[SPEAKER_00]: His goal was not to drown everyone.
[SPEAKER_00]: His goal was not something malicious.
[SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't let's get revenge.
[SPEAKER_00]: They won't water.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they don't want to disturb and bother the people in the upper deck.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now what happens if the news spreads and they share their idea that we're going to tear a hole into the ship so we can get water.
[SPEAKER_00]: What happens when that news reaches the people on the upper deck and they find out?
[SPEAKER_00]: A whole in the bottom of the ship, the Prophet ﷺ said, and this is the crucial part of the Hadith.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, for India to recool him, Wama Aradu, if they leave them and what they intend to do like to drill a hole or to tear a hole into the ship, hadakujamya.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're all going to be destroyed.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're all going to.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then he says to Allah, He will sell them when Ahadwala, A.D.
[SPEAKER_00]: Him, Najaw, Najaw, Jamiya.
[SPEAKER_00]: If they stop them, you can't tear a hole into the ship.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can show them, explain to them, teach them.
[SPEAKER_00]: They might not know if they stop them, if they take action.
[SPEAKER_00]: They will save those people on the lower deck and they will save all of themselves.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are many examples in the Sunnah of the Prophet, Allah, He will sell them where mathematically on the surface level.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some things don't seem to add up, and if you do this, the reward is that.
[SPEAKER_00]: But this act of worship has that impact.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some things that seem inconsequential, very insignificant, very small, but ripple effects of change.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ripple effects of reward or forgiveness from Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some of the famous examples include the man who was walking in the road and removed something harmful, specifically on how to remove the branch that was a source of irritation for a lot of people, or a thorny bush that was a form of irritation for many people.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, like many others, perhaps who walked by, he could have done nothing.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is someone else's problem.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the Prophet ﷺ said about this man,
[SPEAKER_00]: a lot appreciated what he did.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he forgave this man.
[SPEAKER_00]: Another famous example is the woman, famous, the woman who previously was doing something immoral amongst the woman of Benny Sra'i.
[SPEAKER_00]: And she saw a dog that was very thirsty and took some time to bring water out of a well for this thirsty dog, perhaps saving its life and a loss of panolatada for a giver.
[SPEAKER_00]: Contrast that with something else that might seem small to some people,
[SPEAKER_00]: but has the opposite effect?
[SPEAKER_00]: A woman who had a cat, like many people do in the world today, they have their pets or outside people interact with animals in different ways.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some societies are known to be merciful to animals and others not so much.
[SPEAKER_00]: And she starved this cat to death.
[SPEAKER_00]: She leashed it.
[SPEAKER_00]: She didn't allow it to leave to eat even from the vermin of the earth in the Hadith.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the cat died because of that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the Prophet ﷺ said about this woman
[SPEAKER_00]: She could have been someone who prayed and fasted in many other things.
[SPEAKER_00]: You killed an innocent animal.
[SPEAKER_00]: Where is the basic seed of mercy or compassion in the heart?
[SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet ﷺ taught us in the famous Hadith.
[SPEAKER_00]: Habbul-Aamadi, La'Allah, Ad-Duhamuhah, Wa'in-Qad.
[SPEAKER_00]: Amongst the most beloved deeds to Allah are those which are consistent, even if they're small in quantity.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this doesn't mean to bring down the minimum obligations of Islam, like the five prayers, but are there anything beyond this?
[SPEAKER_00]: The two rakhas, extra that you pray that no one sees.
[SPEAKER_00]: The extra moment, the extra minute of his still father that nobody sees.
[SPEAKER_00]: That moment at work where you didn't immediately rush back to the work and you didn't have to.
[SPEAKER_00]: He took some time to do Vikir or dua.
[SPEAKER_00]: that moment before you slept and also think about habits that people develop.
[SPEAKER_00]: One hour workout, when you zoom out and look at the entire year, doesn't seem like much.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you look at the accumulation of a good habit, walking every day, exercising, eating, healthy, in the moment it might not seem like a major decision that you said no to something harmful.
[SPEAKER_00]: whether it's hot on spiritually is harmful or psychologically, intellectually, doom-scrolling and constantly being addicted to social media reels or junk food or anything else.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those small habits add up.
