of Calgary where he dedicated his time
in coordinating programs for youths and
created supportive environment for
non-muslims he's a young Dynamic speaker
and a lecturer who goes around the world
and dedicated his time and efforts into
educating the people through his various
talks the most famous of his talks in
his vibrant dawa Workshop called how to
give shahada in 10 minutes which has led
hundreds to Islam
alhamdulillah uh little known facts
about him he has been trained
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lecture
I typically don't like to give a lecture
right after another one because people
get bored and I can already see mallah
the excitement in the
crowd so uh what's this lecture
about no one knows even H okay it's
about
extremism in religion versus being two
lacks in the their religion let me start
by telling you two true stories all
right the first one there was a young
man and he just started to become
practicing and he's very excited about
his religion and he wants to practice
every aspect of it which is a good thing
so he discovers that you're not supposed
to have pictures hanging in your home
and things like that it's not
permissible so he now wants to change
the monar with his hand first so he goes
to visit his uncle and he tells his
uncle would you excuse me I would like
to go into your bedroom so his uncle
thought he was going to take a nap so he
says sure go ahead and the young man
goes in and his uncle hears things
smashing and breaking and he enters and
he finds this young man taking these
photos of the Man's children and family
you know and back then they didn't have
digital cameras so these are the only
copies he would break the frame break
the glass and tear the picture apart
take another one break it tear the
picture apart take another one break it
tear the picture apart so what happened
of course his uncle saw that and it's
the only pictures he has of his children
so he started to cry but this young guy
thought this is a it's not permissible
I'm changing it but what really what he
was doing he was being extreme likewise
because especially here this is not his
wealth and it's not his decision you
cannot go and Destroy other people's
property the other one young man
discovered that you know there's a lot
of negative in the in television you
know a lot of bad messages and this is
not appropriate that it should be in the
home so he comes in and his sisters are
watching television so he breaks it see
tough guy breaks the television and he
tells him this is a bringing the evil
into the home so what happens his father
comes home from work and he looks at the
TV screen it's all busted he said who
broke the TV the sister said you know
your son did it he said it's Haram so
then he takes off his belt and he starts
to whip the boy and while he's whipping
him the boy is
saying this guy thinks he's B you
know different
situation did anyone tell you to believe
in more than one God here but this is
how some people think I want to tell you
something that I learned
from and and it's something that is
really uh really beneficial in
understanding
extremism versus you know being too LAX
in their religion which is the other
extremism so I would like you all to pay
close attention please it's a very
simple concept but it's going to make
your life so much easier because every
time now you follow the Sunnah and
someone's going to tell you you're doing
something extreme you're going to give
them this model that we're talking about
now we're going to talk about
basically within any religion or any
belief syst system or any ideology there
are typically two extremes everybody
with me there are typically two
extremes there is one extreme end over
here and there's the Other Extreme end
over there so within Islam there are
also two extremes there's being too
extreme in the religion as far as trying
to be religious and doing things wrong
there's one end here then there's the
other end which people rarely talk about
and think about the other end is the
people who totally disregard their
religion and have nothing to do with it
that's also extremism but the question
is who is the
middle I said
who s alhi wasallam for sure right yes
no for sure the the one that's in the
middle is the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam no one would dare say he is
closer to this extreme or that extreme
the middle is what s alhi wasallam does
if you do Way Beyond beyond what he's
doing then you're moving towards this
extreme if you do a lot less than what
he's doing you're moving towards the
Other Extreme because there are two
extremes you might ask then how could
you do more or do beyond what the
prophet was doing and there's an example
from the time of the Prophet sallallah
alaihi
wasallam when a group of men or a group
of the sahabah got together one of them
said I'm going to pray at night and
never sleep so is going to pray all
night no sleep the prophet wasam would
pray and sleep but he's going to do more
then another one said I will Fast and
never break my fast and the prophet used
to break his fast and the third one said
I will never marry
women of course that's it and then uh
news of that reached the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam and there's
also a narration one of them says I'm
not going to eat meat of course that
would be very offensive to us today
right because of how we love me me so
the when the news of this reached the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam he
said what is wrong with people who say
such and such he he said what they say
obviously he didn't single them out but
