Safi Khan – Soul Food 08 December 2023
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The speakers discuss the negative perception of evil behavior and the importance of followingship in good deeds. They emphasize the need to avoid "verbal deeds" and the importance of understanding behavior and behavior. They also discuss the concept of backbiting and the use of negative language to assert oneself. The speakers emphasize the importance of following Prophet's advice and protecting from evil behavior. They also mention the benefits of forgiveness and balance in any good deeds.
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Alright.
Let's go ahead and get started.
Apologies for the delay.
Okay.
Alrighty.
Everybody.
How's everyone doing?
Hopefully, everyone's doing okay.
Everyone's gearing up for the end of the
year.
We are
getting very close to finishing our series.
So my plan for soul food
is after we're done with our series, the
journey to Allah,
we are going
to spend
a good few weeks leading up to Ramadan,
doing a series about readiness for Ramadan inshallah.
So it's, like, perfect timing. I think we're
gonna finish the journey to Allah in the
next few weeks.
And so once we come back in January
for the new year, we're gonna kick off
with a lot of topics that are related
to the preparation that one
undergoes,
for the month of Ramadan,
so that'll be really exciting.
It'll help us really get to Ramadan all
the way. And then
once we're in ram once we're in Ramadan,
we obviously have a lot of special programming
available. So
let's go ahead and begin.
1st and foremost,
I know everyone's hearts are extremely heavy this
week.
I mean, as has been for the past
two and a half months at this point
ever since October 7th,
you know, the
the situation in Palestine has only gotten more
intense and more severe.
And so, you
know, how many of how many of y'all
follow Mu'taz,
Azayza? Right?
May Allah preserve him.
He,
has been putting out so much
just
evidence
of what's going on over there. And,
unfortunately, you know, when we see these things
happening and unfolding in front of our eyes,
we are left in horror watching these things.
But I want you guys to actually think
about it from just one more perspective.
And that perspective is
that,
yes, for us, it's extremely difficult to see.
For the martyrs, for the shuhada,
it is
basically proof
for
their shahid. Right? It's proof for their martyrdom.
And for the people who are doing this
to them, it's evidence against them.
So whenever you're thinking about these things and
you're watching these moments, I want you to
think that,
you know,
brother Muertaz and all these other people, these
photographer, these media people in Palestine right now,
they're literally
doing the job of angels. Right? They're taking
down evidences
and proofs of actions of what those who
are evil are doing.
And so,
like, you know, they're just building up a
really strong case against themselves,
the people that are that are harming the
the the the Ghazan people. So,
lot of different ways to to to break
that down and look at it, but
it all ends with the people of Gaza
being freed, from the occupation.
Alright.
Let's continue on with our,
discussion tonight. We have a really exciting discussion.
Tonight's discussion is gonna involve a little bit
of kind of back and forth
at certain times.
Tonight's discussion, Ibn Roja,
he breaks down
7
types of people.
Right? 6 really, but, like, he kind of
intros it with the first one. So 7
types of people
or 7 kinds of actions
that he says, and you can see it
in the title,
that will be
seemed
like scattered dust on the day of judgment.
Now what does that mean? Right? What does
scattered dust
mean on the day of judgment? It means
it is something that
will easily
be,
you know, brushed away or it'll be flown
away easily.
And
why is that? We'll learn
through our session today
about deeds that are not going to have
any weight to them on the day of
judgment and how we can avoid being those
types of people.
Because in the dunya, you have a lot
of opportunities to do actions. Right? You have
opportunities to do deeds, both good and bad.
And
the bad deeds are bad deeds, and we
know what those are. But there are sometimes
evil deeds that are masked with the facade
of good deeds. Right?
That certain people are doing things that are
seemingly good, but in reality, they're actually not
that way. And because of that, it'll be
on the day on the day of judgment.
So inshallah will bring up some examples of
that today.
So he begins. He says,
these types of actions are actions that will
be scattered like dust on the day of
judgment. The first of which, comprising something more
general than previously mentioned, and that is having
deeds
from which he hopes good, but they end
up scattered dust and altered to do or
altered to evil deeds.
And Allah he mentions in this particular ayah
in the Quran,
he says, as for those who disbelieve,
the people who do deeds, but they don't
have any belief system behind them,
those deeds are deeds that are like mirages
in the desert. Okay? Anybody here seen the
Mirage before?
A Mirage is what? In the summertime in
Dallas, you see them all the time. When
you're driving on the highway or on the
road, you see on a very hot day,
it seems like there's almost like a glass,
like a like a like a thing of
water. Right? There's like a pool of water
in the distance,
and that ends up just being a almost
like an optical illusion from nature
that the the heat is so intense.
The sun's rays are so intense that it
almost reflects off of the ground from a
distance. And as you get closer and closer
to it,
now you realize that it's really not water
at all.
And the reason why Allah included this in
his
Quran
is because in the Quran,
Allah is a he's addressing people who
in that time in Mecca and Medina used
to live in very desert like conditions.
And so in the desert, people who used
to travel,
they would see like a mirage from a
distance. They would all get all hyped up
and excited.