[SPEAKER_00]: Over the course of a year, the course of a lifetime makes a difference.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyone who's married also knows or should know, grand gestures aren't enough once or twice a year.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a small, hundreds or thousands of microhabits and subconscious decisions and the service
[SPEAKER_00]: that really matter at the end of the day.
[SPEAKER_00]: People don't just want to hear how you feel but they want to see it in practice.
[SPEAKER_00]: We have so many examples like students who study and mothers who have newborns and toddlers who get up anyway when it's an exhausting day.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the point is that the professor Laloha and he will tell him tells us not to be little anything that is good.
[SPEAKER_00]: La Tachli Ronnami Nalmatoficia.
[SPEAKER_00]: You smiling at your brother, especially when they seem to be having a bad day.
[SPEAKER_00]: You being kind to others, you checking in with a friend for the sake of a loss of panotana.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're not expecting any help, many business, any work, anything else you're just saying set out for the sake of a mother.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's something, of course, that's even more accessible to us with less of an excuse for us than any previous generation.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet ﷺ teaches us in the famous Hadith that as soon as you die, that counter that you have right now as you're praying, as you're here for Salat and Juma, the counter that keeps going with hastenat, with good deeds, stops.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can't pray anymore.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can't give any more charity.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can't fast another day.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can't be kind to another person.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the only thing that allows it to continue includes the category of everything that is Soda Khajaria, a continuous charity.
[SPEAKER_00]: It includes as well a child that prays for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: It includes as well knowledge that benefits other people.
[SPEAKER_00]: In Tefar O'Bee, what is the beneficial knowledge that we're leaving behind?
[SPEAKER_00]: And anyone who is a parent knows that Tedibe are the raising of a righteous child, the holistic upbringing, intellectual, spiritual development, physical, validation, all the hard work of taking care of a child is not an easy task, which is why the reward is so great.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's one of the most generous acts of worship in terms of the impact that it could have.
[SPEAKER_00]: One of the most rewarding things from Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if you're blessed, for example, to have a child in this world, then you have the opportunity to do something remarkable.
[SPEAKER_00]: For the entire world, but also for your Aqidah, for their own life, for their own upbringing, for their own well-being as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's not one moment in which you gave them a lecture, and there's nobody here who'll say, my parents gave me one lecture in my whole life, became righteous because of that one moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a series of thousands of examples you gave them and how you deal with things that don't go your way.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the moment you restrain your anger which is not an easy thing to do but you show them what it looks like to have strength.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the moments in which you're speech to their mother or the mother to the father was the right speech.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the moments in which you knew how to deal with conflict.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the moment in which they saw you, connected to a lot of Subhanu Natal and not just telling them to be connected.
[SPEAKER_00]: And all of these thousands of moments that we all experience in our homes and with families we recognize, they're impact long-term, more impactful than a one-off moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet ﷺ teaches us ultimately with all of these narrations, that many deeds in Islam, many acts of worship, and also many sins.
[SPEAKER_00]: Should not be looked at just in terms of what they cost you, what they cost you of effort and time and energy, no doubt it amplifies and magnifies if it takes a lot of effort.
[SPEAKER_00]: So someone who struggles to pray to Iraq as physically, but they get up and do it anyway.
[SPEAKER_00]: Perhaps we'll be rewarded more than someone who has no struggle and they refuse to pray.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you look at the examples you find in the seat of the Prophet ﷺ and one of the lessons that we take is sometimes, our sin, our mistake is not just defying something by saying, I'm just lazy and I know I'm lazy and I know I should be doing these right things, I know I should be moving about towards the lost pleasure, but also there's a sin of miscalculating.
[SPEAKER_00]: miscalculating what looks like a small deal, in terms of its impact.
[SPEAKER_00]: The everyday things we all experience, the students who go to schools, and they have friends and they have thousands of decisions they make out schools subconsciously.
[SPEAKER_00]: How they carry themselves, their character, their discipline, the prayer, staying away from how long, the peer pressure, the students on campuses, those who live away from parents, those who don't have family with them, those who are raising children, those who work.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thousands of decisions that we make that seem small in the moment, but they are massive, to a loss with Hannah to Hannah, they are important, and it starts to become a person's identity in many different ways from a psychological lens.
