Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 26 1440 Ramadn Late Night Majlis Dread 05302019
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The father of Allah Ta'ala.
It's the 26th night of Ramadan,
and it's the last Friday night of Ramadan.
Allah
fill it with barakah and with noor and
with his fable and with flu
that changes the hearts for the better.
Allah
accept it from everybody.
Inshallah Allah give us that we not blow
the rest of Ramadan.
Rather it's very precious commodity and it's it's
it's fleeting, it's running away from us.
To make good use of it and accept
it from us.
So we continue, we were reading,
a abridgment of
a small booklet he wrote on the concept
of,
the recompense of deeds.
And so we're we continue reading the,
this abridgment.
The first part of it was his theoretical
introduction
to the concept,
and now,
there are some more details.
Section 1,
one of the effects of sinning is that
a person is deprived of knowledge.
Knowledge is an internal light which is extinguished
by sins. Imam Malik
had advised Imam Shafi'i
as follows.
He said that I see that to his
pupil, Shafir
I think he was 13 when Imam Malik
passed away. So he's just a kid.
But this is a Firas that Imam Malik
knew even though he was just like a
a a teenager,
barely even a teenager when he passed away.
That, he knew that there was something special
about him. So he said that, this is
his as well, his his, his,
you know, his uncanny and and supernatural,
intuition
that he said that he said to him,
he says, I see that Allah most high
has has has cast
upon your heart a light,
so do not extinguish it with the darkness
of of disobedience.
This is one of the things that that
I think is missing,
from people's
people's practice or understanding of the dine, I
should say, nowadays, is that people
think of knowledge as information. They conflate
knowledge as information.
When we talk about Ilm and the din,
we're talking about a
a,
a a compound,
ability that someone possesses.
It is the two sides of the coin,
the knowledge in the mind and the understanding
of it in the heart.
Otherwise, just the knowledge without the without the
marifa,
the the it's those are just that's just
information.
This is one of the reasons why,
the are not excited about people who go
and,
you know, learn about Islam from a university,
even in Muslim countries.
Why? Because the
said what? He said that,
he said that,
you know,
that the the the people of knowledge are
the trustees of the Rasul
They're the trustees of the Rasul over the
creation of Allah Ta'ala.
And so when you get a PhD in
new eastern languages and civilizations or in Islamic
studies or in theology,
you know, at an American university, or an
English university, or a French or German university,
or at
faculty in Istanbul, or one of the other
universities in the Muslim world as well. Tell
me, which class teaches you how to be
the trustee of the Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
or the creation of Allah?
Nobody will ask you whether you got up
for fajr.
If they do, it's completely a personal thing.
It has nothing to do with your actual
formal training. The 2 of them are divorced.
So you may have graduates, although oftentimes because
people don't take these things religiously.
Oftentimes even the the the information that they
learn is deficient. But every now and again,
you'll get a graduate who does know know
their stuff
information wise, but that isn't there or if
it's there, it was sought from somewhere other
than the university. The university gets all the
credit for the information, and then you find
out someone has a sheikh somewhere or someone
was taking lessons with 1 of the mashaikh
or 1 of the olamah.
And so,
you know, I you know, I am I
saying that there's no point in a practicing
Muslim getting one of these degrees? No. But
it's not The point of it is not
The point may be that you grab from
somewhere else and then you go into these,
into these fields and defend Islam or whatever,
or that you may be able to increase
in your in the information that you receive.
But this is this is not according to
the the the definition of that comes from
our aqabir mashaikh,
like Malik, like a Shafi'i. Right? The is
what? What did Malik say? It's a light
that Allah that casts into somebody's heart. And
it's the difference between, you know, you know,
it's the difference between somebody who has a
lot of knowledge and they do things like
they will advance,
different fields,
of of,
you know,
of of sciences and math and other things,
etcetera,
in order to benefit people. And then another
person will take that same math and science,
and they'll develop an atom bomb with it.
