Saad Tasleem – Doubt – Defeating The Tactics Of Shaytan
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The segment discusses the issue of "the she upon" in Islam, which is a false sense of security and dangerous for everyone. The shak bills are a source of confusion and misunderstandings, and the importance of learning the title of Islam to avoid confusion and misunderstandings. The shak bills can lead to problems in one's faith and the shak bills are a source of fear. The segment also touches on the shak bills and their potential negative consequences.
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For a very long time and you know,
I don't want to expose my my age
but I I think it's almost been a
decade that I've been teaching this this particular
seminar and After you teach something for a
very long time you begin to see You
begin to notice things about the material that
you are presenting to people you begin to
see not only You know what I've taught
and the impact that it's had but you
begin to look at the world through the
lens of What you're teaching and so I
tend to look at the the world and
in specific The the believers the Muslims in
America I tend to look at them through
the lens of this particular seminar the topic
of the she upon and one of the
things that I've Realized is that the problem
for us when it comes to the she
upon is a problem of Apathy The average
person when they hear the term she upon
or Satan or the devil or a she
upon The average person they understand The average
Muslim understands like the she upon is a
bad guy.
He's not a good guy he doesn't have
my best interest in mind, but there is
a level of I Don't really think it
affects me I don't really think it affects
my life and one of the ways I
can I usually tell people to judge that
about yourself is When was the last time
You said to yourself The she upon is
my enemy Because you know what in the
Quran if you were to recite the Quran
you would find over a hundred and forty
times Allah has mentioned the she upon in
one way or the other and we have
ayat after ayat where allah-subhanahu wa'ta'ala
mentions The she upon as our enemy for
example, so it's father allah-subhanahu wa'ta'ala
says in the she upon a lakum I
do the she upon is an enemy for
you Okay.
So when was the last time we thought
about?
The she upon being our enemy or I
should say, you know as as even a
bus Well, you know what?
He would say if you hear allah-subhanahu
wa'ta'ala saying, yeah, you had Lydian Amanu
Don't think about everyone else think about yourself
that this is Allah speaking to me directly
So if Allah says in the she upon
a lakum I do the she upon is
an enemy for you Yeah, I mean not
just you as in the Muslims or the
people but me individually the she upon is
an enemy for me When was the last
time I thought about the she upon being
my enemy and then you know what Allah
says right after that After saying the she
upon is an enemy for you.
Allah says, but take it though I do
what so take the she upon as your
enemy meaning it's not enough to know That
the she upon is my enemy.
I have to be proactive after that I
have to do something about it because once
again, we can become complacent Get comfortable in
knowing that the she upon is our enemy
and then do nothing about it.
So when was the last time?
You woke up in the morning and you
said the she upon is my enemy today.
I'm going to take the she upon as
my enemy Or do we have this false
sense of security that the she upon will
not attack me personally And it is indeed
a false sense of security So when I
look at the world today when I look
at my brothers and sisters when I look
at the believers I think one of the
issues isn't that we reject the notion of
the she upon But we don't really feel
that it applies to us.
We don't really feel that the she upon
personally attacks us You know the most beloved
of Allah who subhanahu wa'ta'ala The prophets
alaihimus salatu wassalam Even they were not saved
From the attacks of the she upon and
the she all team What could I take
a general equally?
Nobody in I do what and Allah says
and we have made for every single prophet
an enemy She'll clean up in see what
Jim the she all clean amongst human beings
and the jinn every prophet Face the she
upon and the she all clean as enemies
That how can we think?
That we are safe That the she upon
will not attack us and Sometimes the more
attached we are to our tradition to the
dean of allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala The more
false sense of security we may have Because
you know someone says, you know, I pray
my salah.
I pray five times a day.
I Avoid major sins.
I try to stay away from minor sins.
I'm good.
I'm good to go.
The she upon is not gonna attack me
Well, the reality is that No one is
exempt from the attacks of the she upon.
It doesn't matter if you're a lay person
It doesn't matter if you don't know anything
about the Dean The she upon will attack
you or if you're a scholar It doesn't
mean you're safe from the she upon the
she upon will attack you.
The only question is how?
Because what the she upon does is he
tailors his attack based off of who you
and I are Because he knows our Fears
he knows our desires.
He knows what we want He knows our
strengths.
He knows our weaknesses.
So based off of that the she upon
Tailors his attack for us.
I mean you have to think about the
very notion of okay, you know I consider
myself a religious person.
Therefore the she upon won't attack me.
What if the she upon attacks you?
