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