Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Riyd alSlihn Avoiding Self Inflicted Amputation Ribat 03122023
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The speakers discuss the importance of praise and gratitude for actions and actions, as well as teaching and being more refined. They also criticize the perversion of the 5th hour and the per accurately says people are not resilient at all. The speakers stress the importance of understanding one's own issues and not trying to avoid them, as well as mitigating sin and learning and being happy and sad. They also discuss the negative perception of the reality of Islam and the importance of not letting people know that they have been punished for actions. The speakers emphasize the importance of learning and being on the right path to deal with it.
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So we today begin,
the book of Hamdah,
the praise of Allah and of his
Shukr, of his gratitude.
So this is now describing virtues
of
the heart
and these are civilizational
values. They transcend again
what person follows or, what
political
alignment a person has.
And these are those things I feel like
they're missing
from
a lot of people's
way of approaching Islam.
Especially as us living as minorities. So he'll
say a number of, like, seemingly very perfunctory
and simple things, but,
they are they are important, and they do
show us or they lay bare when we
think about them
what the, kind of, catastrophic and devastating loss
that we have
endured,
as a civilization.
We can blame them. We say that those
losses are endured at the hands of others,
but really, at the end of the day,
much of it is just something that we
endure,
as a self inflicted wound.
But we'll continue
and talk about that in a little bit
more depth soon.
So this is a chapter about the,
the the virtue of the praise of Allah
most high and his and gratitude for him.
Allah most high says in his book,
so remember me
and I will remember you. And
show gratitude toward me, and do not be
ungrateful.
Literally
means do not be ungrateful and then as
a,
a secondary metaphorical meaning, it means don't disbelieve.
The idea that disbelief is, itself the superlative
in gratitude to the Lord.
And Allah said,
and if you are grateful,
I will give you an increase.
And Allah says and say
praises to Allah.
And Allah says,
regarding the speech of the people,
in paradise
that, the last thing that they can say
after all is said and done and they're
given and given and given
until they're happy again. All of the things
a person loses for the sake of Allah
because they're a Muslim, because they're this, they're
downtrodden, they're oppressed.
Somebody else got the job, somebody else got
the house, somebody else got the loan, you
know.
All sorts of things people go through, like,
all sorts of
difficulties
and embarrassments and
humiliations
and all of these things that a person
goes through. A person wonders how is it
that they'll be
recompense for all of these things. And Allah
That day will come that your lord will
give you so much. He'll give you so
much that you'll be pleased to say, yes,
it was worth it. All of it was
worth it.
All the silly things. I just read an
article the other day about
black family wanted to sell their house. And
so the appraiser, like, gave them an appraisal
of something like $1,000,000
or something like in that magnitude.
Less than what the house was worth. And
so they
basically white washed the house, took down all
of the, like, African African American related paraphernalia,
family pictures, etcetera, and called another appraiser. And
they gave the value they valued the house
of what it was worth.
And they had this huge, you know, lawsuit
about it. And the thing is, even you
win a lawsuit like that, it's completely
demoralizing.
Because a person wonders how many times has
this been happening to me to my in
my life. And so person people think about
that about their Islam as well. A person
wonders how many times did you get
turned over for a job,
or for interview at school, or for, you
know, something that you needed that you could
have gotten ahead with, or whatever.
And, you know, why do I have to
carry this burden or whatever. Allah will give
a person so much one day.
And that their last thing the only thing
they have left to say is
that all praises to Allah, the Lord of
the worlds.
Muslim.
So here's a, an interesting
an interesting,
hadith
narrated by Muslim,
Sayna Buhuray
who said that the prophet
the night that he was taken on the
Isra, the night journey to Al Qudsa Sharif
and then after that the Mi'raj,
into,
the heavens to see the ahuwal of the
hereafter.
He was brought 2 bowls to drink from.
One was wine and the other was milk.
Obviously, it's Jannah, Sayna Jibril
serving it to you,
then the halal haram issue is not an
issue anymore.
The Quran itself describes that Jannah is going
to have wine in it that has a
quality that it doesn't make you drunk.
But still wine is a very processed,
material. It's not something natural.
