The Impact of The Qur an Upon The Entire Creation

Whispers of the Devil

Sheikh Abu Usamah At-Thahabi

Opening

Peace, mercy, and blessings of Allah be upon you.

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. All praise is due to Him Who is All-Merciful, All-Blessed.

I bear witness that there is no god but Allah. There is no partner for Him. I bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and Messenger.

صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ

Peace and blessings of Allah be upon him.

As for the rest, the best words are the words of Allah, and the best guidance is the guidance of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. And the worst of all things are their innovations, and every innovation is a creation, and every creation is a misguidance, and every misguidance is in the Fire.

Introduction and Gratitude

Now, usually I don't begin by thanking people because there's never enough time with all the information that I want to get through, but I'm going to take this opportunity out to thank everybody who has something to do with me coming here, taking advantage of this opportunity to come to another masjid that has been converted from a place that used to make shirk with Allah to a place where the people are making the tawheed of Allah. It's a tremendous ni'mah, and every time I find myself in places like this, my chest, my spirit, it is uplifted.

So we want to thank all the brothers that have something to do with this opportunity. Sheikh Suhaib, as well as my brother Shiraz, the administration here, even everybody, those people who are the unsung heroes, even who are behind the scenes, that people don't know what they're doing, but Allah knows.

Topic: The Evil Eye (Al-'Ayn)

Today's lecture has been entitled, The Whispers of the Enemy, or something to that effect, The Whispers of the Shaytan.

And in reality, when I was speaking to the brother and he wanted to give me an idea of the topic that he wanted presented to the community, it has to do with a lot of things that are going on. One of the signs of Yawm al-Qiyamah, according to what the Nabi says, is when he told the people: As Yawm al-Qiyamah gets closer and closer and closer, the intellect, the minds of the majority of the people are going to be taken away.

And what prompted that statement was, he told the people, close to Yawm al-Qiyamah, there will be haraj. They said, what is haraj, Ya Rasulullah? He said, indiscriminate killing. People will be killing one another.

They said, why is that strange? As a community, Muslims, we're giving dawah, they said back then, and we kill so many non-Muslims during the course of the year. Because we're spreading Islam, they oppose the dawah. Not because Islam is spread by the sword, but we're calling Allah's creation, the companion said, may Allah be pleased with them, to Islam. And those people are opposing Islam, so we have battles, like the battle of Badr, like the battle of Uhud, like the battle of Bani Mustaliq, and on and on and on.

They said, why is that strange? He said, I'm not talking about you Muslims killing non-Muslims. He said, I'm talking about Muslims killing one another. Well, you will find a man who kills his father, he kills his cousin, he kills his neighbor.

So the companions upon hearing that, they say, Ya Rasulullah, during that time, will the people have their uqool, the intellect? He said, the hadith:

Most of the people who live during that time, their intellects will be taken away.

So when we talk about the wiswas of a shaitan, there are many other issues that can be touched upon, in terms of the widespread of mental health challenges. Bipolar, schizophrenia, extreme bouts of depression, anxiety, wiswas to the degree where a person is tied up and wrapped up like a pretzel. Stand in front of the wash basin for 30 minutes, 40 minutes, an hour, not sure whether or not their wudu is being accepted and so forth and so on. Wallahi, I'm not here to put anybody down like that.

Even this guy Kanye West, I think many of the young people have heard of his situation. I'm not one of those people who is quick to just dismiss him and just say, oh he's crazy because he has bipolar. I don't think that's the way we should deal with people like that. To just dismiss someone and say, oh he's crazy, because that's not how Islam deals with that. Islam takes into consideration that this stuff is real and there are things that we can do to

make it easier, to make it better, and there are even things we can do to take it away, to make the izalah of the mushkira.

So in our audience, you'll be surprised to know that in front of you, to the right of you, left of you, behind you, there are people who suffer from all kinds of issues. And from them is the wiswas. And I thank Allah because one of my family members used to have wiswas. So I know the problem from up close and personal, how you can watch the person make wudu, and no matter what you say, no matter what you say, they don't think that they read Surah Fatihah correctly.

