Mohamad Baajour – Heartify #12 Shirk The Unforgivable Sin
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The segment discusses the devastating effects of sh relevance on the body and soul, including heart disease and the potential for sh relevance to kill people. It also touches on the dangerous nature of sh codes and their impact on the brain and immune system. The speakers emphasize the importance of following the path of the prophets and avoiding evil, including following the blue eye and avoiding evil sh remodeling people's lives. They also discuss various shrock shuns and emphasize the importance of listening to what Allah subhanaru wa ta means.
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We said last time we met that starting
tonight, we will start with the diseases of
the heart.
And we mentioned that the diseases of the
body, they will end by death.
But the diseases of the heart, they ruin
my dunya, they ruin my qabr, and they
ruin my akhira.
This is how important is this topic.
And unfortunately, we give so much effort and
worries about the physical diseases, but we ignore
completely the spiritual diseases, the diseases of the
heart.
One of the, we're going to start with
the worst disease ever, and that is shirk.
Shirk is a disease of the heart.
Before I start, I want to ask you
a question.
One of your neighbors, he comes drunk every
single night, and he beats his mother.
And the other neighbor, every single night he
comes in, and the minute he walks into
the house, he makes sajda to the statue,
and then he continues.
Which one is worst?
Don't tell me what I want to hear.
Which one do you feel is worst?
This guy getting drunk and beating up his
mother every single day, and throwing her on
the street.
And the other guy just walked into his
house, he's Hindu, he has a huge statue
inside his house, he makes sajda, and he
says hello to his family.
Before he says hello, he has to make
sajda to the statue.
Now, naturally, what?
He beats his mother?
Astaghfirullah, what kind of a person?
We will be outraged that he's beating his
mother, and we will be outraged that this
man is drinking every day.
But that outrage is nothing compared to the
outrage of a guy making sajda to a
statue.
Even though we all know that sharia-wise,
Allah said, this man, the one who's drunk,
very big possibility that Allah would forgive him.
Inna allaha laa yaghfiru ayyushraka bih.
And he forgives everything else.
Allah officially told us in the Quran that
Allah does not forgive shirk, and he forgives
anything else.
So this one will never be forgiven unless
he made a tawbah and became a Muslim
or whatever.
But this could very possibly be forgiven.
So the question is, how come I don't
feel that this sin is way, way much
worse than the other sin?
How come?
How come Allah told me, listen to this.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, wa qalu
takhadhar rahman walada, laqad ji'tum shay'an idda,
takadu assamawatu yatafattarna min, watanshaqul ard, watakhirru aljibalu
hadda, an da'u lilrahmani walada.
Allah is saying just, just because someone says
Allah has a son, the mountains asunder, the
earth split, the skies destroyed, just
because they said Allah has a son.
Rahman, the all-merciful, has a son.
How come mountains are shaking and I don't
feel nothing?
I got the guy next to me, he
said, oh Jesus, son of God, and I
don't feel nothing.
As a matter of fact, I tell him,
Merry Christmas.
Enjoy.
How come I don't feel?
Allah is telling me, what does it mean?
Allah is giving us a very powerful image.
So how come I get so upset that
the guy is beating his mother, and the
other guy is committing shirk, and may Allah
guide him.
But the other guy, Allah, if I see
him, I'm going to beat him so bad.
He's beating his mother.
Right?
So how come?
SubhanAllah.
Listen carefully.
This is how important is tonight's talk.
There is something called shirk.
Why is shirk so evil to the level
that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, وَمَن
يُشْرِك بِاللَّهِ فَقَدْ حَرَّمَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ الْجَنَّةِ وَمَأْوَاهُ
النَّارِ وَمَهْلِ الظَّالِمِينَ مِنْ أَنصَارِ Whomsoever commits shirk,
Jannah is haram.
Jannah becomes haram for him.
And he is in the hellfire.
That's the first and most severe warning.
