Shadee Elmasry – How Shaytan Tricks You (Avoid doing this!)

The Devil's playbook entry number three, whatever the prophetic path

is IBLEES promotes the opposite, and then covers it up with the

virtue. That's a summary of the devil's playbook. He promotes the

opposite of what Allah and His Messenger have taught us in the

city on the dean. And then he covers it up in a virtue to make

you think you're doing something good. Here's an example. You

mentioned something discouraged, such as what such as leaning

against the wall at Jamal coming to Juma in grungy clothes. Some

people come in their pajamas in the summertime flip flops pajamas

in a T shirt. He just woke up. He had his waffles. Maybe he brushed

his teeth, who knows. And he came to the masjid in his flip flops

and his plaid pajamas and an undershirt. Now, as this stuff is

not funny, says my crew. It's not cute. It's my crew. You would not

go to anyone's house like this, let alone Allah's house when the

Prophet said Joomla put on your best of clothes. Because it's not

enforced. People don't take it seriously. I wish I had 100%

absolute control over Joomla I'll send you back. No, I'd send you

back. Don't you're not attending. Oh, you're not allowed to Yes, I'm

allowed to 100% It's an epidemic. We got to do something about this.

Go back home and change. Or I give you a soap. How's that? That's

more diplomatic and political politically, right here. Take this

Turkish Juba, put it on so you can respect yourself. Take drama. I

take it seriously. Like an in the opera. These opera singers will be

so demoralized. The day that people start coming in drowned in

like this in a Joma awareness PJs. What is this? There's no respect.

No people don't respect their own. Everyone respects his profession,

right? And you demand respect to your profession. I would send you

I want to have bouncers all along. I'll call them ushers all along

the wall. Get up, get up. Are you handicapped, there's chairs over

there for the handicapped? Are you sick, there's chairs over there,

get up, sit up in the rows, everyone fill up in the rows,

anyone's on their phone? He's gotten a little stick, tap, tap,

tap, put your phone away. You can go to a Broadway show right now.

And if you get caught doing this and they're just singing Lion King

and other songs like that, they're going to tell you to stop. Why is

it that they have far more respect for their profession, singing

songs, and we have for the deen of Allah. That's a command from

Allah, this what's going to save us is because we have this cheap

mentality. We just begging for people to come now I'm not begging

to come there's a lot of mosques, go to another restaurant. There's

a lot of mosques not begging for anyone to come. We're like

begging, we're just so happy you showed up. You know what people

actually like other things that demand respect. They respect what

demands respect. Now I'll tell you what people say, Oh, come on, at

least they're showing up. So I'll tell you why this is a false

approach. Number one, it makes the mediocre, acceptable. You are

accepting of mediocrity. Secondly, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa

salam said, compare upwards in matters of Deen compared downwards

in matters of dunya. If you buy a new car, don't go around looking

at other wonderful cars. And then regretting what you have. In

matters of the dunya of this world, what you have you compare

down, if somebody gives you dinner, just some rice and

vegetables, you think about those who don't even have rice, those

who don't even have food at all. You compare down in matters of the

world, and you compare up in matters of religion. So if someone

was to say something like this, well, well, at least they show up.

What did you just do you compare down? So you've rendered what God

has made discouraged, to be acceptable? That's the problem.

Now, here's when you don't compare up. You don't compare up when

someone did something praiseworthy. So a child comes in

and says, you know, this happens all the time father comes up and

says, Son, my son memorized for suitors of Quran that you don't

compare down and say only for Sudha. So he's half your age and

you memorize for just know that's, that's, that would be wrong. He's

memorized for so what is this? Good? So the benchmark here of one

to compare up and when to compare down? Is, are they doing something

good? Or is it mcru or haram? Or worthy of blame? If Allah made it

blameworthy? Why are you making them and giving them an out?

That's the question. Allah made it blameworthy. Don't give them an

out. Context is a different thing. Context is a whole different

thing. Brand new Muslim, for example. Yeah, that's there's

context here. So the context that I'm talking about are people who

know better. That's the context. The context is very important. You

have a brand new Muslim, brand new, newly repentant, Muslim,

newly repentant, most of Allah. So you're lucky he's in the masjid.

That's there's context to the context is you've been 20 years

Muslim and you've been coming to and leaning for 20 years and

coming in your pjs for 20 years. There's a different excuse, right?

It's a totally different context. So that

That's where Be careful of shaytans tricks. And shaytaan will

trick parents to parents or liaison or even though sometimes

districts aren't, I think it's just people. They want to avoid

resistance. And if they have a kid who needs a push all the time,

they want to avoid the resistance. So how do they make giving up

looked good? is by comparing down? Well, at least he's not into

drugs. Yeah, he sometimes skips his prayers, and he gets C's. And

sometimes he's just spends the whole night on his phone, but at

least he's not in drugs. This is terrible. Like you're you're

basically giving yourself an out to be lazy, justifying laziness.

Remember what we're saying here, we're saying things that are

agreed upon discouraged, for a person who doesn't have an excuse.

That's the context, it's agreed upon to be blameworthy behavior.

For a person whose context does not give him an excuse. There are

contexts that give you an excuse, as we set a brand new Muslim

Hamdulillah that even took shahada let alone, you know, come in with

earrings, ripped, ripped jeans, who cares, right, you shaking your

head is the most important thing. So context is here is important.

This is the problem with comparing down IBLEES then makes you feel

that you know, the Merciful One makes you feel you're considerate.

And that's why I said the devil's playbook is to take the exact

opposite of what Allah and His Messenger call for, but yet cover

it up in mercy sauce, cover it up in a virtue. This is exactly what

Nietzsche said about the Christians, when he said that

Christians say turn the other cheek, and they don't fight and

everything. And he said, this is nothing other than cowardice and

weakness covered up in a virtue, it's a false virtue. So remember,

her dad says, The virtue that's out of place becomes blameworthy,

a virtue that is out of place, and that's something that we have to

be very careful about here.