Abu Taymiyyah – Credit Card Scams & 10 Ways on How to increase Your Money
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5 star. I'm gonna pick on a few
people.
All these brothers were sitting in the back,
and you all
come as close as possible,
I'm sure you don't have any back problems.
I'm going to ask you a question.
How far
was Jibril alaihi saba'u wasalam when he came
to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasalam sitting from
him?
This is very carefully to the question.
How far was the Prophet from
Jibril when
Jibril
came to seek knowledge from the messenger
As the brother mentioned.
His knees were touching the knees of
the messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
What do we learn from that?
The guy would agree.
In a
In a gathering when somebody comes over to
give you some knowledge
or you're learning knowledge,
you should try and sit as close as
possible. And this is from the etiquette
of somebody who is a student of knowledge
trying to attain or acquire some knowledge from
somebody else.
Okay.
As you know, we're Rishal Mabu Ta'agah.
The discussion today will be about alternatives
to CC
scams, something that has become prevalent
in certain places more than others.
Finding Lester, the place that I just came
from,
we've got
17 year olds
driving 18 plates,
18 plated cars.
Top of the range, Range Rovers,
BMWs,
Mercedes,
Aldis.
The top
cars that you are able to find in
this dunya is being driven by the
most youngest amongst us.
All of this my brothers and sisters because
what?
They decided to take a path
in
acquiring
Haram
and through that they decided to live their
lives. I remember a brother
said to me that
a young boy came up to me and
he said to him, I've got £200,000
I don't know what to do with it.
What shall I do with it?
This is maybe a 17 year old. In
last day, he came up to me and
he said to him that I've got 200
k. What should I do
with
it? Brother now all of a sudden realized
that
this money
is not going to last long
And this is
the reality when it comes to Haram money.
Recently, a brother came up to me when
I was in London, and he said to
me
that he just done a CC scan,
and he's about to go pick up £8,000.
He's asking me, what shall I do? What
do you advise me to do?
We're gonna come on to you later on
inshallah.
My brothers and sisters,
some of us may have
tried our utmost best
in calling out to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
asking him to change the state of our
children.
I know parents that are shouting from the
top of their throats
Begging Allah
to change the state of their kids.
But the response doesn't seem to be coming.
Maybe some of us today here can relate
to it.
Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam told us about an
individual,
And since Salah told us about an individual
who was on a very long journey.
Asha'i Tu Aswad, you can see that he
was dirty and dusty because
of him travelling.
And this is the state of somebody who
is
travelling
in between mountains and also deserts.
The Arabian Peninsula back in the day, my
brother and sister, they didn't have the lovely
Virgin Atlantic that we have that takes us
from place to place. Or Qatar Airways, Saudi
Airlines,
where you can sit
1st class,
you're going to reach your destination and you're
it's as if like you're back home, you
know.
They would be walking in the desert
for days So this is in the vision
my brother said you can see that
he was dusty, he was dirty because of
his travels
He stretched out his hands to Allah
calling on to Allah because he was needy.
And then the messenger of Islam tells us
his food was Haram.
Also, his drink was haram.
Also, his clothes were haram.
This individual's life was revolving around haram. Then
the minister
said,
How does this individual think that he's going
to be responded back to?
He ate Haram, my brothers and sisters. And
if we look closely at hadith,
this man,
he came with means to get his dua
accepted.
Because there's different things that a person can
do normally if he wants to get his
dua accepted or responded back to.
Firstly, he was a traveler.
When you're on your travels, the messenger
of
Allah
told
us,
3 supplications
are always responded back to
and there's no doubt in
it. And the ones that the Messenger Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam mentioned was Dawatul Musaikhir.
The supplication of the person who is traveling.
Not only that my brothers and sisters,
he also raised his hands. Do you know
that if you raise your hands up to
Allah
like that, it's a means that Allah will
respond back to you straight away.
Allah is shy, He is generous
that when His servant
stretches out His hands to him that he
won't send him back empty handed.
So if you're sitting at home and you
do this to Allah azza wa jal, it's
a means of getting your daughter accepted.
It didn't stop there. He said, You Rabbi
You Rabbi.
Saying You Rabbi You Rabbi
calling on to Allah azza wa jal and
saying my lord my lord
is from the means again of getting a
du'a, so if you look at the end
of Alir
Imran, the chapter called Alir Imran,
you find that there is a series of
verses. Rabana, Rabana, Rabana. And in the end,
what does Allah say? Fastajablah.
Allah
responded back to them when they were saying,
Rabana, Rabana, Rabana,
which means my lord, my lord, my lord.
Not only that my brothers and sisters, he
was a Munay.
He was calling on to Allah with Ilha.
When you constantly ask Allah as the wajah,
you asked him for something today.
Maybe your dua wasn't responded back to, and
then you've done it tomorrow, and then you've
done it again. It's from the means of
getting your dua accepted. And he constantly repeated
his dua.
Also my brothers insisted he was a Muftar
as some of the scholars mentioned. He was
in dire need.
Even a kafir, a non Muslim, if he
is in dire
need, in a state of necessity, and he
calls on to Allah azza wa jal, it
is expected for him to have his
supplication responded back
to. From the wise that indicate generality. Here
Allah said whoever.
