 الحمد لله رب العالمين له الحمد الحسن والثناء الجميل وأشد أن لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له وأشد أن سيدنا ونبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وأصحابه والتابعين لهم بحسان إلى يوم الدين أما بعد أريد أن أتحدث عن الحمد لله ونبياتya very small in size very dangerous and its affairs is very big وذلك هو مجموعة ، مجموعة إنها مجموعة ولكن مجموعة جميلة ، يمكنها أن يساعد ويساعد ومجموعة صلى الله عليه وسلم يتحدث عن مجموعة مجموعة ومجموعة صلى الله عليه وسلم ومجموعة صلى الله عليه وسلم قلتنا أن صبق إذا كان يسلم أن السبب هو السبب إذا كان يشتري أنه جيد فمن كله سياته برحلة وإذا كان يشتري أنه نموت جيد فمن كله سياته برحلة والذلك مع المجموعة الصلى الله عليه وسلم قلت إذا اصبح ابنو آدم If the son of Adam wakes up in the morning, his tongue humbles itself. Sorry, its body humbles itself, your body parts. They humble themselves and they speak to the tongue, The hands and the legs and the whole other entire body, they talk to the tongue, every morning. And they say to the tongue. اتقلها فينا في الله in our affairs في الله in our affairs فإن استقمت استقمنا if you are upright and steadfast استقمنا we will be upright and steadfast وإنعوى ججتا if you deviate we will deviate with you بون دهيار a lot of people the reason why they fell into this problem with someone or they fell out with someone or a conflict occurred between them and someone it's because of something they said every fights that tend to happen they come from where? words that were exchanged and then the fist comes the fist it follows so if the tongue is evil the body parts will just follow and if the tongue is good the bodies will do the good a person has to realize the severity of this organ it is the tongue that can take you to جنة and it's the tongue that can take you to the hellfire the messenger said to the companions من يضمنوا ما بينه لحييه وما بينه فخذيه أضمنوا له الجنة who can guarantee me who can guarantee me that he or she will protect that which is between the two two jaw bones or between the two lips i.e. the tongue and that which is between the two thighs which is their private part who is going to guarantee me that they are going to save God those two the tongue and the what? the private part who is going to guarantee me that they are going to look after those two اضمنوا له الجنة i will guarantee him جنة the prophet said that the prophet told us إن العبد لا يتكلموا بكريمة a person will speak a speech he will say something he will say words of good he doesn't realize what he just said how good and powerful it is it took him to a high station in jannah he said to another person جزاق الله خيرا but he doesn't realize it he said to another person وعليكم السلام ورحمة الله وبركاته he doesn't recognize it it doesn't really ponder and contemplate how much reward he has just taken and it takes him high in jannah and the prophet told us وعليكم السلام the person will also speak a speech he will say something of evil he doesn't ponder over what he just did he doesn't think about what he just said and this speech has thrown him into the hellfire has destroyed him many people today this tongue is open whatever comes to their mind they'll say it my mother used to say they talk because they can talk they talk because they because they can talk a person doesn't do that don't talk because you can talk think and ponder over it the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he was one who protected his tongue he protected his mouth in jannah عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم it was said in the hadith you all came across it that the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم he laughed until his molar teeth can be seen I ask you a question why would the companion say that that the messenger laughed until his molar teeth can be seen it was because he never used to laugh that much anyways عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم he was a person who was serious صلى الله عليه وسلم now I want to speak about how can one work on this tongue how can one make sure these last 10 days of Ramadan I don't go into any problems any mistakes any shortcomings due to my tongue how number one stay away from don't speak about falsehood from the things that are falsehood is don't speak about the religion of Allah if you have no knowledge of it some people when they do and people sometimes have questions a person who has no knowledge will say this is the ruling الله صلى الله عليه وسلم in the Quran هذا حلال وهذا حرام لتفتروا على الله الكذب إن الذين يفترون على الله الكذب لا يفلحون don't open your tongue and say this is halal this is haram this is permissible راذا الله صلى الله عليه وسلم إن ذا آية قل إنما حرم ربي الفواحش ما ظهر منها وما بطن والإفما والبغية بغير الحق وأن تشكوا بالله ما لم ينزل به عليكم سلطانا وأن تقولوا على الله ما لا تعلمون الله يفترون يفترون عن his religion