Abu Taymiyyah – Signs Of Hypocrisy Explanation Of The Hadith Lecture in Portsmouth
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My dear respected brothers and sisters,
for
all attending
this lecture.
Before I start, I just want to
quickly stand over the title on the poster.
When I saw the title of the poster,
even myself, I had my observations as to
whether it should be put out like this.
On the other hand, I thought to myself,
perhaps
this will make somebody think
I need to learn about the things that
could potentially destroy my heart
and inquiring and researching that which is evil
is the manhaj,
is the ideology
of the companions.
Right?
Who was known
as the
Sahib U Sir.
What does Sahib U Sir mean?
The companion who knew
the secrets of the prophet
What was it exactly that was disclosed to
Fazifa ibn al Yamani
the names of the hypocrites
in the time of the prophet
He knew them,
and no one else was informed of this.
That's why he was known as Sahih Wasir.
And even after
prophet
passed away,
the companion who
the shaitan used to be
terrified of.
We know the messenger
said,
by Allah, our Umar, the shaitan is terrified
of you.
In other narration, we are told, never does
the companion, umrul khatab
take a particular road or a street
except that the shaitan will take
a street other than the street that is
taking.
So the point of the matter is
He knew the secrets of the because
the messenger disclosed
it to him.
The reason for me mentioning all of this
is,
has
a very profound statement.
When he said,
we never used to ask about the evil.
As for now, we ask
what the evils and the
bad things actually are.
Out of fear
that we will end up falling into that
which is evil and bad.
This is what a poet he says.
I began to research that which is evil,
not just for the purpose of knowing.
Right?
But rather
whoever doesn't know how to distinguish between that
which is evil and that which is good,
he's bound to fall into it.
If you don't know what is right and
you don't know what is wrong, what's the
likelihood that tomorrow you'll end up falling into
it? Very, very likely.
I sometimes hold
sessions of consultation
with
businessmen.
Brothers and sisters. Right?
A lot of them don't know that they
are falling into
why he's falling into it.
He doesn't know that he's actually falling into
one of the most major sins that you
could ever fall into, which is to start
a war with Allah.
There's no other sin that has
this type of threats
attached to it.
As Allah
mentioned, if you don't leave
Oh, you believe. Leave if
you're a true believer.
But then what does Allah say?
If you don't stop this, then know
that you have proclaimed a war with Allah.
Like you've come out and said, you know
what? It's me and You O Allah.
Let's start a war. Would anyone in their
right mind ever
utter this with his tongue or even think
about starting a war with Allah
Just imagine that you are one side of
the battle field and Allah is
on the other. The point of the matter
is when I sit down with them and
they have good intentions, he wants to know
am I dealing with Haram or not?
Is that which I'm doing a blessed transaction
or is it an evil one? That which
displeases Allah
So we're looking into it having a discussion.
As the discussion goes on, it becomes apparent
that there are some Haram elements.
And he,
with his good intentions and the reason why
I say good intentions, he came to seek
some consultation. Right?
He came to ask, what am I doing?
Is it right? It is is it wrong?
So
he's a good person with a good heart.
But a point is, he's falling into all
of these Haram elements
While he doesn't know that this is actually
what
sucking the blessings out of the transaction.
You may be excused for not knowing. However,
the least
that this now does this transaction,
it takes
the out, the blessings out of that transaction.
You know how sometimes, we
have a little bit of money, but it
lasts so long.
And you say to yourself, SubhanAllah, this money
is so blessed.
And there are times that that money might
just easily sip away from you. Could be
because you are involved directly or indirectly with
that which is displeasing to Allah
So now,
discussing this topic about hypocrisy,
our brother was mentioning to me just a
couple of moments
ago, how one of the uncles
was saying that
there can't be a hypocrisy in today's day
and age because everybody
tells in the Quran.
I think he said sorry. There can't be
an hypocrisy here in the UK.
What do you guys think?
There can't be hypocrisy
in the UK because everybody comes to the
Masjid out of their own accord.
No one's forcing anybody to come to the
Masjid.
We know, like I said, from the characteristics
and the trace of the hypocrites of the
past was,
as Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
he tells in
the Quran,
These hypocrites, they think that they could deceive
Allah
but in reality,
it is Allah that deals with them accordingly.
When they stand up for the prayer,
they stand up in a very lazy way
showing off to the people
showing off to the people
And they would only normally come to
the prayers
that would make them visible to the people.
Would you normally come Fajr or Isha?
So the prophet
and also Asia is very, very
clear
because it's dark. You can't actually see them.
They didn't have
electricity coming through the misery at a time.
And their whole sole purpose of coming to
the misery was to show up to the
people. Look, we are here. We are with
you.
We are Muslims as well.
But in reality they weren't.
They believe something within their hearts and then
that which they uttered with their tongues was
completely different.
That's why Allah tells in the
Quran
When the hypocrites come to you, they say
we bear witness that you are the messenger
of
Allah witnesses
Abu'z witness that these hypocrites, they're liars.
When you see them, wow, you think this
man is a righteous individual. When he speaks,
you listen.
The way he speaks, it's slick. It's magical.
So Akul Ihil, as I mentioned earlier, these
Munafi'awn,
right, they will only come to these place
Sorry. They wouldn't come to
Why? Because
there's no one to show off to.
They didn't have electricity.
Right? And likewise, why specifically
was mentioned in Hadith?
That it was very very difficult and heavy
upon them to come for salatul
Asr.
I think maybe the the Arabs can
answer this a little bit more accordingly.
Why? Why? What do you normally do with
normally,
the Arabs, they sleep before Assar.
And, yes, that's what the Sheikh mentioned.
