Muaadth Allie – The curse of interesting times
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Beloved brothers, sisters, and elders in Islam,
I've begun many a jumah with these words,
but it is
no more apt than today.
The Chinese, they have a curse.
And the curse says, may you love in
interesting times.
May you love
in interesting times.
And, surely, we couldn't be living
in more interesting times than these very days.
This much is obvious
when we study the media,
and we are faced
and we are bombarded daily
with public beheadings.
Muslim fighting Muslim,
the toppling
of governments,
and on the other side, the complete dormancy
and the fajah of Muslim governments
in the face of Muslim suffering,
in the face of Palestinians on the borders
of their country
dying,
but still refusal
to open the borders.
What about local events?
Was it the right to march in support
of the Palestinians,
or should we have followed the fatwa of
the Mufti of Makkah
who proclaimed that such masses are un Islamic
and are to be avoided
even when devoid of destruction of property
and other such un Islamic practices.
What about the boycott of Pick n Pay
and Woolworths?
But no boycott of any other company
that are or that that is clearly also
in cahoots with Israel
and that they are selling Israeli products
or producing weapons
for
Israel
or the like for the Israeli government,
or they are sending supplies and finances, the
owners of these companies, to Israel.
On the one hand, we have the certainty
of knowing, as Muslims,
people that are actually loving Islam,
tasting Islam,
knowing what it really is. We have the
certainty
that Islam is a beautiful religion
with the solutions to the problems of humanity.
But on the other hand,
we face the fact that the human expression
of Islam has strayed so far
from the from the theoretical ideal
as to be considered alien to it.
What does the conscientious Muslim do in our
times?
What does he or she
do when they are asked about Islam and
they are asked about these beheadings?
Do we engage anyone and everyone
and on every platform that is available, Facebook
and WhatsApp,
on any topic related to Muslims?
Or does this conscientious Muslim limit himself or
herself
to those topics that they have sufficient knowledge
on to warrant the discussion
And on platforms
where we can expect sensible discussion and debate
and avoid other platforms
that are clearly just to raise and rent
and go
crazy
as many people are into in these times.
I've decided in this jumah
to address some of the local concerns
and to leave some of the international issues
to an international figure
whom I will quote verbatim, and I will
expose who he or she is later on.
1st and foremost, with regards to the march,
here you need to understand that marching in
support of the Palestinians had numerous legitimate aims.
Of all the legitimate aims,
there was one that was closest to my
heart,
closest
to my heart. And what would that be?
My dear brother and sister,
it is not exactly the same to die
alone,
even if for the right cause,
and to die in the company of others.
Somehow, to know
that my death is felt by another human
out there.
Somehow, to know that somebody will cry when
I die.
And somebody will see the value
of my death.
Somehow that makes the death
all the more bearable.
Somehow the pain that I suffer
is all the more bearable to know that
I have Muslim brothers out there and sisters
that see the value.
So the first thing,
the reason
that I am proud of the march and
any marching the like of it,
is that if our Muslim governments will not
rise up and support
our Muslim brothers and sisters, at least we
will show
that we stand with you.
We feel with you,
and your death is not an unknown death.
Your death is not an unborn
death.
And Allah knows best.
As to the fatwa of that particular scholar,
though it has a certain degree of merit,
if the march is contrary to the teachings
of Islam, it has teaching
elements that is contrary to the teachings of
Islam. What if the march is a peaceful
march? This is the bulk of the marches.
There's been peaceful marches.
There's been
no disruption
of,
lawful affairs. There's been no destruction
of property
and the like. What then?
To me, it's Max Moore that the particular
Mufti
is in the pocket of the Saudi government.
That's to be honest now. To me, it
sounds that a particular Mufti is in the
pocket of the Saudi government,
and he fears that the like of the
uprisings in Egypt and Syria and other places
will come to Saudi.
With his wife, we speak to the general
Saudi on the floor, and they go out
and they wait to show you we're not
like the people of Syria, and we're not
like the people of Egypt.
We are a loyal people.
But many that live in the country are
aware that when the uprising started,
the government started dishing out money.
