Abu Taymiyyah – YOUR KIDS WILL BECOME ATHEIST IF YOU DON’T START!
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Bad people.
But it's the parent also that this topic
concerns.
They say
that a plasm becomes influenced and affected in
his life due to 3 things. Firstly, the
genes.
The second thing is the companionship.
The third thing is the environment that he's
in.
And we have to understand that the closest
companion,
one of the closest that he would ever
have is his parents, his father.
The Samanic language they
say, Isn't that so?
Wherever the camel goes, that's where the you
know, the flock of the camel is going
to go the exact same direction.
How does the parent think
or believe
that his children
are going to study in the Masjid when
he himself doesn't accompany them?
How many tenants do we see? We do
a conference, we do a lecture, There's a
bunch of kids that are sent to the
Masjid.
The kid is not considering, he doesn't know
why he's here.
The parent just said to him, Go. When
the parent doesn't set the example,
how do we explain or how can we
say to our children, don't smoke?
When the parent themselves is smoking.
And now we see or we ask, why
is he smoking weed or he's smoking crack?
The kids are just thinking there's a oh,
my dad smokes. I'm just smoking as well,
but I'm just doing one thing extra.
And then we expect the kid to change
when he sees his father like that or
his mother. She's dressed in maybe a very
revealing way, and then we want them to
dress up.
And then you have also brothers and sisters,
when a young child gets married,
the father is saying to him, make sure
you spend time with your wife. Make sure
you're good with her. Make sure make sure
make sure the make sure doesn't end.
And he himself has never led as a
role model in the house.
How many problems do we have? Just the
other day I was dealing with a similar
problem.
A father is never home. The mom, she's
wearing the child in the house.
He tells his son that he's getting married
tomorrow, make sure you spend time with your
wife.
But he's never home.
He's really sitting in the Makkah,
smoking of
speaking about
politics. Who's gonna be president, who's not gonna
be president, the Siyasa, police, this, that, this,
that. It's not ending. It is the manna
who's running up and down, taking the kids
to school and bringing them back.
She is the one that's picking up the
benefits, the housing benefits coming through her account.
Everything is coming through the account of the
mother. And the guy doesn't want to do
anything. He said, always in the Makha,
In the Kafir.
And then we expect brothers and sisters, our
kids to learn.
Brothers and sisters, there was a couple of
years ago,
I done the same Khutba in maybe 8
different places.
It was simply about
what does Al Isra mean? I stood outside
the Masjid and I was interviewing the kids.
I'm asking, no wonder Al Isla mean?
Some of them are saying peace. Some of
them are saying it's a way of life.
Now some of these might be
there might be your own element of what
Al Islam means.
But when it comes to the actual definition
of what Al Islam means,
The 3 ingredients that has been derived from
the Quran and the Sunnah.
Most of our kids don't know what an
Islam means. Some of us we don't know
what an Islam means.
And then we expect them to know the
religion of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Oh, we
think that they are going to stay firm
upon Islam.
Living in the environment that we're currently in.
When you have the disbelievers, the non Muslims
are trying day and night
to pull our kids away from Al Islam,
trying to brainwash them in the school.
As I mentioned, brother, we are the closest
companion.
If we are not spending on a day
to day basis with our kids, teaching them
the basics of their religion, don't be surprised
tomorrow if he becomes an atheist and he
comes to the house
questioning Allah azza wa jal. How
many places have I gone? I went to
give lecture recently in Coventry in another place
as well. A brother comes up to me
and he says, actually can you come and
have a debate with my brother? He doesn't
believe in God anymore. Why? Because he entered
into university,
he was studying physics,
and they gave him a lot of doubts.
So much, brother.
And we think they can't happen to any
of our relatives.
I seen this with my own eyes when
we went to school,
I can't remember was an Ari class or
whatever other class it was it was.
The teacher said to all the kids everybody
draw your God.
So the Hindu she draws her God Whether
it was what what it might be a
cow, it might be a statue, it might
be something else that she worships.
The Christian draws his God
of supposedly Jesus standing like that.
With the long hair and he looks white.
Because this is exactly what they portrayed him
in the in the shelves. Right?
And in the Muslim, she needs to draw
her God.
She can't draw her God. Why?
Because she can't see him, isn't it?
And then after the teacher goes, oh, you
can't draw her God. That means, you know,
there's a possibility
that there isn't a presence and, you know,
everybody
and so on and so forth.
