[SPEAKER_00]: The brothers and sisters, in every one of the scriptures of the past, you find this notion of false Messiahs.
[SPEAKER_00]: false Messiahs that come and go, some of them are more advanced than others, some of them have certain tools of deception or the circumstances allow for their deception to last longer than others.
[SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes, as the tools advance, then the case becomes more convincing because every one of these false Messiahs that has come makes a claim.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so if you are looking in Judaism, you have false Messiah after false Messiah, and then there's the concept of the ultimate false Messiah before, obviously, the ultimate Messiah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then on the other hand, you have Messiahs who are like Mojette Didine, people who revive.
[SPEAKER_00]: until you have Ellen Messier, the ultimate Messiah, who, of course, is Isaadi, his Saddam, Jesus peace be upon him.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so, in our conception, as we look to this idea of the Judd, and we talk about the Judd and what the Judd looks like, the Antichrist, the false Messiah looks like,
[SPEAKER_00]: There are a few things that I wanted to cover, but in the night to out of for us today, more about the conditions in which a figure like that can rise and can take advantage of so many different people.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, over the last two hundred years, or at last one hundred years in specific, the tools of deception have obviously increased the quality of those tools and those mechanics have increased.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so, you know, when the TV first came out, some said, that's the judge.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's your iPad.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is your phone.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then, no, you know, it was Facebook.
[SPEAKER_00]: And now it's metaphors.
[SPEAKER_00]: And these are all the judge.
[SPEAKER_00]: And while there are certainly forms of Dejela, certainly forms of deception that are enabled to these tools and those tools, you know, as they develop, become more frightening.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is the judge that we hear about from the Prophet ﷺ in numerous traditions and there is a specific twist to this judge and that is that he is the ultimate deceiver.
[SPEAKER_00]: He has the ultimate optical illusions.
[SPEAKER_00]: is able to play with people's eyes and able to deceive them with his claims in ways that other people before him were not able to.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he is the culmination, if you will, of all of those tactics, while certainly the conditions prior to him make his arrival ripe.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, before I go into the conditions in which the judge rises, I think it's very pertinent that we talk about the things that the Prophet's license told us to protect ourselves from a judge.
[SPEAKER_00]: Very briefly.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number one.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet ﷺ mentioned Imam, faith.
[SPEAKER_00]: And specifically faith before it's too late.
[SPEAKER_00]: To have faith before it's too late to profess and to have faith.
[SPEAKER_00]: A zamanulati la yukbalu fihil Imam.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a time when faith comes or there's a time when faith is no longer accepted.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the Prophet ﷺ said, Thalatha, that there are three things
[SPEAKER_00]: Ida Kharajna, once they come out, Ida Yenfer Onafsan Imanuha, Ida Khun Aminat Minkobl, Ida Khasabat Fee Imaniha, the Prophet Su'aisallam, said that there is a time that comes, once these three things arrive, at that point if a person did not profess faith, or Ida Khun Aminat Minkobl, Ida Khasabat Fee Imaniha, they did not benefit from their faith.
[SPEAKER_00]: They did not benefit from their faith.
[SPEAKER_00]: Meaning it was merely an expression, but not actually a heartfelt reality or something that was acted upon or practiced.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet's lies in a mention, the rising of the sun from the west, the Prophet's lies in a mention at the judge, and he mentioned the dabba.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he mentioned these three things, the rising of the sun, the beast, and the antichrist.
[SPEAKER_00]: And at that point,
[SPEAKER_00]: Imam does not benefit a person if it's sought to be initiated at that point.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's something that you have to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: In advance, the second thing the Prophet ﷺ gave us was in, was knowledge.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the Prophet ﷺ told us who this person is and what he looks like.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said to Allah Almighty, He said to Him, that no Nebi was sent, no Prophet was sent.
[SPEAKER_00]: Except that he warned his people about Al-Aqwar Al-Qathab, about this one-eyed liar.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he said, he is one-eyed, and your Lord is not.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, in Arab-Bakumlesa be Al-Aqwar, your Lord is not one-eyed.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, in Abayna Ainehi, MacTubun Kaffir, and between his two eyes, on his forehead is written the word Kaffir.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, he is written as a disbeliever.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now this builds upon the previous one which is faith.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because faith is what inspires that proper knowledge.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that knowledge is not merely information.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is knowledge that you ascertain that you affirm with everything that you have.
[SPEAKER_00]: So there is number one, faith before it's too late.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number two, knowledge of the Deja.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number three, the Prophet Sallam.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Each one of you should seek refuge in Allah from four things.
[SPEAKER_00]: Say Allah Muhammad in the Aruhdu Bikha.
[SPEAKER_00]: Min Aadabi Jahanam.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wa min Aadabil Kabir.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wa min Fithnatil Mahya Wal-Mamat.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wa min Shari Fithnatil Masihad Dajal.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, Allah Muhammad in the Aruhdu Bikha.