And so,
Nabi he drank from the leban, from the
milk,
instead of from
the the,
the bowl that has the wine in it.
And so Jibril alaihis salam, he praised Allah.
So the istid lala in terms of the
of the Bab is what? Is that Jibril
is the one saying Alhamdulillah.
So that the
the the saying of Alhamdulillah, praise be praise
be to Allah
is from the adab of the angels of
the malaika.
It's a it's a one of the superior
akhlaq
of the creation of Allah Ta'ala and in
particular it's transcendent above,
animality of human nature. So he said Alhamdulillah,
he praised Allah Ta'ala
that he said, Alhamdulillah, who guided you to
the fitra,
to the aboriginal state, to be like a
normal normal human being rather than, you know,
than than somebody whose human nature has been
perverted
or or destroyed.
Alhamdulillah
who guided you to the fitra,
if you had taken the
wine, your ummah would have been like, if
this was your disposition,
was away from the fitra and toward
refined enjoyment.
This would have
your would have gone astray after having received
guidance. Right?
Is what? Is to
go astray after having
had guidance.
There's a lot here in the hadith
other than just
the
the the the the that was it was
brought for which is to show that saying
is a good thing.
Praising Allah is a good thing.
I think in the time that we live
now
we have to also
the first thing is understand.
The second thing is to teach. And in
order to teach, you have to actually be
able articulate what it is you're trying to
say, and what it is that you're trying
to mean, which I feel like we lack
a lot of.
We lack the ability to articulate what it
is that we're trying to say.
And so we say things in very crude
ways amongst, like, small gatherings or in Sunday
school or in, like, gatherings where we see
that there's no looking
or whatever.
We have to articulate things in a way
that's a little bit better than that, a
little bit more refined than that. And by
little, I mean a lot.
But the idea is this is that
the preservation of the fitra
is
something that's no longer looked up to. People
do
anti fitri, anti,
natural
types of things
to the point where now we literally live
in a society where people
think there's no connection between a person's biological
gender and what their real gender is. That
it's a question that people ask.
Why is it that,
you know, a man can wear a woman,
but he can't marry another man? This is
genuinely people have this, you know, this question.
Really, like maybe at some point, it was
some screwball activist or whatever. But, like, no
normal people, genuinely, they have this question to
the point where even if they listen to
this recording, it's, it's got bigoted. That's it.
Done. Right?
And it's something heartfelt from
from inside of them. It's what? It's a
perversion of the 5th hour at any rate.
The idea of the 5th hour has been
so, kinda, so shot that you have these
things going around. People think it's a good
idea. You have, like, a triple now they're
saying triple surrogate mother or triple surrogate child
where there's a sperm donor,
and there's the,
a a a a separate donor for the
egg and a separate donor for the,
the the the seller of the the genes.
So the the the mitochondria
and everything will be from a 3rd a
second woman, basically, and that will be the
egg and all the machinery inside the egg.
But the genes will come from a a
separate woman,
who's not able to produce eggs, or perhaps
it will come from the the the second,
set of genes will come from a man
or god knows what. This is all going
to morph into, like, weirder and weirder, freakier,
freakier, creepier and creepier types of
situations.
We've gone so far from the.
This is, you know, this is one of
the issues, for example, why is Haram. Why?
Because if is
proliferated
and you have children that are born not
knowing who their fathers are, that itself is
going to have an impact on the child.
Developmentally, the child is gonna be put at
a disadvantage
compared to other children. Again, this doesn't say
that the children of Zina are like bad
people, we hate them, or we stigmatize them,
or anything like that. The point is why
would you hobble, you know, why would you
hobble somebody for no reason? That person is
gonna be around for a long time.
And the end of time is described as
a place in which there,
the the there's going to be large masses
of the children of Zina and they're going
to be filled with anger and rage. They're
gonna be filled with resentment. Literally, it's what
we see now.
People are not resilient at all. Their emotion
is so delicate about everything.
If you think that's about the thing they're
discussing, it's not about the thing they're discussing.
And people are complaining about woke culture and
stuff like that. Like, I personally someone just
today told me they're like, oh, look. What
culture, they just cancel everybody, shut everything down.
