foreign
we begin by praising allah we praise him
we seek his help and we ask for his
forgiveness
and we take refuge with allah
from the evil of ourselves
and from the evil consequence of our
evil actions
whoever allah
misguides no one can guide
whoever allah guides no one can misguide
and whoever allah leaves to go astray no
one can misguide
and i testify that allah alone is worthy
of worship
and that muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam
is his servant and messenger
my dear brothers and sisters may allah
have mercy upon you salaam alaikum
sorry
okay that's good mashaallah that's what
i'd like to hear
so we don't want any ramadan muslims
what is a ramadan muslim brothers and
sisters you know what ramadan muslim we
all know the ramadan muslim
i think there's a bit of a ramadan
muslim in every single one of us
but the ramadan muslim is the person
who only prays
in ramadan
they only come to the masjid in ramadan
in ramadan
they start to grow the beard they put on
the hijab
yeah and as soon as ramadan is finished
out comes the razor the beat is shaved
the hijab is off
the the praying is stopped
this is the ramadan it's a phenomena of
the ramadan muslim
those people who only really practice
their
religion
in ramadan
and we have to wonder
for these people
what has ramadan actually done for them
what have they accomplished
because the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam he said
that there are some people who get
nothing
from their fasting
except that they get
hungry and they get thirsty
and there are some people who get
nothing from their prayers
except that they get tired
so this is the condition
of some people they fast
meaning they don't eat and they don't
drink but the only benefit they get at
the end of the day is they feel thirsty
and hungry
implicit in this
is that fasting is supposed to bring
about a change
that is much more profound and much more
significant to the human being than
merely a feeling of hunger and thirst
the same thing
with the night press
the taraweh
the tahajud
some people stand in the night
they go for the tarawa
and the only thing they get from this is
sore feet and they feel very very tired
implicit in this
is that we are supposed to get something
much more profound and something much
more important
from the night prayer
than just feeling tired
so let us look and examine what allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala he said about the
ramadan in the quran
who believe
this is allah
he is saying oh believer
this is important pay attention
this especially for you
note what this
statement
is saying to you so allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala if you are a believer when allah
says
oh
this is for me i need to know i need to
listen to this
this means
that it has been prescribed it has been
ordered made obligatory upon you fasting
if you are resident
and you are in health
then and you're of the right age
then you have to fast
it is prescribed it is audit
it is something we have to do
this is the first thing i want us to
think about because what is islam
what is islam
what does the word islam mean can anyone
tell me what is the meaning of the word
islam
huh
okay hands up who's thinks the meaning
of the word islam is peace hands up
hands up i heard a lot of you saying it
yeah come on
no i heard
what was this
huh hands up who thinks the word islam
means peace hands are big i want to see
it how high in the sky
okay not many okay so for those of you
who didn't put your hands up like you
brother sitting there with a blue shirt
what does islam mean then if it doesn't
mean peace
yeah
it mean well tell me
okay it means
submission it means submission
islam means submission
it means to submit ourselves and
surrender ourselves to allah this is the
true meaning of islam
it means submission surrender
to the will of allah subhanahu wa
now let me ask you another question
for most people in the world today even
most
secular muslims whatever that's supposed
to mean i don't know what a secular
muslim is well i do
but they're like the ramadan muslims
secular muslim all right ramadan muslim
okay
so
even for most secular muslims for most
muslims if you tell them islam means
submission
what do you think
do you think that that sounds positive
or negative do you think when you say
submission most people do you think that
they have a positive feeling about this
or a negative feeling what do you think
positive or negative
negative
especially in the west
especially in the west if you say
islam means submission
they say
what i
what do i want submission i'm free
we live in the free west in the free
world we have a free society
in fact we have even have a saying in
england this is a free country
it's so free you can go and help
yourself
to all
the computers and the place they just go
and burn some houses down and take all
the stuff so free england yeah
it's called looting yeah
okay that's what you get from freedom
yeah
okay so they say we're free what do i
want to submit to
so you know we should get our head
around this
because actually the idea of freedom
is a full side there is no such thing as
freedom freedom does not exist
there is no such thing as freedom it
does not exist
every single society has laws and rules
and customs and regulations which they
live by every society
every group of people you get two group
of people and straight away they start
having a list of do's and don'ts don't
do this do do this don't do that you
should do this
what does it mean submission
what does it mean
submission
well in the broad context
of human
behavior in human sociology in other
words the study of human society
submission the word means
to
to give in
to give in to surrender this is the term
submission means to give in
in other words when you submit you are
giving up something that you want
something that you like
or you will do something that you don't
normally want to do
so i am giving up what i like in order
to do this
i am doing something i don't want to do
in order to accomplish that
this is the meaning of submission
now if you think about it
human beings are submitting
in many different ways throughout their
lives
and usually we submit for one of three
reasons
or sometimes it may be all three reasons
or maybe two of them but these are the
three reasons and i still have to find
another reason meaning i've only found
three so far if you know if you can
think of another one let me know
number one
i submit
because i love someone
submission out of love
if you love a person
you will do the things
that that person wants you to do
that's that's the reality of love
