Modesty of Men & Women - Hajj Hassanain Rajabali - Lecture 11 Ramadhan 1430 2009

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Modesty of Men & Women - Hajj Hassanain Rajabali - Lecture 11 Ramadhan 1430 2009
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[0:01][Music] [Music] [Applause] Alhamdulillah.

[0:49]I begin in the name of Allah the beneficent the merciful.

[0:53]Allah subhana ta has blessed us with this existence given us many

[0:58]powers as I mentioned yesterday the four powers particularly besides those four

[1:03]we have more of course but those are the main ones that

[1:06]really drives us as a human race which is the power of

[1:12]intellect the power of desire the power of imagination and the power

[1:15]of anger these four powers really enable us to be tested on

[1:23]this earth when Allah says that uh Allahha says we we wanted

[1:34]to test this being and this trial is therefore uh actuated through

[1:40]the ability to see and to hear.

[1:42]And the power of seeing and hearing is really interconnected with the

[1:47]four powers that we have which are the four powers of intellect,

[1:50]the power of anger, the power of desire and the power of

[1:54]imagination.

[1:55]If we combine these four powers, you will see that really the

[1:59]human being becomes a complete being and what drives us entirely in

[2:06]two directions.

[2:06]You know when Allah says that he has shown us the two

[2:11]pathways Allah again is reminding me that he gave me two lips

[2:19]and a tongue and he showed me the two pathways.

[2:23]These major two pathways as we understand them are the pathways of

[2:27]the promotion of good and the forbiddance of evil.

[2:32]Meaning is very essential as a principle the general principle of Islam.

[2:38]Inshallah in these subsequent nights I promise that I will be giving

[2:45]many examples of prophets especially lives of prophets like Ysef Alisam.

[2:48]I'd like to dedicate a day or two talking just about prophet

[2:51]Ysef and the whole principles behind Yusf Alisam and in fact to

[2:55]exemplify my lecture tonight further.

[3:00]I will speak about Musa Alisam and how his trial was and

[3:03]the whole wisdom behind why Allah describes Mus and of course we

[3:07]need to speak about Sullean Alisam.

[3:13]We need to speak about uh Yunus Alisam and many other prophets

[3:15]and of course the most prevalent one in our modern society today

[3:18]is As Isaam and how his birth took place and how does

[3:23]the Quran compare his birth with the birth that is presented in

[3:25]the Bible of today.

[3:28]the Christians believe in it and you will see that there's a

[3:31]market difference between the two and at the end of the discussion

[3:34]about all these stories it boils down to the same principles we've

[3:40]been hitting over and over and over the promotion of good the

[3:43]forbiddance of evil submission to Allah by obeying the messenger of Allah

[3:46]and those who are vested with authority authority upon us for us

[3:52]to use our minds to be abstinent to hold back and of

[3:55]course fundamental as I gave the example yesterday which I hope has

[3:58]driven home that the most critical message of Adamisam's story and his

[4:04]approach towards the tree is the very fact that Allahh wants us

[4:10]to be modest that the first thing Adam was commanded to do

[4:14]once he realized that his trial began upon approaching the tree was

[4:21]the principles of modesty.

[4:22]Modesty is very fundamental and very essential.

[4:27]Meaning how we dress, how we speak, how we talk and how

[4:29]we carry ourselves is all within the principles of modesty.

[4:33]And this is all exemplified in universal principles in the Quran.

[4:37]For example, in surahman, you find that Lman is talking to his

[4:40]son.

[4:42]He says, [Music] What a beautiful advice in you find that is

[5:06]saying to him oh my son uphold prayer do good deeds promote

[5:14]the good demote evil and Be patient with the trials that will

[5:21]come upon you.

[5:24]Meaning Lman is giving his son a beautiful advice that be careful

[5:28]that this world is full of trials and tribulations.

[5:31]And the only way you will pass this trial and tribulation is

[5:35]through patience.

[5:37]And then emphasizes it even more.

[5:43]Indeed, these are difficult things to do.

[5:47]They are they are very heavy deeds.

[5:50]It's not an easy thing.

[5:52]You can't just wake up and say it's okay.

[5:54]I'm a good guy.

[5:57]You know, my morals are nice.

[5:57]No.

[5:58]Quran says no.

[6:00]It may appear to you that you're nice.

[6:03]It may appear that it's easy.

[6:04]It's not easy.

[6:04]And don't limit yourself with such easiness.

[6:07]Struggle to get to higher levels.

[6:09]It's like when children play these uh electronic games, you know, as

[6:14]you play when you win the first level, then you go to

[6:17]the next level, and then you win the next level, and you

[6:19]notice that the higher levels you get to, the more difficult it

[6:21]gets, and you find the game gets harder and harder, and it's

[6:26]harder to maintain the higher levels.

[6:27]But you notice only the very good players are able to play

[6:29]the high levels.

