Hazrat Moulana Dawood Seedat Saheb Madrasah Isha'atul Haq · Albert Falls Albert Falls, KwaZulu-Natal
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Different Types Of Asbhaabs | Hazrat Moulana Dawood Seedat Saheb
Different Types Of Asbhaabs Hazrat Moulana Dawood Seedat Saheb
Hijri date 8 Safar 1442
Date 25 September 2020
Duration 53:21
Venue Albersville Musjid Summary Main Topic
An in-depth explanation of balancing reliance on Allah (Tawakkul) with the utilization of worldly means (Asbab), detailing the different categories of means and warning against allowing material causes to weaken one's faith in the Creator.
Key Lessons
Allah Ta'ala created the dunya such that human beings must utilize worldly means (Asbab) for survival, starting from Hazrat Adam (A.S.).
The primary spiritual danger is becoming so consumed by the means that one forgets the Creator of means (Musabbib al-Asbab ).
People fall into different mindsets: total reliance on means (the way of disbelievers), high reliance on means with minor faith, and using means solely out of obedience to Allah while placing total reliance on Him.
At times, Anbiya (A.S.) like Ibrahim (A.S.) were inspired to forego means entirely to demonstrate complete trust in Allah.
Asbab are categorized into four types:
Asbab-e-Qat'i (Certain Means): Essential physical needs like food for hunger and water for thirst; neglecting them to the point of harm is sinful.Asbab-e-Zanni (Probable Means): General means like business or employment that usually yield results; utilizing them is permissible, provided trust remains in Allah.Asbab-e-Wahmi (Speculative Means): Dubious or highly uncertain measures driven by paranoia or propaganda; over-reliance on these causes spiritual instability.Haram Asbab (Prohibited Means): Unlawful means (such as commercial insurance or impermissible practices) which must be completely avoided.
Believers should not look down upon one another or create division over secondary issues and speculative measures.
Quranic/Hadith References
Reference to Hazrat Ibrahim (A.S.) declining Jibrail (A.S.)'s assistance when being thrown into the fire, entrusting his outcome entirely to Allah Ta'ala.
Hadith: "If the whole world were to gather together to benefit you, they could not benefit you except with something Allah has already written for you... The pens have been lifted and the pages have dried."
Statements of Akaabireen regarding preserving the honor of fellow Muslims and harboring good thoughts (Husn al-Zhann ) about others.
Practical Advice
Adopt necessary and permissible means for worldly life, but keep the focus and reliance (
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— Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. 0:01 Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. 0:01 Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. 0:02 Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. 0:04 Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. 0:06 Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. 0:07 Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. 0:07 Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. 0:10 Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. 0:10 Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. 0:11 Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. 0:12 Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. 0:12 Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. 0:13 Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. 0:18 Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. 0:19 Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. 0:19 Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. 0:22 Bismillahir Raheem. 0:22 Bismillahir Raheem. 0:23 Bismillahir Raheem. 0:24 Bismillahir Raheem. 0:24 Bismillahir Raheem. 0:25 Bismillahir Raheem. 0:26 Bismillahir Raheem 0:29 Rahimahullah. 0:30 He is late now. 0:33 He used to have classes or used to give some lessons. 0:39 You would choose a topic and make a lot of research into that topic with the 0:47 Some of our brothers, older people, may be having his cassettes also. 0:52 They are now trying to put it onto CD. 0:56 At that time, in the Ijtimas, there used to be Hashim's tape library. 1:01 And they used to sell his cassettes there. 1:05 So, for example, he would go into creation. 1:10 How Azad Al-Adham alayhi salam was created when he first came into the dunya. 1:16 And then he would go into a detailed discussion. 1:20 Many many cassettes just on creation. 1:24 That time was C90s, C60s. 1:27 So sometime like 12, 15, C90s just on one one topic. 1:33 But he used to do a thorough job of it. 1:37 So in that creation, the topic of creation, he mentioned 1:45 That when Nabi Adam alayhis salaam came to the dunya, then after, you know, making ruju ilallah, Rabbana, zalamna, anfusana, etc. 1:58 And then the meeting took place between Hazrat Adam alayhis salaam and Mahawwa alayhis salaam. 2:04 So now they had to start their life here in the dunya. 2:09 So Allah Ta'ala had sent Jibrail alayhis salaam 2:13 And Hazrat Adam a.s. was given certain tools. 2:20 And he was taught also how to farm wheat and how to bake bread. 2:31 Fire was also brought to the dunya because fire was needed now to bake that bread etc. 2:40 And he mentions there that the first meal was bread. 2:44 First meal was bread. 2:46 This is why if you have to go anywhere in the world, you will find bread in some form or the other. 2:53 You'll find some type of a bread that the people of that place partake of. 3:01 So we learn from there. 3:05 That for survival in the dunya, a person will have to make use of certain means. 3:13 Asbab. 3:15 You have to make use of asbab. 3:20 However, when a person is using the asbab, 3:27 Then the mindset has to be correct. 