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Abu Usamah At-Thahabi – The Islamic Personality – Episode 32
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The transcript discusses the history and personality of Islam, including the holy month and the stance of the Prophet. It also touches on the use of modern technology and the importance of dressing up as a political statement. The speaker emphasizes the need for unity among Muslims during crisis periods and the importance of avoiding confusion and small small risks. The importance of flexibility and learning to become a Muslim is emphasized, along with the need to be mindful of one's actions and not to become arrogant or haughty. The segment also touches on the return of the Sun and the impact of Saudi Arabia on the country.
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Today insha, Allah azza wa jal is going to be the last class that we're going to have in sha Allah until after they're eat. Tomorrow
many of us will be traveling to Hajj.
And as a result of that, we're going to even suspend tonight's class in sha Allah. Concerning the 40 Hadith of the Islamic personality.
Few things I would like to deal with very quickly.
And the first one is that we are now in the sacred month of the ledger. The moon has been cited, and the mat last month that we just finished his little character,
the 11th month of the Islamic calendar and it's also a sacred month.
I want to remind you brothers and remind myself my family members, my children that Eliza Jared mentioned about these secret months. Lead Dudley movie Hidden and full circle.
Donald precious souls in the secret months.
When you come to the masjid, the Masjid has a homer or a sacred nature to it, that you behave in the masjid in a way that you don't behave outside.
When you go to the marketplace, the marketplace is the most beheaded. It's the most hated place to Allah because the things that are going on in the marketplace and I have been delighted Allah masajid to her. What about her daughter Doha a swarco Ha the most beloved places to alarm the earth for the messages and the most hated places the soap the marketplace, the bizarre and the bizarre people are talking now people are lying people are stealing people forget about a lot. They're
cheating each other and solar this one what but in the messages people are close to Allah making the Dhikr of Allah they pray in making Toba Kryon so just as certain places are more sacred than others, certain times and more sacred. We are in a sacred month. So therefore we have to make jihad all of us you young brothers, as Muslims part of being a Muslim, is that you say okay, I'm in a sacred month.
And the sacred month is not like the months that are not sacred. So you have to remember that when you swear when you curse whatever you're doing. And this month, is big as a problem this month is more sacred than Ramadan. So if Ramadan we're going to try to act be better and we should do with fasting. But this month is more sacred than Ramadan. So sacred month.
With that being the case, just wanted to mention a few things to you
and go into hygiene.
It is from the Nirmal of Allah that he mentioned the Quran well
as it relates to
the name of Allah didn't talk about and and tell people about it. Not to feel better than anyone so if you have an opportunity to make hedged consider yourself to be favorite. And I've never been everybody's making highchair many people have never made hedge before.
The Prophet says I'm Allahu it he was sending them al Hajj, Walmart Tommy. When I look at sci fi sci fi that wolf to La da home for a Jabu
was set Allahu phytoene The person who's making high touch and the one who makes Umbra and the one who is making Jihad visa vie de la. They real jihad in Islam, not this craziness that some people are calling jihad, we always have to make that clear. We don't endorse these crazy people Boko Haram Shabaab Somalia. We don't support these people, ISIS ca either we don't support this nonsense. But we can't get away from the Hadith that the prophet is telling us. I'm sharing with you. Southern
light who said anybody who performs high touch or he's making a camera or is making jihad. They are the wealth of Allah, the delegation of Allah, like delegation that goes to the United Nations. A delegation goes to this country, that country to Mecca, a delegation go of scholars to listen and to make decisions
For those people who have delegation of Allah, Allah invited them to his house or invited them to jihad. They answered the invitation. So as a result of that they made me do I to Allah and Allah NCP, a DUA.
So in the month of the hedger, the sacred month and a person who's going to make Hajj again this year, Inshallah, I want to make dua and ask allies but as a general to put Islam between the Muslims to protect the Muslims from fighting each other all over the place we're fighting the Prophet says on the light of is sending them
I may do auto line asked a lot for three things he gave me two, and he didn't give me one. I asked him not to allow my own mind to be overwhelmed and destroyed by a flood. Like what happened to no one's people, the whole people were decimated, that would never happen to our ummah. He said and asked Allah and made dua, that he never allows an external enemy to come and to destroy my community. So our community will never be destroyed in its entirety. Some Muslims will be destroyed
and defeated here in there, but the whole Ummah, no, he said, I asked Eliza Jong, not to allow the infighting between my community to be you know, passionate and hot. But a lot didn't give me that.