See where the doubt start? You have to
understand one thing brothers and sisters.
The city that never leaves sleeps. Right?
Some of us might think New York, some
of us might think something else.
It's in fact the city that never sleeps
is in Mecca.
We find this accommodation that takes place 24
hours.
How much they are burning
to see
1,000 and thousands of Muslims,
prostrating
and doing ruku all at the same time
being broadcasted all over the world.
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam told us,
The Jews never
were envious about you more than they were
envious about 2 things. Say, and
also spreading the salam.
These two things, they envy you the most.
Imagine how
the fastest growing religion in the world.
All over the news that's being spread.
And how
they directly target
vulnerable Muslims
in these schools,
especially when you reach the university stage.
So many. Brothers and sisters,
the atheist
doubts within the Muslim community
and how many of them are renegating is
the only increase. Let's not lie to ourselves.
Today,
Allah Azza wa Jal's presence being questioned.
And like I said, do not be surprised
years down the line your kid comes home
and he says, Hawak, I don't believe in
a God because it's us. Let's blame ourselves.
We didn't
go out our way
in protecting our kids
from the doubts that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
told us about.
The Jews and the Christians, they would never
be pleased with you until you follow the
religion. Not all of them are like that.
There's some of them that are very compassionate,
and they want good for you. God be
fair and just.
When you speak, be just.
Allah says in another ayah,
They will keep fighting you until they make
you renegade.
Many of the people of the book, they
wish that they could make you leave the
foldable Islam because of the hasad they have
for your religion.
Burns them the fact that they see our
young children
wearing hijab,
dressed in such a modest way, are not
partying like animals on Friday.
It burns them.
Let's not be surprised, brothers and sisters. It's
only increase
of how many of these young brothers and
sisters today are Renegating from the fold of
Islam.
Brothers and sisters, you have a perfect example
in the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
You have a perfect
example in the messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
A question we might want to ask ourselves,
when is the last time that we sat
down with our kids, we open the book
and we told them about the basics of
our religion. You ask our kids today,
tell me about condensation,
evaporation,
alliteration,
Pythagoras theorem, a squared equals b squared plus
c squared.
They are telling they are able to tell
you the Tarsi.
They will elaborate it. They'll break it down.
They can give you a whole lesson on
mass.
But when it comes to Al Islam,
Sifra Al Hashima.
They don't know the basics of it. And
that's sad. Allah, that's really really sad.
It's time we thought about brothers and sisters
investing in our akhirah.
Do you think it's really fair?
How much time we spend
on trying to push our kids to get
an education? Rightfully so.
It's something important that they do. But when
it comes to their religion, do we shout
from the top of our throats?
The top of our voices.
We shout so much every morning at 8:30
before they go out
to the schools, the homes are shouting. There's
noise coming out. Wake up. Do this. Do
your homework. Have you done this?
Is that the same way
we use when it comes to Islamic studies?
Oh only when we have time. Then that's
when we're gonna send them to the madras.
But everything else is Ola.
A certificate
that
as a person dies, it's gonna be as
no benefit. The degree that a person has
been running after for the last 20 years.
I'm not saying to don't get an education.
We all are trying to get an education.
I was studying civil engineering.
But that becomes a problem brothers and sisters.
When your religion and your studies of Islam
is being affected.
And we always place what Allah Azzawajah is
second.
Not first, the second.
This dunya is cursed and everything in it
is cursed
except for a few things.
A person who studies his religion and the
teacher that teaches
it. Look at the prophet
brothers and sisters.
Of how he went about teaching the youngsters.
Preserve the boundaries of Allah, you're gonna find
Allah in front of you. And when you
ask, ask Allah
I told him, he's teaching you from a
very young age. Did you not know brothers
and sisters, when the prophet
passed away, ibn Abbas was only 13.
So when do you think he's telling him
this?
He said,
I was a young boy
and I was eating with the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam
While I was eating my hand was going
all over the place. I was eating like
that.
So the
prophet said to him,
Oh youngster,
oh child,
mention Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala's name when eating.
Either which is in front of you
and eat with your right hand.
He never said, oh, no. He's young.
Let her listen to Justin Bieber. I've heard
parents say this with my with my own
ears. She's still young and just everybody's doing
it. Everybody's doing it. Let us do it
as well. She's young. Don't be too rough
and tough
and harsh with the kids.
