n37 23 The Major Sins Series - Drinking Alcohol - Abu Usama 1617

The Major Sins Series - Drinking Alcohol

Speaker: Abu Usama

Opening

In the name of Allah, the most gracious, the most merciful.

Introduction to the Fourteenth Major Sin

يَقُولُ الْمُصَنِّفُ رَحِمَهُ اللهُ تَعَالَى : الْكَبِيرَةُ الرَّابِعَةَ عَشَرَةَ شَرَبُوا الْخَمْرَ وَإِنْ لَمْ يُسْكِرْ مِنْهُ الْإِمَامُ الذَّهَبِيُّ

The author, Al-Imam Al-Dhahabi, may Allah have mercy upon him, says: The fourteenth major sin is the sin of drinking alcohol even if a person doesn't become intoxicated or drunk as a result of drinking it. It is still considered to be a Kabira from the Khabair.

Concerning this issue, the Kabira of Al-Khamr as you're going to see, is one of the major of the major crimes and the major sins and indiscretions that the abd al-mu'min can fall into. And Al-Khamr is everything that causes the mind to be closed. Any and everything that will cause the mind to be closed is Al-Khamr.

Definition of Al-Khamr

Hadith:

As Imam Bukhari and Imam Muslim have narrated in their books of the authority of Umar ibn Abdullah رَضِيَ اللهُ عَنْهُ the companion of Rasulullah صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ he said:

(Source Name)

Reference: Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim

Verily the ayats of Khamr were revealed and Khamr comes from five things, five basic things. And intoxicants come from grapes, dates, from Al-Hinta which is wheat, it comes from barley and it comes from honey. And then he said and this is the Shahid:

Al-Khamr is the thing that causes the mind to become lost, closed, covered.

And that's why the headpiece of the woman is called the Khimar from the word Khamra and Khamr, the intoxicant is from that. Covering on the head is called the Khimar because it covers the head. So those five basic things are what Khamr comes from, intoxicants come from.

Butt, crack, cocaine, marijuana, heroin, all of those narcotics are considered to be Khamr as well because they cover up a person's intellect. When a person drinks Khamr or uses drugs, depending upon the type of drug it is, you will see his intellect become affected. He becomes a person who even though he's a grown man, he's an adult, he can't articulate and speak clearly.

He vomits like a little child in front of people. He may even use the bathroom on himself in front of other people. He falls down like a child because his mind has become preoccupied with the Khamr.

So the Khamr is any and everything that causes the mind to become closed. Al-Imam Al-Dahabi rahim Allah ta'ala made a point that we have to draw your attention to. He said from the major sins, number 14 is Al-Khamr, even if it doesn't make you drunk.

The Prophecy About Making Haram Things Halal

Because there are some Muslims unfortunately who have proven Rasulullah صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ right when he said in an authentic hadith that's been collected by Imam Al-Bukhari and other than him:

(Source Name)

Reference: Sahih al-Bukhari

There are going to be people from my Ummah in the last days who are going to make lawful or try to make lawful the private parts, meaning fornication and adultery, and they're going to make it halal. They're going to attempt to make halal as zina. He's going to be told you cannot marry your wife's daughter after consummating with her mother and he says I'm going to do it anyway. It's okay in the deen as we've seen happen.

He's going to try to make that halal and other issues of zina. And they also are going to try to make silk that is worn by men. Well, it's only a tie. Well, it only has so much percentage of silk in it. Silk is haram on the men of this ummah. Unless the man has an udhur, he has an excuse.

He has some type of skin condition that he's compelled and forced to wear silk. As the companion Ka'b ibn Ujrah radiallahu anhu was allowed to wear silk because he suffered from al-kamil and he suffered from a skin disease. They will also try to make khamr halal, make it permissible.

And they will try to make music, musical instruments halal. If the instruments are haram, what comes as a result in the product of the instruments is halal or haram. So those people will come and we see those people.

As it relates to al-khamr, when you listen to the people who say that khamr is halal, you would actually laugh. Ikhwani has some of their dill and their hujjaj. From the proofs that they use.

Some Scholars' Incorrect Views on Alcohol

Muslims and from them the fuqaha even. Especially from the Hanafi madhab. And this is not to pick on the Hanafi madhab.

But what we have to do, no matter what madhab you come from, no matter what masjid you're in, no matter who your imam is. You have to refer your affairs back to the Quran and the sunnah. The way the companions understood it.

