Dawah A Call of Duty

Dawah: A Call of Duty

By Abu Taubah

Opening of Khutbah

I bear witness that there is no deity worthy of worship except Allah, who was alone and has no partners, and I bear witness that Muhammad ibn Abdillah (صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) is His messenger.

First Quranic Verse

Allah says what could mean in the Quran:

"O you who believe, fear Allah as it is His right to be feared, and do not die except as Muslims."

Now we say this word, fear Allah. But the word taqwa, which is the original word here does not necessarily mean fear. It means remember, it means respect. It means do something now to protect yourself from something happening later. So we translate it colloquially to try to bring all those different meanings. Give Allah his right as it is his right to be feared, respected, revered and remembered. And don't you dare die. Don't you find yourself dead except that you died as a Muslim. And I try to remind us that this is a threat. So you can now think as soon as you're threatened who is the one that's threatening you. And the ability of the one to carry out his threat. Don't you dare die except that you die as Muslims.

Second Quranic Verse

Allah says what could mean:

"O mankind, fear your Lord who created you from one soul, and created from it its mate, and raised up and spread from those two many men and women. And fear Allah whom you ask things for, and do not cut ties with the wombs that bore you. Indeed, Allah above you all is laying in watch."

Again, have taqwa for your Lord. The one who created you from one soul. So it's as if he's explaining who your Lord is. Because we know from Rububiyah the Lord, he is Khaliq. So he says, fear your Lord. The one who created you from one soul, Adam. And from that soul, Adam he created his mate, Eve. And raised up and spread from just those two individuals many men and women. And that right there, look at that. If we just look around we all come from Adam. And this is what this is reminding us. So we need to drop that nationalistic thought that we always have, that tribal understanding that when we think one complexion, dialect, area of land is better than the other.

And fear Allah. Again, have taqwa for Allah. Again, who is Allah? The one whom you ask things for. So again, it's giving you the meaning Allah is the one whom you ask things for. And don't cut ties with the wombs that bore you. So even though you're not to be nationalistic you're supposed to remember the wombs that bore you. Respect those people that you come from. And honor them. But not pride. So there's no contradiction in the ayah. It's quantifying how you should fear Allah. And how you should respect your own nasab and legacy. Indeed, Allah above you all is laying in watch. And when we say this, this is raqiban. It's like an army that's in an ambush position ready to attack another group. And that group can't see them. And they're right there ever ready to attack. Indeed, Allah was a watcher over you. Allah above you all, over us all is laying in watch able to attack and take us from whence we don't see.

Third Quranic Verse

Allah also says:

"O you who believe, fear Allah and speak words that are straight to the point."

O you who believe. Fear Allah. Again, have taqwa for Allah. So many times, over and over again. وَقُولُوا قَوْلًا سَدِيدًا - And in light of your taqwa. In light of the understanding that you will have to turn back to Allah. That you are returning to Allah. That you are accountable to Allah. Then open your mouth. And make sure what you say goes straight to the point but in a way that shows you're being conscious of your creator. And the respect that he has due from the orders he has given you how to display whatever you have to display.

Whoever does this Allah will rectify his deeds. He will make right what he did wrong. And forgive him his sins. And whoever is already obeying Allah. And already obeying his messenger. Has already achieved the highest aspirations anyone could hope to achieve and reach.

The Best Speech and Guidance

As for what follows. Then we have to know. We really do. Talking to us. We have to know. That the best speech. The best speech. And best in every way. Is the speech of Allah. That Quran. And if we really believe that. Why does a person read the daily newspaper? He reads the daily newspaper. Because he thinks there's some information in there. That's going to benefit him. In his day. It's going to help him understand. What's going on. The occurrences of the day and the times. Why does somebody get those self-help books? Because he thinks in that book. There's going to be some line. Some information. Way of doing something. That's going to help economize. And make it more effective for him. In his dunya.

The best speech. Is the speech of Allah. So if we take that mindset. Best in every way. You want to economize your time. You want to learn ways of doing something. The prophets of Allah. They were the best and the most effective. In everything they did. And the messenger of Allah. Was after that. The best example for all mankind. So if we really believe. That the best speech. Is the speech of Allah. We will be constantly. Reading and re-reading. And revising and reviewing. The Quran. So we can extract and re-understand. And remember and more. Remember and mention. What's going on in the Quran. So it can affect our day-to-day life. So that's what the meaning is. So let's not. Stop saying it. And start doing it.

