[SPEAKER_00]: When it comes to sin and this obeying of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, many people may bring excuses.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some may say, well, I don't see the consequences I've been doing this Haram thing for years.
[SPEAKER_00]: Others may say,
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I don't think I can actually live without committing it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Whatever that sin or the wrong habit, bad habit, maybe.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there's more and more excuses.
[SPEAKER_00]: From Allah's blessings, He gave us in the Quran and the authentic, ahadith of the Prophet, sallallahu 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]: as much as we possibly can.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, it makes it very strong wording.
[SPEAKER_00]: You need to believe that you can.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I will share with you some insha'Allah, May Allah protect us from Sayyihat.
[SPEAKER_00]: We say that at the beginning of the Qadbah, we Allah protect us, Manshur'ul-Ri and Fusina, Wa'amin, Sayyihati, Amalin, what does it mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah protect us from the side effects of our sins, Allah Hu'aqabq, is that side effect?
[SPEAKER_00]: When it comes to say, at and the new and prohibitions that some people do, may Allah forgive us all, or also Allah is all-allahu alaihi wa-sallam says this beautiful head-eath.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, the either anahe to come and say in Fajtanibu, if I tell you to stop something, if I tell you to quit something, then quit it.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what he said.
[SPEAKER_00]: If I tell you to quit something, then quit it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Look at the other half, ready?
[SPEAKER_00]: And if I tell you to do something, now it's the watch of the obligations.
[SPEAKER_00]: If I tell you to do something to a min who must thought out and then do your best, did you notice a difference?
[SPEAKER_00]: When it comes to the Haram, they say, yeah, at the prohibitions, he said, if I tell you to quit, then quit.
[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't say, do your best.
[SPEAKER_00]: you quit it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Done.
[SPEAKER_00]: It might be difficult, whatever the case is.
[SPEAKER_00]: You need to just stop.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't imagine my life without that person, opposite gender, haram, relationship.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, just quit it.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can.
[SPEAKER_00]: Inshallah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't see myself being able to quit watching this thing, not quit it.
[SPEAKER_00]: In Tehu.
[SPEAKER_00]: Done.
[SPEAKER_00]: But when it comes to Wajibat obligations, he tells you do your best.
[SPEAKER_00]: The work as hard as you can, because you can never do the Wajib as much as Allah deserves.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's very difficult to have 100% Khushur and Salah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can you imagine if the Prophet told us the exact same thing?
[SPEAKER_00]: Salah, Allah alayhi wa salah.
[SPEAKER_00]: When I tell you to pray, 100% Khushur.
[SPEAKER_00]: How many of us will repeat the Salah?
[SPEAKER_00]: How many of us, this is Mashaqqa, this is difficulty.
[SPEAKER_00]: But when it comes to sin, prohibition, when the Prophet ﷺ tells you, you need to believe and that's pretty much all what you need to hear to quit it, you gotta believe, I can't survive.
[SPEAKER_00]: As maybe a struggle, but at the end of the day I can do it in shā'a Llāh.
[SPEAKER_00]: You have...
[SPEAKER_00]: Another means, Allah says on the Quran.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says,
[SPEAKER_00]: Number two, Allah says on the Qur'an, those who struggle in our path, we will guide them to the right path.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some are let me say this means, if you do the obligations the Wajibat, the reward of it is that Allah will protect you from the prohibitions the Haram, Allah Waqabat.
[SPEAKER_00]: I remember one time I was speaking to a brother, who had a really bad habit, something else Haram.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I told him to come along to perform Salah.
[SPEAKER_00]: What did he tell me?
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, when I stop the haram, I will start the salah.
[SPEAKER_00]: But that's not how it should work.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah says in the Qur'an, Allah says, Allah says establish Allah why, what's the fruit?
[SPEAKER_00]: In Allah's salatu, ten ha'an al-Fasha'i wa l-Munkar.
[SPEAKER_00]: Salah pushes away any vulgar language, behavior, any filth.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, you coming to Salah is what will help you quit the haram.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a trick from Shaitan to you and to myself, oh, how do you think you can show up to Salah to the message?
[SPEAKER_00]: When you do one, two, and three.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, you're a monath, a happy crit.
[SPEAKER_00]: How can you show up and give that sadah and that donation?
[SPEAKER_00]: When you do such and such and such and such, so you're like, when I stop this, I will do that lah, to stop this, do that.
[SPEAKER_00]: perform the Salah, do the Ta'ad, do the good deeds it will protect you from the Haram as Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala described that's something for all of us to be pay close attention to.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like some people will say for example when it comes to working out.
[SPEAKER_00]: They say, you know what?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, once I eat healthy, I will start working out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Usually, usually, to many people, working out is what makes them start eating healthy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because when you go on the treadmill, hello, so you're working out, and you see how many calories you burnt, you know, 215, this is a mission.