And you cannot hide behind that thing, what my imam said or my madhab said. Some of the major scholars of al-Islam allow the drinking of khamr. Some major scholars.

Because it requires a lot of consumption in order to make you become drunk. And that's why imam al-Dahabi said it's haram even if you don't become drunk. Some of the ulama from the top of the Hanafi madhab used to say it was permissible to drink the nabid.

Which was a type of alcoholic beverage that will get you drunk. It's like today, there are some alcoholic beverages, they say 5% alcohol, no alcohol. But then when you read it, it says 5% alcohol.

No alcohol means it's not enough to get you drunk. That is haram. And it's not permissible for you to drink.

So imam al-Dahabi made that distinction. It's not just with the Hanafi ulama. It's not all of them, just some of the major ones from amongst them.

Al-Imam Sufyan al-Thawri was of that opinion. And the scholars and the ulama of al-Islam used to say beware of the ulama from al-Basra and al-Kufa. Because they used to allow the drinking of certain aspects of the khamur that were clearly impermissible.

Hadith: A Little of What Intoxicates in Large Amounts is Haram

Hadith:

(Source Name)

Reference: Sunan Abi Dawud, Hadith 3681; Sunan al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 1865

I prohibit you people from drinking a little bit of that liquid which a lot of it is haram. If you consumed a lot of it and it made you drunk, then a little bit of it is also haram. He said صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ Whatever you can drink with two hands and it makes you drunk, then one hand is also haram for you.

So whether the person gets drunk or he doesn't get drunk, it is khamur and it's not permissible to be consumed by the Muslim. He went on to use the book of Allah as his sunnah and his custom.

Quranic Evidence: Surah Al-Baqarah

Ayah:

And the first ayah that he brought is the statement of Allah in surah al-Baqarah:

They ask you, ya Muhammad, about the consumption of alcohol and they ask you about gambling. Tell them that in khamur and gambling is an ithim that is big. إِثْمٌ كَبِيرٌ So it's clear that khamur is a kabira from the kabair.

And this ayah was revealed at the beginning of al-Islam, in which our mother Aisha radiallahu anha said, Had Allah revealed immediately the prohibition of al-khamur, many of the Arabs would have left this religion and they wouldn't have given up their desire and their need to drink khamur. But it came in stages, in a tadaruj. This ayah was one of those ayahs that allowed them to drink.

But it made it clear that in the khamur is an ithim that is kabir. Because Allah called the khamur ithim, the scholars of al-Islam said from the adillah that makes al-khamur haram, the statement of Allah Ta'ala:

Tell them what my Lord has made haram is, all of the fawahish, the indecencies, those done openly and those done in secret, and the ithim, all of the sins, and from the sins is al-khamur, because Allah called it al-ithim. The rest of the ayah, that al-imam al-dhahabi only used that portion to show that it was a kabira from the kabair, is that Allah Ta'ala said:

Say that in both of them is a great sin, and some benefit for the people. In khamur there is benefit, and gambling there is benefit, but the harm and the evil of it, far outweighs the benefit. From the benefit of khamur, for the

abna of the dunya, the people who sell khamur, is that you're going to make money.

And if you're a businessman, and you have one of those shops that we have in our local communities, or you have a restaurant, it's a well-known fact. If you wanna make a killing and you wanna make a lot of money, then you have to put khamur in there, according to what people believe and think. The businessman who wants to be supported, and he wants you to invest in his business, or he wants you to become a partner, when he tells the person, we won't have any khamur, he's going to pull out and say, I'm not going to be a partner, because that's not a successful business.

You have to have the khamur. In it is benefit, but it is a temporary benefit. From the benefit of khamur, and there's no doubt about it, is that when you eat and you drink wine, it helps you to digest your food, it makes you brave.

The Arabs used to drink khamur, like Quraysh were drinking khamur, on the night prior to bedr, and they would give their poetry, because the creative juices start to flow, and a man is able to tap into that creative source. So it's some benefit, in khamur and in gambling, but the evil far outweighs the benefit. So we should leave the khamur alone altogether.

Quranic Evidence: Surah Al-Ma'idah

Ayah:

The second ayah is the statement that Allah Ta'ala said in the Qur'an:

O you who believe, verily the khamr, the gambling, the ansab which is slaughtering on the altars, and the azlam which is trying to decide what you're going to do based upon pulling an arrow, or pulling the lots, which is permissible in Al-Islam in a very restricted sense. The Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ if he wanted to travel with one of his wives, because he had multiple wives, he would choose which wife he would travel with by pulling out her lot. So that fate, the Qadr, can decide what's going to happen.