if you really love someone you will do
whatever it takes to make that person
happy
whatever it takes
if you are really crazy about them you
will do anything
for them
so this is a type of submission out of
love so if i give you an example
brothers
inshallah you love your wives
inshaallah
so you know what when your wife she is
really tired
she's had a really hard day you can see
your wife is exhausted
you know what
you know your wife needs help
so what do you do
you decide to do the washing up
no
maybe not
you decide i will watch that don't worry
darling you take it easy and put your
feet up i can see you exhausted you
spend the whole day with the kids you
must be i don't know how you do it masha
allah bless you you just take it easy
i'll do the washing up now you don't
want to do the washing up of course you
don't
you don't want to do the cooking of
course you don't but you know what you
love your wife
and because you love your wife you will
do something that you don't normally
want to do
to make her happy
so what do you call it when you do
something you don't normally want to do
it's submission
i'm giving up what i want
for something someone else wants we do
that for our wives we do that for our
husbands we do that for our children we
do that for our parents
this is submission out of love we all do
that
so this is love submission out of love
the second thing is out of fear
we submit out of fear what is the
consequence
what is the punishment what will happen
to me
if i don't do this or i do do that
and of course most societies
this is how they operate
they aim for your survival instincts
either they reward you with something
that's nice
or they threaten you with the punishment
of something that is horrible and that
goes to the very
basis of your instincts
so they will threaten to put you in
prison or to find you or to take some of
your money
or to humiliate you or embarrass you in
some particular way
so in this way we we surrender out of
fear
maybe i want to
park my car in the middle of the street
it's easier right i just parked the car
right there in the street and just come
into the thing and but you don't why
don't you because you're frightened they
will take your car away or the police
will come on your door they will
or whatever it may be
so sometimes we submit out of fear
so there's submission out of love
submission out of fear and there's also
submission
because we know that that's the right
thing to do
meaning i know that that's the right
thing to do i go to the doctor the
doctor tells me look you need to have
this operation now i don't understand
what a you know intestinal protraction
divisions whatever they call it right
i don't know any medical terms you see
i'm making it up as i go along yeah
okay
but you know what i trust the doctor
he has knowledge that i don't have
if he's telling me it's the right thing
to do i will do it
so this is submission
out of your understanding and your
intellect knowing that it's the right
thing to do
and as far as i know these are only
three ways or different ways in which we
can submit
and all human beings do this in their
life everybody
everybody
in fact there is not a single moment in
the life of a human being when you are
not submitting to someone or to
something
you have to breathing
is a form of submission involuntary
you may not want to breathe for many
reasons i don't know but you have to
you don't have a choice you can hold
your breath for two three minutes that's
it you have to breathe
so
we are always submitting and
surrendering but here
why
to who are we submitting and to who are
we surrender
to be a muslim
means and this is what it means to
submit to allah to be a muslim means
that the one we love the most
is
allah
the one we fear the most is
allah
the one we know who has the most
knowledge and the greatest wisdom is
allah so if
we agree that we submit out of love and
fear and knowledge and understanding
who is the who is what being has the
most right to our love it is allah
so he has the most right to our
submission out of love
and he has the most right to our
submission out of fear
for his punishment because his
punishment is the most terrible
punishment
and allah's knowledge is the best
knowledge his wisdom is perfect
even if you don't understand it
you do know that allah is the creator of
the heavens and the earth
he is the omniscient he sees and hears
and knows everything he is
he is the wise
so even if we don't understand why
if we know it is from allah that's
enough for us
the first thing has been prescribed for
you
so we should submit
we should obey allah
many people who are not muslim
they will look at us and say
why are you fasting how do you do it
you're crazy
why why do you want to stop eating and
drinking or what for
well really what for
well what why
because allah told us
because we want to please allah because
we love allah because we fear his
punishment and we know that allah is the
most wise i may not understand why but i
know that allah he is the most wise if
he told me to fast a hundred percent i
know this is the best thing for me
because allah is the most wise
and this is the essence of islam
brothers and sisters it is very
important
yes islam is a reasonable rational
religion but there's something very
important i want all of you to
understand and this is important in
dawah when you are explaining islam to
non-muslims or even to other muslims
one of the things that we find we always
like rational explanations oh
abdulraheem why do we do this why don't
we eat pork and so what we say is well
some people say the reason we don't need
pork is because it has this disease and
it has that disease and it has this
chemical imbalance and it is this has
nutritional and sciences proven this and
science has proven that okay
let me ask you a question
if i can now bring a pig
and i can prove to you scientifically it
has no disease and i can prove to you
scientifically
that the nutrition of this pig is
actually good for you because you've
managed to adjust it now with science
is the pig halal
no it's not
so the pig is haram because allah said
it is haram that's the bottom line
and many muslims unfortunately they
don't even get this basic concept
this is why many people become murtad
they apostasize
they come across islam something that
doesn't seem to agree with their uncle
in fact to tell you the truth it's their
acl that is wrong
they have a problem with their brain
in fact to
imagine that your mind
could comprehend something
in a better way than allah itself means
you have no occur if you that if you
think like that
if you allow such a thing to come you
don't have akan
but this is a problem we have a big
