[SPEAKER_00]: The brothers and sisters, typically, when we speak about the idea of our responsibility to the world around us, about the consequences of our behavior on our brothers and sisters in Palestine, May Allah Israel give them patience and perseverance and victory.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or anywhere else in the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: The framing is very ambiguous.
[SPEAKER_00]: The framing is very broad.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's very difficult for us to make the connection between our everyday actions and the decisions, our individual life decisions, and the consequences that they have on the world that we want to see, the world that we want to live in, the world that parents want to leave for their children, the world that communities want, the younger generation of those communities to inherit.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's very hard.
[SPEAKER_00]: to make the specific connections, but our religion makes very specific connections about the choices that we make, and the world that we live in right now, as well as the world that we leave behind after us.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so when you hear an ayah al-Lahar al-Fasad, Fildar ni Wal-Bahari, Mimaqasab at ADNAS,
[SPEAKER_00]: that verily corruption has appeared on the land and on the sea.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because of what man's hands have earned, and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, Do you think Muhammad wa la Diyami?
[SPEAKER_00]: So that they can taste a little bit of what they have done.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they can come back to Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah's ﷻ also says well and with He ﷻ, we will allow them to taste some of the punishment in lieu of the greater punishment so that they may come back to the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: So Allah ﷻ is not mocking.
[SPEAKER_00]: Humanity, he's not locking those who would actually contemplate the words of the Qur'an.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah Subhanu Tata is giving you a stated purpose to say that if you're concerned with how messed up the world is, recognize the role that you are playing in that messed up world and then come back to Allah Subhanu Tata individually and collectively.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the stated goal of bringing you back to Allah
[SPEAKER_00]: is both when the Mohathab, one the one who is being addressed is a tyrant and the one who is being addressed is a victim of tyranny.
[SPEAKER_00]: that everyone take a step back, or someone who is witnessing tyranny, not necessarily the victim of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone take a step back and say, well, what role do I play in all of this?
[SPEAKER_00]: Not necessarily in fighting the tyranny, because that's an entire halt by the end of itself.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, that is what we have been speaking about for the last two years.
[SPEAKER_00]: But in actually being introspective about how possibly our actions contribute to tyranny, contribute to negative outcomes and society that maybe we don't address.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so here's the thing about our Prophet ﷺ. Every single hadith where the Prophet ﷺ warns us of our behavior.
[SPEAKER_00]: At an individual level, the messenger of Allah ﷺ brought in the consequence.
[SPEAKER_00]: So for example, a Hadith in marriage, a very famous Hadith, either a Taqum, Antalona, Dinah, Wahu Rukahu, or either a Hataba Ileikum, if someone comes to you proposing, whose religion and character is pleasing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's be very clear that the Prophet ﷺ is saying, whose religion and character is pleasing, in lieu of other things that other people usually make a standards of marriage.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right?
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's not the same tribe, it's not the same grace, it's not the finances, it's not the career, what's actually appealing about that suitor is their character and their religion.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet ﷺ says, Faisal-Wiju.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then marry that person.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't turn that person away.
[SPEAKER_00]: If that person meets the necessary bar of religion and character, do not turn that person away.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the Prophet ﷺ says,
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, you look at that and you say, all right, well look, this has nothing to do with the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is just me.
[SPEAKER_00]: What does my personal decision?
[SPEAKER_00]: about wanting, not just my son, my daughter, or wanting, you know, a marriage to be from the same country, or from the same race, or from the same tribe, and it gets more and more cut out, or, you know, they don't just have to be a doctor, they gotta be a dermatologist, and they've gotta be this and this and this and that and this age and match this particular thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: What does that have to do with fit-in on earth?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just making these personal decisions for myself.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the Prophet ﷺ is saying absolutely not.
[SPEAKER_00]: It actually affects more than you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because the way that you carry yourself as an individual affects your family, the way you carry yourself as a family affects your community, the way you carry yourself as a community affects your own mother, the way you carry yourself as a humanity.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is all interconnected.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so you might just think that all I'm doing is I'm making decisions for myself, but is not the type of world that you want to live in.
[SPEAKER_00]: One marriage is the most fundamental construct of society, the pillar of a society, the pillar of a community.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you mess the standards up for that, you pave the way for an entire society built on that which is superficial.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because to you, clearly it's about race, it's about nationality, it's about wealth, it's about this, it's about that, it's about all of these standards that aren't antithetical to us now.
[SPEAKER_00]: That the Prophet's voice came to eradicate.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you're like, no, it's not that deep.
[SPEAKER_00]: It actually is that deep.
[SPEAKER_00]: It actually cuts that deep.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the Prophet's voice, and I'm saying, Tehkun, Fithna, Tune, Fildalq.
