Why Did the Prophet Reject a Man's Hand?

Continuing our discussion with the things that open a person's heart to the quran the light of allah subhanahu wa so.

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About eight or nine different things here that allah that are there are reasons for the heart to be opened to the light of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and i don't believe that ibn al-qaeda allah intended to mention every single thing that opens the heart rather he mentioned the majority of things or he mentioned a plethora of things or the most important of things which which are a cause for a person becoming guided by allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and for a person's heart to be open to the quran and sunnah and his meanings the quran and sunnah are the proverbial light of the heart al-iman true faith is when a pure part of the heart meets the revelation of allah subhanahu wa this is what true faith is okay true faith when allah speaks about iman in the quran okay wherever you find iman what he's speaking about is a pure part of the heart which meets the teachings and the guidance of the quran and sunnah correctly when these two things unite in the heart this is what iman is this is what faith is it's not enough for a person to merely believe in something unguidedly and it's not enough for a person to merely know facts without believing them rather there has to be those two elements in some part of the heart you mentioned before that the heart is a very vast vessel it's huge okay it seems small it's not it's huge it has many layers it's an onion every time you peel a layer there's a layer underneath okay to reach to the center of the heart and so in the heart the heart of every person there is good and bad every human being the idea here is as the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam he said every human being is a sinner by nature yet the best of sinners that's not even a correct statement really the best of sinners because that articulates that there are other sinners that are good what's meant here is the good lot of sinners the sinners which are redeemable are those who are constantly repenting to allah subhanahu ta'ala there's always a two forces in the heart clashing one is that of good and one is that of evil and the idea here is to purify the heart as much as possible and to minimize evil as much as possible correct this is the idea there is no human being without sin there is no human being without evil and for that matter there are evil people that the majority of their heart is overcome with evil but yet they have some good traits in them right these good traits that they have does that make them muslim no just these bad traits or evil that muslims have in their heart does that make them kuffar no right so for example the people of quraish they glorified the kaaba right and they protected it and they exalted it and they made hajj and they believed in allah these are all good things right but did these good things make them muslim no right on the on the on the converse of that we have muslims companions who had done some bad things right who had committed zina or taken or stolen or whatever it was but did that make them non-muslims the answer is no so the issue is that taheed it is the beginning of the path and it is the path to allah subhanahu wa ta'ala a person does not have to heed and when we say to heed we are speaking about guided to heed the worship of allah alone without any partners so in the time of jahiliyyah people used to give charity correct even now people that are non-muslim they give charity a lot of charity right but is this charity counted as something that they will receive reward for in the hereafter no because reward in the hereafter is saved only for the believers so this is reward or goodness in the hereafter is reserved only for believers only exclusively okay but they gave charity is that not counted we say for it to be counted towards the hereafter there is a condition what is the condition that there be the element of to hate right a person doesn't have that element of toheid then that is an invalid is an invalid act of worship what does that mean what's an example of that salah for instance if a person prays really good a very beautiful perfect salient everything is perfect the recitation the direction the clothing the rukur the sujud everything is perfect the hoshua but they don't have wudu and they know they don't have is that accepted why because it's missing a condition of the conditions of salah right likewise is the issue of to heed and any act of worship being accepted is like to your salah to heed to your worship is like to your salah if your tawheed is correct and strong and pure your worship will be likewise and if it is not then your worship will be based on it right so we spoke about the issue of taheed and how important it is there are many types of shirk that people fall into muslim and non-muslim if you think that you are immune from tawheed that is a very dangerous path because ibrahim alaihissalam had is his second son right his heart is his second son his first son is and that's why he named him because meaning that allah listened to my dua and this is the answer to my dua isma so his second son is is haqq right he had isma'il after he was 80 years old he had his heart after he was 90 or 100 years old it's a difference of opinion right this half came around the time of the destruction of the people of lut correct now what was the dua of ibrahim after this happened ismail ibrahimovic so part of his dua was that alhamdulillah that allah blessed me with isma'il in his even though i was such a decrepit old man at the time indeed my lord does answer the dua but he also made in that dua he said so after about a hundred years of tawheed and calling to taheed and as a messenger of allah and after a hundred years of hijrah and fighting for the sake of allah and calling to tawheed he's still making