Abu Taymiyyah – The sad reality of our kids today knowing about Barcelona but not about Islam
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Brothers and sisters,
the prophet said
in an authentic hadith
on the authority
of Ibn Abbas.
That That
the
prophet
said,
There is an action
or there is a day when a person
applies or practices a particular action.
That when a person does it in these
10 days,
these 10 days that we're living in now,
these 10 days of Dhul Hijjah,
That is more beloved to Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
So a man said to the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam,
Not even jihad.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
Not even jihad.
Except for one person, one type of person.
Amanda went out for jihad
with his will and with himself.
And this person came back with nothing,
meaning this person died as a matter.
The virtue of these 10 days are mentioned
in this hadith.
There is no day from the days that
we live in in this dunya that are
better than these 10 days.
Last week's
he spoke about these 10 days,
and mentioned many different things that person
can do in these 10 days.
But that which we wanna speak about today
is a matter that every single person here
today
needs to comprehend,
needs to teach these people or the people
who are close to him, his family members,
his children.
Brothers and sisters, if you look at the
sad reality today
of our
youth, how they are, what they know,
it is a very very sad situation.
When you ask our kids when you ask
our kids
about some of the channels on the TV,
and some of the football players that they
know about, that they look at,
they are able to tell us the full
Barcelona team, the full Arsenal team, from top
to
bottom. The guy that's playing in goal, all
the way to the guy that's playing in
the forward position.
The guy that's on the bench, even the
guy that's injured, our kids, our youth, they
know.
You ask them about the TV programs.
From the things that they watch, the little
kids. Programs like Pepper Pit.
This is a program today that they use,
that the little kids they are connected to.
Most of the little kids, they know this
program. You ask them about it, it is
a program where you find things going up
and down.
The that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala prohibited from
us, their kids are doing it, are looking
at it. They're loving it, they're liking it.
And games that they play, games like GTA.
When a person goes and kills, he's able
to even go into a strip club. This
is the things that our kids, our youth
are playing today.
You ask them about the characters
of what this pig is called, and what
that pig is called. They are able to
tell you. They can tell you all the
football players.
But when it comes to the reality of
what they're supposed to know, it's sorry to
say that they don't know this.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he said
in a hadith,
Never did Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala place a
responsibility
upon anyone.
And the day when this person dies,
He dies as a person that has committed
deception.
He has deceived.
He has been treacherous
to his children, and the people that come
under him with his responsibility.
And he came in another narration,
How is this person treacherous?
He doesn't advise. He doesn't do that which
is an obligation upon him to do.
To simply convey and teach his children and
the people that are close to him these
basic things in his religion.
Today our kids know this.
We shout from the top of our voices
when it comes to academics,
when it comes to going to the school,
when it comes to
studying in the primary, in the secondary, we
want them to go to university.
And rightly so, we want them to get
an education.
But do we have the same Muamal with
our kids, and the people that are close
to us when it comes to
knowing what Al Islam
means. You ask our kids,
the majority of our kids, they don't know
the simple meaning of what Al Islam
means. I interviewed a few kids one time
outside of a masjid. A lot of them
they say, I don't know. Some of them
they say, peace. Some of them they say,
it's a way of life.
The true meaning of when the
Islam, they looked at the Quran, and they
derived from it. Three things that what Al
Islam means.
Our kids, they don't know this.
A person might be excused if he doesn't
know the virtues of these 10 days that
we're living in. But something that we all
claim, we claim to be Muslims,
and we don't know simply what an Islam
means.
It is a musiva.
It is a problem that we have in
our society today.
But when you ask our kids,
they can tell you condensation,
evaporation,
alliteration,
how the water goes up, how the water
comes down. Some of the things they teach
them in Science, they know it inside out.
They've mastered it. But when it comes to
know what al Islam means, we don't know.
Brothers and sisters,
the ulama of al Islam, they derive 3
ingredients from the Quran of what al Islam
means.
They mentioned,
There are person
submits to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala with
that a person does what Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala commanded him to do. And then the
third thing,
that person is free from shirk and his
people.
So what do these things mean?
That person submiss to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
that the
that we
do, the worship that we do, we don't
divert except to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
How many people in our society today, in
our communities,
in the community that we have today here
in Lester?
How many people do we find who easily
perform shirk?
You Allah. You Rasulullah.
It's okay for us to make duh to
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala and also make duh
to the prophet
And this is now becoming widespread. Whether we
know it or whether we don't, this is
the reality.
Our kids playing with magic, they know Harry
Potter. They know Cinderella.
They know abracadabra.