he said what's wrong with people who say
these things and he says I fast and I
break my fast and I sleep and I marry
women so this is the Sunnah of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam he
does all these things in moderation then
he says whoever overlooks
my
and whoever overlooks mynah does not
belong to me so basically this is an
example of how some people wanted to go
and do beyond what the prophet sallallah
alaihi wasallam was
doing the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam also warned us of being extreme
or going to extremes so he said oh
people beware of going to Extremes in
religious matters for those who came
before you were doomed because of going
to Extremes in religious matters so the
prophet then is warning the umah from
going to extremes extremes that are
contrary to the Shar to Islamic law and
this has led Nations before us to their
downfall and it could do the same for
our
umah the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam said in another
Hadith that those who go to extremes are
doomed and then the prophet said it one
more
time those who go to exes are doomed and
one more time those who go to extremes
are doomed let's give a simple example
that we all know of how people would go
to Extremes in their religion and make
things more difficult for themselves the
famous Story of B is when mam told them
that Allah commands you to slaughter a
cow that was a simple command from Allah
subhana slaughter a cow they could have
gone out found a cow and slaughtered it
but but first of all they said are you
kidding are you joking us and then they
said what color is it and what does it
do and describe it more to us because
all the cows look the same because they
made things difficult in the end the the
the description of this cow came so
difficult because Allah says that they
they slaughtered
it they almost couldn't succeed in doing
that they almost didn't do it why
because they made things difficult Allah
just said slaughter a cow but they want
to know what color it was and what type
of cow it was and so every time they got
the detail it narrowed down the number
of cows and in the end it came down to
one cow that fit the description and
narrations also tell you that it
belonged to a boy who loved it and he
didn't want to sell it and they had to
beg him and try to coax him with so many
different things in order to finally get
it so it makes things difficult so they
almost went to their Doom here but Allah
subh had mercy so going to streams in
worship and what it does it will lead to
excessive hardship difficulty like for
example the examples we took not
breaking the fast difficulty that is not
required in the religion or not sleeping
at night difficulty that's not required
in the religion and in the least case
even if you can do it for a few months
what happens later on you get burnt out
you get burnt out that's why the prophet
Salli wasallam didn't stop them and
there's also another narration with
Abdullah
where he wanted to do so much acts of
worship the prophet didn't stop him he
just decreased from the amount of the
acts that he was doing or the amount of
worship also uh from part of being
extreme is to introduce Innovations into
the religion and forbid things that
Allah did not forbid I'll tell you a
true story some of uh our friends were
playing soccer so a man came to them a
young young man came to them and he said
playing soccer is
Haram so they said what's the proof that
playing soccer is Haram he said the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
said the Halal is clear and the Haram is
clear and it's clear that this is Haram
that was his proof so he can go to
anyone now and say what you're doing is
Haram what's your proof said Haram is
clear Halal is clear it's clear to me
that this is Haram you know so this guy
now he's forbidding something that Allah
did not forbid and this is as a result
of extremism as well it just makes life
difficult for people or that you would
introduce forms of worship and
commitments that didn't exist at the
time of the prophet wasam and then the
interesting thing is these people always
insist upon it I'll give you an example
okay I'll give you an example that is
related to making Dua after the Salah
and and alhamdulillah we don't have this
very much in North America but in some
countries this is a must after the Salah
the minute they
sayam the IM raises his hands and he
starts making Dua and everybody starts
saying aan whether they hear him or not
they understand what he's saying or not
everyone's saying a mean a mean a mean
and if you don't put your hands up
people get very upset with you now here
of course this is not the Sunnah there's
no Hadith that the prophet after the
five daily prayers would turn turn
around and start making Dua and people
would make Dua in unison Al
together the Sunnah is what after you
say what's the
Sunnah exactly the Sunnah you say three
times and then you start to make all
the and the there's a number of those
this is known to be the of the Prophet
wasam this is what the compan used to do
after every Salah after every single
Salah they would turn around and then
they would start making the and and
the so these people now introduced
something in the place of the sunah of
the Prophet Ali wasallam but they insist
that you have to do it I remember one
time we were in a very small Masjid this
was uh this was in Sudan all right so it
was a very small Masjid we
prayed then the Imam turned around he
started to make
Dua and I didn't put my hands up I'm not
obligated it's something that you guys
