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The speakers discuss the importance of following the truth and not going too far for false information in Islam, as religion is not about individuals but rather the substance of religion. They stress the need for evidence and evidence in proving actions and beliefs, as well as protecting one's religion and avoiding false accusations. The trend of trending Islam, including drinking cow urine for diseases, is discussed, as well as the importance of practicing the belief in the first three generations of Muslims. Pr practicing and personal development are necessary to improve one's knowledge and character.AI Generated Transcript ©
My dear respected brothers and sisters in Islam,
Before I begin,
addressing the subject,
which is,
adhering to the truth,
not to,
the individuals
because of their
popularity
or their fame,
I'm gonna ask you kindly
to
write
couple of statements
which are associated with this subject,
but I wish for you
to
go home with them.
The first
is attributed
to Ali ibn Abi Talib
or.
Of course,
they were uttered in
Arabic, but I'll give you the English meanings.
If you wish to have the Arabic, I
can
say it.
Know the truth.
Learn,
understand
the truth.
You will know
its people.
People are normally
or should be recognized by their adherence
to the truth
while individuals
do not
determine the truth.
Make sense?
Can you say it again?
Know the truth,
understand the truth.
What will happen?
You will know who is on the truth
because
the truth identifies the people,
not vice versa.
You got that?
Focus on the message.
That's the second one.
Not the messenger.
Be careful.
And I mean the messenger here, not the
messenger as in the messenger of Allah,
the conveyor.
Unless
he is infallible,
which in this case would be
the prophets.
But everyone else who conveys a message,
fallible. Right? You know what fallible means. Right?
You understand that. Right?
That I can make a mistake. Right? I
can make a mistake.
The only one who cannot make a mistake
is who?
Because of what?
Because of Allah's protection to him.
Good?
So how many statements so far?
2. I wanna count 7.
The following statement is attributed
to both
Abdullah ibn Mas'ud,
and with a different wording
but very similar in meanings,
Abdullaib N'Omar Let's
go with Ibn Mas'ud. He said,
If you wish
to follow
the example of someone.
Make sure that you follow someone
who died
because the living
is not immune from fitna.
Does it click?
Click or no?
People change. Right?
So if you wanna follow someone,
totally,
make sure that you follow those who passed
away because we know how they ended.
And that is why some people, they normally
use
like in Nawawi,
ibn Hajar,
they have some they had some issues
here and there. Right?
You guys take from them. Yeah, but they
died. We know
where their good, where their bad is.
Already, scholars identified. They are they have some
defects in this area. This area is good.
You're getting there. But the living, he keeps
what?
Producing. You don't know which is which.
Abdullah ibn Umar,
shouldn't any of you imitate the religion of
a man? If he believes, you believe. If
he disbelieves, you disbelieve.
No. Folly the example of the dead. That's
the wording of Abdullah ibn Umar.
Good? How many so far? We're gonna
count
one statement. So that's 3 so far.
Take this one from me.
And that statement is also attributed to Leif
ibn Sad.
If you see
a man walking on water,
flying
in the air.
Don't be
amazed
by him
unless
you present him to the Quran and
If the jail
rains,
it will rain.
The jail.
He will command the rock to turn into
gold.
And he's what?
He's what?
Antichrist,
the jail.
He calls people to his worship.
So how many so far?
We're gonna stick to 5, Insha'Allah.
Linking
material
and
intellectual
progress of people
or nations
to the authenticity
of their faith
potentially
leads to misguidance.
That's my statement. This is my own production.
Karima Boseid.
Associating
the intellectual
and the material
progress
of individuals
or nations
with the authenticity
of their religion
is misguidance.
I have to explain that because I can
tell that you're confused about it.
I I produced it in English.
Let me begin with that statement.
In a chapter called the Naml,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us about Nabiullah
alayhi salatu wassalam,
that he was given the ability
to converse
with who?
Birds,
animals,
others.
For one of his
soldiers,
a bird called,
The hood hood flown over
the kingdom of Sheba,
top of the line.
Manhattan,
skyscrapers.
Imagine you fly over Manhattan.
Wow.
America must be.
Look at his report.
He was impressed, amazed by their
material
progress.
