Abu Taymiyyah – April Fools Day Ramadan Revival & The Regulations of Joking
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My dear respected brothers and sisters,
so is a pleasure to be invited
to this wonderful Masjid, Masjid Al Furqan.
A Masjid
really goes out their way to benefit the
masses, the community, and the youngsters.
And I've seen, Mashallah, the transitions,
that the message has gone through,
in
how they
have put together so many different
effective programs for the youngsters especially.
So ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to reward
the administration of this Masjid
and to keep them insha Allahu Ta'ala steadfast
and ask Allah Azzawal to allow them to
continue
being a benefit for the community.
As you brothers and sisters are aware, today
our topic is about
April fools
and the month of Ramadan, and some of
you are probably thinking
how does the April fools day
connect with the month of Ramadan,
and this is what we're here to discuss
inshallah,
Because
of of course, I could have picked any
of
the very well known generic topics that I
think most people have already heard about,
But there is
a different aspect that I would like to
tackle related to the month of Ramadan.
Normally when we think Ramadan, my beloved brothers
and sisters,
the first thing that pops to mind is
staying away from
food
and
drink, right?
If you look at the tariff, the definition
of a som,
it means to withhold from something,
And
the technical meaning is
It is a specific type of one withholding
from something,
which
that individual now withholds from at a specific
time,
and it's done with a specific intention from
a specific person,
and this is what normally tends to pop
to mind. However,
my beloved brothers and sisters, we are walking
into the month of Ramadan,
and I ask Allah Azzawajal to allow us
to reach the month of Ramadan.
Is that the only thing that we need
to abstain from,
that we need to leave off
when we are fasting?
There is 2 types of things that one
needs to stay away from.
The first type is
that which is going to nullify your fast,
Food, drink, sexual *,
and all of the other invalidators
of fasting.
And then there is a spiritual side to
it.
Another aspect
that one needs to refrain and abstain from,
And that is my brothers and my sisters,
that which
is going to
either diminish
what you attain
from the month of Ramadan in reward
or cause it to disappear altogether.
Imagine my brothers and my sisters, right?
We're in year 2,022
Sahih,
Ramadan
you turn upon your
and
all of this hard work
has gone to waste
All of the aqiyam,
all of the asiam,
all of the Quran that you read, all
of that charity that you paid has become
what? Habaa and menthura,
scattered particles.
And that is because maybe due to something
that you uttered with your tongue or you
done with your limbs.
And this is the second time that one
needs to refrain from.
Jabri bin Abdullah
said,
he said when you fast
then make sure
that your hearing is fasting as well
and also your eyes are fasting
and your tongue is fasting
Fasting from what? Withholding and abstaining from what?
Lying and all types of sins.
How many of us, my beloved brothers, says,
let's be honest with ourselves.
Let's sit
amongst ourselves and really ponder and reflect. When
the month of Ramadan kicks in,
how many of us
really
depart from the month of Ramadan having
bettered ourselves spiritually?
Or is it just about, Alhamdulillah, I stayed
away from food and drink, I managed to
get through the
heat of the summer while fasting.
He breaks it at Maghrib time and another
day starts.
And he may have been watching Netflix from
the moment he woke up all the way
up until
he broke his fast,
or he was sitting in front of the
computer playing.
PS whatever, I don't know what number it's
on at the moment.
PS 5, I think,
is there 6 now? 5.
PS 5.
All just sitting around engaging
in that which displeases Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Or on your phone all day long,
social media,
one post to the next,
scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling.
Picture of the opposite gender appears and you
look at it more than you should be
in the month of Ramadan,
and one thing leads to another, you keep
staring at her
or she keeps staring at him,
and before you know it, he slips into
her DM,
And then
the unexpected takes place, right? They get together
in the month of Ramadan,
we're having to deal with scenarios and cases,
countless times I've been contacted especially on Instagram,
A brother or a sister
saying I committed zina in the month of
Ramadan, what do you advise me? What should
I do?
Babe,
when you investigate a little bit of how
this came about, we started with
social media.
The messenger
of
the eyes to look,
and the Zina of the tongue is what?
To have inappropriate
conversations with the opposite gender
or what they call the chirps.
So you guys call it. Right?
Or has that word been updated? I think
there's a very old fashioned word that
we used to hear back in Leicester.
I put it in a more formal way,
having inappropriate conversations with the opposite gender. I
think think everybody understands what I'm referring to.
Whether it is on social media or whether
that is in real life,
And what I mean by real life is
in person.
All of this, my beloved brothers and sisters,
is really just
destroying our Ramadan.
How many opportunities do we need?
As yesterday, I was telling some of our
brothers
in Masjid Al Farqhan, in Lesta.
