Salem Al Amry – Lesson 8 Weekly Class Virtues of Islam
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The speaker discusses the importance of following guidance and guidance in achieving personal transformation and achieving a spiritual connection. They emphasize the need to be mindful of one's actions and to be prepared for events. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of following revelation and avoiding sinful behavior. They stress the importance of protecting one's reputation and avoiding working in certain organizations. The speaker also advises against drinking alcohol and working in banks, and suggests focusing on one's memory and understanding the title of the book.
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And all,
students. Apologies for the delay.
The delay was on my end,
as I was not in reach of the
laptop.
Sincere apologies.
No problem.
If you're ready, Sheikh, we can begin.
Ready.
Okay.
Brothers and sisters. And
sisters.
And
welcome
to
our
weekly
lesson
of
the
virtues
of
Islam
with
our
sheikh,
and
I will pass the mic and the screen
to the Sheikh, and the Sheikh can begin
inshallah.
Dear brothers and sisters in Islam,
today is our weekly class, the virtues of
Islam.
And
that we are Muslims.
That Allah
made us
Muslims.
That Allah
made this Ummah
blessed Ummah
because this believes
in
the divine guidance that Allah sent down
for the deliverance
and to save humanity
from going astray.
Because my dear brothers and sisters,
A human being
consists of
we as humans,
we are made up of
spirit, soul,
body,
mind.
And these things,
these components,
they need to work together
in harmony.
This physical being along with the
soul,
which is
the driving force for this body.
Without that driving
force, which is the spirit and the soul,
the,
this body is
useless.
When Allah
made our father created our father, Adam,
It was just
peace,
physical peace,
body
lying there.
The police
looked into it.
So it hollowed.
So knew
that this is going to be a weak
human being.
Then the spirit was blown into it and
life has started.
So without the spirit, without the soul,
this body
is useless,
motionless.
But the moment this soul is blown, life
has started.
So
to keep these
components work together in harmony,
we need to follow
the divine instructions,
which our creator who made this
complex
physique and this body,
he told us how to
strike the balance and how to maintain them.
So the moment we
drift away and
decided
decided not to follow the instructions
how to maintain this
complex machinery,
then we'll we start to suffer.
We start to suffer. Why we start to
suffer? We start to suffer because we don't
know
the
and the complexities
about this machinery. We don't know.
We don't know. Every day, we are discovering
things about this body.
Leave alone the the other driving voice, the
soul. We don't we know nothing about it.
So the moment we start
to live following
the instructions
set down sent down by the creator
who made us the maker,
we start to suffer,
and this is our problem today.
This is the dilemma of humanity today.
The dilemma of the humanity today
is when we, when humanity,
turned away,
drifted away
from
following
the divine guidance and instructions
came from
above,
from the maker, from the creator
who knows everything about us.
So the world
is suffering.
The world is full of tragedies,
agonies,
plights.
Why?
This is the
the natural outcome.
When you reject the divine guidance,
and remember, my dear brothers and sisters,
a human being,
by default,
he is ignorant
and arrogant.
We are ignorant
and arrogant at the same time.
We think we know when we don't know,
and this is compound ignorance.
We don't know that we don't know.
We think we know
when the reality, we don't.
That's why we make blunders.
And because of this blunders and this
this arrogance
and ignorance,
humanity is suffering.
The cases of misery,
you can read
on the faces
of the inhabitants of this planet.
These traces, these marks
are vividly
red because the inhabitants of this planet decided
not to follow the instructions
of one who placed us on this planet.
And chose not to follow his
guidance,
his revelation.
So naturally, inevitably,
what we are going through is just a
natural
result.
Expect it.
Expect it.
You don't want to follow
my way?
You don't want to follow my instructions?
You want to learn your own life the
way you like?
Go and bear the consequences.
Bear the consequences.
And this what we are going, this what
we are experiencing, this what we are
suffering today,
suffering from from this arrogance and ignorance.
The one who created us, told us this
is the way.
This what you how you should behave.
I placed you on this planet.
I made it suitable for your living. I
provided
for you everything.
I made it full of resources for you,
for everyone on the planet, sufficient resources.
Do not corrupt it. Maintain it as is.
We decided
not to follow that.
We decided to correct
our ecology, to correct our environment,
to correct our lives.
So the result
is expected
misery,
agony, pains, plights.
And this is what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
told us
clearly
in his book.
Allah says in Surat Paha
at 123
to 124.
Allah says,
then when guidance comes to you from me,
then you
then whoever follows my guidance
guidance
shall neither go astray
nor be distressed.
But whoever turns away from my reminder
will have a life of hardship.
Exactly
This is the proper diagnosis.
This is the proper
description
of our situation.
Then when guidance comes to you from me,
because he loves us.
He created us,
and he loves us.
And he knew our nature.
He knew we are ignorant.
He knew we are arrogant.
That's why he's called the rub. A rub.
