WEBVTT 00:00.291 --> 00:04.154 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, for every halal, there's plenty of Haram options, right? 00:04.914 --> 00:08.336 [SPEAKER_00]: For every good use of your time, there's plenty of bad uses of your time, aren't there? 00:09.937 --> 00:12.139 [SPEAKER_00]: So for every good choice, there's a million bad choices. 00:12.619 --> 00:14.380 [SPEAKER_00]: He'll just stand right in front of the good choice. 00:15.721 --> 00:17.823 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, for example, waking up in the morning to pray. 00:18.923 --> 00:19.544 [SPEAKER_00]: You got time? 00:19.564 --> 00:22.506 [SPEAKER_00]: It's just the first snooze. 00:24.607 --> 00:24.887 [SPEAKER_00]: You know? 00:26.748 --> 00:28.830 [SPEAKER_00]: And he wants you to be angry at your alarm clock. 00:30.342 --> 00:32.663 [SPEAKER_00]: at your phone, you know. 00:32.683 --> 00:36.765 [SPEAKER_00]: So just, you got a little bit more time, you got a little bit more time, you got a little bit more time, you got a little bit more time. 00:37.165 --> 00:38.465 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't take the step just standard. 00:38.726 --> 00:41.066 [SPEAKER_00]: You're about to take one step, you know, just stand there for a little bit. 00:41.087 --> 00:42.667 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't have to take the step right now. 00:43.427 --> 00:44.528 [SPEAKER_00]: Just wait a little bit, you got time. 00:45.548 --> 00:47.069 [SPEAKER_00]: So holding you back, that's in the front. 00:48.270 --> 00:56.313 [SPEAKER_00]: And then he says from behind, behind means, you know, some people when they take a step towards a lot, they took a step away from something bad. 00:57.628 --> 01:00.810 [SPEAKER_00]: They were doing something bad and they decided to not do that anymore. 01:01.131 --> 01:03.492 [SPEAKER_00]: And that also is a step towards Allah. 01:04.413 --> 01:07.595 [SPEAKER_00]: And he reminds you of the bad stuff you used to do and say, it wasn't that fun. 01:07.735 --> 01:08.636 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it wasn't that bad. 01:09.897 --> 01:11.578 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, you used to be crazy, remember? 01:12.759 --> 01:14.960 [SPEAKER_00]: I wonder what they're doing now, those friends of mine. 01:15.020 --> 01:15.961 [SPEAKER_00]: I wonder what he's up to. 01:15.981 --> 01:16.962 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me just text him. 01:17.702 --> 01:19.103 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll give him dollars, something. 01:24.167 --> 01:26.789 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just getting together because you know, you have to stay in touch with people. 01:28.611 --> 01:29.572 [SPEAKER_00]: He's trying to pull you out. 01:30.372 --> 01:36.836 [SPEAKER_00]: Back, sometimes there are very toxic people in your life that clearly we're pulling you into Haram, Haram, Haram, Haram, Haram, Haram. 01:37.177 --> 01:39.558 [SPEAKER_00]: And somehow you took a step and got away from them. 01:40.679 --> 01:42.840 [SPEAKER_00]: But that doesn't mean the emotional attachment isn't there. 01:43.521 --> 01:45.422 [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't mean the residual effects aren't there. 01:46.322 --> 01:49.745 [SPEAKER_00]: And then you're about to take a step forward and the devil says, come on, you know you miss him. 01:50.845 --> 01:54.688 [SPEAKER_00]: Just one text, just respond, just unblock for like one hour. 01:56.232 --> 01:57.733 [SPEAKER_00]: Just wanna owe this on me online. 01:57.793 --> 01:58.654 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I got the text it. 01:59.474 --> 02:00.435 [SPEAKER_00]: At least I should have responded. 