That's permissible. But what's not permissible is, a person pulling an arrow, or trying to decide what's going to happen based upon the arrow, or the piece of paper that's pulled, thinking that that paper is the thing, that when he pulls it, some catastrophe is going to happen in the trip. Some catastrophe is going to happen if he marries her.

Some catastrophe is going to happen if he invests in that particular business. So the khamur, and the gambling, and the divination, and slaughtering on the altars, all of that is rijis, and from the amr of a shaitan. It is dirty, it is

Hadith Evidence

He went on to bring a number of hadiths of (رَسُولُ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - Rasulullah ﷺ) that are *qawiyah jidden* in their *istidlam*.

He brought the statement of al-imam al-dhahabi, wa thabata, that Ibn Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him, said, when the prohibition of al-khamur came down, the companions went to each other and said that al-khamur was prohibited and it was made a means of shirk.

And Abdullah ibn Umar, may Allah be pleased with them, went to them and said that al-khamur is the biggest of all kabair. And it is without a doubt the mother of all *khabif*. And it has been cursed in other than its hadith.

He said that the ayahs of al-khamr, when they were revealed, that made the khamur haram. The companions started going out in the streets of al-Madina and they started to inform each other, al-khamur has become haram, totally, completely haram. And they took their vessels and their bottles of al-khamur, and they started to throw them in the streets.

So much so, that the streets of al-Madina were flowing with khamur down the alleyways and down the main parts of the street. And you could smell khamur, because there were so many alcoholics and so many people were drinking at that time. Some of the best of the companions were drinking, like Abbas ibn Abdul Muttalib, may Allah be pleased with him, the uncle of (رَسُولُ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - Rasulullah ﷺ), may Allah be pleased with him, who sat with some of his friends and became intoxicated.

Story of Ali and Abbas

Ali ibn Abi Talib, may Allah be pleased with him, drove up to the masjid on his camel. Got off of his camel and tied his camel up and went into the masjid to rest. And Abbas, the uncle of (رَسُولُ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - Rasulullah ﷺ), may Allah be pleased with him, said to the people, you wanna see something? They said, sure.

He got up, he slaughtered Ali's camel, cut off the hump, and they had a big laugh at the expense of Ali. Ali came out and saw his slaughtered camel, saw his money and his property destroyed, his riding beast for the jihad. And he was a poor man.

He didn't go to his uncle and rebuke his uncle. He didn't take the affairs into his own hand and slap his uncle and get into a fight. He went to (رَسُولُ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - Rasulullah ﷺ), may Allah be pleased with him, told (رَسُولُ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - Rasulullah ﷺ) what his uncle did.

(رَسُولُ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - Rasulullah ﷺ) didn't say, Ali, you're my nephew, you accepted Islam way before Abbas, you must be telling the truth, you're from Ahlul Bayt. He didn't say that. He went to Al-Abbas to find out what happened to Al-Abbas.

Instead of Al-Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him, making *istighfar*, making *tawbah*, he said a word of *kufr* to (رَسُولُ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - Rasulullah ﷺ) as a result of being drunk. Al-Khamr will put on your mind a cover. He said to the Prophet (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - sallallahu alaihi wa sallam), Ya Muhammad:

You and your father are my slaves. That is a statement of disbelief to say that to (رَسُولُ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - Rasulullah ﷺ). And then he said, (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - sallallahu alaihi wa sallam):

Khamr is the Mother of All Evil

Verily the khamr is the mother of all dirty and nasty things. And it is the biggest of the major sins. Whoever drinks it, he will have relations with his mother, his maternal aunt, and his paternal aunt.

All of them, not just this one or that one or this one, because his mind is covered by the khamr. So that's why Imam Al-Zahabi said, It is no doubt that it is the أُمَّ الْخَبَائِثِ. It is the mother of all dirty and nasty things.

It will cause a man, as it happened here in the UK, to go into his brother's house and to stab his sister-in-law with a Rambo knife, and kill her because he uses drugs, he smokes crack. It's the أُمَّ الْخَبَائِثِ. He said that, Abdullah ibn Abbas radiallahu anhu was of the opinion that khamr is the أَكْبَرُ الْكَبَائِثِ based upon that hadith.

But the way we understand that statement and that position of Abdullah ibn Abbas radiallahu anhu is that, khamr is the أَكْبَرُ الْكَبَائِثِ after Ash-Shirk. Abdullah ibn Abbas knew that. He knew that better than anyone in this dunya.

