Moutasem al-Hameedy – For the Sake of Allah – EP 04

			You are sitting with your friends and they are speaking ill of another brother who is absent. What
would you do? Would you defend him? Or would you take part in that backbiting? What's the right
choice to know that stay with us?
		

			Indeed, All praise is due to Allah, we praise Him, we seek his aid and we ask for his forgiveness.
We seek refuge in Allah from the evils of ourselves, and the evils of our actions. Whomsoever Allah
guides, non chemists guide and whomsoever a lie leaves to go astray, none can guide and I bear
witness that no one has the right to be worshipped except a law alone, who has no partners and I
bear witness that Muhammad is His servant, and His Messenger j viewers are greet you with the
greeting of Al Islam. Assalamu alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh Welcome to a new episode of your
show. For the sake of Allah, we are dealing with the Ways and Means that will help us maintain this
		

			beautiful treasure that Allah subhanho wa Taala has granted us Allah because of the high position
that He has given brotherhood of Islam, brotherhood between the Muslims, Allah has provided us with
the means and the ways to maintain this brotherhood and improve it and make it of a better quality
so that the Muslims will maintain this mutual love amongst them from the waist to maintain this
brotherhood and improve it. And to have more love in the Muslim society and more love amongst the
Muslims, more love amongst the members of this great and big family that a last penalty that made us
members of is to defend your brother, when your brother is absent and he's being attacked. Somebody
		

			is has attacked his honor. Somebody has spoken about him. Somebody has said something evil about him
as a Muslim who's concerned for his brother, who cares for his fellow Muslim, you should defend your
brother and you should always speak the truth. So today in sha Allah, we have our guests Brother
Mohammed and brother Abdul Rahman. salaam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato. We will discuss this
important topic, because today we can see that people have deemed it easy, and they see it as a
light thing and as a minor issue, to talk about others and at the time, when backbiting has become
the norm. And it's become the thing that people resort to in the settings and in the gatherings. And
		

			they just talk about other people, this man did this and that and this is the only thing they
choose, and they can amuse themselves with what a how La quwata illa. So we will today see insha
Allah and try to get the examples and highlight the importance of defending one another. When you
are absent, you would like that, if somebody speaks ill about you, that one of your brothers defends
you and speaks the truth. So we will say inshallah, from the Sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wasallam and the high morality and the good character of the Muslim how to behave in situations
where people will attack the honor of your fellow Muslim. So now, we know that from Brotherhood is
		

			to defend your brother when he is around, he's with you. someone tries to oppress him as the Prophet
salallahu alaihe salam says, aha, Kabbalah man,
		

			you champion or you help your brother, whether he's oppressed, or he is an oppressor, he's doing
oppression. So the companions when they had this Hadith, they said, okay, we help him when somebody
else oppresses him, but how can we help him when he wronged somebody else, but we know that the
morality of the Muslim entails that you should, you should not help the one who was doing
oppression, but the Prophet sallallahu Sallam clarified the issue. And he said that
		

			that means if you see him doing wrong, or he's wrong getting somebody else, you prevent him from
doing that oppression. So
		

			when your brother is around, you have to defend him, you have to show him the right way. If he gets
off track, you bring him back to the way that Allah subhanaw taala is pleased with. Now, if one of
you wants to be in a situation, for example, say Mohammed you are sitting with your friends. And
sometimes people have jealousy and they have envy. So they thought, try to back by this person if
he's absent. So if you are sitting with your brothers
		

			And they start talking about somebody else. Maybe this is the truth, maybe it's a lie. So what
naturally would would be your your behavior? If this is your brother, your concern for him, I want
you to put yourself in that position and tell me what your natural reaction would be in this
situation.
		

			If I see them that they accept advice, it's acceptable by them, I will surely advise them not to go
into that issue without the presence of the brother that they want to talk about.
		

			or also that try to avoid the subject at all and maybe go move on to another topic. But surely, I
will go straight into to stopping them from going into an issue of
		

			saying bad about the brother.
		