So anybody, if he's in the dire state
of necessity and he calls on to Allah
it is expected
that his dua is accepted
and responded back to straight away. So this
individual, my brother, he came with a number
of things, but because he ate haram,
he was responded back to.
I tell this to parents all the time.
Something that might be very prevalent in some
of our communities
is that they do something called benefit fraud.
You know what benefit fraud is?
Benefit fraud?
Cheating the government, lying to them, saying
that she is single.
Her husband's living with her.
They're living in the same house
but they claim
to the government that they are separate so
she can claim more money.
I used to say to the parents Gerke
meshumara
kurba kumara as they say in Somali
Wherever the camel walks
you find that
the children of the camel are going to
walk the
same direction.
Mom, uncle, auntie,
why are you complaining? You're doing the exact
same thing.
And then tomorrow,
you're going to maybe be disappointed. You're going
to be upset
by your own child is just doing the
exact same thing that you're doing, except that
the way that the fraud is taking place
is a bit different.
And also my brothers and sisters,
let us not be surprised
tomorrow if our kids do it.
I'm talking to
these wonderful faces here today.
It's easy. If I wanted to become a
millionaire,
I know how to become a millionaire, but
through Haramis.
But I know
that I am doing what?
I am cultivating. I'm nurturing my children,
the people around me in a Haram way.
And then tomorrow, they're going to do the
exact same thing.
It surprises me how the smoker tells his
kid, don't smoke.
And he's seeing him day night, laying on
when a haram smoke. How do you expect
the kid's gonna change?
And my brother Nasir, Khalil Al Baqar,
that money won't last long. And I'm telling
you, from experience,
having halal money is only a yam. You
find that the sweetness is very what? Limited.
And the messianic sallallahu alaihi wasallam told us
something very very serious.
Layatfooluljannah
talahmunnavitat
min suit.
A piece of flesh that has been produced
through haram or enter into a jannah
because you hate haram.
It may have been that you done scums
or may have been that you stole something.
It may have been you worked
in
a type of job that produced harm and
so on and so forth.
As you can see through these narrations, maybe
we're sitting here today like, I've tried so
hard, I keep calling on to Allah
but a response doesn't seem
to be coming.
But then you realize, okay. Maybe it's because
I am taking a mortgage.
Or maybe because I'm involved in a job
which involves haram.
Because of that, our kids have driven us
crazy and there doesn't seem to be a
solution.
This is why my brothers and sisters,
there's a number of alternatives.
There's no point me sitting here banging on
about
that this is haram and this is not
haram.
We all understand that some of the things
that I mentioned now, they are things that
are unlawful to us.
But what about alternatives? My brother says
by Allah,
if you take these
practical actions
and apply it in your life I guarantee
you and we will meet in the future.
I've told this to a number of people
who came and saw my advice. Tell me
inshallah ta'ala where you're going to be in
the year's time.
But I want you now to leave off
this haram and do x y and z.
All of these are means of getting more
money. You wanna be a millionaire? Then listen
up today.
Bill Gates can give you some advice, but
this is prophetic advice.
You know Bill Gates?
Who is Bill Gates?
Microsoft. Microsoft. Well, everybody knows it.
Bill Gates can give you some advice. It
might be beneficial to you. But there's nothing
like what?
The speech of Allah
Nobody can give you information like Allah
Allah tells you in the Quran, fess albihabiyaa.
Ask the one who knows.
Who's the teacher of Bill Gates? Who's the
one that taught him all the information?
Come on, guys.
Who taught Bill Gates?
Breathe it, guys?
Who's the one that teaches everyone? Mafawqaqulli Di
Il Min Alim?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. I only know how
hard was it. So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
who gives and takes,
teaches and deprives.
So Allah who gives and takes, who teaches
and depribes.
You see?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told the messenger of
Allah
All that information
was gifted to him by Allah
But you still find
Few are those who are grateful.
And it's from those who are grateful to
Aba
So
moving on to
some of these means
of how to get an increase in provision.
And like I said my brothers and sisters,
I was expecting everybody to come with a
pen and paper. I I don't think anybody
at Accrington is like, Imam Bukharil
was able to absorb all the information
that is going to be mentioned today. These
are 10 important aspects
that take it home today and start applying
in your life.
The first thing is my brothers and sisters,
establishing the prayer solely for Allah
Sometimes we find my brothers and sisters,
we might be working, we might have a
shop open, we feel like that we was
to close the shop for the jama'ah,
we're going to lose down a few customers.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us the complete
opposite.
That the way life works is that if
you come with the salah,
it's likely that
Allah
is going to increase in provision.
And there's a number of examples that the
Quran
tells us about.
The Quran is there, my brothers and sisters,
for us to reflect and act upon. It's
not a bedtime story.
The kesas, the story is in there.
Tell them about the story so they can
reflect.
The first eye of the law
tells us
about this very thing, walmul ahlakibis salati wasfabi'alayah
Allah
tells us,
command your family members with the salah
and also be patient upon him. La nas
alukirizkhanahnu
narzook.
We don't ask you for provision.
We are the ones who are going to
provide for you. So
based on this ayah,
Meaning if you come with the prayer
and you fulfill it accordingly,
Allah
will gift you with provision
from where you don't expect it.
Because
of what? Because of the salah.
But if we place hurricane
before the salah,
Sahar, think Allah is going to be there
for us at the time when we need
it. Today, the Khutba that I've done in
Bradford was about hurricane. You guys know hurricane?
