Salem Al Amry – Lesson 65 Weekly Class Masail Al Jahiliyya
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The speaker discusses cultural differences between Islam and human reality, emphasizing the importance of following rules and avoiding evil behavior. They stress the need to be mindful of options and not let fear control our behavior. The speaker also addresses questions about protesting against the Bank of England and the use of boycotts to support one's brother's killing. The session ends with a recommendation to conclude and a recommendation to be a part of a future class.
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See.
Because this curtain between
me
and those 3 guys.
So 3 men,
okay,
came.
They are around the the Kaaba, the the
house of Allah
They are fact.
Stout.
Okay.
They are fact.
They are fat,
but they are
they have little minds.
Little,
their understanding.
Fiqh means understanding.
So the and their understanding
is so
shallow,
so low.
Their IQ is so low.
3.
Then
I've I've been very much started
giving us details about that.
So he's saying,
one of them is and
Khattnahu. The
Khattan
the Khattan is the one that you
and him
you and he
married
same sisters.
So your wife and his wife are sisters
are sisters.
That's called the khatan
or khatin.
Okay.
So 2, 1 from Quraysh and 1 from
and 2 from the tribe of Saqib.
The tribe of Saqib are the people
of Ataif, those who are living in Ataif.
And from them is Al Haggai, ibn Yusuf,
a.
K?
Or one of them was from Saqib, and
the other 2 were from Quraish.
So here,
even miss Rood was listening.
So they were conversing.
They were talking.
So I was not able to
understand
the gist of the
converse conversation.
That but he is telling us what we
heard.
Heard.
They were talking among themselves.
So you can see they were talking with
low tone.
They don't want anyone to hear.
So one of them said,
what do you think?
Do you think Allah hears
what we are saying?
Which means
what they were saying
to each other
was something
people should not know about it.
And the last,
do you think our
hears our conversation
right now?
The other one says,
So he said,
if we raise our voices, Allah will hear
us. If we raise, but if we lower,
he will not.
See?
This is the mentality
of the.
So if you raise your voice, Allah will
hear you. So they are
making comparison between Allah and the human being.
They are using the,
comparing Allah to the human being. The human
being will not hear you if you lower
your voice,
but if you raise your voice, the human
being will hear you. So,
likewise,
Allah will hear you.
Are you following?
See, my dear brothers and sisters,
the
the ignorance,
and the
the
shirk
makes you dumb.
You don't think.
Our mother, Aisha, said,
when Hawala
went to Salaba, Hawala, the daughter of Salaba,
when her husband made the heart to her,
said you are like the back of my
mother, which means you become haram for me,
came complaining to the.
Aisha said, I was
in the same room.
Part of the conversation,
I
I I missed it.
I didn't hear part of the dialogue,
but Allah
heard her
from above the 7 heavens.
Allah has urged
the one who was complaining
regarding her husband
and complains to Allah.
She was arguing with you, oh Mohammad
Wasser,
regarding her husband, Umid.
Complains to Allah, and Allah
hears your I don't know
your conversation.
So one of them said,
if we raise our voices,
he hears us.
But if he lower,
then he will not hear us.
The other one said,
This one is little bit used in mind.
He said,
if he hears part of it,
then he will hear the rest of it.
He will be able to hear the rest
of it.
He
went,
and informed the prophet and he said, this
is what happened.
The Anzalallahu,
Allah revealed.
This is
the the,
the greatness of the Quran.
Something happens. That's why the Quran was
set in piecemeal.
K?
Propulsion.
Something happens,
so on comes to our
to make it easy
upon the people to normalize it, to understand
its application. Oh, this ayah came down regarding
this.
That's why Mujahid said
Mujahid students of Ibn Abbas. He said,
I read the Quran for with.
K? And that struck him for every other
about the reason behind the revelation.
You know?
So it's very important to know, Aswab al
Nuzul,
why this ayah came down.
I'll
reveal this ayah.
