Ali Albarghouthi – Common acts of shirk
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The segment discusses the importance of sh married and sh tariff actions in shrooming individuals and their desire to become a shrooming member of the world. The speakers emphasize the need for individuality and shrouds in shrooming individuals, as well as the importance of following one's desire and avoiding confusion and misinformation. The segment also touches on the history of Islam and its implications for one's behavior.
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Inna alhamdulillah nahmaduhu wa nast'a'inuhu wa
nastaghfiruhu wa na'udhu billahi min shururi anfusina
wa sayyi'ati a'malina man yahdihi allahu fala
mudhilla lah wa man yudhil fala hadiya lah
wa ashhadu alla ilaha illallah wahdahu la sharika
lah wa anna muhammadan abduhu wa rasuluh sallallahu
alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam
amma ba'du fa inna khayral hadithi kitabullahi ta
'ala wa khayral hadyi hadyi muhammadin sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam wa sharral umuri muhdathatuha wa kulla
muhdathatin bid'ah wa kulla bid'atin dalalah
wa kulla dalalahin finnar amma ba'd We have
started talking about shirk and common acts of
shirk those that are known, perceptible, visible and
those that are not and we conclude the
series today by visiting some subtle or not
so subtle forms of it connected to what
we talked about last time when we mentioned
that obsessive love of this world can become
shirk and slavery to other than Allah Azza
wa Jal and that the way to save
yourself from it is to experience some form
of detachment from that obsessive love you could
pursue the dunya but you don't let it
magnify until it becomes the only thing in
your life or the dominant thing in your
life connected to this is that following one's
hawah one's desire can also escalate to become
a form of shirk and the support of
this is where Allah Azza wa Jal said
multiple places in the Qur'an arayta man
ittakhatha ilahahu hawahu afa anta takoonu alayhi wakila
have you seen the one who has taken
his desire as his God can you be
his protector, be his guide be the one
who save him meaning you can't so here
a desire and all of us have desires
can grow so much that it can become
a rival to Allah Azza wa Jal and
the question is when does this happen because
all of us almost without exception will have
desires, hawah that disagree with what Allah wants
some of our hawah, some of our desires
are benign, are normal, are natural are even
recommended and there's nothing wrong with that you
love your kids, you love your spouse you
love good food, you love this, you love
that as long as it is within reason
within the bounds of what is acceptable nothing
is wrong with it, it's natural but there's
also and that is the dominant part of
hawah the dominant part of desire is that
we like what Allah dislikes and we dislike
what Allah likes and if that is not
restrained if free reign is given to it
if it grows so much that it is
the thing that informs and directs our lives
that could cross into a shirk with Allah
Azza wa Jal depending on what it commands
you to do and if you follow it
or not and in the commentary, in the
tafsir to this ayah when they explain what
does it mean that a person has taken
his desire as his God and this is
really relevant today and I'll tell you why
shortly they said that the kafir for instance,
the disbeliever he would worship a stone because
he likes it and then when he finds
a better stone he follows that, he worships,
discards the previous one he worships the new
one because he likes it more whatever he
likes, he worships so what drives him to
worship whatever he worships is what he likes
what he favors, nothing more but Al-Hassan
Al-Basri, rahimahullah further explains when he said
it is the person who wherever, whatever or
whenever he desires something, he does it no
restraint no second thought so the supreme commander,
the supreme authority the supreme guide in that
person's life is what?
is his desire tell me what you want
from me and I will do it so
when his desire leads him to disbelieve he
will disbelieve when his desire leads him to
reject Allah he'll reject Allah azza wa jal
and that does not happen to a lot
of people overnight but it happens because you
grow and feed that desire until it becomes
the dominant thing most of us, our desire
leads us into sin and that is a
deficiency some of us, our desire leads us
into major sins tells us, drink alcohol, yes
you listen and you drink it gamble, yes
do it sleep with so and so, yes
do it whatever it is interest, major sins,
do it and they listen and if you
keep listening to it failing to stop it
and to restrain it it eventually will ask
you to disbelieve in Allah azza wa jal
or contradict his commands and when you do
that, your desire had drove you into shirk
and you've taken it as a god with
Allah azza wa jal or instead of him
this is how it happens and this is
important today because we live in a world
where the individual had been prioritized detached from
all other responsibilities or attachments and we are
told as individuals do whatever appeals to you
find your true self find your authentic self,
how?
