Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Riyd alSlihn Lies & Propaganda Lead to the Fire Ribt 10222023
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Before we,
start today's reading,
I don't know if you guys know what
Imam Aladdin Bakri. He's on the West Coast.
He does, like he speaks at different events
sometimes. He does fundraisers and things like that.
He sent a a text today
saying that,
all of the Bakr family today,
was killed that lives in Hazza.
The last every last one of them today,
the last one of them was,
killed,
by air raids, and he sent some pictures.
And it's mostly children.
It's mostly children. And,
May Allah
accept the.
Like all those of you who does just
as tragic whoever it is. Right?
But, you know, it kinda gets close to
home when it's somebody, you know, you've met
and things like that. I spoke with him
on a panel at MSA West in Stanford.
So
I think it was, like, in May May
of this year, so it wasn't all that
long ago.
And,
may Allah,
you know, have have mercy on them,
and, may
Allah not leave their
blood unavenged in this world or in the
hereafter.
The talk of vengeance is not, usually
the,
you know, it's not usually the
the talk of majalis like this,
but, you know, it becomes an issue at
some point or another when,
human life
becomes so devalued
and so abased.
And, it becomes
so nothing
at that point.
To treat it as something of value is,
you know, it's necessary to restore
balance to people's minds.
And, you know, we're
reading in the news and the mainstream media
and hearing from our politicians day day in
and day out.
You know, the sob story about somebody's dog
got, like, you know,
startled or
whatever,
by Hamas or by some Palestinians or something
like that. And it's just one one thing
after the other after the other.
And,
you know, I don't know how many times
we can say it that killing innocent people
is wrong, whether
a Muslim does it or whether,
Israeli does it or whether whoever does it
does it.
But, at the end of the day,
that's
all, you know, when you look at it
in a total context.
That's not what it was about from the
other side, in the first place.
Rather, we see people who are openly warmongering
and people who are openly,
disrespecting just the human life,
of the people of Gaza,
and they're making a mockery out of it.
And,
whoever,
stands up and opposes that mockery,
that person is blessed and the beloved of
God.
And whoever speaks out against that mockery,
is the beloved of God. And whoever hates
that mockery is the beloved of God, and
whoever accepts it as this part of life.
You know, we fear for such a person
of bad end in this world and in
the hereafter.
When we say bad end, they may live
a full life until,
you know, until they die of old age
surrounded by things.
But, it's still a bad end. And on
the day of judgment,
Allah
he doesn't forget anything.
And he has the right to take people
to account. And whoever he takes to account,
it's not going to be a good day
for them.
This is the chapter regarding the
prohibition
of
lying,
And these 2
were
previously
repeated
because we're talking about prohibitions of the tongue
that Allah
says don't follow that thing you don't have
knowledge of
because indeed
the hearing
and the visions and, the heart, all of
them
will be responsible. They'll be asked on the
day of judgment. You'll have to be bear
responsibility
for
for for them.
And Allah most high said in his book
that a human being doesn't
cast out,
any utterance
except for there is,
right with him an angel who watches vigilantly
over him and writes everything
down. And so
the of
is important when it comes to kadib.
Says don't follow the thing that you have
no knowledge of
when talking about the
prohibition of lying.
That
lying is what? It's to tell someone, inform
somebody about something,
some information which is not conformant to what
that thing's reality is.
And so this includes something that I think
a lot of us don't think about because
oftentimes we think about it lying as
saying something intentionally that you
know to be incorrect. But this definition has
a particular subtlety that's different, which is what?
It's saying something
saying something about about something that is
not conformant to its reality.
So in that sense, lying here includes what?
It includes saying something that's wrong whether you
knew it or not.
And so this is one of the differences
between the way we think about lying and
the way that the the,
Aslaf
whom considered lying, that they considered saying something
that you're not a 100% true for sure
about,
to also be included within the list of
what's a lie.
If that subtlety wasn't there,
the
science of hadith would not have been able
to be what it is.
And to be honest with you, if people
didn't have that that sensibility about
them, then, you know, human civilization would not
be productively
possible.
When we say productively possible, what do we
mean?
It's difficult for me to say. Right?
You have the
the history in front of you.
We have a whole
part of this country, which is in pain
right now because the economy sucks. Why couldn't
it be like in the 19 fifties where
people had, you know, wage labor jobs and,
you know, they could afford buying houses and
they could afford buying cars and they could
afford this and it could. It's because black
people weren't allowed to drink from the same
water fountain. It's because all the stuff that
they lived on was built by slave labor.
Why is England no longer what it was?
Because you didn't smash and grab the like,
all the civilizations of the world and, like,
loot with both hands.
Right? Why is Spain and Portugal not the
way it used to be? It's because you
didn't, like, take the, like, largest kidnap somebody
and take the largest
ransom in the history of the world and
still kill the dude afterward.
Atahualpa,
the king of the, of the Incas,
they took the largest,
ransom ever in the history of mankind. It
was paid in silver, and they still killed
him afterward.
That's why it's not a proper society. It's
not a true society.
This is an issue. Everybody's gonna be pissed
off about the economy not being correct. Why?