And so that's for select the 2 ayah.
22 to 23.
You did not bother to hide yourself from
your ears,
your eyes and skin
to prevent them from testifying
against you, Allahu Akbar.
Allah says,
Why didn't you hide yourself
from
your ears, your eyes, and your skin?
These sins,
they testify
against you.
Don't you know, my dear brothers and sisters,
in the day of resurrection,
Allah seals the lips
and the mouth
of the disbelievers
because they lie and they deny.
And the limbs will talk. Their hands will
talk. Their skins will talk
that, yes. We did this. We did that.
The hearing will be a witness against you.
You did not bother to hide yourself from
your ears,
eyes, and skin
to prevent them from testifying
against you.
Rather, you assume that Allah did not know
much of what he used to do.
Allah knows everything, my dear brothers and sisters.
Allah is seeing everything,
healing everything.
Whatever is happening in his kingdom, he's aware
of it,
and he's
watching,
and he's seeing it.
And only Allah
He gives a long robe
for the oppression,
for the value,
and we should not,
hasten. This is the problem
with us Muslims.
We want things to happen
according to our wishes.
Who are we to dictate
for Allah what to do?
He knows what to do.
And went
to do what he wants to do.
We have to leave the matter to him.
We have to submit to him.
Allah wants to see
that we exhibit
and manifest our weakness
and our need and our dependence on him.
He loves to see that.
Allah hates to see us arrogant.
So
Allah sees
and knows.
Nothing is hidden.
Be careful.
Don't make mistakes.
Don't provoke. Don't make your lord
upset and angry with you.
So mind your
actions
and your words that you articulate.
You might say a word that will take
you out of Islam,
and you will remain in the hellfire forever.
So be careful.
Allah cannot be questioned.
Father, we are questioned.
And whatever is happening to us
is.
No doubt about it.
It was that false assumption.
Vanukum,
your conjecture,
your guessing.
If you lower your voices,
okay,
I I will not be able to hear
it, but will be a raise. Yes.
And it was that false assumption
you entertained
about your Lord.
You should have also one about Allah.
You should have good
note about Allah.
Don't
have to run
and entertain
bad thoughts and bad ideas and evil thoughts.
Don't do that.
It was that false assumption
you entertained
about your lord,
that has brought
about your doom,
your destruction.
So you have become losers.
You have become
losers. You have become losers
because you entertain
false assumptions
and evil thoughts
and bad thoughts
about the creator,
about Allah
That's why the prophet said,
should not die
except in the state
of having
good thoughts about
Allah. Good
thoughts.
Now you are dying.
You see,
during the
our life, how do we worship Allah?
The movement always between 2 states,
state of and state of.
Fear and hope. This is how we live.
Hope and fear. Hope and fear.
Hope for a job.
When we
remember our sins,
we fear him.
Then then we
remember his mercy and kindness,
our hope crisis,
and we balance our journey in this life
like a bird with 2 wings, hope and
fear.
And you keep checking yourselves.
If you feel that
you are going to despair
of Allah's mercy
and you will have
despair.
Lower the wing of fear and raise the
wing of
so that you
balance it. So you don't have despair of
Allah's,
mercy.
Because there is a problem here. The shaytan
is a crafty guy.
Let's say you are a practicing brother or
sister,
and then
just
without
prior notice,
All of a sudden,
you committed the sin.
You did something haram. All of
them. Awesome.
We're not angels. We're not Malaita. We are
not invaluable. We're not Masuneel.
The moment you
fall and commit that sin,
shaitan
steps in
and works on you
and tells you, finish.
You are finished.
You are going to *.
You are a hypocrite
thinking that you are a saint,
and now you committed this.
Do you think Allah will forgive you? Finish!
Forget it!
You are doomed,
destined to *.
That's what the Shaytan will do to you.
And the Shaytan will work on you,
and make the guilt to eat you
till you reach the extent
you despair of Allah's mercy.