You know the meaning of rub?
From the.
He nurtures us,
develops us
from one state to another,
from
weakness,
feebleness
to strength,
to maturity.
This how the curve of the son of
Adam, like this.
Then you reach the plateau, the peak, then
you start to
fall.
So he knows us.
Isn't
who
created?
No?
He's the most subtle,
the most aware.
He's so subtle. He knows the details.
He is aware of everything about us.
Just if you want to
to see the greatness of Allah and the
knowledge of Allah, look
into this complex machinery.
Study yourself
and see
what the biologists they tell you, what psychologists
they tell you.
Amazing.
He creates it, so he knows everything about
us.
And he knows what is good for us
and what is bad for us, what will
benefit us and what will harm us.
He knows
that.
So he provided us
with his guidance because he's our love.
That's why you need
to love this creator.
He's your love.
He nourishes
us. He nurtures us. He brings us up.
He develops us,
and he takes care of us.
The
So when my god, there's come still.
You want to have
beautiful life,
balanced life,
peaceful life, happy life. Do you want that?
Follow my instructions.
Follow my guidance
because I love you, and I provided you
with the guidance.
I provided you
with
this
set of instructions.
If you follow them,
you will prosper and you will be successful
in this life,
and you will
enter my kingdom.
You will enter
paradise
where you're going to have everlasting life. So
you have happy life here
and an everlasting
blissful life in the next life.
And the one who's talking is Allah.
So whoever follows my Hidayah,
my guidance, my hudah that I sent for
you
can neither go astray
nor be distressed.
This will never happen to him.
He will not go astray.
Humanity
today is lost.
Lost.
They went astray
from the
straight
line,
from the they are off the track. They're
not on the right track.
So Allah's saying, if you follow my guidance,
do not go astray,
neither go astray
or have misery
and miserable life, the.
Nor be distressed.
You will not have this misery.
But the moment you
leave the right the safe path,
misery
starts.
And the more
you go away from the state line, from
the state path, your misery
increases.
So the more deviant you become, the more
miserable
your life becomes.
What to do? Come back. Come back.
Come back to the
come back.
Come back to Allah
because he promised that if you follow my
guidance,
you will never go astray.
You'll never.
Will
not have this miserable life,
will not be deseced,
Then the eye to follow.
This is
124,
Allah says, woman
woman.
And whoever.
But
whoever,
Araba,
k, tells the way.
And decree
from my reminder,
from my remembrance,
from my revelation
and decree.
What will happen to him, our lord?
What is the inevitable
outcome and result?
Again, Arabic language, my dear brothers and sisters.
K? Okay?
This is
which is
letter
of condition.
So if, for example, you say,
Mendelosa.
Okay. Whoever studied
passed.
So
the first part of which comes after this
letter,
we call it.
And then the fulfillment
is called,
the fulfillment of the condition.
K. So
Allah saying,
whoever turns away. Okay.
So what will happen to him?
What is the fulfillment?
What will be the outcome? What will be
the result?
But whoever turns away from my reminder
will have a life.
Life
of hardship.
Vanka.
Actually, the vank is the narrowness.
So your life will become so narrow
so narrow.
You can't breathe,
and this is what you feel.
People are saying,
I'm not happy.
I'm worried. I'm anxious.
Go to the clinics of the psychiatrists
and psychologists
and see the long queue.
People
having
psychological
problems,
depression.
Anxiety,
all
these types of diseases.
They are living in this manic,
this narrow
narrowness of life.
They have money. They have
still,
if they are missing something, yes,
you are missing something
because the other driving
force, the source of the driving force,
the soul
which makes you a human being,
is suffering,
and you have neglected it.
And you don't know how
to quench the thirst of that crying
soul. You don't know.
So you think you can
remove this depression
or this sorrow or this sadness
by alcohol,
by drugs, by women,
that makes your situation worse
worse.
Like, a person who's thirsty,
and he is drinking king
salty water.
That will not quench your thirst.
If you drink the water of the sea
to quench your thirst,
that it will only intensify
your thirst.
So whoever
turns away from my zikr, from my guidance,
from my remembrance,
my reminder,
which I sent for them,
This is in Arabic.
Most certainly,
for surety,
for him,
Allah
is confirming
and affirming.
He's going to have this,
life which is so narrow,
so
unhappy,
so miserable life,
life full of hardships,
what is
anxieties.
And on top of this, what will happen?
We'll raise him in blind.
We'll raise him on the day of his
resurrection. We will resurrect him. He will come
out of his grave or her grave.
Blind.
Blime.
He doesn't see his way.
You
see? May Allah make it easier on that
day.
That day
See what this
I
The graves will be scattered.
They were not open
gracefully
and easily. No.
Things will be opened
so quick,
and they will be scattered
when people are
out of their graves,
naked,
shivering,
tumbling.
They don't know where to go.