made up why do I have to do it so
everyone's say is saying I mean and but
he's the man's making Dua and he's
looking at me and he's angry that I'm
not putting my hands up like everyone
else so then he's looking at me and he's
saying oh Allah we seek Refuge with you
from the hardness of the heart you know
so now Mah you're supposed to be making
Dua to Allah or insulting people
indirectly but in any case it it struck
me that it's interesting how the known
Sunnah of the Prophet s wasallam for
years years and years and years five
times every day you make
the if I were to sit in a Masjid and
after the T just get up and leave can
you fault
me and there is there something and that
is am I blameworthy if I didn't make the
T I can just get up and go right and
it's an extra thing so if the thing that
was done by the prophet and his
companions for years and years and years
multiple times every day if I just got
up and left it and no one has a right to
yell at me then what gives you the right
to yell at me over something you just
invented you understand what I'm saying
if I leave the known Sunnah and no one
has the right to yell at me what gives
you the right to yell at me about
putting my hands up for Dua that has no
evidence for it anything like that but
this is also a result of this type of
extremism people will make something up
and then they force you to follow it you
have to do this or you have to do that
okay so and there are other kinds of
things come that come as a result of
this type of you know and being a little
extreme in the religion it could even be
something like someone who is very sick
in Ramadan here he has the allowance to
break the fast right but he fasts even
though that will cause him more harm and
the person will will fast I'm not
talking like having a cold or something
simple this is someone who has an
illness or some or a condition that
becomes worse because they're fasting
and they'll fast or uh during the time
with the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam a man by the name of Abu is he
vowed to fast and to stand always and to
never sit and never seek the shade and
never speak okay you hear that so this
is a man at the time of the Prophet
Salli wasallam he vowed meaning he made
an oath to Allah subhana tala that he's
going to fast and he's going to stand
and never sit down and he's never going
to look for shade and so if he happens
to be in the sun he's in the Sun and
he's never going to speak now is this a
beneficial vow what do you think no so
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
said tell him to sit down and seek shade
and speak but let him complete his fast
because the fast was the only one that
was of benefit of from his vow the only
one that you get reward from staying in
the sun you don't get reward for that
you know standing and not sitting you
don't get reward for that so there's
nothing there's no benefit that comes
out of things like
that you know uh another another thing
that Scholars classify as part of being
extreme because you know anything that's
extreme it'll make your life difficult
is Wasa everyone know what that
is no it's basically uh the people who
basically let's call it they have OCD
when it comes to making w
so every time they start making W the
Shan comes to them and says oh you just
broke your wo or you messed it up start
over again so they start over again so
then he'll do it two times five times 10
times 20 times and he'll keep or
sometimes even go to the enter the Mah
say Allah abbar and then say no no no no
they go out and make W again come back
Allah abbar no I didn't I didn't make
the wo properly this is was right and
you think that the that the solution is
simp tell them just do it once and leave
no matter what thean tells you but they
can't you know it's a very big problem
for them and they go through you know
different Mash trying to do their
version of therapy with them and so on
and so forth but the scholars even
classify this as part of going to the
extreme and the prophet the the sad
thing is the prophet already warned us
of that he told us the the solution
against that he said don't move the Shan
comes to you and says you ruined your wo
don't move unless you
hear a sound or smell something then
you're sure something happened all right
so then otherwise don't move don't just
ignore
thean I'll tell you a true story there
is this again it's an
extremist this guy he started to take
the man of where basically they believe
that even if you if you commit if you
commit a major sin you're not a Muslim
anymore and then they went to another
extreme and said if you think of
something that's a major sin you're not
a Muslim anymore so this guy and I'll
tell you from a friend you know who who
saw this he said the guy would be
sitting with us we'd all be chitchatting
talking whatever the topic is then
suddenly he says wait a minute Brothers
I just became a
CF and he goes and takes a shower and he
comes back people are talking about cars
what like brothers wait a minute I just
became a CF he goes takes a shower they
said you're going to catch a cold like
this
but true story this is I mean this is
the result of being
extreme and sometimes it's not uh
understanding things in the proper
context
yeah
excellent uh sometimes it comes from not
understanding things in the proper
context uh for example you you'll hear
that the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam and the companions used to
enter the Masjid with their shoes right
so a young man will read that say well
this is a Sunnah then and I'm going to
implement the Sunnah and they'll come in