It's because there's, like, more people who share
the wealth now. And so, like, a few
people don't have it concentrated in their hands
as much anymore. It's a problem.
It's a problem all over the world. It's
a problem all over the world. That's a
system. It's not gonna last. It doesn't survive.
It's all fake. If you want to actually
get along and live proper
in this world, you have to do it
a different way.
And so,
that that different way, it's not possible. It's
not possible when people,
are not honest with one another in what
they do and what they say to a
degree that's perhaps higher than what it is
right now.
I saw, you know, there's some ironically, an
Indian,
some commentator.
I don't wanna name his name, but he's
a relatively
influential person on social media.
Some commentator about, like, lamenting how
America has, like, broken down into pieces. And
they're like, we used to have philosophy
in America. Now it seems like every intellectual
critique just comes down to, like, people,
you know,
calling so racist.
And I'm like, did you ever say I
agree. It's actually a problem. It is a
problem.
Intellectually, this age is not the most robust
that,
quote unquote, Western civilization has put forth. Right?
But there's also another issue is that people
have been, like, really racist. Right? So you
can't just discount that from the calculus either.
So, it's not all one way or, not
all the other. But the point is is
this is that, like, you know, if you're
not ready to be honest with yourselves about
things, if you're not ready to be you're
never gonna move honest with yourselves about things,
if you're not ready to be you're never
gonna move forward. You're never gonna move forward
as a Muslim. You're never gonna move forward
as an American. You're never gonna move forward
as whatever it is that you are. That
sting and that pain of being able to
look at yourself
and see something that's wrong is wrong, That's
very necessary.
And, masha'Allah, it's very necessary also as a
Muslim. And if you don't have that, you
know, you end up being
you end up being like a hypocrite, and
it's not good.
But if you can learn to understand that
that sting, that pain, you know, to be
able to, you know, come to terms with
it is
a necessary medicine in order to grow as
a person, in order to be better. Because
nobody's gonna be perfect off the bat. There's
some people who, you know, they act like,
oh, look. You know, I'm a Muslim. I
must be perfect. I'm Arab. I must be
I'm Pakistani. I must be perfect or whatever.
Some stupid like, they have these attitudes that
they have about them.
And, I can do no wrong because of,
because of any of these things. And they
actually
use those things as a shield to avoid
that feeling in order
to not be introspective and to not see
what their weaknesses are and to not shore
them up and not to make amends for,
like, things that they're doing that are harmful
to others and they're harmful to them. The
outward reality,
of everything that is harmful to another, the
inward reality of it is what? Is that
it's harming you.
It's harming you in this world and in
the here, on both sides, harming you both
in both sides,
and it's making you ugly inside out. You
don't believe me? Go see the people who
harm others in this world and see, like,
are they, like,
nice people who are, like, you know, somebody
that, you know, you might find them physically
attractive or you may find some particular, like,
stupid pet trick that they can do,
you know, or some imaginary zeros that they
have in their account somewhere to be impressive.
But as a human being overall, they're not
really they're not really nice people.
And, whatever seems nice about them is all.
It's like
skin disease on a camel that somebody shaved
fur off of another one and put tar
on that diseased patch and then put the
fur on top of it so that from
afar, it looks like the camel is healthy.
But when you come closer, you see it's
just infested with mange, and it has problems.
And Allah
protect all of us.
It's very
You know? People are like, well, I'm not
gonna come to a Darsul of Hadith
or and I already know that, which you
don't.
And they're gonna say, well, it's not relevant.
We have all these other problems. It's like
the Bab was written literally for this week.
Every time. Every single time, it's like it
was written for this week.
That the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam said,
indeed,
siddiq.
Siddiq is not just honesty, but being true,
Being true to yourself.
Whatever you have inside being true.
Indeed,
will guide a person toward.
Is oftentimes,
defined as piety.
The,
you know, the sharia
of Ibn Allan,
he mentions with regards to Bir.
He says,
obedience.
And its
foundational meaning is
to be generous in every good
behavior.
And it is, that that, that, that, that,
attribute
within which all good things are
are are gathered,
are put together.
But what's the first
what's the first definition he mentioned is what?
Obedience.
And piety, both of them, they mean something
very similar. I feel like the word piety,
even in English, people
kind of
miss what the actual meaning of it is,
which is what fulfilling people's rights.
That's the foundation. It's more than that, but
it's fulfilling people's rights. Right? Filial piety is
being fulfilling the rights of your parents.
Piety is what? Bir is what? It's
fulfilling other people's rights.
Right?
The the the Hajj that's the the the
recompense
is fulfilled. It's like paid back in full,
that the person did Hajj and then Allah
gives the reward of it back in full.
There's no,
there's no recompense for it except for what?
Except for Jannah. Right? So there there's this
idea that the the the person who is
honest, that person will fulfill will fulfill other
people's rights and and do good by other
people as they should be, as as good
should be done by them.
And,
that attribute of birr, of piety,
will pull a person to jannah, and a
person will keep being true. It's again, it's
not just saying the truth.
Because there are lawyers who know how to
make sure that nothing they say is a
lie,
but the sympathy is not there.
Sent that is not their,
their condition.
