What does Fitna mean? I will tell you
the linguistic meaning and the technical
meaning. And I noticed that some people
when they say linguistic meaning and the
technical meaning, they're like, "What's
the difference?" Example, what's up?
Linguistic meaning it comes from the
root word what is up which means you
look up and there's a ceiling
linguistically what's
up technically it means how are you
doing
clear technical and linguistic
alhamdulillah and Islam there's not that
big of a
difference linguistically means and I'm
going to tell you something which in it
there's a
definition goal Gold when it's extracted
off earth and is discovered it never
comes always natural and
pure. Every single time gold is
discovered around it there are
impurities. So the fatan that person
who's called fatan is the one that gets
that gold and puts it through a refining
process which we call fitna. So that
fat, that gold smmith in English is the
one that grabs that gold, puts it in a
very high temperature like oven and then
he will differentiate between the pure
from the
impure. Clear? So the fitna
linguistically comes from the one that
does fat the gold from impurity from
purities. So when my wife asks for a 24
karat gold that's so pure I cannot
afford it. So that's linguistically. Is
that clear? Technically fitna means and
that's an Islamic term means test trials
and tribulations. And in the Quran and
in the Sunnah Allahh uses fitna and
different meanings. Example fitna would
mean kufur disbelief. Allahh says,
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is that clear? Then Allah subhana t says
also another verse where fitna means
children and
money. Then it can also mean killing.
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and another meaning it can also mean
calamities, trials, tribulation. When
Allah subh says
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that every moment of your life is a
test. every single moment.
Either goodness that would come up to
you and you would be thankful or that
you should
be patient towards
when and do you know that each and every
single one of us is a fitna to the other
person. You are a fitna to me and I'm a
fitna to you. We're a test and
tribulation to one another. How is that?
Allahh says
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Subhan Allah, brother Tab, why do we
have to go through trials and
tribulations? I
saidahillah. I said there's no deity
worthy of worship except Allah and
prophet Muhammad is his slave and final
messenger. Why should we go through
trials and
tribulations? There are two reasons.
Before I mention the two reasons, I want
to tap you in the shoulder, not in the
face. Is there any
doctor that would make hundreds of
thousands of dollars a year without
going through any kind of MCATs, PCATs,
DATs, chemistry, biology, whatever class
where he or she has to be examined and
takes tests. Can anyone join the
basketball team or the soccer team
without going through some test and
tryyouts? Can anyone take their driver
license without taking a driving
test? And now when Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala
says, "Do you guys think out of your
mind that you will be saying I believe
and you will not be tested?" Allah is
telling you that you'll be left alone
saying I believe and no test. Subhan
Allah. Allah
says and you think you'll enter paradise
just like
that and you will not face what the
people in the past have faced.
They faced sicknesses, poverty,
calamities and they were
shaken out of tests and trials. You
think you will just say I believe and
enter Jenna. You think you will just go
with life so
smoothly and you will go to Jenna where
you have a mansion where you go around
and all kind of food is around. You will
go to Jenna and you will never ever in
your life be sad or depressed. You will
go to Jenna and enjoy every beautiful
scene around you. Not just like the one
in Vancouver, but Jenna, you think you
will go to Jenna where in that place you
will never be sick. You will never
sneeze except beauty. You will never
have any sweat. And if you had sweat,
when you have sweat, it'll be musk and
beautiful smell. When you go to Jenna,
your house will be made of bricks of
gold and silver. All that in Jenna just
like that.
And when you go to Jenna and you enjoy
the most beautiful thing in the world,
the most beautiful thing which you will
ever experience which is seeing
Allah. You seeing Allah is the most
beautiful thing in the world. You will
just get it just like that. Before I
mention the two points why we tested,
you have to know that. Do you think you
can make it to the top X factor without
meeting
Simon and making fun of you and
harassing you? You have to go through
the
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test. Allah tests you. Reason number
one, you got to focus. Now, Allah would
make you through go through hardship for
two reasons. Number one, Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala
said,
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Fore! Foreign!
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Foreign!
Number one reason so they can be tested
so Allah can differentiate can know the
believer the truthful from
the liar. You know how now the goldsmith
would bring the gold into the hot oven
and the pure will be clear and the
impurities will drop and he has
differentiated between the noble metals
and the non-noble metals. Allah would
test us so we can be clear and apparent
not just to Allah and the angels but to
the public. Very clear example what is
happening in Syria right now. What
happening is a great fitna and the
prophet told us a time will come where
the people the ones the enemies of Islam
will come and attack the Muslim. The
prophet said it with his own
tongue going to the ears of the Sahaba.