Our relatives
who may have shared
a plate with us
last Ramadan, or the Ramadan before us, they
are not going to be here with us
today.
How many fatalities
have we experienced in our communities,
in our families,
immediate relatives, extended relatives,
and the numbers just keep on growing.
This corona, this pandemic,
how many people has it put into the
grave?
Just in the last year and a half,
my beloved brothers and sisters,
I've lost
3 young relatives.
3 young relatives.
One of them was my younger brother, as
many of you guys are aware,
stabbed in the neck,
died at the tender age of 24.
6, 7 months after that, another relative of
mine, cousin in Birmingham,
died in a car crash,
23 years of age.
I buried both of them,
and I gave an Islamic reminder at both
of their graves.
And in the third,
I received the news while I was doing
umrah,
and I went back to continue my studies
in Saudi,
At the age of 18,
stabbed in the chest, brought daylight on one
of the most busiest roads
in Birmingham,
Coventry Road.
Heart of Birmingham, right, Small Heath, or all
the Masajidah, where all the restaurants are.
3, a very short space of time.
Most of the brothers here around that age,
I see a lot of 18, 19, 20,
21 year olds, 22 year olds,
all the way up until 25, the majority
of brothers here are of that age category.
They are not going to be with us
this Ramadan.
Brothers who are sitting here, we might not
see you the next Ramadan.
Does anyone have a guarantee that he's going
to live up to the age of 60
70?
Sometimes we become deluded, right?
Thinking that
age only goes,
that death only goes after those who are
older in age.
Take this as a khaid, as a principle.
Death
does not discriminate.
Due to age,
doesn't discriminate.
When your time is up,
the time is up,
and then
he will just live with regret.
In your grave regretting, I wish I had
done more, and then you're brought in yomulqiyam,
so that I can do some more righteous
acts.
Even Allah tells,
Remind them
about the day of regret. That's one of
the names of the hereafter.
Brothers,
take opportunity,
take this opportunity, you have take advantage of
it.
Don't let another Ramadan just go by and
you've wasted it.
So going back to the point I was
trying to make,
Ramadan is more than just
staying away from food and drink.
Jabir ibn Abdillah radhiallahu ta'ala anhu, as I
mentioned, and this statement should be written in
golden ink,
everyone should go maybe buy a small little
board and stick it on his wall
because this is what let's be honest with
ourselves, what we struggle most with, not necessarily
food and drink, everyone stays away from food
and drink.
It's more what we do with our eyes,
what we do with our tongues,
what we do with our ears.
Hanim, how many of us still struggle to
stay away from music
in the month of Ramadan?
Even though the scene has been set,
As the messenger said,
The
doors of Jannah are swung open.
The doors of hellfire are slammed shut,
and the Shayateen
are tied up and chained.
Someone may ask the question, I was discussing
this yesterday,
how is it that someone still
commits sins in the month of Ramadan
even though the shayateen have been locked up?
Even though the shayateen have been locked up.
Scholars, they mentioned many different meanings. One of
the best interpretations that I came across was
because we're so used to bad habits
outside of the month of Ramadan, we bring
it into the month of Ramadan. We're just
so used to it.
In the month of Ramadan we want to
introduce new habits into our lives, new wonderful
praiseworthy traits,
not to add to what
already we are carrying of baggage.
We're going to be crying our eyes out,
you Allah, forgive me,
and that's when our Mavuzuah of April 4th
day comes in.
This is one of the first times I
think that I've come back to the country
in the month of March. Normally, I always
come at the end of April,
because Ramadan always goes back, right?
And as I was looking at the calendar,
April,
SubhanAllah,
a topic that I've been wanting to discuss
for a very long time.
Because it's become more than of a pandemic
than the coronavirus.
Do you guys agree?
Jokes,
ridiculing, mocking the deen of Allah
has
just been so normalized, and we
have become so desensitized
to being spectators of it,
watching it and laughing.
So funny
on platforms such as TikTok, Instagram,
it's videos like that,
that
accumulate a lot of views. Do you guys
agree?
And subconsciously we don't even feed anything anymore,
it just creeps into me what something perfectly
normal,
and we forget
or should I maybe say we don't even
realize how bad it is.
And today I want to inshallah to'ala mention
6 conditions of joking.
But before I do that,
I want to speak a little bit about
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
our qudwa,
our example
indeed you have in the Messenger sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam a perfect example
In every aspect of our religion,
we find that the Sharia
is complete
in every
manner,
in every aspect, we have something about it.
Now the question that arises, what kind of
the what kind of individual was the messenger
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam?
Was he somebody who was despondent,
moody, grumpy,
or was he somebody who
was a very pleasant person to have around,
was jolly,
was bubbly,
which of the 2 was he?