Right? We've been traveling for days,
possibly a week.
All of a sudden in the distance, I
see what looks like a pond or what
looks like a puddle of water or a
water source.
And I wanna go to it. I wanna
run to it. I wanna get close to
it. And as soon as they get really
close to it, they find out that it
was just an optical illusion.
That is nothing but more dirt and sand
right in front of them. And so Allah,
he says in the Quran, he says,
for the people who disbelieve,
their deeds are like mirages in the desert.
From far away, it seems like something.
There seems to be substance there.
And this is one of the greatest kind
of analogies in the Quran because when you
think about the example of the mirage,
everything from afar looks beautiful.
Right? I mean, how many people think about
this, guys. How many of us have seen
people from afar,
or we have seen people's deeds from afar,
and we were really impressed by them. Right?
A person's far away,
that brother is like, his his Quran is
amazing. Right?
Oh, look at that person. Like, that person's
prayer is so solid. Oh, look at the
person. Look how look how they treat their
their siblings. Like, it's amazing from afar.
And the closer and closer and closer you
come to that actual person, you realize what
was seen from afar is not at all
what the truth is when you come close.
And this is why that famous narration from
Umni Ma'abad, Right? The woman that the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam came across on his hijrah
on the way to Madinah.
What was one of the descriptions that Umni
Ma'abad had of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam?
Anyone remember? She saw something very special something
very special about his appearance. Anybody know?
She said that he was
striking from afar.
Meaning, like, physically, appearance wise, he was beautiful
from afar, and she said, he was even
more beautiful close-up.
This is why the prophet is so special
because he, like, defies what, like, the norm
is for human beings. The norm is that
from a distance, a lot of things look
really cool. I want you guys to think
about something in your life that you thought
was really, really cool and beautiful from a
far distance, and you got super close to
it and you realize
it's not much. Right? It's like all the
the the the the lakes in Dallas. Right?
You're like from, oh my god, We almost
have, like, a beach. And you get close
to it, and you look at the rocks,
and you're like, oh, man. We're back in
Dallas. Right? No. No. I'm just kidding. So,
like, you know, sometimes things from afar
look really amazing. But when you get close
to it, they're not the same anymore. So
Allah he mentions that. And then he
says, the ones who are dying of thirst,
the ones who are will do anything for
water,
think it to be water until
until he comes to it and finds that
it's not that at all.
And he finds in its place,
Allah who will pay him his due, and
Allah is very swift with his reckoning. Okay?
And he goes on and he says something
else. He gives you another example of what
these deeds are like that when you do
deeds frivolously and you have no thought behind
them, he says,
he
says,
he says, and we will turn
the work they did and scatter it
like dust.
We'll scatter it. It's gonna be scattered like
the dust in the desert. Right?
And this is the the reality of of,
again, people who wanna put on a show,
but then in reality, in substance, there's not
really much there. Okay?
And and this is what you know, there's
a famous statement here from a scholar by
the name of Al Fudayl. He says, concerning
this verse
that
they worked deeds thinking them to be good,
when in reality they were evil. Now the
question is, like, what's evil? Right? Like, what
what about what about a person who prays?
What about a person who fast? What about
a person who does things that are obviously
religious? How are those things evil? Are they
inherently evil? No. No. Absolutely not. What he's
saying here is that a person
who does deeds, right, who does deeds and
they claim them to be for Allah,
but it ends up that they're actually not
for Allah is even of a higher gravity
of sin. Why? Because you're claiming it to
be for Allah.
It's a whole different conversation if a person
says, well, you know, I'm gonna do x
y and z, or I'm gonna try to
get this job because I wanna help my
family out. Right? But at the end of
the day, they're really not doing it for
their family. They're just doing it for their
own vanity. That's different. But now when you
involve a lot in it,
a person fasts
so that people can be like, oh, Masha'Allah.
Mondays and Thursdays. Such a pious man. Right?
When you bring Allah into it, there's another
degree of seriousness that you introduce to the
situation.
So this is why by the way and,
Wallahi, I'll tell you something scary. In our
day and age, in our modern time that
we are in in 2023 slash 2024,
we are in a serious threat of this
by the way. Because we are at this
era now where being religious is almost looked
at as almost it's like a deep thing
now. Right? Like, 20 years ago, it wasn't
that big of a deal. 20 years ago,
nobody nobody would wanna be known to be,
like, a religious person. Because 20 years ago,
religion was like this, like, backwards thing, and
now we've kinda, like, hit this renaissance of
religion where people are now, like, these pseudo
religious people.
And now everyone's, like, posting, like, their TikToks
at midnight reading Quran,
trying to impress people, getting likes. People are,
like, sharing, like, super deep, like, reflections on
Instagram and whatnot, and doing this and that.
And everyone's like, oh, yeah, man. Like, I'm
doing this for the sake of Allah. But
now what you're endangering yourself with is something
that was never a possibility back in the
day, which is just showing off to people,
and we'll talk about that inshallah a little
bit more.
So
the second
deed or the second action that is in
danger of being scattered like dust, he says,
is when a servant commits an evil,
a servant commits an evil
deed to which he pays no regard,
thinking of it as insignificant.
