Haifaa Younis – Who is your true enemy- I The Tricks of Shaytan – Part 1
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Each one of us in this whole, Shaytan
has his way. What will work on you
will not work on me, and what will
work on me will not work on me.
No way he's gonna come to you and
say, don't pray, Isha, you will go to
Jannah. It's not gonna say that because you're
not gonna listen. What are you gonna say?
Tired.
5, 10 minutes.
Let me take a nap, and then I'll
wake up. I will have more energy.
Right? You're laughing because that's what we hear.
Or you are looking through social media, and
something in you says, come on. Stop it.
Go on prayers and go to bed. And
you're gonna say only 5 minutes. Only 10
minutes. Nothing wrong. I I I'm just I'm
just checking the news. This is all him.
When I was debating, should I travel to
study or not,
And one of the advices I was given
by a physician actually.
But he's, SubhanAllah, may Allah make him better,
attached to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. And this
was his advice.
And he said,
and he says in English no, actually he
said in Arabic. He said,
And I'll translate.
He said,
if your heart, and this is to everybody,
if your heart is attached to Allah,
it doesn't matter on which land of Allah
you will be living in.
So whether it's Dallas, whether it's Houston, whether
it is England, Europe, Africa,
it's all his land, his earth, his creation.
The question is where is my heart?
So
before I start I want you all to
refocus. It's really very difficult after a break,
after food, after salah to bring you back.
But
may Allah always make things easy, and I'm
gonna start with a story and so you
know why did I write a book. I
am not a writer. I never thought in
any moment in my life that I will
write a book,
and I'm gonna be I'm very honest.
So I normally do a series and some
of you may watch it on Tuesdays, and
this is actually in the Masjid. I live
in Irvine, Islamic Center of Irvine,
And I was getting this,
and it was the topic of today which
was that sins it's a series. It was
9 weeks.
I can't remember which week was that, but
it was
the topic is that sins will Sabar your
weaken and then Sabar your relationship with Allah.
And in front of me, very close to
me, was also, alhamdulillah, many, many, many sisters
and 1 young woman, young girl actually.
And, I thought she was not Muslim.
Didn't look like a Muslim. She was fierce.
She was,
not the person you see it,
but she was so focused. And I said,
Alhamdulillah,
you know what? She's listening. It doesn't matter.
Allah
opened the hearts and at one point our
ancestors, not everybody was Muslim.
Then I finished
and no after you finish many people comes
to you and she came with her. No.
This was but only her. So I gave
attention to her and she said, can I
ask you a question? I said, sure.
Then she made it in her body language
that I wanted to be private. So I
said, okay. So I took her on the
side. We sat on the floor. She sat
in front of
me, and I want you to listen to
this question. It's one of the most powerful
questions I have ever heard.
Let alone from a 14 year old. Let
alone you don't think she's a Muslim.
She said the following. She says, why don't
I have
this relationship with Allah
that makes me stand up for salah?
She didn't say I don't pray.
And then I come to know she's a
Muslim.
She knew what salah is.
We all know, did you pray? Some of
you from the Indo * say, did you
read your salah?
It's very common.
Right? And we say, salati, in the Arabic,
did you pray?
She knew salah is
a relationship with Allah. And she brought the
question after I gave the whole hour about
how sin we
weaken and sever your relationship with Allah.
SubhanAllah.
I left maybe a week later I decided
I'm gonna do this as a book.
I said if this affected a 14 year
old, and I want it to be a
very simple one. Actually, what what I said
we just transcribed and then of course we
edited and added the verses and the the
point I'm trying to make, and it's all
about the book Allah is my witness,
is about when we
there's 2 things.
When you really want to be close to
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, and this is to
everybody,
the most important thing in the step
in that process you know what?
You really want it.
He looks inside you and me.
He looks inside you and me and say,
are you sincere?
Is this his real?
And he doesn't ask you. He sees, and
he knows.
If you are
sincere and by Allah, you mean what you
said, and I'm sure this girl, I haven't
seen her afterward,
I'm sure she was sincere.
She really wanted to know why doesn't she
have this relationship.
If you really want to be close to
Allah, he
will open the doors for you.
Like he opened this door
and he brought me here on just a
short notice.
Something in Houston
made Sheikh Hammar
join Nigeria, and I joined Nigeria, and we
meet. It was a very short, and he
didn't even have time to talk, but we
talked. I remember we were going to the
elevator,
the point before I start my
my subject.
And Allah said it in the Quran in
one of the most
to me is one of the most powerful
verses in your relationship with Allah and the
akhirah
and the hereafter. Some of you know it
but probably have not looked at it this
way. Allah said this in Surat alaihis salaam.
Am I right?
No.
Whomsoever once the duniya and Allah called it
meaning the the one that's quick, the one
that we see.