[SPEAKER_00]: What Fasadun, Ali?
[SPEAKER_00]: What does it mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of times we read the translations of these Ahadif, and they sound extremely similar.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's Fithna, and what's Fasad?
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah, as Ojal, what he mentions, Fithna, Tune, Fildalq.
[SPEAKER_00]: What Fasadun, Kabir, in the Quran.
[SPEAKER_00]: Many of the cinema, they look at this and they say that Fittna is Qawwatul Qufur.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is the strength of disbelief.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fessant is lawful Islam, is the weakening of Islam.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you think about what that looks like as a microcosm of a discussion of Qufur in Islam.
[SPEAKER_00]: You strengthen and pave the way for Mausia, for the disobedience of a loss of Hanoi's ad.
[SPEAKER_00]: You strengthen it.
[SPEAKER_00]: You make something like marriage very difficult for the young people in the community.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're trying to do everything right and you make it very difficult by putting all sorts of standards that don't have a basis in the deed.
[SPEAKER_00]: And what does that do?
[SPEAKER_00]: That strengthens all of the pathways of Zina, all of the pathways of adultery and fornication and all of the corruption that comes under that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And as a result of that, you put people to fit them.
[SPEAKER_00]: They start questioning their religion.
[SPEAKER_00]: They start questioning their moral ethics.
[SPEAKER_00]: They start questioning what they were taught in the mustard.
[SPEAKER_00]: They start questioning what they're reading in the Quran.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then what that does is it weakens Eman.
[SPEAKER_00]: Cool what to in Malaysia, lawful Eman.
[SPEAKER_00]: It strengthens disobedience, it weakens obedience.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it has a widespread connotation, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: And you think to yourself, what does this have to do with the Umma?
[SPEAKER_00]: So we complain about parts of the Umma neglecting other parts of the Umma, say, what is it with these people that don't see the people of Gaza as their own, that allow them to starve this way.
[SPEAKER_00]: Where are the pathetic leaders and where are the nations and populations around?
[SPEAKER_00]: But when it comes to your own life, you clearly don't see that brother at the door as part of your umma.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so you've made distinctions in your life, why are you mad at the world for making distinctions as well and judging people based on standards that are not found within the religion?
[SPEAKER_00]: I think, but shich, that's too deep.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's actually that deep.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everything you do as an individual affects in many ways how your family is going to function.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a ripple effect.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right?
[SPEAKER_00]: So if you have a family, the way that you are treating the mother of your children is giving an example to the son in the house about how he's supposed to treat one day the mother of his children.
[SPEAKER_00]: The way you're treating the father of her children is giving an example of how one day she's supposed to treat the father of her children.
[SPEAKER_00]: All of these things have a ripple effect.
[SPEAKER_00]: The decisions you make on an individual level, young brother or young sister, do you realize of how long you bring your personal facade, your personal struggles to the house and you are the child that's constantly struggling with your religion and bringing problems to the household that you are depleting the energy of your parents.
[SPEAKER_00]: You could be taking years off of their life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Literally, their hearts can't take it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It affects more than you.
[SPEAKER_00]: This isn't just your personal facade.
[SPEAKER_00]: It has an effect on your family.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then every family has a model to another family in good or in bad.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those ethics are then paved for another person, for another family.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then that becomes community culture.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then it becomes societal standard.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you think, hey, this is just my wedding.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's the big deal?
[SPEAKER_00]: Right?
[SPEAKER_00]: But what did your wedding just pave the way in terms of another person's wedding?
[SPEAKER_00]: Everything affects everyone else and we have to look at it that way, because the Prophet ﷺ made those connections for us.
[SPEAKER_00]: So don't just say, well, Hamdulillah, I come to the message that I do all these good things.
[SPEAKER_00]: Look, leave me alone in all these other elements of my life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me have this cognitive dissonance in the ethics in my life.
[SPEAKER_00]: But here's what we have to pay attention to.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a powerful Hadith from the Prophet ﷺ and I want you to pay attention to every single word and how it affects the world that we want to live in.
[SPEAKER_00]: and the community that we want to build.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, oh, Muhammad Jidim.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, those who have come from Mecca, so he's talking to the early Muslims, the Prophet's license and saying, there are five things that if you are tested with these five things, and I seek refuge in Allah, that you are tested with these five things.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fakalasallahu alaallahu alaallahu alaallahu alaallahu alaallahu alaallahu alaallahu alaallahu alaallahu alaallahu alaallahu alaallahu alaallahu alaallahu alaallahu alaallahu alaallahu alaallahu alaallahu alaallahu alaallahu alaallahu alaallahu alaallahu alaallahu alaallahu alaallahu alaallahu alaallahu alaallahu alaallahu alaallahu alaallahu alaallahu alaallahu alaallahu alaallahu alaallahu
[SPEAKER_00]: Lam Tudhir al-Fahishah, Fihqaumin Qat, Hatayur Nino Bihah, illa Fahishah, Fihimut'a'unu, wa l-Aujah, ullati, Lam Tekun Mawat, Fihas, Laithi, Himwiladir, Mawat.