Right? One of the one of the one
of the
most beautiful attributes a person can have is
what's said
the highest rank of
the highest rank of is what? Is that
a person should be siddiq, and the archetype
for that is who?
It's the muraqabah of Mujadil Alfani
that the
the end of being of the of the
of the of
is what? It's it stops right where begins.
That such a person who reaches
this, that person the only difference between them
and the is what? Is that the
received the wahi and then their kept going
where is that person's stock? If the if
the it doesn't mean that they're it doesn't
mean they're at the rank of a Nabi,
but what does it mean? It means that
if the wahi was to be given to
them, they would have been able to discharge
it.
And this is the of whom have a
number of hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. Why would he say
Meaning what? And this is also indication that
said who also reached the but
after Abu Bakr
He reached it later, and he didn't go
he didn't go as far with it as
saying Abu Bakr who
did.
But our, they told us it's like what?
It's like like a judge.
Maybe in a city, there are several lawyers
who are competent enough and learned enough in
the law in order to be a judge,
but you're not a judge until you actually
receive the Munson.
And then in it, there's, like, a whole
another world opens up that a person who's
not, you know, on the bench is not
going to be privy to or not gonna
understand.
But the idea is this is that what
it's
as a it's a big deal. It's a
very big deal. So
we were talking about, you know, last week
about weird, like, bizarre, like, imperial court culture
and people. You know? They think that they're
tallak. You know? They think that they're clever.
And what their cleverness is what? It's all
deceptive.
They think deception is clever. And what did
what did what did say? He said that
he said that, like, let's go let's go
first to the grave
with a with a iman that's, like, unbroken.
And then afterward, then we can give each
other and we can complement each other that
look how how strong I was, and look
how fit I was, and look how how
how
how clever I was. That's what the actual
cleverness is.
Otherwise,
the,
person who thinks that lying, cheating, deception, not
being real,
not being not being true is, cleverness.
That person is from every good. And,
this is who who our forefathers were, and
this is what,
our civilization was built on. And as soon
as people started seeing,
intelligence as being something other than this, you
see all of it descends into chaos.
And the Rasulullah who said it very clearly.
Right? What will happen?
If if being real and being true to
others is what
pushes a person to fulfill everybody's right,
then a decrease in is going to do
what? A decrease in is gonna do what?
Is going to then
complementarily
decrease a person's,
ability to fulfill the rights of others, society
will necessarily break down. And this is very
interesting. Muslims are not the only people by
a long shot that that honor,
being true
and honor, telling truth.
It was a cardinal virtue amongst the Persians
actually in before Islam,
even in Jahilia.
That, in even Zoroastrian,
even in Zoroastrian,
culture,
being a liar was considered the worst of
things. You may as well just die at
that point.
Joan Murdy. We call it Joan Murdy. Yeah.
Yeah. It's part of a part a part
of a person's manliness and it's the cardinal
virtue of of manliness. It's not something that's
it's not something that's,
it's not something that's that's unique to Muslims.
And on on the flip side, right, what
do we call what you know, we have
a word for somebody who is just lying
about deen who call him in in in
Arabic, we call him Zindik. Right? Who's Zindik?
A zindig is a person who
will reshape the din for everything that's convenient
for them.
So
if you look in the books of Fiph,
obviously, none of us is the sultan, so
this is all a theoretical,
discussion.
But in the books of Shiph,
apostasy is a capital offense.
According to the Hanafis, by Had, according to
the Malikis, by the Ijtihad of the Adi
or the sultan. But if a person within
the sovereign Muslim polity,
renegades and leaves Islam,
within the Muslim lands,
that person that person isn't subject to what?
They're subject to,
capital punishment.
A normal apostate, however,
is given,
is given by recommendation
by,
3 days to repent.
Think about this. Is this really what you
believe?
Is this really what you believe? Is this
really what you wanna do?
Or is there some,
incentive here?
And most people are like that. Very few
people actually care for the truth that much
that they they would be willing to sacrifice
for it. Most people, their con connection with
what they what what they consider a dean
of theirs has to do with, like, you
know, which, owner is gonna give them the
dog food, you know, the Purina Chow today.
And, that's why they live and they act
like dogs.
Whereas a person who truly believes in something,
right, that person, according to their own conception,
if they're willing to be a martyr for
it, then, well, maybe they really do believe
in it. You know?
But most people are not like that. And
so
the the
of the,
of the is
recommended that you give them some time to
think about it.
Whereas the there's
no
at all. The person is killed. Why? Because
even if they say, well, I I,
I repent
and, whatever. What is it?
It just gives them another day to lie
and cheat again.
Right? So who's this indeed? Because the person
who, like, every day, they believe something different
they don't have any, like, actual beliefs. They
believe something different every day based on what's
convenient for
them. Doesn't it's not an actual belief. Right?
I I can think there are people in
this world. I was far fetched as it
is for a Muslim to even conceive of
this, that maybe there is someone in this
world that believes in multiple gods, 3 gods,
or whatever. There is somebody in this world
that believes somehow or another,
you know, whatever. Like, when you die,
you know, you get reincarnated and all this
other stuff.
It could be a sincerely held and incorrect
belief.
