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We're all brothers and sisters in Islam. We need to look after each other. We need to
feel for each other's situation. We need to feel that we are truly brothers and sisters
in Islam, becuase why else would Allah swt call us brothers and sisters in the Quran?
We are one Ummah! We are one Family! We are like one big structure brothers and sister!
We rely on one another! If theirs someone backbiting and slandering, why do you need
to be a part of it? Go back. Lets refer to that story I told you about Umar Ibn Al-Khattab.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib didn't even want to know the name of the person! He didn't want to
hear the name of the person because hearing it is just as bad actually backbiting and
slandering.When someone comes up to you and says "Hey..hey...i found out this thing about
so and so...wana hear it?" No! I don't want to hear it. Okay? Because, if you're a part
of the problem, then you are the problem, Okay? I know this topic all in itself is relevant
to all of us, because we've all been in a certain situation where someone said something
hurtful behind your back and somebody goes and they tell you "so and so said this behind
your back" and it upsets you. Do you feel that feeling that your get? This is why it's
a grave sin to do it to another brother....or sister. Every single person has their own
story of how this affected them in their life. Some more than others. People come to me with,
I haven't seen them in lets say five years and they come to me and their like this, and
they have no self esteem and thier walking around and im like "what happend Akhi? Akhi
what happend??" and he says " Brother..I can't stand it anymore...they keep saying "so and
so this, so and so that, I didn't do any of these deeds! What are they talking about!"
likewise people come to me and say "Yousef, what is going on? The Quran is not affecting
me, I don't feel like my Iman is high, what is wrong? I'm doing, I'm praying, I'm fasting,
I'm doing everything that I need to do, but what is it that is truly holding me back?"
and I tell them "Have you spoken about someone behind their back, Have you made fun of them
behind their back? Becuase that might be the reason Brother and Sisters...Now everyone
needs a reminder. I'm sorry this Khutbah was harsh, was all about punishments and the hereafter,
but you know sometimes we need to have these Khutbahs to understand how dangerous it is
to speak behind someones back. It really affects personality, it affects the way they look
at life, how people...theirs many suicides because kids are cruel and their saying things
behind other kids backs and all this drama. You've probably been through it in high school
yourselves. So just to lighten up the mood, I got two stories. There was this Sahaba and
he heard that another brother was backbiting about him. But you know, the Sahaba, they're
really wise with this kind of stuff. They understand, you know, what the implications
are of backbiting and slander is. They know their getting some of his deeds in the Akhira
so, this guy he hears this guy got backbiten bye this one guy or slandered by this one
guy, so he prepares a big plate of food, he goes to his door and knocks on his door and
hes like "here you go Akhi!" he's like "what is this for" So he says "I heard you were
backbiting about me, so I'm just trying to give you some of my Dunya for Akhira, here
you go, here's a plate of food." And here's another on and you know, Some of the scholars,
they also understood the implications of backbiting and slander. So someone came up to him and
said "You were backbiting me, you were slandering me" This is to the Shiekh, He came to Shiekh
and he said, "Your back biting me. Your Slandering me behind my back" And he's like "No that's
impossible" He's like " Why" He says "because if I were to backbite or slander someone,
it would be my own mom" Why would he say that? Because nobody is worthy of his good deeds,
other than his own mom. He's willing to transfer his good deeds to his own mom because he loves
her, but other than that, nobody is worthy of his good deeds. So Brothers, we need to
understand, we need to refrain from talking behind peoples backs, and all this slander
and all this drama because it destroys societies. It creates distrust amoungst the people.Brothers
and Sisters, We got to stay together! We got to stay firm! We're all on the same path to
the Akhira! We all want to get there! We all want to get to Jannah. So Inshallah May Allah
SWT protect us from the one who backbites and refrain us from being the ones who backbite.
May Allah SWT protect us from the one who slander and refrain us from being the slanderers.
May Allah SWT help our brothers and sisters in Palestine, and Syria, and Egypt, And Pakistan.
May Allah SWT guide all the Muslims around the world to Victory! The Victory in this
world and in the Akhira! Rabana atina fi dunya hasana wa fil akhirati hasana waqeena 3athab
anar. Alahuma ini a3oothobika min 3athab al qabr wa win 3athab an nar!