That Ash-Shirk is the أَكْبَرُ الْكَبَائِثِ. So the statement of (رَسُولُ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - Rasulullah ﷺ) the way we understand it, khamr being the أَكْبَرُ الْكَبَائِثِ means it is from the serious and most major of the sins, but no doubt, shirk is greater than that, and no doubt, murdering someone is greater than that. As a result of that, you get killed when you murder someone unjustly.

You don't get killed when you drink al-khamr.

The Curse Upon Those Involved with Alcohol

He went on to say, Ikhwani, that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's Prophet (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) has cursed the person who drinks khamr. But it is beneficial for us to remind you, that not only did (رَسُولُ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - Rasulullah ﷺ) curse that individual (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) but Allah جَلَّ وَعَزَّ also cursed those individuals.

And they didn't just curse the one who drinks the khamr. Everyone who cooperates in the spread of narcotics, khamr, crack, marijuana, even the doctor or the pharmacist who unnecessarily gives people narcotics, he's inside of this hukum.

Hadith:

He said:

(Sunan Abi Dawud, Hadith 3674; Sunan Ibn Majah, Hadith 3380)

Gabriel said to me: Ya Muhammad, Allah has cursed the khamr and he cursed the one who picks the dates or he picks the grapes in order to squeeze it. And he cursed the one who actually squeezes it and his need is to squeeze it or to pick it for khamr. As for the one who picks it to drink what is halal, there's nothing wrong with that. He also cursed the one who drinks it, the one who carries it.

His job is he drives a big Heineken truck, a Budweiser truck. He's cursed. The one who buys it, the one who sells it, the one who pours it, the one who was poured for, all of them are cursed and they're equal in the sin.

Not only that, he said:

The table in which the khamr is consumed on it is cursed. So when you go to a business weaning, when you go to the restaurants that serve khamr, it's not permissible for us to go to the restaurant that serves khamr. It's not permissible.

Muslim or non-Muslim, the Muslim halal restaurants that serve khamr, we say here today, don't go there because the place that has a bar is مَلْعُونَةٌ. The table where the khamr is being passed around is مَلْعُونَةٌ. So Allah and his messenger (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) have cursed all of these people.

The Punishment for Drinking Alcohol

Hadith:

He went on to say:

(Sunan Abi Dawud, Hadith 4482; Jami' al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 1444)

If a person drinks khamr once, then flog him. If he does it a second time, then flog him. If he does it a third time, then flog him. If he drinks it a fourth time, then kill him. That's the religion of Al-Islam. This hadith,

حَدِيثُ مُشْكِلَةٌ Ikhwani, is a

And that's why the scholars who wrote books about the hadith that have some problems with understanding, they put this hadith in those books. Like in Imam At-Tahawud مُشْكِلَةُ الْحَدِيثِ

Those hadith that are difficult to understand or what they're saying is hard to accept because something is happening. There was a companion who was a prankster from amongst the companions of (رَسُولُ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - Rasulullah ﷺ). He used to drink khamr quite often.

And he was flogged more than three times. When he was being flogged the fourth time, Umar رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ said:

You are a terrible man. How many times are you going to be brought and you're going to be flogged. Don't you have some حَيَاء

Rasulullah looked at Umar رَضِيَ اللهُ عَنْهُ saw the gheer of Umar and he said:

Don't be a helper to Shaytan over your brother. Verily, this man loves Allah and his messenger. That's how we also should look at the one who's trying to kick the habit of drugs.

He's been hooked on drugs and he's making a serious effort committed himself to a place in order to kick the habit. We shouldn't ostracize him and isolate him. We see from him efforts.

We should try to help him. Khat is a narcotic. Khat is a khamr that's not permissible. It's not on the level of Johnny Walker Red. It's not on the level of crack cocaine. But khat gets you high.

When we see people making efforts to kick the habit, we should cooperate the way (رَسُولُ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - Rasulullah ﷺ) took this man's situation into his husband. So the point is, if a man drinks khamr after the fourth time and he's to be killed, why didn't (رَسُولُ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - Rasulullah ﷺ) kill that particular man? And that man accepted Islam in Medina in the latter part after the hijrah. So what the scholar said, those who said that this ruling is abrogated, to kill him is abrogated, it is a very weak position.