[6:31]Why?

[6:32]Because they're so conditioned with the lower levels that it's second nature

[6:35]to them.

[6:36]Well, for the believer, it's the same thing.

[6:40]For the believer these base issues of this world they are it's

[6:43]second nature to them to avoid the attractions of the world is

[6:46]second nature.

[6:47]In fact they are fighting with their own selves to get closer

[6:50]to Allah at much higher levels.

[6:52]So that's why you notice such people you find they don't indulge

[6:57]in vain talk in surah one day inshallah one night I will

[6:59]speak about the whole the whole last part of surahan which is

[7:05]the distinction the surah of distinction Allah describes who is this believer

[7:10]of mine that you should be emulating he says they don't indulge

[7:15]in vain talk and when they see ignorant people they say peace

[7:19]and they move on in other words they don't have time for

[7:23]such nonsense.

[7:23]They they are the ones who give charity and they're silent and

[7:27]they're reflective.

[7:27]Like when I think about the messenger of Allahh, you find that

[7:30]historically, even when he was a 10-year-old child, historians have noted that

[7:34]he was constantly in meditation.

[7:38]He hardly socialized with youth, he was always thinking, pleasant but reflective.

[7:42]He would go to the mountains but reflective.

[7:45]That's why the messenger of Allah said, "My believers are reflective.

[7:48]They meditate often." What is meditation?

[7:52]Meditation means disconnection from this worldly nonsense.

[7:54]Disconnection every once in a while say stop.

[7:58]I need to think, leave me alone.

[8:00]But there are some people 5 minutes of silence is is dreadful

[8:04]to them.

[8:04]They can't they have to pick up their cell phone.

[8:06]They have to text message someone.

[8:06]They need to pick up, you know, something.

[8:08]They've got to talk to someone.

[8:10]They need noise for them.

[8:11]They can't sit.

[8:13]Their legs are moving.

[8:14]Their hands are moving.

[8:14]You find they're, you know, like uh all their nerves are in

[8:19]in in full force.

[8:19]Whereas a believer is calm like is saying to his son that

[8:26]don't turn your face away from people and don't walk on this

[8:33]earth exaltingly.

[8:32]Don't be arrogant when you walk.

[8:35]Be humble.

[8:36]Lower your wings.

[8:38]Meaning be modest in your demeanor.

[8:41]Carry yourself with dignity.

[8:43]Lower your voice.

[8:46]Be gentle.

[8:46]Talk with dignity.

[8:48]Look at if I draw this image you can just imagine this

[8:50]person now right person who doesn't turn their face away from people

[8:54]look at the imagination the power of imagination coming to full force

[8:58]this look when the Quran is talking if I didn't have this

[9:00]power I would not be able to imagine the Quran would not

[9:04]be able to explain to me what is this that you need

[9:08]to be like what is your fantasy like how should you and

[9:13]I fantasize the Quran enforces us to fantasize fantasizing is very recommended

[9:19]People say you know you're living a fantasy.

[9:19]Sure typically we live negative fantasies but there are people who live

[9:23]positive fantasies and it's not a fantasy in fantasy in the sense

[9:28]of sense of the word of fantasy because we tend to say

[9:30]when something is a a fantasy mean it's really not true.

[9:34]No no it's a reality.

[9:37]The reality of paradise the reality of the day of judgment is

[9:42]a positive kind of fantasy.

[9:43]That's a positive kind of fantasy.

[9:44]I know that sometimes we use words that may have negative connotations

[9:47]but it is a positive kind of fantasy.

[9:51]The kind of fantasy that the that members in Karbala as they

[9:53]are ready to go and become shahid they are imagining themselves being

[9:57]with the prophet and being at the gates of paradise being received

[10:03]by angels they're ready they're ready to be next to the pool

[10:05]of ka next to the prophet and they see it so vividly

[10:09]that now they're pushing each other forward backward to say no no

[10:12]no I'm going first I'm going first not you I want to

[10:15]go first it's like recently we hear the stories of resistance in

[10:17]the south of Lebanon that resistance you find the same People are

[10:20]saying no no I want to go first.

[10:22]You see these people are going with with antiquated equipment and they're

[10:25]fighting for their rights of their own land.

[10:28]They're right they're fighting for the rights of humanity for the world.

[10:30]But it comes with that fantasy to say that I'm not only

[10:33]fighting for my land.

[10:35]I'm fighting for a higher cause which is the cause of Allah

[10:37]subhana tala.

[10:45]That power to fantasize is very good.

[10:47]The problem we have is the people who are creating fantasies for

[10:51]us are in the wrong direction.

[10:52]And that's why you notice that the laws of Allah and all

[10:55]these examples that Lman is giving, Sulman is giving to us, Isaam,

[11:02]all the examples in the Quran, Allah is drawing a picture of

[11:04]what you should be like and how your fantasy should be, how

[11:09]your desires should be, how your anger should be managed.

