Nouman Ali Khan – Dhul Hijjah The Uphill Climb

Nouman Ali Khan

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The title "imma" in the Quran is used to describe a woman who wants to achieve something, and the use of the word "imma" is used to describe a man who wants to achieve something. The importance of giving help and finding ways to avoid addiction is emphasized, as it is difficult to give everyone. The segment also touches on the struggles people face with addiction and the need for people to be mindful of their behavior.

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			In today's brief goodbye, I'd like to speak with you about some ideas that belong to Silicon Valley.
But first and foremost, I'd like to express how happy I am to actually have an opportunity to spend
some moments before the football with Sheikh Mustafa, I want to share a memory with you. This is
back in the days of Warren Street in the 90s. It was the first time I actually gave a hug by in the
city, actually, the second, the first time was on 43rd in the UN, and then I was asked to give a hug
by here. And I was extremely nervous. I was 19 years old, and the person who calmed my nerves was
him. And he said, it's going to be okay. And but he didn't realize the reason I was nervous was
		
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			because he was there. Because I used to come listen to his called bus all the time. And you had to
come very early to attend a school bus because otherwise you'd be praying on the street. So I used
to come extra early to listen to him. And he's one of May Allah reward him for all the work that
he's done. And all the service that he's given to this community of the dedication that he has Allah
preserve him and his health, and given the best to him and his family. And also like to start by
acknowledging and making dua for all of those that have spent so much of their life savings and have
made the journey to hudge. This year, that is not an easy journey to make, not financially, not
		
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			emotionally, not physically, many of them that are older and age that Allah did not give them a
chance to go their entire life are going for the first time. Many are waiting for many, many years.
And you know, it's actually relatively easier for people in the United States to even go to Hajj
relatively. But there are other places in the world where you don't get enough visas and people have
to wait 2030 years before they can get a chance. And they have to get in the waiting list. You know
when they're maybe 1516 years old, and they won't get a chance until they're 4550 years old to be
able to go and that's a reality for people in the world. So those that Allah has given the
		
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			opportunity to go, may Allah azza wa jal make that a means of forgiveness for them, that all of
their sins are forgiven and they have a fresh start when they come back. And Allah bring them back
home to their family safely and with a new sense of renewed sense of demand and commitment to Allah
azza wa jal and this beautiful Deen of Ibraheem Alehissalaam
		
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			so what I wanted to talk to you about today is a really powerful expression in the Quran. Very short
sutras in the Quran, they they say many things, but they say them in very few words. And so little
Bella does an example of that. At the end of skeletal ballad, Allah azza wa jal describes a person
who did not believe. But instead of saying my Iman, he didn't believe Allah describes not the
belief, but the result of that belief. So sometimes, I want you and I to think about Iman, our faith
as a seed. And that seed gives rise to a plant. What you see above the ground is the plant and what
is under the ground is the seed. So now Allah is talking about what plant never came out because the
		
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			Eman wasn't there. There's the seed wasn't there, therefore the plant never emerged. Now what is it
that should be the fruit or the plant the flower that buds from this ima and that's what Allah is
talking about here, by way of an imagery and the imagery you would think in other places in the
Quran. This imagery the result of Eman we would think should be worship. Right the result of image
should be for example for LA sadaqa la sala right so he didn't accept the truth he didn't pray.
worshipping Allah had you know, refining your your commitment to Allah azza wa jal removing all
elements of Schilke from your heart having complete reliance on Allah, those are all manifestations
		
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			of iman. But here the manifestation of Eman is very different. Like Allah is highlighting a
different dimension of what it means to be a believer, and he's criticizing the disbeliever. And you
will think when Allah criticizes the disbeliever he's going to criticize their ship, their kufr,
their heedlessness their sins and all of that stuff, but he's describing something else entirely.
And the language that he uses is pretty remarkable and interesting. He starts with FANUC, the hammer
Lacava very unique phrasing in the Quran. It's not used anywhere else. And this phrase is commonly
in Easy English translations, they'll say and he he did not scale or he did not climb up the hill.
		
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			Right? A laptop is actually the end of a, you know, an elevated peak. So to scale a mountain or to
go up and up and up in elevation. And when you reach the top of it, the moon to have it that's
called an acaba. So the edge of a cliff even can be called an acaba. So that's the first thing he
didn't reach there but the word use is if the hammer and the hammer will give you some things about
its meaning. It actually has to do with when you go and you enter into something difficult like if
there's a narrow entrance and you barely squeeze in, that's actually called the hand and if the
hammer soft was used for if people are lined up together and you're trying to squeeze and make your
		
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			way in, you know, that's called if the ham so it has to do with is the ham, it has to do with heavy
traffic. It has to do with tightness and congestion. Where's the scene where that happens?
		
