WEBVTT 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:08.830 A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah. 00:00:08.830 --> 00:00:11.830 The danger of the diseases of the heart. 00:00:11.830 --> 00:00:15.699 Since the heart is the sovereign of the limbs, 00:00:15.699 --> 00:00:18.699 and through its soundness the entire body is sound, 00:00:18.699 --> 00:00:22.699 as has been previously explained regarding the actions of the heart, 00:00:22.699 --> 00:00:26.699 then its corruption also entails the corruption of the entire body, 00:00:26.699 --> 00:00:28.699 as mentioned in the hadith. 00:00:28.699 --> 00:00:29.699 Therefore, 00:00:29.699 --> 00:00:33.700 just as it is obligatory to attend to the inward actions of the heart 00:00:33.700 --> 00:00:36.700 in order to rectify the outward actions of the limbs, 00:00:36.700 --> 00:00:40.700 it is likewise necessary to pay attention to the inward diseases of the heart, 00:00:40.700 --> 00:00:44.700 and to be wary of them so that they do not corrupt one's outward deeds, 00:00:44.700 --> 00:00:47.700 and so that a person does not perish, 00:00:47.700 --> 00:00:51.700 despite their scrupulous avoidance of some minor sins and doubtful matters, 00:00:51.700 --> 00:00:55.700 due to their neglect of these destructive heart diseases. 00:00:56.700 --> 00:00:59.880 Hypocrisy and the disease of the heart. 00:00:59.880 --> 00:01:04.840 Hypocrisy is considered one of the most severe and dangerous diseases of the heart, 00:01:04.840 --> 00:01:09.840 whether it is major hypocrisy related to belief, 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:12.840 or minor hypocrisy related to actions, 00:01:12.840 --> 00:01:15.840 both of which are the two types previously detailed 00:01:15.840 --> 00:01:17.840 in the concepts of creed. 00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:20.000 What concerns us here 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:24.000 is to clarify that hypocrisy is among the most dangerous diseases of the heart, 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:28.000 to the extent that you will hardly find a verse in the Book of Allah 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:30.000 in which a disease of the heart is mentioned 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:35.000 without it being in the context of discussing hypocrisy and its people, 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:38.000 whether the term "hypocrisy" is mentioned explicitly 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:40.000 or not. 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:43.030 Among those where the term is mentioned explicitly 00:01:43.030 --> 00:01:45.030 is the saying of Allah the Exalted: 00:01:45.030 --> 00:01:49.030 "When the hypocrites and those in whose hearts is..." 00:01:49.030 --> 00:01:52.030 “When the hypocrites and those in whose hearts is a disease said: Their religion hath deluded these. Whoso putteth his trust in Allah (will find that) lo! Allah is Mighty, Wise.” (8:49) 00:01:52.030 --> 00:01:54.030 And His saying: 00:01:54.030 --> 00:01:58.030 “And when the hypocrites, and those in whose hearts is a disease, were saying: Allah and His messenger promised us naught but delusion.” (33:12) 00:01:58.030 --> 00:02:04.030 “And when the hypocrites, and those in whose hearts is a disease, were saying: Allah and His messenger promised us naught but delusion.” (33:12) 00:02:04.030 --> 00:02:07.189 Among those where the term "hypocrisy" is not mentioned 00:02:07.189 --> 00:02:09.189 is the saying of Allah the Exalted: 00:02:09.189 --> 00:02:14.189 “In their hearts is a disease, and Allah increaseth their disease. A painful doom is theirs because they lie.” (2:10) 00:02:14.189 --> 00:02:19.189 “In their hearts is a disease, and Allah increaseth their disease. A painful doom is theirs because they lie.” (2:10) 00:02:19.189 --> 00:02:21.189 And His saying: 00:02:21.189 --> 00:02:26.189 "You see those in whose hearts is a disease hastening toward them." 00:02:26.189 --> 00:02:31.189 “And thou seest those in whose heart is a disease race toward them, saying: We fear lest a change of fortune befall us. And it may happen that Allah will vouchsafe (unto thee) the victory, or a commandment from His presence. Then will they repent them of their secret thoughts.” (5:52) 00:02:31.189 --> 00:02:34.379 The conflict between the hypocrites and the people of truth 00:02:34.379 --> 00:02:38.379 is not a disagreement over a single intellectual issue; 00:02:38.379 --> 00:02:41.379 rather, their entire faculty of judgment 00:02:41.379 --> 00:02:44.379 is a diseased and ailing heart. 00:02:44.379 --> 00:02:47.379 They have a disease in their hearts. 00:02:47.379 --> 00:02:50.379 Whim (al-hawa). 00:02:50.379 --> 00:02:55.370 Whim is the inclination of the soul toward what it loves and desires. 00:02:56.370 --> 00:03:01.370 If this inclination contradicts what Allah has commanded or permitted, 00:03:01.370 --> 00:03:03.370 it is one of the most dangerous diseases of the heart, 00:03:03.370 --> 00:03:07.370 and the one with the most negative impact on the soul, 00:03:07.370 --> 00:03:12.370 as it is the primary motive for every transgression, overstepping, and act of disobedience. 00:03:12.370 --> 00:03:16.370 Who is more astray than one in this state? 00:03:16.370 --> 00:03:18.370 As He, the Exalted, said: 00:03:18.370 --> 00:03:23.370 “And if they answer thee not, then know that what they follow is their lusts. And who goeth farther astray than he who followeth his lust without guidance from Allah. Lo! Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk.” (28:50) 00:03:24.370 --> 00:03:28.500 "Indeed, Allah does not guide the wrongdoing people." 00:03:28.500 --> 00:03:31.500 In fact, following one's whim continues to distance a person 00:03:31.500 --> 00:03:33.500 from the command of Allah the Exalted, 00:03:33.500 --> 00:03:37.500 until they take it as a god besides Allah. 00:03:37.500 --> 00:03:39.590 He, the Exalted, said: 00:03:39.590 --> 00:03:42.590 “Hast thou seen him who maketh his desire his god, and Allah sendeth him astray purposely, and sealeth up his hearing and his heart, and setteth on his sight a covering? Then who will lead him after Allah (hath condemned him)? Will ye not then heed?” (45:23) 00:03:42.590 --> 00:03:44.590 “Hast thou seen him who maketh his desire his god, and Allah sendeth him astray purposely, and sealeth up his hearing and his heart, and setteth on his sight a covering? Then who will lead him after Allah (hath condemned him)? Will ye not then heed?” (45:23) 00:03:44.590 --> 00:03:47.590 “Hast thou seen him who maketh his desire his god, and Allah sendeth him astray purposely, and sealeth up his hearing and his heart, and setteth on his sight a covering? Then who will lead him after Allah (hath condemned him)? Will ye not then heed?” (45:23) 00:03:47.590 --> 00:03:50.590 “Hast thou seen him who maketh his desire his god, and Allah sendeth him astray purposely, and sealeth up his hearing and his heart, and setteth on his sight a covering? Then who will lead him after Allah (hath condemned him)? Will ye not then heed?” (45:23) 00:03:50.590 --> 00:03:53.590 “Hast thou seen him who maketh his desire his god, and Allah sendeth him astray purposely, and sealeth up his hearing and his heart, and setteth on his sight a covering? Then who will lead him after Allah (hath condemned him)? Will ye not then heed?” (45:23) 00:03:53.590 --> 00:03:55.590 "Will you not then remember?" 00:03:55.590 --> 00:03:58.590 Whim becomes a god 00:03:58.590 --> 00:04:02.590 because it diverts the person from the truth that Allah commands, 00:04:02.590 --> 00:04:06.590 and it becomes that which is followed instead of Allah the Exalted. 00:04:06.590 --> 00:04:11.129 Whim blinds and deafens, 00:04:11.129 --> 00:04:14.129 and leads its possessor into follies. 00:04:14.129 --> 00:04:18.470 If whim takes hold of a person, 00:04:18.470 --> 00:04:20.470 it blinds and deafens them, 00:04:20.470 --> 00:04:22.470 as mentioned in the previous verse, 00:04:22.470 --> 00:04:25.470 and leads them into contradictions and follies 00:04:25.470 --> 00:04:29.470 that a person of reason would never commit. 00:04:29.470 --> 00:04:32.500 Whim blinded the insight of the Quraysh, 00:04:32.500 --> 00:04:36.500 so they rejected the prophethood of Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, 00:04:36.500 --> 00:04:39.500 on the pretext that he was a human being, 00:04:39.500 --> 00:04:42.500 even though they took a stone as a god. 00:04:42.500 --> 00:04:48.139 Whim leads to disbelief, immorality, or fanaticism. 00:04:48.139 --> 00:04:51.689 The harms of following whim vary, 00:04:51.689 --> 00:04:54.689 ranging from falling into disbelief or immorality, 00:04:54.689 --> 00:04:57.689 to fanaticism and factionalism. 