And you come out, and you are blind.
Blind.
Blind.
You'll be resurrected?
Blind.
The same Surataha,
I am 125.
He would say,
my lord,
why have you raised me blind
when I was one seeing?
In the,
I was not blind.
Physically, I was not blind. Yes.
Spiritually, I was blind,
but physically, I was not.
And now I am raised up,
resurrected,
blind.
My
My lord, why have you raised me up
blind
when I was once saying? I will answer
them, I am 126.
Oh, I was just 1.
It is so
just as our revelations
came to you,
and you neglected them.
So today,
you are neglected.
This is your reward.
You neglected our revelations.
Today, we will neglect you.
We ignore you.
You have been ignoring
my instructions,
my teachings.
You rejected
my messengers.
So now bear the consequences.
It is so?
Just ask because our signs,
our revelations,
our my
verses
came to you,
but you didn't
they hid.
You were heedless,
and you neglected them.
That means you ignored
the proofs, the signs
that
were presented to you, shown to you.
Today, they're neglected.
So in addition to the miserable life in
this world,
which humanity is going through,
And there's no way out for humanity
except to come back to Allah,
to come back to their creator,
and to follow
his guidance.
To follow
to follow
the
revelation
which is still and it is pristine
for
the revelation
that has not been adulterated.
Adulterated
and will never be adulterated,
and no one can
change it.
And that is Al
Quran and the Islam.
So the solution, my dear brothers and sisters,
for the misery of humanity,
for the suffering of humanity is Al Islam.
Yes.
Al Islam is the solution
to come back to Allah.
Otherwise,
you lose this world,
this lie
life in this world,
and you
have miserable life,
and then you the great loss
is in the, like, next life.
Then the after that, 127,
Allah says.
This is how we reward whoever
transgresses
and does not believe in the revelations
of their Lord.
The punishment of the hereafter
is far more
severe
and more more lasting.
Allah says,
This is how Allah says,
we reward.
We compensate.
K?
This is how we reward you ever
to transgress.
Because the israf
is to go to extremes,
to cross all the limits.
Cross the limits.
As Allah says,
So
say, oh my servants,
that means you wronged yourself
beyond any imaginable
limit.
You wronged yourself.
You crossed other limits.
You committed
all types of sins,
all types of sins.
Even the sins maybe Shaytan himself
didn't think of,
you committed.
Tell them,
oh my servants,
who went and crossed all the limits
in sinfulness and in sinning.
See the mercy of Allah.
See the rahmah of Allah.
See how much he loves you.
My lord,
no sin I left except that I committed.
I know.
But all your sins
in comparison
to my mercy, they're nothing.
Nothing.
So don't think
your sins
cannot be forgiven by me.
I can't forget that.
That's why
when you pray to Allah, don't say, oh,
Allah, forgive me if you wish.
Say, oh, Allah, forgive me,
and you should be certain that Allah will
forgive you.
Oh, son of Adam,
when you sinned to reach this clouds,
you sinned to reach the clouds,
then you meet me.
Without associating any partner with me, I will
forgive you all your sins, and I don't
mind.
If your sins were to reach the cloud,
hit the clouds.
That means what?
Your sin filled the whole earth,
and then started to pile up
and reach the clouds.
Then you meet Allah without associating
any partner. He will forgive you.
So do not lose hope.
Do not despair for lozenges.
Verily, Allah forgives all types of sins, including
the shirk if you repent.
Certainly, he is
often forgiven,
most merciful, and often merciful.
So Allah is the, the forgiven.
So here,
So the israf to go to cross the
limit.
So this
one,
so cross the limits.
Test pass the limits.
Whoever does not
believe in the revelations of their Lord,
he did not
believe in the why.
Wahi.
And the punishment of the hereafter
is far
more severe
and more lasting.
Suffering and the punishment in the earth is
nothing
in comparison
to
what is there ahead,
What awaits
the one who rejects Allah's guidance.
They have fire.
So dark, so black.
It's fuel men and rocks.
They drink boiling water
and the pass of the
the people of hellfire.
That is the
the punishment in the hellfire.
More painful,
more severe,
and more
lasting. Doesn't stop.
Doesn't stop.
Continuous
punishment.
So every
moment their skins are burnt,
we replace their skins
with the new skins.
Why?
To taste the punishment.
Because the the sensors
that
make you to feel the pain
are just under the skin,
the receptor, the sensors.
So if the skin is burnt,
sensors are burnt, so you don't feel.
That's why when you get the jab or
the injection,
okay,
You feel the the moment the
needle goes in. After that, you don't feel
it.
K.
So Allah
replaces their skins in the hellfire.
So whenever the skins
and see the expression, the,
the skins became,
roasted.
A
new skin is is formed.
So continuous
torture.
May Allah save us from the fire.
So this what will happen.
So I was saying,
One last thing.
Then the I had to follow 128.