They made a ghusl, no matter what you say. They feel that the water didn't hit a part of the body. No matter what you say. Every time he sees the letter D, like D for drive, when he looks at the D, he believes that he has divorced his wife. So you ask him the question, what about this brother and that brother and that brother who has a car, and he sees the letter D. Does it automatically mean that their wives are divorced as well? He said, no, just mine. Wiswas, big mushkira.

But we're going to put wiswas as an issue on the side. We want to deal with something else today. Something that is not from the issue of the challenges of people having mental health issues, but it's something that is really dangerous and critical in Islam, and it's something that many of us sleep on it, and we don't take it seriously.

And it is serious, as you're going to see, inshallah. And personally, I believe it should be mentioned at least two, three times from the minbar. People should be reminded of it. Like the prophet also mentioned, peace and blessings be upon him, signs of yawm al-qiyamah is that people will not mention the dangers of the dajjal from the minbar. People need to hear about the dajjal constantly. They need to hear about the dajjal.

But when's the last time you heard a khutbah about the dajjal? If someone gave the khutbah about the dajjal once every month, twice every month, he would have done us a great service. By not mentioning the dajjal and reminding the community, it is a disservice. This issue is like that.

The Reality of the Evil Eye

And that is the issue of what we have in Islam concerning what is very harmful, that is called al-'ayn, al-'ayn, the evil eye, the evil eye.

Most of you, I don't know. I know Sheikh Suhaib. I know his brother, Abdus-Samad. I know a few people here by name, by face. Most of you, I don't know.

Just coming here, sitting here, people can afflict me with the evil eye. And you can be afflicted with and by the evil eye. And you're a practicing person. You're trying to do the right thing. So it's not an issue that people should remain ignorant about. We should be like in every issue in the middle, not too far to the right and not too far to the left.

Too far to the right is the one who says, everything is evil eye. No, brother, you didn't crash your car, for an example, because of the evil eye. You are not a good driver. You were speeding. You weren't paying attention to what you were doing. That's why you crashed your car.

Everything is not an evil eye. Your headache. The fact that your nose is bleeding. Everything is not the evil eye. So we don't want to be of those people. Everything is the evil eye.

Nor do we want to be of the people, I don't believe in the evil eye. I don't believe in the evil eye because it's not in the Quran. No, that's kufr. The evil eye is in the Quran and it's in the sunnah.

Evidence from the Quran

From where it is in the book of Allah is in the surah that we all have memorized:

"Say: I seek refuge with the Lord of the Falaq (daybreak), from the evil of what He has created, and from the evil of the darkening (night) as it comes with its darkness, and from the evil of those who practice witchcraft when they blow in the knots, and from the evil of the envier when he envies."

Quran 113:1-5 (Surah Al-Falaq)

I seek refuge in Allah from the evil of the hasid - the one who is envious while he's being envious or while she's being envious.

That ayat of the Quran, according to the great mufassireen of the Quran, may Allah be pleased with them, they said the meaning of this ayat: I seek refuge in Allah from the evil eye of the one who is envious.

Hadith on Envy and the Evil Eye

Listen to this hadith of the prophet as it relates to envy. He said:

"If you want to be successful in the thing that you're trying to do, then remain quiet and don't talk to people about it. Because every ni'mah that Allah gave you, there's someone who is envious. Every ni'mah that Allah gave you, there's someone envious."

If you have a nice car, someone has hasid. You can't walk around and say you can't do that. But you should know. If you have a brand spanking new baby, there is someone who is hasid. And it could be your relative. It could be your neighbor. It could be someone who knows you. It could be someone who doesn't even know you.

Second Evidence from Quran: Story of Yusuf

Also from what the scholars use as a delilah from the tafseer of the Quran is the ayat in Surah Yusuf. I don't have time to go through the whole story about Yusuf. But when the brothers of Yusuf came to Egypt, and then Yusuf had them put the cup of the aziz and the saddle of the youngest brother, the brother that's the shakir of Yusuf, and they found it. They said we're going to keep him here. You go back and you have to go and get your father.

Whatever. When they went to Yaqub and told him the story, he didn't really believe the story. But they were about to come back. And he wanted to give them some advice. And the ayat that mentions that is that he said:

"Oh my sons, when you guys go to Egypt, and you're about to enter into the gate of Egypt, all of you should not go into the same door. But you should go in different doors in order to enter into Egypt. And I cannot help you concerning that which Allah has decreed for you. If Allah wants something other than khair for you, I can't help you. But I'm giving you advice."

