Nadim Bashir – Important Advice for the RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY

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			today Inshallah, in this brief reminder, I want to sit mentioned something that is very relevant to
the community or part of the community that is considered as the religious community, the community
that comes to the masjid on a day to day basis, part of the community that is engaged in giving the
hour, that part of the community that is engaged in earning and acquiring their knowledge and so
forth. There is something that we find very interesting in the Quran. And that is a reminder to all
of us that we should never feel that we are fully accomplished. And at the same time, we should
never feel arrogant towards others who may not be doing the same thing as we are. For example, if a
		

			person is engaged in acquiring knowledge, they should never look down on someone who is not
acquiring knowledge or who may is or someone who may not have the same level of knowledge as they
have. Or if a person is engaged in Dawa. They should not be looking down on someone else. Because
they're not giving Dawa or they're not engaged in that particular Dawa platform. Or if they are
engaged in other other Islamic activities, or they're coming to the masjid every single day, they
should not look down on someone who is not coming to the masjid on a day to day basis. So it's very
important that we are reminded especially the religious community, we remind ourselves that we have
		

			to be always humble and never apply or never produced a couple in our heart Subhanallah in subtle
progeroid so 200 By the way, is a Surah that where Allah subhana wa talks about the community, ALLAH
SubhanA wa that talks about how can you develop cohesion in the community? How do you develop the
ideal society like we find in the case of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa Salaam and in the Surah,
ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. He mentioned about the group of people who he addresses them as you enter the
nominal now, here it was interesting to note is that what Allah subhanaw taala is about to say, is
along these lines, but what did he say in the beginning of the verse, He says, Yeah, you had an
		

			idea. When Allah subhana wa Tada says, Yeah, you have the nominal, it is referring to those people
of the community who are actively engaged in developing their Iman, you would say that this is the
community that is considered as the religious community. And so therefore Allah subhanho wa Taala is
addressing those people, which in this case, could be people who are coming to the masjid or those
who have a certain level of religiosity in their life. So ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. It begins with the
idea by saying, Yeah, you only need ammo. And then he says, law Yes, her Coleman Coleman. I sat in
your corner high ramen home, Wallah. And he said, Oh, minister, and I certainly could not hide on
		

			min Han Allah subhanho wa taala. He says, that no person amongst the men, or the men coming together
should make a mockery of another man or another nation or another group of people, and neither
should the women have this kind of certain affair taking place amongst themselves where they are
coming together and they're making a mockery of one another. Now interestingly, what happens many
times is that when you and I when we think about mockery, we think that making fun of each other
saying something that is culturally insensitive towards one another, but law yes HUD does not only
is not only restricted to only that law is hard it extends to evil looking down on someone's because
		

			think about it, when we say let or when Allah says law Yes, heart do not make a mockery. When you
make a mockery of someone, when you look down upon them, when you think that you are superior and
they are inferior. So this even extends to the fact that when a group of people when ALLAH SubhanA
wa Tada says, And he addresses them as yeah you have Levine Avenue mean that these are the people
who are the religious community. And he says, that do not make a mockery do not look down upon each
other. And then Allah subhanho wa Taala further along in the same surah Allah subhana wa Tada says,
the criterion or the way that Allah subhanaw taala judges, the who is superior and who is inferior
		

			is always based on Taqwa. So this is a reminder for all of us. And for those who are going to the
mosh every single day that we should never look down and never feel that we are absolutely superior,
and others are inferior. In fact, we find even from the story of a Belize
		

			That's a believes was a learned man, he or he was a learned gin. And at the same time he was in the
company of the melodica. He was considered as a righteous gin. And all of a sudden his arrogance
came out. And his arrogance was that one thing that destroyed him completely when he said to Allah
subhanho wa Taala that I refuse to make such that to add the money he said on why, and a hiatal min
halacha 20 menar wahala Kota home and clean. So this is why it is absolutely important that when it
comes to the religious sector of the community, never looked down on someone who isn't considerate,
perhaps not considered as religious. We see today in our own cultures that many of us we come from,
		

			that a person who has a beard, they are considered as respected and a person who may not have a
beard is considered as disrespected or people view them as people who are sinners. And and and those
who are, you know, perhaps to me, they are far from the ROM of ALLAH SubhanA, WA, tada and so forth.
And once again, we need to remind ourselves that only Allah subhana wa Taala knows who will die with
iman, and who will be who will depart with iman. And so that's why it's very important that we
always are very humble brothers and sisters, it is a we find time and time in the Quran, we find in
the hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu some stories, so many stories, especially in the Hadith, that
		

			people who started off very religious, very righteous, their ending was the complete opposite,
whereas we find also in the opposite, that people who had started their life completely away from
Allah subhanho wa taala. And they live their life in such a way that they were so pleased to Allah
subhanho wa taala. So that is why we should never look down on anyone. And the second thing I do
want to mention is, and I want you all to keep this in mind, this formula, you can say that thoughts
develop feelings and feelings develop actions. So think about it for a moment. Imagine a person had
a thought that I am not close to Allah subhanho wa Taala ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala does not listen to
		

			me. Allah does not answer my dua. This is a thought that comes into someone's mind, automatically
that will develop a feeling that feeling is that Allah Subhan does not like me, okay? Allah does not
like me, that's the feeling. And then as a result of that feeling, there's an action that is
generated from that feeling. And that is what that a person who stops making dua to Allah subhanho
wa taala. So it starts off with a thought. And then it develops a feeling and that feeling then
generates an action. So when it when we think and we look down upon others, what that is, is a
thought I'm better than him. And then after that, what is that feeling was a feeling agenda is
		