She gets nurtured like that and then all
these
and crazy madness that we see in our
society, it becomes normal to her.
Will you not present? Allah is telling Muhammad
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam the prophet.
When death came to Yaqub and he was
around his youngsters, his kids.
He said to his youngsters, to his children,
what are you going to worship after me?
And the Lord of Ibrahim is half and
is married. And we are Muslims. We're gonna
submit to it.
Are we thinking today of how our children
are going to die?
The akhir, they're going to be dying 1,
or the religion they're going to have, whether
they're going to apostate or not, are we
thinking about how many 1,000 of pounds and
dollars we're going to be leaving behind?
We might be spending so much time out
of the house for what? For our kids
and rightfully so. We want to leave something
for our kids.
But at the
expense of our religions,
the religion of our kids going down the
drain.
You have Ubaid ibn Samid,
companion of the prophet
Look what he says to his child.
The first thing that Allah created was the
pen.
O son, if you die and you are
other, you are upon other than this religion,
the thing the thing what we just talked.
You're going to be from the people of
the fire.
From a very young age, it's teaching them
akhida.
Trying to rectify his beliefs, the belief of
his kids.
Brothers and sisters, Allah, we really, really need
to take heed.
And we really need to realize
what is going on because we are very
oblivious and mindful. We are Ghahilun
of the reality of what is taking place.
A lot of people they complain normally about
that the are not relevant.
This is I'm telling you some stuff that
is taking place in the university today.
We know for someone to apostate in our
communities today,
it's something that
is unheard of in our cultures.
Maybe we, you know, we've recently seen or
we've seen in the past where, you know,
a daughter or a family relative, she gets
pregnant,
unlawfully she's a and then we have to
marry them up. There's something that we've seen.
But apostating
it is on the rise
And there's a lot of children today that
don't tell their parents.
They're holding these beliefs
and we have only ourselves to blame.
So I'll say what I mentioned at the
beginning of the Khudr brothers and sisters.
Do we want our kids
to curse us
after we pass away?
Or do we want them to make du'a
for us and ask Allah Azzawal to forgive
us?
I'm sure every single one of us today
would want that.
Allah says in the Quran,
Oh Allah, provide from our kids and our
wives,
our offspring.
That which is going to bring utter joy
to the eyes.
This is the dua that is mentioned in
the Quran.
Do you want to be the person who
is raised in no multiyanah?
Be Istighfar
as the prophet
said. Because he's making dua
or maybe he apostates. But then he calls
you after you've passed away.
It's an investment.
Look how many 1,000 of pounds you put
in when it comes to them fulfilling their
educations.
Just compare it today. Just think about it.
How many thousands in my life have I
put in to the education of his Islam?
I don't want anyone to think that I'm
trying to belittle
or downplay the importance of getting an education.
Rather we advise the brothers and sisters all
the time.
But not at the expense of your religion.
When you're going into the university
which is the random doubt.
And then the whole wobbly, just vulnerable people
are throwing doubts at them
from a very young age.
I ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to benefit
us from all we had.
One one last thing,
the administration
just made me aware of this program.
And Allah, I was very shocked to know
that only 9 people signed up for it.
The Masjid is making effort
to actually go out and teach the kids.
Putting aside on what most people might assume.
When you look at the price, £50 for
a whole month which is equivalent to £1.30
a day and only 9 people stood signed
up. I think brother says that is sad.
But when it comes to math and English
and sign up, we're ready to pay £10
an hour.
£10
an hour.
Ola my brothers, I I think that's sad
because
Subhan Allah,
you find that
as time is going on,
There doesn't come a time except that the
time that comes off is more
The prophet told us, holding on to your
religion is holding on to haqqol.
And the fritter is becoming more and more
and more when it should be a time
when we are trying to stick to the
Mas'ajid.
But then we're like further away, especially in
summertime,
when they have nothing going on.
I think that's sad brothers and sisters. And
as the Prophet
told us that which comes to mind the
Aliyib the Prophet
And Islam started strange
and is going to come strange. Going to
come back very strange.
And God tidings to those who are strange.
Also could be referred as the tree in
the jannah.
There's no narration that explains this. So they
ask, who are the?
Those who are going to rectify that which
the people have corrupted from our sunnah, from
my sunnah.
It's actually people who are trying to rectify
the aqai of the youngsters, teaching them in
Islam,
but nobody attends.
That's sad. Walaiah brothers and sisters, that's really
really