Muhammad West – Islam from Scratch #13

			Just give the rest of the guests another couple of minutes to join and then
		

			we can begin insha Allah?
		

			Okay Amanda Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa salatu salam ala Shafi mursaleen Syedna
Mohammed Nora Alico psychodrama aina. So they want to come once again to everybody hope you had a
good week.
		

			As the customer, we start with any questions that came up and a couple of questions did come through
		

			some big questions, actually. And we will just look into them quickly. So, last week, we spoke about
		

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			prioritization within Islam, so erode Makoto. roadmap to Jana. So we said okay, so far, if we look
at the series, we've spoken about what Islam is, on a high level, we spoke about the principles of
Islam. We spoke about the existence of Allah and why it makes sense. And now if we get to the point
where someone says, Okay, fine. I want to be a Muslim. I want to be, I want to embrace Islam. Where
do I start? Which class do I go to? Should I start by learning Arabic? Should I start by memorizing
the Quran? Should I start by reciting this to our that dua give me sort of a framework that gives
things in prioritization, because in Islam, not everything is equally as important as everything
		

			else. So yes, everything is important in the Sharia, that everything is there's nothing trivial,
insignificant, but they are priorities. And we then said, Okay, fine, how do we know what the
priorities are? We had a look at Kiana we said, Okay, how would Qiyamah go, you know, and we spoke
about, you know, the outcomes of Kiama, there'll be different types of
		

			people, and depending on the deeds, would be dependent on the destination. And so we know that the
most serious issue is the issue of, of the hate or the Oneness of Allah and to worship Allah alone.
And this is really, if you were to read the Quran, with this lens, that everything in the Quran
focus around this one single concept, that La ilaha illallah, that there is none worthy of worship
besides Allah, you'll begin to realize that this is without a doubt the priority and that is the
thing which needs to be preserved and defended. Everything else Allah subhanaw taala is willing to
forgive, except that except if you compromise you or hate, you find for example, in Surah Look, man,
		

			look, man was a pious man, and he gives his son a was here. You know, he's giving him advice was he
is actually the bequeath that you give before you die. So it's your final statement, your wool is
your your wasa? Yeah, and so even though it wasn't his his, you know, his advice to his arm, his
deathbed, but it was so profound, that it was like he's giving his final advice to his son and he
begins like to shake Billa you know, don't don't come and shake with Allah worship Allah No. And the
same, the same with Nebby Iacob. When he gives advice to never use of any brothers or Nambiar
Kabbalah says where you they would never Yaqoob was on his deathbed, and yet maybe I could call his
		

			sons his 12 sons. And he asked him very simple question, this is what Mother taboo mean but what are
you going to worship after me? What is your what is your what are you going to worship after I pass
away? And they said We will worship
		

			If your Lord and the Lord of alpha your father Ibrahim, and it's mine, one, Allah, the law either
hate Allah basically. So this is the critical point and anything else that compromises your towhead
doesn't count it nullifies. And therefore, the Oneness of Allah and she'll go hand in hand, the
other side of of the hadith of course, sure. And so if you were to want to study Islam and
prioritize Islam, you need to understand what issues there are many aspects of Sharia many types of
shit. And I gave a brief list last week I said of the type a type of shit because atheism when you
deny the existence of Allah, and another type of Sharia is to ascribe powers, knowledge, abilities
		

			to things other than Allah. Looking at your horoscope, for example, the fact that you know, the
stars influences my future, the energies out there can influence my future that certain people have
the ability to control things in the cosmos, these are a tightness a type of shake. And then of
course, the most common type of shake is where you go to an entity other than Allah and UBC to them
for help or assistance for forgiveness, to kill you, whatever is beyond the power, but it's belongs
to Allah to ask them of it and to put them in a position of an ILA you deify them to the point of a
god, this is shit and this is the most common shade again, sadly, the vast majority of humanity is
		

			falling into this trap, and this is Shakedowns primary objective. So that is, that is a priority. We
then said after that, what is the next thing? It is to focus on? The pillars of Islam and we
mentioned this hadith where the prophet the hadith of Gibreel Oh, that's the video the Hadith of the
wedding, where Allah Himself says that the closest you come to me is compulsory. And if you were to
really ask yourself, what are the things Allah has made compulsory on me?
		

			It's really the five pillars of Islam the the excluding the Kanima, of course, by now you shouldn't
Karima but your Salah you're forcing your head to Zakah those are the compulsory things. Everything
almost after that, from a ritualistic perspective is novel. You don't have to make tagit you don't
have to make a multisite do us other than Salah you don't have to fast on a Monday and a Thursday.
Those are all optional. These four pillars are the fundamental priorities that if you don't have it,
your Islam comes into question if a person comes to Allah, and he has not fulfilled his obligation
of Hajj or fasting or Salah was then a pillar
		

			in what what understood if one of the pillars are missing, the entire building falls down. So you
have to get these pillars in order to have a structure and to be called a Muslim ready to really be
for Islam to be firm is for you to have that but that is why it's analog. If anyone's been on hodgen
Mela grande those who are going on had success and for those who have been there, that is why up
until you have reached the plains of Arafa.
		