problem
we don't know what it means to submit to
allah and honestly brothers and sisters
if you don't come to allah
if you don't come to islam submitting to
him with love and fear
and knowing that he is the most wise you
will have problems
you don't always you can't always find
an intellectual argument and this is the
sahaba the sahaba they submitted
themselves to allah once they knew
muhammad was rasulullah once they knew
the quran was from allah
they didn't need intellectual
explanations
it was enough for them
we here and we obey
so the fasting is prescribed for us
and then allah says
as it was prescribed for those before
you
so allah is letting us know
this is not a new thing
fasting is not something that is new
this is something that
allah prescribed for the muslims before
you as he has prescribed it for you also
this is an act of worship an act of
self-purification
an act of obedience and love to allah
subhanahu wa to islam
that has not only been given to you but
it's been given to those before you and
then allah tells us why
he tells us why why fasting
what is the reason
and we're going to get to the and we'll
see why it's the key to understanding
the mistake
of the ramadan muslim
and why we should be afraid
that allah will not accept our fast
allah will not accept our prayer that by
the end of ramadan it may be that we
have got nothing from our whole ramadan
except
we became hungry
and we became thirsty
what a disaster
we got nothing from our prayer except we
got tired what a calamity
what a waste of efforts
that's what you're supposed to get so
this is like
the barometer this is the measurement
this is how you can weigh
you can actually allah has given you a
means to know
did you get something from ramadan or
not
did you benefit from ramadan or not how
do you know
because if at the end of ramadan you
have you have achieved this
then you can say yes
i got something from ramadan
meaning what is
you acquired
taqwa
you acquired taqwa ramadan is to teach
you taqwa to give you that quality that
essential quality that essential
ingredient for the successful life of a
muslim
taqwa
so
what is taqwa
i need to know
if that's what i'm supposed to get from
ramadan what is taqwa
okay
now taqwa is often translated as the
fear of allah
or the consciousness of allah
but actually taqwa
is a quality
this quality of taqwa
is what compels you to protect yourself
from the punishment of allah like a
shield it shields you from anna it
shields you from allah's anger it
shields you from the wrath of allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala
so as one scholar he described taqwa
it is obeying allah
with a light from allah
hoping for his reward
and it is leaving disobedience to allah
leaving the sins
with a light from allah
fearing allah's punishment
another scholar was asked
one of the companions he was asked what
is taqwa he said did you ever walk
on a path that was covered in thorns
how would you walk on that park
on that path there is a path and there
are thorns on the path how will you walk
you'll be careful right you're going
like this
oh
you know especially you've got some
expensive clothes some
trainers which you may be nicked from
london and the riots
you'd be very careful
right you know these youth the youth
yeah like don't mess with my trainers
man
my nikki is my nikes
you trolling my shoes
that's what they're like so they're
liking their hair in london it's the
most important thing their trainers
and their hat
you know
just the right angle in it gangster man
yeah
so
you see how careful they are
careful
they're careful you don't want anything
to harm you but in this case brothers
what it means
is you are careful with anything that is
going to harm your deen
anything that is going to harm your deen
you are careful
this is taqwa
because your deen is what brings you
close to allah
and harming that deen is what separates
you from allah and taqwa is that quality
i want to protect my deen i want to
protect myself from the punishment of
allah i don't want to do the haram i
want to do the good things
so by the end of ramadan
you must be a better muslim
you must be a better muslim if you are
not a better muslim
by the end of ramadan if you haven't
increased in your closeness to allah
if you are not more concerned about your
deen if you are not more concerned about
doing good deeds if you are not more
frightened
of sins and disobedience to allah
then you know
that your ramadan
was a waste
you didn't get anything let me give you
an example
if i go into a supermarket yes
with an empty trolley
and i push the supermarket
down the aisles you know
and i come out with a supermarket
with an empty trolley what did i get
from the supermarket
nothing
you did you maybe you got some exercise
you lost some weight some of us need to
do
but you got nothing from the
supermarkets if you come into ramadan
with an empty trolley or you come into
ramadan with five times namaz
and reading one page of quran a day and
giving you know this amount of sadaka
and that's what you come into ramadan
with and you come out of ramadan with
exactly the same what did you get from
ramadan
nothing
that's why
i'm making a personal mission for myself
simple thing
only one thing i do
i make sure that after ramadan
i read two more pages of quran a day
than i did the last ramadan
simple
at least i can say i got something and
masha'allah because ramadan is the month
of the quran it is the sunnah to try and
read the whole quran
now i don't know there are different
qurans but a lot of the qurans today
mashallah actually if you want to know
how to read the whole quran in ramadan
depending on the version you have or the
not the version but in depending on you
know which particular setup it is
but many of them if you read four pages
after every salah
you will read the whole quran in ramadan
four pages after every salah you will do
it
insha allah
so that's quite a lot of reading of
quran
so it's quite easy after doing that
to just add one more page or half or
more page or maybe you just read one
line of quran a day i don't know i hope
everyone in this room picks up the quran
and reads it every day
because many scholars says many scholars
the ulama they said that is the haqq of
the quran the right of the quran
is that you read it every day
if you did not read the quran every day
you oppressed the book of allah you made
vullam
you denied it's right
of course it is also the right of the
quran that you should try to understand
it
and this is very important
not only that we read the quran
but we try to understand the quran
so
so brothers and sisters
after ramadan