The government started dishing out a few 1,000,
rials
to citizens, and they started giving other people
also, you said there isn't a rial, which
in the end turned out to be a
few million.
For what? Why did the government do that?
Just to oil the idea
of you being a loyal nation.
Let's oil your loyalty,
and Allah knows best.
This is the times that we live in.
But either way, I won't go into that
too much.
I just want to say
that the local marches
received the sanction of local ulema.
And in fact, the local ulema were not
absent. They participated in the local
marches. And let that be sufficient with regards
to that.
On the issue of boycotting,
yes,
the idea of the boycotting is not without
its flaws.
But this time,
we have learned from mistakes that we have
made in the past, and we have decided
to have a concentrated
boycotting,
not a general boycott.
In a general boycott,
in which we boycott everybody that we consider
in cahoots with Israel, there's a few problems
that arise.
Problem number 1,
the power of the boycott is dispersed
and not focused.
So companies suffer losses, but small insignificant losses
that doesn't really matter to them. So
boycott.
That's basically the attitude.
Boycott.
So we basically get ignored,
though we are involved in a boycott.
Also,
if we ask the average Muslim
to avoid all the companies,
then the difficulty experienced by the average Muslim
and the discomfort occasioned by the boycott itself
becomes
very quickly unbearable
to the boycotters themselves. And the boycott ends
early
and suddenly, as a result, without having achieved
its objectives.
With concentrated boycotting, however, like, we're focusing only
on 2 companies or 3 companies,
the companies boycotted
truly feel the loss of Muslim patronage
and come to discover the true value of
Muslim economic participation.
If I'm working for pick and pay, just
opposite the right.
You understand? Like, for example, in Mall,
And I'm in. And I look in this
direction.
And I look in that direction. Full.
Muslims can't mark.
You understand? Then I have a sense
of Muslim
buying power.
And at the end of the month, when
money
wages
certain the realities of having a business,
then the punch of Muslim buying power,
then it is felt
And don't think that is setting it is.
The Muslims
knows what is happening next. What is the
next stage?
The next stage is when we finish what
what what what what Pick N Pay, we're
coming for you.
So at this moment in time, they're enjoying
the extra bucks that is flowing their way,
but they know very soon we're coming in
this direction.
So, frequently, what is gonna happen even before
we get to them or, really, they're gonna
take the products
of the. So we don't need to even
boycott them. And as our one of my
close friends likes to say, has to quote
an eye of the Quran when such things
happen.
Allah suffices the Muslims, they don't even need
to fight.
Allah did such a manner,
Such a victory that there wasn't even need
to fight.
You understand? We fought over here. Went to
Marcus for Allah Bank.
You understand? And Allah knows
best. Allah knows best.
And then with regards to the Muslim public
and under inter other interested parties,
they're only required to work with 2 companies.
So the discomfort suffered
by not going to Pick N Pay, by
not going to Woolworths
is greatly reduced, and it might even be
absent for certain people that never bought by
Pick n Pay in the 1st place. So
there's so many other options that you can
go to. You hardly feel the boycott. So
the boycott is extremely manageable, and it can
be extended indefinitely
if required
if required.
And as I said, with regards to the
other companies, they are taking note of what
is happening to Woolworths. They are taking note
of what is happening to Pick n Pay.
So frequently, they will change their laws and
their ways of operation
before we even
get to them, and Allah knows best.
And, yeah, I want to bring in a
third element,
the element of Elight and Coca Cola.
You must have
heard that Elite has removed all of its
Coke products from its racks.
And very soon after Elite did this,
there was a lot of pro statements, a
lot of anti statements.
Some people were saying there's still some co
products on there. Like, Coca Cola is also
producing bottled water,
and it appears they're still selling the bottled
water. I don't know. Allah knows best.
Praise for Eli came in.
Is coming
from social media platforms
and the like.
To me, the case of Eliud and Tukwakola
is a perfect example of what to do
and what not to do for Muslims.