[SPEAKER_00]: So when you go back home, you see this chocolate bar, it says 200 calories, 300, you're like, I just suffered for 45 minutes.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't eat this chocolate, I can't, I have to watch my diet.
[SPEAKER_00]: So in many people, you working out is what makes you have a good diet, it's a pain of loss, not vice versa.
[SPEAKER_00]: Of course, attention to that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not just this, Rasulullah is Allah, I didn't want to tell you to quit it.
[SPEAKER_00]: You have to believe in yourself and believe what Allah has put in you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number two, to stop the Haram, make sure you do the Wajibat, the obligations.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number three, you have to remember there's a punishment.
[SPEAKER_00]: You have to be honest.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if the reward is not working, if this is not helping, then we have to know that there's consequences to that sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: For example, when it comes to bribing people,
[SPEAKER_00]: here in North American Allah to announce best, you can live your life without the need to bribe.
[SPEAKER_00]: May Allah protect us.
[SPEAKER_00]: What does La'an mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: Al-Tard al-Hamati La'yul see no mercy from Allah if you get involved into the bribing aspect and so on.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is serious stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: So think of the punishment that may happen to that individual.
[SPEAKER_00]: To yourself or to myself, when we perform the haram.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, one of the meshaikh Subhadallahu al-Lam.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, if the one thing you can think of as the consequences of watching the haram or looking at the haram is the punishment will be, is that you will not see Allah in general.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is that not enough of a motive to stop the haram?
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah says in the Qur'an, Allah says in the Qur'an, Rabbi, Myul, Ma'idin, La Makhjubun.
[SPEAKER_00]: One of the punishments, the severeest of punishment, Yomul Qiyama, to the disbelievers, is that they will not see Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Them knowing that is so painful, perhaps nothing is equal to it and Allah knows best.
[SPEAKER_00]: So when you see this and you're saying, you know what I'm gonna watch this, by ya'a-chi, the expense may be jeopardizing you, saying, Allah, Rasulullah, Rasulullah, Assalamu ala, and is this worth it?
[SPEAKER_00]: So think of the punishment.
[SPEAKER_00]: And number four, look at people that did such a great job during such difficult times.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some of us may say, we live here in the United States.
[SPEAKER_00]: Haram is very accessible.
[SPEAKER_00]: You have the store here to go to this thing, to click on and watch this thing to buy and do so and so.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, now, nowadays stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, let me tell you, someone who had it tougher than all of us put together.
[SPEAKER_00]: Someone who had so tough yet he passed and shall Allah someone Allah has put in the Quran for you and I to look up to unlearn and be inspired by another step number four Look at those who struggle in how they passed And of the greatest of examples that Al-Alamat say from the Quran to show someone who had an opportunity of Haram yet turned it down was none other than you wa safalehi salam
[SPEAKER_00]: The story is detailed, it's long, but to summarize, you use the following Islam to show you how easy it was to commit the haram.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was a stranger, okay, why is that point important?
[SPEAKER_00]: When you're a stranger, no one cares much about you.
[SPEAKER_00]: When the president sneezes or he picks his nose, me, I'll protect you all, forgive me.
[SPEAKER_00]: They will be on the news.
[SPEAKER_00]: He touched his nose.
[SPEAKER_00]: He did this.
[SPEAKER_00]: The way he looked, the way he walked.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, you see how he tripped?
[SPEAKER_00]: News breaking news, because he is not a stranger.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's known to most people on earth.
[SPEAKER_00]: But when you're a stranger, you can be on the floor, whatever jumping around acting weird, no one will care much about you.
[SPEAKER_00]: So committing Haram is a lot easier.
[SPEAKER_00]: Use of alaihi salam was not just a stranger.
[SPEAKER_00]: No mom, no dad, no brother, no sister, no, so I make say even easier.
[SPEAKER_00]: You go and commit to Haram in Chicago or in New York is a lot easier than here because there are a lot of people that know you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, not just that.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was very handsome man.
[SPEAKER_00]: gorgeous as also a life of Allah as I explained.
[SPEAKER_00]: All of it was young and he was strong.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now you go make it worse.
[SPEAKER_00]: The one who was trying to seduce him was a wonderful looking lady, the wife of the financial minister.
[SPEAKER_00]: You want to make it worse?
[SPEAKER_00]: She's the one seducing him, not him running after her.
[SPEAKER_00]: She said, hey Telek, in the Quran, I'm all yours.
[SPEAKER_00]: You want to get it worse?
[SPEAKER_00]: She made it in a way that she locked all the doors while Rallakatil Abwab and she locked all the windows.
