Abu Taymiyyah – TIKTOK & The Black Heart Friday
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Muhammad
Muhammad
Muhammadin
My dear respective brothers, and sisters, and elders,
the days when we thought that the only
way,
the only way that our kids would become
corrupted,
is by them hanging around with the wrong
crowd.
These days are long over.
Let me say that again.
The days when we thought
that the only way
that our kids would become corrupted is by
them
hanging around with the wrong crowd.
These days are long over.
We are living in a day and age.
Because of these devices that we have
handed over to our kids.
The children
are inside of the house,
and outside of the house at the same
time.
They have the World Wide Web
a fingertip away.
And this is what w w dot stands
for.
For a very long time,
we would advise our kids
with the hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. The hadith that are very well
known,
a man is upon the religion of his
friend. So let him be extra careful of
who he sits with, and who he mingles,
and hangs around with.
And the hadith
of the perfume salah
and the blacksmith.
What happens when you go to the perfume
salah?
Either
he's going to sell you something, or you're
going to walk out smelling nice.
As for a blacksmith,
either you're going to come out smelling
extremely bad, or he's going to maybe accidentally
burn your clothes.
What do we take from this? That the
people that we hang around with, it will
end up leaving an influence on us.
They leave traces
of what they are upon
on ourselves.
And the statement of Abdullah ibn Mas'ud
Do not befriend except the person,
who reminds you of Allah
But this is not the more war. This
is not the topic that I want to
speak about today.
Because we are dealing with a completely different
monster.
He mentioned something very powerful that should be
written with golden ink.
He said,
1 becoming affected
by those around him is not just
by him becoming influenced in that which they
utter with their tongues,
or that which they do with their limbs.
He says,
But also by looking,
the glances that we have with our eyes,
the things that we keep on gazing at.
This has an extreme effect
on what an individual does with his limbs.
The another,
the eyes.
To such an extent my beloved brothers,
uncles, and elders,
today let's just take some of our young
daughters as an example.
Parents are asking why all of a sudden
is my daughter wanting to dress
in this inappropriate way?
She wants to go outside without hijab.
She wants to walk outside
wearing these inappropriate
gums.
Why is this happening? I never used to
dress like that.
It is these apps
that our kids
are on.
These social media platforms are double edged swords.
You can do a lot of
on Facebook,
on Instagram,
and some of these other social media apps.
However, the facade, the corruption that comes from
it,
is something that cannot be put into words.
Many many years ago, and I didn't understand
why the sheikh was saying this. This was
when I was still back in Yemen.
The sheikh one time called Facebook fisk book.
Later on I heard
Instagram being referred to as Fitnagram.
And recently I had one of the Samadhi
Shaykh
called Snapchat, Wasakhchat.
Sadaqahullah. When some of the brothers introduced me
to Instagram,
they said, you can get to the shabab.
You can insha Allahu ta'ala deliver a reminder
to them through places like Instagram.
Maybe they will come across a reminder, and
they will take heed. Because many are on
there looking at filth and evil.
But they said to me,
don't click the search button.
What happens when you click the search button?
I think most of us shaddagh we know.
All of the fields that comes up,
all of the haram that we see
has a huge effect on an individual's heart.
So you find this,
this 11 year old, or this 12 year
old, Leland Wanaharan,
she's on the social media apps.
One video after the next,
scrolling, scrolling, scrolling,
Doesn't seem to be finishing.
So much so that the hearts from a
very young age has become
absolutely
black.
When an opportunity of doing good arises, they
don't feel like doing it.
They see the maharamaat.
They become desensitized
to it.
It's become a norm.
When you normally go for Umrah for a
couple of weeks, and you are abroad, and
then you come back to the UK.
The moment you hear a bit of music,
you feel uncomfortable.
As time goes on, you become desensitized.
It becomes normalized because of the environment that
we're in.
So this young child
is constantly looking at these videos
All the time,
hours go by, and he becomes now desensitized
to all of this filth.
And today, for those parents who don't know
this app,
that many children are on today,
The app that is called TikTok.
An app that I believe.
Anyone who believes in Allah in the last
in the last day should not have on
his phone.
It is an app that has been created
for one to upload videos of himself
shaking his body,
while music is being played in the background.
And many kids today, they've downloaded it.
95%
of these videos that appear on TikTok, it
has music playing in the background.
And the majority of that which is on
there is women and men. Dressing inappropriately,
shaking themselves, dancing
to the tone.
And then she watches this, he watches this,
and becomes
normalized to it.
My dear respective brothers and sisters,
especially our elders,
sometimes what happens we hand over these gadgets
to our children because we are occupied, we
don't want them to busy us. From the
Musa Salah, the series that we are watching
on TV.
Whether it's NBC, Hollywood, Bollywood, you name it.
We want something to busy them. So we
give them these devices.
So we can be
focused on that which we are watching.
One of the aunties recently came up to
me and she said, Please talk to my
daughter. She's watching all of this filth on
social media.
I asked the mom or this auntie an
honest question, Habriya.
Do you have
Snapchat on your phone? She goes,
Yes. How can we expect our kids to
be any different?
When we ourselves are doing it, the samadis,
they say,
wherever the camel goes, the children they go
the exact same direction.
They are watching their parents
laying on one
sitting in front of the TV.
Why should the child do anything different?
Why should he think, Okay. I need to
be different from my parents.
We know as the messenger of Allah alaihi
wa sallam told us,
Every
Mawlud, newborn
is born on the fitra,
the natural disposition.
It is the parent because of the influence,
they turn him into a Jew, or they
turn him into an salani, or they turn
him into a majusi.
They have a huge effect on the child,
and perhaps maybe the direction that he ends
up taking.
