Abu Taymiyyah – 6 Foundations From The Quran Usool As Sitta
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1st and foremost, I just want to thank
the administration of the Masjid,
our brother, Abdu Fattah,
who's doing an amazing, immense work
in bringing the community together,
setting up programs for the youth.
And likewise, for those who are older,
may Allah, as a wajal, increase him in
goodness, I mean.
Secondly, my brothers and my sisters,
for those who don't know, this is actually
a lesson.
If you came to hear a lecture
pertaining to the topic of heart softeners,
or not to stop people up as I
did last time around,
then this is the wrong
program to be attending.
I give lectures a lot, and I have
my reasons for it.
I came to the conclusion
that the majority
of Muslims today
who live in the west, number 1,
they are not students of knowledge.
Number 2, they're not ideological.
Right?
And number 3, my brothers and my sisters,
many people think that seeking knowledge
is like taking a career path in engineering
or medicine.
You know how you start studying engineering. Right?
And this is a career path which eventually
gets you work,
right,
you start working, you make money, and so
on and so forth.
Many people think that
seeking knowledge
is a career path as well, just as
you would go and study
civil engineering or mechanical engineering or medicine or
whatever have you.
But the reality of the matter,
that's not like that, my brothers and my
sisters.
Even if you are the most qualified doctor
today here in the UK, you are still
in need
of this knowledge
that is going to help you maneuver and
navigate around
fitna to Shubuhat and fitna to Shehuat,
the fitna of doubts and the fitna of
temptations.
We can't expect to function
in this world today without beneficial knowledge.
Otherwise, you will be no different to all
of these individuals who message me on a
day to day basis.
Some of them are multimillionaires,
some of them are professionals
like doctors,
engineers,
even though they have the dunya,
but they are spiritually dead and empty.
And it's times like this, my brothers and
my sisters,
that I really, really begin to appreciate knowledge.
Right. With the little that we have,
it helps us navigate around the challenges that
we face
in the Wild Wild West. Yes. That's exactly
what it is.
The Wild Wild West.
Right?
A lot of these temptations that we see
ourselves falling into, brothers and sisters,
the bottom line
to that is lack of knowledge.
As to why we see ourselves not being
able to fortify
or to protect ourselves from these
trials and tribulations or the doubts that come
our way
when we are at university or at school.
In the month of Ramadan. I was sitting
with one of my best friends
in his house,
And he said to me that his 6
year old son came home
from our reclass and said, dad,
today in AHRI, I learned that there are
many gods.
There's a Hindu god, a god, a sikh,
Christian god. There's many gods that which god
should we go and worship?
My friend goes,
and he grabbed his head.
Doubts.
If this father now doesn't know how to
repel these doubts
that this young child has been polluted with
from this very young age these thou settle.
Likewise,
I visited one of my friends in the
month of Ramadan again,
and his mother was there. She walked in,
and she said, Muhammad,
today I am angry with Allah.
Wallahi ladhi laila I laa ghayru, this auntie,
who from the apparent is pretty righteous. She
said,
I am angry with Allah,
and because of that I'm not fasting today.
She wasn't fasting in the month of Ramadan.
On that day when I visited the house,
she wasn't fasting.
Likewise
she didn't want to pray.
Why? Because I'm angry with Allah Azza wa
Jal. Why are you angry?
I pray to Allah.
I fast. I do all of these righteous
deeds, but still
Allah makes me go through all of these
troubles and hardships.
Bearing in mind, guys, that I'm sitting in
a mansion. I don't think I've ever been
to a house as big as that in
Leicester.
I started counting all of her blessings for
her,
and now you have to expect to go
through these trials and tribulations.
Sheyayd, I'm going off on a little tangent
here.
Like I said to you brothers and sisters,
the reason why I give lectures
around the country, and I do these tours
going from one side
of the country to the other.
Number 1, I came to realize that the
majority of Muslims today, they're not students of
knowledge.
Number 2, they're not ideological. Number 3, many
don't even realize that they have to seek
knowledge.
They don't know that they have to actually
seek knowledge.
They think that seeking knowledge is like, what,
pursuing a career in engineering.
So we have to go to these people,
inform them about why we need to seek
knowledge,
why we need to build on our aqidah,
on our belief.
I didn't pick this treaties for no reason,
guys. It's a treatise on monotheism
and some very important
foundations of our religion that has been extrapolated
from the Quran.
Are your brothers and sisters with me?
Right, many don't know, many don't realize,
so we have to go out to them.
Just like I did, I believe it was
before the month of Ramadan Assah,
I came here, and for the first half
an hour, we're speaking about
brothers and sisters coming to Taraweeh,
right, wanting to be Sharap.
Our brother is coming to the Masjid with
knives, and we talked a little bit about
the importance of knowledge as well. And we
went through the akham of fasting. Sahih.
So the second time around when I come
here, my brothers and my sisters, we're not
gonna go through a heart softener.
It's time to get serious.
You want a lot of these topics which
makes you feel good, Shalom, this is gonna
make you feel good as well. You can
find them online.
Right?
Your iman goes up and down
from the belief of a Halil Sunnah while
jama'ah is that your iman fluctuates. It goes
up and it goes down.
Why is it that, my brothers and my
sisters, sometimes we go to this
inspirational lecture,
right, that's so iman boosting?
We feel so great, oh, that was a
wicked lecture,
as soon as you walk out. Couple of
days go by, you're back to square 1
again. Your iman's gone down.
I'll tell you guys why.
Right?
The reason why iman goes down is because
we are not seeking knowledge regularly.
That
iman
will remain steady, my brothers and my sisters,
when you seek knowledge
constantly,
right, consistently,
where you learn about Allah
and the more you learn about Allah Azza
wa Jal, the more,
the more conscious you become
of Allah.
Is that clear? One of the very common
questions that I receive all the time is
somebody saying, brother,
why is it that when the sin presents
itself,
I fall into it straight away? I can't
control myself,
but there is maybe my friend Mohammed or
Abu Bakr who are a bit more practicing
than me, a bit more righteous.
Right?
They tend to control themselves,
right, in front of their sin.
That's something that the messenger salallahu alayhi wa
sama said about himself.
I'm the one who's most pious
and most fearful of Allah
compared to the rest of you guys.
Speak and Discompanions.
What does that show us?
The more you pick up
piety,
the more you will be in awe and
fearfull of Allahu Jallafirullah,
and that is done with
you increasing on your knowledge.
Right?
You've got more knowledge of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala, you'll be more respectful. I'll give you
guys an example.
And people say this all the time. Right?
Why is it that I don't feel that
connection with Allah?
I don't feel like I love him.
That connection's not there.
Discussing the same point here.
Right?
I fall into this sin straight away.
Give you guys an example.
Why do we respect our CEOs at our
workplaces?
Does anyone know why? Why do you respect
him?
Said they've hired you and they have the
right to fire you, so you have to
respect them.
Would you also agree, my brothers and my
sisters, that
you respect his expertise,
you respect his experience,
you respect his status inside of this workplace.
Right. The reason why you respect him is
because
you've come to know about all of these
things about him.
At times, also, my brothers and my sisters,
give you guys this example,
put your hand up if you are pursuing
a sister to get married.
That should be everyone.
Let me ask you a question. Why are
you going after her sister?
Yeah. It's half my it's half my deen.
No. But why her, specifically? He said it's
half my deen, but why her, specifically? Bad
question. He said he likes her.
Oh. He said he said he said he
fell for her, but what made you fall
for her?
He said beauty.
Skin.
Why if she loses her beauty tomorrow?
But also, what else? Her beauty.
Some of the qualities that you came to
know that she possesses. Right? He said righteousness.
None.
You came to know that masha'Allah tabarakallah she
has this trait and she has that quality,
she has these characteristics,
which caused you to be inclined towards her.
Not that I'm trying to
compare Allah to the CEO or to Princess
Charming. No, not at all, guys.
But my point that I'm trying to drive
home here, brothers and sisters, is the more
you learn about something, the more you begin
to respect it or the more you tend
to be inclined towards it. Agreed?
There's a neighbor that you have that you
see walking past you every other day.
You see him as a random Joe,
Sahay.
But one night you're walking home,
and before you enter into your house, you
can hear him reading Quran
in the last 3rd of the night.
Will you ever treat him the same? From
that point on, ever then, because you came
to know about him,
to be
a righteous individual. The man's praying in the
night, brothers and sisters,
right?
Allah
my brothers and my sisters.
Right?
The more we learn about Allah, Azzawajal, the
more we seek knowledge,
and the beneficial knowledge is the knowledge that
gets us closer to Allah, Azzawajal, has an
impact on us.
And that will only happen the more we
increase in knowledge of Allah,
and the only source
of information that we have of Allahu Jallafirullah
is what? His names and attributes. Right? When
you come to know about Allah Azzawajal's Mightiness.
Right? The greatness of Allahu Jalaafi'ala.
The more you will think about that sin
that you will be carrying out,
Not twice, but you think thrice.
When you look at his name, Ar Rahib,
Al Muntaqim,
Ar Razaq,
Al Hakim.
Right?
Wallahi l'avlim, my brothers and my sisters, it
will change your life for the better.
Does that make sense?
So the plan for today, my brothers and
my sisters, so inshallah, we hope to be
here till 8 o'clock.
We want to finish this treatise
in the next hour and 40 minutes. In
sha Allahu ta'ala, it's possible.
It's not a lecture.
Right? It's a lesson.
I'm hoping, inshaAllah ta'ala, you guys have your
pens and your papers.
Right?
If you don't have your pens and your
papers, then use your gadgets
to take down notes.
K?
Earlier when I was with some of the
brothers,
may Allah reward them, they were talking about
how
he's going to take down notes on his
iPad.
Right.
And then I mentioned the line of poetry
to them, which has been uttered many, many
centuries ago.
It's a must. It's a must that the
student,
he carries with him scrap paper.
He writes when he rides,
and he writes when he rides sorry. He
writes when he walks.
However, because we're in the 21st century,
and the brother,
he was holding an iPad. I told them
I have to I had to change up
this line of poetry a little bit.
So the poet he said
well, not the poet. I I I said,
we mean
It's a freshy way of saying iPad.
Instead
of
Right. These phones are a nieama.
It's a double edged sword.
Right.
It's been a life changer for me.
Until not so long ago, I used to
make dua for Steve Jobs.
Who's Steve Jobs?
The Apple founder.
And then one day when I was given
a class, a brother put his hand in
me goes, dad, just to let you know,
Steve Jobs is dead.
Are you allowed to make du'a for someone
who's dead?
When did he pass away many years ago?
So I was making du'a for this non
Muslim,
right,
all the way up until recently not realizing
that he was dead, but why was I
making dua for him?
Because he invented
notes on the iPad.
All of my Khutab, all of my lectures,
all of my lessons,
my explanations of books is all
on what? On the notes. Even on the
Surah siddhi that I'm teaching, I've written a
whole explanation on there.
Right. And whenever I need a fa'idhi, I
just put it in there.
I put it in the search, and then
it pops up. It helps me a lot
when I'm jumping from one place to another
to give these programs and these lectures. Utilize
it, my brothers and my sisters.
10 years down the line with Icloud,
even if you lose your phone, you can
what? Retrieve your benefits.
You have a wife, you have a child
that you want to convey a message to,
and you can't remember what that Ustad or
what that Sheikh said
in that lecture or in that sermon, you
can what? Quickly bring it out.
Does that make sense?
Also, put your phones on airplane mode, guys.
You don't want you checking the game.
Don't know Chelsea.
They're for West London. Right?
Yes.
They'll just get straight into it now, Insha'Allah.
Bestower of Mercy.
And just to put out there, my brothers
and my sisters, this is not going to
be a detailed explanation. It's more
closer to being a taliyah, just a very
brief commentary.
Right,
because of the time restrictions
and because we want to, InshaAllah Ta'ala, get
through as much as we can
in this short period that we have.
It says,
from the most amazing affairs and the greatest
signs
that demonstrate the ability
of Al Malik,
the Sovereign Owner, Allah
and Al Ghaleb, the victorious.
He who, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
if he wishes for something to happen, nothing
can stop it.
So the Sheikh, he uses his name now
to,
right,
to describe Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
He says there are 6 principles that Allah
Azzawajal,
the Most High,
has clearly explained for the common people.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has clearly
explained this and made it very very manifest
and evident,
right, it is clear as daylight in the
Quran,
and this is what we're going to go
through,
right.
Even though he's made it so clear
and evident,
transparent,
right.
Here the Sheikh says he did this in
a manner above and beyond the thinking of
those who doubt.
Despite this,
many
of today's intellectuals,
brainiacs
of this world,
from the children of Adam, from Bani Adam,
they erred
with regards to them except
a very few
of those
who have walked on the face of this
earth.
Right.
In a nutshell, what the Sheikh is trying
to say, my brothers and my sisters,
these 6 foundations that we're going to be
taking that are mentioned in the Quran so
clearly
that just about anyone can understand. Ammatunas,
the commoner. You don't have to be a
student of knowledge
or a scholar to understand
these 6 great foundations
that Allah Azza Wa Jal has made so
manifest.
Having said that and despite all of that,
the brainiacs,
the intellectuals,
those who we would admire
and be amazed with
because of maybe that which they have invented.
He's saying they struggle to understand it,
and they earn in it.
So quickly here my brothers and my sisters,
I want to
mention some reasons
as to why an individual
may deviate away from
the deen of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Right?
If you don't take anything away from this
book other than these 10, inshaAllah ta'ala, it's
an accomplishment.
Why is it that we see, subhanAllah,
a brother who's practicing that all of a
sudden he just falls off?
Right. This is what we want to discuss.
Or an individual who he thought was from
the most righteous of people is now apostating
from the Deen.
Not just falling off the religion, but he
actually shoots out of the religion.
Right. Doesn't that happen?
I'm sure everyone here either knows someone who
has apostated
or knows someone who knows another that has
apostated,
renegated from the religion. Agreed?
Am I wrong to say that, especially in
today's day and age?
