Abu Taymiyyah – Let’s Learn A Little About Our Enemies aadh Sydney
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1st and foremost, I just want to take
a moment out to thank the
administrate
the administration
of the Masjid
for having organized this lecture. May Allah
reward them with utmost good.
I mean,
today,
the topic that I have chosen
I was actually in between two minds.
Should I go
through all the narrations
that mentions
that which I feared the most for you.
Because what I did, I compiled all the
different hadith of the prophet
and all of the,
well, not all, some of the statements of
the righteous of the past when they said
that which I fear the most,
that which I fear the most.
Right?
Will maybe do that in tonight's lecture after
Isha.
As for today,
what I want to go through
is
the different methods that the devil,
the uses to mislead an individual.
As you guys are aware, there is a
kitab that has been authored by the great
imam, Ibn al Juzir Rahmatullahi alaihi, called Talbisu
Iblis.
Talbisu Iblis, the deception of Iblis.
Right.
Where he speaks about subhanAllah
the different forms and types of
traps
that the shaitan, the Iblis has up his
sleeve.
Also ibn Taymah Muttalaihe
has extensively
spoken about
the way the shaitan misguides an individual and
the different
traps that he uses And we hope
to cover a bit of both.
As you brothers and sisters are aware,
we all have a common enemy,
Iblis,
who swore by Allah
And indeed by your might,
He swore by
the Sifa of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
I am going to make sure that I
mislead and misguide
every single one of them.
He says, I will make sure that they
become misguided.
I will lead them astray.
They will change the creation of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
This was the promise
of Iblis.
Also Allah
tells us
what
the Iblis claimed,
I will come to them from
the front side, from the back,
from the right and also from the left.
You can see brothers and sisters, right, he
is a clear enemy.
He wants to mislead
every single one of us.
I ask you by Allah, If
someone threatened you,
threatened to take your life, threatened to break
in, would you sleep
peacefully throughout the night? You'd be worried, right?
That would be constantly on your mind.
You find that the Iblis brothers and sisters
is threatening
every single one of us.
Right?
The most noble thing that we
are in possession of is what? Our religion.
There's nothing more greater to us than our
deen.
We want to die
with an iman.
The messenger
brothers and sisters
would make this dua,
O turner of the Haz,
keep
my heart firm upon your religion.
SubhanAllah.
This is the messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
The messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam who did
not have any previous
sins
nor did he have any future sins,
right?
He is now terrified
of himself,
right. Also the messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
he would make the
Oh Allah,
if you want a fitna for me, then
take my soul
without having been trialed,
without having been exposed to fitna.
This is the messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
right?
You have
his father Ibrahim alaihisrat wasallam.
Ibrahim. You have a perfect example in Ibrahim
alaihis salatu wasalam. He who
destroyed the idols as clearly mentioned to us
in the Quran,
and he ended up doing it.
He swore that he's going to smash the
idols
the moment they disappear.
Right?
Which he ended up doing subhanallah.
The man of Tawhid,
he warned against a shirk, eradicated it,
right,
Waged a war against idol worship
and even then he was what?
Forced out of his home,
threatened by his own father.
He stood for the truth,
right?
This is Imam Ibrahim alaihis salatu wasalam.
The man,
the Prophet
alayhis salatu wasalam,
as Allah Azzawajal, he tells us,
When Allah
told him to submit,
he submitted his will
to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, the Lord of
the worlds.
Right?
Everything that he was instructed to fulfill, he
fulfilled.
And they weren't easy brothers and sisters.
Anyways this is not a lecture about Ibrahim
alaihisattu waslam, but the point I want to
make,
the kind of servant he was to Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala,
he eventually
said,
O Allah,
prevent me and also my offspring from worshiping
idols.
Terrified subhanAllah,
after he waged war against the shirk,
he begs Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, allow me
to die upon al Islam.
By Sheikh Mohammed Tamimi
in his kitab kitabat Tawhid, he chaptered
one of the chapters,
the chapter of being faithful of falling into
a shirk.
And then he brought this verse of Ibrahim
alaihis salaam,
terrified and scared of falling into a shirk.
If this is the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam,
if this is Ibrahim alaihisattu as salam, brothers
and sisters,
what guarantee do me and you have that
we will die upon al Islam, that we
will die upon a tawheed?
Right? This is why we are in dire
need
of constantly asking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
to protect our faith from this devil
who does not take a day
off. Every single moment of the day you
see that the shaytan, he's trying his utmost
best to mislead you. We are sitting here
today in the house of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala. You think that pleases the shaitan?
He will make sure that he comes down
hard on every single one of
us.
The shaitan is most eager.
The moment you intend to do some good,
the moment you start doing that act of
worship,
the righteous practice He will come down even
more hard.
Right? So we thank Allah azza wa jal
that he gave us the opportunity to sit
in the house of Allah,
to see so many youngsters attending a lecture
in the house of Allah azza wa Jal.
Indeed Wallahi
brings a lot
of happiness in individual's heart, it really does.
And we know what many of the shabaab
in Sydney are doing. Right? Be thankful to
Allah
as we could have been no different to
the rest of them.
The dua that we read straight after as
salah is what?
Oh Allah,
assist me in remembering you
and being thankful to you and perfecting my
acts of worship. This is the dua that
we read. With the without the tawfiq, the
success of Allah azza wa jal, we would
not be able to get up. Even for
fajr, you think you get up because of
your alarm clock.
You can put as many alarm clocks in
your room if Allah does not give you
the tawfiq,
the aid and assistance to wake up, you're
not getting up for fajr.
I remember there was a brother in the
jamya in Madinah,
one of my neighbors, he would say
he would put an alarm clock on the
ceiling, could connect it to the ceiling, and
he had to climb for it.
Another one,
far away from his bedside,
he had maybe 3, 4 3, 4 alarm
clocks in his room.
You know what the ajeeb thing is? He
would say to me,
he would wake up, he would swish off
all of them and then go back sleep
and still miss fajr.
That is because subhanAllah,
Allah azzawajal did not give him the tawfiq
and the assistance to wake up. Maybe because
of the sin that one may commits, he's
deprived of all of this good. Right.
So we are indeed in need of the
assistance of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
The first statement that I want to stand
over,
and I've been mentioning
it often
throughout the different lectures that I conducted.
He says, no.
That the first deception of Iblis,
it is to block the people away from
knowledge.
Why?
The knowledge is a light.
The moment
he's able to extinguish that light and in
that light of knowledge,
you will see yourself tumbling over,
tripping up
left and right
just like an individual who's in the middle
of the desert
or in the middle of a forest,
deep into the night and he doesn't have
a torch.
You and your friends are walking
in a forest deep into the night, and
we know that there are trees, that there
are logs.
There's all sorts of things that you will
trip over
the moment you start walking if you don't
have a torch,
right?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
draws an example in the Quran when He
says,
Allah says,
Like the one who is
like a mater, someone who has died.
For ahiyina who we gave him life.
How did Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant him
life?
By granting him that knowledge,
We gave him the noor
which he used to navigate and maneuver
around the different fitan that came his way.
Just like the one in the dark patches
of the night,
deep into the forest.
He doesn't have a torch you see much
stumbling over,
tripping up, but the moment he finds that
light,
he's able to guide the people with him
to safety.
Agreed?
This is exactly
what the knowledge will do for you, especially
in times like this, when the haqq, the
truth has become blurred.
Right? Fitun has become so widespread,
the temptations
are being justified
with all sorts of doubts,
right?
