Hasan Ali – Judging a Muslim’s aqeedah because of their dress

			Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato. Guys, what I want to say to you is that sometimes, you
know, people dress in a certain way people look a certain way. And there's others who just judge
them, they just judge them. It's like, you know, that guy, he's wearing a hat. And he's wearing a
jumper this size, or the sisters wearing a hijab in a certain way she's got to be of this sect of
this group. And then they start judging you Okay, he's not wearing a hat. He's got a hairstyle like
this his beard is shorter This has got to be of this group. He's actually the is going to be this
and he belongs to this party this group this this and he gets he gets completely ridiculous
		

			seriously, seriously, I mean, you know, there are places in the world where people just look at you
and they think just because you're dressed in a certain way you've got to be of these people and the
common thing about those people they think they do you've got to be one of them as well just because
you dress like that I want to give you an example I've been to Saudi Arabia for about a good eight
times nine times I've been to Hodge ombre had several times or ombre several times. And some of the
Saudi people they're wonderful Wow, voila, they are beautiful people Yep. But some of the Saudi
people two thumbs down okay after say two thumbs up two thumbs up and some two thumbs down because
		

			you kind of go to the bottom and I used to notice this that you know, I'm walking like this I've got
this armor on and I've got this you know what jubo of any dressed any color Juba first I used to
wear any type of job any color job and then I used to go then you sort of get a Salam from the
people who had the doors of the of the haramain sort of mustard you don't get no Salaam the Saudis
are those Saddam's were all Saudis are most of those series of the doors there and even Saudis are
walking by you and other you know, people we you know that you can tell us howdy okay, because
they've got the turbo with a nice thick color and then have a pocket here with a pen inside. Okay,
		

			pen inside. And basically they'll have a white hat with a scarf over but the scarf is an island in
the middle the holiday style and I'm talking about Yeah, and they basically were like this Okay,
I'll do a demonstration one in a little while Yeah. But basically when when they when they're going
around like that. It's like they've got a club if you're a Saudi, they'll do Salaam to you. If not,
they won't do Salaam to you. And it's a prominent problem amongst them. Not all of them please don't
get me wrong. Not all of them have wonderful Saudi friends. But some of them I've met you just they
just won't even look at you. They won't give salam to you. And you don't want to give a Salaam
		

			sometimes you can surrender on his cell and back to you some some of them are like that, but most of
them will get back to you but they won't be the first to give Salaam to you. But anyway, that
changed one day Why? Because I had a Bengali friend who lived in Saudi for some time and he tell
told me all the tricks he said listen, you're gonna get you're gonna get by with these people and
you want them to actually upgrade you to their level or something lead to the level you better start
dressing like them. Are you serious? You have to dress like them. He said yes. He said you know you
got to take this thing off. And honestly because of this thing, they look at me and they think Hmm,
		

			he's from this sect. He's Asian he's this he probably didn't beta beta. And I'm getting you know,
honestly, I got so many of them telling me all sorts of stuff because I'm wearing this this on my
head and they'll straightaway start to assume that you from this party that party so what I did is
this, I took the MMR off okay. Okay guys, and I basically put a white hat on right I'm gonna put the
white hat on I took the scarf as he said and he said you know when you get the scarf you know I'm no
I'm not this is just a normal coffee I just found in the mustard guys you have just using this is
not my scarf. But anyway, posh I love one of the brothers gave it he said take the scarf. Okay. And
		

			when you take the scarf, he said, this can be a normal scarf is a big choice. All white? Yep. And he
said, You can't have you know, the Palestinian one, which is black and white. No, no, no, that one's
gonna be plain white. And it's gonna be the long one. They look for the long sort of ends,
Mashallah. And you got to take this part, and you got it in the middle. When it's ironed, and you
walk like this.
		

			And literally, I went like this, and I couldn't believe it. And when I walk in all the Saudis who
don't give salam to me, Salam aleikum. wa
		

			rahmatullah wa barakato. I like whoa, I've just joined the new club. And I'm walking and I'm coming
to the to the heart and the door they sing Salaam to the from farm thing Wow. And I go to the I even
went to near the road and normally I go to the road with that Amana on and they're like, you know,
good luck.
		

			yelagiri chlorella * right. And I went like this to the Rhoda and they were like Mashallah Salaam
Alaikum Tata Tata Tata Yaki, and I come here, and I even got to go, you know, it was getting to be
crowded there. And I want you to go through just exit but you know, you can't go back, you know,
you're going to the roller, you can't go back and there was a side entrance there for the Imams, the
in man's
		

			room or his exit. They said he performed to get out of here, come come through, and they took me
through that. Wow, can you believe it? upgraded it. I'm certain I can speak some Arabic. So when I
speak the Arabic the thing Well, this is one of us. I look like some kind of Yemeni, some kind of
stroke, some kind of you know, Holly G, so Arab, okay, so I'm getting all of this respect and
Subhana Allah things sort of change over overnight, they change and I start wearing this, even in
front of the hand, no one saying better to me. No one saying you this, you got to me, none of that.
And even if I sit in front, you know what I did? I went with the group a few times. And I gave a
		

			lecture in front of you know, in front of the harem. It's this outside of the marble floor when I
was there. imama when I wore this, okay, I've got policemen shoving me pushing me. Okay, seriously,
sorry, placement, these white first comes the, the, you know, the people who carry on telling you
beta, beta, beta ship, ship beta, okay, they start telling me what you're doing here. You're not
supposed to be here. Get out of here are they telling me every other night out and so on, pushing me
shoving me telling me to stop the chop the gathering. It's only a small gathering. We're talking
about the seed of the Prophet salallahu alaihe salam, then a policeman comes.
		