by looking inward and discovering what you want
and if this is the thing that you
want you should do it without any further
consultation or restrictions so when you are the
final judge then you will take yourself as
god when you are the final judge you
have become your own god you listen to
yourself and no one else and that comes
before Allah azza wa jal so you will
never say no but rather you will say
look inward and a person who looks inward
what does he find, what does she find?
except ignorance Allah azza wa jal, he did
not create us knowledgeable but we learn and
when we learn we discover what is right
and what is wrong but we look inward
without any other criteria you discover ignorance you
discover selfishness and you discover hawa doing what
benefits you at the expense of others and
if a person continues to follow on that
path a person will be a slave to
his hawa and will become someone who is
worshipping other than Allah azza wa jal but
in Islam it is supposed to be the
opposite now the following is a hadith that
some have considered to be weak and some
have considered to be hasan it is where
the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam is reported
to have said la yu'minu hadukum hatta yakuna
hawahu taba'an lima ji'tubihi he says one
of you does not truly believe until his
hawa, his desire follows what I brought meaning
it is subservient to it follows it, it
is not the leader now some have considered
this hadith to be weak but nonetheless even
when they did that they said the meaning
is sound meaning the Prophet alayhi salatu was
salam is saying in this hadith that you
don't really fully realize what iman is until
internally what you desire, what you love follows
the guidance of Muhammad alayhi salatu was salam
and there are other hadith and other ayat
that reinforce this among the clearest is where
Allah azzawajal said fala warabbika la yu'minuna hatta
yuhakimuka feema shajara baynahum thumma la yajudu fee
anfusihim harajan mimma qadayta wa yusallimu taslima he
said subhanahu wa ta'ala addressing his Prophet
alayhi salatu was salam he says no indeed
by your Rabb Allah is swearing and is
bringing here the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasallam to
the center because it is what the Prophet
brought that is an issue here by your
Rabb they will not believe until they make
you the judge in the disputes that arise
between them and then they find no resistance
internally to what you have decided and they
submit to it in full so according to
this ayah and the hadith that I mentioned
for a person to have iman it is
not sufficient for them to only externally follow
Allah azzawajal but internally hating it you see
the difference you can externally follow Islam pray,
fast, hajj, zakah and that is sufficient for
you to be a Muslim but iman is
something else if you're doing these things while
your heart resisting them hates them then you
really haven't realized iman you haven't been aligned
with Allah and with his Prophet salallahu alayhi
wasallam so saying you'll only become a mu'min
when what you love is what Allah loves
and what you hate is what Allah hates
and you train yourself and you push yourself
and you plead with Allah until this happens
so you don't resist it internally and you
don't resist it externally so your hawa follows
Allah azzawajal and of course this is not
a one day or one week or one
year struggle we will always keep struggling with
desires with thoughts that we have that we
know disagree with what Allah wants the test
here is do you submit to that desire
and you let it grow or do you
resist it knowing fully that what Allah has
for you is better than what you have
for yourself and what Allah destines for you
is better than what you choose for yourself
and Allah's teachings, Allah's revelation is better than
your own thoughts as an individual or a
society if that society has gone against Allah
azzawajal so following the hawa can grow to
where it takes you out of Islam and
if you wonder why the disbelievers disbelieved Allah
azzawajal tells us that they did that because
of hawa فَإِن لَّمْ يَسْتَجِيبُوا لَكَ فَعْلَمْ أَنَّمَا
يَتَّبِعُونَ أَهْوَاءَهُمْ وَمَنْ أَضَلُّ مِمَّنِ اتَّبَعَ هَوَاهُ بِغَيْرِ
هُدًى مِّنَ اللَّهِ it says if they do
not listen to you, oh Muhammad alayhi salatu
wassalam if they do not listen to you
know that they are just simply following their
desire it's not a matter of proofs or
