Suhaib Webb – Summer Nights- The Rights of Allah

Suhaib Webb
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The importance of inspiring people to love Allah and to be considerate of his teachings is emphasized in the segment on Islam's importance. The speakers also discuss the need for productivity and avoiding sinful behavior, the importance of learning to be in the right way to establish rights, and the importance of moderation in the Sun statement. They also touch on issues with the major scholarly circle and the importance of protecting individuals from harm and building power. Finally, the speakers provide advice on learning Arabic language and recommend local universities for learning.
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Saying that the Prophet sallallahu, alayhi wa sallam,

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would say we should teach

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right his love, and we find people are damaged and scarred and

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traumatized.

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One time years ago, I was invited to a masjid, and

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I went to that masjid, this is over 20 years ago, to give a

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speech to young people.

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And when I arrived, there was an elderly gentleman waiting outside,

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and he said to me,

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who are you going to talk to?

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I said to young people. He said, You should make them fear Allah,

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which is true.

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I said,

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by the Grace of Allah, let's hope we can inspire them to love Allah.

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That man was close to his 80s. You know what he said to me? He said,

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That's too much work

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like to make them love Allah. No one can make anyone love Allah,

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but to facilitate the love of Allah is a lot of work. It's easy

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to make scary. Years ago, I was in an Arab country at the home of my

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teacher, who was he was paralyzed at that time,

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and so there was a masjid next to his house.

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And the hati did not show up for the

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so the caretaker of the message, he came to my teacher's house. He

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was banging on the door.

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Can you

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come and give the khutba?

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So shaftaha,

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he excused himself. He said, I'm I'm limited physically,

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but this Enrique,

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that American, he can give the what no terrified. Arabic is not

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my first language.

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So he made me give the khutba man.

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And I was really nervous, but there was a classmate of mine in

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this class that we had Wafa kata Shah to be,

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and he said to me from bus like, Don't worry, just go scare them.

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Like, just go scare them. It'll be the best khutbah they ever heard.

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So it's, it's important at times to inspire people to be dutiful to

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Allah,

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but oftentimes how we treat as the sheik. He says, We have to look

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after ourselves and those that we are responsible for,

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parents

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and spouses and people that may have partners that aren't Muslim,

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that they're trying to bring into the deen or friends

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I have never seen anything as impactful

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as allowing people to be in a place for their love, Allah.

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And from that love,

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Alhamdulillah.

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From that love, you see commitment,

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you see patience. Love builds capacity. That's what the word

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have been, hope habits to love.

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Hope is to love. Habit is a seed, because love is a seed. When

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planted, it grows.

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So I want to encourage parents, teachers,

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youth directors, MSA types, people involved in Dawa,

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bring people to a place for their love Allah,

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then everything else will take care of itself, because love of

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Allah means to be obedient.

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So his father, iberi and yakum will be mad Abu Java, Allah.

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Emphasis, a so the first is to establish what Allah has obligated

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upon us.

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And for those of you that may be listening that have been

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traumatized by either caregivers, family members,

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irresponsible religious messaging, I encourage you to like, push in

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and relearn

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Islam for yourself.

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It will be, it will be crucial to your overall healing and

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emancipating yourself from those bad experiences. I'm very sorry to

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happen to any of you. I wasn't involved, but

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it's such a tremendous test

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to have people who claim to be religious and they're mean and

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bullies and harsh and they're abusive in their tone.

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May Allah grant us complete healing. Alhamdulillah, she felt a

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massive so to relearn and to find a good community.

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You don't have to forgive your abuser also.

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So he says, to establish those obligations, the rights of Allah

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and themselves and

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with those around him in specific and general situations, ala Tala

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and he mentions the statement that we talked about how Sayyidina Amar

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was.

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Worried even about a lamb,

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you know, that may fall and complain to Allah.

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He says every right that Allah the Exalted has obligated upon his

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servants, concerning themselves, or what he has obligated for some

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of them over others, he has commanded them to protect it. I

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talked about this last week that whatever Allah has commanded us to

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do, it's automatically understood we're commanded to protect that.

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So if we're staying up to like, three in the morning, looking at

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Netflix, playing games on twitch or on social media, and we miss

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Fajr, we are not preserving what Allah has commanded. We are being

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negligent.

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So that's why, when Allah talks about salah, it says half evil

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arati was salatul will stop. Like, don't just pray, but like, be sure

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that you discipline the triggers that may cause you to miss prayer.

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So this is a very famous axiom in Islamic law. You need to write

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this down if you're a serious student, that whatever Allah has

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commanded, He has commanded, what triggers that command,

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and whatever Allah has prohibited, he has prohibited what will

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trigger that prohibition.

