Abu Taymiyyah – Tarnishing his name on Internet or sincere advise
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Dear respective brothers and sisters,
before I
move into
the topic that we'll be speaking about today,
I would just like to thank the brothers
for attending today in this gathering of Dhikr
and hopefully insha'Allah
with the correct intention,
we will all go under the hadith
of when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam mentioned
hadith was narrated by Ma Malik
he said hadith of Qudsiqallahu
ta'ala
My love
has become incumbent
for those who sit for my sake,
and those who love for my sake, and
also those who spend for my sake. Especially
Ikhwan as we all know, it's a Friday
night, most people, even our Muslims,
they began to adopt the way of the
Kufar
by maybe spending their times
in the night club, or maybe house partying,
or maybe enjoying themselves. So it's a very
big nama,
very big bounty blessing that Allah
has gathered us all today in the house
of Allah
trying to seek his face and inshaAllah with
the correct intention we will all get the
reward.
It was mentioned by Imam Muslim on the
authority of Abu Hurairat
that the Prophet
once mentioned,
Never did the people
sit in the house of Allah reciting
his book and also learning the book amongst
them, except that he sent down upon them
tranquility.
And also mercy
was sent down upon them and it overwhelmed
them.
And the Malaika surrounded them.
Those that sat in the house of Allah
trying to seek his pleasure for his sake
reciting his book, we find that the malaika
surround them and Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala also
mentions them in his guidelines.
This topic that we wanted to speak about
today I see it to be very very
essential
and I believe
and also after a person contemplates on the
Hal, the situation of the Muslimen,
if the people were to carry this out
in the correct manner,
you would find that there will be less
problems between the Muslimen.
And also they would be more united.
And you would find,
that
there would be more Mercy amongst them,
if they were to advise each other sincerely.
So this is why, I wanted to speak
about this today. Hopefully InshaAllah Ta'ala we implement
this in our lives,
and we try to get their message across
to others,
and by this, we find that the people
they accept the Nasayah,
the advices of what the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam specifically mentioned.
Imam al Bukhari rahmatullahi
he has a whole chapter
in the end of Kitab al Iman,
where he talks
about
the importance of
the fact that he dedicated
a whole chapter
in explaining this or in mentioning the hadith
and gathering them, shows great importance of this
matter.
He chapter in a saih
with the hadith that is mentioned in Sahih
Muslim,
on the authority of Tamim ibn al Sadari,
when the Prophet
said adeenanasiha,
that the religion
is sincere
advice.
For Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And also for his book and also his
Messenger and also to the rulers
that have authority amongst the Muslime
and also the general folk.
And then he mentioned a hadith
of Jari'bna Abdullah.
Jari'bna
Abdullah said,
Bayatul Rasulullah
He said, I gave
or I swore an oath of allegiance to
the Prophet
Alaykum Salat
Waita Izakat
1 Nus Shalikuli Muslim.
I gave him a pledge
and promised that
I will be establishing the prayer,
and also paying the Zakat, and the third
thing that he mentioned which is the Shaheed,
which is the whole point, 1 nusshulikuli Muslim,
and to advise every single Muslim.
And then the second narration that he mentioned
there,
he mentioned
that Ziyad ibn Ilaqa
said,
I heard
the day that Mughir ibn Sharba died.
He said,
I came to the Prophet
and I said to him,
I will give my oath of allegiance.
Fasarata alayawan nus halequli Muslim. So he made
a condition upon me.
Just pay attention here, he is saying that
he made a condition upon him, that he
advises every single Muslim.
And then
he said,
And by
the load of this house,
I will be among from those
that advise
you sincerely
for his sake.
So just the fact
that
some of Sahaba, people like Jareebna
Abdullah, when the Prophet
made their condition upon them that they
have to be advising the Muslim Inn, shows
a great importance and significance to this issue.
And this is what we wanted to give
emphasis to, and to maybe elaborate on, hopefully
we understand this issue very well.
And it all revolves around the Akhwan, the
Hadith,
that we mentioned earlier in Sahih Muslim, that
the Deen is sincere advice. So we have
to ask ourselves,
when we see maybe a monk or an
evil,
something bad is taking place,
and we want to advise this individual.
Are we advising this person
because sincerely we want him to come back?
Or are we trying to show off to
the people?
To show off to the people that we
have knowledge
and that we are able to tell the
people off.