But, the zindig is somebody who just makes
a mockery out of this entire thing. They
don't believe in anything. In fact, they can't
believe in anything. In fact, they don't. They're
opposed to believing in anything.
They reduced what the the aqul Allah gave
them
and the heart that Allah gave them and
the speech that Allah gave them and the
superiority over all the other creation Allah gave
them
into into a joke.
They've destroyed some part of their humanity. What
I wanted to mention is that the word
is,
almost certainly of Persian origin.
It's almost certainly of Persian origin, and, the
the harsh attitude toward it probably comes
also from the best of that civilization. And
you see that that Persianate civilization, pre Islamic
civilization, there's a lot of in it. Actually,
the best of those people accepted Islam, and
they did a great of
of the deen starting from who
was starting from people like, through
imam al ghazali, and through the later ages
as well. But then there are some also
weird
a lot of really weird stuff that comes
out of, like, you know, weird mountain
cult
nonsense that's also seems to be,
have made a comeback somewhere along the way
in Muslim history as well. And, that's also
very problematic. And what's the foundational
what's the foundational, like, thing of of of
all of those groups that they have in
common? Is they consider it to be,
act of piety to lie to everybody for,
like, any convenience whatsoever, whether it's religious or
or worldly.
And the thing is you can't deal with
such people. You really cannot deal with such
people. When they consider it an act of
piety to lie, you really can't deal with
such people. The Mujadidun mentioned that. Right? Bukhari
will narrate from somebody who has a incorrect
belief. So somebody who believes, for example, let's
say,
Ali who should have been Khalifa, not Abu
Bakr,
that person that doesn't disqualify them for for
from from from narrating. Right? Muhari as opposed
to Malik. Malik considers somebody whose is wrong.
You don't narrate from them. But he had
a much stricter
much stricter
standard than the other
did. Said that that part is not the
part that qualifies you from being a valid
narrator. What disqualifies you is do you believe
that lying is an act of piety, lying
about deen is an act of piety or
not?
And if you do,
you know, a person really shouldn't even learn
from
them.
And interestingly enough, ironically enough, like the Akbari
cult, which was by and large
eradicated from the, Persian speaking lands,
during the Safavid time,
because of the inability to, like, like, make
any reason or them. But they still somehow
or another seems to have,
survived in the, Indian subcontinent,
which is why you have such extreme weirdos
that come out of, come out of those
places.
That they there are amongst them those people
who literally their fatwa is what? The fatwa
is that you have to pray
you have to pray only with
every rakat has to be
Why? Because the companions basically messed up all
the rest of the Quran.
Which is that if you're yourself a liar,
then what happens? Right? You project that on
on the world around you,
and this is what you end up with,
and, this is what you end up with.
And it none of it makes any sense
from any side,
whatsoever. And there's a kind of a light,
Milan toward this. There's a type of a
light,
and soft
sympathy for this type of reasoning that you'll
find even in people who don't have such
an extreme position of of that group.
And if you read their primary sources
in any depth, you'll see that that they
actually have suspicions about every and
Quran being changed this way or the other
to comical to comical,
levels. If I mentioned some of them, you
guys would laugh. But don't believe me. Don't
take my word for it. Go, go take
a look at the books yourself. Go look
at the.
If there's not,
filled in every jield of that book,
then, my name isn't Hamza Makbul Chaudhry.
May who knows? Maybe he doesn't. I don't
know. You you guys decide for yourself.
So that's that's that's, that's
how society works. And is Islam you know,
do people seem to be enjoying Islam, in
those lands? It doesn't seem like it. It
seems like people are more or less sick
of it. And it's very funny. I've met
people who have traveled to, like, Iran for
that matter. Right?
And they say, if you tell people, like
ask people, like, who are demonstrating us hijab
and demonstrating us, you know, like, I don't
wanna this and I don't wanna party and
I wanna drink and I wanna this, that,
and the other. If you ask them, do
you hate Islam? They won't. Most of them
don't say yes.
They won't say I hate Allah. I hate
the Quran. I hate the prophet
but what is it? It's the entire
bureaucracy of lying.
That's that's what they hate.
And there are some weird and bizarre lurid
details have been well documented about how this
current government
works with that as well. This is not
the time or place for it,
but, we can you know you know, you
can you can look into it yourself. But
lying is not a it's not it doesn't
work.
The prophet
said what? He said what?
Right? That that person will keep being true
until he's written with Allah as being,
a
true faced one.
A person is of true faith. Of course,
you can believe that or you can say,
you know, even Masrud, you know, he, betrayed
the prophet
lied and said that, Abu Bakr should be
Khalifa instead of Ali or whatever, so we
don't narrate for. So that's another, I guess,
alternate theory that a person can roll with
if they if they really want to.
But ironically ironically,
the person who belies the one telling the
truth for saying you should tell the truth
by accepting the liar,
who says you should lie as being the
one who tells the truth. It you know,
there are some people who I guess, you
know, they their the 5 g is giving
them corona and the
you know, that mindset I can't do anything
about. You can talk to
talk to, you know,
employees of the Faleel Center about that inshallah.
This is what
that lying will
push a person toward.
