Salem Al Amry – Lesson 40 Weekly Class Masail Al Jahiliyya
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Assalamu alaykum
Welcome to our weekly dose of Masai Al
Jaria
delivered by our honorable shayesha,
and
this is lesson number 14.
Without any delay, I will pass the mic
and the screen to the and begin
I mean, so you at the,
My dear brothers and sisters in Islam.
This is our weekly class,
And we are talking
about the different types of.
And in the last session,
we talked about the.
The disbelief
due to hypocrisy
or the disbelief of
hypocrisy,
like the disbelief
of
the head of the Hippocrates,
even Salud.
And we talked about the meaning of,
which means
you show something
and you hide the opposite.
And this word, nifaq,
the
etymologist,
they are saying,
it
is derived from
the idea
or the,
the whole
of that
little animal,
which the Yarbrougha
digs
into the ground
to make what itself
a safe haven.
So and,
this
animal,
as we explained, I'm just recapping,
makes many passages under the ground
in case he is trapped so he can
escape
via any one of them.
And he leaves one
passage
as an emergency
exit route for him
in case all
the
passages are blocked
so he can't come through this secret
route.
So, similarly,
the behave the hypocrites
from among the human being behaves in the
same way
like this
little creature.
So that is from
the linguistic perspective.
K?
From technical perspective or legal perspective or legal
definition,
that was the lexical one,
then in fact is that you verbalize or
you act in a manner differs from what
you hold in your heart.
So what you hold in your heart is
different
than what you exhibit and show.
So what you can see
differs from what you reveal.
And the,
they and theologians,
they
categorized
Nifaka into 2 tribes, Nifaka Ithikadi
and Nifaka Amili or Nifaka Akbar and Nifaka
Aslav.
So Nifaka Ithikadi,
this is
related to the doctrine itself, so what you
hold in your heart.
So this
the doctrinal
hypocrisy or major hypocrisy
occurs when one shows that he is a
believer when he's not.
A reality is a.
So you you show
belief and you hide the disbelief.
And this
no one knows it except Allah
because we
do not know what people hold in their
hearts,
and we treat the people as they appear
to us. And we don't doubt
what they hold in their heart because we
don't know what they have in their hearts.
But Allah
exposes them because
because of their hatred
and enmity
for the deen and for the Islam,
it's difficult for them to keep holding and
hiding everything.
So sometimes they will talk,
and their actions
will
reveal
what they hold in their hearts.
And for that reason, Allah
said
that and they are, of course, the most
dangerous
enemies for Islam are the,
the hypocrites.
This some,
peep
scholars, they call them the 5th column.
They are behind you, and they can stab
you from behind,
and they can work for the
for the enemies of Islam.
And
though they are saying that they are Muslim,
but they will be traitor,
and they will be cooperating
and collaborating
with the enemies of Islam. And when we
read history,
history
is
full of examples.
You know how
the
the Mongols
or the Tatars,
entered Baghdad
Who
bathed the way for them?
Ibn al-'Alpani.
K?
He is the one who bathed the way
for them.
He was working from inside,
helping the enemies of Islam. So
the presence of the hypocrites in our midst
is very, very dangerous.
So
we have to be very careful
and always
checking and alert
and vigilant.
So Allah
when he talks about the
and what will happen to them in the
hereafter,
he said,
because they are the worst among the kufar.
So Allah and because they are the most
dangerous ones, because they are hidden, you don't
see them.
You don't see them.
But Allah
informed his prophet
about some of them,
and that's why he dictated the names to
Hudaifah. So Hudaifah
knew
some of them.
So because of their,
dangerous,
danger and because of their,
the the damage they can cause,
Allah
punishes them in the hereafter and places them
in the bottom of the hellfire.
Surely, the the hypocrites will be in the
lowest
depths depths
the depths of the fire in the bottom
of it,
and you will never find for them helper.
So that is the first type of hypocrisy,
which called
and
this is major. It takes one out of
Islam because, basically, he's not a Muslim, actually.
He pretends to be a Muslim.
The second type of hypocrisy
is.
This hypocrisy, type of hypocrisy,
takes place and happens
due to one's actions.
The actions
are not in line
with
the what the true believer should do.
But this type of hypocrisy or the hypocrisy
of action,
it will not take one out of the
fold of Islam.
But one has to work hard
to get rid of all these
of the
the characteristics
of the these these ignoble qualities.
And this is what is mentioned in the
Hadith of the prophet,
this type of Nifa.
Abu Hurayahu
reported, Allah's Messenger said,
there are 3 signs of a hypocrite.