02:00.475 --> 02:00.975 [SPEAKER_00]: It's rude. 02:02.336 --> 02:03.998 [SPEAKER_00]: You see, he pulls you back. 02:04.098 --> 02:06.559 [SPEAKER_00]: There are people that wanna pull you back and uses them to pull you back. 02:06.920 --> 02:09.342 [SPEAKER_00]: Or he reminds you of your past and says, you're too messed up. 02:09.382 --> 02:11.223 [SPEAKER_00]: Why are you even bothering taking a step? 02:11.243 --> 02:12.624 [SPEAKER_00]: Look at all the mistakes you make. 02:13.364 --> 02:15.046 [SPEAKER_00]: You're gonna take a step forward, please. 02:16.126 --> 02:16.647 [SPEAKER_00]: You're a loser. 02:18.331 --> 02:20.352 [SPEAKER_00]: and then on the right and on the left. 02:20.572 --> 02:22.172 [SPEAKER_00]: Now the left is easier. 02:22.413 --> 02:23.793 [SPEAKER_00]: The right will come to last actually. 02:24.273 --> 02:26.274 [SPEAKER_00]: The left is when he takes bad things. 02:26.794 --> 02:31.756 [SPEAKER_00]: Listen carefully now when he takes bad things because the left hand represents bad deeds. 02:32.296 --> 02:32.516 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 02:33.137 --> 02:36.578 [SPEAKER_00]: When he takes bad things and he makes you feel like they're not that bad. 02:38.299 --> 02:38.879 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not that bad. 02:38.899 --> 02:39.799 [SPEAKER_00]: You're just human. 02:40.520 --> 02:41.560 [SPEAKER_00]: You just have feelings. 02:41.920 --> 02:42.640 [SPEAKER_00]: It's okay. 02:42.880 --> 02:44.181 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't be so hard on yourself. 02:44.721 --> 02:46.622 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not harem with a capital H. 02:49.023 --> 02:52.184 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not, it's Haram, but it's not Haram, Haram, right? 02:53.924 --> 02:56.965 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, okay, fine, it's Haram, but does that mean I'm not Muslim anymore? 02:58.866 --> 03:01.527 [SPEAKER_00]: At least I didn't kill anybody yet. 03:04.807 --> 03:09.069 [SPEAKER_00]: So you're about to do something wrong and you said, well at least I'm not Hitler. 03:11.029 --> 03:17.371 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me tell you, if you want to compare yourself to someone worse, you can get away with anything, because there's always somebody worse. 03:19.533 --> 03:23.315 [SPEAKER_00]: So he comes at you with evil deeds and he makes you feel like they're not that bad. 03:24.036 --> 03:30.639 [SPEAKER_00]: He says to Allah he says, these human beings, I'll come at them from the front, I'll come at them from behind, I'll come at them from there. 03:31.360 --> 03:38.184 [SPEAKER_00]: Left and eventually by the way, if you keep slipping, it's not that bad, it's not that bad, it's not that bad, then that it's not that bad changes. 03:38.704 --> 03:39.444 [SPEAKER_00]: You know what it becomes? 03:39.985 --> 03:40.785 [SPEAKER_00]: What's so bad about it? 03:42.586 --> 03:43.126 [SPEAKER_00]: What's so bad? 03:43.526 --> 03:44.267 [SPEAKER_00]: Why is it bad? 03:45.127 --> 03:46.068 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't understand why it's bad. 03:47.529 --> 03:49.610 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, can't just a person live their life? 03:50.330 --> 03:51.311 [SPEAKER_00]: Can't they just do what they want? 03:51.971 --> 03:53.132 [SPEAKER_00]: Why is it so bad to be happy? 03:54.392 --> 03:55.533 [SPEAKER_00]: You see how the conversation changes? 04:16.821 --> 04:23.046 [SPEAKER_00]: But the most wicked, in my opinion, personally, the most wicked is when he comes at you from the right. 04:24.607 --> 04:26.108 [SPEAKER_00]: What does it mean when he comes at you from the right? 04:26.609 --> 04:34.435 [SPEAKER_00]: It means several things, but the one I want you to pay attention to is when he lets you do good things because he also did good things. 04:35.696 --> 04:36.016 [SPEAKER_00]: Remember? 