By way of your religion and I know
this is an uncomfortable topic the topic we
talked about for some people But you know
allahu subhanahu wa'ta'ala Tells us but either
Quran first I'd be love if You recite
the Quran then seek refuge in Allah Meena
she upon the regime seek refuge in Allah
from the accursed She upon and you would
think if I'm opening up the book of
allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala if I'm opening up
My means of guidance then I'm good I
got nothing to worry about right, but Allah
says when you open the Quran when you
recite the Quran when you recite the book
Of allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala when you recite
your means to guidance.
The first thing you do is what?
What do we do?
Seek refuge in Allah from the she upon
Because how many people sometimes are deluded by
their own interpretation of the Quran?
Does this happen?
Absolutely sometimes people read their own interpretation into
the Quran They have they approach the Quran
with certain Preconceived notions and ideas and when
they open the Quran they will make sure
the Quran fits with their ideas It's not
about what Allah is saying or how the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam Lived the Quran or
what the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam told us
about what the Quran says no It's this
is it's it's called confirmation bias All right,
we read the Quran and we have preconceived
notions and we're like yeah this this fits
You know, there's a there's a sect in
our in Islam That the scholars of the
past would call al-qurani al-quraniyoon These
are the people who say look we don't
need the Sunnah We don't need the guidance
of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam because we
have the Quran Right.
I'm sure you've heard people like you've come
across people like this as well people who
say look We don't you know, all we
need is the Quran.
We don't need the Sunnah We don't need
hadith.
How did you even know if hadith is
correct?
Which is a whole nother topic subhanAllah, but
anyone who has studied Islam knows that the
evidence SubhanAllah for the the way the hadith
is preserved if you were to just study
it for five or ten minutes You would
come away with the understanding that are The
way the hadith have been preserved our scholars
are so precise in Looking at a hadith
and analyzing a hadith and telling whether this
hadith is authentic or not Did this did
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam really say that
which is topic for another time, but there
are those people Who reject and put the
Sunnah aside?
why because when you take out the life
of The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam from the
Quran that leaves the Quran open to you
doing whatever you want with the Quran right
If Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala in the Quran
says wa aqeem as-salah establish the prayer
All right, and we we reject the Sunnah
of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam Well, the
word Salah in in Arabic.
What does Salah mean?
Salah really is Dua that's what Salah is
so a person can say you know what
as long as I make dua I have
established the prayer now a Muslim child in
Like elementary Islamic school will tell you that's
incorrect But why is it incorrect?
Because the Muslim child has been taught that
it's not we don't approach the Quran with
with our understanding We approach the Quran with
the understanding of the of the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wasallam as he taught it to the
companions That is why there's no doubt That
when Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala says wa aqeem
as-salah, we know what is meant by
Salah right But this is just one way
in which the Quran in which the which
the Shaitaan Will imbue doubts into something.
We already know to be true something.
We already know and understand This is one
of the reasons why Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
says when you recite the Quran seek refuge
in Allah from the Shaitaan because the Shaitaan
can use the Quran to mislead you That
Is why it is so important for us
to study the topic of the Shaitaan and
Usually when I when I what I you
know, teach this topic the topic of the
Shaitaan I often tell people that the essence
of this seminar and this topic is not
actually the Shaitaan The essence of this topic
is ourselves When we when we understand ourselves
our own weaknesses our own desires our own
fears and so on and so forth Then
we will understand how the Shaitaan will attack
us Right because what we know like this
is my weakness and a lot of these
weaknesses SubhanAllah a lot of these issues that
we have is something that no one can
diagnose for us Because they're amal al-qulub,
they're matters of the heart So I don't
have access to your heart and you don't
have access to my heart Someone may deep
down in their heart have a desire To
want to be praised and liked by other
people Right, that's a matter.
That's a sickness of the heart.
I don't know.
I don't know that you're suffering from that
So, how do we go about fixing that?
Well that now you become personally responsible for
making sure that you are able to have
an honest conversation with yourself about what you
desire About what your weaknesses are Matters of
the heart are that our scholars of the
past would say that the heart is the
battleground of the Shaitaan Because someone from the
outside can look completely quote-unquote normal If
you if you think about what a good
Muslim looks like right if I were to
say, you know visually Tell me what a
good Muslim, a good Muslim, a muttaqi looks
like someone who has taqwa Right, what would
you say?
Okay.
Well, you know the brother has a beard
and whatever else right and the sister mashallah
she wears hijab But you don't know what's
in the heart Someone can appear normal on
the outside, but their heart may have been
corrupted and The Shaitaan and the irony of
this very issue is that the Shaitaan himself
his downfall came from his heart When the
Shaitaan refused to prostrate before Adam alayhis-salam
when Allah commanded him to do so Where
did that disobedience come from?