When I came this morning. Too many people sleeping after fajr. And we say we salafi. The salafi didn't sleep after fajr. They considered it. Someone to accuse them. Of sleeping after fajr. As disrespecting them. One time. One of the sahaba sat outside the door of another one. Waiting for him, waiting for the sun to come up. To ask him a question. And so the shaykh said to him. Why didn't you come in a little earlier. Did you think we were sleeping. Are you accusing the family. Of sleeping after fajr. And he said no. I would never accuse you of that. I just wanted to give you some time. With your family.

So if we say. It's the exception not the rule. Sometimes things happen. You're traveling and stuff like that. You have to go back to sleep because of what's going on. That's the exception not the rule. Not everybody in here. Was up praying all night. Reading Quran and that type of thing. So that they got tired. And they went to take a small little qaylullah. After that, we shouldn't do that. What we're doing we're misplacing.

When we say now, and the best guidance. Is the guidance of Muhammad. The best guidance. In every way. You want to know how to do something. How to be effective, how to economize. Do it the way the prophet Muhammad (صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) did. In everything. The most evil of things. Are those things we bring. Into the equation. Like sleeping after fajr. Because if you stay up. You'll be tired around dhuhr. Or before dhuhr. Between dhuhr and asr and you'll take a qaylullah. You'll take a nap. Which is the sunnah. So every time you leave. The sunnah, you make a bid'ah. An innovation. Even in something like sleeping after fajr.

But we want to look. At somebody else. We're constantly looking at somebody else. And accusing somebody else. Of not being on the sunnah properly. But we're not looking at ourselves. And seeing where. We can follow

the sunnah better. Okay. Every newly invented thing. Anything that opposes. Or that the prophet (صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) didn't come in. With regards to this religion. That we put into the game. Is something that will lead us to the hellfire. And Allah knows best. How. We may not be able to comprehend. How something. Simple. Would change us and take us to the hellfire.

But we see. The people of the past. They considered something big. When we consider it just splitting hairs. No big deal. But they considered it something big. Something that would destroy a man's religion. So if we say. We're following the salaf. Then leave your opinion alone. And follow the opinion. And the idea. And the structured life. Of the prophet (صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) And his companions.

The Example of the Messenger

Allah says in the Quran:

"There is for you in the Messenger of Allah an excellent example, for the one who has hope to meet Allah and the Last Day, and who remembers Allah much."

He says there is for you. Allah. Allah says the you. With regards to the messenger of Allah. أُسْوَةٌ - An example. حَسَنَةٌ - And this word حَسَنَةٌ . Like we said in English. You need a whole bunch of words. To describe one word. حَسَنَةٌ means beautiful. Good. It means excellent. It means the best. And it means more than that. So we have to really try to understand. Just the best, the most beautiful. The most excellent example. You have in the messenger of Allah. But for who? لِّمَن كَانَ يَرْجُو اللَّهَ - For the one who decides. He has the hope. To meet Allah. وَالْيَوْمَ الْآخِرَ - And he has hope. To be raised up on the last day. And he remembers Allah much. May Allah make us amongst them.

The Focus: Following the Prophet's Method of Dawah

This ayah. Is the focus of. What we're talking about today. بِالْعِبَادَةِ - And following the way. Of the prophet (صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) . And how he gave da'wah. To his family.

Everybody knows the story. The prophet (صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) . He got on a hill. And everybody. Called his people, his clan. To come. And they all came. And he started to say. Do you trust me? If I was to tell you there was an army behind me. Would you believe me? If they were to say. There's some practical danger there. Would you trust that I was telling you the truth? And they said, yes, of course. You are Al-Amin. You are trustworthy. We don't know you to do any tomfoolery. We don't know you to be a liar. Or a jerk. Matter of fact, he was the most trustworthy. Of them.

So then after that, what did he do? He told them that he was the messenger. Of Allah giving نَذِيرٌ وَبَشِيرٌ - To warn them and to give them glad tidings. And they rejected it. But the focus here is, what did he do? He called his family together. And he brought attention. To his standing in his family.

