Abu Taymiyyah – HD Boost Your Eman New aadh birmingham
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1st and foremost, I just want to apologize
to everybody
for coming late.
We actually arrived here approximately half an hour
ago,
and then we left, and then we came
back.
So,
we didn't actually, SubhanAllah, pay close attention to
the time change and, sorry the venue change,
so apologies for that. Allahi khazakum.
My brothers and my sisters,
that which is not hidden from everyone is
that
we go through phases in life
where one's Iman
goes up and down.
We are told
numerous times in the Quran
that if you were to do a particular
thing your Iman goes up, sahih.
Like when Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
says about the Quran,
The believers are only that when Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala is remembered,
their hearts
become filled with fear
and when the Quran is recited upon them,
they increase in Imal, the Imal goes up.
Right?
From the many complaints that we always get,
Wallahi Alaihi brothers and sisters,
whether it may be on Instagram, whether it
may be on Twitter,
whether it may be on Facebook,
Whatsapp,
from the commonly
asked questions is, brother
I feel down,
I feel sad, I feel miserable.
Right?
And I feel like this is having an
impact
on my day to day doings,
my day to day life, it is having
a serious impact.
Would you advise, how do I bring my
Iman back up?
This spiritual emptiness that I feel, this hole,
right?
Inside of my heart. What is it that
I could do in order to lift myself?
Are you brothers and sisters with me?
Right?
And I'm sure every single one of us
here
has experienced that
sometime in their life
where the iman goes up sky high. Like
for example,
when you go for Imra,
who here has gone to Imra?
How do you feel when you go to
Imra?
Honestly speaking, your iman
is sky high,
right?
You feel
absolutely
wonderful.
You come back, even when you come back,
right? You're walking around with sandals.
You walk around with sandals.
Because you're still in that groove,
that vibe is still there.
No?
There are things that an individual does
that keeps his iman sky high.
There are things brothers and sisters, it may
be one
action that individual does if your iman is
so high like in the month of Ramadan,
and I'll tell you guys the story of
one of my relatives
of what he said.
His imam was sky high,
he did something on Eid,
and wallahi said to me with his
very tongue,
it is as if I destroyed my ommah
in 5 minutes.
This is my own cousin saying this is
not a Taal Ibrahim, he's not a student
of knowledge that has gone through the Quran,
who has gone through the sunnah of the
messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And I'll tell you guys outrightly brothers and
sisters,
what he did in Ramadan
and what he ended up falling into on
the day rate.
The whole
Ramadan he said, you know what? I'm going
to stay away from my girlfriend.
This is a cousin of mine
and he's telling me this, I'm going to
stay away from her
and khalaf, I'm going to use the month
of Ramadan
as a stepping stone to better myself.
And Khalaf, I'm not gonna go back to
her.
Avoiding her cause, he even told me he
blocked her.
Come the day of raids,
that is when the Shaiateen
are let loose, right?
Just ask Lady Poor Road.
Ask Lady
Poor Road.
Everyone knows Lady Poor Road, right?
What happens on the day of 8? And
in Manchester, they have another road
called Wilmsrow Road.
You guys heard of the road?
And in London they have a road called
Edgeware Road.
No.
No. He said the following to me brothers
and sisters,
on the day of Eid,
she called
and he was like, no.
And his iman is sky high, he's praying
in the night,
fasting in the day, reading Quran,
hanging around with the right crowd.
Are you promised this is with me?
On the day of rain she called,
No.
Calls again, Just 5 minutes, I wanna talk
to you.
And excuse me my brothers and my sisters,
right?
In the schools,
they are teaching our children that they can
have 2 mothers,
so nobody get upset at me for getting
a little bit too explicit with what I'm
about to mention.
They are teaching our children that it's okay
to have 2 mothers
or 2 fathers.
Just the other day I was sent,
a book,
where they are teaching the children in cartoon
form.
On the day of aid he goes,
he parks up,
and before you know it, a zina happens
in the back of the car.
Wallahi rahdi brothers and sisters,
we sat in a path to discuss his
problems
and this is what he said to me,
he's not someone who went through the Nusool
as the text. What does the Quran say?
What does the sunnah of the mess of
Hariyyasul say that?
He said, my imam was here and it
came
crashing down
in 5 minutes.
So there are things my brothers and my
sisters that individual
may carry out which destroys his imam.
Now let's come to the evidence. What's the
evidence that indicates this? The messenger sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, he said in Hadith,
When the Zani, the fornicator, carries out the
Zina,
he is not a true believer.
I'm not saying that he's a kafir or
he has left a fold of Islam,
what I'm basically saying brothers and sisters is
that his iman is
lifted
from him,
and he destroys it. If you want brothers
and sisters, I wanna go to be able
to go through all the different
ahadith
that speak about Laayugminu,
All the hadith, the hadeemer and an action
alongside one another because these are the hadith.
If you were to take a stronghold of
it, it will give you a good idea
what maybe will increase your iman and what
doesn't,
or how your iman will get affected.
Hadith of Prophet when that person he commits
zina,
when he does that,
his Imaan is taken away from him.
And then I told him the hadith and
he was like, SubhanAllah.
What he mentioned and what the hadith says
is exactly the same.
So this is
some in a happens.
Right?
My brothers and my sisters, it's one thing
identifying
the problem,
it's another
finding the solution.
We want to walk away from the Masjid
today Insha Allah
with practical steps
in how to
up the ima.
And I will guarantee you my brothers and
my sisters, right?
That if you hold on to these 5
points,
these 5 points,
Been Nillahi Ta'ala you will never ever fall
off,
you will never lose your istaqamah.
You being upright,
steadfast,
will not be taken away from you, as
long as you hold onto these 5 things.
And I hope you guys write it down,
or at least you memorize it.
Right?
5 things.