dua my lord please prevent me and my children from falling into the worship of idols he's still afraid of worshipping idols after all that right so who of us now is going to be feel safe that they're tell hate is completely pure and that they're fine but ibrahim doesn't share that sentiment about himself is something that has to be reflected on and it has to be it has to be examined on a daily basis and there are many things that will that will decrease a person's still heat there are many things that will introduce into a person's life some examples of that in our popular culture of things that are shirk right is or are for the example wearing talismans right charms that this charm will keep you safe or this charm will protect you from evil eye or right even if you wear it just for fun i don't i don't understand that actually you know you tell people you know for example that eye that blue eye right they call it the eye of fatima huh and philistine we used to call in right okay so this blue eye i mean it's ugly first of all to me in my opinion but that's just my opinion but second of all they wear it in jewelry and stuff and it's catching on now in popular culture and you tell someone hey you know that's a type of shirk you know it's haram to put that on your body or in your clothing or in your house they say well i'm just it's just for fun i don't understand what the fun is i mean skiing is fun right or it's like snowboarding is fun or roller skating or shooting arrows or skydiving they're that's fun how is hanging talismans that resurrect the ancient warship of idols fun i don't understand that i don't understand that response i never have understood that response it's just it's just for fun you know what i mean this is a type of shirk a group of men came to came to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam to give baya to him to pledge allegiance to him and the way they would pledge allegiance to him is they would put their hand in his hand and he would mention certain things to them and they would repeat repeat i pledge allegiance to uphold such and such and refrain from such and such whatever it is and so he went through with all of these men until he reached the final man who he ignored completely he didn't talk to him he didn't take his hand he ignored him clearly and so far why have you ignored our friend here that came with us as well why have you not accepted his bail on taking his hand as well he said he has a charm on his hand he used to put a a little string that they would believe would keep fever away right or they used to put certain charms on their wrists right that they would believe that would ward off the evil eye or that it would ward off illness or that it would bring good luck it's made of different things okay but the point is is that the belief was that this thing could by the will of allah okay repel or bring something good and so the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said he has a he has a talisman on his hand i don't even want his hand touching my hand with that one with that thing on it right what's the point think about it think about that for a second so he's pl he's putting his hand into the hand of the messenger of allah the pure hand of tawheed the hand that has been sent to demolish shirk so he's got a talisman on his hand and he's putting that same hand into the hand of the prophet sallallahu alaihi to pledge allegiance to him to tell hate out the gates you've already ish you've already invalidated a portion of that allegiance correct so what's the point he said in the femima and so the man heard him and ripped it off and threw it out and then the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam acknowledged him and accepted his allegiance this is one example right different cultures have different things that they do example in yemen they put a piece of steel or a piece of iron underneath their children's pillows at night right in places in africa they have a a bracelet that is made out of metal or brass okay another example is when you go to cvs or walgreens and you see those you see those brass bracelets supposedly that it will help you with arthritis you know what i'm talking about you guys know what i'm talking about and you read the package and it says ancient romans used to believe as soon as you read that that's it that's the end of that right that's a rule of thumb okay ancient romans used to believe ancient greeks used to believe ancient persians used to believe ancient hindus used to believe but this is supposed to help for arthritis this is supposed to this is all a type of shirk it's all a type of shirk likewise one of the types of shirk is that they would in the time of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam they would take the weather what is a water a wetter wetter is the albe alba is a tendon that they would get out of a camel's leg you know the tendons right it's a rope and they would slaughter a camel they would take that and they would make it the string for their bows for their bows to shoot arrows with okay well you know you shoot it long enough long enough long enough it gets stretched out and the bow loses power so it needs to be changed right so they've been to war with these with this bow okay so they have a special connection to the bow so when they take that tendon out that water what they do is they turn it into a talisman and hang it on their horse their war horse they would hang it on themselves or put it on their wrist or put it on their swords as a handle right and this is for good luck you understand this is another type of ship we have the same thing you know this is my lucky belt or my lucky whatever whatever it is i mean you guys get the idea correct the lucky rabbit's foot which is strange as the rabbit it didn't benefit the rabbit right the rabbit got its foot cut off so it was of zero use to the rabbit itself but somehow after it was it proved to fail the rabbit itself it's gonna actually