Salem Al Amry – Lesson 37 Weekly Class Virtues of Islam
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Brothers and sisters,
and welcome to our weekly with
our honorable Sheikh Sheikh Salam Al Amri.
I will pass the mic and the screen
to the Sheikh Insha'Allah,
and the Sheikh can be begin.
Dear brothers and sisters in Islam,
today is our weekly class
Islam.
The virtues of Islam.
And we are talking about the Manhaj Salaf.
And so if asked Manhaj Salaf, the qualities,
the
main features,
the main characteristics
of the
methodology of the Sahara and
the students
and the
students of their students, the the generations,
a set of whom we refer to to
a set of.
So we're pious forefathers with.
In the last session,
we mentioned
that one of
the main features,
characteristics
is that
they don't see any contradiction
between
reason,
and
knuckle,
reason, intellect
versus
revelation.
I don't see that's problem.
There is
a the there's harmony between these two.
The has
to understand the,
and there will never be any contradiction.
So Islam,
we have we don't have
that issue which others had.
Okay.
That
the revelation cannot
go hand in hand with the with the
reason and
intellect.
And if there's no room for that.
Sound
apple
and a sense of knuckle,
no problem.
That's all.
So
the
apple has its own
position in
in Islam.
It has
to
its role is to understand the text
and to observe.
So
the or the
of
will observe his utmost
mental efforts
to understand
the text.
And Allah made the apple
that this apple,
the faculty
of thinking,
Allah
made its presence and its wholeness and
soundness
is a prerequisite.
A prerequisite
for executing
and fulfilling
the obligations.
So if it is not working,
the obligations
cannot be implemented,
and that person will be exempted and not
will and will not be held accountable before
Allah
So that's what we covered
in the last session,
and we continue today, where
Allah
blames those
who do not think,
blames
those who do not use this gift that
Allah has given them.
Because the apple is a is a gift
from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And one has to be grateful for this
blessing, for this nirma, the nirma of.
That Allah bless you
with this,
faculty of reasoning.
But some people, they don't use
this
faculty.
They use it in the dunya, but when
it comes to their dean,
to their faith, they don't think.
I remember
a long time ago,
in Haiti, more than 30 years, a
brother,
American brother, became
Muslim,
and he has PhD
in logic.
And, actually, they were preparing him to become
a priest.
And he has to study, of course, and,
of course, then to be sent to the
Muslim land
to
convert
the Muslims.
So he has to study the Quran. To
cut the story short,
the Quran
convinced him,
So he became a Muslim.
So I missed him, and I had
a
discussion with him.
He told me
and he mentioned this also in other of
his jokes,
that
now there is a contradiction between
what I have learned, the logic,
and to think rationally,
and what I
been taught.
The the the the doctrine itself, the holy
trinity,
3 in 1.
Okay. There are 1 3 gods in 1.
K. The father is is God. The son
is God. The holy spirit is God.
And each one is different than the other
and the other one.
How to solve that?
Is mystery.
So there are when you hear the missionaries
or the
bible samples,
those who come on the
on the TV.
It's just a yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
3 can be 1. You know the water?
Water can be ice, can be liquid, can
be same.
3 in 1.
3 in 1.
K? The state of matter, solid, liquid,
gaseous,
gas.
3 in 1.
Because if you look into the issue
okay. Let's just take your example, the water.
These are
the states
of the same substance.
It's not different substance.
So,
sorry,
compound,
because it was the s compound,
h two o.
So atoms of hydrogen and one atom of
oxygen.
So whether it is in the gaseous form,
favor,
steam,
or liquid,
or ice steam, wood.
But you are saying
the father,
not the son.
K? The father is a person.
The son is a person.
Holy
Spirit is a person, and they are 1.
You have 3 persons,
not one person or one essence,
whereas the water is the same.
So he said, I found it difficult
before he
became a Muslim.
I hold logically in logic.
What's
ID?
They don't add up. They don't come I
cannot be convinced.
So he said they used to tell us.
K. Those
the the features.
K.
The
highlight,
please,
just take it on face,
not with your mind.
Take it on face.
That's why when you
make the Christians,
don't rationalize to them. They don't use their
minds.
So this what I feel. Yes. I feel
Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ came to me. I
felt him.
That is keep your feelings to yourself.
K? We don't go by feelings.
So the he said they used to tell
us, when you want to enter the church
to come for the service,
leave your
mind, your
at the doorsteps.
There. Outside.
At the doormat.
Leave it there. When you come out, pick
it up.
But inside,
don't use your mind.
In Islam, we don't have this.
See what Allah
say.
Laming those who do not use their
their intellect.
The example
of the disbelievers
not responding to the messenger's warning
is like a flock.
A flock.
Not comprehending the calls, flock of sheep.
A flock not comprehending
the calls and cries of the shepherd.
They are willfully
deaf, dumb, and blind,
so they have no understanding.
In my
childhood,
okay, I used to take the
mark the flock.
Okay.
Take care of them. So I know.
So you just
start crying,
and they will follow you.
What you are saying, they don't know.
And there are many people that behave like
the sheep.
They don't use their mind. They don't think
somebody else has to think for them.
So Allah has given us this
parable.
Well,
So the likeness, the similar field, the example,
the parable
for those who disbelieve,
the disbelievers
within a kafaroo.
