Abu Taymiyyah – POWERFUL 6 Lessons From the Destroyed Garden birmingham Masjid EssaIbnMaryam
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1st and foremost,
I just want to take a moment now
to thank the administration of the Masjid.
Our chef, who
Who I normally read Quran too, was kind
enough to extend an invitation.
And then through the masjid,
Sheikh Ashaaf
was sitting so humbly at the back, may
Allah bless
him, and the rest of the administration, they
agreed to put this program together. So I
just want to thank them. As the messenger
said, Whoever is not thankful to the people
won't be thankful to Allah azza wa jib.
Secondly, my brothers and my sisters, I want
to thank all of you guys
for taking time out on a Friday night
to sit here in front of this miskin,
this poor guy, right, to take knowledge from
him. And may Allah bless
every single one of you guys. I know
you could write. I know you guys could
have been doing
a 101 things. I know many
of the elders especially are extremely tired,
especially if you work the 9 to 5.
And then to come and sit here to
encourage your family, to bring your kids, it's
not an easy thing. So it's something that
is highly appreciated. I ask Allah, azzawajal, to
bless every single one of you guys and
increase your own in goodness.
Alistair Khanah. 3rd point I want to mention,
my brothers and my sisters, and I've been
saying this a lot
in the different Masjid and the cities that
I've been going to.
Some of us may have come to the
masjid, and we are regulars.
And we might end up seeing individuals
who might not necessarily
fit
the type of person
who normally comes to the masjid.
And I say this especially to my sisters.
You may see a sister who's wearing hijab
a certain way,
right, and it might well be that this
is the first time she's wearing a hijab,
and it's being done in a manner that
you are not maybe accustomed to.
So you start looking down at her, you
start giving her maybe
these weird looks,
right, which gives off the impression that she
might not necessarily belong in the house of
Allah
Likewise to my brothers, you might see a
brother who's wearing certain things that you wouldn't
normally see in the masjid.
I advise everyone to fear Allah
Right? The houses of Allah
are not just for money saps
or for sheilts,
or for elders,
right, who are sitting in the front row
of the house of Allah, as they were
just for everyone.
Whether that person's a drug dealer,
from wherever area it's Berbila,
right, doesn't matter if they're from Al Arabel,
right, or from small Eden,
from anywhere.
The house of Allah
is for everyone.
Right?
It's not right for us to start, you
know, budging up with our friends saying, oh
it's that guy from the area.
What's he doing in the masjid? What are
you doing in the masjid?
You're in the misjid because you're trying to
benefit, you're trying to get closer to Allah.
And likewise, he is as well.
It might well be that this is the
first time he comes into the misjid,
and the last time because of how he
was staring down at him.
So please bear that in mind. Alhamdulillah,
we've been getting
some of the biggest drug dealers come to
the masajid in the month of Ramadan.
I mean like biggest trappers guys.
They've been coming through the masjid.
Right? Please,
bear that in might.
May Allah
every single one of you guys.
Our discussion for today, my brothers and my
sisters, as you guys are aware, we want
to take a passage from Surat and Qalam.
And before I do that, our sheikh who
gave the introduction
mentioned the statement of Ibn Utaymiyarrafmatullahi
alayhi,
which was very very powerful. May Allah
the word implore mentioning that, he said it
in English.
As our Sheikh mentioned, I haven't
seen
anything.
That
feeds the mind and nourishes the soul, and
likewise safeguards
your body
and guarantees you happiness.
Every single one of us here wants happiness.
We are crying out
for satisfaction,
for contentment,
for fulfillment.
Some of us are spiritually dead and empty.
Because of the kind of lifestyles that we
live, maybe it's the sin that's tired us
now.
And when looking for a way out, my
brothers and my sisters, look no further in
the Quran.
As the Sheikh quoted, you won the happiness
in Nutaimy is saying,
there's nothing more greater that nourishes the heart
and feeds the mind and guarantees you happiness
more than constantly looking in the book of
Allah.
Right? Reflecting on it, pondering upon it.
Right?
Before he passed away,
I believe it was
70 times
that he recited the book of Allah
and then he passed away. And the last
verse that he recited was
The
the Righteous Individuals,
they will be at God of us and
also Ravenst's.
SubhanAllah.
That was the last one that came out
of his mouth. It's my reward, and for
quoting that really triggered my mind to something
very, very beneficial.
A lot of us are going through problems
and hardships. We don't know how to maneuver
and navigate around it.
Look no further, the Quran.
Some of you guys may have seen his
schedule for the next 3 days
of my program.
Today in Coventry I gave the chutba about,
where
he extrapolated some benefits.
Elders and young people came up to me
and they said,
the story
of the story of Ayub really changed their
perspective.
Because Ayub
went through a lot of hardships and difficulties.
Right? Adversities
that he went through,
his health was affected.
His wealth was taken away from him. His
children passed away while he was still breathing.
And then the people around him, they abandoned
him.
So when
you see someone like you who's going through
all of this, doesn't it inspire us and
then we're complaining about maybe because we're still
living in a house of love.
Right? Because we're still living in a house
of love, we're complaining.
Instead of being thankful to Allah, Allah, khalifa,
as an Iriman. It's a blessing.
My point that my the point, my brothers
and my sisters, is that the Quran has
answers to so many of the problems that
we have.
And as you will come to see insha'a'ala
and I hope to change perspectives
with this, the reason why I'm going through
passages of the Quran because I'm tired of
giving lectures.
There's only a set amount of Mawaliyah,
topics that you could cover throughout the year.
Why don't we just go through the Quran,
which is the hill that we're looking for,
the shifa,
right, the solution to many of our problems?
Right.
