Salem Al Amry – Lesson 52 Weekly Class The Three Fundamental Principles
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I'm ready. Let's
start.
Brothers and sisters,
and welcome to our 52nd
lesson of.
The 3 fundamental principles
delivered by our sheikh, Sheikh Salim Al Amri.
I will pass the mic and the screen
to the sheikh, and the sheikh can begin
in.
Today is our weekly class.
3 fundamentals.
This beautiful book by the sheikh and imam
and.
And we reach the
client with the also mentioned
Al Ihsan.
The
3rd rank
or level,
which is mentioned in the Hadith of Ibrahim
Al Ihsan,
Because that's this is the highest
rank,
and that is to worship Allah
as if you are seeing him. Though you
are not seeing him, he sees you.
And this is the
the station and the every
believer,
every Muslim
should strive
to reach
to reach that level,
the level of Alaihi Hassan.
So we'll continue, Insha'Allah, elaborating on this beautiful
level of
of the deen which is Alisha.
And,
here I have with me,
a politic verse.
Two lines actually. Two politic verses
mentioned and said by the Sheikh
Haavat Haqqani
where he says
talking about the the pillar of Adeccal.
He's saying,
The meaning
he said
the 3rd rank is the rank of Al
Hassan.
So the 3rd rank
mentioned the Hadith of Jibreel
is the Mastaba
and the
the degree of Al Essam.
The fashion,
worship with Allah,
okay, to the best of your ability.
The third rank is the rank
of.
So this decree of
So the level of is
the highest
with the merciful
in the sight of the merciful in the
sight of Allah as zawajal.
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
he wants us to reach that station,
to reach that level.
Then he here, the Sheikh by the
way, Haqqani,
many of you, they don't know.
Okay. He's one of the scholars of al
Sunnah who passed away when he's still young,
and he wrote many, many books on the.
Is
one of them,
and
he
reported
or
he,
mentioned the belief of Alexander with Gamache,
okay, and plays it
public,
in the public form in one
poem.
K? So there are many books
in the as
well. And he passed when he was very
young.
So now he explains
what is this.
What's the meaning of it? He said,
So the
Islam
The meaning
that the sign is
it is the firmness of the heart
in knowing Allah.
You have this firmness.
The heart is so firm
and so knowledgeable
about its creator.
And so the unseen becomes like the seen.
And so the
the unseen
becomes like these things that you can see
with your own eye
vividly.
I mentioned in the last session, the Sahaba
told the prophet Sahaba.
When you talk to us about heaven
and *,
we feel that we are seeing it with
our own eyes
because they reached that level.
So they stand, my dear brothers and sisters,
When this
heart
is deeply rooted
in knowing its creator,
knowing Allah as the will tell. The problem,
my dear brothers and sister,
we sin and we disobey Allah because we
haven't.
But the knowledge,
the sufficient knowledge,
which will make us refrain
from disobeying him as the original,
the knowledge that will make us
realize
and see his greatness, his agama, his majesties.
So because of our ignorance, because of our
jahl.
So that's why they called the pious people,
the righteous people, those who fear Allah, al
Arifoon.
Those who know the Haram.
Those who know Allah,
those who fear Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
and they see
his signs all over.
They see his majesty and glory
and greatness
all over in
everything. Everything there is a sign
invites you to tell
you a sign denotes and indicates
the greatness
of
Allah.
Those are the those are the knowledgeable
Oh, lord.
Oh,
lord. You did not create this creation
in vain.
There must be a purpose.
Subhanallah, glory be to you.
Oh, Allah,
save us from the fire
because they want that.
That's why they fear Allah.
Whereas the ignorant,
they don't know.
So the shepherds fools them fools them easily
and fools their legs
and draws them
to symphonies
and beautify the haram for them
and tempts them
easily.
So this is the.
The heart.
The heart
is firmly
rooted,
well
established.
The heart is full of
iman, full of knowledge.
So
it is, firm.
No doubt it shakes it,
and no shaquah
tempts
it. Remember, my dear brothers and sisters, what
the mentioned,
that
the has only 2 techniques
he uses
to mislead
the son of Adam,
to mislead us.
First
technique and way
to
heart, doubts.
It tries to plant the seeds of doubts
into our hearts.
The remedy for this,
the
end knowledge.
By the end,
by knowing the deen,
by studying your deen, knowing Islam,
by studying the and
the sunnah,
you will be then and only then, you'll
be able
to
compact
and resist and confront
such doubts
which are raised
from time to time by the shifa.
So that is one approach
he follows.
The second way and the second technique he
uses
is the
desires,
the.
So and. Desires.
The pleasures of the flesh.
That's it.
So he
tried to
invite you
to tempt you
so that you
commit
harm. You commit sin. You commit these things
which you think
they are
valuable and
will make you feel happy.
When the reality,
the sin
will not make you happy.
Maybe, mom actually, you will feel okay.
You enjoyed that. That's why the the said,
the
sin.
The sin when you are
thinking of committing the sin,
the only thing you think of is the
sweetness,
the pleasure of it.
So
say
you only think of the sweetness of it.
Oh, and don't have this time.
The bitterness
of this sin comes after.
When you finish sinning,
you start hating yourself.
The guilt starts to eat you.
You start to feel guilty,
horrible,
bad about yourself.
And this bitterness
will remain there in your heart until you
enter your grave.
It will be always there.
So say
So this bitterness
comes after.
So now
you are
striving and working hard, and
you repented sincerely.
But when you feel and you remember that
sin,
you feel the pinch effect.
And you raise your hand and say, oh,
Allah, forgive me.