3:32 Otherwise what happens is our focus will shift onto the asbab and we will forget the musabbib al-asbab. 3:43 We will forget Allah Ta'ala. 3:45 And when we forget Allah Ta'ala, 3:48 Then our whole purpose in life is lost. 3:50 Because Allah Ta'ala has put us here in the dunya so that we must attain His ma'rifat. 3:57 We have to recognize who Allah Ta'ala is. 4:03 So when it comes to the asbab, making use of asbab, one of our asatiza, Maulana Yahya Jeeva. 4:16 Originally Pochepstan person. 4:20 So he had explained this to us that when it comes to using Asbab, people are generally in three categories. 4:30 One of three categories. 4:33 One is those people who utilize the Asbab and their full concentration is only on the Asbab. 4:43 That the means is doing. 4:47 If that means is not there, this thing cannot happen. 4:50 Or if that means is not adopted, then my work can't take place. 4:58 So that is the tariqa, that is the way of the kuffar. 5:02 To them it's all about science and it's all about this and that and big bang theories and if this doesn't happen, that won't happen and this won't happen, that won't happen. 5:12 So that is the way of the Kuffar. 5:16 Then we get those who utilize the Asbaab. 5:22 But majority of their confidence is in the Asbaab. 5:29 A very small percentage is reliance on Allah Ta'ala. 5:35 The whole focus is on the Asbaab. 5:38 Is a very small percentage of focus on Allah Ta'ala. 5:45 We take one example. 5:47 A person has got a business. 5:51 So in his mind now, his business is bringing in his income. 5:57 If you have to ask him, who gives you your risk? 6:00 You say Allah Ta'ala. 6:02 Allah Ta'ala is the one who gives rosy. 6:04 You'd even find one ayatul kursi in his shop. 6:07 One hamim, layun, sarun somewhere. 6:10 And Allah Ta'ala is the one who gives rosy. 6:14 But namaz time, he can't come out of the shop. 6:19 He carries on in that business. 6:21 He's busy now. 6:24 He's busy. 6:25 So, although he is saying that Allah Ta'ala is the provider, 6:30 But more of his focus is on the business itself rather than on Allah Ta'ala. 6:37 If his focus was on Allah Ta'ala, then when Allah summons him, Allah calls him, he'll be able to turn his back on the business and he's going to read his salah because that is what Allah Ta'ala wants from him at that time. 6:50 Right? 6:51 So that is the second category where the person is a believer but 6:59 He is using the Asbab and most of his attention is on the Asbab. 7:05 Very little attention is on Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. 7:10 And then you get the third category where this person also uses the Asbab. 7:19 But he or she is only using the Asbab because this is the command of Allah ta'ala that we have to use the Asbab. 7:28 But the person's focus and reliance and confidence and trust is only in Allah Ta'ala. 7:36 His whole focus is on Allah Ta'ala. 7:39 He makes use of the means. 7:41 Whatever Allah Ta'ala wants him to use, to the extent that Allah Ta'ala wants him to utilize, he will use those asbab. 7:51 But his whole focus is only on Allah Ta'ala. 7:55 Now this is the tariqah that the Anbiya a.s. have taught their ummahs. 8:04 That we have to use the means. 8:07 But the test in the dunya is we must not get caught up in the means. 8:12 Our focus has to be on Allah Ta'ala. 8:14 Although we're using the means, but we have full yaqeen that with or without these means, Allah Ta'ala is the doer. 8:23 Allah Ta'ala is the giver. 8:25 Allah Ta'ala is the protector. 8:27 If this means is not there, I'm not going to panic. 8:32 Till the means is there, I'll make use of it. 8:35 If the means is not there, I'm not going to panic. 8:41 There was one young brother. 8:43 He was making tawaf of Baitullah. 8:48 He was in Ihram. 8:50 And he had one tawiz. 8:55 So you know, our Arab brothers, which are Desi tawiz. 9:03 In fact now they can even tolerate musical concerts but they still can't tolerate the taweez. 9:09 Musical concert is alright but taweez they can't tolerate it. 9:14 So there is a place for taweez in our deen. 9:17 Many of our akabireen also they have written whole whole kitabs on taweez etc. 9:24 But this brother now he had the taweez and one of those guards saw him there and they took the taweez away. 9:34 He, bichara, got so pareshan. 9:36 He left his tawaaf, everything. 9:41 And I, bichara, had to be sitting there. 9:43 So he saw me, he came there. 9:44 He's telling me, this fellow took my taweez. 9:47 Go and talk to him. 9:48 Get this thing back for me. 9:53 He took it. 9:53 He took it. 9:54 Finish. 9:54 Don't worry about it. 9:56 He said, no, no, no. 9:57 This tabi is handed down in our family. 10:02 I got it from my granny. 10:04 This busur gave this thing. 10:05 So many years I'm wearing it. 10:07 So I said, alright. 10:10 Let's take a chance. 10:12 I went to that brother. 10:13 He said, you know what? 10:17 Noise. 10:18 Shirk and this and that. 10:20 Whatever. 10:20 Noise. 10:22 But this person now, he couldn't function now. 10:26 He forgot about his umrah. 10:27 He forgot about his tawaf. 10:29 He forgot about everything. 10:31 Now he's like, he's pareshan now. 10:33 How is he going to live? 10:34 He doesn't have this tawiz now. 10:37 So you see where the focus went away. 10:39 He's right there by Baitullah. 10:42 Right? 10:43 But his focus is not on Allah Ta'ala. 10:46 His focus is on the taweez of his that this person took away. 10:50 He is pareshan. 10:51 He is going from person to person. 10:54 He is going behind that person who took the taweez. 11:00 Hmm? 11:02 So this is what happens when the focus is on the asbab rather than on Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. 11:09 So Anbiya alayhimussalatu wassalam, they taught us that we use the asbab. 