It was about Messi and Ronaldo.
And it was about prioritizing Allah
And I was given the example of the
World Cup this year. Some of the England
games
was clashing with what? Maghrib time.
When the game went to extra time a
couple of times, I think the Columbia game
and also the semifinal when they were out,
I remember when I was in Newcastle,
some of the brothers were saying, Insha'Allah, somebody's
gonna lose.
Oh, Allah make somebody lose.
Why?
So the people have come to the messian
because I had the lecture of the Maghrib.
And had they gone on to penalties, maybe
nobody's gonna turn up. Penalties.
Everybody wants to watch it. Even the newsroom
wants to watch it.
Some people were like, Alhamdulillah. You know, as
soon as somebody lost,
everybody came to the Nizdul. Likewise, I remember
when it was in knockout stages, everybody was
going crazy around my area.
Extra time just finished
and it was a time of Maghrib I
go to the Masjid, the Masjid is nearly
empty
We chose Harry Kane
even though we might say with our tongues
well. Allahu Akbar, which means Allah is the
greatest.
But if I leave the salah to the
side,
and then I carry on watching hurricane or
messi or Ronaldo in Paqe, then you're down
the sea. Right?
Then you go on the scene
And I choose to sit in front of
him And I put secondly Allah
as secondary in my life
Is that something that's really right? Am I
really
meaning that Allah
is greater than hurricane? Or is it the
other way around?
Can you see my brothers and
sisters?
Another example that Allah tells
us is a story of Maryam.
Like, every time Zakaria
entered upon Maryam in her mihrab, her place
of worship he would find provision.
He would pry he would find provision with
Maryam
And then he would ask, yeah, Maryam, where
did you get this provision from?
She would say, Inna Allah
provides
for whoever he wills from where they don't
expect it.
The Mufassirun,
they say,
And had it not been for her consistently
praying
in her place of worship,
she wouldn't have
found this provision that kept on coming her
way.
That Zakariyah every time he would unexpectedly see
this and he would become shocked.
A third textual evidence, my brothers and sisters.
We know
that
Zakariya alayhi salatu wasalam was suffering from what?
Does anybody know the story of Zakariya? He
wanted something really really badly.
Children.
Children.
Couldn't have a child.
His wife was barren. He she was old,
and even him became very, very old.
As Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tells us.
Grey hair started growing on his hair on
his head.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, he tells us,
asking him to gift him with offspring that
were righteous.
How did Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala provide for
him? Wa'aina basharawbidalik
And how also or where did he give
him these blood tithes, this great news that
he was going to have a child called
Yahya?
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tells us,
The Malaik, they called out to him.
Where was he standing? He was standing in
his prayer.
That he was now going to be gifted
with what a child called Yahya.
I receive quite a few emails every now
and again
about people struggling to have children.
He's been trying maybe for 3, 4 years,
Doesn't seem to be happening.
Doesn't require rocket science to understand.
Just need a bit of investigation, a couple
of questions that you ask the person, what
kind of life are you living?
Sometimes the guy says, Akhi, I don't pray.
Go and pray and exactly what will happen
to Zakaria,
Hopefully, that will happen to you as well.
And it's a means of getting more and
more in your provision.
The next seba
is gonna get more interesting
They come with taqwa. We always hear taqwa
taqwa taqwa, and it means fear. Right? That's
what most people think. But the word taqwa,
my brothers and sisters,
is much much more comprehensive
than that.
It means,
It's that you place a barrier between you
and that which
you really fear.
A barrier
that will protect you
from that which you really fear.
And what is that barrier? Imagine you're in
the middle of a battle,
you're gonna be going out with your chest
like that, or you're gonna have a shield.
Right?
You're gonna have a shield when a battle
takes place unless you're a big guy and
you work out. I wanna show everybody you're
scared of your body.
But you're gonna have what? A shield. That's
what normally tends to take place.
So this shield is my brothers and sisters.
To do what Allah told you to do
and to stay away from the things that
Allah told you to stay away from.
You and who are you scared of? Allah
and you're scared of his
And through doing what I just told you
my brothers and sisters,
just always being God conscious.
When you're maybe in the middle of the
night,
you worship Allah
You have in the back of your mind
even though the doors have closed, the curtains
are locked,
nobody's looking,
your parents are fast asleep,
And then you remember Allah as the way
that he's watching.
And you're not going to start looking at
these filthy images on your phone, under your
blanket.
Because of maybe you staying away
from that sin, so it means Allah is
going to open up those
feet. Whoever comes with taqwa,
Allah will open up doors for him.
And he will provide for him from where
he doesn't expect.
And Allah
tells us about nations that He destroyed.
Had the people of the village
come with tahwa
come with a tatwa,
he would have opened
blessings for them.
Blessings of the heavens and likewise the Earth.
If only they came with tahwa, they've done
what they were told to come with.
Abu Hurair
he was asked about Taqwa, and he said
something very, very interesting.
Have you ever taken a path which had
a lot of thorns
in the path that he was taking? Qala
nam. So the man that asked that question,
he said, yes. Qala forgave us anat.
What did you do?
He said, Qala idarai to show ka azal
tuhanahu jayawasul kasab tuhanahu
Every time I saw a thir or a
phone,
I would try to step over it and
I would try to avoid as much as
I could. He goes, this is taqwa.'