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And that's why some of the Sufis,

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the Orthodox Sufis, they say that Toba is to repent from the sin.

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But wise, wise repentance is not only to repent from the sin, but

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to repent from what triggered the sin. It's SubhanAllah. So now you

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create like a layer. It's like a layer of protection around

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yourself, because oftentimes sins are the outcomes of triggers. So

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what caused me that's what Allah says to Adam and his wife lava had

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he said, Don't come close to the tree. Then say, Kula minha. He

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don't come close to it. Because coming close to it, it may entice

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you

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to eat it. So the smart person is the one who not only establishes

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what Allah has commanded, but establishes what will lead to that

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command, facilitate that command.

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And the smart person is not the one who only avoids the sin, but

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avoids like friends like if I'm around friends that cause me to

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live a sinful life, probably I need to distance myself away from

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those friends. If I have certain habits that lead me to do evil

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things,

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I need to pull away from that.

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So this is a very important axiom in life,

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in practice, that whatever Allah has commanded, let me also focus

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with the same

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vigor the actual act to what will help me perform, like learning,

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for example,

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good friends, good supporting cast, good teachers. And whatever

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leads me to sin I need to avoid.

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So he says, very beautifully,

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every right that Allah has, as exalted, has obligated upon His

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servants concerning themselves or what he has obligated for them

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over others, that automatically means that He has commanded what

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will trigger those things or the opposite. Like to stay away from

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things that trigger sin. This is the observant of his and he said,

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This is what it means to establish Allah's right. This

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is what it means to establish the rights of Allah, to be cautious,

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to be careful,

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not to be negligent. What I tell men of feeling so not only am I

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doing the act, I'm doing what leads to the act, not only am I

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staying away from the evil, I'm staying away from what triggers

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it. That's why we have another axiom. Malay utili, whatever

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allows me to complete an obligation.

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You came an obligation.

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Omelet. Haramo ela, ilabifo Haram, and

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whatever leads to the forbidden becomes forbidden. I talked about

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that last night, mashallah in greater detail. You can find it

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Hamza on my YouTube page, but we have these classes that we want to

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cover. But I went through, I appreciate you asking about the

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topic. I went through that in great detail last night. You can

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find that on my YouTube page, and I think parts of it even

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someone asking about what's going on in the world today. So I did a

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special live about a lesson, and he says, Allah the Exalted has

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condemned a group from the children of Israel who invented,

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like a monk, life, lifestyle.

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Those people invented like living like hermits and monks. You know,

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we have the famous statement loud Islam like we don't believe in,

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like celibacy and living in permanent isolation and making

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things that are permissible haram to the degree that we.

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I'm isolated.

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Allah says, water, banana, oh. Her

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says, you know my katabana,

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that this lifestyle they invented of being like hermits and in

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complete isolation and making like living like monks,

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we did not prescribe that for

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me, we did not command. It's not from our rights. Why is he

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mentioning this here? Because he's trying to get to the fact that

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someone can also go overboard, like there's neglect, but then

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also there's Ifrit right within trying to establish the rights of

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Allah. Someone can do too much, or they can be negligent. So what a

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baniati, making things too hard on themselves, making things that are

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allowed for forbidden right, inventing acts of worship that are

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way over the top and difficult.

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Allah condemned them for this, even though it looked good to

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them, they were not establishing the rights of Allah. So what is

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almohabilahi

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taala Ari

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is very beautiful. He's saying that, listen,

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failing to establish the rights of Allah can be in two ways. Number

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one is negligence. Number two is making things too difficult. Well,

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Hayao, the

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best of affairs are always in the middle. Well, kathari, Kaja, ALA,

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Kum ummt and masata, we made you a balance to umm.

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That verse we made you a balance to Ummah is verse 130 43 in Surat

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Baqarah. Look, Surat Baqarah is 286

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verses SubhanAllah. So that means that verse is right in the middle

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of the surah. The verse that tells us to be in the middle, to be

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under sunnah,

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so, Alhamdulillah, when we think about establishing the rights of

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Allah, we want to avoid being too harsh as we want to be avoid being

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negligent, and the way to do that is to stick to the Sunnah of the

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Prophet sallallahu, Salama and the guidance of the Ulama

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a Dina, surat al mustaqim, and now we see the fights that are often

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happening in the attacks and the exposes of the Imams and teachers

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are coming from two extremes, either irresponsibly conservative

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or negligibly because, as the Prophet said, My the scholars are

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going To be like the prophets to the children of Israel. Children

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of Israel, the scholars of my ummah are going to be like

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so he said, Allah condemned them for not properly observing what

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was not made. They made something obligatory that wasn't

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if that's the case of doing something more than what about

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those who are negligent? We ask about and

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so he said, This is piety like this middle weight. So this is

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something very important for you to hear, especially if you're a

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new Muslim. We've come back to Islam. We've been around people on

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both extremes, that the way to establish the rights of Allah

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subhanahu wa taala

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is what

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it's moderation,

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is the Sunnah of

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the Prophet. That's why Imam Malik said the Sunnah is like the boat

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of Noah. Whoever took it didn't drown.

