Mohamad Baajour – Ordering Good & Forbidding Evil – 3 Levels
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So, inshallah, we'll take
today,
another
beautiful story from the Quran,
and all the stories in the Quran are
so beautiful
and very beneficial. May Allah make us some
of the people who listen and apply.
This story is the story of
Ashab Sipt,
the people of Saturday.
It's mentioned in the Quran in few places,
but it was detailed in Surat Al Arab.
It was
mentioned
in
all its
components in Surat Al Arab, but ashab is
mentioned in many in many Suras.
What is their story?
The Jews came to and
they claimed they do not
sin. They do not commit any major sins.
So Allah
told Rasulullah
and
And it's a sarcastic question. They're saying you
do not sin. Ask them about the people
that used to live in a village or
in a, yeah, in a village next to
the sea.
So there were people who live by the
sea,
and
these people,
their main source of income is fishing.
Everything is fishing.
So Allah
wanted to test him.
He said,
you can fish on every day except Saturday.
That's why they called people of Saturday.
The the the village is divided into 3
groups.
Some people could not take it because this
is their only source of income.
So what did they do? They started putting
the nets on Friday
and picking up the nets
on
Sunday.
We are not fishing on Saturday.
We are not fishing on Saturday. We are
obeying Allah.
Some people saw that this group is
making money, and they're eating, and they start
smelling
the barbecued,
fish from their section,
so they followed.
Another group
came to them and said,
what's wrong with you?
Says haram,
Who are you kidding?
Who are you mocking?
Are you mocking Allah
Stop. They did not listen.
And the 3rd group,
they said to the 2nd group, the one
who were ordering good. They said, leave them
alone.
Leave them alone.
Allah is gonna punish them. Allah knows that
they're doing something wrong. Allah will punish them.
Leave them alone. So the second group said,
no.
We are doing this
for two reasons.
We are doing it for two reasons. Number
1, if Allah
asked me, did you do anything?
I would say, yes, You Allah.
I did something. I went and I told
them to stop.
And the other reason
maybe they would stop.
Now what happened at the end?
Those people who were
doing the trick,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala turned them into,
No, into Qarada.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told them into apes
and they used to come
to the other people. Now here the ape
knows his cousin, know his brother, but he
does not know. He's looking at an ape.
He said, I'm your cousin,
I'm your brother. They do not recognize him.
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
he made them into apes
And
the Ayah said that they got severe punishment,
and
the people who were ordering good and forbidding
evil were saved.
Ibn Abbas radiAllahu an, one time he was
reading this ay and he was crying.
Said, why are you crying?
He said, I am afraid to be from
the 3rd group that they were silent and
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
was silent
about their destiny.
He did not mention anything about them.
The second group or the third group,
which did not do anything, They were good
people, but they did not order good and
forbid evil. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala did not
tell us what happened to them.
Okay. Some of the lessons of this story.
I'm 100% sure
that these people who committed
this sin, they had shiur that told them,
it's okay.
Go ahead and do it. It's no big
deal. You're not fishing on Saturday.
You're not actually fishing on Saturday.
No problem.
Just like now, we have shiuk. It's okay.
Riba is only 2%.
It's not a big deal. It's not a
it's not much. It's just a little bit.
Go ahead.
The
bribe it's not a bribe. This is because
of your efforts, because of this. So they
name things.
They change things
to make them look halal.
Wallahi, it is similar
to exactly what this group have done.
And Allah
turned them into 8s and in the
So number 1,
we
sometimes
go fatwa shopping,
And we keep asking
and asking 1 Sheikh after another until we
get the custom made fatwa that we're looking
for.
Rasulullah
gave us the solution
because deep down in your heart
before you went to seek that fatwa, you
know it's haram and you're looking for a
sheikh to tell you it's halal.
That's why rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam gave
us the bottom line.
What did he say?
This is your Mufti.
This is your mufti.
You know deep down that this is haram
and you keep looking for a sheikh to
say it's halal,
but you know it's haram.
And when you asked
When someone asks you, you say,
on the day of judgment I will put
them on the neck of that sheikh.
If Allah asked me, I will tell them
the sheikh told me. But you know inside.
That's why Allah from his hikmah and from
his mercy, he did not make us responsible
until we are mature and we have a
brain.
Number 2,
ordering good and forbidding evil. Our scholars said
if there was if there was
a 6 rukun in Islam, it will be
ordering good and forbidding evil.
And this is one of the
this is one of the main problems of
this ummah is that because we stopped practicing
this. It's an act of worship. We stopped
practicing it
for many reasons.
Ordering good.
Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
he said,
if you stop ordering good listen carefully, Yakwad.
If you stop ordering good and forbidding evil,
you will be raising your hands and saying,
you Allah.
You Allah. Making du'a making du'a
in Plano,
in America,
in Haram, in Medina, and nothing is happening
because you stopped ordering good and forbidding evil.
We see the haram around us. We are
quiet because we are so scared.
