
This is
the party that is currently
in charge.
Oh, background is all.
Jameel.
Does that make sense to our brothers and
my sisters?
They are so vocal about their morals and
their values, but we as Muslims, we feel
embarrassed
to quote what is in the Quran when
Allah said,
And again, according to the scripture, Allah said,
when Lord came to his people and asked,
you guys carry out these immoral practices.
No one preceded you in this from the
time of Adam and Eve. Not Adam and
Steve, from Adam and Eve all the way
up until that point.
This was unheard of,
Considered
by them and also according to the Jews
and the Christians.
It was considered immoral.
I remember
when they invited Jacob Breeze Mog. Have you
guys heard of Jacob Breeze Mog? He's one
of Boris Johnson's right hand man on one
of the mainstream
morning shows in the UK. And they kept
on asking him, you're going to be prime
minister, you're probably gonna run for,
Being a prime minister very, very soon. What
is your view? You know what he said?
And he kept on saying this,
according to the teachings of the church,
according to the teachings of the church, and
he kept on repeating it.
They couldn't get him canceled.
The media
couldn't do anything to him
because he quoted the church.
And as long as you quote the scripture,
you should be safe.
As opposed to when you start what?
Speaking about your own views and whatever.
And I got your backs, brothers and sisters.
I've spoken to enough lawyers
and enough solicitors.
And they've provided me with a lot of
information
in how to play this game.
How many are we on?
It's the number 10.
The 10th brothers and sisters, and all you
guys are witness, I didn't quote my own
views and my
opinions.
Just in case I'm leaving, I got all
you guys as a witness,
and something happens. Number
10,
he
said,
Go to that land. Indeed there are people
who worship Allah. Worship Allah with them.
Are you brothers and sisters with me? Worship
Allah with them.
What do we take away from this brothers
and sisters?
That he may well be that one needs
to move out of his area
in order to better himself as a Muslim.
Because,
again, one of the common questions that people
send in saying, I want to change. I
wanna better myself, but my environment my environment.
Last time when I just went when I
came back from Umrah,
we were sitting with a lot of youngsters
because we take out road men, truck dealers
to Umrah. We have a a project like
that.
In front of the Kaaba, one of the
brothers was saying, he can't leave his house
except with a knife.
He can't leave his house except with a
knife,
and he probably get killed soon. This is
what he's telling me.
This kind of individual is allowed for him
to even stay here.
May Allah
reward my parents.
Right?
If they didn't make the decision
to move me out of London to Leicester,
either one of 3 things would have happened
because all of my friends
fall in these categories.
I would have either been dead in prison,
or I would have gone and joined ISIS.
Many of them who went abroad and came
back,
they came back with regret.
They in themselves are saying this.
Well, I wish we'd have gone
because we saw Muslims fighting on Madriya
My cousin until now, nobody knows where he
is because he went.
His parents don't know where he is. And
a lot of them realized that they were
wrong. Those who came back in London, I'm
just quoting what they said.
Many of my friends are in prison.
Some of them are dead.
Right?
The last day of year 10.
Right?
And we forget that. The point of the
matter is that it could have been a
very, very different story. You may see this
beard there now, but he wasn't always there.
From coming from a lifestyle where a helicopter
one time was chasing me on the streets
of North London, a helicopter.
A
lot of the
things went round to my parents, and they
made the decision to move me out to.
Was one of the best things that he
done.
Thinking back and looking at this hadith makes
a lot of sense.
How long do we have Sheikh Husama?
Like, they say the average, attention span for
millennials is 14 minutes. This was 4 years
ago. I don't know what it is now.
That's why all of these social media engines,
they have these reels
that doesn't exceed 30 seconds,
because they realize they can't concentrate for long.
That may be your environment, but there is
a completely different monster that we're dealing with
today, and that is the monster of phones.
Agreed?
Well, it reminds me of my handwriting.
When I was in the
and I wrote some stuff, right, my teacher
said this kind of this kind of handwriting,
it caused the jinn.
Make sure you fix it up.
I'm not trying to have a go at
whoever wrote that, but I'm talking about my
handwriting.
Play it.
These phones that we have, brothers and sisters,
it may well be time to detach ourselves
from it.
Again, a common question that we receive all
the time is, I'm addicted to *.