K?
When he speaks, he lies.
When he makes a promise, he breaks it.
And when he
when he is trusted,
he
betrays his trust.
He becomes treacherous.
So he breaks
and
betrays his trust.
This is the narration agreed upon
by
Bukhari,
a
Muslim.
Imam Muslim also added in his another
narration says,
even if he observes
past,
perform salah,
and asserts that he is a Muslim.
He claims that he is a Muslim.
So
even
so this type of nivak is very dangerous,
very dangerous,
but we cannot say if someone
lied that he became covered.
K. Because
Megan Nivak takes you out of Islam. So
how many Muslims they lie? Many.
They lie.
K.
Can you consider
this Muslim who lied to you that, he
left Islam? No. You cannot.
Yes. He's a sinner. No doubt.
That's why the prophet
he said
to the woman, there's nothing called white lies.
Okay? White lies.
Nothing called white lies.
Why fly?
K. Oh, April fool, you you lie. It's
haram. Nothing is is permissible.
That's the there are only cases.
Okay. Well, Allah
made some exceptions.
So one can lie.
Some cases.
In the battlefield,
when there is war,
so you deceive your animal, and war is
deception.
So
now it is permissible
to lie,
to deceive
your
animal your enemy.
K?
Or
to bring reconciliation
between 2 brothers or 2 sisters.
Two brothers,
they have severed the ties
between them,
so they don't talk to each other. So
you came
and try to normalize the relationship
and bring it back to its normal state.
And
you went to the first one and said,
you know, so and so,
they're really missing you, and he felt sorry
for what he did.
And he wants to
just,
come back
and open a new chapter
and forget about the past.
Really?
He he when you he he is you
saying that,
are you serious? Really? Yeah. Yeah.
Me too, really.
Yeah. Yeah. I understand too.
And you went to the and you then
you go to the other one, and you
say the same thing. And then you bring
the the 2 together.
Though you lied, but this is permissible, an
exceptional case
an exceptional case. These are exceptions
because
you you
brought them back.
Okay.
And
that
of the ties is not there anymore. So
you
reunited them, and you
reconnected
the and connected the
the the the bonds together
and brought them together.
So this is an exception,
and always
rules, they have exceptions,
but the exception is not the norm.
You have to keep it this in mind.
An exception
is not the norm.
So it's different from the norm, the norm
that you don't like.
But these are exceptions. Also,
let's say
someone is chasing someone
with his gun
to kill him.
And this man is learning.
Okay.
Because the other this the other criminal is
chasing him.
And you are sitting in front of your
home, your house.
So he begged you, please, please,
let me enter your house.
Someone is chasing me. Someone is after me
with his gun.
So you tell them, okay. Go inside. And
your remains sitting.
So the criminal
arrived.
Okay.
Did you see the man?
A man,
like, running? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He paused
long time ago.
So he can't continue running after nothing.
So you saved the life of the man
who entered your house.
This is an exception.
Oh,
this is
most of husbands they do, and most of
women wives, they do this.
Okay. So to lie to your wife or
she lies to you in the sense of
telling her, for example, oh, the food is
super
when it is not super.
Okay? The food is nice
when it is not. That's why
the prophet
has said
regarding
the food, his sunnah, that he if the
food is
good, nice, he would hate it. Otherwise, if
he didn't like it, he would keep quiet.
They would keep quiet.
So now just tell your wife,
Okay.
The meal, the food was
excellent.
So the reality is not.
But this is
this will
make her feel good.
So that means
you there's a courtesy, and you appreciate her
effort
that you put, and she spends hours in
the kitchen, etcetera.
But this doesn't mean women should not learn
cooking.
Okay?
Keep this in mind, sister. The key to
a man's has to a man's art
is through his stomach.
You want him to love you? Cook for
him good food.
Learn cooking
because nowadays,
women, they don't know how to make an
omelette,
especially the young generation.
K? Who grew up only known fast food,
and they know how to call.
K?
So
you mothers,
k,
take your daughters to the kitchen. They have
to graduate.
K.
K. Not only from the uni university,
from the kitchen.
She'd know
how to cook
because she she is going to be a
mother.
She's going to be
a mother.
So now when you
you said the food is good,
so you are praising her, but this doesn't
mean,
she can cook for you anything,
and,
she knows that you will
eat it.
Okay? And you are going to praise her.
No. Sometimes you have to correct
for the sake of learning
or to tell her,
oh,
you are the most beautiful woman.
She knows she's not the most beautiful woman.