00:04:57.689 --> 00:05:00.750 The disbelievers are driven by their whims to reject the truth 00:05:00.750 --> 00:05:04.750 and to be fanatical about what their forefathers were upon, 00:05:04.750 --> 00:05:07.750 despite knowing the falsehood of what they are upon, 00:05:07.750 --> 00:05:10.750 and that what the messengers call them to 00:05:10.750 --> 00:05:12.750 is the clear truth. 00:05:12.750 --> 00:05:14.850 As for the people of sin and immorality, 00:05:14.850 --> 00:05:17.850 their whims drive them to defend their immorality 00:05:17.850 --> 00:05:20.850 and their wickedness with weak interpretations 00:05:20.850 --> 00:05:23.850 and false justifications. 00:05:23.850 --> 00:05:26.850 Whim may even cause some students of knowledge 00:05:26.850 --> 00:05:29.850 to reject the truth in some matters, 00:05:29.850 --> 00:05:31.850 despite its clarity, 00:05:31.850 --> 00:05:34.850 and that is only out of fanaticism for the opinions of their teachers 00:05:34.850 --> 00:05:37.850 and their school of thought, even if they are false, 00:05:37.850 --> 00:05:40.850 which causes factionalism and division 00:05:40.850 --> 00:05:43.850 and conflict between the followers of the same religion, 00:05:43.850 --> 00:05:46.850 instead of unity and harmony. 00:05:48.620 --> 00:05:51.620 From the sayings of the salaf regarding striving against whim 00:05:51.620 --> 00:05:54.579 and warning against it: 00:05:54.579 --> 00:05:56.579 Al-Hasan al-Basri said: 00:05:56.579 --> 00:05:59.579 "The best jihad is the jihad against one's whim." 00:05:59.579 --> 00:06:03.610 And Umar Ibn Abd al-Aziz, may Allah have mercy on him, said: 00:06:03.610 --> 00:06:07.610 "Do not be one who follows the truth if it aligns with his whim, 00:06:07.610 --> 00:06:10.610 and opposes it if it contradicts his whim; 00:06:10.610 --> 00:06:15.610 for you will not be rewarded for the truth you followed, 00:06:15.610 --> 00:06:18.610 and you will be punished for what you abandoned of it, 00:06:18.610 --> 00:06:22.610 because you followed your whim in both cases." 00:06:27.470 --> 00:06:31.209 There are numerous reasons that drive a person 00:06:31.209 --> 00:06:34.209 to fall into whim and oppose the truth. 00:06:34.209 --> 00:06:37.209 Among them, firstly: 00:06:37.209 --> 00:06:40.209 That a person sees that admitting the truth 00:06:40.209 --> 00:06:44.209 necessitates admitting that they were upon falsehood, 00:06:44.209 --> 00:06:50.209 or acknowledging that their forefathers, teachers, or leaders were upon falsehood, 00:06:50.209 --> 00:06:54.209 and that there is a belittlement of them and oneself in that. 00:06:56.399 --> 00:06:59.399 And from the previous point, or close to it: 00:06:59.399 --> 00:07:01.399 Arrogance. 00:07:01.399 --> 00:07:06.399 One becomes too arrogant to follow the truth because it was explained to them by someone else, 00:07:06.399 --> 00:07:10.399 and they did not arrive at it through their own research and reflection. 00:07:10.399 --> 00:07:12.500 Thirdly: 00:07:12.500 --> 00:07:15.500 Also linked to arrogance is envy, 00:07:15.500 --> 00:07:19.500 for one envies others for their guidance to the truth and their explanation of it, 00:07:19.500 --> 00:07:23.500 and this drives them not to acknowledge it, 00:07:23.500 --> 00:07:27.500 so as not to admit the virtue and knowledge of the possessor of the truth. 00:07:27.500 --> 00:07:29.779 Fourthly: 00:07:29.779 --> 00:07:35.779 That a person has already attained status, fame, and worldly benefits through falsehood, 00:07:35.779 --> 00:07:41.779 so it becomes difficult for them to admit the falsehood and lose those benefits. 00:07:41.779 --> 00:07:46.709 Most people are overcome by whim. 00:07:46.709 --> 00:07:52.259 Among the clearest proofs that whim overcomes most people 00:07:52.259 --> 00:07:56.259 is that you see them upon different religions, 00:07:56.259 --> 00:07:58.259 varying doctrines, 00:07:58.259 --> 00:08:00.259 divided schools of thought, 00:08:00.259 --> 00:08:02.259 and clashing opinions, 00:08:02.259 --> 00:08:06.259 yet you see them, as Allah the Exalted said: 00:08:06.259 --> 00:08:10.259 “But they (mankind) have broken their religion among them into sects, each group rejoicing in its tenets.” (23:53) 00:08:10.259 --> 00:08:14.259 "Each faction rejoicing in what they have." 00:08:14.259 --> 00:08:20.279 From the signs of the claimant of knowledge who follows whim: 00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:24.790 For one who claims knowledge but inclines toward whim, 00:08:24.790 --> 00:08:26.790 there are signs by which they are known. 00:08:26.790 --> 00:08:28.790 Among them: 00:08:28.790 --> 00:08:29.790 First: 00:08:29.790 --> 00:08:33.789 Creating confusion with falsehood against the truth and its people. 00:08:33.789 --> 00:08:38.789 Whenever a proof is presented to them that contradicts their opinion and whim, 00:08:38.789 --> 00:08:41.789 they strive to reject it in any way possible, 00:08:41.789 --> 00:08:45.789 through obfuscation, slander, or deception. 00:08:45.789 --> 00:08:48.139 Second: 00:08:48.139 --> 00:08:51.139 Selecting the evidence that aligns with their whim 00:08:51.139 --> 00:08:53.139 and abandoning what contradicts it. 00:08:53.139 --> 00:08:58.139 If they see in a verse what they perceive as evidence for the correctness of their whim, 00:08:58.139 --> 00:09:00.139 they hold fast to it; 00:09:00.139 --> 00:09:03.139 but if they see in another what contradicts their whim, 00:09:03.139 --> 00:09:06.139 they ignore it and turn away from it. 00:09:06.139 --> 00:09:11.240 If they find two hadiths and do not know their authenticity from their weakness, 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:14.240 and one of them aligns with their whim, 00:09:14.240 --> 00:09:16.240 they hold fast to it and neglect the other, 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:21.240 without considering the issue of authenticating or weakening hadiths. 00:09:21.240 --> 00:09:23.429 Third: 00:09:23.429 --> 00:09:27.429 Specifying or generalizing the ruling of an issue according to whim, 00:09:28.429 --> 00:09:33.429 without the rules of generalization and specification used in the science of usul (principles of jurisprudence). 00:09:33.429 --> 00:09:36.429 If the ruling was in a specific context, 00:09:36.429 --> 00:09:39.429 but generalization achieves their whim, 00:09:39.429 --> 00:09:41.429 they make it general, 00:09:41.429 --> 00:09:43.429 and vice versa. 00:09:43.429 --> 00:09:49.429 Like one who makes the verse of hijab specific to the wives of the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, 00:09:49.429 --> 00:09:53.429 even though its generality is clear from its wording. 00:09:53.429 --> 00:10:02.429 “O Prophet! Tell thy wives and thy daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks close round them (when they go abroad). That will be better, so that they may be recognised and not annoyed. Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful.” (33:59) 00:10:02.429 --> 00:10:06.429 “O Prophet! Tell thy wives and thy daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks close round them (when they go abroad). That will be better, so that they may be recognised and not annoyed. Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful.” (33:59) 00:10:06.429 --> 00:10:10.690 "And Allah is Ever Forgiving, Merciful." 00:10:10.690 --> 00:10:11.690 Fourth: 00:10:11.690 --> 00:10:14.690 If two men dispute an issue 00:10:14.690 --> 00:10:16.690 and ask for their verdict on it, 00:10:16.690 --> 00:10:20.690 and they know one of them and their heart inclines toward him, 00:10:20.690 --> 00:10:22.690 and they do not know the other, 00:10:22.690 --> 00:10:24.690 or they know him and hate him, 00:10:24.690 --> 00:10:27.690 they rule in favor of the one their heart inclines toward, 00:10:27.690 --> 00:10:32.690 even if they have not grasped the ruling of the disputed issue and its evidence. 00:10:32.690 --> 00:10:34.779 In summary, 00:10:34.779 --> 00:10:37.779 the paths of whim are too numerous to count, 00:10:37.779 --> 00:10:40.779 and the duty of the scholar or student of knowledge 00:10:40.779 --> 00:10:44.779 is to search for the whims of their own soul until they know them, 00:10:44.779 --> 00:10:47.779 then to guard against them with the utmost caution, 00:10:47.779 --> 00:10:51.779 and to reflect deeply on the truth as it is in itself, 00:10:51.779 --> 00:10:53.779 isolated from whim. 00:10:53.779 --> 00:10:57.809 How does a person repel whim? 00:10:57.809 --> 00:11:00.809 And the fruit of this repulsion: 00:11:00.809 --> 00:11:05.450 The most powerful way a person repels whim from their soul 00:11:05.450 --> 00:11:07.450 is the fear of Allah, the Almighty and Majestic, 00:11:07.450 --> 00:11:09.450 and the fear of His punishment, 00:11:09.450 --> 00:11:13.450 and keeping in mind the fruit of this piety and its reward, 00:11:13.450 --> 00:11:18.450 for that is the solid barrier against the violent attacks of whim. 00:11:19.450 --> 00:11:22.450 Let it be known that Allah did not charge them 00:11:22.450 --> 00:11:24.450 that whim should not stir within their soul, 00:11:24.450 --> 00:11:27.450 for that is beyond their capacity, 00:11:27.450 --> 00:11:30.450 but He charged them to restrain their soul 00:11:30.450 --> 00:11:33.450 from this whim and to repel it, 00:11:33.450 --> 00:11:35.450 and He has written for them through this repulsion 00:11:35.450 --> 00:11:37.450 and this difficult struggle 00:11:37.450 --> 00:11:40.450 Paradise as a reward and a dwelling. 