And I want you, my dear brothers and
sisters, to
taste the beauty of Arabic.
The word kafala
means to cover to cover in English. Exactly.
So when you cover something,
that means
that thing is there, but you are covering
it. That's why in Arabic,
the farmer
is called Kafir.
Kafir.
Because he covers the seeds.
And over there is
when the cultivation
and planting
was done manually.
Okay.
So someone will will
be plowing the land, another one chasing him,
throwing the seeds, and somebody covering the seeds.
So that's why he's called
the farmer because he covers the seeds.
So the kuffar are called kuffar, and this
is the beauty,
because they cover the truth.
They know the how because everyone is born
upon
that natural
disposition.
That's innate belief in Allah.
That's innate inclination
towards the worship of Allah,
but they cover that.
So Allah is giving this.
So the example of those who cover these
things,
whom
we
call
this.
Who's shouting, and the sheep are following him.
He's like a flock, not comprehending.
They don't know.
They don't know what you are saying,
comprehending the codes and the kinds of the
shepherd. They don't know that.
They just hear something.
Someone is kind, so they
follow.
Once you are saying, let them know.
The sheep, they're just here,
and
calls of the shepherd.
So those who go far like the sheep,
their messengers, they talk to them, they don't
understand
because they don't want to
to understand.
They seal they seal their minds.
You are talking to them, and they're not
with you. They're not.
And they're not ready to listen to you.
That's why
When the people are the kuffar, every time
the group
batch of the
disbelievers is thrown to the hellfire,
the Malaika
would
rebuke them
and would tell them.
No woman
has come
to
you. See what what you're heading to.
And as a matter of fact, yes,
warners, prophets, came to us.
That's
who are stupid.
They blame themselves. It's too late.
So they say,
We're an idiot.
K? We didn't
we were not listening.
We were heedless.
We were we didn't pay attention
to the messengers when they came to
us.
K. So
here, that means we comprehend. They understand.
They came, they talked to us, but
we did not take the words and internalize
them
and think about them.
We didn't
okay.
We were not listening. We were not attentive.
And, also, we didn't
use our minds.
We didn't
rationalize.
We didn't think
logically.
Otherwise,
had we used that faculty, we will not
be
here.
So Allah here, he blames those who do
not think.
Think.
So always use your mind
within its limitation.
Don't push it outside the boundaries
within.
So think objectively.
K. I'm biased.
And then in some of that,
seek the guidance. Be honest.
Allah will guide you to the truth.
Then Allah described it. They are.
See, the faculties
are dysfunctional,
malfunctioning.
They are? Yes.
Willfully.
Not because of
something physical
in their ears, so that's why they cannot
hear. No.
They are deaf because they don't want
because they don't want to listen.
Like the people of Nour,
950
years, he was calling them.
And whenever
he approached them,
they would
suffer their faces.
Can you visualize
the scene?
So whenever their prophets knew Noah,
k,
came to them
to
remind them, oh, he's coming.
Oh, Noah, he's coming.
Close your ears.
Toss your fingers
into your ears. Just close your hand
and cover your faces so that you don't
see him.
So Allah say, they
are.
So they are willfully.
They don't want to
hear the truth,
not because there is
sickness,
physical defects. No.
They're hitting the swine,
but they don't watch or they hear not
the truth.
They are dumb.
They don't tell the truth.
And blind.
So 3 faculties
are not used.
Idle
will only utter disbelief.
Ears
will only listen to
satanic whispers,
not to revelation,
not to
the guidance
and the words of guidance.
And they are blind.
They don't say the truth.
So
some book.
For whom?
If you don't use these three faculties, how
can you
understand?
How can you rationalize?
How can you think
when you decide
not to
hear, not to listen,
not to tell the truth,
and not to see the truth.
They are just like the the flock of
sheep.
See the beauty of shfa?
Doesn't want you to be like a flock
of sheep.
When you'll become a flock of sheep,
if you
do not use
your intellect,
If you do not see the truth,
if you do not
hear the truth and pay attention to the
truth and then
tell the truth and talk the truth,
Another place.
That was I.
171.
I. 170.
Allah says.
What is
When it's just said when it's just said
to them,
follow what Allah has revealed,
they'd apply.
No.
We only follow what we
found our forefathers
practicing.
Would they still do so even if their
forefathers
had absolutely
no understanding
or guidance.
Let us reflect
here.
Whenever
it's just said to them, to the disbelievers,
to the kuffar.
Follow. Follow.
What Allah
has revealed.
Follow what Allah has revealed.
Something comes from Allah.
Guidance,
set of instructions
for your own benefit.
He's not in need of you.
Allah is not in need of us, my
dear brothers and sisters.
It's not in need of us.
We are the ones.
We are the poor ones.
We are the ones who are dependent on
him. We are the one who are who
are in need of him.
Without him, we cannot
live.
Who makes me breathe?
Who makes me breathe?
He can't just
hold the execute. I will die.
Without him,
we cannot survive.
See
the blessings of Allah.
He protects you
when you sleep.
Amazing. Allah's blessings cannot be
counted.
So he's not the need of us.
And we are so weak.
So weak.
Don't you see
you? This
small
microscopic
organisms,
viruses,
They keep the whole world from their toes?
