Surah Al-Jumuah #12 Is The Path To Halal Easy

In many cultures you cannot get married until you have this much degree this much money you've done this this this this and then maybe we'll think about getting you married and then once you are ready to get married, the man has to be this amount and this amount and this amount what Allah did in Islam is he made the path to Halal easy and the path to haram difficult. And when you make the path to Hala is difficult automatically what becomes a lot easier, the Haram becomes way easier it's so much easier you know

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Anyway, so now let's move on to financial cleansing.

Data Kulu Amala combiner Campbell bouton don't cheat each other in money matters. What I told you will be handled calm and don't use money to grease the palms of politicians

so you can cheat people and take their money. Don't use bribery and corruption in politics. Don't use corruption in financial matters.

You know don't cheat each other pay each other's money back have clear contracts fulfill your agreements. What is that doing in a society? It's cleaning up the financial dealings in a society isn't it? That's also a cleansing there's a familial cleansing you know this society European society, Western society America and Australia and Canadian they're all different but one thing you will notice there that you don't see as much in the Muslim world today is law and order

right they have some things that I wish we saw more of in the Muslim world I was in Denmark in one place taking a walk and some some guy was selling strawberries and he just left his strawberries by the water with a bucket to put money in as a sign of how much you can wait yourself put money yourself then people comment they put the money and they go

hmm

let's try this in Buxton.

For forget the strawberries, the weighing machine

so you look at and some will, some will simply come from they see all that kind of corruption in the Muslim world. And then they come to Western nations to see there's so much honesty and integrity and there's so much good. Yes, the in some matters, they are actually closer to Ischia than the Muslims are, culturally speaking, it's true, that more integrity.

But in other matters, like for example how we treat our parents, but the way Islam conditions us to treat our parents, especially as they get older.

Do you see how people are treated and in these societies? How elders are treated in these societies? How teenagers treat their parents. Some guys you know Dad's name is Frank and heels aren't going to call them Daddy's gonna say Hey, Frank. I'll be out late.

You know? Edit my dad's stupid mad my old band. They don't even call my old man. Right? My mom is so annoying.

I hate my parents.

Now you have emancipation laws in America, we have emancipation laws, meaning I declare myself free of my parents, but our autonomy in about a minute

will have nothing to do with you. They could do that. And you have this beautiful tradition inspired by our religion, where we do we treat our parents with kindness and respect and goodness and excited everything that we can do with them.

And our siblings and our the young. Right? There's a there's a Rama towards them. There's a love and care towards them. Even the prohibition of alcohol, right, you will think it just has to do with food. You know how many families are destroyed because of alcohol.

Like or gambling, Allah says Don't gamble, you know how many families are destroyed because of gambling.

Right? When he when he says don't commit Zina, you know how many families are destroyed because of Zira.

Right, so like, the laws actually purify the life of a family, and even the way in which breakups happen.

Okay, marriage is a reality. So it's divorce, and divorce is ugly. It gets ugly. You know, I used to love you now I don't

I want to get away. Well, Allah says, yeah, it might get ugly. Here are exhaustive instructions on how to make sure divorce doesn't get ugly. You know, in the Quran. Allah didn't talk about marriage a lot, but he did.

talked about divorce a lot.

There's like multiple pages on divorce and sort of Bukhara there's the whole sort of sort of total luck.

There's no long, here's how to make a marriage happy. That's just on YouTube.

It's not it doesn't

look good. You know why? Because you can figure out how to make a marriage work. But you don't know how to make a clean exit.

You know, you don't know that. So Allah will teach you that. He purified relationships, he even purified the ends of relationships, he purified even matters that happened after death, like how should family assets be distributed. And then of course, there's societal cleansing. Societal cleansing means Allah saved us from the burdens of culture, let's save to give because cultures create standards that are very difficult. You know, like, for example,

in many cultures, you cannot get married until you have this much degree, this much money, you've done this, this, this, this, and then maybe we'll think about getting you married. And then once you are ready to get married, the man has to be this amount and this amount and this amount. And then if you are going to get married, we have to have this kind of a hall and this kind of catering and these kinds of gifts, and there's like the bill keeps going higher and higher and higher and higher. And what Allah did in Islam is he made the path to Halal easy, and the path to haram difficult. And what many cultures do is they paint they make the path to hull extremely difficult. And when you

make the path to Hala is difficult, automatically, what becomes a lot easier, the Haram becomes way easier, so much easier. You know, so what is even at a societal level, what our religion did is actually, you know, prevent evil by making the thing that Allah makes Allah is happy with he makes that easier, but cultures make a difficult culture. And what's ironic to me is Muslim cultures make Halal more difficult than even non Muslim cultures. Muslim cultures be cut out more difficult, and then we complain that the youth are going towards haram.