with no knowledge after he mentioned shirk because shirk is what speaking about Allah without knowledge very dangerous don't indulge in falsehood Allah told us in the Quran there are a group of people will be taken to hellfire they will be taken to jahannam and then they will be asked they will be interrogated they will be questioned it will be said to them what bore you to saqara saqara is one of the hellfires among one of the names of jahannam what bore you to saqar why did you end up in jahannam they respond by saying قالوا لم نكن من المصالين قالوا لم نكن we never used to pray ولم نكن نطعم المسكيد and we never used to provide the needy and the ones that we need the poor we forsake them وكننا نخوض مع الخائضين and we used to indulge into falsehood their tongue was just open they will speak about any and everything they are an expert in any and everything also ايداء المسلمين I'm still on the first point don't harm the muslims with your tongue slandering them name cooling the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam look what he told us in the hadith alimah mu'ahmed narrated in his musnad أن رجلا قال يا رسول الله a man came to the messenger عليه الصلاة والسلام a man came to the prophet he said إن فلان يذكروا من صلاتها والصدقتها وصيامها there's a woman she's mentioned her prayer is amazing her صدقة amazing her fasting amazing she is a woman who stands at night and prays and at daytime she's fasting righteous woman and the wealth that she has she gives it out غير أنها تؤذي جيرانها the only thing that she does is she verbally abuses her neighbors her tongue is open the messenger quickly said here in nari she's in the house fire this woman is in the house fire brothers what did we just say she prays she fasts she gives صدقة he's a righteous deed the messenger said صلى الله عليه وسلم she's in the house fire then it was said to him another woman they said there's another woman she doesn't fast much she doesn't pray much and she doesn't give much صدقة she doesn't pray much she prays she prays the obligatory prayers but she's not a person who comes with many voluntary prayers but she doesn't harm her neighbors she doesn't verbally harm anyone she's a person that the Muslims are safe from her tongue المسلم المنسلم المسلم ولا من لسانه ويده a Muslim is the one who the people is safe from your tongue and your hand that's what she is she doesn't say anything about anyone her words don't harm anyone she's a person who keeps herself to herself the messenger said here in jannah this woman is in jannah that's how serious it is brothers when it comes to the tongue النميمة والغيبة backbiting, name calling tellbearance spreading hate between two parties of people the messenger told us about Abu Dawood narrated this and Ahmed and others he said the night I was taken up the night I was ascended up in the sky I was taken up مرأة بقوم I came by a group of people I came across a group of people they had nails out of copper what were they doing يخمشون وجوههم وصدورهم they were scratching their faces and their breasts and chest فقلتوا عيدا and said محمد سينس he said who are these people he was shocked at what he saw they said to him هؤلاء الذين يأكلونه these are the ones who eat لحوما الناسي they eat the people's flesh سلنده backbite talk about the people ويقعون في أعراضهم and they want to belittle their honor these are the people that's what's going to be your consequences brothers عبد الله يا أمت الله that's where you're going to end up if you speak about people I remember many years back I was a sister and her husband went separate ways they went their separate ways do you know why إن إعتكاف الرمضان والله إن إعتكاف الرمضان some sisters who would do it إعتكاف she was new to the UK she didn't know about the system and how things work so her husband he didn't inform her of everything his financial status he never told her about it and the UK government there is some money that they give to you if you have an amount of children and you make a percentage of money he didn't tell her all of that he kept it to himself so when she did إعتكاف for the first Ramadan she did إعتكاف and a group of sisters saw her knew to the community they don't know her so they questioned her they said to her where are you from she said I just recently came I'm new to the country okay they asked her they have 10 days with her and in those 10 days they questioned her and they told her about everything and then she said I didn't know all of this that my husband gets all of this money he's never informed me of all of this they said is he loyal to you does he really love you does he care about you should question that they spoke to her so much until they said to her call him now and she called he was a very angry man this he didn't want to be questioned his authority so she called him and when she called him she said to him