[SPEAKER_00]: Prophet ﷺ said, the immorality never spreads amongst the people.
[SPEAKER_00]: And even I bustle the Allah al-Anhuma as a similar narration where he says a zinnah in particular, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's different forms.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you can think about all the forms of adultery and fornication that exist in our society.
[SPEAKER_00]: That immorality never spreads amongst the people.
[SPEAKER_00]: Unchecked, except that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will test them with diseases and plagues, that no nation before them has ever even heard of.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah, as-Azzaullah, will affect their health, because they're using their bodily health.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're using what Allah has given them of their bodies.
[SPEAKER_00]: for indecency.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so Allah Subhan Allah allows the health that they use to deteriorate collectively as a result.
[SPEAKER_00]: Waqala sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wala Myan Kusul Mikyala Walmizana Illa Ihidubis Sinina was Shidda.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, was Shidda Tilmeunah, was Jauris Sultan in Ali.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet ﷺ said that they do not cheat one another with their weights and with their skills.
[SPEAKER_00]: They don't start cheating each other financially.
[SPEAKER_00]: Except that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will strike them.
[SPEAKER_00]: With all sorts of famine, with severe calamity, and with the oppression of their authorities upon them.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is incredible.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because when the Prophet's wife speaks about the day of judgment, he says, it's the loss of Amana.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the loss of trust.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the greatest loss of trust is at the top.
[SPEAKER_00]: No doubt.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's leadership.
[SPEAKER_00]: When leadership becomes corrupt, there's a loss of trust.
[SPEAKER_00]: But before that happens, the Prophet ﷺ is talking about Amman, a trust being lost to the point that you can't find trustworthy people amongst the community except that when you find someone they would say, inna fi al-Miful'an, or in this place, a judgement, I mean, there's a trustworthy person that's there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone go to that trustworthy person, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because of how rare it is.
[SPEAKER_00]: When we cheat each other, then we will be cheated as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: When we start to deal in our businesses and with our finances, cheating, cutting corners, then we're going to have authority that reflects an ecosystem that we contributed to.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it should be understood that way, that your actions, you might be thinking like, what's the big deal in my business?
[SPEAKER_00]: What's the big deal?
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, Spamla, Mikyal and Mizan, you think about what economics look like in the time of the Prophet ﷺ.
[SPEAKER_00]: We live in a time where you press a button where it's a digital digit.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it affects thousands of not millions.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you think about corporate greed and you think about the economic system that we exist in today.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like back then, you're talking about this person who's in the marketplace with their miquill and they've got their weights and weight a little bit off the phone.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, really, is it that big of a deal?
[SPEAKER_00]: Is it really going to affect my leadership?
[SPEAKER_00]: What I'm just doing with my little business here in the marketplace in Medina?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, absolutely.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because there's a collective greed and a collective cheating, a culture of cheating that then overcomes you.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can't complain about a global system of greed when you practice it on your individual life and say, well, that's the only way to get ahead.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the only way to keep up in the system that I existed in today.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then the Prophet ﷺ said, well, I'm Yam N'a'u Zakatah, I'm Wadi Him in the Muniru, Qatwaminah, Sama'a'i wa l'o la, wa l'al-Baha'a'imu.
[SPEAKER_00]: Prophet ﷺ said, that they do not withhold there's a cat, their charity, their mandatory charity, except that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ar with hold his reign from the skies.
[SPEAKER_00]: He would withhold the barakah from above, and had it not been for the animals, rain would not fall upon them.
[SPEAKER_00]: So when we withhold from the weak amongst us, Allah, as a result, puts us all in our place to remind us how weak we all really are.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wait a minute, you're withholding from people in your ranks, then I will withhold from you as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so in the Prophet ﷺ talks about the years before Dejad,
[SPEAKER_00]: years of shit done years of difficulty years of famine years of impoverishment like there's a direct connection between you withholding from the poor amongst you and you being withheld from because Antuan Fukara you know look you are the poor people to Allah you're the ones who are in need of Allah as a judge Allah Subhanat as a Renewed Hamid Allah as a judge is completely self-sufficient and self-praised he doesn't need you
[SPEAKER_00]: You need him, Subhanah, to Adam.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the Prophet ﷺ said, they do not relinquish the covenant of Allah, as-Azza wa Jalla, and the covenant of the messenger of Allah ﷺ that's been given to them.