Our scholars tell us it came from something
that was internal Which was number one hasad
his his his His his envy that he
had towards Adam alayhis-salam Right Allah subhanahu
wa'ta'ala honored Adam alayhis-salam and the
children of Adam wa laqad karamna bani adam
Allah honored them Allah created Adam alayhis-salam
from his own two hands and This made
the Shaitaan Iblis very envious Why is this
honor given to Adam alayhis-salam when I
am the best Right, and how did that
has said manifest it that that envy?
Manifests itself it manifested itself in his refusal
to prostrate before Adam alayhis-salam and then
to cap it all off he became arrogant
and That arrogance Was so dangerous That not
only was it a major sin it took
the Shaitaan Iblis out of the fold of
Islam Istakbar wa kana min al kafiri he
became arrogant and he became amongst the disbelievers
That is that path that dangerous path of
look these matters of the heart They start
in the heart, but if they're if they're
not checked they can even lead may Allah
protect us to kufr That is why there's
a statement made by Ibn al-Qayyim rahim
allahu ta'ala Which I found very interesting
where he talks about the the main goal
of the Shaitaan Of course for all of
us may Allah protect us is kufr.
The Shaitaan wants us to leave Islam Innama
yad'u Hizbahu liyakunu min ashab al-sa
'ir He invites his people to be amongst
the companions of the of the blaze the
fire the hellfire.
That's that's his endgame That's the goal that
we all end up in the hellfire.
There's no doubt about that But Ibn al
-Qayyim says what are the avenues through which
he gets people to kufr Because we're not
talking about people here who are already upon
kufr which by the way Some people think
that if someone is upon kufr the Shaitaan
doesn't attack them the Shaitaan attacks them as
well It's something we cover in the seminar.
Why would Shaitaan attack somebody who is a
disbeliever who's not Muslim?
Well many reasons, but one of the reasons
is to keep them in their kufr, right?
That's it.
That's another topic which we cover in the
seminar but For the believers to get them
to kufr Ibn al-Qayyim says there's two
main avenues shahawat wa shubuhat Desires and doubts
and if you look at people who are
struggling with Islam today and I tend to
speak to a lot of young people.
I don't only speak to young people by
the way Maybe 10 15 12 years ago.
I was only speaking to young people, but
that's no longer the case But I do
speak to a lot of young people and
people often say like hey like you talk
to a lot of young people So what
are the biggest challenges young people are facing?
first of all I'm like listen go ask
young people don't ask me right we need
to talk to our youth and ask them
like what are the Problems that you're facing
instead of me just being like a talking
head for the youth, right?
I mean we need to listen to the
youth see what their problems are but if
I were to if I if I'm from
what I have learned from young people and
what they're struggling with what what What is
what is a roadblock for them when it
comes to their relationship with Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala It can be categorized into these
two categories.
It can be summarized in these two categories
desires and doubts If someone is dealing with
desires often is their desires that take them
away their worldly desires The matters that Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala has made impermissible their
shahawat their temptations It is this that's pulling
them away from their deen or doubts Whether
it be doubts in the faith or doubts
even in their spirituality Because one of the
ways the shaitan comes to us and a
lot of people hear about the topic of
doubts They think of like the big doubts,
right?
They think of oh a person is doubting
the existence of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
actually the sharia deals with that topic in
a very easy and simple way and You
would think subhanAllah that this is one of
those topics, right?
Does God exist?
one of those topics that Theologists philosophers of
Dedicated hours and hours and hours to talking
about this topic.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam dealt with
this issue very quickly Very easily He said
yeah The shaytan will come to you or
come to one of you and will say
to you man khalaqa katha wa man khalaqa
katha hatta yaqul wa man khalaqa rabbak The
shaytan will come to you and say who
created this and who created this and what
what is understood here Is that the person
is answering the shaytan and a person has
this thought who created this and then we
entertain that thought So a person says no
this created by this person is created by
this until the shaytan says and who created
your Lord Now this is for like atheists
This is like a big point.
It's like one of those gotchas if you
ever if you ever been on like a
dawah table talking to an atheist and Like
they they love bringing this point up, but
this is their gotcha, right?
Like oh, there's a bunch of Muslims here
or even you know, non-muslims that are
you know, believe in God this is their
one of the big big points, right like
if God if If God created everything who
created God, right and this is supposed to
like shatter our Iman And you know what
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that
if this thought comes to you what you
should do The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
He said if you reach this point in
your thinking in the questioning of the shaytan
Seek refuge in Allah from the from the
shaytan and leave this line of questioning and
and and some people say like oh That's
so simplistic What do you mean?
What do you mean seek refuge in Allah
from the shaytan?
Like what's the answer?
Do you think That the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam does not did not know how
to answer this doubt this question Of course
he did but the lesson is much bigger
than the answer to that particular question.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam could have
said That Allah is the beginning and the
end Allah is when into the Philosophy, this
is known as the the uncreated creator.