is this true is this the case he said who are you to ask me this question now where did you get these questions from and she said it doesn't matter I'm asking you on the spot he said you're divorced I'm not here to judge I'm just here to ask you a question look at what people what is a tongue can do to a family who made it your business to talk about people's issues I will together and to indulge into people's affairs Allah said in the Quran و لقد خلقنا الإنسان و نعلموا ما توسفوا به نفسه و نحن أقربوا إليه من حبل الوريد إذا تلق المتلقيان عن اليمين و عن الشمال قاعد ما يلفظوا من قول إلا لديه رقيب العتيد there's nothing you say brothers there's not a word you utter except that it's written it's documented and it will be shown to you the day of judgment the people that you've spoken about the people that you've backbited don't do anyone a favor just do yourself a favor because those people reality is they will get on with their lives and they will do what they want but it's you that's going to come the day of judgment and you are a muffless the messenger said أتدرودة من المفلس do you know the corrupt one the one who's bankrupt the sahabas they said من لا دينار له ولا درهم it's the one that doesn't have دينار أو درهم the messenger said المفلس من يأتي يوم القيامة the muffless is the one who's going to come the day of judgment وقد شتم هذا he insulted this person وضرب هذا he hit this person وأخذ مال هذا and he took the worth of this person he will come with rewards this man has good deeds they came with but he also has on the other side people who he has backbited people who he has slandered people who he has name called are they going to let go of him no they will take from his righteous deeds they will say give us your deeds and they will take it all of the hard work all of the قيام and the سيام that he came with they will take it all فإنفني حسناتو the prophet said if his righteous deeds finish he has no more righteous deeds to give and there's more stacked against him their sins will be placed on him their shortcoming will be placed on him and then he will be taken and he will be thrown into the house fire your hard work your efforts your fasting your سيام your righteous deeds all of it will be taken if you're backbiting or your slander is large protect your tongue وعدمر جبل came to the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم and he said أخبرني بعمل tell me an action you دخلني الجنة it will enter me into jannah ويباعدني من النار it will distance me from the house fire they said the prophet said to him لقد سألت عن عظيم وإنه ليسير على من يسره الله عليه the messenger said to him you have asked about something very easy for the one who Allah makes easy for and the messenger told him about واشف الله alone and then the messenger said to him shall I tell you the doors of good he said of course and then the messenger told him it and then the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم went out to say ألا دلك بملاك ذلك كله shall I tell you the basis of all of that this is after the prophet mentioned the salah the prophet mentioned jihad the messenger mentioned righteous deeds he said shall I tell you the foundation for all of that the basis where all of that stands on معاد said of course بلا يا رسول الله of course our messenger of Allah tell me the messenger grabbed his tongue and he said to him كفى عليك هذا كفى عليك هذا means what protect this organ معاد المشاكل he said وإن لما أخذنا بما نتكلم به يا رسول الله are we going to be held account for what we say are we going to be punished based upon our speech the messenger said ثاكلت كأمك يا معاد معاد ما يمضلوز you و هل يقبوا و هل يقبوا الناس what is it that is going to throw the people into the hellfire على وجوههم face first إلا حصائد ألسلته they will go to the hellfire with their face first why except their tongue why will they go into their face into the hellfire first because that's where the tongue is that's where the tongue is so the tongue has to be burnt straight away brothers the messenger told us من كان يؤمنوا بالله و اليوم الأخير anyone who believes in Allah and the day of judgment فليقل خيرا أول يسمط say good or be silent think am I going to get a reward for this no don't say it if there's agile in it for you say it if there isn't leave it stay away from backbiting stay away from namima tell bearing it's a very serious issue false allegations falsely say things about people remember you're going to stand in front of Allah you're going to be accounted and remember as I said to you before the one who backbites the one who tell bearers who talks about other people's honor and lies about them makes up things the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم يساله و سلم من أمن بالسانه و لم يدخل الإيمان في قلبي لا تختابن المسلمين ولا تتبعورات فمن تتبعورة أخي تتبع الله و أورته و من تتبع الله و أورته يفضح الله