She knows that,
but she loves to hear nice words like
that. She loves to hear this
other than telling her
how horrible you look.
You will finish her. The girl will die.
You kill her.
But even you tell her,
wow.
Yeah.
Most beautiful woman.
You make her day.
You make her day.
Women, they like to be praised. Listen to
me, brothers.
They love to hear nice words.
And keep in mind, if he loves you,
in Arabic, they say
and Arab woman tell you,
I'll give you my eyes. They I will
take them
out for you.
No. No, darling.
I don't want your eyes. K?
Okay. How can you see me? And I
want to see you.
K?
Yes. I want this.
So this is the nature of any woman.
When he loves you,
he will do whatever he want,
whatever you like,
and he will
avoid disturbing you
and
make
your life and her home
heaven on earth.
She will make it heaven on earth.
And that's why they said
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala rewarded
our mother
Khadija
with the house in the Jannah,
which is free from
noise,
any disturbance.
This house is made of
pearl,
Beautiful,
quiet,
peaceful atmosphere.
The scholars, they said,
because that's what you used to
provide for the
when he comes to his house,
to comes home.
The home is quiet,
peaceful
because she provided that
cozy atmosphere,
family atmosphere,
peaceful atmosphere.
Children are put to sleep. They are quiet.
Your dad is sleeping. No knives.
Allah rewarded
her
with a house,
palace in the Jannah,
very peaceful.
So this is an exception
to tell you why you are the most
beautiful, or she tells you,
you know, you are the most handsome man.
He pleases you,
though you are not the most hands hands
hands
handsome man.
So
the things mentioned in this hadith is the
It is a quality of nifaq
when you lie,
and it is a major sin
because it is sign of hypocrisy.
So
the Sahaba, they used to
discipline the children if someone
anyone lives.
One day, the
The prophet
saw a woman,
one of the women of the Sahaba,
telling her child, come. I'll give you something.
So the prophet
was watching.
And when he came, the child came to
his mother to his mother.
She
she gave him
a date.
The prophet
told her,
had you not given him
anything,
it would have been written against you that
you lied.
So you should not
teach children how to lie.
And many of us, they do that.
They tell the children
lying is haram,
but then this child sees you lying.
A friend of yours
calls
the this
innocent soul
child
picks up the phone, answers,
and the caller
is saying, is your dad there?
He said, yes. Hold on.
He comes to his father,
uncle so and so online.
The father tells him,
I'm not here.
The child goes,
tell
the caller,
my father
my dad is saying he's not here.
My father is saying he's not here.
So you are teaching
your child how to lie, and now you
put the child in a psychological
psychological situation, which is very painful
because now there is inner struggle,
just going inside the mind of the child.
Dad is teaching me, telling me not to
lie and heal.
Why?
Maybe it is
haram for the small ones, for children, but
not for adults. What is it?
Well, he comes to you and says, daddy,
I need,
1 dirham. I need 1 pound. I need
$1.
He's telling, son, by God, I don't have.
And he sees your wallet full of notes.
Then challenging.
He has money,
and he's saying I don't have any.
So you are teaching the child
to lie.
You should not lie. Say, you see. You
see? This is my wallet. You see? I
have money,
but I'll not give you
because you want to buy candy. Candy is
not good. Sweets are not good for you.
So that's why I'm not going to give
you.
But
don't
lie.
Don't lie.
So this item,
these are the three signs of the
this child of hypocrisy,
hypocrisy related
to
our
actions,
either had the.
So when he
talks, when he speaks, when he
he lies,
And
the prophet says in
one authentic hadith,
The meaning,
woe to him. Woe to him. Woe to
him.
He who lies to make people laugh.
So he just
lie after lie after lie, and the people
are
laughing.
So his objective,
his aim is to make the people
laugh. In the reality, he is the laughingstock,
and he is committing sins because he is
lying.
And all those comedians,
they are liars.
They lie.
And
This is another ignoble these are ignoble qualities.
These are vices,
not virtues.
K.
When he makes a promise,
he plays it.
So if you make a promise
and something happened,
stopped you from fulfilling
what you promised,
you have to mention and say,
I promise you to do this, but this
what happened to me.
This what happened.
But don't
make your promise.
Once you gave your word,
keep it.
Allah says,
To save us from falling into this
trap,
into this
and having this ignoble.
Don't say for anything, I'll do it tomorrow.
Don't say that.
Accept
if Allah wills with this.
So if it didn't happen,
you didn't fly
because you said,
and you mean it. If Allah wills it,
I will do it.
Not,
and you have all it in your mind
not to do it.