I mean is a philosophical thing But just
really quick in order for everything to exist
it had to come from somewhere it had
to come from a Being that is not
rich has the restrictions of the creation Meaning
Allah has no creator and that that that
is the only way things can be into
existence But look if that confuses you don't
worry about it The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam could have said Allah is an awal.
Well, Allah is the beginning and the end
Allah is not There's no creator to Allah
right, but the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
didn't answer this question.
He gave us a principle What is the
principle?
He's training us that if you reach this
point Then seek refuge in Allah from the
Shaitaan because recognize that this line of questioning
is from the Shaitaan What does that mean
What that means is that oftentimes we think
That if I don't have the answer to
this question The answer doesn't exist.
I Mean like how how highly do we
think of ourselves?
They any knowledge ends and begins with me
All right, like I cannot figure out the
answer to this question therefore there must be
no answer and this becomes even more of
a problem in the in like 2024 2025
the world that we're living in today because
we have this Impression that if you can
just google anything and you'll get the answer
to it and now with you know AI
and chat GPT and all this kind of
stuff.
You're like I can just look up anything
Right, and so there's this notion that look
if I don't have access to the information
There must be no answer if I don't
know the answer there must not be an
answer But part of being a human being
part of our humility to Allah part of
submission to Allah is first and foremost acknowledging
That we will never have ultimate knowledge Ultimate
knowledge only belongs to allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
No matter how knowledgeable you think you are.
No matter how much do you study about
how many PhDs you have?
There will come a point where you will
reach the limits of your knowledge because you're
a human being There there was knowledge that
was even I'm gonna leave there are things
that the prophets I said them they didn't
know except Allah would teach the prophets.
I said them Right, so part of our
submission to Allah is acknowledging that look, you
know, there are certain things that I will
not have the knowledge of right, and so
this is what the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam is teaching us here and that is
a tool in terms of defeating the the
she upon that we leave this line and
we don't go down that line of Questioning
because the she upon is very tactful in
the way the she upon brings up these
doubts But as I was saying sometimes people
think the doubts are the big doubts these
types of doubts And I said this is
dealt with very quickly in the Sharia.
All right, like look you need to understand
your the limits of your knowledge Sometimes the
doubts from the she upon are not these
big doubts The doubts of the she upon
are in seemingly small matters that can lead
a person To a crisis in their faith
not initially But if they go down that
line of questioning or they they they they
don't they don't understand The the proper perspective
in terms of these issues that can mess
them up.
For example the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
he said the meaning of which is that
Allah will continue to answer the prayer the
dua of a believer as Long as they
do not As long as as long as
they don't ask for a sin, right As
long as I've said as long as they
they're not hasty they don't have to stay
again and And one of the companions said
what is this?
What is this haste?
And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said
this is when a person says Dua to
a Dua like I made dua and I
made dua.
I don't see that Allah will answer my
dua So, what is this doubt in Will
my dua be answered or not?
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said if
a person reaches this point then their dua
will not be answered So part of defeating
the Shaytan is sometimes in these matters.
We're making dua, but we make dua with
Full Iman in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
that Allah will answer my dua in one
way or the other That either if this
is something which is good for me Allah
will give it to me if it is
something bad for me, perhaps Allah is keeping
it from me Perhaps that's why I'm asking
for something.
That's not good for me.
I mean, I can't tell you the amount
of young people subhanAllah That make dua for
to get married to a particular person All
right, and you know, if you talk to
young people, you know that like oh Allah
allow me to marry so-and-so Right,
and I'm always like why?
Why that particular person like I know you
have a crush on them or whatever You're
infatuated with them or you think they're your
soulmate or whatever.
It may be right, but you don't know
that They could be disastrous for your life
Marrying this person could ruin your life.
It could ruin your Iman.
It could ruin your relationship with Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala So maybe if Allah is
not answering your dua, Allah is answering in
the sense by not answering because Allah is
protecting you perhaps Allah is delaying your dua
The answer to your dua.
Why?
Because it's not good for you now But
maybe it's good for you at a later
time That if you were granted something at
this moment in your life, it could be
bad for you So Allah is protecting you
and so Allah is delaying the answer to
your dua To a time when it's actually
good for you perhaps Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala is Delaying this to a point where
you are ready to receive this bounty from
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Perhaps Allah is
delaying this dua Because the the reward you're
getting by making this dua is greater than
what you're asking for I mean think about
it when you desperately want something and we're
not even talking about just dunya stuff, right?
Perhaps you may Allah is testing us with
a difficulty with a trial and we ask
Allah like Oh Allah relieve me of this
difficulty Right.
That's a sincere dua we're making But because
we understand we are deeply in need of
Allah.
Our dua is so sincere Right.
I mean, I'm sure you've experienced this before
in your life.