If we. May Allah guide us. Ameen. Want to be like the prophet Muhammad (صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) . We have to stop. Focusing on. Our friends. We have to stop focusing. On our colleagues. We have to stop focusing. On our associates.

Fard Ayn and Fard Kifayah

There is what we call. In Islam فَرْضُ عَيْنٍ. And فَرْضُ كِفَايَةٍ . Does anybody know. What فَرْضُ عَيْنٍ is? Ya Ustadh, should be. Have to be made, naam? You have to do it. What about فَرْضُ كِفَايَةٍ? Yes sir? No ums, next person. It's an obligation. On the whole group. So for example, can I say. You know what, I'm busy today. Could you pray salatul asr for me? Just, I'm I'm traveling so it's only two rakaat. Knock it out so I can go. Do something else, can I do that? Why not? Because it's فَرْضُ عَيْنٍ. I have to do it, but let's say. May Allah protect us. Someone dies. And we have to establish the salatul junazah. And I'm on another side. I'm at the hotel. Okay? Do I have to be here? Now if nobody else is gonna be here. Do I have to be here? Yes, why? Because it's an obligation. On every last one of us. However, if a few of us. Take care of that obligation. The rest of us don't have to. Take care of it, right?

Alright, now watch. One of the first lessons we learned as a talib ul ilm. Are the tricks of the shaitan. Write it down. Write it down. One of the tricks of the shaitan. On the talib ul ilm. Is he busies him with the فَرْضُ كِفَايَةٍ . So he leaves off the فَرْضُ عَيْنٍ. This is one of his major tricks. That he gets people. Trapped off in. Busying themselves doing فَرْضُ كِفَايَةٍ off. The فَرْضُ عَيْنٍ

What's فَرْضُ عَيْنٍ in da'wah? What? Thank you. Teaching your family. Why? What's the proof?

Allah says:

"O you who believe, save yourselves and your families from the Fire."

قُوا أَنفُسَكُمْ - Save him, no I'm to leave Muhammad. I have to focus on me. And then afterwards who did he tell me to focus on? وَأَهْلِيكُمْ - And your families. That is فَرْضُ عَيْنٍ

You have no business. Opening up your mouth. To anybody. You want to give da'wah? Give da'wah with your actions. And if they want to ask you something. Then answer them. If they want to get busy talking and debating. And stuff like that, direct them to someone. Who is authorized to talk to them. The imam. Come to the

Practical Advice for Giving Dawah to Family

I suggest that you. Save your money. And cater. Or make some food. Big food and invite. Your family. From far and wide. All of them and tell them that you're having a meal. And you cater. You pay for it. Whether it's a brunch, a lunch. Or an early dinner. And you bring them all together. No matter how young, according to your means. Even if you have to borrow money from the masjid. To do it. Call them together. Serve them, have some of the brothers. Come to be the servants there. And you can be the servants when they do their families. And when after you have them all eating. Ask them about your situation with them.

Ya ikhwan. Tell your brothers, these are your brothers, your sisters. Your uncles, even if they're on the sunnah. Invite them all. Say guys, do you know me to be a liar? Do you know me to do tomfoolery? And if they know you to be tomfoolery, then you need to change that. You need to start somewhere. And invite them to the food. Sit them down. And in a mature way. According to. Your circumstance. And your situation. And your standing with your family. Have a real heart to heart. Talk about what is. Affecting your life. Your islam.

If you've been a dummy. If you've been. A fool. Then you need to apologize. That's where you need to start. Bring them all together and do what we learned from the prophet Musa عَلَيْهِ الصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ . What did the firaun say? Firaun said to him. You know when he come here talking about your prophet. You know. Didn't we raise you? And didn't you live with us? And you did that. And you know you did that. And you're a kafir. You're ungrateful. Because he was an aristocrat. He was raised as an orphan in the pharaoh's house. Got all these luxuries. Then you want to go kill that man. You ungrateful.