And you say,
I promise I'll do it. Don't do that.
And always
keep your promises.
For example,
you promise to come at this time,
be punctual.
Don't finish,
but
not the exact time.
Something happened to you
in the way
the car broke,
flat tire,
traffic jam,
pick the phone and call
as we're late
a bit because of traffic.
This how we
should always
behave.
Weyida, this
is another ignoble, another vice you should not
have.
And when he is trusted, you trust him,
and you give him something,
he betrays his trust.
You leave something with him and say, I'll
I'll keep this with you. I trust you.
Then you come and say, can you give
me
this project or this item? I left it
and say,
you didn't leave anything to me.
You're dreaming.
I never received anything from you.
So he he denied. He rejects.
So he betrays the Amana, the trust.
Because the Amana trust,
as the prophet
said,
the Amana
this Amana
settled in the root of the hearts of
men,
then it was lifted.
And he said towards the end of time,
you will hardly find people who are trustworthy,
hardly find.
So much so that people will be talking
to each other.
Oh, there is a man who's trustworthy
in this city, on that city, on that
town.
So they become very rare, those who are
trustworthy.
Oh, there is a one
in that
tribe or in that city or in that
town,
that state.
How about you guys? Oh, all of us
are thieves. You cannot trust us.
K?
And this what's happened.
Nowadays, it's difficult to find people who are,
mean,
trustworthy.
Difficult.
K?
Then the postul asylum added
to show the ugliness of this
sin,
and this is a threat
and warning.
Many observers
of the,
k,
may
betray their trust.
That's why
don't be surprised
of someone
that you see him fasting,
praying.
Then you give give him something,
and then he betrays you.
It can happen.
That's why
to find
good brothers,
sincere,
trustworthy
is very rare in our in our time
nowadays.
So if you have a brother
or few brothers who are really, really
trustworthy,
okay,
keep them around you.
Keep them around you.
When someone was was that a a a
Muslim?
Okay. He prays and pass, and he claims
that he's a Muslim. This doesn't mean
that he is a.
No?
But this the here
is emphasizing
upon the ugliness
of this
shameful deed,
this ignoble
quality.
Now
a question.
Nifaka,
my dear brothers and sisters,
appeared in Medina,
not in Mecca,
Appears
in Medina, not in Mecca. Why?
That's why Surat Al Baqarah is Medina.
Madaniya.
Address this issue.
Sur Makia,
the surah that
were revealed in Mecca or revealed before the
Hijra.
So the are saying,
what was revealed after Hijra is before
the Hijra is And
the main characteristics
of the Maqi Suras,
very
short and focusing
on the Tawhid, on the
Aqidah,
building the iman.
That is the
the main feature of the
Whereas the makki
matinisurals
are long longer
long and
addressing
many
issues.
Okay? Social issues,
political issues,
business.
K? Talking about,
transactions.
The Madani Sura. Talking about the salah, suyam,
jaka.
These are main features of the Madani Suras.
So Surat al Baqarah is Madaniya.
K?
And this
disease,
nifa,
appeared in Medina
because in Mecca, there was no need. Because
remember,
what is nifa?
You pretend to be a Muslim,
and you hide your disbelief
because you are afraid.
In Mecca,
there was no need for that
because the Muslims, they were weak.
They were weak,
oppressed,
persecuted,
mistreated.
So the upper hand in Mecca
was for the disbelievers.
They were doing whatever
they wanted.
Killing
the Muslims. They could
Sumaya. They could
yasser,
k, with torturing Bilal.
So they were not afraid of anyone,
because the Muslims,
they were weak.
And the law told the Muslims in Mecca,
hold back your hands.
Do not retaliate.
Do not,
do any
violent
acts.
No violence in Mecca.
Hold back your hands.
To fight you,
and the wisdom is clear.
There were minorities
weak.
If they
tried
to revolt
in Mecca.
They were weak.
Few in number.
So immediately, they will be wiped out.
There will be a massacre,
and police will not leave anyone.
And keep in mind that the early Muslims,
they were the slaves,
the poor,
the needy, the destitute.
That's why Heraclius
Heraclius asked Abu Hurai, Abu Sufyan.
Who are his followers? He said,
the slaves,
the
poor, the needy,
said that is always the case.
The followers of all prophets will be the
slaves,
the downtrodden,
the weak,
the oppressed.
Why?
Because
they feel
that this message is the message of the
truth.
K?
This is
the message that resonates with our nature.
Teaching all the people the same.
No difference between black and white and
rich and poor. All we are all the
same.
All the same.