convincing it's not a matter of confusion after
everything had been laid out it's a matter
of them simply wanting something and they just
follow what they want and who is misguided
Allah continues by saying who is misguided or
more misguided than someone who follows their desire
without a guidance from Allah azzawajal now similar
to it is when you listen to people
knowingly and willingly who make the haram halal
and the halal haram remember willingly and knowingly
it's not an issue again of confusion or
a mistake and the evidence for that is
Allah azzawajal saying اتَّخَذُوا أَحْبَارَهُمْ وَرُهْبَانَهُمْ أَرْبَابًا مِّن
دُونِ اللَّهِ they have taken their rabbis and
priests as arbab, as gods instead of Allah
and the Prophet ﷺ himself explained this ayah
Uday ibn Hatim before his Islam رضي الله
عنه came to the Prophet ﷺ and he
had hung a cross of gold made of
gold on his chest so the Prophet when
he saw him he said اطرح عنك هذا
الوثن he says remove this idol then he
read ﷺ اتَّخَذُوا أَحْبَارَهُمْ وَرُهْبَانَهُمْ أَرْبَابًا مِّن دُونِ
اللَّهِ وَالمَسِيحَ بْنَ مَرِيَمَ they have taken their
priests and rabbis and Jesus son of Mary
as gods instead of Allah so Uday who
was a Christian he said اَمَا اِنَّهُمْ لَمْ
يَعْبُدُوهُمْ he says they do not worship the
priests and the rabbis but the Prophet ﷺ
said what قال اَمَا اِنَّهُمْ لَمْ يَعْبُدُوهُمْ he
said they did not worship them meaning in
one sense they did not worship them but
they told them about things that they are
halal and they followed and they told them
about other things that they are haram and
they followed and that is their worship meaning
in one sense yes they did not bow
they did not prostrate they did not say
cure me from that illness give me rizq
they did not ask them things like that
but what did they do is that they
understood that these men the scholars among them
made the halal haram and they followed them
and they made the haram halal and they
followed them they know that they were contradicting
Allah's revelation and they followed and he says
that's their worship because see Allah عز و
جل if you just ever wonder who has
the power to legislate to say right and
wrong ultimately who has this power Allah عز
و جل because who is the one who
knows right from wrong benefits from harm we
humans we disagree over very basic precepts in
society but Allah عز و جل knows and
for that Allah عز و جل has that
power when you give this power to a
human being and again it's not a mistake
it's not an issue of fatwa that you
thought it was right and it turned out
not to be right that's not it but
you know something is clear crystal clear in
the Quran and the Sunnah someone tells you
it is not and you follow them because
of it and again it goes back to
desire goes back to blind following so the
Prophet عليه السلام he said that is their
worship and that is something that we have
to guard against that is when you are
going to learn you have to seek your
sources and you have to learn it from
reliable sources and when you learn something you
have to ask yourself am I following what
Allah has revealed because Allah revealed it or
because it simply agrees with what is convenient
with whatever I like and when it doesn't
then you seek another path we have to
be servants of Allah عز و جل not
servants of what we like and dislike and
similar to it subhanallah returning back to the
issue of how many of us today will
put what I like what I think ahead
of Allah عز و جل this does not
make sense to me so you don't follow
it because we are the center this makes
sense to me so you follow it because
you are the center and you have to
interrogate again interrogate yourself and say who is
my master who is my Rabb who am
I taking guidance from a society that keeps
shifting every so couple of decades myself who
does not know right from wrong ultimately or
is there a greater power that is supposed
to teach me and that is the Quran
and the sunnah of Rasulullah عليه الصلاة والسلام
so it's not what I feel it's not
what I like it's not my desire it's
not what fits me I could struggle with
these things and that's absolutely normal but ultimately
I know that someone is higher and that
is Allah عز و جل and the last
thing I will say inshallah in this first
khutbah is the wholesale rejection of the sunnah
of Rasulullah عليه الصلاة والسلام is also a
form of disbelief now you can doubt one
hadith or two or three are they authentic
or not are they reliable or not etc.