[11:13]See Allah say they hold back their anger and they forgive mankind.

[11:19]These examples all should be put together in one list and you

[11:22]and I should highlight them and say this these are the things

[11:27]I want to be like.

[11:27]If I can achieve these I have achieved certainty towards Allah.

[11:33]That's why the prophet says indeed indeed I was sent to perfect

[11:38]your moral traits to [Music] complete meaning good moral traits.

[11:48]I came to complete them to teach you moral traits.

[11:49]Well moral traits are the ultimate.

[11:51]When a human being has good morals, good behavior, we don't have

[11:57]to talk much about their belief in Allah and their belief in

[12:00]and their belief in it doesn't it's natural.

[12:02]You see it on their faces.

[12:04]They don't cheat you.

[12:06]They don't lie.

[12:06]They forgive mankind.

[12:07]No human being can achieve those qualities unless they have a clear

[12:10]vision of what their hereafter is like.

[12:11]They have a clear vision of what their obligations on this earth

[12:14]are like because their nuts is always going against it.

[12:17]So how did they become so good?

[12:19]Unless they had some control of this, it's impossible to be so

[12:22]good.

[12:22]So let's focus, brothers and sisters, on all these implementations in the

[12:26]Quran, piece by piece.

[12:29]And let's ask ourselves, what will it take for me to become

[12:31]one of these?

[12:33]And often we don't become one of those because we hold ourselves

[12:36]back due to shortch changing ourselves by giving really lame excuses about

[12:42]systems in our society today as possibilities of existence which then leads

[12:47]us backwards.

[12:47]What do I mean?

[12:49]What do I mean by possibilities of existence?

[12:49]You find that there are natural forces in our society that make

[12:54]certain activities and actions normal and we consider them to be acceptable

[12:59]and therefore we argue for their viability and and possibility as being

[13:05]acceptable by Allah.

[13:08]That's a problem.

[13:08]Until and unless you and I put the B in front of

[13:13]them and the Quran in front of it and to say from

[13:17]the Quran and from the prophet in his B, is this action

[13:20]acceptable?

[13:21]If it is, then argue for it, promote it, sustain it and

[13:28]fight against anyone who wants to stop it.

[13:31]But if it goes against the moral principles of the Quran and

[13:34]the ways of B then it is our obligation not to shrug

[13:38]our shoulders and say look it's the prevalent system of society.

[13:41]This is how people live today.

[13:42]So we are just going to have to adapt and therefore adopt.

[13:46]I disagree with that.

[13:50]Such methodologies will lead nothing to us but to destruction.

[13:53]Allah says in the Quran [Music] inj know that the prophet is

[14:04]among [Music] you.

[14:10]Know that the messenger is among you and were he to follow

[14:15]your whimsical suggestions there would be many problems.

[14:17]But rather Allah has made religion endearing to you, pleasant to you.

[14:22]What's the pleasantness?

[14:24]When we understand the dimensions of it, salah, fasting, hijab, modesty, holding

[14:30]back our tongue, submitting ourselves, the all the prescriptions of Allah become

[14:34]sweet.

[14:35]Let's not fool ourselves into thinking that this rel these religious obligations

[14:39]that Allah has uh enjoined upon us are very difficult tasks.

[14:46]Allah says, I have not made uh this religion difficult for you.

[14:49]I have made it easy for you.

[14:50]It is not the intent of Allah to make religion difficult.

[14:54]The difficulty is only subject to the approach of how we see

[14:58]life.

[14:58]To a lazy person to lift a piece of paper off the

[15:00]floor is difficult.

[15:02]To a lazy person to sweep their floors is difficult.

[15:07]For a lazy person to wake up from bed out of their

[15:09]bed is difficult.

[15:10]So there do we do we draw the line from a lazy

[15:13]person's perspective or do we draw the line from Allah's perspective?

[15:16]And Allah's perspective is to take us to higher levels of existence

[15:20]not to remain stagnant and lazy.

[15:21]So we find it's very essential for us brothers and sisters to

[15:24]understand that whatever Allah has laid for us fasting all these issues

[15:30]I have been uh meditating for years on these issues trying to

[15:34]understand the gravity of why did Allah make this an obligation?

[15:37]Why did Allah put this obligation upon us?

[15:40]I want to know the the intensity of it and the degree

[15:45]of it so that I can learn to appreciate it.

[15:48]I always question its integrity not to deny it for deep down

[15:52]I knew Allahh would never put some law on me to burden

[15:55]me when he shaped me and he put so many matters in

[16:00]me that protects me without me thinking about me.