All of you belong to Adam. You are
from Adam, descendants of Adam,
and Adam is created from the Earth.
So that's why, immediately,
the the the slaves, the
poor, the needy, they
responded
and accepted
the message
and became Muslims.
Who opposed and resisted?
Always
read the history, the elite,
the upper
class.
The enemies of all the province are the
elite
elite.
Why?
Because they feel now there is a threat.
This message or this messenger is a threat
to them.
Before,
they were
the masters,
and they have slaves.
They treat them
like animals.
They kill whomever they want to kill.
And now someone is
taking, pulling,
dragging
that carpet from
underneath them.
So that prestige
and that
influence will not be there.
You,
Abbasid Fyan,
head of Quraish,
master of Quraish,
you and Bilal,
the same.
Same. No difference.
When
Yavala
or Abinul Adham or,
yeah, I think Gabala.
He he was one of the the,
I would say,
the Amirs
or
the princes
or the rulers of Hassan
Hassan because
the Arabs,
there were 2 superpowers,
the Persians,
Thales,
and the Romans,
And they have allies from among the Arabs,
the Sassina,
Lasanis,
and Sham,
Arab tribes.
Arab types.
So they were loyal to the Romans,
and whatever the Romans tell them, they do.
So if the Romans, they want to discipline
any other Arab,
an Arab tribe,
they would send
their cousins,
their sons, to discipline them.
The same thing, the Persians, they had the
Menadira
and Menadira.
So they want
anything
to do to the rest of the tribes,
they will ask
Al Mundir
bin Ma'i Salam,
their
governor and their
agent
working for them.
So
came
and became a Muslim
during the reign of Sayidina Umar ibn Khastad.
Then he was performing Umrah
and making tawaf around the house.
And then a Muslim and, of course, he
was, you know,
an emir.
Okay?
Ruler.
So he was dragging
his his,
his robe.
K, the cloak.
And so a poor Muslim stepped
over
his
robe, which he was dragging.
So he looked back, and he slapped
this poor Muslim
on his face.
The Muslim went and
complained
to say.
Saidna Omar al Khasab, he said, okay.
Where is him? Jabala.
Okay. Slap him.
He should be he should slap you.
Why could you slap him on his face?
So
Yabala
decided
to run away,
and he left Islam.
So he went back to his people and
died as Christian.
So
the nifa
was not there in Mecca
because the Muslims were very poor, and the
Allah told them,
yes.
Be patient.
Later on, you will have the upper hand.
Later on in Medina,
SubhanAllah.
Sayna see the the justice
the of Sayna Omar. He would not treat
the early Muslims like those who came later.
He keeps that in mind
because they
sacrifice,
and they went and they suffered.
So people, when they go and want to
share,
he will deceive them.
But there is priority.
So the early Muslims,
they will be giving
okay.
He will receive them first.
And those heads of Quran,
okay, Muslim Reika,
He will receive them after
the
the most those who become Muslims before them,
those who were tortured by them.
K?
But in Mecca, Allah told them,
be patient. Later on,
you will have the upper hand
in Medina.
That's why if
you study,
you see
what how the prophet
behaved in Mecca and how he behaved in
Medina.
Not the same at all.
In Mecca?
Hold your hands.
Don't retaliate.
Don't react. No violence. No violence.
The
he was
strangled.
Pain, and then there is there was a
a a scarf
around the neck of the,
and he pulled it
till the scarf made marks
on the neck of the
The kept quiet.
He could have told Omar al
the of Aqaba,
or he could have
told his cousin Ali.
No.
Yes.
Ali will be protected by his tribe, by
his clan, Omar by his clan, but
Quraish,
they will go and kill
Bilal,
Suhaib,
Ammar,
those who are
have no one to defend them,
those who are helpless.
The prophet
was always thinking
about the consequences,
and this what we lack nowadays.
We lack
division,
thinking of what will happen.
The enemy of Islam, they throw the bait
for us,
and we swallow
it.
You know, when you go fishing,
you put in the
in the hook,
the bait, and then you throw the lion,
fishing lion into the water.
The full fish
comes and
eats the bait. The hook
gets stuck in the new pullet.
Many times, the Muslims swallowed the bait,
and they keep repeating it. They don't learn,
and they don't deduce lessons.
The prophet said,
The 2 believers should not be bitten from
the same snare, from the same hole,
by the same
reptile
Twice.
We are bitten many times, and we keep
putting
our hands in the same hole, and we
keep repeating the same mistakes.
Same mistake.
Base is strong. You swallow it.