And then the ayah that I recited, إِنَّ
اللَّهَ لَا يَغْفِرُ أَيُّشْرَكَ بِهِ وَيَغْفِرُ مَا دُونَ
ذَلِكَ لِمَن يَشَاءَ وَمَن يُشْرِك بِاللَّهِ فَقَدْ ضَلَّ
ضَلَالًا بَعِيدًا Allah forgives anything except shirk.
Anything except shirk.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told us
the danger of shirk.
Listen carefully.
And he is talking to the man to
the man or to the to the man
that no way impossible to commit shirk which
is Rasulullah and Allah is telling him We
have revealed to you Ya Muhammad and to
every messenger before you that if you commit
shirk all your a'mal, all your hajj and
umrah and Quran and salat and all of
that multiplied by zero zero.
I'm introducing you and preparing you how dangerous
is the sin and we will see that
there are some forms of shirk that some
of us fall into without even noticing Should
I worry about shirk?
Many of us would say what?
Me?
Commit shirk?
No way.
Did Ibrahim worry about shirk?
Did Ibrahim alayhis salam worry about shirk?
Did he?
Muhammad did he worry about shirk?
When did he say Allah?
Abu Tawheed.
The father of all the messengers.
He said make this city safe
Ya Allah.
Ibrahim is worried that him and his progeny,
his offsprings could possibly worship Islam.
Ibrahim is asking Allah protect me, me, Ibrahim,
the builder of the Kaaba protect me and
my children to worship the Islam.
So who's Bajur and Kamran and Ahmed and
Hameed and who are we?
We think that we are innocent.
No way.
I worship Islam.
Ibrahim is asking Allah to protect him and
protect his children.
So what about us Ya Akhwan?
Again all of this is just to to
show you how dangerous it is to commit
shirk.
Now shirk our scholars divided it according from
the Quran and Sunnah.
They divided it into major shirk that take
you out of the fold of Islam and
minor shirk that is still extremely dangerous and
it could lead to major shirk.
What is the major shirk?
Major shirk literally means associating partners with Allah
Azza wa Jal or an equal to Allah
in his uluhiyah, in his lordship, in his
divinity and in his names.
It may occur with deeds.
I might do things that indicate that I
am a mushrik.
I might believe in things that I am
a mushrik and I might say things that
I'm a mushrik.
So it could be with intention, it could
be with a'mal, it could be with aqwal,
with sayings.
All of that could be possibly major shirk.
For example if I say that there is
another khaliq other than Allah immediately this is
shirk akbar.
I cannot say this is minimum shirk.
If I say that there is someone else
who knows the ghayb other than Allah, shirk
akbar.
And of course the one we know making
sujood, making ibadah to a sanam that is
officially shirk akbar.
Saying that there is one also other than
Allah worthy of worship is shirk akbar, is
a shirk that take you out of Islam.
Now there is a Nuqaym said the stronger
a person's love for Allah, the angrier they
will feel when people associate partners with him.
The more you love Allah, the more you
feel the magnitude of someone committing shirk.
Because sometimes the sin has a personal effect.
I'll give an example.
In our countries very famous that if they
have any issues with America what do they
do?
They put the flag and they start stepping
on it.
Right?
Step on the flag, burn the flag.
Now if you look at the just burning
the flag or stepping on the flag from
a harm perspective you did not harm anybody.
You did not kill anyone.
Right?
But a person in America seeing this and
his son died in a war in Iraq
for example and he sees that someone is
doing this for the flag, he becomes outraged.
Right?
Why?
Because they have a relationship with this flag.
Right?
So the more they love the flag, the
more they get annoyed.
The more I love Allah the more I
get annoyed that someone is actually associating partners
with him.
So it's something personal and that is where
we want to reach.
That's why many of us, if not all
of us, when we say the guy is
beating his mother we get outraged and the
other guy is saying Allah has a son.
May Allah guide him.
We do not feel anything.
We still have a lot of work to
do in order to get you know that
that feeling of very upset you know.
How can someone associate partners with Allah?
Because why?
You see what does the word kufr mean?
One of the meanings of the word kufr
is opposite of shukr.
Right?
imma shakiran wa imma kafura.