Right?
But normally, they would sleep after Duhur.
At times they would also what sleep before
Duhr.
Right? So when you now go to sleep
and normally when you go to Mecca or
Medina in the summers,
you have to sleep in
the day. Otherwise, you're going to pass out
because of you being up so early
So many
sleep
in this part
of the day.
It's a claim my brothers and my sisters.
So going back to the point that I
was making,
our uncle mentioned,
or one of the uncles mentioned that
it is not possible for one to have
hypocrisy
here in the UK
because you come to the Masjid
with your own accord.
The question my brothers and my sisters is,
is that the only form of hypocrisy?
Was it specifically that
or this point should I say right? That
the companions really feared
for themselves with?
I met 30 of the companions.
Every single one of them
feared hypocrisy for himself.
Is saying that he met 30 of the
companions.
Every single one of them would fear hypocrisy
for themselves.
Brothers and sisters, that's extremely extremely profound.
Who are these companions
that really feared for themselves? They are the
ones, my brothers and my sisters, that witnessed
the wahi,
the revelation coming down.
The iman, the faith in their hearts is
like a mountain, a calm, he moved.
I'll
read
out
mentioned
in his
commenting on this narration. He says,
Allah. Their hearts were filled with
faith and certainty.
And the
the fear that they had in their hearts
was extreme,
was very severe.
And this really really worried them.
It scared them that this was the case.
And there are those
other than the companions. Look what he says
here. Because it's very very relevant.
Okay?
Sometimes comes out of the people's mouths in
today's day and age.
He says some of them, the iman doesn't
go past their throats.
While they claim that the iman is no
different to the iman of Jibril and also
This
is a belief of the who
say that no matter what you do with
your limbs,
iman's in my heart.
What one does with his actions doesn't necessarily
affect what's in his heart or doesn't affect
his iman.
How often do we hear brothers and sisters,
right? When you're trying to advise someone, brother,
sister,
don't do this. Please do this.
Even if you are being so soft and
gentle, he turns around and he says, brother,
my iman is in my heart.
The is in this heart in the heart.
However,
however, brothers and sisters,
what normally becomes apparent on an individual's limbs
is that which is found in his
heart.
What is the messenger
saying in the famous hadith?
There's a piece of flesh inside of your
body.
If that becomes corrupt,
everything else will become corrupt as well.
If that becomes rectified,
everything else becomes rectified.
This is indeed the heart.
Are you brothers and sisters with me?
Right? There's also another hadith when the prophet
said.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala does not look at
your outer appearance. He doesn't look at how
big you are, how huge and huge you
are, how many hours you've been spending in
the gym and Masha Allah.
His muscles are splitting out of his
t shirt. Allahumabarik.
I don't have anything against anyone who goes
to the gym.
But at the end of the day, that's
not exactly what Allah
is going to be, what, looking at.
How beautiful
you may be, how handsome,
That's not something that is looked at. How
yellow, how black, how white.
And if you think about it, right, as
a quick benefit, I'm just digressing here. Here.
The amount of hours we put into our
outer appearance,
7 8 hours in the gym.
I'm not saying don't go to the gym.
However,
if you're spending so much time in the
gym,
but when
comes,
right,
you struggle to lift that heavy
that heavy
What you call the bataaniyah again? Blankets.
I'm using my English. Mhmm. The blanket.
Because of how heavy it is, and that's
a bit of a problem.
In the gym, a 180 kilos, Allahumma baik.
May Allah bless him and more.
But then that extremely heavy blanket, he may
struggle. Then don't you think there's a bit
of a problem that we need to put
our priorities straight.
Do you guys agree with that?
Or like the
sister
who spends hours in front of the mirror.
Lipstick this, lipstick that,
face mask, BB cream,
mascara, and all of that.
By the way, I'm not saying that wearing
makeup is haram.
You can wear as much as you want
in front of your husband,
but just don't
wear
that in public.
Wear it as much as you want in
front of your husband,
in front of women,
and it is your husband
that should be most deserving of you looking
pretty
and well, and nobody else. But the point
of the matter is the amount of time
that we spend
in perfecting the outer appearance,
If only we gave a fraction to that.
And
what? Rectifying the heart.
Don't you think we'll be in a better
place, brothers and sisters?
So anyways going back to the hadith when
the Prophet said:
Allah does not look at your outer appearance,
doesn't look at how yellow, how black, how
white or how red you are. How big
and how skinny.
While I was in the car without mentioning
your names, one of the brothers was saying
that you should maybe try and work on
your shoulders
to help your pastor. I said, Insha'Allah,
look into it.
But then the prophet or someone what did
he say?
Rather, you should focus on your hearts.
Isn't this now an evidence, my brothers and
my sisters, for those who say, listen, brother,
I will do whatever I want with my
limbs, my imans and my heart because Allah
is only going to look at my heart.
A lot of the time, this hadith is
cut into half.
Allah looks at your heart. What else does
he look at?
Also
He also looks at your actions.
These are two things that go hand in
hand with one another.
The heart and also what the actions.
You will barely find someone with a correct
belief except that it will become apparent on
his limbs.
Ask you guys a question. Right?
Right? The one who decides to go and
blow himself up because he believes that he
will have a 101
hoorul a'in, women of jannah as soon as
he passes away.
He's now done this with his limbs. Right?
He's gone.
Bought a ticket, went abroad, blew himself up.
How did it all start?
Started with a belief. Right?
One belief.
It could be be because he became exposed
to some doubts. The doubts settle in the
heart, which led him now to
carrying this operation out.
Likewise, the atheist,
who was previously a Muslim,
he became exposed to doubts,
which then settled in his heart, and then
it started becoming apparent in his lips.