Allahu'ala whether we'll be able to get through
15 benefits, but we'll try to take some
and then inshallah the remaining I'll mentioning,
I'll mention it
in quick policy. So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
my brothers and my sisters he says,
Allah Azzawajal says.
We tested them.' Who is Allah speaking about?
He's speaking about Quraysh,
the family of the Messenger sallallahu alaihi wa
sallab in his tribe.
Allah says we tested him,
just as we tested
the companions
of the garden.
Why is Allah mentioned in Quraysh alongside these
individuals
that we're about to hear a lot about?
The people of the Garab, right?
Why is Allah mentioned Quraysh? Because
Allah
is alerting
them. He's warning them.
We've given you so many blessings, oh people
of 4ish.
And even then, after we've showered upon you
so many blessings,
you're being ungrateful.
How are they being ungrateful?
The greatness of blessings that came their way
was
the emergence
of the messenger
Right? Read Surah Al Quraysh.
They were businessmen. They would make in the
winters and likewise in the summers with a
caravan that would go back and forth
to Damascus.
Syria,
where it is today,
they would be making money going back and
forth with safety and security.
No worries.
But then,
when they disbelieved, and they rejected it, and
they denied the as
Allah says,
Allah gives the example of a village.
Right?
Its provisions used to come to it from
every direction. They had safety and security, and
sometimes you undermine this. The fact that we're
able to wake up here in the UK,
not hearing
bullet shots going off, oh, well, why is
the blessing?
Once upon a time my brothers and my
sisters, I was in Yemen stuck, when the
war started taking place.
Terrified,
the place was going upside down.
Right? It was a war zone.
And then we managed to get away. When
I was there, seeking knowledge, everything was fine,
and then the whole place, if you guys
are aware, it turned into a war zone.
And up until this very day, they're suffering.
Right?
To be able to wake up, not worrying
about
whether you're going to get shot at the
moment you step out of your house while
lying is a blessing.
So they were ungrateful to
Allah
So Allah
made them taste from God.
Right? And fear.
Things change very, very quickly. So this is
why Allah
is telling on us,
as a notification to these individuals,
I want to disbelieve, I want to be
ungrateful,
The people of this guard are
A little bit of a
of background information
with regards to who they actually were.
These men my brothers and my sisters, when
their father passed away, was a righteous man,
they inherited
a garden that he left behind.
Sure we've all heard about the inheritance, right?
Your father passes away and he has land,
and he has
possessions, right, that which has value and worth,
it will be distributed in a manner
that
Allah has mentioned to us in the Quran.
Right?
It's not 5050.
We have a legislation, we have a law.
Or we don't just deprive the women. No,
it's a way that is distributed according to
the law of Allah.
So they inherited with God that that their
righteous father had left behind. Ibnuqaddirafnatumayi
says,
when he passed away,
his children inherited it.
Look what they said about their father.
Our
was dumb.
Our father was foolish.
Why was he dumb and foolish?
Because he used to give a part of
it to
the poor and the needy. That's why he
was dumb and foolish.
Look what they're saying about their father, who
has left behind
that which they are benefiting from.
And this is how they are blackmailing him.
Right?
If only Naomi
held it away from these poor, these needy
people, because now we have children.
Right?
Life is getting more expensive.
Why should we give it to them? Just
keep it for ourselves.
This is, in a nutshell my brothers and
my sisters,
what they decided to do. Told
us They took an oath
that before the morning kicks in,
before you begin to see the light appearing
in the sky,
Right? We are going to take the crops
and the fruits from this garden,
so that by the time the poor and
the needy wake up, they will see that
the place in ebony,
and there won't be anything for them. We'll
go and take in benefits from everything that
our father left behind for us. He was
dumb and foolish. Let's be smart, or that's
what they thought.
Right?
And then Allah says,
they didn't
say.
So what happened?
The intentions that they had were they wanted
to go and fulfill.
Before they even had a chance to execute
whatever they wished to do, Allah, subhanahu wa
ta'ala, sent me fire
which destroyed
the garden
that Allah
had blessed them with.
For Asaba had kasarim alna tells us it
became
like the dark
heights. So when they woke up, they began
to call one another. They woke each other
other. It's time to go.
To the garden,
to carry out and execute what we
planned
out.
So they began to walk towards this garden,
and they began to whisper to one another.
You know, like a bunch of thieves and
robbers.
Right? As they're heading towards their target, they
begin to whisper.
Right? What they're going to do and how
they're going to execute it.
So they began to whisper to themselves, today,
not a single poor person will enter into
this god.
So they thought they had the power to
carry out what they claimed.
So they arrived at their garden.
And they looked at it,
confused. No, no, no this is not our
garden. Because what happened? Allah Azzawajal sent a
fire that destroyed its garden.
It became like what?
Became like the dark patches of the night.
So they were like, no we're lost. We're
at the wrong place. Let's continue. So they
began to walk.
They walked off.
And then reality kicked in. They came back
and they said
as Allah tells
us
indeed
we have been punished.
We have been deprived.
Right?
It's now when the reality has kicked in,
that what they wanted to do
was that which they have now been punished
for, even though they didn't carry out.
But the intentions go a long way.
There was from one there was someone from
amongst them.
Right? The most righteous and the most smartest
from amongst ever.
He turned around to them and said,
Did I tell you guys, no
if only you glorified Allah.
Right? If only you did what Allah
wanted you to carry out. So he used
to advise him, but he was there at
the time to witness
what they were about to carry out.
God was
nobody.
And then they said, glory be to Allah
indeed
we have wronged ourselves.
Indeed we have been oppressive.
They started now being self critical of themselves.
And then as human beings normally said to
do guides,
They squared up to one another, and each
one started blaming the
other. It's because of you, it's because of
you, it's because of you, it's how we
are, it's human beings, right? When things start
going wrong, we're ready to point the finger
there, everyone, said Belosau.
