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Respect your brothers and sisters.
We are joining you from the Iqra TV
Studios in London. And
with myself, I have today
Ustad Abu Taymiyyah.
Ustad Abu Taymiyyah is someone who has, you
know, traveled extensively, has studied
over 4 years in Yemen, 6 years in
Madinatul Munawar,
And right now, he's pursuing his masters in,
the subject of fiqh.
So assalamu
alaykum.
JazakAllah Khaykum for having me on Harun. Hamdulillah.
And a special shout to our brothers from
Crowley
Waleed
who facilitated this, the easing with you guys.
So jazakam alaikar
for being a facilitator and enabler of goodness.
How
is your Ramadan going? Alhamdulillah is going well.
It's actually one of my best Ramadans.
Alhamdulillah. Yeah. Alhamdulillah. Yeah. Really enjoying going from
one masjid to another just to be able
to read Quran and
and to give reminders. It's honestly been a
pleasure with our brothers here. Alhamdulillah.
Yeah. And you've been
you've been, you know, traveling a lot. You've
been speaking to the youth. You've been connecting
with them.
I thought today, you'll speak about the journey
of a believer.
Yes. About how someone who is living their
life
maybe received the Islam as inheritance from their
parents.
But a time comes where they feel that
their life is not pleasing them anymore.
Where they feel like it's not satisfying their
heart anymore.
And they start to look into,
okay, this Islam that I have, what is
it?
You know, this Allah that I believe in,
who is he? This prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
that I hear of, who was he? Yeah.
So
taking from the beginning, someone who
doesn't know much. He he's been taught the
basics in the Maktab.
He knows how to read the Arabic. Yeah.
But that's all he knows about Islam. Yeah.
Where does he go and where does he
start from?
This is, subhanAllah, you know, what you just
mentioned.
Not feeling dissatisfaction,
discontentment
is something that a lot of the Shabaab
are going through. And it's not just Muslim
youngsters, non Muslims.
And I've and I've spoken about it many
many multiple times, right? We have all of
these different YouTubers, these pop stars, they are
spiritually dead and empty and they
themselves are coming out and admitting to this
right? How they live double lives, a life
in front of the camera and then another
life behind it, some of them are crying
themselves to sleep. So I've been quoting some
of these youtubers to knock some sense into
the youth explaining to them we're spending hours
watching these streamers,
these youtubers
and in reality
right,
they themselves are stuck in life like they
don't know what to do next right so
why would we spend all that time doing
so?
Even recently SubhanAllah,
I came across an article
I believe it was on the Daily Mail
on the daily mail and they were saying
that the Muslims
right have the most satisfying
life expectancies or something along the lines of
that and they are the most
content and what have you. So I use
some of these articles that are written by
non muslims to prove a point at times.
You know we can go through the statements
of Allah azza wa jal and the statements
of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and it's
very very unfortunate when we quote Allah and
His Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam sometimes we feel
that we are maybe a little bit out
of touch with it or it's not necessarily
maybe speaking about me. It was more specific
to the companions who lived a completely different
life or that the Sharia
doesn't actually understand me. But we know that
the Deen of Allah
it is fit for every time and age.
Right? And Allah tells us this
Whoever from the male and female believers, right,
they come with Iman, they come with Tawhid,
right,
they believe in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
These people were going to give them that
satisfying happy life, and also Allah tells us
Whoever turns away from my religion,
this person we're going to give him a
Maisha, a life of you know a life
of depression
and a life of sadness
right?
So this Allah told us this 1400 years
ago a lot of time we need some
sort of article to come along,
some studies that have been put together in
order for us to actually really really believe.
But you know if only we just
looked at the Quran and the Sunnah of
the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and we explored
that and we dug deep we'd be subhanAllah
in a very very very different place You
know?
Yeah.
So when someone feels now, okay. You know
what? I I I think
this is the path I wanna tread the
tread on. Where do I start? Because for
a young person, they see all of this.
They go on YouTube. They see all this
olamah. They see the sheikhs. And they see
they read the Quran and they find it
overwhelming.
They look at hadith and I think there's
so many. Half of them are Sahih, Adidai,
what's happening there. Right? So it's it's it's
overwhelming for a person that's that's that's once
stood upon his partner now. Mhmm. Where do
they start? What should they do? And what
should they stay away from? Okay. So, I
always suggest to our brothers and sisters, right?