Then has it not become clear to them
how many generations
we decide before them
as they walk among their dwellings?
Indeed,
in that are signs
for those of intelligence.
Let us reflect.
Haven't they realized?
Has it not become clear to them?
Come. This is come.
Come has two meanings.
To ask about the number.
How
many books have you
read?
And also the other meaning,
which means
so many
to denote
the greatness of the number.
So here, it's not
asking about it's not
inquisitive. It's not
a question
to ask about,
how many books you have read. Not
it tells you there are so many.
Not how many we we
we
we
we destroy.
No?
It tells you there are so many generations
we destroy.
So many
generations we destroy before that.
How many generations
we decide?
Let us reflect, my dear brothers.
Lead the history.
Perished nations.
What happened to the nations,
to the human beings before the flood? What
happened to them?
Finish. Ground.
And
new nation is formed.
From Noor, Noah,
and his children.
K? That's why, okay, we have Sam and
David and
Ham.
These are the children of Nuh, and all
humanity,
this big family
are descendants from the children
of Nuh, alaihis salaam.
How about those revolts?
Washed away.
And then
after that,
many nations were
destroyed
because they became rebellious.
What happened to the
the and
Ad?
And surround
his people.
So that's why if you travel and see
their ruins and
what they left behind,
Allah destroyed them.
So Allah is telling us,
don't you see?
Why don't you deduce lessons
from what happened to the nations before you?
They were more powerful than you.
See what they did. See their works.
The,
they carved cities
carved
cities
into
the mountains
in the mountains.
And they built a city
that there's no city, no parallel for it.
And
they should.
This city,
I'm clearly just I'm saying,
is valid under the sun news in Arabia.
Iram,
the city of the massive columns.
There's not city like it
in the entire
earth.
No city like it.
Where is it?
Got it.
See the
measurements,
which is still puzzle
for the scientists today.
How they managed
to construct such
massive
buildings,
pyramids,
which are actually tombs
for the pharaohs.
So Allah is saying,
drawing our attention, reminding us.
And this
not the numerical
It is informing
the informative
or the that informs out there are so
many.
So many generations we destroy.
So what does it mean here? Allah is
telling, I destroy many generations,
And if you keep test passing and following
and taking on their path,
this is what was going to happen to
you also.
And if you turn away, as Allah said,
If you turn away, Allah will substitute you
with others
who are better than you. They're not really
like you.
So Allah is telling us,
what is wrong with you?
Don't you reflect?
Don't you see
what's happened to the
nations before you,
many generations?
I destroyed them.
Now do you you walk among their dwellings?
You walk among their dwellings,
and you don't deduce lessons.
You
go to their dwellings
taking selfie
instead of crying,
instead of deducing lessons.
That's why the prophet
when he passed by the dwellings of the
moon,
for
Rasal,
the northern part of Saudi Arabia today,
he walked quickly,
and he told the Sahaba,
cry.
If you can't cry, pretend to cry.
And don't touch anything. Don't
take water. Don't take food because things remain
intact.
Because the the places
that Allah destroy,
once you not go to these places.
And if it happens that you pass by,
then cry
and walk quickly.
The when
he
left from Arafa
after the day of Arafa and the Hajj,
he passed by the valley of Mahasal,
the valley in which Allah destroyed
the battalion
of the elephant,
the
the army of
the Ablaha, the Abyssinian,
who came to
destroy the Kaaba.
So when he was crossing the valley, he
crossed it so hastily, so quickly.
We destroyed before them as they walked among
the dwellings.
Who are saying indeed in that are signs
of those who are intelligent.
Signs were those of intelligence.
And
means our all minds.
Those
who have minds,
those who reflect, those who think,
and deduce lessons.
Also, I will say to my dear brothers
and sisters,
the Surah to Zukhruv, I had 130
If anyone withdraws himself from the remembrance of
Rahman,
the most merciful.
We appoint for him an evil one
to be an intimate companion to him.
Let us reflect.
Whoever
turns away and withdraws
from the remembrance of Allah,
the most merciful
the most merciful Allah.
So you shun the
of Allah
because the
of Allah
gives you life.
Gives life to your heart,
gives life to your soul.
Verily in the remembrance of Allah.
Verily, in the remembrance of Allah,
the hearts find
peace,
tranquility,
serenity.
You
feel sad?
Sad the dickhead.
This is a beautiful dua.
If you're
sad,
say
this dua.
By Allah.
If you read it from the bottom of
your heart sincerely,
by the time you finish it,
you see the relief.
You see the relief.
So the my dear brothers and sisters, always
keep yourself
self
engaged in
the. Keep this tank always busy
with the
always.
This time should be always wet because of
the
Listen
to
his on the program.
K?
You could hear.
His tongue is moving.
The the gap between
the pose in which the the interviewer
is arranging the questions,
You
see? You could hear.
His tongue is moving. That's it. Look.