see how far into the year as well this
is another way you can tell
if you manage for six months
to marshall increase in your night
prayer to increase in your reading quran
to increase in your sadaka so six months
after that mashallah you've done quite
well you know ramadan gave you a push
and that push kept you going halfway
through the year
the best thing is you need it to keep
you going all the way to the next year
but if it lasted two or three days oh no
wait a minute for most people it lasts
until eid
which is the next day and then suddenly
yes forget the prayer
forget forget forget even
forget even tawheed let's go to the
fairground and get someone to read my
fortune
shirk
on the day
of eat
subhanallah
what did ramadan do for you
if that's how you were
subhanallah
we shouldn't treat ramadan like this
and the problem is my brothers and
sisters this is a big problem with the
muslims today
our religion is culture
even we talk about islam as it's a
culture
the islamic cultural awareness yeah
there's something something culture we
put islam in the culture department
will islam is not culture islam is the
huth from allah subhanahu wa ta'ala it's
not culture
what is culture
culture is just things people happen to
do do you just happen to be a muslim i
just happen to be a muslim like i happen
to eat you know chapatis and and curry
and and i don't know hummus yeah i
happen to be a muslim i just happen to
be is this what islam is no it is not
islam is not happenstance islam is not
an inheritance that you just pass on
islam is the truth from allah
the creator of the heavens and the earth
it is not culture
it is
the religion of truth
and allah will not accept any other
religion
in
in the islam verily the way of living
with allah is islam and he will not
accept anything else
he will not accept that you live any
other way
he will not except for you to be
anything except someone who submits to
him subhanallah totally this is the dean
of islam
but our problem is we treat islam like
culture
i don't have that problem because i
wasn't brought up in a muslim family or
any muslim culture i had i chose islam
because i studied religions and i when i
read the quran i said to myself if i
have ever read a book that is from allah
this is it
i am not tied to any culture
pakistani arab
indonesian south east asian whatever
indian no
it is not i didn't become muslim because
of a culture
because it is the religion from allah
that is the truth but this is our
problem we treat islam like culture
and it becomes a habit
it becomes accustomed it becomes empty
rituals we stand for prayer
exercise
you know the way some of us pray you
might as well just go to the gym and do
aerobics
we don't have
we don't even understand what we are
saying
we have no attentiveness we just make
the movements and then we wonder why
prayer does not transform my life
prayer does not change my life we wonder
why because it's become for many of us
empty rituals
fasting has become for many of us
just a time when we get hungry and
thirsty it doesn't transform us but
brothers and sisters
a salah
a psalm
the fasting the prayer the zakah the
hajj
is supposed to change you dramatically
it is supposed to transform your life
and we have not understood these
internal dynamics we've become
disconnected
and then we wonder why the youth are not
interested
because really many of us we are not
interested
we don't have this connection with allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala
and this is what it is about
whether it is salah whether it is
ramadan it is connecting us with allah
connecting us with allah
we are learning
self-control
we are learning mastery of our self
not to be an athlete not to be a
millionaire
not to have status
no
not at least not status with the people
but to have status with allah
so it is
self-mastery and self-control i don't
eat i don't drink i give up these things
these basic instincts why for the
pleasure of allah seeking his face
not because everyone else is doing it
if we have this intention
and we realize the purpose that from
ramadan
we are supposed to and think about it
this is your thinking look
i never i can't understand how a person
can fast ramadan and not at the end of
it give up smoking i just don't
understand
because wallahi if you can spend the
whole day not smoking you can keep on
not smoking your addiction is gone it's
finished it proves you're not addicted
when you say i'm addicted i can't so i
can't stop well you just stopped
for 13 14 15 hours
and you tell me you can't give up you're
a liar
that's not true
i can't stop eating i can't stop will
you just yes ramadan you stopped eating
get a control of yourself get control of
your diet
allah will ask you on the day of
judgment your health and how you cared
for your health it is a trust from allah
you know what it teaches us ramadan
teaches us yes i can i can i can do it i
can achieve it wallahi brothers and
sisters if you can fast ramadan really
you can do anything you put your mind to
be
anything
you can achieve great things
for allah that's what ramadan teaches us
really it teaches us that
and that's how we should come out of
this month empowered
knowing
that we can achieve things for the sake
of allah for his deen
that i don't have to give in
to every whim to every
desire
to everything that pops up in my head oh
i need this i need that i want this i
want that like these rioters in england
that's it what is it what were they
writing for
they just people intoxicated with the
love of the dunya that's all they have
intoxicated with the love of the dunya
they have no deen no fear of allah no
religion no guidance the only thing they
care about are their trainers
their mobile phone the size of that
television
that's all they have
no self-control
but you know a muslim a true muslim you
walk on the street you see
500 dinar or dirham or whatever
pounds dollars a thousand a million
you know what it's not mine it's not my
business
it's not mine
it's hadith in sahel
it doesn't belong to you it's not
finders keepers losers weepers
no no no this is not islam this is not
you have one of two choices
either you take it and you announce it
for a year
you can take it but you must announce it
publicly for one year
obviously you don't say i found five
million pounds who does it belong to but
you announce it some money has been
found you announce it for a year or you
can hand it to the authorities
if after that time no one claims it you
can keep it or you can just leave it
where it is just leave it
that's what you have to do that's a
muslim that's our deen
subhanallah what a difference brothers
and sisters
so what motivates us to be like that