في جوفي بيته the prophet told us those of you are believers follow up the mistakes of your brothers لا تتبعوراتهم the messenger is saying to this don't look at somebody's mistakes and follow them up the messenger then said و من تتبعورة أخي anyone who follows up the mistake of his brother trying to find a slip a short coming with him تتبع الله و أورته الله who come after your mistakes and anyone Allah comes after his mistakes Allah who will expose us in your household the things that happen in your inner chamber in your bedroom the things that happen and in your private affairs Allah will bring it out in the open do yourself a favor leave the Muslims and their honor alone talk back by them don't slander them stay away from it a man came to the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم and he said to him يا رسول الله من نجا what's success success the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم told him three things the messenger said أمسك عليك الإسانك get hold of your tongue وزمبيتك remain in your house when the fitna hits don't talk on social media and have your input and what you want us leave all of that stay in your house stay away from those fitna and the third thing that the messenger said is وبك على خطئتك cry over your shortcomings and your mistakes and three things are success the messenger said this to you علي صلى الله عليه وسلم حديث عقبة من عمير إنساني ترميدي the messenger was sitting with his companions one day a bad smell came an evil smell came ريح منتنة a bad smell it didn't smell nice فقال رسول الله the messenger said to the companions اتدرون ما هذه ريح do you know where this bad smell is coming from the Sahabas they looked at the prophet they said no he said هذه الريح الذين يغتابون المؤمنون اما الذين يغتابون المؤمنين this is the smell that's coming from those who are backbiting the Muslims this smell is coming from those who are backbiting the Muslims the messenger told us علي صلى الله عليه وسلم لا يدخلوا الجنة امام a tell-bearer امام is a tell-bearer what is a tell-bearer a person who wants to cause a conflict between two parties he wants two people to fight head on he's spreading news so they can fight each other and they can go against each other the messenger told us لا يدخلوا الجنة he or she will never enter jannah what is the second thing that I want إن شاء الله for us to do with our tongue in this last 10 days is before I mention it I just want to mention a powerful hadith the prophet SAW told this hadith صحيح البخاري من حديث أبي هوريرا كان رجل من بني إسرائيل there was a man from the the people of Bani Israel and he was a worshipper he was a worshipper he used to worship Allah a lot the hadith is found in صحيح البخاري and there was a sinner one who used to commit many sins and this worshipper will come to the sinner and he will say to him stop what you're doing rectify your situation repent to Allah leave off what you're doing every day and this one wouldn't stop you would carry on doing it and one day he said to him أبعت علي رقبة will you send as a private investigator why you always on my case the sinner is saying this he got angry and the other one the worshipper what did he do he set him والله لا يغفر الله لك والله الله سبحانه وتعالى big statement he's tongue the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم فقابض الله أرواحهما الله took both of their روح فجتمع عند رب الأرض والسماء they both came in front of Allah both of them the sinner and the worshipper and that Allah تبارك وتعالى they said to him أكنت بيعاليما did you know were you very knowledgeable about my affairs what I go to do and what I'm not going to do Allah I say this did you know what I was capable of doing are you strict in my capability وما كان عطاء ربك محضورة your Lord gives you are strict in my giving Allah then said to him go to the hellfire go to the hellfire for which one to which one the one who said والله لا يغفر الله لك Allah is not going to forgive you the worshipper go to the hellfire and I have nullified all of your righteous deeds all of your righteous deeds is gone and Allah said to the sinner إذ هبفدخوا للجنة برحمة go and enter the Jannah because of my mercy أبو هوريرا he said والذي نفسي بيدي I swear by the Lord in which my soul is in his hand this man spoke بكلمة أو بخد دنيا هو أخرة he spoke a speech that destroyed his dunya and he's hereafter everything brothers it's not enough to say I'm passionate about the religion of Allah that you can slander a person and say what you want just because you're passionate about the deal you slander a person unjustly or you say a person he's a disbeliever this man the مجتهد the عابد here was what غيرا took him so what did he do to his brother he placed a takfir on him والله لا يغفر الله لك it's a takfir you're a kafir and the same today is taking the matter of تبديع say it's a mubted' it's the same it's