[16:03]There are automated systems in my body that even if I decide

[16:08]to kill myself without any instrument I can't you know no one

[16:11]can commit suicide by themselves you know that look at the rahman

[16:13]the of Allah no human being can choke himself you can't you

[16:19]need an external object to kill yourself with you can't kill yourself

[16:25]stop breathing your body will take over put your hand on your

[16:27]neck and start to choke yourself you can't hold your arm like

[16:31]this and say I'm I'm going to I'm going to stop my

[16:32]blood from going to my arm You can't you'll you'll fall asleep.

[16:37]Allah has built such a beautiful body, such a natural body that

[16:43]protects itself due to my own stupidity.

[16:45]Subhan Allah.

[16:46]What a mercy of Allah.

[16:48]And Allah says after doing all of this, you think I'll lay

[16:51]a law in front of you to burden you when I have

[16:55]created you so beautiful as a creation.

[16:57]You all of you, how beautiful this creation.

[17:00]We made man in the best of forms.

[17:03]Honestly, you watch all these sci-fi movies and all these, you know,

[17:06]Star Trek and all these, they have all these creatures with all

[17:09]types of noses and ears and dots on their faces.

[17:12]Trust me, at the end of the day, no one looks as

[17:13]beautiful as a natural human being.

[17:14]Muhammad Muhammad, we can try to put all the types of faces

[17:22]we want on our faces.

[17:24]Nothing can be equivalent to the beauty of the human being.

[17:30]Natural beauty.

[17:28]Natural.

[17:29]Without tattoos on your face and pins and things hanging on your

[17:33]face, there's no need for that.

[17:37]My personal opinion is people who do that have nothing better to

[17:40]do in life.

[17:39]They're idle minded.

[17:41]I mean, why would you want to stick pins on your face?

[17:42]With due respect to them, I'm sure they're good people and I'm

[17:47]sure they have good hearts, but unless you don't have anything else

[17:49]to do, I just woke up one morning, have this great desire

[17:52]to stick 10 pins on my nose.

[17:53]I saw a guy, he had 10 had pins lined up all

[17:57]his forehead.

[17:58]I said, "My god." First of all, it must have been painful.

[17:59]It must have been, you know, and then you must have spent

[18:03]a lot of money for this.

[18:04]Where'd you get all this money from?

[18:05]Maybe you had a lot of money.

[18:06]Okay.

[18:06]But then you had nothing better to do.

[18:08]There are thousands of problems in life and thousands of things to

[18:11]accomplish.

[18:11]You spent all this time to stick 10 pins on your nose.

[18:16]I just I look and I manage.

[18:17]I say, "Subhan Allah.

[18:17]What an amazing, huh?" I asked them, "Yeah, yeah.

[18:20]Yeah." I said, "Yeah." He says, "Well, I I like it.

[18:24]It looks good on me." Okay.

[18:25]Alhamdulillah.

[18:30]You know, even if you don't ask him and and I don't

[18:33]pass a judgment on these people, you know, I see sometimes people

[18:35]having these pins on their tongues and it hangs up hangs down.

[18:38]You know, they can't even put it in their mouths anymore cuz

[18:41]it's so heavy.

[18:41]And I look at them and I just smile.

[18:44]I don't pass a judgment because Allah said, "Don't pass a judgment.

[18:48]Be careful.

[18:47]This guy's heart may be purer than yours.

[18:49]He's just confused." At this level, he's confused for sure because trust

[18:53]me, I can never bring Quran alik forward to say, "Oh, yeah.

[18:56]when upon a time the prophet did you know encourage us to

[18:59]have a big heavy thing on our tongues you know it just

[19:03]doesn't make sense right so we know that's not the truth so

[19:05]like I said anytime you see anything you ask yourself could the

[19:08]prophet be doing such a thing that's by the way brings me

[19:11]to another question we have cultural things that we have to be

[19:13]very careful about and you know sometimes speaking about certain things you

[19:16]know you're stepping on a as I say a minefield as a

[19:20]public speaker when you want to enjoin goodness and forbid uh evil

[19:23]and you want to encourage closess towards You have to be very

[19:28]strategic.

[19:27]You know some people say you have to be diplomatic.

[19:28]I don't need to be diplomatic.

[19:30]You just have to be strategic because diplomacy also has its ways

[19:34]sometimes which I reject upon.

[19:37]But strategy is essential.

[19:38]But sometimes you'll have to make a comment about something upon whose

[19:42]business is dependent upon it.

[19:44]For example, now this is you know in the communities here I'm

[19:47]known to be oh he's anti.

[19:48]He's very very anti.

[19:51]So don't even try it in front of him.

[19:53]Okay.

[19:54]So if I have that opinion, people say, "Oh, he's got this

[19:56]attitude." You see, look, it's within our culture.

[19:59]I mean, you know, you pick up the phone and 1-800 number

[20:02]and 5 minutes later somebody somebody's at your door with any flavor

[20:07]you want.

[20:06]This is us.

[20:07]This is who we are.

[20:10]It is in our you know, it's in our blood.