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			I want you to use your imagination, people are fighting each other and squeezing into a narrow
space, right. So what when this happens, for example, when there's a long line at hedge, for
example, and people are trying to get through a narrow passage, right, or you can imagine, there's,
you know, people are crazy about concerts or ticket sales or whatever, and they're going to sell
out. And everybody shows up early, like, you know, Black Friday in this country, that's, they have
about the same devotion as Muslims, that hudge where people do not fall off of the mall and the
other waiting are doing liquor outside, they put the pm will lay, they put their benches outside the
		
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			store, and they're going to wait for the doors to open so they can rush and when they're rushing in
and fighting each other squeezing through the door. That's actually if they haven't people do that,
when they are competing with each other for some kind of monopoly or for some kind of benefits,
right? You'd see that kind of a rush in the stock market, you'd see that kind of a rush in the kinds
of environments where bidding is happening, and people are pushing and shoving to get, you know, and
this is this scene is always associated with people getting something and if I don't get it,
somebody else is going to take it, you know, somebody else is going to just grab it. So this imagery
		
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			is associated with the word IQ. The Harmon Allah uses that word to describe this, this image. And
this image is this person did not compete with others. Whoever was describing did not compete with
others didn't fight with others didn't rush to go up at the top of the mountain. Didn't didn't want
to do it didn't want to compete. So Allah is in this image, you're describing something, people are
competing for the wrong thing. They're running towards something else. There's a there's a door open
this way, and everybody's interested. They're flooding towards it. And there's another mountain up
there. It takes an effort to go up the mountain, right? And nobody's making the effort to go and
		
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			nobody's competing. And the language also tells you this mountain that Allah wants you to climb and
wants me to climb. This one was the word the one worth competing for. Everybody should have been
fighting each other to reach the top of this one. But they're going in the other direction. In fact,
what is that other direction is mentioned earlier on in the Surah. You have Hulu back to Milan
levada he says I blew a lot of money man you know how much I spent on this TV? You know, you know
how much I get paid for those rims. You know how much I got that car for? Yeah, I just got this the
kitchen redone you know how much I spent on that like, they love talking about how much they spent
		
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			love talking about you these shoes or bro don't even ask. You know, they want to make sure people
know that okay, this is the brand and this is how much I spent on it. This is how much I spent on
the vacation. This is how much I spent on the house this is what I spent on the car this is what I
spent on this the suit these clothes etc etc. Always talking about how much money I've flown in of
course on haram things in the past to write on alcohol and gambling and all that stuff. But even
other things, just loves talking about how much money has been spent has been thrown out there Kulu
Allah Tamala lumada on the on that's easy. People rush towards those things, right? And they rush
		
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			towards making money so they can spend the big money their dream man I want to make this much money
so I can make that get that vacation get that car blow money on this blow money on that that's what
they're thinking about. On the flip side is a mountain that goes up this is the imagery Allah uses.
But there's another twist in this imagery before we unlock it. And that twist is very beautiful. In
the Arabic language you don't use LA for a felon MALDI you don't say La La vida, you say Marfa Allah
or you say let me have fun. So the expected language is luck the hammer or you say let me actor him
and Acaba. But Allah says, luck to him. Allah Allah actor Hamanaka he uses the law so that we Yun
		
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			and the Mufasa rune started discussing, why would Allah use the law here? What is it doing? And
there's multiple ways to understand it, but one of them I will highlight to you that law is used for
the past tense, when there's two of them together, like for law sadaqa when a Salah is to law
together. So when you say law for what a nurse or whatever, you put two verbs together, you can put
large twice, so they assume there's a hub here for lokta Hamanaka, Walla, Amman, or phenomena well
after Hamanaka. In other words, there's going up the hill, neither did he go up the hill, and
therefore nor did he actually believe there's an implicit wording here and you can tell it's there
		
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			because of the law and Bulaga they call this atashi it's a technique used to make someone think
whoa, what what's the law doing here? This is the kind of stuff that disappears in the English
translation. You don't even know something special happened here, but it's happening in the language
of the Quran. So Allah is not just talking about going up a hill. He's saying Whoever did not go up
this hill failed to show that they actually had him on inside. The reason that this never came out
is because there was no emotion inside and so much of that
		
