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Jazzakallah, Brother Mohammed Sheikh for your
inspirational lecture. I will now open the floor for
the question and answer session. I will request
all ladies and gentlemen who wants to ask questions
or clarfify any issues, they can come up on the
right hand side of here thereís a mike You can
make a line up here and ask your question, one
after the other. When you come up to the
mike, please introduce yourself and then
ask your question. I will request
if the ladies can be
given the first chance. Thank you.
As salam aliekum
Walkeum as salam.
My question is what relationship
we should have with the non-believers.
Okay. Thank you. The question is if, not
heard properly, what relationship we
should have with the non-believers, like
who do not believe in general. So for
that I am giving you references. You
can write down and see that
Ael-e-Imran 3: 1118,119,120. It says
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O you who believe you do not take within
inside the unbelievers from beside
yourselves. They will not fail to make
you crazy and they like that you suffer.
Without doubt hatred has appeared
from their mouths and what is hidden
in their chest is greater. Without doubt
We have clarified for you ayats/signs if
you have intelligence.
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Here you are, those of you who
love them, they do not love you. You
believe with the Book, all of it, and
when they meet you they say we believe
. When they are alone they bite their
fingers from their anger over you. Say,
die with your anger. Surely Allah is
knowledgeable with those who have chests.
Now these verses are for the believers
and the unbelievers.
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And if goodness touches you, if goodness
touch you, they get hurt/feel bad and
if hurtness/badnesses touches you,
they rejoice. And if you have patience
and you take guard, their machinations
cannot harm you in anything. Surely
Allah encompass what you are doing.
Now in these verses that Iíve read, this is
the relationship with the believer and a
non-believer. We should have distance,
do not bring them inside because you love
the Book. Ií;m talking about those who
believe and practice. There are people
in the Muslim world who do not know the
Book. I am not talking about that. I am
talking who start believing, taking guidance
from the Book. So they must take this
in notice and those people who are
against the Book. People who do not
know the Book you cannot take them
as enemies. You will identify the, identify
them whoa are your enemies. And when
you finally identify you should
be very, very careful. Yes please.
As salam o aleikum.
Waleikum as salam.
My name is ___________________My question
is how do we know that the messengers
pray for our mistakes and we will be forgiven.
Okay. The question is, how do we know
that the messenger prays for your mistakes
and weíll be forgiven The messenger will,
pray and weíll be forgiven. You see, we
people, mankind, there are acts, we do good
and bad, I told you and we make it a mixture.
After start believing, still we do wrong. So
their verses explains how the messenger prays.
Surah Tauba 9: 102 and the verses are 102
,103 and 104. The ayah says
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And others have confessed with their sins.
They have mixed correct acts and other
bad acts. It may be that Allah will return
over them. Surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
Meaning people who have mixed good acts
with bad acts. 100 percently we are not
all good, we are not all bad. We are mixing
the two. So people who confessed, meaning
theyíve admitted, yes, we are wrong, and
we will amend and correct. So if we
mixed, others have confessed with their
sins. They have mixed correct acts with
bad acts. So now, what to do the person
who has done, who has mixing bad and good
together and how Allah explains us
in further ayat 103
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Take sadqaÖsadqa/charity from their wealth
so that you purify and justify them and
pray over them. Surely your prayer is a
satisfaction for them and Allah is all-Hearing
and, all-Knowing. Now in the world prayer
Öit says, if youÖif you want your sins to
be forgiven and you want that the mistakes
Allah is forgive us, you have to give sadqa.
Now sadqa does not mean you slaughter
a goat. In general terms they think you
have to slaughter black goat or a black
you know someÖsadqa mean you give
charity to the needy or whatÖthereís a
separate lecture about what the Quraían
says about the charity and sadqa or zakah.
Thatís a different topic but you have to do
it for Allah and His messenger. So if you
identify youÖfirst of all we have to
identify our mistake and we have to
identify the ayat that prohibit us of that
Öwith Öwhich make me commit the mistake.
For example, thereís a yaat in the Quraían
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That you do not go near to Zina, adultery
or fornication, not go near, so this ayah
I identified. Now if somebodyís involved,
he must know the ayah says
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That do not go near to Zina, adultery or
fornication. We have identify. The verse is
saying it and if Iím involved I must stop.
Now this verse, this verse is a base of your
correction. Then you have to give sadqa
/charity. And then you pray the same
verse in the Salah, the prayer. And bow
down and prostrate on this verse.
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This verse. So now when youíre prostrating
on this verse, the order is that you do
not go near to Zina or fornication
because Allah says in this ayat. So I am
stopping it if Iím not involved and I am
stopping it and I am praying it and giving
sadqa and Iím prostrating and bowing on
this verse. So this is how you control
yourself. This is how you govern yourself.
