Abu Taymiyyah – Heartfelt advice to the YouTuber & Shaykh About his Private life aadh
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I want to also share a benefit,
that
Sheikh, abdulissalam, Shoaire
gave me
when I spotted him sitting in the prophet,
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's masid. Now he's very
well known, right?
Sheikh hides from students.
However at the time,
it wasn't unknown.
And I attended his class and there was
only few people there, subhanAllah.
So I seen the Sheikh who was sitting
in the Haram, and I went and sat.
And I asked the Sheikh a question.
Sheikh,
if someone wants to become very close to
Allah azza wa ta'ala, what is it that
you suggest? What is it that you advise
me?
And he told me a number of things.
One of those things that he told me
was,
be someone who's humble. No matter how handsome
you become,
how beautiful Allah
makes you,
how much knowledge that you're blessed with,
be always humble.
And Sheikh Abdul Samu al Shway, anybody who
meets him,
will testify to that.
How humble the Sheikh is.
Right?
And then he mentioned something else that I
never forgot.
And every student of knowledge,
especially those who pick up a lot of
publicity,
need to pay attention to. He said,
Being conscious of Allah
in private, I said Sheikh, give me an
example what you're referring to.
Right?
He said for example, you might be at
home, and you let your guard down, meaning
your trousers,
just happened to me below the ankles. You
may fold it when you go outside, but
in the home, it tend to kind of
like be a little bit more easy with
your salzah.
And then he even said, with your wife.
I said, what do you mean Sheikh?
Sometimes,
may be extremely
difficult
to control yourself when addressing them, because of
how much they get on your nerves.
Nadeel,
why do you mean I look for?
Are your brothers and sisters with me?
Right? With the people in public,
that might not necessarily ever happen.
However, because you're with your wife and your
kids all the time, you may snap, you
may say something.
He's saying be conscious of Allah in private.
I would never normally think about that example,
right? You would normally think when the sheikh
says be conscious of Allah in private,
not to watch something under your blanket, Sahih.
These kind of things, right?
And that brings me to a very very
powerful point
that ibn al Juzir Rahman Tawaihi mentioned, he
said,
I saw those who ascribed themselves to knowledge.
They began to overlook,
or should I say,
they stopped being conscious of Allah
watching them when they are in private.
So what did Allah
do to them? Brothers and sisters, pay attention.
Right?
What did Allah
do to these individuals
who might stand on the mimba,
who might give public classes,
who might lead the taraweeh?
Those who ascribed to knowledge. What did Allah
do to them? When they would do things
behind closed doors in private,
then show another face to the people in
public.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala calls the good things
that are mentioned about them, in public they
disappear.
When seeing them is like not seeing them.
Right?
It's like they don't exist.
There was no sweetness in one thing to
see them. You know, sometimes you really look
forward, oh, so and so is coming.
That brother, Amashala, is a righteous friend, I'm
really looking forward to seeing
him. And the heart stopped yearning for them.
So if you are an upcoming Talibayim or
a
or someone who's already very well established, or
an imam, or the head teacher of a
madrasah or whatever,
people respect you in public, right?
All the way up until
you start violating the limits of Allah as
well behind closed doors.
Why is it a certain individuals,
they were held in such high esteem, then
all of a sudden they dropped their eyes
on people?
Perhaps maybe because of this.
Right?
It doesn't necessarily have to be someone who's
a scholar that this happens to. It could
be someone that, you you know, the family
looks up to because he's a talibil.
And all of a sudden you just drop
in the eyes.
And that's maybe perhaps because you
not taking caution
in your private life.
And then it's very sorry to say, at
times you
see, the private lives of certain du'a'at,
and those who ascribe themselves to knowledge surfacing
on internet.
Wallahi breaks the heart because this does not
give a good image
of shi'uk, right?
And I believe the majority are not like
that because they are God fearing individuals.
However, when a very famous Dua'a, Darya
His laundry is
aired
on the World Wide Web, on Twitter especially.
Right? It's heartbreaking.
But at the same time,
right? As Ibn Hajjar mentioned, sometimes Allah
exposes an individual in order for him to
come back. Because you'd rather make Tawbah now
than meet Allah
with,
They
sin.
Or it could be a lesson for the
people themselves.
It scares you.
Wallahi, it's really really terrifying.
And I genuinely don't believe that
this happens at the first time of committing
a sin.
Because from the names of Allah Azawajal is
what? Sittirite, which means?
Concealed the sins of his abbot.
Allah, there are sins between us and Allah
Azza wa Jal,
right?
That no one knows about.
That no one knows about that Allah can
see us, that we wouldn't want anyone to
ever know about.
However, does Allah exposes all the time, brothers
and sisters?
No, He doesn't.
He conceals it, conceals it, conceals it, and
it may end up coming out once upon
it,
Once upon a time, right?
Or one day down the line, should I
say?
I don't believe it's the first time.
There's even a narration, Allahu'ala, whether it's authentic
or not.
There was one who stole,
and he said this is the first time.
Amun Al Khattab said no, then he cut
his hand off.
Because it was the first time Allah would
conceal your sins.
And I feel like one
Thinks that okay, I got away with it
the first time.
The second time,
I walk into the Masjid, everyone singing my
name,
I still have my publicity,
and my clout.
3rd time, 4th time, he's still messing around.
Right? Having these inappropriate conversations.
And then
he's exposed by Allah Azar.
And may Allah Azar will protect every single
one of us from that.
Especially if your ta'ale, I highly suggest,
and you're in the maharala of studying, that
you close down your social media because it
can be fitra.
Allahi.
I've had to have
sittings with certain brothers who became tested.
We're having inappropriate conversations and the girls are
threatening if you don't speak to him and
The ajeeb thing is they always contact me
because I'm the only one that they know.
Right? If you don't speak to him, we're
going to expose him.
Pick up a little bit of publicity, people
see you, oh, mashallah, madinah student,
get followers.
And then the fitna comes through the women,
they start throwing themselves
aye. So,
these uncomfortable conversations having with certain brothers,
are like, come off it, halas. This is
going to ruin your reputation.
More importantly, your relationship with Allah, your student,
and listen.
It's a fitna.
You may think how can this happen?
Prophet SAWHANSIBILITY said. I did not leave a
fitna that is greater upon men than women.
No one should feel safe from that, at
all.