Of course, I speak a lot about why
we need to seek knowledge. Mhmm. And SubhanAllah,
if you look in the Quran surahta'ah,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gave his prophet
an instruction,
he gave him a commandment
and likewise he prohibited him from suffering. This
is the greatest person to ever walk on
the face of this earth. What was the
instructor with? And I'm gonna touch on the
other one as well because I think, inshallah,
it's relevant to our audience that are listening.
The first commandment that he, that I wanna
speak and mention is when Allah instructed his
prophet to ask for an increase in knowledge.
Oh Allah, increase me in knowledge. This is
the Prophet of Allah that's been instructed with
this, right, let alone anyone else. And he's
the one that, you know conveyed
the revelation the revelations coming down upon him
and he's the 'A'alam ul Khalp, he's the
most knowledgeable from amongst them and even then
he's being told to ask for an increase
in knowledge and this is a lesson for
us as well. It's not specific to him
because with an increase in knowledge we'll be
able to maneuver and navigate around a lot
of the challenges that we run into. Even
Ibn Hajar al-'Askalani,
was the famous commentary of Sahih Bukhari called
Fathalbari.
It's the most well known and most popular.
Right? He says Allah did not instruct his
prophet to ask for an increase in anything
other than knowledge. Alhamdulillah. Right? And the greatest
of knowledge that we should be seeking is
learning about who Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is.
Right? Like think about it for a moment
right? We respect people based on what we
know about them. Yes. Right? There are certain
individuals and personalities
that you look up to because of all
the things that he's achieved in life. Oh,
he's done this and he's done that and
he's done and then you begin to respect
him. There's an awe about that individual. You
hear about somebody maybe that you're going to
be meeting like and then you you've heard
you know all of these things over the
years and then you can't wait to meet
him. Why? Because of everything
that you came to know about it. Yeah.
Right? And and, and and when you think
about it as well, right, why is it
that when Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
instructs us with something it falls on deaf
ears?
Our hearts don't become activated. It doesn't move
us and that is maybe simply because we
just don't know anything about it. Right? We
we hear a lot about
yearning to meet Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. If
you look at today's society
who actually really can't wait to see Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and the messian of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Whoever loves to meet Allah Allah loves to
meet him and whoever doesn't Allah doesn't want
to meet him. And how can we increase
that and how can we you know strive
to really have the love and excitement
to worship Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and to
want to meet him, right? On your Merkhiyama
it is to learn about him.
And the only source of knowledge that we
have of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala are his
names and his attributes,
right? What are the names of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala? I'll give you an example, right?
I mentioned it yesterday in fact it's fresh
on my mind.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala he tells us
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala knows the deceptive eye
Uh-huh. And that which the hearts conceal.
Right? You know when you're transacting,
making that deal, you know
something has been written,
in those tiny letters.
Right? You know that you are trying to
deceive this individual so you can what?
Pull some more money out of Ram. Squeeze
a little bit more out of this individual
and he doesn't know what he's getting himself
involved in. Yeah. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is
watching every single move of yours, every step
that you take and every move that you
make and there will be a time that
you will be dealt with accordingly.
Right? And we believe in our religious and
islamic concept What goes around comes around. Right?
How can this individual my brother
and those who are listening even think about
continuing in this way? We hear about Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala being a Sameer,
Al Basir, Al Raqib
right? He watches all over us right everything
that we say Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is
listening to it. Everything that we do he
is watching it very very closely
when
we are under that blanket right you know
once upon a time if you wanted to
do Haram you would have to go into
the living room you had those big dope
computers right with the keyboard you need to
take the USB and then you had the
webcam you're engaging
and you're watching the door right as somebody
walks in you don't want them to catch
you using MSN remember MSN were you old
enough?
MSN Myspace these kind of stuff right? That
was once upon a time. It was a
bit more difficult to do haram. Now it's
become so much more easier. It's a fingertip
away under your blanket you feel like nobody
is watching
right?
Haram SubhanAllah is a fingertip away. It's times
like that you know when we've gone through
the names of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and
his attributes, we've learned about who Allah is
right? This is when it comes extremely extremely
handy. There is a direct correlation between
the sins that we fall into and learning
about who Allah is strengthening
our aqeed, our belief system, Right?
