Sikander Hashmi – Evil Plots KMA Friday Message
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The speakers emphasize the importance of avoiding assuming bad from people and remaining hopeful while trying hard. They also discuss the rise of pride and arrogance in the world and the importance of faith and planning for future events. The speakers emphasize the value of faith and the power of words to bring suffering to people, as well as the need to remain hopeful and strategic in protecting people's rights. They encourage people to register on WhatsApp and stay updated on university camp enrollment.
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Respected elders, dear brothers and sisters, my young
friends, Assalamu alaikum
We know that
we live in challenging times,
troubling times. And
one of the things that,
you know, we may not see coming towards
us, so we may not have seen,
is the level of complicity
and the level of
planning, and strategy, and
conniving
in order to support oppression,
and in order to be complicit with oppression.
You see,
as believers we are people, and this is
what the Prophet
taught us. We are people who give others
the benefit of the doubt. We are not
people who start off with an assumption of
suspicion.
We go with
or we go by face value first.
Yes? So if someone comes, and this was
the policy of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. When even the people who were
causing trouble
and there were suspicions or they were even
known as being from the
as being
hypocrites.
Yet still the prophet
would take them at face value. If they
said something, he would believe in it. If
they presented themselves
acting like they are good,
the prophet
would go by that. He wouldn't unnecessarily
question that. He wouldn't, you know, unnecessarily
put them down. He would go along with
whatever they were presenting.
And the example,
of a a one of the examples of
that is the case of
Masjid
Dirar.
Which was the Masjid which was created in
competition of the first Masjid that the prophet
established. It was Masjid Kuba. And it was
built right across from it. And it was
meant to divide the Muslims. Yet when
the hypocrites and those who were involved in
establishing that Masjid in order to divide the
Muslims
and in order to harm the Muslims, when
they came to the prophet
asking him to to bless the the the
so called Masjid with his presence, the prophet
seemed to agree. The prophet
seemed to go along and seemed to agree
until Allah
revealed the verse in which
Allah says
do not stand in it ever.
Yes, so the prophet
would go along and he would accept. So,
this is our policy as well. You know,
we start off with an assumption of goodness.
We do not start off with assuming bad
from people,
and we go by whatever is apparent. We
take things at face value unless
shown otherwise, unless proven otherwise
afterwards.
So
now,
you know, it is indeed disheartening
when
we witness the rise of falsehood,
and the rise of deception.
And,
you know, as
situations occur,
circumstances
reveal
the level
of complicity,
and the level of
the conniving,
and the depths of the plot
established
to
suppress
voices
speaking against injustice
and to promote oppression.
Now one thing, my brothers and sisters, we
must not equate
the rise of this falsehood
and the depths of it
with success.
Because true success
is success which
includes
the hereafter.
True success
is not just limited to this world.
Right? A person may appear to be very
successful in this world,
but if they have lost the hereafter,
then they're actually a failure.
They have not been successful.
And even in this world, we must always
remember that deceptive
plots
are never truly successful even if they appear
to be so.
Deceptive plots
are never truly successful even in this world,
even though they may appear to be successful.
Now, they have been great plots in the
past,
extremely
arrogant people who believed in themselves
due to
the power,
and the wealth, and perhaps the intelligence that
they had, and actually what's given to them
by Allah
And they misused it, They abused it. And
they devised
extremely
clever plots or so they thought.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala references this, mentions this
in a number of places in the Quran.
They schemed but Allah also planned
and Allah is the best of planners as
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us in Surat
Alia Imran in the context of Sayna Alaihi
Salam.
Yes, there was a great plot, right? To
rid this earth of
and to taint his name, his reputation,
and to essentially get rid of him. Yet,
that plot failed because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is the best of planners. And this is
just one example. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells
us with regards to the people of
And so they made a plan, they plotted,
and we too made a plan. Allah is
saying about himself. We too made a plan
while they were unaware.