11:15 But our focus, trust, tawakkul must only be on Allah ta'ala. 11:20 That whether that sabab is there or not there. 11:22 If Allah ta'ala wants it to happen, it will happen. 11:25 And if Allah ta'ala doesn't want it to happen, it won't happen. 11:29 And then there is a fourth category which we don't fit in there. 11:37 And that is the category of the Anbiya a.s. in certain instances of their lives where although the Asbab was available, they never used it. 11:53 Although the Asbab was available, they never used it. 11:57 The example, one example we'll take 12:00 Is of Nabi Ibrahim a.s. That when they were catapulting him now into the fire, so Jibrail a.s. took permission from Allah Ta'ala to go and offer Ibrahim a.s. some help. 12:19 So Ibrahim a.s. is now en route from the caterpillar to the fire. 12:27 And Jibrail alayhi salam came to ask him that, O Ibrahim, can I assist you? 12:33 Allow me to help you. 12:34 And Ibrahim alayhi salam said to him that, is my Allah Ta'ala not aware of my situation? 12:44 If my Allah Ta'ala is aware, then whatever it is, 12:48 Now, for us now, we know the ending of the story. 12:52 That he went into the fire and Allah Ta'ala gave hukam that the fire must become cool. 12:57 But at that time when Ibrahim A.S. refused to use that asbab, he didn't know what was going to be the outcome. 13:06 He didn't know that Allah Ta'ala is going to order the fire to become cool. 13:12 He went. 13:12 Walqadri khayrihi wa sharrihi min Allahi ta'ala. 13:17 Takdir. 13:18 Good and bad. 13:18 It's all from Allah ta'ala. 13:20 Whatever it is now. 13:22 Whatever I will have to face there. 13:24 I'll face. 13:25 Whatever. 13:25 If Allah ta'ala wants me to burn there. 13:28 I'm happy with the decree of Allah. 13:29 If Allah wants to save me. 13:31 Allah will save me. 13:33 Nabiya Kareem. 13:35 Sallallahu alayhi wasallam. 13:36 Mentioned. 13:38 That if the whole world can get together. 13:41 Iblibali. 13:43 Walawijtama'u ala in yanfa'uka bishay. 13:47 Lam yanfa'uka illa bishayin qad kataba Allahu lak. 13:51 Wa in ijtama'u ala in yadurruka bishay. 13:54 Lam yadurruka bishayin illa qad kataba Allahu alayk. 13:58 Rufi'atil aqlaam. 14:00 Wajafatil suhuf. 14:01 That the whole, everybody can get together and they want to try and harm us in some way. 14:07 They will not be able to harm us safe to the degree that Allah Ta'ala wants harm to come to us. 14:14 And if everybody gets together and they want to benefit us, they will not be able to benefit us safe to the degree that Allah Ta'ala wants some benefit to come to us. 14:23 The pens have been lifted and the scrolls have dried. 14:27 In other words, the deed is written down. 14:29 Finished. 14:29 Nothing more is going to happen. 14:31 Nothing less is going to happen. 14:33 Right? 14:35 So the Anbiya alayhimussalatu wassalam, at times in their lives, they never used the Asbab. 14:42 Although the Asbab was available, but they never used it to show their total, total reliance on Allah, Rabbul Izzet. 14:50 But what they taught us to do, 14:53 Is we must use the asbab. 14:56 Use the asbab. 14:57 But our total reliance must be on Allah Ta'ala. 15:01 The reliance on Allah Ta'ala must not be a superficial reliance. 15:04 We just sing with our tongue. 15:06 Allah is the provider. 15:07 Allah is the protector. 15:08 Allah is... 15:09 But if we really look into our lives, our whole focus is only on the asbab. 15:15 Even at the expense of our deen. 15:18 We just want to go behind the asbab. 15:21 Right? 15:24 Now the question arises that okay, we learned now that we have to use the asbab. 15:31 What asbab can we use? 15:35 Because there are many asbab in the dunya. 15:38 Many means to acquiring an end in the dunya. 15:43 So what asbab do we use? 15:47 So one is the category of the mindset of people when they're using the asbab that we have discussed now already. 15:56 Now the other is the categories of asbab. 16:00 What type of asbab as a believer, what type of asbab am I allowed to use? 16:05 And what type of asbab I must stay away from? 16:10 So the first type of Asbab is known as Asbab-e-Qata'i. 16:21 These are those Asbab which Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has kept for certain things. 16:30 For example, a person is hungry. 16:34 The means to get rid of that hunger is to eat some food. 16:41 A person is thirsty. 16:43 The sabab that he must use to get rid of the thirst is he must drink some water. 16:48 Right? 16:49 A person is feeling cold. 16:51 He must put on some warm clothing. 16:54 So these are asbab kat'i. 16:56 These are asbab that Allah Ta'ala has put into place. 17:01 And a person has to use these asbab. 17:05 If somebody is hungry, food is available. 17:09 Right? 17:11 He's hungry. 17:12 Food is available. 17:14 And he says that, no, no, no. 17:17 I'm just trusting in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. 17:21 I'm not going to eat the food. 17:23 Allah ta'ala must just make me full. 17:26 And now, because of adopting this type of an attitude, he gets sick, he becomes anorexic, or some other health problem develops, and sometimes it can even lead to his death. 17:43 So he will be sinful. 17:45 He will be sinful for not using those asbabs. 17:48 Allah Ta'ala put those asbabs there. 17:51 You are supposed to use those asbabs. 17:55 So that is the first category of Asbaab. 17:58 Each one of us, we have to utilize those Asbaab. 18:01 We can't leave those Asbaab out. 18:05 The second type of Asbaab, the ulama mention Asbaab-e-Zanni. 18:12 Asbaab-e-Zanni. 18:16 To put it in simple terms, 18:22 There's like a 70 to 80% chance of it working out. 18:27 There's 70 to 80% chance of it working out. 18:32 For example, a person needs to start earning his rosy, right? 18:39 So, if he gets a job, 18:44 Or he opens one business. 