You sit with him when he's eating
Before taking the second morsel,
his tongue is moving.
That is the salaf. That is the life
of our forefathers.
Because
the gives life.
The strengthens the imam.
The dikr
is a sign and a proof
that you are not because
the hardly makes.
So if you are making, that means you
are not a.
You're not a.
So the prophet
they hear him.
They are counting his always.
He's
remembering Allah.
So Sheikh Sheikh Rashid Islam have been saying,
said,
The likeness
of the to the heart
is like the water for the fish.
Take out the fish out of water, a
fish out of water.
What will happen to that fish? It will
die.
The same thing. No. Ezekiel, your heart will
die.
Your heart will die,
and your heart will become so hard.
So verily,
I love
you. This tranquility and serenity and peace
comes from the.
You shun the and you leave the,
your heart will die.
Because the make you always a remembrance of
Allah.
So now you shun and you left
remembering Allah
What will happen to you?
Who will be? When you are in the
Dhikr,
who's around
you? Who is around you? The angels.
Angels.
They like you. They like those who remember
Allah.
Now
what will happen?
Shaikan
will be your companion.
Yep. The Shaikan.
We appoint to him. Okay? You leave the
zikim,
see what will happen to you.
We appoint to an evil one, shaytan,
to be an intimate companion to him.
This shaytan is with him.
K? They're shaitan from the geno, shaitan from
the human.
And the shaitan from among the human beings
is worse, more
dangerous,
more dangerous.
Because the shaitan of the when you say
he leaves you.
Shaitan from the he'd say,
May Allah protect me from your evil, and
he's laughing at you.
Come on. Come on. Come on. Let's go.
So
Allah's saying that if you are in the,
you'll be protected. You live in the, this
what will happen to you. You know?
An evil
one
to be an intimate companion to him.
Okay.
And thus, we have made
for every prophet and enemy,
devils from mankind
and jinn,
inspiring to one another,
declarative speech,
elegant
words, and delusion.
But if your lord had willed, they would
not have done it,
so leave them and that which they
invent.
So Allah is saying in 1
112.
According to his divine wisdom.
Allah made
for every prophet.
Haddu, enemy.
Every prophet.
The
devils
from a man mankind
and the gen.
They are against this prophet.
Human beings,
And that's why my dear brothers and sisters,
the
the toughest
test
ever
was giving,
it was giving to a large part and
messengers.
They suffered more than anyone.
They went through
tests,
trials,
sufferings.
As Imam Abu Sayyid,
oh, you fool.
This way, the way of the dua, the
way of the Islam,
the way of the
taking
the
message.
Oh, you who has weak
motive and
aspirations.
This way, this path,
the path
this path,
Noah cried in it.
While treading on this path, Noah,
950 years, he cried.
And
was
killed, executed,
beheaded.
Zakaria
was not beheaded, was cut into half.
Prophet Zakaria Zakaria was cut into half with
the.
Yahya was beheaded.
Musa
has a baby thrown into the sea.
Isa, alaihis salaam,
we know what he went through.
And finally, they decided to kill him, and
Allah saved him and took him out.
And Muhammad
he lost his teeth.
They placed the dirt on his back.
So
Allah is telling us, this what happened to
my own prophets.
So he is telling the callers and the
dua.
This is the way to the jannah.
What happened to your prophets
is going to happen to you.
K? So the way
to the jannah is not furnished with red
carpets
and bathed for you.
No.
You. So we may have made for every
prophet and enemy
Devils of mankind
and
yet inspiring to one another.
These devils, they inspire one another.
So inspiring to one another,
this decorative
speech,
elegant words,
in delusion,
to delude you.
Had your lord willed,
they would not have done it,
but Allah will these things
universally.
Remember the will of Allah,
to
universal
will and the legal will.
So the things that
Allah
allowed to happen, to take place,
Though he didn't, he doesn't lie.
He allowed that
according to his universal will, and there's a
divine wisdom behind that
behind that.
So leave them and that which they invent.
So this is what Allah
taught us.
If we reject his guidance,
if we drift away,
if we choose to not follow
his instructions, his teachings,
then we have to bear the consequences,
and this what is going to happen to
to us,
and this what we are experiencing,
and this what we are going through
As human beings,
humanity
entirely is going is suffering and going through
these things.
The cure, the remedy to come back to
Allah,
May Allah guide all of us and bring
us back
to him, Ameen, and may Allah
keep us to remain
steadfast
on this beautiful deen
till we meet him, and he is pleased
with all of us, Ameen.
And may Allah forgive us our faults and
mistakes and ignorance. May Allah
unite our May Allah unite our hearts,
and may Allah reward all of you, my
dear brothers and sisters,
for your patience,
dedication,
and your attendance.
And may Allah give us the strength to
follow this path until we reach and maintain
our goals. I mean,
with your permission, Sheikh Salman, can we please
take some questions?