Whereas,
it's that a person should be
crooked bent toward what? Toward mischief.
Why? Because you get away with stuff by
lying about it.
You have an unfair advantage over people by
lying when they assume that you're telling the
truth. If everyone assumed everyone was lying, there'd
be no need for language anymore, would there?
So the fact that you're talking to someone
means that there is some sort of underlying
assumption that, like, people are gonna tell the
truth. So it's an unfair advantage. It just
ruins everything,
and it pushes society. I mean, a person
it's not shouldn't be difficult for a person
to understand why society is better for for
having speech, for people being able to talk
to one another.
That,
lying
pulls a person toward
and pulls a person toward the hellfire.
And a person will keep lying, will keep
lying, keep lying until what that person
is,
with Allah
considered to be a kazab, an ignorant liar,
a person who everything they say is just
a lie.
And it's a hadith narrated by both Bukhari
and Muslim.
Someone have a pencil or pen I can
borrow some mistake in the print here.
He
married to the prophet
said that there are 4 qualities.
If all 4 are found in a person,
that person is a complete pure.
Person has no faith whatsoever. He's just making
a mockery of faith.
He said that for if they're in in
that in that person, that person is a
complete.
If the person,
has one of these qualities, then that person
has a quality of inside of them. If
they're partial
monofic. They have a quality of inside of
them until they abandon such a,
such an evil trait.
And so,
the first one is if the person is
trusted with something,
they betray the trust. They're treacherous and they
betray the trust that they're,
given.
And if they speak,
what their speech is is a lie.
And if they,
promise you something,
they will not fulfill the promise.
And if they,
have a
they get into,
a an argument with somebody, their argument exceeds,
any reasonable boundary.
And one of the interpretations of that is
that they'll start to swear
both,
that are incorrect,
and they will start to make accusations that
are also
likewise incorrect.
Again,
you see the current, situation that the the
Muslims are going through right now,
in particular with the idea of this,
media war, the whole Hasbro campaign
that,
that the Israeli intelligence is running against,
not just Palestine, against the entire Muslim world
because they decided
decades ago that somehow or another enemies the
Muslims are their enemies,
and that that they are going to have
to weaken and take out Muslims wherever they
are. This is one of the reasons that,
our own intelligence confirms the fact that they
later on found out that Netanyahu was,
after 9:11
knew that,
Iraq had nothing to do with it and
that they didn't have weapons of mass destruction,
but they kept feeding us,
you know, basically intelligence summaries and reports that
have hard evidence,
to the contrary.
Why? Because any strong Muslim country in their
presence,
they felt would be their enemy.
Now you see all of this kind of
nonsense,
all this nonsense
propaganda being put out where people just lie
about stuff. There's a 40 beheaded babies. There's
all these kind of weird
AI images
where, people's, like, hands are crooked and, like,
you know, their faces. If you zoom in,
you see their malformed and, like, all of
this type of nonsense. Just lying about all
sorts of things.
And the thing is this is that
and I need us to understand this as
Muslims.
The antidote to lying is not more lying.
The antidote to lying is what? The truth.
It's sin.
So anybody who's gonna sit down and, like,
fabricate and by and large, it it's not
happening all that much, but it does happen
from time to time.
Anyone who's gonna sit and fabricate something to
throw back at their enemies when their cause
is just,
They undermine
the fact that their cause is just.
And, this is one of the reasons I
I one of the reason I have so
much respect for,
our,
Dagestani,
brothers who
seem to have mopped the floor yesterday,
in the UFC. Even though if you were
to ask me what the Fatwa in the
UFC is, Haram to hit people in the
face. You're gonna have even himself. People would,
you know,
you know, look, you know, say praise him.
He said, I'm not a role model. The
prophet is a role model.
He would actually say you're not supposed to
hit people in the face.
I'm not a role model. The prophet
is a role model. But they're in their
work, whatever work they
do, just like someone who, like, has a
laundromat, washes clothes. This is these guys' work.
They do it well.
Whether it's good or bad, whether you wanna
do it, you don't, whether, you know, whatever
you have to say about it, shut on,
or any other way of shape or form.
That you see,
in their moment of glory.
Islam,
he not the guy he knocked out is
a tough guy, man. He's, like, not a
a small dude. He's these some of these
guys are scary fighters.
He,
knocked the guy out cold in 2 minutes
when they took his,
interview.
It's still adrenaline is going through his
veins. He's still out of breath. He's still
sweating.
And they announced him as the winners, the
moment of, like, ultimate glory.
After so much crap has talked about this
fight and all so much smack has talked
about the fight, in that moment, what did
he say?
He he said, Alhamdulillah, and he remembered the
people of Palestine.
Hamza, true to Hamza form.
The man is a bit turbulent compared to
his other Dagestani,
colleagues.
He's the one who cusses a little bit
more. He's the one who sometimes in his
temper and his anger shows, like, a little
bit less than that, like, gold standard that
their Sheikh Habib,
set for them.
Right?
Even he in an interview in an interview,
you know, even he in an interview, a
woman is asking him, you know, like, oh,
we saw a human side of you. Because
he said something about Palestine. It's actually very
powerful words.