Number 1 brothers and sisters,
brothers
and sisters,
some of you guys may have heard me
saying this online,
I do not care
if you are a drug dealer who's listening
to this,
a drug dealer.
Or you are a woman who works in
a brothel
as an extreme example.
You are from the worst of the people,
you walk outside
holding a knife,
I'm speaking to you as well.
Don't
leave off your salah.
The shaitan, he will whisper and he will
say,
how can you pray
and you are filthy? You're doing all these
filthy things.
What does Allah say?
What does the salah do? It removes the
filth
and the evil from that individual's life.
I'll tell you guys about my friend,
right?
A friend of
mine who was running the drug dealing industry
in East London.
I'm sure you guys have heard of East
London, right? Canary Wharf, apparently even had 2
houses there.
Drug dealer,
right?
He went on umrah with us.
Some of the brothers that I worked with,
they take the roadmen to Umrah.
In front of the Ka'bah, I sit down
with brothers
who do not leave the house except with
knives.
He doesn't leave the house except with a
knife.
There's brothers like that that we sit with
in front of the Kaaba.
These are the kind of individuals that might
go to Al Umrah, Allah invites them.
This brother who's running the drug dealing industry
in East London,
I think we could take a lot of
benefit out of this,
right?
He's moving drugs
from a to b.
Right? He's moving drugs from a to b.
However, the time of the salah kicks in,
he stops the car, takes out his prayer
mats from the boot, and he starts praying.
What do you guys think brothers and sisters?
He's a drug dealer who's moving drugs from
a to b, he takes out his prayer
mat and he starts praying.
There would even be non Muslims with him,
non Muslims.
Right? 3 non Muslims apparently became Muslim
because
of him doing so. He never gets arrested
his property because he prays, everyone else gets
arrested. Wallahi and how they brothers?
And this brother Allah guided him.
This brother Allah
guided him. And you know what I put
it to? The
salah.
The salat, it removes the filth and the
evil from one's life.
Does that make sense?
Sometimes I have parents they call me and
they say,
how can I or what can I start
with my child? He's a drug dealer, he
does CC scams,
He empties
people's Barclays account.
In Leicester this is very common, CC scams.
Emptying
old people's
bank accounts.
You got 18 year olds, 19 year olds
walking around or should I say driving around
with the latest cars.
And then they phone me and they say,
listen I've got all of this money, what
should I do with it? I don't feel
good.
I have all of this money I can't
put in a bank account,
it's inside of my house,
under my blanket,
under the carpet,
he can't declare it.
What shall I do with it? I do
not feel good, I feel guilty.
I don't feel the spiritual contentment that money
can't buy.
Are you brothers and sisters with me?
No?
The point that I want to make my
brothers and my sisters
is this brother who is drug dealing, should
I say running the drug dealing industry in
Islam then?
Allah 'azawalahu 'alaihi wa
lih.
And I was abroad putting his life together.
Another brother,
I remember one time I was driving
on a cold winter's day, no? On a
cold winter's day,
I saw 4 5 Somali brothers,
they were standing on a road called Hartington
Road in Lessar,
and they were smoking.
So I thought to myself, You know what?
Let me park up the car and just
give them a 2 minute advice.
I went up to them, I told them
listen, I'm not going to stand here for
1 hour because in Lesta it's very common.
You got missionaries,
Muslim ones going around,
make you stand there for an hour up
until that guy,
he hates what this guy is saying, when
is he going to leave me alone?
So I had to come to the disclaimer,
just want 2 minutes.
And they were
humble enough, respectful enough
to stop
smoking weed in front of me, they put
it off.
I said,
Brothers, is it fair?
You have 24 hours in the day.
You cannot give 25 minutes to Allah.
When you say that to someone, if he
has
iman in his heart, brothers and sisters, he
has iman in his heart,
He's not going to lend you a riyyah.
Isn't that going to make him think?
25 minutes you can't give to Allah
and you could see they felt guilty,
and I left them.
Couple of years later, you guys know Hotel
in Madina?
Zimzim Pullman Hotel?
I remember my dad, he brought a group,
and I was in the lobby with all
their keys, about to give them out.
A big brother mashallah with a beards and
a thobe comes up to me and he
says do you remember me? Wallahi just thought
it was one of the brothers
that I met after a lecture.
And I said, No, you don't look familiar
to me. And I normally remember people.
We have 45 minutes,
Wait.
Don't worry. We're only going for another 25
minutes.
I know the attention span has reduced from
14 minutes.
5 years ago to
maybe a couple of minutes now so.
I know the millennials they struggle to concentrate,
just bear with me insha Allah.
And he said,
You came up to us on that night,
and we were smoking weed in front of
your face. That's what he said to me.
I said, Okay.
Yes, I remember.
They
were smoking weed like that. I said, please
brothers, 2 minutes, and they took it off.
One of them said the following,
as soon as you left I just went
into the Masjid,
and I started praying, and yes I was
a little bit,
his mother wasn't there.
And I just started praying, praying, praying.
I would carry on whatever I was doing
but I was praying,
and I just started feeling extremely
uncomfortable in my environment.
SubhanAllah.
And eventually,
I just left a lifestyle.
Well, like there are brothers
who I know now give dawah,
or maybe they've left it.
Who used to be in the music scene,
And he would say to me that he
would make
songs
inside of his house, the other room, where
he would do the beats and everything.
And he just started praying,
right?
And as time went on, he just began
to feel extremely uncomfortable.
Someone here may say to me, I started
praying and I still don't feel that connection
with Allah.
I still feel, you know?
Brothers and sisters, Ibn Uqayim in his kitab
adaawaddua,
the spiritual
sickness and his cure, he says the following,
You know when you sin,
it is like you're drinking poison.
Now that you've drunk poison brothers and sisters,
now that you've drunk poison,
and you want to get this cleaned out,
what do you have to do? You have
to take that, what you call the
That drip, sir. Like what is the drip?