and they walk into the Masid with her
shoes and of course what happens one
uncle has a heart attack the other's
blood pressure goes up and some people
faint and things like that how dare you
walk into the mid with your shoes but he
tells him this is the sunah of the
Prophet authentic Hadith said you they
used to enter the Masid with their shoes
but please put it in the proper context
what what was what kind of carpeting
that they have in the
Masjid have very fine Pebbles or sand so
easily you could walk in with your shoes
no problem but now here we're talking
about carpeting okay and you're coming
in with your shoes with the tread
underneath and the there could be
whatever that's on it and you're going
to to walk into this carpeting that cost
a lot of money by the way and not only
that what happens when you walk over
carpeting with your shoes you wear it
out you don't believe me just get 10
Brothers to walk in a circle around the
carpet who are wearing shoes and 10 who
are not wearing shoes and see after a
couple of hours which one looks more
dilapidated
so here the you're looking at different
materials there was no Carpeting and so
it made sense to enter the Masid with
the shoes but here it doesn't make sense
but the people would not understand
things in proper context I'll give you
one more example of not understanding
things in the proper context um a lot of
young men now and this actually happened
to us with a friend of ours uh he became
very extreme in one issue and one of our
friends said to him you know you're
still my brother and I still love you
for the sake of Allah so indirectly this
is what he tells him he says yeah a man
came to Abdullah Omar and he tells him I
love you for the sake of Allah andn Omar
said I hate you for the sake of Allah
so he's trying to tell him I now hate
you for the sake of Allah you know cuz
this brother you know he's down he's
cool he's hard right so he tells him I
hate you for the sake of
Allah now let's understand who abdah was
and this is we we see this constantly
like a shabab would hear something a
statement that would said by they'll go
repeat it okay but look at who's saying
what
abdah as you know he was of the younger
sahab and so also when he towards the
end of his life he was of the few
Companions and the companions towards
the later generations were like gems
amongst the people so Not only was he of
the companions but he was also of the
scholars amongst the companions he was a
major scholar or and of the top Scholars
ever at the in his time and in his place
and he was an older person so if he
wanted to reprimand someone because of
his age and because of his position he
had the right to do so and so if
abdah said to someone I hate you for the
sake of Allah coming from this great
scholar coming from a great companion
coming from an older person who is an
Imam and a leader and it would be a very
great admonition to the person that's
being it's being said to and to everyone
else so his position allowed allowed him
to say something like that and it would
be a lesson for him and for those around
him because maybe the guy did something
wrong or some B so he's saying that to
him him and people say oh abdah said
this to the person because of that we're
never going to do that again this is our
scholar and our sheh and a companion not
some young punk kid who comes I hate you
for the sake of who are you fine go
ahead hate me for the sake of Allah and
not even applying it properly so that's
and it can lead to other forms of
extremism so I don't want to talk about
being moderate because we said our scale
there's this extreme end over here when
you try to do too much or you try to
implement improperly in the difficulty
that comes out of that then the middle
is being moderate and the middle
is
wasam and of course to see if anything
is moderate or in the middle path or not
or in the middle in our in our scale of
extremes it's to see if you have
evidence for it from the Quran and the
Sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu alaih
if there is evidence to it it could
never be extreme if the prophet Sall
alaihi wasallam did it it could never be
Extreme as long as you're doing it
within the proper context and the proper
way and the proper time and all the
other things so for example
then no one could jump up and say
covering the face is Extreme no because
there's multiple evidence forab in the
Quran and in the Sunnah there's actually
stronger evidence as According to some
Scholars for than there is for hij very
strong evidence so you can't say oh this
is Extreme no because there's evidence
to it we know the mothers of the
Believers did it all the women in Medina
did it so you can't say it's extreme we
have evidence you can't come to someone
and say you know your beard is a bit too
big don't be an extremist no because
there's evidence and we know even the
description of the beard of the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam almost as
wide as his shoulders and all the way to
the middle of his chest so you can't
tell me then I'm extreme just because
I'm growing my beer because the prophet
did it so you can't tell me I'm extreme
because I don't shake hands with women
yeah why are you being extreme shake
hands with women isn't your heart heart
pure what will happen to you if your
hand touches the palm of another woman
didam do it let's look at our scale if
he didn't do it that means I'm being
moderate now if you're doing what he
didn't do you're moving towards this end
of the extreme scale you understand
intermingling you know Shuki and
stuff you guys take it easy with that
stuff