So hey,
and I hope I'm not oppressing anyone. That's
how we are as human beings, right?
They said woe to us indeed we transgress.
We violate to the limits of Allah.
Allah says,
right, quoting them, perhaps now Allah will give
us that which is better.
Now we desire Allah, we will return back
to Allah azza wa jal.
Talamatiz at times bring you closer to Allah,
we'll come unto it inshallah ta'ala.
Allah
says Such is the punishment of
And then it can either,
right?
Such is the punishment of Allah in this
dunyan.
And the punishment of Allah in the hereafter
is greater.
Only the people.
A lot of time we think when we
sin, or when we violate the limits of
Allah, the only time we'll be held to
account is, on the day of resurrection, right,
We are gravely mistaken.
Almost
instantly,
immediately,
a punishment may come our way my brothers
and my sisters, In this dunya before the
hereafter.
The first benefit my brothers and my sisters,
and I hope inshaAllah ta'ala unless you are
like an Imam al Buhari,
A photographic memory.
Or Gurujis Mashallah takes in everything that He
has, you don't need to write down.
If you don't like that, these brothers,
these benefits may come in handy extremely handy,
in fact, later on down the line. Right?
1st benefit my brothers and my sisters is
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala can take away your
blessings in a hurry.
Agreed.
Not just money
that you've been working so hard to accumulate.
This is something that is matul that we've
seen happen. People losing their wealth.
Right?
Almost
everything that they possess, they lose it overnight
because of
some very bad moves on the investment table.
Right?
They lose everything.
My brothers and my sisters, and I don't
only tell brothers
who tend to listen to music or they
tend to misuse these body parts,
these organs
that we take for granted.
Allah
can take it away in a heartbeat as
Allah said,
If Allah
wanted,
he would take away your ability to hear
and your ability to see.
Allah is capable of very let me tell
you guys about a good friend of mine.
I was with 2 days ago in his
home.
This friend of mine, my brothers and my
sisters,
a couple of months ago,
he was at the Chelsea Stadium at Stamford
Bridge around door time. We all know where
Stamford Bridge is, right? I don't think anyone
wants to go there now, right?
They're not doing the greatest.
The other day I asked my brother, is
there going to be any football games on
Saturday? Because I don't want it to clash
with the lecture.
You know, there's just Chelsea playing.
Because probably no one's gonna watch it, the
Shabaab are gonna come to the Masjid.
And then he said to me they're more
closer to the relegation zone than
The top four, Law Al.
He was at Stamford Bridge,
and he took a picture, took a selfie
with someone that he was with.
By the evening my brothers and my sisters,
you know what he said to me?
I lost my ability to speak. I lost
my ability to walk. I found myself all
of a sudden
in a wheelchair,
not because he was in a car garage.
No, no.
He just lost all of these blessings
in a
heartbeat. He's from Lestar.
They took him to a to a hospital
in Peterborough,
And my friends, they would go and visit
him every Friday.
I visited him once.
My brothers and my sisters,
it was so painful to see him in
that situation.
He couldn't speak. Whenever he wants to communicate
with me, he would get these whiteboards, right?
And then he would write on it.
And they would rub it out and he
would write on it.
And then he showed me the picture of
him standing at Stamford Bridge Hostess Stadium.
Right mate.
This is not
a a story for car to network guys.
It's a real life story.
That wallaya was a huge reminder to me.
How Allah
can take our blessings away from us so
quickly.
We might tell these stories, but sometimes, you
know, we think that's that's very far fetched
that that would happen to me.
Right?
I don't think that's going to happen. So
we continue to use and abuse
some of these body parts in a manner
that is displeasing to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Right?
You know
it says the following.
Never does Allah never does one disobey Allah
as though was it worth something,
except that Allah will destroy that.
It could be a social media platform.
You have a big following now and you
misuse that ad.
Allah will
destroy that,
and it may well be that he uses
that to destroy you, and we've seen it
happen enough
times. I don't need to mention names,
right?
People who are extremely popular, right?
And then the exposure came out.
My brothers and my sisters.
I've seen enough individuals who Allah would bless
with nice cars.
And then once he gets into his nice
car,
right, lady poor old,
gets into his nice car, especially what on
the day of 8, revving?
Right?
Blasting music, looking to pick up girls.
What is he using now to disobey Allah,
this wonderful, beautiful car that he has?
Couple of moments go by, where's your wonderful,
beautiful *?
Why the edge is not working?
So surprising my brothers and my sisters.
Too many times.
Right? Too many times I've seen.
The blessings of Allah, the ways that were
misused, that we disobey Allah as a tribute.
You know, there's a verse that I want
to mention that came down on the battle
of Uhud, miss. Right?
That came down on the battle of Uhud,
where Allah said,
In the Battle of Uhud, my brothers and
my sisters,
Allah
placed in charge a companion called Abdul Jabbar
Al Jubeib
a mountain
in front of where the Shehada are.
He placed 50 of his companions on there,
told them don't come off no matter what
happens.
So when the Muslims
thought that they were
Khalas Yani, they already won the battle.
We know the khalib alwili came around tzafir,
and then he hit the muslims from the
back.
Those that are top they started arguing amongst
themselves. Alimal, Alimal, some of them started saying,
the.
Allah says, let's go. Let's go and get
the.
And others are saying, no. Don't.
Didn't the say stay on hill? Right.
So from the verse that Allah said,
You disobeyed Allah after he showed you that
which you like.
You disobeyed Allah
after he showed you that which you like.
How many a time my brothers must says
that Allah give us that which we want?
And then instead of being grateful, what do
we do?