And this is why you look in any Muslim country as Sudan everywhere we come from Muslim country and wherever you find Muslims, masajid, even in Europe, wherever you are, even if we're the minority, you'll find Muslims fighting each other. These groups, all of these groups are fighting each other. Then they're fighting each other families fighting each other. So in the sacred month, and inshallah we're going to be a pilgrim and we're going to make this dua over there. We ask Allah to take the
fighting away from our community. And even those people want to insist on fighting and they want to insist on you know, drama, we ask Allah to save the Ummah from the evil.
You know, in this mischief the mystery of of Al Hadith, the Tao here
is the Tao of the Kitab in the Sunnah, the way the companions of this religion undestood the Kitab in the Sunnah, read the alignment. Perfection is only with Allah. There is no perfect Masjid in the world. There is no perfect organization in the world. There is no perfect human being the world everybody has good points and some bad points. Some people more good points and bad some people more bad than good. I believe this Masjid in this organization has more good than bad, but they're not
perfect, by the way is another Hadith al Hadith.
And Imam Abu Hanifa mention the Sahel Hadith for Wilmoth happy if the hadith is authentic, then that's my method and this is what we are upon inshallah. Inshallah, one of the most important principles of Al Hadith, one of the most important principles of a Salah fear is being together in this ummah,
that I don't dislike you because you're black, or you're Arab, or you're rich or you're poor, you're from here, you're from there.
Even if we have issues that we don't agree on, we have to try to understand each other, give each other excuses and we have to do our best whenever possible to remain unite and it's like your families, you have brothers and sisters, it is not acceptable for your family to be divided amongst yourself. Something's wrong with you. You may fall out with your brother with your sister with your auntie with your cousin, but at some point, you have to come together and that's why the Prophet
sallallaahu Selim allowed three days you're gonna be upset with the person.
But after three days, you have to say Somali coming out to make peace, one of the most important or soul of this religion, principles of this religion mocassin this religion goals and objectives, unity amongst the Muslims, not unity, just the word unity unity but this one is cursing the Companions, how can we be united with Him? Unity unity unity, and this one is worship and other than Allah, Unity unity unity, and this one in his Arpita he says, Allah is not in the heavens allow them
away here is and we can't be united like that. We'll have to do our best to be uniting the truth, the Kitab and the sunnah to many is at talk about that. I say that because unfortunately 20 We have some people in our community who are in the understanding that they get close to Allah by dividing each other
Some people divide because the color. This is not Somali, less South Somali, different tribes. This is Rwanda over here. So you have the two T's, and you have the Houthis. Who tu tu tu, tu tu like that. Over here you had some people do that. And that's usually just ignorance. But some people they divide amongst themselves based upon their religion. I don't like the way you are. I'm unlucky to have in the Sunni Shala. And I'm against people on the Kitab in the Sunnah, it's not permissible.
And then I had the nerve to come before the people and I say, I'm Salafi, I'm Salafi, but I'm divided myself from people unnecessarily. So I want to deal with an issue today in Charlottesville.
Because when I travel, I don't know if I'm ever going to come back again. I have to make this issue very clear a few weeks ago, I think it was two weeks ago, we did the lecture about the Islamic character of staying away from carrying tilt is called Mima, where a person goes to this person and take some speech from them. And then they go over to that person that he said this about you and this and that, and this and that. And then they say something and he takes it back and in order to
make fitna between the Muslims. There's a major sin. The Prophet says some lady was sending them that the one who does this will be punished law. You're told Jana? No, ma'am. The one does this will not go to the agenda. We gave a class about that two weeks ago, you could check it out.
And was given a private discussion between myself and two other brothers. And I found out who did it today I found out who did it. I was talking privately with two brothers, and one of them was recording me. And I didn't know.
And while recording me, I was talking about an issue. That was very clear what I was saying.
And what I was saying was that Saudi Arabia, the country Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia is a country that is unique and Ellis lamb and in the world today.
It is the bedrock of LSM Mecca and Medina in that country, Saudi Arabia,
they call it the hara mean.
So they are the people who are responsible for Mecca, Medina,
and they have done a lot for the pilgrims, and the paths and they continue to do a lot for the Pilgrims today.