[SPEAKER_00]: But let's add a little more pressure to that concept from the seat of the Prophet ﷺ.
[SPEAKER_00]: What happens if some of these decisions start to impact the lives and well-being and health of other people.
[SPEAKER_00]: What about deeds that now impact many others in society?
[SPEAKER_00]: And we know that raising a child can impact the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: Raising a good person can change the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: But what if you magnify that and you multiply by a million other people?
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a famous Hadith and this is the crux of the Houghtletary.
[SPEAKER_00]: Where the Prophet ﷺ shares a parable.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you find this across multiple books of Hadith.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said the parable, the example of the one who upholds the boundaries of Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the one who does not, the one who violates them, is like a group of people who are on a ship.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they drew lots, who are a lot to see, who's going to get the upper deck, and who is going to be in the lower deck, the upper deck being a matter of preference for people.
[SPEAKER_00]: And those people who are below to summarize many parts of the hadi, eventually some of them, not all, some of them are Sufa hader foolish.
[SPEAKER_00]: They don't know what they're doing, but they won't water.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they don't want to bother the people up top on the upper deck.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there are problems between them and some of the other ahead of anyways, long story short.
[SPEAKER_00]: Someone on the lower deck says, I'll tear a hole into this ship just so we can reach out, perhaps, and get water.
[SPEAKER_00]: He wants to dig a hole into the ship on the bottom deck, the lower deck, so he can get water.
[SPEAKER_00]: His goal was not to drown everyone.
[SPEAKER_00]: His goal was not something malicious.
[SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't let's get revenge.
[SPEAKER_00]: They won't water.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they don't want to disturb and bother the people in the upper deck.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now what happens if the news spreads and they share their idea that we're going to tear a hole into the ship so we can get water.
[SPEAKER_00]: What happens when that news reaches the people in the upper deck and they find out?
[SPEAKER_00]: a whole in the bottom of the ship, the Prophet ﷺ said.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is the crucial part of the hari.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, if they leave them and what they intend to do, like to drill a hole or to tear a hole into the ship, they're all going to be destroyed, they're all going to drown.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then He says, ﷺ, when Aqadwala A.D. him, Najaw, when Ajaw, Jamiya.
[SPEAKER_00]: If they stop them,
[SPEAKER_00]: You can't tear a hole into the ship, you can show them, explain to them, teach them, they might not know if they stop them, if they take action.
[SPEAKER_00]: They will save those people on the lower deck and they will save all of themselves.
[SPEAKER_00]: In other words, you can't claim neutrality and silence in all situations.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there are a lot of lessons from this Hadith, but I'll only share three very quickly in Shala first.
[SPEAKER_00]: Notice in the beginning of the Hadith many people skip over this in the shah.
[SPEAKER_00]: You notice that there's a drawing of lots.
[SPEAKER_00]: How did they decide who gets the upper deck and who gets the lower deck?
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a drawing of lots which is a common thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: In other words, sometimes in life you don't choose certain things.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you can't focus constantly on the things you can to change at all.
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't choose your parents.
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't choose who you're born to.
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't choose the country you were born in.
[SPEAKER_00]: But on the flip side, not just for those who are struggling and they're told in terms of cutter focus on what you can change, focus on what you can influence, focus on opportunities you have, whether it's for education or work or volunteerism or good life, or healthy your body if you start it off with a disadvantage, focus on what you have influence over.
[SPEAKER_00]: But what about those who are in the upper deck?
[SPEAKER_00]: What about those who whose families are well off?
[SPEAKER_00]: In a world in which many people can't afford basic things?
[SPEAKER_00]: In a world in which many people, in this country too, are barely making it from week to week.
[SPEAKER_00]: Many people don't go to any clinics, any doctors, they don't have health insurance, they don't even imagine having to go unless things are too urgent, unless things are extreme.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, there are many studies conducted on this issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are many people who didn't choose.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, nobody chooses, but there are brothers and sisters of hours and family members who didn't choose to be raised under Occupationalism.