We throw it back at Allah
So,
Sheikh ibn Arathaimili commented on this, and I
wanted to mention 2 of the scenarios that
he mentioned.
I said that he's begging Allah Azawajal for
the whole year. You Allah grant me a
righteous husband.
Say hey, you Allah grant me a righteous
husband.
Oh you are asking Allah Azzawajid for a
holy you Allah grant me my princess charming.
Right?
And then the day of the wedding arrives,
instead of being thankful
in this sexualized society I can now do
things in a halal way. What do we
do my brothers and my sisters?
Free mixing.
Blast the music.
Right? People are going crazy, and then you
advise him or her and she says, brother,
stop being the * up, please. It's just
wind for hours.
It's just one day.
Right?
Not realizing that these things that we carry
out on the wedding night
has long term consequences.
Right? Long term consequences, you may not see
it my brother or my sister.
The sins that we carry out with ourselves
affect the relationship that we have with others.
Likewise, your spouse is
Right?
It affects it in different ways. The other
example that he gives was, you beg Elazari
for the whole year, y'allah, give me good
grades. The day he gets his good grades,
party.
A bash that we throw.
Sahih,
disco.
Partying.
Going crazy.
Instead of being kung fuht Allah, Azza wa
Jal.
Right?
Is this how we treat Allah, ujannifiyalala,
brothers and my sisters?
Yousef, alaihis salatu was salal, you know when
the wife of An Aziz rocked him up
inside of that room?
By the way, Yousef was an extremely handsome
individual.
Was granted
half the beauty of mankind. Where's the other
half?
Where's the other half?
So then what happened to everyone else?
An effort.
The rest or the other half was distributed.
It was distributed to the rest of mankind.
When she locked him inside of that room
and she said, hey, let's get it on.
Right?
What did he do, my brothers
or
What does that mean? He began to remember
the favors of
some scholars in the Mufassilin, they say of
his master who was so good to him.
Others they say what? Allah azza wa jal,
how good he was fought to him. Because
of where he was, he was thrown in
a well. He was in the middle of
a well.
Abandoned for Zakab and then Allah Azar would
have brought him into a very luxurious palace.
This is how we should feel.
Right?
When sinning or when we are about to
sin, Allah did all of this for me,
and now I'm going to disobey.
Right. He was locked. He could've done it.
Allah is watching him.
To remember Allah.
Right?
This is Yusuf alaihis salat al
salat. My brothers and my sisters,
the sins that we carry out
could easily be lost.
Right?
Because of the sins that we carry out.
Just as they lost
their blessings overnight,
and my friend
lost his ability to see, and likewise hear.
No, not hear, but to moon, found himself
in a wheelchair. That could happen.
It could happen to every single one of
us depending on how,
right, we deal with these blessings that come
only.
2nd benefit my brothers and sisters, they wanna
take away.
Why don't you guys tired?
Should we stop?
Sorry?
You know the truth.
2nd benefit, my brothers and my sisters,
After the reality kicked in, said glory be
to Allah, though did indeed we were oppressive,
we wronged ourselves.
What's the lesson that we take from here
To be self critical.
To be self critical.
What was the first benefit by the way?
Allah can take away your blessings in a
heartbeat. Don't forget my friend guys, hamdulillah is
doing a lot better now.
But even then he can't speak properly.
He can't speak properly.
He's still, you know,
it can happen from being in the Stanford
Bridge stadium at all time, and by the
evening, he's in the wheelchair.
2nd benefit, guys, is to be self critical.
This is exactly how they were. Right?
After they seen this calamity taking place,
they turned around to Allah as though a
jinn, indeed, we've wronged ourselves.
Right?
We've wronged ourselves.
And this is how we need to be
mobilizable, sisters.
When things start going wrong,
the easy option is
to start making excuses for ourself.
This is happening to me because Allah laughed
me.
Taib, you might say to me the
prophetess,
and then those like them and then those
like them.
So the easy option is when things start
going wrong, like you have marriage issues, or
in your business now, things are going wrong.
Are you right to say this or you're
wrong?
But then you also have other evidences and
texts.
Like when Allah Azzawooda said,
Never are you struck with a calamity
How do I know that it's this or
that? You can tell me.
Zakalah Hef, this is one of the reasons
that the scholars mention.
Uh-huh.
Anyone else?
For your patient,
Hayaf.
One of the best explanations that I've had
my brothers and my sisters is that when
we go through calamities and heart
shells, Alimam Al Khazali Raffatullah Alaihi alludes to
this as
all, is that
we raise the possibility
that it is because of the sin that
I commit.
I put myself in a win win situation.
What is this win win situation?
I start repenting to Allah.
If it was because that Allah loves you,
you've only increased in what? Status.
You've only
now what? Forgive
me, which is a great thing to do
anyway.
And if it was because of your sin,
Allah loves those who constantly go back to
him, and loves those that are pure.
Are you brothers and sisters with me? So
he raised the possibility that it was because
of a sin. I sit down
and I start being self critical of myself.
I start doing
holding myself to account. Maybe this is happening
because of what I did
yesterday, or maybe because of that girl that
I looked at more than I should have
had,
Or maybe because
of so and so that I backbited and
I took so lightly,
or that I said x, y, and zed
about yesterday.
So in case,
the easy option is that all Allah loves
me. Like, Greece did not so long ago
actually. In fact, it actually was a couple
of months before. There was a situation.
His husband and wife, they were
going through a lot of problems and then
she kicked the husband out of the house.
And then they asked me to solve the
problem and he said, please speak to my
wife.
I know where they're going,
and I know the sins that they're involved
in.
I asked the lady,
why do you think you're going through all
of this?
She was because I became
Because I'm so righteous,
I can count 101 things that's going wrong
in that marriage.