We all get tested We all get tried
when your heart is in a state where
you feel that only Allah can save you
what is the level of our dua at
that time, you know, even the mushrikun that
the the people at the time of the
Prophet ﷺ Even Allah tells us that when
they were truly desperate even they became sincere
in their dua What is the ayah فَلَمَّا
رَكِبُوا فِي الْفُلْكَ فَلَمَّا رَكِبُوا فِي الْفُلْكَ دَعُوا
اللَّهَ بُخْلِصِينَ لَهُ الدِّينَ That when they are
they're right when they're out in their ships
in the water, right?
The waves are crashing down on them If
you're out in the ocean There's no human
being that can save you at that moment.
It's you're in your boat and the waves
are crashing down upon you That's it.
You have to rely upon Allah What do
they do?
Allah tells us دَعُوا اللَّهَ بُخْلِصِينَ لَهُ الدِّينَ
They call out to Allah in sincerity Just
like for us the equivalent would be if
you're in a plane and you hit turbulence
like really bad turbulence Right at that point.
You're like only Allah can save me now,
right?
I don't know if you ever been in
turbulence like that.
I've been I fly a lot So I've
been a lot of turbulence there are moments
where you know And I've flown enough now
where I feel pretty confident with turbulence.
I'm like, ah, it's fine I was sitting
next to a pilot one day and we
hit some turbulence and I was like, hey,
man At what point do I need to
be concerned?
Like how bad does the turbulence need to
get for me to be like, okay Like
start saying my Shahada, which I should be
saying at all times anyway But like he
goes listen, you got nothing to worry about
if turbulence is normal he said the only
time you got to be worried is if
you just The engine gives out right and
you're done.
Like there's no that's not turbulent.
You're just falling out of the sky.
That's it Or you run into something may
Allah protect us, right?
Like you the plane runs into like a
mountain or something like that's when you got
to be scared So I think I'm pretty
good, but there are times When the turbulence
is at a point where that's it, you
know, it is only Allah That is keeping
this plane in the sky Right.
How is that da at that time?
What is the what is the sincerity in
our da?
It is the most sincere da we've ever
made the level of Spirituality our inspiration is
so strong in those moments Imagine may Allah
grant us is dying with that type of
sincerity Right and today we have examples of
that if you look at our brothers and
sisters in Gaza today Imagine the sincerity they
have in their da because they know any
moment can be my last moment We take
time for granted, right?
We look at we look at subhanallah.
There was a janazah today by tomorrow We
moved on with life There are people who
subhanallah on the way back from janazah and
I didn't attend the janazah So I'm not
judging anybody here who attended the janazah, but
I have been to burials We're on the
way back from the burial.
It's like people have moved on Honey it's
like laughing joking, but you know the companions
of the low and whom there was a
the sense of calm When they were carrying
the janazah out to the to the graveyard
and when they were returning they were thinking
about their own mortality they're thinking about their
life and That's that that that's that's us
Right, and they would remember Allah.
This is why the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam.
He encouraged us to remember death Increase in
remembering that which destroys desires and moat You
know, there was a time that the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam actually forbade forbade us
from visiting The graveyard Because you know a
lot of a lot of strange stuff can
happen at a graveyard What I mean by
that is people start, you know When they
start venerating the dead and so on and
so forth and like we've seen it happen,
right people grave worship and all So there's
a lot of weird stuff that can happen
that can mess up our Iman So there
was a time when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam had forbade the companions from visiting
the graves But there was a time when
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said كنت
نهيتكم عن زيارة القبور ولكن زوروها فإنها تذكركم
بالموت He said I had stopped you from
visiting the graves, but visit them because it
reminds you of death Because what does that
do?
It makes us sincere when we understand our
own mortality It makes us sincere.
That is why the people of Gaza today.
They are an example for us We look
at them as the chosen people of Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala There is no there's no
lapse in their sincerity when they're making du
'a Right because once again, they know and
I've shared this before as well, but I
have family From from Palestine and I was
talking to someone that someone very close to
me and he said, you know the the
people of Gaza When they hear like a
loud sound like an explosion, they actually get
happy Why?
He said well, you know if we were
to hear an explosion we'd get scared Right,
but for the people of Gaza if they
hear an explosion to them, they're like, oh,
we're still alive Because if I didn't hear
it, I'm dead That is how near death
is to them on from moment to moment
Now once again think about their level of
sincerity with Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala All right,
and so sometimes through our du'a when
we are making du'a when we're truly
desperate we're making du'a We are getting
nearer and nearer to Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
So perhaps it is for that reason that
Allah jalla wa'ala is is delaying our
du'a Now we're asking for something we're
asking and and we may we may get
hasty Why isn't my du'a being answered?
Is Allah not going to answer my du
'a?