Those of us who are going to make Hajj this year in sha Allah, if you compare the hijab this year with hijab 2030 years ago, it's like the difference between the night and the day. And that's because the Saudi Arabian government, they've spent a lot of money to facilitate ease for the hatch, to be responsible for those two messages in Ellis lab, to give his safety and security to keep it clean, make it accessible for people to go.
As it relates to
the hatch, the Muslim families that were affected in New Zealand, when their relatives were killed, Saudi Arabia, the government, they are bringing all of those people to perform hydro free this year, standing in solidarity in solidarity and support and then people.
Another thing about this place I'm telling these brothers in private discussion, is that the good things about Saudi Arabia.
I went to Saudi Arabia when I became a Muslim. Before I went to Saudi Arabia before I went, I was a new Muslim in America. I was with a group of Muslims who were indigenous to America called the American Muslim Michigan, African most African American Muslims but they didn't have a lot of knowledge. And they weren't praying as soon as they didn't give a lot of concern for the Sunnah. If you did Sunnah prayers, some of these people were ridiculing and say what do you inherit? You doing
Sunnah prayers fasting on Monday and Thursday. Some of them will say what you want to get on a camel you're going to bring sanding Yeah, house, this highly interested the Sunnah. And I knew something was wrong as I can't be with these people just because the African American the leader didn't impress me when he used to talk. I didn't understand what he was telling tell saying I wanted to slant. So I found the brothers from Jamaica to believe. I said these brothers know the Sunnah. But
when I was with them, I realized they didn't know what they were doing. They didn't know what they were talking about to this very day.
Bleak. Some people are sincere, but they don't have knowledge.
The books that they rely on for the most part to believe in the SOP for buying online books filled with innovation. So what am I seeing the co founder how five is no good. They might say I'm not saying that. But anyone who's listening to me, Jeff
Mata to believe is not a Jamaat, that you will learn your religion. So when I was with them, I realized this is not what I wanted to, I mean dua to Allah, Allah.
I'm knocking around in America. And I want to know this religion opened up the door, I want to go and learn the language, learn my religion. He blessed me and I went to Saudi Arabia, and my interview and they brought me the I was 21 years old, 22 years old 1986. When I went to Saudi Arabia before going, it was common, it was common. This brother and his wife, that brother and his wife, his brother, and his wife, his brother, and his wife, his brother's wife, you have a lunch or
dinner, we all sit at the table together, and we eat and we talk. That's how it was when I became a Muslim. That's our community. When I went to Saudi Arabia, I saw there was a separation between men and women in this society.
Snap snapped like that anywhere else in the world. on that level, some of the other countries in the Gulf states are similar, but where you come from, most of us Libyans, Egyptians, Africans, US Somalis. And I believe that the Somali community wherever I've been in the world, generally, the hijab of the Somali community, wherever you go, generally is better than every other group of people, generally speaking,
but it's not like it is in Saudi Arabia. So we learned and we benefited from that. Because we saw that in the environment where we were in, we would not allow our women to sit with our friends and our wives together. That's the benefit we took from that environment.
Another example is the generosity they call an Arabic Karim Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Sallam in Cana, human Billahi when human action fell ukuran day for anyone who believes in Allah last day, let him be generous to his guests. I know generosity in American and UK. You know, you can be nice to your guests. But when I went to Saudi Arabia, that's when I saw the generosity of the Arabs.
And wherever the Arabs are, in shine, Egypt, wherever al Iraq, they are in a high level of Karim is from the shame of the Arab. During the time of the prophet before him, Jay Haley, there's a man his name is Hi, Tim Abadi. He's well known for his generosity.
There was a man, a real man and Mecca, and we talked about him his name is Abdullah.
It moved to the iron. Our mother said Aisha Sahih Muslim Yara salaam to loving each other and he used to feed the pilgrims. He used to feed the pilgrims and he was so generous, but he died before you came and you gave Dawa. What is Allah going to do to him? He died on covering ship but he did all of that good. They said that this man, the pilgrims who made pilgrimage he had big pots he was Florida camels to give for free to the Pilgrims before in J Helia. He said the pots was so big that
the people were cooking the food if you're not careful, you will fall in and get burned to death. Because the pots were so big. Yeah Rasul Allah what's going to happen to him? The Prophet says southern lady was setting them in a woman this Hobbit Gnar is from the hellfire. They are no Lamia cool. Young women daddy Ribbit filly. kuti, a T yo Medina. Oh ALLAH forgive me for my mistakes you'll know Kiana. So that hadith goes to show Quraysh didn't believe in your MO Kiana. They
believed in Allah. They believed in the melodica. They believed in some of the other prophets. They believed in some of the books, they didn't believe in Yeoman. They didn't believe in that at all. So that's showing that man is in hellfire because he didn't believe. But it also goes to show his generosity and Jackie Lee.