18:46 Or he's got a trade so he starts using his trade. 18:50 So there is maybe an 80 plus percent chance that things will work out for him. 18:56 Yes, it can happen that somebody opens up a business and the business doesn't work out. 19:02 It goes down. 19:05 Things like that do happen. 19:06 But generally, a person makes some effort in that regard and things work out for the person. 19:12 How much is going to work out? 19:16 Somebody may open a shop. 19:18 Allah Ta'ala takes him from strength to strength. 19:21 That little tea room of his becomes one big factory, big wholesale. 19:26 And another person may open the shop and his whole life he may just remain in that same shop and he's earning his rosy and carrying on. 19:32 That is Allah Ta'ala's 19:36 Decree. 19:37 How much who Allah wants to give to whom. 19:40 But if a person has to make some effort in that regard, then generally he will start earning some rosy. 19:46 So this is known as Asbab-e-Zunni. 19:52 A person. 19:54 There was one man. 19:56 So he went to one morana. 20:02 And he said that, make dua. 20:05 Allah Ta'ala must bless me with children. 20:07 So Muhammad gave him duas and everything. 20:13 You see this man is very despondent. 20:16 He said, by how long you married? 20:19 Thinking now, maybe he just married for couple years. 20:22 So give me some 20:25 Tasalli. 20:26 It's alright. 20:27 It's early days. 20:28 She asked him, how long you married? 20:31 So he said, no. 20:33 No, I'm not married as yet. 20:36 She said, you're not married as yet? 20:41 So your children will fall from the sky? 20:46 So you have to make use of the means. 20:50 But a person can get married. 20:51 A person can get married. 20:55 And he is having marital relations also. 20:58 But he is not blessed with a child. 21:02 He is not blessed with a child. 21:03 It is not necessary that if he gets married and he has marital relations, he is going to get a child. 21:09 It is not necessary. 21:13 But generally that is the system that Allah Ta'ala has put into place. 21:17 A person will marry. 21:18 Allah Ta'ala will bless him with children. 21:21 Sometime it happens. 21:22 Allah doesn't bless in his wisdom. 21:23 Allah Ta'ala doesn't bless. 21:27 So, we are discussing about the second category of Asbab. 21:32 That is like 80% of the time this thing works out. 21:40 And it is something that the Shariat has allowed. 21:43 It is something that the Shariat has allowed. 21:46 So this type of Asbaab, a person makes use of it, and if he doesn't want to make use of it, then there are certain conditions. 21:59 If he doesn't want to use this Asbaab, that Asbaab-e-Qata'i, nobody can say, I don't want to use it. 22:05 Everybody will have to use it. 22:08 This Asbab, the second category of Asbab, a person has got a choice. 22:13 If he wants to make use of it, Alhamdulillah, he makes use of it, but his focus must be on Allah Ta'ala. 22:21 Focus must be on Allah Ta'ala. 22:23 And if he doesn't want to make use of it, 22:26 Then there are certain conditions. 22:28 Only if he can fulfill those conditions, then he is allowed not to make use of Asbab-e-Zanni also. 22:37 So the conditions are that his Iman and Tawakkul has to be of a very high level. 22:44 Then he must not have any dependence. 22:47 Because one is, he as the man, he said, no, I got full tawakkul in Allah Ta'ala. 22:53 But when he goes home, his wife wants milk and bread. 22:56 She is not of that level. 22:59 So now there will be tamasha. 23:02 So if his whole family is also of that level, then no problem. 23:07 No problem. 23:08 But if not, if his family is not of that level, then he can't say he is not going to make use of the asbhab. 23:14 Al-Fatihah. 23:43 The third type of Asbab that we get is what is known as Asbab-e-Wahmi. 23:53 This Asbab-e-Wahmi, to put it in layman's terms, say that there's a 20% chance of this thing working. 24:05 20% chance or a 30% chance of this thing working. 24:09 Right? 24:13 Oh, there is so much of confusion around this Asbab. 24:19 The people who are the professionals in that field, they themselves are confused about the Asbab. 24:26 You know, there is one example that had come to mind. 24:43 But I will speak in some vague terms. 24:48 I'm sure the elders will understand. 24:50 A person gets married and he wants to have children. 25:01 He wants to have children. 25:05 And he is having relation, marital relations with his spouse. 25:14 When he is having marital relations with his spouse, then there is a mixing of fluids. 25:21 There is a mixing of liquids. 25:23 There is a mixing of fluids. 25:28 There is a certain amount of fluid that comes out of a man's body, goes into the woman's body. 25:37 There is a womb there, uterus. 25:40 Everything is there. 25:41 The woman has got everything in her. 25:45 Despite all of that, does that woman have a child or does that woman conceive every time that this relation takes place? 26:01 Yet, this fluid that is in the man is definitely going into her. 26:07 But she doesn't conceive. 26:09 Why? 26:10 Because it wasn't the decree of Allah Ta'ala for her to conceive. 26:16 The day Allah Ta'ala wants her to conceive, she'll conceive. 26:24 And if a person has to collect that fluid, I'm not saying it must be done. 26:28 If a person has to collect that fluid, it has got weight to it. 26:34 It's a quantity. 26:35 It's got weight to it. 26:36 It's got body to it. 26:39 But yet, 26:42 Most of the time, the woman doesn't conceive. 26:46 Now and again, she will conceive. 26:50 And that's something you can see, you can feel, you can touch, you can smell. 26:57 On the other hand, so much of fear has been generated in the hearts of people through the media and through all these other things for something that we can't see, we can't feel, we can't touch. 