the same brother lightly just throwing that word at someone you're a mubted' when Muhammad said إخراج الناس عن السنة شديد taking the people out of the sunnah it's a severe issue أحمد صدر رحمه الله تعالى it's not a light issue the tongue it'll destroy your brothers this man it destroyed him it took him to the half fire and it made all of his righteous deeds get nullified another issue that we find when many people is they speak about the scholars they slander the scholars they open their tongue the scholars ابن عساكر he said something very powerful he said لحوم العلماء مسمومة وعادة الله في هتك أستاري منتقصيه معلومة فمن أطلق لسانه بالعلماء بثلب أبلاه الله قبل موتي بموت القلب the flesh of the scholars is poisonous لحوم العلماء مسمومة the flesh of the scholars is poisonous فمن أطلق لسانه بالعلماء anyone who opens his tongue to the scholars and speaks about the scholars and says things about them الله will make your heart die before the real death comes to you before you even you die your heart is going to die a lot of people they are prostated they left the deed because they will open their tongue at the people of knowledge these are the people of Allah عز وجله they are occupying the seat of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم be very careful والذين يؤذون المؤمنين والمؤمنات بغير مكتسب فقد احتملوا بهدانا وإفما مبيناء الله tells us in that ayah والذين يؤذون المؤمنين the ones who are harm in the believers والمؤمنات and they are harm in the female believers بغير مكتسب in that which they did not do false allegations they didn't do this you're lying about them فقد احتملوا بهدانا وإفما مبيناء the day of judgment you're going to take a severe punishment for that be very careful again don't do anyone a favor just do yourself a favor what you're going to come with Allah عز وجله the day of judgment the second point is if we want a benefit from the last 10 days of Ramadan is let's talk about good if we've eliminated speaking about bad and evil let's speak about the opposite which is good الله told us in the Quran لا خير في كثير من نجواءكم many of you لا خير في كثير من نجواءهم many of the people's discussions and they discuss their discussions and their talks there's not much charity in it except what إلا من أمر بصدقت أو معروف أو إصلاح بينا النس except the one who calls to good many gatherings that families are having in their household لا خير في كثير من نجواءهم many of your discussions at home many of it is not good it's only good if it's based upon معروف you're commanding your relatives to keep ties of kinship with your other family relatives why have we boycott so and so shouldn't we remember them you're commanding good you're talking about taking sadaqa from the family to give it to poor and in those in need الله said that's the best speech the third and the last one is use your tongue to remember Allah ذكر the man came to the messengers صلى الله عليه وسلم and he said to him إن شرائع الإسلام the legislations of the religion are too much there's too much rulings in the religion too much he was a basic man his capability and his ability to comprehend many information was hard he wasn't able to take all of that information in a noble companion he just wanted to hold on to one thing he said إن شرائع الإسلام the legislations of the religion have become many قد كثرت عليها there are too much on me فأخبرني بشيء tell me something التشبث به I can hold on to something I can hold on to don't you then the messengers said لا يزال الإسان كرطما بذكر الله don't let your mouth or your tongue dry from the remembrance of Allah you're sitting somewhere say your ذكر the messengers صلى الله عليه وسلم I told us كلمتان خفيفتان على الإسان سقيلتان في الميزان حبيبتان إلى الرحمن سبحان الله وبحمده سبحان الله العظيم these two words سبحان الله وبحمده سبحان الله العظيم the Hadith told us خفيفتان they are right on the turn look how quick I said it سبحان الله وبحمده سبحان الله العظيم quick سقيلتان في الميزان but they are heavy on the scale حبيبتان إلى الرحمن and they are beloved to Allah very beloved to him what are they سبحان الله وبحمده سبحان الله العظيم many of you are driving you're in your car you're just sitting there you're day dreaming you're talking about the gross profit and the net profit you've worked enough الحمد لله 95 you're making money just now what you do is sit there and say سبحان الله وبحمده سبحان الله سبحان الله العظيم don't let your work take you home don't let your work come home with you whilst you're driving how much dicker can you do are you with me brothers many this is the last 10 days you need to do that and this is going to come for you the day of judgment بإذن الله الكريم اللهم مع عندنا على ذكريك وشكريك وحصم عبادتك او اللهم ايدنا and support us in your remembrance and to show you gratitude and for us to perfect our عبادة سبحانك الله وبحمدك اشدوا لا إله إلا الله استغفرك اتوب إلي