00:11:40.450 --> 00:11:42.450 He, the Exalted, said: 00:11:42.450 --> 00:11:45.450 “But as for him who feared to stand before his Lord and restrained his soul from lust,” (79:40) 00:11:45.450 --> 00:11:47.450 “But as for him who feared to stand before his Lord and restrained his soul from lust,” (79:40) 00:11:47.450 --> 00:11:50.450 “Lo! the Garden will be his home.” (79:41) 00:11:50.450 --> 00:11:56.539 Likewise, they must also remember the consequence of the tyranny of whim and its end. 00:11:56.539 --> 00:12:00.539 "So as for he who transgressed and preferred the life of the world..." 00:12:00.539 --> 00:12:03.539 “Lo! hell will be his home.” (79:39) 00:12:03.539 --> 00:12:06.539 And included in what has preceded also 00:12:06.539 --> 00:12:10.539 is to remember the nobility of the truth and the virtue of its people, 00:12:10.539 --> 00:12:13.539 and the baseness of falsehood and the vileness of its people, 00:12:14.539 --> 00:12:18.539 and what they deserve of the wrath of Allah and His punishment. 00:12:18.539 --> 00:12:21.539 Among what helps in abandoning the whim 00:12:21.539 --> 00:12:24.539 that inclines one toward the opinion of their predecessors and teachers, 00:12:24.539 --> 00:12:27.669 despite its contradiction of the truth, 00:12:27.669 --> 00:12:30.669 is to keep in mind that what concerns them 00:12:30.669 --> 00:12:32.669 This is his state within himself. 00:12:32.669 --> 00:12:35.669 It does not harm him before Allah to differ from his mentors, 00:12:35.669 --> 00:12:39.669 as long as the truth has become clear to him in their disagreement. 00:12:39.669 --> 00:12:42.669 Rather, what harms him is following them 00:12:42.669 --> 00:12:45.860 in what he knows to be contrary to the truth. 00:12:45.860 --> 00:12:48.860 His teachers may be excused, 00:12:48.860 --> 00:12:51.860 and rewarded for the position they reached, 00:12:51.860 --> 00:12:54.860 due to the lack of evidence for the truth being established for them in the matter, 00:12:54.860 --> 00:12:57.860 or because of a valid interpretation they hold, 00:12:57.860 --> 00:13:00.860 while the proof was not established against them 00:13:00.860 --> 00:13:04.179 regarding that in which they differed. 00:13:04.179 --> 00:13:07.179 Among the things that also help in opposing one's desires 00:13:07.179 --> 00:13:10.179 is relying on adopting the most cautious approach in a matter, 00:13:10.179 --> 00:13:13.250 rather than his desire and what he was raised upon. 00:13:13.250 --> 00:13:16.250 If he finds among the people of knowledge those who reject some of 00:13:16.250 --> 00:13:19.250 what his soul has become accustomed to and what his desire inclines toward, 00:13:19.250 --> 00:13:22.250 despite their honor and high status, 00:13:22.250 --> 00:13:25.250 he should take the more cautious approach for his religion, 00:13:25.250 --> 00:13:28.250 and abandon what he was accustomed to, in order to preserve his faith, 00:13:28.250 --> 00:13:32.240 and to choose safety. 00:13:32.240 --> 00:13:36.419 Love of the world and reliance upon it. 00:13:36.419 --> 00:13:39.419 Love of the world is ingrained in the nature of people, 00:13:39.419 --> 00:13:41.419 as Allah the Exalted said: 00:13:41.419 --> 00:13:44.419 “Beautified for mankind is love of the joys (that come) from women and offspring; and stored-up heaps of gold and silver, and horses branded (with their mark), and cattle and land. That is comfort of the life of the world. Allah! With Him is a more excellent abode.” (3:14) 00:13:44.419 --> 00:13:47.419 "of women and children," 00:13:47.419 --> 00:13:50.419 “Beautified for mankind is love of the joys (that come) from women and offspring; and stored-up heaps of gold and silver, and horses branded (with their mark), and cattle and land. That is comfort of the life of the world. Allah! With Him is a more excellent abode.” (3:14) 00:13:50.419 --> 00:13:53.419 "and silver, and branded horses," 00:13:53.419 --> 00:13:56.419 "and cattle, and tilled land." 00:13:56.419 --> 00:13:59.419 “Beautified for mankind is love of the joys (that come) from women and offspring; and stored-up heaps of gold and silver, and horses branded (with their mark), and cattle and land. That is comfort of the life of the world. Allah! With Him is a more excellent abode.” (3:14) 00:13:59.419 --> 00:14:02.549 “Beautified for mankind is love of the joys (that come) from women and offspring; and stored-up heaps of gold and silver, and horses branded (with their mark), and cattle and land. That is comfort of the life of the world. Allah! With Him is a more excellent abode.” (3:14) 00:14:02.549 --> 00:14:05.549 There is no harm in this love, 00:14:05.549 --> 00:14:08.549 if it does not exceed the permitted measure. 00:14:08.549 --> 00:14:11.549 “Say: Who hath forbidden the adornment of Allah which He hath brought forth for His bondmen, and the good things of His providing? Say: Such, on the Day of Resurrection, will be only for those who believed during the life of the world. Thus do we detail Our revelations for people who have knowledge.” (7:32) 00:14:11.549 --> 00:14:14.549 “Say: Who hath forbidden the adornment of Allah which He hath brought forth for His bondmen, and the good things of His providing? Say: Such, on the Day of Resurrection, will be only for those who believed during the life of the world. Thus do we detail Our revelations for people who have knowledge.” (7:32) 00:14:14.549 --> 00:14:17.620 The blame is directed and the danger lies 00:14:17.620 --> 00:14:20.620 when this love overwhelms a person's heart, 00:14:20.620 --> 00:14:23.620 to the point that he prefers the world over the Hereafter, 00:14:23.620 --> 00:14:26.649 as Allah the Exalted said: 00:14:26.649 --> 00:14:29.649 "So as for he who transgressed," 00:14:29.649 --> 00:14:32.649 "and preferred the life of the world," 00:14:32.649 --> 00:14:35.649 “Lo! hell will be his home.” (79:39) 00:14:36.649 --> 00:14:39.649 “Say: If your fathers, and your sons, and your brethren, and your wives, and your tribe, and the wealth ye have acquired, and merchandise for which ye fear that there will no sale, and dwellings ye desire are dearer to you than Allah and His messenger and striving in His way: then wait till Allah bringeth His command to pass. Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk.” (9:24) 00:14:39.649 --> 00:14:42.649 "and your sons, and your brothers," 00:14:42.649 --> 00:14:45.649 "and your wives, and your clan, and wealth" 00:14:45.649 --> 00:14:48.649 "which you have acquired, and trade," 00:14:48.649 --> 00:14:51.649 "and trade you fear will decline," 00:14:51.649 --> 00:14:54.649 “Say: If your fathers, and your sons, and your brethren, and your wives, and your tribe, and the wealth ye have acquired, and merchandise for which ye fear that there will no sale, and dwellings ye desire are dearer to you than Allah and His messenger and striving in His way: then wait till Allah bringeth His command to pass. Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk.” (9:24) 00:14:54.649 --> 00:14:57.649 “Say: If your fathers, and your sons, and your brethren, and your wives, and your tribe, and the wealth ye have acquired, and merchandise for which ye fear that there will no sale, and dwellings ye desire are dearer to you than Allah and His messenger and striving in His way: then wait till Allah bringeth His command to pass. Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk.” (9:24) 00:14:57.649 --> 00:15:00.649 "then wait until Allah brings" 00:15:00.649 --> 00:15:03.649 "His command; and Allah..." 00:15:04.649 --> 00:15:07.870 When the matter reaches 00:15:07.870 --> 00:15:10.870 the point of preferring the world over the Hereafter, 00:15:10.870 --> 00:15:13.870 it becomes a disease of the heart. 00:15:13.870 --> 00:15:16.870 If it spreads throughout the Ummah, 00:15:16.870 --> 00:15:19.870 it causes the loss of both the world and the Hereafter. 00:15:19.870 --> 00:15:22.870 As the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: 00:15:22.870 --> 00:15:25.870 "The nations are about to call one another against you," 00:15:25.870 --> 00:15:28.870 "as diners call one another to their dish." 00:15:28.870 --> 00:15:31.870 A person asked: 00:15:31.870 --> 00:15:34.870 "Is it because we will be few in number that day?" 00:15:34.870 --> 00:15:37.870 He said: "No, you will be many that day," 00:15:37.870 --> 00:15:40.870 "but you will be like the scum of a torrent." 00:15:40.870 --> 00:15:43.870 "And Allah will surely remove" 00:15:43.870 --> 00:15:46.870 "from the chests of your enemies the fear of you," 00:15:46.870 --> 00:15:49.870 "and He will cast into your hearts wahn (weakness)." 