Yasir Qadhi – The Two Wolves that will Destroy Your Deen

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			hamdulillah All praise is due to Allah subhanho wa Taala we praise Him and we seek His help and we
seek refuge in Allah from the evil of our souls and the consequences of our actions. Indeed,
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Allah subhana junta Allah and bear witness and I testify that Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
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			halka to RT he went to Motorola Illa one two Muslim one. Dear Muslims, and today's Hertzberg. I
wanted to remind us of a very beautiful imagery that our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam gave to
warn us about two things that destroy our faith and our religion. And a hadith narrated in the
Sunnah of a Timothy and the Muslim Imam Muhammad, our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said
mozzie Bernie Gianni Odyssey laffy Alana I'm in that I'm translating here paraphrasing. Imagine if
two hungry wolves were to be let loose in a flock of sheep or a flock of goats. A wolf, by the way,
is an animal that destroys more than it can eat. Unlike the lion, the wolf destroys more than it can
		

			eat. And the wolf will cause havoc wherever it goes. Every farmer knows this. That's why they have
Shepherd dogs to guard against the wolf, our prophets and said imagine not one but two wolves were
to be let loose on an unprotected flock nobody's there to protect. Imagine, to wolves against
defenseless flocks. How much damage would that cause How many sheep would be left alive after that
massacre after that attack, then our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said,
		

			that image, imagine now a man's eagerness for wealth, and the man's desire to be famous, or more
destructive to his Deen than those two wolves to that flock of sheep.
		

			This is the imagery that Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam gave, just like those two wolves will
wreak havoc in a flock. The Prophet system said, we all have two wolves inside of us. We all have
two animals, that if we let them go unchecked, they will destroy our deen not a flock of sheep, not
our wealth, our deen, what are those two animalistic desires. Number one head of salad man, an
eagerness to have more and more wealth, and number two, head aside and just to be famous or to be in
power, or to be in the limelight, fame and power and money. These are the two things that desires if
we don't keep them in check, they shall destroy us worse than a flock of sheep is destroyed when
		

			they are defenseless against a pack of wolves. In this hadith, our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam paints an imagery that is very vivid, and he asks us to be conscious of these two animalistic
tendencies. Now these tendencies in and of themselves, they are in all of us. The first one the love
of money. Allah says in the Quran, he's describing all of mankind, what to hate. Boondall mother
who've been janma all mankind You love money with a burning desire with an immense desire, the help
of man, the love of money is something that is ingrained in all of us. But when we allow that love
to overpower when we allow that love to go unchecked, it will lead to disaster. How so many things
		

			number one, Ibragim comments, that if the only crime of greed, if the only penalty of greed was that
it made a person busy in this world, to the point that he neglected the next world, it would be
enough of a crime. In other words, even if you earned halal and spent on halal, but all you did was
earn, earn, earn earn, instead of just 1520 3040 hours you want to spend at 90. Instead of having
enough to live you want to have more and more and more at the cost of your time. Ibn Rajab said if
the pursuit of wealth, the only crime was that it killed up your time, this would be enough of a
crime for the pursuit of wealth. Why? Because wealth is only temporary pleasure. How long can we
		

			enjoy wealth? How much can we enjoy the wealth that we have? And when we spend our time in the
temporary pleasure, it will come at the expense of the permanent which is the Hereafter? And that is
why our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said in that famous Hadith, what do you really have of
your money? Oh, son of Adam, what do you really have except your food that when you eat it, you will
then go to the restroom and defecate it or the clothes that when you wear them after a while they
will wear off, or the good deeds and the charity that you spend forth. And that is the only thing of
your wealth that you will actually have permanently. Think about it. No matter how fancy your palace
		

			no matter how beautiful your sink and your toilet, no matter how great is the food? How long will
those pleasures last, in contrast to the pleasures of the Akira. So the first problem that happens
when we have unchecked desire for wealth, is we end up spending an inordinate amount of time in
obtaining wealth, at the expense of spending time in a bada and in vicar and in servicing mankind
and in accruing the greatest wealth which is the wealth of the hereafter. Allah says in the Quran,
Allah, Allah will balloon Xena to an IRA to dunya Wolbachia to Salah how to how you don't end up big
wealth and children. They make life beautiful, but the good deeds that remain forever or more
		

			beloved to Allah, the good deeds that remain forever, not your wealth. Another problem that happens
when we prioritize wealth
		

			is that in the pursuit of wealth, we start justifying any means to obtain that wealth. And we feel
that in order to feed our children, in order to build a bigger Palace, we are justified in obtaining
wealth through illegal unethical haram means, and this is without a doubt one of the worst effects
of loving this world. When a person becomes blinded that they do not care about risk Halal about
ethical Halal earnings. This is without a doubt one of the greatest disasters of loving money,
because haram wealth is one of the most evil things of our religion, haram wealth. Our Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said it is the number one cause of our dua
		

			as not being accepted to Allah. If we feed our food our money is haram and we're eating haram and
we're wearing haram how do we expect Allah to answer our door as haram wealth? Our Prophet
sallallahu sallam said Hadith isn't even manager. Any flesh that is nourished by Haram has no right
to go to Jannah any flesh that is nourished with haram means your money is haram and you're spending
it on haram and you eating without on our Prophet system said any flesh that is growing from that
Iran Jana has no right for it. How can Jana accept you when Allah says that he only accepts the pure
the only accepts that which is good that which is for you. So when we become so blind in our love of
		