[20:12]I said, "Really?" I don't remember the prophet ever saying this.

[20:17]I mean, can you imagine if the prophet is seen there smoking

[20:20]hookah next to you?

[20:19]Saysamlaykum.

[20:20]I'm your prophet.

[20:26]Welcome.

[20:27]I wasn't sent by the for you.

[20:29]He said, "Really?" And smoke is coming out and said, "I can't

[20:34]imagine this.

[20:35]It just doesn't work." Imam, can you imagine imagine this?

[20:44]You know, people, you know, it's rightful for us to to laugh

[20:47]about it because it's it's funny.

[20:48]But at the end, he says, "My God, can I put those

[20:52]two images together?

[20:51]Can I Photoshop it?

[20:54]No.

[20:52]Just doesn't work.

[20:55]It's oil and water.

[20:54]Please do not step on my morals.

[21:01]The messenger is the finest moral example.

[21:04]Best role model.

[21:06]Please don't stink this.

[21:07]Now, often we say, okay, we've got lots of different things we

[21:11]do that are against.

[21:11]Why are you pointing a finger at this?

[21:13]At the end of the day, it's not this.

[21:15]It's everything.

[21:16]It's a conclusion of everything.

[21:17]I'm not stating only this.

[21:18]Assuming I come as a person and I have a loud voice

[21:22]and I'm talking loud say hey lower your voice you know you

[21:25]may be dressed well you may be looking elegant but you're ruining

[21:28]it or for that matter if a person doesn't dress appropriately this

[21:32]is what we're talking about modesty it's a holistic form of modesty

[21:36]that when a man and a woman are modest the way they

[21:38]sit the way they talk is all part of this modesty system

[21:43]it drives the message home this is what the trial is all

[21:46]about so let us not subject ourselves to social pressures and saying,

[21:50]"Look, our community is like this, we're not going to win this

[21:54]battle against them.

[21:54]So, let's just throw in the towel and join them." I disagree.

[21:59]I truly believe that our trial on this earth until we leave

[22:03]this earth, Allah will question us on judgment day that while they

[22:06]were like that, what did you do?

[22:07]And inshallah I will give an example of this particular message about

[22:13]if you read the whole story is about such people.

[22:18]You find maximum you know in the movie.

[22:20]I would highly recommend anyone of us has not seen that movie.

[22:23]It's just a movie that depicts the story from the Quran about

[22:28]it's a beautiful story that was created by this in the Islamic

[22:31]Republic.

[22:32]It's very deep.

[22:31]It's got so many messages.

[22:34]Let's spend time to watch such movies.

[22:37]Such movies are good.

[22:37]When there's a learning entity towards it, watch any movie.

[22:42]Any movie that does not promote uh indecency, a movie that promotes

[22:46]decency, a movie that promotes actual thought, that energizes your fantasy towards

[22:51]positive thinking.

[22:51]All these things we should be selective.

[22:53]That's why you notice Sharia has no concrete rule what you should

[22:57]watch and which movie you should watch and which movie you should

[23:01]not watch.

[23:00]The the the system of Sharia is these are the prescriptions of

[23:05]modesty.

[23:06]Now you go out in the world whether you're a businessman, you're

[23:08]a movie maker, you are a a scientist, it doesn't matter.

[23:12]You have an obligation of maintaining the dignity of morality within your

[23:16]system.

[23:17]If you can maintain it, you are successful.

[23:19]So when we look at movies like these for example, you see

[23:25]the story of these people who are very well positioned to be

[23:27]leaders of tomorrow but they were disgusted with the idolatry of the

[23:30]society that everybody was worshiping idols and everybody was fake within the

[23:35]society.

[23:36]Everybody in the sense of the general people that there was a

[23:39]prevalence of hypocrisy within the community and they became disgusted by it.

[23:43]Now Allah is showing me look at these people.

[23:46]They could have thrown the towel in too and joined the society

[23:50]and said look everybody's an idoltor.

[23:53]What can we do rather Allah elevated their status.

[23:55]What did they do?

[23:57]They left the community.

[23:57]They did migration.

[24:00]They did hijra.

[24:00]They did a short hra and they went up to the mountains

[24:06]waiting and they rather indulge themselves in salah and zikur privately.

[24:10]You know that really touches my heart when I think about that

[24:13]when an individual who's an heir apparent to the governor and then

[24:17]he leaves that he's not interested in the world he's got his

[24:23]access to the wealth he's got access to power he's got access

[24:25]to becoming popular how often in our communities and societies we're all

[24:29]striving towards popularity is everybody talking about me am I popular is

[24:35]my face on the big billboard so everybody can talk about me

[24:38]here's a person Allah is showing look at this being who's got

[24:44]great personality great access look what he's looking at he's looking at

[24:48]me Allah says look at him and how he leaves and he

[24:50]goes away and he gets into prayer and I'll talk about the

[24:54]verses of the Quran and you will see how Allah describes it

[24:56]but I'm giving an example what is the core the core behind

[25:01]it you find that they wanted to maintain their morality they wanted

[25:05]to maintain their dignity they wanted to maintain their connection with Allah

[25:09]and they were willing to give up all these accesses.