With the widespread of filth and evil, all
of these different isms,
feminism, liberalism,
secularism.
Right.
Orientalists are going around learning our religion so
they can target vulnerable Muslims.
Right.
And of course,
you have the rainbow team that's extremely active,
And you have the likes of the 1st
minister. Right? That's what they call him, Sahin
Scotland,
coming out saying
that homosexuality
is not a sin.
His name is what, Khamzah Yusuf.
Right?
He's meant to be
a Muslim
leader.
While you had his counterpart,
the one that was competing with him,
a Catholic,
I believe she was,
Orthodox Christian
that was holding on to her morals and
values,
refused to side with homosexuals.
You got a non Muslim that's holding on
to her values and her morals, my brothers
and my sisters, but then someone who claims
to be a Muslim
is saying otherwise.
Someone listens to this, picks it up,
thinks, oh, if this Brown Muslim leader
is maybe what
Encouraging such act, then he must be right,
Sahib.
He doesn't have the knowledge.
Someone as intellectual as him
is failing to understand basic aspects of the
religion. That's an example for you.
That is an example of what the Sheikh
is saying. There are things that are so
clear in the Quran.
Does anyone here
doubt what Allah azza wa jal mentioned about
the people of Lut?
Does anyone have any doubt
what they practiced
and what he shunned
Lot
By the way, just in case we have
channel 4 here, yeah,
I'm not here to express my own views
and opinions. Abu Tamir doesn't have any views.
He just quotes.
I'm just quoting the scripture telling you guys
what that minister said and what his counterpart
said. I have no views
and no opinions.
I shouldn't have anyway. I'm just here to
connect you guys to the Quran and the
Sunnah. Right?
That's the job of a student of knowledge
and a sheikh and an alim,
for him to connect you with what Allah
said and what the messiah said.
We don't have views and, you know, just
in case channel 4 wants to cut out.
Right?
Are your brothers and sisters with me? Somina
is so clear in the Quran,
but you got the prime minister.
It's not a sin.
Right? Clearly and explicitly says this
openly
without hesitation.
10, my brothers and my sisters,
which are from the causes of 1
deviating away from the Quran and the Sunnah,
deviating away from his religion.
Number 1, itiba'ulhawa,
following your whims and your desires.
As Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
right,
quoted
Dawud Alaihi Wasallam.
Oh Messenger of Allah, Muhammad Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam, if they don't respond to the
call,
if they don't respond to your invitation to
Al Islam,
then know they are following the desires because
what you are coming with is crystal clear.
And then Allah says,
Who is Mom is guided to the 1,
right, who follows his desires?
Alright.
You clearly know it's wrong.
You clearly know Allah is displeased with that.
Right.
Some even try to justify it, right,
just so he can make himself feel better
about the sin that he's carrying out.
You clearly know it's wrong.
It's one thing doing the sin.
Right?
Because you're falling short and you're negligent.
Right? And it's another following your design, even
what, trying to justify it.
Number 2, my brothers and my sisters,
Al kibr,
arrogance.
I'm hoping you brothers at the back are
writing down,
unless you're like Imam Abu Hari,
or Imam Shafi'i, or Imam Abu Hanifa,
Allah says, and there'll be breaks in between,
inshallah, okay?
I know you guys are gen z.
Your attention span is 30 seconds at times
and sometimes 5 minutes.
That we break, inshallah.
Allah says in the Quran,
Allah says,
those who have been arrogant,
right,
will have the verses,
the Ayat
moved away from them.
When your ul Qula'ib, they were to see
all of the verses, all of the signs,
they still wouldn't believe in it. And that
is because my brothers and my sisters,
due to the arrogance
right?
They see guidance right in front of them
so clear, but they still won't
take it.
Arrogance scores
their hearts to be sealed.
There are some scenarios that fall under this,
my brothers and my sisters. One of them
is giving priority to your intellect over the
text, over that which Allah has told you,
over that which the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam
has told you.
You become so deluded and deceived with how
smart and intelligent you are, Right? He just
rejects the truth, doesn't fall in line with
my wonderful intellect that is so sharp.
His heart is sealed
and we've seen enough intellectuals like
that, right,
especially in universities,
academics.
Because it doesn't fall in line with his
intellect, he rejects it.
Right?
And he even started creeping into Muslims. I've
said this many, many times. I'll say it
again, brothers and sisters.
Would everyone here agree that what you can
see is limited? This This is what I
always say to the atheists. Right? Would you
guys agree that you're a sight
and what you can see is limited? Can
anyone see what's happening in South Hall Broadway?
Tell me, maybe you do have the ability
to see that which is happening in South
of Broadway.
Can anyone see? Forget about what's happening in
South of Broadway. Can anyone see what's happening
in the car
park from where you are? Unless you're standing
next to the window.
Taim, can anyone hear that which is happening
outside?
You can't. You've accepted that your eyes are
limited,
your ears are limited, and that which you
can smell is limited, why do you fail
to accept
that your intellect is limited as all and
that you won't be able to encompass everything?
Have you guys heard of pork and bacon?
Yeah.
Alcohol, you guys heard of it? What's the
ruling of alcohol and bacon?
Haram.
Is the are they the only ones I
know? Why don't the rest of the
It's haram.
Right? It's known in the religion by necessity.
When did Allah tell us that this is
haram?
1400 years ago. Over 1400 years ago, and
Allah, azzawiyah, sent it down in the Quran.
Right?
All these things are haram clearly in the
Quran.
You will see some turning around saying, Akhiba,
why though?
Why is it haram?
Or why should we do this? Why should
we do that? Alayzakat alikik, isn't that so?
Isn't it what we hear people saying, right?
Or what does the Sharia
say about this?
Right?
Or what does Islam say about this? We
hear this so much. What does Islam say
about this? What does Islam say about that?
As if now Islam has become a human
being.
Instead of asking what does Allah, Allah,
can you see how the dynamics change now?
When you ask me what does Islam say?
Ask me what does Allah say?
The almighty creator about this particular matter,
and that's why it should concern us.
But Islam has been turned into human being.
Someone that, you know,
brings about its own views and whatever have
you, like anyone else, la.
Right?
I came across an article. This is maybe
recently. Right? It was on the daily mirror.
Some of you guys may have seen it.
And also on the telegraph, I believe.
You know what the title was?
No amount of alcohol,
sausage, or bacon
is safe according to cancer experts.
Now you're going to believe in Al Islam,
or now you're going to believe in what
Allah azza wa jal said, why didn't you
just believe in that which Allah azza wa
sallam in the Quran the moment He reached
you?
Why do we need some non Muslim to
come along and tell us that bacon is
problematic for you?
Or you begin to feel as if you're
being deprived.
Sometimes we feel like that why is Islam
so rough and tough,
It's depriving us from enjoying ourselves on Friday
night, and on Saturday night all these non
Muslims seem like they're enjoying themselves, but that's
what you think
till I start receiving these Instagram messages of
people so depressed and empty,
spiritually dead, even though they're living their life.
Well, that's what your thoughts, Sahih?
Allah has made it very clear.
He has told us that which is haram
and that which is halal.
Right?
I normally say this to the atheists, right,
because even amongst the atheists,
they
differ as to what is morally acceptable and
morally correct.
This is again one of the biggest issues
that you'll find in universities. Why? Why? Why?
Well, you have to be a critical thinker.
Everything that is posed to you,
tell me if I'm wrong, guys, for those
who go to university, especially those who are
in philosophy class,
what they glorify is critical thinking, say.
See a lot of heads nodding. No. Critical
thinking.
Whenever an argument is posed, you need to
find a way to argue back
and you get marks
for it. This critical thinking
is glorified so
opposed to you,
it doesn't make sense. You need to ask
why. What's the reason behind? What's the wisdom
behind it? There are times when we are
told the reason as to why you should
do it, and there are times when we
aren't.
We haven't been told.
Are you not going to act upon it
because you don't know the reason or the
wisdom behind it?
Taib, let me ask you guys a question.
Cannibalism. What does cannibalism mean?
Sorry. I'm going on a bit on a
telling you, but I think it's important.
Eating the people, say.
Eating the people.
What do you guys think of that? Is
that morally correct?
Why not?
In some places and localities around the world,
this is still perfectly legal and fine. Did
you guys know that?
Communism is perfectly fine in some place around
the world.
They're smoking weed.
Is it good or bad?
Did you know once upon a time that
this was illegal across America, but now some
states have
started legalizing it?
Likewise, homosexuality.
Again, I'm just quoting.
In America, in the UK was a big
issue. Maybe 50 years ago, they'll hang you.
But now as times change,
forget about this guy being prosecuted, Akhir.
Right?
You're seen as abnormal if you think otherwise,
or you think that there's something problematic with
it. Right?
When you speak to these atheists themselves,
right, amongst themselves,
They disagree as to what is morally acceptable
and what is morally unacceptable.
They differ amongst themselves
as to what we should do and what
we should stay away from. This guy doesn't
believe in a God. He doesn't believe in
a system.
So my
question to him is, okay, what determines what
is right
and acceptable and what is wrong and unacceptable?
They'll start coming with these weird theories and
whatever. Have you go to another atheist,
completely different?
Right. You go across the world, cannibalism is
perfectly fine.
Eating people, great.
When you have
a conflict of views like I just mentioned,
there will be foldah.
There will be chaos.
As you see happening right before your eyes
now,
right,
where some people think it's perfectly fine to
do this, others think, no, we shouldn't.
That leaves us, my brothers and my sisters,
right,
with only one solution,
and that is to accept that there is
an external entity,
and that is, of course, God Allah
who governs us, tells us what to do,
and tells us what to stay away from.
Otherwise, there will be chaos because everyone wants
to be godly.
Everyone
wants to lay down the law. Everyone wants
to legislate whatever they want.
Does that make sense my brothers and my
sisters?
Right.
Now this bacon, all of a sudden now
it's haram in the eyes of the non
Muslims because it's harmful.
Right?
Now only brothers and sisters,
Allah told us 1400 years ago, and we
accept it because he is our God, he
is our Ilah,
he is the Almighty Creator
who knows about everything in his cosmic because
he is the creator for it. Just like
somebody now who invents a new phone.
He knows more about this phone than anyone
else, aye.
Allah has already created everything.
He's more knowing of what is good for
us and what is bad for us. So
why should you be arrogant or try to
use your intellect over that which Allah has
already told you?
Number 3, my brothers and my sisters,
Not
hastening to
carrying out the commandments of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
Allah says something, no ifs and no buts,
you rush to implementing that.
As Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tells in the
Quran,
Quran, These 2 verses.
Right?
Radhu bianyakoonumalkhawali
votobialakalubihim.
Right?
Vaumlaiyafkahon.
Allah speaks about the hypocrites in Surat Atawba.
They chose to be from amongst those
who didn't go out for jihad.
So what did
Allah do?
He sealed their hearts,
He sealed their hearts.
Alright. And by the way, again, because I
said Jihad,
it's a bit of a scary word. Right?
Again, just in case we have channel 4
on to make me look like as if
I'm recruiting for people to go ISIS.
Jihad is part of our religion.
I'm not going to be apologetic about it.
I am unapologetically
Muslim,
and it's part of our religion. However, jihad,
my brothers and masters, has rules and regulations
agreed.
It's part of our deen.
Right?
So when they were instructed to go out,
they stayed behind and they made excuses.
They didn't rush to fulfilling the commandments of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala so Allah sealed their
hearts.
Number 4, my brothers and my sisters,
Avulm,
oppression.
Allahu layaadil qawmadwalimin,
as Allah says. Allah does not guide those
who oppress.
Number 5, Mahabitul Baqai alal Jahal.
Preferring to remain upon ignorance,
preferring to remain jahil.
Right.
Allah tells us about the people of Thamudu,
amaththamudu.
Allah tells us about Thamud,
we showed them guidance
and they preferred
being blind overtaking the guidance.
Right.
So Allah
punish them.
Number 6, my brothers and my sisters,
the shaytan beautifying.
The shaitan
beautifying.
Wa zayyanalam shaitan wa amalam fasaddam manisareel wakanumustabasireen.
Allah tells us the shaitan,
right,
He beautified their actions for them,
and He blocked them away from the right
path.
Someone may say though this is not something
in my control, the shaitan now,
right.
Blocking my path to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is too strong.
He's too lethal.
I can't help it.
It's upon us my brothers and muses after
Allah Azzawajal told us
that the shaitan is a doo, fitahidoo
a doo, he's your enemy, take him as
an enemy. How do you take him as
an enemy? You learn about the tricks and
the traps of the devil
so you don't fall into his trap.
It's as simple
as that. There's a way that the Shaytan
operates and one of these ways my brothers
and my sisters is that he's not going
to say to you this is haram haram,
go do it. He's going to try and
beautify it for you
just as He beautified it for
our parents, Adam and Eve,
not Adam and Steve, guys.
Adam and Eve.
He beautified.
Right?
He took a. He took an oath. I
am indeed a sincere adviser to you.
Eat from the tree, and you're away from
the Khaleddin.
That's exactly what they've done, even though Allah
told them not to do so.
Does that make sense, my brothers and my
sisters?
Right.
He will beautify it for you, and at
times from the tricks and the traps of
the shaitan is that
Tasmayat,
that which is Haram, is changed and its
name is changed to that which is Halal.
For example, I'm sure you guys heard of
this before, there was once upon a time
where we had something called halal hip hop.
Do you guys remember?
Halal, hip hop,
by a certain squad, no names.
They were together, and then what? They fell
out, and now they're trying to get back
together again.
Guys, no names. No names. Calm down. Calm
down, guys.
Are your brothers and sisters with me?
Halal hip hop?
It's an oxymoron, how does that even make
sense, halal and hip hop?
Even certain types of drinks, right, that are
haram are given halal
names,
right. Likewise you find certain drugs
their names are changed like ICE, they call
it ICE,
that which is going to absolutely destroy your
intellect,
and even a Zina now has this the
full light completely forgot it. In Arab world,
they they call it Ishq, yeah, just love.