be lucky for me i don't understand that mindset anyways you tell people about these things and they say this is just for this is just for fun again the fun i don't understand how we equate that with fun another type of shirk which is something that a lot of people don't realize and think about in our time is another which are horoscopes you know horoscopes this one is a leo and this one is a cancer and this one is a right you know horoscopes depending on what month you were born in you flip the page in any newspaper and they will give you what is expected for you during that during that month or during that day all right today if you're a leo and blah blah blah you're gonna have you know and it's always something very vague that could apply to anybody you know you're going to meet someone that's going to affect your life very much today i mean that could be the bus driver you know that will affect my life a lot that he's going to drive me where i need to go there's it's it's always just very v general things okay which distinguishes a magician a sorcerer a soothsayer a serger from a prophet right so allah subhanahu wa says what does that mean he is not withholding of the unseen that he knows of it so when you ask him a question the prophet salallahu sallam he gives you a direct answer he doesn't give you some vague answer that seems to be he's trying to wiggle out of being caught as an as an imposter this is contrary to to you know psychics and these people you ask them a specific question they give you a general answer that if you told any tom dick and harry would apply to them some way right and so the point is is that horoscopes are a type of kahana the prophet salallahu wasallam said.

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He said whoever learns the horoscopes then they have learned a portion of magic which allah has prohibited and made kufur and the more he increases that knowledge the more of it he delves into right so this is a type of shirk and i know this is going to sound silly another type of shirk is chinese fortune cookies the ones that are sold at panda express okay so chinese fortune cookies okay that sounds silly right you know why it sounds silly it sounds silly because it's so widespread everybody's doing it so it sounds silly you know it's kind of music you know if you say music is haram or if you say all of the four imams agree that music is hard on or if you say that islam foreign.

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When things become extremely widespread it will seem impossible that these things are haram right we said horoscopes and fortune cook cookies and riba and right it's almost impossible to believe that these things are haram not because there's any reasonable response to why they are not haram if you were to example sit down and put aside the implications what does that mean put aside the implications meaning if riba is haram that means that this and this and this and this and this is haram no put all that aside let's just focus on the premise okay ribba is haram give me a reason why it is okay a person logically cannot come up with the reason why it's had cannot come up with a reason why it is even considered to be something acceptable it's of the worst of evils that you can do to another human being a person comes to you in in need and instead of helping them in their need you compound their need isn't that what it is so if you need money this year next year how what is going to be the difference how are you going to not need more money because now you owe this money now you are going to or more money next year and this is why the prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam said that the person of riba who takes riba this is how he is tortured in his grave until the day of resurrection you guys ready to hear this he is going to be swimming in a river of blood he can barely keep his head above water you ever tread water you ever try to tread water in a river that's trying to take you downstream and trying to stay and every time he gets close to the bank to crawl out of the river of blood there's an angel there with a pile of rocks and he will take a rock and he will throw it into the mouth of the person who is in that river and he will flip back and he will gargle and he will try to swim back out and spit the rock out of his mouth and try to come back to the shore and he will continue to do that until the day of resurrection right this is what the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam is the recompense of a person who takes riba in the grave as is it likewise is the issue of horoscopes i mean it's god come on it's just for fun we don't believe it we're just doing it right well horoscopes claim to tell you the future don't they isn't that what they do well what the prophet salallahu sallam said about that subject is whoever goes to a fortune teller allah will not accept his prayer for 40 days and the scholars of islam have mentioned horoscopes fall into that category and likewise fortune cookies right but we don't believe him yeah of course you don't believe him right because if you did believe him the prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam said whoever goes to a fortune teller and believes what he says has disbelieved and what allah has sent down to muhammad salla right and so there are many types of shirk and there are things that are also prohibited because they lead to shirk there are other things which are prohibited because they lead to shirik what does that mean they lead to shirk like putting lights on graves this is prohibited in islam it says hold on building a grave up more than a hand span right this is also haram this is a prohibition in islam there are many things which are prohibited not because they are shirk because they can lead to shirk okay i want to meditate on a verse before we close out for tonight a statement of allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala that says.