What did Musa say? Nah that wasn't me really. You know what happened was this one. No he didn't pop a plea. He said I did that. Own up to it. Get it right there. Yeah I did that back in the days. When I was. And then my lord guided me. And made me. So we change it to our situation. And so Allah has guided us. And made us one of the people. That are following the sunnah now. And I want to share with y'all. Yeah I was the foolish one. Yeah I did this and that. And I'm ashamed of that now. Don't run away from it. But start there. And have that heart to heart. Because that's real.

Hadith About Clicking Fingers in the Masjid

The prophet صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ . He said. He said the shaitan sits on those fingers. When you do it in the masjid. So even though we don't see that. Everything the prophet صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ said. We believe. So this is good, this is good, this is good. But this is bad, okay.

Main Message: Focus on Your Family

So anyway. This is what my dawah to you guys is today. Make it real simple. Focus on your families. On simple. Day to day things that you can do. You have a little brother, you got a big brother. Go visit them. You got nice parks here. You can go visit the queens birds. And everything like that. And have a good time. Regular simple stuff.

Every time you meet them you gotta give them a pamphlet. On why you're salafi. Why you're following this. You don't gotta do that. You know that's not working. Is it? And from the sign of insanity. Is that a person keeps doing the same thing. Over and over again. Expecting a different response. Like we say the man he takes a

hammah. He bangs his hand, it hurts. Then he reams back and he hits it again. Why do we say he's crazy? He did the same thing twice. Thinking that it's gonna not happen. Something's different.

So we too have to think about that. As we keep going in this circle. This cycle. We have to do something different. And the thing that we have to do different. Is leave off our own opinions. And start following the way. The messenger of Allah صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ Gave dawah to his family. It was very practical. He didn't start fights with them. He was just himself. When it's time to go pray. You go pray. Even if they have pictures in the house. Because you. You feel as much as you can. You feel as much as you can. You don't always have to. Stick a needle in the point. Let them enjoy being around you. As who you are. Let them see the change in your life. As opposed to here. You giving the lip service.

Questions and Answers Section

Question: About Using the Word "Salafi"

This is my dawah. If there's any questions I'll take them right now. Yes sir. You have to speak loud. So what's the point? Okay. So he's saying because people. The word Salafi has gotten. Bad media. We should not say that we're Salafi. That's what his question is. The approach he's taking. I disagree. Just like the word Salafi has gotten bad media. The word Salafi can get good media. But you don't wear it on your shoulder. Give me this. You don't walk around talking about I'm Salafi. You know. Knock it off my shoulder. That's what it is? No. You be Salafi. Do you understand? You be Salafi through your actions. And then if they ask.

One guy wrote me on the internet. He said you're alright for a Salaf. He says you're alright. Like that. Meaning that his impression of what the word Salafi is. Was one thing. But I'm not owning up to that impression. That he has. So people have to start changing their impressions. Because we have to start acting better.

There's another thing called blameworthy modesty. Blameworthy modesty is then. When we see the person who's doing something wrong. He's open and proud to do his wrong thing. And he's open. And then we get shy to do the right thing. No shame on him. Not shame on me. I'm going to do what I want to do. And if they ask me are you Salafi. Or if it comes up. What kind of Islam did I say I'm Salafi. Really? If they turn off. If they turn off. But they have an attitude. I'm going to continue to be me. Because the reality. Of showing off. In Islam. Is that you do something. Because you see people. Or you don't do something. Because you see people. Do what you're going to do. Knowing with ihsan. That Allah sees you. Don't worry about. Nobody else.

We go around the Kaaba. And we have on our white. What do you call it? The thing that looks like a towel. And then. The cloth, the terry cloth is the word I wanted to say. We have our izad and our. We go on around, people for years say. Look at these fools. In bathrobes running around the Kaaba. Are we going to stop doing that? Because they think it's foolish? No. We're going to keep doing it. Because we know it's the right thing. So, if we think being Salafi is the right thing. Then be Salafi. If someone asks you if you're Salafi. Say, yeah, I'm Salafi. What does it mean? Oh, it means to follow these particular people. Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, and Ali. And

those after that, you know, the companions of the Messenger of Allah. You can explain it. Well say, no man, Salafi means that you're a terrorist. No, I mean, if you think so, the only thing we're attacking is your heart. You know. Or say something, whatever you want to say.