And likewise again we find that in the
Sharia,
describing to us how the messenger sallallahu alaihi
wasallam was.
There was an incident at one time took
place between the messenger salallahu alaihi wasalam
and Aisha tar radhiallahu ta'ala Anha.
He came back from Al Baqiyyah
from a funeral prayer
and he walked into the home
and Aisha
she began to complain about the headache that
she was experiencing,
and she said, yeah,
oh, Wa Rasa.
She said, Wa Ra'asah.
It's a type of expression,
which shows that one is maybe experiencing a
headache.
Then
the messenger salalahu alayhi was saying,
rather even myself I'm experiencing a headache.
And then the messenger
started making
a joke with her, and he said,
Would there be a problem if you died
before me,
and then I washed you, and
then I shrouded you?
And
then I prayed your funeral prayer.
But the fintuk, and then after that I
bury you.
Aisha
as perhaps maybe every woman would do,
she turned around to him and she said,
rather what you would do, Allah,
would go back to my house,
you would go back to my home,
you would get together with your wife, and
you would start
enjoying
yourself
with them.
Of course, she was taken
by jealousy,
a iyra,
of what the Messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
would do
after she departs from this world,
you would go back home in my house,
and you would enjoy yourself with the rest
of your wives.
Just that
thought, ask any woman.
You think a lot of brothers are married
here, right?
You brothers, misekeen.
May Allah marry you all off, I mean,
but just even bring up this topic of
second wife. Look at the kind of reaction
you're going to get.
This is why some wives,
they make Dua, you Allah, let me die
the same time my husband passes away.
Because she doesn't even want to think about
who he will marry or what he will
do after,
she departs from this world.
This is not discussion about
women and
the point is the Messenger sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam
had a sense of humor even with his
wife.
Right?
There was even another occasion
when a woman, she was in fact pretty
old,
she came to the messenger salalahu alayhi was
a mis
Ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
to make me from those who enter into
Aljannah.
So he said to her,
and old women will not enter into Aljannah.
She looked at the messenger and saw lives
in shock,
and she began to cry, and in some
narrations
she
began to cry loudly
and she started walking away.
And then the messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam
sent a messenger to her
and explained
that when
the women are admitting to Aljannah
Allah Azzawajal as he mentions
Allah
will change the way they look,
and they will enter into Aljannah as young
virgin women.
That's how Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will change
their appearance.
But he just wanted to make, you know,
had a bit
of sense of humor, if you wanna call
it that.
With this old woman that came to the
Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Another incident,
Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So Anas ibn Malik radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu used
to work for him
and he began to call him and say,
you the udunan,
Everybody has ears, right? But the mensal alayhi
wasalam decided to call him
by saying, You daludunan, oh you has 2
ears come,
Playing around and joking with those who
are at his service.
Even one time the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam
found
his son-in-law and also he is his cousin,
right? Alib ibn Talib,
lying down
in the masjid,
and all the dust, the soil had
transferred onto his body,
and he told him wake up, wake up,
you abaturab,
o father of the dead,
o father of the soil,
or father of the sand.
Another incident, likewise,
the companion, Usayid ibn Khudayr,
he was known as the one who makes
the jokes amongst the companions.
Kanufimizah,
so play around.
In every circle you always find the guy
who
I don't wanna call him a joker because
that doesn't have
a positive connotation, but the guy who makes
everybody laugh and he's the bubbly one.
Put your hand up if you're that person.
There's always that one brother, masha'Allah, that really
puts a smile on everyone's face,
while everyone's moody, gloomy,
looking dejected,
he comes, makes a joke, and then he
makes everybody laugh.
Sometimes you need people like that around,
but it should just shouldn't be somebody who
does it excessively, but which we'll come on
to inshallah to Allah later on.
So Sayedem Hadeel was that kind of person,
and as he was playing around and joking
with his companions,
the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam took a 'ood,
small little stick like that,
and he began to poke him in his
Khasr, on this area of his body,
began to poke him,
and then Musaide turned around and said, You
Rasoolah, it's my turn.
It's my turn to do that.
Surah Messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam told him
to wait
because he sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam was wearing clothes and he
wanted to lift his clothing
so he can do the same thing.
You
know when you kill somebody,
there is what?
Right? Capital punishment.
An eye for an eye, an ear for
an ear,
so he was like, it's my turn now
to do
my payback.
So subhanAllah, after the messenger sallallahu alaihi waslam
uncovered
whatever he was wearing,
Usayd grabbed him, and he began to kiss
him
on that side of his body.
He said, That's all I wanted to do,
oh Messenger of Allah.