[SPEAKER_00]: Min Aadabi Jahanam.
[SPEAKER_00]: O Allah, I seek refuge in you from the punishment of Jahanam.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wa min Aadabil Kabir.
[SPEAKER_00]: And from the punishment of the grave.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wa min Fithnatil Mahya Wal-Mamat.
[SPEAKER_00]: And from the trials of life and death.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wa min Shari Fithnatil Masihad Dajal.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet ﷺ said, memorize this and say it at the end of every prayer before your testimony.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, of course, if you don't pray, then you're not making the draft.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it all builds on it, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Faith, knowledge of who the judge is, the faith and knowledge of how to pray, and then the prayer that you do on a daily basis, and the draft that you make in every single one of these prayers, you learn this draft, you memorize it, and you say it every time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number four, the Prophet ﷺ said, whoever memorizes ten verses from the beginning of Su'ith al-Khaf,
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, Russi, I mean, at the judge, he will be immune from the fithna, from the trial and tribulation of the false Messiah.
[SPEAKER_00]: In another narration, the prophet's license mentioned the last ten verses are suited, and it's very powerful because if you think about the people of the cave, the sleepers of the cave, they were people, young people, that left the
[SPEAKER_00]: a lure of this world, and left the deception of this world.
[SPEAKER_00]: They sought to flee from Fithna to flee from that deception, and to protect their faith, and to loss some panorataata cause them a miracle in which he allowed them to sleep through that Fithna for hundreds of years, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: And he made an example out of them, a positive example out of them, some panorataata.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the prophets like Sonam said, whoever memorizes,
[SPEAKER_00]: keeps these ten verses, the first ten, and the last ten of Suratid Qaf, then they will be protected from a digiad.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number five, the Prophet ﷺ taught us to flee from Fithna, flee from Tribulation.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let he who hears of the Dajad go far away from him for I swear by Allah that a man will come to him thinking that he is a believer.
[SPEAKER_00]: He'll challenge him and then he'll leave confused by the ideas and by the deception of the judge.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the Prophet ﷺ taught us in general
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't put yourself in bad situations.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is, of course, a general principle of fleeing from fitness to avoid places where your faith is likely to be compromised.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't put yourself in bad environments.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the Prophet's life is not saying a lot is not tasking you that if you hear about this person, that you go in you confront him.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, rather flee from this person.
[SPEAKER_00]: flee from their deception.
[SPEAKER_00]: And of course, flee from the types of things that would be put out there by the judge.
[SPEAKER_00]: So these are five things that we take from the Prophet ﷺ, of how to protect ourselves from a judge.
[SPEAKER_00]: We ask Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala to grant us that protection, Allah Muhammad.
[SPEAKER_00]: But here's what I want to go on to.
[SPEAKER_00]: The judge does not arrive in a vacuum.
[SPEAKER_00]: He does not come at a random time.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are things that precede him that are not just signs, but that make the environment for deception, that much more fertile, and make the hearts and the minds and the vision more susceptible to being deceived.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's where this hadith where the Prophet ﷺ said from Anasim and Amatikul, the Allah, and who in pay attention to the wording.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, sometimes upon Allah, we read through these things so fast, and every word, you've got to pause and think,
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I never thought about the way the Prophet ﷺ placed it here.
[SPEAKER_00]: He sent ﷺ in Amam and Dejah, Sineen, Haddad.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet ﷺ said, before Dejah comes, there are years of deception.
[SPEAKER_00]: Before this false Messiah comes, there are years of false Messiahs and deceptive tactics, years of false deception.
[SPEAKER_00]: Years of these things happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right?
[SPEAKER_00]: The world changes in a way that it sort of sets the ground.
[SPEAKER_00]: It sets the stage for a digine.
[SPEAKER_00]: And what happens in those years of deception?
[SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet's lie said, you can't double-feed Hassadaq.
[SPEAKER_00]: That a truthful person is called a liar.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why you'll suddenly double-feed Hassadaq?
[SPEAKER_00]: And the liar is considered to be truthful.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because the liar is good at deceiving and covering his lie, whereas the truthful, and this is something very profound, a person who is truthful will not resort to deception to prove their trustworthiness.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right?
[SPEAKER_00]: And so what's going to happen?
[SPEAKER_00]: They're just going to have to take it on the chin.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's how it's going to be.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because a kathib will do whatever it takes to portray siddh, whereas a siddh is comfortable, a truthful person is comfortable, just being a truthful person.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that's what happens first.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then the Prophet ﷺ said,
[SPEAKER_00]: that the trust worthy people are discredited.
[SPEAKER_00]: People of Amana are considered to be discredited.