When a Muslim
tries to act in accordance with his conscience,
then first and foremost,
you mustn't attack him for the for the
for the deficiency in his action.
You must first applaud this niyyah.
First, applaud this
and applaud the sacrifice that he makes.
If there is room for improvement,
then, yes, please do inform
him of the room for improvement.
But do not inform him of the room
of of of for improvement. I see. But
there's a criticism
of why he did it in the first
place. And then instead of speaking to him,
you're speaking to a 1000000 other people.
A 1000000 other people. One of the wrote
a book,
and the title of the book is
What is the difference between giving somebody good
advice
and basically ridiculing them?
And in the book, he says, one of
the differences
is if you do it in private and
you do it in public.
If you have good advice to give to
your fellow Muslim, if you do it in
private, then that is advice.
But if you are telling it to him
in public, then you are not advising him.
Then you are ridiculing him.
You are detuning him. Like, one day, for
example, I was in a hospital, and this
one lady thought herself to be pious. And
she rebuked the lady next to her for
being impious and drinking hamar and the like.
Not a Muslim. I won't say which religion.
It's irrelevant.
But as she was rebuking the lady,
I noticed that she was looking behind her.
Like,
You understand? So you're not really you don't
really have for that individual.
You're scoring
points amongst the other people that are present.
You're making it well known to the world
that you are pious, and this one is
impious.
You understand? That is what we are doing.
If you want to give somebody then
one of the laws is that you give
them
privately.
Privately.
You understand? And the chances of your being
accepted is greater also if it is done
privately. Because the the the individual can then
immediately sense that my interest is at the
heart of this fellow Muslim brother, and Allah
knows best.
So why didn't people approach
the owners of Elat or the managers of
Elat, etcetera? Why did they rather go and
do it on Facebook?
Because we got our Facebook Muftis these days,
and it's a Facebook jihad.
You understand? But not against the kufa,
not against that which is Dalala.
The the jihad is Muslim against Muslim. Allahu
Akbar. And every little thing and difference that
Muslims have with one another now must must
be argued and debated on Facebook. And the
Kufar are sitting in there looking
at
the. Assess the Muslims.
So is that how you want to go
down in history? The Muslims of 2014 of
Cape Town.
So let's pause a moment.
Let's pause a moment. Let's think.
Let's think.
These public rantings and ravings,
they serve the purposes of shaitan.
They don't serve the purposes of Islam.
As such, I want to make use of
the member today,
and I want to personally commend the owners
and managers of Elat for the decision.
And never again will I look at Elite
in the same light ever again.
That they have said that they have suffered
for the sake of Allah. For the sake
of Allah, even if it is merely removing
the flagship product of Coca Cola, which is
tuk.
Even if they just tuk tuk away,
you need to understand that Eli suffered
financially
as a result.
And being prepared to suffer where it counts.
But your money,
that is something.
Because we've realized something. We've realized something. 1
of my teachers, Mufti Aker Hussain,
he said, if you want to become the
friend of Allah, then enter business
and do business that is Islamically proper because
very few people are able to do that.
Even people who are in the mosque 5
times a day. Even people are regularly giving
their zakat. People who are regularly fasting. People
are regularly for Hajj when it comes to
their business dealings, and then they con and
they rob the fellow Muslim.
What nice little tricks? Footstewards.
As footstewards.
If you know there's a defect in the
car in the house, you can't tell, very
well, footstewards.
You understand?
You must first inform of the defect. And
then you say, as for the defects I
don't know, well, footstewards.
You understand? While the default law in Islam
is any defect that existed at the moment
of contract, whether known or not known, if
it can be proven that it existed at
the moment of contract,
well, you must either fix the defect or
you must take your product back.
That is the default law in Islam. And
I'll tell you that there's the default law
that if you know there's a defect, then
you must expose the defect. If you do
not expose the defect, then what type of
a Muslim are you? You are supposed to
have for
your fellow Muslim, for your fellow men. You
must have his interest in heart. And do
you have his interest in heart when you
know the engine is broken and you're still
selling him the car? He thinks it's a
BMW,
and it turns out to be a.