it's taqwa
it's the fear of allah
the love of allah
it's self-control
and that's at the end of the day what we
should get from ramadan
and you know what brothers and sisters
it teaches us all to be leaders
what i find sad how come we muslims are
such sheep
how come
when our deen teaches us to be leaders
leaders of our families
leaders of our people
subhanallah and leader by the way
doesn't mean i am the boss you do what i
say that's it this is it that's not
that's not being a leader a leader is
someone who is inspires and motivates
but most of all the leader is the one
who has mastery over themselves control
over themselves this is the first
quality that you need and islam teaches
and this is our sahaba this is the
sahaba this is how they were i'm going
to finish
on this one
beautiful story
this is this story inspires me so much
and it leaves on something i personally
am very passionate about and that is
dawah the importance of calling people
who are not yet muslim to islam
and ramadan by the way is a great time
to do that because the shayateen are
chained and the gates of paradise are
open and the gates of hellfire are
closed and in ramadan allah sets free
from hellfire many people i want to tell
you some amazing news
amazing news
a group of brothers from ira the
organization i'm the chairman of which
is dedicated to dow to non-muslims
they are at this moment in norway you
know the place where the massacre was
there right this now in norway and they
are outside
the humanists convention you know what a
humanist is
yeah humanists don't believe in god they
say there's no god we don't need a god
we don't need religion we just rely on
human values whatever they are you know
maybe looting
but no they just rely on good human
nature this is what they
okay
and
mashallah
the brothers are there giving douwa
outside this convention
and
they started talking to a young man
this young man was on the island
where the 90 youth were massacred he was
on that island
and he talked about his experience
and he said when i was on that island
and people were getting shot around me i
was lying down
he said i started praying to god
oh god help me oh god save me
and he knew some arabic from some friend
of his he even started saying allahu
akbar
he's not harry just that's all he knew
he started calling upon allah and he
said when i did that peace and
tranquility came upon me
and i got away alive
alhamdulillah on that day the day before
yesterday he took shahadah and became
muslim alhamdulillah
subhanallah
i want to tell you and i want to finish
with a story
the story is about a companion of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
this companion is his name is
his name is
we only know this companion
from this story
the great persian general rostrum
was facing the muslims and the muslims
were defeating the persians
so this general could not understand
what is going on why are these people
fighting us he wanted to talk to one of
these muslims so he sent a message i
want to speak
to one of you
so rabia comes
and the first thing
this is amazing the general
is sitting in a tent imagine this tents
but imagine
how his tent was
the carpet on this tent
is encrusted with precious stones the
carpet into it are sown precious stones
this is the this is the luxurious
of this tent and at the end rostrum is
sitting on his throne but rabia comes
digging his spear
into the carpet he doesn't even notice
the carpet he just did and then he comes
and sits right down next to the general
so the general they the soldiers pick
him up and they throw him down so rabia
gets up he says you know what we used to
think
this is the arabs this is what islam
subhanallah we used to think that you
were an intelligent people but now i can
see you are foolish
because some of you behave as lords over
the others
subhanallah
he said what do you want
he said i didn't ask to come here you
invited me what do you want he is
talking to the persian general like this
so much for etiquettes and protocol and
what do you want
sora beer
he says i saw the restroom he says why
are you fighting us what do you want you
want camel you want sheep you want women
you want money we'll give it to you just
go back to the desert where you came
from
and rabia says
we have come to take the people away
from the worship of men to the worship
of allah
we have come to take people away from
the injustice of man-made religion to
the justice of islam
we have come to take people away from
the narrowness of this life to the vast
expanse of this life and the next
well what a speech
subhanallah look at us today brothers
look at us today sisters
what has happened to this ummah
we've become like restroom on our
thrones and
our carpets and our protocols and
but that's not the end of the story
my favorite bit well nearly my favorite
bit
is rostrum the general says
are you the leader of these people
he thinks rabia is the leader he thinks
he's the amir of menin
are you the leader of these people he
says no
are you the general he says no
who are you he said i'm just an ordinary
soldier amongst them
just an ordinary soldier amongst them
subhanallah brothers and sisters you see
how islam
empowered these people
you see how islam made an ordinary
soldier amongst the muslims appear as if
he was the leader of a nation these are
people who understood this deen these
are people who understood this deen they
practiced this deen they were not
ramadan muslims
i pray and i ask allah subhanahu wa to
allah that he guides us to truly benefit
from this blessed month in the way that
we are supposed to benefit from it may
allah guide you and me and all of us
close to the truth may allah bless you
allah for an inspirational talk
inshallah hope to see this positive
change in all of us
not only in the ramadan but in all the
year inshallah and now we'll have the
question in answer session with
we have a mic for brothers in the aisle
here and we have a mic for sisters as
well so whoever
wants to ask a question to you can
line up you can queue up in the line and
you can ask your questions one by one
we'll start with the brothers please
mention your name and your profession so
that it will be easy so for the shift to
answer your question yes brother
justice
if it is against your own self your
parents
may be rich poor who worries
on other hand he says be humble to
believers
does it mean that
we don't have to strongly uh follow
justice for believers
i'm sorry
i got the allah says stand up for
justice yes and allah also says be
humble believers so what's the question
that means
to believers we should not be very firm
in justice
no but what what it means my dear
