Shadee Elmasry – The Importance of Correcting a Wrong ( Q&A)
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Why, okay, true Iman requires it's a requirement to use your mouth
make an utterance of what is wrong. Okay? At least an
utterance, then Allah will hold you innocent. If you said
something is wrong and told the perpetrator, okay, you're going
and drinking a drink that says non alcoholic beer. But it has point
zero 1% Alcohol is haram. Why? What's the rule that we have a
ruling? If a lot will make it haram a.is Haram, a drop is haram.
So people are drinking this non alcoholic beer but it does have
point zero 1% alcohol, right?
We tell you is haram. And this is not like some kind of medicine you
can go get a federal, even though specials are invalid. Unless
there's no other medicine and you die. Okay?
That you will literally die if you don't have this medicine. There's
no other medicines, the only valid excuse you have. But someone I
need to sleep. So I'm taking a night thing that has alcohol in
it. It's now what's wrong. Okay? So it can make you drunk.
You can't just say, Okay, I'm not doing it. But I'm not going to say
anything because I don't want to rock the boat. Why? You should say
something. Why? Because whatever anger of Allah comes upon that
person, okay? It's going to reach you. Why is it going to reach you?
It's a ship, that action right there becomes a ship, it becomes a
ship.
And you did not get off the ship. You didn't partake in it, but you
didn't get off the ship, get off the ship by verbally disapproving.
And if you are the owner of a household, and this is your house,
and you bought it and it's in your name, and you pay the bills. And
it happened under your roof speaking is not sufficient. action
is required. Again, this is your house, you own it. You pay the
rent, you pay the bills, people you control the lock in the house,
and your 17 year old son comes drinking something like that. You
don't say oh my son, you don't go and do like, okay. Oh my beloved
son. No.
Okay, you verbalize it once and in the same setting. You don't say
okay, next week if he does it again next week? No in the same
setting, ask him politely This is haram please dispose of these
drinks in the same setting. Okay, you are obligated to physically
take it and remove it. You may do this in a gentle manner. Right?
You don't have to make a drastic thing if you don't want to you can
if you think is going to have an effect. But this just to show us
our shitty our responsibility. Someone has a bad movie in the
house on a DVD or on a computer.
Here that hacking of that little house, okay, so you that little
home that you run, you control the locks and you pay the bills and
you own the home? You must shut that movie down. Okay. Yep.
Now
not everybody is offended. Anybody?
or anything? Like I think?
Yeah.
You can make any comments
or somebody? Okay.
Yeah.
Early relationship with somebody when you're engaging in, okay.
Yeah, I see what you're saying. I'll tell you what it is. And I'll
tell you what, we'll get a person to very easily speak. People don't
speak because they perceive a harm.
The problem is they don't perceive the long term harm. That is from
the Divine, you can't control it. Allah will bring it down. If a
haram happens, and we don't say something, okay. At that point, it
is a Allah's will. Okay, this is a divine rule like chemistry like
gravity, that harm that you do not speak of,
okay? Allah will allow it to seep into your own home, if not your
own self. Why? Because you have not spoken about it. That means
you didn't get off the ship. That means when that ship sinks, you
will sink with it. That means you did not close your door. So when
that poison is flowing, and that fire is kindling over there, okay,
you're speaking about it, shuts your door and puts water in front
of my door. I spoke about it, the cost of that there'll be upset.
Now, I don't want to make anyone upset. I don't want trouble.
Everyone wants that. No trouble. However, when I think and I know
for sure, certainty, as certain as Allah exists with certainty. This
is Allah's rule. If I do not speak of that wrong, that fire will
slowly trickle and after 20 years it's going to end up in my own
living room.