Oh, Allah, forgive me.
So that is the sin, the of this
sin.
So if it is this painful, the outcome
of it, and the aftermath is this painful,
why do we do it?
Because the sweetness
comes first,
and we are ignorant.
So we think only about that momentary
that moment
and the sweetness that we are going to
feel.
You don't think of the consequences.
One of the said,
if we bring a womanizer
a womanizer, a man who's crazy about women,
And we tell him,
you see this lady,
most beautiful one,
have fun.
Enjoy yourself.
Look.
But before you go,
have a look here.
Have a look.
When you finish,
you will go there.
And we show him an
incinerator
incinerator.
And we showed him
how hot the incinerator is.
It is glowing.
Right?
So when you finish,
we'll go there.
Now
what do you think?
Will this
womanizer
accept the offer
or turn it and reject it?
He will never accept it.
You know why?
Because now
he's seeing the 2 pictures.
The contrast remember the contrast we said?
What they do? You have to have a
rationale. They do.
The opposite shows the beauty of the opposite.
Now
he's seeing the the incinerator
and that lady.
So now he started to rationalize,
to think,
to weigh things.
How long am I going to stay there?
One day, 2 day, few hours, and then
I will be burnt.
I I will not accept it.
So why do we sin? The problem with
sin,
we don't remember the incinerator.
We don't think of the hellfire, which is
far,
far worse,
much hotter
than the incinerator.
We don't think of that.
At that moment, we don't see anything.
You only think, oh, I'm going to see
have your day and have a date.
Have a date?
That's it.
You're only thinking about that.
That's why the sin,
the sweetness
comes first.
The sweetness.
The bitterness,
delay, postpone.
Whereas,
the hasanah
doing righteous deed, doing
good deed
to obey Allah, obedience,
the bitterness comes along with it.
The bitterness.
The morale.
The
you feel it is
burdensome.
You feel it is
heavy on you.
As Allah said regarding the salah.
That this salah
is light upon those who have for sure.
If you don't have for sure, it is
heavy.
It is heavy. They feel
they feel like it's heavy in them,
except those who have.
Those who have,
they they enjoy the salah.
They enjoy the salah.
And
Al Alifoun,
the scholars
who know about the and
especially those who focus on the issues of
the heart, they say
the salah.
If you want to enjoy it,
prolong it.
The longer you make the salah, the more
you enjoy it,
and the lighter it will become.
The lighter
the salah will become on you
because you have for sure.
And the you
try to make the prayer,
the heavier you it becomes on you.
Even if it is just you finish it
quickly and you
hack like the the crow,
you don't even place your forehead
on the ground. Still, you will feel it
is heavy.
So this is the
the the
when you do good deed, what comes first?
The bitterness.
But you resist.
Now it is the time
for the salah.
It is for the.
Tries to put you down.
Yeah.
You're going to sleep
so that you miss your salah.
So now you have to resist.
So there is bitterness.
There is a struggle with the.
So if you manage
to overcome your and
and
and
and
and you play,
what do you feel after the salah?
Oh, sweetness,
lightness,
serenity,
the rightfulness.
So the sweetness comes at you.
Before you
pray,
I I sleep a little bit.
So that's what you feel.
You have this you taste the bitterness of
struggle.
So for the for the obedience,
for, doing the righteous deed.
And the sweetness
comes follow it follows.
It follows.
For
example,
When
you are playing the charah, we're behind the
imam.
And the imam,
was reading at least 1 juzu.
And
he'd brought and
then you started oh, feeling your knees cannot
hold you,
and your feet are aching.
So this is what you feel,
but you resist
and you focus.
Then
you play the tara'i, Hudaima.
He concluded,
ended the.
What do you feel?
Oh, happy.
You feel the sweetness.
So the sweetness comes after
the bitterness.
The sweetness of
entering
the jannah, that the enjoying the jannah, that
sweetness,
that internal happiness
will come only after we taste
the bitterness in this
in this dunya. That's why we are in
prison. That's why the dunya
is our prison.
The moment our soul
by Allah's place,
Come out from this body.
Oh, that is the real freedom.
That's the real freedom because
the souls
are liberated
now.
The shackles are removed.
Now
you are flying in the jannah and enjoying
the blessings of the jannah.
So the sweetness will come after
we taste the bitterness in this world,
in the dunya.
Keep this in mind, my dear brothers and
sisters.
If you want to have sweetness, to taste
the sweetness,
Only by
sin. The sin, the sweetness comes first, and
then bitterness to follow, and that bitterness will
remain with you.
But you have to have sweetness
Do it. Obey. So the my dear brothers
and sisters, either he comes through the doubts
to mislead us,
and the cure and the remedy
is the aim
to study,
to know your deed,
to worship Allah
upon
Basirah,
Clear vision.
Knowledge.
So that is the remedy.
Shaitan?
It's difficult for him to approach the scholars.
To make a scholar
fall into the trap is not easy for
the shaytan.
Well, as they mentioned
in the books,
and,
that one man saw
the shifa
had vision,
dream. So he saw the sheifan in the
dream.
He saw him carrying
having 3 bundles
of robes,
3 types of robes,
very long one,
medium, and short.
So he asked him,
what are these
ropes for?
Said the long one
is for the
scholars.
I form I think they call it noose
or something like that.
A link
and with this rope, so then I can
pull it. And I throw it around this
collar and
start
shortening and reducing that circle
little by little
until I
pull him into my trap. So it's not
easy for me
to fool
and to
make a scholar fall into the
and the mire
of.
It needs a lot of effort.