brother
is that justice is so important that you
should be just
yeah you should always be just
and you should always be just in every
way even if it is
against yourself
and so being humble
and
standing up for justice
are not two contradictory things
they are not in contradiction with each
other
yes
so you can be humble and still stand up
for justice
so these two things are not
contradictory at all and the proof is
that allah says both of them he tells us
to be humble and he also tells us to
stand up for justice
can we have the next question from
sister's side
very inspiring talk as usual
there's a question from a sister
she says a friend of mine accepted islam
and married a muslim man
couple of years later they divorced
and my friend has gone back to
christianity what happens to such
muslims
there's also another connected similar
questions i'll put it together
that there is a sister who was married
to a man who was from christianity
he came into islam
he married her
but his ways and his life is not
practicing islam anymore what happens to
such people
okay the answer is very simple allah
knows best
there's these people are people of the
hell fire you know they are not muslims
anymore and they are most certainly
people of the hell fire
yeah according to the sharia
these people should be advised
and they should be advised and talked to
and given the opportunity
if they don't
come back to islam
then there is a hadood punishment for
those people
yeah
so that is the consequence in the dunya
according to the sharia and in the
punishment is even worse than that
can we have the next question from
brother's side please
surely
uh when you mention that
we have to give the hug of the quran by
reading it every day does it imply that
we need to open the quran and read it
but if we have it memorize some of the
surahs
that's a good question
i mean
many of the sahaba they were not
literate
yeah
in the sense that
many of them could not read and write
but still if you can read you should
read the book of allah
yeah you can recite it of course and
that is very good but also the right of
the quran the book the kitab is that you
should read it so even if you have it
even to revise it is good to read it as
well
because sometimes in your revision you
will see things when you are reading
in the letters
to help you revise
best but according to the best of your
ability you should try to read the quran
as well uthman evil of man even a fan he
used to recite the whole quran in one
night in his prayers
yet when he was martyred he was reading
the mushaf
yeah and until today we have the mushaf
which is supposed to be the uthmani
mustaf with his blood on it so this is a
a a an indication that although even
though he had memorized the book of
allah he would still read the muslim of
the quran so allah knows best
i need to ask a question about
nationalism like
today is 14th august and
independent day for pakistan yeah okay
can we celebrate uh independence day and
can we celebrate independence for
different countries like in terms of
deen
the prophet
alaihi wasallam said in a very important
hadith my i i am absolutely sure that
nationalism is one of the big diseases
of our ummah and nationalism is no
different than tribalism
and the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam warned us very strongly about
tribalism
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
said that whoever calls to asabiya
whoever fights for us
and whoever dies for a serbia they call
and fight and die the death of jaahiliya
right jahali means outside of islam you
die as if you are from the time of
ignorance before islam came
but what is asabia this is important
what is asabia
yeah asabi does not mean to be proud of
your country or your tribe that's okay
you can be proud of your country i love
my country i love england
in spite the riots
i do i generally genuinely love my
country and i'm quite patriotic even
though it is a careful country i do love
my country and i do everything i can to
make my country a better place to live
yes
what is wrong is this
when your country does injustice
and when your country does something
wrong you continue to support your
country and wrongdoing this is what the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
condemned this is how the arabs were
before islam
this is the asabia
before the coming of islam
if you belong to a person's tribe
they would support you it was irrelevant
whether you did this or that or whatever
you are from my tribe i support you
that's it
even though someone from another tribe
may do exactly the same wrong thing or
the right they will not praise that
person or they will not condemn that
person but if it's from their tribe they
will praise them or condemn them
depending on it's good or bad so this is
a saber
yeah
so it is a favoritism for your tribe
in the face of injustice and wrongdoing
and tyranny yeah so if you have the
attitude i love pakistan
but you know when i i have this famous
clip which i didn't write this by the
way
abdul rahim green lays the smackdown on
pakistan i didn't that was someone put
that there but the thing is is that many
many many most of the people said to me
and pakistanis said to me what you said
is so true it is so good
a few of them just started insulting me
and did very abusive things
right based on what i wasn't attacking
in fact even in my thing i mentioned
this is not only pakistan this happens
all across the muslim world i just
pakistan better for whatever reason so
now if person gets all agitated and
upset even though what is being said is
the truth just because it's his country
this is a saber this is a saber as for
celebrating your national day and i
honestly brother i don't know allah
generally there are two eids we have
adhere and idle fitter these our these
are our eats
yeah but this is an e for the ummah not
everyone in the ummah is going to
celebrate pakistan day
you know so when we start imitating the
non-muslims in their celebrations in
their customs beating drums playing
things waving flags at this and that and
whatever and these things were not part
of our
custom before we took this from the
non-muslims this is really this is
actually a sign of a type of
a weakness
it's a sign of our inferiority complex
we feel we have to imitate the west and
we have to copy that and we don't need
to believe me we don't
you know so i think i i'm not going to
say you know it's not up to me to say
halal haram whatever i can't recall at
this time a particular fatwa but
thinking about those things i don't
think that's a healthy way to behave but
allah knows best
can we have the next question from