While they were
they were unaware. They think that they are
creating a master,
beautiful, you know, amazing, clever
plan, which is going to allow them to
succeed
in their evil objectives.
But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is well aware
of everything that is happening. And at the
same time, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's plan is
also in motion. And no one can defeat
the plan of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us about such
groups who were destroyed.
And they worked out their plot and whatever
they plot is before Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
even though their plot is such as would
move the mountains,
even though their plot is such as would
move the mountains. Right? One understanding, one interpretation
is that these plots were so detailed.
They were so well thought out, they had
strategized
so cleverly
that, you know, as an example, it was
so deep that it could even move. It
was as if it could even move mountains.
Right? That's how clever the plotting was.
Yet
Allah
is well aware of that plot. And Allah
plan and Allah's decree,
Allah's decisions
are always
superseding
whatever anyone has planned.
Allah
says,
with regards to the people of Samud,
see then what the consequences
of their plan were. We utterly destroy them
and their people altogether. Allah
did this. Right? So they plotted, Allah plotted,
Allah
planned, and Allah's plan resulted in this consequence
for them. So the rise and apparent success
of arrogance
and falsehood
is nothing new.
And its fall is guaranteed to happen one
day.
Its fall is guaranteed
to happen
one day. So therefore my brothers and sisters,
we must always remain hopeful.
We must always remain hopeful and place our
trust in Allah
while we try our level best, while we
try whatever we are called upon to do
wisely,
you know,
that which is permissible,
that which is legal, that which is appropriate
under the circumstances. But
that is just an effort from our part.
The results are in the hands of Allah
and we must never put our faith in
our actions.
Our faith must never be in our results
because our results are nothing. Our actions are
nothing
Except for what Allah wills
and the result that Allah
wishes to bring. You see Musa and Haruna
and the Bani Israel.
They never probably imagined that they would overcome
Right? When you start reading the story of
the Bani Israel and Sayna Musa Alaihi Salam
from the in the beginning, like it's so
hopeless.
It's so hopeless. And we could think that
they probably never imagined
that they would be able to overcome
Right?
Or that will be overcome one day. And
that too by having the sea split apart,
and that
arrogance would end by drowning, they probably never
imagined that. Yet Allah
made it happen. We have the instance of
Namrud,
the dictator and tyrant who considered himself to
be God and tried to inflict harm upon
Sayna Ibrahim alayhis salam
Khalilullah. And would Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala leave
him like that? No. Of course
not. And he could have people then probably
could have never imagined that he would end
up hurting himself
so much that it would lead to his
own destruction by means of what? A mosquito.
Mosquito going up his nostril into his brain,
driving him crazy that he ends up
hitting himself or having people hit him until
he is destroyed.
This could probably this would probably never have
been imagined.
Or that Abraha and his army intent on
destroying the Kaaba
with those massive elephants,
you know, would be destroyed
by the little birds
carrying pebbles.
Right? Could have never been imagined
that such a great force, invincible force
would be met
with
this end at the hands of these little
tiny creatures, with these little tiny pebbles. That
this is from the plans of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. So, when it comes to Allah,
my brothers and sisters, we believe in the
unexpected
and we expect the unconventional.
When it comes to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
we believe in the unexpected
and we expect the unconventional.
You see.
Now, everything that rises
must come down one day. Now, sometimes Allah
shows it to us, and sometimes He doesn't.
Because what is our what is my lifespan?
Right?
Maybe 60, maybe 70, maybe 80, maybe 100.
You know, Allah
plan, maybe longer than that. Right? So, just
because I'm not seeing it, it doesn't mean
that it's not gonna happen. And just because
I'm not aware of Allah's plan, it doesn't
mean that Allah doesn't have a plan. Allah
always has a plan.
So everything that goes up must come down
one day. Every nation that rises must come
down one day. And sometimes,
you know, it's amazing to see parts of
it happening.
And you wondered how it would actually happen.