00:15:49.870 --> 00:15:52.870 A person asked: 00:15:52.870 --> 00:15:55.870 "O Messenger of Allah, what is wahn?" 00:15:55.870 --> 00:15:58.870 He said: "Love of the world." 00:15:59.870 --> 00:16:02.870 Narrated by Abu Dawud and Ahmad, 00:16:02.870 --> 00:16:05.870 and authenticated by al-Albani. 00:16:05.870 --> 00:16:08.870 And the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) also said: 00:16:08.870 --> 00:16:11.870 "By Allah, it is not poverty that I fear for you," 00:16:11.870 --> 00:16:14.870 "but I fear that the world will be spread out for you," 00:16:14.870 --> 00:16:17.870 "as it was spread out for those before you," 00:16:17.870 --> 00:16:20.870 "so you will compete for it as they competed for it," 00:16:20.870 --> 00:16:23.870 "and it will destroy you as it destroyed them." 00:16:23.870 --> 00:16:26.870 Agreed upon. 00:16:26.870 --> 00:16:30.100 Preferring the world over the Hereafter 00:16:30.100 --> 00:16:33.100 occurs by falling into the forbidden to obtain its pleasures, 00:16:33.100 --> 00:16:36.100 just as it occurs by causing one 00:16:36.100 --> 00:16:39.100 to slacken in the obligatory deeds of the Hereafter. 00:16:39.100 --> 00:16:42.190 Let the person know 00:16:42.190 --> 00:16:45.190 that there is a direct correlation today 00:16:45.190 --> 00:16:48.190 between increasing one's worldly affairs 00:16:48.190 --> 00:16:51.190 and frequently falling into doubts and desires. 00:16:51.190 --> 00:16:54.190 So let him be wary of that. 00:16:55.190 --> 00:16:59.090 How does a person know that he is 00:16:59.090 --> 00:17:02.090 preferring the world over the Hereafter? 00:17:02.090 --> 00:17:06.109 A person must look at his concern for the world, 00:17:06.109 --> 00:17:09.109 and the space it occupies within himself, 00:17:09.109 --> 00:17:12.109 his thinking, and his work, 00:17:12.109 --> 00:17:15.109 and his concern for the Hereafter and its deeds. 00:17:15.109 --> 00:17:18.109 If he finds that his concern for the world and his striving for it— 00:17:18.109 --> 00:17:21.109 from trade, employment, and so on— 00:17:21.109 --> 00:17:24.109 is greater than his concern for the Hereafter and striving for it, 00:17:24.109 --> 00:17:27.109 and this is the state of most people today, 00:17:27.109 --> 00:17:30.109 except those upon whom my Lord has mercy, 00:17:30.109 --> 00:17:33.109 then his world has overwhelmed his Hereafter, 00:17:33.109 --> 00:17:36.109 and he has preferred it over it. 00:17:36.109 --> 00:17:39.109 His heart has become diseased with the love of this fleeting world, 00:17:39.109 --> 00:17:42.109 and he is in great danger and a bitter, grave state. 00:17:42.109 --> 00:17:45.269 Let the person beware, 00:17:45.269 --> 00:17:48.269 especially those who call to Allah, 00:17:48.269 --> 00:17:51.269 against praying for expansion in worldly matters, 00:17:52.269 --> 00:17:55.269 for that is a difficult and dangerous path. 00:17:55.269 --> 00:17:58.269 And Allah knows best what is hidden. 00:17:58.269 --> 00:18:01.269 How many have we seen of those who delved into the world, 00:18:01.269 --> 00:18:04.269 and its waves carried them away, 00:18:04.269 --> 00:18:07.269 and they relied upon it, 00:18:07.269 --> 00:18:10.269 and Satan placed for them in every valley 00:18:10.269 --> 00:18:13.269 of its valleys a preoccupation and a concern. 00:18:13.269 --> 00:18:16.269 We ask Allah the Majestic for pardon and well-being, 00:18:16.269 --> 00:18:19.269 and that He grants us the concern for working for this religion, 00:18:19.269 --> 00:18:22.269 and supporting it, and calling to His path, 00:18:22.269 --> 00:18:25.269 thereby transcending the love of worldly desires 00:18:25.269 --> 00:18:28.269 in our souls. 00:18:28.269 --> 00:18:32.259 Hardness of the heart and the lack of its softness and humility. 00:18:32.259 --> 00:18:36.450 For the hardness of the heart and the lack of its softness, 00:18:36.450 --> 00:18:39.450 there are several causes. 00:18:39.450 --> 00:18:42.450 The primary cause is the weakness of knowledge of Allah (Mighty and Majestic is He), 00:18:42.450 --> 00:18:45.450 and His Beautiful Names, 00:18:45.450 --> 00:18:48.450 which results in a weakness of glorifying Allah the Exalted 00:18:48.450 --> 00:18:51.450 in the heart and a lack of fear of Him, 00:18:51.450 --> 00:18:54.450 (Glorified is He), and this results in 00:18:54.450 --> 00:18:57.450 all other diseases of the heart. 00:18:57.450 --> 00:19:00.450 Also, the heart being filled with the love of the world 00:19:00.450 --> 00:19:03.450 and its desires; for how is it possible 00:19:03.450 --> 00:19:06.450 for a heart scattered in the branches and valleys of the world 00:19:06.450 --> 00:19:09.450 to reflect, or to soften and humble itself 00:19:09.450 --> 00:19:12.480 before the majesty and greatness of Allah? 00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:15.480 If, in addition to the love of the world, there is an abundance of sins, 00:19:16.480 --> 00:19:19.480 the petrification of the heart becomes entrenched, 00:19:19.480 --> 00:19:22.480 as Allah the Exalted said: 00:19:22.480 --> 00:19:25.480 “Nay, but that which they have earned is rust upon their hearts.” (83:14) 00:19:25.480 --> 00:19:28.480 "what they used to earn." 00:19:28.480 --> 00:19:31.480 Meaning, their sins have covered and veiled their hearts. 00:19:31.480 --> 00:19:34.480 The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: 00:19:34.480 --> 00:19:37.480 "When the believer commits a sin," 00:19:37.480 --> 00:19:40.480 "a black dot appears on his heart." 00:19:40.480 --> 00:19:43.480 "If he repents, desists, and seeks forgiveness," 00:19:43.480 --> 00:19:46.480 "it is polished; but if he increases, it increases until it covers" 00:19:46.480 --> 00:19:49.480 "his heart, which is the 'ran' (rust) that Allah (Mighty and Majestic is He) mentioned" 00:19:49.480 --> 00:19:52.480 "in the Qur'an." 00:19:52.480 --> 00:19:55.480 Narrated by Ahmad and al-Tirmidhi, 00:19:55.480 --> 00:19:58.670 and authenticated by al-Albani. 00:19:58.670 --> 00:20:01.670 If the heart petrifies and humility departs from it, 00:20:01.670 --> 00:20:04.670 then perhaps only a false, hollow humility 00:20:04.670 --> 00:20:07.670 will appear on the body, 00:20:07.670 --> 00:20:10.700 which some of the salaf call the humility of hypocrisy, 00:20:11.700 --> 00:20:15.019 while the heart is not humble. 00:20:15.019 --> 00:20:18.019 The possessor of a hard, petrified heart 00:20:18.019 --> 00:20:21.019 is not benefited by verses or admonitions, 00:20:21.019 --> 00:20:24.019 and the saying of Allah the Exalted applies to him: 00:20:24.019 --> 00:20:27.019 "Then do they not reflect upon the Qur'an?" 00:20:27.019 --> 00:20:30.019 “Will they then not meditate on the Qur'an, or are there locks on the hearts?” (47:24) 00:20:30.019 --> 00:20:33.019 Nor are they deterred by calamities and trials, 00:20:33.019 --> 00:20:36.019 but rather he becomes one of those who turn away, 00:20:36.019 --> 00:20:39.019 as Allah the Exalted said: 00:20:39.019 --> 00:20:42.019 “How many a portent is there in the heavens and the earth which they pass by with face averted!” (12:105) 00:20:42.019 --> 00:20:45.019 "and they are turning away from it." 00:20:45.019 --> 00:20:48.890 Hidden Shirk and Riya' (showing off). 00:20:48.890 --> 00:20:52.559 Allah the Exalted says: 00:20:52.559 --> 00:20:55.559 “And most of them believe not in Allah except that they attribute partners (unto Him).” (12:106) 00:20:55.559 --> 00:20:58.559 "while they are polytheists." 00:20:58.559 --> 00:21:01.559 This verse, just as it applies to major Shirk 00:21:01.559 --> 00:21:04.559 that expels one from the fold of Islam, 00:21:04.559 --> 00:21:07.559 it also encompasses the hidden minor Shirk, 00:21:07.559 --> 00:21:10.559 from which many people are not free, 00:21:10.559 --> 00:21:13.559 as it creeps into their hearts 00:21:13.559 --> 00:21:16.559 without them noticing. 00:21:16.559 --> 00:21:19.559 It is more hidden to them than the crawling of an ant. 00:21:19.559 --> 00:21:22.559 Among them are those who associate with the power of Allah 00:21:22.559 --> 00:21:25.559 a cause among the causes, 00:21:25.559 --> 00:21:28.559 and those who associate with the hope in Allah 00:21:28.559 --> 00:21:31.559 attachment to others among His servants, 00:21:31.559 --> 00:21:34.559 even while striving in the path of Allah, 00:21:34.559 --> 00:21:37.559 as Allah the Exalted said to the Companions on the day of Uhud: 00:21:37.559 --> 00:21:40.559 “Allah verily made good His promise unto you when ye routed them by His leave, until (the moment) when your courage failed you, and ye disagreed about the order and ye disobeyed, after He had shown you that for which ye long. Some of you desired the world, and some of you desired the Hereafter. Therefore He made you flee from them, that He might try you. Yet now He hath forgiven you. Allah is a Lord of Kindness to believers.” (3:152) 00:21:40.559 --> 00:21:43.619 And the most emphasized type of minor Shirk, 00:21:43.619 --> 00:21:46.619 the hidden one, and the most dangerous, 00:21:46.619 --> 00:21:49.619 is Riya' (showing off). 