We'll give you whatever you want.
And then he said the opposite, which is
a very common concept in the Quran. There
is always opposites.
Meaning.
Number 1, and this is related to everything
I have said so far, whomsoever
one
wants.
Not I want,
I want.
You know what I mean.
There's a difference when you say I want
to eat. When you say I'm very hungry,
I want to eat. You're gonna do everything
to go and find a food.
Right?
Why I'm saying this because look what he
said next, Subhanah.
So
you
those who wants the hereafter. That's it? I
just want?
Those of you who know
Arabic,
and worked and Allah used the word sal.
How many of you have been to Makka
Umrah or Hajj? Show me hands.
What is the hardest thing, especially in Umrah?
It's sari,
because it is long and up and down
and you have to go up and make
the dua and it's 7 times. It's hard.
So sari usually in the Arabic language used
for something that means
resolve,
action, and your field tie in, and Allah
says you want the person who really wants
an akhir.
That's not enough. And
worked for it what it rules.
Did not work for dunya and he wants
an akhir or she wants an akhir.
Salaha,
sayah. And that's not enough. And you have
the third one, wahu mu'min.
And here mu'min is a believer, we all
are, but also you believe
that Allah will never let you down.
That when you really want something for his
sake he will give it to you.
And Allah immediately says, fa olaika fa, immediately
those
that they have these three criteria.
Your hard work
will be rewarded.
That wake up at 5 o'clock in the
morning when it is extremely cold
and you were slept at 1 AM and
you're extremely tired, but you pulled yourself out
of that bed. That's
that's hard work.
Remember
that stand up even if it is 5
minutes.
You did it for Allah. You're looking at
the akhirah.
He will reward you.
He will never let you down.
1 of the main
issues we have as Muslims, and correct me
if I'm wrong,
is two things.
Is number 1,
we do have a relationship. I can't say
this is why I told the young girl.
Actually, immediately I said, say it again. I
wanna hear it. This is one of the
most beautiful questions I heard in my life.
At this point she starts crying.
So number 1 is I don't I do
have the relationship,
but I don't have the relationship.
Am I correct?
And always to understand the deen on the
daily level,
not to be a scholar.
Take
your relationship with anybody in this room, young
and old, men and women, anyone, and think
of someone you love.
Anybody.
Your children, your spouse, your friend,
your parents
you really love.
You feel this attachment in in you. Right?
How are you gonna what is this relationship?
How often you will remember that person?
How often these days we look at our
phones, I was like, maybe, onenesses,
just two lines.
Right?
Is that the relationship we have with Allah?
And as I said, we do have the
relationship.
We cannot and nobody
can say it shouldn't ever say we don't
have a relationship with Allah. Enough you say
that.
Then you have
it. But how strong
and how persistent?
Is it daily?
Is it 5 times a day?
Once a week?
Monthly?
From Ramadan to Ramadan,
or when I need to only.
So that's number 1.
That absolutely is and this is what I'm
gonna come to what I wanna share with
you. But that's number 1, need analysis as
we say in medicine.
Literally, you have to chop it layer by
layer
and say, I do have a relationship. Check
it.
Number 2,
what kind?
Sometimes I call it, and this is me,
it's a one way relationship.
You know what's a one way relationship?
I remember home only when I need her.
Look at my salah when I have an
exam tomorrow.
Look at my salah when I am gonna
go for delivery. They told me it may
be a difficult one. I see this is
my daily life.
Or when you really need something, or when
you're scared and let's say you live in
you you witnessed hurricane.
May Allah protect you.
And if you see on the news like
tomorrow there could be,
And what is your dua?
Back now? Like how after tomorrow?
Let's say, don't how many make dua after
sunnah.
Don't tell me.
That's between you and him.
So I need to look at it and
analyze it.
I do.
It's dear to you Allah. Is it constant?
Is it the same level?
It's sometimes low, sometimes up. What makes it
up? What makes it low?
2nd,
where is your focus?
What is your focus? It's a very common
question. You hit it every, almost very common
these days, especially with the youth. They say
at age 30
I don't know why they put 30, but
that's how it is these days. At age
30, what's your plans? What do you think
you will be
in 10 years from now? In 5 years
from now? Have you heard that? Speak to
any person in business. That's the first question
they tell you. Right? What is your 5
years plan? I I I one day I
talked with a businessman, very successful, Muslim.
And he said, I'm planning for 30 years.
And I said, SubhanAllah.
And he said, what is wrong with the
dak Torah? I said, 30 years? Do I
know I'm living tomorrow?
Then my next question is,
what is your plan for achir?
Do we have a plan for akhir?
Is the akhirah on my daily schedule
or on my daily plans or on on
my 5 year plan?
True or false?
This is because of the first.