Whether it is his tongue, whether it is
his hands, and so on and so forth.
This is why the belief that enters in
our hearts
needs to be given extra care
too. Likewise, the feminist,
right,
who may utter certain statements that is in
contrary with the Sharia,
starts questioning and contesting
some of the decisions of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala
or might even go as far as saying
this is not fair in how it has
been distributed.
Like when somebody now passes away, the inheritance
that it leaves behind, the way it is
distributed.
There are so many scenarios where the woman
gets more than the man.
But, of course, because of lack of knowledge,
she doesn't know that. The only thing she's
seen is that the children,
the boys will receive 2 to 1 as
a ratio
or the ratio of 2 to 1.
And because of that, she ends up uttering
some of these very dangerous comments.
Likewise, the individual
might go to the grave and he starts
invoking the dead.
It all initially started from where?
Started with a belief. Okay. This is actually
correct. And because of that, I'm going to
now act upon it.
And the examples
are many brothers and sisters.
What enters into this heart can determine which
direction you go.
I've lost a lot of friends
and some relatives as well who became exposed
to doubts, those who mainly lived
in the Finsbury Park area in London.
They became exposed to a lot of doubts.
They ended up taking a one way ticket
out of the country, and they never came
back.
Every time I drive through Finsbury Park, North
London,
I get these flashbacks. Oh, so and so
I used to see him there. So and
so I used
to
became exposed to doubts.
Even a lot of those who embrace some
of these
wicked ideologies
who are very very passionate in the beginning,
later on they said, yeah, we were actually,
right, overwhelmed with youthful passion.
We shouldn't have contributed
at the time
when maybe being a part of
spreading some of these doubts that we came
across,
that some people had to pay the price,
right?
So the heart, brothers and sisters, I am
not saying,
right,
that it shouldn't be looked at.
However, as you can see, there are 2
extremes.
The heart,
yes, it should be really safeguarded.
And what goes into the heart goes a
very long way, what you end up doing
with your lips.
How did we get here?
Speaking about hypocrisy,
when he commented
on the the saying of Ibn Abi Mulaykah,
he said, I met 30 of the companions.
Every single one of them
would fear hypocrisy for themselves.
And you have an example in
He grabbed Hudayfa after the Prophet
passed away
and he told them I asked you by
Allah,
did the Messenger
mention me from amongst the hypocrites.
And the Umar Ibn Khattab Let
alone anyone
else.
So when I heard the statement
earlier, it really didn't sit well with me.
As if to say that the only form
of hypocrisy is when an individual
is lazy
for his salawat, for his prayers.
In today's lecture, my beloved brothers and sisters,
I have chosen
to go through
a hadith of the prophet
which gives us some of the traits of
the hypocrites.
The hadith is as follows.
On the authority
The Prophet
said,
The signs of a hypocrite
is how many?
3. In this hadith, I mentioned 3.
The first
trait I was mentioning
is
the. When he speaks, he lies.
When he makes a promise, he breaks it.
Number 3,
When he is trusted with something, he breaks
it.
In another narration, we are told about a
4th one.
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi wa sallam then said
and what that means in a nutshell
is when things go wrong there might be
a dispute
and the judge rules that this individual is
wrong he blows up.
Can't take the truth being brought to him.
These are four characteristics and traits.
So the first was what?
Right? When he speaks, he lies.
2nd was, when he makes a promise, he
breaks it. 3rd, when he's entrusted with something,
he breaks it. And number 4 was that
which we mentioned. Truth is brought to him,
and then he blows up.
I want to ask you all a question,
my beloved brothers and sisters.
What is the common feature in these three
things that we mentioned or the first three
things that we mentioned?
Can anyone see a common feature?
And you may want to maybe
think about the definition of hypocrisy.
May help you
that was in Arabic. We'll keep that in
Arabic because I want someone to say it
in English.
It is dishonesty.
Okay. But how is this now relevant to
the definition
of hypocrisy?
Okay. Before we even go there, what is
the definition of hypocrisy? You can tell me
in English.
Sorry. Say it again. To condemn an action
while carrying out the.
To condemn an action while
carrying the same action out
at the same time.
This is the British
way of looking at hypocrisy.
Do you guys agree with that?
Someone just says something and then he goes
and does the opposite of what he mentioned.
Bro, you're a hypocrite.
That's how people look at it as. Right?
However, there is a more deeper meaning to
that,
which we're gonna come on to.
Something against your belief. To make apparent
that which is not inside of your heart.
Is that clear, brothers and sisters?
So this individual now, he speaks even though
he believes other than that in his heart.
Is it not so? Yeah.
He makes a promise, he knows he's not
going to fulfill it.
Sahib.
He promises you that he's going to
hold on to this trust. You trust this
individual.
You're insecure
about who
you give certain piece of information to,
and this person you've trusted him then goes
and breaks it.
Don't worry.
I'm not going to tell anyone.
We hear it all the time. Right? And
before you know it, just turn into Chinese
whispers.
Let's stand over each one inshallah.
Sheikh
He says,
the characteristic or the trait
that makes
a believer
distinct from a hypocrite
is being truthful.
This is if there was let's let's put
it this way. Right? If there was one
characteristic or trait that makes one distinct from
a hypocrite is
to
be
truthful.
Many don't actually realize, my beloved brothers and
sisters,
that lying is not actually a light matter
when you really think about it.
It may start as small.
It may start as small.
But then before you know it,
it's huge enough to tear down a building.
It is huge enough to tear down a
building.
One of those that will be severely punished
in the grave is who?
Who can specifically mention
what this individual used to do?