Via the names that Allah azza wa jal
has told us about. And like I mentioned,
this is the only source of knowledge that
we have of who Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
is. So I say to our parents who
are listening,
maybe sometimes you've tried your utmost best to
tell your son to do this and to
do that, and he doesn't seem to be
listening. And then his friend comes along and
he said, let's go and do this, and
he's more than more and more than happy
to do whatever his friend is saying. Perhaps
he doesn't know anything about Allah
So to maybe
go through a course of these names of
Allah
right? That the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
told us about
right?
Allah
has 99 names and it's actually not limited
to 99 in fact Allah has more but
the messenger
spoke about
you know Whoever
does aha of it what does it actually
mean memorizes it understands it and acts upon
it this person would enter into Jannah.
Right? So really to just instill this within
them of who Allah is these names of
Arrahma.
Allah being Ar Raheem or Rahman,
right? Ar Raqib,
right?
Al Halim and Latif.
Like even when we go through hardships and
difficulties,
right we feel like there's no light at
the end of a tunnel.
Just going through SubhanAllah some of the names
in Surah to Yusuf
everything that Yaqub alaihis salatu wa sallam went
through after having lost not just Yusuf but
then he ended up losing his
his second most beloved son Binyamin
Right? You go through it and then you
really learn about who Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
is
and how Allah didn't just abandon him in
the Mashqo bathi wa Husni ilaha.
Right? And then you find subhanAllah,
the name of Allah Azza wa Jalal Al
Halim.
Right? Right?
Allah knowing of everything that's going to happen.
Right? Allah and
one of my favorite Suras Yani, you know.
It's really one of my favorite Suras.
Allah knowing of everything that's going to happen
And, in it is his wisdom, Al Hakim.
These are the two names that maybe I
believe it's 3 times that Allah connected it
to, Al Alim and also Wat Al Hakim.
Allah knowing of everything and Allah being all
wise. So when something is happening, don't think
that Allah
doesn't know what's going on. Everything happens within
the wisdom of Allah
How many a time brother Harun have we
been in a situation where we desperately wanted
something
and we think that this is the best
thing for us and it just doesn't happen.
Yep. Right? Then the years go by years
go by and then we say to ourselves
if that didn't happen I wouldn't have this
today. Now it begins to make sense and
this is where the name of Al Hakim
comes in extremely handy. It allows you to
be a lot more
patient
right to have that forbearance
that many people may actually struggle with knowing
that Allah is going to take care of
everything. I'll give an example that I normally
like to use right. There's a sister that
you so desperately want and you feel like
there's no other woman
on the face of this earth like her
and she is going to be the one
that gives you that happiness and that love
and affection
but it just doesn't seem to be happening.
The bushra that you badly want her
is not happening.
SubhanAllah you've tried everything in your power to
make this happen just didn't happen Years go
by Allah Azzur blesses you with a lady
with a better bushrah
that has characteristics and traits
that the
mind you know couldn't imagine.
And then it's then when you say subhanAllah
man if that didn't happen I wouldn't have
this trait. Likewise when people go through divorce
people even say all the time, I pray
this tikhara though. I've done my tikhara out
4 or 5 times. Why is this happening
to me? Wasn't she meant to be the
right person for me?
But it didn't work out and now he's
going back and forth to court, right? To
get custody over his children. Like look at
the bright side, maybe Allah
wants you now to become an individual
that is a lot better than you were
before. Allah doesn't make you go through these
trials and tribulations in order to break you
but to come back up stronger.
That's why we always hear. Right? These trials
have actually made me a stronger person.
Right? Yeah. And that comes through these trials
and tribulations.
And then subhanallah you've gone through this, later
on,
you walk into this relationship a better man,
a changed man.
Right? Maybe, subhanAllah, had it been maybe a
couple of years ago that wouldn't be the
case.
Right? So, just to connect ourselves with Allah
to go through the names of Allah Azza
wa Jal that indeed will instill something with
us. I'll mention a quick incident that Ibn
Rajib Alhambari
mentioned in one of his books.
He talks about a
Bedouin that run into a lady
right in the middle of nowhere it was
a desert and he began to seduce her.
Mhmm. And there's nobody there, middle of the
desert.
And he saw that she was getting very
very, you know, worried and
The only thing I can see us are,
the stars. Yep. Right?
Subhanallah.
She responded back by saying
Where's the one that brought these stars into
existence? Where's the creator?
This is a woman that really internalized
the names of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. SubhanAllah.