Is that smart?
No. It's dumb. To be able to design
something that can, like, you know, that will
one day go on to be have the
ability to destroy, like, 95% of, you know,
the world's life in less time than it
takes Domino's to deliver a pizza. It's pretty
stupid.
And so, there's no light in that at
all. All of it is darkness.
Even though the information is the same, but
because the isn't there, all of it is
darkness.
And, this is this is something you will
you will not
receive this light from a kafir.
Rather, Allah forbids a person to try to
seek from, you know,
says turn away from the one who,
turn away from the one who turned his
back on our remembrance and doesn't wish for
anything except for the life of this world.
That is the extent of their ill. Their
has nothing to do with the other world.
It's just the extent of their their their
illness. What is just the the the surface
level information
that they can grab from things around them.
Commands
us to turn away from it. If you
don't like it and you think I've been
extreme, then go take it up with Allah.
Go argue with with him. It's I didn't
write the Quran nor did my father nor
did my grandfather or my mom.
I didn't write it that you can argue
with me about it or call me a
fundamentalist or whatever. Go take it up with
Allah
if you actually believe in him.
This is something this is something to to
understand.
Now
what is the effect of sinning? Imagine this
is that the the effect of sinning, remember
we talked about some sins lead to other
sins, which are the they certain sins are
punishments for other sins,
and and they will lead to a type
of destruction that the original sin, did not,
did not lead to. And so this is
one of the worst and one of the
most,
just
horrifying,
of of consequences
of sin,
which is what? Which is that the light
that Allah put inside of a person's heart
is extinguished.
That ilm is not merely just the idea
that you know that in the Hanafi Madhub,
you know, if you talk after the salam,
you know, then, you you can't get up
and, you know, if you accidentally the imam
makes salam after 1 raka and they talk,
then afterward, they can't get up and make
the second raka again in the Hanafi school
whereas in the other schools, you know, if
you if it's just a simple conversation, like,
oh, I think we only prayed 1, then
you can get up and continue praying. Right?
It's not just that.
That's not what we're talking about right now.
There are people who can there are people
who can learn that, but they don't, you
know, they don't have iman inside of their
hearts.
And, it's not just that. It's what it's
that this kefir, this internal
condition that a person has inside of their
their their hearts, it's extinguished.
And this is why, you know, you see
what's the difference? Someone asked what's the difference
between the the and
the
and between them and between us. So we
have these huge books of
huge books of fit and huge books of
and huge books of hadith and all of
these things. And you see they're all dissected
bit by bit according to a very rational,
a very rational and a very philosophically robust,
like, framework.
We analyze in books,
those things, and they bring a wealth of
meaning to us.
Those people, that was actually their life. That's
what they lived.
Do you understand the difference?
Why the light was inside of their heart
so they didn't need they didn't need,
so much formal education in order to understand
it.
The books of tafsir that you'll find someone's
tafsir is written in 30 volumes, that those
were the kefiyat that those people used to
carry with them inside of their hearts. And
that's the Sahaba
imagine what the kefiyah, what the condition of
the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
was the the nur that's inside of his
heart
And that's the the idea is that that
what we want to make.
We want to, like, you know, we want
to we don't have the ability to start
the fire ourselves. So we take the the
wood that we have and we light it
with their fire and it also
starts to burn and it gives us light.
And once that fire is put out, it's
not merely that you won't be able to
understand, like, you know, what to do when
the imam accidentally prays 1 raka instead of
2. What is the fire being put out?
It's kufr. It's it's the iman is taken
away from a person.
And, it's,
like, on a on a on a
on a in a holistic sense, it means
that your deen is a fail.
Do you understand what I'm saying? Like, if
you don't know this one, Maslah, you can
still go to Jannah. But if your heart
is deprived of Nur, then you fail even
if you if you if you've memorized the
30 volume, you know, whatever,
like, you know, detailed, books about, like, the
the Sharia and the law and things like
that.