Allah gave me the chance to shut the door and put water there. The
fire will have a limit, Allah will limit it. I'll give you an example
of a very good example. Okay? There was tribulation in a country
political issue in a country, okay? A party of those people
spoke out against, okay? The ruler of that country. This is living
today I've met these people. I've met these people living with these
people spoke out against the ruler. They got exiled. And
everyone said, look, they spoke, and now they're living thrown in
some bizarre odd country as strangers
10 years later,
almost a lifetime. 10 years later, that country became pitted in a
civil war. And nobody in that country lives a stable life
anymore. But who lives a stable life, the people who spoke out and
paid the price and were kicked out. They're now sitting enjoying
children and grandchildren and food and sleep, and power and
electricity and security and safety. Whereas those who did not
speak and the country is Syria,
the land is Syria. There were people that I met spoke out
against half as an acid, what you're doing is wrong, the way
you're leading this country is wrong. And they paid a price that
they were put under hunted down until they had to flee to empty
countries like Abu Dhabi, Qatar, and just what are you sitting in
air condition? No friends, no people, just alone. In air
condition. He eats every day. He drinks comfortably every day he
sleeps. That's all he does. But 10 years later, the very people who
said to him just be quiet and live. That's what they told him
just be quiet and live world living, just accept it and live.
And when he spoke out, he said, No, this is wrong. When he spoke
out and we got sent to Qatar, they told him if you had just shut your
mouth, look at us. We're living and look at you far from your
family and your friends. Now 10 years later, who's living? Are
they living peacefully? They're not. They're not they don't enjoy
their money. They don't enjoy their family. They don't enjoy
food. They don't enjoy weddings, and he's free. So now liquor can
make a comparison. And he Allah gave him Masirah this man who I
met in Qatar, what did he say?
He said by Allah azza wa jal, this is a victory for everyone who
spoke out a victory and a proof. You must. If you don't speak, the
fire will enter your own home. They will enter your own home. And
he says now I'm in a I'm in heaven compared to them. And we haven't
even died yet. I'm in heaven compared to those people on Earth.
He's living safely. The compound is safe. The coal land is safe.
Now this is physical.
This is physical. But is do we live only for the body? No. So
when some haram happens, someone wants on a wrong belief. Someone
goes on wrong action. If I approve of this,
someone's watching my approval. These little creatures, you have
little children. They don't understand anything. But they see
Mom and Dad visiting every day with these people. They never say
anything. Therefore what? No matter what they say, I know they
won't cut me off. If I do that, because they didn't cut them off.
It would have been much easier for them to cut them off. Or at least
say something about that. They never said anything. They never
acted. So kids make an instinctive analogy. He approves of that. And
I'm his son, he should approve of me. And the thing is don't ever
say yeah, it was not gonna happen to my family. Because New Halle
Salem his wife didn't believe loot his wife didn't believe the wife.
Not the kids who have their own independent will the wife who
willingly joined him in life, about the kid who's not even meant
to be he didn't ask to be to be your child. Allah brought him he
has a separate will have his own. Okay?
And it's a guarantee. This is why Allah azza wa jal says in the
Quran, what taco fitna can lead to see Bender Ladino Vala momentum
casa, beware of the wrong, it will not solely affect the one who did
the wrong, it will affect everyone else. Okay, so I didn't, I didn't
start drinking or start removing my hijab. So I didn't do that.
But it's gonna affect you. Because if you're seeing approving of
this, never saying anything, okay? And we're not saying cut people
off. You might not have to cut people off. You might say, okay,
my children are mature, don't understand. But you better say
something. You better say look, we're going to this house. I don't
think I approve that behavior. Okay. I don't approve of that. And
you have to understand some
Times nuanced doesn't work with kids. They won't understand
nuance, okay? They understand blacks and whites, right? So, but
even as whatever method you can, if you're forced, use your tongue,
I'm forced to be in the same room and I better use my tongue. Say,
look, we're going to visit this film. Those kids, they use foul
language, you're not using that language, don't come and start
copying the stuff. Okay, you got to you got to speak, or else the
fire will come right into your own living room, if not into your own
house, into your own heart. I mean, you might do the same. Was
there someone I saw a hand go up again?
Okay, so yeah.
So it should do we need to find the person greed or is it
sufficient to talk about the action itself as being wrong?
We should give advice to the person
and it could vary, it could be that it's a failure is to talk
about the action itself.
It should give a person advice and look at the people of Musa alayhis
salam.
All of them had to undergo what's about to happen. Look at how they
were punished. Look at how they were punished.