This my brothers and my sisters is a
lesson
in the kind of,
or the kind of person the messenger sallallahu
alaihi wasallam was.
Sometimes you want to study the Shamal, right?
How the messenger salallahu alaihi
wasalam
was like that.
Even Jabir ibn Abdullah radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu,
he said, You Rasoolaa Innaka tuda aibuna,
Indeed, O Messenger of Allah,
you play with us, you joke with us,
and then he said,
but rather I don't say anything other than
truth.
Even another example,
Anasim Malik had
a friend
who was called Abba Umayr,
and Abba Umayr
used to have a little bird
that he used to look after, and then
this bird passed away,
so whenever the Messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam
saw him will say, You Ba'umaire Ma fa'al
Nuhayr,
he will make you rhyme,
Oh Ba'umaire, what did Nuhayr do? It's the
name of his bed,
Khan Musa Allah would engage even with the
young ones.
It's not praiseworthy just because now you have
some sort of
high position in the community,
right,
that you start belittling the people around you,
or
you never engage with the youngsters,
or you just treat them.
Their presence is like they don't even exist,
not engaging with them,
right? Or maybe going as far as kicking
them out of the masajid if they're making
a little bit of noise.
You know the reality is brothers,
the same young man
that we beg to come back into the
Masjid
might be the same child that we kicked
out,
or that we made feel
insignificant.
Might be well that same one that we're
going to be begging later on come into
the Masjid.
So the way you treat the people,
especially if you have a position in the
Masjid,
could go a very very long way,
or like could be one
move
that ends up
leading them out of the Masjid and they
might not ever feel comfortable to walk into
the house of Allah Azza wa Jal.
House of Allah. This is not your house
or the house of your dad or your
grandparents.
It's the house of Allah Azza wa Jal.
As much as you have a right to
be in the house of Allah
they have the right as well. And there's
a way to go about
changing an evil.
A lot of brothers have previously come up
to me and they're saying we feel uncomfortable
walking to the Mezuz. As soon as we
walk in, everyone's just giving us daily looks.
He might be a brother who
is not maybe necessarily leading the best of
lives, but he wants to walk into the
Masjid and pray.
The Masjid is not just for practicing people,
It's for everyone.
Even the prostitute
has every right to walk into the Masjid
and to repent to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And she shouldn't be looked at, oh why
you not wearing hijab?
Let her come into the Masjid.
It's the house of Allah, remember that.
Next time you make somebody feel uncomfortable just
because his hair is a certain way,
remember this.
So a'la kullihal,
point that I'm making is,
Messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam
had a kind of persona with them with
him.
He was easily approachable,
he knew how to engage with them accordingly
just
like that Bedouin that urinated in the Masjid,
look how he treated him, I'm sure most
of us have come across that story before,
and in the bedroom he walks in and
starts urinating.
Imagine brothers,
this actually happened in the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam's message, you know that.
I witnessed
it. A man just picked up his throat
and started urinating.
You know what happened?
No one done anything.
I was like Allahu Akbar,
because the guidance of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam,
14 year, 100 years ago,
it's happening right here. Everyone just turned around,
I remember I looked at everyone.
They stopped looking at him. He finished. The
cleaners came, cleaned it. They just helped him
out of the Masjid.
SubhanAllah.
And remember, the difference between
the
time of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
today is that we have carpets.
Remember they came and start cleaning the carpets.
They took it. They changed it.
Khaldamas salallahu alayhi wasalam dealt with that Bedouin
who started urinating.
And how maybe the companions dealt with him.
They started hurling towards him.
And subhanAllah in the end, the the bedroom
was shocked, he goes, what do they want
from me? Why are they treating me like
that?
And he only ended up making du'a for
himself and the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
and don't have mercy on anyone other than
us 2, this is the kind of dua
that he made,
because of how the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
treated him.
All I really going through the Seerah of
the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
it really really softens up your heart.
Because as Muslims, who are we trying to
be like?
Messenger salam. Right?
We live as Muslims trying to be like
him, trying to immu immulate
emulate him.
We wanna imitate him. He's our Qudwa,
and we wanna be sitting side by side
with the messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam, and
you can only do that
if you study his Sunnah
and you take that seriously.
Your name is Muhammad, your name is Ibrahim,
you're not a roadman,
you are an ambassador of the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam walking on the face of this
earth.
So live that life of trying to be
like him
because today
the Kufa they don't read books.
Most of the time,
they look at the Muslims,
this is why the Kufar
said we want to tarnish al Islam, we
have to create
certain personalities that have specific types of beliefs,
so Islam can then look extreme.
This is why I've heard time and time
again,
Americans,
who work for the government saying that we
created Isis.
