Truth In A Confusing World - Sheikh Abdulrahman Cherri | Ramadan 2025 - Night 5

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[0:28]alhamdulillah respected brothers and sisters sisters and brothers and all the creatures

[0:56]of Allah subhana wa ta'ala however you would like to be addressed

[1:01]may Allah sub accept your Deeds your prayers your fasts tonight will

[1:08]be my final night with you and it's been a wonderful experience

[1:13]to see the Believers over here to be able to sit down

[1:17]with you and Converse even though mostly it was a monologue but

[1:20]even the individuals I was able to speak with after the lecture

[1:26]alhamdulillah it's good to be together in one group as a one

[1:34]Community Allah subhana T in the Quran emphasizes the need to be

[1:39]bonded together as Believers it's not good to isolate yourself yes we

[1:45]have our differences we might not get along with one another all

[1:49]the time but that shouldn't be an excuse for us to reject

[1:52]each other at the end of the day we're all holding on

[1:57]to the Rope of Faith the Rope of Allah believing in God

[2:03]believing in his messenger you might differ with another person you might

[2:15]have but you also are connected to that individual so always try

[2:24]to maintain a relationship with those who are believers like you when

[2:29]we we were what we were taught by the society and the

[2:36]imams were a minority at that time the Shia the followers of

[2:40]were a minority for the most part and they were asked by

[2:48]their companions because they believed that they were following the righteous path

[2:52]the companions believe that we are following the we're on the righteous

[3:00]path and therefore we don't have to connect with those who are

[3:05]around us the teachings we have from the imams is the opposite

[3:10]of this whenever they had a companion that used to seclude themselves

[3:14]from their society even from those who are followers of even those

[3:20]who were following the imams and their teachings they divided the followers

[3:25]into different groups some people thought that they believed in the spiritual

[3:30]powers of the imams and whoever doesn't believe in that theyd reject

[3:34]them they don't deal with them anybody who doesn't believe that the

[3:40]imams have Divine knowledge they would reject them not every follower of

[3:48]the IM believes in these things on this deep level so the

[3:51]imams became aware of this and they used to tell their [Music]

[3:56]followers that not everything that you know someone else has to necessarily

[4:03]be able to know people are of different levels in this world

[4:07]we have different capacities not everyone carries the same amount of intellect

[4:11]as the other person not everyone has the same access to information

[4:15]as knowledge as the other person people are affected by how they

[4:21]were raised as well in terms of what they receive with with

[4:25]knowledge so the world that we live in now we notice this

[4:30]being a drastic problem we live in a world where people have

[4:36]many different opinions the problem is that we reject these other people

[4:42]for having different opinions a lot of times when I see Threads

[4:46]Online where people post something and someone comments about the you know

[4:52]giving a different opinion aggression starts to build up very quickly just

[4:57]because that person has a different opinion and then they remove that

[5:05]person they unfriend them they block them and then they go to

[5:08]their timeline and they start posting over there screenshots look at what

[5:12]this person was saying and then they start looking for support from

[5:18]the people that are in their own Circle and bubble well this

[5:20]is not the right way to deal with our differences we have

[5:24]to be more compassionate more loving more caring for one another maybe

[5:29]that person reached that level of understanding due to incorrect premises incorrect

[5:35]introductions they were given wrong data wrong information just like you reached

[5:42]the conclusion they also reach the conclusion who is to say that

[5:46]you are the right one all the time yes there is a

[5:48]right and there is a wrong but that other person might believe

[5:53]that what they believe in is right but they reach the conclusion

[5:56]in a wrong way as someone who's a believer who has been

[6:02]given knowledge if you believe you're the true you're on the true

[6:08]path then with knowledge comes responsibility as well because in the Islamic

[6:12]understanding the more knowledge a person has the more elevated they are

[6:17]existentially you're on a higher level the more knowledge you acquire the

[6:23]more your soul begins to expand the more your soul expands the

[6:27]more awareness you have the stronger ability you have to understand the

[6:33]details you start thinking more sharply your soul becomes stronger and this

