Hosai Mojaddidi – How to Protect Yourself & Your Family From the Fire!
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Hello fellow human handler salat wa salam ala Shifen Ambia even
more serene, say that our Mowlana What have you been on Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam while he was fabulous and in for Sleeman
Kathira I sat down one on one with Allah who have been a cancer
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programs, and honoring all of us Hamdulillah
I wanted to before I jump into my presentation, just I have a
disclaimer, the presentation I'm going to present is going to
actually wake us all up.
So I'm going to kindly ask that young children be asked to leave
because it's pretty intense content. And I don't want any, you
know, children to be affected by what I'm going to share. So if you
could please take younger children out? If they're asleep, obviously,
in Shaw, that's fine, but
just I think it was 14 Plus, right? That's what I was told.
Yeah.
So Bismillah I do have slides
as you can see here, and I apologize in advance if you see
any typos I am on like two hours of sleep and I was trying to put
these together. So I was telling you saw the font of those nodding
off. So if you see typos, just ignore them and inshallah we'll do
better. Inshallah, next time, but the as we know, we are about to as
Dr. Reddy mentioned, or knocking on the doors of the last 10
Nights. Something that occurred to me Subhanallah is that as we start
the month of Ramadan, we know that the first 10 days are the days of
or nights of mercy. Correct. So and then the middle is
forgiveness. And then the last 10 days are of course seeking refuge
from the fire. And so it occurred to me that's Paula Allah, it in,
in the beginning of the month, he eases us into the month right
with, with mercy, and then it starts to get a little
uncomfortable because, you know, to focus on forgiveness requires
honesty, requires transparency requires really digging deep and
looking at oneself,
you know, with with, you know, with, with that lens of of real
honesty and critique or, you know, critically, I should say, and
that's uncomfortable for some of us, we don't really want to face
those things that we may have been bearing all along. And it's kinda
we get to the end of the month, and even though the fast is
getting easier, right, so, physically, we're kind of
acclimated we're used to it the schedule, the lack of caffeine,
the slack, sleeplessness, we're used to physically but there's
power emotionally, spiritually, it's actually becoming more
constricting, right, because to think about the fire I think for a
lot of people is also uncomfortable we tend to lean on
which we should at the mercy of Allah SCADA and thinking always
have the rewards awaiting us so to actually completely focus on
something that maybe is a little bit it's more intimidating it's
more constricting is hard, but we're supposed to be doing that.
So that's where inshallah this presentation hopefully will take
us through this concept of how to seek protection from the fire
inshallah in the next in the in the last 10 nights so this one
with that said, I wanted to ask a few questions here and like first
of all, what is the fire right some of us may have an idea you
know of this scorching terrible you know,
place because it is a living place, but we may not really
understand the descriptions or may not read have read the
description. So, just to have a little bit more detail about what
the fire is. Here is a verse relative how that is actually
warning us. I'll be lying on a shirt on air Jimmy says yeah,
you're letting the AMA know cool and Fusa calm will actually come
naira. Oh you who believe Save yourselves and your families from
a Fire, whose fuel is men and stones over which are appointed
angels, stern and severe, who disobey not from executing the
commands they received from Allah, but do that which they are
commanded. So right away, we understand that this is obviously
a place that is real and it's in existence, even as we speak. And
it will have this life in a sense that it is
It has an appetite for for men and stones that it see. And it
communicates that there are other verses where the fire is actually
calling and in a way communicating.
And here ELISpot that also says soon I will cast him into the fire
and what will explain to you what the scorching fire is, it lets
nothing remain and leaves nothing and burn, scorching the skin over
it are 19 Angels again, these are I mean, obviously terrifying for a
reason, because we're supposed to really think about what we need to
do to avoid a being anywhere near it, having any sense of it because
it has a you know, there's a there's
a smell to it, there's a you know, there's there's our senses can
perceive it. So we don't want any part of this right. And so we need
to understand that it is a very intense reality. So the verses as
painful as uncomfortable as it is we we should read them and
contemplate them and then think deeply. I'm actually reminded just
last night, I believe no, the night before I was on a I think it
was last night sorry, my memory saw because I'm on such a little
sleep. But a couple last night, I was on a celebrate mercy. Talk
with Dr. us at our scene and check on Muslim uppermill. And we were
also going over just 19 sort of photo pine. And Dr. Asad brought
up some verses that were very terrifying because they seem, you
know, as we're reading there were these images that I hadn't really
thought of, until he mentioned them. But in one of the verses, he
talked about how, actually I'll read it. I did. I have it here. So
let me read it here.
