[SPEAKER_00]: So one day, a friend of his, in Ramadan, in Ramadan, comes to him and says, look man, there are these sisters, these young ladies who are at the mosque and their parents have gone into prayer, are we?
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, we meet behind the mosque in the car.
[SPEAKER_00]: How the shaytan comes to you and says, use the opportunity of the Ramadan in order to commit sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: I remember another story having said this.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was about two a.m.
[SPEAKER_00]: back in the days on talking maybe thirty years ago.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was still younger that time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Younger.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that time I remember a nineteen or twenty year old young man who I knew quite closely.
[SPEAKER_00]: He knocks on my door waking me up.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I answered the door and he walks in pale face shivering eyes red, bloodshot red or I don't know what color they were.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was delirious, but also scared.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I said, what's it?
[SPEAKER_00]: Coming, come into a room.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he said to me, I've got one question.
[SPEAKER_00]: What happens if a person dies from drugs?
[SPEAKER_00]: Is that a person who goes into hellfire eternally?
[SPEAKER_00]: I just want to know that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is it like suicide?
[SPEAKER_00]: Is it something like that?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm scared.
[SPEAKER_00]: I fear Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: The story was that this young man, he prays alhamdulillah on and off.
[SPEAKER_00]: He has a weakness towards women and the friends around him unfortunately are not the best to guide him in the right direction.
[SPEAKER_00]: So one day a friend of his in Ramadan in Ramadan.
[SPEAKER_00]: comes to him and says, look man, there are these sisters, these young ladies who are at the mosque and their parents have gone into prayer.
[SPEAKER_00]: Are we, you know, we meet behind the mosque in the car.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sure how the shaytan comes to you and says, use the opportunity of that are we are in Ramadan in order to commit sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a plan Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Husband Allah will not allow him to walk easily.
[SPEAKER_00]: So let's go and spend some time.
[SPEAKER_00]: They went behind the mosque into the car.
[SPEAKER_00]: And these young ladies had some pills, they were colorful, they look like lollies and had emojis, like a smiley faces.
[SPEAKER_00]: So these appeals, brothers, sisters, if you ever do come across them, be aware of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're called ecstasy pills.
[SPEAKER_00]: Normally they come in such a design.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the word ecstasy is in order to entice you.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's called consumer.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is how they entice people to buy things.
[SPEAKER_00]: They know that drugs is bad and there's guilty conscience.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they make you feel less guilty by giving them different names, by letting you see that they look like lollies.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they remind you of just as if they're trivial, childish things that you little kids do.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's how the shaitan comes.
[SPEAKER_00]: He makes he decorates the sin for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: For Soda Humanis Sabil, he managed to deter them off the straight path for those who fell to his trap.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then they get so immersed into that sin and their decoration, that they get into a form of justification, they feel it's good, they get whatever evidences they want to justify cognitive dissonance, and then they are never guided, they get trapped into misguidance.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this young man, he looked and said, no, no, I don't want to taste these.
[SPEAKER_00]: And these young ladies said to him, oh, you're not a man, you're not brave, you know?
[SPEAKER_00]: And so the ego kicked in.
[SPEAKER_00]: his manhood ego kicked in, said, no, I'll take on not scared.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, all in the name of a desire.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so he took those pills and he's never taken drugs before.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he described to me this situation was like he felt like his soul was going to come out of his body.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, person is not used to pills in the beginning.
[SPEAKER_00]: They have a reaction.
[SPEAKER_00]: and then they take it again and again and the body starts to accept it and then you start feeling good about it you remember the feeling then you want more but the problem is that the body wants more because then you become tolerant of that drug or would it and by extension anything that you become addicted to then you want more and more of it until a person subhan Allah is diluted and gone into
[SPEAKER_00]: holes that they can't climb out of and hell on earth.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this brother he comes to me says I felt like I was going to die.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I left the car and I drove here and I didn't know anyone else to come to.
[SPEAKER_00]: I said to you very welcome here.
