Abu Taymiyyah – It’s none of my business!! Me, myself & I Friday Khutbah
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Brothers and sisters,
may Allah
bless you all.
We are today living in a time where
many of the the
the afflictions,
the
that take place in front of us
has become no more.
Little do you find when the are taking
place,
whether it is sometimes now even in our
households.
Haram is taking place in our household
Or in our communities.
The people that we know.
Whether it is someone that is swearing,
speaking filth in front of you,
or whether
a person that is close to you, from
your relatives,
is taking riba.
Or you know that
a close relative of yours
is committing He has a girlfriend.
And all these other
that take place today in our society,
it is reaching a point where it become
normal.
For us doing something, is normal. Everyone's doing
it.
That's the kind of situation that we're reaching
today.
Nobody tells
or I shouldn't say nobody
rather than majority you find. When these things
are taking place, none of my business.
Blame good thing has got nothing to do
with me.
He's gonna go with me to Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala and he's gonna hold him to
account. But for me, it's got nothing to
do with me.
It's me, myself, and I.
That's the kind of situation that we're in.
Little do we know that the matter of
is a very, very important aspect in our
religion.
It's a very important aspect in our religion.
In joining the good,
telling the people what is right for them
to do.
And also prohibiting
the are
taking place in front of you.
And it's a matter that if something
that if certain people,
they apply it, and they fulfill it, it
fools off the rest.
Rather, sometimes you should be happy that some
people are applying this,
fulfilling
this.
But not even that. Forget about us getting
happy.
We are looking down and looking
at that person in such a bad way.
Why is he busy talking about these issues?
Let the people do whatever they need to
do. Why does he have to always speak?
And say that this is wrong, this is
right.
Are the people clever enough,
intelligent enough to realize themselves?
So he's he's going in stages.
People in the past, they used to be
happy.
When some people
of the ulama, they tell the people that
this is wrong when it comes to fit
in.
Everyone would be happy now. Why? Because it's
for kifai. If Fulan applies it, it fools
off me. The
the sheikh has done his
wajib. And he's taken the wajib of all
of us.
Brothers and sisters,
you find that in the Quran Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala talks about his matter
time and time again. And likewise, the prophet
SAW Allah gave a lot of emphasis to
it.
Enjoying the good and forbidding the evil. Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala tells in the Quran.
The believers.
From the male and the female, they are
They are friends.
What do they do?
They enjoying the good. They tell each other
what is right and wrong.
And when they see their brother or their
friend, someone close to them doing haram, they
tell them this is wrong.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
He cursed certain people in the Quran.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tells them in the
Quran.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala curse.
Those who disbelieve
from the people of Israel.
Bani
Alaihi Sani Dawood upon the tongue of Dawood
were Isaf Namariam and Isaf Namariam.
Why? Because they were violating.
Why did Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala curse them?
They never used to prohibit
and stop the people they knew from doing
the maharama that they are doing in front
of them.
And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala sent down La'an,
cursed upon them. And what does La'an mean?
One being expelled
from the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
What kind of are we? A society.
Are we from those that when the is
taking place in front of us?
Prophet
sometimes,
if you look at the Quran, why Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala punish certain people
or certain aqwan
was maybe because of a few things.
And if you compare it now to our
society,
you find that we have every cause every
cause that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is gonna
destroy us.
Just look at the Quran. Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala tells
us
Tell them about the stories
So that the people can use the intellect.
They can remember. They can use their brains.
They can ponder upon these ayaats.
These stories inside the Quran. They're not just
there
as a bedtime story when we go to
sleep, we read 1. Alhamdulillah. That was a
nice story.
They meant to be there for us to
take heed.
Why did Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala destroy
Samud,
the people of Ruth, the people of Salih,
Fir'aun. Why did Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
destroy all these nations?
Maybe because of one thing or two things.
And now compare it to our society.
Each one of them,
we destroy them because of their sin.
That's what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us.
Brothers and sisters,
the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Salam he told
us in many many hadith
about the issue of enjoying the good and
submitting the evil.
Some of the salafs, they used to treat
it. The issue of
to
be as if it is like the 6th
pillar of Al Islam. I'm not saying it's
the 6th pillar, but they used to give
it such great weight
due to its importance.
Why? Because this comes in the Quran many
times, and the prophet salawah has gave so
much emphasis to it. The prophet salawahu alaihi
was telling me, told us,
Never did Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala send a
prophet except that he had disciples with
him. And they used to take his guidance
as a guidance, and his
Then after them came people
who used to say that was they never
did.