[SPEAKER_00]: No one can see, no one can hear.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the location, the age, the atmosphere, everything is set up.
[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't get any more difficult.
[SPEAKER_00]: But look to what you suffer.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ilyas, salam, did three things.
[SPEAKER_00]: May Allah allow me, y'arab, and allow you all to remember the three things he did.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number one, he said,
[SPEAKER_00]: Arabic What does it say?
[SPEAKER_00]: I seek Allah's refuge.
[SPEAKER_00]: You as a family is salam from the first moment he realized I cannot do this myself.
[SPEAKER_00]: Human capacity is almost impossible.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah Waqabar So number one, I need God.
[SPEAKER_00]: I need Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So any time you struggle through anything through any avenue, haram, or the halal, or the wajib, or the salah, or waking up, you need Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: No one here is a tough guy.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm telling you, I'm not a tough guy.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're not a tough guy.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're all weak.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're all poor.
[SPEAKER_00]: No matter how much money, on power, and influence you have.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nakhna Fukhara, poor people to Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you have to realize that and that's profit you are so far away from Salat Number one, Naha Allah, Aruhdu Bila, Yallah, help me Allah, Yallah, help me, please acknowledge that, that's very important.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you humble yourself to Allah, Allah elevates you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number two, in the Arabi Ahsana Mathwai, He said, Allah has honored me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was thrown into a well.
[SPEAKER_00]: I faced death.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was sold as a slave.
[SPEAKER_00]: And now I'm working.
[SPEAKER_00]: In the financial minister's palace in Egypt, this is my thank you back to Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is my thank you back to Allah that now I will use my good looks, my strength, my age, all that stuff, my eloquency in speech to do the major sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is this my thank you back?
[SPEAKER_00]: And please remember that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Next time we're about to watch something that is Haram, you say, it's just my thank you back to Allah for the eye and He gave me.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you're about to listen to backbiting and gossiping, Lebanon, you say, that's your thank you back to Allah for your hearing.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have my cousin first cousin, death.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah, there were times we say something we are laughing together and my cousin will be crying.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we go to my cousin while you're crying.
[SPEAKER_00]: You guys are laughing, I don't know what is it about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't hear.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ya Allah, me Allah make us grateful for the hearing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Alhamdulillah, you hear the khutbah, ya hear this?
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah, it's an earma.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's no price tag.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you tell Allah in a nice way, you tell yourself, is this my thank you back?
[SPEAKER_00]: You're in the United States, and Hamdulillah, generally safe.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're saying, you back to Allah, as you go to Haram stores, Allah give you a house that is safe and sound.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you will use your bedroom and the computer in Haram.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is your thank you back.
[SPEAKER_00]: In the Arabi Ahsana Mathua, any tribe, example, based on each one of us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number three, use of Ali Islam, what did he do?
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, Ali Islam, O Salat, O Salam, may Allah protect us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here, remember the punishment.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says,
[SPEAKER_00]: Inna Hula, Yufli Havvalimun.
[SPEAKER_00]: He realized if I do it, there's punishment.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm an oppressor, an avalim.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah gave me these lessons.
[SPEAKER_00]: I used against them like fear-acob.
[SPEAKER_00]: So one of the ways to push you from the haram know there's a punishment to it.
[SPEAKER_00]: One of the alamah, he says something very profound.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, al-Mahas-e-Narun-Ni-am.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sins are the fire to blessings.
[SPEAKER_00]: Think of the sin as fire.
[SPEAKER_00]: You commit sin the fire grows than the fire burns your blessings.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if you lose this blessing and you lose that blessing, you wonder why?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's from the fire of the sins Me Allah protect us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ya Rabbi al-Alamin.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ta'akulu al-Khamahataqulu n'ar al-Hatab.
[SPEAKER_00]: Aiyah then billah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Me Allah protect us from zawali, ni'am, the loss of blessings.
[SPEAKER_00]: Innahul alayhi wa l-Hallimun.
[SPEAKER_00]: Remember that also alayhi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says on the day of judgment.
[SPEAKER_00]: The one, for example, who consumes reba.
[SPEAKER_00]: was the punishment of rocks being thrown into their stomach, swimming in the river of blood.
[SPEAKER_00]: Remember the consequences of not waking up for a fedger and doing things that may be wrong all night long.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's two hours left for a fedger, two hours like I have to sleep.
[SPEAKER_00]: The why did you stay up so late knowing you cannot wake up for a fedger?
[SPEAKER_00]: If you sleep for just two hours, you know your body, don't play games.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't play games.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's the punishment?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll tell you, Rasool Allah is allahu alayhi wa sallam says on yomul kiyama.
[SPEAKER_00]: The person who misses salah will be sleeping on like a bench, someone with a rock will grab the rock and smash the head of the one, nama and insala who sleeps ignoring salah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Careless about salah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Who cares?