This is why my beloved brothers, uncles, and
elders,
and sisters,
I really respect those parents
who have
day to day sittings with their kids. Not
only,
When the only time one may sit with
his child is when he's done something wrong.
Some parents, they sit with their kids every
single night
just to ask, how are you doing today?
What's going on in your life?
If
we don't
influence our kids, or we don't have a
relationship with them, or we don't befriend them,
There will be enough people today
who are ready to welcome them with open
arms
in today's society, to drag them to fizq
and fasad,
to evil and filth. Just
ask your kids who are at university,
which has become a playground
for atheists
and all of these other deviant groups
from the different religions who are there
to strip an individual away from his faith.
So much so the child begins to hide
what he believes.
And he's got no one to talk to.
The parents are busy,
And they don't know what's happening.
They don't have a clue what's actually taking
place.
And this
having spoken about the issue of social media,
if you think about it also,
why is there
a growth
in Muslims today,
renegating, leaving the religion of Islam?
That which has a huge role to play
is that which they access online.
That is so easy for them to access.
They follow some of these hashtags, and then
they become exposed to all of these doubts.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells in the Quran,
We are going to be asked about the
bliss.
The blessings that we have,
All the good things that we enjoy,
and we take pleasure out of.
Sometimes we give them these gadgets, right?
Because we feel all of her relatives and
his relatives, they have it. If I don't
buy it for him, then he's going to
feel left out.
No problem.
My brothers and my sisters and my uncles
and my elders,
we are going to be asked
about that which we are handing over.
This ayah that I just quoted,
the tafsir, as the messenger mentioned,
You're going to be asked about the tamr,
the dates in the water
that we consume.
If we are going to be asked about
this,
then we're not going to be asked about
these gadgets that we are handing over,
which is our responsibility
to be controlling,
and checking constantly what they are doing.
The messenger of Allah he said in a
hadith,
One's feet on Yomar Qiyamu will not move,
until he is asked about 4 things.
One of the things was,
Where you got your money from, and what
you spent it on.
Yes. We are going to be asked about
it.
Every single individual is a shepherd.
And every single individual has the responsibility of
looking after his flock. The
messenger
There's not an individual whose has had a
responsibility
placed on his neck.
The day when he dies, he dies as
a rash.
Someone who's deceived these kids.
How does one deceive his kids? The other
narration states,
He did not advise them accordingly.
He saw them engaging in that which is
displeasing to Allah. He said,
Leave him.
He's still a young child.
Guys. I saw one of the relatives
tell me, leave her. Let her carry on
listening to Justin Bieber.
One of the relatives is saying, after I
try to advise, do something about this. She's
still young.
What happens when you're still young?
And you become used to something, you grow
up on something. Right? It becomes unknown. And
later on, it's extremely difficult to change it.
Look at this hadith of Umar ibn Abi
Salamah.
He said,
I was a young child,
and one time I was eating with the
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
My hands were going everywhere.
And then look what the messenger salallahu alaihi
wa sallam said to him. He didn't just
say, He's still a young child, leave him.
Don't worry, later on he will realize.
La wallahi, he said, O son,
eat with your right hand.
And eat that which is in front of
you. And he told them to mention the
name of Allah. Look what the Umar ibn
Nabi Salamat, this young child said,
I continued
eating like this from that point on.
It became instilled within him. It became a
norm when he was corrected from a very
very young age.
These last couple of days have been extremely
difficult for some of us.
And we know
whatever happens
in this dunya, this is the Qadr of
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Sometimes
one may find it extremely difficult to overcome
some of the problems that he faces and
the hardships that he goes through.
However,
our deen is so perfect
that he gives us a solution for everything
and anything.
Never has Allah
Azzawajal sent down a sickness, except they have
sent the cure with it as well.
You find that the kuffar today,
the moment they are struck with some difficulty,
and they go through some struggles,
what do they turn to? They turn to
alcohol and drugs.
This is why I always say, they drink
to forget,
we do zikr to remember.
They drink to forget, we do dhikr to
remember.
Just so he can now overcome some of
these struggles,
he tries to drink himself away.
As for the deen of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala and how perfect he is,
he has given us solutions
to every situation that we might find ourselves
in.
It's painful at times, these struggles and difficulties
that we go through and experience.
However,
how did the messenger
used to overcome some of his difficulties and
his problems? Allah says in the Quran,
When it comes to
your difficulties, it is that Allah azza wa
Jal is saying,
go and pray, and through this prayer you
will be able to have that patience.
Whenever the missulah alaihi wa sallam was struck
with a difficulty,
whether it was his own children
who passed away,
6 out of his 7 children
passed away in his lifetime.
As the poet mentioned.
6 out of the 7
of his children that lived in his time,
they passed away.
It's a painful experience. What did he used
to do? He used to rush to the
salah.
Because the salah eases that pain no matter
what you're going through, whether it's financial difficulties,
whether it is
relatives that have passed away that were very
dear to your heart.
I haven't seen anything
that allows you or helps you overcome that
pain other than the salat.
And to also conclude, one last point.
The statement that we always utter when something
of a calamity drops.
What does this actually mean? Let's turn over
it for a moment.
We belong to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
and to him we are going to return.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is messenger, they don't
want us to be sad, they don't want
us to be sitting around feeling sorry for
ourselves. This is why we've been told to
say,
Don't say, if only, if only, if only,
if only. But rather say,
You're returning the affair back to Allah
Why?
He opens the door of shaitan constantly saying,
If only if only.
But if one does that, he gets back
up on his feet and he moves on,
because he realizes
everything that is happening is in the hands
of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
I want sometimes to do something, you want
to do sometimes something.
But it is Allah
whose decree and whose plan
always falls