Is one of them.
Long hadith.
The king who used to lie. The king
who used to lie. Okay.
Hi, brothers.
It's a very long hadith.
Now there was something specific that I'm looking
for related to
lying. What did that individual who
was having his mouth torn, his eyes torn,
his nose torn?
From the front all the way to the
back, it's being torn brothers and sisters.
And then the angel moves on to the
other side. And when he moves on to
the other side,
this part that was torn all the way
to the back comes back to normal.
What is it exactly that you used to
do? Joking.
Not joking? Gossip.
Gossip.
Not necessarily.
I'll tell you guys,
brothers and sisters,
It is a lie that spreads
all the way to
the east and the west.
A lie that spreads all the way to
the east and the west.
There was a time when I was pondering
on the hadith.
I tried to put myself in the shoes
of the companions. They're hearing this and thinking
to themselves,
how can in today's day and age someone
lie and then it reaches the other side
of the world
just so easily?
How?
When you put this now into perspective
with social media,
Not so long ago, Donald Trump nearly started
a war with North Korea
using Twitter.
That it was North Korea. Right? Yeah. What
was the guy's name?
Kim Jong hoon. Kim Jong hoon. Kim Jong
hoon.
Yeah.
One tweet could lead to what? A war
breaking out.
Now it is your fingers that type,
Twitter warriors. Right?
Who type or who comment,
before you know it, it reaches the other
side of the world.
In such
short period
This is why, Wallahi, like,
it shocks me
how easy it is for people to just
take a slur to write a remark
about another individual which reaches them the other
side of the world and rumors are spreading
about this person.
And the reality is, there's rumor
It
has absolutely no truth to it.
But in a couple of moments, it's reached
the other side of the world.
One Sheikh put it really really nicely, he
said we're living in a time and age
where the whole world has become like a
small little village.
He said, for a long time,
we wouldn't teach our students about
this particular deviant belief
that is maybe widespread in some pockets around
the world.
We wouldn't. There's no need to expose them
to that,
because it's very highly unlikely that they would
ever become exposed to it
all the way up until now.
In the era of social media and by
the way, for those who don't know,
www.
Stands for the World Wide Web.
Everybody know that?
I didn't for a very long time.
It stands for the world
wide web.
When the world is a fingertip away.
The days when we thought
the days when we thought, brothers and sisters,
that the only way the only way
that our children will become corrupted
is by them hanging around with the wrong
crowd, whether it may be a drug dealer
or a sister
who frequently goes to the clubs time and
time again,
doesn't dress appropriately,
is not up to good, thinking that this
is the only way that our children will
become corrupted,
these days are long finished brothers and sisters.
Long gone.
That was a long time ago.
Today, a child is in between
the 4 walls of her home, and you're
thinking, alhamdulillah,
my daughter is at home or my son
is at home.
You don't have a clue what he's being
exposed to or what he has access to.
13 year olds, 14 year olds are becoming
addicted to adult content
because of what he became exposed to on
the World
Wide Web.
Under his blanket, he's looking.
Parent doesn't know.
That it's us who gave them these gadgets.
Right?
However, it's our responsibility at the same time
to triple check, to quadruple check what they
are doing.
Right?
You wouldn't let them hanging around with anyone
and everyone. Right?
You want to make sure that they're hanging
around with the right people.
You have another monster on your hand now.
With these phones,
it's not just 4 or 5 people that
they might run into. They're running into the
world.
May
Allah protect our youngsters from that.
So this man who was being tortured in
the grave,
right,
his mouth was being ripped,
his nose was being ripped,
right?
And his eyes was being ripped from the
front all the way to the back, and
that is because
that one line
that is spread which reached the east and
the west. It reached the other side of
the world.
And that's very, very scary brothers and sisters.
And that should
really, really
make us worried,
especially when we utter certain statements.
You may not become exposed in today's day
and age, right?
Because you can always hide behind a screen
or a Twitter warrior.
When your mouth
is
sealed, your limbs will speak.
You know, the other day,
this video went viral of George Bush. I
think most people came across it. Right?
George Bush, what was he saying? He was
trying to speak about Ukraine
accidentally.
Allah made him speak the truth. He ended
up saying Iraq
And then he was like, oh, no. No.
I meant Ukraine.
Those who have unjustly invaded.
He was meant to say he was meant
to speak about Russia.
Right? And then he was talking about Ukraine
being invaded.
I haven't memorized his speech, by the way,
so I'm just paraphrasing.
Instead of mentioning
Ukraine being unjustly
invaded,
he ended up saying what?
Iraq. And he was like, oh, no. Ukraine.
And he tried to make a joke out
of it. I'm 75.
That's why I'm losing my
You know what, this reminded me of? Statement
of Allah
Now what the point is
the point I really want to make here
is
if Allah
can do that to an individual
while he's reading a script, he's got a
script in front of him that he's reading
from.
Right?
Who still hasn't lost their senses.
A man's still normal.
Everything you uttered with your tongue
in the dunya will become apparent.
Your limbs will be testifying against you.
Against you for whatever you've done.
The day when one's secrets will become apparent.
What you do with your fingers, what you
do with your tongue, what you say to
people
will always come to haunt you sooner or
later. Take that as a principle brothers and
sisters.
It will come to haunt you,
right, sooner rather than later, and very likely
in this before the hereafter.
How long do you have left, Shannon?
15 minutes. Yeah? Like,
none of this food being served as well,
and
the the stomach is rumbling.
We're going to wrap up
now. The second part of the hadith is
When he makes the promise, he breaks it.
There's a verse in the Quran
that is normally used,
right,
in context with the definition our brother gave
when asked about hypocrisy.