This is a couple that is cheating the
government. They're being haraf. Mashallah, they make £5,000
amongst themselves,
and even then the government's paid for their
rent. How? I don't
know. Right?
And the way she dresses as well.
Right?
And how she,
you know,
exposes herself online, another big red flag.
Big reason, you need to know, try to
fix my sister.
I said, do you not
feel bad that you are bringing your children
up with haram?
Haram you're bringing them up with.
Right.
And then say this. And I'm telling the
sister, speak.
Tell me what you think.
I
suppose a riot.
I may not be that close to Allah
after all.
Right?
It's the easy option and sometimes it causes
you to be polluted.
Does that make sense? Allah loves me. When
you're doing a 101 things wrong
every other
day. So we put ourselves in a win
win situation.
I tend really like to men I I
normally really like the story even though I
have so many stories written down with regards
to how the righteous of the past, they
were what?
So self critical of themselves. Have you guys
heard of Muhammad ibn Siri?
Muhammad ibn Siri was from the students of
Waray rabiallahu ta'ala.
Right?
Muhammad al Siri, my brothers and my sisters,
he was thrown in prison at the end
of his life.
He was thrown into prison at the end
of his life. You know why? Can anyone
tell me? Say no more?
What'd you get a phone?
Took it from one of the extras playing
this.
He bought a whole load of oil,
and a rat got stuck inside of it.
You know what businessmen do? They buy things
on credit.
They buy things on credit,
and then they sell it, and then once
they got the money,
they pay the credit
I
was business man.
You know what they do.
Unless you've got a lot of money, you
just buy it outright, right?
By talking about the less fortunate.
A
Shahid bin Khalal bought that and then he
found a rat stuck inside of it.
So I had to call it all out.
Couldn't pay it back to mention it was
thrown in his prison.
He couldn't blame this. So many people right
here could've blamed the predator he cheated me.
He could've made excuses for him. You know
what he said?
30 years ago I saw a guy who
was going through some financial difficulties.
He was bankrupt and I degraded him.
I looked down at him,
And now I've been tested by that exact
same figure.
It's now happening to me.
Me. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala ta'es a huge
lesson.
When things go wrong,
what should we now do between ourselves and
Allah, Azza wa Jal? You need to start
seeking forgiveness.
Right?
But the more when you start retaliating that's
when it becomes a problem.
Ibn al Jawadhi comments on this incident and
he says,
examples like this are many.
Never do I go through a difficulty or
a hardship
or some adversity or some trial except at
the end due to a sin that I
committed.
And look what he says.
I might start making excuses for myself
and then
I begin to see a worse punishment
or more worse punishment to be a bit
more correct.
Alright. Sometimes we do this right far fetched
excuses that we make for ourselves
to remove the or to make ourselves feel
better than me neither.
Right?
But what we should do is go
When you see someone retaliating with things all
going wrong, he's like, what?
How would you say English? I was about
to say whiting out.
Starts losing control and he gets, you
know, and he doesn't hold himself to account.
No, this guy is suffering from a big
problem.
This is a calamity in within itself, the
fact that he doesn't wanna hold himself to
account.
Right?
Examples of many my brothers have my
sisters with regards to this very point.
I've seen it too many times in my
life,
where an auntie,
she sees
a girl
doing that which is not correct,
Committing fahashah, maybe sleeping around.
Right?
And instead of this auntie who's masha'Allah, she
has daughter, they're all doing great, she wears
hijab and whatever happened, she's doing good.
Instead of saying
thanking Allah that he don't he didn't, you
know, test you with that. Remember you have
noticed. It could happen to them.
But then they're going around, oh, look at
that girl.
They're discussing amongst, you know, they have these
auntie
get togethers.
With the shaitan, mashallah, you know it's stirring
everything
over
tea, ripping into others
instead of making dua for her, ask Allah
to guide her. Instead of doing that or
ripping into them looking down at them the
greater bever,
how many times have I seen? How many
times have I seen my brothers and my
sisters?
So only a matter of time before it
ends up happening to her righteous, pious daughter.
She was pious and righteous, right? She's going
to bro. I think you forgot that.
And then she becomes worse than the girl
that she was what they grade him.
There was even a guy saying, guys,
running out of time, only a number 2.
Only a little bit left.
There was this guy in limit.
You know when we was in Yemen, we
lived in a village.
It was completely
disconnected from reality.
Village,
water would run through the pipes maybe once
every 2 days or 3 days. I lived
in a mud house guys.
It's nice.
Honesty. It
teaches you how to, you know,
be simple.
Were one of the, you know, some one
of the nice curious of my life. I
really had.
I
know they talk about the mud house, but
there
was a brother
who would send out fatawa to West London.
Anyone who wears trousers to work
cannot give sermons in the masjid,
because wearing trouser is harah.
No? Wearing trouser is harah.
How they miss how he would push people
around, bully them.
Mister Righteous comes back to
Reality kicks in, you need to start working
now. How you going to make money?
Agreed?
Finland is expensive.
Just about every work you have to wear,
trousers.
Rami was told me crazy that was,
he goes insurance is haram, so I'm not
gonna just gonna do toq, I'm gonna put
my trust in it, I'm gonna drive.
When I got caught by police,
sharia, the sharia, the legislation didn't tell you
to do that.
So eventually, because now you want to get
married, you're in a very sexualized society, you
know.
Guys roasting,
they say get married,
any jobler comes along.
Guess what guys?
He finds himself working in the airport not
just wearing trousers, but he's wearing purple trousers.
Who wears purple today, guys?
We have a colorful banner, right?
I don't think anyone here would normally walk
around with purple trousers.
There's a narration that is fabricated, but scholars
they mention in their books.
Never does individual degrade another except they won't
die for it.
Be careful
how you look down at others.