[SPEAKER_00]: They don't let that covenant go.
[SPEAKER_00]: Except that Allah, as a general, will send an oppressor to take some of what is in their heads.
[SPEAKER_00]: Start to empty it out for them.
[SPEAKER_00]: This pan Allah so profound.
[SPEAKER_00]: On so many levels in the time does not allow me to go into the full details of this.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the Prophet, Salah Allah, Almighty, waslam-sat.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wa-na l-am-taku, a immatuhum, bikitabi-lahi, wa-yat-a-ha-yarum, imma-an-zala-lahu, illa-jera-l-lahu, bi-sahum, they know.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then the Prophet, Salah, has a warning specifically to the leaders.
[SPEAKER_00]: that the leaders, unless the leaders rule according to the Book of Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, and the goodness of divine guidance, Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will continue to cause dissension in the ranks.
[SPEAKER_00]: But so unbainable, the dissension will continue amongst their ranks.
[SPEAKER_00]: The point is, is that you have to ask yourself, what type of world am I contributing to?
[SPEAKER_00]: What type of system am I contributing to?
[SPEAKER_00]: What am I buying into?
[SPEAKER_00]: What have I become complacent with?
[SPEAKER_00]: What have I accepted as a norm in my life?
[SPEAKER_00]: And this has widespread consequences and circumstances.
[SPEAKER_00]: Look, I bring it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I spoke about this in my whole talk last week, obviously in my measure of dollars.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I was just think about this idea of how quick the Muslims give up on a boycott.
[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't last long.
[SPEAKER_00]: We get tired so quick.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone gets excited about boycotting a company, and then two months later, what's in their hand?
[SPEAKER_00]: You stop asking questions.
[SPEAKER_00]: The app disappears on your phone.
[SPEAKER_00]: You stop searching.
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't want to know that things are boycotting because the end of the day and everything is made by them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everything is made by them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Really?
[SPEAKER_00]: Everything is made by them.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's your best excuse.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't do anything anymore about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hello?
[SPEAKER_00]: I give up.
[SPEAKER_00]: What type of world are you contributing to dear brother or sister?
[SPEAKER_00]: How are you going against the grain?
[SPEAKER_00]: And here's the positive side of this that I want to bring forth in Shatla time, conclusion of this hold-up.
[SPEAKER_00]: You might be thinking, all right.
[SPEAKER_00]: So our bad at a micro level really affects more than we might have thought before.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is what's being told to us by Allah and the Messenger, Salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
[SPEAKER_00]: But there's another side to this as well, Zakhilaha, which is that you are good also affects in a way that maybe you're not paying attention.
[SPEAKER_00]: that the thing that you're doing at a very small level can be shaping somebody else's consciousness that will one day have the tools that you don't have.
[SPEAKER_00]: that the small thing that you're doing could be inspiring something so great, even if you don't see it in this life.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're doing it for your edge and with a loss of Hanoatana, the small protest, the small act of charity, the small act of good, that sense of integrity that you're not going to engage in certain practices that have become normalized in society.
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't know who you are touching or whatever you are inspiring or what minds you are shaping or what heart you are cultivating that's going to go on to do incredible things.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I bring it back to the household.
[SPEAKER_00]: To the parents, your kids are watching you.
[SPEAKER_00]: and Subhan Allah, you don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: That small act of charity that's used to do that, that goodness that's used to show.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those things that's used to do that will make them reflect, perhaps Allah as Ojal opens up the doors for them and they have incredible capacity at some point and they will become world contributors because of you, because they remember you.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, how I always talk about this.
[SPEAKER_00]: As talking to my father, may Allah preserve him just yesterday.
[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, Mashallah, he's into his eighties.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like, remember that small thing that you used to do?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, really?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, he made a comment once about my mother, may Allah have mercy on her that she was like a taxi for the refugees and for those people when she could still drive.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's shaped my consciousness, small things.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you're doing things in your house, that you might be thinking, yeah, what's the point?
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't know what you're inspiring.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're going out there in your protesting, you're doing these small things on your college campuses.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're putting forth these efforts that seem to be crumbling and failing at every, you know, in the face of this craziness that we are in right now, the system seems overwhelming.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allow my put buttaca in your effort and grow it in your lifetime and it might be something
[SPEAKER_00]: that changes the world in your lifetime, or someone else is watching you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Someone else is being affected.
[SPEAKER_00]: Someone else is being shaped.
[SPEAKER_00]: Something else is being shaped.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so just like maybe we minimize the impact of the things that we do that are negative at an individual level, perhaps we do the same as well, when it comes to the good things that we do.
[SPEAKER_00]: May Allah support us to be purified from the sins, the minor and the major.
[SPEAKER_00]: that cause for things to come upon our Ummah that are of distress.