The British definition of hypocrisy is what?
You telling people something and then doing other
than that, right?
What does Allah say in the Quran?
O you who believe, why is it that
you say
which you don't do?
It is extremely hated by Allah that you
say, which you don't do.
Is that clear, brothers and sisters?
Would it be wrong to say that making
a promise and not fulfilling it would fall
under this?
This, this verse can actually be used in
this context? Yes.
You made a promise,
which means you said something right, which you're
not going to end up doing.
Makes sense?
Or shall I repeat again? Did everybody get
the point of reference here? Allah is saying,
oh, you believe, why is it that you
say what you don't do? Normally, this is
used. So and so is telling the people
don't go to
the nightclub, And then 2 days later you've
seen that.
You're gonna turn around to that person and
say you're a hypocrite.
You always say that what you don't do.
And Allah said in the Quran
hated.
To him is that which you say you
don't do.
When someone now breaks up when someone says
that he's going to fulfill this promise, and
then it doesn't end up doing.
Can this kind of scenario fall under this
verse?
Because he's saying something which he's not doing.
Right?
And that's why brothers and sisters, breaking a
promise
is not a light matter.
It's not a light matter. And we can
maybe
put it into 3 different scenarios.
Al Haratulullah,
the first scenario.
He makes the promise
while he has the intention that he's not
ever planning
to
fulfill
it.
He never ever has the intention to fulfill
this promise that he's making.
The reason why this is so evil is
because
He combined between 2 evil things. What were
they?
Number 1, which is to lie.
Number 2, which is to break the promise,
which is bad in with
itself anyway. 2nd scenario
and this is worse than the first
Saying
saying
while inside,
he knows that he's never going to fulfill
it.
This is
hypocrisy.
This is nifaqa.
You know, my dad,
Can I really blame him for making the
statement?
I'll tell you guys
why
and what
and how
and when.
My dad has had a number
of bad experiences
with Muslims.
Right?
He used to say to me,
if you ever hear
this type of individual from this particular background,
even if he has a beard,
saying, inshallah, inshallah, inshallah, I'm gonna do it
for you.
Take 3 steps back.
I don't think that's a right
statement to be making because it's a sweeping
one. When you generalize your statements like that
and you put everybody under the same category,
that's not actually fair, to be honest.
However,
I'm trying to understand why he concluded with
this.
Why?
Because of this experience and that experience
and then the other experience that he had
and also because
you are using the name of Allah
if Allah
wills. It's not just making a promise now.
You use the name of Allah as a
wajahn in vain.
Makes sense brothers and sisters? Why sometimes
general people
or maybe non Muslims may lose trust
in a group
of people especially if they show Tadayun.
They show religiosity.
If so many Sheikhs are all behaving
the same way, they've all been caught doing
X Y and Z.
Imam Muslim will look at this and think
to himself, you know what? Forget these guys.
If their leaders are like that, then why
should we ever take this seriously?
This is exactly what happened with
the Christian Church.
They lost trust
in their leaders
because of them being caught doing this and
then doing that with
young boys and.
So it's even worse. This is why is
very, what, stern and harsh in it? His
statements.
It
was from the righteous of the past.
To make a promise. Why did they say
you say insha'Allah?
Come on brother. Using the name of Allah
and you know you're not going to do
it, he says this is nifaq, this hypocrisy.
Sunnah number 3.
One who has the intention to fulfill this
promise.
However,
you know what? It's a bit long now.
Can't be bothered. It
doesn't actually have a valid reason and he
ends up, what, breaking it.
This is bad. However, is it as bad
as the first and the second scenario? The
answer is no.
And as a Muslim,
a Muslim Una Sharur Team as the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam told us.
Muslims, they fulfill their contracts.
That's one of their
traits. And they fulfill their contracts.
Is it really right, my brothers and my
sisters, that
today the kuffar
are looked as
people
who have better manners than the Muslims? We
hear these statements going around Sahr. The Kufar
have very good manners.
They've got better manners than the Muslims even
though it's a statement
that cannot be
related in this manner.
Right?
However, again you can see where this individual
or this spokesman is coming from,
right?
When they make you a promise that they're
going to be there
at this time,
they're there.
That's why today you find people making jokes,
are you going to come Pakistani time or
Bengali time or Somali time? When you said,
okay, the wedding is going to be at
this time. At which time do you mean
British time? Like jokes have been turned out
of this.
That's why if you want someone to come
earlier at your wedding, right, you make them
come 2 hours before by putting that on
the post op because you know they're going
to come 2 hours late.
Right?
You said you're going to be there. Why
are you now so late?
It's again with
the promises that you make.
If you look at it from now
on. And the third one,
and I think we will conclude with this.
Right?
How long exactly do we have?
10 minutes.
Alhamdulillah, we have revised a hadith of the
prophet
and took its away,
its understanding.
Are you brothers and sisters with me?
3rd one is,
When
he
is entrusted,
he deceives.
Secrets, my brothers and my sisters, is from
the.
It's from the trust that need to be
kept.
And it's also from the contracts that need
to be
kept
and it is a must as some of
the scholars mentioned right? That sternness and harshness
is used when someone breaks that trust
or when someone spreads that secret
And of course, keeping secrets are of different
types.
The worst of them is,
right,
You know
the plan of the Muslims. They may be
at war with the non Muslims, the disbelievers.
You take this and then you what?
Who do you end up relating it to?
Kufar. This is what is referred to as
the worst
form of treasury.
And there is that which is less than
it.
And even then, it is extremely, extremely
evil.
And we know that this is something that
happened in the time of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam's time, right?