You know is this and the shaytan will
now let this doubt in our du'a
creep into our Make it into a bigger
doubt Where we start doubting the ability والعياذ
بالله الله سبحانه وتعالى All right, and this
you'll hear atheists say this you'll hear people
say this like this this piercing statement of
kufr Like why didn't God help so-and
-so?
Where was your God when this happened?
والعياذ بالله What is this?
Where did this doubt stem from?
It stemmed from that very moment where we
began to think Why isn't my du'a
being answered?
I'm in this situation.
Where's why isn't Allah answering my du'a?
And Those whispers from the shaytan This is
why the Prophet ﷺ taught us when we
have these whispers أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم
And when it when we're in actually the
sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ by the way
This is something we study in the seminar.
We'll get into this more detail in the
seminar But when someone brings us a statement
of kufr, you know what we're supposed to
do like somebody says something like like blasphemous
We're supposed to renew our faith.
We're supposed to say أشهد أن لا إله
إلا الله I renew my testimony.
I affirm my faith in Allah subhanahu wa'ta
'ala and we're human beings.
We need this Right.
We need to affirm.
That is why in our salah we affirm
our shahadah We're constantly affirming our shahadah our
testimony of faith the first pillar of our
deen But we only do that we can
only do that if we are cognizant and
aware of the attacks of the shaytan When
a person can say and that's why to
me this topic is so important not because
you know You're gonna learn every tool there
is to protect you from the shaytan.
The shaytan will never be able to whisper
to you.
No The the purpose of the seminar is
that that you understand your own Weaknesses your
own places where the shaytan may attack you
and you become cognizant.
You become aware of the shaytan Where I
don't have to ask you the question, when
was the last time you said to yourself
the shaytan is my enemy When did it
happen I Just say it did it happen
today.
I don't want you to answer this out
loud Right today.
Did you say to yourself?
I'm gonna take the shaytan as my enemy
this week this month this year When was
the last time we said the shaytan is
my enemy Allah has mentioned him as my
enemy Adam alayhis salaam himself was attacked by
the shaytan How can we think that we
are safe from the attacks of the shaytan?
That is why it is so important for
us to renew this topic the topic of
the of the shaytan That's why this that
is why we have if you look at
the Quran we find That when there's problems
occurring that are being mentioned in the Quran,
especially amongst human beings Allah mentions the shaytan
And some people misunderstand that they think oh,
it's just we're putting blame on on the
shaytan No, this is a reminder from Allah
for us to protect ourselves from the from
the shaytan if you've ever made hajj and
You have done the jamarat right the stoning.
I'm stoning that the the shaytan people think
how you know, this is just Honey, we're
just putting our problems on the shaytan.
And that is actually some people do have
that view The shaytan is just a scapegoat
and I remember I you know, well While
I was a student in Medina, you know
I'm did I got the chance to make
hajj many many times and I've seen some
strange things happening at the jamarat I've seen
people like lose it at The stoning because
all their problems in their life like this
is the time for them to like blame
the shaytan Right, they got stones.
They're like you made me do this.
Boom.
You made me do this.
Boom And I don't know what it's like.
I haven't been in some time I don't
know what it's like now But before you
can look in and see all the stuff
that people have thrown and I'm like, why
are people throwing things other than?
rocks What's going on here?
All right people throwing their shoes like I'm
so mad at this He thought I would
take off my ship ship throw it at
the thing.
I saw a wheelchair there once I'm like
what guy Told his mother who's like miskina.
She's not wheelchair.
Get up, please.
I'm so angry.
I have to throw the wheelchair I mean
what's going on here?
But for some people that's what the shaytan
is just a scapegoat.
Oh the shaytan made me do it I
just blame the shaytan, you know, the shaytan
will come on the day of judgment and
There will be people who will want to
blame the shaytan Who will say the shaytan
made me do it and we actually study
This is a in surah Ibrahim Allah SWT
Tells us the khutbah that the Iblis the
shaytan gives to the people of the hellfire
all these people gathered there That are being
led to the hellfire.
May Allah protect us and the shaytan Allah
allows the Iblis to speak to the people
of the hellfire And one of the things
the shaytan says is فَلَا تَلُومُونِ وَلُومُوا أَنفُسَكُمْ
Don't blame me blame yourselves.
I didn't you know, you know what he
says?
He says I didn't do it.
I didn't do anything.
I Didn't come I didn't make you do
anything إِلَّا أَنْ دَعَوْتُكُمْ فَاسْتَجَبْتُمْ لِي I just
called you I invited you I whispered to
you The shaytan cannot make us do anything
the shaytan cannot force us to do anything
Other than possession which is a separate topic.
I'm not gonna get into that We'll leave
that for the seminar if you have any
questions about that, but putting that whole issue
aside, right?