Well, I don't want to talk to you because you're Salafi. Well, you know, I don't want to talk to you because you don't want to talk to me. Or whatever you want to say. May Allah guide you, whatever you want to do. Be you. And remember that Allah sees you. And don't think, don't even look at them. Don't even consider them. Outside of the route of considering. Another human being. The consideration a human being should get. Does that make sense? Next. Next question. Now. Oh. Yes sir. Sorry. Sorry.

Question: About Working Hours and Sleeping After Fajr

Okay. Okay, so he said most people work between. Nine to five, is that what you're saying? And so they can't take a break. After dhuhr. To take the nap. So if your situation is like that. It still doesn't give you a reason to sleep after fajr. Does it? Right? Or you should maybe get a different job, if you can. You know, if you can. Or maybe we should start considering going someplace. Where you can take a nap after dhuhr. And then maybe another country that we might. Facilitate that type of thing. If that is that serious for you. Otherwise, you know, going to bed early.

I know people have dhruf, they have situations. Like I said, it's the exception, if your situation calls for it. I'm not saying I never sleep after fajr. Sometimes I do, based on what happens. I might get into the country at a certain time and I have to sleep. You know? But we try not to make it our habit. The point is to draw attention to where we're falling short. In the sunnah. Okay? Not to the points that we think. Because we, a lot of times, we walk around. With a little bit of pride. Astaghfirullah. Thinking that we are the epitome of the sunnah. When we're not. And we're far from the mark.

I mean, I would say that we were someplace. If we could say that 90% of the people here. Were hafidh of the Qur'an. Or at least had half the Qur'an. Or memorized one juz a year. Since how long they've been Muslim. Right? How many pages is it to make a juz? 20 pages to make a juz. It takes you a year to memorize 20 pages? It's 15 lines on every page. Okay? It takes you a year? Come on. It takes about 30 minutes to memorize 5 lines. Or 3 lines. Some people can memorize a whole page in half an hour. But we waste our time.

So we have no business. To be walking around with our nose. Stuck up in the air thinking that we are the sunnah. And everybody else isn't. No, we are just as bad as everybody else. With regards to. Tariqah sunnah. Leaving the sunnah and those things like that. And I just want to draw attention. To the areas that we can move positively. And proactively forward. Because I've been listening here. And most of the stuff is, how can I argue with this man? How can I make this guy come to Islam? Ain't your job to make somebody come to Islam. You know? Your job is to give da'wah to your family. That's what your job is. And when you finish, then move to your neighbor. Okay? Your neighbor. This is the way we go out. The circle. Like that.

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And he told the truth that everybody will be. Forgiven except the one who. Except for the people who broadcast. Their sins don't broadcast your sins. You know don't broadcast it. Even though we have another narration that the sahaba. Used to talk about what they used to do in jahiliyyah. They used to talk about in amuman. Generally how ignorant the thing was. They didn't say oh you remember when we got drunk over there at the pub. Back in last year. No they don't say that type of stuff. They say remember how alcohol was so terrible.

So you can talk to this guy. And whoever the persons are. That have whatever problem they're going through. And let them know that you relate and point to. Examples. Of how to do this and just to be supportive. As long as you're not enabling. There's a difference between supporting. And enabling. An enabler is someone that keeps assisting. The person to stay in their dysfunctional. Situation. Sometimes you might have to do some tough love. You know sometimes you have to sit on. The drug addict so he can't go and get his drugs. Or chain him to the. Radiator. No serious. Sometimes you have to do that. Or even beat him up. So he can't go out the house. If whatever you can get away. Depending on your circumstances. And situations.

So you know. You never have to broadcast your sins. As far as you the one doing. But you can say I remember those times. When drugs were proliferating. Lots of people have this problem. In fact I know of a circumstance when a person had this type of situation. You see we went all around that. And he was in and this guy did like this. But what about me well what about you. You know. Reality is this. It's hard enough to keep yourself in Islam. Right.

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said it's going to be a time where holding on to Islam. Is like holding on to what. Hot coal. We have to look at that. You know and do your level. Best. Do your level best with your family members. Yes.