The youth,
100 and 100 of Muslim youth
were butchered
because they swallowed the bait.
Someone brainwashed them.
And they are naive. Yes. Naive.
Innocent.
They don't know what is going behind bars.
So they love Islam. They want to
defend Islam,
the youth,
but they're naive.
And someone plain wash them, and someone fooled
them.
The * is going on again and again
and again and again.
The prophet
is like
that.
The prophet,
he thinks
of the consequences.
Remember,
when the son of the head of the
Hippocrates came to the prophet of Allah,
and said, oh prophet of Allah,
if you
have the intention to kill my father, let
me
do it.
He said,
no. Be kind to him. Be nice to
your dad,
to father.
What do you want the people to say?
Mohammed
kills
his followers,
his companions.
He knows what the
the machin of the propaganda
will do. He knows that.
If he kills the head of the hypocrites,
the rumors will go all over
Arabia,
to Algeria.
So the other tribes who are thinking of
becoming Muslim will not become Muslim
because the
the,
the,
those who like to spread rumors
would tell them,
where are you going? Mohammed killed his his
followers.
So because of that, he said, no.
Take take care of your father.
So here, the the
the ruqba, he did that to the prophet.
He pulled this calf against
the the throat, the neck of the prophet.
Abu Bakr was beaten
until
he was breathing
in Mecca.
So he could not see his face because
all his face is covered with blood.
Be patient.
No retaliation
because
there will be backlashes,
evil consequences.
I have to be patient.
Because they were
weak
and and what I they had the upper
hand.
So the only thing
the pastor are telling, he would pass by
the,
Amma, Yasir, and Sumayya, and he he couldn't
do anything for them. He could only say
All family of Yasir, be patient.
Okay. Allah will meet in the Jannah.
Yeah.
Our appointments,
our meeting will be in the Jannah.
That's it.
And
when
the
punishing and the torturing
intensified,
he
thought of
he sent his some of his companions to
Abyssinia
because he knew
there is a king who's
just so they will be safe there.
But see now
so we when we study the seerah,
it's very essential
for every Muslim
to study the seerah of the prophet
because the seerah
is the practical manifestations
of the deen,
the practical aspect of it.
The seerah.
How the prophet
embellished
this deen
and put it into practice.
Read
this. How he behaved when he was in
Makkah?
Hold your hands.
Only read the Quran
and
strike
or strive with it, the Quran, by reading
it to them. That to the. That's it.
Nothing more than that.
But now
the Muslims migrated to Medina,
and they built a state,
and now they have the strength.
They have the power.
The picture is totally different.
In Mecca,
he
chokes the prophet
shangal
him, tied and pulled the scarf against
the throat of the prophet.
Now the battle of battle happened.
See. Just see the 2 pictures,
the 2 chances.
And Quraysh was defeated in the battle of
battle.
Raqb ibn Abi Mu'ayb
was brought as a captive, as a prisoner
of war.
The moment
the moment the
prophet saw
him, he said,
strike his neck.
Cut off his throat,
kill him.
In Mecca, which
passed by him
day and night, nothing.
Now
kill
him.
Chop off his head.
Is it the same? No. But now
Muslim have the upper hand.
And Makkah, the Kufar have the upper hand.
The problem with many of us
nowadays,
we behave
as if we have the upper hand.
When
our is in this state
state of weakness,
division
among ourselves,
and we are flexing muscles.
Come on.
Be wise.
Be wise.
Rav Hashir Khaldani
gave this example.
He said,
the situation of the Muslim in
the
as is,
we are in this
we are
divided,
busy with each other, fighting each other.
Our strength
has our wound has left us.
He said,
yet
we think we are
powerful. We are strong. We have the other
hand,
and this this shows
foolishness
and naivety.
He said the only parable I can think
of or,
gift is like
a patient
in the hospital,
sick person
admitted in
hospital, threatening his doctor.
The doctor who gives him the medicine and
treats him.
The patient,
this sick person
is threatening the doctor
and telling the doctor, just let me recover.
I will show you.
I will show you.
What do you think of this patient?
Wise or stupid?
Very stupid. Idiot.
You can't
raise your hand.
You can't.
You can't leave your bed,
and you are threatening the doctor.
He can give you lethal injection and an
issue.
Keep quiet,
doctor, and just
smile.
Thank you, doctor.
You're a kind hearted doctor.
I don't know how to
thank you.
I really appreciate
what you do for me.
And what you have in your heart, keep
it in your heart.
So here,
the sheriff said it's like this
fool
foolish
patient
threatening his doctor
or
like someone
who put you down
on the on the ground,
and he's checking placing his
knee on your neck, and you are under
him.