It's a complete fail. And, this is this
is something that this is one of the
reasons why the study of
is important is because it lets these things
get put into perspective because people get mired
in detail sometimes, and they miss that bigger
picture. And he says one of the effects
of sinning is that a person is deprived
of knowledge. When a person is a jahl,
they don't know the difference between good and
evil anymore. They don't know the difference between
good and bad. They're living body and a
dead heart, and their their life has no
benefit from them. It's a very scary condition.
The person is like a zombie, you know?
Zombie movies are not ever critically acclaimed as
the feel good movie of the year. What
are they? They're scary.
Why? Because it's this thing. It has all
the gross things about a corpse, plus it's
trying to eat your brain. You know? And
there's a full of these people.
There's a dunya filled with these people. And
if it wasn't for the grace of Allah
ta'ala, we also would be one of those
people. Now imagine if someone gave an antidote,
you see, you have 22
2
possibilities.
You can either, you know, take lighter fluid
and burn every one of them. There's 5,
you know, whatever, 5,000,000,000 of them, 4,000,000,000 of
them in the world. You can either take
lighter fluid and burn them all down, or
here's an antidote, you can inject it and
then they'll become a human being again.
Obviously,
the latter would be preferable to anybody who
has any shred of decency and humanity inside
of them.
And on the flip side, you know, which
one of us who are are like one
of the few human beings left
would want to be like, oh, look. You
know, the zombies, they look like they're having
so much fun.
I you know, I I wanna taste some
brain too one time. So you're an idiot.
You're an idiot. You're worse than a zombie
at that point. You're an idiot. You're worse
than a z because their excuses, they're zombies.
They don't know any better. If you're the
one who's actually attracted to that despite having
known better, you know, those are the types
of sins that lead to the bigger sins
that were mentioned from before. This is to
me one of the scariest things. One of
the scariest. A person commits a sin and
then they, you know, the risk is decreased
from, like, whatever, $50,000 to $40,000
in in next year or whatever. You know,
that sucks because everyone loves money. I mean,
I won't try to pretend I'm, like, an
exception to the rule. But, you know, go
go get over it.
This is one of those things you won't
even know until it's too late what you've
missed. Allah protect us.
Section 2 is that the the he he
talks about the
result of sin as the decrease in one
sustenance. Hadith in this regard was previously quoted.
Section 3,
a sinner experiences a type of dread toward
Allah Ta'ala.
This is a point which can be understood
by a person who has the slightest inclination.
A person complained to a Sufi once that
he was experiencing dread. The Sufi replied in
in.
He said that it
if sins have caused you to experience dread
from Allah, then give them up and you
will experience affinity again. And here the dread
is not like fearing Allah. Fearing Allah like
and
and
these these are these things are actually a
good part of iman. Here the dread is
such that just the thought of Allah makes
a person wanna run away.
You know, there are some people who don't
like religion just because the thought of, like,
the thought of having to answer for their
deeds, they just don't wanna think about it.
They just they they completely, like, wanna ignore
it, pretend it's not there. Hopefully, it'll go
away. It causes them anxiety.
Is the one who
He's the one who fixes a commandment on
himself mercy. He's the one who decreed that
my my mercy outstrips my anger. He's the
one who decreed that my mercy outstrips all
things. He's the one who said to the
prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam,
Say to my my my my my my
slaves
who have committed access against themselves,
that don't ever give up hope in the
mercy of Allah.
Indeed Allah forgives
all sins, all types of sins.
Indeed he was ever forgiving and merciful.
So
the only person at that point who is
not eligible for the mercy of Allah is
the one who just doesn't,
you know, just doesn't want doesn't want to
ask Allah or doesn't just has a irrational
hatred for Allah.
Otherwise, everything is forgiven. Everything is forgiven. We
don't believe we don't believe like some other
religions do that God has it out for
them. We don't believe like, you know, we
don't we don't believe in, like, original sin
that you're born in sin and that you're
down to die sinner and blah blah blah.
