Morad Awad – Friendship in the Digital Age

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I'm gonna just take two minutes of your time for really important

announcement. And I really would like for you to pay attention and

really think about it for a second here, and then try and follow

Inshallah, tada. As you notice in the past of few weeks in the

month, the the number of COVID cases have gone up. More

importantly, the cases around us has gone up people that we know,

are sick, some of them are in critical condition as we speak.

The problem is, as we're keeping the epic open, we have a certain

guidelines that we follow. And these guidelines are for all of us

to be safe. Sometimes they get, you know, you might be irritated,

you might be agitated, because as the volunteers are telling you

reminding you, so it gets overwhelming sometimes, but I

request you all to please be patient with us. This is for our

own safety, this is for all of us. The other thing that we're doing

here is we're taking we're getting complacent

from COVID We think that it's some light fever, light headache, like

cough, and then we're good to go. Maybe one or two cases went

through COVID as such, but that's not the general case. A lot of

people are getting severely sick because of this virus. So please

don't take this easy. Three things to remember inshallah from this

number one

please follow the guidelines help us help you. As you walk in. Make

sure that as you wait outside, try to maintain the distance number

two, while you're inside.

Please put your mask on throughout your stay here. throughout your

stay here make sure that your mask is covering over your nose and you

Please continue to do that. Then when you're exiting, might take an

extra five minutes but please be patient and we'll walk you through

inshallah as you exit the most important thing to take away from

this if you don't take anything else except this please let that

be this one which is if you're feeling sick, light headache, any

symptom, any symptom please don't take it easy. Take a break stay at

home

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light headache, anything that you're not sure of. Please take a

break make sure that you're safe and then come back to the masjid

inshallah Allah. last announcement.

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We praise Allah subhanho wa taala.

And we send our Peace and blessings upon our noble Prophet

Muhammad Ali Salatu was Salam.

And I remind myself and my dear and beloved brothers and sisters

on this blessed day of Yama Juma to fear Allah subhanho wa Taala

the way he should be feared and to do as Allah subhanho wa Taala

commanded us to try our best to do, which is not to die, except in

the state of submission to Him. We ask Allah subhanho wa Taala to die

in the state. I mean, you're blind I mean,

my dear and beloved brothers and sisters, there is no doubt

that real friendship

is one of the most sacred bonds that a person can have in this

dunya

a good friendship is something that is priceless to have in this

dunya

the benefits that it has in this dunya and then the akhira are

countless.

Having someone that can stand with you, in hard times. Someone that

can understand you, someone who when you forget can remind you who

you really are.

Friendship is even more valuable when it is established for the

sake of Allah and through the love of Allah subhanho wa Taala and

this is why our noble Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa

sallam said that the strongest north of Imam is an herbal Villa

A while Bilbo villa, the first is loving for the sake of Allah

subhanho wa Taala

because it's beautiful, and its rewards in here are immense,

something that we cannot even imagine, and now only mentioned

some.

And in a famous Hadith it was narrated that our Prophet

sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, and it's a famous Hadith that we

all perhaps know. He said seven people, seven people will be

shaded on the day of judgment on a day where there is no shade, but

his shade subhanho wa taala. One of these types is two people that

loved each other for the sake of Allah befriended each other for

the sake of Allah. When they gather they gather upon His love,

and when they separate they separate upon his love Subhan

Allah.

Allah subhanho wa Taala says in Isaiah

says Yo my role model ministry will me he will be was our hibachi

he will beneath the culinary min homie Alma is in shutting on your

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On the Day of Judgment, people run away from their kids, from their

wives, from their children from anyone around them, all they care

about is themselves. Everyone, as it was narrated will be saying NIF

CFC, Allah subhanho wa Taala said in another area.

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he said, on the Day of Judgment, close companions will be enemies

of each other, except for one type. Those who are God fearing

those who love each other for the sake of Allah, those who united

upon piety upon righteousness, those who reminded them each

other. By the way, Allah subhanaw taala wants us to do this. By the

way, can we do this act of worship? It's time for it. Oh, by

the way, I think oh, this is haram. We shouldn't be doing this.