Okay.
Assalamu alaikum.
I would like to know if it's permissible
to sell bubblegum,
particularly the one that has the fake cartoon,
which is like
a a tattoo,
and the children then stick it on their
on their arms. But it's a fake tattoo.
They want to know if that's permissible.
Because, and they are tattoo?
Yes. But they're yes. Speak.
Okay. So, no, they should not do these
things. Even though if it is it's not
real tattoo,
but it looks like the tattoo.
So if I see you
having this, I think that you have the
tattoo.
So, Muslim should, always
avoid doubtful matters.
Right?
And always, you should not do something that
will make people think
bad about you.
K? Because
tattooing the tattooing is haram. As we know,
the tattoo is haram.
And,
and this is the problem. The problem today,
especially women, I don't know. And then they
get upset with us and angry
when the prophet
said they have little minds.
K.
K. Little minds in the sense of what?
There
is deficiency in their way of thinking,
and they are the the customers of all
this stuff.
K?
Eyelashes,
they go and stick and buy.
Nails, they go and buy and stick nails
because
they are not content.
They don't have this have this contentment
with what Allah has given them.
They're not satisfied with Allah's creation.
They always feel
something is missing.
What does the beauty tell me to
go and buy
artificial nails, and you stick them?
Islam says from the fitla
the fitla, the nature,
disposition
that Allah created as upon is to cut
and clip the nails,
not to grow your own nails.
Now they are growing their own nails,
and they buy Activision Nails and stick on
that. What is this?
My dear sisters, wake up.
You're a Muslim.
Don't be just
running,
breathless
after the fashion.
This is the fashion. This is how things
this is how you should cut your hair.
This is how you should dress.
And you
have bio magazines
about these
issues, about the fashions.
K? This is the latest
fashion.
This is the latest. What is latest latest?
Most of the the
women who work, most of this income, these
salaries, spent on these things
spent on these things.
So the
the Muslim
should have this
contentment
that should not change Allah's creation.
And be happy with what Allah has given
you.
Don't imitate men.
So
tattooing is halal. To have a tattoo is
halal. Now they are stickers. You want to
stick.
Why? So you want someone if he sees,
there is tattoo
to say, may Allah curse you? You want
that?
When Islam tells us that we need to
protect
ourselves and not to give
people any
clue
to doubt our
piety and our righteousness and our deen and
our,
uprightness.
The prophet,
he was in the in the masjid.
And then Sophia, his wife, came to
visit her, and her home is a bit
far, little bit far.
And it was night.
So the prophet
decided
to come out from the Masih from the
to
accompany her till she
reaches home.
In the way,
2 of the Sahaba
in the way, 2 of the Sahaba, they
saw the
with a woman,
so they walked quickly. He said, slow down.
Slow down.
Here's my wife,
The the Sahaba said, oh, prophet of Allah
we could never think anything about you.
Said, no. Shaitan
flows
within the stream of blood
of the son of man, son of Adam.
So here, the immediately
defended himself
so that
they should not think anything about him. That's
one thing. Second thing, the Ullam other said
and this here shows the Rahmah in the
heart of the prophet.
He
wanted
to he decided to talk to them
so that
shaitan will not play with their minds and
with that idea in their mind. Because the
moment you start to doubt
your prophet
and his honor and his honesty, and
then this will take you out of Islam.
So in order to block the way
and stop
and prevent them from satanic whispers,
he addressed them.
So always,
my dear brothers and sisters,
protect your reputation.
Don't
do anything that people will think bad about
you.
Is this clear to the questioner?
Yes,
Very good. Yes. Yes.
Okay. Sadman Sakib, can you please unmute your
mic and go ahead and ask your question?
Assalamu
alaikum.
For the session.
Beneficial as usual.
Sheikh,
I have a question regarding, you know, Dawa.
I recently meet,
Muslim who just, you know, left Islam,
and he asked me a very serious question
all the time that, I think he has
been affected with homosexuality,
and this is why he left Islam. So
he asked me that, is it okay to
be Muslim and also, you know, support of
LGBTQ or, like, practicing homosexuality.
So, I stuck in this question, and I
could answer him because,
I told him that,
this is not good. It's sinful.
But I really don't have the answer.
If you can shed light on this channel.
See, this is the,
the shaitan. The shaitan has has many ways
to
to mislead,
people.
Remember, it could either, the shaitan,
could either
mislead
us through
doubts
by doubts or through desires, lusts.
So if he fails to
convince you
through doubts,
so he comes through the Shahwat,
desires.
So this person now, he's
he's a homosexual.
Homosexuality
is a sin, is a abomination,
a major sin.
K? But it's not kufar. It's not disbelief.
So if a Muslim is a homosexual,
this will not make him. He's a sinner.
He's a sinner. So he should not leave
Islam
because he's a homosexual.