00:21:49.619 --> 00:21:52.619 This is as the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: 00:21:52.619 --> 00:21:55.660 "The thing I fear most for you is minor Shirk." 00:21:55.660 --> 00:21:58.660 They said: "O Messenger of Allah," 00:21:58.660 --> 00:22:01.660 "what is minor Shirk?" 00:22:01.660 --> 00:22:04.660 "It is that Allah says on the day He rewards the servants" 00:22:04.660 --> 00:22:07.660 "for their deeds:" 00:22:07.660 --> 00:22:10.660 "Go to those whom you used to show off to" 00:22:10.660 --> 00:22:13.660 "with your deeds in the world," 00:22:13.660 --> 00:22:16.720 "and see if you find any reward with them." 00:22:16.720 --> 00:22:19.720 It is sufficient regarding the danger of Riya' 00:22:19.720 --> 00:22:22.720 that it nullifies the deed, as in the previous 00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:25.720 hadith, 00:22:25.720 --> 00:22:28.720 and as in the Qudsi hadith also: 00:22:28.720 --> 00:22:31.720 "Whoever performs a deed in which he associates someone else with Me," 00:22:31.720 --> 00:22:34.779 "I leave him and his Shirk." 00:22:34.779 --> 00:22:37.779 The harms of desiring the world 00:22:37.779 --> 00:22:40.779 through the deeds of the Hereafter are not limited to nullifying the reward of the deed 00:22:40.779 --> 00:22:43.779 on the Day of Resurrection, 00:22:43.779 --> 00:22:46.779 but it is also a cause for the loss of the world 00:22:46.779 --> 00:22:49.779 at the level of the Ummah as well, 00:22:49.779 --> 00:22:52.779 for if some believers make the world 00:22:52.779 --> 00:22:55.779 the primary director of their actions, 00:22:56.779 --> 00:22:59.779 as happened on the day of Uhud, 00:23:09.779 --> 00:23:12.779 “Allah verily made good His promise unto you when ye routed them by His leave, until (the moment) when your courage failed you, and ye disagreed about the order and ye disobeyed, after He had shown you that for which ye long. Some of you desired the world, and some of you desired the Hereafter. Therefore He made you flee from them, that He might try you. Yet now He hath forgiven you. Allah is a Lord of Kindness to believers.” (3:152) 00:23:12.779 --> 00:23:15.779 “Allah verily made good His promise unto you when ye routed them by His leave, until (the moment) when your courage failed you, and ye disagreed about the order and ye disobeyed, after He had shown you that for which ye long. Some of you desired the world, and some of you desired the Hereafter. Therefore He made you flee from them, that He might try you. Yet now He hath forgiven you. Allah is a Lord of Kindness to believers.” (3:152) 00:23:23.410 --> 00:23:26.410 although it precedes it, 00:23:26.410 --> 00:23:29.410 and is a cause of it. 00:23:29.410 --> 00:23:32.410 'Ujb (self-admiration) is to see that you possess something others do not, 00:23:32.410 --> 00:23:35.410 which causes you to despise 00:23:35.410 --> 00:23:38.410 those you consider beneath you, 00:23:38.410 --> 00:23:41.410 and to be arrogant toward them. 00:23:41.410 --> 00:23:44.410 'Ujb is based on looking 00:23:44.410 --> 00:23:47.410 at the self and its characteristics, 00:23:47.410 --> 00:23:50.410 and it is a grave disease of the heart, 00:23:50.410 --> 00:23:53.410 While arrogance involves looking down upon people, 00:23:56.039 --> 00:23:59.549 self-admiration in worship 00:23:59.549 --> 00:24:02.549 may lead one to overestimate one's deeds and eventually abandon them, 00:24:02.549 --> 00:24:05.549 being content with what has been achieved of them, 00:24:05.549 --> 00:24:08.549 and it may even nullify them entirely. 00:24:08.549 --> 00:24:11.549 Al-Hasan said regarding the interpretation of the words of Allah the Exalted: 00:24:11.549 --> 00:24:14.549 ﴾And do not confer favor to acquire more﴿ 00:24:14.549 --> 00:24:17.549 meaning: do not consider your deed a favor to your Lord in order to seek more. 00:24:17.549 --> 00:24:20.549 This is the view favored by al-Tabari in his Tafsir. 00:24:20.549 --> 00:24:23.549 Mutarrif Ibn 'Abdullah said: 00:24:23.549 --> 00:24:26.549 "That I spend the night sleeping and wake up regretful 00:24:26.549 --> 00:24:29.549 is more beloved to me than that I spend the night standing in prayer 00:24:29.549 --> 00:24:32.549 and wake up feeling self-admiring." 00:24:32.549 --> 00:24:35.549 He is pointing here to the danger of 00:24:35.549 --> 00:24:38.549 a person’s self-admiration regarding their own self and deeds. 00:24:38.549 --> 00:24:42.420 The difference between self-admiration and joy 00:24:42.420 --> 00:24:45.960 in a good deed is that one should 00:24:45.960 --> 00:24:48.960 not confuse the joy 00:24:48.960 --> 00:24:51.960 of one's good deed and obedience with self-admiration for it. 00:24:51.960 --> 00:24:54.960 For the believer’s joy in their good deed 00:24:54.960 --> 00:24:57.960 is merely joy at Allah’s granting them the success to perform it, 00:24:57.960 --> 00:25:00.960 rejoicing in its reward, 00:25:00.960 --> 00:25:03.960 and hoping for it from Allah. 00:25:03.960 --> 00:25:06.960 The Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said: 00:25:06.960 --> 00:25:09.960 "Whoever is gladdened by his good deed and saddened by his evil deed, 00:25:09.960 --> 00:25:12.960 that is the believer." 00:25:12.960 --> 00:25:15.960 Narrated by al-Tirmidhi and authenticated by al-Albani. 00:25:15.960 --> 00:25:19.059 As for self-admiration, 00:25:19.059 --> 00:25:22.059 one is deluded by one's self and relies upon it, 00:25:22.059 --> 00:25:25.059 and prides oneself on the good deed, believing that one 00:25:25.059 --> 00:25:29.049 deserves the credit for performing it. 00:25:29.049 --> 00:25:32.049 Protection from self-admiration and its cure: 00:25:32.049 --> 00:25:35.819 Self-admiration is a hidden disease 00:25:35.819 --> 00:25:38.819 that may secretly seep into the soul. 00:25:38.819 --> 00:25:41.819 Therefore, one must seek protection from it through the following: 00:25:41.819 --> 00:25:44.819 First, to be constantly 00:25:44.819 --> 00:25:47.819 remembering and acknowledging Allah’s favor upon oneself, 00:25:47.819 --> 00:25:50.819 while knowing one's own shortcomings toward one's Lord, 00:25:50.819 --> 00:25:53.819 and failing to give Him His due of gratitude 00:25:53.819 --> 00:25:56.819 and worship, no matter what one does. 00:25:56.819 --> 00:25:59.819 And that if one were left to one's own self for even the blink of an eye, 00:25:59.819 --> 00:26:02.980 one would go astray and be lost. 00:26:02.980 --> 00:26:05.980 Second, to remember one's sins 00:26:05.980 --> 00:26:08.980 and faults, and forget one's good deeds and acts of obedience. 00:26:08.980 --> 00:26:11.980 So do not be deluded by the strength of your faith 00:26:11.980 --> 00:26:14.980 or the abundance of your deeds. 00:26:14.980 --> 00:26:17.980 Third, to look at those whom one considers oneself better than, 00:26:17.980 --> 00:26:21.039 realizing that they may possess hidden 00:26:21.039 --> 00:26:24.039 righteous deeds that one does not know of, 00:26:24.039 --> 00:26:27.329 but which Allah knows. 00:26:27.329 --> 00:26:30.329 And that these deeds may be greater and more significant 00:26:30.329 --> 00:26:33.329 than what one does, or that the person one deems 00:26:33.329 --> 00:26:36.329 inferior to oneself 00:26:36.329 --> 00:26:39.329 may be looking at their own self 00:26:39.329 --> 00:26:42.329 and forgetting their own good deeds. 00:26:43.329 --> 00:26:46.329 Or that the person one deems inferior 00:26:46.329 --> 00:26:49.329 may indeed not perform as many righteous deeds as one does, 00:26:49.329 --> 00:26:52.329 but they excel in performing their deeds, 00:26:52.329 --> 00:26:55.329 and are sincere in them with a sincerity 00:26:55.329 --> 00:26:58.579 that the self-admiring person lacks. 00:26:58.579 --> 00:27:01.579 Fourth, to remember that 00:27:01.579 --> 00:27:04.579 one's self-admiration for one's deed may nullify it, 00:27:04.579 --> 00:27:07.579 so that on the Day of Resurrection, it becomes scattered dust, 00:27:07.579 --> 00:27:11.259 at the very moment one is most in need of it. 00:27:11.259 --> 00:27:14.930 Envy is hating the blessing of Allah upon others 00:27:14.930 --> 00:27:17.930 and wishing for its removal. 00:27:17.930 --> 00:27:20.930 It is a chronic heart disease 00:27:20.930 --> 00:27:23.930 that afflicts many people. 00:27:23.930 --> 00:27:26.930 Its reality 00:27:26.930 --> 00:27:29.930 is objecting to the decree of Allah the Almighty 00:27:29.930 --> 00:27:33.089 and His wisdom in giving and withholding. 00:27:33.089 --> 00:27:36.089 So one must be wary of being among the envious without realizing it, 00:27:36.089 --> 00:27:39.089 and must struggle against one's self in this with the utmost effort. 