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			can be learned just from the use of the law and fall of the hammer laptop. And then Allah Himself
says, So what do you think I'm talking about? What is this top of the hill that people should be
competing for pushing each other for to get to the top? Why am I rockin with acaba? What would give
you any idea what that cover is? What would that top Hill be? Is it is it the 100 every night? Is it
fasting every day? Is it what worship is this and he starts Sakura Coubertin. In Peacock, the word
the word is used, when you grab something from someone that is not letting go and ask Will I see
they say, he grabs like if I'm if I'm holding on, like you're holding your phone, right and somebody
		
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			comes, tries to nap your phone off your hands, and you've got a tight grip, and they're pulling it
off of you. This is actually this act of pulling out of pulling something out of somebody else's
hand. This is actually called in peacock and are the verb patka. And from it the word raka after
what it means is the back of the neck. This was language use and Aqaba was used for slaves or
prisoners of war because they used to put chains on the back of their neck. And the changes, they
used to use the chain to pull on them, right prisoners of war. And then it started getting used for
people that are buried under debt. Because their necks are hanging down. And when you when you pay
		
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			somebody's debt off, you've released their neck. So they can in a sense, hold their head up high
again, they can do that. And this became an expression by and large for anybody stuck in a difficult
situation. What Allah is saying here is the first sign of climbing up the hill is people should have
been looking for other people in around them that are stuck in a really bad situation. Their neck is
hanging low. They're enslaved and ancient slavery used to be something else. modern slavery comes
with mortgages and credit cards and medical bills. And you know, insurance and you know, absorbing
tickets, you know, like you forgot to pay 25 cents in the meter and you got a $250 ticket that's
		
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			and the guy barely makes you know minimum wage. And there's already already cutter up for the on the
on the tunnels and the totals right there already robbing you without you knowing it. And all of
that is actually burying people into debt, burying them in difficulty. They're barely getting by,
and to help someone release someone from the from the choke around their neck. That's the first sign
people should have been competing. Who can I help.
		
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			And this is this is really important. Because when you and I live in a capitalist mindset, you know
what that is? Look out for number one. You better save up because you got to get this car you better
save up because you have these plans. You You Why can't you just get that and even people around you
you're about to give somebody some charity, and a family member comes in says what you don't have
kids. We don't have to get a new fridge. We're gonna have to do this. We don't Why are you spending
on them? No, but they're in trouble. Yeah, everybody's in trouble. Maybe tomorrow, you'll be in
trouble. You don't have to be so generous, okay, somebody else can help them. They're not dying.
		
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			It's okay. They'll survive. Right? So well, people will come or maybe you'll tell yourself, it's
okay. I don't have to help someone in difficulty because it's alright, they'll survive. It's okay.
You know, instead, we making excuses to not help someone. These are the people who would be fighting
each other who's gonna get to help that person first. This is an uphill climb. It's not an easy
thing to do. In fact, the imagery was used at like ignore our shoulders in a hurry. But then we he
says this imagery was used because it's, it requires a lot of machine cut and knifes. It's really
hard on a person to get to the point where the way they're competing for things they enjoy. They're
		
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			competing for giving somebody help. They're jumping, leaping at the opportunity to help somebody.
This is a sign of human Takota Coubertin, Tom and Fiona Minzy must cover 10 Beautiful words, the
first two he says are feeding any kind of feeding. In a day when in a time when it's difficult even
for you it's it's difficult to even come up with a full meal, you take that half meal, and you cut
it into two quarters and you give one of those away. Like he says in another place in the Quran
where you throw in Allah and fusi him well, you cannot be him Kasasa when he was talking about the
Tsar, Allah said they give other people preference over themselves even when they're starving. So
		
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			this is the second quality he mentioned. Just give somebody something to eat. Give them a little
bit. You're not gonna make them rich, but if you can just share a little bit of help with somebody
else. And notice he didn't even mention who. It's an open ended thing. It's common. It's only man
that I'm only miskeen to live in Cuba. He didn't mention why. Because there's an openness. You never
know who's gonna need help. People that could have been doing okay yesterday, and then somebody
COVID happened, somebody got sick, they lost their job. Now they can't pay the rent. They don't look
like beggars. They look like they did yesterday. They looked
		
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			Totally normal. But if you can tell from the look on their faces, something is going on, something's
wrong. You know, daddy, for whom BC My home is Aluna, NASA al halfa. You recognize those people by
the look on their faces. They don't go around begging people, they're not standing outside holding a
sign. And you know, any money can help. They're not going to do that they have dignity. So we have
to recognize them, I will try them and feel them in the Masaba. And then he adds, who are these
people that you should be giving? The first one he mentioned is your team and the Makarova, the
orphan that is in close family relations. You know, you would think Allah would mentioned the
		
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			hardest thing first. And you would think intuitively, helping your relatives is easy. Right, the
relatives come first. So you would think of your relatives first, but the reality of it is, it's
actually a lot easier to give to a beggar on the street, someone you don't know, it's a lot harder
to give inside your own family, because family comes with a lot of politics. Why did you give this
one? Why didn't you give that one? How Oh, so you want to give your side of the family you don't
want to give my side of the family?
		