But was he impressed by the religion?
I found her and her people
worshiping the sun beside Allah.
So you have to differentiate between what
They tell you the heart has 2 parts,
material intellect and spiritual intellect.
The spiritual heart and the intellectual heart.
Intellectual heart could be top of the line.
But the spiritual is what?
Because who must guide it?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Imagine the religion of Ibrahim,
alayhis salatu as salam, and his son Ismael,
alayhi salatu as salam, in the Arabian Peninsula
got switched
from pure monotheism
to idol worship because of this.
How?
A man by the name of Amr
ibn aluhayl
Husay,
he was known to be
rich,
generous,
religious,
a leader of his people.
He decided to take a trip to Sham.
When we say Sham, we mean what?
Syria. Syria.
Jordan.
Lebanon.
Palestine.
So he went there.
He was amazed
with their progress,
like the hood hood,
like the bird.
But he associated
their material
progress
with what
their religion must be good.
Let me take some idols back.
See that?
It may take some idols back
that you associate
I have seen
dragging
his intestine,
intestine
in the hellfire.
He was the first to change the religion
of Ibrahim.
He's the one who started telling them, okay,
this one you can't eat, this animal you
cannot eat, this animal you cannot ride.
Why?
When you become impressed
by
the intellectualism
of somebody
or the intellectualism,
the intellect
of a nation.
That's a problem.
The fame.
Oh, he's famous. He's popular.
He has 5,000,000
fans on his Facebook page.
Very dangerous.
You should look at what at the substance.
Did I make my statement clear now?
So associating this with this is is different.
The p the, you know, the people who
worship the cows,
they are top of the line IT.
Top of the line IT.
Actually, America uses them to
advance the IT
industry.
But he goes and he drinks the urine
of a cow.
Those are 2 different things,
Complete different things. I just worshiped them. They
think you need a call. Yeah. That's what
I said. Absolutely. Yeah.
I wanna ask you an a question.
What was the first
fitna
the Muslim ummah
ever faced
after the death of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam? Think before you answer. I know
you're gonna jump
somewhere, but think before you answer.
Okay.
So the death of the prophet was the
fitna.
Right?
How
some of the companions reacted to his death.
Imagine,
Omar,
with his knowledge,
took a sword and he said,
whoever
utters that statement that the prophet
died, I would
Anas
narrates a hadith
that many of the companions
sat down
so chilling, so peaceful.
Birds could land on their heads because of
how peaceful they
are. Shocked in a state of shock.
Who restored this ummavak
with the same principle?
Although we're talking about who?
Rasulullah. Whoever worships
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam, this is how he
understood the verse.
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam is death.
And whoever worships Allah, Allah is
what? Ever living.
And he recited the verse,
This is a an a profound
example that
this religion is not about individuals.
And do you know when this verse was
revealed?
When this verse was revealed?
8 years ago.
Look at Abu Bakr,
how he associated
the reason behind the revelation of this verse
with the present situation the Ummah is facing.
This verse was revealed when a rumor
circulated in the battleground that the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam was killed in the battle of
Uhud.
So some of the companions did what? Deserted
the battlefield.
Allah, the prophet died.
It's over.
The Prophet died.
He passed by
a group of companions who were sitting to
the side.
He asked them, why are you sitting like
that?
They said,
The prophet
Stand up and die for that which he
died for.
You're getting that.
So this religion is not about,
and I know that I have to be
careful here with that statement, the prophet is
to be followed.
But even in that area, you have to
follow-up
what he conveyed.
You have to keep doing his work after
him.
We live at a a very crucial time
and very
sad to find students of knowledge, people who
seek knowledge.
Immediately,
when an issue is raised,
they don't concern themselves with the evidence,
with the
truth.
They right away tell you so and so
said that.
That's the opinion of so and so,
and that is not the attitude of a
student of knowledge at all.
Who is so and so?
Who is so and so?
Al Imam Malik said,
You can say
no to anyone on the face of this
earth except who?
Because anyone can make mistakes. Right?
Anyone can make mistakes.
For you, as a student of knowledge, that
should not be your attitude
at all. You should be a seeker of
the truth.
I love,
Hadith,
Harajahu
al Imam Muslim.
