Shadee Elmasry – How Can I Increase My Iman in 2024 Lecture
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The Sun airline's use of the Prophet's presence as a way of argumentation is highlighted, as it is the dangerous fitna of Islam. The importance of belief in Islam is also discussed, including the rise of religious unity and the split decision among religion groups. The speakers stress the importance of having a dream to achieve success and disputing one's beliefs to elevate others.
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salatu salam ala Rasulillah he was a happy woman. First of all, I
really appreciate chick so spirit of bringing Muslims together and
reminded me of a saying from Satan the Jaffa Sadhak center Imam Jaffa
said
al l mu manifests at 11 Alma. And he said knowledge is to know the
differences between scholars. And what he meant by this is knowledge
is to know where the difference is accepted and where it's not
accepted. And very simply, if the no source of Quran have no other
possible meaning, that means this country
that means there is no difference allowed. If it's money, that means
V XML that it can have possible meanings. So therefore, the NF is
allowed. And I think that spirit is very important, also reminded
me but Hadith of the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Mala
Coleman by the hood and kenwa La Ilaha to each other.
know people
go astray after guidance that they used to be upon, except that they
were cursed or punished with argumentation Ooh, to the juggler
here is not
a just innocent thing. It's a punishment. And there are a
hallmark of that people is argumentation the hallmark of
misguidance is is argumentation and argumentation is something
that one of the great automat about Massoud had
never once sat in argumentation anymore. Malik was asked how to
judge will be sunnah call as sunnah to an x bar obey her
loyalty. And
he said, should we then should we debate innovators? Malik said, the
Sunnah is to inform people about the Sunnah not to debate with the
Sunnah. And a man came to Maverick and he said, Matic debate me. He
said, I'm not going to debate you. But if I debated you, what would
happen if I when he said I'll follow you? It said, what
happened? If you went and said, you follow me? He said, What
happens if a third person comes and defeats us both? He said we
both follow him. He said, It's not a dean, if you keep changing your
opinion like this,
not opinion on matters of opinion, because marriage changes opinion
on matters of opinion, where the techs can have matters of opinion,
this was about the foundations. We keep changing. One day on this
next day, I'm this next time that there's not a dean, you're not on
Dean, you're on doubt. He said you are of a man of doubt, and I'm a
man of certainty. I know what's true and what's false. So go find
another person of doubt and debate with him more than what you wanted
to be.
So as Minh Asuna Al Akbar of Asuna Lalji Daniel Anna, not
argumentation about it. The topic today is how we increase our Eman
that we are living in a world many people may imagine and think that
Amen. And everyone is weak. And we have sins, that the previous
generations forget the set of our grandparents would roll in their
grave if they knew the sins that people commit to that our
grandparents who are barely even praying five times a day would
have been more pure than some of the religious people of today. The
sins that are committed by Even good people today.
But here's the good news.
And there's never hardship except Allah brings with it to ease as
well as the promise I seldom said when I hear labor and also you
strain. And why is it that the prophesies seldom announced for
every hardship that Allah brings down as a tribulation? Allah
brings to eases with it and one hardship will not overcome to
eases
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specific it's given Elif lamb in the Mara l awesome. Nuestra use is
not specific and is And verily with the same also
allows us so Allah to Allah set announced for us every hardship
that comes down to eases come down with it.
What could be an exam
pull up this simple example this is up.
Every time a new biller comes into the world, we don't realize the
first Bala that came down on the Ummah, the prophesy Salam said
this is the biggest one is his own passing on a salatu salam. The
passing of the Prophet himself was the biggest villa. Like we never
think about this. But what was the Muslims life like when the Prophet
is alive? One of the things that that that doesn't exist, is kind
of feeding.
One of the hardships that does not exist when the Prophet was alive
was differences of opinion in religion, not big nor small.
There is not even a difference of opinion that's minor that you can
say, okay, there's Muslims know, the prophet is alive. He wipes
away all difference of opinion, how could there be a difference?
Let's just go to Asia and see what the Prophet said and the game is
over. discussion is over. There's no discussion. What does that do
to a community?
It brings them so close together.
Now, this just take this issue. The passing of the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa salam was the biggest tribulation of this almost
faced.
The biggest fitna is that the journey
and the most dangerous fitna is something else. He noticed what
the Prophet said he described his death as the biggest fitna. He
described that John sorry, the biggest tribulation. He described
that jet as the biggest fitna, but he didn't describe the jet as the
most dangerous fitna.
The most dangerous fitna, the Prophet SAW Selim said is one that
exists from his death all the way up to the end of time until say
nice, it comes down and that is El Munna. Munna fickle, fussy Elisa,
the hypocrite who has a son who has a good tongue, who knows how
to speak the hypocrite who knows how to speak the Mona Phillip.