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			Oh, so you Oh, you think that's they're worth it, they enter you're gonna hear a lot. So you're
like, you know what, I'm just going to send wire my money to a different continent. Y'all do
whatever you want to do with that. But I'm not going to give my family because if I give something
in my family, I'm going to have trouble from my in laws, I'm going to have trouble from my mother,
because I gave my father's side of the family or I'm gonna have trouble from my father, because I
give to my mother's side of the family. And so and then, of course, inside family, there's also
feuds and fights. So when you have fights with somebody, you you fought your uncle, you fought your
		
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			cousin, whoever, right, now that you fought them, it doesn't matter that they're your team. I hate
that guy. I'm not going to help him. Why would I help him remember what he said to me that other
year, I still remember the insults at that wedding, I'm never going to help this guy, you, you hold
a grudge. Because you know, the people you deal with the most are the people that agitate you the
most. The people that you spend the most time with are the people that get on your nerves get on my
nerves the most. We can be friends, until we go on a road trip, then everything I do is gonna annoy
you and everything you do is gonna annoy me because we spend more time with each other family spends
		
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			a lot of time with each other. You know, for eat, we're like, oh eat, the whole family is gonna get
together six hours later, like when are these people going home?
		
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			I can't deal with this, you know, because family is hard to deal with. Those are difficult
relationships. And inside of our families, there are people who need help, even doesn't matter how I
feel about them. It doesn't matter if I liked their personality or not. It doesn't matter what I
feel about the previous fight that's carrying on for the last 20 years, or the generations that none
of that's important. This is a difficult thing to climb. You have to overcome your personal bias.
You have to overcome your anxiety of what people are going to say. You have to overcome the pressure
maybe inside your own family, I have to come over that pressure in my own family and still help
		
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			someone who I believe should be helped. That regardless of who's gonna say what this is your team
and Makarova, and then your so your demons or merkabah or Myskina dama Traba or even a miskeen
someone and miskeen is an interesting word Arab linguists say that the word miskeen actually is a
combination. It comes from Masaka and second together. So it's mascara. It's actually philosophy and
philosophy together become rubbery. So what this means is someone who's stuck in a situation and
they can't get out of that situation. That's what a miskeen is. Myskina is not just a poor person, a
Myskina someone's stuck in a difficult situation, like for example, somebody was driving an Uber or
		
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			a taxi. That's how they were making their living, right. And then they developed an eye infection.
Now their eyes are not their eyesight is no good. They can't drive anymore. Right. And so now
there's they want to be able to work, but they're in a medical situation where they can't earn that
living anymore. This would become a miskeen somebody who's stuck and is not able to help themselves
out of a situation. And so he says people that are stuck, they can spiral down to the point where
they are that Matoba they are in the dirt. They're in the dirt. What that means is what they're
they're humiliated. They're not covered anymore. Maybe they're becoming homeless, because throb
		
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			comes when you're outside and traveling right? They're losing the roof over their head. These are
the people that Allah azza wa jal wants us to look out for, and say and actually compete in looking
out for them in our personal lives. I want you to also think about when the Quran was revealed, we
have to always remember when the Quran was revealed, there were no websites where you can say let me
look for a you know, a charity organization which has pictures of orphans and then I can give, you
know, make a wire transfer and that's, that's all new right? When, when these I
		
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			came down there were no charity organizations that were holding fundraisers for this event or that
yes, helpful football was there. But by and large in society, you, you had to know your neighbor.
You had to know your family. How did you know people are in difficulty you talk to them, you
interacted with them, you live with them, you had a sensitive eye towards those things. So we have
to have that kind of connection. This is actually connected. This idea is connected to Silla to him.
It's connected to family ties being together. Like if you haven't talked to your family in a long
time, then you don't know what they're struggling with. It's been a few years, you just call them
		
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			every way a robotic. Okay. And that's it, you're done. See and see you in seven months for a 22nd
phone call, then you don't know what they're struggling with. You don't know what their medical
issues are. You don't know what their financial issues are. You don't know what did what legal
difficulties they're having. You don't know nothing. But back in the day, people used to visit each
other, talk to each other interact with each other so they knew who's got difficulty who's got ease.
		