So when I went to Saudi Arabia, I saw the generosity of the Arabs. That doesn't mean African Muslims don't have generosity, no. Muslims from Turkey, Muslims from Uzbekistan, Muslims from Pakistan. All Muslims have this but not on the level of the Arabs in general. I saw that Saudi Arabia as a result of that, we started to be generous to people because that was our environment, we learned that from the benefit of being in society, shade of Islamic Butina as a really good and important book. The
book is called it the law.
A certain musta team, following the right path, and being different from the people in the hellfire, meaning the non Muslims. And the book is just talking about the danger of a Tisha
Bill Murray King, resembling the non Muslims and this is an important issue for our children and all of us living in Europe. We have to hold on to our Islamic identity
When we talk about being in the UK, and multiculturalism and things like that, we're all for that, but not at the expense of you losing who you are. Your name, your culture, where you come from your religion, we have to hold on to this kid has to grow up knowing I'm a Muslim, and so forth and so on. So he talked about Ibnu Tanea. In that book many times how, if you are in an environment that is good, the environment will help you. Like the man who killed 100 people. And he wanted to make Toba,
the angel said, leave that environment where you killed 100 people because it's helping you to do that, and go to an environment with people worshipping Allah. So if you're in a good environment, with good people, it helps you be good. If you're in a bad environment with bad people, it helps you do bad.
I was in an environment that was showing me Muslims wherever you go Muslims in in northern Nigeria, in Accra, Ghana, wherever you go, there are Muslims there when you get there, you will become better behaved because Muslims are there.
So we benefited a lot. When I was in Medina for eight years, I never bought meat for anything. Because the neighborhood that I lived in the neighborhood I lived in, my neighbors used to send us meat because we were students. And being from America being a river, they liked that they respected that. That was the generosity and the Coteaux. We benefited from that.
So as a result of that acquainting to make it very simple, plain and clear. I owe a debt of gratitude to the country that's called Saudi Arabia. And I think we all do
because they've spent money on this message. Greenland, Greenland was purchased this building by Chevron Islam, I'm delights even bass
over 30 something years ago, he gave something 50,000 pounds to one of the leading families here from Pakistan. They bought this building and it became the Merkers of adult Hadith. That money came from Saudi Arabia.
So there's a hadith that says manlam Yesh, Quran das lemmya shaquill Allah whoever doesn't think Allah he does not think that people have to be grateful and thankful for what happened to me personally in Saudi Arabia. I learned Arabic I learned the Sunnah.
I was able to live in a Muslim country, they were the sweetest days of my life, or liking.
So what used to happen here in the UK, some of our brothers who believe in tech fear tech feet of the leaders took feet of the Hohokam. He's a cat, he's a Kaffir. They are really against Saudi Arabia. So what happened was we say, No, we can make two feet of the Muslims like that. You make tech feared with knowledge. They you say you guys are puppets of Saudi Arabia. Now, I'm not a puppet of Saudi Arabia. I don't believe that Saudi Arabia is the Khilafah. I don't believe the leader of
Saudi Arabia is the Ameerul Momineen. All Muslims have to give them back? No, do I say that Saudi Arabia and Saudi Arabians are from the Malacca, they have challenges they have good, they have bad what I'm saying, as a Muslim, we have to appreciate the role that that plays in that country and that government plays in Al Islam. That's what I believe, like it like I hate to hate it. That's what I believe. But I do not believe this is my host country where I'm living in the UK. I do not
believe that. I have to get on that minbar and get before you and praise Saudi Arabia and say that society is beautiful. And we have to I don't believe that. Nor should I use this microphone or that member to say they're bad and look what they're doing in this. No, because we have our own issues right here. We have our own issues right here. Issues right under your nose, like your child, how to stay married, l GBTLQ. All of this stuff. We have real issues. What do I look like as a teacher, a
DI preoccupying people with Saudi Arabia like that? But what I'm saying is, personally, as a release to all of the Muslim countries, and I've been to most of them. I didn't see any Muslim country better than Saudi Arabia. Does that mean it's perfect? No, I don't say that. I don't say that. But if you compare them with the other Muslim countries, you don't find what you find them. You don't find it. I lived it. I saw it. I know I've been to other countries. You don't have that. In Saudi
Arabia. There is an appreciation and the love and the support for toe heat. You go to some of the Muslim countries, Arabs and other than that, you'll find graves that have been worshipped other than Allah,
graves, Muslims, all kinds of shifting Cofer, and that place you don't find it like that.