I'm saying this just the other day just
the other day and I sent it to
the students that I was teaching online.
One of the generals who is highly ranked
saying we created them.
Why are they creating this? Because they know
when people see
those who ascribe to al Islam
behaving a certain way,
they'll tarnish al Islam with that.
So you are a Muslim who's carrying a
Muslim name
an ambassador
of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
Be extra careful how you carry yourself.
When you walk past the Kufar,
the way you walk, the way you move,
the way you carry yourself, the way you
dress.
It's all good, right?
100 of people protesting
when
the messenger salalahu alaihi wasalam is drawn.
Did you see the uproar that happened?
And rightfully so, the messenger salalahu alaihi wasalam
is someone that we really really love.
It's very dear to our hearts.
However,
what happened a couple of weeks after that?
Mada Hassan.
Do you guys remember?
Everyone just went back to their lives,
and life went on as if nothing happened.
This guy's eating riba,
this guy's committing zina, he's gone back to
whatever he was doing before.
Mada Hassan al Nabi salalahu alaihi wasalam, this
is not something
new. Them doing protests and going crazy
and breaking things,
Why? Let's go back to the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam's sunnah.
Is this really new?
That the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was
mocked, he was ridiculed.
Mu'alamun Majnoon, they called him,
called him crazy,
they called him every name under the sun.
They're just following a man who has had
a magic spell done on him.
Called him everything.
Made
dua against him, they cursed him, and whatever
have you.
Rather my brothers and my sisters, the true
love is not me holding a banner saying
I love the Prophet. No. Following the messiah
salallahu alaihi wasallam.
Study the deen of Allah as the wuja
brothers
and sisters.
Take knowledge seriously,
mashAllah memorize the Quran
now study the sunnah of the messian sallallahu
alaihi wasallam
Insha Allahu Ta'ala, sure a lot of us
have heard of the hadith,
when the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
that Muslim Ummah is going to explain to
73, right?
72 in hellfire only 1 is going to
be saved and I ask Allah Azzawajal to
make us all
from those mentioned.
What did the messenger
say, man, a'ri liom as habi, that which
I am upon today and also my companions?
What I am upon today
that requires you to really study
what did a messenger
do, how did he live, how did he
carry himself,
As a rapper that comes out, he has
rainbow hair, today people are doing rainbow hair,
sir,
got the LGBT colors on his, on his
hair,
He's cutting his hair a certain way everyone
else goes and does it.
He wears a certain type of clothing, everyone
else goes and does it. I remember the
2,002 World Cup. I just remembered now. I
think I'll share it.
David Beckham. Do you guys remember him?
You youngsters are still young.
I don't think you remember
You
remember him. Right? Everyone remembers him.
He was like the image of England.
At the time, he would have this Mohican.
I see some of the elders nodding.
Don't want you guys too young.
Well, I remember I came out,
everyone started making hair like that,
and then in the final, I believe it
was 2,002,
there was Ronaldo
not this one here, the old one, has
become really big now
he shaved his whole hair and he only
kept this part,
Hazrat Sheikh, yeah, he done that,
I walk outside, everyone's doing it.
They love him, he scored a couple of
goals, I think he even run away with
the golden boot.
Everyone's imitating him.
Some kafir guy probably doesn't even clean himself
properly.
Hanau is Sidh.
When we enter into the lavatory, how do
they urinate?
Standing up and then he doesn't clean himself.
When you study
the chapter of his Dinja,
and I teach this, Bulohu Maram, from time
to time I remind the students of the
blessing of Al Islam,
and how hygienic it is.
Days might go by and the guy doesn't
wash himself,
and he even goes to his family,
having intimacy,
he's
dirty.
And Islam teaches us to wash ourselves, how
to go about doing it. One time a
Jew came to the messenger, salallahu, came to
Salman al Faris Yafan, and he said,
Your prophet has taught you everything,
even how to defecate. How to use a
toilet?
He said this in a way to kind
of like be sarcastic.
Salaman Nafari said, Arjal, yes? He did.
Taught us what to do, what hand to
use, how to clean ourselves,
or how to sharaf, and this is an
honor.
Every aspect has been explained
and we love the messenger salallahu alaihi wasalam.
There's a verse in the Quran, it was
called Ayatul Mihna, the verse of examination,
you know what this verse was?
If you really love Allah Azza wa Jannam,
follow me. You ibibkumullah,
and Allah Azza wa love you.
Love Allah and His Messenger, then we do
what they told us to do. We'll fulfill
that to the best of our ability.
Right.
This verse was called Ayatul Mihanna, the verse
of examination.
To really put you to the test how
much of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala's Deen do you love?
And how much of the mess of Allah
alaihi wasallam
do you love?