One day the prophet
looked up the sky like this.
Then he started saying,
the stars
are the sign of security
for the sky.
When these stars are scattered,
the sky will receive its fate. He's referring
to what on the day of judgment.
The stars will what?
Then the the the heaven will crack. Right?
Isn't that how the scenes are expressed in
these surahs?
The
first thing
am the source of security
for
my ashab, my companions.
When I die,
my companions will
receive their fate.
What does what does he mean sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam?
Imagine the sahaba when they disagree
on something.
Who they go to?
Do do they have any difference of opinion
regarding him?
Done.
The prophet said, over.
United.
Now when I die,
I'm not there anymore.
And that's why they started what?
The fitna
between them.
Look at us now.
And my companions are the source of security
to my ummah.
Meaning what?
Their consensus. The consensus of the Sahaba.
Their consensus,
their
They are the source of security for us.
Now when they are gone,
the ummah will start what?
Splitting,
dividing. Also,
another meaning when they are gone,
when we don't know them anymore,
when we don't study them,
when
we don't know their sacrifices.
That's another meaning.
How do I know the people of the
truth?
I'll give you 5 criterias,
and I'd like you to write this.
Those who adhere to the truth,
they gather
evidence
from the Quran and the sunnah diligently,
carefully,
thoroughly, precisely.
So
they gather the evidence first,
then they understand it in a way
that matches the understanding
of the first generation of Muslims,
then they derive beliefs,
rituals.
I'm gonna say this in
Arabic.
So they compiled the evidence,
and based on that evidence,
they believe they act.
But the people of desire,
the people of,
what they do,
They believe,
then they fish for an evidence
to validate their beliefs.
He believes that mortgage
is halal for him. He believe he wanted
it to be halal.
He already believed that.
That's why he keeps asking every person
who pretends to be a scholar.
Is it halal in America? Is it halal?
He's waiting for someone
to hit.
Why? Because he already what?
He already
formed his beliefs.
You wait for the evidence. What is the
evidence?
Then you believe.
You got that or no?
Very important.
So the people who follow the truth,
they bring the evidence together
and they bring the evidence in its entirety,
not the piece that he wants, the entire
evidence.
Then he places it in, a mixer, we
call it.
How to derive evidence.
How to derive rulings from evidence.
Then he starts acts and beliefs.
Okay. I could do that because Allah said,
the messenger said.
No. The other one,
he does the things,
then he looks for an evidence.
And if he finds 1 if he doesn't
find 1, he's going to have to manipulate
1.
Very interesting,
when I came to America, I came to
Maryland.
That's 35 years ago.
So I needed a masjid. I wanted to
go go and pray the masjid.
SubhanAllah, I walk into this masjid, man,
very fancy.
I I didn't even see one like this
in in in in in Egypt.
And I went prayed there,
where I think it was Asr.
And I noticed that everyone is looking at
me.
Maybe a month later, I found out that
this is Ahmadiyya Masjid, Qadianiya Masjid.
Allah, the first Masjid I entered into into
America's favorite family.
I didn't know.
But later on, subhanAllah,
the
one of them came,
and we start we
of course, I went to Masjid al Hashuna
later on. So we started I saw you
in the you're how come you don't come
anymore?
I said, come come weird, man. I mean,
what what
then he we started debating, and he said,
are you are you really truly truly
crazy or something with you that you believe
that there is a messenger after the prophet
They said, yeah.
I
said, what is the evidence? What is I
mean, where is the evidence? Okay.
I said, I can give you an evidence
right now that this is not possible because
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said,
said, oh, you don't understand.
I'll explain it to you.
What is the meaning of the word?
Ring.
Not seal. No ring. Really r and khatam
and arabi means ring. We call it ring.
Khatim.
Why do you
normally wear a khatim?
For ornament.
Rasulullah
is the ornament of the nabi'een.
And I'll give you an evidence from the
sun.
Didn't the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and
he got he got so heated like this.
Didn't the prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam say,
the likeness and the prophets before me is
like a man who built a very nice
wall,
but he left what?
One brick. I am the brick.
Yes, salah.
What do you call this?
Manipulation of the text,
playing with the text
Because he believes
in his
deviousness.