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And so the statement of allah wa ta'ala and whoever desires a religion other than the religion of islam it will never be accepted from him this verse has a holistic meaning and it has a specific meaning holistically whoever desires a religion a complete religion other than the complete religion of islam this person obviously is a catholic correct a person desires christianity desires judaism desires you know hinduism buddhism whatever aside from the religion of islam then it will never be accepted from him but this also means certain things from those religions right and so people will also the verse means and whoever desires elements of other religions other than the elements of the religion of islam those elements will never be accepted from them and that is what we call and that is what we call buddha that is what we call innovation in islam right call this innovation this is important i think that some people don't understand how important this is and i think that a lot of us don't understand how critical toheed is and how dangerous shirk is and how profoundly enveloped we are in our environment by shirk okay so we see catholics they wear the rosary right with the with the with the cross on it and then we see muslims they wear the misbaha with the maiden on it right hashem you know to look like catholics right or for example muslims that go to yoga class there's another one right or they practice eastern meditation muslims doing this they don't know what they have so now they read in cosmopol you know the sister reads in cosmopolitan magazine or she reads in whatever she's reading right and she reads that every day for 15 minutes sit and focus on your breathing and think clear your mind and think about nothing else so she starts doing this you know what this is or develop for yourself a mantra right so what is the mantra i am great i am great or whatever it is okay huh this is their mantra and you keep repeating it in your head focusing on your breathing you may put someone some little music and with the you know birds whistling and just thinking about right this is all taken from eastern idol warship all of it and we have some i had i had some egyptian guy he oh i have stories i could tell you i had an egyptian guy that invited me new york to go to a yoga temple okay whatever and give dawah islamic tawa to the to the people there so you know i went and i sat and i told them about islam and i told them about and so then he called me later and he said listen we want to start yoga classes in the masjid now so that's that's what we need now other linocus right you need to have the jeb right with nefa imagine it in your mind's eye for a moment right we have our yoga session and then we have our salah what kind of idiocy is this sit and sit and meditate and focus on your breathing what about saleh what is saleh what is salah isn't meditation isn't that what it is but it's not unguided meditation like the polytheists idol worshipers have unguided meditation we have guided meditation what is guided meditation we are told what to say in what position right and to read the quran that's meditation so instead of a person throwing away the magazine and saying let me pray to reka every morning as the prophet sallallahu alaihi said for you to do let me have 15 minutes meditation like the pretty lady in the magazine said i should do because she's a psychologist and psychologists say and statistics say and blah blah blah blah blah right what does this do to a person still hate it absolutely crumbles it and before we know it islam is going to become so strange that we won't even recognize it and a good question to ask yourself is when asa bin maryam comes back to earth if that happens in our time is he going to recognize you as a muslim or not i want you to think about that when isabel and maryam comes back to break the cross and slaughter the pig when he comes back to yada algizia is he going to recognize us as muslims or is he going to recognize us as people that look muslims but their lives reflect nothing of that islam that's his very scary thoughts it's enough for tonight which is.