We are nothing,
but we are
other
guys.
Follow us Allah.
Send down to you.
See the reaction.
They
reply.
In Arabic is called.
What does it mean?
Means to cancel.
So you said something,
and then you realize that what you said
is wrong. So you corrected it. You said,
That means what has been said
is wrong, so
pay attention to what follows. So you cancel
other
Okay?
Say, for example,
I
saw
I saw Ammon. I saw Ammon today.
Nay. As a matter of fact, no.
It was almond. I saw almond. Not zed.
K.
So now see.
We will not follow what you send down.
They cost this.
Okay. You send down, we will not follow.
I was saying, follow what I send down.
I said, no. No. No.
No. No. We will not follow what you
said.
What you said will cross us out.
We
only follow what we found our forefathers
practicing.
See the stupidity.
Something comes to you
from your creator,
and you cross it out, and you reject
it, and you cancel it, and you pay
no attention to it.
No.
No.
Because they are not
rational people.
Had they used their minds,
they said
they should have said
and realized,
come on, guys.
This is from Allah.
That is the practices of our forefathers,
human beings like us,
limited in every aspect.
Their minds are limited. Their knowledge is limited.
Ignorance, most of them.
So we follow the ignorance and leave.
But the most wise is telling us,
wake up.
But they did it.
They rejected
what Allah sent out
and preferred
to that
than.
K?
Now
we only follow what we've
found our forefathers.
What's what
we found,
our forefathers
were practicing
whereupon
that's it.
See the Quran. See how Allah reasons with
us.
Reasons with us.
Allah told them,
and Allah is telling us.
Would they still do so?
Prefer to follow what their forefathers were practicing?
Even
even the if their forefathers
had
no understanding.
They know nothing. They know nothing.
Remember.
Undefine.
Common,
which means general.
If you know generality.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. After you. And they know
nothing.
Your forefathers.
They had no understanding,
and they
owe guidance,
and you insist to follow
their practices
and their way. And they are and this
is the problem.
Even today,
many
of the kuffar
and this is how we found our forefathers.
The same argument.
We cannot go against what
our traditions, what we have inherited.
Think.
Use your mind.
Leave what your forefather were doing.
So you are like the flock of sheep.
Exactly what Allah said.
Like a flock of sheep, you are just
following
blindly without thinking.
Say
brothers and sisters that Allah guided you to
Islam.
Say This is a blessing
deserved from each one of us.
247
thanking Allah.
Allah also said
okay.
If you read the ayaat about
the using of the intellect, you will be
amazed.
I wanna say
it's aya 58.
This is Surat Al Maida,
I f f t 8.
When you close your prayer,
they mock it in amusement.
They
mock it in
amusement.
This is because they are
a people
without understanding.
This is what the used to do.
Whenever the Muslims called
for the salah,
they started to make cracking jokes and make
jokes about that.
And you can see today the same thing.
K? If a brother
or playing in the open
see, there
are clips about like that.
The kafar, they make noise, they
whistle. They
talk
and
like their forefathers.
When you Muslims call to the prayer,
the prayer should
attack their attention.
Those people
see how they stand,
and then they bow, and then they prostrate
to the one that happens
because this is the way
all prophets
worshiped Allah,
and that's how they
pray to Allah.
We know that
in the Bible.
Jesus Christ
went
further
few steps, and he fell on his face
and the rest of the prophets
in the bible.
So we, as Muslims, we are the true
followers
of other prophets.
I think, a few days ago, there was
an interview between
Sheikh Hamza Yousef and,
what's his name?
The
he's a famous psychologist.
Peterson something Peterson.
And
towards the end, he said,
I want to be a Christian and a
Jew
and a Muslim.
The chef told him. Very simple.
Very simple.
Become a Muslim.
Become a Muslim.
Because when you become a Muslim,
you don't lose Jesus, h a,
or Moses.
All of them, you love them, and all
of them, you follow them.
As a matter of fact,
the true followers of all the prophets are
the Muslims.
Who are the true followers of Christ? The
Muslims.
Not you, Christians. No.
The Muslim.
We follow what he told you
and what you preach.
You don't follow
that.
You are insulting him. You make movies about
him.
You talk and cut jokes about him, about
his mother.
You don't respect him.
We follow Musa alaihis salaam.
You see,
all the prophets and messengers of Allah,
they came with the same message.
Oh, the message
of monotheism
to hate,
calling
up all the people to worship Allah alone.
But each one was giving
a law
a law set of rules
to
govern
the
mundane affairs of the people of his time,
which we call Sharia law.
And as you know,
communities develop,
and the new problems, they come to the
service.
K.
They were not addressed in the previous law.
So another problem that you'll come
with the new law,
the same message,
new law addressing these issues.
So there is upgrade.
And finally, Mohammad SAW wasalam came,
and his Sharia
is the last law,
and all the things mentioned in the previous
laws there in Islam.
So
all
are embedded.
So that's why the Islamic law addresses
all issues.
Allah
provided within the law, Islamic law, many mechanisms,
okay,
that will
enable
the jurist or the scholar
to
find solutions
for new issues.
As one of the masha'i
put it in a nice way to just
to simplify.
He said, yes. You know, those who know
computer,
the Windows Windows,
different versions upgrade,
like that.