These people who are God fearing who united for the love of Allah,

they will be together on the Day of Judgment. Imagine what a

beautiful sight Everyone is running away. But your boy or your

girl, your best friend, whoever you had in this dunya if you love

them for the sake of Allah, there'll be right next to you even

human glioma.

You will not even feel alone on Yeoman Cleona imagine that on a

day where everyone feels alone.

It was narrated on the authority of hip and bustle the Allahu Allah

Allah.

That he said, in Melilla, he Julius Yokoyama, I need I need a

lot of Allah subhanho wa Taala would have people sitting besides

his throne on the day of judgment

on the right of it, and both sides were killed Taya de Amin and both

sides of Allah subhanho wa taala. Right meaning on both sides, there

will be people mixed to the Throne of Allah subhanho wa taala.

He said, Allah monobrow me nor would you whom manure lays who

will be under what are they? What are shahada

column and OMYA rasool Allah call and Moutere have been a Fijian and

he said they will be sitting to the right and left on pulpits of

lights, their faces will be lit. Beside the Throne of Allah

subhanho wa taala. They said the rasool Allah Who are they? Because

the Sahaba wanted to know they want it to be like them. He said,

the ones who love each other for the sake of Allah, may Allah make

us from them. I mean, you're blind. I mean, these beautiful

narrations for those who have true friendship, for the sake of Allah

subhanho wa Taala friendship that grew and developed organically.

Not like these digital relationships we have today and

one, these fake relationships we have on modern day in modern day

social media platforms. These types of relationships that are

fragile, that break with any wrong comment. A person doesn't like

your message, your video, your post, doesn't follow you doesn't

share doesn't do this, the relationship ends. This is not the

relationship that we spoke about in the narrations we mentioned

before in the chat we mentioned before. These fake relationships

are plaguing our societies, our world in today's day and age one.

Relationships myth

For had a long process, in order to get to know someone, you had to

go through things together, it went through ups and downs, you

discovered each other gradually.

And like details of another person, perhaps you wouldn't know

which country they lived in before, which they came from, what

they're allergic to what food they like, you would discover that

months into the relationship, it would grow organically.

But today,

before we even get to know someone, you look at their social

media, you know, everything about them, where they live, what school

they went to, who they associated with, what food they like, what

their favorite color is, how they dress everything.

Subhanallah and this is not normal, yet, one. We live in an

exceptional time in history. This is not the default by any means.

When we were young,

I remember when I was young, my parents used to vet my friends.

They would tell me, okay, what I'll do, where are you going?

What are you going to play video games with? I would tell them all

my friends. Okay, well, where are his parents? Do we know them?

Where do they live? How do they live? Okay, this not? Can I get to

know them first? Do they go to the masjid? Do they not? So they would

slowly see If we are compatible as families so that the values aren't

mixed up. You know, I don't go from my house where something is

wrong to a house where something is deemed to be right. Right, and

the parents would, would actively engage in this. But today, our

children log on, we log on to our social media platforms get to know

people that Allahu Allah may have false usernames. Maybe it's a

pseudo life, right? Maybe it's not even a real it's a fictitious

person. Maybe some people enjoy this, we get to know them this

way, and build these fake relationships.

Just to think to get a false sense of having friendship and

relationships, when it is completely completely wrong.

Yes, one.

Not only our relationships controlled in this process,

but when we log on, we get recommendations of videos, certain

people pop up on our feed, that we should associate with because they

go to the same school, they live in the same neighborhood, they eat

the same food we eat, they like the same videos we like, all of a

sudden, we find ourselves bombarded with a feed a list of

recommendations of friends we should have.

Not building our friendship, the way we should, which is through

our character, our personality, building ourselves getting to know

a person getting to know the real from the fake getting to know the

one who is genuine from the one who is in genuine

or not genuine.

This is the real way of building friendship. And that's why the

bond is fortified. Yeah, one

the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, relating to this, he

said the simile tude of good company and that of that company

is like the musk seller, meaning the perfume seller and the

blacksmith, the blacksmith,

the musk seller, and this is in the Hadith, the mask seller.

You either live buying something from them, or them giving you a

gift, some perfume, some mask, or at least you will smell good when

you leave them. That's the least of it.

As for the blacksmith, you either get burned by them, because the

fire the flame is flying around. Or at least you smell bad when you

leave.