Right? The tables will tear, they'll come back
towards you.
That makes sense?
So be self critical.
Be someone who holds himself to account.
We have so many
shortcomings.
Stop worrying about what your neighbor is doing.
Right?
And perhaps, inshallah, that might put you in
a better position in the eyes of Allah.
I'm tired, guys.
The next benefit, my brothers and my sisters,
is I think we'll just do 5, and
then the rest you can find on my
YouTube channel.
Sorry. Sometimes I tend to get excited. I
go into it.
3rd one, my brothers and my sisters.
A blessing that brings you sorry.
A calamity that brings you closer to Allah
is better than a blessing that takes you
away.
You know, sometimes we feel sorry for ourselves.
Oh, my brother, he has a big house.
My sister shares a mansion.
I had Masha'Allah, Follyholl is the
it's like the, the Beverly Hills of Babingat.
I had all the rich people live here,
Allahu Ala'ala. I normally just got small heat
and out of rock.
No offense by the way, I keep mentioning
small heathen Al Araba guys. Tell anyone that
say up from there. I love you guys.
You see, so and so has a big
house. So and so has a nice mansion.
So and so has so much money, and
you miskin,
picharo,
deprived,
you don't have much,
Right?
And you're sitting around feeling sorry for yourself.
A lot of the time and let me
know if you disagree or not. Right?
Those who are blessed with a lot of
money, this is not in every case,
but a lot of the time you find
those with a lot of money.
They tend to have a lot of problems
in their lives.
Not in every case, guys,
but it's very widespread. I went to Australia,
Sydney,
all the kangaroos are.
I was being driven around by my brother
and I'm like, wow,
Muslims are rich
Wallahi guys, they've got a huge banjush.
One time I said this in the lecture,
one of the guys in Australia saw it
and they got offended,
Right?
And I didn't I don't know what your
names. Right? Just talking about the situation.
Brothers driving their own. Muslims, mashallah, they had
huge houses.
I went into someone's house, I was flabbergasted.
So I was like, Muslims are Rishion?
He goes, yeah, Up until the imam gets
a phone
call. And then the imam finds out what
happened in a lot of these homes
that are owned by Muslims,
where a lot of these homes have been
taken out on haram.
Right?
Interest and what have
you.
My brothers and my sisters. May Allah bless
those who have wealth and keep them steadfast
and keep them away from Haram.
Right? But the point of the matter is,
at times, they see this individual who's got
so much that he's far away from Allah,
I Surajah.
Right? Allah may choose not to give you
that.
Maybe if you did have that, you would
go far, far away,
agreed my brothers and my sisters.
You would go far, far away.
So I cannot let you know that you
are struck with, that brings you closer to
Allah, that keeps your feet on the ground,
that keeps you humble, walaiz alib.
There's a very powerful statement in Mutaymi. Look
what it says. Right?
Because if it wasn't for all of these
calamities and these tests that you go through,
you would be afflicted with arrogance,
self amazement. You might even start picking up
pharaoh
type traits,
and a hardness of the heart. But from,
he says,
from the mercy of the most merciful one,
Allah, is there a time that makes you
go through that
so that you come back down to Earth,
that you turn back to it. Just like
Ayyub Alaihi Wasallam,
18 years of calamities that he went through.
And when he started going through these hardships
after maybe, what, 60 years of bliss,
60
years of going through so many
luxurious,
you know, times, and
everything that you could think of that he
had.
Wealth, health,
I mean like a lot of wealth, and
then he lost everything in a hobby.
Okay, brought him back to Allah
Right? And Allah once stopped my brothers and
my sisters. Allah
wants you to reach a point where you
stop relying on the people.
Today you go to so and so, you
complain to him, and you say, okay, I
went through this and I went through that.
Maybe the first time you'll be empathetic and
sympathetic. You know? And in the 4th time,
where is this guy gonna shock?
People are like that, human beings they don't
care a lot of time they get tired
of you.
This guy's always just, you know, painting and
allows you to reach a point where
all of these people, my brothers and my
sisters, can't do anything for you.
The only one that you returned back to
and you give that exclusivity to is Allah
That's from the blessings of what?
Of the blessings that we go to.
Allah sometimes takes something away from you,
and you're thinking that you're missing out. Years
go by and you tell yourself, oh if
I did a ghost, I wouldn't have a
string.
How many times have you been in that
position?
Right.
And even with my friend,
right,
After this happened, he'd never left a single
prayer hand.
He never left a single prayer hand. Even
though he's, you know, in a very bad
state, he'll sit down and start praying.
Right? Right?
But before, it was like that. No.
So don't look at these these calamities, my
brother, it's always negative.
We're gonna go through 2 more guys because
I'm mentally exhausted.
This is program number 5 today.
I even went to the Darul Redoon.
She's the offstead offstead. Sorry. Alright.
How many is that guys?
Allah can take away if necessary to help,
Sheikh Omar.
Number 2,
to be self pity for yourself. Well I
really just went too much into some of
them.
Anyway I was hoping he has benefit. Number
3,
Yeah, calamity that brings the cross to life
is better than
Number 4, and then I'm gonna finish you
with number 5 ish polka.
Number 4, my brothers and my sisters.
What kind of father was he?
He was a righteous individual to suffer. We
mentioned that he was righteous and he left
his behind for him.
What did they say about their father?
Oh that was dumb, it was foolish, Sahaydin.
Is that nice when you say about your
dead father?
He was righteous.
The fact that they didn't know
that you giving charity is going to bless
their wealth,
it shows that they were uneducated.
Right? It shows that they were uneducated.
Because maybe had the father educated them about
the merits and the benefits of giving charity,
they would end up maybe
said whatever they said about their father, or
maybe,
you know dealt with this matter in this
way.
