Abu Taymiyyah – 6 Points in Dealing With The New Trend of Belitting Aqeedah
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My dear respected brothers and my sisters, InshaAllah
in this show sitting,
I want to speak about
the heart that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has
blessed us with,
and the effects of the Aqeedah
on
a Muslim's heart.
Because my brothers and my sisters, it is
the heart
that could either make or break
our prospects of entering into Al Jannah.
And that's what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala closely
looks at.
The Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he told us in the hadith of Beurya
RadiAllahu Ta'ala Anhu that was narrated by my
Muslim,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala doesn't look at your
appearances and the way you look.
You can be black, you can be white,
you can be red, you can be yellow
but that's not what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is concerned with.
But Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala he looks at
your actions
and he looks at your hearts
and the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi wa'alehi was telling
me he told us another hadith.
There's a piece of flesh,
in between one's ribs,
if that becomes rectified everything else becomes rectified.
And if that becomes corrupt, everything else will
become corrupt as well.
And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala told us,
The day when your money and likewise your
children are not going to be any benefit
to you,
except the one who comes to Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala with a sound heart.
So my brothers and my sisters,
I want to mention Insha Allahu Ta'ala 6
very quick points.
The effect that the Aqeedah,
the belief system has on the heart and
the effects of it.
First point I wanna mention InshaAllah Wa Ta'la,
that based on the aqeedah,
the belief
that a person gives a lot of concern
and time to in learning about the names
and attributes of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
It is from the greatest
of reasons as to why an individual,
he is going to come and love Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
This is why
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
Whoever comes and knows about Allah Subhanahu wa
ta'ala learns about him
in his names, his attributes and also his
actions,
this person he must love Allah azza wa
Jal.
And we know the famous hadith of the
messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
when there was this companion
who traveled with some of the other companions
and he used to lead the salah.
And every time he finished reciting and leading
the salah,
he would conclude his qira'ah
with Surat Al Ikhlas.
So after that they came to the Messenger
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
and they told him that
he reads Surah Al Ikhlas
in every single rakah.
The messenger Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam he told them
Ask him what is the reason as to
why he does this?
So when he was asked he said
because this is
the attribute
of the most merciful one, Ar Rahman, Allah
So the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam then said,
Tell him that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
loves him.
So Ibn Al Daym Rahim Allah Wa Ta'ala
in his Kitab
and Fawad he says
And whoever now loves
the attributes of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala then
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is going to love
him.
First he said a person studying learning about
the attributes of Allah azza wa Jal is
going to cause him to love Allah azza
wa Jal
and when a person he gives that concern
about learning about Allah azza wa Jal Allah
ahsawajal is going to love him.
My brothers and my sisters, if we stand
over this point for a moment,
if we now bring a couple of examples
about some of the names and attributes of
Allah ahsaihu,
It is Allah
ahsaihu right?
Who excessively gives to his creation and provides
for them.
If one really actualized, learned taghigh and learned
about
this attribute of Allah azza wa Jal,
do you think many of us are going
to be scared and frightened about our rizq?
A lot of the time you find that
it's a shaitan who scares the life out
of the insane, right?
The Shaytan,
he scares you with poverty
and he commands you to do filth and
evil.
And sometimes because of that fear,
we tend to fall in that way which
is Haram with regards to our rizq.
Whether it is benefit fraud,
whether it is the fraud that some of
our youngsters are doing today,
believing that maybe this is the best way
that they can attain money.
When in fact Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala teaches
us the opposite when a person comes with
Tapuah,
how Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
He provides for him where he doesn't expect
that sometimes when you're not expecting anything
something comes through the back door
and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is there looking
after you.
When we come to know about
who the Mudibir, the one who controls
all affairs.
One my brothers and my sisters is going
to put his tawakul,
his trust in Allah Azawajal, he's going to
take the asbaab
and then when he sees that Allah is
controlling all his affairs whether it might be
with regards to marriage, whether it might be
with regards to what business,
Allah ahsawajal
is
putting all his affairs together.
And then sometimes my brothers and my sisters,
it takes one time
for you to see what Allah
has done in the most mysterious of ways
for the Iman Istaqir of Yaqalbik.
For it now to settle in your heart
which will then
lead you to not ever disobeying Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala in some of these things that
the Shaitaan
scares the people with.
Hasan Al Basir Rahim Allah Wa Ta'ala said,
I read in 90 places
that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala he has decreed
the provision.
And I read in one place that the
Shaitan scares the people with the risk.
We ended up believing the statement of the
lie of the Shaitan in that one place
and we ended up disbelieving maybe in the
statement of the Sadiq right Allah azza wa
Jal in all of these places.