So Alhamdulillah, you know, you you said the
first step would be to connect with Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. You know, it would be
the obvious thing to the creator that you're
gonna worship, the one you're gonna return to,
we should recognize him before. You touched something
within when he was just talking about the
parents.
When
a parent majority of our parents, they
were grown up in a different time, different
era. There was no Internet as such. There
was wasn't YouTube. There wasn't a lot of
knowledge available to them. So they got whatever
they received from the the teacher or the
parents.
What can they do
when they see their children,
maybe not on the Deen?
What can they do to bring them back
to the Deen?
What can they do to, you know, facilitate
that journey for them and make it easy
for them to be able to, you know,
recognize who the Lord is and and Okay.
So there's a couple of components, inshallah to
Allah. Number 1, we have to be an
example.
Yeah. Right? If I'm sitting in front of
the TV all day long, I can't expect
my children to be any different. Right? I
I have parents calling me all the time
saying oh my daughter's on TikTok and she's
watching all of these
you know
the best way to use this these very
despicable things on there right. And it makes
me feel extremely uncomfortable. I remember subhanallah one
time when a lot of the questions were
coming in right about this or more than
one parent was coming up to me talking
to me about their kids being glued on
TikTok and Snapchat.
I said auntie do you have the app
on your phone?
And she said, yes.
So I was like, auntie, how do you
expect your daughter not to be on TikTok
when you're on TikTok, when you're on Snap
all the time? Or you're on Instagram scrolling
through it, laydununahara
on samahluz and day night. Right? We have
to we have to set their example.
Right? Even the Messenger Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
he told us this in multiple Hadith.
Right? Talking about the parent and how the
child becomes influenced by them.
So we have to bear that in mind.
Right? If I'm someone sitting in front of
the TV all day long, what's the difference
between them and between us and them being
glued to their gadgets? Yeah. Sometimes we actually
give it to them so that we can
finish the the Bollywood series.
We want to go through all of it
and we don't want them distracting us. We
want to be fully focused.
Like we have to be setting that example
maybe spending time with them. You know SubhanAllah
I really
rate
I think that's what the youngsters do. I
really subhanAllah appreciate
a certain type of parent. There are parents
every single night brother Harun they sit with
their kids.
Every night before they go to sleep everyone
gets together maybe on the dinner table is
not because they've done something wrong. Sometimes we
only speak to our kids when they've done
something wrong. We pull them into a meeting
enter into the head teacher's office and then
they get it maybe they end up getting
the back of the hand right?
That's the only time you interact with your
kids
but they sit with them every night, how
are you guys? What are you thinking?
Where do you want to go? What should
we do? Like planning with the kids
recreational time the time to socialize with them.
Because if you're not
befriending them there'll be others that are more
than happy to welcome them right? When is
the last time we took our kids to
an ice cream parlor?
When is the last time we took them
maybe to a theme park or to somewhere
we can just go out and and enjoy
ourselves?
Sometimes it might be individuals we like we
tell them everything is Haram don't do this
don't hang around. Okay provide me now with
halal alternatives. Yeah. If you're saying to your
daughter don't go out with these girls that
don't hold your best interest.
Okay I need to be the guy that
you know provides them with a solution otherwise
they get bored. As youngsters they are going
to get bored.
Does that make sense? Yeah absolutely. So we
have to kind of like be there you
know,
befriending them spending time with them and it's
not going to be easy oh parent that
is listening. And it's not an easy journey
especially in this very sexualized society
where just about everything around you drags you
to Haram. Yeah. Right? So we have to
be there. Like, even if you look subhanah
in the beginning of Surat Yusuf
when he saw,
the dream, he saw 11 stars, the sun,
and the moon.
Remember he had many brothers.
Yusuf alaihis salat had many brothers. But as
soon as he saw that dream and he
woke up in the manner that he did
shocked, what does this mean? Who's the first
person that he went to? He went to
his father. Well that's assured that he felt
extremely comfortable around him and his father facilitated
that, He created that kind of environment.
So we have to kind of like be
aware of that yeah. And he's spending time
with them, engaging with them, setting that example
right?
And it's not easy and you will be
rewarded for every moment of hardship that you
go through with your kids.
But I as someone who's a religious speaker,
Yani, I can't change in a 5 minute
phone call what you weren't able to do
in maybe the last 15 years. Sometimes parents
say please talk to my,
talk to my child. Like I don't have
a I was gonna say magic one. No.