The temptations that were
no go's many years ago,
today is being justified
as if there's absolutely nothing
wrong with it. We're in the 21st century,
we've become so much more modern, stop being
backwards, it's fine,
And even textual evidence from the Quran and
sunnah then used to justify some of these
practices
that displeases Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Right?
So it's very testing times
that we are dealing with at this moment
in time, brothers and sisters.
So this ilm brothers and sisters,
right,
it allows you to maneuver around
and
Why is
You can tell me.
Fitna the shubhaat?
The doubts.
The doubts.
Brothers and sisters brothers and sisters, let's be
honest with ourselves.
When we go to these universities,
would we agree that they are breathing grounds
for kufr and shirk?
I'm grateful to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala that
he gave me the opportunity to go to
a university in the UK where I was
studying civil engineering. This is before I went
to Al Madina. It allowed me
to see what happens on the ground.
There are some who are learning
our religion our religion, brothers and sisters,
just so
they can strip me and you of our
faith.
The orientalist,
he's learning our religion, imagine that, day night
he's in the Maktava,
he's in the library learning,
taking down notes,
so he can target
Muslims who are not grounded in their religion,
makes their faith shaky
with what he spews.
Majna.
You have the atheist likewise.
At every opportunity,
even some of the professors are trying their
utmost best.
They've been told to teach a module, right?
He uses that
as an opportunity
to shake anyone who has religion, whether you're
a Muslim, whether you believe in
Christianity,
Judaism, whatever it might be.
He has
an agenda, these ultra motives
to strip everyone of their faith,
and you may not see that coming.
But when you have knowledge,
you're able to equip yourself, right,
Accordingly
to protect yourself from all of these doubts
that come your way. This is why wallahi
brothers and sisters, I honestly believe
when we take our kids to these schools
and universities,
we are throwing them into destruction
if we haven't fully equipped them
with beneficial knowledge.
Every other day we receive an email, every
other day I have these doubts can you
help me
overcome some of these doubts?
Then what happened? I went to university, I
took a course on philosophy.
I took a course in philosophy.
I am fully against anyone taking a course
in philosophy
until he goes and learns his religion.
Am I extreme for saying that?
With all the doubts and, you know, they
say, you need to be a critical thinker.
One of the common terms they've thrown around,
right?
You need to critically think.
Every time something is brought in front of
you, critically think.
To the point
that every aspect of your religion, the moment
you become so brainwashed by this way of
thinking, right, every aspect of the religion that
is put forth in front of you Let
me now look at the other side, critically
think.
This is the way forward with academia
to be a critical thinker.
This is what is glorified
and venerated
in university settings.
And then you also have what fitna2ashshawat.
The of the temptations of this world.
Right?
Again, one of the common questions. Even yesterday,
brothers and sisters were asking,
can you give us some points in how
to stay firm
in the west here?
How to remain steadfast upon our religion.
Right? Again this requires knowledge, would you guys
agree?
Just knowing
how to live a life.
Some people think you only study knowledge if
you want to become a serious student of
knowledge,
only then you study. Lao Allah brothers and
sisters,
I always
say to our brothers and sisters,
if I didn't take away
from all my years of studying
except that I know
how to deal
with someone's depression, when someone feels down and
miserable, how to deal with it, it would've
been sufficient.
Or when I go through masayb calamities and
difficulties.
If I didn't take anything away from all
these years other than the fact that when
I go through a difficulty and a hardship,
I know now how to deal with it
because of the little that I learned and
that is sufficient.
Some of you guys know brothers and sisters,
right? I lost a brother,
stabbed in the neck.
Right?
It was a big deal in the UK,
huge deal.
And also because of the publicity that I
have now, okay, his brother has been stabbed,
it was a big
issue. I remember subhanAllah this was around the
covid period
and I started working, we had to leave
Al Madina
and we had to continue our studies online.
It's the first time anything like that had
happened.
All the masajid were shot,
nobody was
or barely anybody was working, it was very
difficult to find a job. But alhamdulillah I
came back and started working.
Soon after that
my brother was stabbed,
and some of his friends used to work
there as well.
I remember one day
the supervisor came up to me, this is
after this incident and said, I really really
admire
how you're dealing with all of that which
is happening. And I thought this is a
perfect opportunity now
to call her to Islam.
One of the points that I discussed with
her, yes, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
taught us.
When you go through calamities and difficulties, what
would the messenger salallahu alaihi wasallam do?
What was the first thing that he would
rush to?
Someone said Istighfar
Istighfar.
Patience,
dua.
What else?
Salah.
The moment the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam would
be
struck with some difficulty, he would rush to
the salah.
Began to make a lot of sense to
me then.
Wallahi we pray all the time,
right? However,
try praying
the moment you go through some difficulty,
you lose a friend, you lose a brother,
right.
Of course the shaitan
wants you to remain
sad
and down.
Right? Just read the tafsir of Surah Tunness,
and what the likes of Abdullah ibn Abbas
radhiallahu ta'ala Anhuma
say about the khanas.
Prayer
did not feel as great as it did
when I was engaging in it in this
period, Allahi.
Even subhanAllah, I remember
later on came across a video of you
guys know Bilal Asad? Sheikh Bilal Asad? When
he lost some of his relatives.
And then he said
something very very similar. I think he was
speaking about praying in the night
that he didn't feel
as good
ever
from that point moment on.
Allahu Akbar.
Makes a lot of sense, right, especially knowing
what the messianess salallahu alaihi wa sallam used
to go through.
He was verbally abused,
he was physically abused. You think he's easy
brothers and sisters?
We know the messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam
was the most honorable
person to ever walk on the face of
this earth. There's no one more greater than
the messenger salallahu alaihi wasalam.
He was an inspiration in every possible way.
He was called a magician, he was called
a madman, he was called crazy,
every name under the sun.
The messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
was called.
And even then Allah Azzawajal tells us,
We know that which they are saying is
calling causing you a lot of grief,
is causing your
chest to really tighten,
O Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
We can see that, O Muhammad
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
All of these stories in the Quran like
the stories of use of the story of
Musa alaihi wasallam,
what do you think it's there for?
It's there brother and sisters so that we
can take inspiration out of it. It's meant
to ease our pain. The messenger salallahu alaihi
wa sallam would take inspiration from it.
It would ease his difficulties and hardships.
If I was to say to you after
you come to me with all your problems,
listen brother, I went through all of that
but worse, how would that make you feel?
It make you feel better, right? And then
I say to that there is light light
at the end of the tunnel, We will
all get through it and that is because
you can see someone going through all of
these experiences
or has gone through these experiences but then
Alhamdulillah
things took a turn for the better.
It really does ease the pain and the
difficulties and the hardships that you're going through.
So what did Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala say
to him,
Glory your Lord and praise Him.
And be someone who prostrates You and He
prays.
Keep worshiping Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
until
you reach death.
Right?
Surah Messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
with all of these difficulties and hardships that
he would go through, he would rush to
Rasalah
and see how you feel when that happens.
So the point is and I'm just digressing
a little bit here, right?
The knowledge that you learn brothers and sisters,
it is in essence a way of life.
How to
maneuver around all of these obstacles and difficulties
that we experience throughout life.
Right?
So ask yourself the question and I've given
these examples so I think some of you
guys know what I'm going to be saying.
Logan
Paul,
KSI,
you guys know them right? Justin Bieber.
Why you guys acting like you don't know?
All these personalities, you guys know The Beatles?
Maybe some of the youngsters
don't. But the elders are back.
See they're nodding their head.
A very well known music band,
of the past.
Guys heard of Jim Carrey?
Who's Jim Carrey?
A very well known actor.