I said, I don't care. What does that
mean to me?
Why do I have a problem with it?
If I'm the one running the system, then
it's a bad thing. And if I have
no part in the system, what does it
bother me if somebody else rips the system
down? Right? So that's just politics. That's not
that's people's politics. They're fighting their politics against
each other. That's not the part that bothers
me all that much.
What bothers me?
The lack of ability to reason through things,
the lack of ability to understand things, being
so
fragile emotionally
that, like, the slightest thing sets a person
off the rails. That's not an intellectual problem.
That's what that's a problem that's much deeper
that the
has been perverted. You have to understand the
for example, rational thinking is part of the
as well.
The idea that you throw a rock at
somebody,
even if you don't speak their language, you
throw a rock at somebody, they will intuitively
blame you and not blame the rock.
That's part of the fitra. You know, these
are things that are intuitive. You can either
hone that ability and reason through, like, really
big and complex problems, or you can
water it down to the point where the
person might say, like, well, does the rock
really exist? Did you really exist? Do I
really you know, like, you can do that.
These things are there are things that happen.
The brain, there's no reason that everything in
the brain has to work a particular way
or not. Even people who are crazy. It's
not that they're they're anti rational people. It's
just that there's one part of the process
that breaks down. The rest of it is
still irrational.
And so this, you know, this thing about
the the the the fitra, like, straying away
from the fitra, the idea of, like, taking
ridiculous
types of vacations,
taking ridiculous types of, you know, like, the
idea
of eating ridiculous things, drinking ridiculous things that
are completely, like, horrible and bad for you.
And then afterward, when you're trying to compensate
ridiculously expensive things that are supposed to, like,
somehow correct,
you know, what it is that, you know,
that you screwed up about your health. Like,
all these kind of weird there's, like, a
100 different trajectories where this,
perversion,
will,
go to. And all of them, they end
in stupidity.
Whereas a human being, like, how how hard
is it to raise a human being?
Literally, you come with all the genetic information
you need from the beginning to the end.
Illiterate people used to raise great kids.
Uneducated people used to raise great kids.
You know? Technologically,
backwards, people still raise wonderful children.
It happened. I mean, literally, it doesn't take
a lot. I asked once a neonatal surgeon.
I asked the doctors, what's your specialty? He
said, I'm a neonatal surgeon. I said, that
must be really scary. You know? You have
to, like, do surgery on, like, premature babies.
Some of them are so small, like, you
know, like, they get smaller than your hand.
He said, actually, it's not. He was he
was, actually, it's not. He goes, the really
scary thing is doing surgery on old people.
Because everything is is like dying, shutting down,
going out of business.
He goes, you fix one thing, the next
day there's gonna be 20 other problems even
if it gets fixed. And that's itself a
long shot. Whereas with the babies, the babies
meant to live. Like, it fixes itself. Like,
there are small things if you if you,
address them sometimes, you'll be surprised how quickly
the the the child developmentally will get back
on it onto some sort of, like,
healthy track.
People, you don't have to do a lot
with them.
But if you keep doing weird sideways types
of things, if the way you exercise is
messed up, if the way you eat and
drink is messed up, if the way you
buy and sell things is messed up, all
of it is excessive.
None of it makes any sense. It's like
taking one medicine because of the previous medicine
you were taking, or taking 5 medicines to
address the harm from the previous all of
these types of things,
not preventing problems, not thinking about what is
actually causing problems, but,
trying to
force solutions on top of solutions and some
sort of, like, infinite regress, obviously, you're gonna
have you're gonna have issues. Obviously, you're gonna
have issues. This is one of the things
that's a very
long rant that should be had more often
in my opinion, and you're welcome to discuss
it and agree with it or disagree with
it. But this is one of the fun
things I see about our own,
our own Muslim community, and this I was
alluding to it from before,
which is what
we don't
think about things in terms of the frame
of, or the lens of revelation.
We frame our own issues based on other
people's framings.