And the medium lobes,
for
for decisions of knowledge.
The short ones,
very easy to me. I just throw it,
and they swallow the bait immediately, and they
poke them. Women.
Women is very easy for me
to fool them.
This is a fact,
my dear sister.
Okay? A devil will come to you. Wow.
Human devil will come to you. Wow. You
are cute.
You are gorgeous.
You look beautiful.
You got nice hair and nice
blouse and where did he take it?
So just by few words,
you started to thaw like a butter.
He's playing with your feelings.
Oh, thank you.
You don't know what this
hungry wolf was. You don't know.
So that's why my dear sister, be careful
of men.
Men
are hungry wolves.
Stay away from them.
Don't mix with
men. Never.
And no wonder the prophet said,
the best throws of the women
are the last throws.
And the worst throws of the women,
the first one because they will be very
close to men.
So the father
away from men, the better for you.
The better for you.
As in your Habaniyah
Yeah. Which is very true.
Men who are staring at women like dogs,
hungry dogs,
looking at
meat,
at the pieces of meat,
just
waiting for the child to *
piece of it and run away.
So if you say that the short lobes
are for the woman, very true.
But if you find it's very easy,
and this was what they do. His agents
his
agents. K? This how they they bully you.
They bully your legs. This how they they
bully you.
So the fashion
fashion industry.
Okay?
This how you should look. This how you
should dress.
This is the fashion for this season.
You show this part of your body.
Next
season,
another part of your body you show.
So they're very good with your body.
You you show this part, you show this
part.
K?
You cover.
This is the fashion, moxie.
Shorten, micro, meaning.
Okay. This is how they play.
Short
ropes.
Oh, we'll make you a star.
We'll make you a model.
You have the potential. Really, you have the
potential. You know?
That nice figure,
good body.
Don't make you a model,
and they fool you. We'll make you a
star.
You don't know
that they treat you like the milking cow
because they know
they will make a lot of money, and
later on, they will say, sorry now.
You are not attractive anymore. You are getting
old,
etcetera.
So for the to say, I'm using
the short tropes. It is a fact.
It is a fact.
So this is how the hitan plays.
K. Either through the the
shubuhat
and the remedies day
or the shahawat,
desires and wins.
So here, shihabu Hakkabe
talking about the Ihsan.
So
when
the Ihsan is when this this
heart
is full
of understanding
about the
knowing
the
And you know, my dear brothers and sisters,
I recommend
that you read
the books
of Sheikh Islam.
He talks
about these issues.
So read his books,
and I think most of them are translated
into English.
Read.
And what will actually build the knowledge
in our hearts about Allah
is to study
his names,
to study the names of Allah
understand
them,
study the attributes, his attribute, divine attributes
and the impact
of such
names
on our hearts,
in our belief.
Until,
the unseen
becomes a replica exactly
like the sea, as if you have seen
it. As if you have seen
One of the
said, when I start my salah,
I imagine the shirat in front of me,
shirat,
and
beneath
it,
and they have to crush.
If you are visualizing
in front of you and the on it,
and you have to cross,
This will help you to focus in your
salah,
and Allah is facing you.
So this will help you to develop the
What is hidden now,
we don't see it.
Like, the things that we have seen with
our own with our own eye,
our own eye.
So their son, my dear brothers and sister,
really, is the highest
highest
rank
of the.
And those
who will occupy and reach that station
of those,
the and
those
who roll up their sleeves.
Roll
up their sleeves
in doing
righteous deeds.
Tomorrow.
And the day after is.
So fast.
Fast.
So you don't miss this chance.
Sins accumulated
1 year are washed away.
And you know that every day we are
accumulating.
Every day we are
piling up and making
sense.
So those
who
will reach that are those who
are very serious.
They don't waste time.
They know their destination.
They have the clarity.
They have the vision.
They know where they are heading to.
So this 5
3
so you want to they
save and spend no effort.
They observe
every effort
to reach
that station.
And the Allah
mentioned al Ihsan
in many,
many places
in his book.
He says
in Surat Al Maid.
There's no blame on those who believe and
do good for what they have consumed
before the prohibition.
As long as they fear Allah,
have faith,
and do what is good,
then they believe
and act virtuously,
then become fully mindful of
Allah. They reach the cessation of and
do righteous
deeds for Allah loves the
good doers.
Allah loves those who are merciful,
those who do good deeds.
So here,
Allah
is telling us
There's no blame on those who believe and
do
good for what they consumed before.
And the scholars
in the books of,
they mentioned the reason
Because
those Muslims
who died
before Allah prohibited alcohol,
So the Sahaba, they asked, how about our
brothers who died while they have alcohol in
their tummies?
Revealed.
There's no blame in those who believe
and do good for what they have consumed
before
the Habishim.
As long as they fear Allah,
have faith,
and do what is good.
So
they died
before the prohibition of alcohol
so they will not be questioned and they
will not be held accountable.
Then they believe and act after that
virtuously,
Then become fully mindful of Allah.
Also Allah says,
aya 128.
Allah
is with those
evil and do good
deeds.
128.
So Allah is with them.
So
you are
with Allah
You enjoy.
You enjoy
in your enjoy the witness of Allah,
the of Allah,
this witness.
Allah is with those who fear Allah,
those who have
taqwa.
And those who are Muslim,
those who do good things.
As for those who believe
and do good,
We certainly never deny the reward of those
who are
best indeed.
So
because the ihsan is to excel, to do
things in a perfect manner.
So a Muslim
should be perfect
to the best
of his ability,
which means
you should ask yourself, can I make it
better?
Can I make it better?