			But biting them. Yes. Okay. What if they carry on? What would you do? Man? Let's say that they're,
they're talking about this brother. Okay, he did. He did this and that. And you know, when yesterday
when he was in that place, some sometimes people okay, he went to that hotel, and we don't know what
things happened there. And you were sitting, and you try to give them advice that brothers This is
backbiting we shouldn't be doing that. So they still they carry on doing? What would you? What would
be your reaction? For example, if they're my house and they're there for lunch? And they kind of
hungry? I'll just bring the food and we'll start start to eat to avoid that. So keep them busy with
		

			some with Yeah. Okay. What if there's no food anyway? Okay, that's one situation. I mean, how would
you behave? Are they still doing the same evil? I'll try to say that he's not he's not present. So
better. Stop backstabbing him. Okay, if they carry on doing that, actually, I'll be like, Okay, if
it really gets really to the top, I'll just leave. Very good. Bus leave in a nice way. Okay, I gotta
go. I have something to do. Very good. You remember when we talked about advice and giving sincere
advice. These are brothers. And we are human beings. Sometimes. We have envy, we have jealousy. It's
natural. Sometimes we fall into it. Sometimes we bought back by a brother doesn't mean that we are
		

			evil people. Doesn't mean that someone did something wrong, that he's an evil person. No. means he
needs advice. And we should give them advice in a way that is best the way we discussed. When we
talked about the advice give it in the way that is best, according to the Sunnah of the prophet SAW
love and
		

			now they refuse and they say, they keep backbiting that brother and speaking ill about him. Allah
subhanaw taala describes the believers in social for one, he says, well, leadin Alicia, don't
		

			worry, the AMA will be lovely maruka Rama, they are the ones who don't witness falsehood. So when
it's when something wrong is going on falsehood is being that they don't take part in it. So if you
are sitting with a group of people that are backbiting they're speaking ill of another brother who
is absent, what you do give them advice in the way that is best. They insist upon that.
		

			Children brothers, you know, this is a sin, and I fear, the anger of a loss penalty. If I stay with
you, I might be included in the punishment if Allah wills to punish you. Um, I feel a loss penalty
Allah, so I have to leave. Because this is an evil thing that you are doing. So this is a good
thing. Do you know what? Because sometimes people, they don't take lessons from advice if you give
it verbally, but if they see that you are getting upset because of that evil, they will rethink,
they'll think it over and they will try to rectify the situation. And you shouldn't, at least you
shouldn't be there. And I want you to contemplate them. The verse Mohammed, the verse loving Elijah
		

			do not know why they are not in love with Marvel kerama you know, Maru below? Can you elaborate more
on the weather level and how they should do in that verse how they should be kiralama when they do
		

			love was going away from the right. Right? speech, right conversation, hey, and Mark Roman should be
like, going away with pride. And you have to have your head high, and move away from doing something
as stray from the path of the sun. Very good. Very good. This gives us
		

			a new dimension now, Mashallah to this. You see, a level as you said, is to waste your time with
speech. That is fruitless. There's no benefit in saying that. For example, you say? And I say, I'll
count. Okay, how many flowers around me? Well, that's fruitless. There's nothing, no benefit from
this speech. Why do you waste your time usually, it's like you said, Chef, it's, it comes from the
desire, or the hate and envy. Usually, that's it but as we said, we have yet we're still human being
		

			We have just voted that some time or another. Now, this happens, as I said, I level is, is not
backbiting backbiting is evil level is less. And it's evil is just speech in which there is no
benefit. You're just wasting your time saying nothing, when there's no benefit in this life, and no
benefit in the next there's no reward from them. So even this, Allah describes the believers that
they turn away from it not at all kerama they go with honor, with an honor and with their pride. We
don't we are people of honor and dignity we don't fall into, we don't waste our time with them. So
we keep on. So what do you think about backbiting and speaking about your brother? Now,
		

			if somebody said something evil about you, and you were absent, and you heard that a brother
defended you, what would be your reaction Mohammed will actually to be like,
		

			giving me more confidence in the Brotherhood. And,
		

			of course, it's something real positive, and it makes my heart feel more love to this brother who
will speak the truth about Yeah, and we are discussing the means to strengthen brotherhood. Yes. And
it means strengthen brother even happened to me. Yes. Yeah.
		

			I even misjudged the brother, I thought that he, he will, he will be the backstabber also. But then
I heard from people that he also said good about me, and defended me. So that made made us get
closer again.
		