So now you literally will see Muslims by
the 1,000
in
person,
in their own media,
in their own social media accounts,
Being a republican Muslim or democrat Muslim,
even though this has nothing to do with
Islam. Conservative,
liberal.
This Muslim is really in favor of Ukraine,
and this Muslim is really in favor of
Russia. It's not your war. Why do you
get I mean, it's good to have fine
have opinion. Not your war. Why why are
you defining yourself to these things? It's really
none of your concern. Why I mean, I
get that a person would care about another
human being. I'm not saying that. Like, why
are you so emotionally invested in these things?
The reason is the answer is that we
don't have anything of our own to, like,
think about and look at things through.
And so, you know, when it comes to
American culture wars, maybe somebody will say, ah,
this is great. I've been saying this for
years. Right?
The abortion debate and, you know, gay marriage
and all this kind of American standard stock
set of culture culture war issues. He agrees
with me. He agrees with me.
That's why we should ally with the Catholic
church.
No.
They're the ones who did this in the
first place. The popes that sit in the
Vatican, the bishops, the cardinals, the the priests,
they're the ones who got us in this
place. This is all literate gay men. All
these things are a direct outgrowth of their
philosophy that they fostered over centuries.
And if they wanted to reverse it to
this day, they could reverse it. But what
does it mean? They have to accept the
fact that men and women cannot walk around
outside
naked.
They have to accept the fact that there
are far more
exceptions to freedom of speech than they want
to
think about in the 1st place. They have
to accept a number of things which will
end up making them what? End up making
them what? End up making them a Muslim,
and we're never gonna accept that.
Not totally. Right?
But concessions that basically pull people in in
line with Islam. People are, you know, they're
not gonna take that. So they'd rather be
like, okay. You know what? Just this one
thing. Don't try to think outside of this
box.
This is just the one thing that we're
thinking about and talking. No. Let's think about
outside of the box. You wanna talk about
stuff, you wanna be open minded, let's think
about things in a holistic sense instead of
just looking at, like, one, you know, 1
or 2 pigeon hold issues.
Otherwise, our whole life, our whole life, our
whole life,
anyone who's my age, we've all we've been
hearing is that the world is gonna die
because there's too many people.
And then all of a sudden all of
a sudden, like, just last year, all of
a sudden, like, no developed nation has enough
population to sustain and their economies are going
to collapse
now. One has to wonder, right, who's the
people? There are still people in the world,
by the way, that are you know, their
populations are stable and growing. Right?
Why is it that, like, there were always
some people whose populations were stable and growing,
and this is not their problem, but all
of a sudden, now it's become a problem?
It's what? It's because of our own failure
to imagine
what our problems are, much less what our
solutions are, to discuss them within some sort
of native framework rather than,
having to litigate our problems by, like, living
vicariously through other people.
And so that's that's an issue.
And so this is another
another hadith which kind of brings up or
airs this,
frustration that I have about our this is
this is this is a loss. Like, this
is a loss for our civilization.
This is a loss for our civilization. Things
that we think are losses, we can get
over them.
Losing a war, people win wars and battles,
lose wars and battles all the time. The
collapse of a state, you know, one state
comes, one state goes. Nothing was meant to
last forever in this world, but this is
an actual loss.
That the Rasool
said that every important
matter, every important affair, anything that has any
value or worth, that doesn't begin with the
and
there's another
which mentions,
a similar I'm not gonna say it's the
same same hadith. I'm not a 100% sure,
but there's a of similar wording. Maybe another
a separate utterance of the messenger of Allah
That every matter of importance that doesn't begin
with the hamdu of Allah Ta'ala, the praise
of Allah Ta'ala. For
means what?
For the listeners at home, I pulled my
hand in the sleeve,
you know, to mimic somebody who's, like, amputated.
They had their hand amputated.
What does mean? It means, like, it's a
person, and it's there, but there's the isn't
there. Like, the person is gonna have hard
time, harder time
doing what they're gonna do. Ableist propaganda
or a metaphor? I'll let you guys decide.
But the point is is what?
The point is is that
this
sense that people have brought into their hearts,
That
you're the
you're the ones who are supposed to start
your talk in front of
an auditorium full of cafes with
This is why the way Abdullah
this is why the in Jummah starts
with
Right? It's the first word. Right?