IV. IV. I
think the shaykh's the doctor.
You need IV drips,
I remember when my appendix burst,
the poison spread around my body.
I have IV
after another, after another, after another. It takes
time for it to be cleaned.
Are you brothers and sisters with me?
Imran Khaimkhna in
his Kitab ad Dawah, he says the sins
are similar to that.
When you now start praying,
when you start praying,
you still might not necessarily feel good.
So you need to continue and continue and
continue and continue.
Brothers and sisters, when you get a chance,
recently we released a lecture on my channel
it is called
we have to learn to say no.
The whole lecture was about a statement
where Ahmed ibn Khargi said, abatullahahamsina
sunnah, I worshiped Allah for 50 days for
50 years.
50 years.
I did not taste the sweetness
of Ibaal until I left 3 things, which
I'm not going to go into at this
moment in time, because this is not the
mawdul and the lecture.
That connection,
there's a way that it can come about.
One of them is like I said now
brothers and sisters,
you have that poison inside of you which
is the sins, and you're praying or you're
reading Quran, and you still don't feel that
connection, that touch.
You have to continue.
Cause that poison is now being what?
Removed slowly slowly.
Are you brothers and sisters with me?
So what's the first one?
Salah.
Don't forget my drug dealing friend,
don't forget him,
Who was running the drug dealing industry where?
In East London.
3 non muslims became muslim
because they said,
This guy never gets arrested, maybe it's because
he prays.
Let's become Muslim as well.
Don't forget that.
That's the first one.
The second one, brothers and sisters, is
not just a salah,
but to what? Praying a salah in the
Masjid.
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam he said,
For those who walked in late,
we are speaking about how an individual's iman
drops.
And 5 things if you were to do
it, insha Allahu Ta'ala you will never fall
off.
You will never ever fall off. Take this
for me.
The second one now is
carrying out that prayer in the masjid.
I'm at work 9 to 5, pray
Pray the Isha prayer at least in the
house of Allah Pray the Fajr prayer in
the house of Allah, there's 2 that you
can do.
Right? The Messenger said,
If you see someone going back and forth
to the Masjid, then bear witness they have
iman.
We can take from that, it's one of
the things that increases your iman.
1 of the Kuwaiti masha'as, and I heard
him say this, right? He said, I was
the imam of the masjid for what?
Maybe the last 15 years, or maybe I'm
getting it wrong, 20 years, 15 to 20
years.
Right? Are you guys with me?
15 to 20 years.
He said not 10ths,
not 20, not 100, he goes
It may even reach what?
Over a 1000 of people that used to
come to the Masjid.
Right? And then
they suddenly stopped coming.
And now we hear about him that he's
like this,
and like this, and you think it's only
young people?
Even elders.
I know people, men,
who used to pray in the front row
front row. Right?
A year or 2 later,
he's now what? Chewing hot.
He's chewing hot, brothers.
Him and his boys they get together,
these are older men, all they are.
Old men, they get together and they chew
hot, and the guy used to be in
the front row, front row.
You know back in 2015 brothers and sisters,
I used to teach a lot of brothers,
they used to come to the classes,
Right?
Me normally when I see a brother
who can
accomplish a lot, I say it in Khallas,
pack your bags, go study abroad, go to
Egypt,
go to Madinah or whatever, don't stay here.
You can find better lessons than my ones
over there.
Go memorize the Quran, go learn Arabic,
so you can listen to the scholars.
Right? So you can listen to the scholars.
Some,
they went.
Many couldn't go for a number of reasons,
so they stayed.
Are you brothers and sisters with me?
No.
Right.
Those who stayed
are still today steadfast.
But the ones
who went to study,
they went abroad
and then they came back,
they had different phases, they fell off.
Some of them stopped practicing then they had
to be dragged back and then they stopped
again.
Why do you think that?
Some of these brothers when they came back,
shaitaan
got the better of them, he trapped them.
You know the Arabic language,
why do you need to keep going to
the masjid?
Shaitan will say to them,
if you go to the masjid there's a
class, you don't wanna sit there
and the people see that you are still
sitting in an English class when you know
Arabic.
Can you see how the shaytan works in
the most mysterious ways?
He stopped coming to the masjid.
Shaitan is telling him, Don't worry, you know
the Arabic language, sit inside your house in
front of YouTube, and listen to the
videos and the lessons of the scholars.
One of the hardest things to do, brother
and sister, is to study yourself. For most
people they find it difficult. Agreed?
You need a companion.
Your brother that you study with.
He strengthens you. He pulls you up. He
calls you. Why you're not memorizing? What's going
on? Let's do this. Together,
to worship Allah by yourself is very difficult.
This is why
the hadith of the man who killed the
100.
What did the Sheikh advise him with?
He just killed a 100. What did he
tell him? Leave. Go to them lands. There
are people
who worship Allah, worship Allah with them.
Because when you worship Allah with other people,
like in the month of Ramadan,
When somebody asks me, look I'm traveling,
should I break it? Should I not? We
all know that it's allowed to break your
fast when you travel but which one should
I do? Which one is better for me
now?
Right? Most of the time we tell the
people it's better
that you continue fasting
unless of course it becomes very very difficult.
Why?
Because everybody's fasting, it's easier.
The moment the month of Ramadan finishes, and
now you have to do it by yourself,
one day could become like a huge mountain.
Agreed brothers?
So fa'abudillaha'aal.
So in the house of Allah, you find
the angels,
you find people,
you find Timah,
you find Salah
in the house of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
You need to keep that connection.
So these brothers,
right, many of them are from Laufbra University
sorry, Laufbra City, which is like half an
hour from Laska.
Now alhamdulillah they have established a Masjid.
I put it down to,
they continued
attending the Masjid.
They continued attending classes.
They kept that relationship with the house of
Allah
Does that make sense brothers and sisters?