What all of these people have in common,
brothers and sisters, is that
they all reach the top of the spectrum
when it comes to
dunya.
They became filthy rich.
Also they have something else in common. You
know what that
is? Who can tell me?
Depression.
You know what Jim Carrey one time said,
I think everybody should get rich and famous
and do everything they ever dreamed of so
that they can see
that it's not the answer.
By the way, I'm not mentioning his name
in order to dignify him.
Right?
However, it's sad that when we mention ayat
from the Quran, the sunnah of the messenger
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, we feel a little
bit,
Yeah.
It's a little bit out of touch with
reality
21st century.
Sahih. But when we called the likes of
these people,
right,
oh wow, this is a person that I
knew,
that I could relate to and so on
and so forth.
The Beatles, one of their members one time
said,
we thought
that after becoming famous and
after becoming
rich
that we would be happy and satisfied
but we found that that was not the
answer.
We realized that that was not it.
One time I was sent
a little interview of Britney Spears. You guys
know Britney Spears?
She burst into tears.
You know why? And and the interviewer is
saying to her why why you what do
you want? What is it exactly that you
want from life? I just want the paparazzi
to leave me alone.
That's all I want.
Famous, she's been following around she's been followed
around by the paparazzi. That's all she wants,
to be left alone by the paparazzi.
We think it's great, right? All people following
us with cameras and
And she was also saying I just want
people to stop touching me,
that's it.
And she's crying crying,
right?
All of these very famous YouTubers,
well known personalities like Logan Paul,
Justin Bieber, KSI,
even the guy Fousey
Tube. Every single one of them said that
which is almost as identical to the other.
We're rich but we're all depressed.
They're antidepressants,
right?
This is why they would refer to
drugs.
You know cocaine brothers and sisters, right? Cocaine.
They call it Britain's open
secret. Imagine that.
Cocaine
is referred to in the UK as Britain's
open secret. Who do you think is consuming
it? Everyone. You think it's just the local
junkie that you see rolling around at the
bus stop when you go out to fajr?
Things only him?
Not so long ago on the Daily Mail
You guys have a Daily Mail Australian, right?
I just came to know about that the
other day.
On the Daily Mail, one of Boris Johnson's
right hand men,
one of the MPs,
was sitting down with all cocaine on the
table. Someone took a picture, and then it
got leaked into the public, and Daily Mail
was having a field day,
and he went absolutely viral.
Now he's in rehab.
How much do you think he's earning on
a yearly basis?
Probably some ridiculous ways that he has sah.
It's people like him that are consuming it,
professionals,
doctors, engineers
that are consuming drugs.
The drugs industry, brothers and sisters, is a
$1,000,000,000
industry.
The alcohol industry is a $1,000,000,000
industry.
They drink to forget, we
do dhikr to remember.
Right?
The dhikr is what eases our hearts
or the pain that we are experiencing at
a time and gives us that contentment,
that satisfaction that money come by.
Also think about it, have you guys ever
thought about why the sports industry is a
$1,000,000,000 industry?
Why the gambling industry is a $1,000,000,000 industry?
Why the games industry, I don't think it's
become a $1,000,000,000 industry yet but it's on
its way there.
Right?
Especially the sports industry, Subhanallah. It's a $1,000,000,000
industry.
The entertainment industry, Hollywood, Bollywood,
Netflix,
$1,000,000,000
industry.
Not so long ago because I have a
non Muslim sister-in-law, right?
When she came over to Egypt, I thought
it was a perfect opportunity now to re
stimulate her mind. I asked her, she works
as a nurse,
outside nursing hours, right? What do you do?
She says I watch movies one after the
other
and series on Netflix.
So ask what happens if you don't do
this? She goes, I'll go crazy.
You as a human being the way you've
been created brothers and sisters, right?
Allah azza wa jal has blessed you with
a heart that craves for its creator.
If you don't busy your heart with something
beneficial, take this from me brothers and sisters,
you are going to what occupied with Baathil,
with falsehood.
This is why free time
can be what?
Destructive.
Having free time can lead you to destruction,
someone who has nothing to do.
That's why Allah these rich people they eventually
end up committing suicide.
They don't need to be working so he's
just free. What do I do next?
That's where you see Jeff Bezos trying to
now go to
he's trying to go to Mars.
Say khalas, everything on earth is done.
You have to busy yourself with something, that's
the way an individual has been created.
What's next? It's always what is next.
So all of these industries are there to
distract your mind brothers and sisters.
It's there to distract your mind.
Right?
From what?
From Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Right?
They feed off the sadness of human beings,
is what keeps an individual ticking. Now take
out all of these different industries out of
the equation. What do you think
an individual will be doing on a day
to day basis to keep himself ticking?
Ibad?
All of these different,
things that distract an individual. Take that out
of the equation. What kind of lives do
you think people will be living?
They'll be a bit more productive. Right? But
what if
they have no interest in seeking knowledge and
also productivity and things like that?
Eventually, they end up committing suicide.
I've I've read a lot on these brothers
and sisters.
Right?
Can we digress? How long do we have?
Alright.
Says the greatest gate that the shaitan key
creeps through to mankind
is ignorance.
He gets through it to ignorant people very
very easily.
I'll say that again.
The greatest gate
that the shaitan
creeps through to mankind
is ignorance.
He gets through it to the ignorant very
easily,
But as for the knowledgeable person,
it is except like a thief.
You know a thief who tries to steal
from you,
how does he come around?
Very sneakily. Right?
Saheh.
And he's going to find it very difficult
to what steal from him.
He has to be very very careful.
However an ignorant person, you see that shaitan
easily comes and what?
Does whatever he needs to do with that
person.
This is why they also say and this
is a benefit that we can take from
Umar al Khattab radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu.
The shaitan used to be scared of him.
Right? Even Mas'in salalihi one time said,
shaitan.
The shaitan is terrified
of your umar.
Shaitan is terrified of you. Whenever
the shaitan would take
a particular path, right?
Sorry whenever Umrah Khattab radiallahu ta'ala an will
take a particular path the shaitan will take,
another one fajjan
laira fajik as the messenger salal alayhi wa
sam said.
Because Umar ibn Khattab radiAllahu ta'ala and whose
iman was very very high,
was very very high,
shaitan was terrified of
him. And the more
higher your iman is,
the mawd al shaitan will distance himself from
you. He will try but it's very very
difficult.
And likewise, do you guys
have the pandemic of gin possessions here in
Sydney? Is it pretty often or widespread?
Not often widespread amongst you guys?
Guys are saying this,
Taif.
It's probably maybe because you guys don't know
who's possessed or not.
The more
Ma'aseh is spread in a particular place,
the more easy it is for the shaitan
to possess an individual.
Right?
You only tend to realize that someone
has that jinn position. I don't want you
guys to walk around feeling paranoid after this.
Am I am I
but the point of the matter is over
there in the UK is very very widespread
because the rakya is very
or the aspect of rakya,
okay, is very well known. So people are
always reading on themselves or getting others to
read on them, and then they begin to
see that there is a reaction, so on
and so forth. Also, the practice of magic
is very widespread. The more you go north
of the UK,
so much more widespread.
So,
was somebody who had a very, very high
iman,
right? The shaitan was scared of him and
the scholars that the scholars they took from
this, that one individual is mumustakeem,
he practices
religion.
Right?
The shaytan tends to distance himself from that
kind of individual.
So it's less likely that he will become
possessed by the shaitan.
So hope that makes sense brothers and sisters.
The 'ilm,
these practical examples and points that I made,
the ilm allows you to what? To navigate
around it.