The first expression, at least.
That you were supposed to start in front
of in front of kafirs. You were supposed
to start your speech
with so that they can also ask, well,
who is Allah? What is Allah? Who is
this prophet
But we're, like, 100% in, like, taqiyah mode.
Right? That's has to do with dawah. Dua
is it's a it's own kind of, like,
issue that should be talked about, but we
don't have time to talk about it right
now.
But that's not even the main issue. What's
the main issue here? Is that the messenger
of Allah mentioned
that anything that didn't start with the praise
of Allah Ta'ala,
not just. It shouldn't just be lip service.
A person praises the lord before they start
doing anything. What is it? It's it's it's
it's cut off. It's cut off from its
it's
amputated.
These these things are our losses. We don't
we don't talk this way with one another.
We don't talk this way to each other.
We don't, you know, have meetings this way.
If somebody does this, like, a little bit
too sincerely,
this guy is, like, you know, being impractical
now. Let's talk practical business. Let's talk practical
business. It's okay.
Says,
you know, the people who don't say before
they start stuff,
the people who don't say before they start
stuff, they've been running the ummah for about
a 100 years or so now. How's it
been going? Has it been going like, when
you look at it compared to the rest
of the history of the Ummah,
you tell me, you know, you decide. Maybe
I'm biased because I have like a medieval
education and I dress like I'm an extra
from Star Wars or whatever.
It's narrated from him that the messenger of
Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said.
When
the child of the slave dies,
Allah, most high, says to his angels,
did you take,
the child of my slave?
And then they say, yes.
And he then says, did you take the
fruit of his heart?
And then they say, yes.
And then he says,
what did my say, afterward, what did my
slave say? So the angels, they say, he
praised you.
And
he said that, verily, we belong to Allah
and verily to him shall we return.
And so Allah Most High says, build for
my slave a house in Jannah
and call it the Beit al Hamd, the
house of praise.
This is a beautiful hadith.
This
is from the types of mother the many
types of mother that Allah
gave to this Ummah,
that he didn't have to give.
And these are from those things that a
person's
their noses of the lord is built.
Life is rough. Life is hard. You know,
anyone tells you it's gonna be okay, obviously,
doesn't really
know how life goes,
doesn't read the newspaper.
Life is difficult. All sorts of weird things
will happen.
And it seems, actually, they happen to pious
people, and they happen to impious people. Seems
to maybe that they happen to pious people
a little more sometimes
than other people. But at any rate, we
can't detect anything, like, statistically. Just stuff happens
to people.
And there are a lot of people who
do everything right.
They,
lose weight, feel great, exercise, get cardio, resistance
training,
low cholesterol, low blood sugar, no high fructose
corn syrup, study hard, get good grades, get
into a good college, work a job, you
know, model citizen, make sure to vote.
Everything that a person
tells you that you have to do in
order to be a good person, whether they
be Muslim or, non Muslim, whether they be
religious or irreligious, whatever, whoever, whatever it is.
And still,
it doesn't pan
out. And there are many people, on the
other hand,
that actually make really poor choices with their
life and they still seem to be enjoying
themselves.
And,
this life is like that.
The life is like that. It's like the
ocean. It's, like, filled with, like, all kinds
of different things.
It all from 1 from 1 from from
1,
vantage point, it looks like the water. It's
all the same, but it's filled with all
kind of weird things. You go to different
sides, you'll find all kind of weird and
different things in it.
And,
what a person needs to hold on to
in order to get through that
and get to where their,
destination is,
is that a person needs to know Allah
and needs to be traveling toward
Allah whatever path that they go through from
those
very different paths and those very different sets
of circumstances. So there's an adab of how
to
be happy, there's an adab of how to
be sad, there's an adab of how to
be wealthy, there's an adab of how to
be broke, there's an adab of how to
be pious, there's an adab of how to
be a sinner.
Most people have lost that.
The drunks in the Muslim world are very
pious drunks.
Doesn't mean drinking
look, Sufis, look at these guys busted. Right?
He's saying pious drunks. Right? Drinking is still
Right?