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			And it even went beyond just the limitation of the family. So miskeen and Sumatra. So McCann Amina
Larina Armano. Then if they had done all of this, then this person, they would be from those who
truly have faith.
		
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			What ourselves a suburb, and they will be the ones that would counsel each other for southern now
notice the word somebody here? What does someone have to do with all of the counseling to southern
the person in these ayat is someone if we meet if we want to climb up this hill, we're helpful
people were helpful people. And when you're helping someone then after you're doing your best to
help them then you get to be in a position to tell them you should have suffered. Let's have supper
together. Well, it'll be okay. Let me give you strength you can't not do anything and say half
southern brother
		
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			you know thong McCann Amina, Lavina, Amanu whatever solver solver. You see, after this, all of this,
now this person belongs to those who have failed. And now they are the ones who counseled to, to
ease to counsel to submit. Actually the way to counsel to somebody is coming in the series of the
sorrows. For example Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he is told ALEMI agenda team and for
our what was the Cabal and for her for Georgia,
		
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			Amelia tema,
		
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			you see the connection, he saw, Allah tells his messenger sallallahu alayhi salam, he found you to
be an orphan. He found you to be an orphan and later on in the same passage, he says, Now when it
comes to the orphan, don't don't be harsh with them. And at the end of that, he said, What am I
doing here Matthew Rebecca forehead death and talk about the favor Allah had met your master has
done to you. So when you come to an orphan, you say, Hey, listen, I know your pain, because I was an
orphan too. And you know what? Allah made it okay? Allah gave me support Allah will give you support
to Allah be near Mattila de Kapha. Hadith, somebody who's gone through it can help you by the way,
		
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			this idea of people that have gone through the same struggle can relate to each other. This is
actually used universally in the world. There are, for example, people that are addicts, they join
Alcoholics Anonymous, or who have other support groups, where people have overcome their addictions.
And they find strength with each other because they mentioned Oh, I was able to overcome it. You
hear somebody else overcame it, it gives you strength, you're able to overcome it also, what else is
solid? And then the final word, this is actually what I wanted to really focus on. The reason I
chose this hot bar today is because you know, in this season, in Hajj season, we're supposed to
		
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			remember the legacy of Ibrahim alayhis salam. And you would imagine I'd give him a hug Baba Rahim
Ali, somebody chose not to, but actually it was about Ibrahim Ali salaam, Ibrahim Ali Islam at the
end of his legacy. He was worried about all of humanity.
		
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			He was the kind of heart that Ibrahim alayhis salam has for humanity, the softness that he has the
care that he has, is remarkable. It's incredible, actually, to the point where when angels of Allah
come with the command to destroy the nation of loot. They came to destroy the nation of loot, and
they stopped by the House of Ibrahim alayhis salam first, and Allah chose to record that in his
Quran. This is the same Ibrahim alayhi salam who when Allah told him if kala Hora boo Aslam, Kala
Islam to the Robben Island mean I surrender. I don't I'm not arguing back when Allah told him to
slaughter his child in the autofilled Manami and nearby Oak I see my dream that I'm slaughtering
		
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			you. If Allah tells him to jump into a flame, he'll jump into a flame. If Allah will tell him to
slaughter his child and slaughter his child, if Allah will tell him to leave his family in the
desert who leave them in the desert, but when he saw people are about to be destroyed, he's worried
about the people when the instruction is to someone else he's worried about them and he's argued job
you don't have to call me note. He's
		
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			debating. He's what he wants them to be forgive somehow can can there's can there be some people who
believe among them? Can they be spirit in some possible way? Is that at all possible? This is
Ibrahim on Islam. If you study his dollars, if you study his prayers in the Quran, he's praying for
all of humanity.
		