[SPEAKER_00]: Not they put the alarm and they try.
[SPEAKER_00]: And in the rock rules, then the head that was crushed goes back to normal.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then the man goes grabs the rock and does it again.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's the after-life period before Yomokayama takes place.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everything has a archive.
[SPEAKER_00]: The man who has a hook and rips his right mouth and the right nostril of his nose and his right of the eat of the eye.
[SPEAKER_00]: Rips all the way illa kafak, kafam is the back right here.
[SPEAKER_00]: You have to add that, what's going on?
[SPEAKER_00]: Then he does it to the left side.
[SPEAKER_00]: And by the time he's done the left side, the right side goes back to normal.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why?
[SPEAKER_00]: He says a lie that goes viral.
[SPEAKER_00]: So think of it, if the blessing was mentioned, the mercy that was mentioned was not moving, you were moving me, then think of the punishment in Naula, you believe of Valimun.
[SPEAKER_00]: And right away, what did he do?
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, he says these things, and then he ran, and that's what he needed to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a fitna, that's another step here, there's a fitna run from it, don't walk away.
[SPEAKER_00]: run away from it because you have your strong at the beginning of the sin as is approaching you know very well it's coming you feel it you know every time you serve the web at this time at that way in your bed or whatever the case may be or at work any time such something like that happens you know it's coming so you have control so use your control before you lose it later on and you know at one point Allah's you lose control may Allah forgive us
[SPEAKER_00]: So run as fast as you can, may Allah forgive us, and may Allah allow us to realize that we can always go back to Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And whatever has been mentioned is not to make you hopeless, rather to make you hopeful.
[SPEAKER_00]: Make you hopeful that Allah may forgive you for what you have done, but also don't have the false hope that you can do the sin and get away with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: You look at the end of the day, I'm a Muslim.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know Muslim stays in health forever.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't say like what some people said, as an al-Quran, young and al-Bat, like we stay in jihannam for one day.
[SPEAKER_00]: So what?
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't have this, there's to respect to Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: One if it was one minute or one second in jihannam.
[SPEAKER_00]: You just let go, like who cares?
[SPEAKER_00]: Let take it serious.
[SPEAKER_00]: We know when you have this authentic tradition where it's said that when a believer commits a sin, the believer is like a mountain that is about to collapse.
[SPEAKER_00]: You feel like the world is about to end when you do the haram.
[SPEAKER_00]: You feel bad, you feel guilty, you don't feel like you want to have fun or go, have a meal.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anything you feel ridiculous, that's a sign of iman and shah Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: As for the monavir, as for the one who has no faith, he commits the sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like a fly.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is, you know, moving away from here.
[SPEAKER_00]: And move on in life.
[SPEAKER_00]: May Allah make us of the meaning.
[SPEAKER_00]: When we do the sin, we feel bad.
[SPEAKER_00]: We feel like the world is about to collapse.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's nothing wrong, that's something to be proud of.
[SPEAKER_00]: So let that pain push you to change.
[SPEAKER_00]: May Allah forgive us.
[SPEAKER_00]: And to end with this.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a motivational speaker that brings this really great example for us.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, how do you hunt a wolf in a tundra?
[SPEAKER_00]: Cold weather, how do you get the wolf down?
[SPEAKER_00]: You want to grab them how?
[SPEAKER_00]: You get a double-bladed knife.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you try to find the blood of a seal.
[SPEAKER_00]: You dip the blade at knife into the blood until it becomes like a popsicle.
[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, instead of a wooden stick, it's a double-bladed knife.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then you place the upside down into the snow, hoping the wolf will smell it, recognize it, and man, this is like, it's pizza, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's beautiful.
[SPEAKER_00]: Eventually, the wolf comes, you want to hunt the wolf down.
[SPEAKER_00]: The wolf starts to lick that knife, lick that knife,
[SPEAKER_00]: Melt the blood, bit by bit, bit by bit, and the wolf is loving this blood, until all the blood on the blade of knife is completely melted, so the wolf licks it, but now cuts its tongue, but there's fresh blood there's so warm, so the wolf is even more excited.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, this is warm blood, beautiful, keeps leaking until it dies.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's the point here?
[SPEAKER_00]: Many people, they focus on the pleasure and they
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't focus on the pleasure for five minutes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ten minutes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fifteen hours a year.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you forget the pain of Allah knows how many.
[SPEAKER_00]: It decade, as your son, I want ten years.
[SPEAKER_00]: You forget the dunya, even imagine the ahra.
[SPEAKER_00]: So don't focus on the pleasure and forget the pain.
[SPEAKER_00]: When it comes to sins, when it comes to say you add, focus on the pain and forget the pleasure.