you know again intermingling they'll
tell you things like you know you know
the hearts are pure and it's for the
sake of Allah I won't forget right here
in Toronto one of my first conferences a
brother came to me he says you know I
deal with these sisters but I love them
for the sake of
Allah Mah aren't you
sweet you know it's not even appropriate
to say that I love you for the sake of
Allah to a sister just keep all the I
love yous out of the equation all right
sake of love or the sake of anything
else just keep it out of
there um
okay so we're talking about being
moderate now and you know sometimes a
lot of young people uh when they're
trying to be religious they think being
religious is doing the more difficult
thing many people have this mentality if
you have it pay attention please many
people think the more religious thing is
to be is to pick the more difficult
thing that's more religious now we have
a description of how describes the S
wasallam she said the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam was never given the
choice between two things but he would
choose the easier of the two so long as
it was not a sin and if it was a sin he
would be the furthest of people from it
narrated by
alkari very nice and very easy propham
if he's given a choice between two
things he would pick the easier one and
that's also the mark of a wise man by
the way if there's no extra reward here
and no sin here why would you pick the
more difficult one only someone who's
not very intelligent would pick the more
difficult one and some people think to
be more religious you have to pick the
more difficult thing you know you have
to you know have a big bag and they tell
you there's a car walk and he walks and
this is more religious that I struggle
like this for the sake of the flower
that I'm carrying what are
you
uh but now the interesting thing is now
the moderate path the path ofall Ali
wasallam has become difficult why
because how much people have changed so
now people on the moderate way are being
called Extreme because of all the
ignorance and how people have left their
religion and the prophet
s warned us of that already the prophet
said that Islam began as something
strange and will revert to being
something strange So Glad Tidings to The
Strangers now the ones who are following
Islam they look strange to people why
are you doing this why are you doing
that maybe those of you in high school
why why don't you go to the prom why
don't you have a a girlfriend are you
gay they say that don't they yeah I
didn't say that they say that youth
always complain to me about
that uh so then the companions asked who
are they oh messenger of Allah and he
said those who are righteous when the
people are corrupt those who are
righteous when the people are corrupt so
many know
now that are authentic and in the and
multiple and people will tell you don't
be extreme are you saying the prophet
was extreme then because no muslim
should ever dare say that he was
moderate s wasallam if I do beyond what
he did then I could be moving towards
the Other Extreme so as long as there's
an Evidence a Hadith or an Ayah to show
something then there's no way it could
be
extreme you know really we live in a
strange strange times and and a lot of
times the harassment Muslim get Muslims
get from other Muslims it's not from
kufar and that's why you know when
people in in America where I'm from when
people always complain about you know
the kuf did this to a hiji and all that
you know as an as an um we deserve it
because we do it to ourselves we do it
to ourselves I know of M and I've
personally been there if a woman goes in
wearing she is harassed constantly by
the in a Masjid by the Muslims so the
sisters who wear hijab will come and
harass her men and they should be real
men they come and send her messages with
other sisters tell her to take off her n
what is it any of your business if you
weren't a coward you wouldn't be
interested in something like this and U
one of the mash was telling me he was
with his wife at the airport she's
wearing n he said this quote unquote
muslima in a miniskirt comes to them and
just says it's to cover your face in
Islam he's like yeah and it's Hal to
show your legs like
that or one of our friends has a big
beard big beautiful beard too big beard
and he says this guy with no beard comes
to him and to give him who should be
giving the other one but you know Islam
has become strange now so this guy comes
to
him this thing who should be telling who
telling me to cut you're the one who's
Dirty dir shaven right I call it dirty
shaven by the way what do you mean clean
shaven what do we just filth buckets
around here you dirty
shaven yes sir all right um another
Hadith the prophet telling us how being
moderate will be difficult ahead of you
there lie days or there lay days of
patience during which being patient will
be like look at the comparison people
being patient will be like grasping a
hot coal you guys know what a cal is
Right grasping a hot one the one who
does good deeds will have a reward like
that of 50 men who do such deeds and
then they said oh messenger of Allah the
reward of 50 of them and he said the
reward of 50 of you and when it becomes
difficult to hold on to the religion you
get the reward of 50 companions for what
you do so the prophet already told us
even being in the in moderate path
following the Sunnah will become
difficult you'll look like a strange
person
right young
man uh and then we'll just end up here
with our we're we're on the moderate
section right now so we did the extreme
we're in the moderate we're going to the