Though imagine when we have a point of weaker we imagine

a time where we are watching certain videos or listening to

certain things or following certain people, certain

celebrities. And then we constantly are bombarded with a

feed of what have all these types of people that share the same like

the same.

The same interest.

All of a sudden we find ourselves not only next to one blacksmith,

but in a tornado of blacksmith and it is impossible for us to leave

without smelling bad at least smelling disgusting. are getting

burned completely in the process. As the Prophet sallallahu alayhi

wa sallam drew this example

who we follow is the company that we keep your one hot

Who we follow is the company that we keep all the accounts we follow

the groups we were on we receive hundreds of messages daily. Do you

not think that this is going to leave an effect in your

subconscious mind?

Well, Allah he will. For example, someone you follow a friend, you

got to know someone in school. He's constantly commenting. All

parents are so boring. I hate family. I can't wait to leave my

family. My parents are doing that. Do you think your reading this is

not going to affect you? Well, it no matter how good your upbringing

is, no matter how strong you think you are, no matter how firm you

think your faith is, you will be affected by all this negativity,

and it will settle in your subconscious.

All of these messages will resonate in you Yes, 100.

Or consider the example of a celebrity that you follow. Imagine

a celebrity, you follow the celebrity and he happens to have

good things. But sometimes the celebrity posts things that are

inappropriate.

Do you think that you will always push off these in appropriations?

Law Allah, brothers and sisters, we overestimate sometimes, our

ability to filter good in bed.

We overestimate our ability to filter good from bad.

Sometimes we may get overwhelmed in life. And finally, in a

profound Hadith the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said

and summarized what I just said, a person is upon the religion of

their friend. So let you look at those who you befriend.

A person is upon the religion of their friends.

So this teaches us two things. The first is that we shouldn't

underestimate how much who we associate with affects us. Because

the prophets I seldom said Our religion is like them.

And it shows us number two, that a true friendship is a friendship

where we get to know someone deeply. We get to know their

morals, their values, their faith, we get to know them by their

character on a personal level.

And this is why he said el Mercado Isla de Nicoline you are upon the

religion of your close companion. We ask Allah subhana wa Taala to

bless us with close companions that are righteous and that

continue to be with us until the Day of Judgment era Bill Alameen

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Three lessons here one to quickly summarize everything that we

mentioned, and what action items we can take home. From what we

just heard. I know it's a short hotbar and we can talk about this

for a long period of time we can have a whole workshop about this

by itself, but three things we can take home from this hotbar and do

right now as soon as we leave.

Number one, we can filter our feeds.

We can unfollow, unfriend, we can mute, we can block whoever

distracts us from good. Anyone who constantly bombards us with evil

that resonates into our subconscious thought as evil

thoughts that we constantly keep thinking of filter them out, get

them out of your life, that's the first. The second is cultivate

good relationships, long lasting relationships, those relationships

that can help you in the hereafter so that you can find someone

standing next to you in hard times in this dunya and the normal

Koyama this is the type of friend we need in this life.

So we need to cultivate this by associating with them closely

getting to know them on a personal level, not being distracted from

our close friends that we physically know. To those friends

who are on social media that are fake that perhaps if when

electricity is gone, when there is no Wi Fi completely vanish,

because they won't be there Yeoman pm as well. So invest in what will

give you life and what will give you success in good strong

relationships and strong friendship in this dunya insha

Allah Dinah, and the third and the last is watch what you share

brothers and sisters.

When you share something, go back scroll back and see everything you

shared. Every video every post every comment every like and

dislike. See, why did I do this?

Did I do it for good? Did I do it to show off? Did I do it because I

was bored? Or did I do it because I was just following the trend.

You see everyone's sharing. I know it's pointless, but I'm just, I'm

just following the crowd. Do you think this following the crowd

mentality is what Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam raised

the OMA to be like Wallahi we're not like that. Well Allah He this

almost better than that. Well Allah He this Allah is the amount

of hair is the OMA that creates the positive trends and as a

leader to that which is good for the rest of mankind. We ask Allah

subhana wa Taala to make us leaders of mankind and good, we

ask Allah subhana wa Taala to give us success in this dunya Allama

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out please let us not forget to make dua for our brothers and

sisters in the community that ours