So it seems like the statement of (رَسُولُ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - Rasulullah ﷺ) whoever drinks it the fourth time, kill him, is just to show the seriousness and the severity of the crime of drinking khamr. But the actual khukm or the hud of killing doesn't seem to be what should be applied. Wallahu a'lam, it is a mas'ala khilafiyah bain al-ulamah.

Hadith About Abandoning Prayer Due to Intoxication

Hadith:

وَقَالَ عَمْرُ بْنُ الْحَارِثِ حَدَّثَنِي عَمْرُ بْنُ شُعَيْبٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ رَضِيَ اللهُ عَنْهُ وَعَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو وَرَسُولُ اللَّهِ

The hadith said that the Prophet (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) said: Whoever abandons the prayer one time as a result of drinking khamr it is as if that individual has in his possession all of the dunya and because he left the salah all of what he owned was taken away from him and if he were to leave the salah four times as a result of drinking khamr it is an obligation on Allah to cause him to drink from the sweat of the people of the hellfire that's an authentic hadith it's been collected by the Imam Muslim with another narration:

(Sahih Muslim, Hadith 2003)

The Prophet (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) said: It is a covenant upon Allah for the one who drinks intoxicants that He will cause him to drink from the sweat or the pus of the people of the hellfire. We want to discuss with you very briefly and mention an authentic hadith that is another hadith that is مُشْكِلَةٌ because it was suggest that the person cannot make tawbah and that is a statement:

Hadith About Repentance Being Rejected

Hadith:

Whoever drinks the khamr Allah won't accept for him his prayer for 40 days and if he makes tawbah Allah will forgive him after that and if he returns the second time and he drinks khamr Allah won't forgive him his prayer for 40 days he won't accept it for him for 40 days but if he makes tawbah Allah will forgive him if he returns to the khamr the third time Allah won't accept his salah for 40 days if he makes tawbah Allah will forgive him if he returns to drinking the fourth time Allah won't accept his tawbah and if he makes tawbah it won't be accepted from him and Allah will cause him to drink from the khabal and the khabal has already been mentioned and explained it is the pus and the sweat of the people of the hellfire.

Who is this ruling for? There are people who drink khamr from the Muslims right now and they're praying as well so does that mean that that individual is going to be in the hellfire? As we mentioned so many times the way we understand this particular hadith is the person who says that khamr is halal he becomes a non-Muslim and the punishment yawmul qiyamah is this but the Muslim if he drank khamr 6, 7, 8 times he returned to it, he has an addiction he keeps falling into it if he makes true tawbah Allah will forgive him and if he doesn't make tawbah he's under the mashia of Allah if he dies with the kalima of the tawheed if Allah wants Allah will forgive him if Allah doesn't want Allah will put him and punish him in the hellfire but he'll come out of the hellfire eventually.

So the one who drinks khamr and he has that fitna right now since he knows Allah won't accept his salah can he abandon the salah? Because he's drinking khamr that is a bigger kabair than the drinking of the khamr itself because abandoning the salah is kufr and that's one of the natural results and causes of al-khamr.

Quranic Ayah About Shaytaan's Goal

Ayah:

"Verily shaytaan with this khamr and gambling all he wants to do is to create between you people enmity and hatred make you enemies one to another and he wants to also cause you not to remember Allah and to turn you away from the salah so won't you people abandon it and stop drinking khamr and trafficking in khamr and drugs."

So al-khamr ikhwani one of the natural results of it is that people are going to not remember Allah and they're not going to pray praying will break a man's heart he's getting high and if he had to make salah that's going to take his high away he's not going to think about praying but if he drinks and he comes to his senses he still has to pray but his salah won't be accepted for 40 days this is not a green light or ticket to say you can abandon the salah.

Final Hadith About Alcohol in This Life and the Hereafter

Hadith:

Al-imam al-dhahabi finished this particular chapter with the hadith of rasool Allah:

(Source Name)

"Whoever drinks the khamr in the dunya Allah will not allow him to drink khamr in the hereafter."

The muslims who say that khamr is permissible from their fiqh of saying khamr is permissible is that khamr is allowed to be consumed for ahlul jannah so therefore since you can drink it in ahlul jannah you can drink it here in the dunya if you don't drink a lot of khamr then it is permissible Allah azawajal allowed khamr at one time looking at the condition of the people so now my condition is that I need to drink the khamr in order to calm down in order to do my work and so forth and so on.

