Boost – Allah Sees All, And He Will Deal With It
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The speakers discuss the importance of trusting people and acknowledging the consequences of rumors. They stress the need for transparency and apologization for people affected by rumors. The importance of verifying information and learning is emphasized, as it is necessary for a person to be a liar and involved in lies and falsehood. The speakers also emphasize the importance of listening to people and finding out who is involved in the situation. They apologize for past mistakes and encourage people to use their influence to help solve problems.AI Generated Transcript ©
My brothers, my sisters, I've been inundated with
messages.
Messages of support,
some messages of questions,
and some of hate.
And, you know, it happens from the time
of the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him,
and even before that, where every time there
is a piece of news or there is
something that occurs,
people are divided into 3 categories. Now when
it is something that is a rumor or
something that you don't know, I'll give you
an example of Aisha was seen with a
man known as Safwan ibn Mu'a'an.
So people
saw and they
there was they were the hypocrites who spread
rumors completely immediately to say something's going on.
You know how they say without smoke or
where there is smoke, there has to be
a fire or whatever else, however they say
it. But to be honest, they they Abdullah
ibn Ubayy ibn Salul, a few others, they
started a rumor that something's going on, and
these 2 were seen together.
So the people fell into 3 categories. The
first category are the purest of people. They
thought good of themselves. They are clean themselves.
They knew they were they wouldn't do something
of this nature, and
wouldn't do something of that nature either. And
they thought that, you know what?
This we have to look at the best
possible thing, and we have to say, it's
a lie. She's clean. There must be an
explanation to it. And they left it at
that. So Abu Ayyub Al Ansari, a few
others from the companions immediately, they said, you
know what?
It's not true. So Allah
says,
You know, the first category, the
the true believers and the the true believing
men and women, they should think good,
you know, of the person based on their
own goodness. I mean, if you're a good
person with a clean heart, clear mind, you
know that no ways this person is not
gonna be doing things like those. But
if you yourself are unclean, dirty,
look what the Quran says in that instance
of
Allah almighty speaks about how
the other category were those who were silent,
they were waiting, they they they didn't know,
they perhaps,
you know, might have,
they were the middle category. But the other
category, Allah Almighty says, you know what? They
were the ones who
fought the worst, and they began to spread
the rumor, and they began to create a
tale and, you know, spread
a story of immorality among the believers. And
Surat al Noor, we need to read it.
Go and check what Allah says about it.
Allah says, you know what? For the one
who created the tale will be a severe
punishment.
The one who has
who's who was the main, the chief of
this entire
rumor or this whole mischief
will be served a painful punishment.
And Allah Almighty,
then has even spoken about those who just
said it.
You know, the fact that you are getting
it on your tongues and repeating it and
saying this without a proper knowledge.
You know what? Allah Almighty says,
you think it's something light in the eyes
of Allah. It is extremely serious. So things
come back to us. I remember making a
video sometime back saying,
when you harm someone, when you hurt them,
it will come back to get you. It
has to come back to get you. So
be careful. You'd rather, you know, think good
or just keep quiet about it. But some
people itch to create a tail out of
things. Some people itch to intentionally
say the wrong thing. And so, subhanAllah, they
would say the wrong thing. They wouldn't know
what happened. They don't even trust the people.
I mean, I've been working for years. You
either trust me or you don't. If you
don't, it's okay. You don't even need to
follow. You don't even need to benefit. There
are millions of others better than me whom
you can perhaps learn from. And if you
do trust me, then come on. Haven't we
haven't we been through the paces over the
years with a lot of goodness, a lot
of, you know, dedication. And, yes, if there
is something, there probably is an explanation. And
sometimes,
it may be a human error, but there
would be nothing intentionally done
to damage the the ummah. Never. Not at
all. Not intentional. Never. And if there was
something, subhanAllah, here we are. And, you know,
it's it's not so difficult to get to
the bottom of it, but be careful.
Be careful of how news is spread today.
I mean, take a look at the wars
that are going on. Everyone dislikes the other.
This country, this nation, this region, they don't
get along with this one. These people don't
get along with those. So they create tales
and lies and their narrative and fault. Sometimes
a person could be a sacrificial lamb in
the middle. And sometimes they could have been
caught up simply in the center of a
controversy.
And people made it like it was their
controversy, but it wasn't. It really wasn't. So
the reason I say this is my brothers,
my sisters, for me, life continues.
Yes. We will,
like what I've said, we will even apologize
to those who feel that they were betrayed
by something totally unintentional.
And we will say, we're sorry about that.
But to be very fair and honest,
the but is not about the apology. The
but is about how the people carry on.
How the people carry on.
