Ibraheem Menk – Ramadan 2022 #09 Promoting Good & Forbidding Evil

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thank Allah Rabo Lissa T on July for having gathered us here once again. And we ask Allah subhana wa
Tala to surround us with the mela it can and to cause his mercy and his Sakeena to descend upon us
and to raise us with the Gambia. Allahi wa Salatu was Salam and those whom he has mentioned with
		

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			Allah subhanho wa Taala has chosen for the Ummah of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam to be the
best of nations. So we are better than the Ummah or the nation of no other in new salatu salam,
better than the nation of Ibrahim Alayhi Salatu was Salam, better than the nation of Musa alayhis
Salatu was Salam. Risa Allahu Salatu was Salam. We are better than these nations but not for free.
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			that you are the best of nations? Why that were extracted for the people? Why is that you are the
best of nations extracted for the people because you enjoy the good and you forbid the evil. So
Allah subhanahu wa taala made this the condition of us being the best of nations. When we leave that
when we turn away from that, then we are naturally humiliated by Allah subhanho wa Taala Omar,
Abdullah, Abdullah, Bharat the Allahu Anhu used to say no go as an Allah who will Islam feminine
divine Elisa tabula rasa as Allah Allah, that we are a nation, Allah has raised us with Islam. So if
we look for that razor for that shut off for that honor anywhere else, then Allah will humiliate us,
		

			Allah will humiliate us. If we take a look at the Arab printed peninsula at the time before
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. These people were unrecognized that they were not known
amongst the nations they were not looked up to. Yes, perhaps small pockets of them were looked up
to. But as a whole, they were barefoot. They lived in tents. They lived in mud houses, they will not
looked up to for any technological advancement or anything of that sort. When Islam came, and they
adopted Islam from being barefooted, having nothing no honor. No, it is nothing at all, Allah who
believes that he will general raise them to conquer to conquer different lands across the globe at
		

			large Allahu Akbar, what changed? What changed the fact that they became Muslimeen they accepted
Allah subhanahu wa taala. And they accepted Islam as thy standard. So as a result, Allah subhanahu
wa taala raised them the minute we as Muslimeen begin to look at anything else, perhaps our
technological advancements and how intelligent we are and the knowledge that we have, etc. As a
reason for our isa for our honor. Then Allah subhanahu wa taala begins the collapse of that nation.
Today, we look at ourselves as being inferior because of Islam. We look at ourselves as being less
amongst the rest of the nations because we are muslimin we are lacking in technological advancement
		

			we are lacking in in following the ways of the West. So we look at at ourselves as inferior. This is
the very reason why Allah subhanahu wa taala raised us in the first place. Islam is the reason why
we have that is why we have that honor. And as Muslims
		

			If we get rid of religion from our lives, and we stop enjoying good and forbidding evil, that is the
beginning of the decline of the Ummah of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam we're moving towards
Can you see
		

			Azula Salah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says, In nama naturally you will methylglucose Cannot
teleology will in Estelle Perdana indeed my example and your example who Who is this he's talking
about us, the Ummah Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Our example with Rasulullah sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam can Natalie Rajamouli Stoker Dinara like a man who has kindled a fire for
generality, della boo and for Asha, we are caught in a fee. So the moths and the animals you know,
the flying creatures, they begin to be attracted to that fire, they are attracted to that fire. So
they come towards it, for other reason be who does he come? What am tomb Takahama Nephi. So I am
		

			holding on to you telling you not to go to that fire and you insist on falling into it. Allahu
Akbar. If we think of this Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is telling us that you want to get
into that fire, you are heading towards it. I'm telling you don't do it. You are headed towards the
fire. You're going to burn yourself there. If we take a look at a moth and how its attracted to
words the fire, it will keep flitting in, in and out of that fire until it reaches a point where it
is completely burned completely burnt Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam his commandments and
the commandments of Allah subhanho wa Taala are keeping us away from that fire. Don't go there.
		