He said that I wasn't, you know, born
to, like, fight an octagon in shorts. He
goes, if I had a way of going
and helping my brothers and sisters, well, I'd
be there. And I don't care if I
die, but I I'm not afraid of dying,
but I'm afraid for them.
Afterward, a woman was interviewing him,
and still, like, you know, adrenaline, all of
this stuff. And she's like, oh, you know,
you showed your human side. You're just, like,
this tough animal in the ring. You know?
And none of these guys ever talked this
this talk. Right?
But, like, you know, all their all their
opponents, you own the animal beast, I'm gonna
rip you apart. I'm gonna kill you and
make your kids into, like,
you know, into orphans. I'm gonna this. I'm
gonna that. So you were animal in the
ring. You showed your human side. You know?
And he's like, yeah. He goes, it's hard.
You know? Flipping through Instagrams
and and seeing, like, the bodies of children
of kids. He goes, it's hard. And she's
like, yeah. But, you know, coming back to
the ring, you're a real beast. You're a
real animal. You ripped them apart and this
and that and the other thing. You know?
Like, completely clueless and callous. Like, completely, like,
no
no
understanding what just happened.
And he tried answering your question, and he's
like, you know what?
I you know, it's I can't I can't
talk. I have to go.
Why?
People will see that. And who's gonna see
that? Not people who are like,
your non Muslim
person you know who, like,
knows some Arabic or who studied Islam or
who even cares about any of these things.
Right? But regular people, mechanics, and, you know,
like,
just regular, you know, like, plumbers
and carpenters and, you know, just regular folks.
And they're not gonna know anything about the
details about what happened. They're just gonna know
that these guys reached
some pinnacle of fame
and of,
wealth and of popularity
that makes a person what? It's like it's.
Right? The prophet described
described the type of level of wealth a
person gets to, that it makes that person
a complete, like, profligate. You should because you
don't need to care about anybody anymore. You
flip the bird to everybody you've ever known,
and it's not gonna harm you anymore.
So at that time, a person only does
what they really wanna do. They only say
what they really wanna say. And so that
person
showed said in their entire journey to that
point. And in that moment, they're like, yeah.
It's not right. Kids are dying.
It cuts through so much cuts through so
much propaganda cuts through so much propaganda.
And a person's you know, a person is
what who thinks that the antidote of lying
is more lying.
That person is as if they themselves, they
have
a weakness in the faith in what the
message that the messenger of Allah salallahu alayhi
wasallam came
with is. And, like, there are exceptions. Literally,
the next chapter in this in this, in
this this book is the exception to the
rule. There's sometimes that are. It's allowed to
lie.
But they're very particular they're very particular exceptions.
The rule is what?
Right? You don't know anything about the rule
by the exception. You know the exception by
doing the rule, but not the other way
around. The rule is what? Is that is
the default state of
of every believer that the prophet himself,
he was I mean,
nobody could, like, say anything about that.
Even his enemies when he went to one
of the reasons he left Sinai
and who behind when he went on the
Hijra was what? It was because even his
enemies used to trust him with stuff because
they can't trust their own relatives.
They can't trust their own friends.
So they so it's like you stayed behind,
give people their stuff back, and then you
can come later.
You come afterward.
It really affects people.
Right? They see the prophet
being mocked when they they they asked you
know, he was asked the question about, you
know, the questions about the the who ruled
the entire world and who this and who
that. And he said, I don't know except
for what's told to me. And they started
mocking him and making fun of him, the
Az Habakkaf and things like that. You know?
And they've mocked him to a point where
people are like, wow, man. If he was
just lying all this time and making he
would have made something up by now because
this level of mockery is, like, really intolerable.
But what is it? It's that the is
what will get you through at the end
of the day. That that that fights, wars,
battles, problems, issues, they don't last only one
day or 2 days.
There is a long term. There's a vision
a person has to have for the future.
Nothing can ever beat Sudhir. Nothing can ever
beat Sudhir.
And on the flip side, think of it.
What does it mean about those people who
everything is just a lie? Everything is just
obscuring. There's, like, an unwillingness to come come
to terms with the truth. Then what do
they do? They lay a trap for themselves
as well.
Because what happens so many people, you know,
you've seen them,
they they they they start peddling the Kool
Aid so much, then they drink it themselves,
and then they themselves, like, start to forget
what reality is. And that's why pride always
goes before the fall.
These people somehow or another think that, like,
you know, we've bought all of these,
politicians, and we've bought all of these media
people,
and we've, you know, convinced all of them,
you know, that somehow or another, we're perfect
and we're invincible and no one can do
or say anything to us.
Well, they don't realize the entire world hates
them now.
The literally, the entire world hates them now.
And it's gonna eat them from every single
side, and it's gonna be a 100% catastrophe.
There are people amongst them themselves who realize
the catastrophe that's coming, but the the the
the the, you know, the main group back
home has drank the Kool Aid so badly
that now they're intoxicated. They're not gonna be
sober again. Possibly, they won't get sober again
in time in order to save themselves.
But, that's I mean, that's an issue. That's
a problem.
That's a really it's a really big deal.