So
So
I was saying, we certainly
never demand that you're one of those who
are best
indeed,
who exhaust all
their efforts
to excel, to make things perfect.
As for those who struggle in our cause,
we will surely
guide them along our way
and the last certainly with the good doers.
So let us reflect, my dear brothers and
sisters.
What
is those who
exert the.
What
does
jihad?
The effort.
So you put some effort.
So those who struggle.
That means for our cause,
in our cause,
for the sake of Allah,
to please Allah
in carrying out their religious commitments.
So what will happen to them? I will
say,
This is.
So for surety,
most certainly,
we
will guide them. We will surely guide
them. Our way.
The ways
of.
Allah will
give you to to do all types of
good.
You fast. You play. You give zakat. You
give charity.
You,
sponsor an orphan. You
dig a well. You build a masjid.
All these ways Allah opens for you.
All these ways
of doing good things.
Allah guides you to them.
You do here. You do here. You do
here. You do here.
As the
one day in the after the salah, he
asked in the early morning.
Who's fasting today, Abu Bakr?
Who witnessed an
Janaza,
Abu Bakr.
Who did everything
Abu Bakr already raised in his mouth?
SubhanAllah.
SubhanAllah.
SubhanAllah.
When one day, the prophet
is talking
about
the the gates of the jannah.
So there are 8 gates.
One gate is called for
for those who the observers of fast.
Those so different dates.
So everyone will be called.
If one is doing is most of the
time fasting, you will be called from this
gate. Come.
Said Nahuwabaka said, will there be anyone
that all the gates are calling
him?
All the gates.
Because he
did this and that and that, all these
good deeds. So all the gates are telling
the Malaika calling them, so so come here.
No. Come here. That
will there be anyone? Said yes.
And, inshallah, you'll be one of them.
You're one of them.
So this,
many people, you envy them, and you see
them
Here, here, here.
Most certainly.
Allah
is with the.
This what I want you, my dear brothers
and sisters, to focus on
the witness, the of Allah.
Allah
is with me. And this shows
the virtue
of Al Hassan,
the virtue of Al Hassan.
Essam. Also, says in 1
112.
But no, Allah
said.
Whoever
submits themselves to Allah
whoever submits themselves to Allah
and does good
and does good
will have their reward with their lord,
and there will be no fear for them.
Nor will they please.
Nor will they
be. The one Allah is saying
But now
The one
whoever submits himself
to Allah, so
his deeds
are directed to please Allah.
And
that's good deeds.
His reward will be with Islam with Islam.
On that day,
on the day of resurrection,
and there will be no fear
for them.
No will
they greet.
195.
And spend in the way of Allah and
do not throw yourself
with your own hands into destruction.
And do good
and do good.
Indeed, Allah loves the doers of good.
Let us reflect here.
In the way of Allah,
in the cause of Allah.
Train yourself
to have this quality
of
spending
And do not throw yourselves
with your own hands into destruction.
Many people, they misunderstand this
as
Abu
Ayub said.
When one of the mujahideen,
the Sahaba,
he
went
and immersed himself through the army of the
Muslims.
He went fighting,
and he disappeared
out of sight
among the army of the Kufa.
And this what the fuqaha
say, al imranas.
You are totally
immersed
into the army of your enemy.
So some, they said
threw himself
to destruction.
As many today, you would think like that.
Abu, you've said
I I think Abu, you've said,
oh, you
people,
you misunderstand
the meaning of this. This.
Regarding us, the.
When we decided
to stay
back, taking care of our farms and agriculture,
Allah send down this aya
and do not throw your hands into the
suction,
which means
leaving the jihad
by staying back,
fixing your arms, your farms, and planting them
and taking care of the agriculture.
That is destruction,
not the jihad.
So by leaving the jihad, you are throwing
yourself into destruction.
So that's why you corrected the people. So
this ayah came down regarding us the answer
regarding
us when we many of us stayed
to take care of their farms.
But for someone
to immerse himself among the kuffar,
seeking the martyrdom
and the Shahada,
that is not deception.
That is winning.
That is winning.
You are going to win the Shahadah.
The
Shahadah.
You have so sold
your your your soul and your life for
the sake of Allah,
and you will chase the.
So that's not destruction.
Destructuring is the opposite.
You leave the jihad
and to stay behind as you've explained of
the.
And you know I'm saying Abu Ayub.
He was old man.
K?
They
by the law, he's exempted from participating in
the yard, but he
participated.
He was in the army that tried to
conquer Constantinople,
and he died there.
And his grave is there at the wall
of the Constantinople.
How about you?
So keep this in mind now.
Do not throw your hands into,
destruction.
K?
When you
stay away
and you don't,
participate.
My dear brothers and sisters.
The
1400 years ago,
he said,
Well,
What
what talk to him would you have?
He said.
So
the meaning, roughly,
they said,
and the hadith is authentic hadith.
And this is when you deal with the
transaction. It is a a tie on the
form of transaction.
It's called the.
So when you deal with
the, this is 1. Muslim
today, they deal with the. So they are
in war with the law.
Is
that a? What are they to be shocked,
and you are content with every culture,
which means
the completion. You enjoy. You are.
The only thing that you think of is
money, money, money.
So the dunya.
Well, they do. But is that tobacco but
they do.
But tobacco has now built up, and you
follow the case of the cows, again, agriculture,
plowing the land.
What
are you have? And you leave the jihad.
Allah
will cast, will place
the new.
Humiliation.
Don't you see the humiliation the
today?
The is humiliated.
This is do you see it?
That's what the prophet said.
When these things happen,
you deal with the river.
