Abu Taymiyyah – Why I Am Tired of Giving Lectures

My beloved brothers and sisters,

I know many of you are probably expecting

a lecture.

However, I've become very very tired

of giving lectures.

And the reason for that is

lectures

are like paracetamol.

I think everybody here knows what paracetamol is.

Right?

What does paracetamol do to an individual when

he's feeling sick?

They call it a quick fix, Sahir.

However, if you have underlining issues, and correct

me if I'm wrong, doctor,

I'm overstepping in outside of my field now

into yours.

What it does is it just covers some

of the underlying issues that you might be

suffering from.

And then what happens after that?

Every now and again, you might get these

similar pains.

You have the paracetamol again, it covers it

up.

A little bit like what happened to myself.

I don't think I completed Ramadan for the

last

maybe 4 years

because of these stomach pains that I was

experiencing.

Okay.

And every time I go to the general

practitioner, the GP,

they would give me these

tablets called Entreprozole or something like that.

So you're familiar with that. Right? Yeah. Yeah.

Memprozole or something like that.

These yellow tablets that removes the pains that

you are experiencing at a time.

There was even a time, subhanAllah, in the

month of Ramadan,

I just passed out.

Right? And I fainted and I started shaking.

They took me to the doctor,

and he just prescribed me the same tablets.

And then alhamdulillahi, it will remove the pains

for the time being.

And life would go back to normal after

a month of Ramadan.

Next Ramadan, the exact same thing.

And then life goes back to normal. And

then the next Ramadan, I

would similarly experience these pains, have these tablets

all the way up until

when I was in Egypt.

I had something

that was not necessarily, I think,

cooked properly,

and it caused my appendix to burst.

And I think a lot of us are

aware of

the,

appendix bursting and what kind of effect it

can have on on an individual.

It's very life threatening.

And I was very very fortunate

to still be alive.

I remember the doctor came running in and

he said,

you're either going to have the operation in

the next couple of hours or I'm going

to have to refer you to another

hospital. As for traveling

back to the UK, this is a no

go.

Why am I mentioning all of this?

These lectures

are like paracetamol.

Right?

It doesn't solve the problem

at hand.

It might boost your iman.

However, we are all in need of

maintaining

that iman and keeping it steady.

Will we all agree with that?

Sahih.

And this is why

after coming to a lot of these lectures,

my beloved brothers and sisters, and I've been

coming to Islam as did

for so many years now doing the lectures.

1 is in dire need

of going through continuous,

consistent

lessons

on a regular basis.

Otherwise, your iman is just going to dip

back down again.