It's a real problem. I don't think you
know? Anyway, I don't wanna talk about politics
too much, but there are a lot of
interesting individuals,
politicians who have passed relatively recently who seem
to have
from both sides of the aisle,
who seem to have have seem to have
difficulty,
like, seeing facts that are so clear in
front of their own eyes, and it's cost
them. And it's costing them right now, and
it will cost us. Forget about elections. Who
cares about elections? You know?
Think about on the day of judgment, a
person is going to have to give a
hisab on that day. It's not gonna be
a good day if you don't if you
don't,
if you don't keep your account straight.
He says that if if he if he's
trusted with something, he betrays the trust.
And if he speaks, it's a lie.
And if he,
makes a covenant, meaning he makes a promise
to somebody, he breaks his promise.
And when he,
argues with somebody, his argument exceeds any sort
of, like, reasonable bounds.
Right way exceeds any reasonable bounds.
So that's it. You know? You threw a
rock at me.
I'm gonna break your arm.
The guy who had that policy, they gave
him a Nobel Prize, by the way.
Nobel Peace Prize. If it was, like, in
physics or chemistry, I'd understand. Right?
That we're gonna eradicate them. They're animals. They're
this. They're that. It's not where where is
the reasonableness in any of that? Where is
the reasonableness in any of that? It completely
boggles the mind. 100% boggles them. Look. I'll
be honest with you.
But what the point of all of this
is is what?
The point of all of this is is
what? Is that, like, you can't
you can't be like, oh, look. Because of
this, let's kill women and children, and let's
do this and slaughter every last one of
them and do this and do that and
do the other thing. Rather at the end
of the day, you have to restrain yourself.
The prophet
looked.
He he he didn't just talk the talk.
He walked the walk. He showed the entire
world as well.
He
was a slave.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, there are people
of his class of society.
His message is there to uplift them. He's
the last person who should have beef with
the prophet
He killed Sayid Al Hamza
who is most beloved of his family.
Right? Abu Talib, you know, he did a
lot for he did, but he didn't believe
in him at the end of the day.
Right?
That's what family is like. Right? So imagine
that you have somebody actually
you actually believe I don't I'm I'm trying
to think right now. Did any of my
uncles ever come to even come to a
of mine, like, once. It might have happened.
Like, I don't know. You know what I
mean?
He actually believed in him. He actually took
the field of battle and said, no. It's
the Haq, I stand with you. That one
that's the one person he had, you know,
and that's it. He
and the prophet, sallallahu alaihi, someone the person
came and gave his shahada, he he forgave
him. And it was so hard for him.
He forgave him though.
So imagine that imagine that Netanyahu
not a popular guy amongst Muslim circles nowadays
to put it mildly.
Right?
Imagine all of these people. If one of
them made sincere toba, what are we gonna
do? We knew a flat in the ground.
No.
It's not what it's not it's really not
what we're here for. It's not what the
prophet
came for. It's not what Allah, you know,
when he
that's not what Allah is, you know, about
ever
from before time existed.
It's not what a lot of is about.
But, you know, you can't you can't do
that. You can't do that. If you see
somebody who has no boundary whatsoever, they're, like,
never able to forgive anything. They're never able
to forget anything. Something's very wrong. Something very
wrong has happened here,
and it needs, it needs some sort of
adjustment.
It needs some sort of adjustment. And this
is in no way, shape, or form intended
to soften a person's resolve against an enemy
who's actively,
actively killing children right now.
This is a completely hypothetical it's a hypothetical
situation, but we should know we should have
those in our heart as well. So on
the day of judgment,
the day that the hearts
are examined,
for what's inside of them. A person should
be able to have an answer to Allah
Did you just fight
because you hated somebody or did you just
fight for vengeance or did you fight for
my
sake? A person should have an answer, you
know. None of us are doing any of
the above. We're sitting here keyboard warriors or
whatever at maximum, most of us are too
scared to do that also. Right? Did you
just yak? Did you just speak because you
wanted to be a big man, or did
you speak actually something for Allah to Allah's
sake?
Did you deploy your your your your ability
to speak your tongue for what? For the
for the sake of
Allah.
He can save us from from from from
fooling ourselves.
Whoever
says and acts like they saw a dream
that they actually didn't see, they lie about
it.
That person,
their punishment is going to be here. You're
in the hellfire burn. And when they ask
to get out, they'll be thrown a a
barley a grain of barley to tie this
into a knot. Once you can tie it
into a knot, you can get out.
And the person who eavesdrops
onto,
other people's,
private conversations,
and they have a feeling that they would
not be happy with them listening in.
That person on the day of judgment, molten
lead will be
poured into their ears.
And the person
who makes images,
meaning what the then have a discussion with
one another about what do they mean. The
Hanafis have a more stringent position. This includes
everything that, would be from animate life,
whether it's a 2 dimensional or 3-dimensional picture.
The Malekis have a more lenient position that
it has to do only with three-dimensional objects
like statues and things like that.
And there are exceptions to that, but that's
the subject of a fit class. It's not
a it's not, you know, what we're talking
about. The idea is that the making of
images is a bad thing in Islam.
And what the specifics about it are, then
you learn them from the.