			Seriously he comes to the one come to the Jeep around and he brings a policeman around and then he
comes and the policeman gets me in a headlock and tries to get me in the police car, take me away
just because what? Because this Hajji, he went this, you know, that makes him look like a person
who's better than you know what I did for the next few years and hamdulillah with the advice of my
friend, I start wearing this same place, I'm giving the darts and the guy comes to me and instead of
saying, Yella, * * Who gave you permission to be here, city, Elijah, instead of that, you know
what he does? He says, he thought that he
		

			said that, you know, telling me now that you understand you and everybody else, all the other agents
and so on, had 00. Right. And in Madina munawwara comes up to me, he sees me wearing something like
this. And it's like, you know,
		

			I'll tell you it few more minutes like this, just quickly wrap up, and you can leave talking to me
nicely. Why? Because of this, so behind Allah Subhana Allah, and you know, what my friend did tell
me, he said, Keep this part ironed, you got an iron is an additional iron, but it's got to be
ironed. Because, you know, what happened is that over a couple of days, I lost the ironing part,
right. And basically, I went to the shops, and it was kind of flat like this is kind of flat. And I
went to the shop, and I'm looking for my respect, you know, just just don't not respect I want to be
someone I just like normal respect that you give to a person who comes to your country. And I'm not
		

			getting the respect. And then I'm giving me any bargains or anything. And I think what's gone wrong,
what's gone wrong. And I said to my friend, what was wrong? And he said, Hey, you forgot to iron
this in the middle. Because if you don't iron this in the middle, you know, like a cheap Indian,
that is wearing around scarf. I said, Okay, start ironing it again. And I'd become what they wanted
me to become. And then you know what? Everything's cool. What I want to say to you is, look, I could
go around giving my lectures like this, and having all of this and, you know, you know, putting
myself looking like a colleague, what's the difference? I'm the same person. I'm the same person,
		

			whether I wear this weather I wear this, or that. I'm the same person. Why are you judging me on
what's in my mind my aqeedah And who am I be and your whole attitude towards me is changing. Because
I'm wearing this or I'm wearing that, what what is wrong? And people do this? And it's really,
really sad that people do that. I don't wanna I don't wanna I want to add something else on. Okay?
This is for the religious people. When you see a man without a hat in the masjid. Okay, let's just
say for example, okay, let's take this off. Okay, so let's take this off. Let's say I'm walking in
the masjid and I'm just walking the mass in a comma. I've got no hat and I'm joining the prayers.
		

			No, Juba. No nothing a shirt and trousers. Why do you want to judge me and say that? Some kind of
person who doesn't know Islam does that? Oh, he's just the person. Why? I'm the same person. I could
be the same person. If I'm wearing just a hat. Am I a different person? If I'm wearing this, am I
different person, a sister without a hijab? Is she different from a sister with a hijab? A sister
with a hijab that is covering herself, you know, with two pieces different from covering with one
piece, a sister with you know, what are the hijab is what are the jilbab it is without a job. You
going to judge her because she's just like the rest of them, or a brother with a Jew bar or kurata
		

			whatever it is how he wears dresses. You're going to put them in certain categories. Stop it, okay
because my friend
		

			Knowledge and taqwa personal knowledge of is a person's fear of His heart is inside them. It's not
because of the dress that they wear, okay? It's not the dress that they wear. And I want to say to
you brothers and sisters out there, let's stop judging people. Let's treat people with kindness and
with love. You know, people know the masjid should not be a place for that as a club for the for the
pious, but it should be a place for treatment. For those who are ill. It should be a hospital for
the Ill not just the club. For those who are pious. It's not a game where you kind of think he's not
dressed like us, no one of us, we're going to treat him like he's not he's not part of us until he
		

			dresses like us until his beard as long as our beard is not a club. So treat people fairness with
kindness. These are all Muslims that have come and they're all in front of you. They know they
deserve a Salam just like any other Muslim deserves a Salam and don't judge people's whole interior
because of the exterior. hope that makes sense to you. And next time, you know, you might see me
around somewhere in Saudi Arabia with this and me ironing it and walking around like this, you know,
I'm not basically not getting those kind of yellow gentle hedges. I will avoid all of that because
of this, but I think you know what, sometimes is pathetic. It's pathetic because of a dress, you get
		

			treated in a certain way. Anyway zohydro salaam alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh Hey
		

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