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Subhan Allah tonight the topic of
hypocrisy is one of the scariest topics
that we can speak of
specifically um for an Imam or for a
public speaker it is one of the most
frightening topics in the world to be
quite Frank with you I fear I fear to
speak about it to be honest with you
when he spoke in his
farewell was speaking to a group of over
50,000 people and he broke into tears
and he says you know I'm giving you this
advice I'm giving you this advice and I
don't know of anyone who has more sins
than I
have speaking to 50,000 people in a sham
probably concealed in that 50,000 people
the people that might have plotted to
assassinate him and so on so forth so
it's a very scary topic and the more the
more that we we delve into it the more
that we look at the at the S of the
Prophet wasallam we see this huge fear
and I really want to address this topic
from a totally different perspective
hypocrisy is one of those topics that
you can address from a 100 different
perspectives and it will benefit us each
and every single time because it is the
most Subhan Allah it is the thing that
the sahab fear so much that he says I
met 120 Companions of the Prophet
s each and every single one of the
companions that I met was accusing
himself of of hypocrisy and Subhan Allah
the scholars say you know he didn't just
meet a few of the younger sahab or some
of the unknown sahaba he
met he met the son of he met he met he
met
he met some of the Giants of the
Companions and he was saying that each
and every single one of them was sure
that he was a hypocrite he was so
positive that he was a hypocrite and so
to just start this off from the very
beginning if you're here and you think
to yourself you know I hope that brother
over there you're thinking to yourself
This doesn't apply to me because
alhamdulillah I'm not a hypocrite but I
hope that guy that's sitting over there
I hope he's listening very close cuz I
know he's a maaf you need to be worried
about yourself right now and if you're
not worried about yourself then you need
to be even more worried about yourself
because the greatest sign of a hypocrite
as who said is the one who feels safe
from
hypocrisy the one who has decided that I
am not a hypocrite and I have nothing to
worry about is the greatest
hypocrite she was
asked who is the one who is the one
who's really Pious she said the one who
thinks he's a hypocrite and then she was
asked right after that and who is the
hypocrite then she said the one who
thinks he's the one who thinks he's
Pious once you come to that conclusion
in essence hypocrisy goes beyond R it
goes beyond showing off it goes beyond
arrogance hypocrisy is a whole another
level hypocrisy is when you have decided
to wear two faces whenever you have a
face with Allah a face with the people a
face with your wife a face with your
kids a face with your parents a face
with people from this group a face with
people from that group it represents a
discrepancy and the reason why it's so
scary and Subhan Allah Allah subhana
tala every time he mentions hypocrisy in
the Quran he
mentions says every time hypocrisy is
mentioned in the Quran right after it
there's a mention of lying the quality
of lying right you look in the first
description of the Hypocrites Allah
subhah waala
says and they will have a painful
punishment for the lying that they used
to commit because of their lying because
let's face it that's exactly what two-
faceness is it's one thing to lie with
your words it's another thing to lie
with your actions and to actually be
living a lie and you know what makes the
messenger Sall alaihi wasallam so
amazing and so great you know what
happens whenever you read the life of of
a great you know not I'm not talking
about the scholars of Islam let's talk
about the influential figures of History
you read about them and they're
recognized that as great history still
treats them as great even though they
had some demons in the closet that came
out right so I mean and it's not history
still recognizes them as great so for
example Martin Luther King Dr Martin
Luther King did amazing things he was
great for his leadership but he had
affairs right you Le the life you read
about the life of someone like Napoleon
or you read the life of of different
people and Subhan Allah you would find
that yes this person was great in one
aspect of their life you know they have
all these Kings you just go through the
European Kings you go through the
founders of this country when we start
reading about George Washington and
Thomas Jefferson and those types of
things yes they were great in some
regards and that's what history
recognizes them for but they also had
some very serious demons in the closet
andam did not have those demons and
that's what makes the prophet sallallahu
Ali wasallam the greatest of the
greatest the greatest creation the
greatest human being and leader to ever
walk the face of the Earth
when he stands up and Subhan Allah you
can be watching you know IM one time he
said something beautiful he said if you
ever watch one of those uh and I'm not
encouraging anyone to do it I personally
don't do it I think it's a waste of time
I'm saying the Academy Awards or the
Oscars or things of that sort usually
when the awards are being handed out you