Quran 12:67 (Surah Yusuf)

Scholars said concerning the tafsir of this ayat: This ayat is about the evil eye.

So Yusuf had 11 brothers. He saw the sun and the moon and 11 stars making sajdah to him. He had 11 brothers. He made number 12. From his 11 brothers, Abdullah bin Abbas said that Yusuf's brothers were very handsome, just like Yusuf. And Yusuf's brothers were not only handsome, but they had physical body prowess. They were strong.

So the man who was here who has 11 sons, 12, 13 sons that's not normal from among sons. He has 7, 8, 9, 10 sons, all of them were strong. If he walked into this door right now, all 10, all 11 of his sons came in, everybody is going to look at him and say, "Wow. Inshallah. That man has 11 sons, 13 sons."

They all come into the masjid. There's a sense where people say, "Wow." It's the wow factor. If you add on to that, they're all muscular, they're all looking good. So the father didn't want them to go through the same door. They get that effect and the impact from the evil eye of the people.

That's the second ayat of the book of Allah.

Third Evidence: Response of Quraish to Quran Recitation

The prophet said: Anyone who comes to the masjid and he reads one ayat of the Quran, or he learns the

The Incident of Sahl ibn Hunayf

So let me elaborate on that for you brothers very quickly inshallah. Authentic hadith and incident you have to be aware of.

The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, was traveling with his companions on their way to Mecca.

While they were going on the road to Mecca, one of the companions, his name is Sahl ibn Hunayf, he was in some water taking and making a ghusl in some water.

And his son was there, and another companion came. And that other companion, his name is Amir ibn Rabi'ah, when he looked at the man, and he saw his skin tone and complexion, it was very white. It didn't look like it belonged to a man, it should belong to a woman.

And that's because the son of Rabi'ah - if you're out in the sun, you know, like the people here, we have eczema, we have people who have those bumps from razor bumps. People who, as you get older, if you don't put lotion

on, your skin is gonna get jammed up because of the environment. But this man's skin looked like a virgin girl who didn't come outside. That's what he said.

So when Amir walked by, he said, "Whoa, I have never seen skin like that man's skin. Whoa." And upon saying that, the man fell in the water, started drowning. The people rushed to his aid and assistance, pulled him out of the water, and he couldn't keep his head up. He lost consciousness. He was out for the count, and they didn't know what was going on.

They hurried him to the Nabi, peace and blessings be upon him. The son said, "Ya Rasulullah, this happened to my father." His name is Abu Umama. "My father, he can't keep his head up. Something has happened. Can you help him?"

The Prophet said, "What happened?" What happened is a proof Rasulullah, peace and blessings be upon him, is not Hazir Nazir. He does not know the ilm al ghayb.

Anytime you see a hadith where he says, "Whose camel is this?" "It's mine, Ya Rasulullah." "This camel is complaining that you overwork it and you don't feed it" a dalil, he's not Hazir Nazir. And he doesn't know the ilm al ghayb.

If people come, he will say, "Man al qawm, who are you people? Where from this tribe?" It's a dalil, he's not Hazir Nazir. That is the religion that's not going to help us in the dunya or the akhira. That's the religion that's going to keep us backwards and confused and keep us out of Allah's divine assistance.

"What happened to him?" He said, "Ya Rasulullah, your companion, Amir bin Rabi'ah, he came by and he said such-and-such and then he just fell down and this is what happened."

The Prophet's Anger and Instruction

The companion said that the Nabi looked at the companions. He looked at Amir and he looked at the companion. They said, "We never saw him as angry as he was on this day."

Why was he angry? Because in Islam, it's not permissible for you to hurt me and for me to hurt you. You can't hurt me and I can't hurt you. And when we meet each other, we say:

That's our way of saying: Hey, hey, I'm not gonna hurt you. I won't make ghayb of you. I won't make namim of you. I won't have soot or dhan about you and on and on and on. If you marry me to your daughter, I'm gonna take care of the amanah. I marry you to my sister, you take care of the amanah. I sell you something, I'm gonna be honest and on and on. That's what it means.

So anytime that was compromised, he would get upset and you know he was a gentleman, peace and blessings be upon him.