[SPEAKER_00]: And those who are treacherous are trusted.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the Prophet ﷺ said, wa yatakel alamu fi'habu wa iwi wa.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, sallallahu ala'u ala'u wa sallam, that at that time the most disgraceful of people speak.
[SPEAKER_00]: Their voices are projected.
[SPEAKER_00]: So people can't distinguish truth from falsehood anymore.
[SPEAKER_00]: They can't distinguish trustworthy people from dishonest people anymore.
[SPEAKER_00]: And because of that, who's going to take the stage?
[SPEAKER_00]: Right?
[SPEAKER_00]: And the Prophet ﷺ was asked, who are they?
[SPEAKER_00]: Somehow, the way he described them, he said, and phoasic, a little fussac, little men, little men, some kind of little people, little wicked people.
[SPEAKER_00]: But at the same time, they speak about affairs, all types of affairs and all types of things they have no business talking about.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they cause all types of issues for people.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is what proceeds at the junk.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this is what's important to understand here.
[SPEAKER_00]: The world prior to him is a world where realities are distorted.
[SPEAKER_00]: realities are distorted.
[SPEAKER_00]: And people seek to create their own paradise on earth, our sensibilities, our lost, and our fifth law is compromised, our natural goodness and inclination is compromised.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so people operate in a day and age prior to a job in vanity, and they can't see past their immediate surface level vision.
[SPEAKER_00]: And as people become shallower, the tools to distort shallower realities become more advanced.
[SPEAKER_00]: So people can't see beyond
[SPEAKER_00]: the movies and the graphics and the tactics and that stuff right in front of them, they can't see beyond that.
[SPEAKER_00]: But at the same time, they trust it more.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the tools by which you can distort all of that are becoming more advanced.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so you have the situation where
[SPEAKER_00]: If that shallow reality doesn't immediately satisfy me, and this is how to fix faith, the night denies it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that's why you see people deny faith in the name of rationality.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, not that Islam is not an intellectual faith.
[SPEAKER_00]: Islam isn't intellectual faith.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought that's how to act alone.
[SPEAKER_00]: Use your senses.
[SPEAKER_00]: Use your brain.
[SPEAKER_00]: But then people treat their senses as divine, even those senses are being constantly compromised.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if I can't see it immediately in front of me, then I'm not going to believe in it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, when people talk about faith, and they talk about gender, and they talk about not, and they talk about architecture, and they talk about the unseen, and all that stuff, I can't see it right in front of me.
[SPEAKER_00]: And even though I don't even know what I'm seeing anymore, it doesn't make sense to me because I can't see it right in front of me.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so, how am I allowed?
[SPEAKER_00]: Ironically, those who deny the existence of a digit, you know, in the name of some enlightenment.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those who deny the existence of a digit in the name of no visual evidence,
[SPEAKER_00]: They're displaying the very weakness that makes them more likely to fall for his visual distortions.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't see it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't believe it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Where is this the jot now?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, really?
[SPEAKER_00]: The jot sounds funny.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know?
[SPEAKER_00]: And so people that start to deny it, why?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because I can't find it now.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't see it now.
[SPEAKER_00]: They trust their vision so much.
[SPEAKER_00]: that they're most likely to fall victim to their vision when the actual Dejad rises, may Allah spend our protect us, from His Fithna, Allah, I mean.
[SPEAKER_00]: Where do I want to get to with this in Chalatah?
[SPEAKER_00]: And what do I want us to really take home and think about?
[SPEAKER_00]: Dejad himself, this false Messiah, he knows he's an imposter.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he sees things, Allah, Subhanallah, will cause him to see things that put him in his place.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet's life and I'm said, Al-Madina,
[SPEAKER_00]: Yet, he had the judge.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fiyadidul Melaika, when when the judge comes to Medina, he would see the angels standing in front of Medina holding their armor and he would not come anywhere near them.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet ﷺ said, when a judge sees Esehri, the actual Messiah, Jesus peace be upon him.
[SPEAKER_00]: When he sees Esehri, he starts to dissolve and run, melts and flees away from him because he knows he's an imposter.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he knows that his time has come.
[SPEAKER_00]: But there's something that I want to get to that is beyond that, which is when the judge is presenting all of these different things to people.
[SPEAKER_00]: A virtual reality that you can step into that will completely take you to where you want to go.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right?
[SPEAKER_00]: He's presenting to you the dead.
[SPEAKER_00]: He cooperates with the Shayaltine, so that the Shayaltine would take the image, would take the vision of a person who has passed away, that believes in him, and that affirms him.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he's creating all of this, all of this deception.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's something very specific that I want to get to, and that is when the judge actually presents his agenda.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is something from how all that just caught me, and I just couldn't stop thinking about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: One de Jad presents his agenda and says, enter into my agenda.
