Yahya Ibrahim – Road to Return #14 – Resistance & Resilience

			transgressions. Let's begin our journey in identifying some of the key things that you and I as
Muslims need to avoid.
		

			Now, I'm not going to speak about the things that are easily known to us, I'm not going to speak to
you about murder is wrong, and you know, you shouldn't steal. But I want to speak about
transgressions that are a part of our regular day to day life that we have overlooked. And I want it
to be something that you can kind of take pause in my life in your life, and say, This is something
that I can do better in. The transgressions that I want to talk to you about are things that are not
necessarily mentioned directly by the prophet Muhammad Sallallahu. It was seldom that he spoke
directly about a particular thing. But I want it to be something that you understand its
		

			consequences as dangerous, as some of the things that the Prophet clearly spoke to us about. So when
we speak about these transgressions, I don't want you to make it a compiled list where you say, Oh,
he didn't say anything about murder, or he didn't say anything about stealing. I'm going to talk
about stealing, but maybe in stealing joy from others, and stealing other people's accomplishments,
and taking credit for other people's work and cheating on an exam, which is cheating yourself. All
of those are transgressions that are haraam actions that may not have been spoken about in a clear
and critical way by the prophets, I sell them, but they are transgressions that affect our mind,
		

			heart, body, and soul. I want that to be kind of how we understand what it is that we are seeking to
pursue today. And that the solution for it is to put up resistance, you know, resistance and
resilience are really too important. Our letter word resistance is that you say I'm going to push
back, I know this is something I'm going to push back against it, I'm not going to cave in this
time, I caved in yesterday or last week, or last month or last year, but this time, I'm going to
resist, I'm going to put up a fight, I'm not going to fall prey to my own self to the whispers of
the shaitan to the actions of others, I'm not going to lose self control, right. Number two is I'm
		

			going to be resilient. Yeah, I made a mistake, I'm gonna pick myself up, I'm gonna dust myself off,
I'm gonna put myself head high and say a stellar federal, lower toolable elite, I'm going to try to
avoid and shield and and protect myself from the things. But I know that I need to be resilient, I
need to be tough, I need to be thick skinned. And I know that there's going to be certain things
that I want that I'm going to be injured by missing out on, there's going to be that prom that my
friends go to or that you know, at the end of the year, and I'm not going to go to it because it's a
place that I don't believe I need to be as a Muslim, I'm going to make a different choice. I'm not
		

			going to accept to go to the movie with that boy or that girl who's asked me out, I'm going to make
a choice not to get involved in that squabbling online or bullying another student, I'm going to
hold myself to a higher dignity, where I'm not going to shame myself by being vulgar with my words,
just because that's the type of words that I hear in my in the music that is being, you know, put
throughout the airwaves. I'm going to dress in a way that honors me honors my family, my tradition,
my religion and my culture. Not because I want to be all golden looked at by others. But I want to
carry myself in a noble way that is pleasing to Allah, that my scarf is my dignity. My coffee is my
		

			honor. My conservative clothing is assigned to the world that I put a lot before I put them. Those
are important ways of being resistant and resilient to the temptations that will pull us away. Let
us begin going through a list of transgressions that is incredibly important for you and I to learn
about so that we can avoid them and redeem ourselves from them. Come back from them if we have
fallen into them. May Allah subhanaw taala protect us, shelter us cover our shame hide our errors
forgive our sins that which we know of and that which we weren't able to understand at the time that
Allah Subhana Allah allows us to turn over a new page that we begin a new life and a new experience
		

			with him with honor and dignity and love and respect Allah me