And what this means is, basically,
you'll come to a time
where people who will have their deeds scattered
like dust on the day of judgment will
be the people who used to, like, belittle
what wrong they used to do in this
dunya.
And these are the people who would never
take their sin seriously.
They would try to just kinda brush them
off, like, yeah, it's not that big of
a deal, man. Like, everybody does this stuff.
Yeah. It's not that big of a deal,
man. Like, delaying salah is not that bad.
Oh, or, like, you know, like, backbiting is
not that bad. You know? Or, like, yeah.
It's, like, not that deep. It's not that
bad.
This is the type of vibe that Ibn
Rajab is trying to kind of share with
us here that people who try to belittle
the sins that they commit. And I wanna
share something with everybody here because this is
a very famous statement from Ibn Mas'ud radiAllahu
ta'ala An. He says, ibn Mas'ud he says
that a believer
sees his sins
as if he is sitting at the foot
of a mountain fearing that it will fall
upon him.
That's the way that a believer sees their
sins.
That when a believer commits a sinner, makes
a mistake, they don't just brush it off
as though it was nothing.
They don't brush it off as though it
was no big deal. When a believer, a
true Muslim sees their sins, they look at
it as though it's like a mountain that's
about to collapse in on them.
And he
says, while the sinner,
the word fajir.
The fajir, the one who sins
is a person who when they sin, it's
as though they're just trying to like wave
or swat away flies from their face.
Almost like making it seem like not that
big of a deal. Oh, I can just
swat that one away. If another one comes,
I'll just swat that one away as well.
And so the the the approach of a
believer when it comes to committing mistakes
is
not trivializing those mistakes.
Because a believer is not afraid necessarily
about what that sin will make them look
like. They're more concerned about what they look
like to Allah.
If you wanna think about it, people who
belittle their sins
are usually people who are too worried about
the eyes of the people watching them.
Like, oh, if this person catches me doing
x y and z, what are they gonna
think of me?
If that person sees me doing x y
z, what what are they gonna think of
me?
But a person who's more concerned about what
Allah thinks about them,
they're not worried about, like, just like swatting
it away real quick so nobody sees it.
They're actually concerned more like, oh my gosh.
Like, this is gonna be weigh heavily upon
me. I mean, how many of us, subhanallah,
I want you to and this is a
really relevant kind of exercise here. How many
people in here have ever done something in
their life where maybe people didn't know about
it, but it really made it going to
sleep at night really hard.
Like, it made it difficult to go to
sleep at night because you know you did
something wrong.
It may not have been caught on Instagram
or, like, it may not be the talk
of, like, the the the the town or,
you know, people your friend circle may not
know about it. But because you know that
what you did was wrong, you're up thinking
about it all night.
This is one of the characteristics of a
believer.
This is a characteristic of a Mu'min
that they forget about if people know about
it. They care more of Allah. They know
that Allah Ta'ala is aware of it.
Because there are some people who man, you
know, they're more worried about what people think
versus what Allah thinks. Right? They're more worried
about their perception of humanity
versus their perception of Allah
Right? And so
here and this is compiled in Bukhari. He
says that the the the believer the reason
of this fear that a believer has that,
you know, a sin is like a mountain,
is that the heart of a believer is
illuminated.
I want you guys to physically think about
that. The heart of a believer is illuminated.
It has light coming from it. And whenever
a person has a
that is
and has in it,
it will begin to notice whenever a little
bit of that light goes away from them.
Y'all ever walked around with, like, your flashlight
on or something like that? Or like a
flashlight, you know, like, a battery's going out
in your flashlight? You notice right away. Right?
You're in a dark room or in a
dark, you know, a dark, you know, area,
and your flashlight starts to kind of, like,
diminish a little bit in power. The moment
that it starts doing that, you know, like,
now, like, you start, like, banging it. You're
actually trying to make sure the battery works.
Because a person who's used to seeing that
light a moment where that light goes dimmer,
it's like, what's going on here? Right? Like,
why can't I see properly?
So for a believer, he says
that their heart is illuminated. So when he
or she sees themselves
from themselves something that goes against what they,
what what he illuminates his heart with, it's
very distressing for them.
That if they see any sort of, like,
darkening of the light that they have, they
get a little concerned.
Right?
Prayer. Oh, I missed my fajr prayer. It's
a big deal for me.
I was I was I was ill mannered
with my mother before I left the house
this morning. That bothers me.
It was on my mind.
Usually, it's people
who are as described in the statement
of
that really just like dust off their sins
like it's nothing to them. They could care
less that they left the house earlier that
day and they said something extremely rude to
their father.
They could care less that, you know, they
they they there was a person in the
masjid earlier that week, and they were rude
to them. They could care less that they
were in a group of friends that were
all backbiting, and they just kind of, like,
added in a bunches of their own stuff,
and they just moved on with their lives
like nothing happened.
Those are people who Ibn Mas'ud, he describes
as Fajr, because those people don't care. They're
people of heedlessness. They could care less if
they did something wrong. And, you know, another
telltale sign of a person who's,
who's guilty of this
is a person who if they're confronted,
they get super defensive about it.