can almost see a look on the face of the
family like he doesn't deserve that she
doesn't deserve that the family sitting
there thinking to themselves like yeah
okay whatever
we know who you really are we know who
you really are and one of the greatest
ways to lose your children dear brothers
and sisters is hypocrisy you wonder why
your children flee from
Islam said nothing causes a person to
leave the faith of his of of his parents
except for hypocrisy nothing like
hypocrisy they see a discrepancy in your
actions and what you're saying right
you're conveniently strict on some
issues you know you're conveniently r on
a dress code whenever you go to the mid
but then at the
party it's all off limit everything
comes off literally everything comes
off and all they see discrepancies you
say you should not date you shouldn't do
these types of things but then they see
you getting very close to and Auntie
there's a
discrepancy you know that you say that
you need to be this you need to be that
you shouldn't be egotistical you should
be humble you should be respectful to
your parents then they see you as an
egomaniac
so what they do is they take your
hypocrisy and it simply manifests itself
in a different form so they'll be
hypocritical with you when they're home
they'll be the masallah kid they'll read
Quran whenever it comes time for Salah
they they'll be good little children and
they'll put on their toies and they'll
roll up their pants and they'll come and
they'll put out their sad and they'll
pray right next to you and they'll act
like the perfect little
kids and then as soon as they're not
near sight
anymore it's a totally different human
being totally different human being
being why they inherited hypocrisy they
inherited hypocrisy so we have to be
very careful especially as parents and
things of that s but look at the
messenger sallallah alaihi wasallam the
prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam when
he comes out and he
says the best amongst you is he who is
best to his family the wives of the
Prophet sallam say and you are the best
of them and even after the prophet s
wasallam passed away
when she would hear this the best
amongst you he was best to his wife she
would
say you were truthful oh messenger of
Allah Sall alaihi wasallam the demons
didn't come out in fact we found out we
we we have more reason to love the
prophet when we read about his family
life isn't it so you know the moments
that really draw you close to the
prophet wasam aren't they really those
moments where is describing how he was
in the home sallallahu alaihi wasallam
his calmness his his kindness sallallahu
alaihi wasallam the way that he treated
her the way you know whenever he he
wanted to pray isn't that what really
draws Us close to him that's what makes
us fall in love with him and we see how
transparent he was and the greatest
statement of transparency is to say that
your message is
exactly your mission and is exactly how
you car yourself what you say is exactly
what you do what you say is exactly what
you do and
says
what his character
was he was a walking Quran that's his
wife Sall alaihi wasallam who knows him
better than that who knows him better
than
that right strict you know you think
ofam you're going to think of the most
he is the most religious person that's
ever walked the face of the Earth
obviously right when we think of
religious people you know and you think
of that
always angry frowning that's what you
think of religious people at Subhan
Allah the sheh is the guy that you don't
want to mess with that you don't want to
make a mistake in Quran in front of him
CU he might smack
you brings out the secrets of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam he says W the prophet wasallam
was the best of character and he never
even once chastised me he never even hit
me he never said to me why did you do
this why didn't you do that Subhan Allah
was always around the prophet his
mother put him there to serve the
prophet Salli wasallam the one incident
he says this one time the prophet sallam
sent me to deliver something and you
know on the way I got caught up I saw
some other little kids playing so I
started playing with the little kids and
just came and he walked and he said
weren't you supposed to be doing
something Subhan Allah the more you
learn about the prophet s wasallam
behind closed doors the more you love
him which means that he was a
transparent individual Sall alaihi wasam
and that's why there is the opposite of
is truthfulness there's truthfulness in
tongue truthfulness in speech and
there's truthfulness in action when
you're truthful in speech that means
that what you say is consistent with
what you're going to what you know with
reality your saying is consistent with
reality and when you
are in
your in your life in what you do
truthful in what you do that means that
what you say is consistent with what you
do when you say that I want to please
Allah subhana or I'm doing this there is
absolutely no discrepancy there you are
who you are whether you're in the Masid
or whether you're outside the Masid
whether you're in front of people or not
in front of people now it's very
important here to mention that there's a
certain level of there's a certain level
of hypocrisy we need to be sure that we
