Ahmad Kutty – Three Vices May 14 Khutba
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The speakers discuss the importance of showing solidarity and learning from past events, as well as the expense of hospitals and houses. They emphasize the need for practicing Islam and sharing experiences to avoid war and destruction. The speakers also emphasize the importance of pride and humility in Islam, as it is crucial for success and is fruit of one's actions. They stress the need for self reflection and engagement in one's life to avoid becoming a liability.
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repentance, begging his mercy and forgiveness
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remembrance and to worship Him in the best way, as he wants us to
worship Him.
It is with a sad heart that we have said goodbye to Ramadan.
Ramadan came
as a spiritual training course.
In order to help us mold our character developed nurture, faith
and recharge, if you may call it our spiritual battery and
strengthen our connection with Allah subhanho wa Taala and with
the Divine Word,
and also thereby come closer and closer to Allah subhanho wa taala.
Today I want to talk about three vices. But before doing so I want
to remind everyone,
it is high time for Muslims
to show that solidarity
for Palestinians because they are being targeted,
day in and day out for brutal attacks by military state, heavily
militarized.
The bombs are destroying houses and lives.
Everything that a people were hauled clinging on even the little
part of prod, they could claim as the role it has been destroyed in
front of the eyes, houses are destroyed. So and yet the world is
watching.
And
big powers are silent. The if they have expressed they are expressing
solidarity with the occupiers, the aggressors and they are blaming
the victims. So it behooves us Muslims to get united and join
forces with those who are against this kind of occupation wars of
aggression and occupation and apartheid. And the all of these
policies that that is state has been following. Since its
creation, the State of Israel
the world must stand against it and rectify bring justice for the
Palestinians. There can be no peace unless
they are given their legitimate rights. Today I want to focus on
three vices because Ramadan is all about fasting was all about
training us spiritually morally, and, and also mentally.
The prophets of Allah Salam said, Salah Hassan Mobley cards, there
are three vices which are very, very destructive.
They are poisons they are toxins
and we need to guard against it. You may call it Cardinal vices or
cardinal sins.
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You know each of these vices
they apply to individuals and when more and more individuals Euro
develop this kind
Why says what happens it destroys it destroys individuals, destroys
communities destroys nations.
And one, the closer analysis, we can see everything that we see
around now, what is wrong with the world can be traced back to this
three cardinal vices.
The professor showhome Mata,
a person obsessed with greed.
All of his actions coming from the greed,
his desire to have more and more
this lust after wealth, after money
after everything,
at the expense of others
showhome matar and the prophets are allowed to swim sad. This was
the reason this was one cause of our causes.
At the root of the destruction of the previous nations,
because when the greed
possesses a person or a nation,
they go after others, the individual goes after the other
individuals, because he's are living for himself. This means I,
it's my
word, it's my saving, and I must save at the expense of others. So
he is trying day in and day out all his thoughts revolving around,
how can I get that money which belongs to the other person to my
pocket.
For the nations, it becomes, you know, the big nations, the
powerful nations, they go after the resources of the poor nations,
and they have depleted the resources of the world.
And it is an estimate that Trump budget for the military,
America military budget, almost 900 billion a year.
And if you analyze where the all of this money goes to those
companies,
and who benefits from it, these individuals, and it is done. As I
said, our put it beautiful, I don't have time to read what he
said. It is the expense of the poor expense of the hospitals,
expense of the houses, it's everything that you know, others
need for their sustenance, for their survival is at the expense.
These people are making money. So they must wage endless wars. This
wars will never end. Because it's are coming from that greed
for money, making money at the expense of others, even even the
Prophet said, it will lead to bloodshed and violation of
sanctities and for severing the ties of kinship.
And of course, severing the ties of kinship in Islam is not simply
our own blood relation, because of those one or whatever said Hanako
Minovsky Wahida were created out of humanity from a single soul. So
severing the ties the sacred human bone that unites us, because that
a person is part of being I am part of him
showhome matar so how do we guard against it? Of course, Islam
taught us to practice Zakah consistently
sadaqa consistently giving, sharing consistently, magnanimity,
generosity, compassion, empathy.
So, so, the opposite of what these people do, one should share, one
should be charitable, one should be generous. And the Prophet
sallallahu sallam said the beautiful example can I do with a
NAS? He was the most generous. So people would do come to Islam and
they say go to the people who sell or people embrace Islam, because
Muhammad gives without any question whether there is a taboo
or not. Because he doesn't keep anything for himself. He is so
generous, so charitable.
So shoehorned Mata, we must curb this. So the lesson that we learn
from Revlon from fasting, we should continue
With charitable via action, compassionate empathy. And number
two is Howard mastaba.
The person is not guided by the light of revelation,
he is guided by his opinion.
Today, we are living in a world where God is taken out of the
picture. And man is the center of everything.
This is the so called enlightenment, it is darkness
actually,
when God is taken out, and men become the center of everything,
his wishes, his needs his ego,
the law becomes ready, everything becomes relative, there is no
final frame of reference for everything
that leads to so many things, an individual who is guided by his
ego by his hour,
he goes astray, and he leaves others astray because he thinks,
whatever he he takes, and he doesn't know that human being is
always a prisoner of his own subjectivity.