He's wicked. All his means are weak. All his ends are wicked, but
he is good at talking.
And in another narration, it's all Emma. Do I tune Allah of webby?
Jahannam
they speak with they speak with our tongue, they have our skin.
They speak with the best of words. But they are in fact a day at the
gates of paradise of hellfire.
He speaks with the Quran. He speaks with the hottie. He dresses
like Sheikh he has the same skin as us meaning he's an Arab I like
them.
And he's calling you to *. What does that mean? He that's a
foreshadow of the Imams of misguidance or what shift yes are
mentioned here those who are outside the fold of and the Sunnah
and calling you who are the first she is worse Arabs, not daisies
and Irani's. They're not Persians. This is came way later.
If you are a Shiite you are an Arab back in the day. Not a
Persian if you are a Persian back in the day, what were you a Sunni
Shafi they love this remember Chevron?
Or you were Hanafi and all the central agents all the six
Muhaddith in there from countries you can identify in the map. Show
me as Becca Stan in the map.
If you cover up all the city names you wouldn't know where's Bacara
Psalm or Cantonese report like North Carolina has the three
cities. Right Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill. Right? These are the
three cities of North Carolina. There were three cities Nisha poor
bukata semana can't find them on a map you can even find them on the
map. What are those people look like?
Like such a different ethnicity? But yet they are we're the ones
Allah chose to preserve this hadith. So in the beginning, the
innovators were from the Arabs, not foreigners. That's why the
prophesy seemed to have exactly exactly except they call you to
hellfire.
They call you to hellfire. So that's the most dangerous fitness
so in the time of the prophets of Allah when he was setting them, it
will return in the time of Satan an Imam and Maddie
and Satan there isa Meriam there will be no difference in religion.
Anybody who has any difference of opinion let's just wait until
these authorities speak everyone will accept and the belief in ASA
and Mariam return of said nice isn't obligatory belief. This is
not like maybe Allah Allah some methods haven't known. This is
wedging the obligatory when hula in one Alyssa he is the hallmark
that class yo
Malkia is right around the corner, the end of this OMA the end of
time, the end of everything.
And Allah says we're in adult kids and the elderly woman under the
Abla. Moussa, there is not one of the People of the Book, except
that he will believe in him before his death.
But hold on a second, how can the Jews and Christians or create
Christians, maybe they'll answer Islam? How did the Jews enter
Islam when we have another Hadith said, they're the followers of the
dijet?
Are they not the followers of the judge?
How then does the Quran say they will believe in him before his
death, or very simply, like put it out the timeline, the Prophet told
us soon to say nice, it comes down on the first day, first year
immediately with very quickly because of the jet.
And the Great War ensues. And he finishes that whole the gigantic
system that we live in under right now.
And then he lives 40 more years.
So when that 40 is Allah says in the Quran Kablammo to him before
his death. That means all of those people who did support the JAD in
the past, year after year after year will realize you know what,
there's no choice now. We were that what we were on was wrong,
that their dad is dead, and eventually they will enter Islam,
including the Jews. Sometimes we look at these Jews with so much
hatred because what they do
not because they're Jews, because what they do.
But we are also told in the Quran, there will come a day, every
single one of them wants Islam because they realize there's no
dungeon anymore. He felt who they thought was their Messiah failed.
And this is the real Messiah. And this is a blessing that Satan a
serie receives that he didn't receive early in the first
mission. And Allah Tala will not give him Kaiba twice. Let me ask
him, he will first time he was given a tribulation his people
rejected him. Do you think Allah will cause him to be rejected
twice by his people by the venue selected
by the year who would now
say now it's hot. Last use it right. The first time around he
lost use of the second time they went to Egypt. They lost Binyamin
what it said and the use of say, Say Allah will not take away two
sons. We were I was tested with this the first time Allah will not
take away two of my sons and hopefully he'll bring me back both
of them. And he received both of them. And Allah to Allah does not
test a person with the same tribulation, like a great prophet,
like say knights are rejected the first time and rejected the second
time. Second time you're gonna they're all going to come into
this and they're all believe in you. And that is from the
blessings he receives as being from the Ummah Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam because who helped him achieve this goal that
hurt him the first time it pains a prophet when he's rejected by his
people. That he did not save them as Allah ordered him to go and
give them the dower and he wants him to be saved. If I thought them
I wanna you let me know like him Don't you have agreed that they
all believe in you.
So he hurts a Prophet when he sees his people kefir.
So now the Muslims and the Ummah Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam are the ones who a Prophet Isa, in bringing his own people to
him. And he so he receives from the Sunnah of Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam that is people believe in Him, as it was the
messenger, some of them already so he got both sunnah and the Sunnah
of rejection and the Sunnah of acceptance. He got both he got the
blessings of rejection, and the blessings of acceptance, say
nicely got the blessing of rejection first, with under the
Ummah Muhammad he gets the blessing of acceptance. Now back
to the subject.