Question: About Books for Learning the Prophet's Way

Assalamualaikum. I can't hear you sir. Assalamualaikum. Just a quick question. Can you recommend us some books. That we can focus or read on. That you would recommend to be read in the family. And to learn the way of the Prophet صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ . And generally be inspired by. Some specific books. Yes. There's this one book it's called the Quran. I'm not trying to be funny. I mean I guess I am. No but I'm trying to. We focus. We always where's your ear. We go right here. We can't buy our way into this thing. Everybody's constantly consumers. We're well trained monkeys. You know we're taught to buy. Buy buy and that's going to be the solution. You don't gotta buy nothing.

Get that mushaf. The Quran. And get up and sit down with your family. And read. Read the Quran. It's the very first order. Read. And read it with your family. Every day every opportunity. Sit down with them and read it to them. And give the translation in every language. That you need to. Go visit them say look you know I'm coming to visit you mom. And you sit down and say I just want to read you this short passage. Don't read no long 20 pages. You may be able to take that. But maybe you read the small story. Or maybe you read half a page. Or maybe you just read 3 lines. But this was really. I thought this was really good today. I just want to read this to you.

If you have control over your children. Then have them read to you. Whenever I have my children with me. I'm not trying to brag. I'm just giving an example. I say here read this. They get nervous. But hey read. And then maybe don't be so. Judgmental. Let them make their mistakes. Sometimes you know what we do. We treat the stranger with the respect and gentleness. That we should treat our children. And our family members. So some strange guy comes over. Come here. And he goes. What is this man. Why you got this beard. And why did you bomb the twin towers anyway. And how's Osama. And you're like. Don't worry about it.

But then your children say. What are you doing don't you know. And we break on them. We go crazy on them. Because they didn't do something. Where's the opposite. The Salaf were the gentlest to their children. In private. And they were tougher with them in public. What does that do. There's some psychological balance there. Because the child knows if I act out in public. I'm going to get it. But at home I got some leeway. So they learn to respect the street. You get it. They learn that when we go on the street. We got to keep it tighter. Because there's less room to play. When we're out on the street. But at home you can get away with that. Let's start implementing the sunnah man. Let's start doing that. In our day to day.

We don't need all these great big fatwa. And all these big books. We just need these little things. That if we start implementing them. It would make the major changes. We say attention to details. What are details. Small things. Did you know in military history. Not one battle. Has ever been lost. Over a major issue. Do your own research. Most battles. Are changed over something. Real minute. Some small detail. So we need to really. Pay attention to the details.

I bet you. If you got up and spent 20 minutes a day reading Quran. With your family. So they can understand it. So that means you read the Arabic. They read the English or you read the Urdu. Or read the Punjabi or whatever language that you have to. Read it to them in or Somali. If you do that with them 20 minutes every day. Not them sitting down. And reading their portion. Let them read their portion and let them do it with you. And go through the Quran. Like that. Or just focus on the stories. Half the Quran are stories. Half. Give them the stories. Talk to them about it. That will change your life. Their life. I give you the no money back guarantee. 30 days try that. And see how your relationship changes. Next.

Question: About Making Dua for People Who Sin

Another question. Let me just stop you guys. Don't say I have a question. That's wasting time. Just say. If you

want to say. And just ask the question. This is the adab of asking a question. When you go meet shuyukh. They are not going to have patience. Like I have a question. Of course you have a question. But it's not a big deal. Just come. One of them. When he got older. When the students used to come to him. He wouldn't allow them to say. They used to be able to come and say. Assalamu alaikum. And they get busy. Because time is of the essence. Time. We are trying to get what we can done. In the quickest amount of time possible. Right.

Assalamu alaikum. Alhamdulillah. What we can do is we can take advantage. We say that. People think that people who. Are quote on quote knowledgeable. Don't have the same problems. As people that are quote on quote. Not knowledgeable. But the shaitan is working harder. On trying to make the person. Who is giving dawah. Or has some type of knowledge. Because he wants to. Thwart all his effort. How many times we've seen in this era. We have this guy we love him and next thing you know. He topples he makes a human error. And we knock him down and we burn his books. And we say everything he said was lies. This is wrong from our part. But this is what the shaitan. He wants us to do. He wants us to do that.

So we recognize that to err is human. You know. To err is human. Allah says:

"There is no believing slave except that he has a sin that he returns to time and time again, or he has a sin that he doesn't leave until he leaves the dunya."