You are complacent with this worldly life, you're
happy,
you are you like agriculture, you are following
the tails of the cows, then this what
will happen for you.
Allah, azza wa jal, will cast
upon you
and throw upon you
and face on your shoulders.
This is full,
Mahana,
humiliation.
Have to tell you till you go back
to your deed.
Until you go back to your deed.
Without going back to your deed,
the situation would remain like that.
The prophet said, let me say,
My
list is under the shade of my spear.
That is my list.
My my
religion
under the shade of my spear, which means
the gihat.
The list is in the gihat.
So try to understand
the correct meaning and understanding of this.
The destruction is the love of the duniya,
not the jihad.
That's why and that's what the Sahib understood
correctly
And one of the battles with the Romans,
the army of the Romans
are with number.
The army of the Muslims, many folds, many
times.
The Muslims,
when they saw that,
and
the front
rows, in front of the army are
the
the priests,
the monks,
reading the bible
to
motivate
and to uplift the morale
of the army.
So when the Muslims saw that,
their
spirit dropped a bit.
Faith
that the morale of the mujahideen
reduced
when they saw that great number
of the army.
How to uplift now the morale and the
spirit of the mujahideen?
So he mounted his
horse, and he flew like the arrow,
penetrating
the and
the
of the kuffar
fighting.
Zayn al Zubayd
is one of those whom the prophet
said is equal
to 101,000
mujahid,
1,000 fighter, 1,000 night.
And he was so skilled.
He would fight with 2 swords
simultaneously
at the same time.
So he's chopping heads here and here, here
and there.
That's what the signals mean.
So
he went
as fast as an arrow, the speed of
the arrow,
and disappeared.
A month ago far.
What is the chance for him to come
out alive?
0.
The chance is 0.
So I'm not sure the Sahaba said.
May Allah's mercy upon the soul of Azubayd.
To this surprise,
he came out.
He went,
came out
alive,
unhurt,
And he went in
again,
and he came out, and he went in,
and he came out.
Well,
when the Muslims, they show that, they say,
no.
They are so weak, the Romans.
If one of us can do this, I'm
a terrorist.
That's how
the morale
was uplifted.
So,
he knew the meaning of this.
Don't throw your hands
into deception. It's not that you had. It's
the dunya.
That's the deception.
Not to die as a matter of
So Ihsaan, my dear brothers,
and sisters,
the fiqh of Ihsaan, you need to understand
this
ihsan, the concept of ihsan, the understanding
of it.
The hikmah
and the wisdom
behind our creation.
Why Allah wants us to reach that
station,
reach that level?
Because by reaching that level,
you really actualize
the.
You fulfilled
the ranks of the servitude,
the,
and you become a true servant of Allah.
That's we need why he wants us to
reach them.
So the the hikmah and the divine wisdom,
as you know,
behind our creation
in this life
that to be tested.
Allah will test us.
So what will
give us the endurance,
the understanding,
the patience
to
go through these hardships
and tests.
Is that's
the
That's
why
the early Muslims,
the period
the period
was for this
training
training
through
this.
Sensing the iman. Sensing the iman
later because
there is a mission ahead of them,
heavy task to carry out.
So this that requires needs.
Strong iman.
That's why.
They turn on the Sahaba.
They smell the as and as of another.
And I said, in another. Oh, hey.
Who will smell
the?
The one who reaches this, that level of.
Why Allah Smith the before the month of
I'm smelling it.
Smelling it.
And now
the
and the the spear came
throughout
his body.
He took handful
of his blood,
and he said,
I have won by the load of the
Kaaba.
What will make you
say that?
Except you have reached that level.
You're worshiping Allah as you are seeing him.
As if you are seeing him, though you
are not seeing him, he says.
So they reached that level after what? After
a lot of tests.
Series of tests
they went through.
Another Sahabi
of the Allahu Anbu.
He was eating few hand
dates handful of dates.
And And he asked the prophet, oh, prophet
of Allah.
What stops Niv from entering the jannah? He
said, what do you have in your hands?
That that that's what stops you from the
jannah.
You are eating it. So that's what delays
you. He said it is a long life
if I remain eating it. It is a
long life. So he threw the date,
and he fought.
And he was smart.
He was smart.
So
that's why
Allah prepared the Sahaba.
So that
spiritual
upbringing
and the building of the imam.
And later on,
they did wonders.
So the divine wisdom behind our creation, Mahdi
and sisters,
in this life
is that Allah will test it, that we
will be tested in this life.
But we should
go through this test and come out with,
Insha'Allah, the grace of Allah,
flying colors.
So I made it clear. So to Mulk,
I have 1 to 2.
Do.
And he is
over all things competent.
He who created
death and life to test you as to
which of you is best indeed.
Best indeed.
And he is the exalted
in might,
the forgiving.
It's a Suratul Mulk
that the prophet
recommended that we need it before we go
to sleep.
So Allah
he created
death and life
to test us,
to find out
through the tests.
He knows Allah but this to find out
after testing us.
Us.
Who's the best among
you? Who's the best among you?
And my dear brothers and sisters,
the way to alhissah,
the way to perfection
and excellence
in carrying out
our wishes, our tasks, our obligations.
This,
it emerges and springs from
our knowledge of a lie.
The
more we know about our our
love.
When we know about Allah
and we have this
concrete knowledge about him
and our hearts are full of that,
then
everything becomes easy,
and you reach the station of Al Ghesa.
As I was said,
because
without
knowledge, you will not reach that station.
You will not have that fear from Allah
Allah Only those
see Allah from among you, from from among
his servants
who have learned.