Right. There's one thing I forgot to mention,
Allah, when I was speaking about Jim Carrey
and all these people, right?
Allah tells them in the Quran you want
the happy satisfying
life,
what should you do?
Allah says in the Quran,
Whoever from the male and female,
right?
Come with al Iman, they come with faith
and they also do righteous deeds.
They also do righteous
deeds. And from the most greatest of righteous
deeds is what? Seeking knowledge.
This person will give him a happy life,
a happy satisfying life.
As Allah a zala clearly and explicitly mentions,
whoever turns away from my deen, we will
give him a depressive life.
It's as simple as that.
It is as simple as that. We don't
need Jim Carrey to tell us
or Logan Paul or KSI.
Right? We have Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's
guidance.
Nobody can tell you like Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
When you now invent
a new phone,
you are the inventor.
Would it be right to say that you
are the most knowledgeable about this
phone that you have invented? Agreed.
You are the inventor, right? You are the
creator, you are the designer of this.
Who's the one that designed this universe? It
is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Who's the one
that designed you perfectly?
The way Allah has created you is in
the most perfect way.
Right?
Would it be right to say that
Allah knows about
what we go through and has the cure
for it and the answers
for everything that we
are maybe finding difficult to understand.
That's what having a connection with the Quran
gives you brothers and sisters.
Now I'm going to quickly go through some
of the traps
of Iblis
that
in his kitab.
This
is now the first method or the first
trap of
The shaitan attempts to make us
disbelievers
in a number of ways.
Right?
If you know this belief Khalas the shaitan
yarta,
he's at peace.
Is there a sin that is worse than
committing kufr?
Has he left the fold of Islam? You
die upon kufr and shirk brothers and sisters.
You're never coming out of the hellfire.
You're never going to come out of the
hellfire.
You will abide
therein eternally.
Right.
So there's different ways,
different methods that the shaitan may use
to cause you to disbelieve.
One of them brothers and sisters is intellectually.
Someone may become so convinced in their own
intelligence
that they decide,
doesn't make sense.
Like we mentioned earlier,
being self critical No, not self critical. What
was the term that I used?
Critical thinking, that's the one.
Self critical is how we should be as
Muslims. The moment things are going wrong,
especially,
type
critical thinking.
No longer makes sense in you. No longer
makes sense.
I don't believe in this. Some doesn't make
any sense. This ruling doesn't make any sense.
I remember, subhanAllah, one very big Sheikh one
time came out, hadith
You have a cup of water brothers
and sisters.
You find a fly that dips in it.
What should you do?
What did the messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam
tell us?
Dip the whole thing in. Why? Because in
one of the wings there is a cure
and the other
it's a poison.
So it balances out.
The Sheikh was saying some alakhti, this doesn't
make sense.
How is that possible?
Later on what happened brothers and sisters, I
ended up reading an article which
shows us it has been medically proven.
Has been medically proven
that this is actually the case.
Do we need some kafir to come along,
to tell us
what is right and what is wrong?
How the prophet
told you over 1400 years ago?
Are you brothers and sisters with me?
Also what did the messenger salallahu alaihi wa
sallam say
about drinking? How should you drink?
Sitting down. Right?
Sahih
Jamil.
When did he tell us this over 1400
years ago?
You may look at the hadith and think,
oh, that doesn't make sense. Everybody does it.
Everyone's perfectly fine. There's no is there we
haven't been told the reason.
But
recently I came across an article, I believe
it was on the BBC,
right, saying
that it has been medically proven
that it's better for an individual's health to
drink while sitting down, and how they want
to now enforce this into sports.
They want to know start enforcing this into
sports.
That you should drink while sitting down.
Now, we were told this 1400 years ago.
But now you believe it because some kafir,
right,
medically proved
that it is better for your health to
drink while sitting down.
Do we agree brothers and sisters that our
hearing
is limited?
That your
eyesight is also limited? Can anybody see what's
happening
in Kranaga? That's what they call it, right?
Kranaga.
That's where I'm staying at the moment.
Oh, that which is happening maybe in Masjid
Sunnah.
Forget about
all these places that which is happening outside
here. Can anyone see?
No. You can't.
So you accepted,
right, that your eyesight is limited. Your hearing
is limited. That which you can smell is
limited.
Oh, atheist,
why can't you accept that also your intellect
is limited?
Why can't you accept that?
Give you guys a quick example. How often
have we been
in a position where
we thought that this is the best thing
for us here, now, now. That which is
happening is the best thing for us.
But it didn't happen for you. Like for
example a sister that comes along, you think
that she is the princess charming that is
going to bring you salvation in your life.
There's no one on the face of this
other is better than her.
She is the one,
but it doesn't happen. And
you think to yourself that there will never
be a person who's better
for you than her,
Only for you to realize maybe 2 3
years down the line when Allah azza wa
jal blessed you with a sister better than
her. And then you come to know about
all of these
negative traits
about that sister that you so badly wanted.
And for my sisters the opposite as well,
Equal rights.
Before the sisters get upset.
Faib, you come to realize later on down
the line,
Subhanallah.
Had that happened, I wouldn't have
the real princess charming now.
Agreed?
How often have we been in that position?
Can you see how the aqal, the intellect
is limited?
Why can't we accept that?
So you have
this type of
trap that the shaitan from time to time
uses. Even when it comes to
some of these
feminist concepts.
Right?
Excuse me again, you know, my sisters.
Right?
When they come across certain texts
from the Quran and the Sunnah, and they
start making these claims that Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala is unfair
or he's unjust.
Why is it not equal for both male
and female?
Right?
Islam, brother and sisters, does not call
to equality. Let me make this very clear.
Allah azzawajal calls to justice.
Allah aza wa jal calls the justice. It's
not the matter of you know when we
go to the restaurant 5050 between the husband
and the wife, let the husband just pay
for it.
Right?
They'll come across text related to inheritance, they
zakkari mithril havdilunthayain
where the ratio is 2 to 1 and
say look Allah is being unjust, this is
not fair. They might not necessarily say it
explicitly like that but
that which their statements intel is very very
dangerous, very dangerous.
Did you know my sisters, inal Islam,
no matter how rich you are, you could
be a multi
billionaire.
It is not your obligation to pay for
the rent.
It is not your obligation to cover the
expenses at home. Whose job is it? It
is the husband's job.
I tell non muslims that sometimes in their
jaw drops so it's for the
class.
Auntie become Muslim.
Yeah. I'm very tempted.
Right? This whole 5050 stuff, where did it
come from?
Go to the restaurant and they split the
bill between the husband and wife.
You're Rajul.
So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has honored the
woman.
Right? And as an inheritance distributor,
right,
Not so long ago I compiled all the
times when a woman takes more than the
man when it comes to inheritance distribution.
So you've just come across maybe just one
or 2 three cases, right? And then you
start making these claims.
If you studied the knowledge
you wouldn't be making these claims. Can you
get can you again see how important knowledge
is, and how it could prevent you from
these kufri statements?
I'll tell you guys something else brothers and
sisters. Right?
And this is a I think a very
good example to bring under this first point.
Hajj 2019.
Of course, I'm the tour guide for my
group, and there was another group that was
accompanying us. Some of you guys may have
heard the story because I've related it before.
They had their own sheikh as well.
I heard that this sheikh that is going
to be with them has Mashallah the 7
Qiraat. Wallahi brothers and sisters.
I heard them recite the Quran, it shook
my heart
because of how good his recitation is.
Right?
However, I was also hearing that
this man calls the grave worshiping,
calling to invoking the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
You know how we make dua to Allah
azza wa jal?