So what happened?
was I was talking to these two brothers between myself and them. And one of them was recording me and I said to him, I said, Listen,
what I just told you is what I said. And then I said, But as it relates to Saudi Arabia, that doesn't mean we have to superimpose Saudi Arabia on our community. Because we have a group of people claim they're on the Sunnah incentive fee of the light. They are of the opinion.
Islam in the Sunnah is everything Saudi Arabia does. And if Saudi Arabian is in doing it is not Islam in the Sunnah, so therefore, if, as a speaker, I wanted to criticize any of the rulers in Ellis lamb today, the ruler of Turkey, the ruler of Qatar, the ruler of Egypt, if I wanted to accuse them and talk bad, they wouldn't say anything. It wouldn't be a problem.
It's okay. Even I heard some of them do that. And some of the ships did that.
But as soon as you say, Saudi Arabia, this, or the government that you had expelled from a Senate here, and I was telling these brothers, this is not true, and it's not correct.
This is not true. And it's not contract. Correct, because Saudi Arabia is not synonymous with set a figure and set a fee is not synonymous to Saudi Arabia, recognize and respect in the position and the virtue that they have over us is one thing. But saying everything about them is Salafi. Is that another thing?
So I told those brothers and a gang was recording me without my knowledge. I told those brothers and they said, I used to wear Thorpe because when I was a student, we started wearing Fobes. I went to Saudi Arabia as a new student. I had caught a Roy's on and I had a brown sweater similar to the sweaters that were popular back then that Bill Cosby used to wear. I went there dressing like that with tins because as I used to dress, but because I lived there eight years, I put the clothes on of
the environment that I was in. So when we went back to America, and we came back to the UK and we started giving Dawa, the brothers and sisters who heard our Dawa, they started putting clothes on, because the Duat were those those our women to this day dress and He jabbed you badmouth cotton gloves, similar to what they do in Saudi Arabia.
That was the benefit that our community I imagine people accepted Islam that was from the benefit of mixing that place. So I was telling those brothers, listen, I don't wear thobe anymore. Because of those brothers who believe they believe. You have to dress with a Shema with a good try to dress with a thought like Saudi Arabia to be set if you're not, I stopped dressing like that. And I put on the clothes of the people of the continent where I come from, to reconnect with my own people. And
to get away from that, to show people, my students and other people, you don't have to be a good trial or thought to be set up. You can dress like Sudanese dress, if you want, like people in West Africa dress, and you can dress like Europeans if you want pants and shirts and things like that. But I said that they recorded that
make a long story short, I mentioned something. And this was the big thing that they got.
I was talking about the leader of Saudi Arabia, and I said,
I don't have anything to do with the leader, nor the leader before him, meaning and I made it clear clear that I don't have to come back to my community and talk about a the leaders good leaders good or bad, it doesn't have anything to do with our community.
And those people recorded that. And they put it on the internet. They cut off the speech that went before and the speech that went after, which puts what I said in context, because they know if they can get me saying, I don't have anything to do with that King, I have nothing to do with that King or the one before him. Meaning Meaning I'm not going to call my community in busy my community with that for what has nothing to do with our reality. But they got me singing then they cut that off.
Before and after. And for your information today. I found out who did it.
I found out who did it.
Now I came here today to clarify and make it very clear how I think about Saudi Arabia. What I think about Saudi Arabia, you heard Saudi Arabia is not perfect, but it's the best Muslim country that we have on the face of the earth. That's my opinion. And that was the opinion of those scholars. We love Rihanna we respect the scholars who call to the Sunnah chef, I love Ben and Ben bass. These people like they had been with a mentorship multiple people like that. This is what they said. And
this is what I saw.
But I'm not going to come and politicize my dollar and make that the issue. No way, it's not going to happen. So I want to make it clear. For the people who don't know me, because if a person knows me, like my students and other people around the world, if and when they hear that clip that was put out, if they hear it, people know me gonna say, Nah, where's the Columbia for? And where is the clam after even the climb itself, you can hear and understand what I'm talking about. But people who
don't know me sincerely may not I don't know. But as for the brothers, who taught against me because of that, it's because they see me as an enemy.