2nd point that I want to mention my
brothers and my sisters
that the corruption
did not appear on the face of this
earth.
The people of Fassad, the people of innovation
caused
except after it started with the heart.
Barely will you ever find
corruption taking place
on a person's limbs except that initially started
with the heart.
That atheist my brother and my sister,
the young boy who was a Muslim
who then turned into an atheist.
My brothers and my sisters, was this
due to any other reason except that
he ended up having doubts that hit his
heart. He started up with the heart right
and then later on he started uttering these
statements of kufr
and this doubt that he had about Allah
azza wa Jal,
this unsurety
started with the heart
that shows you my brothers and my sisters
the importance of aqeedah.
One learning that
which he must believe about Allah azza wa
Jal
that which teaches him about Allah azza wa
Jal and his names and attributes.
That individual my brothers and my sisters
who went and joined ISIS and blew himself
up.
Do you think this just happened overnight?
It initially started with the heart.
He began to believe that suicide bombing
is something that is permissible, something that is
halal
and then his belief started changing and the
corruption started appearing on his limbs.
We've had many many times individuals who went
to the Haram
couple of years ago, this happened what in
Al Medina, right?
Explosions took place.
Start with the belief.
For a person now to go and attack
the people in Haram,
This initially started with him believing
and this is something that we find today
as well. People who believe
that Makkah and Madinah it requires for it
to be conquered in Jideel.
That this is actually what that will help.
Likewise my brothers and my sisters, when you
look at the Muslim world today,
how it's been corrupted,
how it's been destroyed.
Years ago, when the people, they came out
on the streets
and they started revolving
revolting against
maybe the oppressive,
the tyrannic ruler.
This is how the people they felt at
a time
and all of them explosions and all of
these violent acts that took place initially start
with the belief that a person believe that
this is correct for me to do.
And because of that, the actions followed up.
So my brothers and my sisters learning the
is what is going to protect one from
becoming an atheist,
is going to protect one from blowing himself
up
because if we don't give dawah to our
kids, to the people around us, wallahi, there's
a lot of people that are gonna give
dawah to them.
The schools are giving dawah to our children
whether we know it or not.
Teaching them in and I witnessed it with
my own eyes.
They might not necessarily make it apparent
but slowly slowly
and subtly,
it is squeezed in into the studies that
they have.
Also my brothers and my sisters,
without the correct without the
correcting of the akhida,
it could be that an individual he's wasting
his time
in the many great actions that he strives
in.
He swore by Allah by the one who
my soul is in his hand.
If any of you guys was to spend
in Uhud
Imagine my brothers and my sisters Uhud that
takes a couple of hours to climb, right?
Some of you guys may have climbed when
you went and
visited the Kaaba, when you went for Umrah,
takes a couple of hours.
Imagine one had that in gold
and then he gave it in charity.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will not accept it
from him
until he believes in the Qadr
and my brothers and my sisters the issue
of Qadr is one aspect from the many
aspects of what
the issues of Aqeedah.
One can have a lot of qiyam
be spending his nights praying to Allah
he can be somebody with a Sawam
spending his days fasting in the path of
Allah
but he might come on Yom Al Tayama
and he gets absolutely zooth, nothing.
Why? Because there was a problem with his
akhida
and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tells this as
well,
And if they commit a shirk,
all of the action will become null, it
will become void
and it will have absolutely nothing.
A witness of my own eyes and this
is my brothers and my sisters a very
sad reality to deal with.
When you see your Muslim brothers and sisters
going past the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi wa sallam's
grave,
putting their hands up,
asking the messenger Sallallahu Alaihi wa sallam, O
Messenger protect me from the fire.
I'll ask in the messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
You Rasool Allah ask Allah Azawajal to remove
the difficulty that I have.
We wouldn't do that with the salah. Right?
We wouldn't give that salah to anybody else
and likewise we shouldn't be doing that with
the dua. Just as the salah is Ibadah,
the dua is Ibadah is all. As the
mrsula told us,
that Dua is a Ibadah
and then the missus Allah has recited
your Lord has said call on to me
so I can respond back to you.
Every Hajj my brothers and my sisters when
we're in the tents and I speak about
the issue of a tawheed,
somebody says to me, brother
why did you keep speaking about tawheed?
Do you see the people worshiping assalam?
Do you see the people worshiping statues?
My brothers and my sisters,
worshiping statues isn't the only form of shirk.
I witness in my own eyes
the most sacred place on the face of
this earth is Makarai is the Kaaba.