[6:41]is why it's very recommended for a Muslim to always seek knowledge

[6:46]because knowledge is connected to the soul and with the soul you're

[6:48]able to see truth and reality so if you're someone who believes

[6:53]in Allah subhah wa ta'ala and have acquired a certain amount of

[6:57]knowledge you were able to reach the truth at some point other

[7:02]people might not have been exposed to the same thing that you

[7:05]have so someone who has more knowledge responsibility comes with that that

[7:13]that knowledge is to be passed on and to be passed on

[7:17]in the correct way not in a wrong way if you're more

[7:20]knowledgeable and someone's misguided you go and you guide that individual the

[7:26]method of guidance is also very important there's a very famous principle

[7:32]in Islam called enjoining good and forbidding evil a lot of people

[7:42]love this because they think that they can use this to go

[7:44]and police people around to boss them around they see someone doing

[7:50]something wrong they go criticize them and yell at them and they

[7:53]think Allah subhana T is pleased by my behavior why because I'm

[7:55]stopping corruption from happening I'm criticizing the evil but they don't understand

[8:03]that there are conditions for this to be applied not everybody is

[8:06]allowed to enjoin good and forbid evil the method of doing it

[8:12]is very important if you say something thinking you're guiding somebody or

[8:21]criticizing them for doing something wrong and you say it the wrong

[8:24]way and you push them more towards doing it because now they

[8:27]have a negative understanding of them or they build a negative feeling

[8:32]towards it because of the way you've said it then you're responsible

[8:36]for their misguidance don't think that you're allowed to criticize somebody freely

[8:39]like that if they're doing Haram you don't have the right to

[8:45]go and yell at them or to insult them or to put

[8:46]them down you don't have the right to do that your right

[8:50]is to act with compassion and mercy if you think that you

[8:58]advise them and that advice will help them because some people are

[9:01]at a point in their life where they they just can't listen

[9:04]to advice they don't want anyone to tell them what to do

[9:08]they have a deeper problem than what you're seeing on the surface

[9:12]the surface level problem is just a symptom of a deeper issue

[9:16]that they have so don't think you can just go to people

[9:19]and tell them stop doing this and stop saying that and stop

[9:23]behaving like this this is Haram and this is wrong and you're

[9:25]going to go to hell this is not right you have to

[9:30]use a lenient method and sometimes you're not supposed to advise at

[9:35]all the only time you're allowed to advise advise someone is if

[9:38]you believe that your advice is going to have a positive effect

[9:44]on the individual that's one of the conditions of if there's a

[9:50]possibility that what you say to them is going to push them

[9:53]away from their religion then you're not allowed to say anything to

[10:00]them it's Haram and if you push them away you're going to

[10:02]be responsible for the sins that they commit so you have to

[10:09]be wary the more knowledge you receive the more humble you're supposed

[10:14]to be anybody who reads the letter of IMI to when he

[10:18]placed him as a governor over Egypt he sent him a very

[10:25]famous letter what he emphasized now that you are gaining power and

[10:30]you have authority over people now you have to be more merciful

[10:37]towards them you have to be more overlooking for of their mistakes

[10:41]you don't become stricter when you become a governor you don't become

[10:45]someone with authority and therefore now you have the the right to

[10:49]go and oppress other people in the name of doing good no

[10:54]you're supposed to become more merciful more forgiving similarly the individual who

[10:58]becomes a Believer get going to get close to Allah subhah wa

[11:05]ta'ala that mercy and that love and that compassion has to reflect

[11:09]in your heart even more and more and more this is why

[11:14]our when they elevate spiritually you find that they begin to cry

[11:18]more their heart becomes more tender it doesn't become stiff if you

[11:25]see someone who is getting closer to religion and their heart is

[11:28]becoming stiffer then understand that they're getting closer to their ego and

[11:32]not towards Allah subhah wa ta'ala because Allah subhana T is the

[11:37]most knowledgeable being the most knowledgeable makes him the most forgiving the

[11:41]most compassionate the most loving and as this is what we have

[11:48]to elevate ourselves to the more knowledge we gain the more Mercy

[11:55]we're supposed to have to other people and we live in a

[11:57]time where a lot of people are confused they're bombarded with information