Yani shukr, kufr is a word that is
opposite of shukr.
Yani either you're grateful or you're ungrateful.
So kufr means ungrateful.
Yani always kufr comes opposite of shukr.
So he is a kafir because he's not
doing shukr to the one who gave him
everything.
He's making shukr to someone else who does
not deserve it.
This is shirk.
I'm saying thank you Jesus and Jesus has
nothing to do with all the naam that
I have.
It's from Allah.
So I'm giving someone something that belongs to
Allah only.
I'm giving it to another person, to another
human being, to another entity in general.
That's why going to the fortune teller listen
careful because unfortunately one of the shuyukh one
time he said you get very upset that
in the, he was talking about the UK,
you get upset because in the UK every
block there's a bar and you get furious
how come alcohol is being sold everywhere.
He said in my country and he named
his country there's every block there's a room
with a hand at the door telling you
come inside we can tell you your fortune.
And you get so upset about this and
this you say you know what let's go
inside and see what they have to say.
We're just taking it as a joke.
Right?
Listen to what Rasulullah said hadith in Sahih
Muslim.
Whomsoever go to a fortune teller and you
know some some of our youth sometimes they
go out of state for a vacation and
they said you know what we are on
vacation and look at this it says come
inside fifteen dollars I'll tell you your future.
And you go inside and you tell you
wallahi you're gonna marry a girl so beautiful.
And you know start telling you lies and
all that.
Now Rasulullah said if you went inside without
believing that this is truth that just for
fun what happened 40 days your salat is
not accepted.
You still have to pray but the salat
is not accepted.
What happened if you believed her?
We take it so light.
Oh she told me and this so you
know no no you have left Islam.
Look how dangerous.
Why Tayyib why what did I do?
Where's the problem here?
Exactly now I believe you see what does
let's go back a little bit what does
shariq mean?
Partner.
When you say in Arabic I opened the
shirkah with someone I became a partner with
brother to open a construction company.
Me and him are shariq.
Okay so now I'm saying no no no
no Allah is not the only one who
knows the ghayb.
This woman also does.
So now Allah is has a shariq in
knowing the ghayb.
Right so this is why it's considered shirk.
Tayyib why does Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
I mean hates shirk so much.
Like if you hear the ayat that we
recited are so powerful.
Listen carefully.
First is that Allah is completely self-sufficient.
Therefore his commands and prohibitions are based on
our needs since Allah has no needs.
Let me repeat.
The first why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
hates shirk so much.
Number one is because Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala is completely self-sufficient.
And his commands and prohibitions are for my
own good.
It's not gonna harm if all like Rasul
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam told us if all
mankind and jinn kind gather they're not gonna
harm Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala nothing at
all and if they all gather to benefit
him they're not gonna benefit him.
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala number one
is self-sufficient.
Number two Allah cannot be harmed or benefited
from the actions of his creation.
So anything that he commands or prohibits is
based on what is beneficial or harmful to
us.
That's why the Quran is called hidayah, nur,
light, guidance and mercy to mankind.
Because his words are mercy to mankind.
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala whatever he
orders or prohibits it's for our own good.
And our shirk in him does not bother
us at all.
Does not bother him at all.
It's us.
We are the one.
That's why inna shirka ladhulmun azeem.
If I commit shirk.
If I commit if I go home every
night and I make sujood to a statue.
Who am I harming?
Nobody.
I am harming myself.
Allah said inna shirk ladhulmun azeem.
It is the greatest zulm.
The greatest wrong you could do to yourself
is to say that I have a partner.
That's the worst thing ever.
Third that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
the haqq.
And therefore the magnitude of good and evil
is based on what violates his nature.
This stuff is a little bit deeper.
I will repeat.
The third principle is that Allah is the
haqq.
He is the truth.
And therefore the magnitude of good and evil
is based on what violates his nature.
So why shirk is so evil?
Okay.
If there's no good and evil in this
dunya.
Imagine that there's no good and there's no
evil.
How?
So what's the purpose of life?
Let's make it simple.