But there's an adab of like how to
be
a drunkard.
If you want to learn, go
see the drunkards in the Muslim world.
There are many people, they won't drink until
after Isha, because so they don't miss their
prayers.
And you will never catch them. Even in
their drunkenness, you'll never catch them uttering blasphemy.
They may say a lot of other stupid
things and smell horrible,
but you will not catch catch them uttering
blasphemy. They'll still make an effort to make
it to Jannah, they'll still make an effort
to make it to the Eid prayer. They
still, you know, okay, you're an alcoholic, but
it doesn't mean that Allah and his messengers
don't exist.
And they also have this understanding inside of
their heart that Allah for him to, like,
forgive every sin. It's not a big deal.
Like he's it doesn't bother him. They have
this, like, that's how how you do that.
Right?
You mitigate,
and you,
reduce as much as you can, and you
handle, you cope with it. Everyone has a
path of, like, what there's you know,
they have an ethic that gives them an
idea of what they're supposed to do, how
they're supposed to get through this path. So
this hadith is describes one of the most
horrible things that could happen to a person,
which is what their child dies.
We have children
ourselves
How horrible would protect them all. They're gonna
think it's corny, but would, like, be very
devastating to to me if anything happened to
them. Forget about, like, losing them, like, even
if anything small happened to them. Right? But
look at this this hadith, that it's gonna
happen. Allah is Allah.
Right? He's the one who's he's the one
He he completely trashed he trashed the the
mood 100%.
And then afterward,
and he doesn't there's nobody he has to
be afraid of if someone's gonna come and,
like, get revenge from him. You know? Someone's
gonna hit him back or whatever. No. It's
it's over. It's done. That's it.
And that's that's who Allah is in terms
of being, you know, from his names, we
know this being the
the one who takes vengeance and the and,
you know, being the one who's, like, overwhelming
over, you know,
he's the one who
has his
torment is severe.
These names are mentioned in the Quran
and people taste the manifestations
of of of these attributes of the lord
in this world.
And there's no way around them. There's no
way away from them
either. The only thing that we can do
is what we can understand is that that
Rasool
gave us this
consolation, and he gave us this kind of
small piece of information that will help us
get through this, which is what as long
as you're a person of imam, that's not
what's happening to you.
This is not Spike.
Do you understand what I'm saying? This is
not this is not Spike. Because people so
often times ask me, like,
Mohammad Saab, how can I tell if, you
know, Allah Ta'ala, it might you know, I'm
going through a hardship, and it's a sign
that Allah Ta'ala hates me, or if it's
a sign that I'm just being tested,
or if it's a sign that he's increasing
my rank?
First of all,
from
point of view,
we should have people that come and say,
look, I just made, like,
$100,000,000.
How do you know Allah is not testing
me or this is not a sign that
he hates me that, you know but we
don't really have many people come and ask
these questions, actually.
I'm sure it exists, but it's not really
a whole lot of people.
That's an interesting observation about human nature. It's
neither here nor there. So let's go back
to the original question.
The answer to the question is my look.
I'm the scariest Molana Saab that there is
in this neighborhood.
Literally, I've had several people tell me that
they show their children pictures of me and
threaten them.
That if you don't
read your Maktab lesson or do your sabak
for hifs or your, I'm gonna call him
and tell him, and he's gonna be very
angry. And the kids, apparently, they're like, oh,
dang.
We better do this thing right now.
Right?
I don't know why. I feel like I'm
personally a very lovable person. But
I've been told on numerous occasions that this
is actually a thing.
However, even I will tell you what?
Even I will tell you that
Allah
the idea that a person is even asking
this question
already rules out
the possibility that this is some sort of,
like, trap to set you up.
It is an obligation for a person never
to feel aman from the Makkah of Allah
Ta'ala.
Never to feel like I'm so set that
I can never fall into the trap of
my own nafs and Allah Ta'ala sets me
up and gets me.
However, the fact that that even comes up
in your mind to worry about means that
you fear Allah
The fact that a person is even asking
means that you fear Allah
Rasoolallah said in a hadith it's a hadith
qudsi that Allah says
that I am as my slave thinks of
me. So let him think of me whatever
he wishes.