[12:05]every single day this opinion that opinion this is right that's wrong

[12:09]it's not clear it's very ambiguous you go to the have different

[12:15]opinions where do you go to it's very difficult to acquire proper

[12:21]knowledge so this should tell us that we shouldn't be so judgmental

[12:27]when it comes to other people's opinions when it comes to voting

[12:32]in this country and politics some people belong to this group and

[12:36]other people belong to that group and they talk to each other

[12:38]like they're enemies well a lot of people on the other side

[12:43]they lack the information that you have you grow up being taught

[12:48]that oppression is a bad thing that Justice is a good thing

[12:52]and you have a special connection to certain lands you understand something

[12:59]that the other side doesn't understand so when you speak to them

[13:04]you shouldn't speak in a way that expects them to have the

[13:08]same information and that same passion that you have they grew up

[13:11]with a whole different mindset they were taught different things so anytime

[13:16]you have a debate you have a discussion especially here with people

[13:19]who are non-muslims that belong to other denominations always keep in mind

[13:25]that they don't have access to the information that you have try

[13:30]to teach them Act Like Loving individuals Saka was a Greek philosopher

[13:39]and he was sent a letter One Time by by one of

[13:46]his relatives asking him about the issue of differences between people and

[13:50]it causing anger and senica was a stoic he was asked to

[14:00]give this spiritual advice this ethical advice based on the stoic mentality

[14:04]or philosophy how do I deal with the issue of anger now

[14:09]of course stoics they're a bit on the extreme side when it

[14:12]comes to the uh Vice of anger they're a bit extreme Saka

[14:17]for example was someone who believed that anger should be eliminated completely

[14:21]our they're more in line with the artian ethics which says that

[14:27]Anor has to be balanced you have to find a balance you

[14:30]don't completely eliminate anger because anger is necessary sometimes if somebody comes

[14:36]to attack your house and to Rob your house if you don't

[14:39]have any anger you're just going to sit down and watch that

[14:43]Thief come and Rob it you need that anger to get you

[14:45]up like what are you doing you can't rob my house if

[14:51]you're completely stoic and now stoicism is becoming a thing everybody's reading

[14:55]about it and I've seen a lot of memes about stoicism of

[14:58]course they take you on the a very surface level it's a

[15:01]very deep philosophy and it's very interesting to read about but eliminating

[15:05]anger completely from your life is going to eliminate the ability to

[15:08]defend herself you don't want to become someone who's completely passive but

[15:13]anyways that's not what what I'm trying to say from his letter

[15:16]in his letter he says something that's very beautiful he advises this

[15:21]individual that asked him how do I deal with anger he says

[15:24]you who knows who has knowledge of what's right and what's wrong

[15:31]you have to behave like a doctor with their patients if there's

[15:34]a patient who's suffering from Pain and this pain is making them

[15:41]scream at the doctor yell at the doctor what does the doctor

[15:44]do punch them yell yell back at them say oh yeah you're

[15:51]yelling at me watch what I'm going to inject in your body

[15:54]is that is that what they're supposed to do of course not

[16:00]a doctor should have passion should have an understanding he knows that

[16:04]this patient is yelling because they're suffering from a pain that they

[16:07]have in their body if their pain wasn't there there wouldn't be

[16:11]yelling sometimes people are yelling even without their pain but most likely

[16:15]this pain is coming from that this yelling is coming from that

[16:20]pain that they're suffering from you knowing that they are yelling because

[16:25]of the pain that they're suffering from makes you responsible to be

[16:28]compassionate toward towards them why because you're above them in this level

[16:32]you're more aware you know that if the pain is not there

[16:36]they wouldn't be yelling and it's justifiable for someone to be in

[16:41]pain who is in pain to be yelling they don't mean to

[16:42]be yelling at you so a lot of people have frustrations they

[16:47]have pain in their lives they've been mistreated as children they've been

[16:52]mistreated by other people they've been rejected in society they've been Outcast

[16:56]they've been gone they've gone through bullying in schools over here and

[17:00]they grow up with a very rebellious voice they want to reject

[17:06]everyone's opinion they always want to stand out somebody might be like

[17:09]that it's your responsibility to speak to people according to their level

[17:16]of intellect and according to their capacity of existence and as a

[17:21]m Allah subhana T says you are above other people why because

[17:25]you have this awareness of Allah subhah wa ta'ala not everybody can

[17:29]have this awareness this awareness requires an elevation in spirit and soul