			Don't burn yourself. But we insist on burning ourselves why prophetic no be sure what the Hellfire
has been surrounded by that which is desirable. Xena, alcohol, clubbing, music, etc. All actually
surrounding the fire. So in Sam has that natural inclination. He wants to go towards it. He wants to
do it. But he's going towards the fire. Keep to the commands of Allah subhanho wa Taala to the
prohibitions of Allah subhanahu wa taala. Stand by them, and you will be saved from that fire in the
same way that a human being who's standing around that fire sees the moths going into it. And he
tries to get hold of the moth keep away, keep away you will be destroyed. No matter what he does,
		

			that moth wants to get into that fire. That moth is so enticed by what it sees that it keeps going
into the fire. You see, the problem today is that when we tell a person that brother or sister, what
you're doing is haram. What you're doing is not beloved to Allah subhanahu wa Tada. He does not like
what you're doing right now, immediately. Who are you to tell me? Who are you to tell me don't tell
me that. But this person who is telling you to keep away from that action is actually taking your
hand and pulling you away from the fire. We should be thanking them. We should be grateful to them.
We thank Allah subhanahu wa Tada for having given us brothers and sisters who look after our best
		

			interests. Yes, there is a manner in which to do that. There is a way in which we should be doing
it. We shouldn't be going around doing it in such a rough way that the people are turned away from
Islam the Shirou Wallah tuna Pharaoh give glad tidings and don't turn the people away from the deen
of Allah subhanahu wa taala. So do it in the correct manner in a good manner mankind with the che il
Zanna woman to z i mean che Illa Shanna also allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam tells us that
politeness good manner is in nothing except that it beautifies it meaning when it is a part of your
actions and your good character that it will beautify you being polite, being humble doing things in
		

			the correct manner. And when it is snatched out of an action when you take out that politeness and
you are harsh that it actually makes that action ugly, despite you trying to be do something good.
You see.
		

			Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam prevented his companions from doing that which was haram and
they were ever more so grateful to him for this. We find that
		

			In the Quran, Allah subhanho wa Taala that tells us of who is Ravi? And how from amongst the people.
There were those who actually tried to trick Allah subhanho wa taala. So they were told not to fish
on the Sabbath, not to fish on a Saturday. And they were a people who were well known for fishing.
They lived on the ocean, they lived on the coast. So this was their trade. This is what they did day
in, day out. There was only one day they were told you are not allowed to fish, but they decided
that they wanted to trick Allah subhanho wa Taala How was this? On the Sabbath? Allah subhanahu wa
taala calls the fish to come up and the fish would be there for them to see to be enticed by Will
		

			you follow the Command of Allah subhanho wa Taala Will you do the wrong thing? So Allah subhanahu wa
taala tells us was a little money OH GOD WE ARE T latika tell the tell the hurry Ilya. I don't have
it. In T in return who Mia whom I said 18 children. Why wire Humala is E tuna. T him Gary Canada
Woombie Makka Moo you have Zune and ask them Oh Mohammed Salah Allahu alayhi wa sallam from amongst
these people, they will remnants that were there at the time of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam he is being told ask them about what they used to do with regards to the Sabbath, these
people used to actually cast nets, or they would cause a, you know, they would build up a wall such
		

			that when the fish came up on the Sabbath, the fish would remain. So they would not actually fish,
but they would hold that those fish for the next day. On the Sunday they would come and take all of
those fish trying to trick Allah subhanahu Uttara from amongst these people, they were three groups.
There were those who tried to engage in the trickery. And then there were those who said that we
will not prevent them from doing so but we will not do so Allah will destroy them. And then they
were those who prevented them. So those who are not preventing but not engaging as well said what
you thought it might mean normally matter, Ilona gone and he loves Liko whom won the boom other than
		

			Shadi that Why are you telling the people to stop doing this? When Allah who will destroy them for
what they have done? Or Allah who will punish them then a severe punishment. So the ones who are
preventing them saying don't do this, they sit on Ummah and the Alton Isla be kumara.
		

			*. This is only to present an excuse before Allah subhanahu wa taala and such that they will be
conscious perhaps there is a chance that they will be guided as well. Now, they said that this is an
excuse to present before Allah subhanho wa Taala why? Because when we go before Allah hyperbolicity
Will Jellal We don't want him to ask us you were there you had the chance to tell them don't do
this. Don't do this and you did not prevent them. So this is an excuse that we have before Allah
subhanho wa Taala we can tell Allah subhanahu wa taala we prevented them we tried to stop them, but
they did not listen to us. And later on Allah subhanahu wa taala explains to us Furla mana Zuma
		

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			lovely no one will be either being that easy. Be Monica who we are our own. And when they forgot the
commandment of Allah subhana wa Tada. We saved those who are preventing from evil. Allah subhanahu
wa Tada did not save anybody else. Even those who stood by and said Let them be destroyed by Allah.
They were destroyed as well. Why Asuquo to Anil gerima. They kept quiet about the crime that was
being committed. Imagine you see someone * another individual, what do you do? It's abhorrent.
You immediately try to get hold of that person. Hey, get away from this. You can't do that. Right.
Now if you stand by and watch and say this man will be destroyed anyways. You are part of that crime
		

			as well. Allah subhanahu wa taala destroyed them all. All of them, except for who? For those who
prevented them from doing the wrongdoing.
		