27:14 Now that something that we can see, we can feel, we can touch and definitely it's going where it's supposed to go. 27:22 But it can only do its job if Allah Ta'ala wants it to do its job. 27:27 Something that is so small. 27:29 Something we can't see. 27:31 We can't feel. 27:32 We can't touch. 27:33 How is that thing going to do anything if Allah Ta'ala don't want it to do? 27:40 It can't do anything if Allah Ta'ala doesn't want it to do. 27:43 And if Allah Ta'ala wants it to do, then no matter what you do, it's going to happen. 27:52 It's going to happen. 27:54 Right? 27:55 So, when it comes to these type of things, then you get Azbab-e-Wahmi. 28:02 Whole lot of things which actually make a person sometimes go crazy. 28:12 I was just telling a few friends a couple weeks back I had to travel by aeroplane. 28:21 I was going somewhere so I had to travel by aeroplane. 28:27 So on that, when you book the flight, so they send you one health form. 28:34 It's filling. 28:36 A whole lot of questions, like a questionnaire. 28:38 A whole lot of questions. 28:39 It's filling the answers. 28:41 When you go to the airport, you've got to hand this thing in. 28:46 So when I was returning, I had one friend with me. 28:51 So one of the questions on that form is that have you been in any gathering in excess of 50 people? 28:59 Any gathering that got more than 50 people? 29:02 Have you been in a gathering of that nature? 29:05 So he's telling me, he said, we've got a problem. 29:09 I said, what's the problem? 29:10 He said, we have to say yes. 29:13 We have to say yes. 29:16 Because we came with the flights. 29:20 We came with the flights. 29:22 Over 200 people in aeroplane. 29:25 So how are we going to say we were not in a gathering more than 50? 29:28 They put us in a gathering more than 50. 29:31 Now they are asking us the same question. 29:35 And more humorous than that, 29:39 Was in the aeroplane. 29:41 Everybody is sitting shoulder to shoulder. 29:44 And aeroplane seats too. 29:48 And they say to our seats can't recline. 29:50 It's a safe air seats. 29:52 What they call it. 29:53 I don't know what seat. 29:55 They say now a slimline seat. 29:57 Slimline seat. 29:58 Doesn't recline. 29:59 So you're sitting shoulder to shoulder. 30:03 So there was one dohi. 30:04 An old white lady. 30:06 She's sitting on our row. 30:09 So, when coming into the aeroplane, you must social distance. 30:14 All must stand one and a half meters apart. 30:17 And get into the aeroplane, everything. 30:20 But now you're sitting shoulder to shoulder. 30:22 Throughout the flight, two hour flight, you're sitting shoulder to shoulder. 30:26 Now, coming out time, nobody must wake up. 30:30 Everybody must sit down. 30:32 Only two, two rows must get off at a time. 30:35 And make sure you are one and a half meter apart. 30:38 So that dohi, old lady, she's telling me, she says, Sir, does this make sense? 30:46 We're sitting next to one another for two hours and now for five minutes walking. 30:52 So these are all wahmi. 30:53 What is this? 30:54 Wahmi. 30:56 So these Azbab-e-Wahmi, this is just in this one thing because we went through this thing now. 31:01 Look by, we mustn't look down on anybody. 31:03 We mustn't laugh at anybody. 31:05 This was a thing, you know, we experienced first time in our life. 31:11 We experienced first time in our life. 31:13 We didn't know how to react. 31:16 And you got a propaganda machine. 31:17 You got, you know, just instilling the fear. 31:22 You know, then you got Muslim stats telling you how many Muslims passed away. 31:26 No Hindu stats, Jewish stats, Christian stats. 31:29 Only Muslim stats you got. 31:31 So many people passed away. 31:32 Then on one funeral notice group is a KZN funeral notice. 31:37 Some of you may be on the group. 31:39 All of a sudden they're posting Johannesburg, Cape Town, here and there. 31:43 So many people dying. 31:44 So many people. 31:45 So I phoned one of those admins. 31:47 I said, this was a KZN group. 31:50 All along you're only posting KZN. 31:52 Now what Cape Town and Joburg and everything came inside? 31:57 So then they saw the maaf. 31:59 Don't you put KZN again. 32:03 So they instilled this fear, you know. 32:07 But, you see, what is the frightening thing? 32:09 Why whoever, you know, you wanted to use whatever they said, protocols, this, that, all that now is one side. 32:18 But the main thing is our iman, our yakin. 32:21 This must not get affected. 32:24 Now, what is a frightening thing? 32:27 You see, there was a conversation taking place between few doctors. 32:32 So the one doctor, he wanted to know what is the situation here. 32:37 So he got permission from those other doctors to send me the screenshots of that conversation. 32:44 So they are talking on the chat. 32:47 So the one doctor is asking the other doctor, 32:52 Did COVID kill him? 32:56 Right? 32:58 So the other doctor is telling this doctor, he says, you know what? 33:01 We know that only Allah Ta'ala can, you know? 33:06 So this doctor is asking his colleague now. 33:09 He says, see, we understand that. 33:12 But what I'm asking you is, did COVID speed up the process? 33:18 And this doctor answers yes. 33:22 Now where does that leave our Iman now? 33:26 Where does it leave our Iman? 33:30 Another doctor, I was having a discussion with him. 33:34 Personally, we were having a personal discussion. 33:37 So, he is giving me now from the medical side and I'm trying to explain to him from Dini perspective. 