He says
this is sort of recon verse 25. So it's talking actually about the
unfolding of the Day of Judgment. And what's going to happen, it's
very rapid, a lot of the scenes that we read in the Quran, just
reflect the intensity of that day. And then what happens afterwards.
So it's almost part that says watch for the day, the heavens
will burst with clouds, and the angels will be sent down in
successive ranks. True authority on that day will belong only to
the most compassionate, and it will be a hard day for the
disbelievers. And then And beware of the day, the wrongdoer will
bite his nails in regret, and say, Oh, I wish I had followed the way
along with the messenger. Woe to me, I wish I have never taken so
and so as a close friend. It was he who truly made me stray from
the reminder after it had reached me. And Satan always betrayed
humanity. And then it goes on but that image of, you know, a person
who's a wrongdoer, disbeliever biting their nails, this is you
know,
go out. So.
So that image right of a person biting their nails. In regret. We
talked a little bit about that. And it's just so human, right, the
experience of, you know, we've done that I'm sure when we, you
know, it's something that we do when we're regretful of something,
but to imagine that people on that day will be filled with so much
regret for their wrongdoings. And then of course, the scapegoating
blaming their companions. So it's this chaotic scene that unfolds.
And, you know, we, if we're not reading these verses, and almost
not imagining them, then we're forgetting that, you know, these
are real things that are going to happen. And we need to seek
protection for ourselves with our family from ever being a part of
those things, right. And so that's where the, it's so necessary to
contemplate on these verses. Because as intense as it says, and
uncomfortable as they are, we want to not be a part of them, we want
to have nothing to do with them. So when we read these scenes, like
this, you know, scorching of the skin out of the lab, Allah protect
every one of us in our loved ones, from ever experiencing anything
like that. And this is again, that begs the question now, how can we
protect ourselves? What do we need to do? Well, we need to know what
the fire is for right? It's the fuel of it as men and stones,
which people is the cause does the fire call for so we do have in the
various verses of the Quran I was trying to describe is different
people who will be punished because of their different
actions. So the disbelievers those are obvious the hypocrites, of
course, are in the lowest parts of *. But then there are other
groups that are a little bit more generalized, right? So the
arrogant deniers of truth sinners and criminals, unjust oppressors,
those who proudly disobey Allah. So this is where again, this is my
general sinning as we know is you know, we all are sinners, but
those who sin and then
Drag about them, they share their sins openly. This is a different
degree that we really have to ask us for that for forgiveness for if
we've ever shared our sins openly if we've ever been proud of our
sins or displayed them. Now with social media and this, you know
the culture around us, there is a lot of this, you know, open sin
sinfulness. Whereas before, people had at least some degree of
modesty of shame. So proudly disobeying Allah, tyrants,
murderers, again, these are groups that are obvious to us, but then
those who persecute the believers, those who prefer the world and
neglect the hereafter. So those were the hubba dunya. Again, many
of us may fall into these categories we were chasing dunya
we're heedless. We're in Uppsala. And in Ramadan, obviously, you
know, hamdulillah we're obviously all here, there is a degree of
awareness, we're a little bit more aware of ourselves. But if we
relapse and we start to regress, as soon as the month is over, we
find ourselves abandoning the prayer, abandoning the book of
Allah abandoning our worship, no longer, you know, taking inventory
of our of what comes out of our mouth, what the words that we say,
what we're putting into our hearts, and our you know, our
vessels, our hearts, what we're listening to what we're watching,
if we're not doing that, then we're going to slip right back
into that state of LeFleur. And may Allah again, forgive us
because if we leave the world, in that state, we don't know, our
ultimate fate. But of course, we we always have the highest opinion
of Allah that He is the Most Forgiving, the Most Compassionate,
especially towards the believers. But generally speaking, none of us
should feel safe. And that's really why the emphasis in the