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And so the sheik says, wahada Taqwa.

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Well, here taqwa,

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Wali Ah

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lihari, that tell Jannah, this is tapah. And for these people, these

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people that are between Efrat and tafried, between extremes, is

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Jannah.

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Wali, Allah, Wali Avi had jaila al am no Phil ah. And for these

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people, Alhamdulillah, there is security and safety in the Iraq.

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Wa ya home, worried. Worida A WA, Ida, Allah Azza wa, Jalla AMA, and

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for them only,

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Allah subhanahu wa has guaranteed he will accept their needs. What

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Yahoo sumiya, and these are the people who are known as the awliya

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of Allah.

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So we can now think about the awliya of Allah is not some off

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the path strange practice, whether it's too harsh or too soft,

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but the awliya of Allah subhanahu wa are those who stick to the

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Sunnah of messenger

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salon,

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Shala, we have some questions. We're going to stop here. We'll

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continue next week on can a man marry a woman that has kids from

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another man out of wedlock? But she's practicing, of course,

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somebody had kids out of wedlock and then they made Toba.

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Alhamdulillah, this is a good question. So the person's asking.

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Can a man marry a woman who had children out of out of wedlock,

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and then she came back to Islam, or she became Muslim? If she

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became Muslim,

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first of all, we ask Allah to bless your relationship.

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Alhamdulillah, it's a great thing. MashaAllah,

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but if she became Muslim, the Prophet sallallahu, salaam said

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that Islam erases whatever came before it.

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And Allah says in the end of the 25th chapter, you badid Allahu,

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sayt that those people who become Muslim sincerely, all of their

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evil is turned to good,

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Alhamdulillah,

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so you can marry her. Alhamdulillah,

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no problem. Alhamdulillah, may Allah bless you.

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Is it preferable to know to marry from a known good family? We

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have to be careful, because the family doesn't care, guarantee

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that the person is going to be good, but definitely we don't want

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to marry from like the Sopranos.

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You know what I mean? We don't want to marry like people that are

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known to be really bad in

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the sense that that may impact our life. Because when you marry

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someone, you marry their family. So you want to think about the

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person first and the family second.

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Oftentimes, we find people that are really good. Maybe their

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family is not so good.

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How often do you stream these lives three times? Tuesday,

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Wednesday, Thursday at 1111.

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1115,

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so Thursday nights, we read from this book of Imam Al hasidi out

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the rights, about the rights of Allah. Monday night, usually jump

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on and talk about some whatever's going on in the world. It's a lot

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going on, man, we pray for Palestine and Lebanon. I have

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Lebanese family. Have family in Lebanon at this moment. Ask a lot

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to protect all other Muhammad.

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And then on Wednesdays, we do some contemporary issues. So next week

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we'll talk about news, voting, getting involved in the political

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process, unpacking some stuff around voting and political

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activities, although I may be out of the country, overseas,

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and

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if I'm overseas, it may be difficult to be online, but I will

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try my best. Can you answer my questions in your DM about Swiss.

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You told me not to sign up until you answer yes, sir. Sorry, been a

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little busy man, but I will get to Alhamdulillah. Go ahead and go

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ahead and sign up and then contact me, Alhamdulillah, and we'll take

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care of Inshallah, we have our courses starting. That's my online

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school. He's asking about, imagine how much you paid for just one

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a month. Kira at Arabic as our curriculum, Saskia, nafs,

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you name any, basically any subject you want to learn, its

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there on demand, as well as live courses, for only $9.99

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a month. And that price is going to actually go up in the next few

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months, just because we're having trouble scaling,

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we have to scale like so $9.99 a month. It's hard to scale and to

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hire staff, and to hopefully get a building here in the DC area and

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open up our seminary within the DMV. What do you suggest as a

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safer level source of knowledge about the religion.

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So go to my school, go to join dot sway. But

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someone's asking, great it's a great question, what do you

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suggest as a safe, reliable source of knowledge about the religion?