And you'll find the features,
okay,
of Windows, for example,
95
is also in Windows 2 1,000
and then in Windows XP.
K. All the features. That's why we have
a software old software.
The last version
can't run it
because
it has the other features
of the previous
Windows.
Just this is to to simplify
why there must be a new law because
there are certain issues.
Okay. So the law has suggest them.
So
we Muslims
pay.
We Muslims pay as other prophets pay. So
we are actually the 2 followers
of Christ, the 2 followers of Moses, Solomon,
David, other prophets,
the Muslims.
So you want
not to lose Isa or Moses.
Become a Muslim. That's it. You will be
following Isa, alayhis salaam. You will be following
Musa, alayhis salaam, and Mohammed.
K? They're not going to lose anyone.
Plus,
told you,
K. Because when he came to the river
of Jordan
and spoke to
his cousin,
John the Baptist,
because they're mothers, they were sisters.
So during the practice,
you,
Yahia, alayhis salaam. Ask Aisha, alayhis salaam. Are
you the one?
K. That is,
the paraclete?
Said no. He's going to come after me.
So the paraclete
is Muhammad
as in the book
of Deuteronomy.
So he's telling you follow him.
And that's
why when
he comes back, when he comes again,
and we believe in that,
he's going
to break
the cross
to the swine
and will not accept the tax, the judiciary,
from the people of the scripture. Jews and
Christians accept Islam.
And he would play behind Al Mahdi,
k, to tell us that
he is following
the shari'ah of the prophet
And then, of course, he will perform Hagia
Umrah, and then he will die.
So we are the ones who follow
all the prophets. And that's why we invite
those who are not yet Muslims
to join us
and to come
to the help.
So now here, Allah says
in certain way. What is
that date to when you call to prayer,
they mock it in amusement.
Then Allah describes such
childish behavior
by saying
that it can be
This is because they are
a people.
They think not.
They didn't.
They don't use their intellect. They don't use
their intelligence. They don't use their minds.
People
without understanding,
had they got
the understanding,
they wouldn't have behaved in such
improper
manner.
Also, Allah said,
Indeed, the worst of all beings
in the sight of Allah
are
the willfully
deaf and dumb who do not understand.
A
is the
plural form of the
back.
And
anything that's close, anything moves.
Anything moves. It's called.
Linguistically
linguistically.
Anything that moves.
And the plural form of
go up.
So that is general meaning.
Animals,
insects, any reptiles, and human being, they move,
yeah, linguistically.
But
then
the
there was
a special
usage
for the,
for the human being.
We don't call him
Dapa.
Okay?
Though,
linguistically,
in the broadest scope, he can fall under
the word
because
he
he moves.
That's
why in the logicians, they define the human
being
as which
means
thinking.
Okay. Being. A thinking being.
But if you call an Arab
k?
Oh, Come here.
You are looking for trouble because he will
be offended, and he will react.
They tell you, you are the I'm
not the because
the Arabs,
they use
this word
only for
animals.
Animals,
not for human beings.
And some tribes of the Arabs,
the is
the or
the she donkey.
Okay.
So that's why here, the translator,
he said,
in the
the words of all beings all beings,
Yes. Because all living beings,
they fall under this word.
That's why it is very important in Arabic
to know the context
and when this word can be used
because the meaning will vary and differ
according to its location
and position
in the context.
For example,
if you are reading in the books of
poetry,
k,
and the poet
is talking about his beloved one, and he's
saying,
I worship
her. You cannot say he's oh, he became
powerful. He's worshiping her or searching for her.
So you have to understand
what he say
in that context.
It was in the context of poetry.
K. So he is using
the meaning, not in it is
religious context, not
And it is linguistic
context.
So what he meant,
I adore her. I love her because
Ibadah actually
came from the
to be in a state of love for
someone.
And at the same thing, also,
in a state of
submission and submissiveness.
So he is submitted to his beloved one.
So it is very important
to understand the words
in that
context. Now if you who takes the
well, this power is safe from that context
and apply it and take it and interpret
it in the religious context, and you will
say, oh, he's a.
He left the swamp.
K?
So you need to understand.
So the
translation says, indeed, the worst of all beings
in the sight of Allah
are
the willfully deaths. Those who
are deaths,
they decided not to hear the truth.
And
who do not understand, who do not use
their minds.
Also, I was saying in superfumes.
I 100.
It is not for any soul to believe
except the way Allah believe,
and he will bring his
wrath
upon those who are unmindful
unmindful.
So
Allah my dear brothers and sisters, and this
beautiful aya
says
See,
Allah,
he created
us
and provided us
with the ability
to choose between options,
alternatives.
And that
ability to choose refers to as
free will,
and that was giving to the human being
and to the jinn.
And he showed us
the way of salvation,
the way of success,
and the way of
destruction,
the way that will lead to that fire.
And
told us,
you choose.
You decide to believe,
I will help you.
K.
You are looking for the truth. I will
help
you.
Those who
aside in our cause,
I will show them
the paths and the ways,
okay, of of
doing good.
But if you decide to
check on the other part,
okay, that is your choice.
K.
But
this choice
is not going to be against
his will.
No one can do something
against the will of Allah.
No one.
Because if you can do something against his
will,
that means he's weak.
