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Auto-generated transcript:In English, there is a saying which says that it's a sign of intelligence. It's a sign of intelligence to be able to hold two opposing ideas in your mind simultaneously. It's a sign of intelligence to be able to hold two opposing ideas, two opposite sides, in your mind simultaneously. And I want to say to you and myself that it's a sign of hypocrisy, of nifak, to be able to hold two opposing beliefs in your heart simultaneously. It's a sign of nifak, it's a sign of hypocrisy, to be able to hold two opposing beliefs in your heart simultaneously. The reason I say that is because today we seem to live in a world where for everything that we do in our life, we know and we believe. That anything related to that is connected. For example, take health. We all know and we believe that if I want to have good health, then I must watch my diet. I can't eat anything I like. I must eat the right kind of food. I must watch my physical exercise. I need to do that. I can't just sit in a chair all day. I must do some physical exercise. And I must watch any medication that I need to take. I must take that on time. According to my diet. According to the dose prescribed by the doctor. And I must also watch my life to say, is my life full of stress or something is happening there. All are connected. Right? Yes or no? If somebody says, you know, forget about the... Look man, I like to eat a lot of sugar and I like to eat nice fried stuff. And that's where the taste is. So I'm going to eat all that. I'll eat all the sugar. I'll eat all the fried stuff. I'll eat all the cakes and the puddings and the stuff. But... But... I've got high cholesterol. I've got diabetes. But, you know, just give me medicines. Instead of one, give me two. Instead of two, give me four. You think it works? I say, no, no. I will eat all the food. Forget exercise. It's just too much trouble. I have too much time, too much trouble, too much pain. I won't do it. Will it work? And if somebody has this argument and if he tells you... So, I mean, I'm doing something, you know. I'm not saying I won't take medicine. I'm taking medicine. I'm also exercising. So what if I eat a whole cheesecake? What will you say to him? You will say, brother, listen. You either do the whole thing or it doesn't work. You can't take a piece from here that you like and the piece from here you don't like and you say, because I like... No, it doesn't work like that. It's... The whole body is connected. The mind is connected. The stomach is connected. The... The... The... The blood flow is connected. The muscles are connected. Psychologically, it's connected. So you have to take care of all of that. Yes? Similarly, you drive a car. And this car is an... I'll only put gas. He said, brother, you've been driving that car for 10,000 miles. That thing needed an oil change at 5,000 miles. You already doubled the mileage for the oil change. Please, go and change the oil. No, no, no. Rubbish. I'm putting gas. I'm driving. Okay, do that. One day in the middle of the highway, it'll cease. The point I want to make is we have this logic for everything, right? Take education. You take anything in life. Anything in life. Take education. Take anything. You will... You have this logic and this is correct logic that if you want to succeed, you have to do everything because it is all connected. Now, my question is, what happens to this logic when it comes to deal? What happens to this logic when it comes to... When it comes to Islam? Allah said, Tawheed, first of all, worship only Allah and nobody else. Don't join partners with Allah. Allah said, Risalat, follow Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, Itaat wa ittiba, not itaat or ittiba. Obey him and emulate him. Both are required. Yes, itaat wa ittiba. Both are required. Then, earn halal. Eat halal. Yes? Then, faraid. Make sure you fulfill all the faraid. What do you say? No, no, no. Hold on a second. I mean, it's like all this is too much. Right? So, what I will do is, okay, shirk I won't do. I won't go and worship an idol. I will not go and stand before a khabar and say, yeah, fulan bin fulan, give me a chai. I won't do all that. That's fine. But, you know, this whole issue of paying five times a day on time and in jama and so on, like too much. I mean, this is... So, I will pray when I can pray. And Ramadan? You know, I am on this. I am playing this game and I need to go to the gym every day. I can't do... I can't fast. So, I am not going to fast because it's too much stress. And earning halal... Come on, I mean, we live in America, right? Everyone is doing it. So, what's halal? What about zakat? No, no, we are paying tax. In America, paying tax is equal to zakat. No need to pay zakat. Very nice. What about not dealing in interest? Oh, it's my first house. I can borrow and mortgage and I can do that. I can build my first house. But tarawi, I will come. I will pray 20 times. And then I will create a fitna about sighting the moon, not sighting the