			Your Islam is not 100% complete because you have been performing salah of course you have been
paying us a car and fasting but you have not yet fulfilled the obligation of Hajj Of course this is
for those who are able to do so if you're not able to do so then Allah Subhana Allah pardons you.
But for those of us who are able to do so and for no other reason other than just timing we have
delayed it until you reach our offer. And because once you get out of your head is almost complete
your Islam is complete that moment is the culmination of your religion, you are now without a doubt
every single box that needed to be ticked for you to be a Muslim has been completed what hamdulillah
		

			it's just about preserving it and maintaining it. And so that that four or five hours on the plains
of alpha are the most important hours of your life, everything comes down to that moments panela Of
course as we said this is for those who are able to do so. And what's beautiful all these pillars
are three of the five pillars, fasting Zakah and hatch. There is also an element of if you're able
to do so if you're too sick too fast you don't fast if you're unable you know you're too poor to pay
Zika you don't pay Zika if you're too sick or too poor to go and hatch you don't go and such and so
it really And subhanAllah if you want to
		

			bring Islam down to its strip away to its absolute essentials, you need to worship you need to not
come a chick and you need to make Salah consistently if you do those two things. And this is that
this is the view of the Sahaba some there's a lot of talk about you know people courting each other
your coffee and better carfit The the scholars they write the the Sahaba did not deem anyone who
said the Kanima and made Salah irrespective of what they did they didn't do as an unbeliever if you
do those two things that you test if I am a Muslim and you perform your Salah there is no Islam is
without a doubt without any question Alhamdulillah you are a Muslim there is between you and Allah
		

			subhanaw taala and so it really it comes down to as we said salah is a special kind of pillar above
the others. And this is the focus for all of us and for many of us this is really our our daily
challenge is to make sure our fire so
		

			Last on time done properly and correctly, we then spoke about the other obligations that you need to
fulfill. And some of them are more serious than others. And most of these obligations are not to
Allah, any sort of your contract with your wife in terms of Nikka your contract with your parents,
your children, and that it takes a discussion all on its own.
		

			This is where we're going to get into the questions that we spoke about where we stopped last week
we spoke
		

			it is around avoiding major sins against Allah and against mankind. So before we talk about sunnah
salah, before we talk about the hatchet and Witter and Doha and giving sadaqa and charity, that is
not a priority before this, this aspect of avoiding major sins becomes more of an issue than a
person than doing a lot of good deeds. Of course, those things go hand in hand. But it's more
important to avoid major sins, then to do extra now I feel right now I'm not talking about the fall
of the fire, it comes first, then avoiding major sins, and then comes the Sunnah. So I have a number
of questions. The one question was around, how do you how much sooner must you do and how do you
		

			increase your Eman through now I feel we'll talk about that when we get to know our field. The other
question that was was raised was around homosexuality, and we'll talk about major sins and perhaps
that's a good good segue. In this discussion, Allah Subhana Allah says,
		

			In Touch the new book about uromodulin Hona Anhu that if you avoid the major sins which I have a
button for you, Luca Frank Messiah to convince every other minus and Allah says I will forgive you
I'm an FTM. So one of the great
		

			comforts for us is yes, Allah will weigh and measure every single atoms weight of sin that we do
every thought every statement everything will be weighed and presented to Allah and we can't hide
anything on that day but Allah says if you come to him with no major sins of course it's for the
believer who didn't come and shake obviously, Luca Farah uncle say African then I will wipe out
every single one of those majors and every sorry minuses every one of the minuses. One who the Fill
come with 100, Karima and I promise you, I will enter you into Jannah. And so avoiding the major
sins becomes your next priority. And so here's the question, what are the major sins? What are these
		

			major sins, they are sins any anything that is sinful is something which is displeasing to Allah and
carries with it a penalty. Certain things Allah is displeased with, but he doesn't carry a penalty,
those things will be called in macro. But there are certain there are things that we are they are
displeasing to Allah, and they carry with it a type of penalty, some of those sins are more serious
than others. So and this goes without saying that to
		

			to Subhanallah say something wrong, or to look sorry to look at something Haram is obviously less of
a sin then to murder someone.
		