Alright?
Are you brothers and sisters with me?
That's a very very important point that I
want to drive whole. You know my brothers
and my sisters as someone who distributes inheritance,
You know how many time I've seen
a very rich guy passing away?
He leaves behind 1,000,000.
A lot of money.
This will be enough
for his children maybe for the next 40
years.
They'll be cool, they don't even think about
work.
Having said that,
you could see the greed, and you could
see murder
in some of their eyes.
If they could kill their own siblings just
so he could take the wealth, he would
do that.
You see in his eyes,
and you're thinking to yourself,
his father,
he would wake up day he would wake
up every morning thinking about the money that
I need to accumulate
so that my children can be well off.
So, hey,
it's the case our fathers and our mothers
likewise.
They work us all hard so that you
could have a better life.
But,
what benefit will all this wealth that they
leave behind,
or do you leave behind as a father?
Beat your kids.
If the more when you pass away, they
go where the child is next.
Right.
Simply because they have no Islamic education.
They don't have any more than any value.
Right?
You know there's hadith when the prophet salallahu
alaihi is so scary. Hadith is scary us.
So brace yourself.
It's not just for parrot. It's for you
guys as well. Tomorrow you're going to be
parrot. Because you need to invest in yourself
right now
for what you're going to do in the
future.
There's not an individual who's been given a
responsibility. There's not an individual who's been given
a responsibility.
You have children, they are your responsibility.
You have to look after them.
Saying, after being given this responsibility,
he doesn't fulfill it accordingly.
What does that mean? Does that mean He
didn't put food on the table, or He
didn't put roof of it? No, we're not
speaking about that. Even though you have to
do that, it's important.
Here we're talking about his
He did not advise them accordingly.
He did not teach them what they needed
to know.
The day when he died, he dies as
they are,
someone who deceived his children.
Alright,
he deceived his children,
Allah will make the Jannaha Law upon it.
A
father's thinking about his children, and then as
soon as they passed away, well, I one
time I was sitting in a restaurant in
Medina.
Right?
There's a guy I could like, I'm just
trying not to listen,
but it's so loud, I have to listen.
Right?
There's no way out of this. I'm listening,
like and it was around the time when
I was learning inheritance.
The sheikh is saying to the brother, have
some, Iquran, but dad just passed it away.
Stop saying bad things about your dad.
He goes, no, but my dad, he made
all these promises to my brother. Why did
he make it?
And he's calming him now. I don't know
if there's
the the chef gets off the phone and
they mix at me. I was like, Sheikh,
our teaching in class is telling us every
day.
Why cases like that?
Right, that's very very unfortunate.
What's the most more important is that they
walk away with Islamic knowledge.
Yes,
ensure that they have a good education, that
they are went off after your past. My
husband is great as well, but at the
expense of what? You leaving the house every
day,
coming back very late,
and them getting no Islamic education whatsoever.
They they don't have that quality time with
their father just to ask them about how
are you doing.
Right.
So that's very very important.
Otherwise you may find yourself
being cursed by your children after you pass
away.
And then there are those, panallah, the fathers
didn't leave anything behind them because of how
we invested in their
education, Islamic education,
and making du'a for them. The messianzalaz have
told us about an individual who's being raised
on the day of resurrection, and he
said why is it happening?
Because mister Fari wala bi karaki because your
son
used to what? Ask for forgiveness for you.
Now he's being elevate.
And that's all I need to my brothers
and sisters.
Priscilla has made me the most important benefit.
They could have been saved from all of
these troubles
if they had wax.
Also?
Said that they had beneficial knowledge.
The Greek
beneficial knowledge, my brothers and sisters,
right,
is what we are nigh need
in today's day and age
more than anything else.
This is what's going to help us maneuver
around fitna to shubohat with fitna to shahuat.
What does shubohat mean?
Doubt. What does shahawat mean?
Desires and temptations.
Knowledge is going to help me maneuver around
that. I went to 27 universities, guys,
around the country.
Some of these feminists they try to blue
haired feminists they try to shut it down.
Right?
And some of the colorful people.
They failed.
They failed.
I would engage your students just like a
lot of you guys.
That Iman has been shaken to the core.
Feminism,
liberalism,
secularism,
all of these different isms, and us para,
we should be concerned.
Right?
Rainbow tea very active,
going around.
And I'm not inciting violence, by the way.
I'm just saying what's happening.
Our botaner doesn't have his own views and
opinions.
Just in case someone wants to cut out
what I said, I works for Channel 4.
I'm just saying what happens. Wallah, I witnessed
it. I went to university. I went to
Loughborough University
Engineer.
People who would learn my religion and then
you see them walking around, oriented. They would
be walking around
targeting
people who are what? Weak in their religion,
uneducated,
unequipped.
They don't have the tools to equip themselves,
to repel these doubts that are coming their
way.
They know their religion better than they knew.
Right?
Even the guy who wrote the Hanswa dictionary.
He has heard of Hanswa dictionary, anyone who's
learning the Arabic language will know that. Or
interest.
How is Arabic is?
Knowledge, is that which is going to help
us navigate around all of these different fitin
that are out there.
And none of the time my brothers and
my sisters, why does one feel
no issue with falling into that sin?
It goes down to one simple
reason.
We are lacking knowledge of Allah.
This is when one's aqeedah, his belief comes
in extremely extremely handy.
What is the only source of knowledge that
we have of Allah
Is it names and attributes?
I'm not talking about these debates and arguments
that people are having. We're talking about learning
about what does Al Aziz mean? What does
Hakim mean? What does Al Azak mean? If
you
just learn about Al Hakim,
That Allah,
is evil wise.
Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes these atheists
come up to you and they say, our
line, you know, why is all this evil
taking place? That means there's no god. Everything
happens for a reason.