That's how one should behave towards this.
As salah was said, and this is one
of my favorite ones.
To thank Allah
with that which he gifted you with. It's
something very very simple,
and most people, as Allah
tells us,
Few are those who are thankful. Allah
my brothers and sisters has promised you.
Your Lord has proclaimed
that if you are thankful,
He will increase you in your wealth.
Wallahi razim, I've seen number of people when
I have discussions with them.
I asked him, oh, what do you do?
Because I'm earning minimum wage, allaire has nothing.
Some people don't even have minimum wage.
Instead of saying, Alhamdulillah
Allah
He has favored me over many of his
creation.
Just £6. I think it's increased now. Right?
How much is it now? 7.50?
7.8. I think last year was 6, something
£6. Some people are on job seekers around
us.
Even the guy who's on job seekers around
and they're getting 2.50 a month.
Actually, some people are just
crying out for
maybe him earning £200, £300 a month, and
he doesn't have that. Because maybe he's in
a country.
Crying out,
begging on the streets.
This is why my brothers and sisters,
this is a principle in our life that
we should place.
And the messenger
mister
Look at those below you, don't look at
those above you. Why that will make you
more thankful to Allah
Whenever you're going through some sort of calamity,
thank Allah
because there's people
who are far more unfortunate than you.
As he came, Aisha. Aisha
one time,
she said that the messenger has entered upon
us, and he said, is there any food
in the house? He goes, no. He goes,
okay. If that's the case, I'm gonna go
and fast. Imagine walking in your homes,
and you open the fridge and there's nothing
there.
Really, this is the state of many people
in our world today.
That's a sad reality my brothers and sisters.
Allah subhanahu wa'ala time and time again he
tells us
remember the great blessings of Allah so that
you may be successful.
I'll tell you guys of a story of
a brother.
Story
time. I know sometimes,
you're gonna bring this in. There was this
brother that I knew, Talibet,
who just came back from abroad.
Normally in this country, you need 2 things
in order to get a job.
You need experience?
And what else? Degree.
Degree.
If you got a certificate, you might get
somewhere also that which is better today
than a certificate is what?
It's a great
Experience.
Connections. Connections. That's Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia can get anything if you got
connections.
Long
start. Alakkulin,
he came back,
and he would tell me this like he's
a bit of a freshie.
Doesn't have any experience. Doesn't even know how
to apply for a job.
So about printing out his CV
and handing it out to the shops. And,
obviously, that's something that is very old fashioned.
Now everybody tells you, go what?
Apply online now.
So he comes back. He just doesn't know
what he's doing. It's for a whole year,
guys.
Everybody around him was working in that Argos
warehouse,
coming out with back problems,
doing hamal.
And he's just wishing that only I had
their job. He's talking to people,
the same
wallahiakki just made him awake.
That's rubbish, man.
I wish I had something else. Instead of
saying
Alhamdulillah,
very long story short for a whole year,
for a whole year.
He was looking, making du'a to Allah
Nothing seems to be happening.
All of a sudden now
goes through an agency and gets a job.
This probably obviously started a bit right, and
he thanks Allah
What did I mentioned to you earlier? If
you thank him,
your risk increases.
You get more money.
That's how it works.
So he gets a job minimum wage, and
he will work in a warehouse. Right? He's
working in an office. He's relaxed.
He's trying to get married as well. He's
been outside, you know, seeking knowledge.
Guy comes back roasting.
Needs a job right now.
Of course, this guy is not gonna be
messing around in his job. Right?
He thanks a lot,
and he gets sacked 2 weeks later.
After for maybe like a whole year he
was looking.
And he's thinking to himself, Subhanallah, Azza wa
Jal tells me in the Quran, and I
firmly believe that.
The promise of Allah does not fail in
his promise.
And remember earlier I said to you the
guy that doesn't have no qualifications,
and he has no what?
Degreed.
Like
a
Farhq.
A
couple of weeks later,
Allah
gifts him
when the £9 an hour drop.
That's a big difference now. I think it
was like £9.30.
So obviously that's a big jump from £6
something all the way to £9 and still
he doesn't have no degree and he has
just a bit of experience and he was
sacked.
And he's thankful to Allah again.
2 years he's working there and then all
of a sudden now his
manager changes. They're trying to push him towards
the exit.
Trying to change things around, and he's faking
himself. It's already happened once. I thanked Allah
and he does not fail in his promise.
Gets pushed towards the exit door.
I know this brother now. He does not
work.
And he's earning more than his supervisor.
And he has no degree and he has
no experience. Well, obviously, now he's got a
bit of experience. But the point of the
matter is
from coming or from
being in a situation where
his situation was so difficult and that now
he's working
from home
and he doesn't need to be running around
and living the box life
because of what?
Being grateful to Allah
Sometimes also my brothers and sisters, and this
is a very important point.
Scholars, they mentioned this, like Imam
When he explained this, he said that sometimes
you find that Allah
removes something from your life
that you really, really love.
Sometimes you love this girl so much, but
Allah
takes her out of your life.
And you think to yourself, really like this
was a blessing.
Little do you know
that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala may have in
store for you that which is much better
for you in your dunya likewise.
It's like a blessing in disguise.
It's happened to many.
They were married, they really really loved her.