			You see, it strengthens that bond of brotherhood. Yes. Because if I hear, I heard that someone
really defended my honor in my absence, I would really appreciate that. And you can feel the honesty
from that person. Okay, what makes him defend me? Where does he take part in that backbiting? I
can't do that. And so this is some of the fruits that we strengthen this brotherhood, and this is
part of our religion. So when you defend your brother,
		

			and he's absent, and take into consideration that you're doing this for the sake of Allah, not for
the sake of him hearing about that. So now he would appreciate me more, some people do that, so that
they can add to their credibility, and they can abuse this credibility. No, we're doing it for the
sake of Allah. And you don't go next day and go to your brother. Okay. You see, they spoke ill about
you, and I defended you. Now, that's not the way that the Muslim should bathe himself. We do this
for the sake of Allah, because this is the manners of the Muslim. And you know, Islam and the Muslim
character, it builds in the person,
		

			honesty, the honesty in the person, and it builds in him
		

			that he doesn't really resort to evil things and the decadent ways of dealing with people, you know,
they feel things sometimes, backbiting lying, the Muslim is high above that.
		

			Islam elevates your character to honorable things and do things and this is why the Muslim naturally
defends the honor of his brother. So this is these are some of the benefits that we will get in this
life from defending the honor of our brothers, but Allah has prepared great reward for the ones who
defend the honor of their brothers we will find out in sha Allah so that we can benefit and our
viewers can benefit inshallah, but we will have a short break. So after we will meet inshallah, in a
few minutes and I say to my our viewers, stay with us inshallah. After a few minutes, we'll return
and see the high merits of defending the honor of our brothers and sisters in Islam. So stay tuned.
		

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			Salam Alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh Welcome back, you're still watching for the sake of Allah.
And we're still discussing the importance of this main principle in Islam defending the honor of
your brother, or your sister. Now, we came to know that when ever you defend the honor of your
brother, this will cause the Brotherhood to become stronger and better in the sight of Allah
subhanaw taala. And with regards to the reward that we will get in sha Allah, from Allah, it is
immense. But the Prophet sallallahu Sallam warned us against failing to defend your brother, some
people think, Okay, I have the choice, either to let the people speaking ill of my brother, or maybe
		

			some sometimes you have a neighbor, he's your brother. And you see thieves going into his house,
they're trying to take his stuff. This is a part of, of defending the honor of your brother or his
property. So you have if your brother's absent, it is as if it's your property, it is an obligation
that you should defend him, you should protect all his interest as you do to yourself. And we came
across the Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that no one of you will truly believe,
until he loves for his brother, the good things that he loves for himself. So this is how we treat
our brothers. The prophet SAW our cell numbers one day, won't the companions against the evil, of
		

			failing to protect the honor of your brother sometimes, okay, I have some friends, I do some
business with them. Now they are speaking ill or they are doing harm to another brother who is
absent. Maybe he's present as well. Maybe he's present as well. So, and you say, Okay, if I give
them advice, they will give up doing business with me. So this will affect me negatively, this will
affect my business. Now you have the choice, either to do the right thing or to do the wrong thing
and be inclined more to this life, maintain your your interest or your your benefit in this life,
but you sacrifice the Brotherhood. If people do this, the Prophet sallallahu Sallam said, anyone who
		

			lets down his brother when his honor on his property is being attacked, he fails to protect him, he
lets him down, then Allah will let him down in a time when he needs help. And he needs support.
		

			We know in Islam I just mentioned Phil Amel. The punishment is in accordance with the evil that you
have done. You do evil Allah punishment punish you the same way. And this isn't there this, this
also the professor says kemah to Dino to them very What goes around comes around. That's it. That's
it, if you do evil, for example, if you deal with rebar, you want money, Allah will take the
blessing from your money and you will become a need Subhana Allah. So if you let down your brother,
then Allah will let you down. If you want to be safe and the time of hardship, to always defend your
brother help him whether he's absent or he is present. And then the profits are low. Selim explained
		