He's weak.
But he
allows things to happen in his kingdom,
though he doesn't like these things because he
has given you the fuel.
But it happens goes according to his will
because there are two aspects of the will
of Allah,
and
universal will and the legal will.
Not necessarily
what happens, Allah loves it,
but Allah wills it.
Allah allows it to happen
for
many reasons for
wisdom behind that.
Whereas the leader one, what he loves us
to do,
not necessarily
to happen. He wants us to believe in
him.
Not all the people believe in him.
Not all the people that believed in Allah
He doesn't want us to disbelieve, but we
disbelieve
many of us.
So he doesn't like that.
Allah prefers not
and chooses not disbelief
for his
servants, but they decided to disbelieve.
That's right.
Whoever
wills to believe, they can believe. Whoever wills
to disbelieve, they can disbelieve.
A day will come, and they will be
called for accountability.
So whatever happens in the last kingdom
happens either.
If it's just something
Allah loves, it happens according
to the legal will and the universal
will because something Allah loves it.
So happened according to the irad al shariah,
legal will.
And because it's happened, it is also
according to the universal will because it's happened.
But if it's just something Allah hates,
like the,
committing sins,
all types of sins,
murder,
communication,
etcetera,
Stealing,
things happen
according to the
universal way, not the legal way. The law
doesn't like that.
So why did Allah allow this to happen?
Oh, there's a wisdom. Yeah. That's divine wisdom.
Divine wisdom behind it.
That these things though they he doesn't fly.
They they
they took place
in his in his kingdom, though he doesn't
like that.
If you think, you've seen the wisdom behind
it.
Imagine there are no.
If there were no,
there they will not be messengers. They will
not be prophets.
They will not be books sent.
They will not be jihad.
They will not be masters.
All these things will let me there.
No diseases,
so no doctors, no hospitals,
no colleges for medicine.
Sir, Allah is all wise.
That's why our minds are limited.
Sir,
when you
think deep and try to analyze the text,
you see
the wisdom
behind these transparent
layers.
So Allah said,
That's right.
Allah said to his prophet,
because the was
trying his best
to
guide his uncle, Abu Salih.
And Allah has given Abu Saud the free
will, and Abu Saud decided
not to believe
and not to accept the message.
The prophet
was trying,
and he didn't give up until the last
minute,
offering dawah to his uncle.
Yeah,
Amma, and see the way he was pleasing,
begging his uncle.
Yeah, Amma.
This is called.
Oh, my dear uncle.
Please.
A
word.
This word will
enable me, entitle me
to talk on your behalf, to intercede on
your behalf,
to argue on your behalf with my lord.
Those around him, the Kufa,
told Abu
Abu
Talib,
Abu
Talib.
Abu
Talib,
be careful.
Are you shunning?
I'm leaving.
Then again,
of Abdul
And the last thing he said,
I am upon the
of Abdul Maslikh. So he died as a
Muslim.
The prophet
said, I will ask Allah to forgive you
as long as Allah stops me not. Immediately,
the Quran came down.
It's not befitting,
believing
the believers,
the prophet,
and the believers to play for the.
So to make dua
and
for and ask Allah to to
shower his mercy
on the souls of the, it's
haram. It's haram.
And many ignorant Muslims, they don't know this.
Recently, when this journalist,
Arab Christians,
died,
some Muslims reform,
which shows the the compound and ignorance of
the Muslims.
And then Allah sent down
when the busal busal died,
the prophet didn't go to the janacha.
Ali came and he said your uncle
died.
You're misguided. You're misguided. Uncle died, said go
and bury him.
Then Allah sat down.
Oh, Muhammad, you don't guide whom you love.
Allah guides whom
he was.
So Allah guides whom he was?
Those who are
sincere and looking for the truth.
Because Allah guided all the people. Show in
the sense, show them the way
because the guidance are 2 types. He died
Irshad, and he died Tufir.
He died Irshad
was given to everyone, and that's what the
messengers delivered,
showing the people the way.
That's why the Quran says,
verily you
died, and you lead to that which is
the most applied.
So the prophet dies, in that sense, showing
us the direction
that was given to all the prophets,
and that was
the first of each one of them.
But then there is a second type of
guidance, which is the guidance
of help and assistance
and opening the heart and fill it with
the imam. That's only Allah can open people's
heart.
But opening people's heart will only happen
if when the person
accepts and receive the message from the prophet
and.
So he took the first step forward,
then Allah
supports him.
So the support
will not be given to you if you
reject from the beginning
the message of the prophet.
K?
So keep this in mind. There are 2
types of guidance.
If you want the second guidance, you have
to accept the first guidance.
And one of the said
to explain this
in contemporary
context, he gave this
example. He said,
imagine
you
are a stranger in a country,
and you are looking for a place, and
you got lost.
So he saw the policeman.
So you approach the policeman, and you said,
I'm looking for this place. He said, hey.
Yes.
You're almost there.
You got straight,
then tell right,
enter left,
and there you are.
You will reach your destination.
So you say, thank you very much,
and you drove your car.
Now the policeman so you now this is
an example of
Hidayat Irshad, the first type of guidance, the
guidance of direction.
You have accepted it from the policeman.
So the first type of a dialect,
you accepted it,
and you drove your car to follow his
instructions.