Right? And we don't even address the root causes of it. And all of these purifications are actually connected to each other. Let me just give you a quick example. Because this is something you should really contemplate financial cleansing. If you get rid of financial corruption in a society, you know what that means people can earn an honest living yes or no. He says don't pay politicians to get your way. Didn't he say that? Now what happens in many Muslim societies, for example, you will get a job. If your uncle is connected. If your dad's connected, if your friend's dad's boss, because his brother's whatever is connect isn't it. And even if you didn't do well, on the exam, you can pay

a little bit to the principal of the school or the head or whoever and you can get the degree you can buy the degree

or you can pay your pay for your score happens or know when people who didn't earn their degree, get their degree and get their license. What happens to the people who actually worked hard to get their degree.

Now they can't get a job. Now their education means nothing, because now the people who didn't deserve are being moved up. Now the people who kind of have earned are no longer in a position to earn and now they're no longer in a position to earn which means they're no longer in a position to get married.

And then the people who are doing haram and money things usually don't just do haram and money things. They do haram in everything. So they're living the life they look like they're in Jannah so they're making haram look really good. Because the more haram you do, the more you get in life, and everybody else is looking at them and saying galleta Allah Mr. Ma UIA karoun I wish I had one or one has I wish I had a big wedding like that. I wish I had a hole like that. I wish I had family like that. I have money like that. I close like that at a car like that. I had a job like that.

Then you said well, the only way you can get that is you got to start playing the game like they know how to play the game.

You got to lie a little bit on your resume. You got to make some connections. You gotta get dirty. You want to in this game you want to win in politics, life is dirty. What is the opposite of dirty pure will use a key him

right? This this this is a very comprehensive statement and which is why I wanted to talk to you at the bottom. Does Kia starts with something internal like introductory Skia is my thoughts are becoming cleaner. My opinions are becoming cleaner. My worldview is becoming cleaner. It's being detoxed from cultural imprints from previous religious imprints. Those are now getting away. And I'm becoming cleansed in my thoughts by revelation. But there's deep dusky. Let me give you the analogy. If you have an impurity on your skin, something like dirt. Is that easy to wash or no? Yeah, that's easy to watch. But if you have an infection inside it

because that easy to get rid of No. And the deeper and impurity is, the more painful it is to extract it. If a bullet has entered inside the body, then there has to be surgery painful surgery to extract it. When it's when a society has deep filth, when a family has deep filth, when you've lived, you've been living in deep filth, and then you start to cleanse yourself, then you have to go through painful surgery, which means the people that try to purify themselves, this is a very painful process. This is not an easy at the beginning. It's just an intellectual process and spiritual process, that's fine. But when you actually start taking steps towards purifying yourself,

it's a painful process. To hear an easy example of that just because I don't want to speak on the abstract. I want to give you concrete examples of this is like I reminded of a young man I met was a little bit younger than me. I met him at a masjid after Madrid. He was just kind of sitting there in the back waiting. And I just decided to just have a chat with him. And he said, I have never seen the inside of a masjid before in my life.

I was like, Did you recently accept Islam? He goes, No, I was born in a Muslim family. We don't we don't pray. Or why don't you pray? I was like, well, our family's not religious. And even though we're Muslim by name, we actually really hate Islam. In my family, and we own a bunch of bars in New York. You know, we have 20 bars, our family owns 20 bars in New York, very successful bar business, all Muslims, by the way. And

I just and we drink alcohol more than we drink water. That's just in our family. That's what we do. I've done that my whole life. And something just came in my head that I shouldn't drink anymore.

It just it makes me do things I don't. I don't like myself when I drink.

And when he stopped drinking, he became curious about the Quran. And he started reading a little bit then watch some YouTube videos and found out I was at this machine. He just sat there but he's like ever since I stopped I didn't eat I don't even pray yet. He's I don't even pray it does that. But I just stopped drinking and my whole family cut me off.

And they're like, they're threatening me. They don't need to sue me. I can't even go back to my home. They change the lock on the on the door. I don't know where to go. I don't know what to do. What's he doing? He took one step towards cleansing himself.

And look at the pain he has to go through you understand? So when he says use a key him see the first step was actually painless. he recites the ayat, you listen to the ayat, you hear what he what Allah is saying. You can walk away. Somebody heard the ayat in the marketplace and they walked away, no problem. When someone who decides that they're going to wait, what did I just hear, I need to hear more of this. I need to go listen.

And when you start to try to purify yourself, man, the pain begins. Some of you actually haven't told your families that you're here.

You're here secretly.

Because your families can't tolerate that you're learning.

They can't tolerate the journey. You went where? And I must say

why?

Why did you Why

is this the this why we brought you to Germany.