Right? If 5 salawat in the house of
Allah Azza wa is difficult, then at least
do 4 can't do 4, do 3, 2,
1.
Even if you have reached the age of
50, you are still
in need of the house of Allah of
course, if you're still capable.
How many is that brothers and sisters?
Salat
and also what?
To pray the salah in the house of
Allah
azza
wa
ta'ala.
Number
3,
a
tawbah.
Brothers and sisters, I know it's not easy
to live in this kind of environment, and
I really want the parents who have attended
to understand this.
Right? To be in this sexualized
environment wherever you look, you find what?
Fahisha. Even the billboards, they've objectified women.
Right?
A toothbrush is being sold and you find
a half naked woman. What has the woman
got to do with the toothbrush?
Everywhere you look you find what?
Right? Women who are not dressed appropriately.
And we are
men.
Right? It's difficult
to roam around in this kind of environment.
As the prophet said. I didn't leave a
fitna.
More dangerous upon
men than what? Than women.
And now we send them to the universities,
and brothers and sisters, let's be honest,
The universities are breathing grounds for kufr,
shirk,
lgbtq,
fahisha,
Friday night, wallahi thank Allah that we have
so many messages packed with youngsters.
On a Friday night,
when a lot of you guys could have
been doing all sorts of things.
Just to be honest here, what are many
in the shabab doing?
On a Friday night,
getting ready to do all night
is, Allah chose you to be in the
house of Allah
Allah He chose you.
SubhanAllah.
Be thankful to Allah azza wa, He chose
you out of so many to be sitting
here to hear
Right?
So you're in this university
where just about everything in front of you
is evil.
How are you going to deal with it?
You are in need of constantly asking Allah
for forgiveness.
He would be in a sitting
just like this one.
Sitting and he would ask Allah for beginning
70 times,
and sometimes a 100.
This is the Prophet SAWA and he doesn't
have past or future sins,
doesn't have that.
And we
think that you know we just live our
lives in university, the Prophet shalai didn't go
to university.
The Prophet shalai didn't go to university,
these kind of universities, did he go there?
No, he didn't.
Right?
This is the Prophet of Allah salallahu alaihi
wa sallam, and even then he would ask
Allah forgiveness. We are in these kind of
environments
and you think this is not going to
affect your heart,
It's not going to pierce it?
In fact, blacken it?
Right?
And like I said brothers and sisters, I
don't care.
If you're a fornicator
or a drug dealer,
you're the worst of the people, a woman
that works in a brothel,
well I don't care.
Don't leave off these three things that I'm
mentioning.
The Muwanda Salah,
number 2 is the Masjid.
And yes,
the woman
who has just walked out of the nightclub,
to make her
feel a certain way.
Agreed?
This is not the house
of so and so kabeelah, or so and
so shirk.
It is the house of Allah,
Baytullah. It is called that for a reason.
The house of Allah azza wa sallam.
One of the complaints that we received in
Lesdah was brothers walk in, he might have
plated hair, no offense to anybody who has
plated hair.
And then everyone's looking at them a certain
way.
Why?
Why are you looking at them like that?
It's the house of Allah. Just as the
Ullay who prays in the front row, the
old man has the right to be in
the house of Allah, that drug dealer
and that
brothel worker has the right to come in
the house of Allah azza wa jal.
Be welcoming.
Right?
Be someone who facilitates.
So a Tawba. You also have that which
is called salatul Tawba.
And this brothers and sisters,
right?
Is one of the quickest ways
to getting rid of
addictions.
Take it from me.
Do you think the shaitan likes one prey?
You go and make wudu,
and then you pray turakat, just randomly suffering
turakat
because of the sin that you committed, take
this from your brothers and sisters.
That addiction
that is destroying your life,
being
addicted to adult content again is a big
balwa.
O parents,
right,
Many of the Shabaab have addict have become
addicted
to watching all types of filth under the
blanket before they go to sleep.
Male and female.
May Allah
help them.
Every time you commit that sin, you go
and pray turakaaab, that is like a burden
for the shaytan, and you will keep trying
and you keep praying.
Can you see how the toga was connected
to the salah?
And that was the first thing that we
mentioned.
And Allah will forgive that person even if
you fall into that sin a 1000 times.
Don't stop.
Continue.
You're regretful, not like someone who's playing around
with the tawbah,
He does it out of remorse,
regret. I'm not going to do it again
but then the shaitan gets the better of
him and he does it again. Go and
pray to rakat.
How many is that?
3.
So I'm good to type.
Number 4 brothers and sisters,
is Quranul Quran.
Brothers and sisters they always say, you allah
my yooni is difficult,
You can't read and
when moving from one class to another.
If your timetable is packed from 9 till
4,
right? You're moving from one class to another.
We can't breathe Surah Fatiha Surah Nas,
Surah Falaq,
and you keep your tongue moist of the
remembrance of Allah
We can't do that.
My brothers and sisters, Qur'an
that's a huge mechanism
that
increases your iman.
Are you brothers and sisters with me? How
many is that ice for?
Number 5,
now your iman has gone up.
Right? Your iman is going to go up
and down, up and down, up and down,
up and especially
in this environment
that we are in,
especially in this environment, especially even more the
UN environment.
How do I keep my Iman afloat?
Because like I said it goes up and
down, Sahib goes up and down,
And this is where number 5 comes in.
Number 5 brothers and sisters is
Seek knowledge.
You know a lot of people think
they should only seek knowledge if you want
to give Khutba on the minbar,
only then you learn.
How you want to be the next Qari
Saab?
To become a scholar? No brothers and sisters.
No no no.
Qadab al'il
gives you that way of life.
You know we always hear about Islam is
a way of life. Yes, it is, but
that's not the definition of Islam.
Without ul, my brothers and my sisters, consider
yourself
having been taken advantage of by the shaytan.