We don't we don't believe in magic. But
I don't have these superpowers now to just
you know. So
you have to be doing that.
You can't expect me to change it. Like
a lot of parents call and and at
the end of the day they themselves haven't
fulfilled that religious obligation of
of going out their way to really guide
them to that which is correct. Like I
can't do that straight away. Yes I might
be able to advise them and of course
Allah may be able to open his heart
with one advice
and we believe that can actually happen. But
my parents, Yani, that is listening you have
to kind of like you know
take the initiative.
That's
excellent. We are gonna go on a short
break. Yeah. But now inshallah and after break
my brothers and sisters, we are gonna come
back and we're gonna continue this conversation with
Ustad Abu Taimiyyah,
inshallah. So keep,
sitting there inshallah. Keep watching. We'll be back
after the break.
Welcome back to another segment.
I am with Ustad Abu Taymiyyah, who's Alhamdulillah
here at the studio in Iqra TV,
Studios London. And we were speaking about,
Sheikh,
about the journey of a believer back to
Allah. And we've touched upon,
you know, what they should do be doing
first. And you touched upon the fact that,
you know, recognizing Allah.
Because it makes sense, you know, many of
us, we wanna be practicing.
We know about all the different aspects of
the deen, you know, prayer, dua, we do
all of these, but we haven't got a
recognition who Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is.
And then we touched upon the fact about
the parents. Yeah. And how can they facilitate,
an environment and how how they can how
can they instill,
you know, those qualities in their child when
they wanna, you know, become
if they want their children to become close
to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Subhanahu, we have
a couple of examples in the sunnah of
the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. I'm sure
a lot of us have memorized hadith as
in the 40 hadith of Imam An Nawawi,
the great scholar.
Right?
One time the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
was riding his riding beast, and he had
his cousin, Ibn Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, who
was very, very young. They say when the
messenger salalahu alaihi wa sallam passed away, he
was like maybe 12, 13. There's a difference
of opinion of how old his age was
or how old he was. And SubhanAllah as
he, you know is on the back of
his riding beast,
you know they're driving and then he says
you know You hulam oh young man. Even
the way the mister Lali was gonna speak
right?
Oh young man.
Save God the boundaries of Allah and Allah
has will take care of you.
Right? You safeguard
the boundaries of Allah as a wajal and
you will find Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala when
you need him. Right?
Right? And when you ask ask Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala directly. So he's instilling Tawhid within
him. Right? Teaching him that sincerity
of when you do call out call out
directly to Allahu jalafirullah. Yes. Right? So from
a very very young age you have another
example of the Messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
as well. Umrah Alaihi Salam.
Right one time they were sitting around the
dinner table and Umrah
was it was like a small child His
hands were going everywhere on the plate.
Right?
It's going everywhere on the plate.
And then he just the messiah stopped in
a very nice and gentle way. He said
to him, You hulam, oh young man.
And shin Bismillah,
right?
Eat that which is in front of you,
right, and eat with your right hand. SubhanAllah,
look at look what he said right, and
this is this is key here.
He said, From that moment on,
I continued doing what the mister Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam taught me then. From a very young
child, what do we sometimes say? We may
say
you know she's still young you know she
is still a little kid he'll learn later
on. And I remember SubhanAllah
a relative one time advised her about her
child at a time she was listening to
Justin Bieber.
Right?
The the the kid. Right? And and and
and and the parents' response was exactly this.
The response was, when she grows older she'll
make her own decisions and what have you.
And as the saying goes, right, you can't
teach an old dog
new tricks. Yeah. It becomes so much Mohada.
Yes. And even Hassan al Basin, the great
scholar, he would say,
that you know,
knowledge at a very young age is like
carving into a stone.
And it's hard for you to even if
you stop practicing later on, you have a
foundation that you can always what? Fall back
onto. And I'll say this as someone, I've
not been practicing
all of my life. Right?
When I was taught any Islamic morals and
values from a young age, when I went
off the rails,
there was once upon a time I used
to live in London.
Like when I'm missing Jummah or when I
used to miss the Jummah or miss my
praise it wouldn't sit well with me. I
feel that something is missing. Yeah. And you
know I wouldn't feel good inside
right? And I knew that I wasn't doing
something
right and I need to at least do
that Yani.