I wouldn't be here today, my brothers and
my sisters, and my friends within a shop.
Even though from the apparent is what?
Very horrible.
Everything happens for a reason.
Right? Everything happens for reason, like I mentioned
earlier,
just so we realize
the wisdom of Allah.
If that didn't happen, I wouldn't have this
today.
How many times do we find ourselves in
that situation?
That's just one name of Allah that increases
our faith, especially when we're going through difficulties
and hardships.
I don't know if I mentioned it here.
Did I mention it here, Ramada, a lady
who has said that she's angry with Allah?
Okay,
give you guys an example. In Ramadan, one
of my best friends are sali's house.
You know his mom walked in and she
said,
I'm not fasting today. You know why? Because
I'm angry with
Allah.
Why is she angry with Allah?
She goes, I do so much worship.
And then Allah is speaking to go through
so many problems. And by the way, I'm
sitting in a mansion.
I said, auntie, look at the house that
you have.
Look at all the children the Lord gave
you. Look at all the blessing everyday you
have filled in your house.
Of course, you gotta go through trials and
tribulations and hardship is bound to happen. This
world is a abode of what hardship.
So that's very dangerous.
Right? That puts you on the fringes of
your religion to say
What is the problem
here?
Our lack of knowledge. When it comes to
our belief, when it comes to
when it comes to knowing Allah, the messenger
said,
I'm the one that has the most fear
of Allah
and the most taqwa.
What do we mean by this, or what
can we take from this? That the more
you increase in knowledge, the more you increase
in fear of Allah,
the less, my brothers and my sisters, you
will fall into these sins
that we see ourselves sometimes just throwing ourselves
into.
And you know how
you will better your relationship with Allah, as
it is, by learning. Sometimes people say to
me all the time, I don't feel that
connection with Allah.
Because we don't know anything about it.
Right? For those who are married,
for those who are white, when you were
looking for your wife,
why did you go after her? Go ahead
and tell me, why did you go after
her?
Some brothers don't know her.
Why did you go after her?
Because you heard that mashaAllah, she's this and
she's that. She's got this trait and she's
got that trait that you like, say? What
does that show you? The more you nerd
about someone,
the more you begin to
feel connected, and I'm not trying to compare
Allah to this lady,
But the shayid mil kalam is, the more
we learn about Allah.
Allah has many names.
He has his names as his attributes.
You've come to know about the power and
the mightiest of Allah, the mightiness of Allah
Right? Well, I believe that you've learned about
Arazarat,
you will never even think
about. Never.
What
means is the ultimate provider.
Never, brother, is if this,
especially in times of difficulty when things get
tough.
That's when, my brothers and my sisters, you're
going to what?
Really appreciate
the capabilities of Allahu jadafir.
But that requires knowledge
to strengthen our aqeedah, which is our most
important thing, brothers and sisters, what we believe,
which keeps us going.
These Daul Muslims, some of them are committing
suicide. Why? Because there's no
Does that make sense, Hayat?
All the 5 things, yes?
Number 1,
Allah can take away your blessings with an
RB. I'm 2.
Sorry guys.
Peace of critical, good. Number 3.
Masha Allah, brother's on fire.
A calamity that brings you close to Allah
is better than a blessing that
like money that takes you away from Allah.
You start clubbing because the money they have.
Is that really good?
Number
4? That was number 5.
Good.
The importance of what? Educating
your children.
Number 5,
beneficial knowledge strengthen our aqeedah by learning about
Allah, and his only source of knowledge that
we have of Allah is what? His names
and his attributes.
Like I said, I'm not talking about these
debates that people are having.
Who is Ibrahim? What does
right?
Al Hakim.
Does that make sense?
And last but not least very very quickly,
if you don't pay your zakat, my brother
says you could lose everything.
We had maybe £360
in the bank for the last year.
For 12 months, you don't
You don't know what's gonna happen after.
Something as small as that £360 that you
had in the bank for 12 months,
why are they more than that that's reached
the threshold?
We need to check, of course, how much
595
grams of silver actually is. There's ways to
calculate it. There's a website called coin apps.
Unless I don't know, because I'm in Khalifa,
you missed it a different way.
I don't wanna know who step.
Ask your chef how to calculate, Insha Allahu
Ta'ala.
Right? Something very small they have in the
year.
Has a reason for a showdown, has 12
months gone by?
Sure, a lot of you guys are,
zakat eligible. Not not not that you we
have to speak to you, I mean
that you have to pay.
If you don't pay your zakat, my brothers
must say, my will be taken away from
you.
And those who give charity,
we have
a, we have,
Naveed
Sab. 1 Umrah, we got,
I'm not gonna say anything else.
Those who give charity to my brothers and
most says,
always increases their wealth.
Those are money and give, and our generous
could testify to that.
There would be people that I meet every
year in Medina.
These were the most generous of people, and
every time they would say to my Allah,
just give me more and more and more.
Right?
6.
6. And the rest finally, my user
I'm
I'm gone guys. Like, this is program number
5.
You guys might see a video going around
again.
I you guys know I'm talking about. Right?
Well, I've left everything going to be, guys.
Honestly, I just wanna thank the administration of
the Masjid, our Sheikh Sheikh Jarat,
who's not here today. He's in Egypt.
Took a break of 5 weeks, so I
was like, Sheikh, I still need to read
to you.
Said no after 5 weeks.
And
the chef, and the rest of the administration
who put this gathering together, may Allah as
a wish to bless every single one of
them. And I hope, inshallah, this is the
first of many visits.
Honestly, I enjoyed coming to this area. Very
different.
Small heat in Alabrook.
Well, I love this everything one of you
guys.
And until next time.
What time is
Artemis.