That which happened between his wives. He told
the secret to one of them, she ended
up what?
Spring it spreading it.
And the mister sallallahu alaihi wasallam boycotted his
wives for approximately 2 months, I believe.
Because of the secret that was spread.
Afan, not 2 months.
For
a whole month.
Because of this secret that was spread.
Ibn Hajjar, the one who explained Sahih Bukhari
commented on his hadith and he says,
This clearly shows the punishment
that is applied.
The punishment for the one who goes and
spreads the secret.
From the types of secrets that are spread,
my brothers and my sisters, is that which
takes place in people's homes,
which
you come sit here. Come here. Come here.
What's your name?
Come sit
here. Right next to me.
I bite people's fingers.
I bite people's fingers.
Come sit
here. Sit here.
Come sit here.
While you're hiding your fingers,
I will come after them.
Okay?
Okay?
Sit there.
So somebody is at home No, no, no.
Sit here.
Sit. Don't don't
move.
No. No. Sit here because you're running around.
Daddy is getting upset. He wants to concentrate
and learn.
Are you going to spread the secrets?
Okay. Go.
Go sit next to daddy now.
Otherwise, someone's gonna eat fingers.
Okay?
In
the Sharia, my brothers and my sisters,
it is not allowed for an individual
to peek into people's homes.
Messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam gave permission
to an individual to take stones and to
throw it in a person's eye.
Someone who is peeking through your window,
because that's where you have your family.
Your wife is your secret. Right? She's hidden
away from the eyes of the public.
And then you come and today what happens
is what? Someone uses a phone, he records.
Wallahi, if I wasn't out
For those who don't know,
doing this to school girls who are dressed
a certain way.
Using the phone to take a picture
from somewhere and then what? Putting online.
You'll see somebody walking past the house. He's
doing this.
Well, I remember there was his brother who
gives dawah.
His wife was in the garden
because they were looking for any
way to kind of like have some dirt
on him. She's in her garden.
And even at the time she never used
to wear the hijab because he started practicing
quicker than her
or earlier than her. They jumped over his
garden. They took a picture of her like
that, and then they put it on the
Internet.
You wanna tell us what is right and
what is wrong? You wanna tell us the
way hijab and then this is your wife.
Look at the hoops. Look at the evil
of that.
If the homeowner took stones or pebbles and
threw it on his eyes and his eyes
came out, there wouldn't be a sin upon
him because you're trespassing.
You know what's even worse than that, my
brothers and my sisters?
That which happens between the husband and the
wife,
in between the 4 walls,
is a trust
between husband and wife. Isn't that so brothers
and sisters?
The Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he said
the worst of the people in the eyes
of Allah
on the day of resurrection.
Things happen in between those 4 walls.
Right?
She may say something to him and he
may say something to her at a time
of intimacy.
These are all secrets.
What happens?
9 AM, Monday morning.
Right?
You find this, right,
who's speaking about what he done Sunday night
Saturday night,
went to the club, picked this girl up,
done this, done that. They're all boasting about
it. This is the kind of culture we
have at workplaces. Right? Do you guys agree
with that?
Everyone boasting about their filth and their evil.
And then because this man is married, he's
a Muslim,
he feels comfortable now also to speak about
that which happens between his his wife
between himself and his wife.
This is,
a halal contract between a husband and a
wife that you cannot.
Then go and speak about the ins and
the outs
to others with.
Are you guys with me?
And how about the person who goes and
commits zina? If you can't do this,
when it happened in a halal way, how
about the person who takes
that which happened between him and another sister,
who is not halal for him and then
he's boasting about it? Even worse than they
spread it on social media.
This is from the types of secrets that
are spread in today's day and age.
Embarrassing to have in front of everyone.
To conclude, my beloved brothers and sisters,
I want to mention this narration
of
and will give service to the prophet
He said,
one time came to me and I was
playing around with the other children.
He gave salam
and this shows what the tawadua,
the humility of the prophet
Today an elder expects the younger to come
and give salaam to him.
Right? And if he doesn't give salams, he
gets upset.
Rather, the prophet at times would go to
the youngsters and give them salams. This is
humility.
He
gave us salams
He sent me to go and do something.
He sent me for some errands.
And then I was late coming home to
my mother.
So then when he came home, eventually,
his mother asked him, why did you come
late?
Asked me to go and do something.
So she asked what was it
Indeed it is a secret, oh mother, I
can't tell you.
He said in a gentle way.
Right?
As opposed to how children may address their
parents today.
This was her response.
Don't tell this secret
to any human being.
Here is an indefinite.
It came
in a sentence that has been preceded by
negation.
And
is anyone.
Meaning you can't tell anyone,
any human being
the secret that you have been entrusted with.
Sometimes what happens is please
please please
tell me why I'm not going to tell
anyone.
I won't.
And then you're told.
And another guy comes to you, I promise
I won't tell anyone. Say, you're not gonna
tell anyone. It's a lie because it tells
him. And then a third person say, Wallahi,
you're not gonna tell anyone. I will lie.
Can you see how now this has now
turned into what Chinese whispers?
And along the way, so many different things
are being added on.
In most cases, you find the person saying
to you, okay, please don't tell anyone.
Right?
He has to
make it clear to you that you shouldn't.
In another hadith the prophet
says
If someone entrusts you with a secret
and then he turns like this,
right?
He turns to his side. What does that
mean? Meaning to check.
Is there anyone else listening? Then this is
not what I trust.
That's an indication even if he doesn't specifically
say listen. Don't tell anyone.
This has become an amana. There's a clear
indication that you should keep it as a
secret.
It's a claim, my brothers and my sisters.