Transmit it from their tongue and heart
and memory all the way until this day in
authentic hadith. They will come and eat
from you and you will take a bite just
like how the people would gather under
one plate. how rough they would be
eating. The Sahabah said, "Oh Allah, is
it because we are few in number or
Allah, is it because we are few in
numbers and that's why they're beating
us and bullying us?" He said, "No, no,
no, no, no. You guys will be large in
numbers." But two issues they these
people will have at that time. The love
of this
dunya and the hate factor towards death.
People will just be blind about this
life. Life is just so beautiful and
death. I hate death. Just don't talk
about a brother. Brother, please don't
ever talk about a Thursday gathering
about death because this depresses me.
Death. Subhan Allah. May Allah protect
us. So number one is to
differentiate Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala. And now maybe there's a fitna
roaming around you right now. Maybe that
fitna, you know what is it? I'm just
guessing. That fitna that is roaming
around right now is that why would Allah
test us and differentiate between us if
Allah already knows the
results? It comes to the mind and this
is a fitna that comes to your mind and I
want you to focus really well on the
following
point. And before I mention it, I want
to give you a personal
experience. I taught as a substitute
teacher. Is Dal here? Is Dal here? Dal,
raise your hand. Okay. So, Dal is one of
my respected and honored students. So, I
apologize if I've ever annoyed you when
I was a teacher. If I was ever rough,
but when I was a teacher, I can estimate
Dal's final mark. According to her
beautiful attitude in class or horrible
attitude, Allah knows best and I know
too.
and she knows well. So depends on the
factor and we can estimate after doing
the homework what she can get in the
final exam. But can I go and in her
report card and put she got
100%. No because to be fair you have to
give her the exam just like any other
student. Is that correct? But even in
that class I can estimate that girl and
that girl and that girl and that girl.
You see two NBA players. Okay. Or two
NBA teams. What's the number one team
right now in the West?
Huh?
DC. OKC. Oakland. Oklahoma. Oklahoma.
Oakland. Right. Oklahoma. Oh, Oklahoma.
Oh, Durant. So, Kevin Durant. And who is
the lowest one? The east side.
The Bobcats. Whatever. Let's say the
first and the best and the lowest. Can
the Bobcats or whatever go to uh
Oklahoma and they say, "Okay, game is
cancelled. You guys are just a bunch of
losers." Seriously, like look at your
record. See, there's no need to play the
game because it's very obvious. Kevin
Durant is going to dunk on every one of
you guys. Okay, so game is can they do
that. They're fair, right? Allah is the
most just. Allah subhana t listen. This
is the point number two. Okay, there
only two. Allah will test you and will
because he will judge you according to
your actions and sayings in this life
and not according to his previous
knowledge of you. One more time. One
more time. Very important. Allah tests
you so he can judge you according to
your actions and sayings, not according
to his previous knowledge about you. You
can go on the day of judgment had there
be no life meet Allah and Allah says
sorry you're going to hell like whoa
come that's not fair that's not fair you
didn't try me you didn't test me so to
avoid these kind of sentences Allah
would give them the life and they would
live life then Allah subhana wa ta'ala
you would ask a very important question
brother why are you saying is so
dangerous fitnas are so dangerous for
also two
reasons tests and tribulation are very
serious. You cannot take it lightly. You
cannot just be so easily distracted
every time someone walks in because
we're talking about fitna. And this
someone walking in is a fitna. This is a
clear live example of a fitna. Right now
the next person that walks in, we will
see what happens to you. Is that clear?
You will know a person walk this is a
fitna. I'm not kidding. I say but the
question is how will you react to it?
Will you look at that person and
completely zone away and fly and think
about your honeymoon and think of the
wedding dress you saw yesterday which
you're not going to probably get married
another 10 years but he's like scrolling
down I think that wedding dress yeah are
you ready to get married
sister it's like a long time from now
why are you wasting your time checking
wedding
dresses this is another fitna subhan
allah so let's see what happens okay
make sure when the thing has roti the
camera is nicer no
Number one reason why Fitna is very
dangerous. Number one, because Fitna is
presented not to your eyes, not to your
ears only, but to
your
heart
said are presented tests and
tribulations are presented to the heart.
to the heart and look when the prophet
uses the word you know that's the best
word to be used because that's
revelation from Allah just like how
Quran is
revealed from reveal getting and
transmitted from Allah
to then
said whenever a test or calamity comes
to the
heart he didn't say to the person to the
heart and that heart rejects
it. Oh flipper of the hearts, hold my
heart firm on your religion. I seek
Allah's refuge from the devil. You see a
person walking by opposite gender, very
attractive, anything like that.