last 10 Nights, is to think about the fire because just because
we're fasting, just because we're praying just because we're really
put on and we're standing for PM, and we're preparing to hedges, and
we're coming to the masjid does not ensure any of us safety and
the moment we start to think that our deeds are going to be the
insurance that protects us from the fire, that is actually a very
dangerous sign. So reading into these verses and contemplating the
different categories of people who will be punished is really good
for the laughs It's good for the soul to humble ourselves that
perhaps because we don't know our end, perhaps, you know, if Allah,
if we, you know, continue to be neglectful, if we continue to, to
fail to heed the warnings, we may find ourselves, it will the biller
in any of these categories. And in order to prevent that, of course,
that's where we'll get to in a moment what we need to do
proactively, but again, recognizing these categories,
cruel, proud and arrogant people. So if you've ever been cruel,
think about you know, who that may apply to. They're, you know,
people in our community that struggle with anger, and they have
an anger management problem, this can be shown to their family
members, it can be shown to strangers, you know, on the road,
or, you know, in service people blow up. And this is a very common
problem now, where people just, you know, they can't handle the
their own, maybe pressures and whatever's going on with them
themselves personally, and then they take it out on innocent
people. You know, you go to a restaurant, someone doesn't serve
you and all of a sudden you're exploding. You're, you're calling
customer service you're playing and you're just as person who's
trying to always get someone. Why? Because maybe there's things you
haven't worked out. So if you have that tendency to let your anger
overcome you, this is something to again, be mindful of because
cruelty and an injustice in that way has no place in the heart of
the believer, treacherous people, traitors, liars. gossipers entail
various people who lie deceive, gossip, we know about how odious
Backbiting is, it's akin to cannibalism literally in Nevada.
Allah's father likens to kind of gossip to cannibalism. So if we're
gossiping, we're talking about so and so's marriage or so and so's
divorce or so and so's moving from here to there. And so someone's
husband lost her job. Can you believe so? And so, you know,
husband did this or wife did this? Why why do we care? Why do we care
about anybody else's personal life? It leaves you know, this is
a sign of again, a person it's a sign of spiritual disease, the
problems I said, I'm warned that the one who is you know, busy with
with with other people, or it's better for you to be preoccupied
with your own problems than to worry about other people. And then
we also know that very clear Hadith where he tells us when
Hosni Islam is integral Malaria is a part of the beauty of one's
Islam is that you leave that which does not concern you. So you
literally mind your own business. But if we're gossiping, and we're
taking these things lightly, we don't we're not realizing that we
could very well be landing ourselves in a very, very
compromised position again, what yeah, that those who neglect
Your prayers, very important that if we don't wake up to the reality
that the prayer is the most fundamental thing that we do,
there is nothing more important than your Salah and my salah,
nothing, nothing more important.
If you and I had a sister, mashallah, I remember May Allah
bless her, she I spoke with her, actually, this past weekend, she
came up to me, I don't know if she's here, but may Allah bless
her because last year, she came to a halacha. And she was just
sharing that she had a very difficult time with managing her
worship and her work. And so we were talking about how to
logistically fix that she said that, you know, it's hard for her
to get to her worship, because she has so much work to do. So
Hamdulillah, I just gave her an idea. And I said, Well, maybe you
have to switch it, maybe you have to do your worship first and then
get to your work. It's just a very simple unless you have come to LA,
I didn't think much of it, I just gave the advice that we've been
given. Plan your life around your prayer, not the other way around.
So alhamdulillah when I saw her this past weekend, she came up to
me and she was just, she just said it. She said, I have to say
something to you, Stephanie, thank you, you know, you gave me this
advice last year, and it completely changed my life. Subhan
Allah is just such simple words. It's a paradigm shift, right?