Once the province I settled on passed away, the religious unity
amongst the Muslims was ended permanently, but it wasn't right
away. Time of Abu Bakr everything was fine. Of course they had the
doors but which was between the Muslims there was no discussion
there were no seconds. Time of said and Omar shaytaan flees
from Ahmedabad hooked up there were no religious feuds in the
time of Ahmedabad hooked up. Halfway through the time of Satan
off man, the people remained on the discipline of armor.
It's the old habits of discipline was still in the people for the
first six years. And then say North man was overseeing one of
the wells that was being dug wearing the rings of the prophets
and lo and suddenly he pulled his hand back and the ring caught
caught in a rock fell down the well. He had the whole world
excavated and all CLT says from the moment he lost his ring, there
was a dark cloud of fitna over the OMA and
Bella lost the ring of the prophets of Allah when he was
setting him it was like at the chateau.
It was like a sign of tribulation to come. So for the next six years
was all tribulation. At the end of it came a time where religious
sects emerged. The first religious sect emerged very shortly after
the death of, say, Northmet. They were the killers of Othman.
The people who killed off man, where did the fitness start from?
This, this is a great example of how the beginning of something
needs to be pure, there can be no trickery, no imperative, because
if the beginning of something is impure, it comes back to haunt
you. Where did the tribulation come from? Who knows?
What country,
Egypt,
the assassins of Ottoman or from Egypt? They're not the Egyptian
people. They were the Arabs who moved to Egypt.
But they lived in Egypt. Let's go to the history of the conquest of
Egypt.
Say no Omar had just conquered the Byzantium people ain't just
conquered the Persian people.
There was a split decision amongst the Sahaba Should we continue
while we have this momentum, future generations may not be able
to do what we have have this momentum or should we consolidate
the lands that we do have now rather than spread ourselves then?
So say no, I'm I couldn't think of he was split minded. But he didn't
want to just stall the operation. So he told the Great's this hobby
is a great to have. We also have our great so heavy armor in the US
Army. Us was the one lobbying for the mission. He wanted to govern.
He loved the idea of being a governor.
And that's okay, send us if wanted to rule two. He said make me the
ruler of the Trump warehouses of the earth. If you want to do
something good. It's okay to have that desire. Send Omar bin
Abdulaziz, the great Kelly formula says he wanted to rule. He said
there is nothing that I truly desired in life, except I got it.
Even the Khilafah I wanted it so badly. And he wasn't in line for
the Khilafah. He wanted the kidnapper so badly.
And he got it. He got it because people died early people died
young. There, this is actually a proof that if your desire of
something means it implicitly means the death of other people.
It's still okay to desire it. But not to desire the death of those
people. You're innocent because there's no way he can get the feet
up unless his uncle dies young and without an heir. And that's
exactly what happened. This uncle died. His heir to the throne was
like two years old. So he was the only one left. Many people want
the inheritance of their dad. So all I want that inheritance. That
doesn't mean I want my dad to die. So the laoise have the necessary
implications of your job. Don't worry about it. So I want that
inheritance so bad that I could run the company so well. I can run
our family's estate so well. I want the inheritance. Oh, so do
you want your dad to die? Don't worry about that. The Awasum of
the DUA the necessary implications of the drop don't worry about
them.
So point being he wanted to cut off So likewise, I'm gonna ask
wanted to Egypt
and so on might have been hooked up saw he's so energetic, he said,
Okay, look, go.
And I write you a letter. If I change my mind, before you get to
Egypt, come back. That's the That's the deal. But if I change
my mind after you get to Egypt, then continue.
So he sends him out. And a couple of weeks later, almost changes his
mind. So he writes down, I changed my mind, come right back. And he
gives the letter to a boy to a youth. He says run on your fastest
horse and go. So he gets on his horse and he goes really fast and
a single horse rider goes faster than a big group. So he gets to
the group the encampment.
The caravan, the army, about two days before they arrived at Egypt.
And he came and someone said there's a messenger from emitted
what we need.
He said send him to the back now. So it sends him back to the
caravan. He's I have a letter to the from a minimum and he says Be
quiet. Go to the back.
They drive for another two days until they crossed the barrier
into Egypt. Then he stands on a hill and he said okay, bring me
the letter.
Then he opens it and he says from Ahmedabad hotdog
So I'm gonna ask if you have not reached Egypt turn right back if
you reach Egypt, stay and continue the mission.
So he says people, where are we? They said we're in Egypt. All
right, we continue the mission.
Is this trickery or not?
So something begins with trickery. Look at the results.