You know many of us love soccer.
We say this is a good move.
This is a bad move.
What makes this move bad and this move
good?
To achieve a goal.
There's a goal.
We want to win.
This move he made is bad.
This move he made is good.
It is called good and bad because there's
a goal.
But if there's no goal, there's no aim
for this game.
So similarly in our life the good and
evil because there's an end.
There's a hisab.
Right?
So stay with me.
Similarly we apply this good and evil to
our life.
If we assume that the purpose of life
is to maximize happiness.
Let's say the purpose of life is to
maximize happiness.
Then good will be anything that lead to
this.
And bad anything that prevents it.
With me?
Okay.
If a person believes that the purpose of
life is to achieve tawheed by following the
path of the prophets, then the opposite of
it, shirk is the most evil.
I think I'm looking at your faces.
I lost you.
Yes?
No?
All right.
Let me repeat.
If I know that the purpose of my
life is to achieve tawheed.
Right?
And that tawheed is by following the way
of the prophets.
That is the good.
This is the good to achieve my goal.
Right?
So what is the evil opposite of it?
Which is shirk.
That's why shirk is so evil.
Because it's opposite of what we are here
for.
To achieve tawheed.
Without tawheed we have nothing.
That's why Rasulallah ﷺ said, من قال لا
إله إلا الله مخلصا.
Not just say it and he does everything
opposite than لا إله إلا الله.
Sincerely from his heart.
دخل الجنة.
طيب.
Now the main problem with shirk is it
is خيانة.
It is betrayal.
At the root of shirk and evil is
betrayal.
It involves betraying one's purpose in life and
betraying one's benefactor.
Giving the person was endowed with the gift
of existence and all of the blessings of
life and yet refuses to show love and
gratitude to the one who gave me everything.
You gave me every single thing Iyad.
Everything.
And I go and I thank him.
And I praise him.
And I do everything for him.
And I'm disobeying you.
Subhanallah.
This is خيانة.
This is betrayal.
And that's why Ibn Qayyim said, and for
this reason I will quote him, shirk is
the most despised thing to him because it
diminishes one's love and one's love for Allah
and transfers it to whoever he associated with
him.
For this reason Allah does not forgive shirk.
And no doubt this is the greatest crime
a lover can ever commit to his beloved.
Is when I, when you give me everything,
when Allah is giving me everything and I'm
dedicating my love and my worship and all
my gratitude to someone else.
That is why shirk is so evil and
it cannot be forgiven.
Now what are some of the, this is
a major shirk, what is some of the
samples of minor shirk?
Minor shirk is what Rasulullah SAW told us
as a minor shirk.
There are hadith that strictly Rasulullah SAW said
it is a minor shirk.
For example, he said, the thing that I
feel most for you is minor shirk.
He said the word minor shirk.
The Sahaba said, ya Rasulullah, what is minor
shirk?
He said, riyal, showing off.
Showing off.
For Allah will say on the day of
judgment when people are gathered, go to those
for whom you were showing off with your
deeds in this world and see what reward
they have for you.
Which is our next disease, the riyal.
It is by itself minor shirk and it's
a major disease of the heart.
Riyal is showing off, doing amal, not for
the sake of Allah, for the sake of
people just to see you.
Second, wearing the amulets.
Many people, especially in many of our cultures,
they wear these things thinking that this is
going to protect me.
This, as a matter of fact, there's a
country, I'm not going to name the country,
they have a building, the whole building is
blue eye.
And one time in that country, someone told
the brother, he bought a brand new car.
You did not put blue eye?
Put a blue eye, hang a blue eye,
hurry up.
How are you going to drive without the
blue eye on the window?
So the blue eye is full coverage insurance.
This is what we think.
This is, or the shoes in the back,
you get a Rolls Royce and you put
a small shoes, baby shoes, because oh, you
don't want anybody.
No, Allah is the protector, not the shoe,
not the eye, not the whole shoe, none
of these.
These are minor shirk you're committing, and these
minor shirk will lead to major shirk.