If that
person avoids
it, a white beautiful and pure dot,
white dot is placed on the heart. And if
that
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person drinks that fitna, absorbs the
fitna. A black dot will be placed on the
heart until there will only be two kinds
of hearts. No third. The first heart is
a white and pure heart that no fitna can
any longer mess up with that sister or
brother.
The heart is so firm and strong purely
white that no fitna can come and the
prophet said
until as long as this person lives all
her life or his life may Allah make us
amongst him and if you
said then watch out there's another
level over the
fitness that's we'll keep it to another
time we mentioned it briefly in other
times and if that person Every time
there's a fitna that comes, they just
absorb it. You know what? I give up,
man. Seriously. Like, look where I live.
Look at this area. Look at St. Patrick's
Day. People wearing mini shorts that are
green and the beer and the wine around
us. Look where I live. Look at my high
school. Girl in front of me, a girl
behind me, a girl on my right, a girl on
my left. Look at them naked. How can I
be patient? Forget it. Absorb and absorb
and absorb. An exam is stolen from the
teacher. You hear an announcement that
the exam has been stolen. Fitna comes to
you want to be part of this. Give us
some cash and this is a fitna that come.
Will you absorb it and not have trust in
Allah subhana t and pay the money and
get the exam? If that person keeps
absorbing the heart will turn into
black. That's a prophet
words. You know what does that mean?
It's like a heart that becomes so
dark, so rigid, so rough. And the
prophet says, "Imagine the heart, it's
already dark and black and horrible is
placed into a cup and the cup is po
upside down on a
plate." Then the prophet
said, "You tell them anything that is
good, they ignore you, don't even hear
you. A sincere hand is extended to that
person. Let me help you out. You look
like you're in trouble. You look like
you're in love and deeply in love.
They're about to go into zena. Let me
help you
out. In that zone, they just absorbed
every
fitna. Not just they don't take any
good, any advice. They do not see
anything wrong. And I'm sure you know
people like that. Come on. I've known
her since we were in kindergarten. She's
just like my sister. Oh, really? She's
just like my sister, brother. Look,
look, see I have no emotions. See, I I
look, bro. If she was even nude in front
of me, I have no feelings. I will cover
her. W brother said that. If she was
naked in front of me, I'll just cover
her. Yeah, you'll probably do that and
cover her and and smile back. And I'm
talking to men, by the way. I don't know
about I'm not I don't want to confuse
people. I'm just talking to men. Just
Just make it clear.
Just what do you mean there brother and
sister? Can we go to the movies? We
watch the movie. We have one seat
between us. I take the
popcorn and then she takes the popcorn
and brother brother I remind her to say
bismillah I
say uh subhan Allah and much and much
and fitt after fa that person doesn't
see any
wrong except what they desire. So they
desire something. Is it available? Is it
there? Yes, it's
halal. I want this. Is it available? No.
Okay, it's halal. That's the prophet's
words. He will go with whatever he
desire. May Allah protect us. The second
reason, and you can notice by now that
it comes to the heart. And let's give a
even a lot more realistic
example. When a person goes online, I'll
just get take that example.
watches whatever he or she watches and
deep inside the heart I'm talking to the
people with hearts not the people with
black hearts and may Allah make us all
amongst that these hearts that are so
white and beautiful and solid that no
fitna can harm us I
mean when a fitna comes and that person
is online doing whatever wrong they're
doing whatever wrong just think about
the
example they
think the moment they exited that window
they closed that window that the fitna
has been eliminated, has exited as well.
You're wrong. The prophet said fitna
comes to the heart. So you would watch
an adult haram scene and you think that
once you ex out that window, you're
done. You tell me that you're not. I'm
pretty sure don't tell me. I'm pretty
sure it's not
done. You would go to your bed and you
turned off the lights. You turned off
the computer and you went to bed and you
put your hand just like that and then
you close your eyes. But guess what? The
video plays
again. The video plays again and you see
the same exact scenes again with audio
and all the noise and everything that
was going around you hear it and you
start getting obsessed. And the ones
that would to listen to music, whatever
it is, even if it was Quran, whatever it
is, you would go to bed and you would
hear what you used to always hear. There
are no more headphones, but it went to
your
heart. We need to protect ourselves. May
Allah protect
us. The second reason why is so
dangerous is because due to its
abundance, it's everywhere. Fitna right
now, it's everywhere. It's just
unbelievable. You walk from one class to
other class, section to another section.