Because a lot of us are so focused on raising our children, taking
care of our parents, if we have elderly parents, you know, paying
the bills, going to work, going to school, and we keep putting all
these things on our you know, I mean, there's, it's just never
ending to do list never ending list of responsibilities we have.
And then we plug in prayer, whenever it's convenient. And then
we wonder why we're never at peace. It's a formula that is,
it's destined to fail, you will never find peace, if you're going
to do that. Whereas when you prioritize unless we found that
and then plan your life, you find that Allah will give you till
future you'll expand your time, you're suddenly happy. So that's
what she experienced. She said, this past year, 100 a lot. That's
what she did. She started to wake up early, do her tahajjud do her
fajr prayer did hurt you by the end. And then she started her
work. And she said everything changed for her. And she was just
very happy to report this change. Alhamdulillah we shook with the
law. So these are very real experiences. But again, many of us
in Ramadan, we're on top of our prayers, we have a full 30 days,
Allah is showing us we're very capable of doing it. But what
happens as soon as a month is over, something goes wrong.
Because it we're not afraid enough. And that's why when you
read that, you know the punishment. Does anyone know I
remember reading this a long time ago, and it always stayed with me.
Does anyone know the punishment of missing one prayer without a good
reason? What it is?
It is, I think it's called either a lack of I can't remember the
Arabic term, but it's basically a period of 80 years of torment in
the fire.
For missing a prayer without a valid reason. So just be like, Oh,
I'm lazy or oops, oops, I miss Fajr. Oops, I guess I'll just do
it tomorrow. Or maybe maybe I'll have a biller. If you miss budget,
and you wake up without a sense of panic. Like you don't Allah I like
regret, like deep, deep fear, there's something wrong. Because
yes, we're human, yes, the alarm may not have gone off. That's,
that's those are all things that we don't need to make a case Allah
knows what happened. It's the state of our hearts that we want
to present to our Creator. When we come into the realization when we
wake up from that sleep, state. It's the state that you present to
your Creator. And regret should be the number one state to jumping up
from bed running to the bathroom, and making will do even if it's 10
minutes, late, 20 minutes late, doesn't matter. Because you want
to show your Creator, that you're still remorseful, that even though
you were asleep, and it wasn't intentional, the idea that you
missed the call of prayer that you miss the opportunity to worship
your Creator, as he so deserves, is enough to put you in a state to
induce a state of panic and terror and fear in your heart. If that's
not happening, and you're just like, oh, well, or as we've talked
about before, missing, you know, prayers because, oh, I have a
wedding to go to. This is probably one of the things that I just will
never understand that love, protect our hearts and forgive us
for ever, ever, ever thinking that a social event, even a celebratory
event is a good enough excuse to miss worshiping your Creator. Like
oh, I have this you know, big heavy, fancy dress and makeup. You
know, a little understand. But this is the kind of, you know,
illogic and excuses that enough for me. So these are the types of
warnings we have to heed. And again, when you read the different
descriptions that one I mean, I should have maybe highlighted that
because I think it's the most relatable we have
problem of people you know, and I know I'm sure Dr. Runny nose and
many of the other teachers here know this is a struggle that a lot
of us have is not being on top of our prayers. So if we take
anything from when we read the descriptions of the fire, it is
that is the most important way to protect ourselves, manage your
prayers, do anything and everything you can to make sure
you're doing your prayers on time. Anything and everything there's
really no excuse. Whatever you need to do whatever you need. Did
I say that we're lucky with no equivocation I'm not there's no
exaggeration there. Whatever you need to do to fix your fire to it.