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If you live in the West, I would suggest that you go to

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join.swaha.com

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enroll and get started in our curriculum and our program, we

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scholarships. So if you're interested, you can reach out to

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me. We're not looking for BCS, we're not looking for investments,

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because we want to make sure that we keep this in the hands of our

00:29:03 --> 00:29:07

teachers and scholars. But thank you. Do you do online therapy

00:29:07 --> 00:29:11

sessions? I do not. I'm not a qualified therapist. I don't have

00:29:11 --> 00:29:16

any training in that regard, so no, I can refer you to people, but

00:29:16 --> 00:29:20

it's not I can answer religious questions, but I am not trained

00:29:20 --> 00:29:23

academically in therapy, so I don't do that.

00:29:26 --> 00:29:28

Why do some folks say that voting is sure? We're gonna talk about

00:29:28 --> 00:29:32

the next week? Good question. You know, Instagram, why do some

00:29:32 --> 00:29:35

people say voting is sure? Because they're passionate about the

00:29:35 --> 00:29:39

religion, they love the religion, they have a lot of care and

00:29:39 --> 00:29:43

concern for where the Muslim umet is. You know, I don't think that

00:29:43 --> 00:29:46

they're bad people who think that. I just think that they're very

00:29:46 --> 00:29:47

passionate,

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and they they

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so someone's saying, no white chicks, nice. So Al Bukhari

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actually was, you know, from the Caucasus Mountain.

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So I think Buhari is from the motherland, Imam, a Muslim from

00:30:04 --> 00:30:06

the holcast mountains.

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So if there's no white sheiks, bro, might as well get rid of

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Buhari and Muslim and this side in the Magi. And we have to be very

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careful of not being caught up in any of the secular Political

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Theology,

00:30:19 --> 00:30:22

political nomenclatures, because they destroy us. We don't care

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about color. We care about unless someone uses their color for evil,

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then we care

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about someone's

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asking, Where are what are you? Boston. I was just in Boston.

00:30:35 --> 00:30:36

Alhamdulillah was in

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I was at actually IC and I was at Sharon with del clear.

00:30:45 --> 00:30:47

Yeah, it's a very Thank you, Jennifer, for letting me know

00:30:47 --> 00:30:51

there is a vast that person reached out to me, actually last

00:30:51 --> 00:30:54

week, someone on the tick tock on tick tock in particular, they

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reached out to me today we had a long conversation, hopefully got

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them in touch with some resources that will help them. So the person

00:31:00 --> 00:31:04

I ask about online therapy, if you reach out to me, can find my email

00:31:04 --> 00:31:08

on my website. I will get you in touch. We have a lot of great

00:31:08 --> 00:31:10

Alhamdulillah Network of Mental Health care providers in the

00:31:10 --> 00:31:14

Muslim community in Canada and in the United States and all of North

00:31:14 --> 00:31:17

America. What is a good way to become a better Muslim? You know,

00:31:17 --> 00:31:20

I think number one is to have real estate goals for yourself. Don't

00:31:20 --> 00:31:22

try to do too much or too little.

00:31:24 --> 00:31:27

Number two is, you want to

00:31:29 --> 00:31:33

have a teacher right when people go to the gym, they often get

00:31:33 --> 00:31:36

injured because they do too much. I've also noticed for the

00:31:36 --> 00:31:39

religion, people often get injured because they try to do too much.

00:31:39 --> 00:31:42

So it's good to have a teacher that can help you pace yourself,

00:31:43 --> 00:31:47

and then you want to make the focus of your religion, worship

00:31:47 --> 00:31:48

and being a better person.

00:31:50 --> 00:31:53

How do we deal with the Salafi, Ash Adi, sectarianism? We don't we

00:31:53 --> 00:31:58

should ignore it, and we should force those groups to acknowledge

00:31:58 --> 00:32:02

what the early scholars of those groups said that at least are

00:32:02 --> 00:32:09

three, as mentioned by asafarini al hambari. Number one is Al Asmaa

00:32:09 --> 00:32:13

is Imam Ahmed. Number two, ashariya, Imam is Abu Asmaa

00:32:13 --> 00:32:18

Ashari. Number three is maturidi. Maturidi The Imam Asmaa toridi.

00:32:18 --> 00:32:21

And to know that this fitna that we see in America in particular,

00:32:22 --> 00:32:25

you don't find that in the EZr, you don't find that in Damascus,

00:32:25 --> 00:32:28

you don't even find that in the major scholarly circles, like in

00:32:28 --> 00:32:32

Saudi this is, this is like nonsense, wasted time, stuff

00:32:33 --> 00:32:36

that's not allowing us to scale that even many people listen to me

00:32:36 --> 00:32:39

right now have no idea what we're talking about. It's a complete

00:32:39 --> 00:32:39

waste of time.