Fiqh that is sick has no dalil and what we've been mentioning of the ahadith none of the ahadith said if you drink a lot or you drink a little it says man sharibal khamr whoever drinks khamr a lot, a little, whatever the case

is it will be haram for you in the akhira because Allah ta'ala has made it haram as a test here just as he made it haram for a man to have more than four wives in the akhira he'll have multiple women so we cannot compare apples with oranges in this dunya khamr is haram here, it's halal in jannah the milk in the jannah doesn't small it doesn't spoil and whoever saw a river in which milk is flowing and honey is flowing who saw that? Those are from the ahkam and the affairs of the akhira and they should not be applied to the affairs of the dunya so khamr is akhira from the kabair and they should be left.

Warning to Parents About Youth and Drugs

I want to mention to you brothers who have teenage sons and you brothers who have daughters as well the person who drinks khamr he'll have relationships with the people who normally he won't have relationships with so it's a well known fact those people who give themselves to exposing themselves to the nightlife partying at the clubs you allow your daughter to do that you cannot sit comfortable that all your daughter is going to do is to rave and listen to music everyone knows in the club get the girl to start drinking khamr and the other things will follow it's a natural result it's a natural result so Allah told us to ijtanibu the khamr stay away from it which is one of the clearest ways of showing that something is haram it doesn't say don't drink it don't even come close to the khamr at all.

We have a problem here in the city of Birmingham a problem that comes as a result of music comes as a result of the body movies where the Hindus are drinking khamr and the heroes are drinking khamr and it's cool and acceptable to drink khamr and they advertise khamr and our children watch those heroes from the bollywood movies and take them as examples the music that they listen to especially the hip hop is all about smoking marijuana if your child listens to hip hop I'm not saying that he smokes marijuana but you need to keep an eye on him and you need to keep an eye on her because they go hand in hand.

Every Somalian in here every Asian, every Muslim don't have your head in the sand our children are smoking weed and we don't know because we're out working because we're not in the house we don't know what's going on in our own home our daughters have coca cola bottles with some coca cola in it some pepsi in it but also Bacardi rum is in there as well and that's not funny because it's a reality so anyone who's child is listening to hip hop and his idols are those hip hop artists and he dresses like them and he's talking like them then you can rest assured more than likely there's a high percentage and a high probability your child is smoking marijuana.

So how do you know? I'm going to tell you right here you take your child and you look at his fingers if the child is smoking marijuana when the marijuana cigarette gets low they continue to smoke it and it burns the finger and it leaves a mark smell him smell his clothes anyone who smokes cigarettes we know he smokes from his clothes there are signs so we're not in our country anymore we're in the United Kingdom and you better catch up and realize what's going on there are things you can look for the glassy eyes the lies when they get what they call the munchies he eats a whole box of cornflakes in one night he eats all the donuts in one sitting your child has the munchies there's something going on from the chemicals of marijuana that triggers a person something

inside of him chemicals that makes him want to eat that's why people in America who suffer from HIV if a person suffers from HIV in America they get permission medical permission to smoke marijuana because it helps them to have an appetite so if your child comes in and he's eating like that that's a sign he's coming in late that's a sign.

Stop being an absent father an absent parent leaving everything to your wife that's your child that's your daughter both of you you and your wife are responsible for the amanah of taking care of our children.

Call for Muslim Leadership

We're going to stop here inshallah and we're not going to deal with any questions today and we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to save the youth and the shabab of the Muslims especially here in the city of Birmingham where marijuana use is rampant in all of the Muslim communities whether it's the Somalians whether it's the Asians wherever you go this is a problem an ongoing problem that needs to be tackled and good leadership ikhwani good leadership for the Muslims are the people who can put aside their petty differences the petty differences and come together to tackle issues like this how are we going to stop our children and how are we going to address the drug problem in the schools our children and our tahfiz al quran.

I ask them all the time how many of you are in Muslim school? How many of you are in non-Muslim school? Those ones who are in the Muslim school they said Muslim children smoke cigarettes Muslim children they're smoking marijuana in the Muslim school on the grounds of the Muslim school before they go into the Muslim school so the leadership of the Muslims they need to address these issues and if they don't they're not qualified and competent leaders no matter what masjid they come to no matter what masjid they're a part of they're not qualified competent leaders to have them at each other's throats and necks over these other peripheral, smaller issues it is a shame we need to get plugged into what's going on in the schools as it relates to our Muslim children who are the future of our ummah.

Closing

I say this and I ask Allah to forgive me and you and we ask Allah to help us and peace be upon you.