He's just looking for what?
A reason.
Someone who believes that music is halal, music
is done.
Abdullah ibn Mas'a'ud said, wallahi.
Ma is mamink.
He's not going to listen to you.
Problem.
So that's the first sign of the people
who follow the truth.
What was it?
The others, they do what?
You know what that means. Right?
The people who follow the truth, evidence, evidence,
evidence.
Okay. We have to believe that
because of that evidence.
But the others, let's believe that.
Now, let's call some guy to give us
an evidence.
It doesn't go this way.
Those who uphold
the truth,
this is number 2,
are always willing to to retract.
Retract.
You know what that means, retract. Right?
Like if I said something wrong here,
and Sheikh, you said that, but here is
the evidence.
Okay, brothers, I'm sorry. I made a mistake.
What I said is wrong.
The evidence is here. Here is the correct
the people who follow the truth are willing
to do that, and they will not shy
away from that.
And if they have done that mistake in
public,
they go in public and say it, not
in private.
So the people
who follow
the truth
are willing to retract their statement
when presented with compelling evidence that refute their
claims.
They acknowledge their error and withdraw their previous
stance.
That's a sign right there because
rest assured that if you present it with
evidence
and you don't retract,
then you have Hawa.
Then
there is Hawa in the issue.
You have some agenda there.
Number 3,
they don't say anything
associated with the religion
which
the 3 generations of Muslims,
the righteous of them, of course,
never said.
He doesn't come with a new thing.
Never.
I like that
line.
If it was good,
they would have
got it.
This Quran before reaching you would pass by
who?
Abu
Bakr, Omar,
Uthman,
Ali,
Dear students,
You're not the first one who see the
verse. So why would you say something new
about it that they did not say?
You may
you may associate it
with the current.
Say that
verse based on their understanding
can apply to this situation,
but not to come up with something new.
They don't brace themselves.
They don't like to be praised.
And right away, they stop people from praising
them
because this can be a source of misguidance.
Imagine Rasulullah
salallahu alaihi wa sallam himself
commanded us to refrain from even
praising him.
He said,
Don't praise me like the Christians praised who?
Aisha. That's it.
We are the I'm the messenger of Allah,
and I'm his slave. That's it. No more
than that.
Likewise,
the people who follow the hack,
they they right away.
You're not supposed to brace yourself.
I am a PhD. I got that, and
I got that, and I'm got this got
this got this.
Right away, you know that,
The
moment that he sees somebody,
I was the first I got the first,
and I was
We live at a time,
unfortunately,
people
are superficial
when it comes to
taking knowledge and learning
the truth of this religion, and they associate
the truth with the individuals. They associate
we have 2 trends here in
in in in our time,
At our time here is the trend of
the spiritual leaders,
which is the extreme Sufis have
because of
the practices of their
and and all of that.
And we have the intellectual
approach. People who are highly intellect.
You know, they speak.
Those are the 2 famous trends.
We live at our time.
And we have the third one that has
been emerging lately,
which is the sugarcoaters
of the religion
under
the
claim that we live at a different time,
a different age,
so the religion has to be, what,
Molded.
It has to be
reshaped.
So those are the 3 trends that we
have.
Dealing with the first one, brothers and sisters
in Islam, I go back to the statement
of Ilham al Shafi'i.
Because these spiritual leaders, they normally, what? Do
these sci fi things for you.
We have 2 things here in our religion.
The miracle of the prophet,
which the prophet was given,
or the messenger,
and the karama
of wali? Do we
believe that some individuals
have karama or no?
Yes or no?
Yes.
But what is the difference between the 2?
What do you mean by reproducible?
Both of them are supernatural. You agree? Both
of them are beyond
the realm of
physics.
Let's agree to that. But what is the
difference between the 2 regarding the individual themselves?
Anyone else?
The messenger
must disclose
it in order to validate
his message,
But the
Karama
know. The Karama has to stay a secret.
You're getting that?
The karama has to be what?
Because when you disclose it, what is going
to happen?
People are gonna fall on you.
Fall for you. I'm sorry.
Fall for you.
And this is why
when Ibn al Qayyim
categorized
the 5 categories
of tahoot.