This is the person who makes a image,
a graven image,
that person will be tortured,
and tormented and be told, breathe a spirit
into this,
image, and they're not going to be able
to breathe a spirit into that image.
And so the the say that the between
between the the first and the third,
which is
to fake about having seen a dream.
It has to do with the hadith of
the prophet
that,
all of the
all of prophethood,
all of it ends with the prophet
The door door for for all of it
is closed except for 1, which is the
true dream,
that is seen by a righteous man,
which is 146th
part of of Nabuwa.
Interestingly enough, Sheikh Amin mentioned, although,
you know, it's mentioned by the, he narrated
at any rate from the that the prophet
in the beginning of Bukhary. Right? The first
6 months, he used to go up into
the into
the
and meditate, and he would see dreams and
visions,
for 6 months. He says that this, you
know,
this hadith of the prophet is one of
his miracles as well. He didn't know how
long he's gonna live.
But he did that for 6 months, and
his was for 23 years. So it's 146th
of. So it works out that way as
well.
But the idea is this is that we
have this idea amongst us that a person
can see a true dream
and that there's something in it. There's some
aid and help from the,
from from from the other side for the
ummah of the prophet
through this.
And so what happens is simple and humble
and
gullible people, when they hear someone saw a
dream, they believe them because they themselves wouldn't
lie, so they would don't imagine that another
person would be lying about something like this.
And so to actually lie about something like
this is it's really bad because you're using
somebody's iman in order to make a fool
out of them.
You know? It would be one thing if
you're like, hey. You know, like, I have
this tip that Bitcoin is gonna make a
lot of money this year.
You know?
You lied about Bitcoin.
When you lie about a dream, you're lying
about Allah.
And that's something that, you know,
the person who listens to you could end
up in Jahannam because of it.
And,
the the the, you know, the thing you're
messing with is not something that you can
handle. The worst case scenario, you lied about
Bitcoin or whatever,
then, you know,
freed afterward can actually at least go ask
people for forgiveness or, you know, pay them
something back or whatever. Right? This is something
you're not gonna you know, you possibly could
not make amends for it neither in this
world nor in the hereafter
because material
rights,
at the end of the day, they get
fulfilled somehow or another.
Whereas a person's iman nuxan and it there's
no way you can ever pay it back.
This is one of the reasons Malik,
one of his opinions about why the person
who's in the, you know, kills another person.
It's written with such emphasis that the person
will go to Jahannam for such a long
time.
As if as if the person won't be
forgiven by it. Because
most people, when they kill one another, they
themselves are not killing like the most righteous
of people who are going straight to Jenna.
They themselves have issues that they're gonna have
to deal with, and so they're not going
to be inclined to forgive another person because
of
that. And so a person should be very
careful, very wary of wary of all of
all of these things.
As a person of who eaves drops, they'll
have molten lead poured into their ears,
and the person who
makes a graven image. Why? Because graven images
are the
the hustle of of of idolatry.
That the person who and their mockery of
the creative
prerogative of the Lord. That a person who
makes graven images,
that person will be asked when they ask
how do we get out. So put a
put a blow spirit into this thing you
made, and once you do then you can
get out. It's meaning you're not getting out
for a very long time.
And
that's the
between the first and the third thing.
We'll read one more hadith
the the
the lie in which there's the most lie,
the the worst of lies,
the
most deceptive of lies
is that a a a man should say
or should
the literal wording is that the man should
make his eyes see the thing that he
didn't see. But, basically, that a man should
say that he saw something that he actually
didn't see himself,
that he actually didn't see himself.
And so this can this includes, again, both
dreams and it, obviously, it includes reality too.
And this is one of the the things
that even Alan mentions about the the the
previous hadith,
with regards to the dream that saying faking
a dream is one thing. It's even worse
than to lie about, like
like, a testimony in court or whatever.
Because those are then things that that
impinge on the lord's right, and they also
impinge on the rights of,
of others, the material rights of others. Here,
it's a more general
it's a more general,
admonition that for a person to say that
I saw this when they didn't really see
it. One thing is hearsay.
I say I heard this, but to say
I saw it, but you didn't really see
it. It's actually one of the really cool
things about, like, Turkic languages.
Anyone anyone here speak any Turkic language?
So they're they're one of the really complex,
very difficult things for people who are non
Turkic speakers to learn is there's a different
form when narrating
something that someone said that you heard yourself,
and there's a different verbal form for when
you
narrate from someone who's a relatively trustworthy source,
but it's a different form than when you
heard it yourself. And there's a different form
for a source that you have some doubt
about.
There are actually 3 different verbal forms.
So in the form itself, it's the same
thing. You're saying essentially the same thing that's
that's that so and so said so and
so. But one is the form
one is the form. The simple form means
that you actually heard it yourself, and then
there's another. The con form is that you
you heard it from a reliable source,
and the image form is like
maybe it maybe he said that. Maybe he
didn't. I don't know.
And so it's it's interesting, you know, like,
and the Turks
seem to have gotten along with Islam really
well, throughout the ages, and they still do,
to this day. May Allah,
strengthen them and increase their numbers, increase their
hoards.
We could use them
We could use them now.
Allah
give all of
us Are there any questions?