00:32:41 --> 00:32:45

But all three of those groups are from Alison. Alhamdulillah, we

00:32:45 --> 00:32:51

should move on that keep stepping and don't waste your time on these

00:32:51 --> 00:32:54

issues. Don't waste your time on these issues looks like.

00:32:54 --> 00:32:57

Alhamdulillah, all of our questions have been asked and

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answered. May Allah subhanahu wa bless all of you, Alhamdulillah.

00:33:03 --> 00:33:05

And for those of you, it's your first time you can just put in the

00:33:05 --> 00:33:09

chat box. First timer, welcome Alhamdulillah to our lives. Wanna

00:33:09 --> 00:33:12

make sure you feel like this is a place for you to be.

00:33:13 --> 00:33:16

Alhamdulillah. I mean, let other people know about it, because I'm

00:33:16 --> 00:33:19

so shadow bands, uh, Alhamdulillah

00:33:20 --> 00:33:23

and and

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let's focus on building our capacity. Someone asked, What's

00:33:29 --> 00:33:32

What are your thoughts on, what happened yesterday and so on. I

00:33:32 --> 00:33:35

talked about it, and I'll continue to talk about it, that we need to

00:33:35 --> 00:33:36

build power.

00:33:38 --> 00:33:40

We have to move from protest to process,

00:33:42 --> 00:33:46

and we have to move from a sense of anger, which is important and

00:33:46 --> 00:33:52

justified, to now a strategy that builds our economic power, our

00:33:52 --> 00:33:55

political power. But we can't do that if we're fighting about Sunni

00:33:56 --> 00:33:57

intra Sunni stuff,

00:33:58 --> 00:34:02

intra Sunni issues like my man put in the comments. Just take it for

00:34:02 --> 00:34:05

what it is and keep moving it. Don't waste your time on that

00:34:05 --> 00:34:08

issue. It's a waste of time. Well, lahi, trust me, it's a waste of

00:34:08 --> 00:34:10

time. Doesn't take you anywhere.

00:34:11 --> 00:34:15

So we need to think about our power, the power to protect

00:34:15 --> 00:34:18

ourselves. We can't even bring a bottle of water in ghaza Man,

00:34:19 --> 00:34:20

like a bottle of water.

00:34:22 --> 00:34:27

We have time to talk about Sufis ashai, this group, that group,

00:34:27 --> 00:34:32

that sign of a really unstable situation.

00:34:33 --> 00:34:37

If there are people trying to burn down my house, I don't need to

00:34:37 --> 00:34:40

argue about what type of pail I'm going to use to put the water and

00:34:40 --> 00:34:44

to put the fire out, I need to put the fire out. The Ummah is on

00:34:44 --> 00:34:44

fire,

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and we don't have the time to argue about secondary issues. We

00:34:50 --> 00:34:54

should be careful of that. We need to focus on our mandate, which is

00:34:54 --> 00:34:59

to build our own strength, to get rid of dictators in our

00:34:59 --> 00:34:59

communities.

00:35:00 --> 00:35:02

To have good leadership, political leadership,

00:35:03 --> 00:35:07

ingenuity should be something that we foster, economic development,

00:35:07 --> 00:35:12

education, safety and security in our society, and the ability to

00:35:12 --> 00:35:18

protect each other from those who try to harm us. We cannot do any

00:35:18 --> 00:35:21

of the things that I just mentioned at a international

00:35:21 --> 00:35:25

level, locally, Alhamdulillah, some communities do this, and we

00:35:25 --> 00:35:28

see now what happened in the UK. May Allah bless the UK Muslims,

00:35:28 --> 00:35:30

incredible community

00:35:31 --> 00:35:34

that now are being scapegoated for something they had nothing to do

00:35:34 --> 00:35:34

with.

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And so

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we'll talk about that next Tuesday, Inshallah,