The greatest door that the Shaitan
or the Iblis enters from,
right, is the door of ignorance.
Right.
He gets through to the ignorant very very
easily and if you're ignorant, you don't know
the tricks and the traps of the devil,
he'll get to you very very quickly.
As for the one who is more knowledgeable,
right, or the alim, the scholar,
he'll only be able to what?
Get to him like a thief. You know
a thief, a pickpocket.
That's what they call him. Right? Pickpocket, sir?
How does he approach you? Is he gonna
show you, look. I'm gonna come and
steal from you. No.
He tries to slip through, and then what?
Pulls it out.
Here he draws this comparison with the Iblis.
The more knowledge you have my brothers and
my sisters, the less likely that the shaytan
will be able to trap you.
Does that make sense, my brothers and my
sisters?
Well, my brothers and sisters, the amount of
people that message me all the time.
The amount of people,
they found themselves
falling into some serious sins,
right,
and they didn't smell it.
They didn't smell it coming, guys.
Right.
Not knowing how the Shaytan operates
was the cause of them now falling into
some of these great major sins
which ended up ruining their lives.
Right.
Look how the shaytan whispered, especially on social
media guys,
especially on social media looking at the opposite
gender, how easy it has become. Do you
guys agree?
And how one thing would just lead to
another.
And at times the shaytan whispers, oh wallahi,
you know,
go give her dua,
guide her to Islam,
and then you've slipped into her DMs,
one thing leads to another.
Shaitan was whispering, shaitan was whispering.
He got you,
and before you know it,
she's giving you the hour.
Number 6, number 7, my brothers and my
sisters, on 7. Right?
Al Kufr.
Allah
says,
Wallahu laihi al kumal kafireen.
Alright,
Disbelief.
And a lot of us, my brothers once
said, we think that when we talk about
Kufar is what?
To become a Christian, to become a Jew.
Right?
We see kufar. Is that right?
Let me ask you guys a question.
Have you guys heard of feminism?
You guys heard of feminism?
Yes.
Sahih?
The sisters from
the Masjid, they organized a
program next Monday.
When Sala al Dufthah messaged me, he goes,
oh, they want a lecture.
What do you think the topic should be?
I said straightaway feminism
because feminism is a disease.
Many of the elders, they don't know how
much of a disease this is.
They're completely oblivious about it, right.
This feminist
who has adopted all of these sentiments, right,
that may well take her out the fold
of Islam,
even though she's wearing a hijab,
or insalat to wear in Samat,
and even if she comes to the masjid
to pray taraweeh,
or she comes
and she fasts,
right? But some of the statements that come
out of her mouth, my brothers and my
sisters, causes her to flirt with Kufar.
Inshallah, I'll be discussing it next Monday.
But a point of the matter is, my
brothers and my sisters,
right,
feminism,
aspects of liberalism,
secularism,
falsehood, and a dola.
Right?
I'm actually now pulling together have you guys
heard of the 10 nullifiers?
Seen that street is going around, 10 acts
that take you out of the 4th of
Islam? It was written at a certain time
the Sheikh,
right,
saw
acts that would take you out of the
fold of Islam, which the people took very
very lightly.
So he wanted now to alert them. So
he authored this treaty of 10 things that
take you out of the fold of Islam.
Right. And these 10 things that the Sheikh
authored in his time are not limited to
10.
So in the last couple of weeks, I
started putting together
10 nullifiers that'll take you out of the
fold of Islam that are contemporary.
One of the things that I've written down
is feminism.
Some sentiments are very dangerous. I'll give you
guys a very quick example. Right?
Feminism in a nutshell
are one of its main
sentiments or one of the arkhan should I
say, not just sentiments but one of the
pillars. You know, you have Ursula Salata. They
have Asani Adiman. They've got 2 main pillars
that it stands on. One of them is
equal rights.
That you look through the lens of equal
rights.
So this is what she's been convinced with,
that everything has to be what? Equal.
She's in university Mashallah wearing a hijab. She
runs into some of these sisters who tell
her that everything should be looked at through
the lens of equal rights.
And then she comes across certain verses in
the Quran,
maybe verses of inheritance,
where the ratio is 2 to 1,
when the father passes away and leaves behind
his son and a daughter,
this is unjust.
Can you guys just can you guys see
what she just done?
The law of Allah, she just turned around
to the law of Allah and said this
is unjust.
Imunda Allah said about himself, wa la yadani
moorabuk ahad Allah does not oppress anyone, and
she's still wearing hijab.
Well, I've seen some videos, speaker's corner,
girl wearing hijab, she's debating.
A'uzhu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem,
She's only, what, 17 or 18,
and the amount of kufra is coming out
of her mouth,
but she's still wearing a hijab. The hijab
doesn't keep you in Islam, my brothers and
my sisters.
Right?
So there are contemporary acts that we might
not necessarily
see to be a big deal, but in
essence actually takes out the fold of Islam.
So I'm putting together these 10, Insha'Allah, and
maybe we'll go through it here
another time.
One of them is also
what the Scottish prime minister mentioned.
According again to the scripture,
homosexuality not being a sin.
This is a statement, my brothers and my
sisters, that can take you out the fold
of I Islam.
When Allah made it clear and explicit in
the Quran,
This guy comes along and he what?
Says it's not a sin, completely does negation,
jahood of what Allah mentioned in the Quran.
None negates our verses except those who are
Kafirun, Allah tells us.
Also saying that
the Jews, the Christians, and Muslims, they're all
right.
Isn't this becoming common, my brothers and sisters?
I think in English they call it,
preliminary. Is that what they call it?
Or the Abrahamic Accord?
One time, I even recently had one of
these very well known American
shiur coming out saying that
God has many voices.
God has many voices. He's standing in front
of Buddha,
and he's talking about Christianity, and he's talking
about Judaism,
and he's talking about
Islam
and
how all of them at times may well,
people from these three religions
may want to have a monopoly over the
truth. I'm just now paraphrasing here, guys.
Right?
Say the Abrahamic Accord and that all of
them, you know, are part of the Abrahamic
faith
in Adina Indallah
alaihis salam. There's only one religion Allah is
going to accept.
Number 8 to my brothers and my sisters,
al Fusukh, transgression, violating against the limits of
Fusuk, Wallahuilaihiqamil
Fasukin.
Allah does not guide the Fasukin.
Some of you guys are probably thinking to
yourselves,
well, I am someone that's transgressed. I'm someone
who doesn't at times fulfill the commands of
Allah
My brothers and my sisters, we are all
human beings. We are all going to make
mistakes.
We are all at times
going to maybe follow our desires.
Right. I don't want people to walk away
thinking, Khalaas, I'm on my way to Jahannam
because of all of these different points that
we've just mentioned. No, my brothers and my
sisters, we are going to make mistakes.
We are going to fall short. We are
going to be negligent.
However, there's something called what? At Tawbah,
or we return back to Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
Does that make sense?
Kullubani adam kata. Every son of Adam is
not just someone who makes a mistake, he
constantly makes mistakes.
The best of those who make mistakes are
those who constantly keep going back to Allah,
Surajan,
and perhaps that may save us when we
fall into
these sins.
However, if we don't, as Ibn Tayyid mentioned,
al ma'asiatubiridul
kufr.
The sin that we fall into is the
first spark to this belief.
You don't become a disbeliever by committing zina
or by backbiting, these are sins,
major sins, but when we don't make toba
from it, one thing will lead to another.
It is the first spark
to eventually shooting out of the religion.
He promises with me, the first spark.
Right?
It's scary when we sin and we don't
repent from it,
and we just let it slide like that,
And even then, my brothers and my sisters,
Allah
is so fair and just.
How many sins do we fall into
that Allah
overlooks? He doesn't hold us to account for
it. Agreed?
Even in Nulkay Muhammadunlehi
says,
There are indeed sins between you and that
no one knows about except Allah.
So hey.
That sometimes we just forget to make tawba
from.
Also Allah
says,
Allah
forgives so much that He doesn't hold us
accountable.
Right?
So it's important that we rush to make
in toba.
Right?
Out of fear of what might happen if
we just let this slide, my brothers and
my sisters.
Number 9, my brothers and my sisters, al
kadib.
Al kadib,
lying.
Allah
does not
guide the transgressing individual who's a compulsive liar.
Right? Again, it's something that we might take
very, very lightly. It's big in the eyes
of Allah, subhanahu, with that one thing leads
to another.
One lie that you thought you got away
with. Another lie, my brothers and my sisters,
up until,
right,
you see yourselves carrying out the worst and
the worst of sins, my brothers and my
sisters.
And it all started off with that innocent
lie.
Agreed?
Number 10, Al Qiyana.
Right? Treasury.
Cheating,
stabbing people in the back,
being deceitful.
Right?
Now it makes a lot of sense, right,
what the sheikh was saying.
You have
ad kaladkiyah
from the most, what,
most smartest of people,
most intelligent
intellectuals, my brothers and my sisters,
even then they struggle to understand the most,
what,
basic of concepts.
Now this Scottish guy, right,
Scottish guy,
you ask yourself the question, well, I you
know, you think about it at times,
is he saying whatever he's saying because
he genuinely believes it, or is it maybe
because he just wants to get into power
and he's going to fall into kufr, into
disbelief,
right, on his way to becoming
the guy in charge.
Makes you wonder. At times, you think to
yourself, maybe genuinely actually means it.
And you say, how? This guy's meant to
be an intellectual. He's meant to be smart.
Perhaps maybe because of some of these points
that we mentioned, my brothers and my sisters.
Right?
By the way, I don't do specific to
fear.
I don't do specific takfir.
He said,
because that which we are talking about in
this book, these 6 foundations, my brothers and
my sisters,
many have misunderstood it,
or many have
fallen into these violations,
right, except a few.
What does that show us, my brothers and
my sisters, if the whole world now becomes
misguided?
Are we just going to go and follow
the crowd?
Alright.
We are moving into a time and error,
my brothers and my sisters, where normative Islam
is dying out.
Would you guys disagree with this?
If you've got Muslims today in a masjid
singing the national anthem,
not seeing anything wrong with it,
Is that
surprising
when we see tomorrow
on a wider scale,
apostasy is left, right, and center?
Right.
And anyone who objects or contests that he's
looked at the weird person or the guy
who's maybe lost or the guy who's extreme
ever then.
Well, when I was going to America, I
thought maybe 40, 50 people are going to
attend the gatherings.
A lot of us here in the UK,
whenever we think America, we think everyone there
is finished.
We are all wrong, guys.
I even one time said in the podcast,
would you can you really blame us when
we have
or should I say, when we see some
of the leading figures coming out on Twitter?
One of them one time came out and
started
supporting the first hijabi * girl,
Right? Openly supporting her.
Worth looking at it thinking if their leaders
are like that, what do you expect from
everyone else?
Allah, SubhanAllah, you guys have seen,
right, how many people were attending, which to
my amazement,
to my amazement,
I realized a lot of them are just
sick and tired
of hearing bunny rabbits and rainbows.
They're tired of it.
They just wanna be told how are they
going to come out of this spiritual emptiness
that they're suffering from.
Right?
There's filth and evil now that has been,
right,
instilled within the religion
to be
normal Islam.
Allah tells in the Quran, if
you follow the majority of the people on
the earth,
They will lead you astray.
So don't ever, my brothers and my sisters,
use
numbers as a justification
for the truth.
If everyone now starts saying that there's absolutely
nothing wrong with LGBTQ,
right, are we just going to jump on
that tide as well?
No.
It was in this Masjid Jazamullah Khaird where
they let me give the Khutba about it
approximately a year ago.
You know why I did the Khutba guys?
Because it was reaching a point where,
right,
it's the Christians, the Christians,
Catholics
who are the only ones now that are
what pushing this concept of it being a
problem,
And we Muslims, my brothers and my sisters,
are falling victim,
terrified,
to quote what Allah said in the Quran.
On the note, my brothers and my sisters,
I'm gonna give you a 4 minute break.
It's 6 past, 10 past, let's come back.
Just quickly stand up, do star jumps, get
the
blood running through your body again, inshaAllah ta'ala.
4 minutes. I know maybe a lot of
you guys are gonna go. We've all got
another hour left, and we're gonna try, inshallah,
run through these 6 foundations, Baydulillahi,
You know, back in 2014,
I made a promise which went out on
YouTube,
and I think I received over a 100
emails and a 100 messages.
When is it going to be ready?
What was the promise that I made?
The promise that I made was that I
would put together a series of questions
to ask a potential spouse when vetting.
Something that, you know, we tend to
worry about. Right? What do I ask her?
How do I ask her?
How do I know she's the right one?
Recently,
our brother Taha, and like I said my
brothers, subawallah, I don't get paid for this.
When you guys see me sometimes helping out
some of these Taob guys,
like Afiyyah.
He's not gonna cut this out and he's
gonna put it on his Instagram. He's here
by the way.
All these other brothers,
Wallahi, I don't get paid. I just do
it to
help out their businesses.
The reason why I'm mentioning this is because
it's very, very common. I'm actually taking a
pack
and giving it to my little brother.
It's called Zawaj cards.
Zawaj
means, what does Zawaj mean?
Marriage cards,
right, or that which you ask a potential
spouse
when wanting
to marry her, when looking into her, and
so on and so forth. Does that make
sense?
The brother is going to be outside. I
think he has a stall, something to
maybe
look into. I honestly believe it's going to
be a game changer.
Right?
So I said this back in 2015,
I never found time for it.
I never ever found time for it.
Alhamdulillah wakaffallal mumineenalukhtal,
he
relieved me of it,
so inshallah when you get a chance, do
look into it.
The first foundation, my brothers and my sisters,
is al Ikhlas, sincerity.
To be sincere in actions
for the sake of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
alone.
He has no partners.
Also,
you find that the Quran
gives a very thorough explanation
of the opposite
of alikhlas,
the opposite of sincerity,
which is to commit acts of shirk with
Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.
Most of the Quran from various angles
is an explanation of this principle the Sheikh
says.
It has been explained so clearly that even
the most unintelligent
of the common people can understand.