She dissipates from his life and Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala blessed him with a better wife
and also he started
studying abroad in Medina. And had he still
been married to that same sister, things may
have been much much more difficult.
Father, we say my brothers,
Even sometimes when we lose something, we thank
Allah
Also,
There isn't a way to preserve the blessings
that you have
other than being obedient to Allah
And there isn't a way better than
getting more of an increase in your provision
that make thanks for So
if you already been blessed and you want
that to remain, be somebody who
consistently
obeys Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala as messenger.
That's the way to preserving what you have.
I'm going to try and be quick here.
The 4th reason is,
seeking knowledge.
Seeking knowledge.
There was 2 brothers in the time of
the messenger
One of them used to work, and one
of them used to attend the gatherings of
the messenger
The guy who was always working went and
complained to the messenger
said,
I'm the one that's working here, just chilling
in your gatherings.
Perhaps you, the one that's working,
is being gifted with much provision because of
the one who seek a knowledge.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is blessing
your provision
and giving you an increase because of him,
because of the barakah that comes with him
seeking knowledge.
I remember my teacher who taught me
Told me Arabic grammar
He would tell me this, he goes the
moment I started seeking knowledge
My brothers who had this metal company back
in Saudi Arabia
their fortunes changed
All of a sudden now they started getting
more customers
Allah
started sending down abundant provision onto them,
and they knew this hadith.
They will say to him, stay in the
Majj, stay in the iliman. Carry on seeking
knowledge.
Stay there. We'll send you money. Don't worry
about it.
And other brothers as well.
Their fortunes, their family's fortunes started changing
because of him seeking knowledge.
Sometimes the parent doesn't understand, he tells his
kid to come back.
And when he does come back, things start
changing again.
And maybe because of his son studying,
may have been the reason why Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala opened those of provision for the
father,
the breadwinner
of the house.
A
5th
means of getting an increase in provision. And
I mentioned this today in the in Bradford.
Doesn't make the dunya his main priority, but
the akhirah is his main objective in life.
Akhirah is main objective.
Everything in this dunya is revolving around the
lies, which is not the other way around.
Allah is first. I'm going to chase after
Allah, azza wa jay.
And because of me making the akhirah my
main priority,
everything else will come second, and you will
find that Allah as it will bless your
wealth abundantly.
We've got a twisted understanding of the dunya.
We think to ourselves that we keep chasing
and we're going to get somewhere in life.
Messenger
when Ayuntikha anil Hawa who doesn't speak out
of his own desires, he told us the
opposite.
Have you not noticed, guys, the
9 to 5 books life?
The guy works from 9 to 5,
5 days a week.
At the end of the month, when he
picks up his wage, he always ends up
or in most cases, he ends up what?
0. After he spent all his expenses,
he's paid for the rent, he's paid for
the bills, he just comes back to 0
and he just feels like he's not getting
anywhere in life. He can't save anything up.
And you've exerted
all your efforts in trying to chase the
dunya.
And we feel like that this is the
only way to life.
And this is what the system has made
us think in such a way.
Messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam told us,
Whoever makes the dunya his main priority,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will place poverty between
his eyes,
And he will make his affairs fall apart.
And the dunya won't come to him except
that which was written
off him.
And whoever makes the akhir his main priority,
that's constantly on his mind. He wakes up.
He's thinking about how I can please a
wazhujal.
How can I get to a Jannah? You
can work as much as you like, no
problem.
It's part of life.
But the is your main priority.
Allah will bring his affairs together.
Place richness in his heart,
and the dunya will be dragged to him.
He's just thinking about Allah, you're gonna find
that doors are going to open up for
him all the time.
And the dunya will come running after him.
And it happens. I've seen this happen to
some masha'af.
Who saw knowledge.
Yes, at the same time they obviously were
thinking about the dunya,
many things will be gifted to them.
Those which is open up left, right, and
center. This guy is only chasing the.
And Allah
can see that.
As Allah says, if he sees that goodness
in your heart, you're trying to do well,
Allah will gift you gift you with that.
Assemble will start this.
Point number 6. And again, this is one
of my most favorite ones.
And I go on about it all the
time all the time all the time.
Leaving off something for the sake of Allah
Somebody is involved in haram,
he knows that it's unlawful for him to
do such an act.
He leaves it off
because Allah is
going to gift him without which is better.
Imam Mahindra
narrated a narration.
They always used to travel to the Kaaba.
Qala ataynaalarajuniminahlil
Badia
We came to a Bedouin
Fataal Bedweel, the Bedweel said,
ahadabiyeedi
rasulwway salawawalayawalayu
alimunimimma'alamullah.
So this bedwam is telling you that there
was a time when the messenger took him
by the hand.
And he started teaching him from the things
that
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala taught the messenger of
Allah alayhi was saying.
You don't leave something for the sake of
Allah
with the taqwa,
except that he will gift you with that
which is better.
Because of what? You're living off for the
sake of Allah, and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
has not failed in his promise.
I can tell you stories after stories after
stories after stories, and I might get over
excited, and I tend to do that sometimes.
We say for hours talking about it.
If you go on to my Facebook just
not yesterday, day before,
one of the sisters that I teach
sent me a very long letter
of how she left
her nursing job
because it wasn't
coinciding with the Islamic dress code,
How she went through troubles
And then later on Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
gave her a job
that was far far greater
She was earning more money and she was
working from her home.