Whatever if you need five alarms 10 alarms, do it. Because it is
the number one thing we're going to be asked about on the Day of
Judgment. If you're hustling if you're taking care of your kids,
all those things are great. They're mashallah amazing deeds,
but they're not going to measure up on the scales. If you're
missing your Salah, you're just not you could be serving the OMA
you could be out there working in soup kitchens and feeding the
homeless, you could be traveling all over the world but if you're
neglectful over your prayers, it's not going to measure up. So get on
top of your prayers and make sure after, I mean right now we should
all have that Nia that inshallah. As long as I live and breathe, I
will never, ever abandon my prayers. And I will never take
lightly missing a prayer ever. Like I will never do that I will
always feel the weight of missing prayers. And May Allah guide us to
really take our prayer seriously. Obscene and perverse. For you know
anything that's perverse if you're an obscene person, what does that
mean? Dirty jokes? Why are we telling dirty jokes? Why are we
watching inappropriate material like comedians who are foul and
disgusting? Why do we watch television programs and films that
talk about things that are crude? This is so reprehensible. We are
supposed to be the Hallmark quality of the believers, not just
women, men and women is modesty is higher. So if we are wearing our
hijabs, but then I mean it's Powell others, you know, programs
and you know, all these social media accounts now. May Allah
guide our OMA of women in hijab full hijab talking about very
inappropriate things with men on podcast episodes, what is
happening, what is happening in our Ummah, where single men and
women they're not even married, are having these wide intellectual
discussions about intimacy in the bedroom, with with non Mahuta men.
What is happening? I live in LA This is not part of our deen we
have boundaries of what to talk about what's appropriate, what's
not appropriate foul jokes, per se, music that's inappropriate
topics that are inappropriate are haram. They're in the category of
haram. So to be very aware of that and not make excuses. If we do
these things, we again compromise our position. And that's why we
have to heed these warnings, adulterers and cheaters. You'd be
surprised how common how the beloved This is in our community.
May Allah guide us May Allah protect us. If you are single make
dua Allah subhanaw That brings you a righteous spouse to protect you
from falling into Zina. If you are married, guard your chastity,
guard your modesty lower your gaze do not take it lightly talking
with the opposite gender, it is not a light thing to do. If you
work I mean, I've I've heard enough stories in my lifetime. May
Allah again protect our hearts and protect our marriages and protect
our homes and protect our families. Because shaitan is out
for us. He knows especially in this day and age, that the Muslim
community being the last maybe community that really preserves
marriage and family. He's coming for us. He is coming for our
community. He's already broken on many other communities apart, they
don't even have don't even take marriage seriously. And 100 We're
still married. But if we're marrying and then we're being
loosey goosey you know, we're interacting with the opposite
gender in a way that is unbecoming inappropriate out of Allah. So we
have to take these things very seriously to guard our chastity to
guard our modesty, lower our gaze when you're speaking with
brothers. If you are again single, don't put yourself in that
situation of you know of attracting that type of attention.
Just because you know you if you want to get married, do it the
right way. Make dua ask Allah subhanaw taala the only way you
will have any reason is asking Allah subhanaw taala it's not
going and putting yourself out there getting dressed up wearing a
lot of makeup, putting on very tight fitting clothing, walking
around with very sexualized energy is is not the way to do it. And if
we do these things, may Allah forgive us. It's not the end for
us. Obviously, there's always hope. But we have to turn that
around and the way that we turn that around is to adopt the
necessary comportment the necessary disposition of a
believer not just a believing one.
Men because again, these are rules for both men and women, a believer
is modest. A believer does not put themselves out there in that way,
those who take usury, those who practice sorcery and magic. And I
don't know what the last one was those who maybe there will be
leave that blank. May Allah forgive and protect all of us,
somehow. But there are many categories.
And I just wanted to share it, when the problems I sort of went
on about when they arise, we know that he was given, you know, he
saw a lot of things that really disturbed him that really troubled
him.
And among them, right, we're very clear descriptions. And if you
haven't read these heavies, I encourage you to read them because
it's terrifying. Right? Here the promise of some said, when I was
taken on my night journey, I passed by people who had metal
hooks in their hands, and they were climbing at their faces and
necks.