These are some etiquettes
of a Muslim
to protect himself from some of these evil
traits.
Right? May Allah give us all a tawfiq
to act upon that which we had. I
hope every single one of you guys benefited.
And I think
some good came out of
the title that was picked by
our brother Abu Al Mas
even though I had no observations right at
the beginning when I saw it.
I personally benefited myself putting it together,
right? Revising it,
explaining it because they are things that we
are in dire need of, right? Some of
these examples that I gave
are very common
issues that we have or sociable issues that
we have.
You alright, my friend?
Yes. Lovely to see you here. Uh-huh. Al
Aqar.
Your name?
Andy. Andy. So lovely to see her. You
are more than welcome to be
sitting amongst us in this wonderful congregation.
I had to come, actually.
Yeah. Of course.
How did you find the lecture,
Andy?
You're you're like Krishna Mati. He has love.
I'm like who? Sorry.
You know Krishna Mati,
like We have not sorry. I shouldn't say
that. Apologies.
A good writer who has thought about what
he wants to tell his brothers,
women.
Yes.
Look. You are here.
You are here in Portsmouth. Yeah. This
I love you all so much.
You're always welcome here to the mosque. Okay?
I will come again. Yes.
Okay.
Now we must end all fighting in war.
We must we must try.
If we could go to Russia and take
its silly pants away,
if we could stop men
and what they'd do.
We need to spread peace and love. I
know some of you have seen me on
the streets drinking. I came up in India.
I had a drink today. Of course, I
did. But I don't drink the spirits anymore.
I'm working hard.
Wherever I go,
there is so much abundance,
and the gardens are full of rubbish and
wood and of metal.
All the things you go and buy, you
do not need. Can you can you let
your
jumper?
Do you know what I mean?
We'll discuss this all a lot later in
more detail. Alright?
My name is Mohammed.
Mohammed
or Mohammed. And
may follow-up with the and
you
Andy will commence our discussion a little bit
later. Okay? He just needs to wrap up
now.
Thank Thank you for your patience.
Just give us a couple of minutes because
we're gonna wrap up now. Yeah.
You. Thank you. Thanks, Sandy. Thanks.
So just quickly, brothers,
before we do the q and a, I
just wanna keep,
a promise
that I made to myself
before the the event. I said to myself
I will introduce to Aesthed. So just quickly,
I'll introduce,
Aesthed Abu Tamir for those who don't know
him. He was born in the Netherlands.
He moved to Leicester when he was 7
years old,
and he he moved to Camden in North
London.
He's a student of Madina and Manohar and,
the Maj in Yemen.
Yeah. That's it. Just wanted to do that.
A share of a reminder that's that if
we make a promise,
we should do our best to keep the
promise. This is a promise I made to
myself, so we should start with ourselves.
So
we we're gonna do a q and a
now. Any brothers have any questions on the
floor?
And sisters, if you could, message
or get some papers across to the sisters
so they can, ask questions.
Any questions on the
floor?
My name is. Often, you may not
he told us in 2 hadith I mentioned.
Right?
That's more specific to,
tell telling but I'll mention the other one,
Insha'Allah,
when the messenger of the Prophet said,
Whoever listens to the conversations of others
and he does not want them to be
listening.
Melted iron will be brought and poured down
his ears.
Yeah?
That's for eavesdropping
the conversations of others
and then spreading it to
whoever it might be.
We are also told in the Sharia that
a Atat,
someone who's Atat what does Atat mean?
Someone who,
let's just say right there's a conversation taking
place amongst some brothers
and they are saying stuff about another which
they shouldn't of course be doing.
Let's just say there are 3, 4 brothers
sitting in that
corner, right? They are all speaking badly about
our beloved brother, Abu al Mas,
which they shouldn't be doing.
I go there and act like I'm cleaning
the place, but in reality I'm just trying
to eardrop.
I come to Abu al Mas and I
say
so and so was speaking about you.
This person will not enter into a jannah.
That's another form
of
carrying tales
to answer your question,
whoever Eve drops the conversation of others and
they don't want him to be listening, then
spreads it to others, this person
will have melted iron poured into his ears.
Is that clear?
What am I not personal? Just a quick
question about What am I not personal? Some
of male
and how he should be dressed like a
hijab, but for male
Okay. Description is.
Tabe, what is the aura of a man?
Who knows the aura of a man?
It's the what? Jamil.
Jamil. Excellent.
That which is between the belly button and
also his knees.
Right?
Does it include the belly buttons? Does it
include the kneecaps?
There's a group of scholars who favor the
view that it doesn't because of the narration.
When the messenger said
that which is between
the belly button and also the kneecaps is
meaning that which needs to be covered and
it must be covered.
So when it comes to the salah now,
that's something that must be covered.
Also, what needs to be covered according to
a group of scholars at least,
one of your shoulders.
That's something that
the scholars they differed amongst themselves with.
What I want to point out is extremely
important brothers and sisters,
And may Allah
protect you all from seeing something like this
because it can be a daunting,
right,
sight
or maybe should I say a very very
horrible thing to see especially when you're praying.
The one in front of you goes down
into
and then you see a whole
whatever it might be, his whole backside ends
up becoming exposed.
While you're praying,
which gives you probably flashbacks for the next
10 years.
I find you allahuaiyakum.
May Allah
help us all in this situation.
If this individual knows that his backside is
going to become apparent
and still decides to pray in very tight
jeans or tight trousers
or whatever he is using to cover his
backside, his salah will become invalid.
If he knows that this is now going
to become invalid
and then he still continues to pray like
that.
You are exposing your aura by purpose.
Would it be fair to say that? He
knows it becomes apparent and then he still
prays with that.