And they used to do that which they
weren't commanded to do.
So they used to do things that the
prophets, the message they came with was completely
different.
And they used to call the people to
innovation,
things that the religion is not known of.
What did the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
for
Momin. Whoever strives
against them
with his hand is a Muhammad.
Whoever strives against them with his tongue,
clarifying
the issues, the mistakes,
the innovation,
this person is a believer.
And strives against them. We just tell this
person is a believer.
Are. And after that, there is a mustard
grain
of iman remaining.
For all these issues that go about, that
today, brothers and sisters, Wallahi, we're living in
a time
where the most important matters of our religion
is not taken seriously. The most important matters.
Things that are hated
by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala's Messenger.
Things like and
we don't take seriously.
Or we look at it in such a
way
that they leave this issue of let's talk
about more about drugs and and these kind
of things.
He mentioned this. Not now.
After the prophet Sallallahu Wa Alaihi Wasallam passed
away, he said
You not are going to be doing actions.
When When is he saying this?
The 21st century.
Or is he saying this in his time?
You're going to be doing actions.
It is more lighter
in your eyes. You don't take it that
seriously.
In your eyes, it is more thinner than
a shower, than a piece of hair. It's
more thinner than that.
These actions that you're gonna be doing.
And we used to treat it
like the destructive sins
in the time of the prophet salaam alayhi
wa sallam.
These matters that happened in front of us
that we look down upon,
shirk shirk shirk shirk. Why you're always speaking
about shirk? The most important
and gravest
in the Quran
that has come to us today, it is
looked out upon. Why is aqeeta written in
the Quran? Why you're not busy speaking about
mawli?
All these issues, put it set aside.
Speak about the real issues that the Ummah
is suffering from.
The Ummah is dying, and you are busy
speaking about the issue of shit. Do you
see anybody worshiping Islam?
Statements like this.
And then we ask ourselves when Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala is going to uplift the that
the Ummah is suffering from.
When the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he mentioned
the
the destructive sins. Why is the first thing
that he started with?
He says stay away from the 7 major
destructive sins. The first thing that he mentioned
was what?
Committing shirk. The second thing that he mentioned,
a sihir.
Today sihir, we sit in front of the
TV watching magic tricks and it's become normal.
The little girl, she's playing abracadabra.
She's hanging around with a with a wand.
Imitating Harry Potter,
reading his books, everything has become normal.
What did he say?
You're gonna be doing actions that is more
lighter in your eyes than the hair. You
don't take it seriously.
The issue of shirk has been so belittle.
It's as if this has nothing to do
with our lives.
And I mentioned this before as well. If
you look now
if you look now at the after this,
the most sacred place upon the face of
the earth.
Makkah.
Around the Kaaba.
I see it with my own eyes. People
going around the Kaaba saying, You Ali, save
us from the fire. So how is long
gonna come today? Why you are busy speaking
about shirk and bida?
When this matter is taking place in front
of us. It's a serious dangerous great matter.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he said,
Do not let the fear of the people,
the fact that you have to tell him
this is haram, this is right.
The fear of the people stop you from
doing what?
Of saying the haqq when you see it,
when you hear it,
or when you witness it.
I mean
said,
I wish that I never heard that. Why?
Because it become wide to me now. When
I see the
taking place in front of me, I try
to change it.
You can't do with your hand, change it
with your tongue. You can't do with your
tongue, change it with your heart. And this
is the weakest part of an iman.
Brothers and sisters, again, if we look at
the Quran,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us that he
tells us the stories
in the Quran about the messengers for the
people's hearts to be confirmed.
Looking at the stories that you find in
the Quran.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala destroyed past nations. Why?
Simply
because they didn't say this is wrong and
this is right.
Not stopping one another.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he told us
Help your brother. Whether he's a an oppressor,
or he's been oppressed.
So the Sahaba, they said, now we understand
it. The guy's been oppressed. We're gonna go
and help him. What about the? How can
we oppress him?
The prophet
said,
Stop him from doing that Gul.
Explain to him. Make it clear to him.
And now you are aiding him and stopping
him from doing the dulm.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, he told us in
the Quran
about the people of sif.
When Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala prescribed for them
a day to do Ibadah, which was Saturday.