Even Ibn Uthaymah Mutulahe talks about,
if you are someone not that is not
studying then know that the shaitaan got the
better of you.
Know that the shaytan got the better of
you.
Does that make sense my brothers and my
sisters?
We have 2 huge fitners.
2 huge
fitners.
What are the 2 huge fitners?
Who can tell me
that just about every
evil
comes back to?
It
begins with a
Shahuwat.
Shahuwat, he said. Jameel. What's the other one?
Jameel Jazak Blokher.
What does that mean?
The fitna
of doubts.
And the second one is the fitna of
sexual temptations. Maybe I'll let me let me
rephrase that, temptations.
And a lot of different types of temptations
there are that we struggled with, whether it
may be sexual temptations, whether it may be
the glitters and the glimmers of this world.
Brothers and sisters,
I went to Loughborough University, you guys know
Loughborough University?
It's a top university, right?
When I was studying civil engineering, they say
it's top 5.
After 1 year, I had to make a
huge decision.
Either I continue
or I go to Madinah.
I remember when I
broke the knees to my father, I took
him to a very luxurious restaurant.
It's like why is Muhammad taking me out
today? Norman doesn't take me out.
And I told him dad I wanna drop
out. I was about to choke on his
food.
Because I have to seek permission.
I can't just
leave,
I have to convince my father.
Well I remember even Astou,
the way he was about
to. Ashaib ibn al Kalam, he was even
like
shocked how I got into the University
because I was a bit far, right? Fresh
off the boat,
no qualifications.
When I came back from Al Yemen,
Alhamdulillah managed to get into this universe, it's
like Allah is showing me.
All of this dunya, I can easily give
it to you.
I it can easily come, but now I
have to make a big decision. Madinah
or civil engineering?
You know one of the decision or one
of the reasons that caused me to leave,
I'll tell you guys.
And I think this is the hikmah
of why Allah took me to this university.
I went to this university
and I saw
people like me and you,
like me and you,
who are non Muslims.
You know what's happening brothers and sisters? They
are learning about
our religion.
Not because he wants to be guided,
this is what they call orientalist.
This is what they call an orientalist,
who learns about your religion and who are
they targeting?
Vulnerable Muslims
who are shaky in their religion.
And I'm sitting in the library
learning about calculus,
People who are learning
our religion,
right, in order to target vulnerable Muslims.
This is why I personally find it
a bit
hard to understand.
How one feels comfortable to go into university,
to maybe even study philosophy,
and he is not grounded in his religion.
You have the philosophy teacher
whose main objective is,
I want to
strip people of religion away from their religion.
And He's giving them doubts, one after the
other, one after the other, one after the
other.
Does that make sense brothers and sisters?
So the doubts are everywhere.
Everywhere.
And especially in the universities.
And this, without the shadow of a doubt,
is going to shake your
email.
Just going to make it come straight back
down.
And number 2 my brothers and my sisters,
Right?
The temptations of this world,
the dunya,
the women, all of these brothers and sisters,
it is going to destroy our Imaan.
And with knowledge,
it allows you to navigate around all of
these
different fitan
that will strip an individual away from his
face.
It teaches you how to I'll give you
guys an example.
Let's be honest. Right?
A Ferrari drives by and we see it.
What will
every single one of us do when we
see it?
We're gonna look at it, it's, Ferrari. Wow.
Ferrari.
And then what?
Some,
they see the Ferrari as a very trivial
piece of dunya.
However, some,
they don't lower their gaze, they keep looking
at it.
What do you think is going to happen
after he keeps on looking at the Ferrari?
Let's be honest brothers.
Come on.
Isn't this now going to what spark some
intensified desire in your heart to go and
acquire it?
Or at least if I can't get the
Ferrari, there are other top cars that I
want to get.
I'm not finished yet. What happens if you
can't acquire it or you don't have the
money? What do you do?
What are some of the things that people
tend to?
Brother said he might gamble.
He goes to the bank. What does he
do with the bank though? Is the bank,
Barclay is gonna say, here, take the money.
Bank.
Interest.
Interest, right?
Haya, what about interest?
Is a good thing? Is a bad thing?
In the Quran, brothers and sisters, there isn't
a sin.
Right? Where Allah says, whoever does this,
then he has started a war with me.
There's no sin except what Riba,
interest come under it.
Does that make sense to my brothers and
my sisters?
Al riba.
Which one is worse? To start stealing or
to do riba now? Because some may go
and steal, right? I start doing cc scam
because I want a nice car.
Which one's was? He said reba.
Does that make sense brothers and sisters?
And likewise, when you look at people's homes
I just came back from Australia, I was
there for 2 weeks.
The muslims there are filthy rich.
You want money, go to Australia.
You drive down I was being driven around
by brothers and we're going past huge houses.
I got shocked.
And it's mostly owned by Muslims.
Kuwait have run away. You know, the Australians
have run away.
So one time I said to the prophet,
subhanAllah, Muslims have all of these houses? He
says, yes. Up until the Sheikh gets a
phone call.
And then the sheikh finds out about everything
that is happening inside of the house.
It looks great from the outside but not
everything that glows is glamorous, sahay.
And it's a war zone inside of it.
Told me a lot of these houses were
mortgaged,
was taken out on haram.
The father wants to give his children everything.
Right?
However,
however,
when you start war with the lies of
the wajib, do you think you're gonna have
it easy?
You think you'll have it easy, brothers and
sisters?
It's time like this, brothers and sisters, that
I really really appreciate
'ilm for life.
Like I said, is not just to give
a khutba on the nimbar.
Right?
It gives you that way of life.
I have now saved myself a huge headache.
How many people said to me,
right? Go and take the mortgage, wallahi, first
house, first house.
Yes, I know there's a fatwa by the
European Council that says first house, but they
mentioned something like 10 conditions.
And then conditions don't apply here in the
UK
at all.