Major shirk, I forgot to mention, one of
the major shirk, and also unfortunately, is very
common in our countries, when they go to
the grave and ask the dead for help.
Very, very common.
They go, and the person is dead.
He cannot help himself.
And I'm going to there and ask him,
please bless me with a baby boy.
My wife is pregnant.
Please cure my daughter.
And he listened to the ayat.
Maybe you can help me in Surah Fatir.
How does it start?
How does it start?
I know usually what comes after is easy,
but before is hard.
Listen to these ayat.
I will end with this, inshallah.
How powerful these ayat.
I got it.
Okay.
So listen to what Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala said.
Allah is your Rabb, and he owns everything.
Listen carefully.
The ones you are asking, other than Allah,
they do not have a qitmeer.
Anybody knows what qitmeer is?
Not the date.
Not the seed of the date.
Look what Allah used.
They do not have a date.
They don't have a date.
No, no, no.
They don't have a date.
They don't have the seed of the date.
They don't have the hair on the seed
of the date.
Is there anything more than that?
They don't have mulk of this qitmeer.
Now, listen to what Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala said.
Look how straightforward.
If you are asking, making dua, they are
not going to hear your dua.
And if I made them hear you, they
are not going to answer you.
And, يوم القيامة يكفرون بشرككم.
Look, Allah called it shirk.
On the day of judgment, they are going
to tell Allah, Ya Allah, I did not
tell them to come to my grave and
ask me.
And then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala ended
it by striking.
I am the khabir.
I am the all expert and I am
telling you this.
No one is going to tell you this
information other than me.
And we still see people, subhanallah, there are
some countries that you go there and they
give you a certificate.
You have a house in Jannah.
You pick your real estate.
You have a certificate that you are going
to Jannah and you come home, alhamdulillah, you
put it on a poster.
There are people who believe that if you
go there, you will go to Jannah.
If you make tawaf around this grave, you
will go to Jannah.
May Allah guide them, Ya Rabb.
And most of them, by the way, they
are doing this out of jahl, out of
ignorance.
When you ask them, what do they say?
This is exactly what we found our parents,
our grandparents are doing.
So we did the same thing.
Are you telling me that my father is
wrong?
Because everybody has a very emotional attachment to
their father and their grandfather.
And they love them so much.
You are saying that my father was doing
shirk?
So they cannot believe it.
Similarly, the people of Quraysh, you are telling
us that this is all the statues are
haram?
And you are telling us all our fathers
were mushrikeen?
That they are going to be punished?
They could not comprehend it, subhanallah.
So what is the solution, Ya Akhwan, quickly?
Rasulullah ﷺ, he taught us a dua.
Allahumma inni a'udhu bika an ushrika bika
wa ana a'alam wa astaghfiruka lima laa
a'alam.
He told us that this dua is to
protect you from shirk.
Allahumma inni a'udhu bika an ushrika bika
wa ana a'alam wa astaghfiruka lima laa
a'alam.
Ya Allah, I seek refuge with you to
commit shirk and I know.
And Ya Allah, sometimes I might do something
that I do not know.
So please, Ya Allah, forgive me.
I'm asking you to forgive me if I
commit shirk and I do not know.
And then, subhanallah, the ayah, Rabbana laa tuzigh
qulubana ba'da ith hadaytana wahab lana min ladhunka
rahma innaka antul hub.
Ya Allah, after you guided me and you
made me a muwahid, Ya Allah, Ya Allah,
please make me die on tawheed.
Allah, this is the best dua you could
ever make your children.
Ya Allah, make them live and die on
tawheed.
Make them live on laa ilaaha illallah and
die on laa ilaaha illallah.
We repeat again, if Ibrahim ﷺ was worried
about shirk, was worried about ibadat al-aslam,
what do I say?
Beg Allah to protect our children and our
next generations from kufr, from shirk, from falling
into major sins.
May Allah keep our children muwahideen.
May Allah make us live muwahideen and die
muwahideen.
Jazakumullah khair, barakallah feekum.
And you could welcome and come get some
chocolate inshallah ta'ala.