And they're not sincere. And this is in the sacred month that that happened.
And this is the fighting that's going on with us unnecessarily. But I just want to make that very, very clear that that thing was doctored. And when I talked to the brother who did it, he apologized very profusely, and I believe he was sincere. And he took it down. You won't be able to find it. So if you go to look for it right now, it's not there. So a sign of his sincerity took it down right away. You know what I said to him?
I said to him, Listen, I forgive you. We're gonna put this behind us. I forgive you unconditionally, unconditionally, but I have a condition. And that is you coming to visit me and Liverpool, or in Birmingham, and we're going to break bread and we're going to hook and we're going to really get it behind us. Because I want that brother to use his platform for the Sunnah. He's trying to be on the Sunnah. But brothers are young, they're fighting people. They want to fight this that. You said,
Okay? Because it's better to deal with him in that way than to come here today and blow his background and tell you who it was. And when everybody don't listen to this brothers YouTube clips, because he's a fifth time shaytaan. No, he's a young brother, he made a mistake.
And he apologized for it. And he took it down. So this is a clarification for the one who doesn't know, whoever is here. You go away. And you tell the people, we're not here what I just told you, but I want you to focus on something, especially my students. The people who talked and made a big deal that I'm against the Hohokam of the Muslims.
Why didn't they say why didn't they say what was the kalam before was the claim after
is because by hook or crook, those speakers with the hole that want to put people down. And we want to confuse the Chabad has nothing else to do with anything other than that. So stay balanced and whiny. And anybody who's listening to me, You youngsters, we put a lot of energy into what's going on in Saudi Arabia. Some people all they do is come clean. This person was invited, that person was invited, and we give hope buzzin lessons about that. Saudi Arabia is not perfect. It's not perfect.
I didn't say it was perfect. I said it's the best Muslim country that we have today. We acknowledge that we recognize that make dua for all Muslims, and we deal with our issues. But I'm not against the whole camp of the Muslims. And a proof of that is that I told those brothers who recorded my stuff. These will add these brothers everything Saudi Arabia's right. So you could talk about Turkey, Qatar, you could talk about Egypt, because they one must be mean this that that, but you
can't talk about it. I said, No. We can't talk about any of the Hohokam of Ellis lab, where the Saudi Arabia of in Saudi Arabia. These brothers think the only oil ama in the world are from Saudi Arabia. Anybody here from Gambia, you from Gambia put your hand up from Gambia they will remember in Gambia anybody here from Senegal, Senegal, they will earn their mind synagogue, anybody here from Pakistan? They'll remember in Pakistan and Egypt, in Libya.
So all of the Muslim world, Allah didn't make it wadge have upon us to only look to the trilemma of Saudi Arabia.
And that's what I was telling the brothers. So this is what I wanted to tell you brothers in a way of just making that clear. And then we have this other issue of the moon sighting. The moon sighting was seen today in Saudi Arabia and other parts of the Muslim world. So today is the first day of the hijab first day, in the month of Ramadan, in the month of Ramadan. Sometimes Saudi Arabia say we saw the moon tonight. Some of us don't follow that.
Some of us don't follow that. And that's a sign. We don't follow Saudi Arabia and everything that they say and they do
and
Saudi Arabia and Mecca and Medina they pray 20 rakaat in Ramadan and Mecca and Medina how many rakaat in Ramadan Torah we do we pray here anybody know?
Three
how many records in Ramadan do we pray here?
Taraweeh
eight plus 389 1011 we pray 11 Because of the hadith of Isha so the point is, can someone come and say, well they do it in Saudi Arabia, we have to do it here. That's not a delille against us. That's not a hijab against us.
No, that's that origin that delille that they do it in Saudi Arabia.
Yes, in the car in the Mecca, Medina they pray 20 rakaat 20 And those 20 rakaat that they pray to 20 right God that they pray for taraweeh though 20
They have deleted for that. They have deleted for that. But it just goes to show you're not forced to follow so anyway, but and villager. If another country said we didn't see the moon, we're gonna follow Saudi Arabia for good hija because the pilgrims have to be on Arafat on the ninth. And the pilgrims have to do this on the day that they say you can't be a day later. After everybody goes out of fact you go the next day because you didn't see the moon. No, you have to follow Saudi Arabia
NASA proof that they have a position whether you like it or not. So be balanced. We have those people who they hate Saudi Arabia like when Ramadan comes some people just don't believe if Saudi Arabia say we saw the moon people said we're not following it. Because they are not serious about citing the moon. Now you can't be like that. So you can't be extreme in your love for something. Everything about Saudi Arabia is the truth. And you can be extremely your hatred for something.
