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Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers.
Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family and companions, are very much in peace.
My brothers and sisters, I want to speak about some very important matters today, so please sit and listen.
And these matters have to do with a very important aspect, which is the way shaitan deceives the good people.
Shaitan deceives people in different ways. He does not deceive everyone in the same way.
And like I told you the other time, the way you differentiate between the wasafis of shaitan and the wasafis of your own nafs
is that you are not the same.
The nafs is addicted to some particular thing. Right? Some specific thing.
There is somebody who will watch pornography. For somebody else, he will never watch pornography. But he will do drugs. Right?
Somebody will smoke cigarettes. But he will not drink alcohol. Somebody will drink alcohol, won't smoke cigarettes and so on.
So, the nafs is addicted to some particular thing.
But shaitan is not like that. Shaitan does not care what you do as long as it is disobeying Allah.
So, it doesn't matter what. No matter what it is. As long as it is disobedience of Allah, shaitan is happy.
So, shaitan deceives different people in different ways.
So, some people he will take them to haram. But other people, may Allah bless all of you, like you, who are, alhamdulillah,
people who have knowledge of Islam, people who are connected to the masajid, you come for Jummah, you come for Salah,
you read Quran and so on and so forth. Shaitan will not tell you, you know, go smoke some marijuana or have a drink somewhere
because he knows you are not going to do that. Right? So, there is no sense in trying to tempt you with that. He cannot tempt you.
So, what he does with you is something else.
He does, what he does with you is, and this is again the typical game of shaitan.
If he cannot prevent you from doing something which is good, then he will make you do the good thing in a way which reduces or cancels the benefit of that.
So, for example, shaitan will, shaitan knows, he cannot prevent you from going for Jummah.
You will go for Jummah. As long as you are alive, you will go for Jummah.
You make the effort, you take the time off and you will go for Jummah. Shaitan knows he cannot stop you.
So, what does he do? He makes you do something when you come for Jummah which makes your Jummah invalid, cancels.
So, you come for Jummah and you have this feeling, mashaAllah, alhamdulillah, I went for Jummah and may Allah bless you, you went for Jummah, so on.
But when you look in your aamal, when you meet Allah , there is no Jummah.
Say, Ya Allah, what happened?
I went for Jummah.
Ya.
You went for Jummah.
But then what happened?
You went for Jummah and then you met your, then you saw your friend sitting there.
So, you went and said, Salaam Alaikum, how are you?
He said, Walaikum Assalam, how are you?
Both your Jummahs become zero.
Khalas.
So, shaitan is very happy.
You come, sit here, do your Jummah, no problem.
Right?
Say, Salaam Alaikum, Walaikum Assalam.
You come and sit for the khatrah, then you walk away because somebody, your mother called or father called or somebody called.
So, I thought, let me give you the dalail for this.
The majority of scholars are of the opinion that it is obligatory to be silent during the khutbah.
And one is not allowed to speak during the khutbah, not even if it is to order somebody to do good or stop some evil.
And this applies.
This rule applies whether or not the person is sitting in the mosque and actually hear the khutbah.
See the beauty of this.
Suppose you are sitting in a big mosque.
Khutbah is going on, the mic fails.
You cannot hear the khutbah.
But you are, you know khutbah is going on and you are in the Jummah,
Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family and companions, are very much in peace.
My brothers and sisters, I want to speak about some very important matters today, so please sit and listen.
And these matters have to do with a very important aspect, which is the way shaitan deceives the good people.
Shaitan deceives people in different ways. He does not deceive everyone in the same way.
And like I told you the other time, the way you differentiate between the wasafis of shaitan and the wasafis of your own nafs
is that you are not the same.
The nafs is addicted to some particular thing. Right? Some specific thing.
There is somebody who will watch pornography. For somebody else, he will never watch pornography. But he will do drugs. Right?
Somebody will smoke cigarettes. But he will not drink alcohol. Somebody will drink alcohol, won't smoke cigarettes and so on.
So, the nafs is addicted to some particular thing.
But shaitan is not like that. Shaitan does not care what you do as long as it is disobeying Allah.
So, it doesn't matter what. No matter what it is. As long as it is disobedience of Allah, shaitan is happy.
So, shaitan deceives different people in different ways.
So, some people he will take them to haram. But other people, may Allah bless all of you, like you, who are, alhamdulillah,
people who have knowledge of Islam, people who are connected to the masajid, you come for Jummah, you come for Salah,
you read Quran and so on and so forth. Shaitan will not tell you, you know, go smoke some marijuana or have a drink somewhere
because he knows you are not going to do that. Right? So, there is no sense in trying to tempt you with that. He cannot tempt you.
So, what he does with you is something else.
He does, what he does with you is, and this is again the typical game of shaitan.
If he cannot prevent you from doing something which is good, then he will make you do the good thing in a way which reduces or cancels the benefit of that.
So, for example, shaitan will, shaitan knows, he cannot prevent you from going for Jummah.
You will go for Jummah. As long as you are alive, you will go for Jummah.
You make the effort, you take the time off and you will go for Jummah. Shaitan knows he cannot stop you.
So, what does he do? He makes you do something when you come for Jummah which makes your Jummah invalid, cancels.
So, you come for Jummah and you have this feeling, mashaAllah, alhamdulillah, I went for Jummah and may Allah bless you, you went for Jummah, so on.
But when you look in your aamal, when you meet Allah , there is no Jummah.
Say, Ya Allah, what happened?
I went for Jummah.
Ya.
You went for Jummah.
But then what happened?
You went for Jummah and then you met your, then you saw your friend sitting there.
So, you went and said, Salaam Alaikum, how are you?
He said, Walaikum Assalam, how are you?
Both your Jummahs become zero.
Khalas.
So, shaitan is very happy.
You come, sit here, do your Jummah, no problem.
Right?
Say, Salaam Alaikum, Walaikum Assalam.
You come and sit for the khatrah, then you walk away because somebody, your mother called or father called or somebody called.
So, I thought, let me give you the dalail for this.
The majority of scholars are of the opinion that it is obligatory to be silent during the khutbah.
And one is not allowed to speak during the khutbah, not even if it is to order somebody to do good or stop some evil.
And this applies.
This rule applies whether or not the person is sitting in the mosque and actually hear the khutbah.
See the beauty of this.
Suppose you are sitting in a big mosque.
Khutbah is going on, the mic fails.
You cannot hear the khutbah.
But you are, you know khutbah is going on and you are in the Jummah,
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