Abu Taymiyyah – Scared of Evil Eye & Posting Blessings On Social Media

The other meaning that the scholars they mentioned

is telling the people about all

the different kinds of favors that you have.

It's not necessarily specific to

Al Islam.

Faib,

we are living in the year 2021.

Are we going to stop posting all of

our blessings on social media?

And then we get afflicted with evil eye.

I think there's maybe what 2 extremes to

this and also

People will ask the question and I'm sure

somebody will ask me after the class if

I don't address it now.

How do I now reconcile between

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala now saying, be vocal

about the blessings of your lord upon you.

And also when Allah

says,

or when the messenger

said,

When you're now trying to carry out a

plan, right?

Then hide it. Indeed, every possessor of a

blessing is envied.

And also the statement of Allah of

Yusuf, when he said to his father,

Indeed I saw

11 stars, the sun and the moon, all

frustrating to me. What did his father say

to him after? Al,

This is a huge blessing. There's wonderful jim

that he's seen, but his father is saying

to him, don't tell your brothers

because they will plot against you.

We have all of these verses. Right?

Also, we have another verse that's sort of

Yusuf.

When he send them now with Binyamin,

first, he was very skeptical. The father was

very skeptical. Should I now allow them to

take my other son, Binyamin? After what they

did with Yusuf Alaihi Salatu Salam.

When they left,

he told them,

when you arrive at the city, at the

gates of the city,

don't all enter together.

Because when the people see all of these

brothers, masha Allah, have big family,

it might be that they afflict them with

the evil ayesha.

That's a huge family.

Not many people have families as such.

He told them, Don't all enter the city

together, but go from the different doors or

the different

parts of the city,

or the different entrances of the city.

And then you have another hadith as well

where the messenger Alaihi Wasallam said,

Allah

loves to see His blessings

apparent and visible on His servants.

We have some evidences

which state that you should tell the people

about your blessings.

You should inform them of it.

And this is now from you being thankful

to Allah

Because the way we are thankful as

The way you thank Allah as the word

is with your heart,

by recognizing the blessings of your lord,

also with your tongue,

and also with your limbs.

How do you recognize it with your heart?

You accept that all of this is from

Allah

All of these blessings, you don't attribute it

to Abidil Allah

You know that this is what from Allah

and its duty, its favors, and none other.

And then you have also what

by saying,

and also what?

Being vocal about the blessings.

Today, you find people walking around, well, I'm

not gonna tell anyone anything, I'm gonna be

afflicted with evil eye.

You're asking, Masha'Allah, what what what job did

you know? I'm like,

I'm married to Shaykh.

I don't have anything.

And the brother is rich, Allahum Barik, but

he goes, Allahum. No.

Allahum.

I left the Harin ul Khayrat or Barakat.

And the constrain,

in fear

that I'm gonna be afflicted with evil eye.

InshaAllah

ta'ala, then we finished our class.

Tell those who you trust. Tell those Who

are righteous. Who are righteous,

and who you trust.

Jameel.

Anyone else?

I think the majority of the people today

are of the kind that I mentioned. Right?

They are terrified to tell anyone anything.

Now, as the Sheikh mentioned, last in Tashkur,

you have to.

To some level, be thankful to Allah azza

wa jal with your tongue.

Right? And by informing the people, this is

you now fulfilling that obligation.

Otherwise, you're not a thankful individual.

Our brother

was very very in fact, Masha Allah, it

was a very good answer.

You only tell those

who you trust

and who you don't expect to envy.

By the way, what's the definition of envy?

We should do that.

We should do all the best.

It is to dislike that which Allah

has blessed others with.

The fact that you dislike it is enough

for you now to have what?

Hasid. And then he goes on to say,

also,

It may be that the nafs

just can't rid itself from the hasid.

Envy is very, very widespread.

So much so that Ibn Artayman, he mentions

the envy amongst Talbot Al Ayl, students and

knowledge is more worse than the people of

the dunya.

And then he goes, if at least you

can't rid yourself from this hasad, the least

you can do is,

If you're going to have hasanjus, don't violate

against that individual.

And most peeps of Natiem says,

And then some people because of the hasid,

he causes them now to backbite.

So they end up falling into 2 filthy

evil actions.

As

the brother mentioned,

you only tell people

who you trust,

and those who you think want good for

you. And this is what the Prophet Sallallahu

Alaihi Wasallam told us about the good dream.

Who should you tell the good dreams to?

Only those

that you love.

And those who you love are most likely

to be individuals who want care for you.

They're not going to envy you.

None?

So when you're now putting all of your

blessing onto social media, you are asking for

it.

You are asking for it.

People are becoming depressed due to what they

see online, Ata'alalmu ana'ala.

There was a study that done, it was

called the cohort study.

It is a research into young people's lives.

They concluded after, I think, interviewing 11,000

14 year olds. Now 40%

of girls are depressive because of them using

Facebook, social media.

40%.

40%.

40%.

That's more than 1 in 3.

Due to them seeing maybe a moment,

a second of people's lives,

But he doesn't know,

That he might be depressed for the rest

of his life.

He shows you one moment out of 24

hours,

guys.

Sitting in the Haram sometimes,

the amount of people I'm sitting in the

prophet's masjid, the amount of people I've seen,

he looks miserable.

He takes out his phones and he smiles.

After he's recorded his Snapchat or whatever video

that he's uploading on his story, his face

is miserable

again. You are only seeing a moment

of the person's

24 hour day,

And many people are unhappy.

They're looking at this and thinking, well, I

wish I had them and I barely have

anything. When you do that you become an

ungrateful Abd.

This is what prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam said,

Look at those below you. Don't look at

those who have more than you. This will

make you more thankful.

This will make you more thankful. And many

marriages break down because of this.

She's looking at her friends,

family.

Look how he's treating her. And my husband,

he barely gives me anything.

He's turban.

She thank you, Lord, that he's not oppressing

you and he's not beating you.

Subhanallah. Because there are some women who are

being beaten up, they're being harmed.

So when you think to yourself, Subhanallah,

you know, you will look at your husband

as an imam.

Right? And to conclude, we mentioned the ways

to thank Allah

through with your heart, through what? Statements and

also with

your limbs. How do you thank Allah with

your limbs?

By staying away from sins and doing what

Allah has told you to do.

Right?

Through acts of obedience,

would pray in the night for so long,

even though his past and his future sins

were forgiven. Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala, and she will

say to him, You Rasulullah, why are you

doing this to yourself?

What was his response?

Shall I not be a thankful slave?

I show my gratitude to Allah

by way of me praying to him through

my nims.

You see,

we ask Allah as a way to benefit

us from what we had and to make

us from those when they hear the reminder,

they benefit from it and they act upon

it.