So don't use this card the first house.
It's debatable,
even this fatwa,
other scholars they've But anyways,
there's group of scholars that said that,
will respect the opinion, May even then 10
conditions were mentioned, and then 10 conditions do
apply. I looked at every single one of
them. Spoke to consultants and professionals and does
this apply here? I even called the council.
And does this apply
here?
War zone.
And that is because,
he did not fulfill one commandment. What was
his one commandment
that has now led him to all of
this?
What was that one command? Because what happens
is you go to somebody's house, it looks
so beautiful and great, it enters into your
heart. I need to have it.
He doesn't have the means, what does he
do?
He goes and takes a mortgage, or he
goes and does something that's haram.
And that is because of one thing he
didn't do. What's that one thing?
Go and give it to me. I'll give
you guys a clue. It's mentioned in Sur
Taha.
A lot of people think you only know
your gaze from? Women. Is that only it?
Allah says in the
Quran,
Do not gaze
at the glitters and the glimmers of this
world.
It is there as a fitna.
It is there as a fitna,
SubhanAllah.
What is
He didn't lower his gaze, he entered into
his heart and it became what?
A sparkling desire
inside of his heart.
SubhanAllah.
Right?
And then he turned to all of this.
Brothers and sisters,
can you see how a ilm comes in
extremely handy?
Little things like this.
Even there's another, subhanAllah,
I recently gave a lecture on it. It's
called, if you can find it,
Filthy Fathers, Cheating Husbands and Free Mixing.
They always look at us akhii antum shaddid.
Why being so harsh for? Where in 2022,
the era of the millennials, let people mix
together. Okay. No problem. Do what you want.
Do what you want. You want to mix?
No problem.
When I gave that lecture about free mixing,
I didn't just want to bring Quran Sunnah,
Quran Sunnah. I didn't just want to do
that because people
are backward minded, out of touch with reality.
This is how people think.
But they need to smell the coffee at
times, they need to hit the wall,
face first
for them to realize.
I just read out
first
hand experiences
of both male and female who sent emails
to Islam q and a. You guys know
Islam q and a?
So everybody here has once upon a time
come across Islam q and a.
They sent emails saying, oh, yeah, you know,
I let my, you know, the door open.
I was inviting husbands and their wives, and
we were just having innocent chit chats.
And before you know it, her husband, she's
the one that's cooking the tea in the
kitchen, her husband's upstairs committing fahish with someone
else's wife.
Why am I mentioning this?
Allah
told you something,
to protect your mental state, wallahi makes you
cry when you read it, it makes you
cry
of what people in their relationships are going
through. And I'm just, you know, kicking myself
thinking
why don't you just listen to Allah?
And the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. When
he said,
Never does a man seclude himself with a
woman except that the third is shaypan.
Or don't mix with one another.
The brother-in-law is Mote.
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
beware of entering upon what?
Women.
Right? So he's asked, what about the brother
in the the brother-in-law is death.
If that's the closest person to
the wife of his brother, he's the closest
to her, how about anybody else?
It's times like this we appreciate
ilm brothers and sisters, wallahi.
Right?
So you have fitna to shubuhad fitna to
shahuat.
Especially now brothers and sisters with what's happening,
you know, Sure everybody came across that video
of young kids.
National anthem in the masjid,
masjid.
And people are saying, what's wrong with it?
Right? What's wrong with it? I don't even
need to say much.
With the doubts that get spread about all
sorts of things, let's not be surprised
if the next generation of young children,
are what they call coconut Muslims.
You know what coconut Muslim is?
In the inside
and then brown on the outside.
Excuse me for using these terms. And that
is because
of all the doubts that get spread around.
That our hearts become what? So embrace to.
Subhanallah.
That's again, you know,
one of the
benefits of being in this kind of country,
in this kind of environment,
that this is the kind of people we
might end up becoming.
So these are what? How many things?
5.
Can we have somebody that
repeats it?
Insha'Allah ta'ala. Five things if you hold on
to it, brothers and sisters.
Insha'Allah ta'ala, you will not fall off.
Zakaria, what was the first one?
Salah. Good.
And what's the second one? Salah in the
Masjid.
In the Masjid.
What's number 3? Tawba.
Tawba.
Constantly. Constantly. Constantly.
Number 4?
Taratul Quran. Taratul Quran. Number 5? Talalbulayl.
And like I said, is not just for
the one who will stand
here. It is a way of life that
is going to protect you from a lot
of things and you meet
Allah in the best possible state.
How do you recommend to parents to, like,
think about that trade up for their children
of, like, what should you do? Like, sometimes
it's inevitable for them to
study something if they have a period. But
what kind of precautions do you take to
make sure they don't, you know,
lose out because they've gone to
So the brother asked a very good questions.
What are some of the
precautions
that,
parents may take? Because we spoke about universities
and how the universities are breeding grounds for
kufr, shirk, LGBTQ,
feminism,
whatever have you, liberalism.
What are some of these
precautions that the parents can take?
You know brothers and sisters,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala created us for 1
sole purpose.
Every single one of us here, we have
not been created
to work. Not that I'm saying that you
can't work. No. Of course, you have to
work.
Right? We weren't created to go to university
and I'm not saying that you shouldn't go
to university, I never said that.
Our main sole purpose is what? Allah.
I did not create the jinn,
and the humankind except to worship me alone.
And we cannot worship Allah as the wajid
accordingly except by
ilm.
It is the parents responsibility
from a very young age
and I might give an answer that laiyaajibul
khair.
That may not satisfy a lot of people.
Right?
Taking them
to institutes, yes, which is going to be
costly.
Why is it brothers and sisters, we are
ready to pay £40
just for BT Sport? Sahib,
how much BT Sport cost?
£40, £50?
That is one of the channels that we
subscribe to.
Add Netflix to that, add all sorts of
stuff to that.