other side now um but to end up
here uh the in another narration of the
same Hadith the prophet said they are
the ones who will pay attention please
they are the ones who will are you
paying attention they are the ones who
will revive my Sunnah and teach it to
people you guys are so excited man this
is unbelievable thank you what's the
matter with
you for the Youth in the audience you
didn't have your weedies this morning or
what no okay
great uh so people have made the middle
path difficult and people typically make
things difficult Allah gave us an easy
but we make it difficult we're going to
talk about that later on tonight
inshallah all right now going back to
the last extreme we're going to call
those the negligent either they can be
so negligent that they have nothing to
do with Islam the scholars say if
somebody has absolutely nothing to do
with Islam
whatsoever he's basically left
Islam yeah now of course don't go around
labeling people but if someone has
absolutely nothing to do with Islam
they've got alcohol in their home
they've got pork they don't know what J
is they don't know what is they don't
know what looks like which direction the
is and you've probably all visited some
Muslim or another you said which way is
the and the guy's like trying to do that
whole thing like I'm thinking why are
you thinking don't you pray if you think
you don't need to pray I mean if you
pray you don't you know what I'm
saying so they'll come and they'll start
to be honey honey which way is the the k
k sweetheart what's the matter with you
anyways all right let's end this so
we're saying then the negligent people
right the best of them wants to do the
bare minimum so many mothers are advice
to their children don't be extreme just
pray five times a day and fast Ramadan
and when you're old enough go make Hajj
they want the bare minimum from Islam I
would still want to meet that mother who
wants the bare minimum from her children
concerning the Dunya listen why are you
studying up all night okay go to bed I
want you to just get C minuses barely
get by all your grades all right right
and just barely make it out of you know
high school and then straight into
McDonald's I I still want to meet that
mother you know with the dun it's
everything work hard and you know what
the whole family revolves around that
kid who has exams you know the mother
will wake him up she'll bring him you
know tea or whatever at 2 a.m. you know
the father wake him up again take him up
give him a big breakfast smoked salmon
all kinds of things breakfast is good
for the brain and he's eating and all
that you're trying to make him you know
everyone's helping with that issue it's
the dya but with the dean son don't be
extreme just pray fast Ramadan when
you're ugly and old go to
Hajj all right and the sweet thing is
the negligent people they're the ones
who think they're moderate it's
fantastic man and I love the way they
describe themselves they think they're
moderate and they want to offer you
advice on how you can be moderate like
them and they have all the kinds of
euphemisms to explain their situation uh
one of my favorites uh at least I don't
know if it's here but in the states the
sisters that don't wear hijab they tell
you I'm open you know we can
see I'm open so that means the ones who
wear what they closed minded so you're
the one who's open mashallah or and they
tell you no I'm not that's why I don't
grow my beard really so what do you
think of your Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam then and his beard and Abu Bakr
and his beard and Omar and his beard
andman and his
beard so of course we're not making this
a beard lecture you know and anytime now
you mention the beard people like oh
these people have nothing more to worry
about than the beard I'm not the one
worrying about it you're the one
attacking it I'm just saying the beard
is just there and I don't do anything it
just comes out by itself and I walk
around town so I didn't do anything
about it you know you're the ones
bringing it up all the time you people
you don't know come brother
what brother
just what does it concern you if you
weren't a coward you wouldn't be in in
concerned with something like
this
Punk
so and of course the intentions are pure
all kinds of excuses for being at this
end of the spectrum you know I remember
this one guy uh colleague from uh and
someone used to study with me in the
school and he became Muslim so he goes
to work and he tells his Co worker who
happened to be a Muslim that I've
actually become Muslim how' you become
Muslim I spoke to this guy at school I
got to meet him so this Muslim now wants
to meet me he calls me every other day
let's meet let's meet let's meet let's
meet I have ideas there's so much that
needs to be done for Islam you know look
what's happening now to the umah look
what's happening to Islam in America and
this and this and that said okay let's
meet and the guy has great ideas he's
got energy I'm willing to listen so the
guy comes over and he basic basically
starts to tell me we need and he doesn't
I don't even understand what he's trying
to tell me he's like we need to do we
have to do we have to okay we have to
uhhuh Allah in the end then it time for
M came and I still don't know what he
wants I'm like okay it's time for M
let's pray he's
like excuse me did I offer you a
cigarette I don't smoke it's Salah is
there a choice here this guy wants to
change the um and everything he
doesn't he doesn't pray so in the end
had to let him have it but of course in
a nice way told them you know what
you're telling us about lost people and