			To insult someone verbally, is obviously bad, but to harm someone physically, you know, to actually
shoot that person is obviously worse. So we understand that not all sins are equal. We don't
trivialize our sins, even the smallest of sins we should not trivialize because in that we are
trivializing Allah's displeasure. So we don't do that either. But we definitely have this concept of
major and minor sins. And Allah is the One who measures in the Quran. Allah himself says in the
Quran, that there are major sins and if you avoid the major ones, then he will forgive the minor
ones. Now what are the major sins? Well, they are there is no clear list Allah did not list all the
		

			major sins nor did the Nabil Salam list them in a you know these are the 1020 30 major sins avoided.
Rather, we can extrapolate from the Quran and the Sunnah, which sins are serious and which ones are
not as serious so for example, there's a hadith and abysmal says, avoid the seven destructive sins,
right the seven sins that will destroy you avoid them. Now we know that the seven is this like the
seven deadly sins, right? So even in Islam, these we have the concept of the seven, a sabbatical
movie called Movie caught or like the destruction of the deadly sins. What are they? Allah says,
well, the Prophet says, to come and share what Allah said number one, the most serious one is to
		

			worships others besides Allah number two is to practice magic and sorcery. And then really the
reason why magic is haram because it is it involves ship and harming people. Number three, killing
someone you know, to murder someone without any just reason to kill someone. And you can obviously
even in in the world of men, the most serious crime is to murder to kill there's nothing more
serious than that. And number four, Subhan Allah how many of us trivialize the sin? How many of us
don't have on this list? Perhaps all Muslims. Sin number four is the one that we should be most
scared of, because it's the one that goes most unnoticed, consuming rebar, involving yourself in
		

			rebar not consuming, of course, as you take riba but we also know that the rebar isn't only the one
who takes it, it's the one who pays it and many of us how many of us have bond
		

			and loans and car insurance and all these kinds of things which might have an aspect of Riba, our
pension, you know, all these things we need to be careful of. And it's one of the major sins,
consuming the property of orphans and as part of corruption and all that takes, so stealing the
money of not just stealing, but to take the money of the poorest of the poor, fleeing on the day of
in the battlefield serves Pamela, if the man is on the battlefield, and he flees into medicine, and
then number seven, to accuse to accuse a chaste woman of Xena and she's innocent, right? So to
accuse someone of immorality, and they are innocent. Now, it's interesting the things that are not
		

			on here that we give a lot of priority to. We give a lot of priority to those people commit Zina,
they're bad people. And yes, you know, it's a major sin without a doubt, they take drugs or they
drink alcohol, they're bad people, it's piling up that's not on the list.
		

			They,
		

			you know, they they're not wearing the hijab, or they're not, the beard is not long enough, or they
feel that all those are sins, and let's not, let's not trivialize them. But sometimes we have
prioritize certain sins over the others. And we've made certain sins bigger and overshadowed the
things that are even more serious. For example, as I said, earlier, vice versa the most of you
listen, in spite of its seriousness. And so
		

			the scholars have basically said that, to know if a son is a major son or a minus. And then there
are certain telltale signs certain hints that it's major. So for example, if Allah calls it a major
sin, so in some iClicker, I will say, to do A, B, C, and D is a Kabir, it's major, it's big, in
obvious you know, it's a major sin. Sometimes Allah will say whoever does that, then acquirable, the
other of the angle of Allah or the Lana or the curse of Allah is on them or the punishment or Allah
is upon them. So when Allah expresses his extreme anger at a certain sin, and Allah mentions them in
the Quran,
		

			you know, then it becomes a medicine, or if there is a penalty attached to it in the dunya. So if we
lived in a Islamic State, certain sins carry a capital punishment, that if you stick, your hand gets
chopped off, that if you commit, if you drink alcohol, you need to be naturally become a type of
Xena, you should be stoned. Now, if there's a punishment in the dunya, then of course, it is a
serious sin. And at most Subhanallah many, you know, some I've said that it's about 10 of those of
them are major sin, some 20 some scholars have listed 70 major sins, nonetheless, they are a list of
major sins and everything besides those major sins are, are minor, and even though those minuses do
		

			carry a penalty, so long as Allah subhana you present them to Allah without the major sins in show
of his hope that it will be forgiven. Now, the question came about along the lines of homosexuality.
And one of the most difficult discussions not really difficult, actually an easy discussion, but
it's one of the most it's one of the discussions that raises a lot of a lot of feelings and emotions
and and strong kinds of positions. Now, I am presenting Inshallah, a topic on homosexuality, but
this is before the ages of 13 to 25 at the panorama Masjid on Thursday, so this Thursday coming the
16th of June at the panorama as you
		

			if you have, you know any kids or grandkids in that age bracket and you want to have a discussion in
a safe place about six and sexuality, in particular the LGBTQI movement, then that's the place to be
and we'll discuss the inshallah but let's talk about this question. So the system messages and says,
What is Islam supposition basically on on homosexuality and because it is very, very prevalent now?
		

			People ask that question, but they don't actually mean that question because the