You know what tahoot is. Right?
Tahoot, anything that is worship beside Allah.
One of them is what?
Someone who claims to know the unseen.
Why?
Because if you claim that you know the
unseen,
what is gonna happen to me tomorrow?
Buddy bring me a duck and
pigeon.
Right away.
Why did the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
says,
If you just go to a fortune teller,
just go to him. Your salah is what?
But you still have to pray. Right? Because
you're gonna say you're gonna say it's not
gonna be accepted, so I'm gonna just stop
praying for 40 days. If you die during
the 40 days in.
You know he's a kaf.
You have to still pray.
But if you go and believe him,
because that will lead you to go.
Because Allah
made it crystal clear.
Only Allah
knows the unseen of this world.
You know, Imran Ibn Hussein, radiAllahu anhumma,
Towards the end of his life,
he had a disease.
You would have difficulty going to the bathroom.
Angels used to come
and help him.
But, you know, when did he disclose that?
His last breath when he was
dying.
There is a story that is out of
this world that shows you the caliber of
the companions.
The hadith is in Sahilim a Muslim.
The narrator is The
prophet
one day,
he said,
You may see someone who is
disheveled.
Akbar.
His cloth is.
You you would belittle him because of
if he goes knock, knock, knock, you open,
you get out of here.
But if this person would take
an oath on Allah, Allah will fulfill his
oath.
Can you imagine that? You say, oh
Allah, I'm taking an oath on you that
you're gonna do this.
You you see that?
Then the prophet said,
And one of them is Al Bara'u Bnelek,
who is the half brother of Anas.
Al Bara'u Bneumatic. Half brother of who?
Of Anas of Numeric.
How many people heard that hadith?
Handful, maybe. 5, 6.
Years later, during the reign of Umar ibn
Khattab, there
was a battle called Tostar,
which
is Bergdia,
in the way to Bergdia,
and the Muslims have been trying for 6,
7 months
to conquer
this Tostor,
and they are unable to do it
because it was fortified with water. There was
a water island, kind of island or a
little sea and then fortress.
Every time they go,
they get hit. Many of them die. They
run back.
1 of the people who heard this hadith
was inside,
was was a member of this army. So
he went to the amir and he said,
why do we want through this?
One day I heard the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam
And one of them is.
He's one of your army, one of the
soldiers in the army. Why don't you call
him
and let him make dua
or take an oath on Allah and will
be done.
It will be over.
So,
the amir called Abu Nal Bara.
He asked him to make dua that Allah
said, no, I can't.
3 days in a row, he begged him,
I can't.
So one day, subhanAllah, the 3rd day is
like many Muslims. You see how many Muslims
died? We can't do this work.
We need we need your dua. Please help
us out.
Help us out.
He finally agreed.
But look at his dua, what he what
he said.
Oh Allah, I'm taking an oath on you.
And to Rihanna,
that we see the back
of our enemies tomorrow.
And then it's time for me to die.
I can't live anymore.
It's over for me because everybody in the
army now is gonna discover that this guy
has what?
Special force, special
Listen.
Like I said,
he's gonna command rain. What do you want?
Money?
He's gonna kill somebody and bring him what?
Be careful. So this is the Sufi
approach here.
Don't be deceived by that.
Because they employ the jinn. Jin can do
things
for them. And we know
that
jinn can serve human.
But what is the price that human have
to pay for them to receive the service
with the jinn?
And they must
illustrate their kufr with actions.
The jinni will actually make it a condition,
I want you to urinate in the mushaf.
And he will have to do it
to receive his help. We know that this
could happen.
People who deal with jinn,
the only one
who had control of the jinn was who?
But by the will of who?
He didn't have to give up this.
When there,
one day, we read, the
prophet
was praying tahajjud
1 night.
Started distracting him.
For the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam caught
him in the form, in the material. You
see, the jinn can take a a form.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam caught him to
the extent that he filled
the witness
of his tongue
in his hand.
And he said what?
I intended
to bring him in the morning and tie
him
in the masjid so the kids in Madinah
can play with him.
Having I
recalled the supplication of my brother, Suleiman?
What was the supplication of my brother, Suleiman?