00:27:39.089 --> 00:27:42.089 One should arm oneself with faith 00:27:42.089 --> 00:27:45.089 in the decree of Allah and His wisdom, 00:27:45.089 --> 00:27:48.089 to repel any feeling of grief 00:27:48.089 --> 00:27:51.089 or constriction of the heart from Allah’s bestowing 00:27:51.089 --> 00:27:54.089 a blessing upon others, 00:27:54.089 --> 00:27:57.089 or feeling joy at its removal from them. 00:27:57.089 --> 00:28:00.089 Instead, one should strive to feel joy and relief 00:28:00.089 --> 00:28:03.089 for Allah’s bestowing of blessings upon other Muslims, 00:28:03.089 --> 00:28:06.089 whether they are people one knows or not, 00:28:06.089 --> 00:28:09.089 peers, superiors, or subordinates. 00:28:09.089 --> 00:28:13.140 Causes and motives of envy: 00:28:13.140 --> 00:28:17.200 A person falls into envying others 00:28:17.200 --> 00:28:20.200 for one or more of the following reasons: 00:28:20.200 --> 00:28:23.299 First, prior enmity 00:28:23.299 --> 00:28:26.460 toward the envied person and hatred for them. 00:28:26.460 --> 00:28:29.460 Second, the envious person’s disdain for the 00:28:29.460 --> 00:28:32.460 envied person rising above them in worldly matters or religion. 00:28:32.460 --> 00:28:35.549 Third, the love of leadership, 00:28:35.549 --> 00:28:38.549 seeking status and praise, 00:28:38.549 --> 00:28:41.549 or arrogance and contempt for others, 00:28:41.549 --> 00:28:44.549 and the desire for them to always be 00:28:44.549 --> 00:28:47.549 submissive and followers of oneself. 00:28:47.549 --> 00:28:50.549 So if one of them receives a blessing, he envies them, 00:28:50.549 --> 00:28:53.779 fearing that he might lose their subservience to him. 00:28:53.779 --> 00:28:56.779 Fourth, that the envied person is a peer 00:28:56.779 --> 00:28:59.779 to the envious person in a worldly matter 00:28:59.779 --> 00:29:02.940 or religious matter, so he envies him if he surpasses him in it. 00:29:03.940 --> 00:29:06.940 Competition to attain a specific interest, 00:29:06.940 --> 00:29:09.940 such as a job or an award, 00:29:09.940 --> 00:29:12.940 leads one to envy a competitor for any blessing 00:29:12.940 --> 00:29:15.940 that might help them attain the interest instead of oneself. 00:29:18.130 --> 00:29:21.130 That one’s own nature is inherently malicious, 00:29:21.130 --> 00:29:24.130 stingy with goodness toward the servants of Allah, 00:29:24.130 --> 00:29:27.259 and joyful at misfortunes befalling them. 00:29:27.259 --> 00:29:30.259 So one should be careful not to let 00:29:31.259 --> 00:29:34.259 envy harm the envious person before anyone else. 00:29:34.259 --> 00:29:38.220 Envy bears no fruit in the heart of the envious 00:29:38.220 --> 00:29:42.079 except malice, hatred, and resentment 00:29:42.079 --> 00:29:45.079 toward the one they envy. 00:29:45.079 --> 00:29:48.079 All of this weakens the heart of the envious person, 00:29:48.079 --> 00:29:51.079 afflicts them with anxiety and turmoil, 00:29:51.079 --> 00:29:54.079 and distances them from the reality of faith in Allah. 00:29:54.079 --> 00:29:57.079 Unlike the possessor of a sound heart, 00:29:57.079 --> 00:30:00.079 who is free from envy and other ailments, 00:30:00.079 --> 00:30:03.079 you find them calm in spirit and tranquil in heart, 00:30:03.079 --> 00:30:06.079 content with the decrees of Allah, 00:30:06.079 --> 00:30:09.079 loving goodness for all Muslims, 00:30:09.079 --> 00:30:12.079 and Allah knows that from their heart, 00:30:12.079 --> 00:30:15.079 so He rewards them for it with bliss and serenity 00:30:15.079 --> 00:30:18.079 in this world, and loftiness and high status 00:30:18.079 --> 00:30:22.809 in the Hereafter. 00:30:22.809 --> 00:30:25.809 How does the envious person treat their own self for this chronic disease? 00:30:25.809 --> 00:30:29.380 In order for the envious person to rid themselves 00:30:29.380 --> 00:30:32.380 of this chronic disease, 00:30:32.380 --> 00:30:35.380 they must follow two paths: 00:30:35.380 --> 00:30:38.480 one theoretical and the other practical. 00:30:38.480 --> 00:30:41.480 As for the theoretical path, 00:30:41.480 --> 00:30:44.480 it is to learn and understand the meaning of divine decree and predestination 00:30:44.480 --> 00:30:47.480 with true knowledge and understanding, 00:30:47.480 --> 00:30:50.480 and to delve deep into understanding the Beautiful Names of Allah 00:30:50.480 --> 00:30:53.480 and His Exalted Attributes related to this subject, 00:30:53.480 --> 00:30:56.480 such as the All-Powerful, the All-Knowing, and the All-Wise. 00:30:56.480 --> 00:30:59.480 The reality of Allah’s power and His effective will 00:30:59.480 --> 00:31:02.480 in giving and withholding, 00:31:02.480 --> 00:31:05.480 and His perfect knowledge of what every human deserves, 00:31:05.480 --> 00:31:08.480 and His profound wisdom in that matter. 00:31:08.480 --> 00:31:11.609 As for the practical path, 00:31:11.609 --> 00:31:14.609 it is to treat one’s desire for envy 00:31:14.609 --> 00:31:17.609 with beneficial action, 00:31:17.609 --> 00:31:20.609 by tasking oneself with the opposite of one’s intent. 00:31:20.609 --> 00:31:23.609 If envy drives one to desire to disparage the envied person, 00:31:23.609 --> 00:31:26.609 one should strive to praise and commend them 00:31:26.609 --> 00:31:29.609 instead of disparaging and criticizing them. 00:31:29.609 --> 00:31:32.609 And if one finds arrogance in one’s self, 00:31:32.609 --> 00:31:35.609 one should compel it to be humble and pray for the one they envied, 00:31:35.609 --> 00:31:38.609 and exert efforts to bring goodness 00:31:38.609 --> 00:31:43.240 to them and repel evil. 00:31:43.240 --> 00:31:47.420 Thinking ill of Allah: 00:31:47.420 --> 00:31:50.420 Thinking ill of Allah is a dangerous heart disease, 00:31:50.420 --> 00:31:53.420 and it is originally a trait of the polytheists and the hypocrites, 00:31:53.420 --> 00:31:56.420 as the Almighty said: 00:31:56.420 --> 00:31:59.420 ﴾And [that He may] punish the hypocrite men and hypocrite women, 00:31:59.420 --> 00:32:02.420 and the polytheist men and polytheist women 00:32:02.420 --> 00:32:05.420 who assume an assumption of evil about Allah.﴿ 00:32:05.420 --> 00:32:08.420 “And may punish the hypocritical men and the hypocritical women, and the idolatrous men and the idolatrous women, who think an evil thought concerning Allah. For them is the evil turn of fortune, and Allah is wroth against them and hath cursed them, and hath made ready for them hell, a hapless journey's end.” (48:6) 00:32:08.420 --> 00:32:11.420 “And may punish the hypocritical men and the hypocritical women, and the idolatrous men and the idolatrous women, who think an evil thought concerning Allah. For them is the evil turn of fortune, and Allah is wroth against them and hath cursed them, and hath made ready for them hell, a hapless journey's end.” (48:6) 00:32:11.420 --> 00:32:14.420 “And may punish the hypocritical men and the hypocritical women, and the idolatrous men and the idolatrous women, who think an evil thought concerning Allah. For them is the evil turn of fortune, and Allah is wroth against them and hath cursed them, and hath made ready for them hell, a hapless journey's end.” (48:6) 00:32:14.420 --> 00:32:17.519 And evil is their destination. 00:32:17.519 --> 00:32:20.519 Those who follow them in this disease are also included, 00:32:21.519 --> 00:32:24.519 as they fall under the generality of His saying: 00:32:40.519 --> 00:32:43.519 “That, your thought which ye did think about your Lord, hath ruined you; and ye find yourselves (this day) among the lost.” (41:23) 00:32:43.519 --> 00:32:46.519 ﴾...about your Lord has brought you to ruin, 00:32:46.519 --> 00:32:49.549 and you have become among the losers.﴿ 00:32:49.549 --> 00:32:52.549 The people of innovation are also considered among those who think 00:32:52.549 --> 00:32:55.549 ill of their Lord, as will become clear 00:32:55.549 --> 00:32:58.549 in the forms of thinking ill of Allah the Exalted. 00:32:58.549 --> 00:33:02.509 The cause of thinking ill of Allah: 00:33:02.509 --> 00:33:06.470 No one falls into thinking ill 00:33:06.470 --> 00:33:09.470 of Allah except due to a severed connection 00:33:09.470 --> 00:33:12.470 of their heart to Him, the Glorified, and a lack 00:33:12.470 --> 00:33:15.470 of true knowledge of their Lord, 00:33:15.470 --> 00:33:18.470 the Glorified, and His Beautiful Names, 00:33:18.470 --> 00:33:21.470 and what they necessitate of love for Him, the Almighty, 00:33:21.470 --> 00:33:24.470 contentment with Him and His decree, 00:33:24.470 --> 00:33:27.470 and fear and hope in Him. 00:33:27.470 --> 00:33:30.470 And a lack of realization of the value of constantly thinking well 00:33:30.470 --> 00:33:33.470 of Allah in times of ease and hardship, 00:33:33.470 --> 00:33:36.470 and in all matters. 00:33:36.470 --> 00:33:39.470 Allah the Almighty said in the Hadith Qudsi: 00:33:39.470 --> 00:33:42.470 "I am as My servant thinks of Me." 00:33:42.470 --> 00:33:45.470 Narrated by al-Bukhari and Muslim. 00:33:45.470 --> 00:33:48.470 Ibn Hibban added at the end: 00:33:48.470 --> 00:33:51.470 "So let him think of Me whatever he wishes." 00:33:51.470 --> 00:33:54.470 But this is from the narration of Wathilah Ibn al-Asqa', may Allah be pleased with him. 00:33:54.470 --> 00:33:57.470 Narrated by Ibn Hibban 00:33:57.470 --> 00:34:00.569 and authenticated by al-Albani. 