33:46 So, we're always reaching, you know, we're reaching a dead end because 33:52 I'm asking him, so where does Allah Ta'ala fit in? 33:59 So eventually he told me, he said, Maulana, let's leave Allah Ta'ala out of this for now. 34:08 I told him, no, that discussion we can't have. 34:11 Watch what you are saying now. 34:14 That discussion we can't have. 34:18 Another doctor was having a discussion with him. 34:21 So at the end of the discussion, I asked him, because he's telling me this one passed away, that one passed away, that one passed away. 34:27 And a lot of people tell me, see, because you didn't lose anybody, that's why you're talking like this. 34:33 That's not true. 34:35 That's not true. 34:37 I also lost people. 34:39 People passed away. 34:40 Allah Ta'ala made the bahana. 34:42 He wanted to give them shahadat. 34:43 So he made them pass away through the same thing. 34:46 Right? 34:48 So that doctor said, this one passed away, that one passed away, that one passed away. 34:53 So I asked him, I said, alright, all these people passed away. 34:58 So are you telling me that if this COVID thing was not here, all these people would have been alive? 35:10 If this COVID thing was not here, so all these people would have been alive today. 35:18 So then, you should know, I understand. 35:23 I understand. 35:24 So this is important thing. 35:27 Whatever anybody feels they want to use this means or that means or that means, and don't look down upon anybody. 35:36 Last night I was in Abdul Haqq Maghda Sahib, Da'ul Barakatuh's majlis, and he was reading some Malfoozat of Abba Haji Haji Muhammad S.A.W. 35:50 And Hazrat Ji had mentioned that any person who looks down upon another mu'min, then he is from the Ashraar. 36:01 He is not from the Abraar. 36:04 That means he is not from the people of piety. 36:08 If you look down on others. 36:10 Now in this whole thing that took place, there were some who felt that you know what, all these protocols, all this. 36:19 Waste of time. 36:20 We just carry on. 36:21 Whatever happens, happens. 36:23 And then there were others who felt that, you know what, these are the means. 36:28 Must tie the camel. 36:29 To tie the camel, these are the means. 36:31 We must make use of the means. 36:33 The professional people are telling us, the professional people, they had more ikhtilaf than the ulama for once. 36:40 Every time they said, ulama are differing, ulama are differing. 36:43 In this thing here, the doctors had much more differences than the ulama, right? 36:48 So, now some people felt must make use of the means, all the protocols. 36:57 But you see, then shaitan comes away in between. 37:01 Now those people who are not using the means, look at this. 37:07 Look at these people. 37:08 Where is the iman? 37:10 What they think now? 37:13 And those people who are using the means, look at those people. 37:17 They are reckless. 37:17 They are irresponsible. 37:19 What's wrong with them? 37:21 So what happened? 37:22 Both sides lost. 37:25 Both sides lost. 37:28 Because both sides were looking at one another with hakarat. 37:32 We are looking down upon the next person. 37:36 Those who are making use of all those things what the government had stipulated, they are supposed to look at those people and say, Alhamdulillah. 37:44 At least these people, they are, you know, they are strong. 37:49 They are strong. 37:51 They are carrying on. 37:53 Allah Ta'ala keep them, you know, with afriyat, whatever. 37:56 And those people who are looking at the others who are using those things, they are supposed to feel them sorry too. 38:01 You know. 38:02 Alright. 38:03 Khair. 38:03 Whatever it is. 38:04 You know Allah Ta'ala keep it. 38:06 Now that way we'll keep muhabbat. 38:08 We'll keep jur. 38:10 Everybody will be online. 38:12 Everybody will be thinking of Allah Ta'ala. 38:14 But that doesn't happen. 38:18 In any situation we start judging. 38:22 We start classing. 38:22 We start looking down. 38:24 That's not a healthy thing. 38:27 So there's Asbab-e-Wahmi. 38:30 There's lot of Asbab-e-Wahmi. 38:32 We are not going to go into all the details. 38:35 But you understand. 38:36 This Azbab-e-Wahmi, it may be a 10-20% chance. 38:41 And in this Bimari thing, it was a 0 point something chance of something happening. 38:47 But the way they marketed this whole thing for whatever the reasons, maybe Allah Ta'ala knows best. 38:54 But they put so much of fear into the heart. 38:57 So much of worry. 38:57 So much of fear. 38:59 And people just got very, very afraid. 39:02 Many people got very, very afraid. 39:04 Allah Ta'ala still keep us all with sehat, with afiyat. 39:08 And then you get a fourth category of Asbaab. 39:12 And those Asbaab are haram. 39:15 Those Asbaab are haram. 39:16 So those Asbaab we are not allowed to use. 39:19 Asbaab-e-Wahmi. 39:21 Those are Asbaab that we shouldn't get involved in too much. 39:25 We shouldn't get involved in too much. 39:28 And those asbab that are haram, which Allah Ta'ala has decreed as haram, we can't use it at all. 39:36 We can't use it at all. 39:38 Now, see, understand something. 39:41 That's why this afternoon too in the dearest program, I was explaining something. 39:51 See, sometimes there's a function taking place, right? 39:55 Family function or wedding or whatever. 39:58 And at that function, there's wrong things happening. 40:02 Maybe they're playing music, photography, intermingling, whatever. 40:07 Some haram things, wrong things happening. 40:10 Now, if our child has to say to us, but mummy, daddy, abba, ammi, whatever, 40:18 No. 40:18 Maha said this type of thing is no good. 40:22 It's wrong. 40:23 It's not good. 40:24 So what we will say to the child? 40:27 What your Maha said, leave it now. 40:29 One said. 40:30 We have to go there because that's family. 40:33 It's family now. 40:34 We have to maintain the family tie. 40:36 So never mind all the haram things. 40:38 You don't worry about all those haram things happening there. 