Oh, Allah, bestow upon me kingship that no
one else would have after me. And one
of the things that Allah bestowed upon
Shulaiman is
the control,
authority over the jinn. The prophet did not
Shufal
Adam.
Yeah.
Don't be deceived by these things.
Don't be.
Now,
let's come to the
sugarcoaters,
which really the trend that we have these
days,
the people who wanna manipulate the religion,
the people who wanna, you know, make it
seem like
Listen, brothers and sisters in Islam.
When Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala revealed
the Quran
and revealed the sunnah to the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in his eternal knowledge,
he knew
he knew
that one day you will exist
at this time and age and you're gonna
face these challenges you're facing.
And the same exact religion is to treat
your situation, is to handle it.
Not a new religion.
Not a new made up Sharia
that deals with you.
And
wherever you are,
wherever you are,
you must be keen on implementing the religion,
not to stretch the religion to
accommodate you.
You stretch yourself to accommodate the religion.
And quite frankly,
we always talk about, you know, living in
non Muslim land
and what is the ruling on that?
Read these verses in Surah Al Nisa
verse 97,
98,
99,
and add 100 to it.
Look at this.
There is a predecessor
by the name of Abu Aliyah.
He made a statement out of this word.
He said, this
verse
is testimony
for every Muslim who chooses
to live
as a minority
amongst
predominant disbeliever
community
like us.
This verse is
a hudja,
an evidence
against anyone
who willfully
chooses
to live
in a broadominent
non Muslim community.
This verse.
As seen at the time of death,
Someone is dying.
And we know when we die,
there are 2 groups of angels.
One of them arrives
to prepare you for the angel of death.
Whether angels of mercy or whether angels of
what?
Punishment. Where do we get that from? What
hadith do we get that from?
Okay. The the killer of 100 souls.
Because the 2 groups arrived
and they started what?
His hours.
If the person is a believer, angels of
mercy arrive. Right? If a person is wicked,
angels of punishment arrive.
Now in the case of this man,
he died
drowning
himself. In in a state of transgression.
So the angels are gonna ask them this
question.
What's wrong with you? How in the world
do you allow yourself to die like this?
In that state of disobedience.
So the individual will say what?
We're
outnumbered.
We lived in America.
I wanted to eat hamburger and I wanted
I couldn't practice my religion.
But I wanted to live in America.
We were outnumbered. We couldn't. There was Islamophobia.
My wife couldn't wear the hijab.
We needed a house. We wanted to own
a house because, you know, you pay taxes
if if if you
rent. But if you pay mortgage, your taxes,
you know, the mortgage is taxable.
Any excuse,
sir. Will that be accepted?
Look look what the angels are gonna say
to
you. Wasn't the earth of Allah
expansive enough for you so that you make
hijrah?
Go somewhere else?
Mahwah, listen.
There are 5 necessities here.
Top of the line is what? What is
number 1 necessity that you must protect is
what?
Before.
The first one is what?
You must protect what? Why?
Why must you protect your deen?
Because this is why Allah created you.
Allah created you to worship him.
Why would you compromise your religion to stay
in a land
where your religion is at stake?
It's being compromised
or sugar coated
or watered down.
So be careful.
Be careful, brothers and sisters in Islam, with
these brothers
who wanted to make
everybody
happy.
Students' knowledge or scholars are of 2 type
3 types.
Three types.
There is a scholar who serves
the Sultan,
the authority.
And already the, you know, the the authority,
the people who rule the people, they need
what?
They need a turban to validate
their laws.
The second one is
the scholar for the people. What do you
want?
You know, there's,
music. You like music?
Music is halal.
Anything that
His goal is what?
Make people happy.
Because, listen,
you know,
religion is not about numbers.
And,
I mean, can you imagine the Catholic church
for
years,
They had this position on LBGTWXYZ.
Right?
Just 2 years ago,
what happened? The Pope came out.
The Pope,
he bopped out,
and he says he's one of our they
are one of our families.
Allah,
I'm next, door to my house in Colorado.
Catholic church, it has like 3 crosses. Every
time I pass by, my heart is like
3 crosses and there there's tall crosses,
wood crosses.
And in in the month of June, they
were hanging the rainbow flag on them.