She left it for the sake of Allah
But there's stories that that are far far
greater. You might wanna read that insha Allahu
Ta'ala. Either go to my Instagram or go
to my Facebook. I posted it the other
day that she requested
so, you know, other people can benefit from
it. I remember I had a friend.
His name is Suhaim,
and his wife's name is May.
They were my
neighbors. They were very good to me. They
came on hedge with me a couple of
times.
I remember this brother.
He was working in accounting. He was doing
a Riba. You know what Riba is?
He was writing down interest.
And we know, as the mitzvah Allahu
Akkila Riba wamukila wakati washaydi waqalahu
sala.
The one
who writes it down,
and the one who is a witness to
it. All of them are the same.
Messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam told us.
Shur mawati and sisters, we wouldn't wanna be
waging a war with Allah
Imagine you walking onto the road or getting
onto the battlefield and saying to Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala, well, come on then.
And in simple terms, that's exactly the person
who goes and takes the rebah is actually
doing.
You don't leave of Riba, you are proclaiming
a war with
Allah You're starting a war with him. You're
telling Allah, come on then.
Let's start a war. Let's start a fight.
He knew that.
I remember he went through some difficulty.
Some of his family members were saying to,
what's this guy? He's such a bum at
home all the time. Why is he not
going outside and working?
And he knew this hadith.
I told him this hadith when he saw
my advice.
He left it.
Most guys, my brothers and sisters, when they
go to Saudi Arabia to teach English,
they normally get jobs in places like Riyadh.
Ashaq Abu Abdul Azid will tell you.
Place like Riyadh, Abha,
just Daman,
very far places or very far cities from
the Haramain. Because when you go to Saudi
Arabia, you'd wanna keep going to places like
Mecca and Medina.
That's the main objective normally for a lot
of people when they go there.
And I firmly believe that Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala gifted him and his wife a job
in Mecca.
In Mecca,
guys. And they were earning somewhat like, what,
£22,000
a year.
Tax free. Here in this country, we work
for the government.
We all work for the government.
Whenever we get our job, we have to
give a big chunk of that a tax.
There's no tax over there.
I remember he used to phone me, tell
me how much he was chilling, would be
going to the Kaaba like every other day
relaxing.
And I believe he has something to do
with and this is the statement of the
messenger
because he left it for the sake of
Allah
Allah gifted him with that which is far
greater.
Remember there was another brother of his old,
his name is Najib. He's my neighbor.
He's working for Carrefour and Warehouse, and he
would travel there 30 minutes every single day.
And he keep traveling 30 minutes, it tends
to work.
Off. It adds
up. It cost quite, you know,
expenses. It comes by costing.
So what happened my brothers and sisters was
all of a sudden now they introduced insurance.
Insurance.
He told the man, you know, I can't
be selling insurance. It goes against my religion.
I can't do that.
So he was, you know,
between two thoughts,
two minds,
came to me. I gave him the exact
same hadith.
And I remember
as well, he just had got gotten married.
Normally when you get married,
you know, the girl, she wants to be
taken out to ice cream, you know, parlors.
She wants to be taken out to restaurants.
She wants the Louise Vuitton and the Dolce
Gabbana bags. She's newly wedded.
Comes quite costly, your pocket hurts.
I remember Allah would see him at 4
times saying in the masjid making these very
sincere duas,
supplications,
asking Allah to help him.
I remember Allah gifted him a couple of
weeks later,
not a couple of weeks, maybe
couple of months later,
where
he was only driving to his work. He
started working in a place called British Gas
10 minutes 10 minutes.
I told you before he was traveling for
half an hour, so so he beats the
traffic at 5 o'clock.
And he was earning maybe
3, £4,000
more a year than his previous job.
Why?
He left it for the sake of Allah.
Say Allah
for you inflict with evil eye.
Point of the matter is, my brothers and
sisters,
I can sit here, tell you so many
stories, bro.
These are just some.
Point number 7.
Number 8, you're all gonna love
Point number 7 is a draw.
Normally, when I give
farewell messages to a lot of people that
I really love, I always advise them with
3 things,
to introduce into their lives. The first one
is being thankful.
The second one is doing dua.
Second one is what? Doing a dua. And
the third one is helping people. Because you
help people, Allah Subhanahu will help you. So
anyways, this dua my brothers and sisters, Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala loves for you to ask
him.
If you look at Allah the creation,
when you keep asking a person, how does
he look at you?
He looks at you in a very very
what? Belittening way. Right? And he hates to
be asked and that's just how Bani Adam
is.
And my sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam told us,
Whoever doesn't ask Allah he
becomes angry at him for not asking him.
And it is expected as Ibn Taym Rahim
Allah ta'ala had said,
woman akfaraminqarbil
babi yushikalifthahilaw.
Whoever is someone who continuously knocks that door,
it is expected that the door is going
to be opened up for him.
Keep knocking on that door because
perhaps if you keep knocking it, it's expected
that it's opened up for you.
Sometimes
the moment we lose our jobs, we tend
to rush to air. Job seekers allow us.
Right? We're straight on the phone.
Go there. We're already filling up the phone
straight away, and there's no problem with that.
It's the law of the land.
You can do that. No problem.
Or maybe
we try, you know, rushing to asking the
advice bureau.