You walk, you pick up your books. The
girl right beside you, she's wearing
whatever she's wearing. You walk and
like, "Hey, Maget, how are you doing
today?" And then she comes, another one
opens her locker like And then you want
to lower your gaze and you see a poster
on the floor. Come on. Night dance, high
school dance, whatever. Holy names. Come
on. And then you walk like And another
FNA
comes. Huh? How's that fitna? So the
door are you going to skip the salah to
go for a class and then is going to come
and you miss the dor completely another
fitna comes are you thankful that Allah
has made you patient because fitn good
and bad and as you walk are you thankful
that Allahh gave you these legs which
you're walking with that the eyes which
you've seen with are you being thankful
as you go and you see in your biology
class something in the embryo and the
baby and how it's made and all stuff. Do
you see? Subhan Allah. This is a fitna.
Are you going to be thankful? Are you
going to doubt Allahh? Does Allah really
exist? That's a question. Fitna after
fitna, abundance after abundance. And
look what the prophet Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasallam said. He
said, you know how we talk about every
prophet came and mentioned whatever is
good to people to follow. And he
mentioned whatever is evil so people are
warned and away from it. Then he said
that the blessed and the best of times
are the ones that are in the past and
the worst of times are the ones of full
of fna and are the ones that are coming
up. Then he
said underline the
word and the believer will say when the
fitna
approaches what will they say? This is
going to destroy me. This is going to
destroy me. This is going to destroy me.
That fitna is going to knock me out
because they know they cannot handle
this. Then that fitna will move away.
Whatever happens, Allah knows best of
the results. Did they overcome the
fitna? Did they lose? Then another fitna
comes. They're like, "No, no, no. This
fitna, this one was going to knock me
out. This one is going to destroy
me." And that fitna will pass by. And
another fitna comes which is bigger than
the first and the second. Like, oh, this
one. No, for sure. This one's going to
knock me out. No, no, I cannot handle
this. And then it will pass and a bigger
one comes and a bigger one comes. The
Sahabah got so freaked out. They said,
"Yeahool Allah, when will this time
happen? When will this time happen?" He
said the said, "And when
is he
said when the person no longer feels
safe and secured with the ones he or she
is sitting
with, let me say in
Arabic, when the person sitting no
longer longer feel safe and secure from
the people around and wall I believe
this occurs. You sit with a group of
people. You want to say something. You
don't know. Do they have a big mouth?
Will they just tell people what they're
telling them? Do you have to tell them?
Say, "Well, they won't tell anyone. Do
you have to do this?" You just don't
feel secured anymore. Is she really
saying the truth to me? Is she really
lying? Did she really go there? Just no
more. Allahbar, this is the time. This
is the time. Subhan Allah. May Allah
protect us.
The prophet told us that the Fitna will
come and anyone that wants to seek
Fitna, I want to meet Fitna. They think
they're Hulk Hogan. They think they're
the best. They think they're Arnold. You
know what? I'm the strongest person in
the world. Give me whatever fitna. I
will overcome it. The prophet told you,
don't do that. The prophet told you,
don't test yourself. Do not test your
iman. Do not go and seek fitnas. Some
already failed.
Don't go and seek fitness because you do
not know the state of your heart when
the fitna
occurs. One time beside my house and I
told you several times there's a bar
house and every time they go crazy I
wonder I'm like what are they doing?
They're so loud. This is horrible. I
pick up my car. I drive to them. I want
to see this fitna. Yeah, stupid magic.
Yes, stupid.
I wish I made this before because I
learn by the way when I do this I learn
way more than you guys way more but the
question is do I apply
it may Allah not make me the bridge
which you guys go over from the hal to
Jenna and that bridge falls say a
mean so I left my house I'm like let me
see what they're doing let me go give
adise the people are you serious okay I
drive my Ford escape very angry with my
hoodie like like a hoodie. Oh, and then
I drive. There's a red light. A girl
comes up to me. I roll down the window
and she puts her hands like that. It's
like, "Hey
cutie, I know Allah in my heart. Allah
knows best." How many
beats? She's like, "Hey." And she's
drunk. And he command drunk that meanan
comes comes. So that means she'll not
remember anything what you do with her.
I'm serious. Shatan was like, "You don't
remember anything. What's going with
her?" And then she said, "Tonight is my
17th
birthday." You know, if you want to
chill with us, isn't that a Fitna?
That's a horrible FNA.
Alhamdulillah. That traffic light became
green and someone in the back's like,
"Let's go. Come on. Come on." I'm like,
"Alhamdulillah." Because wall I have no
idea what I would have done.
Don't go and seek fitness. The prophet
told you move away from them. Dodge.
Dodge. Go away. Do the matrix
move. I'm fa comes all everything. All
the bullets just move away from them.
I'm serious. Move away from the prophet
said when the comes when the antichrist
come what? Go see him. Don't go see him.