[SPEAKER_00]: He sometimes rather than sisters.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some people they'll never talk to you or they'll may think about you or probably they'll never
[SPEAKER_00]: They're probably avoid you, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because you may be reminded of a lot or something.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then, Subhanallah when they fall, they only light that they see among all these people is you.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, if you're one of those people in Malaspan, that I send someone to in this time of crisis,
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't get annoyed, but know that Allah has brought to you a pathway to paradise.
[SPEAKER_00]: And for your sins to be forgiven by helping and guiding this person, if you can, as much as you can, and if it's safe.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I took this brother inside and said, let's make our daughter together, we'll pray to Allah, and ask Allah to forgive you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that way, you'll feel safe.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we did that first.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I said to him, no, insha'Allah, you will not be a person of Hellfire.
[SPEAKER_00]: The fact, the fact that you fear Allah, and you've come to find a way out shows that your soul and your heart has still got Eman inside of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: You still trust in Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your Eman is still there, your faith is still there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some people think that the action itself destroys you.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the thing is, if you're heart and your soul,
[SPEAKER_00]: is void of iman, that's what will destroy you.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you have no remorse whatsoever.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this brother, he prayed and he slept that night.
[SPEAKER_00]: Next day he felt good.
[SPEAKER_00]: The fact that he turned to a line found the safe haven with a lost panoatahala ignited the iman and helped him never to return back to it.
[SPEAKER_00]: My brothers and sisters, the point of mentioning this story is this.
[SPEAKER_00]: That
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala first looks into your heart.
[SPEAKER_00]: The heart that is close to Allah, when they fall into sin, when they fall big or small, they react, they feel pain, their conscience hits them,
[SPEAKER_00]: Alhamdulillah is one of the biggest signs that you are still close to Allah, insha'Allah, or it could be a matter of time before you come back to Allah, so that flame in the heart is your evidence.
[SPEAKER_00]: that insha'Allah, you're still on a right path.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is a problem, and of course this is not a green light for people to say, oh, since I feel the E-man, no, this E-man actually leads you to repent.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not an E-man we say, well, I love God, I love Allah, and all this Allah will forgive me.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, you're a worse person than that person.
[SPEAKER_00]: I remember a story of a man who didn't pray much, didn't fast much, and then one day, and a clip happened.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this man, he used to say every time when a clip happened, he would isolate himself in a room and he would pray to a lot of a given.
[SPEAKER_00]: While everyone else went outside to look at it as a scientific phenomenon and just an amazing thing which it is.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's also a sign from Allah's greatness and power.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this man, he used to sit and say, Allah is powerful.
[SPEAKER_00]: He would remind him of Allah's panel with talent to return to him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now of course this man committed a lot of these sins, but this is hope.
[SPEAKER_00]: This man with that heart, and with that reminder of Allah, it could be that maybe he hasn't had the chance of somebody to come round to help him, maybe he's still ignorant, maybe he doesn't know any better, maybe he's been raised a different way, and that's why I'm some doesn't judge a person just based on what they see on the outside.
[SPEAKER_00]: As a contrary, I've met people who are knowledgeable in religion.
[SPEAKER_00]: they'll come to the mosque, they'll know this, they'll laugh, they'll know sins, they'll know everything, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: And because of their knowledge, they use the knowledge to deter themselves off.
[SPEAKER_00]: So for example, they might come across a verse in the Quran where Allah says, Allah forgives all sins as the most merciful.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Allah is merciful, don't worry, I'll go to Ombra and everything's gone.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and keep doing good deeds, good deeds wipe away bad deeds.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then they use that as an excuse to continue their bad deeds.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so they look at sins very, very trivial, whereas this young man and the other young man I spoke about in this young lady who came to the mosque, they didn't see this sins as trivial.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, they were acting out in a wrong way, but Subhanallah, something was gonna drag them, and that is the burning sensation.
[SPEAKER_00]: of guilt about sin, because it shows that your thought of Allah is extremely great.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's the real meaning of Allah, Al-Aqabar.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah is the greatest.
[SPEAKER_00]: How do you know that you truly believe Allah is the greatest?
[SPEAKER_00]: When these senses come to you and you truly have this awe, feeling with Allah, Subhanahu wa Dahl.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so you rise and improve.