He thinks he's buying BMW,
but he's buying another acronym.
So somehow, when it comes to the money,
many Muslims are not able to come up
to the table. And
yeah, I can commend the people of Ilah.
At least you were able to do that.
I don't know if it's true what else
they are saying.
That did you take all the Coca Cola
products away? Didn't you? Didn't you? Are you
keeping the water? I don't know. But even
if it is merely true that you took
Coke away,
then Allahu Akbar
Allahu Akbar, you are better than me.
You are better than me. I look up
to you, and I make it my law
that from this day forward, I am gonna
buy my elect.
And I want Allah to make it so
that I am the suburb, that I am
the means, that Allah rewards them for their
sacrifice.
That Allah makes up the deficiency
that has entered into their wealth due to
that brave decision that Allah uses me to
make up that deficiency.
Now you have a sports for a moment
because suddenly some of us are thinking,
the man in the elite family,
It is Satan, my brother.
I don't know who owns elite. I don't
know who runs elite. I score nothing in
the sense of finance.
You understand?
I'm just trying to explain something with regards
to the laws
of Allah and his Rasul and how we
should be behaving.
If our Muslim brother is doing something for
the sake of Allah and his Rasul,
tell me how deficient it is. Let us
see the in it.
And if it is deficient and we have
to give,
give the in accordance with the teachings of
Islam.
There's no such such law as
It doesn't work like that. Even when you
are right, then the rest of the laws
of Islam still apply to you. There's no
such law that suddenly when I'm right, then
the rest of the laws of Islam don't
apply to me. When you became Muslim, then
the remedy didn't apply to you?
You suddenly started to float?
Or gravity still applied to you?
So that is not where the Islam lies
in the natural laws,
etcetera.
The Islam lies in obedience to Allah and
being able to see beyond the natural laws.
Being able to see that it is not
the law of gravity, it is the law
of Allah.
That is where the Islamness of an individual
lies,
and Allah knows best. So I say it
again. Masha'Allah.
May Allah reward you. May Allah reward your
families. May Allah reward your employees. May Allah
grant you.
And I just wanted to mention, by the
way, I forgot to mention this point. If
somehow you work for one of the companies
that is boycotted Pick N Pay
or Woolworths,
don't give up your job.
The aim is not to crush Pick N
Pay. The aim is not to crush Woolworths.
And, inshallah, there are good companies in numerous
other ways.
The aim is just to prove this one
point and to get them to disassociate
from Israel.
That is the aim. So we need you
to still be there, and Allah knows best.
And this brings me to the second part
of the jumah.
Inshallah,
I've given you some things to think about
with regards to local efforts to support Islam
and the Muslims. You don't need to agree
with me, but let's argue it in accordance
with the laws of Islam.
The second part of my jum'ah
is a statement that was issued by Evonriddly,
a statement that was issued by Yvonne Ridley.
Now who is Yvonne Ridley?
Yvonne Ridley
is a British journalist
that
was kidnapped by the Taliban back in the
day.
And
2 years after being kidnapped by them and
being released
by them, she didn't embrace Islam.
She didn't embrace Islam. And she wrote a
book on it and the period that she
was
held captive by them and how they treated
her with honor and dignity.
And there was no fear of being raped,
which commonly happens during times of war,
and being physically hurt by the Taliban.
She actually indicates that she feared more that
certain other western
enemies of the Taliban would assassinate her and
blame the Taliban for it than actually fearing
the Taliban.
But, anyway,
she's become a very outspoken individual speaking
in favor of Islam, speaking on Islamic affairs,
and and so forth. A particular article, which
I'm gonna read to you verbatim,
is found on the site, Middle East Monitor
dot com.
Middle East Monitor
dot com. It is also found in the
Cape Town on the Cape Town site, Cape
Town muslims.c0.zeda.
Who is behind ISIS?
Yvonne Ridley.
Already from the title, who is behind ISIS,
you get an idea of what direction we
are gonna go into.
So I've been asked repeatedly, who is ISIS?
The acronym ISIS stands for the Islamic State
of Iraq and Syria.