Every single month, we are putting money towards
something.
Why can we not put it towards
the education of the children?
Wallahi, just the other day, a relative of
mine, right? I was in London.
A relative of mine
because I got them subscriptions
to study online.
His relative.
His wife turned around and she said,
this is too much now. Too much.
Islamic studies, too much.
Some parents, they have this type of mindset.
Right?
What do you expect later on?
I know what a lot of parents do
is, after they finish college,
they take them
a year or 2
abroad
or maybe even after
secondary school, they take them abroad and they
go and study.
Right?
Or at least they
invest
in them studying whether it may be in
colleges around the country, Islamic colleges,
institutes.
The parents are trying.
Right?
And there has to be some sort of
effort from the parent.
Right?
As I was speaking to one of the
brothers, and he said, Khalaq, you know what?
I'm gonna go and do 2 years, and
I'm gonna come back. Jahid?
Who said and let me make this very
clear. Who said you have to finish University
at the age of
21?
Who said that must be the case?
The society has made us feel after college
straightaway, 3 years, 21, then job,
otherwise you will miss out. Who said that?
What are we missing out on?
You know,
at Tuntawi,
I read something, subhanAllah, he amazed me. He
said, when I was young, when I was
young,
everybody was saying Mustaqbal Mustaqbal.
Everyone knows what Mustaqbal means? Mustaqbal Kaiga,
your future.
I went to school, they're still saying Mustaqbal.
I went to university, and they're still saying
what Mustaqbal.
I became this age, people are saying saying
you should do this and Mustaqbal.
Up until when? What is my future? Up
until when?
It's a question we should really ask ourselves.
Right?
And let me make this clear, I never
said you don't work, I never said you
don't go to university.
However,
there are things that many people do from
parents
investing into the education of their children.
Right? Think about it, how much do you
have an expense on a monthly basis that
is going up to different places
and different subscriptions that you could actually maybe
invest in something else.
That they become family grounded and then maybe
go to university.
Because in university brothers, you have to look
at it.
Your faith is on the line.
Your faith is on the line.
You know, I remember back in 2015,
I used to give lectures mainly in Somani
Masajid, right?
And I would say, 2015,
parents,
do not be surprised tomorrow
if our daughters
Fatima,
Khadija,
Asiya,
Zaynah,
they turn around and they say, Dad,
I want to marry Mark
or John,
don't be surprised.
And then the parent would look at me,
Yeah. Whatever basically, that kind of image I
had from him.
I would also say straight after, this is
when I thought I will get pulled out
of the masjid.
Don't be surprised tomorrow if Mohammed
Abu Bakr,
Umar,
Umar, Abdallah,
Abdurrahman
wake up one day and they said that
I'm gay.
You guys are laughing.
Don't be surprised.
Right?
Last fear brother and sisters, and I'm sure
you guys have heard a number of examples.
I'm just quoting by the way, I'm not
here to express my own views and opinions
by the way, Just in case there's channel
4 here about to clip something out.
I just quote
and I just state the reality of what's
happening and everything.
Last year, I got a phone call in
Lestahl.
Brother said to me, why don't you call
me this brother? He said,
the son of an Imam
has come out homosexual.
Can you go and speak to him?
I said, no problem.
Right?
I get a phone call 20 minutes later,
the father said, no, because he doesn't want
this spreading around the community.
So it's Khallas.
Cases after cases after cases we are dealing
with on a weekly basis, should I say.
People are like that,
right?
I will lie brothers and sisters, take this
from me, right?
A lot of the time,
when the child
when the child
takes a certain path and I'm not saying
every case but I say a lot of
the times.
There was maybe
a khalal,
a negligence
with
the parent.
There was a negligence I'll give you guys
some examples.
First example.
Today in the Khutba, for those who attended,
we spoke a little bit about benefit fraud,
Haram,
cheating the government, claiming you are separated and
whatever have you.
For an extra
few pounds, you lie to the government
the keys.
Abdul Aziz, the keys. You you got my
keys, sir?
Yeah. Yeah. He was about to take it
to Nottingham.
I'm not the same station. I'm just still
around. SubhanAllah.
The issue about Haram, brothers and sisters,
cheating the government, disobeying Allah and
then the child,
you bring him up upon Haram.
Would you expect
his life to turn out to be? A
Haram lifestyle. Isn't that fair to say?
And I mean, let's start. Parents would come
up to me and they would say, please,
Wilkir Gulaha, speak to my son.
Tabe, what's your son doing? CC scams. He's
emptying out credit cards.
I would have an honest conversation. For those
who know me, I'm a very abrupt, sometimes
very upfront,
but sometimes I wear it in a nice
way, especially with the elders.
I said,
right? What are you doing?
Do you think do you do benefit fraud?
I have to if I don't and then
this and
I said to her, auntie, auntie, are you
just upset because you're making more money than
you?
Why are you upsetful?
You are cheating the government, you're bringing in
Haram and he's doing the same thing as
well.
They say,
Wherever the camel goes, you see that the
children they go the exact same way.
Right?
Likewise now, also when you look at the
whole phone issue,
Kids as young as 2,
they are becoming addicted to the phone.
2 years of age, maybe even younger than
that.
And if it's the parent that might give
him, he'll take it.
Because he or she is watching what Bollywood,
Hollywood, Somali
adding
on here,
and the child is upstairs in the room
exposed to all sorts of stuff.
Well, my brothers,
TikTok irritated me.
I I thank Allah for lahi that that
went viral that I did in Nesir Sun,
I think it was last year.
Because even parents they had TikTok on their
phones. Okay, what's the problem with? Isn't it
just like Instagram?
Isn't it just like tick, everything else?
It is what toxic by nature.
1,000,000,000
out of the 8,000,000,000
people in the world today, they're on TikTok.
What are they watching?
And the parent doesn't know.
Parent doesn't have a clue.
Right?