The shaytan cannot make us do anything so
when someone comes on the Day of Judgment
and And someone is being led to the
hellfire Then it is their own actions It
is their own They did not guard themselves
from the shaytan.
Yes, the shaytan whispered and that is why
we have shayateen من الجن والإنس From the
jinn and from human beings just like human
shayateen, right?
Who are the human shayateen the human beings?
Who encourage us to do evil the human
beings who encourage us to disobey Allah the
human beings?
These these are what are they doing the
shayateen?
They're human but they're shayateen because they are
encouraging us to disobey Allah.
They're pushing us towards kufr They're pushing us
towards disbelief Now, are you gonna drag this
person on the Day of Judgment and say
it's all their fault Of course They will
have their burden to bear Because calling to
disbelief calling to sinfulness is a sin and
they will have to take the account for
that But that doesn't mean they take our
blame Allah gave us the free will to
listen or not to protect ourselves or not
You know Malik bin dinar rahim allahu ta
'ala He said that for me the human
shayateen are more dangerous than the jinn shayateen
Because the jinn shayateen he said I can
say I seek refuge in Allah from the
shaytan and The jinn shaytan will leave me
But a human shaytan What are you gonna
do?
You can look somebody right in the eye
and say I seek refuge in Allah from
you I seek refuge in Allah from you
and he'll look at you straight in the
eye and go So you trying to go
clubbing or not?
You're trying to go smoke some pot.
You're trying to go and do this.
What's up?
All right They're not gonna go they're not
gonna leave you the influence of the human
shayateen Which I think is the topic that
often we gets neglected Because you know this
is the other issue when it comes to
the to the to the shaytan and like
I said I've been teaching the seminar for
a long time and I think I Can
now see where the holes are like why
is this a topic that people are don't
pay attention to?
One of the big issues is the culture
that we live in the topic of the
shaytan has been We've resorted to the shaytan
is something that you're supposed to be scared
of All right, like boo that type of
scared right Halloween When you have like Satan
and you know a lot kind of stuff
like that's what you know for us The
shaytan is not an entity that we're like,
ah, you know, he's gonna jump out of
the dark and scare me.
That's not That's not our relationship with the
shaytan.
This is why something we talked about in
the shaytan What does the shaytan look like?
Does anyone know if you took my seminar,
you know, we're gonna talk about it tomorrow
Briefly because it's a one-day seminar.
We're so we'll briefly talk about it, but
spoiler alert.
We don't know much if the shaytan Is
such a prominent being?
Why don't we have clear physical descriptions of
the shaytan?
Scholars discuss this issue.
One of the reasons is because that's not
what our relationship with the shaytan is about
We're not afraid of the shaytan in terms
of like the dark and all that our
Threat from the shaytan is a spiritual threat
meaning the shaytan is attacking our relationship with
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala that has nothing
to do with what the shaytan looks like
There's nothing to do with I'm afraid of
the shaytan in the dark and nothing to
do with Demons and that kind of stuff
that our culture has made They have belittled
the topic of the shaytan to be something
that's like horror movies and things like that
Haunted mansions like that's all it has become
for us.
It's become almost a play thing That's why
a lot of people when they think of
the shaytan they think of like like a
little red Dude sitting on their left shoulder
like it almost like a caricature That's all
they think like that's the whole concept the
shaytan is yeah, he's like this little red
bad guy Just belittled to that point When
in reality the shaytan is a spiritual threat
to us in reality every day We should
be vigilant against the the shaytan in reality
as Imam Ahmed Rahim Allah It's been narrated
that upon his deathbed Right talking about taking
the topic of the shaytan.
Seriously.
Listen to this Imam Ahmed Rahim Allah on
his deathbed His sons were saying to him
to say the Shahada.
They were saying to him Oh la ilaha
illallah, oh la ilaha illallah, and Imam Ahmed.
He was in and out of consciousness Right
in the throes of death and so they
heard him saying la They were saying to
him say la ilaha illallah, and he was
saying la And then they heard him say
la ba'at la ba'at not yet.
Not yet and They're confused honey.
We're telling our father who they Recognize as
somebody who's pious who's knowledgeable so on and
so forth.
We're telling him to say the Shahada We're
telling to take the testimony of faith before
you die as we know that is a
sign of a good ending Right person who
takes their Shahada man can offer calamity La
ilaha illallah dhakhla al-jannah.
The prophet said the one whose last words
are la ilaha illallah will enter paradise Right
and so and we are encouraged The prophet
taught us that when someone is in the
throes of death to encourage them to take
their shahada to say their shahada And just
by the way as a side Fiqh point
and I don't want to belabor this But
we don't we don't want to we don't
want to keep urging a person to say
it if they've already said it Right if
if you if they say it Had to
do that you take that as a good
sign Sometimes people think you have to keep
like say it say it again say it
again say it again.