Right? That is the name that they run
under. The leader is called Abu Bakr
al Baghdadi.
And he has suddenly come into power and
he's slain vast regions of Iraq,
and he now says that he's the Khalifa
of the time, and he's commanding the Muslims
of the world now to embrace his Khalifa
and to support him. Already in Cape Town,
there's big with
regards to the return of the khilafa and
the fact that we have to subject ourselves
to khilafa.
The very idea of firafa and how it
works, we'll discuss that in a separate jum'ah,
Insha'Allah.
But let's have a look at the general
idea of who ISIS is. How would I,
as a Muslim, respond on the ground? What
is true? What is not true? Did they
behead the journalist now recently?
Did they have reason to behead them?
Right? Allah knows best. So the article goes
as follows. It says,
I have no idea
where ISIS
or whatever name it uses come from,
and I'm just as baffled by the roots
of its violent ideology.
While I never pretend to speak for the
diverse community of Muslims living in Britain today,
I reckon my views on this will be
echoed by the majority who have watched with
growing concern the unprecedented rise of this group.
However,
just as unprecedented is the child is invective,
being spewed out by Islamophobes,
racists,
and other so called terrorism experts
encouraged by some * sections of the British
media. They have not yelled at all.
While I've blocked most of the jet booted
trolls
who patrol Twitter land,
demanding that anyone who is or even looks
like a Muslim
should launch an immediate protest mask against ISIS.
I'm amazed that similar rhetoric has been pushed
by the elements of the media.
There are many reasons why I've not spoken
out against ISIS.
Now the reason I'm using Yvonne Ridley as
an example
is that what she is saying matters exactly
what I believe and what I'm practicing at
this moment in time.
While the same time,
she is part and parcel of the British
media, and she's a woman.
You understand? And to me,
we need to hear
the female voice amongst our Muslims as well.
You understand? There's a wisdom sometimes
that might not be found amongst men or
a way of saying it, and Allah knows
best. And in our times, especially,
we need to focus on that.
There are many reasons why I've not spoken
out against ISIS for a start. I'm not
sure who it is, where it came from,
or how it was funded.
I've not seen such a militarily and strategically
savvy fighting force
emerge in the Middle East before
other than the highly disciplined in.
I, like many others, want to know a
little bit more about ISIS before making public
comments.
Secondly,
why should I organize a march against ISIS?
I'm not responsible for its actions.
Just as my Jewish friends, the pious Jews
now, are not responsible
nor should they be for for the actions
of that other group of violent cycles in
the Middle East, the Israeli military.
While ISIS enforces
enforces wield head and limb chopping knives,
Israel draws bombs called daisy cutters,
which also decapitate and maim anyone caught in
the fallout.
Thirdly,
my silence of ISIS does not mean that
I support the group even if some fools
take my silence as a sign that I
do.
Only when I ask some male tweeters to
apologize on behalf of rapists
on the grounds that every * is a
man.
So they must all be somehow culpable.
Does the penny drop?
Occasionally, I get a muffled apology.
Why must I apologize for the *? Just
because I'm a man.
So why must I apologize if another Muslim
disappears?
Did I ask you to apologize for Hitler?
Well known person?
Did I ask you?
Do am I asking you to apologize for
Netanyahu
if you're a Jew? No. I focused only
Netanyahu.
I focused only Hitler. So why are you
focused on me?
And Allah knows best.
And, finally, even if I jump down jumped
up and down and declared that ISIS is
the scum of the earth,
exactly what did that achieve anyway? If we
march against ISIS, what would it achieve?
Like, I've given you an angle of what
it would achieve in March in support of
Palestine
and anti Israel, for example, the certain legitimate
objective that is achieved, what will it achieve
in a march against ISIS?
I hardly think its leader, Barack Obama, is
going to lose lose sleep
over Evon Redley's views
or anybody from Cape Town Oh, he says
too
much. He's not interested.
There are few certainties in the chaos chaos
that is now the Middle East.