That's what the shaitan want.
Because despairing of Allah's
mercy is.
Disbelief.
That's for me.
Because you think your sin is too much
for Allah to forgive.
Allah cannot forgive it because it is so,
so, so great.
How many times
you hear people say,
oh, I am horrible.
I am bad.
I don't think Allah will forgive me.
People, they say that. They see these things.
And you start hating yourself,
but the shaytan is working in you. Shaytan
is working in you.
He wants you to reach this level
where you think your sins
are too much.
Too many.
So allow not to forgive them.
That is the danger.
But nothing is
difficult for Allah.
So never despair of Allah's mercy.
But the shaitan want you to despair of
Allah's rama, of Allah's mercy
so that you continue sinning.
Instead of this sin that you committed,
now he is opening the door for you
so that
he tells you
I'll tell you what.
Anyway, you are going to *.
Okay? Enjoy your life.
K? Enjoy everything.
Pass all the limits.
Commit all types of.
That's what he wants.
But if you are smart
and intelligent,
you will say,
you are the cursed one. You are my
real enemy, and you want me to to
despair
of Allah's mercy.
No.
I will get up,
and I will repent,
And I will go back and return to
my Lord,
and he will accept me.
Do that.
Because Allah says,
Oh, my servants
who committed sins.
They went to the extreme in
committing sinfulness and committing sins.
They wronged
themselves
enormously.
Despare not of Allah's
Allah forgives
all types of sins,
including
the chert
if you
repent.
He is the most
forgiving,
often forgiven
and merciful.
So never ever despair
of Allah's mercy
and always have good
and
good thought about Allah
So we
balance our flight
to
the. Hope and fear. But if the fear
now
is overwhelming
me
and I start to despair, I lower the
wing of fear and I raise the wing
of hope
and I only think of Allah's rahma.
And I tell myself,
I remind myself
about the Ayat of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala encompasses
everything.
He show us his mercy. He created 100
He kept 99
parts for the day of resurrection,
and 100 he sent down.
He for
forgave the one who killed 100
innocent souls. He forgave him when he repented.
He forgave the prostitute when he gave
water to the thirsty dog. And
recall and remember the hadith.
Oh, son of Adam, were your sins to
reach the clouds?
Imagine your sins, they reached the clouds.
You committed sins that filled
the entire
planet,
and now they are piling up and hitting
the clouds.
Imagine this
colossal
amount
of sins.
If you committed that
colossal amount
of sins,
that great number of sins,
then you meet me without associating
any partner with me. I will forgive you
all your sins, and I don't mind.
So this gives you hope.
So the dis the the the the the
despair
vanished
and dissipates
and leaves you.
But don't keep the wing of hope always
up
because then
you will start to feel, oh,
So then you start treating yourselves lightly and
committing the Haram. The moment you start that
you are inclining
and want to
commit sin, lower the wing of hope, raise
the wing the wing of fear,
and remember
remember remember the
grave, remember.
So this
will make you
refrain
refrain
from committing haram,
And I want you to keep in mind
always
death.
When your nafs
insights you and invites you to commit haram,
remember just what if I die now?
What if I die now
while I am doing this haram?
So when you remember, yes,
this
will but will be a a cause, will
be a reason for you to refrain from
committing the Haram.
1 of the masha'i said,
if we bring a womanizer,
a man who loves women, and every man
loves women,
but what stops
men from
from fulfilling what they
have, their feelings,
is the shabbat.
K? That's it. Because it's haram.
But naturally,
any man
loves women. Any man.
He loves women. If you just love women,
there is a problem with you.
You are impotent.
K? You're not a man.
But, of course,
what prevents you from the Haram
is the fear of Allah
So one of the masha'ik said, if we
bring a womanizer and
we told him, you see, this woman,
the most beautiful woman,
you can
fulfill your desire,
your biological
needs
to sleep with her.