And he is saying and you are saying,
just let me get up. I'll show you.
You're already down, and you are saying, let
me get up. I'll show you.
Shut
up.
K? He will not let you get up.
K? He will keep pressing until you lose
breath and die.
This is
the
the
situation.
She's very pathetic.
We have to learn
from our deen.
We have to wake up.
We we want we should learn
from the of our prophet
The prophet
now, he has the upper hand the moment
he saw.
Aqib Abin Abi Mu'ath, they said
cut off his throat.
He said, yeah, Muhammad,
I have children. He said, let them go
to *.
I don't care.
K.
So
then
the appears
in
Medina, not in Mecca. Because
in Medina,
now the Muslims
have the upper hand,
and there are known,
nonmuscleants.
So now
the are
in between. Remember,
the bat
have *
when it comes to the
mammals. I'm a mammal.
I have wings when it comes to the
birds.
K? And this topic needs more elaboration,
so we'll pause here.
Increase our knowledge in the deen,
and may Allah
keep us remain
steadfast on this beautiful deen till we meet
Allah and find him pleased with all of
us.
May Allah forgive us all faults and mistakes
and ignorance.
And may Allah
unite our hearts on the hub, unite our
and bring us together.
I mean, and may Allah
bless us with the beneficially.
And
may Allah
reward all of you, my dear brothers and
sisters,
immensely for your patience and attendance.
For the beneficial
knowledge that imparts to us all. With sheikh's
permission,
we'll begin the question and answer session.
Go ahead.
Okay. The first question is to, is dealing
with what was in the class today.
So
dear honorable
for a very comprehensive
lesson.
Please can you elaborate
if riyah,
showing off, can be considered
also as a form of nifaq
and how to fight it when the ria
happens
during an act of Ibadan.
Yes. The,
showing off
or ria a ria.
It is.
Actually, it is a form of shirk.
It is the hidden shirk.
Because as you know, the shirk is
the major shirk,
shirk aqaba,
minor shirk, shirk as well, and shirk conkhafi,
this inconspicuous
shirk.
So the showing up falls under
this 3rd category.
So one has to work hard on
purifying
his heart and her heart
from the,
because it's just so subtle,
the showing off.
And it has many
share shapes and many
forms, types.
You don't feel it.
That's why in the narration, it creeps in.
K? Sneeze into your heart
without feeling it. It is so subtle.
K. Just
as subtle as
the movement of a little ant or of
an ant
moving,
you don't feel
the movement of the ant on a smooth
rock at night.
So
the showing off can creep into and penetrate
your heart
without feeling.
Well, that's why
the Sahaba, when they heard this,
the Sayna Abu Bakr fell on his knees,
and he said, oh, prophet of all, Pashad,
what should we do?
He said
he told them the dua.
Oh, Allah,
I
seek
your
protection,
k, from associating
with you anything
while knowing knowingly.
And they seek your protection
to save me from associating
anything
with you unknowingly
without knowing
that.
So this drama, my dear brothers and sisters,
memorize it
and keep saying it in your sujood always.
So
the
the
the working on Danas
and the purification of Danas and struggling and
striving against the ria
is our battle
our battle.
Because sometimes you might do something. You you
think you are doing it for the sake
of Allah,
but the hidden
motives behind,
oh,
I want to become celebrity.
So become,
oh, sheikh so and so.
You want so the people, they when they
are coming, oh oh,
he's coming. He's coming. Make way for the
Sheikh. Where where is the Sheikh? And you
have bodyguards and all that stuff.
You don't know that these things, they ruin
you. They ruin you.
A
man would come to the study circle of
the prophet and
he could not
could not see a man who's
I mean, he was expecting someone who's sitting
on a big chair.
So he would say,
are you called Mohammed? Which one of you
is Mohammed?
Who's this thing with his companions?
Humble,
Humble.
K?
Be humble,
especially the dua, the callers.
Down to earth, brothers. Down to earth.
Be humble.
K.
Otherwise,
if you your head grows,
it's a big problem.
Okay? Don't be deceived by the number of
followers
of
Believe me. If something happened to you,
they vanish. They,
they evaporate,
and no one will be there.
It's the reality.
It's the reality. It's the fact.
So that's why we need to work
on our hearts.
And when we do something, we do it
for the sake of Allah.
Said something very important.
And many, they don't know
this side of Sheikh Islam Ibn Taymiyyah. Many,
they know.
Oblutania
is
he is the one,
the barrier
in front of all people of deviation.