He might see it perfectly permissible
and fine for you to go to the
prophet prophet's grave and to invoke him.
And I thought listen this is very very
far fetched. The one who's telling me I
was like akhid, this is 7 qira'at,
the man has memorized the Quran in all
of these different modes.
Everyday is probably accompanying and reading the Quran.
Right?
That's not possible, absolutely not possible.
So I come to the hotel and then
he's heard that there's this guy who
will be with this other group who doesn't
have a madhab.
So he comes charging towards me and he
says, I heard you don't have a madhab.
I was like Sheikh Alhambari.
Right? Alhambari
loved all of the 4 great Imams. Imam
Abu Hanifa, Imam Shab, Imam I was like,
oh, khalas. Okay. Great.
And then he walked off, and he tried
to come again. It was a different issue.
And I answered him, he was a Okay,
halas.
And he's good sometimes to verify information, right?
So now he's thinking on the same page
and everything.
And then I think it was like maybe
the 4th time around I sat him down
and said, Sheikh listen, please.
The Hujjah's
life savings is on the line. The last
thing that we want is to busy them
with issues of controversy.
Let us busy ourselves with ensuring that they
perform the Hajj
in the most authentic way. Their life savings
on the line brother.
So he says, what do you mean by
controversial issues that we shouldn't be discussing
while out on hajj for is a perfect
opportunity now to double check whether that which
have been told is actually the truth.
I said for example now,
encouraging the people to go to the prophet
salallahu alaihi wa sallam's grave
to ask him things, to make dua to
the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
His response was,
you claim to be a Husseini. You need
someone from the prophet shalallahu alaihi wasallam's family
because we're from
the prophet shalallahu alaihi wasallam's family. Our lineage
goes up to Hussain
because you claim to be a Husseini. I
don't make a claim like
it's just what it is, isn't it?
You claim to be a Husseini,
and then you say you can't invoke the
messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam?
And then I explained to him, my grandfather,
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he said,
idasalta?
Fasalillah.
When you ask, ask Allah.
And I quoted so many verses from the
Quran.
The mosques are for Allah and do not
invoke any deity
alongside Allah
Right?
Would you pray to anyone else? Would you
go and stop praying to anyone else? Why?
Because it's ibadah, right? It's an act of
worship.
Taib just as that is an act of
worship, why would you now invoke
someone besides Allah azza wa jal. That's an
act of worship as well as the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said. Adu'ahu alibada.
The dua is a type of Ibada.
Right? The same applies here.
And And I'm explaining it like out of
care and concern, and I'm in shock.
And I prayed behind him just now,
and now he's spewing these very dangerous statements
that takes you out of the fold of
Islam.
And still I didn't say to him, listen
that
you're you're this and you're a cat No.
I didn't say that to him. That's not
my
place.
I'm just like gobsmacked,
shocked
to the core.
Like I'm asking, are we reading I'm thinking
to myself, are we reading the same Quran?
Like all these verses?
Right?
And then he asked me, like, what what
what do you think the ruling of this
particular practice is? I said this is shirkillah,
I'm not calling you that.
That's not gonna be my place.
And of course it's not even wise that
when you're trying to give dua to someone
to start
declaring him.
I said, this is exactly
a situation and the man got furious.
Faizyaduwala
came to me and now he's saying to
the group leader, if you don't move this
guy away from me,
I'm gonna take my passport and
leave. All I am telling the brother, listen
the
life savings on the line just make sure
that they perform hajj.
Imagine now the Hujjaj,
they came to Al Hajj
with the tawhid
singling out Allah azza wa jay, and they
might be going home, and the last thing
that he done us, invoking the messenger salallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
Right?
Point to the matter is, can you see
how the shaitan uses different methods?
And he attempts now to turn us into
disbelievers in different ways. We talked about
how he may come from the,
the angle of the intellect.
He may come now through a completely different
way, subhanAllah.
These are all different ways
that the shaitan uses. He may even come
through the feminist now
to lead you astray
out of Al Islam.
Right?
One time I also read Subhanahu Waqayim Muhammadullahi
alayhi was asked about
You know the Jews,
they say that they feel khushua in the
salah.
They experience
that,
the reverence and
the concentration of focus in the in
the salat.
How is that Yani, ibn al Qayim? He's
been asked.
Because what is the shaitan going to do
with the heart that has become corrupted?
They've disbelieved. Khalas, the shaitan as I mentioned
earlier,
goes to someone else now.
Right?
So sometimes you see this subhanAllah,
someone who's not a Muslim, someone who's not
necessarily maybe upon the
the correct way,
he feels you know that focus and you
see him the khushu and and you don't
actually read that the shaitan came through, another
door that has caused him to
be led astray.
Do you agree now, brother and sister, we
spoke about the importance of 'ilm. That ilm
is teaching us a lot, right?
It's teaching us a lot about our common
enemy, the Iblis.
Feminism,
liberalism.
Right?
A lot of these atheist, doubts that is
thrown around
with knowledge inshallah
brothers and sisters,
we will be in a better place.
We will have our answers but it just
requires you to study.
Right? And we've discussed all of that. Alhamdulillah.
How long do we have Sheikh Zakaria?
30 minutes?
Says that this is now the second trap.
He
says,
This is now the second
method that the Iblis uses to trap you.
He says,
if you manage to escape from the first,
he now tries to trap you by beautifying
for
you acts of innovation.
Whether it is
a statement that you utter,
whether it is an action that you practice,
and you begin to think that you are
what? Upon the truth.
And you forget
that every innovation
is a misguidance and every misguidance leads to
the * fire.
Who said this? The prophet salallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
Every Friday, the messenger of Allah will say
on the mimbar which shows us the greatness
of this. Right? All the way up until
when he would say, right?
Every innovation is a misguidance and every misguidance
leads to the hellfire.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said this.
Abdullah ibn Umar radiAllahu ta'ala Anumayhi commented on
this and he said,
Every innovation is a misguidance even if the
people they see it to be a good
thing.
Right?
Why is this such a dangerous
concept brothers and sisters? Look what Abdullah ibn
Abbas. Who's Abdullah ibn Abbas?
The cousin of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam. The Mufasa of the Quran.
Habral Ummah, they call him the scholar of
this Ummah.
He said,
The innovation is more beloved to Iblis than
what?
The
sins.
You know, when I came here,
I received some messages of brother saying, it's
an I fell into zina, help me, this,
that,
adult content, I've become so addicted to it.
Please give me some advice.
This person who's carrying out zina, does he
know that this is something that is wrong?
He knows that it's wrong, Shah.
He's very regretful, the smart sinner,
the smart sinner,
he repents to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and
he looks for the cure. This is why
he's messaging me, asking me what the cure
is.
Faib, the one who's carrying out innovative practices.
Do you think that he
knows that he is upon the haqq or
upon falsehood? He believes upon the haqq. So
he'll never leave it.
He will never ever leave it.
And he will look for every way to
justify it.
Right?
So if you're anathawirRahmatullahi a'lay and also Imam
Ahmed said this,
the reason why it is more beloved to
Iblis than sinning
is because
almaasiatu
yutabuminha,
the sin you will repent from it.
As for the innovation he will never ever
repent from because he believes this is the
truth.
Right?
The deen of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is
the middle path.
It is the middle path.
Right?
You don't go extreme and you're not negligent.
Never
did Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala instruct you with
a commandment except that the shaitaan.
The shaitaan brothers and sisters,
he will try to get you to do
one of these two things.
And he doesn't care which of the 2.
Either he tries to get you to become
extreme or to be negligent.
Are you brothers and sisters with me? Our
deen
is the middle path.