Reference: Hadith narrated in various collections

The fact of the matter is. That the man was created. Sinful and forgetful. If he is reminded he remembers. So we remember the statement. The reminder benefits. What? Don't be scared. Be man. The reminder benefits who? The believers. And it annoys the munafiqun. And it annoys the hypocrite.

So we need to. Engage ourselves. Give the brother dawah. If he is your family member. If he is not keep giving him salams. And make dua. We don't make dua for people anymore. Make dua for them. And continue to make dua. Allah hears the dua. And he responds to them. So. Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullah. Wa alaikum salam wa rahmatullah. Wa barakatuh. So he forced me to go more. Inshallah.

Question: About Using Hikmah in Dawah

The brother earlier said about the word salaf. Has got a lot of negative. Understanding with some brothers. With it. And if you come and give dawah. And use the word salaf you said. Ok if they didn't like it. They didn't like it. What I would like to know from brother butawba. That what's your comment. On using the hikmah and also the hadith. Of Insahihul Bukhari.

Hadith:

(Source Name)

"Make things easy and do not make them difficult. Give glad tidings and do not repel people."

Reference: Sahih al-Bukhari Hadith 69

Says make Islam easy to people. Not difficult. So what's your comment please. My comment on that is that you're not making it. Difficult for them. I'm not saying. Like I said you don't walk around putting the salafi. On your chest bumping into everybody. Saying I'm salafi. Be salafi. I said. But if the question comes up what are you upon. Why should you hide. Why should you try to. Squiggle and worm. What's to be ashamed of.

If you say why don't we use that same argument. They don't like the word Muslim. So we're not going to say we're Muslim no more. We're going to say we're ones who follow. And submit to Allah. Like the brother suggested. You know. When is it going to end. Now we take a stance this is my stance. You know I'm going to be salafi. And if they don't like the word salafi. Alhamdulillah they're going to like me. Because I'm a nice guy. Inshallah and I'm going to be a nice guy. With my family. Remember I'm focusing on our family. Anybody else they can go to hell. Literally. It's not my job. You understand. I'm focusing on my family.

Some other guy he wants me to. Argue with me we see some of the salaf. Somebody said hey can I debate with you. I just want to have two words with you. One of the salaf said no you can't even have one. And he ran. Got away from that guy. Somebody called him and said what are you running from. He said I'm running from a jackass. You know then when somebody came. To somebody and said look I want to debate with you. About these issues he said look I'm clear. About what I believe if you have some. Doubt go study. No I got nothing to argue with you about.

What are we doing. I want to get some proof to him. There's a hadith that says:

(Source Name)

"Whoever studies knowledge to argue with the ignorant, or to compete with the scholars, or to attract people's attention to himself, then he is in the Fire."

Reference: Sunan Ibn Majah Hadith 253

Then the fire. Whoever studies knowledge. To argue with the juhalah. Right. To argue with the ignorant or to arrest. The people's faces to them. Like right now let's say I study just so I get people. To look at me. You know. Or to get to start. Challenging the shuyuk. That shaykh was wrong. Just to do that type of thing. Then the fire. The fire outside of that. Because that's not what he said.

I don't see it. That you have to change. Who you are in order to give dawah. What you have to change. Is their perception. Of what that means. And that will change. By you just following the sunnah. You don't have to try to force them. To change all you have to do. Is follow the sunnah. And you follow the sunnah and give them. Their rights. That will make the effect if Allah. Wants it to if. Because you don't guide who you want. It's only Allah. That guides who he wants.

Look at Abi Talib. He had. He knew the messenger of Allah. Was never gonna lie on a human. Let alone Allah. He raised him. He knew his whole. Background. Defended him. And yet and still Allah did not give him the. Tawfiq. That he gave you. Right? He had the best one giving him dawah. The messenger of Allah صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ . He was related to the. Messenger of Allah. None of us can really claim that. None of us have been taught. By the messenger of Allah. By Allah himself. We have this. Isnad. Yet Allah gave us. Tawfiq and he didn't. Give that man. Tawfiq.

So one thing we know for sure:

"Whoever Allah wants good for, He gives him profound understanding of the Deen."