What do I do? Advise me.
Would it be extreme to say that it
may be time
to revert to these trap phones that we
used to use back in the day?
You know the phones that we used to
have? We used to play snake on?
Simply because these phones
are driving you to destruction.
You know, there are some studies that have
been done. If you want to get rid
rid of a particular habit, you need to
refrain from it for 40 days. Then I
came across another article. It says 30 days.
Maybe do some research, but these were the
doing these studies.
40 days or 30 days in order to
rid yourself of certain habits.
Put it so eloquently when he said,
the
more one allows means of temptation
to remain
in their surroundings,
the more you are at risk of being
poisoned.
I'll say that again. The more you allow
means of temptation to remain in your surroundings,
the more you are at risk of being
poisoned.
If you guys heard of Suleiman alaihis salam,
In the early
of
the one time, he became
busy with
his fine race horses, which busied him from
the Salat al Asr.
You know what he done in order to
reprimand himself?
He went and all of them, because they
visit him from the Surah Al Asr.
Now let me ask you a question. Would
you do that to your car
after cleaning it and after,
putting all these flashy accessories on there, and
then you realize the salah
finished,
would you put it up for auction? Would
you put it to charity?
Not that I'm saying it's Wajib.
All we can take from that is detaching
ourselves.
Every link between us and the prohibited pulling
us towards misguidance
should be terminated.
It is a step of being saved from
the hellfire.
So if you're suffering from that, brothers and
sisters, it may be a good idea to
detach yourself from that phone. Walk outside with
the trap phone.
Go for a walk. See how you feel.
Yes. You will feel agitated
because you're so addicted to your phone, and
that's one of the signs
to know if you're addicted. It's like the
end of the world for you, the moment
you don't find any Wi Fi.
He starts what? Agitating and shaking like a
drug addict would.
He feels something is missing.
I've been given 12 minutes,
and I still have
We're on number 12 now. Right?
Okay. 1:11 now.
Saib.
Can I have another 5 minutes after that,
please?
Number 11. One person of knowledge is far
greater than a 1000 devout worshippers without knowledge.
What did the messenger
say?
When you compare the 'alim
to the rest of the Ubbad, it's like
a moon. You know when the moon comes
out, how bright it is?
To the rest of the nujum.
There could be a 1,000 worshipers who attend
the masajid, but they can't bring anything or
any benefit back to the community.
The that
which extends out to others is such is
much more beneficial
than that which one does with himself.
Number 12, replacing your old friends with good
ones.
That's exactly what he told him. Right? Leave
here and go there. There are people who
will be beneficial for you. Number 13,
togetherness in worship is more uplifting and lighter
on the soul.
Let me ask you guys a quick question.
Fasting in the month of Ramadan is mandatory.
Right? They're worried if you're traveling. Do you
have to fast?
You don't have to fast.
The people ask us, is this bet is
it better
for one to break his fast or to
fast?
Anyways, that's a scholarly discussion. But one of
the points we say to them is,
if you break it, you will have to
make up for it later on.
Is it easier for one to just fast
when everyone is fasting, or to do the
act of worship when he's by himself?
It becomes a burden. That's why it may
be delayed
for months because of the one day that
you missed.
So the environment and what the people do
around you really, really helps. This is why
we say come to the masajid. Come to
the house of Allah
Right?
When you're praying in congregation, it has a
huge effect on individual's iman.
It's one of the mechanisms that keeps an
individual firm here in the west,
attending a congregation even if it is some
some instead
of praying by yourself. Many people have told
us that they fell off the moment they
detached themselves from the masjid.
Number 14.
What matters is how the race finishes, brothers
and sisters.
As he went off
to the land of redemption,
it was time for him to depart this
world.
This man, brothers and sisters,
was a barbaric, bloodthirst individual, took a 100
lives.
But then
passed away.
So the 2 angels are debating Allah since
the 3rd. What did Allah say to this
3rd?
And how to judge between them?
Calculate which land he's closer to. If he's
closer to the land of redemption,
the angel of mercy can take him. If
he's closer to that land where he committed
all of this filth and evil, angel of
Adab can take him.
Right?
What did Allah do? Allah caused the earth
to shake,
and it pushed him towards the land of
redemption.
Does that make sense, brothers and sisters?