Those who fear Allah must from among from
among you
are the scholars,
the people of knowledge,
Because
the knowledge, my dear brothers and sister, brings
about the fear, as the salah say,
Indeed, Allah is exalted
and might and forgiving.
It is incumbent, my dear brothers and sisters,
upon every Muslim
to become a Muslim, to reach that, to
strive
till you reach that destination.
As Allah said in Surah 2, I seven,
7.
He's the one who created
the heavens and the earth in 6 days,
and his throne was upon the waters.
In order to test which of you is
best indeed,
best indeed,
So it is incumbent upon each one of
us
to
strive, to reach.
And in the hadith, which is on Sahih
Muslim,
the hadith reported by Shirdad in the house
of the.
He said
the prophet
said,
listen to the spiritual
from
Hadith.
When
you hit the when you The meaning, the
prophet say,
verily Allah
has prescribed
the ihsan,
kindness,
perfection,
excellence.
What does this mean?
Verily the Allah has prescribed the ihsan for
everything.
You have to do it in the to
the in the best way.
So when you kill,
you are killing your enemy
when you are fighting.
So when you kill, you must make the
killing in the best manner.
You don't torture your enemies.
You don't amputate
his limbs.
Just kill
him in the best manner.
So when you kill, you must make the
killing in the best manner.
When you slaughter
an animal, make your slaughter in the best
manner
when you slaughter an animal.
Let one of you sharpen his knife, make
the knife very sharp,
and give ease to his animal.
Because when the knife is so sharp, it
will cut quickly.
But if it is blunt
and you will be doing like that, the
animal will be suffering.
K? But if it is so sharp,
it grows
quickly.
And immediately,
the animal doesn't treat anything because now
the the blood doesn't go to the brain.
So the animal doesn't treat
immediately.
So this is the shortest suffering of the
animal.
Whereas if you stun it
or electrocute it, the animal
suffers more
suffers
more.
So this is what our Islam is about.
This is what our Islam teaches us.
May Allah
make us among the.
May
Allah give us the strength
and the and
the support
to reach the station of Al Ihsan.
Ameen, may Allah
keep us remain steadfast
in this beautiful deen.
Till we meet him,
and he is pleased with all of us.
Ameen,
May Allah forgive us our faults, our mistakes,
and our ignorance.
And may Allah unite, oh, and unite our
hearts.
And may Allah reward all of you, my
dear brothers and sisters, immensely
for your patience and attendance.
We will now start the question and answers
session, brothers and sisters.
Please send in your questions fast if you
have them. We have received some already, and
we will begin with those.
Okay. The first question, Assalamu Alaikum Waqtolahi wa
Barakatuh.
Is it permissible to work at a beauty
salon as a receptionist?
This is coming from
a female.
Okay.
And,
what do they do in this beauty salon?
Anything Haram they do?
If there's anything Haram,
and I cannot
go into details because there are things Haram.
There are
things,
then don't work there.
But if it is just
normal,
what they do there
okay. Just the hair,
okay, of,
things that women need,
then there's
But if there's anything,
like,
they do that,
k,
Which is seeing the seeing the
k? Because some places, they
whatever whatever you want, they will do for
you.
K?
They can't
remove your and all that stuff.
So there are things haram there because it
is haram
for a woman to see the aura of
another woman.
So there are things haram they are doing,
then you don't
You don't work there.
Is this clear to the question?
We go to the next question.
Next question
is, are we supposed to fast a day
before Ashura or a day after Ashura,
or is it recommended to fast all 3
days?
Alhamdulillah.
The as you know, that the prophet
when he arrived in Medina,
he found the,
the people in Medina, the the Jews,
fast,
He asked. They told him.
So he said, we are actually closer to
Musa than anyone else.
So he commanded the Muslims to fast,
and the Muslim fasted.
And he said, if I live until next
year
until next
year, I will fast the Surah and Ashura,
9th 10th. This is the authentic
hadith.
There's another narration
which says that one day before it, one
day after it, but it is weak narration.
Weak narration.
So
the authentic narration, you fast 9th
10th
recommended.
If you didn't fast the 9th, you can't
fast the 10th by itself,
and it's permissible.
But the best that you fast,
9th 10th.
And if you didn't manage
to fast the 9th
and you want to be different
from the Jews,
so you fast after 10th day day after
that, as some of
the
mentioned
in based on that narration,
there's no harm,
And some of the, they are saying it
is
9th, 10th, and the day after that. That
they consider that the the best, but they
because of that habit. But that habit is
is not authentic. Is this clear to the
question?
So let us clear share. Next question.
If I want to take normal bath and
also at the same time, which one should
take precedence over the other?
What do you mean normal bath?
Yeah. Another?
They haven't clarified. This is sort
of normal bath and also
at the same time,
which one should The other is the question
as far as I understand it.
You take a shower. You take a listen.
And this, the question,
the same the woman.
Okay. She has a
special, meaning in her mind about the meaning
of. Anyway,
when you take a shower,
even if it is for Janaba or not
for Janaba. Okay?
The sooner that you take,
normal.
And you need washing your feet, and then
you,
start pouring the water over your body, your
head, your rest of your body, and you
can use soap, whatever.
And then after that, you rinse the body
with water, and you wash your feet.
This is how,
the pop star Stalin used to take
a bath or take a shower,
whether it is for Janaba or not for
Janaba.
If someone, let's say, that he he didn't
do this, he just went under the shower
and
took a complete shower,
And his intention is to
get the,
and he didn't touch, of course, his,
his pocket parts.
Will that will
will be enough?
