Shadee Elmasry – The Importance of Correcting a Wrong ( Q&A)

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.