40:40 We're just going there because we have to maintain the family tie. 40:44 We'll tell the child that. 40:47 Kale, your child, wants to go with 3-4 friends who are drug addicts. 40:55 Right? 40:56 He wants to go for a weekend. 40:57 So they're going out. 40:59 Fishing trip. 41:00 And everybody knows that these people, they are involved in drugs. 41:04 And your child says, I want to go with them. 41:06 So you say, no, no, you can't join them. 41:08 They do wrong things. 41:10 And yet it's not even known 100% whether they are going to do it or not. 41:14 But this function is known. 41:16 100% those wrong things are going to take place. 41:18 Here it's not even known. 41:19 They may do it. 41:20 They may not do it. 41:21 We don't know. 41:22 But you won't allow your son. 41:24 And if your son tells you, No, no, no, mummy. 41:27 You don't worry about all that. 41:28 What wrong they doing? 41:29 They doing. 41:30 I'm not going to get involved in that. 41:31 I'm just joining them for the company. 41:33 To just keep the muhabbat in the ummah. 41:36 Will you allow? 41:39 You won't allow, right? 41:39 So there are double standards. 41:42 Double standards, right? 41:44 Now in the same way, a person who is making use of the different protocols, different protocols, whatever the safety precautions. 41:56 Now another person, now this protocol will fall under Azbaab-e-Wahmi. 42:01 It will fall under Azbaab-e-Wahmi because even the scientists, the medical people, they themselves are not sure about it. 42:09 They themselves are not sure about it. 42:11 Some of them say it's more detrimental to them. 42:14 So we're not going into that argument. 42:15 That's for them to argue, not our ikhtira. 42:19 Now a person is making use of those protocols. 42:23 He say, when you come to my house, don't make salaam, make istilaam. 42:27 Some people dream, from outside, just make istilaam, don't come make salaam. 42:33 But anyway, that was the person's choice. 42:35 Here. 42:37 We're not saying it's a good thing, but that was the person's choice. 42:40 Now, we look down upon that person. 42:43 Because he's making use of Asbab-e-Wahmi. 42:47 We look down upon him. 42:49 What's wrong with him? 42:52 But the same person got insurance on his vehicle. 42:56 The same person who's looking down on that person who's making use of Asbab-e-Wahmi. 43:01 And you say, where's his Iman? 43:02 Where's his Tawakkul? 43:03 Where's his Yaqeen? 43:05 But he got insurance on his vehicle. 43:07 Which is Haram Asbab. 43:11 So where is the balance? 43:13 See? 43:14 Where is our balance? 43:18 So what has happened to us as an ummat? 43:21 We scoring, you know, brownie points. 43:24 We trying to prove a point. 43:25 And we all become keyboard warriors. 43:29 No keyboard warriors. 43:30 Just new warriors. 43:31 Keyboard warriors. 43:32 Someone said this. 43:33 I must say that. 43:34 This one posted that article. 43:35 I must knock it with this article. 43:38 And we carry on fighting and arguing on the chats and all that. 43:42 Right? 43:42 But if we have to look into our own life. 43:45 That okay, I'm looking down on that person. 43:48 Because that person is making use of azbab-e-wahmi. 43:51 But in my own life I got haram azbab. 43:55 So is my intention the pleasure of Allah Ta'ala? 43:59 Or am I just proving points here? 44:03 Hz. 44:04 Muhammad s.a.w. 44:07 he mentioned that if a person is not even using Asbaab-e-Zunni 44:14 A person is not using azbab-e-zanni. 44:17 We got no right to even point a finger at him too. 44:21 Azbab-e-zanni, which is something that people generally use. 44:26 If a person is not using that, his yaqeen and tawakkul is of that level, that he is not using that. 44:32 We got no right to even point a finger at that person too. 44:38 So what right do we have to look down on anybody? 44:42 We mustn't look down on anybody. 44:46 And when it comes to these asbab, we have to realize also that there is a cut-off point. 44:54 We can't just keep saying, tie the camel, tie the camel, tie the camel. 45:00 There's no legs left. 45:00 How many legs we tie the poor camel? 45:04 So we make use of the asbab to a point, to a degree. 45:09 After that, we trust in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. 45:13 And whatever happens, we make tafweez. 45:16 We hand it over to Allah ta'ala. 45:18 And raza bil qaza. 45:20 That I am pleased with the decree of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. 45:23 Whatever the decree of Allah ta'ala. 45:25 Allah must not test me. 45:26 I'm very, very weak. 45:28 Allah ta'ala must not test me. 45:30 Right? 45:30 Always ask for afiyat. 45:32 Ask for afiyat from Allah Ta'ala. 45:35 Right? 45:35 But, whatever happens thereafter, I will only make use of the asbab that are in conformity with the shariah, conformity with the deen, right? 45:46 Conformity with the sunnah of Huzoor-e-Paak sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and over and above that. 45:53 I'll conclude with this last example. 45:56 It's a real life example. 45:58 Something that happened. 46:00 Really, I'm mentioning all this for myself. 46:03 Muzakara for myself. 46:05 And really for us to think. 46:08 One person, he was a normal working class person. 46:12 Working class person. 46:14 Simpleton. 46:16 Not much dini knowledge, Islamic knowledge or anything. 46:20 Simple person. 46:21 Carry on. 46:24 And he met in an accident. 46:27 He, Alhamdulillah, was okay, but his car was in a very bad condition. 46:33 So the first person to arrive on the scene was a knowledgeable person, right? 46:39 A person who was of knowledge, Islamic, dini knowledge. 46:43 So he met this brother by you, okay. 46:45 So he waited for him, you know, till the cops came and whatever. 46:50 So he said, this brother, I met him later now, the person who met in accident. 46:55 So he came to me and he's telling me, I'm a bit confused about something. 