sisters
uh the question is
why did allah make us for worship why
does he need our worship and praise he
doesn't need our worship anyone who says
allah needs our worship it's a statement
of kuffar
it's a statement of disbelief in allah
allah does we need to worship allah we
are the ones who we need to worship
allah like we need to breathe actually
we need to worship allah more than we
need to breathe
more
because if you worship allah correctly
according to his guidance you will go to
paradise
yeah even if you stop breathing you will
go to paradise so you definitely need it
more
okay allah does not need us to where
allah created us to worship him from his
wisdom
this is to manifest the truth that he
alone is the one who is worthy of being
worshipped
yeah so it is not from any need of allah
subhanahu wa to allah we are the ones
who need to worship allah allah has
created us
to worship him
as part of his wisdom
and this is part of how allah subhanahu
wa to allah has manifested the truth
through his creation which is in reality
the purpose of allah creating the
heavens and the earth so we could know
him we could know allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala so allah knows best allah
next question from brothers please
brother my name is abdul khaler and i'm
a student you talked about how if we
find money we should just leave it there
so my question is what if we find some
money and we give it for a charitable
cause is that permissible and i missed
it sorry bro i missed that i'm sorry
what did you say in the beginning you
talked about how if we find some money
we should just leave it there no you
can't give it for charity it's not yours
to give okay it doesn't belong to you to
give in charity
if you even okay if you gave it in
charity with the intention of the reward
being passed on to that person even so
this is not what the sunnah tells us do
you have the choice to either keep it
and announce it
for a year
or leave it where it is or hand it over
to the authorities to give it in charity
again that person may need that money
it's not your money it's not yours to
give on that person's behalf but like
instead of letting it just lie around
because someone else might take it so no
you announce it you announce it yeah do
you understand yeah yeah
yeah okay then if you want if you've
announced it for one year you can give
it in charities like after eight years
you can give it after a year no you
can't
the question is how can new muslims deal
with people who have no religion and no
fear of god
and are superstitious also
how to behave with them
and since the hellfire gates are closed
in ramadan what happens to the
non-muslims after death
no i mean
when the when we are told the gates of
hellfire are closed it means that
the way to allah's punishment is closed
meaning allah's mercy is predominant
allah's anger is less this is what we
can understand from that okay
how to deal with those people to be
patient with them
to deal with them like a doctor does
with a patient this is it
to to deal with a doc i wonder why a
patient is called a patient maybe
because you have to be patient with the
patient i don't know okay but this is it
we have to be patient they are people
they are ignorant people they don't
understand
they are confused they are suffering
from so many diseases and
and shortcomings and problems
and we are like doctors
yeah so we have to give the medicine in
the right way we have to know how to
give the medicine this is a lot to do
with human psychology and actually
really it's you know i'm making it sound
complicated it is not complicated
what you need is empathy
empathy is one of the most important
things in dealing with other people
empathy
means
to feel how another person is feeling
it doesn't just mean
what would i do if i was in that
person's shoes because if you are very
fit and healthy and strong and the other
person is very weak and maybe disabled
yeah well what would you do you don't
know what you'd do you'd jump up and run
around they can't no
how would it be if i was like that how
would it be if i was ignorant i was
superstitious i was brought up in this
atmosphere how would i be thinking what
would my words and attitude be to that
person this is how you have to be you
have to be empathetic
this is very very important this is the
meaning of what the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam said that you cannot
truly believe until you love for others
what you love for yourself
until you love for others so this is
even non-muslims
you should love for them what you love
for yourself talk to them in the way
that you would like someone to talk to
you if you were like that and for sure
all of us
are ignorant compared to people of
greater knowledge
all of us are deficient so how if you
made a mistake would you like someone to
correct you how would you like someone
to talk to you how would you like
someone to treat you okay
and so this is what you want to think
you need to put yourself in the shoes of
that person and you need to really feel
for them
and really be concerned for them and
that's generally how we should deal with
everyone insha'allah
how can we make out the difference
between vaswas of shaytan and weakness
of nafs
well that's a good question
i haven't really thought about that very
much
i think i think the the difference is
actually very very difficult to know
because the way that shaytan attacks
attack the way that shaitaan attacks us
and the way that shaytan tries to
mislead us
is through
which means
our desires our our desires and through
doubts
so the connection between the whispering
of shaytan and our desires is a very
close one
and sometimes it is very difficult to
know
what is just my desires and what is
shaytaan whispering but anyway shaytan
seems to understand what our nufs or
what our desires are and he uses those
desires
to push us towards haram things
so the two things are very very closely
connected the way you know the
difference anyway and the most important
thing is through knowledge
and so
the the cure for this disease is
knowledge
when you know the sharia when you know
the book of allah subhana allah when you
know the sunnah of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam then you are
equipped to know what is halal what is
haram what you should do what you
shouldn't do so this is very very
essential in combating the whispering of
shaitaan and the
draw of your nufs because you're enough
sometimes in your nuts you could desire
something good
not only your nufs drives you to bad
things
sometimes your nufs drives you also to
good things so you have to know how will