He then says despite all of this,
when the situation of most of the Ummah
changed what it is
today, shaitan deceived the people by making sincerity,
appeared to mean
diminishing the status
and the rights of the righteous people,
and he made shirk with Allah Azzawajal to
appear
to mean loving the righteous people and their
lovers
and their followers.
In a nutshell, my brothers and my sisters,
first foundation is
a tawhid,
and the opposite of that is a shirk.
The most precious thing to every single one
of us, my brothers and my sisters, is
what?
A tawhid having our monotheism.
Right?
Holding on to your faith.
And the opposite of that, my brothers and
my sisters, is what a shirkubilahi,
azza wa jal, which is the most greatest
sin
that one can fall into.
One time I tried to draw a comparison.
Some of you guys may have this may
have seen this video going around.
You guys know what I'm talking about?
Where I tried to talk about a man
impregnating his mother and whatever have you, and
how this is a major sin. Look. Look
how you guys reacted. Look.
You guys said Astaghfirullah.
Astaghfirullah.
It's a big thing.
It's a huge thing.
To be what? Carrying out the sin with
your mother. It's despicable.
It's abhorrent. It's filthy.
The reason why I try to draw this
comparison
is that look how the people react when
it comes to this major sin,
and then you have what? As shirkubillahi
azawjal.
Let's just say you're here, and now you
start invoking
righteous people who are buried in Pakistan.
Oh, so and so help me.
Right.
Oh, so and so uplift my difficulties from
me.
Can you see anybody
the same way they reacted the first time
around?
And that is because my brothers and my
sisters, there's aspect of what shirk is
and what causes your tawhid to diminish
has all but become
a non issue.
Right.
Earlier I told you guys about that lady,
Sahib,
who are utter statements of Kufr
who
said,
I'm not fasting today because I'm angry with
Allah.
Do you guys remember when I mentioned that?
I'm angry with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, that's
why I'm not fussing.
It affects you to hate my brothers and
my sisters.
How many a time do I hear somebody
saying why always me? Why is always Allah
making me go through this?
It's an aspect that is going to affect
you to hate.
Guys heard of zodiac signs?
Zodiac sign, extremely widespread where? On Snapchat.
We get very intrigued.
Star sign.
Zodiac signs. They're gonna put 2 and 2
together and tell me who I'm going to
get married to.
Right?
Going to Alkahin did you know my brothers
and my sisters, told us about
going to a fortune teller?
Manataqahinan
and
then you believe what a fortune teller says,
then this person has disbelieved in what Allah
Azzawaj has sent down upon His Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam,
matters that are going to what
affect and cause your to hate to diminish.
Right?
But we find it intriguing. We don't see
a big deal with it.
I remember when I was growing up,
secondary school in Leicester, year 11, I still
remember where I was sitting in the room.
It was in the IT room.
They started talking about zodiac signs, I was
like, what's my zodiac sign?
Because they were talking about, oh,
who are you going to marry
and what's going to happen, and then if
you put this and you get this and
you get that, and you put all that
stuff.
But the shaitan is at work.
As the world now
becomes a lot more advanced in its technologies,
right,
shaitan looks for different ways to beautify actions.
Sahih,
put your hand up when growing up, you
used to swear on your mother's life,
on your dead man's grave.
So here,
Did you know my brothers and my sisters
this actually
affects you to hate victim, not because I
said this. The messenger of salallahu alayhi wa
siam said,
whoever swears
in this person has committed a shirk.
At 2:8 my brothers and my sisters, and
I hope everyone writes this down.
It is to single out Allah Azzawajal in
that which is exclusive to him.
It is to single out Allah
which is exclusive to him.
A shirk, what it means, my brothers and
my sisters, is
Right?
Which basically means
to attribute to other than Allah Azzawal that
which is only exclusive to him.
There are things
that are exclusive to Allah
He who can hear everything, he who can
see everything. Would you believe, my brothers and
mothers, when I went to Yemen,
this is before I went to the Mej,
I was told that when the Pir Sab,
or when the big Sheik of the institute
travels to Indonesia, he can still see what
you're doing in the institute, so I would
be on my best behavior because I didn't
want him to find out.
Right. I'll be on my best behavior
because I thought that he was watching me.
We should only do this with who? Allah
ahsawajal.
Right.
So he says here,
So what the shaitan beautified
for mankind was if you are sincere in
your worship,
if you only go directly to Allah Azza
Wa Jal, then what you're doing here is
you're belittling the righteous.
You are convinced that you have to go
through
righteous people in order to go to Allah
Azza Wa Jal.
This kind of doctrine sounds very familiar.
What does it sound
like?
No. Religions.
Christians.
Right.
You gotta go through Jesus.
Sahay.
I remember many many years ago there was
debate about istirafa.
As to whether you should go directly to
Allah or you should seek help and aid
and assistance and ask the messengers to to
remove your difficulties and hardships. And there was
someone, suhannah, in this viral video that commented,
goes, what these guys are arguing for, meaning
that you have to
do istira'at of the Messenger sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, is the same thing as the Christians,
and that
the screen show went absolutely viral of this
Christian saying this.
Right?
You might not necessarily see this very common
here in London, my brothers and my sisters,
And we've done
a poll,
right, where we interviewed the students who were
studying with us on the Norwich College,
which topic or which subject they actually prefer
more. Those in London, they said they prefer
to study fiqh.
Others
who are more up north, you know when
you go up Leicester where I'm from, and
you go more north
Derby, Stoke,
Manchester, and then Bradford or Braddestan.
And these areas over there, Scotland,
some of these shirki practices are a lot
more common.
So over there, they begin to appreciate aspects
of tawhid a lot more.
None of them trying to have a go
at anyone here.
Right? Because they come from these kind of
backgrounds, when they learn about aspects of Tawhid,
it really, you know
A shirk, my brothers and my sisters, split
into 2 categories,
major shirk and minor shirk.
Major shirk and minor shirk.
When you take an act of worship and
you divert it to other than Allah, this
is a major shirk.
Does that make sense?
My inner shirk, some of the ulamaqibintimramatulahi,
they defined as kulludem bin Samahullah shirkanwalam
yablurdarjati
This is minor shirk. So any sin that
Allah Azzawajal may have referred to
in the Sharia or the messian of salah
is a shirk, but it doesn't actually reach
the level of major shirk, this would be
a minor shirk.
I'll give you guys one of the examples
of minor shirk. Hadid Mahmud ibn Labid, narrated
by Ibn Majah. The messenger of Sala alayhi
wasalam said,
when the messenger said that which I feared
the most for,
you guys,
is the following, shirk Azhar, minor shirk. Who
is he speaking to?
Abu Bakr, Omar, Uthman, and Ali, and the
rest of the companions.
So they asked, You Rasool Allah, what is
minor shirk? He said, Alriya, to show off.
And to show off on the forward pitch,
not making him in and out. Is that
what we're speaking about?
No.
Owen Shuen Hoops
was speaking about showing off in your Ibadah.
You're praying
inside of your room and then Hoi walks
in.
Mom walks in,
right,
and then you start perfecting it even more
because I want Hoy to see how beautifully
I'm praying.
When you think about it,
are you solely
praying to Allah? Are you solely praying or
are you actually now giving a share of
that to your parents or to your mother?
Can you see from which angle now,
right, this becomes
an association
with other than Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala?
Right? Which shirk is, right, to associate partners
with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
To sing Allah to Allah Azzawinda which is
exclusive to Him, you should only be intending
Allah with that prayer, nobody else,
not Hoya, not your dad, and anyone else.
And that's with any act of worship, likewise
when you're giving charity,
and you have my brothers and my sisters
the level of sins in this way, major
shirk,
minor shirk, and then what major sins?
Can you see how everyone reacted when I
talked about that Haram?
Zina,
homosexuality.
If you find out now that your neighbor
is practicing this, how are you going to
react?
It's a big thing.
Right? That's a major sin law.
Above that you have a sin called minor
shirk,
and then above that, you have that which
is called major shirk.
Are you brothers and sisters with me?
Know the seriousness of these sins.
Sometimes you see people commenting on Instagram. I've
seen them more than once, oh, it's only
minor shirk, man.
Which means it's only minor shirk?
This sin of minor shirk is greater than
major sins.
Does that make sense?
Alastuzani,
the second foundation.
The second foundation, my brothers and my sisters,
is the command of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
to be united upon the religion,
and the prohibition of division
and discord regarding it.
Allah has explained this in a very clear
manner
that even the common people are able to
understand.
He forbade us from resembling the people who
differed and became divided before us,
which led them to being destroyed because they
split amongst themselves.
He mentioned
that he also ordered the messengers with being
united in the religion and and forbade them
from division and discord due to it.
This matter is made clearer by what is
found in the Sunnah.
Then from the most strange affairs is that
differing in the core principles of the religion
as well as its subsidiary branches
appeared as knowledge and understanding of the religion.
As for unity in religion, it became such
that nobody spoke about it except a heretic
or mad person.
In a nutshell, my brothers and my sisters,
the 2nd foundation
speaks about how we need to work towards
unity
and we need to stay away from division,
splitting the ranks of the Muslims,
and then he mentions
how Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has made it
so clear and explicit in the Quran,
and how He prohibited us
from dividing amongst ourselves, and how this led
to those who came before us
to be destroyed.
And it says also in the sunnah of
the Messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. This is
pretty clear,
and then he says from the most strangest
of affairs
that you find
in his time and likewise today as well
that splitting
on the issues of
our Usul,
meaning
the foundations of our religions.
Right?
And likewise in its subsidiary matters is actually
knowledge.
And this is fiqh.
And then you have
coming together,
uniting
is only mentioned by those who are heretics.
I think there's 2 extremes here, my brothers
and my sisters.
AK Thobes, masha'Allah.
That's another Thobes salah.
Are your brothers and sisters with me? I
always give you a shout out. Yeah.
There's 2 extremes here, my brothers and my
sisters.
The first extreme
is
dividing on the matters of the Usul.
The core principles of our religion is not
something that is praiseworthy.
Our aqeedah, my brothers and my sisters, is
clear
and transparent,
Right.
This door that has been opened of,
let everyone have their own akhida,
don't be the reason
why people start differing with one another.
Right?
Bury it. Let's put all of that to
the side and just unite.
How is that possible my brothers and my
sisters?
If someone now
is calling
to the sunnah
and is calling to establish a tawhid,
how can he now unite
with someone who's doing the complete opposite?
Understand this with me, my brothers and my
this is very very important because what's going
to happen is truth is going to be
mixed with falsehood.
Right?
You have someone now who's calling to the
sunnah,
and then you have someone the complete opposite,
which is innovation.
How can both of these things be brought
together?
Or someone now, he has beliefs that are
shirki.
Right?
And then someone who's
saying day and night to hate to hate
to hate, how can these 2 oxymorons come
together?
Does that make sense, my brothers and my
sisters?
Our aqidah is clear.
It is transparent.
If we don't stand up for the Aqeedah,
my brothers and my sisters,
you will see
normative Islam being tampered with,
right,
whatever is falsehood will now become that which
is widely accepted,
and you're telling people don't say anything about
it,
this is what will become the religion of
the people.
Does that make sense?
I'll give you guys an example now about
what that Scottish guy mentioned, right. I keep
mentioning him, I know.
He said that homosexuality
is not a sin. If I remain quiet,
what's going to happen?
Isn't this a matter that is
from the beliefs of the Muslim that what
Allah
instructed Lot with and what Lot waged a
war against Prophet Lot alaihis salatu wasalam.
What we believe to be a sin, someone
comes along and says no, it's not a
sin, but you say, ahi, put the issues
of aqir at rasayin because our main goal
is just to unite as an Ummah.
How can that be possible?
Can you see how normative Islam the religion
of Islam will become very very tainted?
Are you brothers and sisters with me?
And thus, likewise with other aspects of our
akhida.
However, I must say something else,
I'm going to hold on to my akhida
and you're going to hold on to whatever
you believe, right.
I'm going to try and call you to
that which is correct.
However, at times there needs to be a
level of unity,
right, there has to be a level of
unity
because of a bigger problem that we're trying
to deal with.
If we both now have a common enemy
here in this country,
and we need to be united
to some degree
in order to eliminate this evil force.
I'm still holding on to my akhida,
right, and I'm still going to try and
call you Tawah, which is correct. However, I
have to be mature,
right, and smart
in how we're going to get rid of
this external force
that may well be the reason why the
beliefs of our children are destroyed. What do
I mean by that? It might well be
that different Masajid have to come together
because
signatures are required
in order to eliminate
some external evil that is destroying us as
a community.
I'm not going to compromise when it comes
to my aqidah.
Does that make sense?
So this is one aspect that needs to
be discussed. The second, my brothers and my
sisters, is,
Wasar al Amrabilistimahafidinlayakol
lazindikumajjudun.
This is very very important as well now.
He says
it reached a point where telling people to
unite is only something that is mentioned by
a heretic or someone that we look at
as some guy who's off.
This is exactly what you hear today. The
moment you tell people, 'Come. Let's try and
work together.'
right,
let's now try to establish unity, and then
you start
that process of doing so, you get labeled
to be an Ikhwani,
or some individual is completely off. Akhid, the
religion told us that.
Even Sheikh Usam Timur Hamatullah says,
He says from the important principles of our
religion,
right, that is comprehensive.
Talif al Khulu bringing the hearts together,
ight, trying to come together in that which
we preach,
and also rectifying that which is
between the Muslims.
Right. Like I said, the akhid is very
very important, but who from amongst us
is really trying his utmost best now to
try and rectify
the problems that are there?
Right.
It doesn't even have to be on a
bigger scale with some of us. Sometimes you
see discord between 2 family relatives, right.
You see a discord between 2 friends,
right,
to try and now resolve these issues between
them.
You have the non Muslims coming together on
whatever it might be to wage war against
the Muslim. We, maybe even individuals who are
upon the same aqilah can't come together.
Right. This is a very, very important
core issue of our religion, which is to
come together or at least be actively
working towards it.