Yeah, I mean someone's Like in the throes
of death.
No, we Encourage them to say it they
say it hundred in that we take that
as a good sign Side point, but the
children of Imam Ahmed, they're telling him to
say la ilaha illallah And he's saying no
not yet.
Not yet.
And then there's a moment of clarity for
Imam Ahmed he's as I said in and
out of consciousness and His children say we
were telling you were saying to you say
the shahada and you said no not yet
Why was what's going on?
And he said because I felt the she
upon come to me and he was telling
me you have won You're going to Jenna
you have defeated me and I was telling
him no La by not yet.
I'm still alive I'm not dead yet.
I'm not gonna let you get to me
even in my last moments He was not
gonna give the shaytan an inch This is
how the set of the early generation their
relationship was like with the shaytan In our
times as I said this matter is changed
That's why you know people say well, how
can you how do you teach a seminar
so many times?
How do you spend a decade teaching a
seminar because yes, I see the benefit in
people But also every time I teach this
topic and I mentioned the shaytan.
I feel my man raised You know one
of the topics we're gonna talk about tomorrow.
Inshallah is why did Allah create the shaytan
to begin with?
All right, he's gonna cause so many problems.
He's gonna whisper to us and mislead us
and so on and so forth Then then
why would Allah create the shaytan?
We go over some of the wisdoms that
the scholars mentioned about why Allah created the
shaytan But one of the wisdoms spoiler alert,
right?
Is that by struggling against the shaytan we
get closer to Allah?
The more we fight the shaytan the closer
we get to Allah.
Who's Hanukkah?
so it increases our Iman and That's that's
just one reason but there's many reasons why
Allah created the shaytan and there's another question
that we talked about which is Why would
Allah allow the shaytan to live?
Do you know the shaytan as opposed to
the other jinn and other human beings?
Is the only one that is given life
until the day of resurrection?
Right.
He said my lord.
Give me a respite Until the day in
which they are resurrected and then me give
me allow me to live give me respite
and Allah says you are amongst those who
have been given respite Allah allowed him to
live why?
Come tomorrow.
We'll talk about it.
Inshallah.
We'll go over it in detail There's honestly
a lot that I wanted to say tonight
But I was hoping to touch upon a
lot of the topics that we go over
in in the seminar As I said for
me this seminar is is a refresher for
me for my Iman for me to get
closer to Allah and I've also seen how
it has an impact and one of the
things that I say about this topic is
that people often have this this This perception
that the topic of the shaytan is a
very negative topic All right.
It's all about the attacks of the shaytan
and how the shaytan wants to take us
to the hellfire But when you learn how
to defeat the shaytan and you begin to
become introspective and you begin to take an
account of your life and you see like
look these are these are some of the
problems that I'm dealing with or these are
some of my issues and this is how
the shaytan can attack me and now I'm
gonna protect Myself in that department.
It is incredibly empowering and one of the
things that I guarantee for people is if
you study the topic of The shaytan then
inshallah You will feel empowered Because oftentimes that
that lack of knowledge is is it can
make us feel really weak Right this threat
that it was mentioned over and over again
And we don't understand the threat then obviously
it's gonna we're gonna feel defeated before the
battle even begins and Sometimes as I said
people they treat the shaytan that way.
It's already the battle is lost They just
blame the shaytan for everything like oh the
shaytan got me You know, I commit this
sin or that sin or I'm dealing with
this problem or that Issue or whatever, you
know the shaytan got me.
There's nothing I can do about that But
if we study the topic of the shaytan
inshallah, you will feel empowered.
So I hope you can join me tomorrow
I know it's a full day seminar ten
to seven and I know that feels like
a lot for people But this is actually
less than what the seminar used to be.
It used to be a weekend seminar So
it's Friday three hours on Friday all day
Saturday all day Sunday But we shortened it
to kind of condense it to teach this
in a one-day format I don't know
if we're gonna do it again because I'm
actually uneasy a little bit condensing a weekend
into one day I'm just being honest with
real with you because I feel this material
is very very important.
It's relevant It can honestly be a man
saving for some people, right?
So I'm not truly comfortable with teaching it
as a one day, but I understand people's
lives are busy It's hard for them to
give up a whole weekend But if it
goes well, inshallah, maybe we'll we'll teach it
to other cities as well How that will
not go to ala alam subhanak Allah.
Mahmood be Hamdik.
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Just like how Sheikh mentioned this seminar can
really be a Life-changing type of seminar
for you because if you can get to
know your enemy to that depth of level
Then you are prepared for anything that he
may throw at you exact malachite and Yeah,
that's it.
All good.
See you guys tomorrow inshallah the seminar