Right? Like, you go up to that person
and you say, hey, assalamu alaikum. You know,
I noticed that
it seemed like you you were a little
rude to that person back there. Like, are
you having a bad day or, like, is
everything okay? Me? No, man. I'm not rude.
What are you talking about? You're rude.
Right? You turn it back on them.
You're rude right now. Right? Like, super defensive.
And this is such a this is such
a Shaifani trait.
Because when Shaifan was told to bow down
to Adam alaihis salam out of respect,
Shaitan, he denied that that order.
He said, no. I'm not doing it because
you made me from fire and you made
him from clay.
And then when Allah said that paradise is
a place for people who obey Allah,
Shaitan then turned on Allah and said, because
you made me like this.
Can you imagine the arrogance?
Imagine the arrogance. Imagine a person who, subhanallah,
like, they get caught doing something wrong, and
then when they get confronted by somebody about
what they did that was wrong, they then
blame the person who's confronting them.
Like, oh, like if you you're the one
that made me do that.
You're the one that made me act like
that. Why did you say that first thing
that made me say what I said? You
think I like being like that? It's like
what Israel's doing every day. Or I'm no.
I'm not kidding actually. I'm being very serious.
It's like gaslighting gaslighting 101.
Literally, if you wanna know, like, literally, you
wanna know the meaning of this of this
statement, go look on the news.
Go look on the news. I was like,
so I was watching this, like,
garbage man from, like, the idea for something
like that, like, this past week. And he
was like, oh, yeah. Like, if
if if if if if if the if
Hamas just stopped, like, using, you know, the
children as human shields. I'm like, are you
kidding me?
Are you kidding me?
That's what you're trying to say right now.
Man. Like, it's so interesting to see the
evil that is playing out in in the
world, and you see, subhanallah,
how relevant the Quran becomes.
You know, all these people that are now
reading, like, Quran at TikTok at, like, 1
AM? Like, they're doing it because they're seeking
some sort of answer.
This world is, like, chaotic.
They don't understand anything anymore. How can such
evil take place in this dunya? And you
open up the Quran, you're like, oh, wait
a second.
Allah talked about this.
Allah told the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
about this 1500 years ago. Right? So
he says here that people who they disregard
their sins, thinking of it as insignificant,
and that sin will cause this person to
be punished. And Allah says,
He says,
you counted it as something light,
but but to Allah it was extremely, extremely
magnified.
Like, imagine, like,
and this is why and we'll talk about
this. There's another one that actually talks about
it later in this chapter. But think about,
like, somebody
who you were, like, extremely rude to and
you didn't even think it was that rude.
On the day of judgment, that person will
be brought in front of you and Allah
will say, now you tell me why you
were rude to this person.
And on the day of judgment, we'll be
like, oh,
I I didn't think it was that big
of a deal.
I thought it was I I didn't think
it was that bad. What did I say?
Why he gets so offended?
Right? Why she gets so offended?
And you have no idea the effect that
your words had on this person.
You have no idea the effect that your
deeds had on this person.
It may have ruined their day.
It may have ruined their week.
The example that I think about when I
think about this particular point is the idea
of backbiting.
To the backbiter, it's no big deal. You're
just basically casting
another piece of firewood in the in the
fire. Right? Like, it's no big deal to
you, but you could be ruining somebody's life.
You could be wrecking that person's life.
The the rumor that you spread about that
person could hinder them from getting a job.
The rumor that you spread about that person
could could hinder them from getting married one
day. The rumor that you spread about that
person could
really, you know, hinder them from becoming good
friends with a lot of people who are
beautiful people.
So the person who's doing the backbiting,
the person who's doing the slandering, they get
to go home that night and sleep easy.
But the person who was back bitten,
oh, they're suffering for years years in their
life
And in this dunya, the person who did
the backbiting will never really get, like, caught.
Because again, that's the way that backbiting works.
Right? Like, oh, I just heard from another
person who said that.
Oh, I just got caught up. Oh, this
person just said that so I just kinda
like followed along with it.
And so when that happens, it gets lost
in translation. But to the person who's being
backbitten,
oh, they're living a miserable life.
They're living a life of misery.
We ask
Allah to protect us, and this is why,
you know, one of the companions of the
prophet
said, he said, you are doing deeds. And
by the way, this statement was said from
a companion to a tabiri.
So, like, a a a a
a
a child of a, you know, another companion.
So, like, this was like a generation removed
from the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And,
again, like, you know, when people were with
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, they used
to treat their life so seriously. Right? I
want you guys to think about, you know,
like, the and this is a great example.
Y'all know, like, sunnah prayer. Right?
After.
You know?
After after after.
Right? 2 rakah before Fajr. All these prayers
that were like, oh, yeah. Like, if you
have time, you can, and if you really
don't, like, it's not that big of a
deal.
I want you guys to think what sunnah
was like during the time of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Like, they used to see the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam praying sunnah in front of
them. I can guarantee you some of the
Sahaba probably were like, oh, yeah. This joint
is, like, fun for me.