However, what I can say with authority
is that the world would have never heard
of ISIS
and widowmakers
George W. Bush and Tony Blair not launched
the illegal war in Iraq in 2003.
And, yeah, I just want to remind you,
in today's time, you are not allowed to
fight a legitimate war against another country by
without first petitioning the UN
for the war.
And, yeah, I want to remind you that
America is one of the veto countries in
the UN.
Their vote is more powerful than anybody else's
vote, and they have the ability to buy
you from a war they they vote against
it. But when it came to the Iraqi
war,
the rest of the United Nations voted against
America.
They declared the war illegal,
yet America and England still fought the war.
And up till today, America has not received
even that.
Yours total, I think.
Everyone.
Not even that.
Up till
today, after killing thousands of human beings in
an illegal war, they have not received
even that.
In Britain, there has been some fallout. Yes.
In Britain, because the democracy in Britain is
somewhat stronger than what it is in America.
But in America, there has been no equal
fallout.
And Allah knows best.
The problem is that that war
created the necessary springboard
for what roams the earth in Iraq now,
and Allah knows this.
The world would also have never seen ISIS
develop into the full blown monster that it
is
if the west, at the very least, introduced
a no fly zone in Syria
after the chemical weapons were unleashed on civilians
by Bashar Al Assad's forces
exactly a year ago this week.
The question to ask is this,
who really benefits from the unfolding ISIS spectacle?
The big winners are sitting within the Assad
regime.
It is that regime which which was, by
the way,
suspected of capturing US journalist James Foley with
Massey in North Missouri on 12 November 2012.
How on earth did he slip out of
the Syrian government's hands into those of the
murderers, head chopping maniacs of ISIS?
The former head of the British Army says
that the west should sit down and negotiate
with Assad to get rid of ISIS. But
what if ISIS was created by Assad and
his ally Iran,
which has members of the elite republican guard
in parts of Syria?
As crazy as it sounds,
that would explain why Muriel Malik's Iraq army
fell away so easily in the face of
ISIS,
leaving behind a massive arsenal of weapons for
the militia to use.
It is virtually inconceivable for a trained fighting
force to leave all of its kid behind
before doing a runner.
Just as it's virtually inconceivable that the crack
fighting force like ISIS could emerge from a
ragtag bunch of ill disciplined rebel fighters,
Boy it up by disaffected youngsters from Europe
and beyond.
Maximum, how many Europeans are there?
Maximum.
Probably 30 or 40.
30 or 40 is gonna be like a
a skilled army,
and Allah knows best. Make no mistake.
ISIS's * of Iraq
is nothing short of breathtaking.
It has achieved in a matter of weeks
what the US and its allies failed to
do in 10 years of occupation.
How can that be done by ragtag individuals?
This hasn't happened by accident.
Military victories in the state will take strategic
planning and inside the out.
So who exactly
is behind ISIS?
Who exactly
is behind
ISIS?
I want to finish this
by just quoting a number of a hadith
and giving a brief translation.
Right?
The aim and intent is that you got
some things from the lecture itself that you
can take home with
and that you can use in your personal
arguments,
that you can use also to understand what
is happening in our time. But if not,
let's look at the eternal words of the
prophet Muhammad.
Please be upon him. So the prophet says,
the hadith comes in Bukhari, and I've only
selected the hadith from Bukhari and Muslim. The
prophet says,
Soon, knowledge will be taken away from the
people.
And ignorance will become the order of the
day.
And there will be lots of temptations
to cause you to want to be non
Muslim and the like.
And
will be in large amount.
What is Harush?
And he did this with his hand
keeping it at an angle.
As if he was trying to say, there'll
be a lot of killing
in the end of times.
In the second hadith, the prophet says,
there will be many times of trials and
tribulations
in the end of days.
The one who sits
when the time comes is better than the
one that stands.
And the one who stands
will be better than the one that walks.
And the one that walks at that time
will be better than the one that runs.
So what is the prophet Wala telling you?
The less you get involved,
the better.
The less you get involved,
the better.
You raise his head to look at it.
Will find that he looks back at him.
Strange and wonder is why you're saying it.