Does that make sense to my brothers and
my sisters?
What seems to have happened is okay, I'm
now following a particular akhida, forget about everyone
else.
Let them go to Jahannam even though we
might not say this with our tongues, we
don't care.
Just starting off this process of how can
we actually bring people together
by way of rectification
is something that is unheard of.
So he is saying the moment someone starts
speaking about Istima Al Kalima or uniting the
people he's looked at some guy who's Rasublar,
someone who's a Zindik, someone who's what?
A heretic and that's Ghalot.
Also, when you think about it, my brothers
and my sisters, Maqas al Sharia.
The objective of the Sharia
that Imam Shatul Gharmatullahi mentions, the religion came
to protect how many things?
He said 5. Some scholars say 6, but
he's right. What are these 5 things?
The religion came to protect your religion.
Right? It came to protect your din.
What's the second thing?
I'm gonna I'm gonna come on to that.
Also, the religion, my brothers and my sisters,
came to protect your nafs.
It came to protect your life.
If something is going to put your life
at risk, the shari'ah,
the legislation, the deen doesn't tell you, oh,
just allow it.
You're allowed to at times consume Haram to
protect your life. Right? Are you allowed to
eat pork at times?
Yes, you can.
You're going to die in the middle of
a desert. Are
you allowed to drink alcohol? Are you allowed
to drink pork? Not till aloshabu
isit,
till you become full. No.
That which is going to
fill
the void that is required in order for
you to continue living.
Does that make sense?
So in sharia I came to protect that.
Also the Sharia, my brothers and my sisters,
came to protect your intellect.
If something is going to cause you to
lose your intellect, the Sharia doesn't say go
and do it. It protects you.
Likewise, Wahebdul'irt,
it also came to protect your honor and
lineage, some of us call it zawad, they
add it on on here.
Your honor, your lineage.
Right?
I'll tell you that was very, very common
saying that that girl sleeps around.
Do you know how serious that is?
We growing up in school
was a term that we use very very
loosely, oh Oh, look at our girl. Whenever
a girl is mentioned, oh, she's this, every
s word under the sun, we use it
for hosa.
So loosely.
What did Allah say,
Either you bring forth
4 witnesses,
each one of them testifying that they
saw this Haram taking place,
otherwise all of you guys are going to
get lashed.
How many lashes?
80 lashes,
Just for accusing this this
woman for having committed a zina.
Just for accusing this woman of having committed
a zina,
right, what are you doing here? You are
ruining her reputation.
You
are dismantling her honor,
sahih,
but the shari'a I came to protect her
that's why you have this hadmin hudoodillah,
you have this capital punishment of all of
these guys being lashed and whipped just to
protect to honor.
And the last one is Hebdul Ma'at to
safeguard the wealth. Let me ask you guys
a question,
if there is no unity,
Muslims can't get on.
Everyone's doing their own thing. Everyone's at war
with one another
and now you have this mesquite lady
whose honor has just been ripped to shreds.
Will we be able to get justice for
this innocent lady?
Can you see why unity is so so
important?
The Muslims at least having a system
where
the rights of the people can be protected,
their wealth can be protected, someone's just been
robbed but 2 tribes are at war with
one another.
No one wants to do anything about it
as opposed to if they were united and
at least on talking terms.
Sahir.
So unity is extremely, extremely important, my brothers
and my sisters. The Maqasid, the objects of
the sharia
right?
You guys alright, man?
You alright?
You need help?
K. Someone's laughing.
It's him. It's like sound like you're squeaking
or something like
You're gonna get a break in a minute
InshaAllah Ta'ala and then we're gonna finish off
before Maghrib.
Number 3, my brothers and my sisters, al
Asluth Salif.
Salith.
Shayan. What's the word that you guys have?
Does anyone have a another print other than
this one?
Okay, Tayb.
I thought I made a mistake.
It says for the 3rd foundation
is from the perfection and completion of unity,
is hearing and obeying the one who has
authority over us,
even if he is an Abyssinian slave.
He's talking about now the one that is
in charge, the leader,
right.
Even if it is an Abyssinian slave, you
should listen and you should obey.
Allah explained this in a very clear manifest
and sufficient manner,
using various means both religious as well as
universal,
meaning there are enough texts that indicate this,
likewise
you have
this happening and unfolding right before your eyes,
which shows this important concept.
Despite this,
this principle became unknown amongst the people who
claim knowledge,
so how could it be applied and practiced?
What we're talking about here my brothers and
my sisters,
someone being in charge, and we're not just
talking about a Muslim ruler who's in charge
of his government
and in charge of his citizens.
Right.
We are also speaking about,
and I'm going to bring this in because
it's normally not mentioned,
the household. This is a lot more relevant
to what is happening around us today.
Someone being in charge,
again, whole feminism stuff.
Right.
If you don't have someone in charge, my
brothers and my sisters,
in just about every capacity of life, there
will be chaos, would you guys agree with
that?
If there's no one in charge at your
workplace,
how is the place going to be run?
There will be what?
Chaos.
Likewise in the Muslim household
if there is no one in charge
or let's just say we have 2 bosses
in the house,
the Arabs they say,
I'm the boss and you're the boss, okay
who's going to drive the camel or who's
going to drive the donkey?
One has to drive it, right.
So hey, they've got this method, meaning we
can't have
Ronaldo and Messi in the same room.
Right.
We can't have 2 big bosses in the
same room.
There has to be 1, and then everyone
else comes under him.
Does that make sense to my brothers and
my sisters?
So the sister now that wants to wear
the trousers in the house
wants to be
actively
carrying out the role of the husband,
and then you have Allah Azzawajal created this
man,
naturally as a man,
that's going to be what?
A clash, a conflict of ideas,
a conflict of how we're going to move
forward
is just not going to work.
There has to be what? One leader,
one person in charge.
Right. So now let's speak about what the
Sheikh is referring to here, my brothers and
my sisters.
But before I do that, I wanted to
read out
something that Simone de Beauvoir mentioned.
Have you guys heard of Simone de Beauvoir?
She's one of the founding mothers
of feminism,
a French feminist.
Then you also have the likes of Betty
Friedan,
right, who was one of the founding mothers
of feminism over there in America.
There was even an interview that I came
across where Betty Friedan was interviewing the French
feminist.
I'll discuss that next Monday, InshaAllah Ta'ala, with
your sisters.
Alaikuliha Simone de Bevois mentioned in her book,
The Second * chapter 1.
This is what she said about women.
This is what she's saying about women.
Now Abu Tamia
I think these girls are gonna come out
on feminist on on Twitter.
On Twitter.
Me and the feminists are having a great
time on Twitter together.
Her grasp of the world is thus more
limited.
This is what she's saying about women.
She has less firmness
and perseverance
in projects that she is also less able
to carry out.
This means that her individual life is not
as rich as a man's one.
In a nutshell, what she's basically saying is
that women are intrinsically more emotionally unstable and
weak willed than men,
which is very odd
considering that she famously wrote, one is not
born but rather becomes a woman,
right, which basically means that she supports the
idea of behavior being entirely
the result of social construction.
Ashaahid Merikala my brothers and my sisters.
I know I'm getting a little bit philosophical
there.
You can't have 2 leaders in the same
place.
Right?
In the household, the man,
he serves as the leader. This is how
Allah
created him to be competitive.
Right.
And then the woman, my brothers and my
sisters,
she's there,
she has a role to play in society
as well, their roles are complementary,
right, to one another or they complement one
another, they are not in competition with one
another, that doesn't
mean he doesn't,
right, that doesn't mean
he doesn't give that which he has to
say,
right, no concern. No. He takes what she
says into consideration.
But if there isn't someone who makes that
final call, there is going to be fawdha.
Allah gave
him that qiwama.
Then going back to what
and you begin to revolt against him, or
you try to topple him over,
or you try to get rid of him,
there not being anyone in charge is only
going to lead to destruction.
The messenger salallahu alayhi wa sallam, he told
us in a hadith.
Right?
What was the hadith again?
None.
Wait, guys. I'm gonna get the hadith.
Now,
sayyukunu
alaykumumara,
layakhtadoonabihadi
walayastannoonabisunnati.
There will indeed be leaders, rulers
that will take charge.
They won't take my guidance as a guidance,
and they don't take my sunnah as a
sunnah.
Right.
Their hearts will be like the hearts of
Iblis,
but it's inside the body of a human
being.
Right?
We were told
Alhamdulillah.
We were told
that some of the leaders that will gain
charge, my brothers and my sisters, they are
going to be oppressive.
They are going to be tyrannical.
Right?
They're going to be unjust.
However,
even with them being unjust, my brothers and
my sisters,
we were told not to cause a revolution,
not to try to topple them over.
This is the position of the majority of
the scholars and some do Naqal Abil Ijma'a
on this.
Otherwise, there will be chaos and the people
become separated. The rights of the people will
be violated
and there will be what? Chaos.
Are you brothers and sisters with me?
Right.
Take a look at what happened to our
countries, my brothers and my sisters.
Take a look at that which happened to
our countries.
I was in Yemen once upon a time,
and I'll speak for them.
Before the revolution
and after the revolution, here we learn a
very, very important principle.
It's a legal maxim.
The religion is built around weighing the pros
and the cons.
Right? Adhinu mableen almasalihi
fi jalbhiawadalil
kabahihi.
And he goes on to say, what did
do to zahamun mafas you will take Abu
Adnan al Mafasili.
If we have
a predicament where there are 2 evils,
right?
We have 2 evils, my brothers and my
sisters,
and we have to take one of them.
Which one do we take, guys? The lesser
of the 2 evils, right?
Right? This is our religion. We take the
lesser of the 2 evils. We don't do
something that is going to lead to a
bigger evil.
Yes, the ruler was oppressive. Yes, the ruler
was unjust.
They say even when he passed away, Abdallah
Salih there was alcohol in his private room.
He used to drink apparently.
Right.
Having said all of that, my brothers, I
was there before the revolution
and I was there after us all. If
you ask just about every Yemeni now, would
you prefer
that Yemen was
how it was before or now they will
say we would prefer when that tyrannical ruler
was still in charge.
Right.
And that is because
disapproving of an evil,
which they wanted to do, they wanted to
get rid of him,
and once we get rid of him we
will live a better life. Well, that's what
I thought.
It only got worse and worse.
Can you see my brothers and masters how
learning your religion is extremely important? Once upon
a time,
right, parents would take their children
to Yemen for them to go and study,
it's very unsafe now, the place is in
turmoil,
it's upside down.
Does that make sense?
Right. Ibn Mutayim Rahmatullahi
said, sitoon assinatin,
right,
60 years, min imam min jayr Aslahu minlaylatinwahilatinbirasultan.
60 years with a tyrannical unjust oppressive ruler
is better
than 1 night
without no ruler.
60 years to have an unjust ruler is
better than
one night without a ruler.
Okay.
I know you guys are probably thinking this
is very irrelevant to my life, my brothers
and my sisters.
The lesson that I want you guys to
take away here is you don't disapprove of
an evil if it's going to lead to
that which is worse,
and that
is something that you would have to take
into consideration so many aspects of your life.
Wallahi was heartbreaking when I was leaving Al
Yemen to see how the place was up
until this very day they are complaining.
2014 it was, brothers and sisters, between 2012
and 14 and up until this very day,
there are innocent people that are now suffering
from that which some or a portion of
the
shab
of the people they carried out.
Does that make sense, my brothers and my
sisters? And this is a very, very important
legal maxim.
Here the sheikh, he mentioned, you will find
enough evidences and likewise that which is universal,
meaning.
It's not just what Allah told us,
there is an evidence here, He says even
look around,
right,
Imputamis says something very very powerful, he says
Across history you will never find a people
that revolted
against their ruler.
Right, to remove the evil that he came
with except that it led to that which
is worse,
Right, accept that it led to that which
is was.
Am I saying my brothers and my sisters
that there are
that there aren't any cases where he's thrown
off or he's taken out? Of course there
are, there are cases.
For example, kufr,
and there are other conditions. You gotta weigh
the pros and the cons. Sheikh Nazeem, Muhammadu
Laih mentions 5 conditions.
And last but not least, under this principle,
my brothers and my sisters, I want to
point out some very, very important things that
you all guys will see online
being discussed and debated.
The people of the sunnah, they distinguish between
obeying the ruler,
which is one thing,
and another which is
praising and loving him.
Praising
a tyrannical ruler, my brothers and my sisters,
or tweeting him,
right,
or making him look better than what he
actually is is not something that is allowed
in our Deen.
Listening and obeying is one thing,
it's another now to start praising him, oh,
he's this and he's that.
Allah
says,
right.
Do not
defend those who go out to oppress themselves.
They wrong themselves all the time. Don't argue
for them.
Also, my brothers and my sisters,
right, there is a difference
between saying don't revolt against the ruler,
and also what?
Again, praising him,
showing love and support for him. It's a
big difference between the 2.
Does that make sense? You hear people saying,
and I'm going to talk about 2 extremes
here. You hear people saying
that the moment you say don't revolt against
the ruler,
and you are a bootlicker or someone now
who just loves the rulers, no my brothers
and my sisters.
The reason why someone may say don't revolt
against a Muslim ruler simply because you will
see the turmoil that we are seeing today,
which happened
in so many countries in the Arab world.
Right.
On the other hand, my brothers and my
sisters, you will hear people
labeling others as Harijites
when it comes to criticizing the rulers.
Right.
I have 5 scenarios written down with regards
to
how
the ruler is criticized.
If someone now points out
that ruler did x y and z and
this is wrong, and he mentions him by
name,
is this something now that renders this individual
to be a Kharijite? No, it's not, my
brothers and my sisters.
Is it better to advise him privately without
a shadow of a doubt?
Now to say that that individual is a
Kharijite,
this is a big, big statement, and that
is because now you've thrown him out the
fold of the Sunnis, you've called him an
innovator. And he has akham mutarati ba aladarik.