He told the best of people they know
about me and
you because you do not know the state of
your heart when that fitna comes. You
might be solid one day and the other day
you might fail. May Allah protect
us. There are two kinds of fitness. You
see how many times say two two. Subhan
Allah. Because fitna is every moment you
either every your life is is divided
into moments and you have only two kinds
of moments. No third. A moment of a
blessing which you should thank Allah
and a moment of sadness or calamity or a
test which you should be patient.
two kinds of
fitna. Fitna
to the fitna of worldly
desires, money, opposite gender, status,
high marks, society, like appreciation
and like whatever it is like reputation.
And the other kind of fitna is fitna
to who
knows? I gave you
first. Subhan Allah. The first fitna is
desires. The other one is the ambiguous,
unclear, doubtful things. Specifically
in
Islam, examples of fitness in the
worldly
desires. We mentioned so many examples
already, but
17-year-old cutie brother and all that
stuff. You walk and there's a job with
money and wealth. Allah says,
All of us who whomever memorize it, say
it. Who
know? Allah tells you a big list of
things that desires. Number one he
mentioned was women an opposite gender.
Opposite gender. Subh this is a serious
fitna. Especially in our times there's
not a single video clip a music clip
except that there's an opposite gender
that has to do whatever they do. You
know what one of the reasons why Lady
Gaga is so famous. Why she's just
unbelievably famous. It's because
usually
usually it's the guy singing and the
girl acts whatever whatever she does.
But Lady Gaga switched it. I sing and I
also do it and the guys do it to me like
in terms of movements and stuff. That's
why the people like this is not common.
Even that disbelievers, even the people
that are just corrupted, they're like,
"Oh, this is different." Then Nicki
Minaj comes and she copies and she keeps
changing their hair color, green,
pink. May Allah protect us. Don't ask me
how I knew. A very important point is
because in the NBA All-Star game, I was
having dinner with my wife at Applebee's
and there was a screen right in front of
me, the NBA All-Star game. So, who
comes? Nicki Minaj. She's going crazy.
My daughter's like, I'm
like, I'm like, come take away. Take
away move. Subhan Allah. Fn after Fitna.
I'm going to have dinner with my wife.
FNA right there, boy. I'm about to eat.
Can you please not put any alcohol or
pork in my food? Fitna. My daughter
looking
fitna. My wife is like, where are you
looking
at accident? And she's like, do you know
what she said? Funny. She's like, this
whole time you were looking at the
screen, I thought I'm looking at the
same screen, but it was different
channels.
But I tried to avoid as much
as fna after
fitna wasallam
said and before that you know what let
me ask you guys another question let me
see your knowledge about the dean and
your survival
factors what is the primary test the
primary test for the people of
is huh what is it quick say it
Women. Women. Hello. Say that out loud.
Women. What's the primary test for us?
Women. Women. I don't say that. Are you
nal? But he didn't come
yet.
Money. The prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam said, "I'm not
worried. I'm not worried that you guys
will be poor. I am not worried about
that.
I'm worried that the dunya will open its
doors for you and money will flow just
like how it flew to the people in the
past and they were racing towards that
money until they were competing with one
another until they got destroyed. That's
what I'm worried about. The prophet is
worried about money. And subhan Allah,
you can even see the young brothers and
sisters when they play basketball. What
would they
say? Money.
money.
Alhamdulillah. Subhan Allah. Ch change.
Subhan Allah. When they score, they have
to give it back to the person, right?
Change. Money. Money. Just obsessed.
Brother, uh, what school you're going to
after high school? Uh, like like what do
you mean? Like what university and do I
have
to enter? How can you how can you just
make it to life and how can you make
money? I that's the mind. I'm saying go
to university, go to college, enjoy your
life. Alhamdulillah study. But is it
just for money? Uh do you know how many
people ask that question? I'm pretty
sure you agree. What's the most job that
makes more money? Most money, right,
doctor? And then they're like, I want to
go become a medical doctor. I hate every
class, but just because there's a lot of
money
afterwards. Okay. Is it for the sake of
Allah? Uh I'll think about it inshallah.
But I inshallah inshallah I will listen
to your lecture online and I'll decide.