[17:33]so if you're elevated you have more awareness when you're dealing with

[17:39]other people you have to deal with them with compassion and mercy

[17:42]if that person knew what I know maybe they would have behaved

[17:46]differently so instead of criticizing them and yelling at them let me

[17:51]teach them let me try to take their hand and guide them

[17:56]towards what I know and that requires a lot of patience requires

[18:00]a lot of understanding so when you have someone who differs with

[18:05]you in an opinion on the one hand you're responsible to try

[18:09]to guide them towards your path in the best way possible and

[18:12]on the other hand it's a test for you to test the

[18:18]level of your faith Allah subhana T in the Quran when he

[18:22]talks about the prophet he tell he says that if you were

[18:34]someone who was harsh and your heart was stiff then people would

[18:38]have escaped from around you but the prophet because of his leniency

[18:43]in speech he wouldn't raise his voice at people people came with

[18:50]him criticizing him criticizing him yelling at him throwing stones at him

[18:55]doing everything they can to put him down yet the prophet dealt

[18:58]with all of them with mercy and love because he was a

[19:01]messenger he was a guide he looked at people as these sick

[19:07]individuals they have diseases they have ills and the prophet was a

[19:12]doctor this is why the IM beautifully describes the prophet he says

[19:17]what he was a doctor specific like a very beautiful example he

[19:26]had the medicine and he used to go around around to sick

[19:32]people spiritually ill and he would give each one a prescription to

[19:36]try to help them now the doctor can only do so much

[19:41]they give you the prescription now it's your job to take the

[19:43]medicine to take care of yourself right and the same thing as

[19:50]Believers we don't have to force people to adopt our opinions and

[19:53]if they don't we feel bad for them may Allah subhana show

[20:01]you the path so we have to be more patient with each

[20:04]other we have to be more caring and when I see online

[20:08]you know what's what's happening nowadays this idea of immediately canceling people

[20:14]and rejecting them because of differences in opinion it creates a very

[20:19]egotistic ailment inside of ourselves because it say you're basically what you're

[20:26]saying is that I have the full truth and whoever doesn't agree

[20:29]with me is in complete falsehood you're not even entertaining the possibility

[20:36]of you being wrong why do you have the full truth who

[20:39]are you are you a prophet that Allah subhana T sent Gabriel

[20:43]to you and he never told us no the fact that we

[20:51]are not infallible should always humble us because we might be wrong

[20:55]in what we're saying there's a lot that we don't know so

[20:58]try to be be patient with one another try to have discussions

[21:02]respectfully with one another yes some opinions are very very you know

[21:08]you think they're very stupid right like I'm I'm not going to

[21:13]say this is a stupid opinion but according to some people if

[21:16]you believe that the Earth is round that's very stupid right and

[21:22]the other side I said it the opposite way the other side

[21:28]says whoever believes that the Earth is flat as stupid but this

[21:33]is a serious discussion there's websites there's people thinkers YouTube videos a

[21:40]lot of hours have been put to prove whether this theory is

[21:44]right or that theory is right you might think it's an ID

[21:48]he's an idiot the one that believes the Earth is flat like

[21:50]you you just have to go on Google Maps and and figure

[21:53]out that the Earth is round right well apparently not because all

[21:56]these people went on Google Maps and didn't figure that out so

[21:59]you might think that they're there there's something wrong with their brains

[22:04]not necessarily they might have been basing their opinion on something else

[22:11]that they believe in it's ingrained in their minds this conspiracy that

[22:15]these are all trying to trick us right so what do we

[22:19]do with these people do we make fun of them do we

[22:22]criticize them do we say you're going to hell no you can

[22:26]have a discussion with them this is our proof and this is

[22:31]your proof and that's it it ends over there we can continue

[22:33]living with one another you don't have to start creating neighborhoods this

[22:37]neighborhood for flat earthers and this neighborhood for round earthers and start