As for the people, they don't realize what
they're doing. You know? Young people, and I've
seen a few. I don't have the time
to go through it. And I know some
of them, they are well known,
intentional misunderstanders. You know, people who want to
misunderstand things intentionally. They take it from a
news channel, and they think news channels are
speaking the truth. That's why there are 2
things I want to say today.
The prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, says,
It is sufficient for a person to be
a liar and, you know, involved in lies
and falsehood if they carry everything that they
hear. Anything you hear, anything you see, anything
that comes to you, you forward it, and
you tell others and so on, you're already
a liar because there was no verification process.
Well, you might think, oh, that was a
news channel. They all
they all
serve an agenda. Remember this.
Don't think people are all that innocent sometimes.
Meaning, you gotta you gotta be careful. You
gotta ask. You gotta verify firsthand. And if
you cannot do that, forget about it. The
person is answerable to Allah. You can say,
look, I wouldn't do this. So, alhamdulillah, I'm
not sure. Another thing is,
may Allah
grant us ease. I was saying that's the
first hadith where the prophet says
but there is another in Surat al Munafiqun,
and Allah almighty
speaks about it.
In fact, it's not in Surat al Munafiqun
has something else. But
regarding the hypocrites, Allah Almighty
says,
The term
means to broadcast,
you know, referring to broadcasting things.
Allah says, the hypocrites, whenever news of of
peace or security,
some form of goodness comes to them, or
meaning
or that of
fear comes to them.
So I
the news comes to them, important news of,
you know, security or that of
fear, that of war, etcetera. They are quick
to broadcast it. Allah says,
Allah says, be careful.
If you had,
you know,
let that news be processed by
the messenger, peace be upon him, that was
in his presence. Or those who are
those who have a sound understanding, those who
are the leaders, for example.
Allah almighty says that
if you had done that, it would have
been better.
And you would have known how to process
that particular piece of information. But then Allah
Almighty says,
if it wasn't for the virtue of Allah,
a lot of you would have been just
followers of shaitan. That's what Allah
warns us about. All of us are given
that warning, myself included. But Allah speaking about
hypocrites, hypocrites here, giving the qualities. They are
quick to broadcast things without wait. Hang on.
Let's find out. And so what?
To be honest with you, very few people
actually came up to me and asked me
what happened.
Some of them, maybe I didn't see them
because they were they they they may have
been a lot. But the ones I saw,
the people and a lot of the times,
people you know, when you ask someone a
question, don't ask in a belittling fashion. Don't
ask like, you know, this. If you look
carefully at some of those maybe open letters
or something, look at how it's worded. Look
at how they've married things that were not
even included in what happened. Not at all.
Look at how they've brought it all in,
and look at how they have actually worded
it so dirty.
If you had the time to go through
it and process sentence by sentence, you would
actually be
disgusted as how at as to how
they they are seizing an opportunity to to
whack you,
because they found something that, oh, wow. You
know, I finally got something to nail this
guy with.
If you're a genuine person, you can correct
us. If you're if you're a genuine person,
you can pray for us. If you're a
genuine person, you can actually tell us, listen.
You were going wrong in a nice way.
But you do not become venomous and pick
up things and start making reaction
as you can see, I'm pretty irritated about
this because people make reaction videos and they
barely know much about Islam. They know much
about what have they done to serve the
ummah?
Many of them have done nothing, if anything,
damage. I wanted to ask you, who owns
WhatsApp? Who owns Instagram? Who owns Facebook? Who
owns Google? Who owns YouTube? Who owns almost
everything around you? SubhanAllah.
You're using exactly these platforms to do what?
To do what?
What are you serving somehow? What have you
achieved for the ummah?
How have you helped the ummah to progress?
How many people have you actually served and
helped?
That's the question. How many people have you
guided? How many broken hearts have you helped
mend? How many suffering people have you reached
out to with assistance?
With food, with clothing, with accommodation, with fees?
What else have you done for the ummah?
But you're quick to make a reaction video
and and and and you know what? Get
excited about attacking.
Allah will come for
you. Not me. Not anyone else. Allah will
come for you. You pay for it, and
you have to pay for it. There's no
chance that you won't. It's impossible.
It cannot happen that justice is not served.
And I'm so grateful that we have a
lord who knows the intentions.
We have a Lord who knows the intentions.
Yes. You have every right to correct, but
you don't have a right to claim false
things. You don't even know, subhanallah. You you
don't even have access to find out what
exactly happened. You don't even have access to
find out what exactly happened. You've only taken
it from here, and they think, you know,
they must be telling the truth. It can't
be. It's a big media house. The biggest
of media houses have all
said things that are untrue at times in
order to serve their purpose, whatever it is.