Allah didn't create anything any human being except
for there's a for them in Jannah, and
they choose they choose not to go there.
Right? There's a there's a hadith of the
prophet that everyone will go to Jannah except
for the one who refuses. There's a hadith
of the prophet that Allah will show every
human being when they die, their maqam either
in Jannah or in Jahannam. The people of
Jahannam, he'll show them their maqam in Jannah
Allah created for them. And so you refuse
to take it, and now it's gonna go
to someone else.
And he'll you know, that's the tafsir of
the
That those are the the inheritors that inherit
paradise. They will be there in forever. That
once all the people who are gonna come
out of the fire are out,
Allah the angels will make an announcement in
Jannah that any plot in Jannah that's unclaimed
as of yet, go stake your claim there
and you can take it.
And so, the only person who doesn't take
it is the one who doesn't want it.
Islam has
Islam has in it room for sinners.
We have some sinners are crazy. Some of
the sinners in Islam are crazy. People like
Muslims are cute, you know, like someone commits
and they, like, you know, they feel like,
oh, I'm so horrible. I'm so bad, and
they wanna kill them. So I mean, none
of you have, like,
whatever, like, you're none of your Hitler, like,
you know, killed 6 6,000,000, 10000,000 people in
concentration camps. So Stalin sent people in gulags
and Mao Zedong and weird, you know, weird
type of people who, like, literally live their
life as, like, the exponent of atheism.
You know, there's, you know, so a Muslim
is like, oh, you know, I I drink
alcohol. It's like, oh, really? Is that all?
Allah is the one who says that he
forgives all sins, and this is all you
can bring?
You know, and even the sinners nowadays, they
don't know anything what the old
the old people. Even during the rule, when
there's a Khalifa and there's and there's
in Islamic court and all of these things,
read like and these these these were, like,
some really screwed up characters. You know?
And they still made Tawba at the end
of the at the end of the at
the end of their life, and they, you
know, tried to make good with Allah.
They did sins that that that if you
read about read about them, you would be
like, this is a really messed up customer.
But you have to admire the fact that
these are people who they at least knew
this about Allah, whereas we're heedless of Allah.
So what type of zina and what type
of drugs and alcohol is worse than just
being heedless of Allah?
They knew they knew who Allah was, and
they they they didn't, you know, they didn't
shut that door on themselves because they knew
from Allah to our side, it's open. This
knowledge itself is a great level of piety.
There's a lot of piety in it as
well, and it doesn't excuse doing bad stuff,
but I'm just saying, you know.
So so this dread this dread is this
is this dread is something that a person
shouldn't be afraid of. That Allah who is
there to forgive you and to help you
if you dread meeting him, you know,
then you're basically
you're afraid of, like, the only thing that's
gonna benefit you. That's a real bogus situation
to be in, and that's one of the
effects of sin.
Section 4, sinning causes a person to feel
dread toward fellow humans as well, especially toward
the pious and righteous people. All humans in
general, but especially toward a pious and righteous
people. This is why crooked people are very
misanthropic. They no longer
have the ability to feel sympathy with other
human beings. They lose the ability to,
to just benefit from, like, the humanity of
another person.
That person's heart is no longer inclined towards
sitting in the company of the righteous. The
more that that dread increases, the more distant
he becomes to them, and the more deprived
he becomes of their blessings.
This happened with the same Abu Jahl and,
Abu Lahab and
and
all of these, you know, all of these,
like,
whatever, like gang of villains from Quresh. They're
literally like the they were the relatives of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
You know, they're they're they're Qureshi people who
lived in Makkah, and they're the relatives of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And any
other in any other age, these three would
be enough to make a person think that
this is probably, like, some or some pious,
real pious dude. And, they they happen to
be, like, some of the, like, the of
the hellfire.