			They forbid them. They say don't do this, Doc, it's wrong for you to do this. You see, the problem
that we have today is that we believe in the wrongdoing so much and we love it so much that we don't
want anyone to tell us It's haram brother, It's haram Sister, you can't do this. The Muslim
community is made up of units. And each movement I'll move me no little move mini Caledonia near
should do bah, bah bah. Each believer strengthens another believer. The hadith of Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam describes them as a wall or a building, you see how the bricks in a
building one brick supports the other. The minute one is missing. One is out. That entire building
		

			becomes weaker. A second one, a third, a fourth, a fifth. Once those all come out, you find that the
entire building collapses, the entire building collapses. But it started with what with one brick.
So if we are not there to tell each other brother this is haram. Don't do it. Don't do it. Then one
brick is being removed. Sister, this is wrong. You shouldn't be engaging in this, another brick is
removed. So slowly the society begins to crumble. And as a result, eventually there is a collapse of
that entire society. Allah subhanaw taala gave us the mechanism of our Savior, which is to enjoin
good and forbid evil. And why am I focusing on forbidding evil, because today everyone wants to hear
		

			a good word come to the masjid come to Salah, do good deeds give charity fast in the month of
Ramadan, go for Hajj people don't have a problem listening to this. But the minute you tell them,
Xena is wrong. Alcohol is wrong, consuming it is wrong. We don't want to listen why because those
who are engaged in Zina, we don't want to hear that message. But that message is for you, brother,
that message is for you, sister, you need it more than anyone else. And this is why we are the best
of nations so long as we hold on to that standard of enjoining good and preventing evil Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam gave us an example. And he said
		

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Safina the example of the one who stands up right holding on fast to the commands of Allah subhanahu
Uttara in joining good, preventing evil, and the one who falls into the that Haram is like those who
have come to a boat on the shores of the ocean. And they they are two groups, they come to the boat,
and they have no option. But to have a raffle. Why are they having a raffle? There are two portions
of the boat, a bottom deck, which is below the ocean and the top deck which is on top. So everybody
wants to go on to the top they want to see where they are going. They want to enjoy the sunlight
		

			etc. So they have a raffle as to who is going to be on the top and who is going to be on the bottom.
So when they go into that boat, and the people of the bottom, need some water, they need to come up.
So they come up and they walk over the others and they get to the water they bring the water down
perhaps they want to wash their clothes or they want to drink or whatever it is wave. So they go up
to the top and they collect the water and they come down every time they go they're trampling over
others. They're disturbing others. So some wise cracks at the bottom of that ship decide that you
know what? We're always going up to the top for water. Why don't we make a hole right here? Let's
		

			make a hole right here and we will get access to the water. Allahu Akbar. So Rasulullah sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam says so if the people have the top or not to stop them from making that whole
Heroku Jamia, they will all drown they will all go down that entire ship sinks. Right? So, if we are
not to stop others from doing haram, we will all drown we will all go down. This is the example that
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam gave us the sin of the next human being affects you if you do
not prevent them from doing it. If you do not go to them and say brother sister, don't do this.
Allah does not like it. You see
		

			Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam tells us Mundo I mean c'mon Karan fan you a year you will be
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			Is that the one who sees something evil something abhorrent, something wrong? Let him change it with
his hand for inlandia Stelter family Sania, so if he's not able to do this, they move his tongue at
least. In lamea Stelter, Fabian will be whether he can be Iman. And if he is not able to even speak
with his tongue, it will cause fitna it will cause a problem then with his heart at least, let him
think that these people what they are doing is wrong and it is bad. So, at least if we are so weak
that we cannot stand up and hold that person away from the sun, and we cannot prevent them from
doing that which is wrong, then we should have that feeling within our hearts we cannot speak out
		

			against the injustice, we should have that feeling that that which they are doing is wrong.
Unfortunately, today it is so common to see certain sins that we become immune to it. We no longer
even think that what they are doing is wrong. What they are doing is haram. At that point, we have
let go of our deen we have let go of our deen. Why? Because we no longer even believe right is right
and wrong is wrong. So it is important for us to hold on to this Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam sees a man coming into the masjid and he is sitting with his companions. They are perhaps
remembering remembering Allah subhanahu Uttara or there is some sort of lesson going on in the
		

			masjid of Rasulullah sallallahu sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, the man comes in and he begins to
urinate. So the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he leaves him and the Companions become
angered by this. Why is he leaving him? This man is here. Urinating in the masjid we need to get
hold of him. They were angry at the man What is he doing is urinating in the masjid. You don't need
knowledge to understand that this is wrong.
		