have none of okay in the sense that we
should be convinced that I am not this
type of hypocrite which is the type of
hypocrite that's that's in kufur and
disbelief that actually fools people to
get a benefit from Faith right
like they're not actually Muslims they
have no belief in God it's just to get
some sort of benefit from the de we're
not those types of Hypocrites in we
should all be we should all be sure that
we are not that type of hypocrite that
we might have spreads of hypocrisy and
our lives and the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam mentioned something very
powerful because you know the greatest
way to tell if a person is grateful to
Allah what's the greatest way what's the
greatest indication that a person is
grateful to
Allah
thankful what is it thankful thankful to
who to Allah no what's the greatest
indication that he is thankful to
Allah that he's grateful to others
the greatest indicator that a person is
grateful to Allah is that he's grateful
to other people that the prophet wasam
said whoever does not thank people does
not thank Allah subhana
tala whoever does not show Mercy will
not have mercy shown to him the way you
interact with people is a direct
indication of your relationship with
Allah subhanahu wa taal the way you
treat people your the woman who used to
abuse her neighbors but she prayed she
fasted she gave zakat she did all that
good stuff but she was abusive with her
tongue and the prophet s didn't just say
she's in Hellfire the prophet s was
said she is devoid of all good she has
no good inside of
her despite her Salah despite her
despite her as a cat why because the way
you treat people is a direct indication
of your relationship with Allah subhana
wa tala so what did the prophet s
wasallam say the three greatest signs of
hypocrisy are
there are three signs of a hypocrite
what are
they if he speaks he
lies and if he makes a promise he breaks
his
promise and if he's given a trust he
doesn't fulfill that trust that is the
greatest sign of a hypocrite in
essence he's not consistent he's not
transparent he portrays one face but he
does something totally different you say
something that's not true you make a
promise that you're not going to fulfill
and when you make that promise the other
person has the understanding that you're
going to do your best to fulfill it
you're not going to fulfill it you're
given a trust because someone sees you
as a good person as a good individual I
can trust you but you're not that
trustworthy person in essence the more
you are
discovered the more your demons come out
the more it becomes apparent that you
really were a two-faced person or a
three-faced person or a four four fa you
know let's face it today Subhan Allah
there's a Masjid face there's a work
face there's a home face there's a
school face
subh the worst person to Allah is the
one with two faces then where does that
leave a person who acts so differently
wherever he
is that's a very serious situation
that's
why whenever someone said that I know
this guy said don't say you know someone
until you've done one of three things
you've dealt with him in money
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okay cuz I don't care how nice the
person is or how what they appear to be
and the masallah person that they appear
to be once you deal with them with money
you'll start seeing that some people are
very very very shady what I'm trying to
tell you is whenever you go to do
business don't always just give your
business to a Muslim because he has a
beard and mallah he has so much Noe in
his
face the n in his face might be the
reflection of all the money that I
me I'm the counter Don't Be So Satisfied
that does not mean that he's a good
Muslim and he's going to treat you well
you don't know the man until you've
dealt with him with money you deal with
people with money W demons come out
demons come out or you lived with
him you live with somebody then all of a
sudden things change and that's why
Subhan Allah it's very easy to be nice
outside of the house and be calm and
portray a c you know portray yourself in
a certain way but then you get home and
subh people see a totally different
monster from you it's like you're
yelling at your wife and then as soon as
the phone comes you know the phone
rings how are you masallah and then you
shut the phone you go where were
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we back to square one the monster comes
back out you don't know someone until
you live with them you don't know
someone until you live with them so be
careful
or said or you traveled with him and
traveling does not mean that you got in
a car and you drove to a different city
traveling means you spent some quality
time with this person Subhan Allah you
don't know people until you're actually
with them you encounter more of them so
what I'm trying to tell you is is
subh said this Hadith of the three signs
of a
hypocrite if you have one of those three
signs that is your share of hypocrisy if
you have two that's your greater share
of hypocrisy if you have three you are a
total hypocrite you are a complete
hypocrite so even if you just have one
of those
traits that's your share of
hypocrisy that is your share of you've
taken a share of and the point is if