And Hassan al Basri,
the righteous, great scholars of the past,
he said,
Some people claim that I love Allah and
His messenger, so He tested them with His
verse.
He tested them with His verse.
Go back home brothers and sisters, really sit
down with yourself and reflect
how much of the messrahalayahu alaihi wa sam
do I love?
Are these sunnah am I actually implementing in
my life?
That brings me on to the conditions of
how long do I have?
10 minutes.
SubhanAllah.
I don't think that's fair because when you
read Quran, it took some time.
This is now the juicy part of the
lecture,
the conditions of joking. Now that we've established
that Masin salaam
did make jokes with his companions, did play
around with them.
He wasn't a moody type of person that
we may think,
or how the media portrays him to be.
A bloodthirsty,
barbaric individual who never smiles, and and when
they do draw him, he looks all
dejected and angry and furious, Lao Allah.
Jareebna Abdulal Bajid said never did a mess
salallahu alayhi or some ever look at me
except they were
smiling.
So what are the 6 conditions?
Condition number 1, when you do joke,
you don't mock the Deen of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
This my brothers and my sisters
takes you out the fold of Islam.
Even if you are joking, don't turn around
and say I was only joking. He knows
he's wrong, but then he turns around and
says I was just joking.
Why does he take you out the deen
of Alisam?
There was an incident that took place,
I believe the Ghazwa
of Tabuk,
expedition of Tabuk,
But one of the
participants of this battle
began to make fun of the Messenger sallallahu
alaihi was and his companions. You know what
he said?
I didn't see anybody like them.
Those who are
or anyone more than them who is or
should I say, anyone who is more cowardly,
lying,
and who want food so much,
or more cowardly
lying,
and who
love to eat more than them people.
Is that a joke brothers and sisters? To
say that about the medsulal alaihis and his
companions?
That's not a joke.
One of the companions heard and he got
he became furious
and went running to the messenger and by
that time, the messenger
was already informed
by way of revelation and the verses came
down.
What were the verses?
If you ask them
why they did that, they would say it
was only joking, it was only playing.
We only said whatever we said
to pass time.
And Allah says,
was it that you mocked Allah?
His verses,
His
signs,
and
His
Messenger?
Don't make any more excuses.
Indeed, you have disbelieved
after iman came to you, and they were
joking, and Allah is telling us they have
left the fold of Islam,
who got away?
He's become a kafir.
And we might sit around
spectating,
laughing and joking, and maybe even forwarding it
to others.
I remember, subhanAllah,
very, very long time ago, right?
I was playing football,
Leicester, Spinning Hill Park,
and then there was his brother.
I still
see walking around from time to time,
and
every time he scored, he would turn around
and he would do this,
pointing to Jesus, he goes, thanks to Jesus.
And he would also say every time he's
called,
the Quran is a Harry Potter book.
Quran is a Harry Potter book.
This is an example of someone,
right, when uttering such statement would
expel his own soul from the Deen of
Allah Azzawajal.
People are mocking the salah in the,
and videos that are spreading on TikTok.
It's sad. I'm sure every single one of
us have come across these kind of videos.
Right?
So number 1 is that it doesn't involve
what?
Mockery of the religion.
Second 1,
that when you do joke,
you joke truthfully.
Prophet said in
woe to the 1.
When he jokes,
he lies in order to make people laugh.
Woe to him, woe to him, mess Allah
has made dua against him.
And what did Jaimna Abdullah radiAllahu ta'ala anhu
say to the mess Allah alaihi wa sallam
that I mentioned earlier? Oh Messenger of Allah,
you play with us?
He said, Naaam, yes I do, but I
don't say other than the truth when I
do
joke and play with you.
He spoke the truth.
The reason why I'm very, very passionate about
this topic, my brothers and my sisters, many,
many years back,
one of my relatives came up to me
and he told me that my grandmother, she
fell from the balcony.
How do you think my reaction is going
to be when somebody says that to me?
He'll be shocked, sir.
And then he turns around and he says,
oh, April fools day, and he walk runs
off.
Is that really a joke?
Is that how we want to be starting
our
Ramadan?
The Thursday of Ramadan, or should I say
maybe just the night before Ramadan,
while you may be walking to Taraweeh,
you're making these jokes,
making fun of others,
I'm mocking the deen of Allah Azza wa
Jal, you might be starting the deen, the
the month of Ramadan, and you're not even
a Muslim
because of you making fun of the deen
of Allah azza wa jal.
So the second condition is what?
That you have to be truthful
when making that joke. Was the messenger sallallahu
alaihi wasallam lying when he said that old
women don't enter into Aljannah?