Why? Because their hearts were so destroyed through
their through their sins that they're not even
able to go to the prophet
and benefit from him.
A pious
elder once said, and this is not like
like the elders of Indian Pakistan, this is
like from this.
He said if I commit a sin, I
experience,
its effect and the attitude even of my
wife and, of of even, like, the other
creation. He said even my the animals, the
livestock no longer will listen to me anymore.
He said that they no longer no longer
obey me anymore.
This this also is very, scary because the
people who are going to be the means
of your benefit,
that it cuts you off. The the more
a person sins, the more they poison that
that that that relationship,
and the more they cut off get cut
off from it, and then they're left, you
know, out to dry, and then do those
really screwed up things that will completely destroy
their destiny.
Be our our protection from it. Be our
protection from from it.
A sinner experiences difficulties and obstacles. Section 5,
a sinner experiences difficulties and obstacles in most
of their dealings
Just as the paths of success are open
on account of piety, discarding piety causes the
path to become closed up.
Things that things that should be easy then
become more and more difficult.
Section 6, sinner feels a type of darkness
in his heart. If he ponders over this
a little in his heart, he will perceive
the darkness clearly. Obviously, most of those people
don't.
Some people, I guess, do, but most of
them do. So if you can, please do
it before it's too late.
Otherwise, most people, by the time the darkness
becomes so,
you know, blinding that a person is not
even even able to, see it, they're so
dead. The force of this darkness results in
a state of confusion and perplexity, which causes
the person to fall into
innovations, deviation,
ignorance, and eventual destruction.
People, like, you you know, will follow some
new prophet or some new cult or some
new group or some weird, like, these types
of things. And you see that there are
the people who are the most, like, scientific,
modern,
you know,
logical, rational, worldly, materialist people. Those people are
the ones who, like, end up calling the
psychic friends network and end up, you know,
having trolls and, like, tying knots and stuff
and, like, you know, weird superstitious, like, high
hyper superstitious type stuff. Those are the people
who end up doing those, those types of
things.
The effect of darkness, on the heart then
comes into a person's eyes and spreads across
their face, which can then be seen by
others.
By others, meaning those people who still have
noor left in their light. No matter how
handsome and beautiful a flagrant sinner may be,
a condition of darkness is visible on his
face.
Saidna Abdullah bin Abbas radiAllahu anhu has said,
pride to you results in light on the
face, light in the heart, expansion and sustenance
to strengthen the body,
in love and the hearts of the people
toward that person, meaning the people who have
themselves iman inside of them.
Sin causes the face to lose its light,
and it causes darkness in the heart and
in the grave. Lethargy in the body, constriction
and sustenance,
and hatred in the hearts of, of people
toward that person.
Section 7, sinning causes weakness in the heart
and the body. The weakness of the heart
is obvious in the sense that the person's
enthusiasm for good works decreases until it becomes
nonexistent.
As for the weakness in the body, we
know that it is subservient of the heart.
If the heart is weak, so will the
rest of the body be weak.
Look how physically strong the persians and the
romans were, yet they could not stand in
the face of the Sahaba
You see the Sahaba
when they came out of the Arabian Peninsula,
they fought they fought
a technologically
advanced
civilization or a set of technologically advanced civilizations.
The Persians, they were so advanced,
from from literally
1000 of years before Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Salam,
that they could, you know, they could dig
a tunnel from two sides of a mountain
from miles away and
the tunnel would meet in the middle. Can
you imagine digging through stone,
how difficult it is just to make a
hole that doesn't a tunnel that doesn't collapse?
And there's no, you know, there's no GPS.
There's nothing. You know, signal. If you miss
each other by even a small amount, you'll
never know.
But they were a techno technologically advanced civilization.
And,
they their wealth was accumulated
over centuries.