It's how the race finishes.
Every single Eid, brothers and sisters. Right? Every
Eid, we hear about somebody who died with
alcohol in his mouth
or died blasting music,
or died brothers and sisters with a woman
in his car
that was not his mahram.
Committing all types of evil or jumping up
and down in the club. It's just 1
night, 1 night.
I've been worshiping Allah for 30 days.
Can't I just take a day off? Let
me just enjoy myself. And at the back
of his mind he's telling himself, you know
what?
I'm just gonna repent. Thing is it can
deceive Allah
Every
Eid we hear about something like that.
Think
they can deceive Allah, azza wa jal. Wallahi,
there was a brother and no went for
hajj.
When you come back from hajj, newly born
baby. Right?
You know how he died? He died in
front of the pub.
The principle is brothers and sisters, and it's
a common sense as well.
Whoever is excessive in doing something, he's very
likely going to die like that.
If you're always on the phone, always on
the phone, what's the likelihood that you'll die
like that? Very likely. Right?
Because you're always doing that. There's so many
examples that I wanna go through with regards
to how someone died.
Every now and again, we come across these
videos of someone holding a Mus'hav, and he
died like that.
Or he's in the Haram he was playing.
Or the CCTV captures while he was praying
while everyone was at work.
Do you think that happens just by chance,
brothers and sisters?
The principle is,
whoever is excessive in doing is very likely
going to die like that.
Quickly hear some of these narrations, right?
There was an individual who was on his
deathbed. They tried to get him to say
What do you think he said?
He was like, how is this going to
benefit me?
I never ever prayed a single prayer,
and he never said the kalima.
Brothers and sisters, every single one of us
here can say
You think it's that straightforward on your deathbed?
They're telling him to say
This is what he says, how is this
gonna benefit me?
I never prayed a single prayer.
He speaks about Abdul Aziz ibn Abi Rawat,
from one of the righteous of the past.
He visited individuals on his deathbed,
and he tried to get him to say
You know what he said?
He's a kafir
in that which you are saying, and he
died like that. Never said the kalima.
So Abdul Aziz ibn Abi Ra done some
digging up to see what kind of individual
he was. You know what he used to
do? He was an alcoholic.
Some scholars say that there's a difference of
opinion on music, Allahu Akbar.
Is there a difference of opinion on music?
No. There isn't.
I can bring you from 9 Quran.
9,
right, centuries where it was unanimously agreed upon.
For argument's sake.
Right? Someone said to you it's permissible
even though it's not.
Do you want the last thing that you
do
in this world
is you listening to music, whether you see
it to be permissible or not.
Last thing that you do, your what?
Listening to music.
He tells us about somebody who was known
to love music,
and he used the all the time when
he was on his deathbed.
What do you think he said, brothers and
sisters?
Says,
That was the last one that came out
of his mouth.
When they tried to get him to say.
Well, Amziluwihadakasira.
Wallahi. One time even a sheikh said to
me that this young child was crazy Alan
Shearer. You guys heard of Alan Shearer?
Where the soccer guys at?
They used to call him Fox in the
Box. He used to play for Newcastle United
back in the day. But today, you have
Ronaldo and Messi that the youngsters become crazy
about.
His duvet was Alan Shearer. His wallpaper was
Alan Shearer. He wakes up Alan Shearer. He
goes to Alan Shearer.
They tried again and say, like, which thing
he said? Alan Shearer, Alan Shearer.
And today you may find somebody saying Ronaldo,
Ronaldo.
Messi, Messi.
And it messes up your life.
How many is that?
1 15 now, yeah? One piece of advice
got him to Jannah. He said to him
leave, I got him to Jannah.
One piece of advice got him to Jannah.
You know, brother and sisters, sometimes we underestimate
The good thing that comes out of our
mouths
to others.
The kind of impact they could have.
Or sometimes you find the organizers,
they put in so much effort, and they
don't
come to terms how beneficial that
program might be for the people.
He said one thing, SubhanAllah.
One thing.
And he got him to Al Jannah.
Well, like brothers and sisters, when I went
to Masjid Sunnah, Sheikh Abu Bakr Resolves Masjid
and Sheikh Abdi Salam, may Allah
bless them both,
and it didn't occur to me,
nor did I do I think it occurred
to them.