We don't go into extreme and while at
the same time we don't liberalize it or
water it down,
right?
And the shaitan doesn't care whether you become
an extremist or whether you become someone who's
negligent.
Normally when we speak about extremism, what's the
first thing that normally comes to mind brothers
and sisters?
Terrorists who have gone abroad and whatever have
you, right? And that's the only thing that
is
spoken about
because of the publicity, the meedi, and everything.
Right?
Tayeeb.
Do we have the same energy for
that which is left?
Everyone makes a big deal out of that
and rightfully so. I understand.
It's a problem.
They what about to the other side?
Here, what is the Sheikh saying? The shaitan
does not care
which of the du that you end up
doing.
Whether you go extreme or whether you are
negligent, he does not care. The most important
thing to him is that you stray away
from the middle path
especially when you start practicing. Literally today after
fajr,
when I was praying in one of them
a sajid,
right? A brother came up to me and
he said, everyone's calling him extreme, am I
extreme?
And I said, what are they calling you
an extremist for?
What have you done?
And he said something like,
I'm telling everybody not to eat from these
restaurants because
I mean this is in the what was
the area?
Did you know how many priests Fajid radiates
the salami is not here. Subhanahu wa'ala forgot
their areas. Like in the Lebanese, like heart
of the Lebanese area. I had even McDonald's
halal.
Sahih?
In KFC, and you guy got this cafe
called Oliver something.
Oliver Brown.
Brother took me there this morning,
but I thought, these guys are a rip
off.
Let's leave.
Let's go back to the Lubnanis.
What do you guys call these pieces? Manush.
Manushah
Allahu
Akbar.
Well, I honestly walking around the streets of
Sydney,
you feel like you're in the Middle East.
But, yeah, he was asking me,
am I extreme for saying this? I'm telling
everybody they're saying it's halal but the reality
is that it's not halal.
Or
the reality of that actually is. And I
said, Akhir, just
it's better maybe not to actually say that
here,
but,
speak to the mashaikh.
Everyone focuses on the
extremism,
right? And how that is something that is
bad and whatever have you you stop practicing,
it may even be your parents that say
to you that you're an extremist.
Alayhis salaik is not so to put you
off being a liberal
Muslim.
Hijab, Allah 21st century.
Right? Allah is gafoorraheem,
Allah will forgive you.
You know, you can't be judged.
Only Allah can judge us. You don't know
what's in the heart. Do your thing.
Enjoy your life, you're still young.
Only later on you start practicing all these
statements that we hear all the time.
Exactly the same to the shaitan brothers and
sisters.
It's exactly the same.
Being a balanced individual
is adhering to what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
told you. Having a beard is not extreme.
Wearing a thawb is not extremism.
Right? You see, subhanAllah, some parents saying to
their kids, the moment he starts wearing a
thobe, are you on your way to
You're going there next,
A one way ticket out of the country.
Why can't I look like a Muslim? I'm
an ambassador of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam. Not that I'm saying it's wajib, it's
mandatory for you to wear it.
Right?
Paqiy, you're an ambassador of al Islam.
See people imitating Kanye West and the way
they dress. People imitating
all these rappers.
Why is it that I can't imitate the
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam?
The third one brother said, I'm just gonna
quickly skim through the final,
4 inshallah.
Right. He says he now moves on to
the next
method to lead you astray which is what
to carry out a major sin.
You know, brother and sisters,
and I have to point this out and
I've been saying it a lot. These phones
have made
falling into major sins very very easy,
very easy.
Before if you wanted to carry out the
majestin, you would have to leave your home,
take a walk to the brothel,
carry out your filth and evil over there
or to a hotel.
However
now,
so so easy.
You wanna commit a major sin?
You go into one of these websites,
you book out a woman to come to
your house, alaihis kalarik.
Could you do that maybe 15 years ago?
Was it that easy?
Wasn't.
To
become addicted to adult content, what has it
made? What what has made that so easy
now?
These phones.
It's a fingertip away.
It's a fingertip away. Couple of words that
you write in the Google everything comes up.
Everything,
is at your disposal.
Leis Gedalik?
By the way, for those who didn't know
what WW stands for, it stands for the
World Wide Web.
You have the world a fingertip away.
You have the world a fingertip away.
SubhanAllah.
Becoming addicted to all of this filth and
evil has become so so easy. Now you're
watching it, you become so
attached to it
but you need now something better because you
become bored of that that doesn't tick you
anymore. Looking, now you actually wanna go and
do it. Right?
Especially with the spread of all of these
different
social media platforms
that
objectifies
women,
and you have such easy access to them.
You just need to slip into a DM,
drop her a message, make her feel like,
the greatest woman on the face of this
earth by dropping her a couple of messages,
She hasn't been given any attention for some
time, and now she's blown away by your
charming words.
And it's only a matter of time before
you're committing zina now with your feet,
after having committed zina with your eyes, as
the messenger salallahu alayhi wa sallam told us.
The zina of the eyes is to look.
The zina of the
tongue is what? To utter
or to chirps
or to flir. I don't know what you
guys say. Flir.
We in the UK, we say chirps.
Or
chirp.
Like, araftimi iqwa. Can you see that?
How easily one can
fall into a major sin.
This is why as I've mentioned time and
time again since I've been here, right, it
may be time now to
get rid of these phones for some period
and to revert to the trap phone.
You know the phones that we used to
have, the Nokia ones where we used to
play snake on it.
In our free time, Wallahi, it may well
be time.
I was telling everybody this in the month
of Ramadan.
30 days.
There are some studies that say if you
want to get rid of a particular habit,
you need to what? Stay away from that
thing for maybe what 30, 40 days. How
many days in Ramadan? 30.
30 days of Ramadan.
Haris Kedalik?
Tayeb.
By the end of Ramadan,
you will find subhanAllah, you become a new
person. You have new habits.
People think Ramadan is just to stay away
from food and drink and sexual * and
khalas, I go back to my life. La.
The way I look at Ramadan is like
a boot
camp. It's like a boot camp. It's like
a madrasa,
an institution.
Right? Where you now train yourself to get
rid of certain habits.
Train yourself.
And then you become a new person after
the month of Ramadan.
Right? So Jair ibn Abdallah radiAllahu ta'ala would
say, when you fast make sure
Make sure your ears are fasting, your eyes
are fasting, your tongue is fasting. From what?
All types of sins and evil.
It's not, oh let me wait till, you
know, 8 day and in Khilas, I'm gonna
go back to her.
No. It's not it's not about that. You're
meant to make this, I'm gonna leave
all of that stuff. Right? So going back
to the point I was making, I was
telling everyone, right? Let's go back to the
trap phone.
In this month and insha Allah ta'ala after
that we'll be better people
because it could possibly destroy your Ramadan, agreed?
Outside the month of Ramadan, it probably destroy
your life.
Not just Ramadan
being destroyed
when that
when
the month of Ramadan starts. This will destroy
your life.
I had brothers and sisters who are lie
messaging me saying, in the month of Ramadan,
I committed zina. What is the ruling?
You know the ajeev thing was? They didn't
know one another before the month of
Ramadan. He was surfing the World Wide Web
Instagram.
Right? He came across
a post of hers.
Mada Hassan?
Oh, let me, you know,
picture looks
pretty nice.
Clicked on it, slipped into a DM, and
this is how the conversation started.
I was going to speak about women. Should
I leave it for today's tonight's lecture?
Or shall I mention it now?
No no, all you guys can come there.