[SPEAKER_00]: Go ahead and enter into my paradise.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there's something of his magic of how to lawn these tricks in this deception that speaks to a weakness that grows beyond within us as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not just about the tools, but also about the search for instant gratification and inability that we're developing to see past surface level.
[SPEAKER_00]: Where people in general try to recreate themselves and their universe
[SPEAKER_00]: to fit their desires and they don't think about the long-term consequences.
[SPEAKER_00]: They don't think about ethics.
[SPEAKER_00]: They don't think about what this is going to mean.
[SPEAKER_00]: So then what happens when this, the job, presents his agenda and says, here, you can escape.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can enter into this and you'll have everything that you want.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you don't have to wait for anything, just go ahead and step in.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think about, and may a lot protect us.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, the Prophet ﷺ taught us to seek protection.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think about people and the mindsets of people as they take that step in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right?
[SPEAKER_00]: And what's going through their minds?
[SPEAKER_00]: Is it that they're so convinced that he is indeed God?
[SPEAKER_00]: Is it that what's the worth of this life anyway?
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I remember watching the some interviews with those that are going to Mars at this point where, you know, or signing themselves up and listing themselves, knowing that it's a very risky mission, but I remember one of them saying, you know, if I die, then it's better than being in this world anyway.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought, wow, he literally listed out the options, like that's how he did the math.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, you know, I either make it to Mars or I die, or I stay in this world.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he said, staying in this world is option number three for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I take option number two anyway, over option number one.
[SPEAKER_00]: You gotta think about that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like what world nurtures that, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Where people try to recreate themselves and recreate their perfect world.
[SPEAKER_00]: And someone that might say, you know what?
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't care.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll step in anyway.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's the worst that could possibly happen?
[SPEAKER_00]: And the Prophet ﷺ said,
[SPEAKER_00]: that he comes with Al-Junna, or not Al-Junna itself, the likeness of Paradise, the appearance of a Paradise, and he said that his Junna is actually fired.
[SPEAKER_00]: His Paradise is actually fired.
[SPEAKER_00]: And another narration, the Prophet's lie, said, and mentioned that he has these two flowing rivers.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there is no contradiction between the two narrations here because the Prophet's lie sums presenting what he's saying very specifically is that he's got these rivers of lava and burning and fire, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: And he's saying, this is how fire.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then he's got these rivers flowing, you know, of musk and of milk, the image of which, he says, this is my agenda.
[SPEAKER_00]: He know what the Prophet's lie is, and I'm said,
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, if one of you sees that, if you get into a situation where you're sending right in front of him, and that's what you have to do, the profit slice, and I'm said, lower your gaze, close your eyes, put your head down and drink from the boiling water, and he said, I swear it will be cool water.
[SPEAKER_00]: His agenda is not and has not as agenda.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's flipped.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's how long like, don't be deceived.
[SPEAKER_00]: by what's being put out in front of you like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And people have to ask themselves, you know, what motivations and weaknesses, the job praise upon, that could be within us.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is what I want to end with.
[SPEAKER_00]: The deception of the job cannot happen without the deception of dunya and the deception of the devil.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can't.
[SPEAKER_00]: The allure of dunya is one of Zina.
[SPEAKER_00]: Zina's would hayata dunya, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: It has appearances.
[SPEAKER_00]: But we can't see past appearances.
[SPEAKER_00]: People become relegated to the material world.
[SPEAKER_00]: They can't see past it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the promise of the devil is what?
[SPEAKER_00]: That the consequences are not going to be that bad.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you boil down the deception of shape on the deception of the devil, is what?
[SPEAKER_00]: that the consequences of your deeds you should not think about because it's not going to be that bad, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: The pleasure that you're going to enjoy right now is greater than any possible consequences you might face.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a mindset, that's a weakness that's exploited and that grows.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so then the final piece of that is simply a presentation of what you want to jump into.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we have to resist as the world becomes shallower and our senses become more distorted, falling prey to that type of stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: and thinking about the long-term consequences and thinking about purpose when it's so easily diluted and thinking about why we exist when it's so easily diluted and thinking about the hereafter.
[SPEAKER_00]: When we can't see it and we don't have three-D graphics or actors or movies and what thinking about agenda or not, thinking about that meeting with Allah, thinking about that meeting with the Prophet ﷺ, thinking about that idea of being held accountable and thinking about that idea of reward and punishment.
[SPEAKER_00]: You gotta see through it all.
[SPEAKER_00]: and remind yourself that I can't turn my senses into something that's divine, nor can I put my trust into tools that are becoming ever more deceptive and deceitful.
[SPEAKER_00]: May Allah protect us from all of the fit and that we are surrounded by may Allah support us and allow us to develop that strong sense of faith and certainty that we see through deception and that allows us to act in that which is pleasing to Him and may Allah support us for the best of our deeds and forgive us for our shortcomings.
[UNKNOWN]: Thank you.