Like and nowadays in our lives, we're like,
oh, yeah. It's just sunnah. Like, if you
get to, you get to it. If you
don't, you
don't. So the companions would talk about the
they would say, you're you are doing deeds
the next generation
that never saw the prophet,
Y'all are doing deeds that are in your
eyes more insignificant
than a hair, like a strand of hair.
Doesn't seem like a big deal,
but at the time of the prophet,
we would consider them to be destructive sins.
Like, we would never ever do those things.
We would never delay something. We would never
delay something like prayer. We would never deny
giving. We would never do we we would
never delay doing something good. Okay? So that's
number 2.
Then number 3,
he says,
worse than the previous case,
one to whom the evil of his conduct
seems pleasing.
Now this is, like, terrifying.
And any normal human being would ask the
question,
who on earth would find joy
in doing evil deeds?
Right?
Who on earth would enjoy
doing evil deeds?
But look around you. Are there not people
who actually think that, like, they're evil or
something that they they they they they seek,
like, fuel from?
Look at these people. Look at these people
in in in in in in, you know,
Israel that are doing what they're doing to
the Palestinian people.
They are just pressing buttons and going to
sleep and just call us.
And Allah,
he says, like, you take joy from doing
things that are known to be bad.
Not only that, like, you make light of
it,
and you think this is, like, all fun
and games.
You think that, like, it's not that big
of a deal?
And this is why Allah says, he says,
should we inform you
who will be the greatest losers?
The people who will be the greatest losers,
al-'soreena
al-'Aamal
of their works.
He says,
the people who whose efforts
are astray,
He says,
He says, those whose efforts go astray in
the life of the world, and yet they
reckon that they do good work.
People who are doing evil,
but they think that they're doing good things.
Man, I have
well, I didn't plan this, like, for today,
but think about it literally.
Oh, yeah. Like, we're we're we're we're we're
we're killing, like, terrorists. That's what we're doing.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. We're getting rid of, like,
bad guys. Right?
Oh, we're the ones who are victims.
We're doing the we're doing God's work right
here.
Yeah. What about what about what about Rahim?
The little kid, the little daughter, the little
granddaughter whose
grandfather was holding her.
What about all the 10,000 children that you
that that that you killed?
That's god's work.
And these people
are so delusional
that they think what they're doing is good.
They think what they're doing is good, and
you will have people still. And I was
reading a comment today on Instagram.
A person who's like, I have never seen
the entire world come together for a cause,
yet the people who are in charge are
still in denial of the evil that they're
doing.
It's insane. It's insanity. It's.
Right?
They think that what they're doing is good.
Oh, yeah. Like, we're we're we're we're fighting
antisemitism. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's what we're doing.
By what? Killing a child?
You know, I heard,
man. This is
so sad to talk about.
I was listening to a
a a a clip today
from a
a,
like, a rabbi
who was preaching overseas,
and he was saying that the kids aren't
innocent because if the kids grow up, they're
gonna come after us if we allow them
to get to adult age.
This is why you thank Allah every day
that you're Muslim.
Islam does not give us room to think
like that.
Islam does not permit thoughts like that.
That these are people who,
over and over again, they justify the evil
that they do.
I mean, you think about, like, the people
who used to harm the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam.
You think about the people who used to
throw garbage
at his feet,
people who used to pelt stones
at his body.
What do they think that they were doing?
Would you I want you guys to think
about that.
Like, would you wouldn't you like to talk
to those people and ask them, like, what
were you thinking?
This person just came to you and told
you.
Why did you, like, why did you pick
up stones and throw them at him?
Like, what what was your thought process?
And I can guarantee you, half the people
would be like, yeah, man. Like, we just
didn't like him.
Because is there a logical reason?
Like, you almost have to be crazy to
make logic out of it.
If you see what's happening in Palestine right
now, and anyone in here who who may
know or have heard of people that are
defending
the other side,
they're like, when they speak, it's almost like
it's insanity. You're watching those videos and your
your blood starts to, like, boil.
How can you possibly believe that?
How can you possibly believe the filth that
you're spewing right now?
I'll tell you something. When a person engages
in so much evil,
truth,
and falsehood,
Haqq and Baltul
becomes very, very confusing for them.
What's true and what's false becomes very confusing.
As Muslims,
the the the the the blessing
of
believing
and practicing your belief,
one of the blessings of it is to
know what good and evil truly are. That
when you can when you see evil, you
know it right when you see it.
When you see good, you know good right
when you see it.
And you know what's really interesting, the people
of the time of the Prophet SAW Salam,
the people who ended up becoming Muslim,
there's always one very key component that kind
of united all of their narrations.
That when they saw the prophet SAW Salam,
they would always say about him,
he doesn't look like a bad person to
me. They knew what truth was when they
saw it.
There's a famous hadith of prophet SAWSALAM that
when he went into Medina
that the first things that he told people
was Afshu Salam,
Wa Ta'am,
Wasilul Arham.
Right?
And pray
And pray in the evening while others sleep.
The same man who actually narrated that that
hadith, he wasn't a Muslim. Y'all know that.