So it would kinda always drag me back
and that is because these Islamic morals and
values were instilled within me from a very
young age and a lot of people would
testify to that as well. And maybe one
last example that I can give inshallah to
Allah is Ubaid ibn Samit.
When he taught his young, you know his
young son
that which relates to Al Qadr which is
an important aspect of a Muslims doctrine, right?
And even today when you look at
you know some that may end up leaving
in Islam
and even that which is atheistic
you could perhaps you know pull it back
to the aspects of Al Qadr. Why is
this happening to me? Yes. Like we dug
deep and understood the aspect of Al Qadr
and why things take place and we touched
on it earlier as all the hikmah of
Allah
Allah is not doing this because he hates
you. Maybe he's got something better in store
for you that you just need to wait
for which is extremely hasty We want things
there and then not understanding.
And I always mention this right.
Our minds right are limited.
You would agree that your eyes are limited.
Right? Can you see everything? Can you see
that which is happening No. I don't know,
in Peckham? I don't think you have those
superpowers. Right? Right? Even our ears are limited.
What we hear, right? The ability to hear
and and what we can actually smell. You
can't smell that which is taking place outside.
Right? If we've accepted all of this why
can't we accept that our intellects and minds
are limited as all? Yes. It won't make
sense to you all the time
Right? And you might not ever know the
reason why,
but sometimes you do. Years later, oh, if
that didn't happen, I wouldn't have history. So
anyways, going back to his point, Urban al
Samet, he says to his son,
whatever you missed out on, it was never
meant for you.
Right? All of your family they managed to
get that deal and they made all of
this money it was never meant to you.
Right? Right? And whatever you did end up
acquiring was always meant for you And then
he said to him, if you die upon
anything other than this, then you will become
from the people of the fight. Point is
from a very young age, he's instilling,
right, aspects of creed into him. So that
when the problem does strike
and he finds himself in a difficult situation,
and everyone is maybe
accomplishing something and he isn't, he doesn't feel
bad about himself. He doesn't think about, you
know what? Maybe I need to leave the
religion.
You see what I'm saying? Yes. Yes. So
the issue of Alqaddah,
I sometimes look at these
these hadith and
and try to reflect on it. It's so
much more deeper than what is actually apparent.
And we see this subhanAllah the more we
live why people they find themselves in these
compromising situations, subhanAllah. SubhanAllah.
And we've we've spoken about the parents' perspective,
but now let's change it around and put
it in the child's perspective. Okay. So the
child is trying to practice now.
And he goes home, and at home, they
haven't got that environment around them. So they're
they're struggling now. So what do you do
in that situation when their parents are against
them or they are talking against them or
they're saying, oh, you've you've left this or
you left that or you changed. So, you
know, what what what do they do? Okay.
So how do you know parents do as
well? You know you know this kind of
situation reminds me of the 7 sleepers. That's
what I tend to normally call them.
A surah the chapter that we read every
single Friday right
where Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tells us about
a group of young men Innahumfitiatun
Aminu
They were a group of young men that
believed in Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.
Exactly we just mentioned right now going into
an environment where everyone seems to be against
you the only one that is practicing and
even SubhanAllah as the Mufastir one they mentioned
the way they met up with one another.
It was that yearly festival that he had
in order now to commit Shirk to worship
Idols
right? And there was a tyrannical
a barbaric ruler in charge at the time
and some of them they mentioned his name
was Decius.
Right. Maybe I've pronounced it incorrectly but Decius.
Right? So that was his name SubhanAllah.
So they came to the festival
and some of these young men they felt
extremely uncomfortable and they started leaving this Shirki
festival
1 by 1.
And, they went to stand outside because their
families were inside.
And
as each one was leaving, they didn't know
each other. They all went and stood outside
and they began to subhanAllah just, you know,
look like that.
And it
they began to think to themselves like is
he outside
the same reason why I am outside?
And they began to speak to one another
SubhanAllah
and and they eventually realized that they're all
on the same page. A group of young
men Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala brought them together
you know and they felt extremely uncomfortable. What
was it exactly that they were doing?
Right?
After they came together it began to spread
that these young men are now going against
our traditions and whatever have you and then
the the king came to know about it,
tyrannical barbaric ruler over the time. And SubhanAllah,
Allah tells us
An interaction took place
and they weren't
terrified to say exactly what they believed so
they did the right thing and they stood
up to the King.