Why didn't he get mad and upset like that when the Bedouin urinated in the masjid, akramakumullah, in the masjid in Medina? Exposed his awrah, akramakumullah. Showed his nakedness in public and urinated and he told the people, "Leave him, gentoo, easy."

The young boy came and said, "Ya Rasulullah," in front of all of the community, "Ya Rasulullah, give me permission to make zina." Why? Because he was young, struggling with his desires. He wasn't trying to be a criminal. He did it in public. He knows Rasulullah understands his plight. "Give me permission."

And the people got upset. He said, "Hey, take it easy. Come here young man. Do you want people to do that to your mother, to your sister, to your aunties?" He said, "Audhu billah." He said, "The people don't want you to do with their family." And then he took the boy and he made dua for the boy. And Allah took that shahwa out of the boy.

Why was he gentoo with those people? But with this guy, he was upset with this companion, may Allah be pleased with him. Because, listen to what he said. And what he said to him, he's saying to you, you, you, you, and me and everybody else.

He looked at the people and he said:

"Why does one of you kill your brother? Why does one of you kill your brother?"

And then he told him:

"If any of you see something within your own self, or you see something within your own money, your car, your house, your furniture, your refrigerator - if any one of you see something with your brother that he has, then make dua with baraka for him. Don't say, 'whoa, good job, you're the man, you did the job.' Don't say that. Say, 'Baraka Allahu feeq. Allahumma barak.'"

(Sunan Ibn Majah 3509)

Practical Applications

They had a baby. Don't say, "Wow." You see the baby for the first time? The baby has beautiful hair, nice eyes. You say, "Whoa." He said, don't do that.

"Why would any of you kill your brother?"

You're the reason that your brother was killed. So that goes to show that the evil eye is a murderer. It will kill.

In an authentic hadith, he mentioned, peace and blessings be upon him:

"Verily, the evil eye can cause a man to enter into his grave, and it can cause the camel to enter into the pot, the cooking pot."

(Musnad Ahmad 15550)

Because someone sees a strong camel or something like that, and he doesn't praise Allah with baraka. As a result of that, the animal falls down and it dies. Then the people have to eat him after that. So the evil eye will kill.

Important Points About the Evil Eye

Now a few things I want to share very quickly, Ikhwani, and a lot has to be said, and could be said, and should be said. This is important.

Two people Shaytan did not touch them: Isa bin Maryam, and his mother. You know, something new for some of you.

Concerning this hadith of the man, Sahl ibn Hunayf, listen to this. This incident goes to show that the evil eye can be given by one who is religious, or the one who is irreligious. It could be the one in the first row, on the right side of the first row. It could come from the imam, from the hafiz sahib. It can come from the one who wears jilbab and niqab, got a beard, thobe short. Because that companion, that companion Amir is from the companions.

The evil eye can come from someone intentionally or unintentionally. He didn't mean it. He didn't try to hurt you. That wasn't his intent. There's the shaytana and the shaytan from the jinn and the jinn who sit and they want to hurt us. May Allah protect us from their evil. See I mean. But it can be from someone who it was unintentional. He didn't mean that.

That hadith shows the evil eye can come from your relative and from a non-relative. It can come from the person who loves you and the person who's your enemy.

The evil eye can come from someone sitting in this room and it can come from someone on the other side of the world. On the other side of the world. It could be in Mirpur. He could be in Mogadishu right now. Brooklyn, New York.

How? Abu Usama's gonna take a picture of my little baby and I take a picture and I put that picture on social media. I put that picture on TikTok. I put that picture trying to get these views and people looking at my stuff. My wedding, my breakfast, my dinner, this and that. I take a picture of that. People who don't even know me can give me the evil eye on the other side of the world.

The evil eye can be done by a jinn that you can't even see or by a human being.

Hadith About Two Snakes

Pay attention to this. The Prophet told the people, peace and blessings be upon him:

"If you ever see the two snakes, at-Tufyatayn and al-Abtar, kill them upon sight."

(Sahih Muslim 2233)

What are those two snakes? There's the snake that has two lines down his back. If you see it, kill it. And the other one is the snake that has a short tail, the abtar.