[SPEAKER_00]: They didn't choose that, that's their hudder.
[SPEAKER_00]: And everyone's decree in terms of what you don't choose, a logarithmic reward you based on your circumstances.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your test is your test alone, meaning what if your test is harder than someone else's your reward might also be greater.
[SPEAKER_00]: This life is not the end of all be all.
[SPEAKER_00]: and many of us do in this country, compared to the overwhelming majority of the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those who have privileges and live on the upper deck, even if you don't think you do.
[SPEAKER_00]: Often times, we become so comfortable with what we have, we forget.
[SPEAKER_00]: We forget this is a test for Mullah.
[SPEAKER_00]: We forget the responsibilities that come with the position that we're in.
[SPEAKER_00]: You weren't born into this world with any entitlement, divine entitlement.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're not entitled to anything, in Adjunya.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nothing at all, except that we'll leave, except that we'll depart.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the one who controls the one thing they can control, which is their faith in a loss of panelatata, the purpose of life, they know that ultimately Jenna is there.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the promise of Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if you have any privileges in this world, remember that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Remember your responsibility, and remember that humility.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number two,
[SPEAKER_00]: The people on the lower deck are not described in all the variants of this Hadith as villains, or militias, but some of them who wanted to tear a hole into the ship, are described as Sufahat, they're very foolish.
[SPEAKER_00]: They don't know, but it wasn't described in the sense of trying to destroy the world, trying to drown everyone.
[SPEAKER_00]: Are there people in society who want to hurt other people?
[SPEAKER_00]: Unfortunately, yes, there are many.
[SPEAKER_00]: Are there people in society who wish not to see us living in this country or in any country around the world?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, there are many.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we have to say this bluntly and plainly.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are people who don't wish to see good for others.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are people who have privileges who don't want a basic minimum threshold of survival for other people.
[SPEAKER_00]: They don't care.
[SPEAKER_00]: They simply do not have that compassion.
[SPEAKER_00]: But in this Hadith, we're not talking about those kinds of people.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're talking about a group of people amongst which there are Sufaha foolish.
[SPEAKER_00]: They simply don't know that although you want to water, and it's a very reasonable thing to want, tearing a hole into the ship will cause all of us to die.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the reality when it comes to many things in society,
[SPEAKER_00]: is that there are many people who are overconfident and even prideful and condescending.
[SPEAKER_00]: Talking about politics, talking about social issues, talking about psychology, talking about religion, talking about medicine, talking about many things.
[SPEAKER_00]: who don't have the knowledge of that field or at least sufficient knowledge to have a reasonable opinion.
[SPEAKER_00]: They may not be coming from a place of maliciousness, but rather years of brainwash, years of propaganda, years of foolishness, years of blind following, cult following, and that's not right for them to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not justified.
[SPEAKER_00]: But we also have to recognize the possibility for some people to learn, to grow, to change, and for us to also have intellectual humility on any topic we discuss, to have real intellectual humility.
[SPEAKER_00]: For we may mean well, a good intention, you won't water, but you might harm a lot of people because you're not right.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's important for us to recognize that value in that principle in Islam.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet ﷺ teaches us about these people.
[SPEAKER_00]: that if they allow them the upper deck, allow the lower deck to tear a hole, they're all gone today.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the reality here, he doesn't give us a third possibility.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is no variation of the story where the people on the upper deck in the middle of the ocean, survive on their own, because the ship has drawn.
[SPEAKER_00]: Halakujamian, O, Najo, Jamian.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the reality for us, when we hear this, as we remember the saying of Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, Wa Ta'ahu Fitnat al-Latul Sibandan, Levina Valamu Minkumhasa.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this is especially for the believers, pay attention.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah SWT says, guard yourselves, protect yourselves.
[SPEAKER_00]: Against a trial, meaning could be a calamity, a hardship, that will not strike only the wrongdoers amongst you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because the rest of you stayed silent.
[SPEAKER_00]: The rest of you didn't move forward.
[SPEAKER_00]: The rest of you said they're doing their own thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's fine.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're tearing the hole into the ship, possibly killing everyone on the ship, possibly killing millions of society.