Are we doing this to maybe get one
at him?
Are we doing this to maybe push him
into the corner?
So that the people see that this person
has fallen into mistake to embarrass him, to
do Ta'ir of him.
The intention here is very very important.
So when a person is advising,
the first thing that he
needs to try and rectify
is his intention.
Because the intention is something that is very
very important in any Ibad that we do.
This is why some of the rama they
mentioned,
amongst them,
Imam Ahmed and others
that
if only every Imam
or every scholar,
when he author a book,
he will start with that important hadith
That actions
are only judged
by intention.
Whether it is the chapters of Siam, Salat,
and the rest of the Ibadat. Why is
it such an important thing?
Why is it such an important thing? The
reason why it's so important because a person,
he might do any Ibadah, or he might
author a book, or he might start seeking
knowledge, and because of the wrong intention,
maybe years
and decades go past and this person has
been wasting his time.
He hasn't been doing it upon the correct
intention and because of this nothing gets accepted
from him.
So the intention of a person is really
really important, especially when it comes to advice.
So InshaAllah Ta'ala, I don't think we would
have enough time
to give its right
to explaining this hadith.
The only thing that we can do is
maybe shed some light on some parts of
the hadith,
and hopefully be in the light to Allah,
we will leave today
with some benefits in regards to the hadith.
When the prophet
mentioned, Adeenun nasihalillah,
how can a person advise Allah
When Allah
is the one that created us and we
are the creation.
How can a person advise Allah
As the 'ulama and the shura they've mentioned
that when a person
reads the Quran,
and he goes past the awamir,
the commandments,
and what Allah
ordered,
him advising Allah
is by him acting upon what Allah
mentioned in the Quran.
If Allah
says, Do this, he doesn't hesitate twice to
doing this action, and he does it straight
away.
If Allah
mentioned in His Quran,
Stay away from Riba, do not eat Riba,
He stays away from it straight away.
Without asking but or why or if,
okay,
why should I not do this and why
should I do this?
Rather he's Muslim,
he accepts it, he submits to it
and he takes you on board straight away.
And this is
from the types of Akhlaq with Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
Most people they think that the Akhlaq is
only the interaction that a person might have
with the rest of the creation, with the
rest of the people.
Rather akhlaq is of 2 types.
The ethics we have we have with Allah
and
the ethics that we have with the
creation
and the rest of the people. Sheikh Athaymeen,
he mentions
that the ethics that a person has of
Allah
is that
he believes
and he accepts
the Akbar,
the news that is brought by Allah
in his book.
And the second thing is, is that he
implements it.
He doesn't have any doubt whatsoever.
When the Prophet
told us about the fly,
He told us about the fly,
If a fly goes into your drink,
then push the fly in,
then take him back out.
(3:3)
For indeed in one
of his wings
there is a disease,
and in the other wing there is a
cure.
Most people they will say to themselves,
and they will start using the intellect.
How can this take place when the fly,
it goes into all source of other like
all source of dirt.
It goes into
the dirtiest of places.
The feces, you will go there and fly
on top of it and even touch it.
How is it possible that I have to
now stick it into my drink when my
drink is pure?
1400 years ago the Prophet
mentioned this. Only now,
they are scientifically
it has been scientifically proven,
That what the Prophet
mentioned then, it is reality today.
Mahoos the hasr now, the one that has
wasted himself, is the one that didn't believe
in what Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
When he said,
the first time, and he had doubt in
regards to the Akbar of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala mentioned.
The second thing that is mentioned in the
hadith,
advising the Prophet
How can a person advise the Prophet
even though he has passed away?
One of the things that they mentioned,
that Sheikh Usayim he mentions
is
and defending
the sunnah of the Prophet
It's a way that a person defends the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and he advises
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Most of us know what recently happened
with the issue of Charlie Hebdo.
When
them shootings took place,
Allahu'alaam if the shooting actually took place,
but is how they made it and it
seemed that to be.
When the Prophet was
insulted.
Without a doubt, we found that and we've
seen that all the Muslims they got really
really upset.
And they have a right to do so.
They have a right to become upset. Why?
Because it's the Prophet
We
love the Prophet
more than anything. We love him more than
our parents. We love him more than our
children.
As it came in the famous hadith,
A person is not a true believer until
I am more beloved to him than his
parents,
and his children,
and all the people together.
This is the true believer. He loves the
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam more than anything.
