Protect yourself from sin

Auto-generated transcript:Prevention is better than cure. The other one, it says a stitch in time says nine. Something is torn, you stitch it immediately, otherwise it gets torn somewhere. The same principle applies in life. And that is why the most important thing to do is to prevent ourselves from committing sins. If you take two things, one is doing good deeds and the other one is committing sins. To stop committing sins is even more important than doing good deeds. Now in good deeds, I don't mean the faraiz. The faraiz are fard. You have to do them. If you don't do, if you leave the fard, you are committing kohut. I'm not talking about that. I'm saying other thing which we do. We went through, all of us, the whole world, went through a period which if we think about it, reflect on it, if we went through it thoughtfully, is the biggest lesson that we could have ever learnt. If we didn't do that, if we did not do, if we didn't go through it thoughtfully, then time passed. We suffered for nothing. And that is the kohut period, the two years. To see the kohut period, what happened there. And it was global. Everywhere in the world, there was no country which was exempt. Complete lifestyle change. Right? Totally. You did not leave your house. You did not leave your house. Unless it was absolutely critical. You did not meet people. Nobody came to meet you. If you went anywhere, you wore a mask. No matter how uncomfortable. Massages shut down. Businesses shut down. All entities shut down. All entertainment places shut down. Why? So that you save yourself from the coronavirus. No other reason. Right? Despite that, whoever Allah had written the qazaaf on, they were not able to do it. Dur take food and put it on the floor, outside the door, knock on the door and run like hell. They had to open the door and take their food inside. To the extent that if somebody died of COVID, in most places they did not give them ghusl, they didn't touch the body and they buried them just like that with their ghusl. So, there are fatwas to say it's okay, I'm not talking about that, I'm not saying it is haraava. Under the circumstances these things happen. But the point is, why did you do that? To save yourself from an evil influence. Yes, to save yourself from an evil influence. Think about this. In that situation, if you had not saved yourself from the evil influence of COVID, and you had got COVID, because you helped somebody, you did somebody's ghusl in the janaza or you did not take enough precautions, whatever reason, if you got COVID, what would happen? Worst case scenario, what would happen? You would die. Yes? But you would die anyway. Who has eternal life? You either die of a disease or you die of an accident, some excuse. You die anyway. But if somebody gave you this argument, why are you protecting yourself from COVID because you are afraid of death, you die anyway, throw away your mask, what will you say? You will die anyway. Yes. Yes. You will say you are an absolute ass, you are an idiot, get out of here. You are talking absolute nonsense. Right? Yes or no? But tell me, do you have to go to Jahannam? Death is inevitable. Nobody can escape death, no matter what you do, how many precautions, what not. But to go to Jahannam, is that inevitable? Will you die? No. It's not true death is inevitable Jahannam is by choice similar to that death is inevitable but Jahannam is by choice only the one who wants to go to Jahannam only the one who spends money who makes effort will go to Jahannam think about it from this aspect only the one who spends money and who makes the effort will go to Jahannam I might say who will spend money and make the effort to go to Jahannam somebody who is for example somebody who is gambling he's spending money somebody who is drinking alcohol is he not spending money he's spending money he's ruining his life he's ruining the life of his family. He's putting a lot of effort, a lot of investment into going into journal. Somebody is commenting zero. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, if you have so much of, you know, desire, you are, you know, stud bull in a thob, then, marry one, two, three or four, isna, masna, sulasa, ruba, do justice between them, but marry two, three or four. Allah said, marry. Allah gave you the permission to legally satisfy whatever desire you have. But no. I will not marry, but I will commit zina. Does it happen free? No. You spend money for that also. You spend money, and you are committing zina, and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, the one who is committing zina, at that time, he has no iman. His iman has left him. So, if you die in that state, you die on kohut. Think about that. Why is the punishment for zina so severe and so horrible? Right? Death by stoning. I mean, imagine. It's not just death. It's absolutely horrific punishment, right? Death by stoning. Why? You don't have that punishment for murder. Somebody commits murder, it does not kill death by stoning. But for zina, same logic as