So if you're gonna be, you know, have
this kind of, like,
rabbinic level torment burden that you carry with
you that somehow god's out to get me
or whatever?
Or maybe he is. I don't know. Why
would you think that? But if you understand
who Allah to Allah is, you understand that
like, you know, we're like, we're too insignificant
to make his to do list. Like, it's
not like that. Like, you and me are
not gonna be like, oh, look. I have
Allah's beef with me. Like, you're not that
important. Really, we're not that important.
The whole idea is what? Is that from
the beginning, you should know
already that the fact that you have imam,
the fact that you think about this, the
fact that you, you know, it hurts you
inside that you would
disappoint Allah
and that makes you feel like not a
good person. This is this is a sign
that this is not like you're not, you
know, being punished for something in that sense.
Right?
The worst that's happening, you did a sin,
and you're receiving some sort of reminder that
you should probably not go down that path
that's not good for you or whatever.
And
Maastricht Mohan, he used to say this. He
said that the worst is what? In the
first moment of a person's torment and calamity,
all of the expeation, the kafara for for
the sin is gone in that moment. And
all after that, all of it is just
reward.
That's the worst. And most people are not
even at that at that place.
That's the worst case scenario. The person you
remember, as soon as you remember, that's it.
You've you've fulfilled, like, whatever it is that
you were gonna be punished for for.
And because, look, if Allah really wanted to
punish a person, like, he can, like, make
it hurt real bad.
Protect all of us.
You know what I mean? Like, he can
make it hurt really bad. The things that
we go through are are mostly just of
our own, like,
imagination of how bad they are. What do
I mean by that? I taught Maktab,
a number of times.
This is one of the reasons I have
fun
arguing with people on the Internet or whatever.
Right? I'm like, go teach for 5 years,
and then come talk to me about your
ideas about Islam.
So one of the things that I I
I, learned from is what? After Maktab is
done, I'd have the kids, like, come in
the line and pat them on the head.
Say say you're a good kid.
It surprised me how much kids really needed
that.
Like, how they really coveted that. Like, they
needed to get their pat on the head.
You know, if it was a mech that
where, like, the girls were, like, above the
age of, like, 8 or something like that,
I have my child there in my hand,
and I pat on top of the child
and say, why are you doing this? This
is the adlib of Islam. Don't let any
man who's, like, other than your father or
your brother or whatever, like, touch you like
that. This is the sign of respect that
we show in Islam.
And that's it.
And all the kids will get a pat
on the head of your good kid.
Surprised me how much they needed that. And
the flip side is what? What is the
the the the worst punishment the kid could
get in my dad? I tell them to
roll up their their I show expose their
forearm, and I take 2 fingers and hit
like that. Now how hard can you hit
somebody like that?
Like, really, if you wind up, how hard
can you hit somebody like that?
Not that. Come on, man. Not that hard.
I just started lifting weights, like, in the
last 3 years, man. I'm not gonna hit
that hard.
It's not it's not that hard.
It's not that hard. So you hit them
you hit them you hit them with 2
fingers. It's not that hard.
But they would weep. And then, like, I'd
be like, oh my god. Like, what is
wrong? Like, calm down. It's not that big
of a deal. Like, it was just 2
fingers. Like, you know, like, why you
and
and
and
after talking to the kids, like, when they
would, like, stop crying,
they're just sad that they disappointed you. And
what you interpreted as, like, rebellion or disrespect
or disorderly behavior from them is just like
they're, like, neurologically
undeveloped mind unable to, like, pay attention long
enough or whatever.
But it's not like they actually wanted to
they wanted to, you know, be out of
line or what or something.
Now imagine if a Maktab kid
can have that much Ihtiram and love for
Mo Rizal was teaching them
Right?
Imagine that. Right? What is these are all
archetypes inside of our heart. Because nobody's seen
Allah
before
in that sense. Right?
A dog will respect his master not in
the way the master does, but in the
way that the dog does.
These are our archetypes that we have respect
for Allah
based on these things that we understand or
think about as respect.