47:02 So what's the problem? 47:04 So he says, man, every time you're talking, you say insurance is haram. 47:08 Insurance is haram. 47:09 So I thought now, maybe his car was not insured and now his car is written off. 47:14 Now he's telling me, now you see now, how am I going to travel to work? 47:18 I thought he's going to tell me something like that. 47:19 Every time you say insurance is haram and all that. 47:23 But now, I'm confused about something. 47:26 I met an accident. 47:28 I met an accident. 47:29 And my car was finished up there. 47:32 The first person to arrive on the scene was a knowledgeable person. 47:36 And after the first few minutes of discussion, he asked me, Hey, is your car insured? 47:44 So, I told him, yeah, no, car is insured. 47:47 He said, oh, alhamdulillah. 47:48 Then he said, alright, no, you're okay. 47:50 So he's telling me now, 47:52 So insurance is all right. 47:55 That person told me Alhamdulillah. 47:59 So really, myself, yourself, all of us, we are on a journey, you know. 48:06 See, Ramaphosa, he told the traffic department, the roads, you know, they must put on the electronic sign boards. 48:17 He said, we are on a journey. 48:19 He said, South Africa is on a journey. 48:22 Let us beat this virus, you know. 48:24 He said, let us beat this virus. 48:27 They which are non-Muslim, their ambitions and their goals are just still here. 48:33 Just still here. 48:34 But we are also on a journey. 48:37 We are on a journey. 48:39 We are on a journey to the Akhirat. 48:43 So let us beat nafs and shaitan. 48:46 Let us beat nafs and shaitan. 48:49 Sometimes, you know, we're getting caught up on one issue. 48:53 We character assassinating, we finishing the... on one issue. 48:58 But sometimes we got worse problems behind us. 49:01 Behind us we got bigger problems. 49:03 We're not worried about that. 49:05 As my Ispatriya Sahib rahmatullah needs to say that we got pythons around our neck. 49:11 We worried about the fly sitting on that person's forehead. 49:15 But we got pythons around our necks. 49:19 So we must look at everything in our life. 49:22 Look at everything and slowly slowly we must start cleaning up. 49:27 It must be a clean up process. 49:29 We have to be progressing all the time. 49:33 Progressing all the time. 49:35 One day we have to meet our Allah. 49:38 We have to meet our Allah. 49:40 And Allah Ta'ala is going to question us. 49:42 He's going to be Hisaab Kitab. 49:45 So we must keep that in front of us. 49:47 I must improve. 49:48 I must improve all the time. 49:51 Take stock of myself and see how I can improve myself. 49:57 I don't know where the time went away. 49:59 I think training from this afternoon. 50:01 Recently we've only been talking for half an hour. 50:04 Lucky I saw him. 50:05 See, 50 minutes. 50:06 I don't know how he reached there. 50:08 Unless he put fast forward or something. 50:11 But here... 50:12 We'll leave it at that. 50:14 Allah Ta'ala give me tawfiq. 50:15 Give you tawfiq. 50:16 Grant the entire ummah tawfiq. 50:19 Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. 50:39 Allahumma a'inna ala zikrika wa shukrika wa husni ibadatik. 50:44 Allahumma inna nas'aluka as-sihha wa al-iffa wa al-amanah wa husna al-khulk wa al-ridha bil-qadr. 50:51 Allahumma inna na'udh bika min zawali ni'matik wa tahawuli afiatik wa fujaa'ati niqmatik wa jami'i sakhatik. 51:00 Allahumma inna nas'aluka min khairi ma sa'alaka minhu nabiyuka Sayyiduna Muhammad. 51:05 Sallallahu alayhi wasallam. 51:08 Wa na'udhu bika min kulli sharri mastahada minhu nabiyyuka sayyiduna Muhammad. 51:13 Sallallahu alayhi wasallam. 51:15 Anta al-musta'an wa alayka al-bala. 51:18 Wa la hawla wa la quwata illa billah. 51:20 Wa sallallahu ta'ala ala khayri khalqihi sayyidina Muhammad. 51:24 Yuwa ala alihi wa ashabihi ajma'in. 51:27 Bi rahmatika ya arhamarrahim. 51:30 To you. 51:32 Just give me one more minute of your time. 51:42 When anybody used to come to tell him something bad about somebody else. 51:49 So his immediate response, he used to say, He's not like that. 51:57 As soon as somebody comes to tell him something bad about someone, he says, No, he's not like that. 52:03 And Hazrat Haji Imdadullah Sahib. 52:06 Muhajir-e-Makki Rahmatullah Ali. 52:08 If anybody used to come and tell him anything, like, you know, something negative about something, he would have made a Tawbah. 52:17 He probably finished making Tawbah. 52:20 The person is coming to give some genuine news. 52:23 That person did do this thing wrong. 52:25 He must have made Tawbah already. 52:28 See how they used to deflect it. 52:30 How they used to deflect it. 52:32 And we entertain the discussion. 52:35 So we must keep the izzat of our next Muslim brother. 52:39 This gossip and this chats and this all this bad talking and all that must come out of this. 52:46 Keep a clean heart. 52:48 Somebody comes to tell us something. 52:51 No, he's not like that. 52:52 Keep the uphold the honor of our brother. 52:56 He's not like 52:58 Or if it's something everybody knows about it, the person, he must make tawbah. 53:03 So if he make tawbah, now what's the problem? 53:05 Why we must talk about he finish make tawbah? 53:09 He make tawbah, he probably make tawbah. 53:11 Finish. 53:12 Kissa khatam. 53:14 Allah Ta'ala give me tawfiq, give you tawfiq. 53:17 Alhamdulillah. Yaqeen
Avoid double standards—do not criticize others for using speculative means while engaging in prohibited (Haram ) means oneself.
Protect the tongue from gossip, backbiting, and judging other Muslims; always try to defend or excuse a brother's mistakes.
Frequently evaluate one's spiritual condition, make Tawbah, and focus on overcoming internal weaknesses (nafs and shaitan). 22:15
Hazrat Moulana Dawood Seedat Saheb