And the Mufasiran they mentioned that they were
given an ultimatum
to renegade or to leave whatever their beliefs
were, and then there will be another meeting.
By that time they decided to flee. So
Allah tells us that, they, they moved away
from whatever they were doing and then Allah
went and showered them with his mercy.
Right? They would flee to the cave, them
and all of the other young men that
were together
And, and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will you
hey. Right?
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gave them that which is
better. What does this show us or what
is the lesson that we can actually take
from this? That when you do the right
thing Yes. Right? When you do the right
thing Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gives you that
which is better. SubhanAllah.
Right?
Save them from that and then later on
you know they walked back into
the city. This is like 100 of years
later after Allah Azzawajal woke them up from
their sleep and
you know they walked in because it used
to be spread that there was a group
of young men who had, you know, fleed
with their religion.
What what was the ending of that story?
Nobody knew.
And then later on they came out and
and even the similar things subhanAllah with
Ibrahim Alaihi Salam. Yes.
Because his father, right, was was an idol
worshipper and he was a young man as
well. He did the right thing he stood
up for that which is correct
and he moved away. What does Allah tell
us in Surat Mariam?
Right?
And when he again abandoned that which they
were doing doing the right thing leaving it
for the sake of Allah and you can
maybe similarize it to the situation and the
society that we're in
Allah will give you that much is better.
And what did he do in his case?
Allah blessed him with his haq. He gave
him a child and from his offspring was
Yaqub and so on and so Subhanahu wa
ta'ala. So Yeah. Making sure that you have
the connection with Allah
being amongst the right group of people Yeah.
Being there. But
we wouldn't I wouldn't recommend or you wouldn't
recommend, I would say as well, you know,
to run away from your parents. No. No.
Of course. That's not exactly what I'm saying.
No. You you you No. No. I'm not
saying that. Of course. Just in case someone
gets the wrong message. No no no we're
not expecting you guys to leave your families
or anything like that but subhanAllah you know
you have to have a balance. Yeah yeah
you look at Surat Kahf the 7 sleepers
that run away with their religion and then
you look at Ibrahim alaihi sallahu wasallam
again that done the right thing Allah
gave them that which is better. Right? Even
subhanAllah he teaches us how he spoke to
his father who was an idol worshiper calling
onto other than Allah Azza wa Jal.
Right?
You know, like 4 times it's mentioned in
Surat Mariam.
People always ask me how do I advise
my parents that are maybe
doing that which is wrong, right? In a
gentle way. Absolutely. The moment you start behaving
in an ignorant manner how do you expect
them to ever expect accept anything from you?
Exactly. And the hardest form of dawah is
the dawah to your family whether they may
be your sister or your brother. And, and
to maybe conclude on this point my favorite
Hadith or from the favorite Hadith of mine
is when the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
said
You don't leave something for the sake of
Allah
except Allah will give it out which is
better. SubhanAllah. Right? So my young brother and
my sister,
it's really not worth it. You're going to
run yourself in a very very
evil place and then eventually later on you'll
come to realize that the din was always
the best thing for me. Right?
Being religious doesn't necessarily mean being horrible sorry
Being miserable. Yes.
We all we all have fun. We go
to the restaurants. We enjoy ourselves.
Right? There's ways that you can do the
halal thing. Right? Yeah. Even on Eid, we
enjoy ourselves.
Exactly. I think earlier we were saying, right?
You know, making your stomachs happy. This is
the objective or one of the objectives of
Eid to be happy, Yani. And
the
aani. And the messenger of Allah says
they are days of eating and drinking. So
you can enjoy Asaf Yani.
There's just the haram that is never going
to give you that satisfaction that you're looking
for. Alhamdulillah.
Thank you so much
for joining us. For having me on.
In 1 year,
I think we have our annual Annual 1
year get together.
So it's a it's a pleasure having you
here at the studio. Yeah.
I wish you all the best inshallah. Allah
continue to use you for his day. My
worship. Allah continue. You're working hard. We are
seeing all the work you're doing across the
world. No accept.
You know, all the masajid and the youth,
alhamdulillah, that you're benefiting, and we ask
Allah to accept all of that. Amin Amin
Amin Amin. Thank you so much for joining
me. Giving
me the opportunity
to speak to,
the All of our viewers.
Thank you so much. Brothers and sisters, I
hope,
you know, we all listened carefully and we
learned,
from our day Ustad.
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