kohut. Because it is potentially, it is potentially infectious. Because it destroys society. Because it destroys the family. Because it destroys the whole fabric of morality of society. So, COVID taught us this lesson, if for those who wanted to learn, that prevention of infection is very, very critical. It is critical for survival. And I am now relating that to prevention of infection in terms of sin. Exposing yourself to the possibility of sin. For example, think about this. Why is free iqtalat haraam in Islam? Free mixing of genders. Men and women together in a social gathering without any restriction. Going back and forth from here and there and so on. And the women are not in hijab or anything like this. You know. Why is this haraam in Islam? Why? And we know the reason. We said, Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, don't do it because it opens the door for worse for zina and so on. Now the argument with people say, no, no. That's okay. But you know, I mean, you're all cousins. We are all brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law. I mean, we are not going to go commit, I'm not going to commit zina with my sister-in-law. I mean, what is the... So therefore, it is okay. May Allah have mercy. There are so-called, I always use the word so-called because anyone who gives this fatwa is not a scholar. The so-called scholars in some countries, who have given fatwas to say, it is okay to do that. This deen does not belong to your grandfather. You can't give a fatwa just like that. What Rasool Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, is haram is haram. Sheikh Abdul Khalifatul Jilani Rahmatullah Alaihi, one of the greatest of the scholars of the world, one of the great, humbly scholar. He was walking in the wilderness one day. Away from the people. Khilwa. By himself. And a cloud appeared before him. And imagine, you would say, what kind of miracle, you know, a cloud appeared before him. And then he saw in this cloud, there is a throne. And on this throne, is sitting this being. What? Whatever you want to call it. You know, shining and full glory. And then he hears a voice. This thing in the cloud, this being is speaking to him. And he says, Ya Abdul Qadir, I am your Rab. I am your Rab. And I have made halal for you. Everything, which is haram for others. Because of you and your Ibadah, I have made halal for you. Everything, which is haram for others. Sheikh Abdul Qadir, the Jinnah Rahim Tullahi Alaihi, collected spit in his mouth and he spat at it. He said, Thu! He said, Laanatullahi Alaik, Laanat of Allah on you. Go from here, Ya Ado Allah. He said, Go from here, O enemy of Allah. You are Iblis. So he asked the question. He said, Ya Abdul Qadir, I have misguided many people like you. Just like this. By appearing in this cloud and throne and what not. Ha! How is it that you are spitting at me? How did you know it's me? Sheikh Abdul Qadir, Jinnah Rahim Tullahi Alaihi said, I know it is you because how can my Rabb Jalla Jalaluhu make halal for Abdul Qadir what he made haram for Muhammad? Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Ha! How can Allah make halal for you? For Abdul Qadir? What he made haram for Muhammad? Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Where is the confusion? What is the doubt? So those people who think that they can indulge in interest based dealings, or they can gamble, or they can drink alcohol, or they can commit Zina, remember that all of these things were made haram for Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. How can they become halal for you? And you are not even Abdul Qadir. Rahmatullah Ali. You make halal on yourself what Allah has made haram. And you think this will not harm you? That's why I said there are lessons in life. Covid taught this lesson. That because you believed that the coronavirus was harmful to you, you took every precaution. You broke your bonds and your connections of friendship. You broke your connections of family. If you didn't break it, at least for the time being, you suspended them. You shut your shops and you shut your businesses. And you stopped travelling. And you stopped doing anything. Complete lifestyle change. Totally. You had animals roaming around in the cities. Why? Just for that reason. Because you believed that the coronavirus was going to harm you. Therefore, you completely changed your life. My point is, do you believe that sin will harm you? Do I believe that sin will harm me? And if I believe that sin will harm me, how come my lifestyle doesn't change? How come I am still doing ghibah? How come I am still doing namimah? How come I am still doing slander? How come I am trampling on the rights of others? How come I am indulging in all kinds of things which Allah has made haram? How is it that I am doing it? How is it that my brother is in need? My brother is in debt? I have the money. I can help him, but I don't. You don't consider that to be an absolutely shameful thing for you. How is it that I am alive, I have the money to help my own brother,