Now the policeman
felt
maybe he didn't
understand me. Maybe he didn't
get the message correctly. So he said, hold
on. I will
take you myself.
So he
started his motorbike,
and he told
this stranger, follow me. I'll take you there.
So now this is another type of guidance,
help. The guidance of help comes
because you accepted
his instructions
and believed him.
Okay. So now he has to help you.
So this is
an example of the one
who accept
what the prophets gave him and showed him
the way,
and he believed in that and he start
treading on that way, then Allah
now helps him and pushes him and supports
him.
K?
But if you
rejected what the policeman told you,
the policeman told you, go straight, don't sound
right.
So you misbehaved.
You were
impolite.
Say, clearly, you don't know your country. I
don't know why they are keeping you here.
So he told you to tell right. So
you'll turn left, and left takes you to
the motorway,
and you will not find an exit
except after a long, long, long distance.
Maybe you'll run out of
petrol.
The policeman was watching you.
Do you think he will shed a drop
of tears
for you or feel pity for you? He
said, death loss.
He will not feel pity for you.
He told you,
explained to you,
instructed you. You didn't.
So the same thing. If you behave,
the prophet came to you and told you,
goes go this way. He said, no. I
will go that way.
Okay.
Go that way. That way, you'll take him
to.
That's
why
after he exhausted all his efforts.
He said,
Don't leave. I'll single one of them.
Because what they are going to produce,
the children, they will be like
that.
Wipe them out.
900 50 years calling them day and night,
they didn't.
But they feel follow
what the messenger came with, the prophet came
with.
Then Allah will
support you and help you.
It's not for any soul, any living being
to believe
except by Allah's
will, by Allah's permission,
and you will bring his wrath and anger
upon those who are
unmindful,
those who do not
think and reflect.
May Allah
save us from going astray.
May Allah give us remains in the heart.
May
Allah fill our hearts with the iman and
taqwa.
And may
Allah help us
and
support us
in fulfilling
the obligations
our obligations
that were imposing us towards him. I mean,
and steadfastly made steadfastly
this path, this deed
to and find him pleased with us. I
mean,
may Allah
forgive us all faults and mistakes and ignorance.
May Allah
unite our
hearts.
And may Allah reward all of you, my
dear brothers and sisters,
immensely for your patience
and attendance.
Brothers and sisters, we'll now start the question
and answers time.
Let us begin.
We've received some questions already. We'll start with
those.
The first question, Sheikh. If a person reads
off the ingredients on a food label,
but does not know
what some of them mean, then should they
check the ingredients online to find out if
it's halal,
or can they just eat it?
No. My advice for the
when they want
to want to do the shopping,
because most of the products, they have
ingredients
of the
side of the the
the pig, the pork.
So and they mentioned these things.
So
check before you
do the the shopping. So, you know,
so you know the meaning of these, abbreviations.
This a, what does it mean? You know
that.
And it's easy. You can make a print
out of it, and you can have it
with you also. Yeah. This means this. This
means this. So we need to
check what we eat if we want Allah
to accept our dua.
So we need to eat halal,
not without eating halal stuff.
Because
the halal, they will,
will harden the heart,
and the law will not accept our dua
as, you know, in the Hadith
of the man who
is,
his hair is
combed
uncombed.
Okay. Raising his hands.
Oh my lord. Oh my lord.
Allah didn't accept that. Allah
didn't respond because what he eats was halal,
clothes with halal, fed with halal,
families together.
That's that Allah will accept, and this is
one of the reasons why
our duas are not
answered
because we are eating Haram.
Many, may Allah
forgive us. So
one has to check
the food that goes into his tummy.
One day, Saidna Abu
Bakr had the most of the food.
And then he asked, where did he get
this food?
So
one of his servants said,
before Islam,
I made before
Islam,
okay,
To the people,
means spiritual cure,
leading on on on the people.
And today, this is my reward for that.
This food, they gave it to me.
So said Nabu Bakr, he thrust it, his
finger into his throat,
and he brought it out, and he's
vomit it,
threw it
out.
And he kept doing this until it came
everything came out
because he doesn't want
something
harm to go into his
Now,
one of his children,
one of the slave girls of his neighbor
respect
this child of his.
Of
course, without the permission of our master.
Imam Ahmed, he put his finger into the
mouth of the child
and throw the milk out
Blow the milk out.
Because a woman should not breastfeed
without the permission of her husband.
She's
not allowed because
her husband will become the father of this
child
because of the fostering, because of breastfeeding.
So we had
to take care about what we eat.
I hope this is clear to the questioner.
Otherwise, they can send another message back,
and we go to the next question. Assalamu
alaikum Sheikh. JazakAllah Khair for the lesson. How
to attain taqwa in a time when a
boy's family boycotted him for practicing?
He has a small income source, and he
lives separate.
He is mentally very depressed for the situation
as he is alone and his parents don't
care much. Regarding
the situation.
So he he he lives with his parents?
No. He lives alone, Sheikh.
Okay. And so he that means he can
support himself. He earns.
He has small income small income source,
and he is managing as he is surviving
on his own.
I mean,
first of all,
yes, we are living at a tough time,
time full of.
That's why the prophet mentioned that it's first
just like holding
hot coal in your hand.