04:37.097 --> 04:38.558 [SPEAKER_00]: He did a lot of good things to be what. 04:40.259 --> 04:43.922 [SPEAKER_00]: And because of his good things, good deeds, he felt like he's better. 04:45.663 --> 04:47.044 [SPEAKER_00]: So he wasn't doing bad deeds. 04:47.084 --> 04:47.765 [SPEAKER_00]: He was doing what? 04:48.605 --> 04:49.226 [SPEAKER_00]: Good deeds. 04:49.566 --> 04:56.872 [SPEAKER_00]: But based on those good deeds, he felt he was better and a position to judge who's better and who's worthy and who's not worthy. 04:58.293 --> 05:01.035 [SPEAKER_00]: So when you do good things, you're memorizing the Qur'an. 05:02.396 --> 05:03.717 [SPEAKER_00]: You're steadying Islam. 05:04.738 --> 05:07.000 [SPEAKER_00]: You're graduating from an Islamic university. 05:08.121 --> 05:09.742 [SPEAKER_00]: You're attending some halakat. 05:10.623 --> 05:12.024 [SPEAKER_00]: You're doing the religious thing. 05:12.044 --> 05:14.106 [SPEAKER_00]: You're young men starting to give hood buzz. 05:15.225 --> 05:17.967 [SPEAKER_00]: You're doing dawa, you're doing the scout, good stuff. 05:18.627 --> 05:24.250 [SPEAKER_00]: And now, as soon as you feel a little bit higher, you start the man, these people need so much dawa. 05:26.111 --> 05:36.358 [SPEAKER_00]: As people, you know, and you find a young man saying things like, you know, some people are so ignorant, and they say, this is, wow, some people are so ignorant. 05:37.598 --> 05:41.821 [SPEAKER_00]: A stuffed or less, some people are just following the way of shaita, really some people. 05:43.089 --> 05:49.393 [SPEAKER_00]: Some people, you're already in a position to talk about who's following the devil's path, guess what that represents, the devil's path. 05:50.594 --> 05:52.135 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what the devil's path looks like. 05:52.655 --> 06:06.565 [SPEAKER_00]: When you, in a position of doing good deeds, feel like you are more worthy of Allah's recognition than other people, Allah should be giving your responsibility, you have the role, you should be Khalifa on the earth, not them. 06:07.990 --> 06:08.610 [SPEAKER_00]: You get it? 06:09.411 --> 06:14.093 [SPEAKER_00]: That's the scariest one, because the person doing it actually thinks they're doing something what? 06:14.853 --> 06:15.834 [SPEAKER_00]: They're doing something good. 06:15.854 --> 06:19.376 [SPEAKER_00]: Well whom you have to say, no, no, no, no. 06:19.396 --> 06:20.937 [SPEAKER_00]: They're assuming they're doing something great. 06:22.197 --> 06:23.318 [SPEAKER_00]: Self-righteousness. 06:24.318 --> 06:25.299 [SPEAKER_00]: Self-righteousness. 06:25.739 --> 06:28.961 [SPEAKER_00]: Religious self-righteousness is the scariest one. 06:29.861 --> 06:31.322 [SPEAKER_00]: And it takes other forms too. 06:32.322 --> 06:37.185 [SPEAKER_00]: It comes at people from the right and says, hey, I know you don't pray, but I mean, you do give charity 06:38.439 --> 06:38.679 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 06:39.640 --> 06:41.141 [SPEAKER_00]: You volunteer at a hospital. 06:41.882 --> 06:43.363 [SPEAKER_00]: I know what you do on the weekend. 06:43.403 --> 06:46.625 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's not talk about what you consume and what you do on the weekend. 06:46.846 --> 06:48.287 [SPEAKER_00]: But I mean, you volunteer also. 06:48.607 --> 06:50.388 [SPEAKER_00]: You do some good humanitarian stuff. 06:50.869 --> 06:53.571 [SPEAKER_00]: So I mean, okay, you got a little issue on the side a little bit. 06:53.591 --> 06:54.351 [SPEAKER_00]: It was the big deal. 06:54.792 --> 06:56.053 [SPEAKER_00]: Because you do these good things. 06:56.073 --> 06:58.995 [SPEAKER_00]: You should be able to get away if it's some of the bad stuff. 06:59.015 --> 07:00.096 [SPEAKER_00]: He comes at you from the right. 