This is why we we live here. You want to be an extremist. Now me to call the police on you now.

And like just I gotta I'm just going to quietly I'm going to the library.

Okay, please show up.

The ski is painful. The Sahaba started going through the scale. Some people heard him they started listening to him and this is what I want you to understand the difference between are actually two things User Key him and user keeping him

he purifies them and he pure provides them using it's been in the Quran actually, Allah is highlighting there's a story here, I'll super simplify this. Allah is saying the Prophet SAW Selim is purifying these people that are coming close to him, not just by the Quran, but he was also by his company.

So if he was use a key him Biggie, then it would be about the Quran alone. But use a key him now includes the Quran and includes the prophets company, salallahu Alaihe Salam. So there's still a sore in this phrasing. I also want you to understand this in easy marketing terms. You guys understand the term funnel marketing. If you first expose somebody to the product, and then you get them to click on your website, and then they get more information, right? The yet new either him it is just exposing people to Revelation, just let them hear what it is. And then some of them will say I want to know more. And the ones who want to know more, we'll take a deeper dive and what's going

to start happening with their thoughts, but their opinions with their view of the world with their hearts with their emotions, and eventually even with their actions. That's going to be user key him. That's the second step is everybody who hears the IoD going to make it to the second step. No, some people will and some people will get a little bit of it and

I'd say that's enough for me and others will say, No, this is not enough. I need to take a deeper look.

Because this is the moment it starts getting painful. Some people say, You know what, I'm gonna go back. This is too painful. And some people say, no, no, no, you can't get really detoxed unless you go through some pain.

There has to be some surgical process here. So they keep taking these further and further steps. We use a key him. Okay. So this is understanding the progression now. We get to, I'll give you a break in a minute, but introduces the next part. A new over. He says he reads the ayat. He purifies them. But then he says he teaches them. He teaches them. What is the difference between reading something to someone and teaching someone? So big difference or know

when you read something, if I read something to you, like the news is reading something to the audience, isn't it? And you can listen to one hour of the news. And then after listening to the news, I say, Okay, now give me a full summary. What was said? What's happening in Ukraine? What's happening in the college? What's happening here? What's happening there? How many this? How many I started quizzing you, after listening to one hour of the BBC or whatever you listen to?

Are you able to answer all those questions?

Because when you listen to something, something was read to you, that doesn't mean you actually learned it. You just got exposed to it. It's casual. You're doing it while driving, you're doing it while doing other tasks. But if I teach you something,

you know what that means. That means one you are completely dedicated to learning. Because you can't teach someone in the mall. You have to teach someone in the classroom, you have to teach someone who decides to become a student.

You what I want you to recognize here is when the word you only mu is used. Now the audience is even more restricted.

Yet new is the broadest audience use a key him is the lesser audience. And even within within that is a subset which is what you only Behold, he teaches them. He teaches them. And now this teaching is about the prophets of Allah, Allah wa salam, actually educating a handful of people that are going to become his top students. And they have to show him extra dedication for learning.

And this is actually the exact process that we must introduce in our communities around the world, Muslim communities around the world. They say why don't youth come to the masjid?

How come they don't come? How can we do so many programs, but we only see old people there. There's the young people coming while they're not coming, because they don't know what they should come for. They haven't been exposed to why should they even be interested? What step gets them at least interested? Why is this so powerful? Why is this so miraculous? Why do I need to learn it? That's which step one, you're throughout MIT? That's step one.

And if somebody does become curious, then there should be something there for them, to nurture them and to allow them to become cleansed little by little, which is step one. And step two, let's use a can there's some something that okay, let's, let's take you, let's give you some company where you can learn more, or you can be around company that supports you, and helps you cleanse your thoughts and you can share your ideas, your opinions, your previous knowledge, and that can get corrected a little bit. That's, that's good. You're getting corrected intellectually. You're getting corrected in your habits. You're, you know, there were there were guys that use bad words, every other word

that comes out of their mouth is a bad word. Right? Like if you go to, you know, I moved to Texas. People in Texas are nice. They're actually nice. So when you go to the store, they'll say, Hi, Hi, sir. How are you, sir? How's it going, ma'am?

I'll let me get that door for you.

Not like Germany. In the toe?

Well, Yo, people are nice to Texas. But what I used to live in New York, I didn't realize in New York people use such bad language all the time. They cannot say something like I am at the bus stop. They can't say that. They have to say I'm at the bus stop. You heard

it's, it's a verb. It's an adverb. It's an adjective. It's a preposition. It's every part of speech. Okay, that's unnecessary insertion in between. You know, some people are extra religious. They like say subhanallah in everything. Like awkwardly.

Like he's, some people just say that is you know, sometimes I get awkward around those people. Like, some people are overly Subhanallah

like we're at a restaurant. She What are you going to order? Subhanallah I was like,

I'm not a chef.