He said, "What's the reason why? What's the ilah? What's the hikmah?" He said: Because these two snakes will cause a woman to lose her baby.

There are people who this hadith is authentic, but Europeans don't believe in it, so he won't believe in it. White people don't believe in it, so he don't believe in it. George Bush, Obama, they don't believe in it, so he doesn't believe in it.

Well, there are people who believe in the prophets and the messengers, and they told us a lot of things that the normal person who's a kafir can't get his head around many things in our religion, so we're gonna reject it because they can't get with the program.

And that's why he is Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, because when the kuffar came to him to try to make him scared of his religion, they tried to blow on him:

"They want to extinguish the light of Allah with their mouths."

They want to blow. Some people, when they get that blow: you can't wear hijab here. She said, "Okay." You can't go to Jum'ah. "Okay." You can't pray. He said, "Okay." Many people like that.

They tried to do that to Abu Bakr. "Hey, Abu Bakr, did you hear that your man, Muhammad, last night said that he went to the seven heavens and he came back and he went to bayt al-maqdis in one night?"

Abu Bakr said, "I didn't hear that. I didn't hear him say that. But if he said that, I believe him, because I believe something greater than that. Al-Isra wal-Miraj is a big miracle. It's big. But I believe something greater than that as a miracle."

He said, "I believe him when he says he gets revelation from the sky. The Quran is a bigger miracle than al-Isra wal-Miraj. It's a bigger miracle."

When the Prophet heard of that motive, that position, he called him as-Siddiq, the one who really believes. Not wishy-washy. When the winds of adversity come, we want to throw in a towel. She accepted Islam. She's a revert. She gets married to a brother who was not a good example of a Muslim, so she apostates because of him, or vice versa. No.

There is a snake that can kill the baby. So he told the people, "Kill it upon sight."

Jinn and the Aura of Bani Adam

He says, peace and blessings be upon him, as it relates to this issue of the jinn and its important guidance. He says: Pay attention to this.

Rasulullahi, peace and blessings be upon him, said:

"The partition, the hijab, the partition that exists between the eyes of the jinn that we can't see and the aura of Bani Adam is, if any of you goes and you want to go to the toilet, to the bathroom, you seclude yourself when you take your clothes off. If you say, Bismillah, the jinn can't see your stuff. They can't see your stuff."

(Sunan At-Tirmidhi 606)

But as a father, Abu Usama Zahabi, I have to be on top of my children with these adhkar. I've been a Muslim since 1986. I don't know the dua of going to sleep yet. As a Muslim, since 1986, I don't know the dua to protect myself from the hyena.

My children, whenever they want to eat, they're so hungry, they just start going in. "No, guys, you have to say, Bismillah." But if you forget, say:

So the child is always saying, "Bismillah fi awwalihi wa akhrihi." Because as soon as the grub comes, he jumps in and you got to remind him.

"No, you have to make it your business and your job to learn these duas for protection and to pass down to your children the heritage that your parents passed to you."

What heritage? You guys were born and raised on Al-Islam and your parents gave you Muslim names like Suhail, Suhaib, Abdus Samad, Bilal, Muhammad, Ahmed, and so forth and so on. That's from the heritage that your parents - maybe they couldn't read and write, some of them. Maybe they didn't practice Islam very well, some of them. But they gifted you Al-Islam. You have to do better than that.

And part of doing better than them is spending time and making jihad. And I don't bite my tongue for anyone. I'm not hesitant to use that word jihad in this masjid. You have to make jihad against yourself, against ignorance.

You don't have to memorize all the Quran. You don't have to pray qiyam al-layl all the time. If you do that, alhamdulillah. But you have to do enough to push off of yourself not knowing. Protect your kids.

The Sources of Evil Eye

So as it relates to the issue of the evil eye, evil eye can hit somebody and the individual doesn't even know who it is. It could be friend or foe. It can be a shaytan.

Allah said:

"And thus We have made for every prophet an enemy - devils from mankind and jinn, inspiring to one another decorative speech in delusion."

For every Nabi who came, every Nabi, We made an enemy for that Nabi. An enemy from the jinn, an enemy from the human beings. And those jinn and those human beings, they inspire one another with words in order to hurt that Nabi.

What do you think the situation is with you and me? What do you think that situation is going to be with you and me? Enemies from the jinn and from the human beings.

