Nadim Bashir – How To Save Yourself From Evil Eye
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Today, we are living in a time
where
we feel the need
to gain people's approval.
We are, subhanAllah,
so obsessed
with how other people think of us.
We always wanna make sure that everyone has
the best image,
the best mind, or the best idea about
us.
And in pleasing other people and gaining their
approval,
we will go to the ends of the
earth, subhanallah.
Whereas the goal or the objective should be,
that if there's anyone's approval that we need
to attain, it is the approval
of Allah If
there is anyone's pleasure that we should be
seeking,
it is only Allah
pleasure.
In Surah Yusuf, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he
mentions that Yaqub alaihis salam told his son,
That my son, Yusuf, do not You saw
this dream
that,
This is a dream that if you are
to tell your brothers that you saw this,
perhaps they will plot and plan against you.
Here, Yaqub
is trying to protect the interest of his
child.
Now for anyone who says that Yaqub alayhis
salam did not care about his other children,
that's absolutely wrong. Why?
Because in order to protect his other children,
he gave them the same advice, a similar
advice.
That when you go to Egypt,
and you enter into the city, in the
court of the king,
or the Aziz,
or the financial minister of Egypt.
He says,
Do not enter into Do not enter through
one gate or one door.
What? But,
That enter through separate gates. Why?
Because if anyone sees
that there are 9 young men or 10
young men,
all, mashallah,
fit, healthy,
you know, they're young, they're good looking, mashallah.
They're walking through the city gates.
Then perhaps someone may look at them and
see them and be envious of them.
And I want to protect. This is Yaqub
alaihis salam telling his children that, do not
do this because he wants to protect them
from being the victims of someone else's hasad.
Brothers and sisters,
in light of what I said earlier, that
we are so upset obsessed
with people's approval,
we learn from these 2 saiyat of Surah
Yusuf
that it is absolutely important for all of
us to understand
that evil eye is a reality. Rasulullah sallallahu
alaihi wasallam said that evil eye is a
reality.
But today, you and I, we feel the
need that in order for us to be
complimented by others, In order to gain people's
approval,
wallahi, we put our entire life
on social media nowadays.
My son, my daughter has a, has accomplished
something. Take a picture, put it on social
media. I'm going somewhere,
I'm enjoying myself. Halas. Let's take a picture,
let's put it on social media. And there
is such an obsession
that we'll go back after every 5 minutes,
10 minutes. And looking at, did anyone like?
Did anyone comment? Did anyone like? Did anyone
comment?
And what that does is, brother and sisters,
is that it gains It puts other people
in a position
that they may have evil eye against us.
They may even commit hasad against us.
But if there's anything that we're doing to
ourselves,
we are potentially harming ourselves.
By the way, you can talk to a
person who does ruqyah, they will tell you
the same thing.
Forget about strangers.
Forget about strangers.
Even in many cases,
unintentionally
Let me make this very clear. Unintentionally,
there are times when even parents,
even parents,
when they see the accomplishments of their own
kids, even
commit evil eye against they see something that
they have done, and they they marvel about
it, not realizing that they've actually just committed
evil eye against their own children.
So this is why, brothers and sisters, first
of all, we are seeing a world that
everyone is posting their their their life on
social media. Not realizing that people are then
committing hasad against them. Then people are committing
evil eye against them. And it is impacting
their lives, and they don't even realize
that perhaps there's something going on in my
life, as a result of me putting up
my life on social media. I had a
brother who called me one time. He said,
I'm going through this, this and this in
my life.
And I And you know, sometimes I may
go on social media too. And I see
that that same person who called me, they
put their entire life on social media. The
first thing I told them was, stop posting
your entire life on social media.
Now we're not only in a situation where
we feel the need to post everything on
social media,
but now we are getting to a point
that forget about the non muslim community. Even
the muslim community.
You have men, and especially especially women,
who would go and start exposing themselves on
social media. Why? Because they want to gain
people's attention. They want to gain people's approval.
They want to be liked by others. They
wanna be accepted by others.
And then not only that, the Muslim community
is even going beyond that. Subhanallah.
I had a brother, he sent me a
message
of a couple.
And the couple because they feel like that
we need to share
with the entire world, that as a husband
and wife, how much we love each other.
Subhanallah, they're kissing.
And they're posting that on social media.
And not just kissing,
it's it's a kissing that should not be
even in be done in public. If you
know what I mean. But this is how
they're doing things. And then they're posting on
social media, and they're telling others that this
is a sign that I love my wife.
Khalas, you love your wife, you don't have
to share with the entire world.
You don't have to tell the entire world
whose approval are you trying to gain. Did
anyone say anything to you that's that basically
give you the sense that you don't love
your wife? You don't love your spouse? But
brothers and sisters, we are going to new
lengths.
And we have no idea
that how this is harming us, how this
is harming our children.
Yes. Once in a while you wanna post
something.
Post something, a reminder. A du'a. You wanna
post something that is good, something that is
beneficial.
Even once in a while you post something
that is going on in your life. You
go somewhere, you see something very beautiful, you
might share it. But brothers and sisters, we
have no understanding, and a lot of times
we don't realize
that when we put our life out like
this on social media, we are harming ourselves.
It is impacting my life. It is impacting
our life. And then we wanna go and
gain rukuya, and do this, and do that.
I'm gonna finish on this.
There are a lot of duas that we
find in the sunnah of the prophet
to protect ourselves from evil eye. There is
There is the So the Falak, so the
Nas,
Ayatul Kursi.
And there are many other things that we
can do in order to protect ourselves from
evil eye. But we have to understand something
a very important concept within our deen. And
that is,
first we do our part,
then we ask Allah
for help. If I wanna protect myself from
evil eye,
I cannot expect to put my entire life
on social media,
and then we read these duas and khalasa,
it will be working. No.
Pay
attention. Always we read
pay attention to
it.
What does this mean? It means that first,
we do what we have to do to
Allah for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
then we ask for help.
We wanna protect ourselves from evil eye. We
wanna protect our children from evil eye. The
first thing we do is we stop doing
things that can potentially harm us.
That is us doing our part. Then we
read those duas, then it will be it
will be impactful.
But once again, what what we're doing is,
we're doing the wrong,
and then after that we're asking Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala that, You Allah, You protect me.
First of all, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
telling us that do your part. First do
your part, then I will do my part.
But we don't wanna do our part when
we want Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to do
his part. So if you wanna protect ourselves,
the first thing that we gotta do is,
we have to stop flaunting
our our accomplishments,
our blessings in our life, and keep them
to yourself. Once again, if they make you
happy, they make you happy. You be happy
in your life. You don't have to tell
everyone else that we are happy in our
life. And then we read these duas insha'Allah,
and then they will be impactful. I ask
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to grant all of
us tawfiq inshaAllah. May Allah subhanahu protect us,
protect our families, protect our children, and protect
our upcoming generations.