WEBVTT 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:03.399 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 00:00:15.619 --> 00:00:18.620 The Muhammad Ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Musa Mosque 00:00:18.620 --> 00:00:21.620 in al-Badi' presents 00:00:21.620 --> 00:00:24.620 Musk of the Discourse 00:00:24.620 --> 00:00:26.620 by Sheikh Usama Bahr, 00:00:26.620 --> 00:00:28.620 may Allah preserve him. 00:00:31.620 --> 00:00:34.619 Melting into the sweetest of feelings. 00:00:34.619 --> 00:00:37.619 Faces and masks. 00:00:37.619 --> 00:00:43.729 Hypocrisy has no colors or cosmetics, 00:00:43.729 --> 00:00:46.759 yet hypocrisy has its paths and methods, 00:00:46.759 --> 00:00:50.759 and all of that falls under the definition of hypocrisy. 00:00:50.759 --> 00:00:53.859 There is also another type of hypocrisy, 00:00:53.859 --> 00:00:56.859 which is the changing of faces. 00:00:56.859 --> 00:00:59.979 You may find a person you consider a close friend, 00:00:59.979 --> 00:01:01.979 while at the same time, 00:01:01.979 --> 00:01:04.980 you find him to be a malicious enemy. 00:01:04.980 --> 00:01:06.980 He comes to you with one face, 00:01:06.980 --> 00:01:09.980 while behind your back, he has another. 00:01:09.980 --> 00:01:13.049 It is as if his face has masks that he changes 00:01:13.049 --> 00:01:15.049 according to the circumstances and occasions. 00:01:15.049 --> 00:01:18.109 These are the two-faced people, 00:01:18.109 --> 00:01:20.109 and they are the worst of creation. 00:01:20.109 --> 00:01:24.140 The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said: 00:01:24.140 --> 00:01:27.180 "You will find the worst of people to be the two-faced one, 00:01:27.180 --> 00:01:29.180 who comes to these with one face, 00:01:30.180 --> 00:01:32.340 and to those with another." 00:01:32.340 --> 00:01:34.340 Al-Qurtubi says: 00:01:34.340 --> 00:01:37.340 The two-faced person is the worst of people 00:01:37.340 --> 00:01:39.340 because his state is the state of a hypocrite, 00:01:39.340 --> 00:01:43.340 as he is a flatterer through falsehood and lies, 00:01:43.340 --> 00:01:46.340 a catalyst for corruption among people. 00:01:46.340 --> 00:01:48.340 Al-Nawawi said: 00:01:48.340 --> 00:01:51.340 He is the one who approaches every group with what pleases them, 00:01:51.340 --> 00:01:54.340 showing them that he is one of them, 00:01:54.340 --> 00:01:56.340 and opposed to their rivals. 00:01:56.340 --> 00:02:00.400 His conduct is hypocrisy, pure lying, deception, and manipulation 00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:03.400 regarding the secrets of both groups, 00:02:03.400 --> 00:02:05.400 and it is a forbidden form of sycophancy. 00:02:05.400 --> 00:02:07.530 In another hadith, 00:02:07.530 --> 00:02:10.530 the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, says: 00:02:10.530 --> 00:02:14.530 "Indeed, the worst of people in status before Allah on the Day of Resurrection 00:02:14.530 --> 00:02:17.530 is the one whom people avoid to escape his evil," 00:02:17.530 --> 00:02:19.530 meaning, to escape his indecency. 00:02:19.530 --> 00:02:22.819 In this time, faces have appeared 00:02:22.819 --> 00:02:24.819 that have various masks, 00:02:24.819 --> 00:02:27.819 of all sizes and colors. 00:02:27.819 --> 00:02:29.819 This is a group of people 00:02:29.819 --> 00:02:31.819 who smile at you with one face, 00:02:31.819 --> 00:02:33.819 while they have another face, 00:02:33.819 --> 00:02:36.819 full of hatred and malice behind your back. 00:02:36.819 --> 00:02:39.819 How often we encounter these people at work, 00:02:39.819 --> 00:02:43.819 in forums, clubs, and public places. 00:02:43.819 --> 00:02:46.819 They have harmed some with their malice, 00:02:46.819 --> 00:02:50.819 and some of us have become unable to distinguish friend from foe, 00:02:51.819 --> 00:02:54.819 or perhaps we even trust our enemy more than them, 00:02:54.819 --> 00:02:57.819 because the enemy’s harm is manifest, 00:02:57.819 --> 00:02:59.819 whereas the two-faced person’s 00:02:59.819 --> 00:03:03.039 harm is hidden and concealed. 00:03:03.039 --> 00:03:06.039 So be wary of these people, 00:03:06.039 --> 00:03:09.039 for one of them may have a face before you, 00:03:09.039 --> 00:03:12.039 and a honeyed tongue with you, 00:03:12.039 --> 00:03:14.039 but he hides behind it 00:03:14.039 --> 00:03:17.069 the hatred and animosity he conceals. 00:03:17.069 --> 00:03:20.069 How well the poet said: 00:03:20.069 --> 00:03:23.069 There is no good in the affection of a two-faced person, 00:03:23.069 --> 00:03:26.069 whose tongue is sweet while his heart is ablaze. 00:03:26.069 --> 00:03:30.229 He meets you swearing that he trusts you, 00:03:30.229 --> 00:03:33.229 but when he turns away, he is a scorpion. 00:03:33.229 --> 00:03:37.300 He gives you sweetness from the tip of his tongue, 00:03:37.300 --> 00:03:40.300 and slips away from you as a fox slips away. 00:03:51.030 --> 00:03:54.030 The Most Merciful draws near, 00:03:54.030 --> 00:03:57.030 so that joy may embrace you. 00:03:57.030 --> 00:04:00.030 Attach your soul 00:04:00.030 --> 00:04:03.030 to your Lord and fill 00:04:03.030 --> 00:04:06.219 the surroundings with light. 00:04:06.219 --> 00:04:09.219 For whoever obeys the Almighty 00:04:09.219 --> 00:04:12.219 melts into the sweetest of feelings. 00:04:12.219 --> 00:04:15.509 Then darkness, 00:04:15.509 --> 00:04:18.540 then light, 00:04:18.540 --> 00:04:21.540 follows it. 00:04:21.540 --> 00:04:24.540 If Allah wills a thing, 00:04:24.540 --> 00:04:27.540 He says "Be," and it is, 00:04:27.540 --> 00:04:30.540 the biting reality.