00:34:00.569 --> 00:34:03.569 The one who thinks ill of his Lord has his heart attached 00:34:03.569 --> 00:34:06.569 only to the outward appearances of things, 00:34:06.569 --> 00:34:09.570 and builds his judgments upon them, 00:34:09.570 --> 00:34:12.570 so he expects evil and harm 00:34:12.570 --> 00:34:15.570 without reliance on the ways of Allah the Exalted, 00:34:15.570 --> 00:34:18.570 nor trust in His decree and His power, the Glorified, 00:34:18.570 --> 00:34:21.570 and His hidden, subtle management. 00:34:21.570 --> 00:34:26.260 Most of creation think ill of their Lord. 00:34:26.260 --> 00:34:29.840 Most of creation, 00:34:29.840 --> 00:34:32.840 except those whom Allah wills, 00:34:32.840 --> 00:34:35.840 “Then, after grief, He sent down security for you. As slumber did it overcome a party of you, while (the other) party, who were anxious on their own account, thought wrongly of Allah, the thought of ignorance. They said: Have we any part in the cause? Say (O Muhammad): The cause belongeth wholly to Allah. They hide within themselves (a thought) which they reveal not unto thee, saying: Had we had any part in the cause we should not have been slain here. Say: Even though ye had been in your houses, those appointed to be slain would have gone forth to the places where they were to lie. (All this hath been) in order that Allah might try what is in your breasts and prove what is in your hearts. Allah is Aware of what is hidden in the breasts (of men).” (3:154) 00:34:35.840 --> 00:34:38.840 think thoughts of evil and ignorance. 00:34:38.840 --> 00:34:41.840 For many of the children of Adam believe that they have been denied their rights, 00:34:41.840 --> 00:34:44.840 and that they deserve more than what Allah has given them, 00:34:44.840 --> 00:34:47.840 And his inner state declares: 00:34:47.840 --> 00:34:50.840 "My Lord has wronged me and withheld my due," 00:34:50.840 --> 00:34:53.840 while his own soul bears witness against him in that, 00:34:53.840 --> 00:34:56.840 even if his tongue denies it and he dares not 00:34:56.840 --> 00:34:59.869 openly express it. 00:34:59.869 --> 00:35:02.869 None is safe from this except one who has truly known Allah, 00:35:02.869 --> 00:35:05.869 and has understood the meanings of His Beautiful Names 00:35:05.869 --> 00:35:08.869 and His Exalted Attributes with precise and sound understanding. 00:35:09.869 --> 00:35:14.119 Among the forms of thinking ill of Allah 00:35:14.119 --> 00:35:18.139 is any thought that does not befit Allah the Exalted, 00:35:18.139 --> 00:35:21.139 His wisdom, His mercy, His knowledge, His justice, 00:35:21.139 --> 00:35:24.139 and His truthful promise which He does not break; 00:35:24.139 --> 00:35:27.139 for all of that is thinking ill of Allah 00:35:27.139 --> 00:35:30.139 and an affront to His Beautiful Names and Exalted Attributes. 00:35:30.139 --> 00:35:33.139 There are several forms of this, 00:35:33.139 --> 00:35:36.139 the first of which is: 00:35:36.139 --> 00:35:39.139 Despairing of the mercy of Allah and losing hope in His relief 00:35:39.139 --> 00:35:42.139 is thinking ill of Allah the Exalted. 00:35:42.139 --> 00:35:45.340 Second: 00:35:45.340 --> 00:35:48.340 Pessimism is thinking ill of Allah, 00:35:48.340 --> 00:35:51.659 just as optimism is thinking well of Allah the Exalted. 00:35:51.659 --> 00:35:54.690 Third: 00:35:54.690 --> 00:35:57.690 Thinking that Allah has left His creation to no purpose, 00:35:57.690 --> 00:36:00.690 idle, without command or prohibition, 00:36:00.690 --> 00:36:03.690 having sent them no messengers and revealed to them no books, 00:36:03.690 --> 00:36:06.690 but rather left them neglected like cattle, 00:36:07.690 --> 00:36:10.690 then death without resurrection or reckoning; 00:36:10.690 --> 00:36:13.690 all of this is thinking ill of Allah the Almighty. 00:36:13.690 --> 00:36:16.690 This is the claim of the Dahriyyah (materialists) who say: 00:36:16.690 --> 00:36:19.690 “And they say: There is naught but our life of the world; we die and we live, and naught destroyeth us save time; when they have no knowledge whatsoever of (all) that; they do but guess.” (45:24) 00:36:19.690 --> 00:36:22.690 “And they say: There is naught but our life of the world; we die and we live, and naught destroyeth us save time; when they have no knowledge whatsoever of (all) that; they do but guess.” (45:24) 00:36:22.690 --> 00:36:25.690 "It is only time [that destroys us]." 00:36:25.690 --> 00:36:28.690 They have no knowledge of that; they are 00:36:28.690 --> 00:36:31.719 only guessing. 00:36:31.719 --> 00:36:34.719 Fourth: Thinking that Allah will not grant victory 00:36:34.719 --> 00:36:37.719 to His Messenger and His believing servants, 00:36:37.719 --> 00:36:40.719 nor support His party, 00:36:40.719 --> 00:36:43.719 nor exalt them over their enemy; 00:36:43.719 --> 00:36:46.719 all of this is thinking ill of Allah the Exalted. 00:36:46.719 --> 00:36:49.719 For Allah the Almighty has said: 00:36:49.719 --> 00:36:52.719 “And verily Our word went forth of old unto Our bondmen sent (to warn)” (37:171) 00:36:52.719 --> 00:36:55.719 "Indeed, it is they who will be the victors," 00:36:55.719 --> 00:36:58.719 “And that Our host, they verily would be the victors.” (37:173) 00:36:58.719 --> 00:37:01.719 and other such verses. 00:37:02.719 --> 00:37:04.750 Fifth: 00:37:04.750 --> 00:37:07.750 Denying or being ignorant of the fact that whatever Allah decrees 00:37:07.750 --> 00:37:10.750 for His allies in terms of trials or afflictions 00:37:10.750 --> 00:37:13.750 is only for a profound wisdom, 00:37:13.750 --> 00:37:16.750 a praiseworthy end, and a good outcome; 00:37:16.750 --> 00:37:19.750 and claiming that their affliction 00:37:19.750 --> 00:37:22.750 is a will devoid of wisdom, 00:37:22.750 --> 00:37:25.750 and an inevitable decree that does not change; 00:37:25.750 --> 00:37:29.070 that is thinking ill of Allah. 00:37:29.070 --> 00:37:32.070 Sixth: Thinking that it is possible for Allah 00:37:32.070 --> 00:37:35.070 to punish His allies despite their righteousness 00:37:35.070 --> 00:37:38.070 and their sincerity, and that He treats them 00:37:38.070 --> 00:37:41.230 the same as He treats His enemies. 00:37:41.230 --> 00:37:44.230 Seventh: Thinking that Allah loves disbelief, 00:37:44.230 --> 00:37:47.230 wickedness, and disobedience, and is pleased with them, 00:37:47.230 --> 00:37:50.230 just as He loves faith, righteousness, and obedience, 00:37:50.230 --> 00:37:53.230 based on the claim that Allah 00:37:53.230 --> 00:37:56.230 is the Creator of all that, so He must desire it; 00:37:56.230 --> 00:37:59.230 yet Allah, glory be to Him, says: 00:37:59.230 --> 00:38:02.230 “If ye are thankless, yet Allah is Independent of you, though He is not pleased with thanklessness for His bondmen; and if ye are thankful He is pleased therewith for you. No laden soul will bear another's load. Then unto your Lord is your return; and He will tell you what ye used to do. Lo! He knoweth what is in the breasts (of men).” (39:7) 00:38:02.230 --> 00:38:05.230 “If ye are thankless, yet Allah is Independent of you, though He is not pleased with thanklessness for His bondmen; and if ye are thankful He is pleased therewith for you. No laden soul will bear another's load. Then unto your Lord is your return; and He will tell you what ye used to do. Lo! He knoweth what is in the breasts (of men).” (39:7) 00:38:05.230 --> 00:38:08.230 “If ye are thankless, yet Allah is Independent of you, though He is not pleased with thanklessness for His bondmen; and if ye are thankful He is pleased therewith for you. No laden soul will bear another's load. Then unto your Lord is your return; and He will tell you what ye used to do. Lo! He knoweth what is in the breasts (of men).” (39:7) 00:38:08.230 --> 00:38:11.360 Eighth: Thinking that what is with Allah 00:38:11.360 --> 00:38:14.360 can be attained through His disobedience and opposition, 00:38:14.360 --> 00:38:17.360 just as it is attained through His obedience 00:38:17.360 --> 00:38:20.550 and drawing near to Him. 00:38:20.550 --> 00:38:23.550 Ninth: Thinking that Allah punishes a person 00:38:23.550 --> 00:38:26.550 for what they had no part in. 00:38:27.550 --> 00:38:30.679 Tenth: Thinking that Allah 00:38:30.679 --> 00:38:33.679 might waste a person's righteous deed 00:38:33.679 --> 00:38:36.679 in which they sincerely sought His Face, glory be to Him, 00:38:36.679 --> 00:38:39.679 and that He might nullify it 00:38:39.679 --> 00:38:42.679 without any cause from the servant, 00:38:42.679 --> 00:38:45.679 while Allah, glory be to Him, says: 00:38:45.679 --> 00:38:48.679 “Thus We have appointed you a middle nation, that ye may be witnesses against mankind, and that the messenger may be a witness against you. And We appointed the qiblah which ye formerly observed only that We might know him who followeth the messenger, from him who turneth on his heels. In truth it was a hard (test) save for those whom Allah guided. But it was not Allah's purpose that your faith should be in vain, for Allah is Full of Pity, Merciful toward mankind.” (2:143) 00:38:48.679 --> 00:38:51.679 "Indeed, Allah is, to the people, Kind and Merciful." 