God loves everyone.
Why?
Members,
Money.
Fans.
I want my fan to increase.
Facebook,
Instagram, whatever it is.
It's about that.
Very dangerous.
The prophet
says,
I was made to see
nations
following their messengers
on their way to Jannah.
You know, every
messenger will lead his ummah to Jannah.
So the Prophet
said, I saw a huge gathering and I
said, this is my ummah, Jibril.
Said, no. This is the ummah of Musa.
But look here. Look here.
But one of the
things that the prophet said,
I saw some prophets
leading
in the Arabic language, 3 to 9 followers.
Imagine a prophet followed by 9 people.
And I saw some prophets followed by 1
follower
or 2.
Here is the interesting piece.
I saw some prophets
having
0
followers.
If it was about numbers,
you know,
not
He said that. Right?
Oh Allah,
wipe all the kafirs from the face of
this earth.
When did he make this dua?
When Allah said to him what?
And we reveal to Noor
that no one else is gonna believe. That's
it.
So if it was about
bringing people to believe, well, let's what?
Let's modify the religion. Let's make it what?
Very dangerous here. What is trending? Unfortunately, in
America,
we have these guys who are
somehow inspired
to just
make people happy.
I, ended up in a
in an event.
So we got this sister.
So
she supposedly be talking to the sisters on
the side, but I heard.
So one of the sisters, you know,
asked her,
you know, I'm
really reluctant to wear the hijab
and and what do you think I should
do?
So the sister told her, don't wear it
unless you're prepared. You're ready for it.
I asked the brothers, can I just talk
to the sister for a minute? Where do
you get that from?
What kind of answer is that?
Don't wear it until you're you're ready?
Where did you get oh, right away, she
said, this brother who explains the Quran, I'm
I'm her her student.
Okay.
That's
this is ignorance.
This is ignorance. When Allah
spoke about
intoxicants,
he said, what?
You don't do that with the religion.
Why? She's trying to make the people happy,
and
this is the cycle.
And stay away from that trending brothers and
sisters in Islam.
I go to the last one, then we'll
open the floor for questions, inshallah,
is
the intellect.
And
for your information,
intellect or reasoning was
one of
the first
epidemics which hit this umma,
which
is they give precedence
to the intellect over the text.
They say, hada, this is not
doesn't make sense.
It doesn't make sense. There are some Quran
and Sunnah
which
our
minds as humans cannot comprehend. And Allah said
that.
Allah categorized the Quran into 2 types. The
revelation into 2 types.
Some of these verses are crystal clear.
What are?
What ambiguous.
Unclear.
You don't understand them.
Intellectually,
you cannot what?
You can't.
Quite frankly, it's very hard to
imagine that there are people who still exist
on the face of this earth
and who don't know where they are.
Intellectually, I agree.
But what should I do?
What should I do?
Whatever you know of the revelation to be
crystal clear, act upon it.
And whatever
you know,
but you don't understand, believe it.
How? I don't know.
Now, I don't have to come to you
because you're youth, and you're gonna be misguided.
Oh, they are like zombies.
You don't do that.
We'll
fasten.
You don't do that. So just
just listen.
Some of the revelation
it's exactly like,
you
know,
when
when those people shy away
from, the hadith regarding,
there is a hadith that says drink the
urine of camels.
Right? You read that hadith or no?
You never read it? You can drink urine
of camels
for cure.
Some people shy away from this hadith.
Don't don't say don't say that.
There are we discovered that there are some
diseases,
cancer in particular,
that the children of camel can treat. We
have actually farms in
northwest Sahara of Egypt that people travel across
the world, come to drink some
camel urine for treatment.
No. You don't know. Or like that,
the fly. Right?
When the fly dips,
what should you do?
Don't say that.
Drinking flies.
It's backward religion.
Who said that?
Before you said,
you believe that Allah is all knowing. Right?
His knowledge encompasses everything. So whatever he says
is what? You
you cannot subject the revelation to your intellect
at all.
At all, then you have an issue.
Because the intellect is supposed to help you
comprehend the religion.
But if you find a conflict there between
the intellect
and the revelation, then the problem with your
intellect.
Take it easy.