people knew who you really
were if people saw how you were behind
closed doors if people knew the quality
of your
Salah if people know the way that you
treat your wife and the way that you
treat your children and the way that you
talk when they're not around and the way
that you when you're not in the mid and
the way your relationship with Allah
subhana tala really is would they still
give you the same respect no probably
not probably not because we change we
change and we're so good at it subh
Allah it's become so much more easier to
manipulate people's
minds especially Subhan Allah the young
Brothers I want you to think about the
story for a moment again looking at and
I you know looking at in youth I want
you to listen very very carefully to
this
looking at the people on the outside
well it doesn't matter how many you
attend it doesn't matter how much you do
over
here if you're not treating your own
parents well it means
nothing you look at the sahab of the
Prophet was a companion of the Prophet
wasallam so it's assumed he's great he's
magnificent but when he's dying and
everyone's telling him say he can't
say he cannot say he's a companion of
the prophet wasallam he used to attend
lectures with the prophet Sall wasam
what more he said in the hands of
Muhammad s Ali wasallam the prophet gave
him Shah and at the time of his death he
can't
say and the prophet s wasallam said go
to his
mother let's go to his mother the
prophet s wasallam asks her how is your
relationship with and she was not
pleased with
him Subhan Allah she wasn't pleased with
him she was upset with him because of
that Allah subhana prohibited him from
saying at the time of his death andam
pleaded with her I'm paraphrasing until
she said that she forgave him and when
the prophet wasallam went back to Al he
was repeating until his
death but let's face it many of us won't
have that opportunity for the prophet
was or we none of us will have the
opportunity for the prophet wasallam to
talk to our parents on our behalf over
here and say look forgive your son done
no no you better be consistent the
people that are closest to you know you
most and Allah knows you more than they
do so you start off with your inner
circle as an indicator of hypocrisy you
start off with the people that know you
best your friends that are around you
most and you ask yourself and you ask
them you know what's am I am I am I
failing you know what do you think give
me advice cuz it starts off with Inner
Circle they know you more than anyone
else or else the demons will eventually
come
out he said that there was an IM a
scholar a scholar who was so righteous
in the eyes of the people
Fe as it appeared to people that when he
died the people were crying I mean
Rivers at his
janaza and then they found that his men
became infested with rats
they said well what's going on here and
Subhan Allah they asked his wife and his
wife was making Dua against him the
entire time and his wife was making Dua
for Allah to take him because he used to
abuse his wife all of that goes to waste
because the people around you they know
you best and then after that Allah
subhana knows you better than the people
around you because let's face it we even
put on a face for the people around us
too we put on a face for our family
members also many times maybe not to the
extent that we do outside but we do put
on faces
everywhere and in essence coming to a
consistency with Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala where your actions and your words
and your being it's all consistent
there's there's a truthfulness in it is
something that you have to strive hard
for and the first way is to fear it the
second way is to make sure is to make
sure that what people don't know of
me is better than what people know of me
how many of us can actually say that you
know you
know he said first and foremost the
indicator he said your tongue is like a
spoon into the food your heart you know
it's like a spoonful of the of of the
heart you know if you think about a meal
you're going to get a taste of the food
from a spoonful so said your tongue is a
spoonful of your heart so it's a good
indicator of the state of your heart
that's number one your tongue so your
actions the way you treat people but the
other thing just to ask yourself Allah
subhanahu wa taala on the day of
judgment he says there's going to be two
types of people there's going to be the
person that's going to be walking around
after receiving his book in his right
hand and who's going to be
saying you know the person who didn't
brag in this D he's going to be bragging
in he's going to say look at my
book look at my Salah look at my
secret look at this moment that I did
this and I made and I made here it is
everybody come read my
book I knew this day was coming I didn't
show it off to you in D because I wanted
the pleasure of Allah with but now go
ahead and read my
book and the one who receives this book
in his left hand would
say and Allah subh says two things
and Allah also
says in his left hand and behind his
back and the scholars explained this
that whenever the person realizes that
he's about to get his book of Deeds just
like he was a liar and a hypocrite in
dya he's going to put his hand behind
his
back so he can't receive it there and