that happens but the wholesale rejection of the
entire sunnah they say none of it is
reliable none of it is applicable none of
it is valid and the only thing that
I will follow is the book of Allah
عز و جل the scholars of Islam have
said that that wholesale rejection is kufr in
Allah عز و جل and we're not gonna
go in detail explaining why and how etc.
etc.
except just to mention two things one is
what remains of Islam please tell me what
remains of Islam if you scrap the entire
sunnah all of it none of it is
valid what remains of Islam what remains of
Ramadan what remains of salah what remains of
zakah what remains of hajj what remains of
halal and haram when you take all this
out the second thing to keep in mind
is that when you say the entire sunnah
is invalid because it's unreliable it's unreliable in
how it was transmitted you start impugning and
attacking the Qur'an itself because and listen
to this the same people who brought you
the sunnah and they said this these are
the statements of Muhammad عليه الصلاة والسلام these
we heard him and these are the statements
and teachings of Muhammad عليه الصلاة والسلام are
the same people who brought you the Qur
'an and they said this is what Muhammad
عليه الصلاة والسلام brought and that's the Qur
'an if one is unreliable how would the
second be reliable both of them were transmitted
in the same way by the same people
so keep this in mind and again I'll
repeat this is not a reason for us
to automatically start declaring people kuffar a lot
of people are confused a lot of people
need to be educated a lot of people
are misinformed but this is for us to
know and understand that when you step into
something like this it is absolutely serious it's
not a joking matter أقول قولي هذا وأستغفر
الله لي ولكم فاستغفروا الحمد
لله حمدا كثيرا طيبا مباركا فيه ملأ السماوات
وملأ الأرض وملأ ما شئت من شيء بعد
وأصلي وأسلم على رسوله محمد صلى الله عليه
وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم connected to what we
just talked about is what the scholars say
انكار المعلوم من الدين بالضرورة when you reject
and you deny something necessarily to be known
as Islamic as something that Allah had commanded
as something that the Prophet صلى الله عليه
وسلم has commanded it's not an issue of
dispute so if a person starts doubting the
haram of zina of fornication and adultery that
is, it's not disallowed as long as it's
consensual that * is fine that riba is
fine that gambling is fine so what's the
issue with these things is that these things
are known in Islam to be haram not
just by one person or two unanimously very
clear in the Qur'an I'm not talking
about specific applications of these things that I
talked about no, I'm talking about the general
offense these are very clear in the Qur
'an that they are haram very clear in
the Sunnah that they are haram whenever Muslim
scholar of the past he would consult is
zina halal no one would say yes not
only that a Muslim scholar will attest to
this the predominant or the consensus among all
Muslims was that these things are haram no
one will not know this today you have
some people contesting this and again it's out
of confusion and again you should not leap
into calling them disbelievers just because they've contested
something so essential in Islam because again they
could be so misinformed and they need to
consult people and need to be educated we're
not happy when a person leaves Islam so
be patient but at the same time it's
important for you to understand how serious this
thing is if something is known unanimously necessarily
to be Islam and you say salah is
not an obligation anymore or not five salahs
but three fasting is not an obligation hajj
is not an obligation when you state these
things and you start believing them you have
to understand that you are defying Allah azza
wa jal and defying His Prophet a.s.