stuff you're one of those people you
need to in a nice way I said I'm not I'm
paraphrasing so I said you're one of
those people we need to work on this
issue first you don't pray and you want
to rectify the condition of the umah is
that going to work but you know
something most people and this is
something about human beings no matter
what they do and what they've done they
always see themselves as good if you've
everever any any people studed stud
psychology in here I have to look
towards the sister section nobody
studies psychology in here all right
great and those of you in high school
study psychology okay it's great so uh
they they tell you when they interview
serial killers all of them have a good
opinion about themselves and they think
they're all good people but serial
killers murdered multiple human beings
until no I'm a good person but you know
there's this issue here on the side I
murdered 50 people
what's the most people think they're
good so this guy he thought he was all
right and he wants to to rectify the
rest of the um but he doesn't pray he's
refusing it like I'm offering him
cigarettes or something and uh and
that's how it's it's always with the
intention is pure and the heart is good
and I'm sure of myself aren't you sure
of yourself why aren't you shaking hands
with
women okay if you want a coward you
wouldn't be concerned with me shaking
hands with women and I like that it's my
new catchphrase
don't be a coward right when it comes to
the
Sunnah all right people uh you know
Allah subhana T created this world very
balanced everything is balanced in this
world and if anything tips the balance
it'll affect so many other things and
just ruin atmosphere environment and
everything and so therefore that means
because Allah created this balanced
world he must have created a balanced
being to live in it in order to live in
it in the best way and so anything if
you if you exaggerate it it just goes
sour even a lot of a good thing can
become something bad U even your
favorite food what's your favorite
food H yeah
you okay I didn't know you have to think
like that I don't have to think about my
favorite food hamburgers hands down
better best invention ever who agrees
with me hands up thank you sir thank you
thank all of you absolutely best
invention ever the hamburger absolutely
fantastic right but I tell you what I
bet you after years of hamburgers every
day I could get tired of it I think I
can and get tired of it even though it's
something so good everything if you
overdo it it's not good and too little
not good the diet you for human beings
your diet even things that are essential
to your survival you know salt if you do
too much of it what happens can kill you
you eat a box of salt you young kids try
this at home actually I'm kidding don't
try this at home you eat a box of soda
kills you right you drink too much water
and even water is so important for your
survival what
happens what what happens if you drink
too much
water no you don't burst you would stop
before you got to that state what happen
you in the red cape Mr
Cool hurry up raise your
voice I can't hear you somebody tell me
what he said huh go to the washroom
that's easy you would
vomit that's why they tell you if you
you know some of the things they tell
you if you drink it you drink a lot of
water it will induce vomiting right so
what about air if you breathe too if you
hyperventilate is what they call it you
keep breathing in and out constantly
really hard you hyperventilate what
happens to you yes you pass out okay you
pass out so too much of anything doesn't
work even if it's a good thing so
everything is moderation
even
you know just just even your your
attitude your smiling versus your
frowning everything has to be moderate
and the prophet was moderate but of
course with with the good things he was
more on the good side like smiling he's
constantly smiling at people you know
you know who if we're talking about our
Spectrum now the extreme versus the
negligent which group is known for for
not
smiling the extreme no doubt always have
this frown okay and I'm not saying this
guy is Extreme but w I forget which
airport I was in the world and it was
all these you know non-muslims
everywhere and I saw this guy in a thob
and it was a short thob so he's upon the
Sunnah and then he's got you know red on
I'm like this is great let me go just
give him salams cuz you know been here
hours I haven't seen a good-looking
Muslim and just go give him some salams
and I went to him and maybe in
retrospect I was wrong to do this but
when I saw his face I just went away I
don't want to give him Salam this guy
had a frown on his face you couldn't
Photoshop a frown like
that this guy was frowning so bad and
just the guy standing alone in an open
space frowning what's the matter with
you and if you're frowning at someone
maybe have an altercation or an incident
he's just standing alone in open space
frowning so hard I saw his face I'm like
I'm having a good day why do I want to
ruin it by talking to this guy I left
maybe I should have given him Salam
maybe even some advice right but the FR
was just too much and and some people
think this is what it means to be a good
religious person have you know fix a
good frown on your face and walk around
and this masah brother Muhammad Mah
religious guy look at this FR look at
that face never Smiles that's not how it
is
anyways uh I'm going to end here and I
would like to thank all of you for your
attentive
listening
please wait for the announcer just so
you know what to do where to go and
everything's organized
please thank you
sir