00:35:41 --> 00:35:46

kalau fikom. So Allah, bless all of you

00:35:48 --> 00:35:49

and keep us strong. Someone saying

00:35:51 --> 00:35:54

Taliban are killing Shia Muslims. And they say, Sunnis are doing

00:35:54 --> 00:35:57

this. What should we do in this situation? Number one, we believe

00:35:57 --> 00:36:01

that Shias are Muslims. This is crazy. Number two, we need to make

00:36:01 --> 00:36:04

sure that it is the thought event that are doing it. Because people

00:36:04 --> 00:36:08

say the thought event. People say, Taliban, fix my house. Man, you

00:36:08 --> 00:36:12

know the thought event. I don't agree with Tati ban on

00:36:13 --> 00:36:17

many things. But also, we need to be careful that, like

00:36:18 --> 00:36:21

everyone, blames certain Muslim groups for everything,

00:36:22 --> 00:36:26

but oftentimes it could be someone else. But of more importance is It

00:36:26 --> 00:36:33

is haram to kill a Why would you kill a Shia? They say Allah when

00:36:33 --> 00:36:38

he stuck about a letter. Now salah, salatana for almost an

00:36:38 --> 00:36:43

alkali, sallam, but authentic hadith. Whoever faces our qibla,

00:36:43 --> 00:36:47

who prays, our prayers, who eats are the Bihar, is Muslim

00:36:49 --> 00:36:53

and and this moment in time, we don't need to get into these kind

00:36:53 --> 00:36:57

of ridiculous battles. And be careful, both extremes within the

00:36:57 --> 00:37:02

Sunni and Shia community mention things that most Sunnis and Shias

00:37:02 --> 00:37:03

don't even believe,

00:37:04 --> 00:37:07

like they mentioned things that most Sunnis and Shias they don't

00:37:07 --> 00:37:12

believe, but then they try to present that as like the normative

00:37:12 --> 00:37:15

of each community. So we should stand and protect

00:37:17 --> 00:37:20

anyone from being killed.

00:37:21 --> 00:37:23

It's crazy, man,

00:37:24 --> 00:37:25

that's unacceptable.

00:37:27 --> 00:37:29

So we ask Allah subhana wa Tada to to

00:37:30 --> 00:37:32

help us. So we know that stuff over in that part of the world,

00:37:32 --> 00:37:36

sometimes it can be intelligent agencies doing that stuff, right?

00:37:36 --> 00:37:39

It can be intelligence agencies that try to do that to create more

00:37:39 --> 00:37:43

divisions amongst the Muslims, so we have to be very careful. But

00:37:43 --> 00:37:47

what we can do is, when these things happen, we can protect one

00:37:47 --> 00:37:50

another, and we can and now say, This is wrong. I'll give an

00:37:50 --> 00:37:51

example

00:37:52 --> 00:37:54

during the Arab Spring.

00:37:55 --> 00:37:59

I remember in Egypt, maybe some of you saw it when we would pray. And

00:37:59 --> 00:38:03

I'm not even Egyptian, but I was there as a student, and the

00:38:03 --> 00:38:07

Christians would surround the Jemaah and protect us. I don't

00:38:07 --> 00:38:11

know if any of you remember that, that that sent a very powerful

00:38:11 --> 00:38:16

message to the establishment, to everybody, that there is unity

00:38:18 --> 00:38:22

here in the United States, as some of these encampments that are are

00:38:22 --> 00:38:24

incredible. Students were engaged in

00:38:25 --> 00:38:31

our student groups. May Allah bless them, mashallah and raise

00:38:31 --> 00:38:34

their status. We're actually going to offer a class at my school this

00:38:34 --> 00:38:41

fall, free for any MSA student or college grad student that is in an

00:38:41 --> 00:38:45

encampment Muslim or otherwise, we're giving them free

00:38:45 --> 00:38:51

scholarships to our school to take our class on Islam and justice,

00:38:53 --> 00:38:54

Islam and justice.

00:38:56 --> 00:39:01

But when I went to lead the prayer in George Washington, there was

00:39:01 --> 00:39:03

1000s of non Muslims there, man,

00:39:05 --> 00:39:12

and as I, you know, made tuck beer for salatul, Maghrib. I looked up

00:39:12 --> 00:39:16

and the non Muslims man had made a circle around me

00:39:17 --> 00:39:18

to protect me.

00:39:20 --> 00:39:25

It was crazy. I didn't notice it till after. I said, you know, I

00:39:25 --> 00:39:29

went into um Roku, and then I came up from Roku, and I saw, like, a

00:39:29 --> 00:39:32

circle of these people like

00:39:33 --> 00:39:34

that were like there.

00:39:36 --> 00:39:39

So while, while we may feel helpless

00:39:41 --> 00:39:44

to stop what happened to Shia Muslim brothers and sisters, and

00:39:44 --> 00:39:46

we have a lot of Shia Muslim brothers and sisters here,

00:39:46 --> 00:39:46

Alhamdulillah,

00:39:48 --> 00:39:50

we can protect them,

00:39:53 --> 00:39:55

and as they have protected us,

00:39:58 --> 00:39:59

and the bombs that drop.

00:40:00 --> 00:40:00

I

00:40:01 --> 00:40:06

do not care if you're Sunni Shia, Salafi, ashadi, hijabi, yakabi,

00:40:06 --> 00:40:07

non hijabi.

00:40:09 --> 00:40:13

Beard, no beard. The bombs that drop on the Muslims, the bombs

00:40:13 --> 00:40:15

that drop on the Muslims, understand the importance of

00:40:15 --> 00:40:16

Muslim unity more than we do.