So we have to learn these issues. As it relates to the issue of the evil eye, the evil eye comes from hasad, envy. The evil eye also comes from al-ijab, being impressed with something. And that's normal and natural.

Someone pulls up in front of this masjid with a 223 Bentley, and we look at it and say, "Wow, look at that." It's natural. It's normal. It's normal. And there's no evil intent connected to it.

Protections Against the Evil Eye

So what can we do? What can we do? There are quite a few things that we can do.

Like the Prophet mentioned, and he mentioned these hadith in different ways: If any of you sees from his brother, from himself, from his brother, from his money, that which pleases him, then make dua for barakah.

You know, there's an ayat in the Quran, in Surat al-Kahf, where the two men were arguing with each other. And one of them said:

"Had you only, when you entered into your Jannah, said: 'What Allah willed [has occurred]; there is no power except in Allah.'"

Quran 18:39 (Surah Al-Kahf)

Because the man was saying, "I got more kids than you, I have more than you, my house is better than yours, I'm from this side of the dam, you're from the other side of the dam, I'm from this tribe, you're from that tribe, I'm this color, you're that color."

So Allah destroyed all of what he had. So the one who he was arguing with said: Had you only gone into your Jannah and you were - your garden - and you were humble and you said, "Ma sha Allah la quwwata illa billah."

This is important.

The man's Jannah, if he would have said about his own garden, what he had, had he said:

So when you see that Allah has blessed you with something, you got married, your child, you should say:

You should say:

Because the ayat is showing you, it's his property. But the hadith said, if any of you see something from your brother, then you should make dua for barakah. If you see something from yourself and your money, you make dua for barakah.

So for yourself, you say:

Whatever it is. For yourself. But for your brother, if you say:

You could say that. But it's better to stick with what the Prophet said, peace and blessings be upon him.

The Example of Weddings

Now listen guys, this is serious. Doing the weddings, when we go to these weddings, everybody is wearing their nice clothes. Everybody is smelling nice. So someone invites us to the wedding and I don't know about this city, this place, but in the wedding, there is the place where it's very expensive, it's high-end. The bride and the groom, they rent it. All these nice cars, Rolls Royce, 10, 15 of them.

The food - unfortunately sometimes the bride and the groom, young brother, young sister, they walking down, people throwing rice on them, they're saying, "Here comes the bride, here comes the bride." That's not our religion, throwing rice, singing, "here comes the bride, here comes the bride." That stuff is Europe, that's not Islam.

So the person goes to the wedding and he says, "Man, that food was good. Yo, did you see those cars? Oh man, the place was nice." And without even meaning it, you've given the people the evil eye. They're gonna get divorced, they're not gonna get along.

So what was the Sunnah of the Nabi, peace and blessings be upon him? Anytime people got married and he wanted to make a dua for them, to newly married people, he would say to them:

"Hey, you young brother, you young sister - barakah be on top of you, be inside of you. May Allah bring you together in good, bring you together."

Sunan Abu Dawud 2130, Sunan At-Tirmidhi 1091

Why would he make dua for barakah on a day like that? Because people are there being amazed at it. And there's some people there, he's divorced, so he's hating on the program. She's divorced, hating on the program.

So that's a dua we should learn. And as a person who's getting married, you give those cards and stuff to let people know, maybe you should put that on your card to remind people, so that people unintentionally don't come to the wedding and say, "Whoa, did you see her dress? Or man, did you see those shoes he had that was curling around like that?"

You know those shoes I'm talking about? Some of you know those shoes I'm talking about. What are those shoes called? The Qusay shoes. "Yo, did you see them shoes? They were sharp." You have to say Baraka Allah on his Qusay, so that he doesn't get the Ayn.

Reading the Mu'awwidhatain

From what we can do concerning the Ayn is: read the Mu'awwdhatain, those two surahs that I don't believe there's a single Muslim in this masjid who hasn't memorized them:

Surah Al-Falaq (113) and Surah An-Nas (114)

Everybody memorized those surahs. Everybody. But how many times do we read those surahs in a day?

Because Rasul Allah equipped us to read those surahs constantly, after every prayer, at nighttime, before going to sleep. But some of us barely use them.

The evil eye is serious brothers. The evil eye is serious.