Look at this, homosexuality.
Isn't the same thing? Oh, this is you
see, when these people followed their
stomach desire, they couldn't eat. They want to
eat fish.
The other people are following their other private
part desire
and they made rules and laws and if
you just obey this law, you are out
and nobody dares to say anything because, you
know, what is going to happen to me?
He says, haram is haram.
Haram is haram. It's not going to change
no matter what happens.
When we see something wrong, we have to
say something.
And now we all know the hadith of
ordering good and forbidding evil.
With your hand,
with your tongue,
and with your heart. 3 levels.
1st with hand,
second with the tongue, and 3rd with the
heart. And Rasulullah
said, the heart is
the weakest of iman.
Now listen carefully.
What does it mean with the hand? The
hand does not mean you beat somebody to
do something.
The hand means you are a person of
authority.
It you are the father and your daughter
is leaving the house without hijab.
You are in charge. You are responsible.
You are responsible.
You don't say here, oh, Habibti, I hate
it with your heart with my heart. No,
you are a sultan here. You have to
tell her and talk to her
and you have to mention to her the
importance of hijab.
Your son does not pray. Okay. Habibi, please
if you can't pray. No. This is you
are the father. You're the mother. You have
a sultan here.
You have to say, No Habibiya, you are
my son, I love you so much. You
have to pray.
You must pray.
This is not a choice. Salat is not
a choice.
If it's your friend, it's your cousin, then
you go with the second one
with your tongue.
If you are the owner of the if
you are the president of the country, you
have
the right to say no alcohol sale in
my country. No gambling. No prostitution.
You are the sultan. You change with your
hand. You do not say I hate it
with my heart.
You're the Sultan.
The second one is with your tongue.
Just like we're doing right now with the
tongue.
You say you see a brother, you go
into his store and you see him selling,
lottery.
You say, brother Habibi, this is gambling. This
is haram.
You not gonna go and break the store
and no. No. No. This is not your
authority.
You tell him, this is haram, brother.
You're not allowed to do that. This is
Islamically. This is considered gambling.
In your business if you want barakah.
And then
in your heart, when you are, you know,
living in a place like this where you
see haram all the time,
at least you hate it with your heart
and listen carefully. If it reaches a point
that you do not feel anything anymore,
not even the heart.
This is where it gets really, really dangerous.
Not even in your heart is feeling anything.
Haram is happening.
Shirk is taking place around us, and nothing
nothing not even a feeling of haram. As
a matter of fact, you start
promoting,
you know, these are our brothers, the Christians
who worship Jesus, our our brothers.
How could they call them brothers, Yafi?
They are calling. They're saying that Allah has
a son.
How?
SubhanAllah.
So you hate it with the heart and
if you don't hate it with the heart,
rasulullah said,
that's it.
That's it. This is the weakest of iman.
That means if I don't wait, I hate
it with my heart.
What's next?
There's no iman.
This is the weakest. There's no iman. This
is how dangerous it is.
So Amr Bil Maroof has rules. I have
to be first
sincere.
I have sincerity.
I'm doing it only for the pleasure of
Allah, not to be called names and to
have followers and I'm doing it only for
the sake of Allah. Second, I have to
have knowledge of what I'm ordering.
Not to be alim, but at least if
I tell you to pray and you ask
me how to pray, I have to know
how to tell you how to pray.
3rd, I have to practice what I'm preach
what I'm preaching.
4th, I have to have patience.
And 5th, which is extremely important, is the
sloop of ordering good and forbidding
evil. The manner, the method
has to be with gentleness, with kindness.
Allah
send 2 prophets
2 prophets to,
the worst person ever created,
and speak to him gently. If I'm supposed
to speak to frown gently, how do I
speak to my brother and to my cousin
who says,
More gentle, very kind.
So
now, unfortunately, Ahwan,
many of us fall into the 3rd category.
It has nothing to do with me. Me,
I'm good. My family is good. Let them
do whatever they want.
As a matter of fact, there's one group
of scholars said they were also with the
first group.
This is one of the opinions.
They were with the first group punished
because they were quiet.
So you order good and forbid evil to
the best of your ability
as much as you can.
Depends on which level are you. But to
leave things going without doing anything, why is
this story mentioned in the Quran?
At least the first group, subhanAllah, may Allah
make us all among them. May Allah make
us all from the first group. They said,
at least when I stand in front of
Allah and he asks me, why didn't you
do anything? I will say, you Allah, you
know, I went and I spoke and I
did something. I did something.
So at least we feel like we did
something.
The guidance,
if the person stop or not, this is
not your responsibility.
This is not your responsibility.
This is all from Allah
Our responsibility
is to give the warning.
Even Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi salam himself, he was
told,
We did not send you as
We only sent you as a Mubasher to
give glad tidings of Jannah and to warn
people
about the hellfire.
May Allah make us from the people who
listen and apply. May Allah make me from
the people who practice what they preach. May
Allah
make our last words.