Saudi Arabia has no hire at all. Because I would think Brother, if any one of you how many of you have been to Mecca and Medina how many pendimethalin Medina put your hand up if in Mecca Medina, I guarantee you when Allah is Allah and Allah if someone came and gave you an opportunity and said here you can go live in Saudi Arabia as opposed to live in anywhere else in the world could be a Mecca and Medina other places. Most people don't say yes, okay.
Most people, and it's not perfect, that people don't say yes, okay. And that's because what it has to offer Islamically it's the best situation, but that doesn't mean that is perfect. So feel like 20 as it relates to your private Mejlis the Prophet says aligning with sentiment Nigella's in a manner. When you sit with someone and you're talking to them, you shouldn't take the secrets of that Mejlis and go out and tell people especially in make fitment for set,
recording each other unknowingly.
So now it taught me a lesson that lesson is I have to be very careful. I can't trust people. Do you guys remember visit my mom
was stepping on a TV channel for undercover mosque. You guys remember that?
Age in Pakistan, Pakistani Muslim, came into the office in my office and he started asked me you went to Saudi Arabia, Mashallah. I want to go to Saudi Arabia. And I was saying, Yeah, I went to Saudi Arabia, you can go you have to get your paperwork and this in the event that he was filming me trying just to get me on film. And then later on, they said, I was an extremist.
After that undercover mask, anybody who came into my office and I didn't know them and they went around saying you want to go to lunch as I know
some people are will hug them and I will pat them down like the police. You know, when you hug them, I'm patting them down and see if they have something conceal record us.
Now you have to do that even more, you have to tell people a take your phone off. Let me see. Everybody put his phone on a table. That's how it is now.
And I found out who did it.
And I could throw him under the bus right now and give them problems. But I'm not going to do that. Not because I'm the most religious person but because as an older person caught on to the Sunnah. I want brothers like that. To understand. So they fear is not what we see with rough tough mean bad behavior. Now, Santa Fe is having rock long people, being gentle with people, taking it easy with people, even when they make mistakes, even when they make mistakes, because that's how you should
want to be dealt with when you make a mistake when people take care of you. So this is what happened and that's the reality of 20 A never talked bad about the King of Saudi Arabia, or the leader of any other Muslim country because it's not permissible for us to make Horos a
against the leader, the Muslims with your tongue, or with the sword, the great scholar of Islam and the Imams Sophia and authority, he said, three things you should be aware of speaking evil about, don't speak evil about the dilemma. Well, Islam, because if you do, your religion will be affected. They are the people inherited from the prophets and the messenger. He says, secondly, don't speak evil about the leaders of the Muslims, even if they make mistakes, don't speak evil about them, it's
going to prove when it's going to benefit. Third thing he said, Don't speak evil about your brothers, those people you're one of us hop. But it takes away from your religion who does that. And it's a bit nomadic, the Companions, one of the companions, he used to criticize the tie between who he taught the Companions toward the tabby. And I said to the tabby and his students, you people do something that we consider it to be in the FOC. Hypocrisy is to face during the time of the Prophet
we see this as the fop. They said, What is it? You say, You people, when you're amongst yourselves, you talk bad about the leader. And then when you are in the presence of the leader, you talk good about him. So we have one face over here and one face over here. That's a sign of the hypocrisy. You should be with the same face here and the same face here.
So I'm not one of those people who, in public, I tell the people don't mean huddled against the leaders, not with the sword or your tongue. And then behind closed doors, I'm going to say the leaders are no good. That's not me. I say in private, and I say in public, don't talk bad about the leaders. This is a sickness that Muslims have. We are not happy, comfortable with what's going on in our countries all over the world. The Muslims all over the world problems. So it's easy for us to
become preoccupied. The rule is the rule is the lead is the least leaders. But you have to remember this. The Sunnah of Allah, you're going to get we're going to get rulers who is similar to us rulers who are like us, because if Mr. Abe and Bob, if he was the ruler of the Muslims right now, right now, if he was the ruler of us right now, he will be hitting some of us with the stickies to carry remind us to hit people if you didn't come to Serato fetcher.