Some individuals going round saying You Ali and
Jinaminina.
Oh Ali save us from the
fire. This is the most sacred place on
the face of this earth.
Then one Egyptian guy from far he shouted
say you Allah and they shouted even louder.
Oh, alayhi say it was on fire.
Even if the issue of tawheed was the
only thing somebody ever discussed, there wouldn't be
no ab in it.
The best thing that I and the promise
before me ever said was La ilaha illa
ir Allah. I'll give you guys an example.
A lot of us today, I'm sure we've
heard this before.
Some of our friends in school when we
was young,
swear on your mom's life.
If I was to ask the overwhelming majority
people here, and I've done it in other
lectures, so most people they put their hands
up.
When somebody says to you, Akhir, did you
do this? I swear on my mom's life
I've done it.
My brothers and my sisters saying this statement,
I swear on my mom's life.
The little kids today are saying this, and
they don't understand the danger of it. Do
you know my brothers and my sisters
saying I swear on my mom's life
is worse than doing zina with your mom.
Because we have the sins are of different
levels.
You have Kufr,
then you have what?
The major shirk, you have Kufr the major
shirk which is what? 1 Tabaka, then you
have the minor shirk and then you have
the major sins.
1 committing Zina with his parents, one stealing,
doing murder, all of these are from the
major sins.
Messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam, he told us
in a hadith
whoever swears by other than Allah
he has fallen into shirk and most people
they don't mean it
and this is why it falls under the
what? It falls under me minor shirk
which is above the major sins.
Can you see my Prophet Muhammad says, how
serious this is?
And because a lot of these youngsters, they're
very very uneducated, they don't even realize, He
doesn't
But when you explain to him, his face
changes.
Doesn't realize the seriousness of what he's saying.
So why when you look
at Kitabat
It gives a lot of concern
to what one may say
and how serious it could be.
And also my brothers and my sisters, the
last point inshallahawtalah that I'm going to mention,
Not having the correct aqeedah
as we're all aware could be the reason
why we enter into the hellfire.
We know the famous Hadith, when the messenger
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he said,
The Jews they split into 71 *.
And the Christians they split into 72 *.
And this Ummah is going to split up
into 73 *.
All of them are in the fire except
1.
When the messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
was asked who is this Firqah, who is
this group? He said
that which I am upon today and also
my companions.
Whoever thinks that he's going to follow the
Quran and the Sunnah
and pay attention to this point my brothers,
this is very very powerful.
He says whoever thinks he's going to follow
the Quran and the Sunnah
without the guidance of the companions,
then this individual is from the people of
innovation and the people of misguidance
and he's on his way to the fire.
Because whatever we do with regards to our
religion, we always have to ask ourselves.
Did the messenger sala alaihi washan do this?
Did the companions understanding in this way
for whatever action that sometimes is brought up
and there's controversies always throughout the year
when different incidents take place and people are
debating. Is this sunnah? Is this not sunnah?
Look what Ibn Umar radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu said
when he was said to him, shall we
fast when we are in Arafah, the day
of Arafah.
We know for a non hajji,
it is sunnah for him to fast
but a person who is in the state
of hajj and he is in Arafah,
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam prohibited it.
He said Hajj
I done Hajj with the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam and he didn't fast.
And Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala and I done
Hajj with him and he didn't
I also done Hajj with Uthman and I
also done Hajj with Ummah and both of
them didn't fast
and I'm not going to fast as well.
This is a minhaj my brothers and my
sister, Ibra Umar radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu is teaching
us
and this is exactly how his father was
as well, when he was about to kiss
kiss the black stone what did he say?
Had I not seen the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam kissed you I wouldn't have kissed
you.
Meaning, if the Prophet sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam,
I'm going to do it. He never done
it, I'm not going to do it.
And my brothers and my sisters, Wallahi, you
go around the Kaaba,
the amount of things that you see
is gobsmacking.
This is why in India, I always tell
the Hijaz every single year.
Whatever you see the asl is that you
don't do until proven otherwise.
That's how bad it has gotten there.
Some Some of you guys may have seen
some of the videos that we done,
some of the common mistakes. People going to
the Maqam Ibrahim
kissing it, getting a piece of cloth, wiping
it,
taking it home thinking that as long as
I have this piece of cloth
I am blessed and no harm is going
to reach me. And that's a serious thing,
because the shirk Azhari could lead to what?
Shirk Akbar.
So my brothers and my sisters,
rectifying our our beliefs is something
that Allah could make or break
us entering into Aljannah.
So it requires a lot of Iatinah,
more than the issue of the other Ibadat.