When the lady came up to him and
she said, You Rasool Allahuudu Allah
and you
told
him, and he said, Oh, old people don't
enter into Jannah, that was a joke sir.
Is that
true? It's true.
Or second condition. 3rd condition was,
we haven't taken
yet. When you do joke,
you don't terrify the one that you're joking
with.
How many times have I seen at the
bus stop?
People are standing around, maybe even classmates,
the boss has come in, grabs him, does
this, and then pulls him back.
Sahir?
Witnessed that before? And he says I was
just joking, don't get angry. What you mean
don't get angry?
He just terrified me.
And a time when the messenger sallallahu alaihi
wasallam, as Abdulhamani ibn alaihi wasallam, he mentioned
that they were traveling with the messenger sallallahu
alaihi wasallam to war.
One of the companions went to sleep and
he had a habil,
he had a rope.
Right?
After he woke up, he was shocked. Where
has he gone? He started looking for it.
And then the messenger when he saw this,
right, he told the companions who took it
for a joke,
It is not lawful for a Muslim to
terrify another Muslim.
Sometimes you find,
guys running behind you,
making these dog noises,
or scaring you while you're asleep.
Or today, what do they do? He takes
water
while somebody's sleeping and he pours on his
face, and then he walks up in shock.
He wakes up in shock.
TikTok. TikTok.
You, Suruwala,
this is a reality, brothers.
We're not here to speak about generics. We're
here to tackle current issues.
These are some serious things
that does not fall in line with what
pleases Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Three conditions. What's the 4th condition?
Dazid, do you remember?
So the first one was
mocking.
2nd one was
being truthful.
3rd 1 was
not terrifying.
The 4th 1, brothers
and sisters, is
not to be excessive
in the jokes that you make. Prophet
said,
To me it's al kalb.
Don't be excessive in joking, don't become known
as a joker, as a clown.
Excessive joking, it kills the heart. See how
you feel at times when you're sitting around
and you're just engaging in false talk,
making jokes about others and,
ridiculing this one, that one.
See how you feel after that. I felt
like that before. I didn't know or understand
the reason why.
Didn't think that it was haram, but we'd
feel that kind of like emptiness in our
hearts, right?
Perhaps maybe because of that.
Even Amr Khattab radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu he said,
Whoever is excessive in making jokes,
people will never take him seriously.
People will never take him seriously. You'll always
be the class clown,
the joker.
And when you want to be serious, they'll
start laughing at you.
A bit like the boy who cried,
wolf.
I don't think I need to relate that
story. Everybody knows it already.
And the sheikh here,
is, is trying to give me indirect by
looking from time to time.
I'm nearly
finished. Number 5,
not mocking and ridiculing others when making jokes.
What did Allah say in Surat al Hujurat,
which teaches a lot of etiquettes?
O you who believe, do not mock and
ridicule and make fun of one another.
They what if that individual doesn't mind?
Do you mind if I make jokes on
you? Because, wallahi, I don't mind.
Allahu Akbar,
he doesn't mind.
We're living in that kind of society that
if you can't take jokes,
they make even more of a joke out
of you. Sah,
I can't take jokes now.
Making jokes about his weight or her weight,
that's not funny.
Even then he's saying to me, Allah, I,
you know, I I don't mind, you can
say whatever you want. How do you know
he doesn't mind?
Allah, he's probably really suffering inside hurt.
He's going to go into depression when he
goes home,
feel insecure about himself, but he just doesn't
want to make it apparent to you
that
this joke is hurting him.
Even if he doesn't mind, you have been
commanded by Allah Azzawi not to make these
jokes
and not to ridicule him and make fun
of him, wala Allah told you all you
believe, Are you not somebody who believes?
Abdullah ibn Surud would say,
right, whenever you hear
make sure you listen attentively.
Because you're about to be told of something
extremely important, something that you're going to be
commanded with, and that which you're going to
be prohibited from.
You know what's even more worse than that
brothers and sisters?
Mocking someone
and how Allah
created him.
The way his nose is.
The way his nose is. Is he in
control
of
that?
The way his eyes have been created, the
way his ears are,
making jokes of him saying dwarf is,
Or he looks like this or he looks
like that. That's how Allah created him.
Why did the messenger
say,
don't curse the wind?
Who can tell me?
See who's got Kitabatul Haydon?
Sorry?
Yeah, honey, it is Allah subhanahu wa'anahu that
created and sent it.
It's
It's
been commanded
to destroy this and to leave that.
Sometimes it's unbearable the wind. You see trees
flying around.
It's Allah that
sent it. So if you're not insulting something
that doesn't have control over itself, who in
reality are you insulting?
Lies are rigid, right? That's how deep it
is.
That's how profound it is.