00:40:17 --> 00:40:20

They don't discriminate. They don't discriminate in the name of

00:40:20 --> 00:40:23

murder, we discriminate in the name of truth.

00:40:24 --> 00:40:25

Subhanallah,

00:40:27 --> 00:40:28

it's not a good thing. Man,

00:40:30 --> 00:40:36

Raja zakamala, ask Allah subhanaw taala to bring healing to the

00:40:37 --> 00:40:37

ummah.

00:40:39 --> 00:40:40

We pray for our

00:40:41 --> 00:40:43

brothers and sisters all over the world

00:40:44 --> 00:40:47

ask a lot to protect Palestine and Lebanon.

00:40:50 --> 00:40:53

My Abu aklemma. Pray for Sudan.

00:40:54 --> 00:40:57

Some of my favorite classmates and teachers were from Sudan.

00:41:01 --> 00:41:04

We pray for anyone here that's going through any difficulties or

00:41:04 --> 00:41:06

hardships. May Allah make it easy for you.

00:41:08 --> 00:41:11

Does Allah count? This is actually a really good question. Sorry, I

00:41:11 --> 00:41:15

keep wanting to jump up, but then there's like, great questions. If

00:41:15 --> 00:41:19

you ask great questions, I can't go it's in a manner for me to

00:41:19 --> 00:41:22

answer you. But this person,

00:41:23 --> 00:41:26

Allah, this is the question of the night. May Allah bless you

00:41:27 --> 00:41:28

for being so vulnerable.

00:41:31 --> 00:41:36

Does Allah forgive shirk in your thoughts?

00:41:38 --> 00:41:43

First of all, you cannot commit shirk in your thoughts.

00:41:45 --> 00:41:47

Shirk has to be something that you affirm

00:41:48 --> 00:41:49

and act on.

00:41:52 --> 00:41:53

So

00:41:54 --> 00:41:57

you have to think about the fact that

00:41:58 --> 00:42:02

things that are in your mind internally are not filled what we

00:42:02 --> 00:42:06

call al khadij. They're still filled Adam. In theology, we say

00:42:06 --> 00:42:07

these things don't exist.

00:42:09 --> 00:42:13

These things don't exist. So, Alhamdulillah, you don't have to

00:42:15 --> 00:42:19

think about these countries like a shirk and don't and sometimes it

00:42:19 --> 00:42:22

can lead to compulsion, right? In your mind, I committed shirt,

00:42:22 --> 00:42:25

committed shirt. I committed shirt. I committed shirt. Oh my

00:42:25 --> 00:42:29

gosh, right, especially like I have ADHD, some people, OCD, so

00:42:29 --> 00:42:33

that stuff can lead to compulsions. In Islam, we have a

00:42:33 --> 00:42:36

beautiful principle that says, anything that leads to compulsions

00:42:36 --> 00:42:37

is forgiven.

00:42:38 --> 00:42:42

Look at the mercy of the deen man. Look at so like someone's not

00:42:42 --> 00:42:47

sure. Do I make Nina? Did I make me and did I make me? A chala,

00:42:48 --> 00:42:53

don't worry about it. You know, somebody did I this many things on

00:42:53 --> 00:42:56

the test B, was it this number? This number? Don't worry about it.

00:42:56 --> 00:42:59

Allah, scream. Allah's not petty. Remember what I just said? Allah

00:42:59 --> 00:43:03

is not petty. Like our some of our people, you know, sometimes

00:43:03 --> 00:43:07

they're petty. Don't let the petty Muslims make you think Allah is

00:43:07 --> 00:43:07

petty.

00:43:08 --> 00:43:10

They are petty because they have nothing to do. They have no life.

00:43:10 --> 00:43:14

They're very insecure, so they project the throw up of their days

00:43:14 --> 00:43:15

on the rest of themselves,

00:43:17 --> 00:43:17

right?

00:43:18 --> 00:43:23

And so we, we have to appreciate and understand

00:43:24 --> 00:43:28

that anything that leads to these kind of things. So someone's

00:43:28 --> 00:43:31

asking if you can ask more specifically, like ADHD and Salah.

00:43:32 --> 00:43:37

So anything that's clinically been diagnosed as ADHD, or, you know,

00:43:37 --> 00:43:43

it yourself that it is harming you or keeping you from because we

00:43:43 --> 00:43:44

want you to focus on Allah, right?