That day was meant to be for
so that they don't become busy from the
and they leave business and making money for
the rest of the days.
So that took plot
for a whole year. Then Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala decided to trial them.
So
the fishes was only coming on the day
of Saturday.
They were allowed to fish the whole week
except that day, the day of Saturday.
So the fishes are only coming on Saturday,
and the rest of the days when they
allow, there's no fish.
So what did they do? There were some
people
who
the shaytan beautified the actions for them, told
them,
Hamas, go and do.
Go and try and be deceptive, cheating.
So they will get the nets. They would
put it on the on the shore on
a Saturday,
and then they will make it look like
on Sunday that they only fish on the
day of Sunday.
Long story cut short, brothers and sisters, Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala then tells us
And
when they forsaked
what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala told them to
do, they didn't listen. We saved who?
Those who said that what you're doing is
wrong.
Those who prohibited the evil. They stopped the
people from doing the hamahramad.
Allah
saved them.
Simply because of what?
They done. They enjoyed the good and they
forbid the evil.
Brothers and sisters,
I ask you about Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
A lot of the time you find the
on social networking websites,
on social,
all these things that they have today. Everybody
poses the question,
why is the Ummah suffering?
Or when is Allah
going to uplift
the that the ummah is facing today?
And everybody comes and they give their fitu
online.
Everybody comes. This guy comes, and he says
that the cure is this, that we need
to go and protest. This guy says, we
need to sign petitions. We need to do
this. We need to do that.
Everybody's got their own excuse
or their own reason.
I don't know how we can expect that
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is going to change
our situation.
When our situation is like this,
The basic fundamentals. We can't tell ourselves
amongst ourselves in our communities.
We can't rectify the little things amongst us.
And the prophet
gave us all the answers to it.
You know brothers,
Never did the lost
sent down a sickness, except that he sent
the cure with this result.
Any sickness it might be.
And this is a sickness today that we're
suffering from. We don't know.
Nobody knows. And everyone's taking their own cause.
And the matter is very, very simple.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, he told us,
and please just compare it now to our
society.
How much we are applying this and how
much we're not.
And we suffice ourselves with this hadith, inshallah.
He said,
When you start now,
having transactions
mixed with river,
is a form of river.
And you start chasing the tails of the
cows.
These two things that we just mentioned.
How many of the Muslims today, they feel
it is a must? That they need to
go and take a house or mortgage?
Or they feel like it's a must, that
I need to go and take Riba.
And you become now satisfied
with that which you have from the materialistic
things.
What's are up to Jihad?
And you leave off the Jihad.
And the first type that Ibn Al Taym
Rahim Allah Ta'ala he mentions.
People think as soon as you hear the
word Jihad, you have to come out with
your sword. Ibn Al Taym mentions
Jihad Unnus. That you stop yourself
from and likewise shubahad.
Fulfilling into these desires that which Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala prohibited.
And the doubts, you protect yourself from it.
You strive with the Quran by applying every
single ayah
From the things that you have been afflicted
with.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will send down upon
you a enemy.
Allah will not uplift the problems
and the afflictions that you have until when
you come back to your religion.
One example.
How many thousands of people come out on
the streets?
They're protesting
when something goes wrong.
And how many thousands of people come to
the Fajr prayer?
Until
you have in the car park people praying.
The Masjid is so packed that there's no
way to pray when it comes to the
Jama'at.
Fajr, Buhur, Asir, Maghrib, Isha. The masjids are
packed.
And it's booming with people.
A simple fundamental
that we can't apply,
which is praying in the message of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And then we ask ourselves a question,
when is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gonna uplift
the problems that we have?
It's as simple as that. Look at this
hadith.
See, are the majority of the people chasing
the dunya, and they forgot their religion?
How many of the kids today, they know
the basics of their religion?
If this is our situation now,
when our knowledge about the religion is lacking,
How do you expect your grandchildren, or those
that come after them,
When the majority of the time, our kids
are not with us.
They're in the schools
being taught, wherever they're being taught, they come
home. We have no conversation with them.
We don't teach them nothing.
And is this what the prophet
said until you come back to your religion?
Allah will not change the state of the
people
until they change themselves.
Things are being passed out, this law, that
law.
And then people ask themselves, what do we
do? The answer is simple. Apply this hadith
until you come back to religion.
That enemy that Allah has sent down upon
us, the afflictions, the problems that we have
won't be lifted until we apply this, you
come back to religion.