So you give sadqa, then you recite that
particular ayah which is related to your
mistake. I am just giving you an example.
Every verse where you are wrong you have..
.must know the verse. Not that I do not
do this and I do not do. According to my
vain desire, I think I am doing right.
You must identify a verse which tells you,
informs you to do or not to doÖthe dos
and the donts of the Book. Then you do
sadqa and then refrain yourself or act upon
it where it says do. And in the prayer
you repeat that verse. This is how
you take guidance. And then it says
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Do they not know that Allah is He who
accepts the repentance from His servants
and He takes the charities and that Allah
is He who is Returning, Merciful. So if
you do give sadqa or charity, is based on
this specific verse which is controlling your
psyche. A specific verse you are repeating
in your prayer and this is how the messenger
prays over you and then you will
not repeat. And this is how
you are forgiven. Yes please.
As salam aleikum
Walekum as salam.
My name is __________And Mohammed
Sheikh Iíve come to your lectures in
Pakistan and Iíve seen it on the
internet. My question to you is
Yup.
How can we defend ourselves from
the people so that we donít get hurt
and become bad, to take revenge to their actions?
Okay.
Thank you.
Thank you. Itís a very good question.
Itís relate to that, how can we defend
ourselves from the people so that we do
not get hurt, become bad or take revenge
due to their action? You see, normally in
the world itís *** for tat. Meaning you do
wrong, I do wrong. This is not Islam, this is
not Quraían. This is not the teaching of the
Book. Question is, how can we defend
ourselves from the people so that we do
not get hurt, become bad or take revenge
due to their action. Generally people think
from the very childhood, if the two boys
and girls and children are playing and they
fight and they say, he did this and I did this.
See, because he did this, I did this. Heís
got his reasons for doing wrong. First, a
person does wrong. The other person who
reacts to that wrong and say, because he
did this, I did this. So now it becomes when
you grow up you still become a *** for tat
person. You abuse me, I abuse you. You
hit me, I box you. This is not Islam, eye
an for eye is not the Book of God. You
must listen to me very carefully.
So in Fussillat 41: 34
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And the goodness and the hurtness or
badness are not even or not equal. Repel,
repel hurtness/badness with what is good.
Then between you and between the one
whom you have enmity surely he will be
like the one who is a close protector. If
somebody does bad to you, you do good.
This is what the teaching of Quraían is.
If you do bad, you become like him. So
Allah says, repel evil with goodness, then
between you and between the one who
you have enmity, surely he will be the one
who will be a close protector to you.
So if somebody does wrong to you, you
must do in return good to him. If you
do good, surely heíll become one of you.
But if you become bad in the same manner
, then what is the difference between you
and the bad person? You understand
what Iím saying? You must understand
Allah does not teaches revenge taking
act because your heart will be pure.
Because otherwise, if you do wrong,
then suppose somebody murders my
brother, example, so if I go and ***
his brother,Öthe brother didnít do
anything, I *** his brother, I ***
him, Iím committing a blunder, Iím
committing myself a ***. So ***
against *** is not right. So if somebody
does wrong, you must do good. You must
pardon, forgive. Because otherwise your
heart will be harden and you take vengeful
and youíll be in a problem. So in more detail
another ayah Ash Shura 42-43. You
write down these references.
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And the reward of hurtness/badness is
the like is like the hurtness/badness of it.
But remember the one who does bad will
return badÖwill go back to him, like to
every action there is an equal and opposite
reaction. If you do bad, you will return,
get bad from somewhere else, not
from the same guy. If youíre a good
person, some body does wrong to you
and you do not return back bad, so but
he will be affected. Allah says if you
do bad, you will get badness again.
But if somebody does to me bad, if
I donít do bad again, I will not get bad.
You understand what Iím saying? If
you do bad, you will get badness from
somewhere else. But the reward of the
hurtness/badness is a like of badness
/hurtness of it. If you do bad, you will
get badness from somebody. But for us,
for believers it says, Then whosoever
pardons and corrects his rewards is over
on Allah, surely He does not love the
oppressors. So the one who has done
bad to you, you pardon him. You
forgive him. You pardon and correct
so his reward is on Allah. And definitely
whosever help themselves when they
are being hurt or after he has been
oppressed. Then they are those on
whom there is nothing wrong from the
way. So if somebody is hurted you ÖAnd
definitely whosoever help themselves after
he has been oppressed and hurt, then they
are those on whom there is nothing wrong
on the way. Surely the wrong way is
over those who oppresses mankind and
without doubt the truth they do wrong
in the earth. They are of those on
whom is a painful punishment. So there
are people whoa re doing wrong, the
painful punishment is on them. If they
do bad, they will get bad, they will get
badness to them. But what is the behavior,
our behavior believer is, if somebody do
bad, you do good. That is the teachings
of the ayat of the Quraían. You donít
have to be bad. If someone abuse you,
you say I forgive you. If somebody slaps
Öyou know in the Bible, JesusÖif
somebody slaps you turn the other
cheek. You have to forgive. You donít
get slap, at least you forgive that person.