And you know when there is bad blood
between 2 nations, you don't believe what one
nation is saying against the other without
verifying, because you know. May Allah Almighty grant
us ease. So I thought perhaps this would
be guidance from revelation to say, guys, forget
about me. We'll take the punch, and we
have taken it. And we know. I know
deep down. I
we serve the ummah. We stand for the
causes of the oppressed. I may not be
an activist. I might feel my specialization may
be totally different, But I want to tell
you, we still will not betray our Muslim
brothers and sisters, no matter where they are.
People say, why don't you mention names of
this country and that? Who knows? What if
I don't even want to say a name
because saying a name sometimes is acknowledging existence
of, for example. What if I don't know?
What if?
You may not know. So you might even
be in a worse off situation. You you
don't even know what's going on.
But to come and start attacking and saying
and creating huge videos to say, wow. I
know. Like, you're assuming the role of a
lord of the worlds. We we've seen the
intentions. We know, and it's unforgivable. Come what
may.
Subhanallah, come on. Do you know?
Do you know what even happened?
So this is something that I felt very
passionate about. Today's boost from Makkatul Mukarama. I've
just finished. Umrah, may Allah forgive our shortcomings.
And, subhanallah,
I I really pray for goodness
across the globe and for us, for sanity
to prevail. Shayateen are tied, but only the
big ones. The little ones are all around.
You can feel them.
I mean, I was shocked to see some
people I actually know, subhanAllah.
Instead of you know, they think the worst
possible thoughts of us. And I think to
myself, someone's gonna do it to you as
well. It's a matter of time before something
worse happens to you as well. It's coming
for you. And when it comes for you,
you may not be able to take it
the way I did. Subhanallah.
You may not be able to take it
the way I did. SubhanAllah. May Allah strengthen
all of us.
I'm not saying I'm a big deal, but
I am saying, do you know what, guys?
That's not a nice thing.
It's not a nice thing. It's not a
nice thing to throw punches when you know,
subhanallah,
Allah is watching.
I promise you. And you enjoyed it, didn't
you? You thoroughly enjoyed it. You were wrong.
I promise you. Do you know why? If
you wanted to correct or disassociate, you could
have done that respectfully.
But it was so cheap. I mean, I've
seen a guy make a video. To be
honest with you, for all I care, if
you look at his face,
I wonder what he might be on, subhanallah.
But
he came on like a like like a
like he could judge the hearts and claim
that he knew what exactly happened, and he
doesn't have a clue what happened. And then
when you clarify it, it's not good enough.
Why? Because no matter what you say, no,
it could it's impossible that you didn't know,
and it's impossible. Are you Allah? Do you
not fear your lord, even an iota?
May Allah Almighty forgive us. Remember this.
Like I say, when Allah comes when when
that
retaliation from Allah comes for those who serving
his cause,
it won't spare a soul. It will be
too late. So
the best thing we do, be careful. Watch
your words. They will come back to haunt
you, and they will actually be absolutely
devastating
at that time.
You can see I'm I'm I'm really saddened
about this thing, but still I ask Allah
to forgive everyone. And I ask Allah almighty
to grant us strength. As an, we need
that togetherness. We need to be solid. We
need to understand.
Something happens, you know, there was a little
social not a social
but there was a video that I once
saw.
Some youngsters who were,
cleaning the beach, and they had a few
beer bottles in their hands, and someone saw
them, and they were throwing these empty bottles
away, empty bottles away. Someone saw them, took
a picture of them, and said, that's it.
We've nailed these guys. Look at the look
at this. They they they're busy drinking on
the beach, but they weren't. But the evidence
was there. The bottles were there. They were
running around the beach. Maybe perhaps to this
person, they were looking semi semi
intoxicated.
Whatever it was, they were totally wrong. These
people were innocently cleaning the beach. But if
you have a journalist
who doesn't fear Allah and who really wants
to nail someone, they will seize the opportunity
and put a big headline and say whatever
they want. Because why? The photograph is there.
May Allah Almighty
grant us protection. I hope what I've said
is a lesson. I know there will be
people who hate this. I know there'll be
a reaction video or 2 for this as
well. It's okay. You know what? The wind
blows the trees that are the tallest. To
be honest with you,
what I am saying is sometimes Allah has
allowed you to be used to do good
so much.
You know what was the good thing about
all of this? I told myself, wow. A
good thing is people should learn that if
anyone ever does do this
with the wrong intention, they're going to be
taken to task. So
from that aspect, it's a good thing. It's
a good thing that this happened, because it's
good to take people to task. But you
know what? Be careful.