And because the Prophet
has a big part in a person's heart,
without a doubt any Muslim
is going to get really upset. Their Prophet
is being stranded.
So how does a person defend him in
this kind of scenario?
Does he do
what my what some people might do?
Taking out an AK 47
and start shooting it in broad daylight
against the police even though
these people have insulted
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala his messenger.
What does the person do? How does the
person defend the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam?
It's upon us now to go back
to what the Prophet
used to say, and what used to be
said about him. Him being insulted is not
something new.
This has been taking place how long ago,
Yaqun?
At the time of the Prophet
he used to be insulted
his own uncle. There was a time when
the Prophet
called all the people in the market.
And he wanted to inform them
of something.
His uncle said in the end,
Alihad Jammatana.
The whole point is, is this part
He tried to belittle the Prophet
and the people were ready to listen.
Have you now gathered us for this?
And he started swearing at the Prophet salallahu
alaihi wa sallam and insulting him.
Imagine
your own blood uncle in front of the
people, you're trying to give dawah to them.
He comes and he starts belittling you, he
starts insulting you, he starts speaking badly of
you.
How a person might feel?
And our thoughts are only for the Prophet
SAWHAN
of how he might have felt
in that scenario.
This is one thing that happened to the
Prophet
Another time
he was praying
in front of the Kaaba. And Abdulayrah miss
Oud was watching.
You have some of the Quraysh, the
Ritzvay ibn Rabi'a and others,
who started daring each other. Who's
gonna get that waste?
The waste of the,
you know, when you have a majzar,
when the lamb is chopped and the waste
that comes out of this
lamb and also the camel and things like
that when they're slaughtering in a slaughterhouse.
They put all the waste somewhere. Who's gonna
get that waste
and all the stuff that is found
and put it on top of the prophet
salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
I don't even think it has ever happened
while we have been alive.
The type of thing that happened in the
time of the prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam.
They got this
and they started making jokes about it, and
they put it on top of the prophet
while
he was frustrating.
While he was frustrating
and Abdullah al Masrood
he's watching and he couldn't do nothing.
Why? Because at that time the muslimon were
weak.
Just as the muslims are weak today,
the Muslims at that time were very weak.
No one ever came out
with a knife
or with an arrow
and started shooting at the Quraysh,
rather they were patient.
It's almost identical
how the state of the prophet
was then, and how is now. We are
outnumbered.
The most removed the soul for the moment.
And if we was to now come out
and cause problems,
what will happen? They're gonna take this, they're
gonna put it on the world wide web
and all over the media. This how the
Muslim are. As they did with maybe a
few individuals.
And tashweesh happens,
everybody becomes confused of what al Islam
is about.
So in reality, how does a person now
defend the honor of the Prophet
There's an Ayah in the Quran
for the one that truly loves Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
Imam Ahmed
and others, they call this Ayatul Mahna.
A verse
that examines a person, a verse of examination.
This Ayat is taught in Imran.
Imran, And say to them, O Muhammad,
if they truly love Allah
then let them follow me.
Hassan Al Basri,
he came and said,
Some of them they thought
that they loved Allah
and
Allah examined them with this.
How many people do we find?
Based upon emotions,
they start doing all kinds of innovation.
Nam, he gets angry when the Prophet
has spoken illah,
but at the same time he's disobeying him.
He doesn't do
what Allah told him to do. Or when
the Prophet
said, Do this, he doesn't do it. Or
stay away from this, he doesn't stay away
from it. Maybe the whole day is disobey
Allah
So is this person a true defender of
the Prophet
How many verses
are there?
How many hadith,
implementations that we can implement,
are there for a person to carry out.
Rather he chooses to maybe turn away and
to maybe follow his desires.
Is from the way of the believers.
That when
an order, a command comes,
something the Prophet
said, He takes it straight away. He doesn't
have any dua whatsoever. He implements it straight
away in his life.
Allah
mentioned in the Quran.
It is only the way of the believers.
It is only the way of the believers
that when they are called
to be judged
of what the Prophet
said,
And also Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
as mentioned,
they say, We listen and we obey.
They accept straight away.
There's no ifs, there's no buts, and there's
no why. Why should we do this? Why
can't I do this? Straight away they submit
to it.
And this is how the Sahaba they were.
So a person
can try and examine himself with this
of how truly he loves Allah Especially when
something comes that goes against his desires.