so that is absolutely serious the thing before
the last that we mentioned today inshallah is
mocking Allah and mocking His Prophet and mocking
religion now for most people most Muslims we
don't do this we don't do this but
then non-Muslims do it and if you're
sitting listening to a comedian an actor famous
person mocking Allah azza wa jal making fun
of God putting Him down, ridiculing Him making
fun of religion and you start absorbing this
you'll find yourself amenable to making these types
of jokes about your religion itself so first
of all sitting, being in a setting where
someone is mocking God even if they are
mocking God in a Christian sense but they're
mocking God is haram you need to switch
off this thing you need to leave and
to do this and to make fun yourself
of Allah or the Prophet or religious acts
or the religious because they are religious that
is haram and at the time of the
Prophet a.s. there were people sitting just
having fun and the problem is that they
were sitting with hypocrites and they may not
know that they were sitting next to them
and the only thing that they said قَالَ
مَا رَأَيْنَ مِثْلَ قُرَّائِنَ هَٓا أُولَٰئِ أَرْغَبَ بُطُونَ
it says we do not know of people
like our Qurra Qurra are the scholars among
them at the time of the Sahaba that's
the title that they have Qurra are the
scholars we do not know of a more
self-seeking food-seeking people as the scholars
among us today and they're referring to the
knowledgeable among the Sahaba Allah a.s. revealed
about them لَا تَعْتَذِلُوا قَدْ كَفَرْتُمْ بَعْدَ إِيمَانِكُمْ
وَلَا إِن سَأَلْتَهُمْ لَيَقُولُونَ إِنَّمَا كُنَّا نَخُوضُ وَنَلْعَبِ
it says if you were to ask them
what were you doing it says we're just
having fun then Allah a.s. just said
were you mocking and having fun about Allah
and about His Prophet and His Ayat do
not apologize today you have disbelieved after your
Iman so if you wanna have fun you
wanna be funny you wanna be comedian mock
anything that you want as long as it's
Halal be funny in any other way as
long as it's Halal but absolutely stop when
it comes to Allah that's a red line
when it comes to Muhammad a.s. that's
a red line I don't think any Muslim
consciously will ever do this but also when
it comes to Islamic obligations Islamic Halal and
Haram Islamic practices and the religious because they
are religious the last thing inshallah that I
will say there are sometimes Shirk in Alfaad
in words that we say that we may
not pay attention to we would just simply
say them because people around them around us
say them a person when he exclaims when
he is shocked and they say Jesus Christ
right and you know the origin of this
they're calling on Jesus Christ as the son
of God or as God to help and
aid as a Muslim we don't call on
Muhammad a.s. when we're in distress we
don't call on Al-Hassan or Al-Hussein
or Al-Abbas or Abdul-Qadir and we
definitely don't call on any other prophet so
refrain from and stop saying if you tend
to say that Jesus Christ or any other
variation of it also what could be common
knock on wood fingers crossed so fingers crossed
is to ward off bad luck and bring
good one and the origin of this is
either pagan or Christian or both knock on
wood is to ward off bad luck and
the origin of it again is pagan or
Christian they believe that spirits inhabit wood or
it is the wood of the cross whatever
it is we don't say these things because
we don't believe in them and we don't
say these things because they are Shirk in
Allah a.s. nothing protects you except Allah
nothing will save you except Allah a.s.
so don't say these words even if you
say I did not mean them they are
Haram and they are a form of Shirk
let's cleanse our acts cleanse our hearts and
cleanse our tongues from what upsets Allah a
.s. so ask Him Rabb al-Alamin Ya
Arham al-Rahimin to save us from all
forms of Shirk and make us people of
pure Tawheed pure submission to You in devotion
to You Ya Rabb al-Alamin internally and
externally we ask You Ya Rabb al-Alamin
to forgive us all of our sins the
major ones and the minor ones and give
us power against the sins that keep troubling
us Ya Rabb al-Alamin Ya Rabb al
-Alamin we ask You for serenity in our
hearts serenity in our minds serenity in our
lives we ask You Ya Rabb al-Alamin
to make us of those who truly submit
to You and find peace in that submission
we ask You Ya Rabb al-Alamin to
come to the aid of Muslims throughout the
world in particular in Gaza and in Palestine
and in Sudan and any other place wherever
a place a Muslim is suffering we ask
You Ya Rabb al-Alamin to be their
helpers and their aid Allahumma inna na'udhu
bika an nushrika bika wa nahnu na'alam
wa nastaghfiruka lima la na'alam Allahumma ya
muqalliba al-quloobi thabbit quloobana ala deenik Allahumma
ya musarrif al-quloobi sarrif quloobana ala taatik
Allahumma a'inna ala dhikrika wa shukrika wa
husni ibaretik Allahumma la tad'alana dhanban illa
ghafartah wa la hamman illa farajtah wa la
daynan illa qadaytah wa la mareedan illa shafaytah
wa la haajatan hiya laka reedan wa lana
feeha salahun illa qadaytah wa yassartah lana rabb
al-alamin wa aqim al-salah