So one has to seek help from Allah,
so we can always.
So this, we have to keep that, each
one of us,
because we are weak and vulnerable.
And
the attack,
okay, is from all corner,
from everywhere, all directions.
Shubhah, shahawaz, everything.
So if we Allah is not there with
us, we will be doomed. No doubt.
So we need to
exhibit and show
our need,
dire need of Allah's help,
and always show that.
Raise our hand and say, help me.
Help me. Oh my lord. Help me. Strengthen
me.
I start to become weak.
So the dua
the dua.
Second thing,
the
salah salah,
maintaining the prayers,
paying on time.
The
and
the
nafil, the sunan.
Reading the book of Allah, the Quran.
But the Quran is
food for the soul,
and that's what's sensing the heart.
We're sensing the heart.
But this Quran, Shifa,
is a cure
for the heart.
So we send down from the Quran where
it's cure,
heal, healing.
It will heal
the the the hearts,
the sick heart.
She felt
and mercy
for the believers.
So always,
we every one of us should have his
own with
specific
portion. He reads all the time, every day
of
the
Koran.
The dua
and the the.
The,
they keep the heart alive,
and they strengthen the heart
and bring the.
Is a project of all these things.
So if you are maintaining the of the
morning and the evening and always you keep
the tongue engaged
in the,
the heart becomes strong.
And you have this serenity and peace of
mind
and calmness.
Verily,
most certainly,
in the remembrance of the heart of the
of Allah,
the hearts find
They are late playing at night.
Even if
it's
just. Before a fact, you get up and
you
pay
to or
Half an hour before the the.
So, yeah,
fasting Monday,
Thursday,
especially for the youth, this will help them
to reduce the sexual
drive,
will weaken the desire
because the problem of the youth,
Then
one has to survive himself
with good group of brothers and sisters. A
sister
should surround herself with pious sisters
and the brother also with good brothers.
So they strengthen one another, and they help
one another.
K? So the reasons are so many.
May Allah
enable us and center our iman and your
iman, and may Allah
keep you remain steadfast and,
on the haqq. May Allah
accept from you,
your good deeds, and may Allah
keep you remain firm in the haqq and
the deed. I mean,
I hope this is clear to the questioner.
We go to the next question.
Is it allowed to have a gathering together
every year and make dua for those Muslims
who were killed?
No.
To make something like that,
annual
gathering. This is.
Those Muslims who were killed or something, you
make dua for them all the time.
For other Muslim mean
So you make dua all the time for
the Muslims.
Have to say no.
K? This particular day and this year, we
get together. We make the other them now.
This is an innovation in the deep.
May Allah guide all the Muslims to follow
the of the.
Next.
I mean, next question.
Assalamu
alaikum. Number 1, how do we assess that
the use of our intellect is sound?
The okay.
Okay. The use of our intellect is sound.
Okay. The intellect needs guidance also.
So the intellect has to be
guided by the
by the revelation.
So you don't follow your your intellect and
against what Allah says against the revelation.
That is not
that's not intellectual. That is not,
correct,
irrational
to go against the the the instructions of
the creator of the intellect.
That in itself
is a sign that you are,
you are not a rational person.
You are having something else. You are following
your whims and desires, and you think you
are using your rationale. No.
You're a a slave for your whims and
desires.
You follow your in that case. You're following
your
So all those atheists, atheists,
they're not rational people.
They are going they go against
the intelligence and the apple
when they deny the creator.
What apple is this?
K.
What type of
SubhanAllah?
One flogger,
he is a Muslim now. I think he's
very
active.
He sent
a a clip or an image.
Okay.
The balloon
and then the globe, the planet, the earth.
See, this one should have a designer,
but this one, no designer.
Which is more complex,
our planet or the balloon?
Then the engine of a car, it has
to have a designer.
But then the heart,
which is more complex than this engine, not
designer.
This is how the
the
the,
the mind of the atheist and this how
the the atheist think,
which it shows
I mean, this is something stupid.
This is totally irrational.
The balloon should have a designer.
The earth
with all these complexities,
no designer.
Chance. Blind chance.
The engine,
there should be an engineer who designed it.
The
half,
no designer.
What type
of intelligence is this?
So those people, they are actually following wins.
They're.
They're not using their rationale.
I hope this is clear to the questioner.
Is clear, Sheikh. We go to the next
question. And the next question is,
when we make duas, we read the Quran,
must we say
salah alan
Nabi?
Yeah. Yeah. Of course, this is from the
manners and adab of dua.
When you want to make dua,
you praise Allah. Like the Surah
You praise
Allah, then you make salah upon the and
then you say what you want to say,
and then you conclude also
with salah upon the
Yes.
These are the manners you have of dua
when we make
dua. I hope this is clear to the
questioner. Next question, please. The next question, Sheikh.
At the time of Khutba, when one loses
their wudu and does
goes to perform ablution,
should they
return to their initial spot in the masjid?
If
if possible, yes.
But if somebody sat in your place,
then you sit wherever you,
you find a place.
And, of course, you need to pray to
your heart again when you enter the Masjid
before sitting down.
I hope this is clear. Next.
The next question, Sheikh. Is it authentic that
a person with an evil
whom he does not
divorce his supplication will not be accepted?
A person who
has evil?
Yes.