Money, money, money. Subhan Allah. And
then he told
us
fear, watch out. Be
careful. Open your eyes. Take care of
what? Be careful of this dunya, of this
life. There's a lot of illusions,
brothers and sisters. The prophet said
that statement after he said Allah has
chosen you to take care of this world
and of the
um and what was the next statement he
said which is the third statement in the
hadith and out of
all the he specified one thing you guys
need to watch out
for
woman out of everything in this life the
prophet and and similarly the woman
should watch out from the opposite
gender and and by the way the fna that
you girls have towards us is way beyond
your
imagination I'm it's like it's like when
we go to Jenn in all of us and then you
see like the chart how the fna affects
us you're like
wow I never knew I wasn't so ugly and
you were like I I really made that guy
go nuts. Oh my god. Yes, you have the
capabilities and that's
a
fitna. So use it in the best of ways.
Brothers and
sisters, not a single person in this
room, not a single person in this room
except that they are beautiful. I want
you to know that wall not a single one
of you guys is ugly. Can you stop
thinking like that? Am I so ugly?
Especially the girls like just please
like quit it. It's like repent to Allah.
Do you really think this matches? Do I
look ugly? I do look fat. Don't
worry. This some of the scholars have
said and they look the fitna of men to
women. They said the fitna which the men
receive from the
women is that they feel a lot of what?
Let's say blunt sexual stuff, right?
Just sexually lust. I just want to touch
her just this and that. The woman fitna
which she receives from the guy is that
she wants to be the attention. She want
every guy in class to think she's the
most beautiful girl in the world. That's
the fitna like oh does he like me type?
Okay check next. Oh brother ah yeah him
him. Okay what does he like green blue
or whatever. You know what I mean? And
that's the fa of women. They just want
to have the spotlight. And the men is
like bro anyone just like just come and
that's just one person is enough for me.
Subhan Allah.
No, there's no such thing. There's no
such thing as I don't have any emotions
towards the other gender. And it can be
possible that there are emotions towards
the same gender. Yes, it's possible
emotions. But don't go wear a purple
shirt. Okay? Yes, it's possible. And
this is a fitna. And have said, "Have
you had emotion?" And wall it happened
to people somewhere around here. Okay?
They said, "I have feelings towards that
person." I'm like, "Oh my god, just
don't send that email again to me."
Okay, they what should I do? Then we
send her a link that this is a fitness
which Allah is testing you with. So you
do your best to seek Allah's refuge.
This is an exit sign. I'm telling you
survival. Oh Allah, help me. Oh Allah,
protect me. Oh Allah, you sincerely
humble yourself to Allah. Oh Allah, help
me. Oh Allah, take and extract these
emotions away from my heart. Oh Allah,
please help. Oh Allah, you humble
yourself. Then told us a lot of stuff to
help us out. Can you put uh 10 minutes
please? Then subhan Allah when it comes
to
money there's one brother who had this
beautiful job like over six-digit salary
mashallah. When his supervisor changed
there's only three positions similar to
his. That's how big of a shot he is.
Okay. when a supervisor changed the new
supervisor came and she noticed or he
noticed I wasn't sure what was his
gender is that he that man leaves every
time specifically for an hour on
Friday for J so supervisor said talked
to that person said I'm the new hire
supervisor as you as you know as we
talked before and I want to tell you
that it's absolutely not fair for you to
take 1 hour off during a rush hour on a
Friday don't do that. So, we need to
stop. He's like, "Sorry, this is part of
my religion. I cannot stop praying
Friday prayers on that specific time and
take that 1 hour off." She told them or
he told them, "Then do not be surprised
if you found a slip on your desk telling
you you're out. It's just not fair." So,
that's why a fitna or not, that's a
serious fitna. Fitna of money. I'm
making so much money. I have family and
this and that. And I got rent. I got
this. I got the payments for tuition for
my children. So he said I was thinking
and thinking he's like what should I do
and then she told him just don't be
surprised and that thing is ringing in
his ears don't be surprised if he sees
the slip on your table back and forth
back and forth with that fitna fighting
that fitna and trying to seek Allah's
help and support and seeking knowledge
with the knowledge because if he had no
knowledge he would think that leaving
Juma is okay he told her do whatever you
wish later he gets a call. Come to my
office. He said, "Okay, this is it. Oh
Allah, make us
patient. Oh flipper of the hearts, hold
my heart firm on your religion." Just
making dua, "Oh Allah, make me strong.
Make me firm. Make me firm." Because the
fitna had you pass it, your iman will go
up or down up. If you pass a fitna, your
iman goes up. You pass another fitna,
eman goes up and up and up and up and up
so high that no fitna can harm you. So
he went and she told
him, "I noticed as I'm searching about
Islam that there are five daily
prayers. So you don't only take an hour
off on Fridays, but you also take some
time every single day, five times a
day." She said, "Is that really that
serious in your religion?" He said,
"Yes, it is." He's getting ready and
just to pack his stuff and get the box.
And she told him, "I understand your
religion. I respect the the commitment
which you guys show to your religion.