			the other side, he said and anyone who defends his brother, or the owner of his brother or the the
property of his brother when he's in need, then Allah will defend him at a time when he direly needs
help and he needs to defend the defense panel. This is from we said it, this thing strengthens
brotherhood, and even it helps you at the time of hardship. Furthermore, about that, that one of the
great companions narrated from the messengers alone and he said that anyone who defends the honor of
his brother, then allow us to save his face from the hellfire. So it's a means to salvation. You see
how all the regulations of Islam they protect our life here in this world, and they provide us with
		

			more credit in the sight of Allah subhanaw taala so brings us closer to paradise brings us closer to
the pleasure of Allah subhanho wa Taala. One of the companions when the prophets of Allah said in
one day set out to them in the expedition of taboo, he went to find one of the great companions, he
remained behind the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he didn't go and he had no excuse Kabak
nomadic, His story is well known it was mentioned in salaat October. Now, when the Prophet
sallallahu Sallam was out and he realized that kind of nomadic was missing, he wasn't with him. So
he said, What is kind of nomadic? One man said, All messengers will awesome, he's busy with his
		

			wealth. He's busy with his money. And so he didn't want to come. So out of new job and one of the
		

			well known companions, he had knowledge. He said, what an evil statement he was saying. He said to
that, man, how do you how do you say that about him? You don't know what the situation is.
		

			He defended his brother at that time, we all must enjoy Villa we only know about cabin, nomadic, all
that which is good. So this is the norm. This is the character of the Muslim we defend our brothers,
whatever the situation is, they are doing evil. We stop them from that they are being oppressed,
then we have to defend them and be on their side. Now, there are many complications to this. But
obviously, do you have any questions regarding how to defend your brother sometimes you fall in
situations that are tricky actually
		

			I wanted to ask, sometimes, for example, you can find a brother he's about to get married, and the
woman he chooses as his future wife.
		

			You heard about her stuff. Or you may know bad stuff about her or about her petition. So in this
case, is it better? Is it? Is it forbidden? To tell him as to advice? Or, or? Or we shouldn't?
That's a very good question. If someone wants to get married, this is something that he This is a
person who's taking as a meet as a wife or a husband. And they're supposed to live together for the
rest of their lives. So now we we say, now this brother who's getting married, he's your brother,
the wife of that the the woman who's taking a marriage is your sister. So now you have brotherhood
on both sides. We learned from a previous episode that from the rights of your brothers that you
		

			give him sincere advice. So now your brother wants to marry a woman or a sister. And we know that
the character of that sister, there's something wrong with it. There's something wrong with that
sister, she has some bad characteristics, bad traits that will affect the marriage. And that affects
her DNA, there is some problem with her Dean, okay, for example, she, she has a problem with
establishing the prayer on time, she doesn't pray on time. Or, for example, she doesn't First off,
for example, she makes the bottle. Okay, these things now, she's your sister, she has rights upon
you, and he's your brother, from the rights upon you to give him sincere advice. So this is not
		

			backbiting, you have to tell the truth. This is a time when you are considered to be a witness. So
you have to tell, but you tell it to the person who's concerned you don't you don't air it, and
spread it amongst the people. Now this becomes backbiting. So as becomes can become scandal. So you
only give the person who's concerned, if there is something that has to do with marriage, you have
to say that it's an obligation. It's not backbiting. And if you are present, then the person
actually should tell the person who's concerned. But if you are present, and this advice is being
given, then it's not about defending, it's about telling the truth. It's about what about truth,
		

			like, if it's in the past, and she changed and she became good? Like, in the past? Yeah. And you
know that, well, this thing is over with, it has come to an end, she no longer has this problem,
then a law in the law, how you and city allies, bashful, and he likes to not to expose the people
that sin is between her and Allah. This is our situation is a hammer. Do you have anything to add
about this? So I have a question also, what is like, I stand in court. And I was asked about a
brother or something like that. So what would be? Now this is the witness in court? Yeah, this is
again, on advice, you have to give it you have the rights, because we we said these are rights to
		

			the general Muslims, all of them are our brothers and sisters, and these are the rights they have
upon us. Okay. If the matter is, especially in court, it is a matter of somebody else's right. So
you have to give, I have to say the truth, the judge asks you, you have to say that we have to be
open about that. It's not backbiting and even if you are sitting in court, you can't say for
example, oh, you can't say this, this problem is this and that it is the truth. If it is a lie, then
you have to openly declare it and say this person is telling a lie, is my brother we know about him
that which is good, just as happened with my dad, when he was with the messengers. That man said to
		