He's the fighter.
K?
He fought all people of deviation,
Muslims and non Muslims. That is true.
But what do you know about the heart
of Eventamia,
about the Ibadah of Eventemia,
about the humility of Eventemia?
What do you know?
Many of us, we don't know.
So he said to Rahimahullah,
this is
He used to sit down in the zikr
after Fajr in the Masjid
until
almost it is noon. He's sitting in that
sitting,
that place in his place,
And he would say,
This is my sustenance.
This is my meal.
If I don't get it, I will die.
I will die.
So no wonder he said,
in the genetify surgery
in the in the
in the
May
Allah
has mercy upon the soul of.
I
mean, he said,
my jannah is here with me
beside my chest.
Which yanna is talking about?
This serenity,
peace of mind,
this yakin,
this trust in Allah.
That is the yena he's talking about.
Yakin.
Yakin of.
There was a deviant sect,
Shuvi,
Oda,
called
from
Rafi'i or, Rifa'i.
And they used to call tell the people
we entered the fire, and the fire will
not burn us.
And it was true,
but they put chemicals, and and they
apply to their bodies. So the fire
triangle will not be completed
because the oxygen is isolated.
And today, we know there are many suits,
the firemen, they wear, and they enter, and
the fire will not,
burn them.
So I've been told them, I have no
problem. I will enter the fire with you,
and it will not burn me. Burn me.
Allah will save me.
And he went to the Amir. I said,
call them. I I'm telling them.
And the Amir called them and
and called the sheikh, and they are sitting.
He said, I will enter the fire with
them, and it will never it will not
burn me, but in the condition.
Ask them to go and take a shower,
and their bodies should be
rubbed and scrubbed
with vinegar
to remove the chemical to dissolve the chemicals
and to wear
normal clothes,
and then we'll enter. So he discovered
the secret.
Their secret.
So their
their head said,
oh, let us go and bring, collect wood.
He wants to run away. Even Taimir, he
felt he realized that. He said, oh, Amir,
collecting the the wood will take time.
This land in front of you,
k, the the flame.
Yes. The flame is enough.
Mister Miller, I put my finger,
ask him to put his finger.
And their head said,
I will not do it. So you see
how they cheat and deceive the people.
So he said, in the January, if you
suddenly, my January is
in my heart.
Wherever I go, it is with me.
If
you tell me, I'm a martyr.
If you imprison me,
oh, I have privacy and privacy with my
lord.
And if you deport me and
exile me, oh, I am
traveling in a lush land. A person who
did that, what can you do to him?
Nothing.
Nothing. Nothing.
So we need to work
in our hearts.
So we do things
for the
sake
of
Allah
So he said,
everything.
You will never reach the status and the
level
of the re the the righteous, the.
If you want,
and and
If you want to reach that level
of the righteous,
you will only reach
it when two conditions
happen.
When the 2, whoever praises you
is equal to the one who criticizes
you and displaces you. It doesn't harm you.
Someone comes and say, oh,
Raising you.
Keep quiet. I know myself.
No need. No need. No need. No need
to
praise me. I know myself.
So those who
always say,
say this or this, it's the same. I
don't care.
K? He knows. He knows. That's
it. That's enough for me.
The one who criticize you is like the
one who praises you.
So this requires
a class.
Class.
Sincerity.
We always like those who are saying, oh,
no.
No.
Especially, I'm talking to the brothers of our
own sisters in the Dawa.
Surround yourself with good brothers and sisters who
are sincere,
who will be your mirrors.
So after your talk, after your lecture,
you
ask them.
So they will not
give you
the
cozy pictures
to tell you.
You did this. You shouldn't have said that.
K?
You quoted this, which is wrong.
You
so
they help you. They build you. They
so they you are they make you to
develop and progress.
Those are the the ones you should have
around you,
not the ones who are saying, oh, yeah.
Perfect.
Super. The Arabs, they say.
The Arabs, the same.
Your real friend
is not the is the one who is
honest with you
and tells you the truth,
Not the one who believes you, what believes
whatever you say. No. That is not your
friend. Whoever accept whatever you say. No.
Your real friend is the one who will
tell you and will be honest
and will call a spade a spade. That
is your real friend.
That is your real friend.
And that is what you should have and
surround you with such brothers and sisters.
And the the believer is the mirror of
his brother. Mirror.
What do you see in the mirror?
Your reality.
The mirror will not chase you.
It will tell you exactly how you look.
So your real brother is the one who
will come and give you,
sincere
advice.
Now having said this, the
is very dangerous,
and it's