[25:12]If it meant at the cost of losing their morality, they said

[25:15]we will give it up.

[25:17]If we can maintain our morality, we'll stay with you.

[25:19]But if it means losing, that's why there's there are many ays

[25:23]in the Quran.

[25:22]Allah tells us that if your morality will get lost, then hij

[25:27]is w on you.

[25:28]Meaning you must migrate and if you don't migrate, Allah will punish

[25:32]you on judgment day because your morality is fundamental.

[25:34]Subhan Allah.

[25:35]So we look at ourselves in this in this dimension that you

[25:39]find that they leave and they go into up to the point

[25:43]where they rise against the establishment and they challenge them.

[25:45]They're ready to be killed.

[25:46]They run away and they escape in this cave and Allah puts

[25:50]them to sleep for 309 years.

[25:52]Look at the look at the rah of Allah.

[25:55]He puts them to sleep for 309 years.

[25:58]They wake up 309 years later.

[26:01]Why?

[26:01]Because they were asking Allah, how will such in uh injustice and

[26:08]this indecency?

[26:07]How will you replace this?

[26:10]Oh Allah, show it to us.

[26:11]And Allah answered their prayer.

[26:12]Imagine you and I think our prayers will not be answered if

[26:15]we take a step towards Allah.

[26:17]Allah is showing us an example of a sab that they prayed

[26:18]and look how we answered them.

[26:20]Not only did we answer them, we gave them a life of

[26:24]309 years beyond anybody that when they came back they were younger

[26:28]than their own grandchildren and we preserve them.

[26:31]Look at this.

[26:33]And then they say Maxmillian in the movie as he's walking back

[26:35]as he's going back to his cave.

[26:36]He's becoming popular.

[26:39]The whole community now says, "Wow, living miracles.

[26:41]Living miracles.

[26:42]We want to build a mosoleum for you.

[26:45]For you are living miracles." And these guys said, "No, we don't

[26:49]want popularity.

[26:51]We want to worship our Lord.

[26:52]We love Allah so much.

[26:53]We don't want people like you coming to rever us.

[26:58]We're nothing.

[26:59]We want to subject ourselves closeness towards Allah subhana tala." And they

[27:02]pray to Allah.

[27:04]Oh Allah, take us.

[27:06]Take us from this world lest these things become a distraction upon

[27:09]us.

[27:09]And Allah takes them away.

[27:10]Subhan Allah.

[27:11]The moral of the story they are totally in love with their

[27:14]god but they are very highly moral chast individuals.

[27:17]When you draw this picture likeman is talking to his son lower

[27:21]your wings lower your voice don't speak loud.

[27:25]If you speak loud you sound sound like a donkey.

[27:30]Quran says in fact the most the most detestable sound is the

[27:33]brain of a donkey.

[27:34]Allah says when you talk loud you are given that analogy that

[27:38]you sound like a donkey to to each other because now your

[27:41]moral systems have gone down when you examine this brothers and sisters

[27:44]this is what we're doing in Ramadan we when we go into

[27:49]suzu we say Allah look make my tongue strict often when I

[27:52]speak in public I I believe me one thing that I'm most

[27:56]afraid of which I'm being sincere in in in public that I

[27:57]say is this tongue of mine it's the most dangerous instrument I

[28:01]have it is a lump of flesh that makes words and I

[28:07]say certain things sometimes I walk away said why did I say

[28:09]that what is it is that something in my heart that says

[28:14]such a thing or says it that way or expresses it that

[28:16]way why do I say that I need to correct it I

[28:19]need to purify it there is a taint there is a darkness

[28:23]in this heart that must be completed and it must subject itself

[28:25]to Allah that feeling I tell you is the best feeling a

[28:32]person has when you recognize your own weakness when you recognize how

[28:35]weak you are as a human being that even imparting a message

[28:38]of God which has already been delivered which has already been exemplified

[28:42]which has already been given an environment which has already come under

[28:45]jurisdiction of Ramadan my life is so easy in this distribution in

[28:51]a crowd of people who nod when I read the recit recitation

[28:53]of the Quran Allah says look how easy I made it for

[28:57]you even then watch out for that tongue for you don't want

[28:59]to hurt the people's feelings and don't hurt my message.

[29:03]What a trial it is.

[29:04]Brothers and sisters, I tell you this is where Ramadan comes into

[29:08]play that when we make sudjud and ru and dua while we

[29:10]are fasting, this is what it's all about.

[29:12]Brothers and sisters and when it comes to modesty, the ultimate modesty

[29:15]as we say within this dressing system is very essential.