Forgive him. And you see theÖhow he
doÖbadÖyou keep on doing good to him.
And that is your heart will be pure,
you wonít get hurt.
This is a teachings.
Walekum as salam. Yup.
How can we identify the enemies of
Allah? And what should we do?
Okay. You see, how can we identify
the enemies of Allah and when we identify
what should be our behavior to them?
This is the question. You see, ayat
refers to believers is Mumathina 60: 1
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O you who believe, you do not take
My enemy and your enemy as a protector.
And you encounter with love towards them.
And without doubt they rejected with what
came to them from the truth. They expel
the messenger and you that you believe with
Allah, your Lord. If you came out striving in
My way and desiring My good pleasure, you seek
with love secretly towards them. And I know
more with what you conceal and what you
declare. And from you whosoever does it so
without doubt he has stayed the even way.
So Allah says to the believers that you do not
take my enemy and your enemy as protector.
You encounter with love towards them when
they have without doubt have rejected with
what came to them from the truth. Whatever
the truth came to them, they have rejected.
They expel the Rasool, the messenger, out and
you believe with Allah and your Lord if you
came out striving my way and desiring my good
pleasure, do not seek secretly love towards
them. I know more with what you conceal and
what you declare. So you must know that
people who are enemy towards Allah and
enemy to the messenger, you must not have
good relations with them. How we should
know but further in same Surah
Al Mumtahina 60: 7,8,9.
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Maybe Allah will pour love for them
between you and between those whom
you have enmity. And Allah is the evaluator
most powerful. Allah is Forgiving,
Merciful. Allah does not forbid with
you about those who do not fight you
in the judgment of Allah and they do
not expel you from your circles., that
is you may be righteous to them. and you
do justice towards them. Surely Allah
loves those who do justice. People who
are not believers but they do not fight
you for the religion, you can have good
relationship. It says Allah does not
forbid you about those who do not fight
you in the judgment of Allah. They did
not expel you from your circles. And that
is that you may be righteous to them -
that you may be righteous to them. And
you do justice towards them. Surely Allah
loves those who do justice. Surely Allah
forbids about those who fought you in the
judgment and expel you from your circles.
And they supported over your expulsion
so that you turn towards them. And
whosoever turns to them they are those
who are the oppressors. So if people,
unbelievers who fight you for the judgment,
in the judgment, and expel you from your
circles, so that youÖand support in the
expulsion that you turn to whosoever, then
you have the right to defend yourself.
Defend not fighting, but I told you up to
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Dol good to getÖeven bad
you get good. That is the way
you have to fight.
Yes please.
Okay. Now the question is. He says we
have noted in the world there are non-
Muslims, communities like Hindus, Buddhists,
Sikhs, Christians and Jews etc. who do
good deeds and works. And what the
Quraían has to say about their
good deeds. So that I will read
Surah An Noor 24: 39
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And for those who rejected, their
deeds, works are like a mirage with
a plain land. The thirsty calculate it
as water until when he came to it. He
did not find it anything, he found Allah
near it. Then He completed his account
for Him.. Allah is quick in taking account.
This verse is relating to those peopleÖthe
brother explained these communities, If
these communities donít deal, they can deal
out of curiosity. But people who do not read
the Book and who reject the Book, so Allah
says their works are like a mirage. They
think they are doing good deeds with a
plain land, the thirsty calculates is as a waterÖ
until when he came to it he did not find
anything except he found Allah. So basically
good deeds in the Quraían is
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those who believe
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who do correct actions, who correct
themselves. So belief and corrections
goes together. Not only good deeds.
If you are doing good deeds, only and
without believing Allah and His messenger,
just doing by yourself, then that is like a
mirage. Now Surah Nahl 16:96
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What is near you is consumed/ended and
what is near Allah is lasting/remaining. And
We will definitely reward them their wage
with goodness who have patience what they
were doing. What is near with you, whatever
you are doing for the world will be
vanished, ended, finished. Whatever
you are doing. Iím talking general, everything
that you are doing, trying to find and
doing this then, doing that when weíre
finishedÖ.ended. But what is near Allah,
for Allah youíre doing is lasting, remaining.