But
after finishing and satisfying yourself
and fulfilling your desire,
we'll take you from this room
to the incinerator.
We show him the incinerator,
the furnace,
glowing,
hundreds of degrees
Celsius.
The moment he is thrown into that incinerator,
finish.
What do you think?
Will this womanizer
accept the offer?
Will he accept the offer?
Definitely not.
Because now
we will make the comparison
between that
momentary
pleasure,
having fun,
having intimacy,
and then
the
incinerator
is is now going to
make the comparison
and say, no. No.
I will not accept this.
So the reason people, they commit harm
because at that moment,
they don't think
of the jahnam.
Shaitan makes them forget
about it.
So they are only thinking about the
the enjoyment and the the pleasure
of the flesh.
That's it.
And the iman, as the prophet
said,
someone commits zina, he's not a mukmin.
Iman is removed
outside
from him. Removed.
We'll be keeping
moving and hovering over his head.
The moment he finishes the zina, the haram,
the iman goes back and the guilt to
start
feeling guilty, the guilt is eating her.
Now
so in
this life,
we keep
balancing
hope and fear hope and fear.
But when we are dying,
when we are breathing our lust
when we are breathing our lust,
we only think about
Allah's.
We raise the wing of hope.
We raise the wing of hope.
That's why the prophet
said,
None of you should die
except having
thinking,
having good thoughts about Allah
And those around you should only
talk about Allah's rahama, Allah's mercy. And the
prophet
he visited a young man
breathing his glass, dying,
and he asked him, how do you feel?
He said,
if I remember my sins,
I'm afraid when I remember my sins. But
when I remember Allah's mercy,
my hope increases. He said,
be
confident,
and I assure you,
when these two feelings
coexist
in the heart of any believer
At this particular moment,
Allah
will make him safe from his fears and
will grant him his wishes and what he
think of Allah
So when you are dying, only think of
Allah's mercy.
Okay. Now
another example
of this ignorance of the people of Jahiliya.
In Surat al Baqarah ayeh 275.
Our says
about
the
the
usually, which is prohibited
in Islam and in the previous
laws,
Sharia.
If you read in the Old Testament,
it is prohibited, the usury
Those who consume
usually
interest
will stand on the day of judgment
like those driven to madness by Satan's touch.
That is because they say trade is no
different
than interest.
But Allah has permitted trading
and forbidden
reba, usually interest.
Whoever reprise after having received warning from the
Lord
may keep their previous gains,
and their case is left to Allah.
As for those who persist,
it is they who will be the residents
of the fire.
They will be there forever. Let us reflect
on this beautiful
Ayah.
Those who consume riba
riba, usually.
Not interest. They usually usually is the riba.
So they consume the river.
What will happen to them?
On that day,
they will not stand except
like one
who is
possessed by demons.
One who's possessed by demons.
And this is an evidence that the jinn
entered the body, because Allah
said, like one who's
hit and possessed by the demons,
so they are unconscious.
So everyone will recognize, oh, those are the
ones who are that were devouring and consuming
and taking rebar.
Why this will happen to them? Listen to
what Allah said.
Said.
That is because
See the
They applied
They made the analogy and said,
by
it, sale, trade.
It's just like a river.
It is business.
Business.
And you hear this today nowadays, you hear
from Muslims
saying, okay. The interests
of the banks, the river of the banks
today is not like the the,
river before.
When in reality,
the river of the banks today is worse
than the river before.
Why?
Because the rebar before is
similar, 2 types.
Rebalfagal
and rebal nasia.
Rebalfagal
is this type of rebar
where you exchange the same commodity with additional
amount.
One kilo.
The barley
with 2 kilo ballgies.
Barley with the barley or rice or rice
or grain and wheat with wheat, 1 kilo
for 2 kilos. This was called.
That means
something several, something additional.
The other type of.
I come to you, and I borrow from
you 1,000.