Nothing shall all be enough. Or the same
thing if he,
he or she
dipped himself or herself
in the swimming pool,
okay,
and covered all the body with water
and cleaned and then came out.
Okay. So he can pay. He or she
can check.
But the best way
is that to take a we'll do 1st,
and then you take the you,
wash the entire body.
Is this clear to the question?
If I got the
question
understood it correctly.
I'm sorry. Hopefully, it is clear, Sheikh. If
not the question, I can send back.
If if it is not clear, the question
I can ask for more Yes.
Inshallah. The next question.
What is the sharia ruling on collecting the
hair of a newborn after 7 days,
weighing it in terms of gold and silver,
and given the equivalent
in money as sadaqa?
This is this is
this is that we on the Akita,
the shaving the head of the baby,
whether it is,
girl or boy.
And, the
said,
So this hair is actually harmful.
Harmful.
So
so the
the reason it is a harm, something
harmful for the baby.
So that's why we shave it, and then
we weigh it. It's nothing few grams to
come.
K. Whether it is gold and silver, I
mean, if the equivalent,
high the price of it
as
to those who are in need.
Yes. And then you
apply,
the
to
the head of the child.
You dissolve it, and then you soak the
the the head with
it. Next.
Next question, Sheikh. Is it true that if
one doesn't say Bismillah before
starting wudu, the wudu is invalid?
Is it the same for beginning the prayers
as well?
Okay. The wudu, yes, then it's a hadith.
And
this hadith, the scholars of hadith,
they differed about,
its authenticity.
So some considered
authentic. Some considered
weak.
And here, I would like to draw your
attention, especially you will find the scholars of
hadith, they differ about the Hasan hadith. Most
of the differences,
you'll find them when the hadith is falls
under in the under the category of Al
Hasan hadith.
K. Those Hasan hadith,
is not as the narrators, they are not
as reliable
as the narrators of the Sahih hadith.
And especially if it is Hasan Duaily,
because the Hasan two times. Hadith
Hasan 2 times.
Hadith
Hasan that means
the of
this hadith, the narrators of this hadith,
they are reliable,
but one of them has slight weakness in
his,
but not severe. So this hadith is called
Hassan Nidati,
and this is acceptable.
But sometime, the hadith is weak
weak.
So
this narration is weak because of this Islam.
There is.
There's a defect in the Islam of this
hadith.
As you know, this the hadith consists of
2 parts,
the the chain of narrator,
and the the
which means the text of the the the
message itself
or the subject itself
that were
attributed to the.
So we have two parts of the hadith,
the and the. So the weak hadith,
the Islam, there is a problem.
1
of the narrators is weak,
so the Hadith becomes weak.
Then we find another
Isma'at.
Not the same Isma'at.
Another Isma'at
reporting the same hadith.
And, also,
in that isnaq,
one narrator is weak.
But those 2 narrators in this hadith isnaq
and in this isnaq,
Their weakness is not that severe, but they
are weak.
But now since there are 2 different Ismat
reporting this to Hadith,
so the scholar, they say,
the 2 is not will strengthen each other
strengthen each other. And this week, hadith
will
be upgraded,
and they call it Hasanun
It is Hasan
not through it is own Ismail and through
it is own narrative,
but it became Hasan by the aid of
an Ismail and narrative
of another hadith.
And here, when you'll find the the scholars
of hadith, they differ.
So so someone will consider not. It is
weak.
And that's why
Imam Abu Musa Allah
he said, when it comes to the Hasan
hadith, wash your hands,
which means you will not find
scholars agree unanimously
upon the hadith, which is Hassan.
From what this scholar will consider
Hassan, this scholar will consider it weak. Considered
this hadith
acceptable.
Right?
Acceptable.
That it is
Hasid Hadith.
Now then, you know,
if you don't mention
Allah's
state. So what does it mean? Does it
mean that will do is invalid?
No. This quote is the same. It means
it is not perfect
or the reward is not complete.
So
if you didn't mention Allah's name and then
you prayed, your is correct and your is
correct.
In the salah, the question I was asking,
reading the
in the salah.
The basmalah
from Surah to Fadija, it is an
it's an
from Surah to Fadija.
And
reading it loudly
is principle.
That's why I'll find the in
the. They read it loudly,
and it is part of Surat al Fatih.
From other Surahs, it's not part of the
Surah.
You read it silently, then you start,
reading the Surah.
Okay? The same thing,
in Surat your Fatihan, you read the.
So if you are following the opinion, you
you start reading loudly,
but you read it before that.
Is this clear to the question?
Alright. It's clear, Sheikh. We'll go to the
next question.
Sheikh. There is a sister who accepted Islam
by the will of Allah, and now she
is asking
what should she begin with.
Should we send her these books of Aqidah,
or should we tell her to read the
Quran with translation,
or
should we send her videos of prayers?
Okay. You can send her, I think, videos
of prayers that teach her because she can
see.
And, also,
the,
maybe
you you should have the Quran with transliteration
transliteration
so that at least, yeah, you need, first
of all, to
know how to read.
And there is no harm
in
writing it on a piece of paper
with the transliteration
and to read it until she memorizes it.
So the salah, first of all, the salah
shows she should know what to read in
her salah. So if he memorized Surat al
Fatiha,
that is
enough. Hasala will be correct.
And then, of course, he will start to
memorize other Surah.
And this system needs
guidance,
needs
care.
Someone
the problem with the Muslims, I'm telling you,
when a brother or a sister
becomes a
Muslim,
and
that's
it.
Goodbye.
Okay? You manage your life.