07:00.336 --> 07:05.240 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, I will come at them in all kinds of ways, all directions. 07:05.620 --> 07:07.782 [SPEAKER_00]: And then at the end of it, he makes this claim. 07:09.030 --> 07:10.891 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is a very interesting claim he made. 07:11.712 --> 07:16.075 [SPEAKER_00]: In all of these directions, he's wanting us to disobey Allah, yes or no, right? 07:16.956 --> 07:21.919 [SPEAKER_00]: So he should be saying that after I'm done with them, you will see that they are not obedient. 07:22.880 --> 07:25.342 [SPEAKER_00]: You'll see that they are not what obedient. 07:25.382 --> 07:28.724 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, you'll see that they are not grateful. 07:29.284 --> 07:34.348 [SPEAKER_00]: Wala Ataji do Aqthara Umshakirin, you will not find most of them to be grateful. 07:35.509 --> 07:37.971 [SPEAKER_00]: I was expecting him to say obedient, but he said what? 07:39.650 --> 07:46.233 [SPEAKER_00]: I would expect him to say, you will find that most of them will forget because he makes us forget. 07:46.893 --> 07:47.533 [SPEAKER_00]: He makes us slip. 07:48.394 --> 07:50.715 [SPEAKER_00]: I was expecting him to say that, but he said something else. 07:51.035 --> 07:53.116 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, you will find that most of them are not what? 07:54.156 --> 07:55.757 [SPEAKER_00]: Now the question is grateful for what? 07:55.997 --> 08:02.239 [SPEAKER_00]: Number one, grateful for the fact that you gave them the highest honor ever given to any creation. 08:02.580 --> 08:06.041 [SPEAKER_00]: They will not honor that award that they were given. 08:07.232 --> 08:12.957 [SPEAKER_00]: They're not going to be grateful for the fact that you allowed them the greatest test that leads to the greatest reward. 08:13.938 --> 08:17.080 [SPEAKER_00]: They're not going to be grateful for the fact that you directly speak to them. 08:18.261 --> 08:20.663 [SPEAKER_00]: They're not going to be grateful for that. 08:20.924 --> 08:29.331 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, when someone sees themselves as less, if you think of yourself as worthless, then everything that you've been given also becomes what? 08:30.392 --> 08:30.792 [SPEAKER_00]: Worthless. 08:32.098 --> 08:35.659 [SPEAKER_00]: Everything, you know, let's put this even simpler terms so you understand. 08:36.099 --> 08:40.921 [SPEAKER_00]: When somebody's really depressed and they think that they are, nobody loves them, nobody cares about them. 08:41.741 --> 08:44.001 [SPEAKER_00]: Somebody hasn't their head, nobody loves me, nobody cares about me. 08:44.922 --> 08:52.744 [SPEAKER_00]: Then you take this person on a vacation, you get them a cake, you get them, you take them, you know, for dinner, you do whatever you do with them, do they, are they happy? 08:54.064 --> 08:59.586 [SPEAKER_00]: No, they can't, they can't see value and anything that's being done for them because they have no value for who. 09:00.715 --> 09:03.537 [SPEAKER_00]: themselves, so none of the good things you do mean anything. 09:07.298 --> 09:08.379 [SPEAKER_00]: That nothing makes them happy. 09:09.380 --> 09:17.344 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, once they are convinced, basically, once they're convinced that they're nothing more than animals, that none of these good things that you've given them, they'll ever appreciate. 09:18.624 --> 09:19.925 [SPEAKER_00]: None of these good things they'll appreciate. 09:20.205 --> 09:21.746 [SPEAKER_00]: What are I told you to accept a home-shakening? 09:22.566 --> 09:24.287 [SPEAKER_00]: They will not be, you'll find that they're not grateful. 09:25.008 --> 09:27.769 [SPEAKER_00]: You're going to find that they are usually living in complaint. 