Over generations. Kings
and dynasties passed, and they accumulated wealth, they
accumulated knowledge, they accumulated
traditions, military traditions,
etcetera. And the Romans are are well known,
are well known to the world, but still
they they
they they couldn't even meet eyes with eyes
with them in the battlefield. They would flee
from the battlefield. And this is not just
a thing that that has to do with
Muslims. Muslims, if you start doing the thing
you know, remember we mentioned yesterday about,
saying that Abu Darda crying, weeping on the
conquest of Ubras of Cyprus. This happened when
the Mongols invaded,
invaded the Muslim heartlands,
the the the the Khanate of the Khorasan
Shah in in Central Asia.
What happened was Genghis Khan who, you know,
I mean, he was he was a violent
person. Nobody's gonna
say that he wasn't with a straight face.
But he didn't destroy he didn't destroy,
the the Khanate of Khorasan and the Muslim
states of Central Asia for no reason.
The Khorasan Shah, he he had an ambassador
sent to him, and in court intrigue,
the Mongol ambassador was killed in treachery.
And another ambassador was sent to ask why
was our ambassador killed, and that ambassador was
killed also in intrigue and treachery.
Then it's on. Then he's like, this is
it. We can't, you know, we can't just
let this, go by.
And obviously, massacring innocent people is not a
way of solving these problems, but he wasn't
a Muslim. And they say that the the,
Mohammed Shah, the the the the the Shah
of the Khurazim
Khanate,
The king, he was he was himself, and
the Turks are warlike people. They're like the
cousins of the Mongols. I mean, they fight
with the same tactics, everything. In fact, when
they when they,
get beat by the by the Mongols, oftentimes,
they'll just be absorbed into the army because
they're very similar. They're ethnically very similar people.
And so what happens is that he has
a whole army, and in the just right
before the battle, the king is seized with
terror and he flees. He flees the battlefield.
Now imagine if you're an army and you
see, like, the commander of your army and
the the sovereign ruler of your nation
bail in the middle of battle? Is that
gonna make the battle go according to, like,
some sort of orderly plan? Or is it
gonna cause chaos?
It completely caused chaos. There's no way they're
gonna win after that. His one of his
sons who has hitherto ignored for for power
and for the throne,
His name was Jalaluddin.
He was a pious and
a brave and competent commander. He took a
small faction of the the army and and
kept the Mongols, like, through hit and run
tactics at bay for some time.
But he had such a small group of
people under his command, he wasn't able to
resist them. Otherwise, the rest of the the
rest of the Khwarazmian army was destroyed. And
literally, this happens city after city after city,
all the way through to Baghdad. That they
they will,
they will
basically taunt them,
Genghis Khan, and then after him,
Hulegu, who the Persians will give the nickname
Halaku, which is actually not his name, but
Halaku means, like, death or destruction in Arabic.
They nicknamed him this because of because of
how, like, just merciless he was. He would
literally write letters to the
to the Muslim rulers, and he is, like,
a shamanist, like, a pagan, you know. He
he would write letter to the Muslim rulers
of these cities. He would say, don't try
to don't try to, don't try to fight
against us. We know what kind of people
you are. We know that that you have
you have your deen, and your and your
they tell tell you one thing, and we
know that none of you follow it. You
all do something else. It was that you
can think of us as a scourge that
Allah has sent on you. We give you
2 options. You gotta give everything up right
now and surrender unconditionally, or we promise we'll
kill everybody. And they did it. They did
it. They would rich, poor, everything. They would
kill they would destroy they destroyed the entire
civilization of of of of Islam in the
east,
in in the central lands.
And people think that right now somehow, like,
we're in, like, the worst era of Muslim
history. That's probably a much worse era than
than the one that we're going through right
now. Because the Bukhara Bukhara and Samarkand, the
Tirmas, you know,
Horazam,
Baghdad,
those those cities, you know, the cities of
Iran,
you know, Isfahan and Shiraz. Those cities, they're
not the cities they were back then.