2 extremes,
the moment you say don't revolt you get
called the bootlicker, or the moment someone points
out oh that ruler shouldn't have done anything,
or he shouldn't have done it like that
or what he is now doing is actually
wrong or Halloween that he has now imposed
this is something that is wrong, even if
you mention in my name.
Our Sheikh Sheikh Abdul Musil Abal has 8
articles,
8 articles where he was directly calling out
the ruler what he's doing is wrong.
Doesn't make you a harajay,
and I see this loosely being thrown around,
and this is another extreme.
Right? 1 of the masha'aik, I heard him
mention, you find in the books of Akhidah
speaking about not revolting, but you don't see
the issue of criticizing the rulers being mentioned,
right.
So this is an issue that goes back
to what? Weighing the pros and the cons.
Even this argument that I hear, oh, if
you criticize the ruler openly, then this is
now going to cause
people now to start revolting around him and
whatever have you.
If I start criticizing Prince Charles, Yani,
is everyone gonna stand up and start revolting
against him?
Right?
Asha'id Mil Kalema, my brothers and my sisters,
We have to be very very careful with
the words that we use, these labels that
we throw around, and the insults that we
hear all the time, and it happens on
both sides of the spectrum.
The 4th foundation my brothers and my sisters,
a clarification of knowledge and the people of
knowledge,
and fiqh and the people of fiqh, also
a clarification of those who resemble them but
are not actually from them.
Allah has explained this principle in the beginning
of Surat Al Baqarah from his saying, oh
children of Israel,
remember my favor which I have bestowed upon
you, and
I have fulfilled my covenant upon you,
that I will fulfill
your covenant from me and be afraid of
me only.
And that I preferred you over the world.
Before I explain this,
my good friend right here who came all
the way from East London,
right,
he mentioned something very, very important that I
forgot to mention. He said it requires one
good person to remain silent in order for
corruption to spread,
And this comes of course under the principle
of al Amrubil Ma'rufi wannnahir alimunkar,
enjoining the good and forbidding the evil.
If the haqq is not clarified, and we've
said this time and time again,
whether it is a ruler that's spreading it
or not,
if now garbage is being spread,
and no one is saying anything, there's no
clarification,
it's only a matter of time before this
is justified, and people begin to embrace it
wholeheartedly.
That's why we were talking about the issues
of, at times, clarifying
some of the violations
even if a ruler is doing it. Right.
There's a difference between Al Inkaarul Alani Wa
Tashir Rubihi.
Tashir means to humiliate him, we're not talking
about that. We're talking about showing opposition to
clarify to the people even if the name
was mentioned. This is what an issue that
goes back to Al Istihad.
This 4th foundation, my brothers and my sisters,
here the Shaykh speaks about
Al'ilmul Ulama, clarifying what Al'ilm and also who
the Ulama are and likewise al fiqh,
what fiqh is and who the jurists are.
Right.
And also clarifying
those who try to resemble them or try
to imitate them, but in reality
they are not scholars and they are not
jurists.
And then he quoted 2 verses from the
Quran where Allah Azzawajal
calls out Bani Israel,
calling them out, telling them to remember the
favors of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala upon them.
What were the favors of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala upon Bani Israel
that is in conjunction with this? Who can
tell me?
What did Allah azza wa jal send upon
them?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala my brothers and my
sisters,
he gave them the scripture and he also
sent them Prophets,
people of knowledge to guide them
out of the darkness into the light.
Right?
Allah is telling them we gave you all
of these favors and even then you went
astray.
Even then you went astray.
How did they go astray?
Right? The messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, my
brothers and my sisters, he told us,
inna akhwafa ma'akhafa alaykumala
immatulmudloon.
That which I fear the most for you,
again, the messenger salallahu alayhi wa sallam is
speaking
the
those who may try to behave or conduct
themselves as if they are scholars or people
of knowledge, and in reality they're not,
and there are a lot of them on
TikTok, guys.
It is so easy today to give Dawah,
Just open an account, say a little bit
of
yaniyani,
Right? Drop a couple of Arabic words and
everyone thinks you're Sheikh al Islam.
Right? You're
the Mufti of TikTok.
Right? And this is not spoken about enough,
this is why InshaAllah Ta'ala. I'm going to
mention some of the characteristics and traits
of people of knowledge
that we need to look out for? It's
a common question that people tend to ask
all the time.
But before I do that, another hadith that
I want to quote the messenger said,
sayati alanasi sanawatun khadaat.
They will indeed come upon you
years that are treacherous.
A
liar is believed.
And the truthful one is rejected,
he is seen as the liar.
And the one who's trusted, my brothers and
my sisters,
he's seen as someone who's treacherous.
And the Ruaybada starts speaking.
The
messenger was asked, who is this Ruwaybada?
A
very lowly person.
You see him speaking about the general affairs
of the Muslims.
Isn't this exactly what we have today, brothers
and sisters? Any random individual speaking about
matters if Umar ibn Khattab was alive, he
would gather the participants of Badr and seek
their consultation,
but any dom dick and ari is coming
out and just saying whatever he wishes
about the deen of Allah, and then you
got the Gen Z generation on TikTok,
Sameer Anawawaltaina.
We listen and we obey.
Right? You don't know where he's taking you.
This is the problem of this era, brothers
and sisters,
commenting on just about everything.
Just the other day, subhanAllah,
me and
the sheikh called Sheikha Wukarzod from
Australia, we were discussing
some aspects of social media,
how it is such a great fitna
to feel the need to just what?
Convey
or just to put out content, and this
is a disease.
I just have to put out content for
the sake of it. I have to remain
relevant.
I have such a big platform. I just
have to give out information. People are waiting
for me. So he just gives them anything
just to keep them in touch with his
videos and engaged.
Hadim Musiba.
It's a calamity.
We always talk about the virtues of giving
dua, right,
how so many people are gonna act upon
it and then you're gonna get the reward
spreading falsehood, spreading that which is wrong
It's also as bad, my brothers and my
sisters,
right?
Everyone that follows you up on that misguidance
or that video that is going to be
on your scale of bad deeds. And once
you go into that grave,
those sins are going to continue.
It's a big maisuliyah,
a big responsibility.
Not should should we shouldn't only think twice
but thrice the moment we put out the
video.
So here are some of the characteristics, my
brothers and my sisters. Number 1,
someone who calls to a Tuhhid.
Someone who calls to a Tuhhid.
Wasn't this the occupation of the prophets, walakad?
Baathnafiqulli
ummatin Rasoolam?
Ani Abu Dawla wichtanibut Tawhid, every single prophet
that was sent, the core message that he
came with was what?
WarshipAllan, stay away from shirk, stay away from
the Tawhid. At Tawhid needs to be the
core of his dawah.
And then they also address the social issues.
Does that make sense? That's a very
distinctful,
important trait that the caller to Allah needs
to have. At the end of the day
my brothers and my sisters, we are speaking
on behalf of
the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa'am so we
have to follow his blueprint
I can't just do things how I want
right
Number 2, my brothers and my sisters,
this person has to be a person of
Khashya,
someone who worships Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
with the knowledge that he has.
It's not just lip service, my brothers and
my sisters.
If the ilim that you're learning is not
causing you to become better, to act upon
your knowledge,
there is a big issue with taking knowledge
from this kind of individual.
Ibrahim Al Nakhais Sahib
he said, kana raju idharadha yakhudaanarajuli.
Back in the day, if they wanted to
take knowledge from someone,
nazarave salati wabihaali wabi sempti, summa yakhudaan,
he would look at his prayer,
he would look at his situation, He would
look at how he carries himself, how he
conducts himself,
then he would take the knowledge from him.
Is he someone that is acting upon his
knowledge,
or is he someone that is just giving
out information?
Right. There's a verse in the Quran where
Allah Azzawajal said,
lady.
Right?
What was the verse?
Lady?
Here Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
talks about Qiyamul Layl standing up in the
night, and right after that he speaks about
the people of knowledge.
The scholars, they connected here these two matters
that a person of knowledge
or someone cannot be an Alim unless he
is praying in the night.
That is the least someone who gives Dawah
or a student of knowledge should be doing.
You're not like everyone
else.
Right?
You're not like everyone else. You need to
be doing more in private than that which
you do in public.
Does that make sense?
Number 3, my brothers and my sisters,
alarasikhin.
You take knowledge from those who are firmly
grounded, those who have spent time studying,
Not someone, my brothers and my sisters, who
took a course or 2 on social media,
and now he comes out and starts giving
fatawa on TikTok.
Right.
Or someone who just went out to read
from books.
Imam Shafi'i would say, mentafakamimbotonil
kutubi bayyaalahkam.
Someone who just sits with books and takes
in information,
this individual, my brothers and my sisters, right,
he will forsake the uhkham, the rulings of
the Deen.
It's very, very important that this individual has
been spending
a lot of time seeking knowledge.
Right? Otherwise,
he might end up giving you something that
he has understood
simply because he hasn't sat
at the feet of scholars.
Who is from amongst the Tabi'in.
Because they used to take it directly
from the mouths of scholars and men. They
would go to them, they would sit by
their feet, and they would take their knowledge
directly from them.
Falam masara fil Qutub Dhabanurahuasari
laghairihaali.
When their ilm was documented into Qutub,
right into books,
right,
the light of knowledge disappeared, it diminished,
and just
this knowledge was being read by random individuals
and then being preached.
Now put that into perspective, my brothers and
my sisters. He said this then. What do
we have today, guys?
As soon as I need an answer, I
just quickly put into Google.
Or I ask any random individual, and then
he comes and gives it to me. Baba
You
go on to these lives on TikTok from
random individuals,
right, who all might be giving out the
hadith here and there. Great.
But that doesn't
mean that you should start asking them questions
about the deen.
When I was told the other day, subhanAllah,
our brother started giving dawah in universities, and
he's giving fatawa about talaq.
It's his issues pertaining to divorce.
Now because he's got a platform
talakh.
And then when he was told don't do
it, his response was no, no, I've learned
it. I know the answer.
We have a Sheikh in Al Medina. His
bid is
thick and white, guys.
Old in age.
Blind.
You ask them about talaq. No. No. No.
Go to the go to the courts. Don't
ask me. Go to the courts. The moment
you ask them about talaq.
Go to the courts and ask them, not
me.
I fear Allah, brothers and sisters.
He goes, how common is it that
one
quotes
different views from the Madahib,
and he quotes the ulama but with an
understanding that is flawed.
Oh, he says, oh, that sheikh, he said
x, y, and z.
And in reality, he didn't.
The reason why this individual is quoting him
in this manner is because of him misunderstanding
what the sheikh has mentioned.
Because of a little bit that he's learned,
some Arabic that he's picked up thinking Khalifa
understood what he's saying.
Even there's a line of poetry where the
poet says,
How common is it that someone criticizes
something that is right, and the reason why
he's criticizing that which is right is due
to his bad understanding?
Or maybe because he doesn't have a holistic
understanding of that which is being mentioned.
How many trace is that?
How many trace is that?
4 or 3.
We've taken 31, number 4 now. Number 4,
my brothers and
my sisters, that he's not someone, my brothers
and my sisters,
who is like
very easy going, Oh, halal halal halal. Don't
worry, it is fine.
The great scholars of the past, they used
to warn against these kind of individuals,
and they used to alert the people not
to take knowledge from them.
Ibn Muflih said You Haramutasaal
Mufti.
Right? It is haram for a Mufti to
be so easy going, oh, don't worry. It's
fine.
Halal. Go ahead. No problem.
The Deen is easy. Yes. The Deen is
easy.
Right?
But no way you start giving people the
rugsa.
Yes, there are maybe scholars, my brothers and
my sisters, who said something that was completely
out of touch.
99%
he was right, but there was maybe Absir,
Absir, Absir,
Absir. 99%
in that which he said was correct, but
then he had this fatwa that is shahd,
a fatwa that is very rare. Strange.
600 years ago, the Sheikh gave this fatwa,
but you are living today and you say
oh, but that Sheikh said this, Akhi, he
has got 99% right.
One thing that he got wrong, now you
want to act upon it, or you want
to tell people that it is okay for
them to do?
Right, this is now
following what Arrughas,
following the permissions.
Before I move on to the next trait
and quality
of who we should be taking knowledge from.
Can someone give me the first four
that we just took?
What were the first four that we just
took? Who was the first one?
Masha Allah zakalakir. The brother mentioned
someone who is known to be calling the
Tawhid. This was the message of the prophets.
Right? That should be the core of his
da'wah,
alongside, of course,
also addressing the social issues. Number 2.
Sorry? Someone who acts upon his knowledge. Someone
who acts upon his knowledge. Hashia.
Right. Someone who acts upon his knowledge. Number
3.
Okay. That was maybe that comes on the
second one.
Yeah?
No. Someone who's firmly grounded.
Number 3 is someone who's firmly grounded.
Right?
Not someone you just saw popping up on
TikTok, brothers.
Number 4.
Someone who's not just known to just give
easy answers for the people.
Does that make sense?
Number 5.
I haven't taken yet.
5.
By the way, all these qualities, I took
it from the ulama.
Right.
Number 5, my brothers and my sisters,
This individual is known to have studied
extensively.
This person is known to have studied extensively.
Don't get it confused with the other one
that we mentioned, which was I believe number
3, someone who's firmly grounded he was. This
one is someone
who is known to have studied extensively.
Ibnutayr Muhammadullahi
quoted some of the people in his time,
he said, qala baagun nas
mayuftsidudunya
that which destroys the dunya is the following.
He says,
for Mutatabibin, 1 is for Nahwee.
He goes half of all of these 4
individuals that he mentions but they are half
there. They're not full there or fully there
they're half there.
The first one my brothers and my sisters
right
is
someone who's half learned.
He said hada yufsidul adyan, this person is
going to destroy people's religion.
He's only half there.
Right? He's only half there. The second type
or the second individual that he says
will destroy the dunya
is
nisfumutafakihin.
Someone who's half of a jurist,
this person will destroy the country.
Like he might say, oh, this is how
it should be done, he ends up destroying
that which ends up taking place.
One is for Mutatabib,
someone who's a half doctor.