And then you see little things happening and
you're like, woah, maybe this is part of
Allah's plan of how
this arrogance is going to be destroyed and
I never imagined that it could actually happen
in this way. But again, you expect the
unexpected with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So, one
thing is clear my brothers and sisters that
evil plots will never actually be successful. And
Surah Fatihullah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tells us,
And the evil plot engulfs
none but its own people who make it.
The evil plot
engulfs, it backfires,
and none other but those who concocted it,
those who make it. And Muhammad
he said, there are 3 things.
There are 3 things the doer of which
does not remain. He's one of the great,
from from the Tabia.
There are 3 things the doer of which
does not remain safe against its curse
and punishment
even in this world. K. So this is
very notable. Because it says there are 3
things that the doer of which does not
remain safe against its curse and punishment
even in this world. And these are, number
1, causing harm or pain to some innocent
person by engineering evil against them.
If a person causes harm or pain to
an innocent person
by engineering and coming up with some evil
against them,
they are going to receive the punishment, part
of the punishment, and the curse of the
action of that evil action in the life
of this world, number 1. Number 2, inflicting
any injustice.
If a person inflicts injustice upon others,
they will bear the consequences of their action,
of course, in the hereafter, but also in
this life. And thirdly, breaking of a pledge.
If a person makes a pledge and they
break it and they go against it, they
will see the consequences of that in their
lifetimes.
So brothers and sisters, while there is value
in being strategic
and planning,
there is no value in doing so to
rob people of their rights. There is value
in being strategic and in planning, and we
should actually. We should. You know, we are
not taught. Sunnah and the prophet
is not to just go ahead and do
things just for the sake of doing them,
without thinking about, you know, how it's supposed
to have a positive impact.
But again, the faith is not put in
those actions. But the planning is as if
those actions are the ones that are gonna
lead to the results.
So you plan as if you have control,
but you have faith in Allah as if
you have no control. Because in reality, you
don't have control. Yes? But you plan as
if you do have control. So there is
value in being strategic and planning, but there
is no value in doing so to rob
a people of their rights. You see, there's
a companion, and
he's the son of
who was a leader of the tribe.
And,
you know,
he was known for his generosity. So in
any case, his son
before converting to Islam, he he was cunning
to the extent
that no one was able to get the
better of him. He was a very cunning
person.
And he would use his cunningness
to shortchange people,
the people of Madina and its surroundings. So
he was known for that as being someone
who's very conniving, very cunning, and someone, you
know, that nobody would be able to get
away from and and and from his his
cunningness and nobody would be able to overcome
his cleverness.
So he accepted Islam and he abandoned his
ways. And he, radiAllahu Anhu, stated,
He says, if I did not hear the
prophet
say that craftiness and deceit will reside in
the hellfire, I would have been the craftiest
of people, meaning even after accepting Islam. But
because he heard the prophet
say this,
he
gave that up, and he continued to use
his intelligence
in a good way to benefit Islam without
resorting to deceit and craftiness.
So my brothers and sisters,
the rise of falsehood and deception and these
plots that get uncovered from time to time
to harm the believers, to harm, you know,
the the, the oppressed people or to wrong
people, these are nothing new. There have been
great plots in the past, and all evil
plots
will eventually engulf the original plotters
themselves. So don't worry about it too much
in the sense of, you know, feeling,
you know, defeated by such plots because eventually,
they have to fail. So do not feel
hopeless and do not feel defeated. Of course,
you do whatever
is is is reasonably possible in the situation
to support those who are wronged and to
support the truth. Have faith in Allah
and let us make sure that we ourselves
don't fall into falsehood
and deception.
We ask Allah
to protect us and all of our brothers
and sisters from all types of trials. We
ask Allah
to quickly bring an end to all plots
of evil and falsehood. We ask
Allah to guide the plotters to the truth
or then to force them to stop their
oppression and their plotting. May Allah
protect us from becoming propagators of deceit and
falsehood.
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