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			they are ready to get up, hold him back and stop him from doing this Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam says that
		

			there are people who were hurried to Allah probably he sub one member may not know the Nova Mima
that leave him and let him complete and when he is finished, take a pail of water and throw it over
this urine. And then he summons the man once he has completed once he has finished. He says come
here. What you have done is wrong. Look, this is the masjid of Allah subhanahu wa taala How can you
do this? How can you come and urinate in the masjid? So there was a way that the messenger salAllahu
alayhi wasallam adopted and who slew a mannerism he didn't tell the Companions Yes, get hold of him,
stop him and tell him not to do that. Kick him out of the Masjid. No, that would have been the wrong
		

			way to deal with that situation. Sometimes leaving that person to finish and taking time to go to
him after he has completed his deed is actually the best way forward. Why? Because whilst he is
doing it, he is in that love that enjoying that sin. So he doesn't regret it. But the minute that
that sin is complete his Eman kicks in once again, I still for Allah. What I did was wrong. So at
this juncture, if you catch him, and you tell him brother, you know what you did? Do you think it's
pleasing to Allah subhanahu Uttara leave a question mark in his head. At least not a zero attorney
law because you have an excuse with ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada I try the Allah, he died and he's not in
		

			your hands you do your best. And then you leave it to Allah subhanho wa Taala and what I love my
own, perhaps you will be guided. And if that guidance happens at your hands Alhamdulillah you've won
one person over, you've won someone over that will actually benefit you in the earthhero
		

			you see Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam explained to us the end of times and he told us that
letter Tebbe are on the Santa Ana Montana public home ship Ron we ship Green was Iran bzr that you
will follow the ways of the people before you the ways of the Christians and the Jews. hand span
forehand spent and half an arm's length for half an arm's length was the r&b vlR. You will follow
the ways had tallow selaku Jehovah Bill less and less. I'd like to move that if they were to go into
the hole of a lizard you would have followed them into that hole. Let me ask ourselves a question.
		

			What is that hole today? What is that hole?
		

			that whole is that which we see on our phones. That which is being promoted on our phones is not
from any Muslim. It does not come from the Islamic empire at its strength. At its might, it comes
from those who don't believe in Allah, those who don't believe in the messenger those who don't
believe in Jannah, those who don't believe in the earth era, they don't want you to follow Islam. So
we engage with them on the various social media apps. We've got tick tock, we've got Instagram,
Facebook, YouTube, and what are we watching on these apps? What are we doing on these apps? Are we
watching Islamic content? Or are we watching that which is a lizard hole, and lizards hole? It's
		

			taking us into that hole such that when we get to Allah subhanahu, WA Tada, we are with them?
Slowly, but surely the values, the Islamic values are being removed from us, so that we don't care
anymore. We don't want that anymore. It doesn't matter. If people are doing harm. It's okay leave
them. That's their life for them to live. No, it affects you as well. But we don't care anymore.
Why? Because we have followed the way of the people who don't believe in Allah subhanho wa taala,
who don't believe in the last day who don't believe in Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, is it
not enough for us to know that these are the people behind this? These are the people behind these
		

			various apps. We know what they want, but we follow them regardless. So eventually we will follow
them towards the hellfire. May Allah subhanahu wa taala protect us. May Allah subhanahu Attallah
give us the ability to enjoin good and forbid evil. One last point Kulu Coomera in Wakulla, comas,
Otto na et every one of you is a shepherd and each one of you is to be questioned about his idea
about his flock. And a man in his home is a shepherd. So his children, his wife, his spouse, that he
is the shepherd of that family. And the woman is a shepherd within her home, her family, her
husband, her people, she is the shepherd she needs to tell them when they are engaging in wrong when
		

			they are doing something haram don't do it. When and she should enjoy goodness as well. She should
tell them to do that which is good as well. So each one of us will be asked by ALLAH SubhanA wa
Tada. What did you do with your family? Did you tell them to do good and forbidding them from being
doing evil? This is the starting point. Because an entire community is made up of units of
marriages, units of families, so each family looks after their own. Eventually you find that the
entire community is strengthened. So Charity begins at home, we need to begin with our own family
members. Tell them to do that which is good forbids them from doing that which is evil and Allah
		

			subhanahu Attallah will cause an entire goodness to come about amongst the community. May Allah
subhanahu wa taala give us the ability to do so. May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us the criterion
between right and wrong. Amin wa sallahu wa Salam o Baraka ala Nabina Muhammad wa ala alihi wa
sahbihi Germaine