You know when he was in the Medina,
I remember something.
They would tell us all of the guys
who work in the dentist,
they bought their certificates right,
Allahu ala know where they got that from,
so the students would be terrified to go
to the dentist
out of fear that a tooth would be
ruined,
Allahu alaihi that was just a rumor, I'm
just telling you guys you know.
I think everyone gets the,
gets the sketch here.
Right. He's half a doctor. He's half learned
when it comes to
knowing the medical side of things, right,
what he ends up doing to people's bodies.
Let me ask you guys a question, if
someone now
identifies as a doctor or he
forges his certificate and then starts working, and
then he ends up killing someone,
Is he held liable?
Whoever acts like a doctor,
but
he's not qualified,
and then he ends up killing someone or
he ends up injuring someone, this person is
held liable.
Likewise, my brothers and my sisters, and by
the way, I like Qawad al Fakhir, that's
why I bring these things in from time
to time. What if someone has not learned,
and then when he goes for Umrah Hajj,
he tells someone that you need to
pay them.
You've done something wrong, so you have to
pay the penalty. And then he ends up
paying £100.
Later on, if he comes back and says,
oh, this guy gave me the answer, which
was wrong. Is he all liable? He is
* liable.
Right.
Very common. You're in the Haram. People will
come up to you, did I do it
wrong? Do I need to pay a penalty?
Just run them. Just because I have a
bitch, she's coming up to me.
She doesn't know me. She doesn't know where
I studied.
Very common.
And they're going up to random individuals. You
see them walking around the Haram, just people
going up to everyone and anyone.
And then sometimes you hear a guy one
time I overheard the guy saying, yeah. You
gotta pay them. I told them, mittakila akhir,
because you have to pay a penalty
over something that she'd done out of forgetfulness,
like she used soap. And he's telling you
gotta pay a £100, go pay over there.
But no one's going to hold him liable.
Right? Because he's going. He's a random individual.
Nobody knows where he's going. Nobody knows where
he's from.
Meskina, she's paid a £100.
Number 6 to my brothers and my sisters,
and you
who appreciate the ulama and respect them. They
honor the ulama and they respect them.
This one is very very important, brothers and
sisters.
Someone might have knowledge,
but he's someone who's got a problem with
his tongue,
always ripping into others or belittling others or
trying to tear them down.
Look what Imam Shafi'i Rahmatullahahi a'lay mentioned.
Shafi'i
Mazid, right?
He says whoever wants Allah Azzawajal to open
up his heart and to grant him wisdom,
Upon him is to have times when he
has private time
or seclusion with Allahu jalafiyarullah. You know when
you're alone just with you and Allah
and he
eats less.
Not filling up your stomach till you miss
fajr.
Right?
Watarki mukhala to the sufahan to stay away
or to abstain from hanging around with foolish
people.
Wa ba'adhihaalilaim,
and he says some people of knowledge,
al ladheena laysa ma'am insafun wal adab.
Those people of knowledge who don't have fairness
and they don't have etiquettes, they're badly mannered.
Why is that, my brothers and my sisters?
If someone
is always ripping into others,
he has a very loose tongue, it's only
a matter of time before that begins to
rub off of you. Alisa kadalik?
Isn't that so?
Right? Whoever sits with a certain type of
people, it's only a matter of time before
he picks up their traits and their qualities.
This is very well known. It could be
a drug dealer that you hang around with.
Right? It could be a woman that's always
on social media displaying. She's gonna end up
doing it. It could be someone who uses
a type of rhetoric.
It's only a matter of time before he
begins to rub off of you.
Right. This is why Imam Al Shaffa is
saying even some people with knowledge
because of how he behaves and how he
conducts himself
or what he says about other scholars and
other sources of knowledge, it's going to end
up affecting you.
Ibn Asakir,
he says about his own Sheikh,
He had a teacher,
and this teacher was very badly mannered
when speaking about Ibrahim and Naka who's a
mountain of knowledge and also Imam Malik
and also ibn Adi.
One time,
ibn Asakir says that he became furious with
him, fagadib alahi.
That marrah,
wakaalilakimnathamal
minkasul adab.
Up until when will we continue hearing this
bad manners from you? Right?
Up until when should we,
right, continue taking this from you?
Taqolufin nakhaikada,
wamalikada,
wafifulan kada. You say this about Imam Malik.
You say this about Ibrahim nakhai. You say
this about that guy.
Inna manakhtarimuka,
mahtaramtalaimmatah
faizaatlaktalqaulafimfa
manakhtarimook.
We will only respect and honor you as
long as you respect the scholars.
And the moment you stop respecting them, we
will not respect you.
Right?
He had enough, constantly hearing him ripping into
others.
Right. Wallahi, brothers and sisters, you guys, I
can see, Allahu Mabarak, you packed up the
Masjid today.
You have the zeal to study. Some
Mila Abulhan in Walahunsha.
No evidence whatsoever
looking to tear people down, hasad and wabaghiyah,
out of envy,
right,
and oppression,
violation,
scaring the living daylight out of you.
Also, Ibn Rajib Rahmatullahi Alaihi, he says, wamin
alamatilil
minnafia from the science of beneficial knowledge.
And nasahibahu
laiiddayilaim,
that the one who possesses knowledge, he doesn't
claim to have knowledge.
Walayafharobi
alahat, he doesn't boast about the knowledge that
he possesses.
And he doesn't start saying, oh, this guy
is ignorant, he doesn't
doesn't start behaving like that.
Except if someone now is going against the
Deen. He clarifies to the people, akhid, this
is wrong. He shouldn't be saying this. This
goes against the Quran and the Sunnah, he
does this for Allah's sake not
right to feed his ego
and his whims and his desire, or maybe
because he's envious about that individual, he's looking
to tear him down or to make him
look bad in the eyes of others.
And then he says,
as for the person who doesn't have beneficial
knowledge,
This person is just too occupied and that
which he busies himself with not with nothing
with nothing other than belittling
others and calling them ignorant.
Wa idharafaddhna
almihi alahihim.
When he's spittuhumilaljahl
and constantly showing people look I have knowledge,
I have more than him, and so and
so is not that, you know, he's like
this, and
no.
As for today my brothers I'm gonna say,
Tajid Al Muttalim,
right, someone who acts like a person of
knowledge
belittling others
who are mountains.
He says, nahnu rijal, wahumr rijal.
We are men, and they are men. Who
is he talking about? The 4 great imams.
Abu Hanifa, Imam Shaff, Imam Malik,
Ahmed, just as they can have a view,
this is my view, this is my view.
Man, anti ahi.
This is how we're speaking about these great
mountains. Yes.
Imam Abu Hanif Adar Ahmad Sulayah did say,
right,
They are men, and we are men as
all. So we can have our positions against
their positions. But who was he speaking about?
He was speaking about those in his time,
and he had every right to say that.
But today, you find a guy who's in
living in today's day and age, wallahi, the
bad manners that he,
you know, adorns himself with when discussing or
when speaking about the early scholars as if
they have no knowledge and he has all
of the knowledge.
Al Asr al Khamis,
we are done brothers and sisters.
This one and then the number 6,
it really takes moments.
Al Asrul Khamis, the 5th foundation, Bayanullah
Says Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has made it
clear and explicit
in the Quran who the Awliya are,
who the close beloved servants of Allah Subhanahu
wa Ta'ala.
He made that very clear
in his Qur'an.
Does that make sense?
And Allah
has made it also very clear,
those who try to resemble them,
and in reality they are not awliya,
they are hypocrites, he says,
and also enemies of Allah wal fujar and
transgressing wicked individuals.
He's teaching us now how to distinguish between
who a real wali,
a saint,
a beloved servant of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
is and someone who tries to act like
them.
And then he said wayakfi fihada
aya tunfi'ali Imran.
Now which is sufficient here my brothers and
my sisters is the statement of Allah in
Surat al I Imran.
Which verse are we speaking about?
When Allah Azzawajal said, and by the way,
Alima Muhammadur Rahmatullahi aly, he referred to this
verse as
Ayatul Mihna,
the verse of examination.
Ayatul Mihanna, the verse of examination,
you might want to call it the Assi
test, that's what we say, right?
Where you are put to the test Ayatul
Mihana.
What was this verse, Qul Saytan Mah Muhammad,
If you really love Allah, then follow me.
And if you follow me, Allah Azza wa
Jal will love you.
Youbib kumullah.
Some people claimed
that they love Allah Azzawajal and his messenger,
so he tested them with this verse. My
brothers and my sisters I can sit here
all day holding a banner,
I love the Messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Does that really mean anything if I don't
act upon it? Or if I'm doing that
which goes against what the messenger sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam came with?
You know the shahada the shahada,
the part where we say, Wa'anna Muhammadan Abdul
Rasoolah. What does he mean?
Three components, and I'm hoping you guys write
it down. Tasdikawfimahakbar,
to believe in what the messenger sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam came with.
Tasteeq o fee ma Akbar wa Ta'aatoo fee
ma Amar
And to be obedient in that which Allah
commanded you with, that's number 2.
Number 3, wachsinabumanaanhuwazajab
and to stay away from the things that
the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam warned against or
prohibited
and criticized.
This is what Wa'ana Muhammadan
Abu Aur Rasooloo means.
Someone may claim, my brothers, I love the
messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Just yesterday, one
of the brothers that jumped in with me.
We began to discuss about he says, Wallahi,
there's sometimes when you sit with someone,
right,
you begin to feel this, you know,
this nur.
Right?
And that he is someone that is very
high in the eyes of Allah
I said to him there are, what, 2
extremes to this. I've heard this so many
times.
That you begin to feel all of a
sudden that he's upon he hasn't even opened
his mouth yet. He's upon the hap, and
whatever he's going to call you to, then
this is the truth. There's 2 extremes to
this, my brothers and my sisters. Yes.
There are times when you sit with certain
individuals, it reminds you of Allah,
it reminds you of death,
and may Allah
make us like them.
Right?
And there's a type of individual, my brothers
and my sisters,
right,
who you might feel good around. He has
a good vibe. Sometimes even drug dealers have
good vibes, brothers and sisters.
When Hakim,
the reality kicks in the moment he starts
preaching what he believes.
It doesn't matter how much noor you think
he have he has he has on his
face,
or what great willy you think he is,
or how many people have praised him, la.
You have to check what he is upon.
I really like the statement, you and his
ibn Abd al-'Aala,
one time came to Imam al Shafi'i, he
said, I said to Shafi'i,
Inna Saheb al Layth, Layth al Nusad, who
was the great Mufti
of Egypt,
the scholar of Egypt,
he's telling Imam Shafi'i, Yunus ibn Abdilalah,
that Leif said,
Let me ask you guys a question.
If you see somebody walking on water,
if you see someone walking on water,
what do you think?
And he's got a beard and he's got
an imammer.
He's walking on water. What do you think?
This guy must be a willy. Right?
He must be a saint.
He must be a righteous individual.
How tomorrow the jaz is gonna come? You
know how people say all the time, akhid
don't judge him,
They're committing haram openly on akhid don't judge
him, leave him alone. You don't know what's
in his heart. Wallahi, I really fear when
the jal comes people are gonna say that.
Don't judge him. Even though he's got kaffir,
right? Don't judge him, makhi. You know what's
in his heart.
He's gonna walk on water. He's gonna bring
people to life.
Imam Shafa is saying, sorry, Laith ibn Sa'ad
is saying, if you see somebody walking on
water,
don't become deceived by him until
you check his actions as to whether it's
in line with the Quran and sunnah.
Imam al Shafi'a then commented and he said,
no wait, wait, wait, yeah, we have to
add something. Laith forgot something. What did he
forget?
Not only we see him walking a lot,
but also we see him flying in the
sky.
Don't become deceived by it.
Right? Umrahu alkitab,
up until you put,
his actions against the Quran, meaning is it
in line with it? Is it not, no
matter how much he says I love Allah
and I love His Messenger,
you might, but are you now someone that
we should just take whatever you're saying
Lao Allah.
And that's with anyone. The job of the
Sheikh, the job of the student of knowledge
is not to tell you oh I think
this or I want this or I feel
like this no. What did Allah say?
Right?
What did Allah say? What did the messenger
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam say? And then he
might even quote to you the statements and
the views of the great scholars like Imam
Uhanifa, Imam Ahmed, Imam Shaff, Imam Malik how
they understood it because their understanding is better
than yours.
Does that make sense my brothers and my
sisters And then he quotes another verse. Have
we gone over 10 minutes?
It's not been half an hour. What are
you exaggerating for?
Guys, bear with me. Bear with me. We
really need it on.
The second verse that he mentions is
to substantiate
this foundation here,
to show you who the real scholars are
and the oliya of Allah azza wajal, the
saints, the beloved servants.
When Allah says, you yaladeenamun, oh you believe,
manyartaddaminkum
mandeen,
O you who believe,
right, Allah says whoever now leaves the religion,
apostates,
Allah will bring people that he loves and
they love him.
Fillahilomatalayim.
4 traits are mentioned here, 4 traits
Of these Aliyah,
what was the first trait? Adhilatinaalal
mumineen, they are gentle towards the believers.
They treat them with kindness.
Aizatin al kafir in the second trait that
is mentioned in this verse
is that they are what's turned towards the
disbelievers.
Channel 4.
What does this mean, my brothers and my
sisters?
I
I have my views. You have your views.
Right?
I am not going to compromise my religion.
I'm going to hold on to my values
and my morals you're not going to push
me around
I'm going to be firm.
Does that make sense?
Turn towards the disbelievers,
right,
and gentle towards
the believers.
If you are now flipping it my brothers
and my sisters, you have tamir,
you watered down your religion with the non
Muslims,
Right? And you're showing them so much love,
but then the Muslims, you're treating them harshly
and sign really wrong here.
Those are times, subhanAllah, many many years ago
a tweet went viral.
Right?
There was this very well known guy who
started praising David Cameron.
He is very well known to be very
harsh towards the Muslims. He would always call
them innovator.
He would say that they're misguided, and they're
this and they're that.