The only way he can escape that prison of subjectivity is by being
guided by the collective reason, which is the guidance from Allah
subhanho wa Taala wisdom, because now I am looking at you, I don't
know what is behind me, I cannot see what is on my left side, on my
right side, about me or beneath me. So how can my view my
perception, which is very limited, and now whatever I think
it's all can be related to by desires to my perception at this
time. And tomorrow, it could change. So these are our
subjective. So it cannot be a frame of reference. You cannot,
cannot remain guided by following your own opinion. You need to be
guided by the light of revelation, the prophets, Allah subhanho wa
Taala says, Do you see the person who is following his own Hava, his
own ego is wishful thinking and worshiping it as if it were born.
And by doing so, He misleads himself and others,
the root of all this intellectual discussion philosophizing,
everything can be boiled down can be reduced the error root, the
cause of the error, the root cause of the error is because it is
deprived of that divine light, of course, divine light,
with reason is Light upon light. And this is the Islamic way of
dealing. So Islam gives you a direction, how to use your own
opinion, how you need to champion it, how you need to discipline it,
how you need to turn it down, so that you can see the other you can
use the other lengths,
different lenses and see, you have a role equally This is called our
Muslim philosophers call it the early jusy in our subjective
reason versus objective reason or collective reason,
or the real reason, the other is limited. So how can metabo we
cannot we need to get out of that ego and worship of ego. And the
next thing is what a job or even if see, a person becomes so self
opinionated. He thinks he has become now an academic par
excellence. He is an expert in everything. So his view everybody
must follow
my thinking, this is my opinion.
This is pride. This is arrogance.
Islam discipline says if you really worship Allah Spano, Tala,
if we pray five times a day, how many times we are making that
scheduled.
And one of the deeper meaning of sujood is
to remind ourselves, afterall, I am created from that dust. From
the dust I came unto the rest I must go I will be returned. And
that is why when you lower that body cups into the grave, we say
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unto the earth you shall be returned. So you are not after all
that powerful,
that are knowing that are wise. You are
at the mercy of your Creator, so be guided. Humble yourself before
your Creator. Don't be like shaitan who works proud. And then
he was driven out of the Mercy of Allah subhanaw taala and became an
outcast, the cursed one
Rasul allah sallallahu alayhi. Salam said JACC over cable, beware
of false pride. A believer has to be confident Yes. He need to
believe in himself. Of course, believe in Allah first. And then
believe in the power Allah has given you.
This is confidence, self esteem. So very important. This was a
characteristic of the early Muslims they were confident. So
they took over the world, they took over everything and, and
Islam is legit. They had that confidence, that has to be Allah,
Allah is sufficient. And with the help of Allah, we can muster this
we can muster everything we can excel. So now, but you know, it's
different for pride. And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi salam
when he wandered is pride Sahaba asked you know, all of us want to
wear nice shoes, good clothes. Is this pride or a suit Allah?
The Prophet of Allah said, No, that's not keeper. In Elijah
Mirren you have built Jabbar. Allah is beautiful. He loves
beauty. So he wanted us
to beautify ourselves to appear neat and tidy, well groomed. And
that's why Gibreel comes before us we would love to love to love well
retired well grown, ly Euro Allah he suffer sports impeccably
dressed spotless.
You know, so then what is pride, he said, butter or
Welcome to NUS. It is refusal to accept the truth.
And looking down on others.
This was the trait of beliefs. He didn't want to accept the truth,
the truth that allows one what Allah made Adam superior. That's
the truth. He doesn't want to accept it. So refusal to recognize
the truth. Wherever we find the truth, we must bow down we must
submit to it. Islam teachers who will help our low carnivora speak
the truth, even if it is bitter, even if it is against your own
interest.
After the rule jehadi Kalama to happen under soltana. And Jaya,
the supreme act of jihad is that boldness to speak the truth to the
power
and the profits that allow the sunset so butter or hack vomited
on us and looking down on others. I am superior, I am more
intelligent. I am way better. You know this kind of how do we
discipline ourselves by teaching by practicing humility, humbling
yourself reminding yourself and myself that I am.
I can be the worst
hustler Buster or Mamula. Sir One of the spiritual masters in Islam.
When you look at that old person who is older than you
force yourself to think that this man could be better than me
because he had been lived a longer life in which he had a lot of
chance to do so much good worse than I had because I my life was
short. But when you see a younger person you should think this
person is better than me could be better than me because he had less
time to sin than me.
And when you see a dog you should not tempt yourself to think that
dog is lower than you because that dog could be better than you and
that's why a great color wrote a book you know tough little kidnap
Allah katharyn Women love is OCR. A dog could be superior to many of
those who we are cross and pants and shirts. Because dog may be
faithful doing what it is created for by Allah subhanho wa Taala
whereas we are human beings, we have that sense of discrimination.
But when we choose make the wrong choices, we could be worse than
that dog. So may Allah subhanho wa Taala help us to guard against the
three vices. And also to always remember to engage in maha Sabha
to nurse engage in self examination as to whether I am
guilty of any of these vices. And also remind yourself if I were to
die today and I were called to stand before Allah subhanaw taala
Yorba
He didn't or alone one that day you will be presented before Allah
were attacked farming havea nothing of your secret will be
will remain hidden. It will all be exposed and whatnot is exposed.
Are we able to consider that we are saved or we will be saved? And
may Allah subhanaw taala inspire me and you to do that I could only
have I was taught for a lowly welcome