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			In a 10 minute NASA we elect him. He's referring to a NASA, all of humanity. And so you might
believers in these ions, what are they supposed to be after from makan? I mean, Alladhina amanu.
What our solar solar. It's as if those two things come together and the culminate, the climax of it
all. The moonta who have it all, the acaba of it all is actually what our soul will mark hammer,
that's the that's the peak of it. That's the that's the top of this peak, and which is what they
counseled each other with, and to Elmer hammer hammer comes from the word Rama, love care
consideration. Like, you know, I know I lived in the city. So I know look out for number one is the
		
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			way to go. Even when you drive, you're cutting somebody in because if you don't, somebody else will.
When you're getting into the subway, you're going to push yourself in everything is about you, you
better watch out. Everything's about protecting yourself and yourself, yourself yourself. And you
know what that does over time, it makes a person jaded, so they don't see the difficulty of anybody
else, I can't care about that.
		
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			You can even find to the point where somebody's lying injured on the street and 1000 people walked
by, nobody even stopped. Nobody even looked this this is the level a person can reach because they
see that all around them their own heart becomes hard. But the man the struggle going up is to keep
the heart soft towards other people's struggle. This is why the climax of it, what our soul will
Marama will like us humble manner. And these are the people who counseled each other to keep their
hearts soft, to show mercy to show care, to be empathetic to try to understand where somebody's
coming from, to understand their difficulty, you know, and I will add something. Allahu Taala Arlen
		
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			when I think about these ayat, especially the freeing of the neck, when I think about that, right,
the expression was used classically for people that are stuck. And they are in the grip of something
like the grip of the debt collector, the grip of the slave owner, the grip of the prison guard,
right, and they're not being let go. And you have to figure out a way of freeing them. We are living
in the age of addiction. There are people that are that are gripped by their addiction to
*, or their addiction to social media, or their addiction to drugs, or their different
kinds of addictions now that are just they're getting a whole addiction to gambling, people have
		
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			lost their homes because of their addiction to gambling. They're like they hate themselves. I don't
even want to go I don't even know why I go. I don't even want to go to the bar. I don't know why I
ended up here all the time. They're crushed in these addictions. And are marhaba instead of saying
oh, look at this guy's drinking haram. Yeah, he's doing haram. But why is he doing it? Help him out.
We need to have more hammer. We need to figure out how to get this person into rehab. So they can
lose that addiction so they can find themselves again. If this person who's fallen into any
addiction, any addiction, if that person was beyond hope. If they're just you know fuel for Jahannam
		
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			then Allah has no reason to keep them alive. Anybody who's alive means they have hope. You see,
there's there's purpose for them to be above the ground. If there's no hope for these people, Allah
doesn't have to keep them alive. You see, Allah even says Lotus a yellow when homelands Abdullah
vena cava Robinho, Adana Lima and so the fact he said, if if the believers those who have hope in
Makkah, were completely separated from those who are hopeless cases, then we would have annihilated
those who disbelieve we would have annihilated them. Allah didn't even annihilate fit our own he
told Musa they said, I'm gonna maybe he'll turn around. I know who he is.
		
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			He told them that. So we you know, part of Mahama is not giving up on somebody's part of Mahama is
not just labeling somebody and saying they're done. That's it. This this guy, or you know, he's got
an alcohol problem. Oh, this guy does drugs. This guy did this. This guy did that. This guy has a
criminal record. This guy went to jail. This guy did and once they've done that, or this woman has
done that that's mistake that mistake. Now they're labeled by that mistake. Now they are forever
living in that mistake. Oh Rob is you know Rahim. And he's teaching us in these ayat part of our
iman, the closer we get to Iman and climb this hill, the more compassion we have for people. The
		
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			reason I wanted to highlight this is that it's interesting that for many people, they think the more
the closer you get to Allah, the closer you get to Islam, the more committed you are to the Sunnah
of the Prophet sallallahu
		
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			Ali Salam, the more you have to become tough,
		
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			right, the tougher you have to get. Yeah, we were tough about what is right and what is wrong. We
have to be tough about that. There's no way around that. But you don't have to be tough with people.
		
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			You have to be you have to show Ramadan people. And you have to understand what you can do to help
them to get them up, to pull them out from their difficulty. And that's what these ayat are about.
That's a difficult hill to climb, because it's much easier. It's way easier to just pass judgment on
someone and let them go. Kalia, you hook up your own law do metaball don't write that's much easier.
You don't just use that and just I'm done. I'm done. I you know I've come to her journey. So I
established my Hojo on this person I gave them my you know I give them my cameraman my roof and I
didn't want I slapped him across the face with some roof. You know? And now I'm done. Now they can
		
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			now it's between them and Allah. No, we have to care. You have to genuinely care. May Allah azza wa
jal make us people have marhaba like was envisioned by our father Ibrahim alayhis salam and may
Allah azza wa jal once again except the Hajj of all of the Hajaj an early robotic to all of you
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