Shall I follow my desires or shall I
not?
Who is more beloved to me, myself
or what the prophet
requested for me? And the awama is katheer.
Sometimes you find things that go against our
culture.
It goes against our adat.
Something we might be doing for maybe 20
30 years
or 40 years
until our health became great.
But then we
come to know that the Prophet
maybe did something in his prayer,
in a certain way,
or he did this and he did that.
Are we going to be choosing our culture
or are we going to be implementing that
which the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said?
This is the one that truly loves Allah
as the wajal and his messenger.
He's a true follower.
Otherwise the person has a halal,
he has a deficiency
when it comes to following the Prophet
upon a correct manner.
And there's many many ayaat
where the Prophet
was called all kinds of things. Allah says,
And they were amazed that a man came
from amongst them.
And then they said at the end, what
did I say? This person is a magician
and he's a liar.
They said all these things to him. And
they also said about him,
Shall we leave our Gods,
These Gods that we worship.
So a poet that is mad,
they call them poet, they call them
crazy mad,
a magician, all kinds of words the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was said to.
And the sahabas they were patient,
they were blockaded,
they were attacked,
there was bloodshed,
and at the same time they were patient.
The Prophet
What happened to me, uhbuhan? When he went
to Ta'ih, they stoned
him. They stoned the Prophet
and his feet was bleeding.
He is being physically attacked. These people are
now maybe just drawing some
stuff, but at that time he was physically
attacked.
And you think, Yaqwani, if the Muslimoon they
were united
and they were together.
The disbelievers,
they would have even dead
to do what they did today, but because
they've seen the Muslim, so much of farrah,
so disconnected
and
divided,
they've taken the opportunity.
And the aatiuhan
are many. They are many
of when they curse, and when they attacked
him, they called him a sorcerer.
They even said,
What is wrong with this messenger?
He walks in the markets
and he also is ta'am. He is food
like everybody else.
If only there was an Angel sent with
him. And then they said, The oppressive ones,
You're only following a person
that
has a spell on him. Someone that magic
has been played on him. Rajul al Mas'ura.
So in conclusion, in regards to his point,
a person he defends to honor the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
If he's a true lover of him,
what does he do? He acts upon what
the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam acted upon.
He tries to dress like him, he tries
to be like him, he tries to act
like him, he tries to
study the Prophet
And there's been many many books written.
You find
the book of Imam Atilmidi Shamayil Muhammadiyyah,
where the prophet
has been described the things he used
to do and how he was,
and other things. And you have the books,
bukhari and muslim. So many things that the
prophet
done.
You find people that do innovations,
and you find in this maybe the 3rd
chapter of Sahih al Bukhari,
that the Prophet
used to rinse his mouth after drinking milk.
The hadith of sahih.
And maybe all of us we don't know
about this narration.
And it's in the second chapter. How do
we not know about this narration? And we
go on to do all the innovation things.
Mananzalallah alaihi, mananzalallah subhanahu wa ta'ala in Sultan.
People have left off the pure knowledge, and
they've gone on to follow the desires and
do all sorts of things. May Allah
protect us from this.
Then he came in hadith,
And then what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna
move on to
Another problem that we have today, I don't
think is generally in this town,
but you find in many many parts of
the world and also places like London and
other places.
When it comes to
advising
the rulers
and here imatin al masyiminik can mean 2
things,
the scholar
and also
the ruler,
or the leader of the muslimini. How do
we go about
advising
the leader of the muslimini?
Do we stop blazing at him,
shouting
on the pulpit on a Friday night, on
a Friday
when the khutbah is going on?
Does the khateep stand up and start mentioning
the akhta, the mistakes of this leader? What
does he do?
Does he do that openly or does he
advise in privately?
This is the issue now that we want
to talk about. How well does a person
do?
Because people they've taken wrong paths, when it
came to
advising the Wala to Umar,
until you find Nawiakhwan,
the lands of the Muslimen,
they are finished.
And how did it all start?
They all started with
what? Khooj,
what they call the Arab revolution or the
Arab spring, with them coming out
and attacking
the rulers that were in charge of them.
This is how it all started.
And today, if the Muslim
moon, those maybe from Libya or from Yemen,
from the Arab countries,
before they had maybe if their kids
have become corrupt.
They wanna do tarbia of them, they wanna
nurture them again, they take them to their
homelands.