That if it occurs to a person, they
feel bad inside
that, like, you know, I let down. He
deserves something better than this from me.
What is that a sign of? It's a
good sign.
Sign you're not on the path, like, the
all of the the description in the Quran,
all the descriptions in the Athar about Allah
to aaz nikma, his spite for people. That's
not about you. Right? You're not like and
also they're like nonsense. You're not that's not
who you are. You're standing in front of
the Kaaba and taking a oath,
that you're, you know, that you that's not
that's not what's going on here. Right? The
problem is what?
Nobody's
explained this is how you traverse this path
before.
So people, when they have that bad feeling
inside,
instead of understanding this is actually a good
thing,
it's a sign we're on the right path,
and this is what we have to do.
Instead of having, like, a reformed ethic and
understanding when this happens, this is what you're
gonna do, how you're gonna deal with it,
how you're gonna get through it. What is
it? I feel bad. I don't, you know,
I don't feel good. So I'm gonna talk
to my, like, half or therapist, and then,
like, again, I'm not against getting therapy. I
really am not. I've seen it do wonders
for people at times.
A bad therapist, I'm against that. But if
you have a good therapist,
I've seen it do wonders for people. But
I'm saying somebody who
this is talking about civilizational failure. Right?
That somebody somebody who neither knows who Allah
is nor his
They're gonna obviously deal with this another way.
This is gonna deal with the same thing
as
they deal with any other mental illness.
But this is not a mental illness. This
is the hack.
Tell me, you know, like, which other 1400
year olds multiethnic, multiracial, multilinguistic
civilization did
another, you know, did schizophrenia build or, like,
bipolar disease build or it's not a mental
illness. That's the point of saying any of
that, not to stigmatize people with those illnesses.
Right? Right? It's not. This is my proof
that it's not it's not what it is.
This even this seemingly most catastrophic of things.
You have to understand this is a necessity
if life is going to be a test.
This is a necessity. Bad things are going
to happen to good people. Bad things not
in a moral sense because Allah is the
one who judges what's good or bad. Bad
things are gonna happen to good people. This
is one of the worst things that could
happen to a person,
almost without exception. And
in
that time, the person who makes the
and istirja.
They said that we belong to Allah to
him when we return.
Look at what the what the outcome of
it is. It's something beautiful. Again, it does
it's not like saying
and
saying makes these things happen. This is Allah
to A'uls father that he made this system.
But the person who's like too embarrassed to
say
when speaking in speaking in front of his
own Muslim brothers, his own her own Muslim
sisters and the gathering of Muslims, do
you think at the time that
is gonna hit them in the face and
they're gonna be like they're gonna feel like
completely numb to the world that they're gonna
them in the face and they're gonna be
like they're gonna feel like completely none to
the world, that they're gonna have the to
say
it? Maybe. Probably not.
Probably not. It'll be harder to say it
at that time, because you're like, my kid
died.
Yeah. Allah protect all of us and all
of our children.
So this is,
you know, this is like there's there's a
lot there's a lot here. There's a lot
here.
Allah give us the bait also without taking
our children away from us as well. But
if he takes them,
everyone's gonna go one day. Right?
Who knows who's the first one who's gonna
go who's gonna be the one who catches
up afterward. And
as long as people pass with iman, that's
what makes this this entire thing happen.
And it's been Malik
who narrates that the messenger of Allah
said,
indeed, Allah is pleased with the slave
that eats,
and eating, like, eats one time
and praises him or drinks one time
and, appraises him,
for it as well.
And this is, you know, obviously, Ramadan
is coming soon,
which is going to be the month of
fasting.
And so the timing is interesting. But you
can do both. Right? Fast, and then when
you eat
afterward,
you can also
say
This is one of the ranks that the
actually mentioned that the person who can you
know, there's some of the that said rank
of the person who can remember to say
when they start and when they're done, when
they eat.
That that some of the, not most of
them, but some of them said that their
rank is higher than the the rank of
the person who's fasting.
Why? Because so many people, they eat and
drink all the time, and they just don't
remember. They don't remember.
Allah
give all of us stuff here.