This show some serious determination.
This is awesome. You know what? You're
allowed not just to go pray, but you're
allowed to pray your five daily prayers
in the masid. Wall no joke. And this is
our time. How is the iman will go? His
iman will go
skyrocket told us when Allah told him
when the people shouted to the Sahabah
the people of the Arabian Peninsula,
everybody has gathered to kill all the
Muslims and finish them up. What was the
reaction of the
Sahabah? Allah says the next
word their iman went skyrocket. They're
going to kill you. Ian skyrocket because
they had the knowledge. They learned
they were hanging out with good people.
They were men. They were men. He
said, "We put our trust in Allah. Allah
is the best of trustees. Can you be like
that? Can you be like that? You can
inshallah. You seek Allah's refuge. You
seek Allah's support and Allah subh will
protect
you. May Allah protect all of our
brothers and sisters, the young and the
old. And Allah knows Allah knows that
our age that tests and tribulations are
so much and so hard. Allah knows. That's
why now you understand when Allahh
revealed to that amongst the people who
will be under the shade of the throne of
Allah when there's no shade except his
shade when the sun is only one mile away
from your head and people are sweating
to their nose to their eyes to their
mouth to their knees and some people are
drowning from their sweat. Who is under
the shade? young beautiful people like
you that maintain their iman and dean
during this
age a young boy or a girl that was
raised solid to the dean and how
beautiful it is to find people like
that if it wasn't for the sake of fna
and when you want to praise someone very
important note when you want to praise
someone if you think that that it's a
fna right so I tell you mashallah sister
The way you cover yourself with the just
amazing. Subhan Allah. What a beautiful
da machine you are. Okay, that can be a
fna to you, right? But if I know if I
told you this, your iman will be shaky
shaky and then you want you drop it and
your iman will go down. I will not
compliment you. Is that clear? So do not
praise people or compliment them that
you think they'll be affected in their
heart. Sincerity will be shaken. Is that
clear?
So I I believe Allah knows best that our
im mah may Allah protect him and make
him solid. I think if I praise him you
have a beautiful voice. I don't think
his sincerity to be like imagine likes
my
voice. Allah subhanan Allah imagine
really
no it's nothing. It's absolutely
nothing. All what he cares about is what
Allah thinks of his
voice. Is it sincere or not? Not is it
beautiful or not. Allah does not judge
you according to your shape and your
look and your skin color. No, he judges
you according to your tawa your Allah's
consciousness in your heart and your
awareness of Allah. Allah is looking at
me with this click. The second kind of
fitna
is the fitna of doubtful things and this
is worse than everything we
mentioned. We said doubtful matters in
terms of the dean.
Now these days the doubtfulness we go
through with our brothers and sisters is
not about is KFC haram or halal and now
we have reached beyond this level. Now
we get emails how can Allah know
everything in the future. Did Allah
really create us and question after
question that had someone failed this
fitna what happens? They will become a
kafir right if they say Allah did not
create us or this and that. Correct. But
if someone falls in the fitna of
Shahawad, the desirable fitness, women,
you know what? You slept with a hundred
women. Okay, let's be blunt. You slept
with a hundred women, you repent to
Allah sincerely, Allah will forgive you.
Inshallah.
But even if you with a hundred women and
you did not repent and you firmly
believed
inahham and you had some iman in your
heart at the end of the day you might be
tortured like no tomorrow or Allah might
forgive you but still you'll go to Jenna
and I know many parents and stuff and
many mothers like don't tell them that
stuff no you have to know this at the
end of the day you're going to Jenna
fully believe in Allahh the
door but if you once We're doubtful.
Allah does not know the future. Allah
God knows things as it happens. Then is
that person Muslim? Will they ever go to
Jenna? Not in a million years.
Clear. And I want to mention a fitna.
And this is an advice for all brothers
and sisters in this
room. An email was
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sent. I cannot tell you. I cannot
express to you. That's the email. cannot
express to you the words that I want to
say. I have no words to tell you. She
can't even subhan I can tell from the
email. You can tell from the tone,
right? She's like, I have no words to
say and I feel so shameful to say the
following. As I was walking in my house
and I know brother you talk so much
about adult videos and stuff and I'm
sure brother you say this because you
know this is afflicted to many of the
brothers and I tell you yes over 90%
easy
easy she said as I'm walking in my
house I noticed my
brother and not most there's only like
four or five little boys or kids but no
problem but I'm going to say up high so
you can get what I'm trying to
My brother was watching such and such
video while doing the private
act. The sister saw that with her own
eyes. I tell the brothers, fear Allah
subhana wa ta'ala. If you cannot push
the fna away from you, at least don't
present it to the people. If you cannot
leave horrible music and cursing and so
on, at least don't make the other ears
hear it. If you cannot stop loving the
opposite gender in a haram way, don't
share with the people your beautiful
experiences. Is that clear? She was hurt
and you will be held accountable for
that. And she went through some fitna.