And now it's all finished.
And it all started off with simply one
thing.
The failure
to follow what the Prophet
told them to do, when there's an oppressive
ruler amongst you law. How do you go
about to advise him?
It came in a hadith.
That the Prophet
said,
If If a person now wants to advise
a ruler,
then let him take him by the hunt.
Let him take him by the hand.
And let him
seclude himself with this leader.
Be alone with him,
grab him and say to him, I want
to speak to you, I want to advise
you of what you're doing.
And then the Prophet
said,
and if he accepts, then he has accepted.
And if he doesn't,
You have fulfilled that which was
You find some they might say to us
now, and like they say all the time,
Ulama al Sultan.
They call the scholars Ulama al Sultan.
Scholars for dollars. Why? Because they don't attack,
and they don't speak about the mistakes of
the ruler.
There's a whole chapter.
I remember Sheikh Nahiya,
when we was in a Yemen, and all
these muddaharaats were going on, all these protest,
before any of this has happened.
This has happened maybe
in the space of any
3 4 years.
At the start it wasn't as bad, people
were still living there, it was still Hudu,
people had electricity,
they had aman, safety, and all sorts.
Day
night, he used to open.
Sahih Muslim There's a whole chapter there.
The chapter of leadership.
How do we go about when there is
an oppressive ruler amongst us?
So much hadith.
The failure of the Muslimoon,
of going back to the Quran and the
sunnah.
Especially when there is Umur Un Nazil
issues have popped up from amongst them,
he has now caused
what? The whole country
to be in turmoil.
And Yaqwani Fila we have to understand one
thing,
we do not defend
the mistakes of the rulers.
It could be from the west of the
people.
We do not defend
the rulers. But at the same time,
It is wrong for us to defend, or
anybody or the scholars to defend
a ruler when he's doing mistakes.
Allah
said in the Quran,
And do not dispute on behalf of those
who wrong themselves.
If a person is clearly doing dul and
things like that, you're not allowed to defend
anyone is done. But at the same time,
like he's from the aqeeda by a sunati
where jama'a a person, he doesn't revolt against
him. He doesn't go against him.
As the Prophet
mentioned hadith,
Hadith hudayfa.
He said to him,
There will be rulers
that do not take my guidance as a
guidance.
And they won't follow my sunnah.
Their heart are like the heart of the
shayateen,
in the body of an in the body
of a man, human.
If you pay attention here you find that
the prophet
called us the worst example.
Their house are like the house of a
shayateen, feed you smell it in
Islam. Then in the end, Khadaiyim said to
him, so what what should we do here
Rasulullah?
The prophet said,
If he beats your back and takes your
will,
then listen a little bit.
Why?
Otherwise, you'll get what's happened now in the
lands of the Muslim Inn and the prophet
they're laughing.
They're joking at the Muslim Inn and and
just looking at them,
and they have nothing to say.
So this is basically akhwan the akhida,
when it comes to the rulers,
and how to advise them. How do we
go about advising these rulers?
So they'll ibn Ayad and also Imam Ahmad
they all mentioned,
if they had one du'a,
one du'a that was Mustajab.
One du'a
that they knew it will be accepted,
they would have made du'a for the ruler.
Why for the ruler?
Then I go,
Amir
That when the Amir now becomes good,
everybody amongst him and those that are around
him will become good. And because of this,
the lands,
they begin to become good as all.
This is how they seen this issue.
And this is what we believe in regards
to advising
the Wala tul Ummur.
And then the second thing is,
how do we go about advising the
a person of knowledge?
This is very very important. Because in our
society today,
especially amongst those
who say that they are followers
of the salah,
of the sahaba.
It is like advice
is not something that is known amongst them,
or something that is real.
When a mistake
is done by a scholar
or maybe a person of knowledge,
How do we go about it?
Is our intention now to overthrow him?
To slander him? To write him off? To
put his name all over the internet, halal,
this person is finished. How do we go
about?
Because we see this happening all the time.
Shah Salihi has Suhaimi,
he one time mentioned from the scholars of
Al Madinah,
that the intention of a person,
it is not to overthrow him, to topple
him over,
rather to return him il aljada,
that you return this person
to that which is
correct.
And few are those that do this today.
It is more about embarrassing this person,
exposing him
and you being above him.
Sheikh Hussainir Rahmatullahi
he has very very good speech when it
comes to
noticing a mistake that we see with a
person of knowledge.