00:43:46 --> 00:43:49

We don't want someone to be in prayer worried about all this

00:43:49 --> 00:43:52

other stuff, and they're not getting the what they should get

00:43:52 --> 00:43:52

out of prayer,

00:43:53 --> 00:43:58

so anything that's leading to compulsive ADHD behavior. Last

00:43:59 --> 00:44:00

cream Allah's Mercy

00:44:02 --> 00:44:04

tips for learning the Arabic language. I had to

00:44:05 --> 00:44:09

learn the Arabic language in a very different way, you know. So I

00:44:09 --> 00:44:12

wouldn't recommend how I had to do it. It was hard. I had to memorize

00:44:12 --> 00:44:15

the Quran, and then the Quran was my dictionary, and then I had to

00:44:15 --> 00:44:18

memorize some text when I was younger, because I had an old

00:44:18 --> 00:44:21

school teacher. I'm Generation X. I'm not a millennial. I'm not Gen

00:44:21 --> 00:44:25

Z, so I still got the foot in the staff. You know what I mean?

00:44:28 --> 00:44:31

I got traumatized a little bit, you know? So

00:44:32 --> 00:44:35

I think one of the things that you can take Arabic at any of your

00:44:35 --> 00:44:37

local universities, they have really good programs. Usually

00:44:37 --> 00:44:40

check out the ratings, check out the professors jump into those

00:44:40 --> 00:44:43

programs, or locally, if there's a there's a good teacher. You can

00:44:43 --> 00:44:49

find, even now online, you can find great teachers, and you find

00:44:49 --> 00:44:51

Alhamdulillah like really good teachers. But one thing I've

00:44:51 --> 00:44:55

noticed that people that learn Arabic don't do is they don't have

00:44:55 --> 00:44:59

a rich literary experience. Read everything you.

00:45:01 --> 00:45:02

Like, read everything.

00:45:03 --> 00:45:06

Don't just read religious books. Like, if you meet Arabs, right,

00:45:07 --> 00:45:10

and you talk to them how we talk in our religious books, they're

00:45:10 --> 00:45:12

going to think something's wrong with you.

00:45:13 --> 00:45:15

Like, even if you speak fusar, they won't mind. It's a little

00:45:15 --> 00:45:20

different. Like, strange, but like, if you're like, for Emma BT

00:45:21 --> 00:45:26

for God in Casa ELA, Arba ATI, Aqua AB salmon for our Voltaire.

00:45:26 --> 00:45:31

Hindi, what any who but he, Oklahoma, what that is? What the

00:45:31 --> 00:45:36

harlami? What Robbie Brooklyn? What Hamish will be? Tik Sini,

00:45:36 --> 00:45:39

they can look at you like, what? Man? Why you talk like that?

00:45:40 --> 00:45:43

So you want to read.

00:45:45 --> 00:45:48

Read a lot. It is midnight. It's past my bedtime. I have to go

00:45:50 --> 00:45:54

so barnacle, my apologies, I can't get to all the questions someone's

00:45:54 --> 00:45:56

worried about those books behind me. Don't worry. They're not going

00:45:56 --> 00:46:00

to fall. Sha Allah, they're not going to fall. But it's good to

00:46:00 --> 00:46:03

see all of you. May Allah bless you. May I increase you we want to

00:46:03 --> 00:46:05

welcome, especially our new Muslims and the person that keeps

00:46:05 --> 00:46:09

worrying thoughts are not shirk. The prophet. Saw some said that

00:46:09 --> 00:46:13

Allah will not hold my abuma account for what they think,

00:46:14 --> 00:46:21

unless they act on my man from New York saying, go to a bodega in New

00:46:21 --> 00:46:25

York, kilometer, kill him.

00:46:26 --> 00:46:30

You know, speak to him. And you can

00:46:32 --> 00:46:37

easily learn about saying the Imam Al Hussain and yazida did an

00:46:37 --> 00:46:41

entire session that you can find it Alhamdulillah on my

00:46:42 --> 00:46:45

YouTube page, Sayyidina, Imam Al Hussain was ala Haq.

00:46:46 --> 00:46:49

What do you think of Sheik Ibrahim, niyas, my teacher? My

00:46:49 --> 00:46:53

first teacher was from Senegal, so I have nothing but respect and

00:46:53 --> 00:46:58

admiration for Sheik Ibrahim, a niyas and his son,

00:46:59 --> 00:47:04

also, Sheikha and Sisi I'm not from there, Tariqah, but I have a

00:47:04 --> 00:47:07

lot of respect for him. You know, when he went to hajj, he led the

00:47:07 --> 00:47:08

Hajj.

00:47:09 --> 00:47:10

Rahimata,

00:47:13 --> 00:47:17

barakla, fiko, salallahu, Asmaa said, Muhammad, may Allah, bless

00:47:17 --> 00:47:18

all of you.

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