She went through some fitna. And may
Allah allow her to overcome it because
do you know that if she was grossed out
to hell, forgive me for my language, and
she cannot handle that thing anymore,
she might not even even want to get
married. She can no longer trust me
after that because for what they're
doing. So watch out from the fna which
Allahh would test you with. May Allah
protect our brothers and sisters. Wah.
There's so many stories just like beyond
what you can think. Subhan Allah. Beyond
what you can think. It's just so
much told us do not go to a magician. Do
not go to people that read your palm. Do
not go to people that sorcery and stuff
like that. Do not go. Because if you
would to go, you will have the fitna of
a you will have this fitna. Do not go. I
was in the
airplane, the same airplane I told you
about, the girl and the and the guy that
the the doctor and the engineer. And
he's like, "I can read palms." He's
like, "Let me read your palm." I'm like,
"I don't want you to read my palm." No,
you're not reading my palm. I'm sorry.
He's like, "Why?" I'm like, "Don't worry
about it. I'm fine. I'm I'm good.
Alhamdulillah. Don't worry about it."
So, he talked to the doctor like, "Oh my
god, you have this and that." The
prophet said, "Listen
carefully. If you would to go to anyone
similar to this, reading the coffee
fan, reading the palm, reading Scorpio,
uh, Cancer, on my horoscope. Oh my god,
I'm going to find my beautiful husband
today. I'm being sarcastic, but that's
what they do, right? If you just go into
these things, Allah will not accept your
prayers for 40 nights. For 40 nights.
That's if you did not did not believe in
it. So just like for the fun of it,
okay, just read that. But you know what?
I don't believe you cuz I know you're a
liar. Anyways, just read it. If you've
done that 14 nights, your salah is not
accepted. You're still a Muslim and you
still have to pray. But if you went
there and the magician
or told you this, this, and that, and
you're like, "Oh, he must have saying
the truth because he know, you know
what? He's right. I do have two brothers
and two sisters." Yes. Yes, I do have a
mother and father. He's right. Yeah.
Yeah. Allah said if you believe that
future which he mentions then you have
left and deviated away from
Islam. Subhan Allah. May Allah protect
us from it. Subhan Allah. The Sahabah
asked the prophet. Ohas wasallam. How?
Why? Why? Whyas? just stick very nicely
and respect like why is the shahid the
one who fights for the sake of Allah is
the only person that dies like we know
does not get punished in the grave who
knows the answer one more time why is a
a shahid the one that fights for the
sake of Allahh or on the path of Allah
subhana tala and have sincere intention
to die as a martyr why is that person
not punished in the grave you know the
hadith
You don't know that either. Okay. Okay.
You know what the prophet said? He said,
he didn't even answer. He said, "It's
enough." Listen. He said, "It's enough
of a fitna for the believer to see the
shining side of a of a sword. You know
that there's like the sun and you have a
sword as metal and you see that the
shining part of it like the sun like
side effect or whatever it is reflection
reflection of the light." He said this
is a fna and that's enough of a fitna
for them not to be punished. Enough. So
the prophet is aware. Subhan Allah. May
Allah protect us. I mean other things
which you have to do. You seek Allah's
refuge. The prophet said the prophet
ordered
you. The prophet told
you seek Allah's refuge from tests and
trials. So let's
together Allah protect us. Oh Allah
protect us
from which is apparent to us and which
is not apparent. Another thing which we
didn't mention in terms of survivals is
that
told I love
you from the prophet wall I love you. He
tells the brother and the sister when he
meets
you price tag priceless mafy price and
he tells
you Allah and he says all the struggles
which he went through in 2012 and 11 and
10 and the future and he told and you
know what he said he said I'll give up
my mom and father for you because how
much he loved them then the prophet told
him I give you advice will you guys take
it was a young man you guys take it he
He said after every prayer
say, "Oh Allah, assist me in worshiping
you correctly." Mentioning you and
thanking you and worshiping you
correctly. Don't forget to say that
after every prayer.
Then said, "The happy one is the one
that avoids the
fitt." He said it three times. The happy
person is the one that is away from
fitten. The happy person is the one that
avoids fitten. The happy one is the one
that moves away from the fittan. He
tells you once, twice, and thrice.
Subhan Allah. May Allah make us amongst
the one that are protected from the
fitt.