All the wisdom that we have, all the
knowledge that we have
comes from where?
The source of the revelation.
And, you know, when,
Al Khidr said to Musa,
that
my knowledge and your knowledge
and the knowledge of people,
when they saw a bird,
you know, sticking his
what do you call that?
Peak in the in the water. He said,
my knowledge and your knowledge is as much
as this
compared to the knowledge of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
This
trending is is really a losing trend, unfortunately.
A losing trend.
The progressive,
I call them progressive
Muslims,
the Muslims who normally are into this intellect
and
just doesn't make any sense. And normally, subhanAllah,
you will find them hitting the bulge of
the masajid these days. They have that.
They want to serve the deen, so they
step onto the masajid to serve the boards
and
they become the head of the imams.
Issues.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. May Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala
make us amongst those
who adhere to the truth always.
It's a key at this time that you
remember this.
Learn the truth. Know the truth. You will
know who follows the truth.
You don't identify
the truth
through the people.
The people should be identified
by the truth.
He follows the truth because of this.
But you don't say he is the truth.
You don't say that.
If you are to follow someone,
as an
example,
follow someone who died
because the living
used to be
could be,
exposed to fitna. You could actually fall into
fitna.
Jazakumullah Khayram, maybe we'll open the floor for
Yeah.
I mentioned how many?
So I said 5?
Islam. Open that thing for me please.
Oh, it's open. Thank you.
So we said that they
provide evidence, then they believe. Right?
The opposite is the people who believe, then
they
fish for evidence.
Number 2,
they are willing to retract
their mistakes
without any hesitance. Number 3,
they don't embrace themselves nor they like to
be praised.
They don't become a source of misguidance.
Number 4, they don't say anything which was
not
said before.
They don't come up with a new thing.
Number 5,
they do not
adopt.
They don't use philosophy
and intellect
to validate
their statement.
They always say
with a a restriction.
Pay attention. With a restriction.
Based
on the understanding
of the first three generations of Muslims.
Because everyone says Allah said, the messenger said,
by the way.
Whether he uses
a manipulated verse, he manipulates the verse, meaning
he takes it out of context, or whether
he uses
a hadith that is weak
or
or he uses the hadith in the wrong
context,
he's gonna say this is Quran and Sunnah.
But based on the understanding of who
the first generation of Muslims.
3 generations.
Why do we say the first 3 generations
of Muslims? We said that yesterday or the
day before yesterday. Why?
Because the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam himself
said that
the best of the Muslims
my generation
Then those who followed them.
Then those who followed them.
3 generations.
So this is what now?
5
I have 2 more if you want to
add them.
Look at their application
of knowledge
and their character.
Abdullah ibn Mas'ud
says,
If knowledge doesn't benefit you,
then forget it.
Then forget it.
I'm trying to remember the name of the
Mujadid.
He used to tell his students,
Waqi Abdul Jarrah, he used to tell his
students about,
Hadith.
Oh, people of the Hadith,
you like to come and learn the hadith?
Perform the Zakah of the hadith.
So they said,
He said, isn't 2.5%
is the zakah? Every 100 hadith implement 2.5%.
This knowledge, why are you accumulating this knowledge
if you don't act upon it?
It's issue.
And look at their character.
If you have 2 individuals who are matching
religion wise,
they keep up with the salah, they keep
up with.
If you wanna see who's better, look at
the character.
Whoever is better in character
must be better in religion,
and the internal side is much bitter.
Number,
7, which I really it's
it's
look at their worldly possessions.
Look at the what they are driving.
And, I have brother
here. He drives me in in and and
I just every time I come here, I
wanna hide, like, the * is coming down
from.
You know, may Allah bless his Tetla.
I remember this time this time in Berlin.
Well, like the first time I
the brother took me to the masjid, and
he's driving a Corvette.
I said, what's this man? Like, Sheikh coming
down from a Corvette.
I mean, what is this? It's like and
you're gonna
Imagine that.
Look look into these things. These things also
are
listen.
You gotta practice what you preach.
If you're telling people the duniya and give
and
then you yourself should be
at least
halfway. Moderate.
I rest my case. Abu Samad is here.
Yeah.
Yeah.