As a matter of fact, should remain as
a Muslim
and practice the
and ask Allah
to Allah
to cure him and to remove,
this desire from his heart,
not to fall totally
in the
in the love of the shaitan
and leave a swap because that is what
the shaitan wants.
See, the shaitan,
when he makes you commit a sin,
he will not leave you there. No. No.
No.
Satan is just he pulls our legs.
That's why you progress. You develop.
You go deeper and deeper into the mire
of symphonies.
He pulls your legs more and more.
You started by just smoking a cigarette,
then the weeds,
then marijuana,
then all all all. He will take you.
Will he leave you? No.
They will make you to commit crimes,
to kill, to join gangs.
Will he leave you? No. There. No. Until
you leave Islam.
Okay. The moment you leave Islam, he's happy.
That's why the
the ulama, they say a sin bleeds another
sin. A sin
bleeds another sin.
So this brother
has to repent,
come back to an Islam,
and if this
he carried on, continue
sinning,
This should not stop him
from paying, fasting,
and doing the other commitments.
And he is simple, and he has to
understand this.
And he should cry and ask Allah
sincerely
to help him
to get rid of this,
to remove that feeling.
And he can seek medical
help,
medication.
Homosexuals can be treated.
They can be treated,
and they can have normal life.
So this is my advice, Suham. May Allah
guide him,
and may Allah grant him
the ability and give him the tawhid to
leave this bad habit. I
mean, this is my advice.
Is this clear?
Also, the same thing,
maybe in the dawah also, someone comes and
say, I want to become a Muslim, but
I am a homo. I am homosexual.
Say no. Come. Become Muslim.
Inshallah, then you will leave homosexuality.
Become a Muslim. Don't let homosexuality
stops you from becoming a Muslim.
I'm alcoholic.
I can't quit drinking alcohol.
Become a Muslim.
Because the prophet accept it from the man,
and he say, I have I like Islam,
but I have resistance.
Some issues in my heart. Say,
accept Islam.
K?
Let's say now
you are kafir and you are alcoholic.
Then you become a Muslim and you are
alcoholic. It is far better
than staying as and alcoholic.
Because now y'all are Muslim,
you're not.
And if you die, it's up to Allah
to forgive you or to punish you.
And if he punishes you, he will never
you will never stay in the hellfire forever.
You'll come out from it,
which is far better than staying and remaining
as a disbeliever,
where you will remain in the hellfire forever.
The same thing,
a sister,
she is married,
and her husband is not interested, and she's
interested.
And she knows that. She has to leave
her house.
So she's decided to become a Muslim and
stay for a while with her husband. She's
simple,
but we should not tell her you cannot
become Muslim, ma,
unless and until you live here.
Even if you carried on
living with her husband, she is simple, but
she is not.
And the
scholars, they
elaborated
and expounding on this issue,
quite extensively in their books.
Next question, please.
Okay. This brother has asked this question before,
but it just needs
some clarity.
Is a financial institution
allowed to
is a financial
institution allowed to offer services
such as school fees,
funding,
traveling, logistics,
flight booking, and financial services in general,
whereby the institution
sponsors
these services and the beneficiary
pays back over a period
of months.
And the institution
charges them for the services rendered.
Will this translate into or
not?
Okay. This, question,
my dear questioner,
provide me with more inputs,
okay, about the nature of what they are
doing exactly,
and forward the question, and you'll get the
answer.
Next question, please. Okay.
What is the best, to lead the congregation
prayer or to pray with gaps due to
COVID government
restrictions?
Would you mind repeating whether to pray Yeah.
Should you leave the the congregational
prayer, or you should or they should just
continue going to the prayer
and just follow the guidelines
made by the government?
Okay.
Okay. So the question I was asking, what
is better, just pray at home
or to go to the Masjid, draw the
rows and not
foot to foot and
Yes. Exactly.
So they are
praying distant from each other, maintaining the
the instructions
regarding COVID 19. Now
to attend the congregational
is better, far better.
Unless you have,
other
excuses.
For example,
you are sick. You yourself, you're sick.
K? And you fear that you might,
contract and get
the infection.
So in that case, you are excused to
exempt,
to pay at home.
So if you are sick, you have other,
diseases, and
your immune system is not that strong, you
can play at home.
Next.
Okay. That was clear to this question.
Sheikh, can you please give your opinion on
this book
titled
Advice for Strengthening One's Memory
and Curing Forgetfulness
by.
I I
have no idea about this book. So
just so if you can send me the
name, I will check it,
and and I will,
let you know.
Okay.
Dear honorable Sheikh Salim.
It's sunnah to
say
7
times
and to say also 7 times
after each prayer
or salah.
The dua
is there,
but to say and to apply it that
after the salawat, after fajr,
I haven't come across something that this is
among the that you say after the salawat.
But you can say it in any other
time, but to say, remember,
what makes something bitter when you
start practicing it and make it that at
this particular time,
like to in the adkar of the salah,
and you add something which is not part
of the adkar.