Making Isti'adhah (Seeking Refuge)

From what can be done, and we're gonna stop inshallah in a few minutes, is as we mentioned: to make al-isti'adha.

Al-isti'adha is when you generally say A'udhu billah. Al-isti'adha, when you seek protection from Allah.

U'idhukuma bi kalimatillah - he learned that dua to say it on his baby girl, say it on his children, say it on himself:

"Oh Allah, I seek refuge in You. Please protect me from the evil eye."

So the different isti'adhas that come to us from the authentic sunnah of the Prophet, like we mentioned some today, peace and blessings be upon him and his family.

Another very important one: The Prophet said:

"Anyone who reads the last two ayat from Surat al-Baqara, those two ayat will be enough for you."

(Sahih Al-Bukhari 5040, Sahih Muslim 807)

So maghrib comes in, you read those last two ayat. Who doesn't have time for that? Whoever reads those last two ayat:

"The Messenger has believed in what was revealed to him from his Lord, and [so have] the believers."

Quran 2:285 (Surah Al-Baqarah)

You read those last two ayats, they are enough for you. How simple and how easy.

Our religion is a religion where things are made easy:

"Allah wants ease for you people. He doesn't want to make things difficult for you people."

Quran 2:185 (Surah Al-Baqarah)

Another Powerful Dua

And I have to take time out to say this very quickly to the rough and tough brothers and sisters, the mutshaddideen, the judgmental people, the nasty people, the ones who look down on everybody. It's always nasty. "I'm on the sunnah, you're not, I'm your, or I'm practicing."

Hey man, back up and miss us with that stuff. We are living in a time right now:

"There's no year except the one that comes after is worse than the previous one until you meet your Lord."

That's what the Nabi said. Every year, every year gets worse and worse. There's no year except the one that comes after is worse than the previous one.

So the one who was a youngster in 2022 is not like the one who was a youngster in 1975. It's not the same. What I had to deal with and what these shabab are dealing with.

No, I'm not saying we're happy with everything that our shabab are doing or not doing, but it's a tough time to be a youngster right now. It's a tough time to be unmarried right now. It's a tough time to practice Islam right now in terms of the environment and so forth.

So let's have a little bit more rahman and understanding on people because the things that I'm saying, we should do this for the evil eye, do that, don't do this for the evil eye - these things, many people are not doing. The one who is judgmental and looking down, he's not doing it, but he wants to come out to us and judge us like that.

We say to him: No, brother, take it easy, man. Take it easy and don't have ghurur like that. Don't be muajib with yourself.

Three things will destroy you and one of them is ijab al-mar binafsi, you being super and overly impressed with yourself.

More Protective Supplications

That's what we wanted to mention from the duas, what the Prophet used to say, peace and blessings be upon him:

"In the name of Allah with whose name nothing can harm on earth nor in the heavens, and He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing."

(Sunan Abu Dawud 5088, Sunan At-Tirmidhi 3388)

He used to say that when he came and he sat down at any place, anytime he came and sat down. A new majlis, this masjid, he came and sat down. He would say that dua. He said: Anyone who says that, nothing will bother him and nothing will harm him, inshallah, till he gets up, he leaves that place.

Final Advice

So in concluding, ikhwani, brothers, sisters, you sisters, you mothers, women are really involved with how pretty, how they look, their hair and this and that, and that's all fine and dandy, but be careful. Help your husbands, teach your children, make dua, make isti'adha for the kids, remind them, take the little babies, make the dua that Ibrahim made upon his sons and that Ibrahim made upon his grandchildren.

And everybody, you have a responsibility, be of the people of:

الذَّاكِرِينَ اللَّهَ كَثِيرًا وَالذَّاكِرَاتِ

"Those men and women who remember Allah a lot."

Quran 33:35 (Surah Al-Ahzab)

Those men and women who remember Allah a lot and remember to make dua for people and the things that they have.

Concluding Reminder

In concluding, we want to remind you, brothers, in Pakistan, you know, what they're going through in Pakistan.

Brothers, come up with a project here, trying inshallah to build some wells in Pakistan.

We just want to remind you, brothers, of the importance of getting behind that initiative with whatever Allah has blessed you with and given you to help those people.

وَالسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