The people are not the people of those
cities. The traditions are not the traditions of
those cities. Those were all wiped out. They're
all wiped clean, and then another people came
and inhabited the the the the houses and
whatnot afterward.
And but this is something that that happens
is that,
you know, because of this weakness, this dread,
this weird kefir that comes inside the hearts
of people, the people of humanity is completely
gone. And,
and this is really all that's left all
that's left for them. And you'll see in
in in the eras like that.
I see you see the complete opposite. What
happened to the Romans and the Persians actually
happens to the Muslims, and the Muslims start
doing the same things as the Romans and
Persians do.
And you'll see even in those times, however,
there were people from amongst the Muslims who
stood in the face of the Mongols.
You'll see there are still people amongst the
Muslims who stood in the in the face
of destruction, and they they escaped by without
without getting harmed. You know? The battle of
Ain Jalut,
is fought in, like, basically Palestine, you know,
Southern Palestine,
between the combined army of Syria and and
Egypt.
And, the Mongols hitherto have been undefeated from
Mongolia all the way to imagine all the
way to through Syria. They're hit hitherto undefeated.
At this point, people stop even fighting with
them, you know, they just surrender.
But, you know, they not only they they
destroyed their, they destroyed
the
the the the Mongol commander. Not only did
they destroy his army, they sent his head
to
Hulagu on a plate.
Why?
Because and
these people, the commanders of the army, they
were pious people. They were pious men.
These people were pious men. These are people
like there are literally and things like that
that were opened by these people. These are
God fearing people. They had concern for Islam,
for the Muslims. They used to pray 5
times a day, etcetera, etcetera. And it wasn't
just 1 or 2 that they can be
engulfed by everybody. They actually had, like, they
established a society like that. You know, people
don't know that that Hafez ibn Hajjar was,
like, you know, employed in the zawiya of,
of of of Beybers. You know? The Hanpa.
Right?
One of the rebats that Beibers made in
in in in Cairo. I mean, these people,
they they built the the dola in order
to serve Islam, to serve the deen, to
serve the uloom, etcetera, etcetera.
And so,
you know, these weaknesses and sicknesses because it
sounds like you just kinda kinda gets a
little heavy, a little negative.
Everything that the the good news is every
time someone says something negative to you, there's
another side of the coin. Why do we
have to be so negative about everything all
the time? So many things we're so negative
about
them. Right? Like, if you, you know, whoever,
imitates a group of people as one of
them, which means, like, oh, if you dress
like a, you're a. Well, maybe.
But maybe also means that if you dress
like dress like a pious person, you become
a pious person.
You don't have to take everything negatively.
You should take the negative part and take
a warning from it, and then you flip
the coin around and then see how can
I use this information to benefit me as
well? So, it says that the just like
obedience gives a person strength,
just like obedience gives a person strength,
disobedience weakens a person.
A sinner is deprived of obedience. And this
is something you may seem like somewhat
intuitive to a person, but it's it's different.
Right? A sinner is deprived of obedience, meaning
that a person commits a sin and they
have that as well.
And then they think, oh, I'll just make
up for it later. No. Actually, part of
the punishment for the sin is some part
of your obedience also is that taken away
from you. This is one of the reasons
we said that also that people, the pious
from the past used to spend
the time of Shaaban and is still far
away so that the sins that are going
to prevent them from being able to do
deeds of piety in Ramadan are forgiven before
Ramadan comes, so there's no longer any block.
That one of the punishments of the sin
is that on top of the sin, the
time and the efforts and the energy of
it being wasted, a commensurate amount of piety
will then be taken away from that person,
aside from it.
Today, he will leave out one act of
obedience. Tomorrow, he will leave out another. On
the 3rd day, he will leave out yet
another. In this way, all good deeds slip
through him because of sinning. Like a person
who takes one, very tasty morsel of food,
which then causes him to become so sick
that he is now, not able to eat
several meals thereafter.
Allah
protect us. We'll stop here and we'll continue
the rest of it,
tomorrow.