It's one of the most important parts of
Hanulah about the women
and
being alone with them and everything and some
of the
We'll leave it till after InshaAllah Ta'ala. Otherwise,
we're gonna run out of time.
All you guys got cars?
See you guys then, InshaAllah.
They managed to book out a wedding hall
because of what happened
last night and also because our sisters will
get upset.
Okay. Because the center is very very small
that We're meant to be going to very
very small and yesterday only
they had chairs ready for I think what,
a 150 people? 150, right?
Oh, 300.
And then approximately 650, 700 people turned up.
And may Allah reward them brothers who were
sitting in the court.
I kept on looking to my left, in
the code they're sitting there. May Allah azza
wa jal honor every single one of you
guys.
And everyone who attended, and everyone's going to
attend,
and everyone who's here.
The 4th now,
which is what? He tries to trap you
with a minor sin
that remains with you at all times
so that
your good deeds reduce or decline.
And if you make tawba to Allah right?
You'll be upon that which is correct.
The 5th one brothers and sisters,
So if you now repent from all of
these,
and you manage to escape and run to
safety from all that which has proceeded,
you are now considered a big shot in
the eyes of Iblis.
You're considered a big shot in the of
a police.
What happens for
He tries to now occupy you with that
which
is less in reward.
Think about it for a moment. Giving dua
online, you may you may say to me
I'm trying to give dua to
sister. And the reality of the matter is
she ends up giving dua to him.
Well that's the reality. Right?
This is the excuse of some at times.
I'm giving dua to her.
And he is telling him some I'm gonna
give dua to her and then I'm gonna
marry her and all of that stuff. And
before you know it, the haram has taken
place.
So he said I'm giving dua.
Right?
And he doesn't actually realize
that this might lead him to destruction,
or it might be the time of the
salah. Which one's more important to give dawah
to what he suppose is giving dawah to,
or to go and attend the salah.
Or I'm using my phone now,
that which is beneficial.
Okay?
And then you know that you need go
to the house of Allah azza wa jal
and pray.
Which one is more important?
To listen to Quran on your phone saying
that I'm reading Quran or to go and
attend
the prayer in the masjid,
the time when the time of salah kicks
in.
Number 6,
The 6th
is
It says this 6th trap, brothers and sisters,
is
from his greatest
methods that he uses.
And that is,
he couldn't get to you directly,
he comes through what?
The people,
your relatives, your loved ones. And this is
something brothers and sisters
that even what
the Anbiya, the prophets
went safe from.
Right?
Nuh
tried to call his family to al Islam.
900 and 50 years.
950 years
that he called these people to.
950.
What was the natijah? What was the result?
Those who believed in him only a few.
Only a few, 950
So don't think the moment you start giving
dawat to your family is going to be
what? Plain saying people gonna start throwing roses
at you were ready to accept.
If anything brothers and sisters, the shaytan will
use them to distract you, to ruin you,
to make you feel so downgraded.
Right? Oh mister righteous,
Mashallah.
Yesterday you're selling drugs. Now you wanna tell
me what is right what is wrong?
Sit there mate.
Doesn't that happen?
All the time
all the time and so so difficult.
You feel belittled,
you're ridiculed, mocked, made fun of. Look at
him, he's got bed now.
And that will really really irritate you, cause
your blood to boil.
So shaitan will come through them to mislead
you.
Right? Nuhalisati wasallam is speaking about Nuh, His
own son brothers and sisters.
He's telling his son,
O son, get on the ship, and don't
be from the disbelievers.
This was right? To get on the ship
was revelation,
sahih.
Allah
instructed Nuh'id to get on the ship and
to take his people with him,
and to also take
the animals. Right?
And from each one,
a male and a female,
even amongst animals.
Male and female.
Male and female
amongst animals.
This was what was perfectly natural.
Right.
From the time of Adam and Eve.
Not Adam and Steve.
Adam and
Eve.
All the way up until Lot Alaihi Wasall
was sent to his people. He was telling
them what?
No one ever preceded you in this.
No one from the time of Adam and
Eve.
Even amongst what?
The animals.
This was what was the norm.
Now they wanna tell us genes and Madriyash.
Yeah. I mean, genes is this, and my
genes, and
Faib.
Going back to the point I was making,
he's telling his son to get on the
to get on the ship.
This is the wahid, the revelation.
We're gonna learn something very important here that
which is related to the first point I
was mentioning about the intellect and so on
and so forth.
He tried to use his aqal, his intellect
against the text. What did he say?
I'm going to what?
Climb on top of the mountain,
and I will be saved from this flood
that you're talking about that
So you had the wahi, and you had
this individual's aqaal.
What happens when you have what?
Attacks, The text and also the aqal clashing
with one another.
What was the nateja?
What was the result? What was the consequence?
What was the outcome? Fakanaminalgawiin.
He was destroyed
alongside everyone else.
Right. Even Sheikh Usamtimir hamatullah
alaihi says, the whoever makes it a habit,
right,
To always go against the text
with his intellect,
you will see him drowning in darkness.
Just like he drowned in that flood.
He will drown in darkness
and faith will not remain in his
heart.
So then he says,
Do you know now your position in the
eyes of the Iblis?
You ask yourself which step are you at?
Right?
How long you are Zakaria?
5 minutes? Wait.
Let's now come on to ibn al Jazir
Hammatullahi Alaihi.
I'll quickly mention too inshaAllah, they are from
the most favorite quotes of mine
from the Kitab of Ibn Jazir He
says,
From the deceptions of bliss on the commoners,
on the general people, is that they they
carry out sins.
When you know
this
it's a proof of this sin that they
are doing, or you tell the Maqi you
shouldn't be doing this. You know what they
say?
Allah is generous.
Right? And the mercy of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala's forgiveness is what?
Vast.
Do you not hear this all the time?
See somebody doing a sin and you try
to advise him sincerely, and he says,
Allah is going to forgive me. You don't
know what's in my heart. Right? Don't judge
me.
We, as Umar ibn Khattab told
us,
Right?
Says we judge
according to that which is apparent.
And my objective is not to drag you
into the month
or to belittle you. I want you to
go to Al Jannah.
Right?
So when you say Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
he's going to forgive and he's merciful and
generous and whatever have you. Right?
You have to follow-up
whatever you're saying with your tongue, with your
limbs.
And they might even go as far as
quoting the Hadith of the prophet salallahu
alayhi
wa
sallam.
Allah doesn't look at your outer appearance, how
big you are, how skinny you are, and
how yellow, how black, how white. Allah doesn't
look
at that. But what does he look at?
He looks at your heart.
But isn't there an evidence for them now
who say, you don't know
That complete hadith.
Walakim.
He also looks at your actions. That's the
completion of the hadith.
Right?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala requires from us to
do acts with our limbs.
You may have a good heart
according to what you're saying,
but what you do with your limbs shows
a lot about what's inside of your heart.
Agreed?
What did the messenger salal alaihi wa sama
say?
There's a piece of flesh inside of your
heart.
Right?
Sorry.
I
think the jet lag is getting to me.
There is a piece of flesh inside of
your body.
If that becomes corrupt, everything else becomes
corrupt as well.
If that becomes rectified, everything else becomes
So when somebody says, akhidono is in my
heart, and then the man's committing zina, dealing
with drugs,
brother,
right?
Your limbs are what's projecting what's inside of
your heart.
You still may have a good heart that
wants good, that wants to change, and I'm
not
denying that or taking that away from you.
But this aspect is very very important.
And may Allah azza wa Jal
allow everybody who's going through
these different trials and sins.
May Allah help them to overcome all of
that.
Right?