I'm just going to place an order. Yeah. Subhanallah What would you like? Oh, I'll have the chicken shawarma. Oh, chicken Subhanallah

Okay, that's better than New York.

Yo,

Oh, but Bob, you want to you want both chicken

and two extremes?

Yes, I'll have some Subhanallah chicken but

but the, the, what I'm saying is some young man who comes out of New York or comes out of that, you know, Berlin monitor know, the company, they come from that language. And that's normal for them. They use that all the time. Some of you guys sitting in the masjid area a certain way here, but when you're at school with your friends as a different kind of German Indian

as a destiny, you know, that's the,

the spicy.

And then you replace that with Subhan Allah over here, that's what you gotta do.

But when you're in good company for a longer time, what happens to that young man? He starts using those words less, because that company is slowly detoxing those words beside the spoonful, so Koba that Eman? That's the detox too, isn't it? And then the things you talk about when you're when you're with your boys in school? And when you girls in school, what kinds of subjects are you talking about? You know? And then you're in a better company? And what kinds of things are you talking about?

You're in a company learning something about the Quran? What kinds of things are you discussing? You know, a personal experience of mine on this, and I'll give you a break is,

when I was in high school, I was not into Islam at all. Most all my friends were not Muslim, all of them. And I have a vicious, cruel sense of humor.

Like, I love humiliating people. Like I, this is one of my, one of my shaytans is when people say something, I can rip them apart.

And I was full on in high school. Oh, my I was so insulting. In high school, I was the king of insults. And then you come into like, the Islamic scene.

Right? And you can like you which one it was so easy. Somebody's got these Ron ripped off either, like metal SubhanAllah.

But one of the things that happened was my old friends, the things we used to talk about is, you know, sports, cars, other things that shall not be named.

And then I go with my new friends at the Muslim Students Association, and we go to this, I went to the poor people's school, Baruch College, which was like $1,600 a semester, that was the poor people college. One time we went to a Muslim Student Association at Columbia University, which was like $40,000 a year. For 7018 year olds, this is a rich people school. So I was like, man, there's gonna be some rich Muslims in Colombia. Let's go see what the rich Muslims do. So we go there, we're sitting in a circle. And there's a bunch of college students that are maybe a year or two older than me, they're 1819 years old, I'm 20 years old at the most. And they're discussing how they're trying

to put money together to sponsor orphans, that have that have been distracted because of a flood that happened in Bangladesh. And they've got a banner of one of the kids that they're trying to sponsor. And the students are going to make some difference by helping this one child. And I come from a company of guys that are like, Yo, what are we gonna do this weekend?

Where we gonna go? What should we do? All? These are the conversations. There's low level conversations. And now I'm in the company of people that are a year or two older than I am. They're much wealthier than I am. They're much more prestigious than I am in my mind. So you would think if they have more money, they have more prestige, they're wealthier, they must be partying way harder. And yet, they're talking about things that are

so high yield.

And I felt dirty inside. What is it that makes these young people think like this? How come I don't think like this? How come my mind is down here and their mind is up there. Something that Allah's Dean does something that this book does, is that it cleanses, so I do it to him, I have to use a key and then from there from their cleansing, then you get to you and the MOMO kettlebells are you one more thing? If you started teaching, the fear, high level of fear, or you start teaching fear, or you start teaching our kids or whatever, you start these classes of courses? How many people show up?

Five people, that becomes three people that is just the mom and his best friend.

And then there's a wedding the next weekend and then

you know just thought of Coca Cola Do you leave you alone? All these people don't even want an education. They don't want to learn anything while they don't want to learn anything. Because the first two steps aren't in place. When those steps are in place. By the way the people who will seriously learn and never be a large population of people who will seriously learn will always be a smaller population. Right because they you can

And you can't expect that high level of commitment from everybody. In fact, that wasn't even expected from all the Sahaba not all the Sahaba were learning all the time. There were people in, you know, they were on the sofa, there were a subset. There were not everyone, everyone had other responsibilities. So there will be some learning that happens and happens more exclusively. So you shouldn't guilt yourself. That's the other thing about this, you shouldn't guilt yourself, that you're not engaged in higher learning. And until you do higher learning and you become a chef yourself, or, you know, you leave society and go sit under a tree to learn some classical texts,

then you're not a good Muslim. No, that's not. That's not the point. The point is, the few who do learn their responsibility becomes to teach everyone else and the Quran talks about that too. Allah talks about that too. But I will now in our next session after your break, I'm going to dedicate our time talking about Al Kitab. Particularly, and I'm going to share some things with the alligator but then hikma and wrap up today's session latika Lavinia, welcome throughput Iraqi with a fairly common diet with a Kuraki

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