Allah subhana will allow the book to hit
him in the back and will chain him that
way and as he walks around in shame he
would
say I wish I never got a
book and I never knew what my state
was I just wish I was
destroyed I wish I didn't
exist and everyone is reading and saying
oh Subhan Allah we used to think he was
a she
we used to think this was a person who
comes to the Masid we used to think this
was a person who gives you know he was
the most generous at fundraisers that
kid he was the one telling everybody
else to go to theas we thought he was
this we thought she was that but you're
being exposed full exposure on the day
of judgment we ask Allah to protect
us but I have a question for you and
I'll end on this
note if Allah subhanahu wa taala allowed
us to receive our books right now at
this
moment would you be willing to show that
book to
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anybody it's as simple as that I know I
wouldn't I know I wouldn't you know
would you be willing to take that book
around and say this is what I do this is
my life this is this is who you thought
who you didn't know I was and the answer
is no usually it's no and that's why the
feared it most they feared if their
Salah was a little bit longer in J than
it was at home
they feared if they were just a little
bit
better this guy wasn't beating on his
wife he wasn't disobedient to his
parents he wasn't a cirk in his business
he wasn't doing Speedy salawat when the
prophet Salli wasallam wasn't
watching he was so convinced he was a
hypocrite because he said I'm not as
religious when I'm not with the prophet
wasam he's still the same person he's
still
consistent but he says when I'm with
with the prophet was when when we're
with you we don't even think about all
we're thinking about is then we go home
and the family and the kids what was he
worried about he wasn't worried about
the demons coming out of the closet well
he thought they were demons but his
demons would be our
hassat the amount of Salah he did at
home would be our the amount of he did
at home would be our greatest day our
greatest day of Ramadan but they were
scared they were scared because we have
to worry about that consistency
if someone was watching me tonight and
watching you
tonight would they be impressed or would
they be ashamed humiliated and that's
why the prophet Salli wasallam said that
the worst person on the day of judgment
the worst person in Hellfire is going to
be a person by the way don't think this
is just a scholar or an IM this is each
and every single one of us mzid goers
that tells other people how to come
close to Allah subhana T each and every
single one of you youth who tells the
other guys hey come to the
says that that person is walking around
the fire of Hell holding his
intestines and the people are saying to
him you used to tell
us come to the Masid you used to tell us
to fear Allah what happened to you say I
was telling you things that I wasn't
doing
myself what I was saying to you was not
who I really
was it's a very scary thing the the
point of this though is not to make us
despair I know it feels that way but I
just want to give you a few tips in I
know I probably have like 3 minutes left
just quickly insh dear brothers and
sisters the more you pray in the Masjid
is the more you should pray at
home the more you treat people good
outside is the more you should treat
people good inside of your
house the more that you appear to be
generous on the outside is the more you
should be generous on the
inside try to be consistent start off
with your tongue yes consistency in
tongue because a liar is a maaf a person
who breaks his promise even he says I
promise I'll be there in 10 minutes
that's a promise you just gave a promise
someone gives you an AM and you don't
deliver it until 2 years later that's a
pro that's a trust that you broke those
are signs of
hypocrisy try to rise up to your expect
to the expectations of you and then beat
those expectations otherwise we're just
like those Hypocrites in Medina who
would only come to the Masid for
and
why it's not because was hard to wake up
because it was sleep time cuz during F
and it was Pitch Black we didn't have
these
chandeliers who's going to see me anyway
no one's going to know I wasn't at the
Masjid beat the expectations that people
have with you do things that people
don't know about pray two without anyone
knowing give a little bit of without
even telling your wife because just as
the people in your house know you better
than the people outside of your house
the one who created you and is always
with you knows you better than the
people that are with you most of the
time we ask Allah subhana to grant us
sincerity
and and truthfulness we ask Allah
subhana to keep us away from hypocrisy
to keep us away from all forms of
showing off to keep us away from self
deceit and conceit and we ask Allah
subhana wa tala to make us amongst those
who on the day of judgment will be
exposed for their good deeds and not for
their sins we ask Allah subhana wa tala
to protect us for our shortcomings to
forgive us for our shortcomings and to
allow us to rise above them before the
time of death and we ask Allah subhana
to leave this world
saying and to be raised up saying
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oh