[SPEAKER_00]: neutrality and silence is not true neutrality.
[SPEAKER_00]: The reality in this case is that it's not like the man who walked by that school, the university, the building, and saw something hard from the road and removed it.
[SPEAKER_00]: The man who removed the harmful branch from the road,
[SPEAKER_00]: perhaps never met any of the people who benefited from his action.
[SPEAKER_00]: And perhaps it was not the cause of anyone dying.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hethon stuffs the preservation of life is of utmost importance in Islam.
[SPEAKER_00]: But in the case of the ship like many of our cases in society today, like politics.
[SPEAKER_00]: the possibility of some policies, saving lives, and others harming millions of lives, whether in Michigan, or the US, or in Russia, or in any other land, is something that we have to take with a massive, massive sense of responsibility.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here, you're not talking about your private tourocas at home.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're not talking about how you raise your kids and how people talk to each other behind closed doors.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're talking about something that impacts everyone else and has ripple effects across the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here, doing nothing produces the same result as doing damage.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you were on the ship, would you just watch?
[SPEAKER_00]: If you were on the ship, would you say, let them do what they want?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's their water that they need, or do you prevent them from killing everyone?
[SPEAKER_00]: And drowning everyone in that moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: For us, we're reminded as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: The a lot of the examples I gave earlier, and you find in the seat of helping someone.
[SPEAKER_00]: taking care of your child and later on they pray for you, removing something harmful from the road, teachers who teach in our schools and many of whom are neglected socially and economically many ways and they do a lot of hard work for the children here and around the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: You think about all of these examples given in the Hadith of the Sada Kajaria.
[SPEAKER_00]: and you find that many of them are actually built on this hideeath of the ship because a lot of people are raising their children and worried about crime and society worried about the things harming them morally a lot of people are trying to barely get by so they're not even paying attention to their children devices are raising their children and they're being harmed along the way so whether a family can be consistent in prayer or terabia or healthy marriage or health in their bodies sometimes is tied to the environmental issues that they're dealing with
[SPEAKER_00]: The circumstances of politics and who decides to get involved and who decides to neglect, teacher who teaches ten students, not knowing the decades later, those schools that are funded by all of us in different ways, those schools impact millions of lives because of what those students grew up to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: All of these things are much more.
[SPEAKER_00]: If we were to remove them, like the example of the ship, we'd find that the one who states silent is like the one who's watching the ship as people draw.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we cannot possibly imagine that this is okay in Islam, that this is even somewhat acceptable.
[SPEAKER_00]: We really can't sugarcoat this.
[SPEAKER_00]: So observe your life, observe your environment, observe your workplace, observe your home, and see, where can you make a difference every day?
[SPEAKER_00]: What is it that you can do?
[SPEAKER_00]: What branch can you remove from someone's path?
[SPEAKER_00]: Unlike the 10 million people who walk by it, didn't do nothing.
[SPEAKER_00]: What can you do in terms of raising a child that has a long-term impact and rewarded with a law?
[SPEAKER_00]: A law surpassing a time that didn't give us all equal strength or opportunities or circumstances.
[SPEAKER_00]: But every one of us has a responsibility.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if you imagine yourself on a boat with a paddle, every one of us has a responsibility with that paddle.
[SPEAKER_00]: And every one of us has a responsibility to observe and to be proactive and not wait for someone to have an emergency or a calamity in your neighborhood or your family or a society or the world for us to say now will take action or maybe I should have taken action.
[SPEAKER_00]: What doors in our lives have we also refused to open?
[SPEAKER_00]: Have we refused to maybe walk through?
[SPEAKER_00]: and most importantly, are there things in your life?
[SPEAKER_00]: that you can think about in which you thought at least once, let me stay out of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not my business, in which in fact, it's like the example of the ship, that doing nothing may harm a lot of people.
[SPEAKER_00]: And in Islam, the preservation of life, the reduction of harm is something that we take seriously.
[SPEAKER_00]: We ask a lot of the panel, it's added to guide us all to the best of actions, and to fulfill our responsibilities, and to protect us and our communities here and around the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: A kuloujouli had al-Astafilul al-Aqonfist al-Firou,