[29:19]Brothers and sisters, I'll conclude.

[29:20]I won't take too long because it's a week night and my

[29:22]brother Al Shal will be reciting.

[29:25]But yesterday when I mentioned about the wives of the prophet to

[29:30]give you an example that what is a functional individual among in

[29:34]womanhood and we spoke about Khadijah Khad Alisam gave all her wealth

[29:38]and she subjected herself to the ways of the prophet.

[29:43]She was submissive.

[29:42]She was penitent.

[29:44]She was a believer.

[29:45]She was a staunch believer.

[29:47]She gave everything for the cause of Allah.

[29:49]Now, in our modern worlds, when we say she was submissive, oh,

[29:54]does it mean she would bend over backwards for her husband to

[29:57]kick her any time?

[29:59]Or when he would beat her, she wouldn't say anything or when

[30:01]he would abuse her, she wouldn't say anything.

[30:04]We're not talking at the modern western uh language of submissiveness where

[30:07]a woman is just totally, you know, helpless.

[30:11]We're not talking about that.

[30:13]Submissiveness here means first and foremost, submissiveness to Allah.

[30:19]here means submissive to Allah.

[30:22]You don't submit yourselves as a woman or as a wife to

[30:27]the to your husband first.

[30:28]Everybody submits to Allah first.

[30:29]Even when you do a marriage contract, you make it very clear

[30:34]to the husband the to me that I am going to hold

[30:36]you liable towards the submission of Allah subhana tala.

[30:40]You put me under liability towards submission of Allahh and I put

[30:45]you in a liability to submit to Allah.

[30:47]Now we are safe because now the ultimate judge who is Allah

[30:52]is he's just he will give us our due there will be

[30:54]no biases thereafter.

[30:56]Thus when we violate you hold me to task to Allah and

[30:58]I hold you to task to Allah.

[31:02]How we will define Allah will vary in time but it doesn't

[31:04]matter.

[31:04]We have come to the conclusion that Allah is at the center

[31:07]of our lives here.

[31:09]Now what does it practically mean?

[31:10]It means that you turn to the Quran and you turn to

[31:14]B for those are the pragmatics.

[31:16]Those are the practical applications of how we turn towards Allah.

[31:18]So you notice even in marriage you find some people they get

[31:21]married because they just want to do their and that's it.

[31:24]We don't care about anything else.

[31:25]They have no concept.

[31:26]What are you going to do when you have children?

[31:27]How are you going to raise them?

[31:28]We'll figure it out when we get them.

[31:31]And then when the children come suddenly it dawns on you, oh

[31:36]my god, I have a huge responsibility.

[31:38]This is this is me.

[31:38]This child looks just like me.

[31:40]Now I want to make sure this child is good and these

[31:43]are the things I want my child to.

[31:44]And the spouse says, "Uh-uh, I have a different fantasy here.

[31:48]My dreams are different.

[31:49]I want my child to be that way." And then suddenly you

[31:53]find yourself clashing and the poor child becomes a pawn to be

[31:56]used on both sides.

[31:55]And then the child learns the art of using the parents on

[32:00]both sides to manipulate their own ways.

[32:02]You notice it's a dysfunctional family.

[32:04]After that, we have to make it functional.

[32:07]The way we make it functional is we focus our goals together.

[32:09]So ultimately and I will conclude you see what Allahh says in

[32:16]in the I will read it give a brief description and I'll

[32:18]conclude verse 35 because yesterday a sister came to ask me she

[32:31]said you said this is for a woman what about for a

[32:34]man what does the Quran say about a man does a man

[32:38]have to be submissive does he have to subject himself also to

[32:40]these rules.

[32:41]Does he have to be forgiving also?

[32:42]So I say that tomorrow I'll speak about it.

[32:44]This is why I'm bringing this forward and I want us to

[32:46]understand Quran is a very balanced book.

[32:48]Quran sometimes puts an emphasis on a woman.

[32:51]Sometimes he puts an emphasis on a man.

[32:53]But if you look at the Quran holistically, there is no bias

[32:56]in the Quran between one gender over the other.

[32:58]No bias whatsoever.

[33:01]Allah brings on both sides.

[33:29]Look at the beautiful verse.

[33:34]Verse number 35.

[33:32]Surely the men who submit and the women who submit and the

[33:39]believing men and the believing women and the obeying men and the

[33:43]obeying women.

[33:44]Look these are the morals moral principles.

[33:45]Let's put that in our hearts in this month to try to

[33:48]understand.

[33:49]Let me become all of them if possible but at least a

[33:51]few of them if possible when we all all of us have

[33:54]a few of these already in our souls if not all of

[33:58]them to some degree but it's never enough.

[34:00]We must always increase them.