you know the difference between the good
things and the bad things this is from
studying
the book of allah to allah from knowing
your deen in sha allah so that's it
sister that's all i can answer on that
question
we will have a lot of two more questions
two from brothers and two from sisters
brother if you can just give a chance to
the other one because there are two
gentlemen already standing
we have one gentleman let him complete
inshallah then we'll give you a chance
because you have already posed a
question that's why
yes in the world yes
and you've been in doubt for a long time
i think
what's your take on how the muslims or
ramadan muslims will will try to engage
with islamophobia
and how the people we have to make them
understand
the goodness of islam yes
while the world becomes so
interconnected and global okay that's it
my question i think martial you know
brothers and sisters
i don't know how many of you have been
following what's going on in in uk at
the moment
and did you hear about the three muslim
boys who were killed
yeah there were three muslim boys
they were standing guard at a petrol
station so they were just protecting
their community and really they were not
it was not they were just protecting the
masjid or you know protecting their
shops no they were there sort of
standing on guard
for the whole community and this car
came and this guy this person drove at
them on purpose and killed them killed
three of them just hit them with the car
on purpose
now
subhanallah
the father of one of these boys
has been appearing a lot on the media
and masha'allah
his speeches are have been fantastic
and you know what he's saying to people
he's saying listen
he's saying i don't want you to go
marching and i don't want you to go
demonstrating he said what where is this
in islam
he said you know what if you want to do
something for my son
go home and establish your salah
and change your life
and leave the haram things
and worship allah that is the best thing
that you can do for your life in your
community he said if even one of you
goes home and you change your life
because of what i've said because of
death of my son my son's death has been
worthwhile
and you know what the english people
they are writing in the things we used
to think bad things about muslims
and i feel so bad for all the horrible
thoughts i had about muslims and this
man is amazing and the muslims because
everywhere in
london the muslims have been standing
to protect the communities
in one part of london the turkish
shopkeepers have been coming out chasing
off the rioters in white chapel in the
east end where the bengali muslims are
hundreds of really hundreds of muslim
boys standing protecting the masjid and
protecting the community chasing off the
rioters and the impact of this
has been absolutely massive in terms of
the positive impact because the english
people are seeing their own people their
own you know native english people
destroying the society and the people
who are standing up
are the muslims even the most right-wing
newspapers like the daily telegraph in
the daily mail who have been the most
vicious
in lying i've been at the end of it
myself they lied totally lied about me
said just totalize
not without even embarrassment now they
are writing
such positive things
even they are saying islam and this
thing is a solution for our society they
are saying it so this is the example
this is the difference when the muslims
set a good example
when they behave in the way that islam
says
then you know this is and this was
always this is the way of rasulullah
you know whatever they say about us what
is that compared to what they used to
say about rasulullah
they call him a liar they call him a
suit a magician a magician rasulullah a
magician
a poet
was not a poet
or a soothsayer or a fortune teller this
is rasulullah the most truthful man they
are saying these lies
but he proved them wrong through his
behavior
through his behavior so when people met
rasulullah they said this is the one
they said all these lies and
they saw the difference
and when they saw the truth
alhamdulillah
they accepted islam so this is the way
should we respond inshaallah to this
negativity we should return evil with
what is better we should only increase
in our good manners and our following
islam because definitely allah will
bring it about that he will make the
people see the truth from the era
i'm very sorry we have to take only the
last question from sisters and conclude
because we don't have much time so we'll
take last question from sisters please
a muslim girl if she marries a
non-muslim who converts
but only for nikah
is it wrong on her part
so then what should she do
yeah if she knows that the man is only
converting to marry her
and his conversion is not sincere it is
not valid
this is not valid
yeah
this is not a valid marriage okay and
his conversion is not valid however it
may be and this happened in the time of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
that a man who is non-muslim
went to one of the female sahabi art and
said i want to marry you
she said i think was abu talha and he
said to him she said you're not a man
who's to be refused in marriage however
you're a kafir and i can't marry you he
said if you become muslim i will marry
you
and he became muslim but he was sincere
and he became a muslim and he really
followed islam yeah so this is the
difference if a person
changes because a person may become
muslim for many different reasons
right it doesn't mean you're becoming
muslim is not sincere so if if there is
a beautiful woman that a man sees and
and why think why might this man be
attracted to this woman most of the time
it's because of some qualities that
islam gives her
it's because of some qualities islam
gives her
right
so if this is what he is motivated to
become muslim for no problem
but if he is just going to say
muhammad rasool allah to make your
parents happy and you know just to fit
the bill and afterwards there's no salah
no zakah no some and she knows it
then no this is not accepted this is not
a valid she is playing with allah she is
playing with his dean and you know this
is just like the bani israeli on the
sabbath
yeah when allah prohibited them from
fishing on the sabbath so they put the
nets the night before and took in the
nets after said look we didn't fish on
the sabbath we did all the work the day
before we did the work after it's the
same thing it's just making a mockery of
allah and his deen yeah
so if it's the second one it's not
allowed if it's the first and he's
sincere alhamdulillah no problem with
that and allah knows best
be