Right? At the time of that hadith, he
was not a Muslim. He saw the prophet
from a far distance entering Medina and he
said, this is what I heard him say.
And you know what he said before he
actually he stated what the prophet's advice was?
He said,
I didn't see his face as a person
of the face of a person who would
be a liar.
So he knew truth when he saw it.
But again, the sad part of of the
dunya is that once a person perpetuates evil
so much,
they forget what truth is and they think
they confuse truth for falsehood and they confuse
falsehood for truth.
And this is what you see right now.
You're seeing evil happening right in front of
our eyes and people are arguing as though
they're in the right. And any person who
is upon the truth, they're like, this is
madness. This is insanity.
Right? We ask Allah to protect us. And
no so now we go on to the
4th.
The 4th
says here,
Sufyan Athauri,
he mentions
would say upon hearing this verse,
woe to the people of Arria,
woe to the people of ostentation.
He says this can be seen in the
hadith about the 3 who would be the
first to be hurdled into Jahannam,
the scholar,
the one who gave charity,
and the Mujahid,
the person who was a martyr. Let's look
at this hadith really quickly inshallah.
It's right
here. It was narrated in Sahih Muslim.
It says that Abu Hurairah radiallahu ta'ala an
he mentions that the prophet he said, the
first man
whose case will be decided on the day
of judgment
will be a man who died as a
martyr.
A person who died as a martyr.
He will be brought in front of Allah
and Allah will recount his blessings which he
bestowed upon him and he will acknowledge them
and Allah will ask this person what did
you do with them?
And this person will say,
oh, Allah I fought for your sake and
I died as a martyr. I defended your
Din You Allah and I died as a
as a shahid.
And Allah will say,
bal, actually you're lying.
You're lying
because you did this so that you may
be called brave
or you were called so and so
And then a command will be given and
he will be dragged into *.
And then the next person
will be a person who acquired knowledge,
and they recited and taught the Quran.
Right?
This is like people. Right? SubhanAllah. Instagram, Quran,
you know, Quran. Right? They're like on Instagram
live, beautiful voices.
They got thousands of followers.
This is by the way, man, I'm I
I know I'm I'm kind of, like, trying
to be lied about this, but this is
serious.
Like, Allah protect ever
Allah protect us from ever using Islam as
a means of us showing off to people.
Everyone say Amin.
He says the second person
will be a person who used to teach
the Quran and recite it beautifully.
He will be brought forth
and Allah will again recount this person's blessings
and he will say what did you do
with these blessings?
And this person will say
you Allah I acquired 'ilm knowledge
and I disseminated it. I I taught it
and I recited the Quran
so the other people could hear it. Yeah.
Allah. I was just trying to teach people
your words, yeah. Allah. And Allah will say,
rather you were lying,
you acquired this knowledge so that you could
be called an 'alam,
aqari,
a shaykh, an Ustad, an imam, a shaykhah.
You did this so you could be called
so and so
And because of that, he'll be given the
command of being dragged into *.
And then finally,
the last person
will be brought forth in front of Allah
of every kind of wealth he will have,
and Allah will recount all of his blessings,
and he will acknowledge them and Allah will
say, what did you do with all these
blessings I gave you?
And he will say, you Allah, I spent
every bit of money you gave me for
your cause you Allah,
and I only spent it for the sake
of you. And Allah will say rather you
are lying you did so that you may
be called generous
so that you may be called pious and,
you know, kind and
merciful.
And because of this, you'll be given Jahannam.
And I want everyone to think about the
one unifying factor of all three of these
stories.
Exactly.
All three of these stories have a lot
to do with not only intention
Your intention and also the follow through of
your actions.
Because your intention's in the beginning,
but your follow through till the end of
your life is also important.
A person can say, yeah,
you know, I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna intend
to do this for the sake of Allah.
And halfway through their deed, they're like, oh,
man.
Kinda liking what people are saying about me.
I'm liking this. They're calling me like a
roots community member. Right? Like,
oh, wow. Do you see, like, I was
on that roots Instagram reel the other day.
You know? I'm just, like, screenshot that thing
real quick and sent to everybody you know.
I mean, so, like, no. No. No. We
we never wanna be people like that.
We I mean, these are things that happen
by chance.
These are just things that happen by chance.
Like, it could it could have not been
you, could have been like that pin that
that picture in the wall over there.
It was just because of the Qadr of
Allah that it happened so that it happened.
But when a person
makes what happened now become their new intention,
that's when it becomes dangerous.
That's when a person they began
their life by saying, yeah. I like giving
charity because, you know, I'm gonna give from
what Allah has given me.
But there will inevitably be a time where
Shaitan will sometimes
introduce
a
small little bit of, oh, you know,
like, you know, it seems to me that
people are liking that you're so generous.
You should give more. And that person will
be like, yeah. Yeah. I wanna give more
now. I wanna give more. It seems like
people are enjoying that I'm giving. And Shaitan
will say, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. People are
calling you Jonas. Hey. By the way, they
wanna interview you on Instagram. They wanna interview
you on YouTube. You wanna go and do
that little quick interview real quick? Yeah. Yeah.