			wealth that we don't mind cheating, stealing, embezzling lying, defrauding, when we become so blind,
that we just want to earn and earn and earn and we don't care about inflicting pain on others or
being unethical or selling haram. Then we have opened up the door to destruction to ourselves, and
that is why the love of haram wealth is something that is one of the main causes of destruction. The
second point that is mentioned in this hadith is love of Jah. And John means fame and power, John
means to be in the limelight. John means you want to be known and accepted by people. And this is
done by attain obtaining positions of power by doing things so that the people know you and talk
		

			about you. So our Prophet sallallahu sallam said one of the two wolves is the desire to be well
known that desire to be in the limelight. The true believer understands that being in the limelight
is a huge responsibility. It's not something you aim for directly. The true believer understands
that stepping up for positions of authority stepping up to visit for positions of power is a huge
Amana and they are shy, they're hesitant, they have to be coaxed and pushed in, they don't want to
jump in and be the ones that are in charge or be the ones in the forefront, because they have to
answer to Allah subhanho wa taala. But when a person desires to be famous, when a person desires to
		

			have power to have control, then this will lead to a very major disaster, typically speaking, and
that disaster is your ego becomes more important than the cause you have been entrusted with your
ego, your fame, your prestige takes priority over the responsibility that has been handed to you.
And we see this time and time again, not just in politicians, we always like to blame politicians,
and they have word much to blame. But the fact of the matter dear Muslims, let us be brutally
honest, at some level, we all play politics, at some level, in our own corporations in our own
offices, and our own extended families. Even in our own Islamic organizations shaytaan comes and
		

			politics gets involved. And we want to be the ones that everybody's speaking about everybody praises
everybody puts on a pedestal and our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, when that becomes
your goal, when the goal is not the edema, when the goal is not to fulfill the trust when the goal
is not to do a good job. But the goal is your ratings in the public view, the goal is what the
people will say, well, then you have opened up another door of destruction. And what happens when
you prioritize your ego is that you are willing to harm other people in that process. This is what
happens with powerful people. This is what happens with cutthroat competitor competitors. This is
		

			what happens with kings and politicians that when they get to that power, when they get to that
level, they become intoxicated. Even if we are not kings and politicians. As I said at every one of
us, at some level, we have something that we're in charge of, we have some aspect that we have to
intermingle with the others. And if our ego becomes the most important thing, then we will be
willing to speak that about others unjustly, we will be willing to take the rights of others
unjustly, we will we will be willing to expose the faults of others or do many other sins. Why?
Because we feel by doing that we will have our ego and our prestige and our fame put into the
		

			limelight and we will do so at the expense of others. And this is the door of volum Dear brothers
and sisters in this beautiful Hadith our Prophet sallallahu alayhi salam summarize to animalistic
tendencies that live within all of us to be extremely eager to obtain wealth and to be extremely
eager to become famous. And the both of them our prophets, Allah Allah who are seldom compared to
hungry wolves. When a wolf is hungry, he will not even act right
		

			rationally, He compared them to hungry wolves beasts of prey, and he compared eemaan to beautiful
sheep flock beautiful animals, peaceful animals, animals that bring wealth and benefit and hair.
That is your religion and our prophets have said if you don't keep those two desires in check, they
will destroy your deen even worse than how to wolves will destroy a flock of sheep May Allah subhana
wa Tada bless me and you with through the Quran. And May He make us of those who is versus they
understand and apply as halal and haram throughout our lifespan. Ask Allah's forgiveness you as well
ask Him for He is the food and the ramen.
		

			Alhamdulillah Halawa hadn't had a summit Allah de la mula mula olam Yoko local phone ahead, what
about ado, do Muslims let no one understand from this, that the mere desiring of wealth, or the
desire to do something effective is in and of itself? How wrong or sinful? No. Both of these desires
if you channel them and control them, they are permissible, yes, they're dangerous, but in that
there's also good our Prophet sallallahu. I do send them said to Ahmed Abdullah house, Nirmal Mao,
who saw the Raju the Salah, how good is pure wealth for the righteous person, how good is pure
wealth for the righteous person. And when our prophets or some will choose somebody to be on a
		

			delegation to be an ambassador, he will choose the one who was known the fame was there, the
prestige was there. And the Treaty of Arabia, our Prophet system centered with man had been a fan,
because he was the most beloved he had a prestige and, and he had the pedigree or he had the tribe
that will be at his backing. So he chose the person whose prestige and whose fame was known and to
utilize them. And the same goes for every other ambassador that he sent. So in and of itself, wealth
is not evil, in and of itself. Being famous is not evil, but it is what you do with it. And it is
your prioritization of it. That is where the problem comes. So dear Muslim, nothing wrong with
		

			wanting to be wealthy. But don't make that your overwhelming desire. Don't make that the end goal.
Wealth is a means to the greater goal and the greater goal Robina Artina for dunya has an orphan
after the escena if that is your goal, you want to live a comfortable life and you want to invest
for the Ark era, then there is nothing wrong with having the goal for money. And if you want to be
effective, and you want to do something for the sake of Islam, and you you understand that to do so
there must also be a positive reputation. But your Nia is not your ego, your Nia is to benefit the
people than in shallow to honor this to is permissible. So here's where the fine line comes in and
		

			of themselves. wealth and fame are neither haram nor sinful nor evil, they are neutral, but
generally speaking wealth and fame corrupt more than they guide so we are being warned, we're being
cautioned that if you enter this arena, if you're going to be full time businessman, lots of money
coming in, or if you're going to be famous or even if it's at a lower level, be careful you monitor
your intentions and don't make these desires to become like wolves like animals or prey. If we keep
them in check. We can utilize both of these for the sake of the deen. But if we let them go, then
they shall destroy us and destroy our religion in the process. I ask Allah subhana wa Tada make dua
		

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