09:28.409 --> 09:29.170 [SPEAKER_00]: That's how I'll get them. 09:29.984 --> 09:32.505 [SPEAKER_00]: They're going to complain, complain, complain, and that's what I don't know. 09:32.525 --> 09:33.306 [SPEAKER_00]: They're not being grateful. 09:33.346 --> 09:35.067 [SPEAKER_00]: I can come at them from right, left, front, back. 09:35.447 --> 09:35.887 [SPEAKER_00]: I can get them. 09:36.768 --> 09:37.989 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, what did you do? 09:38.609 --> 09:40.570 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah says now to him. 09:40.610 --> 09:42.972 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, again, we're listening to this entire conversation. 09:43.012 --> 09:43.612 [SPEAKER_00]: Keep repeating that. 09:43.632 --> 09:44.433 [SPEAKER_00]: So it sticks in your head. 09:44.873 --> 09:46.694 [SPEAKER_00]: Ah, lachrojmin, humma madhara. 09:47.134 --> 09:48.795 [SPEAKER_00]: He says to him, get out of here. 09:48.835 --> 09:49.716 [SPEAKER_00]: You've been humiliated. 09:50.996 --> 09:51.797 [SPEAKER_00]: And you're madhour. 09:52.629 --> 09:55.571 [SPEAKER_00]: But who actually means that you are being crushed on your own? 09:56.191 --> 09:57.011 [SPEAKER_00]: This is an image. 09:57.071 --> 10:04.155 [SPEAKER_00]: If you take a piece of paper and you crumple it up and you press it harder and becomes a smaller ball and you press it even harder becomes a smaller ball. 10:04.855 --> 10:12.419 [SPEAKER_00]: Otherwise describing the devil, he's got this negative thoughts inside of him and his own thoughts are crushing him constantly. 10:13.376 --> 10:39.342 [SPEAKER_00]: they're squeezing him constantly his mother or nobody's doing that time he's doing that to himself he's doing that to himself and the last says by the way this idea that you know some people ask me this question you know when I when I teach the story some people ask me fun questions like I have a question I was a question what if he does tell but then what's gonna happen because he could do tell by right I like he showed 10:40.707 --> 10:44.989 [SPEAKER_00]: You should repent, and Allah's rule is if somebody repents, there's Allah reject. 10:45.929 --> 10:46.729 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah never rejects. 10:47.750 --> 10:48.570 [SPEAKER_00]: So why doesn't He do it? 10:48.650 --> 10:50.331 [SPEAKER_00]: Allah describes it because He's madhawar. 10:50.791 --> 10:54.912 [SPEAKER_00]: His hate keeps crushing Him and crushing Him even more and crushing Him even more. 10:54.932 --> 10:59.194 [SPEAKER_00]: He's crushing Himself, not allowing Himself to stop and realize what He's doing. 11:00.494 --> 11:02.455 [SPEAKER_00]: Which is exactly what He wants for you. 11:02.775 --> 11:08.457 [SPEAKER_00]: He wants you to have a negative emotion like hate, like resentment, like something that happened when you blame someone. 11:08.677 --> 11:09.658 [SPEAKER_00]: He blames Allah, right? 11:10.545 --> 11:11.705 [SPEAKER_00]: He's decided to blame Allah. 11:12.405 --> 11:14.226 [SPEAKER_00]: Now it doesn't matter if the Quran comes. 11:15.566 --> 11:17.046 [SPEAKER_00]: He can hear the Quran too, yes or no. 11:18.047 --> 11:24.148 [SPEAKER_00]: He can hear the Quran because you have to say Arabic before you recite the Quran which means he's hearing the Quran. 11:25.268 --> 11:28.349 [SPEAKER_00]: So correcting his views is coming from Allah himself. 11:29.269 --> 11:31.010 [SPEAKER_00]: There's enough reason for him to do to Allah. 11:31.670 --> 11:36.351 [SPEAKER_00]: But he in his world is crushing himself where no words from the outside. 11:36.371 --> 11:37.251 [SPEAKER_00]: They just bounce right off. 11:38.159 --> 11:39.980 [SPEAKER_00]: It bounced right off and that's what he wants for people. 11:40.341 --> 11:42.942 [SPEAKER_00]: He wants them to be immersed in their own negative thinking. 11:43.983 --> 11:46.665 [SPEAKER_00]: So no good, no word from Allah will ever affect them.