How do we go about it? So what
I'm gonna do, I'm gonna read out some
of the steps that he mentioned.
He said that the first step that a
person takes,
That you
seek verification
that which has been ascribed to this person
is correct.
Without jumping the bandwagon, jumping to a conclusion
straight away,
is this actually something?
That is correct.
And then he goes on to say,
How many things have been ascribed
to scholars
and it is a lie?
How many things? So you have to make
sure, is this something that is correct that
has been ascribed to this person?
And then he goes on to say,
He says you have to make sure.
And after you have made sure that this
is actually something that has been as fractured
as individual,
then you move on to the second step.
The second step is enter to Amal.
You have to now ponder, you have to
look into the issue.
Is this something
that is worthy
of you criticizing him for?
Is this something worthy of criticism?
Because sometimes some messiah
are quite deep.
There's many different angles in regards to the
issue of the deen.
Sometimes for example, now when a person he
enters into the prayer,
he can read maybe 2 or 3 duas.
One of them,
A person is recently start to seek a
knowledge. He's learned one hadith.
He's heard this person maybe recite the other
one.
Does he go now and start criticizing this
person? Start attacking him? What are you doing?
So he has to be sure, that which
he is criticizing this person for,
is it worthy of criticism?
Because it could become apparent for a person,
from the first
few moments, that this is something that is
blameworthy
to him.
He see that to be blameworthy from the
first
few moments.
And after pondering, after looking into the issue
he finds,
that what the island or what that person
has done, is something correct?
This always happens. A person he starts taking
knowledge maybe a few months and things like
that. He becomes pumped up.
He has this sort of tasara,
hastiness.
And he wants to change everything in the
dunya. And sometimes
he criticize the person
even though the issue fee is sia'at.
The issue is quite broad.
And on the 3rd step, If it now
becomes
clear to you,
If it now becomes clear to you, that
this issue
is not something
that is worthy of criticism.
It is
upon you now to defend this person.
And also spread
between the people
that which has been said about him is
not something that is correct.
And now you also clarify to the people,
what this person has said
is the truth, even if all the people
they oppose them on
it. As long as this person now,
he's
He's in accordance to Allah
said and what the messenger
said.
Then it doesn't matter what the people think
or what the people say.
So the whole point is,
is that person when he realizes this, he
goes one step further to maybe
defending this person.
Because it's a great virtue, it's a great
to defend your brother, his honor. The Prophet
said,
Whoever defends the honor of his brother,
then Allah
has made a wajib upon him
to save him from the hellfire.
Just because you defended your brother. Some people
are scared.
They see some
oppression taking place, somebody being oppressed or someone
saying something else about the other person is
quiet.
And he doesn't say nothing.
Huawei is something praise worthy and recommended,
and great
be virtue
that person
defends this person's honor.
Then the 4th said,
step,
And this is the most important thing.
If it becomes clear to you now, that
based upon your opinion,
that which has been ascribed to this person,
is something that is not correct.
You see yourself to be upon the Haqq
now and this item to be incorrect. What
do you do?
You run to the Internet and expose him?
What do you do? The Sheikh now is
talking about this now.
It is upon you.
Wajib,
compulsory upon you to call him.
With
etiquette and with good moral conduct.
And also with calmness, with buqar.
I heard this and I heard this about
you.
Wallahi, the problem we have today,
I'm sure most of you don't know the
game Chinese whispers.
Chinese whispers,
somebody says this to Fulan, and says this
to Fulan, and then he reaches there, and
then he goes there.
Maybe he was correct from the beginning, then
all sorts of kelib and balayyah has been
added to it, and all salt and pepper
has been added to it, and it becomes
a whole different tale.
And it's gone through maybe 10, 15 different
people.
And they don't verify.
And it keeps spreading, keeps spreading, keeps spreading.
And it's rare that you find a person
coming to you face to face and telling
you I heard this about you,
tell me what is your perspective in this
issue? How on earth did you see this
thing in this particular way?
Sometimes something that is completely wrong to you,
you see it to be haram,
another Alim is looking at this issue in
another way.
So how do we go about it?
He says, I heard this and this about
you and I want you to explain to
me
how you came to this conclusion, what made
you say what you said?
And there's a difference now between attacking him
and asking him now. I want you to
explain to me how you saw this.