But then because David Cameron, he greeted the
Muslims on Eid, he came, we just wanna
thank him, you know, this and that.
And the tweet went viral.
Non hijabis were commenting saying, Akhi, you treat
the Muslims so badly, but then the non
Muslims, you're like that.
Right. Mushkilahadi.
Of course, I have to be nice to
the non Muslims in order to bring them
closer to the deen.
Does that make sense?
If you're walking around with a day, look,
who's gonna accept anything from you? And that's
with anyone and anything.
You have to be nice, you have to
be kind.
Right?
That two characteristics.
The third characteristic,
They fight
or they do jihad in the path of
Allah, azza wa jal. Again, I have to
pass the disclaimer.
So unfortunately, we have to do
this. I am an unapologetic Muslim. Is jihad
from our religion without a shadow of a
dawah? However, there are rules and regulations,
and I'm not recruiting anyone to go abroad.
Does that make sense? But it's part of
our religion. It's mentioned in the Quran.
Allah Azawajal instructed it and the Prophet
did it
with rules and regulations.
Does that make sense?
Number 4,
and they don't fear the blame and the
blame us.
They are not people that just water down
the deen of Allah Azza wa Jal, so
they can be in the good books of
the monarchy
or, you know, the prime minister, they can
keep a wonderful relationship so he changes the
religion.
La. They say that which is right.
They stand up for normative Islam.
Does that make sense? Four traits that were
mentioned.
And then there's a 3rd verse here, my
brothers and my sisters,
to conclude this part
where Allah Azzawajal mentioned some of the traits
of the awliyah and who they really are.
Indeed the awliya of Allah says you don't
need to be fearful for them, you don't
need to be sad for them, aladheenaamanuwakarwiatakhun.
Those who come with iman,
and they also come with a taqwa, with
taqwa, my brothers and my sisters, is as
Ibn Raja mentioned,
it is to place a shield between yourself
and that which you fear. What do we
fear? The anger of Allah. What is the
shield? To do what Allah told you to
do and to stay away from what Allah
told you stay away from. Someone who abides
by the law of Allah azzawajal who does
he's not someone who just says and then
his actions completely go against what he preaches
my brothers and my sisters.
And then he goes on to say,
this then changed with most of the people
who claim to have knowledge, claiming that they
are the ones
who guide the creation and are the protectors
of the sharia.
That they consider the awliya to be those
who abandon following the sunnah, and whomsoever follows
it is not from the uliyah. This is
ghalat.
The thing that whoever doesn't follow the sunnah,
then he is good, harimosiba.
One has to abandon jihad,
and whoever fights a jihad, then he's not
from the ulia.
Also, one has to abandon iman and a
taqwa, and whomsoever
maintains them is not from the awliya
all of these are wrong my brothers and
my sisters, oh our Lord we ask You
for safety and pardoning
Indeed, you are the one who hears and
responds to the supplications.
And last but not least, my brothers and
my sisters,
last but not least,
Allah so sad is the 6th foundation that
is mentioned. We're okay, Shekha.
I am sorry. I went over the time.
I think you need to
to midnight.
Last one brothers and sisters.
You've been very, very patient. May Allah bless
every single one of you guys. I thought
after the first segment everyone would leave.
Laila Aleem, I thought maybe we would get
maybe 40, 50 brothers remain.
You guys have remained patient. Even the youngest
of them, the brother who's sitting on the
chair. How old are you?
13. Anyone younger than 13? Mashallah. How old
are you?
Adiga?
10. Masha'Allah. He's 10 years old and he's
holding it and he's reading it.
How old are you?
12. You're in between?
He's a 10.
18. Oh, we got an 8 year old?
Allahu Akbar.
Anyone younger?
7. Masha'Allah. We've got parents here today, and
we have as young as 7, 8. 7.
I used to teach you. Right?
They
always come with their mom, these 2 young
kids.
May Allah bless them.
What was their name again?
My
father.
Amman Antaha. Right?
Yes. Assalamualaik.
Number 6, my brothers and my sisters,
Debunking and rebuking this doubt
that the shaitan has placed
so that the people abandon the Qur'an and
the sunnah.
And instead,
the people would follow
many differing opinions and desires.
My brothers, I must say, what is our
constitution?
The Quran and the Sunnah, what else?
Upon whose understanding? My understanding?
My dad's understanding?
My sheikh's understanding? No.
The 3 golden generations, who are they? Sahaba,
Tabi'in, White Barret Tabi'in.
It's their understanding that we need,
not the Butima's understanding,
oh, no, my Sheikh or your Sheikh or
my dad or your dadla.
It is their understanding. As I mentioned time
and time again, the Sheikh, the Ustad, the
Talib, he is just there to connect you
to what Allah said, and what the Messenger
said
upon the understanding of the 3 golden generations.
That's his job,
and this is the objective
of Muslims
with regards to understanding the Deen.
And the essence of this doubt is that
the Quran and sunnah can only be known
by
an absolute mushahid.
So this doubt that is thrown around, my
brothers and my sisters, you may hear someone
say,
forget about the Quran and the Sunnah for
a moment. Yes, of course, we believe in
it, but
you won't understand it.
And the only one that can understand the
Quran and the Sunnah is what? Someone who
has reached a very high
status with regards to beneficial knowledge, al Mujtahid.
Right?
Someone who has reached a rutbah of istihad.
Does that make sense to my brothers and
my sisters?
What does Istihad
mean?
I believe.
Someone who goes out his way and, you
know,
exhausts his efforts,
uses the tools that he has in order
to extrapolate the right answer out of a
situation that has emerged.
Right?
And then Mujsaida is the one who has
certain qualities and characteristics. You will hear people
saying that someone with this characteristic and that
characteristic, so much so that
these kind of characteristics wouldn't even be mentioned
about Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala and Amun Khattab
radiAllahu ta'ala.
Right?
So this is what the Sheikh is trying
to say.
And if someone doesn't have all of these
big traits, right, then he should turn away
from the Quran and the sunnah.
La shakkawalayshkalafi
fardan
And whoever now goes out to
understand the Quran and the Sunnah, he's looked
at a heretic.
He's looked at as a heretic or someone
that has lost the plot.
My brothers and my sisters, wallahi, if this
door is opened of
putting the Quran and the Sunnah to the
side,
we are already seeing it. Look at liberalism,
which is a tawut.
Look at liberalism,
right,
and how the liberals they conduct themselves.
You come to aspects of the religion, Akhi,
this is not how it should be understood,
this is how it should be.
However they want, they bring out interpretations simply
because
the Quran and the Sunnah, my brothers and
my sisters, is too difficult to understand.
Our religion becomes a joke.
Right? Our religion becomes a joke. If we
say, put that to the side, and let's
just follow what people have to say.
Akhima's will become a liberal, completely what?
Rub out aspects of the deen and follow
whatever you want.
No. But we have a constitution that governs
us, and that is this Quran and the
sunnah of the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
However, we need to be balanced, my brothers
and my sisters.
Right. Does that mean we completely disregard
the views
and the opinions of the great Ummah,
like Al Imam al Shafi, your Imam Abu
Hanifa, your Imam Malik, and also Imam Ahmed
Abid, and
these great scholars, they went out their way
to understand the Quran and the sunnah, and
they made fiqh so easy for us.
Sometimes you hear somebody saying, Aki, I don't
want to follow the madahib. I'm gonna follow
the Quran and the sunnah. Masha Allah Alik.
My response is, were they following the Torah
and the Injeel,
the gospel and the bible, for someone to
say, Oh, I'm going to go and follow
the Quran and the sunnah as if they
weren't following the Quran and the sunnah.
Does that make sense? God be balanced here.
We don't disregard our ulama,
right, who extrapolated the rulings from the book
of Allah and his messenger salaars with the
tools that he had and when the intelligence
that Allah blessed them with,
which made life so much more easier for
us.
Right?
These texts that we study of the madahib,
it say, wasil is a means to reach
a very high level when it comes to
fiqh.
And in the conclusion, my brothers and my
sisters,
the sheikh goes on to say,
may Allah be glorified
and by His praise.
How much has Allah A. Zulayl clarified,
This is both in the Sharia and in
the universal law.
Khalafin wa'imra.
Right.
This both in the sharia and the universal
law and due to the law of the
creation as well as his command.
Alright.
How widespread has this doubt become, he says.
This cursed doubt that we should be disconnected
from our constitution,
which is our book, our Quran, and likewise
the sunnah of the messian sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam in so many different ways that we
hear.
Right?
And then he says, quoting Allah Azza wa
Jal,
the word has come into effect upon most
of them, so they do not believe indeed
we have put shackles on their necks
and they are to their chins, so they
are with heads that are kept aloft and
we have put before them a barrier and
behind them a barrier and cover them so
they do not see. This is after Allah,
azzu jayuh, sealed their hearts my brothers and
my sisters. These clear aspects of the Deen
they struggle to understand.
Why my brothers and my sisters in the
beginning we talked about intellectuals,
we talked about individuals who are brainiacs,
These things that we talked about, my brothers
and my sisters, were they difficult to understand?
Were they difficult to understand? I'm asking you
guys.
They were very very clear and evident and
manifest and transparent
that even the Ahmed Tunas if you explain
to them, I haven't
gone out my way, my brothers and my
sisters, to break down what was already mentioned
here. It was very, very simple and clear.
Anyone can understand it, but you have the
brainiacs, the intellectuals
that struggle to understand
basic aspects of our deen.
Just look at the new Scottish prime minister,
brothers and sisters, who's coming out with some
of these statements even though it's so clear
in the Quran. If you didn't if you
wanted an example, just look no further.
Something that is so clear is coming out
saying there's not a sin.
Say the same, my brothers and women, with
other clear aspects of our religion. That's why
I went through these 10 points at the
beginning
that causes an individual
to be led astray.
Right? Our deen is very, very clear.
As the messenger of Allah, alaihi wa sallam,
said,
Oh taraktukalbayza.
Right? It's been left for you so clearly,
the deen of Allah azza wa jal, layluha
kanahariyaalayazirwanhai
lahalik.
Right?
Our religion, my brothers and my sisters, is
beautiful. We just need to take it a
lot more seriously, and you will find, my
brothers and my sisters, that a lot of
these troubles and these trials and these tribulations,
the fitna of doubts and the fitna of
shahawat
will be able to navigate and maneuver around
it.
And last but not least, my brothers and
my sisters, and I always conclude my lessons
with this.
I just wanna take a moment now to
thank my teachers who taught me.
Right. It's only right
that I credit whatever I mentioned today
to my teachers
who fed me this knowledge.
And I'm just, as I mentioned, someone who
quotes.
I'm not here to tell you what I
think.
Right.
The likes of a Sheikh Talha Sendi habodhula,
Right? Also my Sheikh Sheikh Abdul Hamid from
Yemen
who taught me a lot of that which
I have mentioned today and some of the
other shura that I benefited from,
Shagib Nur Athaymeen, Shasali Fozan,
which
I gave whatever I could my brothers and
my sisters. Right?
There is a line of poetry
where the poet says,
If anyone benefits you with a benefit, it
could be your classmate, it could be someone
who's less than you, or someone who's got
more than you, always be thankful.
Right? Say so and so credit it back.
He benefited me with this.
Right? May Allah reward him with good and
get rid of your arrogance and your ego
of having to attribute this now to someone
who may have less than you.
Right?
Also, Imam Seidr Rahman Tullahi a'lay, right at
the beginning of his Qawadifqi, he says,
and ask Allah Azzur to protect us from
those that are mentioned in this line of
poetry.
When he said,
Right?
Every day I teach him how to shoot.
Right? Archery, he teaches him.
And the moment his forearm became strong, the
first person that he shot at was his
teacher.
And then he says, every day I teach
him how to put lines of poetry together.
And then as soon as he was able
to put one line of poetry together,
the first person that he dissed was his
teacher.
You know how you have diss tracks today?
Back in the day, they had dissed poetry
where they would put lines of poetry, and
they would start dissing one another.
Right?
May Allah, Azarajah, protect us from that. Right?
My My brothers and my sisters, I love
you all for the sake of Allah.
I really, really hope whatever we mentioned today
was beneficial,
and inshallah ta'ala it was something that we
can fall our back onto.
Right?
Honestly, it means a lot to see the
Masjid packed all the way to the end.
Right?
The Muslims in South Hall, they proved me
wrong
for my bad assumptions.
May Allah bless you all. Right? I honestly
thought, like I said, after the first, everyone
would leave. Anza Adi,
Gen z.
Right?
Millennials,
they struggle to concentrate for long periods, but
you guys remain patient.
There might be things that you missed out
on that I mentioned.
Insha'Allah, the recording is available.
We're going to get it uploaded onto the
channel as well, be it Allahuhi Ta'ala.
Right?
Also, what I wanted to ask you guys
to watch is, because I didn't really get
time
to mention this, 10 qualities of the awliya,
or ten qualities of how to become beloved
to Allah is on my YouTube channel.
Right. If you want to become very close
and beloved to Allah,
ten points that Ibn Al Qayy mentioned that
bidnillah
will bring you very close to Allah.
Right? May Allah bless you with excellence
and keep you all steadfast.
Ask Allah if he doesn't reunite us in
this dunya,
to reunite us in the highest part of
Jannah.
And, again, before he switches off the mic,
Sheikh Abdul Fataqthunder.
I just wanna
thank him for always organizing these programs.
May Allah Azza wa j bless him with
good.
Right? And InshaAllah ta'ala next time,
we'll go through these 10 contemporary nawakid.
10 contemporary,
right, nullifiers
that are contemporary that we see happening today
that we might take very lightly
that I try to put together.
Right?
That, biinnillahi ta'ala, I would love to enlighten
every single one of you guys with biinnillahi
albari. May Allah bless you all.
I don't wanna mention their name because they
might get canceled.
But they came and they benefited.
They should have been given the classes, knowledgeable
brothers. One of them was actually my classmate
in the Madina,
and he was sitting here. So humbly, may
Allah bless him.
Right? And the rest of you guys,