moon. Modern times, we have calendars. We have astronomical calculations. The problem is people don't even... don't even read history. We've had calendars and astronomical calculations for the last 3,000 years. Nothing modern about it. And then we wonder, why is it we make dua in tarawi, in khiyam, in sujood, in the hatim, in the Kaaba, we make dua in Arafat, we make dua in Masjid-e-Nabawi Sharif. No effect. No effect. Tell me seriously, have things improved or become worse in the last five years? Up or down, which one? Globally, worse, right? Worse. Every place you take, things have gone bad. Things have gone down. Things have got worse. With the Muslims, things have got worse. We should ask, you know, why? Why is it that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has put musallat alayna, put on top of us, people who are the end of the world, people who are the end of the world, people who are the end of the world, they are sworn enemies of Allah. But Allah has given them control. We know that everything happens not because Allah can't control, Allah is controlling. Why is it happening? Where is our dua? Why is our dua not being accepted? Where is the barakah in our lives? My submission to you, brothers and sisters, same logic, the same logic we apply for health, same logic we apply for education, same logic we apply, for our cars, our machines, our factories, our offices, our businesses. Please apply the same logic for the deen. You want the benefit, you have to do everything. You can't take a piece from here, piece from there. It doesn't work. And it's not my... Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said this in the Quran al-Karim. In Surah al-Baqarah, Allah said what? أَفَتُؤْمِنُونَ بِبَعْدِ الْكِتَابِ وَتَكْفُرُونَ بِبَعْدِ Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, I will be going to be those who take something from the book and you leave out the rest. I like this, I take it. I don't like this, now khalas. Ya Bibi, that also is the kalam of Allah. Right? ما فرق بين هذه الآية و بين هذه الآية? ما فرق? ما فرق? إليس فرق? سوى. ولكن, I like this, I don't like this. So your nafs now, you are the worshipping your nafs. عبد النفس. ليس عبد الله. And for that Allah said what? ها! أرأيت من اتخذ إلهه هو سبحان الله تعالى See the kalam of Allah إلهه هو And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told Abu Salim do not intercede for them. أفعنت تكونوا عليه وكلا؟ لا. And then Allah said, those who do this, أفتؤمنون ببعض الكتاب وتكفرون ببعض فمن يفعل ذلك منكم إلا خزي في الحياة الدنيا ويوم القيامة يردون إلى أشد الأذاب فما الله غافر لما تعملون Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, are you going to be those who take something from the book from here, you like, you leave the rest? Allah said, what is the reward for those? جزاء See the word جزاء is used in a sarcastic way. Allah did not say سزاء Allah did not say عذاب Allah said جزاء What is the جزاء for such people? What is the reward for such people? They will have Allah said خزي في الحياة الدنيا Allah said I will make their life very difficult in this world. خزي في الحياة الدنيا Life will become miserable in this world. Prophet said a time will come when a man will stand in front of the maghwara and he will say I wish I was there in that cover instead of the person there. Right? And then it doesn't end with that. It's not as if خزي في الحياة الدنيا then all my No, no, no. On the day of judgment إلى أشد الأذاب not any normal azab this is the worst of the punishment the most severe punishment for these people. For whom? For whom? For the polytheists? For the disbelievers? No. For those who say they are Muslim but they will pick and choose from the word of Allah because this is the sign of khibr. This is the sign of the worst takabbur that a person takes the kalam of Allah and says I will take this I will not take this. I like this I don't like this which means that you are saying that you are even more important than Allah. You are more important than the word is even more important than the word of than the kalam of Allah. Then why no Iman? Where is the Iman? So I remind myself and you please let us straighten our act. Right? Let us straighten our act. Awal al-Ala al-Hadrami R.A. who was sent as the general to Bahrain. To collect tax from there. Now Bahrain was that side was also to conquer because that was a Persian you know possession. So they went to the end of somewhere now where you have Dhammam you know where the bridge is. Now they have bridge between Dhammam and MRA. So they went there and then now there is no bridge. So always there is a sea. So Awal al-Ala al-Hadrami R.A. what does he say? He tells his troops he says dismount. So they dismount. He says who among you if anybody has committed a Kabira? Any major sin make istighfar and tawba now. So leaving a fourth salah is Kabira? Telling a lie is Kabira? So whatever they read they did that. Then he said, pray to Raka Tosa. They pray to Raka Tosa. Then he said mount. Because what the Poetians did was they said take all the boats to our side.