Be careful. I saw someone saying, yeah, the
last time also excused. The last time also
I must have attended a 1,001 functions. If
2 or 3 of them have confused you,
then then the other 997, you don't even
know about. People say, you've never spoken about
the scores. That means you don't listen to
me. That's what it is. I've spoken about
it even at the beginning of my clarification
and in so many other videos.
Last year, the previous year, in Ramadan, when
things were happening, I I had started my
series with
mention of these things. Most of the years,
I've started my series and the talk on
on the day. Look, we have to pause
a moment and make dua for Palestine, make
dua for Burma, for whoever else it may
be, for for Rohingya, whatever else. It was
there.
May Allah Almighty grant us goodness. If you
don't listen and you don't follow, you don't
know. You don't you can't say, oh, we
know. You know?
May Allah Almighty really and truly grant us
goodness. And, as in ummah, may Allah help
us all. We we really need
a better understanding here.
And you know what? We are answerable to
Allah at the end of the day. Imagine
a 1,001 people asking or saying saying bad
things. When someone asks a question genuinely, Sheikh,
you know, I just wanna understand what happened,
if if you don't mind.
You must remember there's a 1,000 people doing
that. I may choose 1 or 2 to
talk to. Or
if I feel that in your questioning, you
have been dirty,
I'll ignore I'll ignore it, number 1. Number
2 is if you've already said something and
made something
and already blasted out bad news, there's no
point in talking to you. If you wanted
to know it, you'd have waited. Even if
you had to wait a month or a
year, it's okay. You'd have waited. But you
know what? Today,
we are quick because we also want the
likes. That's what it is. A lot of
the people want the likes. They want to
create a story. You, you know, you you
attack a popular man, you gain popularity. That's
what it is. It's a fact,
unfortunately.
And, yes, a lot of people do do
that. I was going through one of these,
you know, so called sites where they
supposedly
have news about Islam and Muslims.
And you know what? They write the worst
and dirtiest things. I was thinking to myself,
a lot of what they've done. How do
they serve the ummah? How does this help
the ummah? Do do you realize that
controversies
is what they specialize in? But not reality.
They don't even have the access to some
of those whom they've accused,
and written dirty articles about creating discord in
the ummah, and claiming we're doing a good
job. We're exposing this and we're exposing that.
You know, by all means, go and learn
the Quran and the Sharia once again, and
see what it is. Is is that really
how it's supposed to be? Another thing is,
what makes me laugh is the platforms that
are being used
to do all of this
belongs
to whom?
That's the question. Where does the money and
the and the profits from that go to?
Sometimes we're sitting in a country where we're
paying taxes. That exact country from your taxes
is using that money to go to places
where you.
Would you know?
Question.
May Allah Almighty forgive all of us. May
Allah Almighty strengthen us all.
I'm not trying to justify anything. Like I
say, if anyone feels betrayed,
and to my brothers and sisters in Palestine,
and my brothers and sisters in Kashmir, my
brothers and sisters in Afghanistan, and, anyway, if
I have ever said anything or done anything
that makes you feel or made you feel,
or anyone else for that matter, betrayed,
trust me, I apologize
unconditionally. And I wanna tell you something. We
stand with all the good causes on earth,
the oppressed, no matter where they are. I
like I said, I may not be an
activist, but I'm a Muslim at the end
of the day.
And,
we care. We definitely care. We feel. We've
reached out. If you know or you don't
know, we have reached out. We've done a
lot of humanitarian work in so many places,
sometimes without even advertising it. No one even
knows, and we've done a lot.
So we actually do care for the ummah.
It's not like we don't care. But I
really would like to say
something happened.
I promise you it was absolutely unintentional.
You know, the prophet says his famous statement
regarding his Hajj. He says,
had I known
had I known at that time what I
know now, I would have done something different.
The exact thing I can say today to
say, had I known what I know now
about the things or about,
you know, who it was that I was
1 person. 1 person. Not even anyone else.
1 person. There was no one. There were
a 1,000 people. It was a person
who perhaps all in and a photograph that
took place
that created the problem.
Had I known
at the time
what it was, I probably wouldn't even have
been there.
And and that's an honest statement.
But, anyway, Allah Almighty knows best. I owe
that to Allah.
And he knows, and he knows the heart.
He knows the purity Sitting at his house
today in Makkatul Muqarma, in front of the
Kaaba, seeking Allah's guidance and forgiveness,
and
pleading to him, oh, Allah, the sins we
know we've committed, the sins we don't know
we've committed, the mistakes we've made, whatever forgive
us, continue to use us to serve the
deen, to help break them to help,
mend the brokenhearted and to help,
whoever it may be in whatever way because
you have told us and,
the best of people are those who are
the most beneficial to the rest of the
those.
those.