If he didn't see you instead, after fajr a number of days he was saying to you in history where you bet. Why not come to Frasier? Have you sleeping Yeah, made a move meaning.
Now you ask yourself, would you be one of the people who's getting hit?
So when you say we wish we had
you do
Am I didn't mess around like that. He didn't hit people just for nothing. He put people in check, because that was the level of their Islam. And even though that's how he was, you still have flexibility. Still, the only drought during his Khilafah during the drought, a man was forced and he went and stole something because he had to feed himself and his family and they caught him and he stole enough to get his hand chopped off as Allah Tada mentioned in the Quran was sad. It was sad,
but to factor a deal who manages that be my cassava?
The male fief and the female thief. If either one of them steal something, cut amputate their hand, because of what they did or reward of what they did. They caught that man. I'm gonna say come.
Why would you steal? My man say Yara Miramont meaning the drought. The sun the drought? No rain. Vegetation is dead. Animals are dead. My family is starving my children gonna die. I was forced compelled. I want to install it. And I said, I'm not going to chop your hand off.
Because the man's condition that said a fear
that's the sooner that you look at people's situation. Is anybody going to say or am I was weak? Is anybody gonna say that? Mr. bent the rules here? No, that's the flexibility of winning. And when you're staunch and rough, tough, Jamet. No flexibility. It's my way or the highway. They're not on the sooner because they gave a talk in this place. Not on a Sunday because that person came not. Well, you know, is the problem was to have with the brothers who made to fit in the past. And now as
well, they make everybody took fear based upon I add a hadith and statements of the past of the people of the past are taken out of context.
So if we wanted to take things out of context, we could do that to each other.
So
When I asked you I mean if see you guys again after this Hodge mela bring us together and heightened duty in the IRA. I say this to you with all sincerity. You young brothers and sisters slow down, pump your brakes, trying to get knowledge of the deen and as it relates to you do not become a person was too impressed with yourself.
No matter how much knowledge you get, stay humble. The more knowledge you get, the more appreciative and thankful you should become to Allah. And the more you realize how much you don't know.
Don't be that personal. The more you learn, the more you become arrogant and haughty, and judgmental person just got on the Sunnah became a Muslim two weeks ago, three weeks ago, a month ago, three months ago, and he's thrown people off of the Sun net.
It's not your place to do that. It's not your place to do that. So let us work in sha Allah really diligently and you remember this in this Masjid in my class, but in this masjid, let us work on just being better brothers and better Muslims to each other. You may not like what I said just now you may not understand what I said just now. No problem. Don't sit there and say, I don't agree. I hate him. No, you come and you teach me you asked me we discuss. So I didn't say anything to make you
hate me. But some people if they hear this column that I said about Saudi Arabia, some people actually be wondering, why is he saying that? He's a puppet? No, I'm not a puppet. I'm telling you what I believe in what happened and the reality
and the person will hate me. And I'm not trying to be funny here. But he'll leave this masjid and go and get on the roofs and Coventry road and from the roof and Coventry road. He'll start talking to him and his friends about how long is Saudi Arabia and what does get in on the roof have to do with anything and then after three or four or five months of being on the roof
it's not even practicing Islam.
Make something out of yourselves and we're gonna start that right here inshallah by helping each other okay when if you guys have any questions about hedge only hedge I'll answer your questions inshallah for the next few minutes, we are pilgrims, we're going to make cook. Brothers are going to make pilgrimage. If you have any questions about hygiene, bus only hygiene, who acts we'll answer any questions shower that you have about an homage. Hi, Linda come che
All right, if you have any questions about the fitna everybody's hands gonna go up right now.
Hijjah further, I mean, my man, I mean, ma Allah to Allah have you been 100 before? May Allah make it easy for you to make Hajj every inshallah every year make it so that you can do that? Hi, that was Salman Allah Allah was selling them robotic on an Obi Wan it was hobby in Germany. If anybody has a love of Him, I pressed you I owe you money for I did something to you. I want to apologize to you for that. If I owe you some money or something like that you can come and get your money right
now. Any Muslim or anything or pressure you felt came from me? I'm asking you to forgive me. If you want to talk to me about it. I'll talk to you Inshallah, talk to you. No problem. All right, Santa Monica.