All these things, they know about it very
very well. The kids are taking once, and
they're saying, spelling arm. All these things that
you find inside the programs,
that is in relation to.
And this is why I seen with my
own eye. A Muslim father with his Muslim
child
In Toys R Us, she's getting a one
and she's doing this.
Do you really think that when these kids
become older,
they are going to stay away from a
pig, akhinzir, that they're watching today, or they're
gonna stay away from magic?
Or they're not gonna be doing that which
they do in the programs?
The prophet
said to us,
Muhammad. Whoever comes to a sorcerer or a
fortune teller, and he believes what she says,
then this person has disbelieved in what came
down upon the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
In another narration,
Whoever just comes, comes to Arab
and asks her a question. Just one question
he ask. His salat is not accepted for
40 days.
So if our kids today, they find it
normal, there's no problem with it.
Then do you really think that when they
grow up, there's not gonna be a problem.
When they're having some marriage problems, it came
through my door.
Someone writing, if anybody has any marriage problems,
call this number.
And we can do spells, and we can
do this, and we can do that. It
came through my door.
This is what goes for every a lot
of people's doors, a lot of people's houses.
So if a person doesn't know the basics
of his religion,
then do you really think that he's not
gonna pick up a call when him and
his wife are having problems in order for
this problem to get solved?
And then he leaves the fold of Islam.
This is the sad reality that we have
today. And today we hear
is not important. Where is written in the
Quran? The matter
of is very little.
Knowing your
Brothers and sisters, the matter of
the preordained
decree, is one matter from the matters that
is upon a person to believe.
Abdullah ibn Umar,
the son of Umar ibn Khattah. He
said,
He swears by Allah that if one has
the size of ushus in goat,
And then he spends this in the way
of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Nothing will be accepted from this person until
he believes in the kadar. Now one thing,
no matter how many Ibadah that we do,
the
superogatory standing
up in prayer all day, everyday.
But we don't believe in this kind of
beliefs, it won't benefit us at all.
Nothing is accepted from this person.
Nothing is accepted from this person. And if
a person is committing sin,
this person
is Major sin.
But at the same time,
He has the correct belief, and at the
same time, he doesn't commit
Then it wouldn't be
exaggerative if we said that this person, if
he lies upon what he's upon,
there is still a chance sooner or later
he's gonna come out of the hellfire. This
is
someone that does commit
but at the same time, at the same
time, this
is a
We don't wanna have a bubble above our
heads, that there's even a chance for us
to go into the * fire, to get
punished
for whatever we done. The Prophet
said, and
now The fire that you have in your
house
is 1 70th
from the fire in the * fire.
So brothers and sisters, this is the reality.
The importance of our aqeedah, the importance of
establishing the tawheed.
Today, the focus has been taken away.
People that are very famous on YouTube, they're
saying things like, oh, we need to only
give preference.
We only need to speak about drugs and
alcohol and girls. But the matter of aqeedah,
we don't need this.
The guy that drinks,
the guy that commits zina
is a 100 times better than the one
that commits shirk.
Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala might forgive him
and might punish him. It's solely down to
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala whatever he does with
him. The second thing the second thing
that a person does what Allah commanded
him to do.
If you look
at the second most important thing in our
religion,
the matter pertaining salat.
If you look at the issue of salat,
how many Muslims today who claim
to be Muslims, but at the same time
they don't pray? The matter of salat is
not important.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said to
us,
The promise, the contract between us and them,
The difference between us and them. The agnostic,
the Hindu, the seer, the Christian, the Jew.
The difference between us and them.
Whoever leaves this oath, this person has disbelief.
Abdullah
who met Ali the 30th of the Sahaba.
He
said, They never used to see an action
that was abandoned to be kufr other than
salal. Maybe the person didn't commit siyam. He
never fasted. They had excuses.
They had excuses for this person. Perhaps, this
person is a traveler. Perhaps, he's ill. If
a person didn't perform hajj, perhaps this person,
he doesn't have the money. But when he
came to the salah, nobody had had excuses.
Because if the person if he can't pray
standing up, he has to pray sitting down.
If he can't pray sitting down, he has
to pray lying down. It's never ever fools
of a person.
Ibrahim. You have a perfect example
in Ibrahim alaihi salaam.
Ibrahim alaihis salatu wa salam.
Now look at Ibrahim alaihis salatu wa salam.
How he was adhering to what Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala told him to do.
Imagine you were told
that it's upon you to slaughter your child.
It's upon you to slaughter your child.
How our reaction would be?
And look at what
Ibrahim
and also his sub did.