			him, what he said, Okay, he's busy with his wealth, and he preferred not to come in that expedition.
What asset to Him? May Allah be pleased with him, he said, this is an evil statement that he was
saying, we know about him to be a righteous person, you know about him to be a righteous person. So
now we can see that Islam Mashallah has set the regulations to strengthen this brotherhood. Well, if
the people all over the world implements Islam, it would be a completely different world, there will
be no oppression, there will be no injustice, be a beautiful world where people love one another.
And you can see if you defend, if someone defended me, I would really appreciate that. Because and
		

			we know this is widespread now among people, and something that as we defend our brothers, something
is more deserving of our defense, that we should defend our religion. We can see that Islam is being
attacked and opposed. And it's been portrayed as an a religion that incites people or cause people
to shedding blood and terrorizing people
		

			is about fundamentalism. No, we have to defend the religion of Allah subhanaw taala. And the problem
now, people are part of it as well. Especially some orientalists they attack the Prophet sallallahu
sallam, they said the prophet SAW Selim.
		

			He had these evil traits and they try to misuse some of the facts. Some of the things that happened
the time of the Prophet sallallahu wasallam. It is our obligation to defend the messenger sallallahu
alayhi wasallam
		

			He's the one who the most deserves our defense, we should defend them. So we can see that Mashallah
Islam is calling us to perfect our brotherhood. And if this really is being this very point is being
implemented in our societies, you can imagine that scandal will have no place backbiting will come
to a stop, won't be there anymore. And you can imagine such a society where all these high values
are widespread, and people acknowledge them. And this causes us as well. When someone is backbiting
or speaking ill or attacking the owner of your profit and you defend him. Next time this other
brother who was doing that evil who was backbiting the other, he would think it over, he would think
		

			to himself, why am I doing that evil? Why am I Why don't I take the example of this good brother.
And I follow his example. And I, instead of attacking the honor of my brother, I should defend him.
You see, this should be the case, have you come across an experience where some of your brothers was
attacked, and you saw someone defending him? Or what impact it has on his life, or on their
relationally once happened, that I had two brothers, and they both friends of mine, they were even
about to fight.
		

			So I was like, in between of them.
		

			So hamdulillah and he in the end, I was able to make them get to be friends and get to hamdulillah
and they were both backs, stabbing each other. I suppose I was very calm.
		

			I was trying to listen but at the same time, give advice and hamdulillah you know, you reminded me
of a beautiful verse and sort of thought what Allah subhanaw taala says to the prophets of Allah
silence will lead a body
		

			in the shape honor in the Habana home, oh mama say to my servants to say the things that are good.
This is why the Muslim should always be good in speech. Because speech is a reflection of what is in
his heart. speech is the reflection of our character. So say to my servants to say that which is
good. In the shape Bonanza obeyed home. Shaytan is trying his best to create enmity amongst you to
destroy this brotherhood. Because it shaytan knows that the strength of the Muslims lies in
brotherhood lies in this mutual bond that is firm and strong. And this is the point of strength in
the Muslims. shaitaan is trying to break that she is trying to destroy it. So we see when we defend
		

			our brothers, and we protect their properties and we deal with them. As we deal with ourselves. We
like the good things for them as we like for ourselves. This will create a very beautiful society a
very strong community, as was at the time of the Prophet sallallahu Sallam and we saw what had been
done by mail agrees with him did and this is the example we would like to follow. So inshallah we
will implement this in our lives and our viewers as well. inshallah, we'll implement that so that we
develop a beautiful Muslim society and a strong bond of brotherhood amongst ourselves and inshallah
this will lead us to the pleasure of Allah subhanho wa Taala. I have to say to my brothers,
		

			Jazakallah Hiram, for being with us and for your contributions we say to our viewers, dissolvable
O'Hanlon for listening, and May Allah bless us all and make us benefit from the goddess of the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and I have to say now, Salaam Alaikum warahmatullahi
wabarakatuh