			generated. That feeling is the feeling of Kibera, and arrogance. And then that arrogance, it
manifests itself in an action and how does it do that? It then looks down upon the person when a
person makes it up, you don't give them that proper attention versus someone else, you may give them
the attention and this is why we find Imam Ghazali along with Allah Allah Allah He talks about that
part of you know, when it comes to the eyes, and protecting the gaze, Imam was Allah he says that
part of protecting the gaze is not only looking at something haram natured but it also applies to a
person when they have eyes and they look at someone with the nether and the the look of her para and
		

			a lot and a look of inferiority, that I am better than that person. Imam Ghazali says that even this
is a violation of the SNAM of Allah subhanho wa Taala that he has given us which is our eyes. So
this is why it's very important that never should we feel that we are superior. Why because who
knows that today we feel ourselves superior, but at the time of our death will we depart from from
this dunya with iman or not? That is what we need to ask Allah subhanho wa Taala Finally, I will
share with you Inshallah, a story, a very beautiful story that I came across. And this is a story
		

			by Imam even Kodama al McAleese, he has mentioned in his book that there was a great scholar of
there was a great scholar, but before that he mentioned that there was a drunken man there was a man
who was often drunk. And this drunken man his name was Abdullah imminent Mustafa Al Carnaby. So
Abdullah and I must, Carnaby he was one time with his friends there were drinking, they were heavily
drunk. And all of a sudden, he began to notice that a group of people flocked to a certain area and
there was like a big rush. And so of course, any person who's watching this, it will catch their
attention immediately. So you begin to ask that where is everybody running? They're going and
		

			they're, they're gathering in one particular place. So someone told him that there was a scholar
over there, a very famous imam who was there and he's teaching, he's teaching and he's engaged in
Tallinn and so forth. So he asked that who is this Imam that they all are running towards? And
someone told him that his name was Imam a
		

			In a shabby Imam, a shabby Rahmatullah alley. So then he asked, What does Imam a shabby do? And
someone then told him that he is a Hadith. And then he says, What does a Muhaddith do? And then
someone told a hadith is someone who is engaged, actively engaged in memorizing, narrating
understanding, a hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So he went to Imam, a shabby, and
he says that I heard you're an imam. And I heard that you are a hadith and email a shabby, he
answered in the affirmative. And then he says that can you share with me something that you know of
the hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Now you have to understand the Imam of Chabi
		

			sitting there, he sees that unbelievable Mustafa Al Parnaby, he comes and he has a bottle of wine in
his hand and so forth. So he's trying to think that let me share a hadith that is very relevant to
this particular person situation. So he shared with him the hadith is Narrated by Abu Moscow, the
hola Juan, which is found in Sahih al Bukhari, where the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he
says, either love or hate first not a match it that if you have no higher if you have no modesty or
you have no shame, then do whatever you want. This is the Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam. So when do I even know masala Carnaby heard this, this really took him by shock. He was
		

			actually thinking to himself that I have come to this point do I actually now have no shame in my
life? And he began to question that, where is my shame? Where is my higher and then he began to even
talk to his family members that perhaps I want to repent from this kind of lifestyle. And then his
family supported him. And then he went to another scholar and he says that I want to start earning
my Deen I have to apply this higher, and I do not want to live this lifestyle so far that I have
been living. Someone told him that perhaps you can go to Imam Malik Rahmatullah alley, where he is
actively engaged in teaching and those into these. And he says that I went there and I stayed in the
		

			company of Imam Malik Rahmatullah Ali. And I stayed there for such a long time, and I acquired
knowledge. And he says that to such a point, that I became also an expert in Hadith. And I also
began to acquire or teach and disseminate this knowledge of Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam, and it is then mentioned that Subhanallah this teacher, he eventually became the teacher,
this or this man, I believe it, it must not matter. Pardon me. Now think about this for a moment.
Let's take, let's take a step back before I mentioned, who eventually became, you're talking about a
drunken man, imagine going outside and watching or seeing a drunk man. And he's coming to you and
		

			saying that teach me something about Islam. A lot of times 99.9% of the time, you would think to
yourself that what's the point of view and telling this guy anything, but think about a shabby, he
never looked down upon this man. He shared with him a hadith of the prophets of Salaam, with the NIA
that hopefully, perhaps this will penetrate in his in his heart, and it did penetrate his heart. And
then he made a complete change in his life. And today, he is coming to America today he has become a
scholar, and today's Subhanallah we find him in our books of history, that he also became one of the
teachers of Imam Al Bukhari and Imam Muslim Rahim Allah Subhan. Allah, you see, think that this man,
		

			where is he going to go in his life, what kind of Islam he's going to acquire, but he turned out to
be even more righteous and he turned out to be even more privileged and more accepted by Allah
subhanho wa taala. So therefore, never underestimate any advice. Never underestimate any person who
is coming to you. Even a person who is so far from being if they're coming to you. They want to ask
you something always give them the time to not look down upon anyone who is not perhaps religious,
and this is a very important advice for those who are actively engaged in Dawa actively engage in
Masjid in massages, or coming to the masjid or actively engaging and so forth. Ask Allah subhanaw
		

			taala to grant us humbleness, ask ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala to grant us a heart like closer Rasulullah
sallallahu it was somewhere we are thinking about others and we are you know, we are doing good to
others. And we are doing good to ourselves and I ask Allah subhanho wa Taala to remove all types of
Kibber and arrogance from our heart immunoblotted Amin does that como la Hey Salam aleykum
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