We try to set up a debt management,
plan straight away because of all the debts
that we might
have incurred on top of ourselves.
We get sick.
The first place that we rush to is
what? The NHS or the GP. We're lining
up straight away.
There's no problem with that.
But why my brothers and sisters,
can't we maybe take a couple of moments
out and just bet Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
raise our hands to him? Cause as I
mentioned
earlier,
Allah is shy and he's generous. When his
servant stretches out his hands to Allah
that he sends him back empty handed.
Maybe with 1 dua with 1 dua,
he could change the fortunes of your life
But the issue is my brothers and sisters
we've become so attached and this is what
living in the UK does to you. When
everything is free, you become so attached to
the creation.
And it's just free, money's free,
housing benefits, child tax credit makes us so
connected
to the creation.
And the moment something happens, we're running to
them again.
It's Allah who
gifted the British government to provide for you
They are a means, and they are not
the
main source of provision.
A with famine,
as the wedge,
getting married
is a means of getting an increase in
provision.
Allah
has only 2 left.
So bear and be patient. Why am I
so scared then? Am? Why am I so
scared? Are you married? Yeah. You need to
get married again.
Some night you find before. Before, it covers
us. I hope she's not in the women's
section.
Okay. Don't give me the trouble, bro.
Okay. Don't give me the trouble, Rawa. As
the wife, getting married. Sometime before marriage, a
person has all of these whispers from the
shaitan that if he was to get married,
his situation is going to become more worse.
Oh, you know, he's going
to be deprived of provision and so on
and so forth.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells in the Quran,
And get married to
the female slaves from amongst you.
In the female servants
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
If they are poor, Allah
will enrich in you
because of the marriage.
Also that which has a similar meaning to
me is the message of alayhi when he
said,
3 people Allah
has made it a right upon him
to assist them.
First one is
the one who goes after jihad.
By the way, ISIS and that that's not
the
before the BBC cuts it, not the BBC
channel 4.
They always tend to twist things and
Somebody who is maybe working as
a slave for his master,
and he wants to work towards freeing himself.
And then the third one that was mentioned
is, wanaqhulleliuridul
aafaf.
The one who wants to get married in
order to
safeguard his private party, he wants to keep
himself chased.
Umar ibn Khattab radiAllahu ta'ala Anil said something
very interesting. He said, Ajibam,
strange.
It's the affair of the one who
doesn't seek trying to become rich through getting
married.
They are poor, then Allah
will
find it
very
strange.
You find my brothers and sisters
that the Shaitan is always scaring us to
do.
He really is
he puts maybe a 101
thoughts in our minds.
You know Hassan al Basri
says something very interesting. He said,
Allah has mentioned in 90 places in the
Quran
that he has now
decreed your provision.
And he mentioned in one place that the
shaytan, he scares the people with poverty.
And that statement is,
The shaytan scares you with poverty, and he
commands you to do evil.
The
point of the matter is, is telling you
that he's going to provide for you.
Sometimes you find that the parents might make
it very very difficult as well.
If you are helping them, you are there
by their side, while at the same time
he has the promise of Allah as the
is going to
help him as well.
What is it that we should be fear
fearful about?
Especially now my brothers and sisters, and excuse
me for mentioning this,
somebody who gets messages all the
time. A lot of the time we find
when the parent says no,
and he's still very young, maybe 17, 18.
Behind closed
doors, some young kids they feel like that
if he goes and impregnates her,
it's maybe
a quicker way of speeding up the process
of getting married to this girl.
Maybe it's because the Pakistani father doesn't want
him to get married to an Indian sister
or the other way around.
Or
maybe a Somali mother because she's from a
particular tribe. She goes, no.
She has to be from Darot,
or she has to be from a specific
tribe.
By the way, no offense to this specific
tribe. I don't have any problems with them,
but that's the first tribe that came to
my mind.
And then they find that it's a better
way to just maybe let them just go
impregnator
in order then to maybe
protect themselves from any disgrace coming their way,
they're gonna get us married off.
This is the facade the messenger
told us about.
Whoever comes to you and you are satisfied
with his religion
and also his etiquette, these were the 2
things that were mentioned.
Get him married off.
Either you do this, otherwise, there'll be a
big facade on the face of this earth.
And we see this.
The corruption has taken me, the things like
that.
And also, you have I remember brothers messaging
me from Canada
and other places where they're practicing.
But because now the parents said
parents said,
you need to have $20,000
and you need to have a degree. If
you wanna get married to my daughter, they
reverted to watching *,
and that's how they're fulfilling their desires.
This is the facade that told us about.
Not in any way am I just blaming
the parents. Of course, he's got responsibility as
well, but it's a big fault on the
parents' behalf as well.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala encouraged them with getting
married.
And he commanded
the servant who is under the authority of
his master and also the one who's free
to get married.
And he promised them that he will enrich
them and provide for them.
Have I gone over the time?
Very, very quickly.
Point number time is
He will provide for them from where they
don't expect
whoever puts his trust in Allah
He is sufficient for him.
Also, the message said,
If only
you put your trust in Allah
the same way,
or the correct type of talk, or you
have the correct type of trust
and authenticity of Allah He
will provide for you the same way He
provides for the bird.
The bed,
normally in the morning when she leaves with
a empty stomach and then she comes back
with a full stomach.