Dua
in itself, the dua is allowed,
but not at this particular moment.
So stick to the adkar that reported
in the Hadith of the
And then this dua, yes, it is reported
that you read 7 times.
You can say it another time, and Allah
knows best.
Is this clear to the questioner?
Yes. Inshallah.
Question. Can someone work in an organization
that represents banks
lobbying on behalf
of financial
institutions?
Represent banks, that means they
not send they represent them. They are part
of the banks.
So to work in
any
organization
deals with Riba,
and the business is based on Riba. A
Muslim should
avoid working in such organization.
Because is
is not something
that should be treated lightly,
because
Allah wages war against whoever
involves in the bank.
So to work in banks is halal.
So any organization
that is its business is based on
Riba,
Muslim should not work on such organizations.
I hope this is clear.
Next.
Yes.
If not, they'll give please please give me
more information if you want another answer.
Can can Sheikh please give his personal advice
to improve our memory?
You see, the best advice
from Allah
that we
We have to fear Allah.
What
taqwa?
Taqwa So fear Allah, Allah will teach you.
So taqwa is the cure.
You shun the halal.
You eat halal.
You
safeguard
your senses from the halal,
then
you will be able to focus. You'll be
able to memorize.
You will be able to do many things.
But if we are
leaving our senses loose,
uncontrolled,
indulge into sinfulness,
no matter what you do,
The
the will
be not given to you
because the is light.
Light.
And Allah gives this light only to whomever
he loves,
to whomever he loves.
So,
he say he
complained
to
his
said, I complained to my teacher.
I cannot
memorize
because Imam
Shabaib
was
giving
photographic memory.
He said about himself, when I'm reading the
book,
I cover page number 2 with my sleeve
because if I saw it with my, I'll
it before page number 1.
So I cover it.
So I said, one day, I tried to
memorize, I couldn't.
So something
strange.
So I ran to my chef
to ask
him. So he told me, Mohammed, check yourself.
What happened? What did he do?
So he said she called to
and
I complained to about my memory
and not my eyes.
So I've shared any letter.
He told me,
since that is it,
sins.
Shun, sinning.
And
he informed me.
He informed me that knowledge is light. And
this light of Allah, the knowledge which is
divine gift.
Ask you to not be given
as a gift,
not be given
to a sinner.
So if we want
the mamalai, if we want to retain the
knowledge,
sinning.
We should not wash haram. We should not
listen to the haram. We should not talk
Haram, reba, and this. We should not eat
Haram.
This is very, very important thing.
Then,
they mentioned.
K, they said,
what will help you to return the knowledge
after the and
the
and the and
the sincerity and the is
to repeat
the petition.
If you are memorizing
one ayah or one page of the Quran,
read it at least minimum 20 times.
Hadith more than 20 times.
Minimum 20 times you read it. So because
when you repeat,
it it it leaves the,
temporary
memory,
this volatile one, like the RAM,
and goes down
to the deep memory,
which will
stay there forever.
So repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat.
Not the moment you think you mamaize it,
you leave. After 5 times, 10 times. No.
Keep repeating, repeating, repeating
so that it will stay.
Also,
eat halal.
Very important thing.
Very important.
And then they mentioned,
especially the Muhammedithu
scholars of Habid, they always recommend
the raisin,
like the sultana raisin.
The
the the,
zebed. I say it is good for the
memory.
And
to have someone with you
who will help you,
So you are helping each other,
normalizing together, listening to each other.
This will help you.
May Allah
make it easy for all of us, Ameen.
Next.
Okay, Inshallah.
The questioner asking about the bank,
she says that the organization is not a
bank, but they just lobby on behalf of
banks
or represent the bank.
The same.
Because Allah says
They should not help
banks who are dealing with.
So to become
a facilitator
and you help this bank, you are helping
them.
You should not help them.
So then you are simple.
Because Allah is saying, so
cooperate and help each other regarding build righteousness.
Birb, which is generic term for all types
of good,
for good and righteous.
Well,
isn't do not help each other regarding
sinfulness and regarding sinning and haram
and transgression.
So it should not
facilitate and help
these organizations,
the banks,
and become their representative. It should not be
like that.
Next.
That was the last question, Sheikh Salaam, for
your patience with the questions.
If you take different What was the Yes.
May
Allah protect you, preserve you, protect your family.
And may Allah
bless us with the beneficial knowledge and righteous
deeds, and may Allah
accept our deeds and your deeds, and may
Allah overlook and forgive us our faults and
mistakes and ignorance, amen.
And may Allah elevate your status in this
world and the one to come, and may
Allah grant to all those who are sick,
amen.
And may Allah reward all of you, my
dear brothers and sisters, immensely
for your patience, attendance, and dedication.
Until we meet
in the coming sessions,
I leave you
in Allah's company and protection.