However, there are times when one doesn't know.
And then one may ask a question.
Right?
I prayed. I didn't know that these trousers
would show a part of my backside.
However,
I only realized this after the salah. I'll
give you guys a principle.
Your salah will only become invalid.
If a lot of your aura becomes
exposed and this lasts for a long period,
only then
your salah will become invalid.
Is that are you guys with me?
I'll say that again. If a lot of
your aura becomes apparent and this lasts for
a long time,
all the time we see in front of
the Kaaba, and again may Allah protect you
guys from this because he
is a rookie
in how to use the lower garment of
his hiram.
He's an inexperienced
rookie,
right?
He goes into and then in front of
everyone, in front of the Kaaba,
his eharam drops.
Muskin, he's never wore the before
or the or
the lower garment, doesn't know how to put
it on properly, and then it drops.
And it's a horrible sight.
So what does he do? He ends up
picking up his lower garment and he hides
his private pot or he hides his aura.
Is it something valid? Based on what I
just mentioned?
No. Why? Yes. Because it didn't last long.
We set two conditions. If a lot of
your aura becomes apparent and this lasts for
long.
This wasn't long.
Give you guys another example. Right?
You're in the desert and you're wearing this
lower garment
and a strong wind
takes your and before you know it's already
a 100 meters away. You're trying to cover
it, but there's nothing to cover it. Invalid.
Invalid or valid? Yes. Invalid. Invalid. Why? Because
the two conditions were met. A lot of
your aura and this is lasting for a
long
time. Exposition.
Now I know I'm probably gonna be asked
a question by the sister, then I'll just
quickly mention it anyway, this scenario.
After the salah, she comes to realize that
a bit of a hair is showing which
should have been covered. Does it break the
salah?
I didn't get it. Okay. A bit of
the hair came out. Yeah.
But she only realized this after the salah.
No. No. No. Why? Not much of a
aura came up. Not much of a it
was only a little bit. Yes. And we
know that the aura of the woman is
the whole body
excluding the face and the hands and some
scholars, they add the feet as well. But
every other part of hair
must be covered in the.
Telling one's experience of good that has happened
hypocrisy?
You mean showing off? That's telling one's experience
of good that has happened, hypocrisy.
I think what this is referring to is,
maybe speaking about your good deeds.
Sahih, I think maybe we'll answer like that.
Right?
One thing that people to hear about your
good deeds,
told
us
Whoever wants the people to hear about his
good deeds, they'll be made to hear about
it.
Right?
However, this is a type of showing off
that has been prohibited.
It's a type of showing off whether it
is you acting a certain way,
Whoever shows up with his actions,
right?
That's with his limbs now. This won't be
accepted from him.
It won't be accepted from him.
Or it could be that individual ends up
destroying his good deeds because
he starts now telling everybody about it. You
are destroying it with your own tongue.
Showing off brothers and sisters is put into
3 categories when it comes to acts of
worship. And Ibn Rajabi mentioned this in
his. Right?
1st category is when just about everything that
you do
in your righteous deeds is for other than
Allah
This unfortunately would fall under
the type
that the hypocrites, the munafiqun and the type
of prophet
fell into.
All of the actions were for other than
Allah
The second category is he's sincere
from time to time and at times the
shaytan gets the better of him
when maybe let's just say he's praying. He's
praying by himself. Some of your sisters or
your relatives walk in and you start beautifying
your salah,
right? Because you want to be in their
good books.
Will this now nullify
or should I say destroy your act of
worship? Yes it does.
3rd scenario is the shaitan's whispering, he's whispering,
he's whispering, he's whispering.
He's trying to get a better of you,
trying to get you to show off,
but then
you push him away.
You wrestle him down to the ground. This
will not
affect your active worship.
I know someone may now ask, how can
I keep sincere? As long as you're always
battling the shaytan.
You're always double checking your intention. Was it
sincere? Before you do the righteous act, when
doing the righteous act. And after doing the
righteous act,
this is, inshallah, a good sign, be it
Ilahi Ta'ala.
Questions on the floor?
I think it was very good that I
mentioned the 3 categories. The 3rd category was
as long as he's battling the shaitan,
he is trying to remain sincere for Allah
even if there's a 100 people around. He
should still not leave of that act,
but rather he should battle the shaytan,
right? Should fight and wrestle with him
in order to remain sincere.
Always reminding yourself even though when he whispers
I'm doing this for Allah and as long
as you do that, you're upon goodness
Sofiane Thawri
was from the great scholars of the past,
Amir ul mumineen al Hadid. He was like
the Amir, the leader when he came to,
the believers and
the followers of hadith in his time from
the Atba or Tabi'in, he met the Tabi'in,
he would say
I did not wrestle with anything that is
more difficult than my intention.
SubhanAllah.
It's a continuous battle and as long as
you're battling it trying to remain sincere
in that which you think that you are
sincere in, this is a good sign insha
Allahu Ta'ala and you continue like that. Yeah.
I mean, I mean Good actions.
So to close-up,
just to remind the brothers that, we have,
we have run some beautiful events recently.
We had we had a nice series
of events with you, have brought in green
and, that one last month. Huge success.
So we want to keep these events going,
and we need your support to do so.
Another event we're also doing is table tennis,
socials here in the masjid.
For the youth and just to change out
a bit. And one of the brothers wanted
to have a table tennis match with me.
Last time someone offered me out for football,
I'm not making them twice, so
I don't know what's going to happen to
his brother tonight.
So,
follow us on Instagram and make sure you
like us as well.
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brothers and sisters for all coming.
It's much appreciated. I'll see you guys when
I see