All for the sake of Allah. And that
person will grow a liking of this attention
more and more and more and more
until
they if they looked in the mirror spiritually,
they would not be able to recognize themselves
anymore.
They began as a person who used to
recite Quran to, like, one kid. Y'all know
that Quran teacher that teaches 1 kid
can't even recite properly. Right? It's, like, 7
years old.
All of a sudden, his recitation is so
beautiful. Now it has millions of viewers on
YouTube,
and this person,
A'uzhubillah,
no longer
enjoys the Quran anymore for what it is.
He only sees the Quran
as a
as a mechanism
to get more viewership.
May Allah protect us from from showing off.
Alright. Let's move on to the last couple
of them, insha'Allah.
The 5th one, he says,
the one who has worked righteous deeds
but has also wronged others, and he thinks
that his deeds will save him.
Oh, Yeah. Allah protect us. Man, this is
a really scary one because this one he
says, so there confronts him that which he
was not expecting.
All of his deeds are appointed amongst those
who he wronged,
then some wrongs remains to be
requited or, like, kind of, like, paid back
for, and so their evil deeds are piled
onto his and a result he is hurled
into the fire. Now this comes from a
very famous hadith, by the way. This this
statement comes from a hadith. They come from
a hadith where the prophet, he said, switch
his companions and he said, oh, my companions,
my Sahaba. Do you know a person who's,
like, bankrupt?
And all of them started to answer the
prophet, yeah, so Allah is a person who
doesn't even have, like, 1 dirham or, like,
1 dinar, like, they don't have anything.
And he said he said, so so the
law is sudden. He said, no. No. No.
The person who's bankrupt is a person
who did good deeds his entire life but
they used to harm this person. They used
to insult that person. They used to abuse
that person.
And so on the day of judgment, they
will come to Allah
with deeds like the mountains.
Like their deeds will be so tall, they'd
be like mountains in front of that person.
And slowly but surely, Allah will bring every
single person that they harmed in the dunya
and they will say take from his good
deeds whatever he harmed you. Whatever how much
he harmed you, take from his good deeds.
And so every single person he harmed will
start taking a little bit of his deeds,
taking a little bit of his deeds, taking
a little bit of his deeds, and
all of a sudden this person harmed people
so much
that that mountain is now looking like a
little meadow, tiny flat, nothing there.
And he'll say, yeah, Allah, there's still a
line of people
that are claiming my deeds.
I don't have anything left,
and the scariest part is this, Allah will
say
to the people in line,
take your bad deeds and now unload it
onto his plate.
Take your bad deeds and give it to
him now.
Rid yourself of your evil deeds from what
he harmed you.
SubhanAllah.
So this person came into the day of
judgment with deeds like good deeds piling up
to the mountains and he left with a
mountains worth of evil.
SubhanAllah.
This is why we should never ever think.
I mean, the entire premise of this book
is don't ever
don't ever rely solely on your ji's schedule
to paradise.
You need to make istighfar.
You need to ask Allah for for forgiveness.
You need to make tawba. All these things
need to be done.
And then the 6th one he says,
his accounts could be scrutinized at which it
will be asked of him to show how
he was grateful for the blessings granted to
him.
The least blessing would be balanced against his
deeds and outweigh them with remaining with the
remaining blessings yet to be weighed.
And so this is why the prophet said,
whoever's account is scrutinized will be destroyed.
Now check this out. What this means is
that
one blessing that Allah gave you
is far greater than all of the good
deeds that you've done in your life.
And the proof of that you wanna know
the proof of that? The proof of that
is that
when you think about it, every good deed
you've ever done is only from a blessing
that Allah gave you so you could do
those good deeds.
Think about it.
All the prayers you've prayed in your life
is only possible because Allah gave you a
body that's healthy to pray with.
Whatever sadaqa you gave in your life, charity
you gave in your life is only because
Allah allowed you to have that money to
give sadaqa with.
The umrah you went on was only possible
because Allah allowed you to save that money.
Every like, the the the your your your
good deeds with your mother, think about it.
Your your your your your your good words
with your mom, your parents, your family,
only possible because Allah gave you a family
to do those good to to say those
good things in the first place.
Every blessing
that you
have,
it's directly tied to all your good deeds
that you do. It's like a person who
goes under the day of judgment and says,
yeah, Allah, I did it all by myself.
And Allah says to you, are you kidding?
I gave you a family to be good
too.
I gave you a job to earn money
from.
I gave you a forehead so you can
bow it down.
If it wasn't for those blessings, you wouldn't
have the ability to do those good deeds.
So that's what he's saying in the 6th
point. And this is why, by the way,
famous dua. Anybody wanna kind of, like, remember
this? A dua, beautiful dua,
It means, oh, Allah,
judge us with an easy judgment.
Allahumma hasibnahhisabayin
yasira.
Oh Allah,
give me an easy accounting on the day
of judgment.
It's, like, almost like tax season. Right? Like,
you don't want Allah to tax you. Like,
oh, yeah.
Oh, this is the oh my gosh. You're
rude to your parents right here. Like, you
want Allah to actually, you know what? My
teachers taught me something beautiful.