She has a with Allah
provides to her.
And Allah tells her, do you have that
kind of authenticity
that you're not going to forsake you? And
having
good thought of Allah
is from the means of Allah looking after
you. So you have good thought of Allah
that he's not going to forsake you.
And food that Allah has not gone to
provide for you and increase your provision.
Also,
he mentioned that the messenger of Islam
Whoever wishes to be from the most strongest
of people
let this person now put his trust in
And last but not least,
keeping
good ties and relationship
with
your family relatives.
And this is something my brothers and sisters,
as time goes on, you find because of
these smartphones that we have,
these smartphones are meant to be connecting
the family relatives from different parts of the
world, right?
Because he has busied us so much with
Instagram,
Twitter, by the way, Mashek Hinyamin used to
call it
Twitter and Facebook, and he used to call
Facebook Fiskbook,
the book of transgression.
Point in the mouth. Anyways, I know there's
a lot of khair in there as well.
It's like a cup. You can use that
cup either for milk
or for alcohol. Depends how you use it,
but
you find that,
you know, it hasn't been the best of,
It hasn't been the best of
things for most of us.
Whoever wishes
for his provision not to be increased,
and also
his life span to
be stretched
even more.
Let this person now
tie the kid and the king. Keep good
relationships
with his family relatives.
My brothers and sisters, I know people
who have cut off from their blood brothers
and sisters
because he didn't give him a long enough
notification
before the wedding.
He was told maybe 3 weeks before the
wedding that he's invited. He was unhappy with
that. He wanted to be told 6 months
before.
And because of that, they're not speaking to
one another for years.
Over the most pathetic of things, you find
that today,
blood brothers and sisters, they've cut one another.
And some of that is very prevalent. I
know some communities and some people they've still
got grudges
of what some tribes done.
So they end up generalizing
as making sweeping statements about the whole tribe
back in Somalia.
Because someone from that tribe does something
to another individual in his tribe,
he has a vendetta towards everybody in that
tribe. And because of that, he doesn't speak
to him.
They call one another.
Allah tells us,
These are the people who have been cursed.
They've been made to be blind and deaf.
Also the message of the Arius who told
us
The one who cuts his relationship
with his family members, he won't enter into
a jannah. And a quick story to just
sum it up
is the story of Abu Bakr
and Aisha.
Aisha and I'm sure we know the famous
story of when she was
accused of being a phonicatress.
And from those
who spread these false rumors
was her uncle, the cousin of Abu Bakr
called
He was from those who spread these rumors,
and he's mentioned in Surah to Nur.
When you look at the tafsir.
And you know the only source of income
that the cousin of Abu Bakr had,
Islah,
was Abu Bakr.
When he made hijra,
Abu Bakr used to spend on him, he
used to give him money, he didn't have
anything to live on.
And when he realized that he was from
those who spread these rumors,
the only thing that he said was I
am not going to continue giving him money
to live on.
So a verse came down while I have
Don't let those who have virtue
and immense
attitude
Be from those who
swear that they are not going to be
helping the from
the poor amongst.
Forgive and forget. Turn the page. Wouldn't you
like Allah to forgive you as all?
We cry out all the time, right, in
the last 10
days of Ramadan.
Oh Allah, you pardon me. You don't have
to pardon, so pardon me.
From the things that ibn Rajiv Alhambrai Rahim
Alaihi
says, the direct connection now between you wanting
to be forgiven, go and forgive others as
well.
Forgive and forget. Turn the page. Be the
bigger man as they say. Just like a
Ruqah. Or like someone
spread a rumor about our wives
or maybe our daughters,
you're going to find that the table is
gonna turn on him.
Our jaws not our jaws. Our fist is
going to be in his jaw.
It's going to be
problems, and we will struggle to forgive that
individual. Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala will forgive you.
Not only did he forgive him,
but he carried on spending on him. The
same way he was before the slander was
spread.
So these are my brothers and sisters, 10
points. Of course, there's many other means of
getting
an increase in provision and one of them
is, you know, spending charities
that
spend and I will give you money as
well. You see?
And,
but we won't have time to go through
all of that, Maybe in another setting,
we can go through it But
guys,
this is not just a haribet put a
bedtime story then.
These are practical things that we apply in
our lives, And I swear by Allah
Your life will change
It has changed many people's lives
When? They started applying these things 1 by
1 in their lives.
Like I said to you, I can easily
get carried away. I said to somebody, I
can tell you story after story, and these
are real life stories of people that are
just like you.
Remember that brother that I told you about?
He came to me and he said to
me, instead of got £8,000 I need to
go pick up because of a CC scam.
I told them the exact same hadith.
Many people came to me later on in
life,
maybe years later, Aki, I remember you said
the hadith.
I acted upon it and Allah gave
me
You don't believe something for the sake of
Allah
except that he will give you
and remember that. We don't take anything away
from this lecture except that, and it's a
great enough benefit statement of the message
Questions?
What time is now? Because I've got a
lecture there.
Anybody wants to attend this 8
seemingly as dangerous effects of sins.
It might change the way you look at
life as well when you see some of
the points that
How long does it take to get there?
15 minutes. 50 minutes. 3 minutes.
Your neighbors.
Nice.
So if anybody has any questions quickly
with regards to a topic.
Otherwise, we'll quit a day.