They don't know that this brother or sister,
Na'vi, is going to face a lot of
hardships
with his family, with many things.
So if the community is not there to
accommodate
and to help and support,
Maybe this father or his sister will go
back and leave Islam,
and it happened.
So you need
follow-up.
So sisters, you follow-up the sister, help her
and bite her.
Take her to the masjid.
Educate her
slowly,
little by little.
Don't overburden the revert.
The problem with many of us, we have
no effect in the dua.
The
moment this brother or sister becomes Muslim,
you know, you have to do this.
And if the poor girl,
few hairs at your oh, no. You're going
to *.
Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.
So we make our life miserable.
Easy.
Easy.
Learn your deep.
Have the kind understanding.
We don't burden
the revert.
You have to learn this. You have
a brother. You know?
Have you got circumcised?
What?
Yeah. You have to.
How can you play? How can you play?
You're not circumcised.
Come
on.
Who told you this?
Who told you if he's not circumcised,
his salah is invalid?
Are you saying that the father the father
of the prophets of Allah, Ibrahim,
the archaic life, when he was praying, his
prayer was
his prayers were invalid.
He circumcised himself later on with a very,
very old man.
That's why
the fools, the ignorant should shut up.
The scholars,
people of knowledge,
are the ones who should educate
and teach the people.
You do not learn your deed,
not the self giving factual.
So my advice
of the system
to follow this system.
And if she's listening to me, if she's
in the class,
take it easy,
little by little.
We are in kg 1.
Kg 1.
Then we'll go to kg 2,
then blindly
1, blindly 2. We'll go back there. Elementary
1, elementary 2. We take it. Take your
time.
And
what the revert needs,
listen to this,
things that will soften the heart, something to
touch the imam, something
to touch the soul, something
to make them love Allah, something
to make them enjoy
the.
Focus on that.
That's why
many
of the reverse
k. And frank,
they become Muslims
through
the people of
those who follow.
But then they left them. Why they left
them?
And they followed the Sufis.
Why?
Because
he didn't find what he wants.
That vacuum inside is there.
He doesn't heal anything to touch the heart
either.
Knowledge
in
let's take this poor guy to the study
circle,
and the sheikh is teaching,
the duluz advanced.
Things are going above his head,
and nothing is touching his heart.
So we should know
how
to
address those father's assistant
and how to take them
gradually.
So the issues of the heart, the iman.
Focus on the iman.
The stronger the imam, then the person himself
will
do things
and try to develop himself like ourselves.
Don't you know, as Aisha said, don't the
Allah, Anha?
The first ayaat came down from the Quran,
ayaat that softened the hearts.
Softened the hearts.
Had Allah sent down
that alcohol is prohibited, they would not have
left it because they were alcoholic,
but I had softening the hearts.
So keep this in
mind because this is an area of concern
regarding our brothers and sisters who came back
to the deep.
We don't
give them what they need.
So my advice for the sisters,
take care of this sister.
May Allah
fill her our heart
her heart with the iman.
And
may Allah make our life easy
and make the practice of the easy in
her. Is
this clear?
I mean, it is clear. Sheikh, next question.
How can one cope with fear and low
esteem?
The fear there is positive fear and negative
fear.
The negative
fear is not recommended. It's not
needed. Should not have that negative fear.
Positive fear is the fear that will bring
you close to Allah
because you fear
Allah
and you regret for the most for for
what you have done,
so you try to compensate.
So this is actually
what if it's you
to get closer to Allah.
This is what we need. This is the
praiseworthy.
So we can say the fear part of
it is blameworthy
and part of it
praiseworthy.
The blameworthy
fear is the fear that will make you
become weak
and despair of Allah's mercy.
Don't do this. This is blameworthy.
The fear which is praiseworthy
is the fear that will motivate me, will
make me say, okay.
Now
I have to do something.
Still, there is a chance for me.
Allah,
the door is open for me
no matter
how much I disobeyed him
irrespective
of the
the sins
I committed.
That is all.
So I should not waste my time.
So I start
getting closer to my lord
and
with the hope
and love
because Allah loves
the sinner when he comes back to him.
He loves that.
That's why every night, he descends
in
the manner suits his majesty and glory, and
he's asking.
Allah asked every night.
Anyone
anyone wants me to forgive him?
Anyone wants anything from me the whole night?
Oh my servants
who wronged themselves
extremely.
I suffer for Al Amrissim.
They committed all types of sins.
They're talking to Do
not despair
of Allah's mercy.
Allah forgives all types of sins
or is the often forgiven.
So if the shittan tells you,
you have done a lot of evil deeds.
You're going to *. You are destined for
a this is, then the shittan
get lost.
My lord will accept me. My lord will
forgive me.
And remember, the one who killed 100
and the love forgave her, remember the hadith
of the prostitute,
we should get just water to the thirsty
dog, and forgave her.
So the door is open.
Door is open. So
do not despair of Allah's mercy
and get rid of this negative
fear,
the blameworthy
one.
Roll up your sleeves and try to compensate
and try to
get closer to Allah.
May Allah strengthen your iman, and may Allah
forgive us all our sins and
Next.
That will be the last question for today,
inshallah, if you'd like to conclude.
For your patience, attendance. May Allah bless you,
bless your family, protect you, protect your family.
Elevate your status in this life and want
to come.
May Allah
give us to remain steadfast on this Deen.
And his ways with all of us. May
Allah unite all our
and unite
our And may Allah
reward you
immensely, my dear brothers and sisters, for your
patience, attendance, dedication.
Until we meet
in the coming session, I leave you
in Allah's company and protection.