Who
Who mister Singh?
No. Who he does not divorce his supplication.
Will not be accepted.
Okay. The,
from the conditions of accepting the dua
okay,
accepting the dua
is that if I want Allah to accept
my dua, I have to repent,
and they should not insist on sinning insist.
And
a Muslim
does not insist on sinning, actually. When a
Muslim
commits a sin, he commits that sin
out of weakness weakness.
Though he promised
not to do it, but then he felt
weak, and he committed that sin.
So as long as you repent and come
back to Allah
and beg forgiveness,
Allah forgets.
Allah
forgets.
But if you not persist and insist
on sinning.
K? In that case,
that's
if someone,
insists on sinning and
I make a I have in mind already
to do it again.
So you are playing with Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala sing.
K?
But if you are sincere
and
you come back to Allah,
you raise your hand. As in the hadith,
Allah
feels shy
when someone of his servant
raised his hands or her hands and to
turn them empty. All of each guy.
This is Allah
And as you know,
Allah
Allah
So
all my servants prolong themselves
extremely.
They crossed the limit.
Assafu,
extravagant,
extravagantly,
they they were committing
sins.
Do not despair
of Allah's mercy.
Allah who gives all the sins.
Allah.
He is Allah.
The most forgiving,
the most blessed.
So the room is there. The way is
there. Allah
invites you. Every night, Allah
descends
in a manner so his majesty and glory.
And he says,
Anyone wants to repent,
I will grant him repentance.
Anyone seeks forgiveness,
I will grant him forgiveness.
Anyone wants to repent, I will grant him
repentance.
Every night
every night, our
descends
and he saves these things.
And remember the Hadith of also
when he sends the
when the said to him, and he warned
him. He
warned him.
He said,
and and avoid the supplication
of the one who is round,
oppressed.
His supplication is dua will rise like a
spark,
and Allah will
raise it above the clouds.
Even if it's the dua of a Kafir
and he is oppressed,
Allah will respond.
How about the dua of a Muslim?
I hope this is clear to the
to the questioner, and may Allah
forgive us all
and keep us
remain steadfast
in the heart
and forgive us our sins. Amen.
Amen. We'll go to the next question.
Assalamu alaykum Waqtolai Wa Barakatuh Sheikhi. May Allah
reward you and preserve you. Amen.
What's the verdict on a Muslim man who
does not divorce his wife, neath neither does
he live with her? He said he did
not give her talaq,
yet they don't live together anymore since 2
years.
This is
not correct.
That's correct.
K. Either
they live together or leave each other.
But to leave her just suspended,
k,
that's not correct.
K?
So you have to decide.
You want to live with her?
And you can.
Call living.
That's what I'm fine. Otherwise,
you fill up. So
everyone will
choose his new partner.
You will get married to a woman,
and she will get married to
another man.
K? So
because this is now it is
she's neither.
Married nor divorce. That's why the Quran says,
He is suspended.
So be Allah
and don't do that.
K.
Okay? With honor,
in an honorable manner,
with kindness,
with the with evidence.
And
you release her.
Okay.
Kindly.
Is this clear to the question?
Charlotte is clear, sheriff.
Another question, sheriff.
If a person who does not pray for
whatever
reason
could be ignorant,
not knowing pressure from the environment, but claims
to be Muslim, is he or she considered
to be Muslim?
You see,
the salah is one of the pillars
the pillars of Islam.
Ishmael. It's the pillar
of Ishmael. K?
When you erect a tent
K?
So the one in the middle
that's supposed to the hole or tent.
This is the.
If you knock it, the tent will fall.
So one of the pillars of Islam is
the salah.
Allah
says
that for those who will
be thrown into the fire to Jahannam.
So before they are thrown into the fire,
the Malaika
will rebuke them.
What brought you to the hellfire?
They would say,
because we were not praying.
That's why
we
are here
in. Allah
said,
himself.
Woe to those who delay their prayers.
In the books of and
others,
they mentioned this. Woeil is
punishment
or valley in the hellfire
For those who delay their salah,
how about the one who doesn't pray at
all?
K.
K. So the covenant between us and them
is a is the, the player.
Whoever believes it, he has
disbelieved,
became.
The dividing line between Islam and
apostasy
is the salah.
So the one who doesn't pray, he's an
autonomous slave.
He's not a Muslim. He's a prophet.
So if the wife doesn't pray,
the husband has to
tell her to pray. If she refuses,
divorce her. The same thing. Husband
doesn't pray.
She should ask him to pray. He says,
no. I will not pray.
Listen. Ask for
Salah, it's not a joke.
Not a joke.
The Sahaba
unanimously
agree
upon. The one who doesn't pay
is a.
May Allah guide all the Muslims.
So this questioner, if he doesn't pray, he
has to repent, start praying immediately.
May Allah guide all the Muslims, Ameen.
Next question, please.
That was the final question of tonight's session
if you'd like to conclude.
May Allah
bless you
and bless your family and protect you and
protect your family, and may Allah
elevate your status
in this world and may
Allah
keep us to remain steadfast on this beautiful
day till we meet him and find him
pleased with all of our standing. May
Allah
forgive us for false and mistakes and ignorance,
and may Allah
unite
our
Until we
meet the coming session,
I leave you in Allah's company and protection.