You want it to be a situation where
Allah opens up your books of deeds,
and he looks at the first page and,
you know, you're Muslim. You tried. Right? Try
to pray as much as you can. You
tried to give as much as charity as
you could. You slipped up. You're a human
being. But Allah also sees that you asked
Allah for forgiveness
extensively in your life. Allah will not look
at the rest of your life and close
the book and say,
What a beautiful can you imagine? It's like,
you know, it's it's like that thing, like,
when you go up to your teacher with,
like, an exam, and she's like, oh, yeah.
Stand here. I'll grade her in front of
you. And all the anxiety of the entire
world starts breaking down in front of your
in front of your eyes. Right? You're like,
no. No. It's okay. I'll go back to
my desk. No. No. No. Just stand here.
It's gonna grade around in front of you.
Every time you see that pen move, you're
like, oh, god. I can't go home today.
Right? Like,
it's like that feeling, but imagine if that
teacher looks at your first two questions and
they're like, oh, yeah. You got that one
right.
That one right. You got the gist of
it. Good. Here's an a. And you're like,
wait a second. There's, like, 60 more questions.
I don't need to see the rest of
it. You did you did good.
You did good.
This is the benefit of Allahum Mahasib Nakhissa
Ben Yasiram.
The last one, and we'll end with this
Insha'Allah is,
he could have evil deeds
that destroy some of his deeds or the
deeds of his limbs,
save Tawhid
as a result of which he will enter
the fire.
Ibn Majah records a hadith on the authority
of Thawband that the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
he said, there are people amongst my nation
who will come with deeds like mountains
and Allah will render them as scattered dust.
This hadith goes on to mention that there
are a people who have your your skin,
meaning, like, there are people just like you.
They speak your language.
They spend part of the night in prayer
as you do as as so do you.
But there are people who, when they are
alone,
violate the prohibitions
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And so, you know, and this is, you
know, one of the most,
this is of the highest level because we
learn also in our religion that a person
who tries to hide their sins, there's a
there's a blessing in that. Right? Like, they're
not, like, public sinners. They're not people who,
like, try to flaunt their their their mistakes
and sinfulness.
But at the same time,
a person
who wants to access that next level of
iman,
they also function privately the same way they
function publicly.
Because there is a disease
where certain people live almost like this double
life.
We're out in public, they're like,
But in private, they're like,
Right?
Like, oh god. Right? Like so so we
never wanna become a people who are so
comfortable being good. And I say good quote
in quotes because, again, that good is subjective
in terms of, like, in in in your
intention and sincerity.
But in private,
you're almost unrecognizable.
And I want you to think and this
is a good kind of, like, ending question
for everyone to go home and think about.
Everybody has public perception.
Everybody has the persona that everyone knows them
as in public.
When you go home
to your houses at night and you go
to your room and you're finally in private,
will you still be recognizable as the person
that people knew out in public
as you are when you're by your complete
self?
Are the same things that are haram in
public also haram for you in private?
Are the same things that are not okay
to do in public the same
not okay
status
in your privacy.
And when a person
is as sincere
as they are in public
and they
translate that sincerity to their privacy,
that's when you know that person truly has
understood what it means to be a Muslim.
Because even when they're by themselves, they know
that they're too shy in front of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to do anything that would
go against what, you know,
something that displeases him.
And so
these are the 7 that Ibn Rajab he
mentions
of people the deeds of who will be
scattered on the day of judgment as though
they have no substance.
People who think that they're doing good, people
who are doing things to show off, people
who belittle their sins, people who get enjoyment
from their sins,
people who are rude to other people and
think that their deeds will save them from
all the rudeness and the harm that they
cause upon others,
and people who are good publicly, but in
private, they're completely different people. We ask
Allah to protect us from ever being
people who are insincere,
and we ask Allah
to make us of the people who are
of Ikhlas,
people who are of Ihsan,
people who are of Iman,
and people who are of,
true sincerity,
true good intentions when it comes to our
belief in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in our
practice. We ask Allah ta'ala to free the
people of Palestine.
We ask
Allah to end the occupation and the oppression
in Gaza. We ask Allah
to reward all of the people who have
been harmed in the way of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. We ask Allah ta'ala to reunite
all the families who have been split apart
in this dunya with the highest levels of
Jannah, and we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
to have mercy upon the Muslims who are
still alive. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
to allow us to benefit from their iman.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to allow
us to continue to pray and make dua
for our ummah and we ask Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala
to join them in Jannah one day.
Sorry the the the one you're talking
about which one again? The Hadid that, the
guy was non Muslim.
Oh, yes. So,
go look it up. It it'll be, if
you kinda Google it, you'll find it. Just
type in, Hadith of the prophet,
advice of, spreading peace, like the Arabic, Afshas
Salam.
You'll find the entire statement there, and he
will say that, basically, he he saw the
prophet from a distance. And the first thing
he noticed about him was his face was
not the face of a liar. He wasn't
even a Muslim when he said that. So
it kind of shows you, like, subhanallah, like
human beings have this innate ability to to
detect truth when they see it. Right?
Everybody. We'll see you all inshallah,
next
Thursday.