And Weíll definitely reward them their
wage with goodness who have
patience what they were doing. Yes please.
As salam o aleikum
Walekum as salam.
NM name is Zubair. Than you very much
for the information. Iíd like to ask
you, weíre leading material livesÖand
we may have relatives who are non-
MuslimsÖor non-practicing MuslimsÖ
How can we strike a balance in
our relationships as believers with them?
Thank you very much. The question is ,
he says in this materialship we have
love for material things and parents and
children and relative who are either non
-Muslims or non-practicing Muslims, how to
have a balanced relationship with them
as believers? So in the Quraían
Surah Tauba , 9: 23, it says,
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OI you who believe, you do not take your
fathers/ancestors and your brothers
as protectors if they seek to love
rejection over belief. And whosoever
from you take them as protectors
then they are oppressors. So it is
referring that people who are believers,
meaning belief on the ayahs, on the
verses, they should, even the fathers
and brothers and sister, whoever the
relations are, you not go beyond theÖ
loving beyond the orders of Allah.
You can love them, you have to love
your parents. Your brothers and sisters,
you have to have love of them, but since
you have become a believer . you must
refrain yourself in the love, not
transgressing the orders of Allah.
Whether what the orders are, if they
reject the ayahs and they reject this,
you must love them, you may have
loved them, whatever relationÖbut you
should not transgress. Thatís important.
Further it says Surah Tauba 9:24
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Say if your fathers/ ancestors and your
sons and your brothers and your pairs
/wives/husbands, and you associates and
the wealth to which you are committed
and the business in which you fear a slump,
and the residences in which you are slumped,
. You have more love towards them than Allah
and His messenger and to struggle in His way
then you wait until Allah comes with His order.
And Allah does guide the people who are
he liberals. In these verses there are many
things that are mentioned. Fathers, brothers,
sons, children, pairs, and their associates
and the wealth to which you are committed
and your businesses in which you fear a
slump and the residence in which you are
delighted. If you have more love to all
these, then Allah and His messenger, you
can love everything that is mentioned,
believe me you can loveÖbut you must
refrain your loveÖthat you do not
transgress the orders of Allah. You
can love them. Allah is not Öbut you
cannot love more than what Allah has
said in the Quraían or what Allah has
said in the ayahs. So you can love them
but you can refrain. Because it says if
you have more love for them, then you
will suffer. So in the relationship brother
ask Ölast one more verse And Surah Al
Mujadalah 58:22
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You will not find the people who believe
with Allah and the last day that they
love those who transgress Allah and
His messenger even if their fathers
/ancestors or their sons or their brothers
or their relatives,. They are those on
whom Allah wrote the belief in their
hearts and strengthen them with the
rooh/ the spirit from Him. And He will
enter them in gardens, the rivers from
beneath them where they will live in it
forever. Allah is pleased about them
and they are pleased about Him. They
are the party of Allah. Is it not the
party of Allah are those who are
successful. In this you will note, Allah
says, that you will not find people who
believe in Allah. and the last day. They
love those who transgress Allah and His
messenger, people who have transgress
Allah and His messenger, though they
may be their fathers/their ancestors or
their sons or their brothers or their
relatives, they are those on whom Allah
wrote the belief in their hearts and
strengthen them with the with the spirit ,
the essence of the message of the ayahs,
strengthen them with spirit, the essence
of the message of the ayahs . He will
enter them in the gardens, the rivers flow
beneath. So if the fathers and the
ancestors are not believers, you must
love them, but you must have limitations
in your love. You must have boundaries
for their love. You must not transgress
the orders of Allah in love. And in
Surah At Taghabun 64: 14-15
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O you who believe, surely your amongst
your pairs/wives or your children are
enemies to you, so be cautious of them
and if you pardon, shake hands and forgive
them, surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
Again you see the believers are addressed:
O you who believe, yourely amongst your
wives or pairs , your children are enemies
to you, so the children and they become
enemy to you, Sometime the wife becomes
enemy to you. So what Allah says, you
become enemy? No. He says, you be
cautious of them. You pardon them.,
You shake hands with them. And forgive
them. Surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
So remember, even if your wife or
children are enemy to you, you canít
become enemy to them. You become
enemy. You become the wrong path.
You must pardon. You must forgive.
Surely your wealth and your children
are a captivation and near Allah is a
great reward. At times even your
children are a captivation and the wealth
you are captivated. You are so much
captivated with your children and your
wealth that you forgot Allah, forget
the messenger of Allah, and Allah say it
will be vanished, it will be ended.
What is remain is what you do for Allah.
Jazzakallah khair.