The child doesn't have 2 parents, anyway. He
has 3.
The third is the phone that is teaching
the child.
Right?
So we,
as parents, can play a huge role
in what direction the child chooses.
And I'm not saying in every case, however,
it's something that we can contribute to.
Right?
Wallahi brothers and sisters,
children as young
as 1 and a half
stop praying,
Children
as young as
1a half
will go to the the prayer mat and
they will stop praying.
If you agree with me?
Have you guys seen this happen?
And as young as one and a half,
the child to take what hijab,
and she starts wearing it, and then she
looks at the parent.
Why? Because the parent does it.
Because the parent does it.
The child does what the parent does, that's
his role model, that's the only thing that
he sees from the day he wakes up
or the moment he wakes up up until
he goes to sleep, I'm looking at the
parent
and they tend to be influenced by them,
right?
So
invest in the child,
spend some money, some parents,
they sold their goat,
right? Just so they could go abroad, they
sold their goat.
So Hannah, one question was 12 minutes.
Does the sisters have any questions?
The next one, brothers.
Uncle Abdul Qadr,
That's my uncle, by the way. He organized.
Uncle asked,
how can one protect himself in the college
environment?
The 5 things that I gave in the
lecture.
The 5 things that I gave in the
lecture was mainly for university students
and college students.
Maybe I didn't mention college and university at
the beginning.
These 5 Insha'Allah
you can protect yourself hugely.
You can ask me about steel of finance.
Student classes and so on. Okay. After class,
let's go here.
The mixing environment. There's a lot of people
there, and I think the word precautions, guidance,
and
You know, in the lecture I touched on
what Ahmad ibn Kharab mentioned, he said, I
worshipped Allah for 50 years, I didn't taste
the sweetness of Ibad until I left 3
things,
Right?
The lecture that I did online, it was
called,
We Have to Learn to Say No.
The whole lecture was about friends,
and the struggles with friends.
My friend is asking me to come here,
what shall I do? I love him, we've
always been close.
How do I change that environment?
Wallahi brother, I really want to give it
justice, but I don't think I will be.
When you guys get a chance, if you're
in college, if you're in university, please brothers,
and spread it to the college students,
Right? It picked up a lot of publicity
in the last week or so, that lecture.
It was when I was in Melbourne, in
Australia, I gave it.
It is called and you can find it
on my YouTube channel.
We have to learn to say no. 3
points that that great Imam of the past
mentioned, I worshiped Allah for 50 years.
I didn't taste the sweetness of Ibad until
I left 3 things.
Right?
Three things that he mentioned.
And that will really help you,
have a particular
attitude towards these friends.
Is that okay, Sheikh? I'm so sorry, I
can't it was a 55 minute lecture, I
believe it was.
All about these three things.
Yeah.
One last question from the brothers.
You mentioned, so if God is born and
studying, what would your advice be on? So
you're going now, Habib.
You know the keys
to all sciences
is what as Imam An Nur mentioned,
Al Quran and also the Arabic language.
Whoever
becomes learned in the Quran and likewise the
Arabic language,
All of the other sciences will become unlocked
for him.
You know how the door has a lock
sah?
You need a key.
The key is what? Arabic language knows Quran.
Someone once said to me, anybody who knows
the Arabic language more than you will end
up having more knowledge than you. No, that's
true.
Right?
They grasp it in the Quran, every sign
you will see it stems off from the
Quran. Does that make sense?
So
what's the best place for that?
Egypt.
I think I'm very unbiased.
Sometimes when somebody goes to Egypt,
he said, No. Don't go to Medina. Don't
go to Yemen. Go to Egypt.
The guy went to Medina, he says, No.
No. No. No. Don't go to Egypt. Don't
go to Yemen. Come to Medina.
Everyone tends to be extremely what?
For wherever they went to. I went to
all these three places
and the best place to go is Egypt.
You want Quran, Iraaat
and Arabic language over there that have Institutes,
especially for the Arabic it can really really
help.
I remember when I was in a Yemen,
I would see brothers coming, and they were
only in Egypt 3 months.
And by the way,
right?
This is not the rule of thumb, this
is not everyone.
You have to put in the efid and
the waq. 3 months he would be in
Egypt and
he speaks better than everyone else in Al
Yemen,
when many of the Western students.
But there was in Yemen year and a
half, the brother can't speak Arabic properly.
And
the environment can sometimes help. In Egypt, they
have institutes. Yes, you pay for it. It's
like £40 a month.
£40 a month and you learn the Arabic
language and of course you have to put
in the work.
You have to be speaking. Number one rule
for every language is, you have to speak
the language.
You have to speak it.
Whether it's French, Spanish, whatever, speak to the
people.
Learn, put the work in.
Within a short space of time you can
come out with a lot if you go
to these institutes.
Don't say to me after I went there
6 months or and you said 3 months
and I never No, you have to go
into work, it can be done,
right?
So spending a year there, learning the Arabic
language
can really really help.
Sahas Zakariyah,
Zakariyah was there and Mashallah, he came out
with Arabic language.
And likewise, you got the Quran there.
You got the Quran there as well.
And then applying, you know, for Madinah University,
I know it's not easy to get it.
I applied
6 years in a row
and I never got in.
6 long years and even then I never
got in.
Allah was making dua for a whole year
after I left Yemen. And even after that,
my dad said, no, you can't go.
And he had the point, he was like
khalas. I you were there 4 years in
Yemen, now get on with your life.
So I listened.
But then later on,
I had another conversation and he let me
go.
Is that
apply for these universities as soon as you
get your GCSEs,
Perhaps they may come through,
I've been given
the,
side.
We have to wrap up now,
Honestly,
brothers for coming.
And apologies for the 3rd time for sending
you to another Masjid.
It's really nice to see all of these
growing faces, to see the Masjid really packed.
And I'll see you guys when I see
you.