[34:02]He says, "Obeying men and obeying women, the truthful men and the

[34:06]truthful women and the patient men and the patient women and the

[34:09]humble men and the humble women and the armsgiving men and the

[34:12]armsgiving women and the fasting men and the fasting women and the

[34:19]men who guard their private parts." Meaning they are modest in their

[34:22]dressings and the women who also guard and the men who remember

[34:25]Allah much and the women who remember much.

[34:28]The last part, Allah has prepared for them forgiveness and a mighty

[34:33]reward.

[34:34]Look at the spirit of the Quran.

[34:36]I tell you when I read such verses as much as we

[34:39]read any kind of verse in the Quran, this these verses are

[34:44]the summary.

[34:43]They conclude these are verses by the way.

[34:47]These are not these are decisive verses.

[34:48]These are the ones that establish all the other verses.

[34:51]Therefore when we read about you know for example the verse about

[34:58]beating women you know we say that you know beat them this

[35:03]verse has to be taken allegorically it must be placed with this

[35:06]and other verses and one one of these days I will talk

[35:10]about this you'll see that actually within Sharia as much as people

[35:13]talk at various levels if it challenges our common sense and our

[35:16]rationality it must be rejected for Allah has has given us that

[35:20]authority to understand the human dimensions at this level that yes there

[35:26]are certain laws we cannot put our rationality and we must submit

[35:28]but at this level when we talk about balance and equation between

[35:31]male and female roles and how a husband deals with the wife

[35:35]and how the wife deals with the husband it's very clear that

[35:37]whatever these definitions are as some people say it is even lightly

[35:41]beating like this it's not unacceptable because that word daba has many

[35:49]many connotations has many meanings one of them even means to be

[35:53]a a striking example meaning move away from them.

[35:56]But you'll find other verses the muhamad clearly states that no man

[35:59]can beat his wife.

[36:00]There are other verses that very clearly stipulates that a man has

[36:04]to be very gentle with the ama that Allah gives as a

[36:07]wife.

[36:07]So when you combine the two you will understand but here is

[36:09]enough for us to end this discussion tonight that the rahma of

[36:14]Allah the balance is at this level decency morality you'll find people

[36:18]like Sigman Freud came to the conclusion that the human race lives

[36:23]for sexuality everything they do is for sexuality today you look at

[36:28]the world the economic industry the the the industry that makes money

[36:31]we're talking about for example uh the internet the internet's viability as

[36:35]an economic IC viability became viable due to pornography online because of

[36:41]pornography.

[36:42]You know that that credit card acceptance was readily accepted.

[36:44]That's how a big business it is to show you the human

[36:48]race is so sexual in nature.

[36:50]You will notice that from childhood the hay the covering the parenting

[36:56]the protection of family rights is at the core of humanity.

[37:01]And I tell you the ultimate when we talk about hayw and

[37:02]a sister comes to me or a brother comes to me says

[37:05]listen why is Islam saying this to me is saying that to

[37:07]me I said hold on I will help you answer it.

[37:10]He said how show me.

[37:12]I said imagine your daughter is asking you this question.

[37:14]How would you answer that?

[37:16]Imagine your son is asking you that question.

[37:19]How would you answer it?

[37:22]You will notice that if even if you're 16 years of age,

[37:24]if you put yourself as a parent and now your child is

[37:28]talking to you, you will not ask the same question.

[37:29]you will not answer the same questions the way you want it

[37:33]to be answered.

[37:32]Because if I'm 16 years old, I've got this fantasy.

[37:35]I've got the world of explorations to do.

[37:37]I want to enjoy my life.

[37:38]Don't hold me back.

[37:40]Don't tell me halal and haram.

[37:41]I want to have freedom.

[37:42]But then you find the parent says, "No, I want you back

[37:45]by midnight.

[37:46]I don't want you hanging out with this person.

[37:47]I don't want you going to this website." You said, "Dad, what

[37:50]is this?

[37:51]You keep holding me back." I asked the child, you become a

[37:53]dad for tonight.

[37:55]Think that you're a father and you have a son who's taking

[37:56]the keys of your car now leaving with his friends.

[37:59]You try to be a dad for a few minutes and figure

[38:03]out how the dad feels.

[38:03]So there is a fra in us.

[38:05]There's something innate in us that even a 15year-old understands how it

[38:10]feels to be a dad.

[38:11]A 15-year-old girl knows how to it feels to be a mom

[38:15]if we simply project it.

[38:15]That's why Imam Ali advises to his son Hassan.

[38:20]He says, "I spent many years reflecting how to be an old

[38:22]man though I wasn't an old man and I felt how it

[38:27]was to walk in their shoes." So that I should make judgments

[38:32]like them.

[38:31]So that I should be there before I am there.

[38:34]May Allah give us the to be that.

[39:14]Foreham, we'll talk more.

[39:17]Brothers and sisters, let's recite salawat and then we will listen to

[39:21]a beautiful majus inshallah.

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