A non Muslim attended the masjid, the lecture,
a non Muslim.
And I didn't know that there was a
non Muslim there.
A couple of days after that, I read
on one of my YouTube videos, this individual
commenting saying, I came to Lakemba.
I wasn't a Muslim.
I attended a lecture and you stayed or
the lecture stayed me to my faith.
I became Muslim.
Everything that he does now,
the organizers
and those behind closed doors because they never
get a product. Right? So is the guy
in front of the camera that gets a
product.
Even though they put in
tireless work.
Sometimes you put out a tweet. I honestly
believe that one tweet could get you to
Al Jannah.
But you're looking at that tweet thinking, right,
it didn't get any retweets. It didn't get
any shares.
Little do you know it was screenshotted, put
in a WhatsApp group, and it's gone around
the world.
So many people benefited from them, and you
may have been the reason why
they
die upon an Islam and upon So
don't belittle the good that you say. Don't
undermine it. Sometimes you may just share a
video to someone,
and it's
good deals that accumulate on your scale,
and that which is beneficial for you after
you pass away.
How many is that?
Now we're on 17. Right?
That's food.
Oh, Subhanallah. I thought they meant we're gonna
go to the
I didn't I I looked at it, and
then I I couldn't read it.
Like, 5 minutes will be
done,
Number
16, the vast mercy of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
The vast mercy of Allah
Right? Number
17.
17. Right?
It may well be, brother and said, the
difference between us and them is what?
Us and this man who killed a 100.
You may look at this hadith and think,
you know what? I've never killed anyone. I've
still got a number of people that I
can kill complete,
maybe a couple before I repent to Allah
The difference between us and him may be
brothers and sisters,
is that we keep telling ourselves,
procrastination,
I will repent, I shall repent.
How many went to sleep and never woke
up?
How many went to sleep and never woke
up brothers and sisters?
And the difference between us and him is,
he made the decision. He packed his bags
and he got off.
And that's what eventually ended up saving him,
and this is what every single one of
us sitting here today should do.
If there are sins that we're involved in,
we get rid of it,
and make that decision from today.
How many is that?
We're on 18 now.
Taib.
18, hotura to shirk.
If he committed shirk, that would not have
happened.
And shirk is a very vast subject, inshallah.
Sheikh Hussain will cover it.
Number 19,
how quickly
the angels, they fulfill the command of Allah.
How eager they were to fulfill it. That's
why they start arguing with one another.
And last but not least,
there's a difference.
A good method of dawah to the people
is, especially to youngsters,
is telling them stories
that have benefit like this one.
It could be that you instruct and you
order and you prohibit,
but it falls on deaf ears. But a
story is something that most people are inclined
to,
And this is what I learned from our
sheikh, Abdul Azak Al Badr. He's teaching whatever
topic it might be, and he brings in
stories and incidents
to keep
the
listener
concentrating.
These are 20 benefits that we've taken from
this hadith. May Allah
make it benefits that we take heed from,
and may Allah honor every single one of
you. Allah is so lovely to see all
of these glowing faces attending the masjid. And
I just wanna again thank
our and our. Benefit from him. Right? Benefit
from him while he is amongst you.
Right?
A lot of people, they get excited when
an an international speaker comes, and we boycott
or should I say desert and forsake the
people of knowledge amongst us.
Those who forsake the people of knowledge more
than anyone is his own people.
Don't be from amongst them.
Step.
I don't think we can have a q
and a because I think
it's getting upset.
I charge $5.
Apple Pay. No. No. I'm joking. I will
lie, brothers. The Sheikh, I think, is waiting
and
yeah.
I really wanna give salams to every single
one of you, but
may Allah honor you guys. And if Allah
does not bring us back in today's dunya,
may Allah reunite us in the highest part
of Jannah. I love you all for the
sake of Allah. It's been a wonderful
experience coming here and seeing all the brothers
and sisters.
And, also, I forgot to mention,
there is the conference
in the university.
Right? And they've told me to make you
guys aware. There's a whole lineup of brothers.
Right?
And,
the seats are filling up very, very quickly.
There's only maybe, I think, a couple of
more left. So if you wanna attend the
benefit, it will be on Saturday.
Find the details online.
You can find it on my Instagram.
Okay?
The details are on the poster.