00:38:51.679 --> 00:38:54.969 Eleventh: Thinking that if a person 00:38:54.969 --> 00:38:57.969 leaves something for the sake of Allah, 00:38:57.969 --> 00:39:01.099 Allah will not compensate them with something better. 00:39:01.099 --> 00:39:04.099 Twelfth: Whoever thinks that 00:39:04.099 --> 00:39:07.099 there occurs in the dominion of Allah what He does not will, 00:39:07.099 --> 00:39:10.099 or that He is unable to bring it into existence, 00:39:10.099 --> 00:39:13.349 has thought ill of Allah. 00:39:13.349 --> 00:39:16.349 Thirteenth: Whoever thinks that Allah has 00:39:16.349 --> 00:39:19.349 a consort, a child, or a partner, 00:39:19.349 --> 00:39:22.349 or that anyone intercedes with Him without His permission, 00:39:22.349 --> 00:39:25.349 or that there are intermediaries between Allah and His creation 00:39:25.349 --> 00:39:28.349 who raise their needs to Him, 00:39:28.349 --> 00:39:31.349 and that they are His allies to the exclusion of other people, 00:39:31.349 --> 00:39:34.349 and that people draw near and seek them as a means 00:39:34.349 --> 00:39:37.349 to Him, glory be to Him; 00:39:37.349 --> 00:39:40.670 all of this is thinking ill of Allah, glory be to Him. 00:39:40.670 --> 00:39:43.739 Fourteenth: Whoever thinks that 00:39:43.739 --> 00:39:46.739 Allah informed about Himself, 00:39:46.739 --> 00:39:49.739 or His Messenger informed about Him, in a way that is merely apparent, 00:39:50.739 --> 00:39:53.739 and that He abandoned the truth regarding His attributes 00:39:53.739 --> 00:39:56.739 and did not state it clearly, 00:39:56.739 --> 00:39:59.739 but rather hinted at it with remote symbols 00:39:59.739 --> 00:40:02.739 that only the philosophers and the theologians understand, 00:40:02.739 --> 00:40:05.739 according to their claim—whoever thinks this thought 00:40:05.739 --> 00:40:08.739 has stripped Allah’s Beautiful Names and Exalted Attributes 00:40:08.739 --> 00:40:11.739 of their reality and the meaning intended by them, 00:40:11.739 --> 00:40:14.739 and has thought ill of Allah the Exalted. 00:40:14.739 --> 00:40:17.800 It has appeared among the innovators 00:40:17.800 --> 00:40:20.800 those who claim that Allah does not love, nor is He pleased, 00:40:20.800 --> 00:40:23.800 nor does He become angry, nor is He displeased, 00:40:23.800 --> 00:40:26.800 nor does He befriend, nor does He show enmity, 00:40:26.800 --> 00:40:29.800 and so on. 00:40:29.800 --> 00:40:32.800 Exalted is Allah above what they say. 00:40:32.800 --> 00:40:35.800 So everyone who thinks of Allah 00:40:35.800 --> 00:40:38.800 contrary to what He has described Himself with, 00:40:38.800 --> 00:40:41.800 and what His Messenger (peace be upon him) has described Him with, 00:40:41.800 --> 00:40:44.800 or strips the realities of what He has described Himself with, 00:40:44.800 --> 00:40:47.800 and what His Messenger (peace be upon him) has described Him with, 00:40:47.800 --> 00:40:50.800 has thought ill of their Lord. 00:40:50.800 --> 00:40:54.179 Fifteenth: 00:40:54.179 --> 00:40:57.179 Among the innovators who think ill 00:40:57.179 --> 00:41:00.179 of their Lord are the Shia Rawafid; 00:41:00.179 --> 00:41:03.179 for all of their beliefs 00:41:03.179 --> 00:41:06.179 are thinking ill of Allah the Almighty, 00:41:06.179 --> 00:41:09.179 such as their claim that most of the Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) 00:41:09.179 --> 00:41:12.179 conspired against the Messenger of Allah 00:41:12.179 --> 00:41:15.179 (peace be upon him) during his lifetime, 00:41:15.179 --> 00:41:18.179 and usurped the authority after his death 00:41:18.179 --> 00:41:21.179 instead of his successor, Ali Ibn Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him), 00:41:21.179 --> 00:41:24.179 as they claim, 00:41:24.179 --> 00:41:27.179 and wronged the family of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him), 00:41:27.179 --> 00:41:30.179 and deprived them of their rights; 00:41:30.179 --> 00:41:33.179 all of this is a fabrication against Allah, 00:41:33.179 --> 00:41:36.179 His Messenger, and His noble Companions, 00:41:36.179 --> 00:41:39.179 about whom Allah said: 00:41:40.179 --> 00:41:43.179 "And those with him are forceful..." 00:41:43.179 --> 00:41:46.179 “Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. And those with him are hard against the disbelievers and merciful among themselves. Thou (O Muhammad) seest them bowing and falling prostrate (in worship), seeking bounty from Allah and (His) acceptance. The mark of them is on their foreheads from the traces of prostration. Such is their likeness in the Torah and their likeness in the Gospel - like as sown corn that sendeth forth its shoot and strengtheneth it and riseth firm upon its stalk, delighting the sowers - that He may enrage the disbelievers with (the sight of) them. Allah hath promised, unto such of them as believe and do good works, forgiveness and immense reward.” (48:29) 00:41:46.179 --> 00:41:49.179 "You see them bowing and prostrating [in prayer], 00:41:49.179 --> 00:41:52.179 seeking bounty from Allah and [His] pleasure." 00:41:52.179 --> 00:41:55.179 And He said at the end of the verse: 00:41:55.179 --> 00:41:58.179 "Allah has promised those who believe..." 00:41:58.179 --> 00:42:01.179 “Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. And those with him are hard against the disbelievers and merciful among themselves. Thou (O Muhammad) seest them bowing and falling prostrate (in worship), seeking bounty from Allah and (His) acceptance. The mark of them is on their foreheads from the traces of prostration. Such is their likeness in the Torah and their likeness in the Gospel - like as sown corn that sendeth forth its shoot and strengtheneth it and riseth firm upon its stalk, delighting the sowers - that He may enrage the disbelievers with (the sight of) them. Allah hath promised, unto such of them as believe and do good works, forgiveness and immense reward.” (48:29) 00:42:01.179 --> 00:42:04.179 "...and a great reward." 00:42:04.179 --> 00:42:07.179 And they take a portion of the verse 00:42:08.179 --> 00:42:11.179 so that the innovators may cling to it, 00:42:11.179 --> 00:42:14.179 but the intent is to clarify that this forgiveness 00:42:14.179 --> 00:42:17.179 and that great reward 00:42:17.179 --> 00:42:20.179 are for the Companions to the exclusion of all other believers; 00:42:20.179 --> 00:42:23.179 their reward is not like the reward of others, 00:42:23.179 --> 00:42:26.179 and Allah’s forgiveness for them exceeds His forgiveness 00:42:26.179 --> 00:42:29.340 for anyone else. 00:42:29.340 --> 00:42:32.340 And among their thinking ill of their Lord 00:42:32.340 --> 00:42:35.340 is their slanderous fabrication against the Mother of the Believers, Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her), 00:42:35.340 --> 00:42:38.340 thereby belying 00:42:38.340 --> 00:42:41.340 Allah the Exalted’s exoneration of her, 00:42:41.340 --> 00:42:44.340 as He called the slander against her a "great falsehood" (ifk), 00:42:44.340 --> 00:42:47.340 saying: "Indeed, those who came 00:42:47.340 --> 00:42:50.340 with the falsehood are a group among you." 00:42:50.340 --> 00:42:53.340 And He exonerated her, glory be to Him, by saying: 00:42:53.340 --> 00:42:56.340 "Good women are for good men, 00:42:56.340 --> 00:42:59.340 and good men are for good women. 00:42:59.340 --> 00:43:02.340 Those are innocent of what they say; 00:43:02.340 --> 00:43:05.340 for them is forgiveness and noble provision." 00:43:05.340 --> 00:43:08.340 Despite that, 00:43:08.340 --> 00:43:11.340 the Rawafid persist in their falsehood, 00:43:11.340 --> 00:43:14.340 thereby disparaging the status of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him), 00:43:14.340 --> 00:43:17.340 and thinking ill of Allah 00:43:17.340 --> 00:43:20.340 by claiming He did not honor His Prophet 00:43:20.340 --> 00:43:23.340 with good wives, 00:43:23.340 --> 00:43:26.340 and even by permitting that there be buried beside him 00:43:26.340 --> 00:43:29.340 (peace be upon him) the "Jibt" and the "Taghut," 00:43:29.340 --> 00:43:32.340 as they claim that Abu Bakr al-Siddiq 00:43:32.340 --> 00:43:35.340 and Umar Ibn al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with them both), 00:43:35.340 --> 00:43:38.340 who are the best of the Prophet’s Companions 00:43:38.340 --> 00:43:41.340 (peace be upon him), 00:43:41.340 --> 00:43:44.340 are the "Jibt" and the "Taghut." 00:43:44.340 --> 00:43:47.340 We seek refuge in Allah from the misguidance of the people of innovation, 00:43:47.340 --> 00:43:50.340 and we disavow ourselves to Him, glory be to Him, 00:43:50.340 --> 00:43:53.949 from their thinking ill of Him, glory be to Him. 00:43:53.949 --> 00:43:56.949 A summary of the concepts of the Ahl al-Sunnah.