Just imagine that it's stuck for a while, I just can't imagine it. I
said, Who are these people? Djibouti Djibouti Iceman said,
these are the ones who eat the flesh of people and attack their
honor. So for those who gossip for those who like to spread lies all
the biller. This is what our fate will be, may God protect all of us
and forgive any one of us? Who's ever spoken ill of another person
behind their back? I saw some men on the night of my session whose
lips were being sheared by scissors of fire. I said, Oh God,
Who are these people, preachers from your nation who commanded
people to be righteous? And they forgot it themselves? If they
recited the book, well, they're not reason. This is for those of
us who are in a teaching position. We have to heed these warnings may
Allah forgive us forever, coming and sharing or, you know, calling
people to things that we don't ourselves do. This would be the
ultimate sign of hypocrisy. But these warnings are there for us to
really think about.
I saw dream at night which two men came to me they said, One, they
said, the one who was faced you saw being torn away was a great
liar, who would tell a lie and it would be carried until it reaches
the horizons, this will be done to him until the Day of Resurrection
stuff for the law, again, having your face being ripped apart
because you are a liar. And there's many very, very graphic
descriptions of the torments of people specific people dragged on
their face.
You know, things happening to them all of it. It's not, you know,
there wasn't he was Bashir, when he came to warn us not to just,
you know, give us these gory descriptions so that we go through
that so scary. No, it's actually, y'all know, please don't let me be
a part of ever that scene, witness it or be a part of the Yala
protect me, my loved ones, and to really take that seriously.
Because if you think that you couldn't be like, it's your other
rising as like, Oh, that's not going to happen to me. That's the
first sign of delusion, we should all be terrified. At one point, he
saw a big bull with horns come out a small hole, but then he
struggled to go back down. And so this is a more descriptive scene
of this bull that's trying to go through this hole. And it
couldn't. And then when the process of attribute what it was,
he said, words that had been uttered, but could not take be
taken back. That's such a powerful, you know?
What's the word not metaphor, but visual of what isn't? Thank you
imagery, of words that are said that can be taken back. Many of us
say things that are so hurtful that are so painful. If you cut
someone down, whether it's a relative, your sibling, your you
know, your spouse, your child, because you have a razor sharp
tongue.
heed this warning and ask our sponsor forgive you, if you've
ever imagined violated someone you know, we know women, we know how
to do it. I know I know how to do it. I admit it, I can do it, we
can do it. Men are very, you know, they're fragile their egos are,
you could easily just take one little thing, just cut them into
shreds if you wanted to, if you have that capacity. And I know we
all know how to do it. Don't act like you don't. But if you've ever
done it, may Allah forgive all of us forever going there. Or, you
know, hurting anybody, our siblings, friends, sometimes we
say things because we're, we're passive aggressive. You know,
we're burying resentment. We don't know how to cope with certain
things. So we just weaponize our words, and we hurt people. And if
we've ever done that, we should really take that seriously and ask
Allah to forgive the harms of our tongue. And whether we know it or
not, sometimes we do it and we don't we're not even aware of it.
And that's why comprehensive stuff there is the things that I've done
that I'm aware of in that I'm not aware of. Big and small, be very
comprehensive when you make Toba for these things.
And I'm sorry, I know I might be out of time. I'm just going to go
through the rest of these quickly. This is also a really
I'd really encourage you to read the descriptions of sort of cough,
about the day of judgment and the trumpet being blown and what will
happen. It's just that the imagery is so powerful, but I wanted to
share. So I'll try to go through these quickly and the Trumpet will
be blown. This is the day you were warned of, if we're reading the
verses, almost kind of gave us the warning. But if we're not going to
read them, we're not going to pay them much attention. We're just
going to focus on gender, which of course is we should do that too.
But they it's a balance that we have to maintain. So Allah is
warning us and every soul will come with it a driver and a
witness. There's two angels, one that drives us to our judgment and
then a witness who will stand to bear witness to the judgment. It
will be said you were certainly unmindful of this. And now we have
removed from you your cover. So your sight this Day is sharp. So
this is exactly what I'm talking about our, you know, our
reluctance to actually be mindful of these punishments. We don't
want to read them. It's uncomfortable. Allah's telling us
you were certainly unmindful. Now, the veil has been removed. You're
gonna see it all.