And because you're also knowledgeable to me,
And if it now becomes clear,
to you that you see otherwise,
nam, it is upon you now, or you
have the right to start
debating
and seeking further verification
and clarification from this island, but at the
same time you have to
necessitate the adab,
the etiquettes, and you have to do in
a correct manner.
And then he goes on to speak about
the reality of the people today.
As for what some ignorant people do today,
They come to a scholar,
They go up to a scholar that sees
other than what they see.
They come to him with savannahs,
and maybe in a bad manner.
And maybe they start moving their hands in
front of this island's face.
Where is this all now that you've innovated?
And this bad speech you've spoken about? Do
you not fear Allah
And then the Sheikh he goes in the
end,
These people they thought
that they are from the people of the
sunnah,
And they thought they are upon the way
of the
Rather they are from the furthest
people from the
and also the way of the.
So here you have adab, etiquette,
good moral conduct that the Sheikh teaches us
when we hear a mistake.
Without doubt everybody is gonna be falling into
mistakes. Grab me by the ear telling me,
take me to a corner, advise me. There's
no problem with that.
But the problem we have today,
is the way the people do it, And
because of this you find that
Ummah,
surely that
they become divided, they become split. Why? Because
people, they don't have to advise each other.
It's one of the main causes.
And then last but not least,
How do we go about advising the general
folk?
We have to understand that
in
this scenario, there's
sorry in this case, you find different scenarios.
Sometimes a person
is committing fisk,
all source of transgression,
sin.
He's doing things with a woman
in an alleyway.
Or he's been watching stuff under his
while in the evening,
or while he was,
or while nobody was looking, or maybe you
found some stuff on his phone.
They are very blameworthy.
From the unlawful stuff Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
has prohibited and etcetera. And you see these
things taking place.
What you go what would you do? How
do you go about this whole thing?
Do you go and expose this person
openly?
Or do you now conceal the sin of
this person?
The prophet
said to us,
Whoever
conceals
the aib,
the mistakes,
the blame worthy acts of his brother,
then Allah
will conceal
his sins,
This is from the stuff that are specific
for him, that are related to him, that
he does privately.
And he has this exception.
But when a person now is calling to
innovation
and he's doing this openly,
then in this case you find
that there's a bigger benefit and there's a
bigger maslaha.
The person warns against him
openly and he clarifies his mistake. Why? Because
he's affecting other people.
What he's doing is reaching other people. But
the first scenario, what was he doing? That
Masih or that fisk is specifically for him.
So in that case, a person
advises this individual privately
without making a commotion.
And at the same time, we have to
understand there's something called rif in our religion.
Doing something with gentleness
and with softness,
and not being harsh,
specially with those who are open minded.
Harshness has its place and likewise softness has
its place.
Look at the prophet
when he saw the man who
urinated inside the masajid or in the masjid.
And some of the sahabas, they got upset
and they started hurrying to this person.
The prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam
spoke to him very very kindly and he
told him
that the house of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is only for the remembrance
and only
for the recitation
of his book.
And it is not befitting
that person
does
or what this person did.
It is not suitable that you do harmful
things inside of masajid or any dirty things.
And he explained to him. And the person,
this person now that urinating in the masjid
is beduin,
he made du'a for the Prophet salallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
Only. He didn't make dua for anyone else.
He made dua for himself and only for
the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And there's many many examples of how the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
was soft
when he came to advising the people. Then
when that man came to the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam and said to him,
and he asked him about
Yani doing
zina. He asked him about doing zina and
the prophet
said to him, do you like this for
your wife?
Do you like this for your mother? Do
you like this for your sister?
No. The prophet was
very very gentle with him. Today sometimes, wallahi,
we find some things that are clear cut
to us, is very very clear cut to
us.
Some people they see
things that are so clear to us,
To be something like it's normal. They see
it to be normal.
And they do this like there's no tomorrow.
They feel to be without a problem.
And when maybe some of the other Muslims
they see this,
they start maybe
attacking them or maybe
dishonoring them,
and being harsh towards them.
And because of some of the actions of
the people, you find that these people they
get
further and further away from the religion of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And inshallah without prolonging it any further,
we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
to make us from those
who have the etiquettes,
die in correspondence
with the etiquettes of the Prophet
And to make us from those
that he has mercy upon
And if there was a mistake
for me,
and this is from myself and also the
shaitan,
Allah
and his messenger are are free from this.