Did.
His son says to him, oh father,
do what you've been told to do.
And Ibrahim alaihi salatu wasalam does it. Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala tells him to leave his
family in the middle of the desert.
Ibrahim alaihis salaam didn't say, oh Allah, I
like al Islam, but I don't wanna do
this.
I like al Islam, but I don't like
the hijab.
I like al Islam, but I don't like
the bib.
When the command came down,
Ibrahim alisrad was salam
was from the first people to submit.
When Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told him to
submit, he submitted straight away. That doesn't mean
a person is perfect, that he does
that he's not going to fall into mistake,
that he doesn't have any shortcomings. That's why
we have tawba.
Some of us we find tawba is not
even part of our DNA.
When he Adam, he's going to make mistakes.
He falls into sin, something that is bound
to happen, but a person needs to make
tawba. It is from the things that Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala commanded him to do.
The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
as Allah mentioned, in Hadith al Khutri,
You make mistakes day and night. Buy, forgive
all sins. But what do we have to
do? First off,
Seek forgiveness from me, and I will forgive
you.
And the last thing from the 3 ingredients
that the ulama have mentioned,
To be free from shirk and also his
people.
Does that mean when your neighbor John says
good morning to you, that you blank him,
and you frown at him, and you give
him a dirty look, or you don't get
involved in any community cohesion.
Is that what
means? How was the prophet
was
nice.
One of the main reasons why a lot
of the kuffar, they entered into an Islam
was because of the salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
His lofty manners, his lofty etiquettes. And also
you ask majority of those that are newly
coming to Islam. Why is the main reason
why you came into Islam? They tell you
what.
Because of how the Muslims they deal, and
how the akhlaq is, how the mannerism is,
and etcetera.
So what does he mean? That when it
comes to
when it comes to their religion, we have
nothing to do with it. We don't do
what they do. Their
we are free from it.
And this is what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
commanded us to do.
And at the same time, pay attention. I
am not saying that we cut off from
these people. Today, we tell the people. We
tell the people, do not get involved in
Christmas,
do not get involved in Halloween, do not
celebrate Valentine's Day,
because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, and he
ommakmah
The day when I completed your religion,
and I perfected my favor upon you,
and I chose Islam as your religion.
And also because we have the Ayyad, wait
a few months, wait a few days, the
Eid is coming. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
The day of Arafah, the day of Shashriq,
the Yomunaha.
Also the Jum'ah that we have, and also
the yomal the Eid al Fitr, these are
days of celebrations that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
has given the Muslim in. Stick to these
stick to these celebrations,
and it is enough for you.
We get looked at as if we are
speaking another language, or as if we are
crazy.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and I
will conclude with this, a man came up
to him and he said,
I made an oath that I want to
slaughter in a place
called So the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
why this place?
Why this place? So the prophet salallahu alaihi
wa sallam asked him 2 questions.
Did they used to worship their gods there?
2nd question he asked him.
Did they used to make their celebrations
in that place that you're speaking about.
The man said, no. And the prophet
told him to
carry on with his oath and to slaughter.
The whole point is that the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam was about to prohibit him
from slaughtering, doing an
in a place where they do the ayaat,
the celebration. Let alone a person actually celebrating,
getting involved in Christmas. Today, the Muslim man,
the Muslim father, what does he do? He
buys a box of chocolates for his wife
on Valentine's Day. But the rest of the
year, what happens? There is no love, there's
nothing.
All in imitation to what the disbelievers do.
Brothers and sisters, if
only we knew the true meaning of this
definition,
a lot of the things that we do
today we wouldn't do. We ask Allah
to give us tawfil, and we ask Allah
to make us from those who submit to
whatever they hear, and they act upon the
aya, the ahadith, and the azaarasalam.
Just as Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told them
to do. Brothers, a very quick announcement, as
the brothers requested for us to
announce now regarding the
sadaqah. The masjid
is in dire need. They have a lot
of dewun, they have a lot of problems.
All we're asking the brothers, wherever you can,
remember the statement of the prophet
prophet When a person
performs sadaqah or he pays the sadaqah, it
doesn't decrease him in wealth. Another important thing,
brothers,
is regarding the 8th prayer. The 8th prayer
in Victoria Park will go ahead.
The 8th prayer in Victoria Park will go
ahead unless
there is a very big problem.
It is severely raining
or, you know, frosting or it starts to
snow or something major like that happens. Otherwise,
it will carry on being established there. But
if something really major like that happens, what
happens? We will end up praying in this
Masjid inshallah. Subhanahu