Even Sheikh ul Samtaim Rahmatullahi a'lay says,
You will barely find
someone who has a corrupt belief except that
this one now begin to show on his
limbs.
Do you guys agree with that?
The woman who's now spewing all of these
dangerous feminist statements,
would you agree that it first entered into
her heart, it settled in there, and then
it started to show on haleams?
Agreed?
This individual now
who has all of these extreme views and
then goes out and applies
it. Would you agree that it first enter
into his heart, it settled in there, and
then it started professing on his limbs?
Agreed?
This liberal now who waters down the religion
of Allah aza wa jal or even calls
it barbaric. Right?
Like you have now in America.
She's wearing hijab and then she's saying that
certain practices of the deen is barbaric.
Representing
Islam.
Representing Islam.
I think everyone knows who I'm talking about.
Right?
Calling some of the Sharia practice is barbaric.
And then she sides with the LGBTQ.
Cave.
Right?
How is that even possible? Would you agree
that all of these concepts settled in our
heart, right? Enter into the heart is settled
there, and then it started what? Showing on
the limbs.
Sheikh Hussain saying, that you will barely find
Barely you will find someone with corrupt corruptness
in his heart except that this will now
start showing on his limbs.
Right?
So working on the heart is extremely extremely
important.
Right? Very very important.
Standing between two minds, shall I go through
a series of
that which softens an individual's heart when we
give the lecture today?
Or shall I go through all of the
narrations that has akhwa from akhfa'aliyah, which I
fear for you the most, that which I
fear for you the most?
Shall we take a vote?
Elections.
Well, I ask Sheikh Al Wakr Zod
to come to the lecture to give a
small little reminder.
If anyone
wants to get maybe Hamid Haplace to come
as well.
You recorded the make sure you send that
to him.
I send it to him.
I think it'll be nice, you know.
I know Shahab Bakr is a little bit
busy,
But he says he's gonna try and come
inshallah.
But you guys get the point brothers and
sisters. The heart is very very important.
Right? You can't just tell me Allah is
Ghafoor Rahim and it's all cool and and
then he carries on doing whatever he wants.
He says this is from the deceptions we
please
on the commoners, the general people.
Very easy way out of the situation, I've
got a good heart
because he feels good about himself
and then he goes and does whatever he
wants. And last but not least we'll conclude
with this Insha'Allah. I've
gone over the time. Have I?
Yeah.
I can see here the Shabaab are in
charge.
And the youngsters are running the place, Masha'Allah.
Yeah. You still go half an hour.
Now this is last point, insha Allah ta'ala.
This one's a very important one. Is it
from the deceptions of Iblis or how the
Iblis
deceived the communist and the general folk is
by adhering to
cultural practices.
And this is from the greatest of what
destroys him,
destroys them.
They blind follow their forefathers
and they think that Islam
or they believe should I say that Islam
is what they grew up doing. Let me
make something very clear.
Islam did not come to
wage a war against cultural practices.
It's very very important. I mentioned that.
The poet says,
The base ruling when it comes to cultural
practices
is that it is permissible until proven otherwise.
As a principle, qa'ida.
Is that clear brothers and sisters? So Islam
did not
come to wage war against cultural
practices. And somebody give me a a Lubnani,
all I wanted to phone 1 of the
mashaikh and and ask give me some Lubnani
cultural practices that are positive. Sheikh, maybe you
can help us, Sheikh
Ahmed.
Kinship. Kinship? Or do they have like a
particular ada? Like normally,
I remember giving a similar lecture today in
a Somali
masjid. And I told them that they're very
do I have any Samadis here? We handle
the Somali other than Zakariya.
Brother.
Yes. Oh, another one. Yesterday I told the
Samalis, you guys came through today.
I haven't been seeing you guys in the
other
like, in Somali culture when you're invited over
to eat,
right,
they have a very very beautiful
cultural practice which is
that the guest does not step into the
kitchen to wash his hands.
They bring him a bowl.
One of them has soap in it and
the other has water in it.
Akimashallah,
that is 5 star service.
You don't even get there in a 5
star restaurant. They say to go to the
toilet.
Anything wrong with that? Does Islam say that
you can't do that? Right?
Did anyone think of 1?
Three kisses on the green. Three kisses on
the green. Oh, Jameel. Is there anything wrong
with that brothers?
Is that 1? Oh, Jameel?
2 on the right and 1 on the
left.
Even Sudanese I don't even have any Sudanese
here. Right? When they greet one another,
they don't hug one another. They come and
they touch your shoulder like that.
Touches me here and then I touch him
like that.
This is very different.
And there's so many very good cultural practices.
However,
if that cultural practice is going against
the commandments of Allah azza wa Jal,
then this
is something that needs to be avoided.
And sometimes you think just because I lived
in a Muslim country and this was normalized
that we should normalize it even later on.
Oh, we begin to think that this is
a Islam, this is a great fallacious mistake.
Right?
I'll give you guys an example, mixing with
your first cousin.
They say, a hadahook,
uhtak,
We grew up mixing with our cousins. There's
absolutely nothing wrong with it.
Right?
You got a filthy mind?
Come on, They just go upstairs together.
How often am I seeing zina happening?
And they're telling them to go watch a
movie together.
Movie with all of that filth and balaya,
where you have these filthy scenes, and then
they're sitting together. Masha'a, they don't have any
hormones. They don't have any shahul. Right?
Shahidun hada, he might be attracted to his
first cousin and before you know it something
happens.
I have a lecture online brothers and sisters.
It's called
filthy fathers,
Cheating Husbands, and Free Mixing.
When you guys get a moment, please watch
it.
Right? All these mixed weddings that people have.
This is our ada.
This is what? Our ada. This is our
cultural practice.
Right?
Or music being played just because it's some
Lubnani guy or some Muslim guy singing, it
doesn't make it correct.
Right?
You see parents saying music is haram.
Right? But when it's a Muslim guy who's
coming to sing, everyone goes less. Just because
he's a Muslim?
Sorry?
Yeah. It was because
he's actually a Muslim who's doing it.
These cultural practices go against the Sharia.
And then someone says to me, oh you're
just being overly protective for not allowing your
wife to go. Are you scared?
It's not about being scared or being protective.
This is Shar'ullah.
Right? This is the deen of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
Right?
And also brothers and sisters, where is that
individual's ghairah?
Right? They said it is more correct to
say ghairah than ghairah. In English, I think
they call it ghairah. So sometimes it comes
out. The gaira, your protective jealousy, which is
actually something that is praiseworthy for a man
to have.
What do they say? A high value
man? Is that what they call
it?
That's what they call this is a new
term that's going around, sir. High value man
and high value woman
according to that guy.
Let's
not mention his name.
Babe.
And he's going back to the point I
was making. Where's your protective jealousy gone as
a as a man?
Like she goes to the wedding in order
to dress to impress alaihis salaik.
Everyone's going to be looking
at her, and you don't have a problem
with
that.
Where is your where is your manhood gone?
Like, honestly.
Right.
We'll stop there insha Allahu Ta'ala. Akram Akramullah.
Ola brothers
and sisters.
Right?
I love you all for the sake of
Allah. Honestly,
I've loved every moment of being here in
Sydney. I honestly have. So seeing all of
your glowing faces.
Right? And the fact that you guys come
to these lectures, it shows that there is
a lot of good in you.
Really, really does.
So, I do hope to see you guys
one last time inshallah, the wedding hall, I
think it is. Yeah. The renaissance.
The renaissance.
So, see you guys inshallah. Barak lafiqum.
And if there's anyone that you guys know,
try to encourage them as well.
I'll try and do a q and a
over there as well.