You say, okay. When are you going to
to pay me back
after 1 year? I say, okay. It will
be 1200.
So the 200
the 200
is the price of the direct duration, the
time.
That is called the riba and nasiya.
The banks nowadays,
they are doing the 2, the combination of
the 2
Combination of the 2. You come to the
bank, you need the loan. Okay. Fine.
This is the interest rate.
So that is clear.
But how is it also at the same
time
Fadil?
You have to imagine
before,
the banknote you have
has equivalent weight of gold deposited.
So there is gold deposited there for this
banknote you have.
Let's say now, this 1,000,
okay, dirham or euro or dollar,
is the price of few grams of gold,
5 grams, 10 grams, whatever.
So when I borrowed this money from him,
actually, I borrowed like gold because that is
the what is deposited.
K. So he gave me 10 grams.
And now he's asking me to give it
back
12 grams.
So I I took 10 grams. I I'm
giving back 2 12 grams. So that is
also.
So
this is the nature of the
practice
in the banks.
So what's the is saying here?
Because they are saying the the
terms,
the,
the transaction
sales
just like
is like the the trade, like trade, like
buying and selling.
So, see, they make the comparison
between the buyer, sale,
and selling,
and rebar,
usually.
So this the ask is
is is is false
because they are not the same.
They're not identical.
They're totally different.
Totally different.
You say for example,
if I sell 1 kilo ice
for 2 kilos,
apple,
this is riba. No. It's not riba because
they are not the same.
So here,
the the,
selling or the trade
or commerce
is not like the river
not like the river.
So Allah made it very clear
that trading is not like river.
That's why Allah said,
And
we're happy to river because they are not
the same.
Then Allah says
If someone
receives admonition from Allah
and he wants
to repent,
He should quit.
So my dear brothers and sisters, if you
are dealing with riba,
you need to quit immediately
and turn to Allah and ask Allah forgiveness.
K?
So whoever rephrase after receiving
warning from their love from their lord
Allah will not hold him accountable
for what happened before
him.
And his affairs will be
left to Allah
whoever
goes back
or insists
to continue.
So those who persist
to continue
working
and dealing with the river,
it is they who will be the residents
of the fire.
The owners of the hellfire. They're on.
They are there for it. Permanent
residents.
They will be there forever
That fire.
May
Allah save us from that fire.
May Allah
forgive us of faults and states and ignorance.
May Allah
keep us to remain
steadfast in this beautiful deen.
Until we meet Allah
and find him
pleased with all of us,
May Allah forgive us
our mistakes,
our ignorance,
and may Allah
guide our to the and unite our
and may Allah bless us with the beneficial
knowledge of righteous deeds.
And may all of you, my dear brothers
and sisters, immensely,
for your patience and attendance.
I mean,
We received a few questions here. If you'd
like to move on to the question answer,
please let me know.
One minute.
I haven't received the questions.
Hello.
Be with you in a second.
Should I read the first question, Shay?
I think I got it. One question about
the protesting.
Right?
Yes.
Okay.
Listen to me, my dear brothers and sisters.
Now how many times we've we've protested?
Hundreds of times. Right?
Out.
Whenever there's a problem, you see,
for tests everywhere.
And then
few days,
they start
producing,
dying,
and back to square 1, and everyone will
go back to his normal life.
Okay. The say or the same day the
same day,
he is there in the in the,
demonstration
or in the,
this,
march or this
protest
procession,
shouting,
sweating,
all that.
After that, he'll go back home.
He will take his meal,
enjoy himself.
Okay.
And he will say,
He thinks now,
He did,
his part,
what he's supposed to do.
So it's just a way of venting
and bringing out the emotions.
What
what is the fruit?
Did this particular individual
came back to our
did he repent?
Did this sister who was
for hours
holding the the speaker,
You could see her veins are
I don't know. Not
did she repent?
Did she come to Allah?
These
100 or 1000 Muslim,
did they come back to Allah?
That's the question.