I want to look at the fitna,
and then the fitna is looking back at
me.
In areas like Park,
frequently innocent bystanders are shot.
But what many people actually forget
is that if you are in Hanover Park
and you hear the the the shooting, you
will notice that many of the bystanders actually
run towards the sound,
not away from it.
Amazing phenomenon.
When you're actually in Menowalk and Menowalk Park,
when it happens, you'll notice that many people
actually run towards it.
So the innocent bystander is not so innocent,
it would appear.
And Allah knows best. And here the prophet
says it in a beautiful way. He who
raises. He said to look at it. We'll
find that the fitna will look back.
So you want to look at the fitna?
The fitna looks back. Oh, yeah. It's okay.
Yeah. It's okay.
Alright.
Whosoever can find a place of safety
or even of safety or
or a refuge
then let him go and hide away in
that refuge.
Next hadith,
Sahay
Muslim. A time of will come.
And the true believer will say,
this is the time of my demise.
Will
be raised slightly.
But but then another will come and take
its place.
And the true believer will say,
This is the time I die. This is
the time I die. From, so whosoever wants,
I
use
to be destined from the
and allowed entry into paradise when the time
of comes.
That he make sure that his death comes
his way.
While he still believes in Allah
and in the final day. It is not
important to know who ISIS is.
It is not important to argue the boycott
or empty the boycott.
What is important
is that you protect your iman, my dear
brother.
That is what is important.
That is what comes first.
And Allah knows best
and that he gives to the people
that which he loves
be given to him.
This is one of the ultimate laws of
Islam.
And people that have studied the various religions
of the earth, they find that somehow the
statement is in every religion. That's That's why
some people call it the golden principle.
Do unto others
what you wish done
to yourself.
It is the golden principle in treating others.
If you feel you got the right to
be rude with others, don't they have the
right to be rude with you?
If you feel you need to be understood,
don't you think the person you're speaking to
also wants to be understood?
So seek to understand
before you seek to be
understood
and hear the greatness of the Sahaba.
Why Allah says in the Quran? There were
people
They preferred others above themselves, though they have
need.
If you apply this law in your life,
your life will change, and you will instantly
start to love.
You're having problems with your wife? Having problems
with your husband?
Then just try this. Try to give them
what you want,
and instantly, your life will change. And Allah
knows best. And Allah knows best.
And whosoever pledges an imam,
you have given him the clasp of your
hand.
And the fruit of your heart, your obedience.
Then obey him as much as you can.
Obey him as much as you can till
the end of the hadith.
Now the hadith and we end on this
hadith
The prophet says, you, Shikoo, very soon,
The best wealth a Muslim could possess
will be sheep or
goats.
And he will live in the mountains with
his goats and his sheep, and he will
follow it up to the peaks of the
various mountains,
and the places where the rains falls.
What is he doing up in the mountains?
He has fled
with his faith away from the fitan.
The problems. The problems.
What did I just say? The people here
are the shooting, and then they are running
towards it.
Logically, you should be running
away from it.
The arguments come up. You don't know how
to defend.
You don't know really what is happening. Who
is ISIS? Who's Abu Bakr al Baghdadi?
What is happening in Egypt? You don't really
know. You got a little piece of dust
and a little piece of death and a
little piece of death. You may
have
pieces of information,
but pieces of information never produced an
alim, a scholar of that particular field. An
alim is not one that sits with.
An alim is one that sits with,
and there being a difference. Like, for example,
I like to lead read up on medicine.
I write I read up on the latest
studies in medicine. Does that make me a
doctor?
I can't even help myself. You see me
everyday.
I can't even help myself.
By the grace of Allah, after reading all
of these books, you understand? I'm I'm still
a idiot
when it comes to medicine,
though I might have some some
details.
So, yeah, let us act in accordance,
and I would like to end with a
statement.
The Arabs have a saying, and the saying
applies.
May Allah mercy the slave of his that
knows his own limit, and he moves no
further.
May Allah shower with mercy the slave of
his
that knows his own limit, and he moves
no further.