[22:42]separating yourself now this is a small example but there are many

[22:47]many other examples in terms of religion people differ in terms of

[22:50]their this is a syani this is a shi this is a

[22:54]this is this this is that what's the problem if every person

[22:58]follows their own even if they have a different opinion we can

[23:03]live with one another this is a matter that we're trying to

[23:06]get closer to Allah subhana wa ta'ala with just like I expect

[23:12]the other person to respect my opinion and my conclusion I should

[23:15]respect their opinion and their conclusion as well muham when you go

[23:32]to the house in Iran you find that there are many many

[23:35]different Scholars there for every discussion you find those scholar that adopts

[23:43]a different opinion some Scholars like philosophy others believe the philosophers are

[23:49]going to hell they have a special place in Hell the philosophers

[23:52]God has preserved an area for the philosopher just for them that's

[23:57]how bad they are some people believe in some say spirituality mysticism

[24:04]is the best path others believe that mysticism was taken from India

[24:09]and other countries and these people are not even Muslims you have

[24:14]so many different opinions in the and if this tells us anything

[24:17]it tells us that the possibilities of knowledge are so many if

[24:21]our are differing in this and they can coexist and live with

[24:26]one another then why should we be the ones who are judged

[24:28]in each other and rejecting each other on this on this basis

[24:32]when it comes to the we have to understand that we have

[24:37]to respect other people even if they believe in a different Med

[24:40]even if they follow in a different Med it's not a problem

[24:43]to go back to the Hadith of the IM the IM says

[24:47]that there are some of you who have knowledge that others don't

[24:50]have and this is a very closed Circle because not most people

[24:56]go towards this deeper knowledge and greater understanding not everybody does most

[25:00]people are okay with the superficial knowledge some people they go deeper

[25:05]they seek deeper knowledge so this is the the smallest Circle if

[25:12]you expand that the Imam says there are those who don't know

[25:19]what you know and they are followers of they're lovers of B

[25:23]you carry respect towards those individuals you marry them you live with

[25:27]them you visit them when they're sick you ask about them you

[25:31]you you you um coexist with them and then there's a larger

[25:36]Circle those who love the imams but don't follow them the Imam

[25:42]says those are still good people you also live with them but

[25:46]they just have not been granted as much knowledge as you have

[25:51]been granted expand that you have the general Muslims that don't follow

[25:55]and the companions used to ask the imams what do we do

[26:00]these individuals and the imams used to tell them you visit their

[26:03]dead you visit their sick you go and walk in their funerals

[26:06]you live with them they're Muslims at the end of the day

[26:10]and us living here in America we expand the circle even more

[26:16]there are those who are non-muslims we're responsible as individuals to coexist

[26:22]with them to speak to them to reach out to them to

[26:25]live with them normally like human beings one issue that we have

[26:32]here in Dearborn is that we're really closed up in a way

[26:34]in one sense it's very beautiful because it creates a strong bond

[26:39]in our community we have our own identity over here and it's

[26:42]very beautiful that we have this chance to exist like this but

[26:46]just because of that it comes with a negative side as well

[26:51]we don't learn how to deal with people who are outside of

[26:56]the circle here so in one sense we appreciate the blessing that

[26:59]we have in the other sense we should be able to open

[27:04]up and speak with others one issue is the converts that we

[27:08]have these are people that convert to Islam and they don't feel

[27:15]like they belong to a society this is a problem a lot

[27:17]of converts complain about this they come to a Masjid they come

[27:22]to a center and they feel they're not accepted over there because

[27:25]people are usually gravitating towards people that are more they're more familiar

[27:29]with if they're from the Lebanese Community they're more with them with

[27:32]those people from the Iraqi Community they're more with those people and

[27:36]the conference don't find the place in these communities and centers a

[27:41]lot of conference feel alienated they're not accepted why because culturally they