That's the question.
Because Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, he wants the
Muslim to come back to him.
It's not difficult.
Allah
promised,
and he doesn't break his bones.
But there are conditions.
He wants the Muslim to come,
to return to him,
to repent,
to quit the Haram,
to become true Muslims.
I told you many times.
K? Muslims are the actionary,
and the enemies, they know. They calculate
their reaction to the minute.
They know it.
This was last for this they have statistics.
They have archives.
They have databases.
They know.
Let them shout.
Next question, please.
The next question
is by courting,
boycotting from the shay from the sunnah. Like
if you know a particular company that is
used,
to, and like their quality, but found out
they send a percentage to designers.
Should I stop buying from them?
Do
you support your enemy?
It's common sense.
A Muslim
should not support his enemies.
It it goes without saying.
You should not support your enemies.
Or if you know someone
is
killing your brother,
are you going to support him?
Alongside.
Next.
Sorry. So the question was, is boycotting from
the sunnah?
And then that was the
My
my question to the questioner,
is it from the sunnah
to help someone who's killing my brother?
Answer. Next question, please.
Waraklafiqam.
The next question
is a Muslim person accountable
if he disobeyed because he or her has
been giving
only 2 cards available,
either do this or die?
Again. Again?
Is a Muslim person accountable
if he disobeyed because he or her has
been given only 2
cards of 2 choices available,
either do this or die.
And is a Muslim person accountable if he
disobeyed because he or
she
has been given 2 cards available, either do
this or die.
2 cards?
I think it means choices.
Okay. 2 choices. Okay.
Either do this or die.
Of course, the,
the beauty of Islam,
if a Muslim is
under,
stretch or under pressure
and,
it reaches that he is,
going to
to lose his wife.
Okay.
Then here, he has to commit the lesser
evil.
For example,
when the were
the Mushiriks, they were,
torturing,
Ammar. They were torturing Ammar,
and he felt that he was going to
be
killed.
So they told him, if you want us
to stop torturing you,
then you have to say something bad about
the prophet.
And he
did, so they stopped beating him.
He went to the and
he was,
I mean, unhappy.
And he said, oh, prophet of Allah, they
didn't let me come
until
I said something
horrible
about you.
The prophet asked him, how do you feel?
What is there in your heart? He said,
a prophet will lie.
And the heart, I hated what I did.
K. But I just said it to save
my life.
So the prophet told
him,
If they torture you again
and there was no way
to stop them from doing that except to
say it again,
to say bad things,
horrible things
about me,
say it again,
and I'll do it.
But the only
said
regarding if someone
is asking me to kill someone,
is putting the gun
here in my head.
Say, kill him or I will kill you.
In this case, I should not kill
because my life is not better than his
life,
So you should not
kill. So you should you accept to be
killed rather than killing someone.
This is not justified for you to kill
someone.
But apart from that,
when you are tortured
and you have no other
chance,
then you commit the lesser evil.
Next question.
This was the last question from my end.
If there's anyone who wants to ask the
question live, please do so now.
Otherwise,
we can conclude the lesson.
With that said, I would like to hand
it back to the sheikh to conclude the
lesson.
Sorry. No. No. No. We haven't received
one question.
I know that the prophet was dealing with
the. The prophet
was dealing with the. We know that.
Okay? And he had business with them, etcetera.
But when
you are in a situation
where
someone if I help him,
he,
that will affect
my brother,
and he is killing my brothers,
then it's a different issue. It's a different
issue.
Well, this is the
brings us to the end of today's,
session,
today's,
class.
May
Allah save our Umma, save our brothers,
wherever they are, those who are oppressed, those
who
are ill treated, those who are
around,
and
Allah. May Allah send in their iman, and
may
Allah reward them
immensely.
And
may Allah reward all of you, my dear
brothers and sisters, immensely for your patience
and attendance.
Until we meet in the coming session,
I leave you in Allah's company and protection.