Egypt is the source of the fitna. All sorts of fits in happened in
Egypt, that end with the killing of Othman. Now these killers of
off men say 90 announced
as soon as I settled the established the Khilafah and the
new government,
I want to prosecute these people. So what do these people need now?
What do they need? They need say nearly never to settle down.
And and so who do they? What's the best way to do it? Join his own
army,
and pretend to be his allies. And they no say naughty loves the
deen.
So they need to now become very religious. And some people they
lie and they lie to themselves. And the origin of the intent was
to keep saying the ally busy, never settled down there. In fact,
enemies of ally, and they need to be close to him. Keep your friends
close and your enemies closer.
And so they started now, okay, we're in the army of ally, we need
to be very religious. So we need to now grow our beards. We need to
pray all the time. And we need to him to see us doing this. So Rhea,
eventually, they're the ones who start all the battles.
What's the cause all the fitna for say, 90, and then ultimately, at
the end of the day, what do they do? They have to turn against him.
Now the dean is what people loved. So they need they can't turn
against him. They need to turn against him for religious reasons.
And that's where the first fitna, in religion, a new religious sect
comes about. And these are the whole adage, it comes about
because of a bad intention covered in religion. And so you have a
rotten religion, and a misconstrued religion that's
driven by worldly purposes. So now, we start with every hardship
comes to ease is what are the two eases that this comes with? Like
how could this be any good? Where is the silver lining? There's two
silver linings to every tribulation. Now this tribulation
comes What does say now they do?
Say Nalli assigns Abdullah bin Abbas Abdullah bin Abbas, you are
now the Imam
of refutation. You need to refute these people. So they because of
the mistakes they made, and the and the false accusation they
made, they forced him and Abbas to study matters he never studied
before.
And that's the first benefit of disputation and religion.
Do we not have disputation in religion right now, we have
disputation in Islam, and you have discrimination outside of Islam.
But what's the benefit? You have to ask? If Allah said every
hardship brings two benefits, the first benefit you yourself are
forced now to study. And that's the first beauty and that's why I
said this is an era week. We can increase in Eman in ways that the
past they could, which is we have the avenue now that we have to
study every single forget Islam atheists
in the Northeast, and in the West Coast's there are more atheist
than Christians online filled with atheists. You can't actually be a
Muslim at all these days. A conscientious Muslim, without
studying refutations to atheists who become knowledgeable, you have
now a knowledge that your grandparents never had there would
never met an atheist in their life probably.
Most people also our grandparents never even heard that such a thing
is like established one hit.
But today we have to study them. That's the first thing. The second
thing you get a chance to refute them. And that is a door of jihad.
Allah says Jaha Dill kuffaar, Walmart 15.
So now you get the reward. Even within Islam, you have sects,
groups that need refutation. You have the reward now
that in the time of the Prophet the Sahaba never had to refute
people within Islam.
They never there was just pagans, that's it pagans and most of the
paganism is not even something to be refuted. It's not even an idea.
That's whatever, just silly idea.
So you get these are the two rewards you get to enjoy
Use your own knowledge and the door of jihad opens for you, even
if it's with the pen.
And because of these in the same way that I opened the talk by
saying, we have sins our grandparents ever even heard of,
we also have avenues of increasing our rank with Allah that our
grandparents never even heard of. For every hardship, there's two
eases. So you should never ever look at a time and say,
subhanAllah This is an era. Everything's bad world terrible.
There's all these bad things. The moment you identify a bad thing,
you have the chance to hide that today, you have to identify with
it two good things. And that's how every generation can elevate can
be elevated.
I mean, today Subhanallah the sacrifice for the deen happens on
things that are so simple, such basic things, because the standard
is lower. But I'm very basic things. People are sacrificing.
There was a time in the past. People sacrifice medical careers
over refusing to support transgender surgeries. Like a
guy's not a curl. Simple as that. I don't know what to tell you.
And that is your martyrdom. You lost your career on that.
That means Allah has lowered the bar, make it easy for you to be a
martyr. And if when you lose your career, it's not martyrdom, but
it's very close to it.
Mount Katina Duna Valley hippo Shaheed, whoever dies fighting for
his wealth. He's a martyr. So likewise, who loses his entire
career over a matter of religion, truth and falsehood, it's not
martyrdom, but it's close, very great reward. That person will get
losing his career. And there are people in the psych profession in
the counseling profession and in the medical profession who refuse
to assist in this thing. And this person may have been a regular
Muslim. Just praise Jamal and five prayers and Ramadan that's it. Now
Allah chose for him a type of sacrifice. You can't even imagine
who's your whole career because I refused
to be part of this. So Allah Tada brings a tribulation you have to
see in it to eases
and that's where you put your focus. Once you put your focus on
that the anxiety of the ballot lifts and the optimism of increase
enters your heart. Wakulla Cody has stopped for a Lalibela calm
just like Kamala Harris was salam ala