If my relationship with Allah is very strong,
strong,
then my focus on akhirah comes right away
because to me akhirah is not about jannahunah.
It's not about jannah heavens and hellfire.
Akhirah to me, the hereafter to me is?
Who can tell me?
This is when you have the relationship. It's
my appointment.
Finally.
I'm gonna see him.
Finally, as Sayyid Nabidar, when he died,
and he was dying.
Imagine this showing me how scared we will
be. And he said, uhadhanakalahalpa.
Muhammadimwasahbeh.
Allah, tomorrow
I'm gonna finally see Muhammad and his companion.
That's focus.
That's focus.
We are
Muslims,
humanity,
extremely
distracted.
I wouldn't say just distracted.
Extremely
distracted,
and definitely Muslim is number 1.
Distracted
everything else, and I say this to myself
before I knew,
Everything else
is more important.
And correct me if I'm wrong.
Everything is more important than Allah and the
Aqirah.
True or false?
True or false?
False?
Please. No. It's okay. Let's discuss it. That's
why I asked. I'm not asking you to
always say yes to me. May Allah forgive
my shortcomings.
But when we say false,
then I made a statement
that he's gonna take me accountable for misstatement,
and he's gonna say, really?
False?
I am not distracted?
When the adhan goes on, I jump from
my whatever I'm doing, I throw it all
the way, or I am like Sayedna,
Ali ibn Abidine. When he goes to make
wudu,
they see his face completely change.
He become pale,
and they asked him, why you imam?
Right? You know what he said?
Do you know who I am gonna be
standing in front of?
Is that us?
Is that us?
Then are we distracted?
And why we need to know this is
not to make you feel bad. No. On
the contrary,
you're gonna be very grateful to Allah
that he brought me here, made me say
that. I didn't even get to the subject.
I just looked at you,
and this just came into me. That Allah
wants to remind me,
and you,
It's in the Quran.
This is to Rasul alaihi wa sallam. This
is to the Sahaba, companion. Don't feel too
bad.
If Allah said to the Sahaba to Rasul
alaihi wa sallam,
remind them.
Reminding benefit
believers.
Then alhamdulillah,
at least I'm a believer
and I'm benefiting from it, meaning it's
making me think,
alhamdulillah,
and that will bring me to our topic.
The reason we are distracted
and please forgive me, and I want everyone
in this world today go alone
and start paying attention
to this relationship.
Pay attention to this relationship,
then Allah will show you.
Salahat al Aisha time comes in.
Right? Let's say 8 o'clock.
You finish dinner and everything.
That's our daily life. There's nothing Haram in
here. Okay? Normally what do we do?
Most of us, if not all of us,
we're tired. We're exhausted. It's the end of
the day. We had a long day. That's
the usual. Doesn't matter what you do, but
that's the usual. Don't we sit on a
couch or we sit in the living room?
Most of us. The young, everybody goes to
their home these days, unfortunately.
What do we do?
Young and old,
I want downtime.
Right? What do we do?
We start watching TV.
Doesn't matter what we are watching, but 99%
of what CRC, there's something in it. Something.
I didn't say all of it. Something in
it
is not pleasing to all of them. As
simple as an ad.
Right?
Let's alone if I'm on my social media
and I'm going through
TikTok,
IG, Facebook. It depends on your age.
And this is the scenario.
I saw.
I I was not looking for it.
I was honestly Allah is my witness. He
seemed to me. I was looking for something.
I wanted to see what is the updates
of Gaza. So I was looking to see
and then something came up,
and that something came up, which is very
common,
is not pleasing to Anba.
Haram. Period.
And I looked at it,
and then I kept looking,
and then I clicked on it.
Now I am silly, and now I'm committing
a sin.
Yes or no? I did not intend to
do the sin. I didn't go on my
social media to see haram.
No.
But I fall I fell
to the luring of the shaypa.
Finished?
Now you say, oh, I need to go
and pray my Aisha.
It's getting too late.
Tell me how was your Russia.
That's how you that's how you analyze yourself.
Opposite.
Exactly the opposite.
For some reason,
the same scenario
you clipped.
Most of you know me from social media,
so somebody come to you and you say,
what? Okay. Let me click.
And this person, she or her, was saying
something
that wooed you, that reminded you of something
and made you
listen.
Is that pleasing to Allah?
Yes or no?
Yes.
You finished.
Go and see your sunnah.
That is it.
This is what sunnah does to us.
Gradually, by the way.
Very gradual. It's a very subtle way,
Shaytan promised Allah.
By your majesty,
every time I read this
and I say, SubhanAllah,
who is this Shaytan standing in front of
him, Subhanu?
And he is making oath by His Majesty
out of anger and jealousy.
Wait and see what I'm gonna do to
them.