Reference: Sahih al-Bukhari Hadith 71

Man yuridallahu bihi khairan. Yufaqqihu fideen. Whoever Allah wants good. For him, he gives him. Profound understanding of the Deen. Because fiqh, it doesn't just mean. Understanding, it means understanding. What was intended. And so if you have come. To the sunnah, then know. That Allah wants good for you. He wants khair. And khair has been defined. By Allah in the Quran.

He says:

"There is no good in most of their private conversations, except for one who orders charity, or that which is right, or reconciliation between people."

Reference: Quran 4:114

He said, there is no khair. No good. Whatsoever, with the fact that. No good whatsoever. In most of your private conversation. Najwaakum. You know what I'm saying? Most of the private. Conversations, there's no khair whatsoever. There's only khair. When the one. Is talking about amara bi sadaqah. He's ordering people to give some sadaqah. All the different forms of sadaqah. Asmaal is sadaqah. You know? Asmaal. Aw ma'roof, and what is ma'roof? Ma'roof is called. What is easily recognizable as good. I'm giving you a definition. Ma'roof. Ma'roof is that which is easily recognizable. As good, and that means. The sharia. The sharia of Allah. The legislation of Islam. The fiqh of Islam. So we order what is ma'roof. The orders of Allah. The commands in the fiqh and the sunnah. But if we don't know those things. Then we can't say nothing. Or. Or rectifying the situations. Between the people. Which again takes many many forms. Otherwise there is no khair. Whatsoever in your private. Conversation. So. So whoever believes. In Allah on the last day. Let him say what is khair. You see the word again. Let him say what is khair. What is good as we define those three things by Allah. Or let him shut his mouth.

Because usmut does not say. Be quiet. It means shut up. If you say to an Arab. It means be quiet. You say to him usmut he might hit you. Usmut. It might start a fight. Let me get. Tell him usmut. Not a good word here. So. That's what my da'wah to us. We run our mouths too much. In the wrong way. And to the wrong people. And this is the major trick of shaitan. On the talibul um and the salihin. To get him doing the fardu kifaya. So he leaves off what. Fardu ayn. And it's fardu ayn upon us. Kuman.

Conclusion and Final Advice

And after that. Let's work. We got a lot of work to do. But let's do that work. That's gonna make the change. In our everyday today. And in the society. Because the society is built up on small families. Right. The family structure. And those are the hardest changes to make. Those small little things. And I wanted to make a correction. Yesterday. One of the days. A young boy asked me about wearing red. Right. I understood his question. Is if you can wear red. Have red on you. But if the question was can you wear all red. Complete red and nothing else but red. Then in the sharia this is haram. Okay.

But to wear the color red. Which is how I understood the question. Like this guy stand up young man. Yes. You see the young man is wearing red right there. Yes no maybe. Okay he has red he has white. He has some other colors there. Some gray that's totally lawful. But to wear red from head to foot. This is not allowed. Do you understand. So based on how you ask the question. Is the way you get the answer. And I don't want to cause any confusion. About that. As long as it's not. As long as. He's saying a single child. Like the brother back there stand up brother in the back with the red shirt. Come forward please. Hurry up hurry up hurry up. So brothers can see you. Handsome brother right here. Stop flexing your muscles man.

He's wearing a red top there. But is he wearing completely red. Okay then he can wear that. But some people might say that's makro. Some people might say that's makro. Okay. Based on it being a solid red. But others would say no because he's not only wearing red. So you know you have that type of conversation. In there. But see the place for these type of questions. Shouldn't be like here. Because they need some tafseer. They need some definition. What it points to again is the necessity of us. That we need to sit down. And learn some basic fiqh. From a basic fiqh book. So that we can have a basic. Foundation. You know.

And for those people who come from desi backgrounds. Then read the book Muqtasir al-Quduri. It's in English. It's an excellent book to read. From the salaf. Muqtasir al-Quduri. I think Taha publications. Or something like that. I saw it in that street in London. It's like all the Asians live on that street. What is that street called. Green street yeah. Is that saying that because it's a green lane. It's green street yeah. There's a place there that sells books. On a corner. I don't know the name of it. Okay they're telling me I have to go. Alright.

Hopefully anything I said. I don't mean to offend anybody personally. You know I love you brothers. I'll see you later.

Closing

اللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ

وَالسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