[27:47]don't behave the same way so as a community it's our responsibility

[27:51]to bring these people in to care more about them if we're

[27:57]unable to do that it shows that we're in closed in our

[27:59]own bubble and this is a problem we shouldn't be limiting ourselves

[28:04]to our culture only a person who is a Muslim deals with

[28:11]everybody around them on the basis of Allah subhah wa ta'ala not

[28:13]on the basis of their culture and their background and it's a

[28:18]very sad reality when we see this because a lot of people

[28:20]have converted they come and they complain to me and they end

[28:26]up creating their own circles outside of the general Muslim Society the

[28:31]convert group The convert Circle why because they don't feel that they're

[28:36]being accepted by the Muslims so being a Muslim you have to

[28:41]be loving towards other people you have to be inviting and you

[28:43]have to transcend the limitations of yourself living in the world that

[28:49]we are in right now it's a challenge for all of us

[28:51]every one of us is going through their own issues yes the

[28:56]problems are many the diseases are many the spirit spiritual issues are

[28:59]many the mental health issues are many living here together on this

[29:06]Earth we share this land together in this very very vast Universe

[29:09]the least we can do is to love each other and to

[29:14]care for each other if you see someone else suffering reach out

[29:18]to them try to help them because you can feel their pain

[29:23]as well you suffer like them you know that this is a

[29:25]challenge for all of us so the issue of compassion and love

[29:29]should be spread more and more instead of going the other direction

[29:33]where we're more selfish we're more egocentric if you see any believer

[29:39]criticizing someone else you tell them to calm down to treat them

[29:46]well to not use this kind of language towards them to not

[29:51]push them away if everybody does that we all live in a

[29:56]better Society but every time we have different is I don't want

[30:01]to talk to people anymore I wish I could never see anybody

[30:03]we seclude ourselves and this is not healthy because now it's you

[30:09]and yourself and it creates more problems for you so as individuals

[30:14]who live in the society here and we're in the month of

[30:17]Shah Ramadan this is a wonderful opportunity for us to reach out

[30:23]to those who we have wronged in our lives try to change

[30:25]yourself during this month try to reach out to people that maybe

[30:30]you haven't reached out to before think of people that you know

[30:33]in your life that you haven't talked to in a while give

[30:35]them a call ask about them sometimes a person's going through a

[30:41]very big challenge if they receive one call from you and you

[30:45]ask about them that will change their whole state to the better

[30:49]try to do something like that if you were in a dispute

[30:55]with a Believer be forgiving this month because you want Allah subhana

[30:59]wa tala to forgive you for your sins for all the mistakes

[31:03]that you've done and we've all done many mistakes if we want

[31:07]Allah subhana T to forgive us then we have to be forgiving

[31:09]towards other people use this month to amend the differences and the

[31:15]problems that you have with others call someone and say look we

[31:19]ended on a bad note we said things that were inappropriate to

[31:24]each other I want to apologize on my behalf I want want

[31:29]to put this behind us and we can start a new page

[31:32]forgiveness is very important compassion is very important whenever you deal with

[31:38]somebody always keep in your mind how do I want them to

[31:44]deal with me and based on that you deal with them and

[31:46]even better equation how do I I want Allah subhana wa tala

[31:51]to deal with me how would Allah behave in this situation and

[31:55]you imitate Allah subhana ta'ala so knowledge gives us that responsibility we're

[32:02]supposed to acquire more knowledge and the more knowledge we acquire the

[32:06]more responsibility we have towards other people the closer we are to

[32:10]Allah subhana wa ta'ala the more responsibility we have towards others just

[32:14]because you're a Believer doesn't mean you have the right to see

[32:20]yourself as above others in an arrogant way no you become more

[32:23]loving and caring for others these were just some final words that

[32:26]I wanted to say saying that community that we live in it's

[32:31]a beautiful Community beautiful Believers wonderful individuals full of passion full of

[32:37]great potential and each and every one of you is on a

[32:42]journey in this world Allah subhana T created us and we all

[32:44]share a similar Human Experience here we came to this earth we

[32:50]were born here and we're on a journey together let us live

[32:52]together with Harmony let us live together with love and care and

[32:57]remove the grudge that we have this is Shan who tries to

[33:01]get involved in each and every person's life to make us live

[33:03]miserably if we can be more loving and compassionate and merciful towards

[33:10]each other everybody collectively will be living a better life I ask

[33:14]Allah subhana wa tala to grant us this mercy and this love

[33:19]and this compassion that is required for us to be able to

[33:22]get closer to him and to be more forgiving and loving m

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