Also,
the messenger told us
do not insult the time. Let me ask
you guys a question.
The last day
before the 1st January
2022
kicked in, what were the people posting on
social media? All they're saying about the previous
year that has just gone by?
They were insulting it, they were,
you know,
using profanity,
speaking ill.
The corona that was sent, who sent it?
It was Allah azzawal that sent it. You
know insulting what the I shouldn't even say
like what the corona caused. It's Allah Azzawiyah
who caused it
and he just used this as a means
to either bring good to people's lives,
or to test them
in many different ways.
This is my brothers and my sisters,
a deficiency in Tawhid,
study Tawhid,
and see how many things that we are
falling short in.
Very quick one, and I'll just give you
guys a taste of swearing by your mom's
life.
I swear down. I swear my mom's life.
I swear my nan's grave. I swear on
this. I swear on that.
Put your hand up if you've fallen to
this before.
I did as kids. We all do say
that. Why you guys not raising your voice
acting like you never said it? Everyone has.
No, Allah forgive us all. But a point
of the matter is, it's something that we
all fell into.
And shirk is worse than what?
Murder,
zina,
riba, all the major sins that we hear
about.
So insulting now an individual who looks a
certain way, Allah created him like that. His
nose is like that because Allah chose that
for him.
Mocking that, ridiculing that.
Just because someone is from a certain background,
you find others speaking about the way some
of his facial features are.
Number 6,
last one,
to choose an appropriate time to joke.
Is it appropriate for one to be making
jokes while you're walking towards the funeral?
And I've seen it before.
Someone just passed away, and this guy is
making jokes with one another.
This is not an appropriate time,
Right?
You have to choose also a time to
be joking with your parents.
Again, on TikTok,
young kids are recording their parents
making fun of them.
Some even trip up their parents and they
post on social media because they know they're
gonna get hits. How's that joke?
A
parent?
The point in me merging these two topics
together is,
Ramadan is very likely to be on the
2nd April, sir,
or 3rd.
Do we really want to be on the
1st April,
entering into the month of Ramadan
while
our
Islam
is questionable.
Is that what we want?
I don't think anyone wants that.
Or we start the month of Ramadan
with major sins,
falling into that which is extremely extremely dangerous.
The Salaf,
and when I say Salaf, I intend by
the 3 golden generations, not people who are
breathing today.
The Sahaba, the Tabia'in, the Tabia'in,
those that the mess prophet told us,
are the best of the generations.
They are the people that we need to
take our religion from,
and they are the ones who taught us
good etiquettes, not people who are living today
that might really tarnish
what the truth is.
Point that I wanted to make was
what do I wanna see?
Salif in the month of Shaaban,
as Ibn Hajj al Askelani mentioned in Fathilbari,
they would rush towards the masahif.
They would be engaging in khair.
They would try to get into gear. What
happens when you get into a car? Can
you get put it straight away into gear
5?
Gear 1, car drives.
2, 3, 4, 5.
And then he can put his foot down.
Very common question that brothers and sisters tend
to ask,
I feel like I've already wasted half of
my Ramadan. He struggled to get into gear
and that's maybe perhaps because
he didn't prepare for it accordingly. He didn't
start maybe fasting.
This is the month that Aisha
said, prophet would fast so excessively.
There wasn't a month that he fasted more.
Right?
Also the salafs will be reading the Quran
a lot. So by the time Ramadan kicks
in, they're already in the groove, in the
routine of that.
They'll be starting and
also night prayer becomes easy for them.
May Allah make us from those that benefit
from the reminder.
I apologize
for going over my time.
Do you wanna test them about the 6
now or in the Q and A section?
Is there a price?
Do you have to
offer? All eyes up to you. I don't
wanna kinda like just barge into your program
and
start calling the shots.
In the q and a section, inshallah.
Inshallah, well, live brothers,
and sisters.
This is a masjid that is very dear
to my heart, Shah Abdul Wahab. I will
tell you, I used to come here a
very long time ago to do monthly khuddbas.
Right?
And this Masjid has always been very, very
good to me, and it's so, so nice
to see
so many brothers
attending the Masjid. I remember
how the Halakha used to be. We used
to do conferences here and maybe
what? 5, 10 people will attend the gatherings,
but to see so many glowing faces,
it really, really does bring a lot of
joy to the heart.
And ask Allah, azza wajal, if he doesn't
gather us again in this dunya,
to reunite us in the hereafter.
I mean, jazakumullah
khayron for hosting me.
As the messenger
said,
or should I
say,
The one who's not thankful to repeat
won't be thankful to Allah
So jazakumullah
khairan.
Wa asanullah wa rakum.
Assalamu alaikum.