 فشرف بل اشتغالي بالعلم ولا تبغي به ما عشت يا بدا بدا وياله من شراف عظيم الحمد لله رب العالمين له الحمد الحسن والثناء الجميل وأشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له يقول الحق وهو يهد السبيل وأشهد أن سيدنا ونبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وأصحابه والتابعين لهم بإحسان إلى يوم الدين أما بعد نحن في نفسنا نحن نتحدث عن طريق العالم الذي يتبغي بأحد من الطريق العالم وما يتبغي عن طريق العالم لذلك قبل أن يتبغي بعض الطريق العالم وإشاء الله تعالى today we're going to carry on with other root causes that bring about deviation the first one for today's lecture is حب الجاه والرئاسة loving leadership and authority this is from the root causes that bring about deviation as you're all aware of my beloved brothers and sisters our soul without a shadow of a doubt it has desires for things that are not good it loves and it has wants of evil as Allah said to us in the Quran وما أبرأ نفسي إن النفس الأمارة بسوء that the person, the nefs is one that calls you to evil such as loving the dunya loving to be high to be somebody who's high we like it ومنافسة الخلق we like to compete with the people in worldly matters we love leadership إلى غير ذلك من ما يذم الشرع that which is in the sharia that it's rebuked you find that the nefs likes it and from the things that the nefs likes as you know is حب الجاه والرئاسة loving leadership being in charge if you look at those people who oppose the truth and go against the truth they oppose the truth knowing that they are opposing the truth aware that they are opposing the truth but when you get to the bottom of the reason of why they are opposing the truth it is to gain worldly or is to attain worldly gain and they strengthen and argue for their opinions knowingly that they are wrong ولذلك أبو الوفا عليب العقيل الحمبلي رحمه الله he says المحبة للرئاسة والميل إلى الدنيا والمفاخرة والمباهات بها والتشاغل بها he says loving leadership inclination to the dunya boasting and bragging about the dunya busying yourself والتشاغل بما فيه اللذة وما يدعو إلى شهرتي and busying yourself in the sweetness that it calls you to and the fame that it brings about دونما تجيبه الحجة ويقضي به العقل والمعرفة and not giving presidents to the proofs and where rationality lies من الأسبابي is from the reasons that divert a person from the truth and throw them into harm فعلا نحو هذا من الأسبابي تكون الأافة الصارفة والموجبة منه something similar to that شيخ الإسلام ابن تيميا said it شيخ الإسلام ابن تيميا he said وطلب الرئاسة looking for leadership ولو بالباطل even if it has to be in a false manner looking for leadership even if it's bad and it's evil and it is false ترضيه الكلمة التي فيها تعظيمه وإن كانت باطلة وصل وتغضبه الكلمة التي فيها دمه وإن كانت حقا he says وطالب الرئاسة the person who is seeking leadership ولو بالباطل even if it's through falsehood it pleases him the statements that are in him praise so the one who is seeking leadership even if it's through a bad way what pleases him is that when you say to him statements that glorifies him that honors him and you're showing him respect وإن كانت باطل and even if what you're saying about him is false وطالب who it angers him the statement which is said about him that isn't good even if it's the truth about him and then he goes on to say و المؤمن ترضيه كلمة الحق له وعليه but the believer what pleases him is the statement which is true even if it's against him or for him وتغضبه and it angers him كلمة الباطل the false statements that are said له وعليه on him or against anyone else لأن الله تعالى يحب الحق because Allah loves the truth وصدقا و العدلة Allah loves truthfulness الله سبحانه و تعالى He loves justice ويبغضوا الكذب و الظلمة and Allah dislikes and hates lying and oppression so look at those people who are running after recognition and leadership when it's said about them statements which they dislike even if it's the truth they get angry and if it's said about them statements they praise worthy even if it's about them they don't even have those characteristics and those attributes they get happy this goes against the way that the believer is الامام الشوكاني رحمه الله الامام الشوكاني رحمه الله he says وقد يتركوا التكلم بالحق محافظة على حظ القضاف يربيه وقد يتركوا التكلم بالحق some people they may leave of speaking the truth محافظة they are trying to protect على حظ القضاف يربيه because of a position and a rank in which he has gained he has a status in the community he's respected amongst the people so he stopped speaking about the truth trying to protect that reputation of his قضاف يربيه من تلك الدولة from the government مثلا من مالين و جاهد maybe worldly issues as well people fund him و جاهد and people who or he's in a position so he won't speak the truth and he won't say the truth وقد يتركوا التكلم بالحق الذي هو خلافه مع عليه الناس استجلاب اللي قواطر العامي و مخافة من نفورهم عنه rather he may even leave off the truth speaking the truth the truth that is in opposition to what the people are doing he may stop speaking about that he may stop talking about the truth this truth is in opposition to what the people are doing he leaves it why does he leave it استجلاب اللي قواطر العام he wants to get the people's hearts و محافظة من نفورهم and he's trying to protect that the people are going to run away from him و قد يتركوا التكلم بالحق he may even leave off speaking the truth و يرجو حصوله من تلك الدولة and he may even leave off speaking the truth because he believes or he thinks and he desires and he hopes to gain something from the government or something from somewhere from the people in the future that he's going to get something from the people so this is something powerful basically why is this person not speaking the truth or why is the truth something in which he doesn't want to present himself to why doesn't he want to take it what's deviating him from the truth is حب الرئاسة و الجهة and be in charge he knows what he's upon is wrong but he won't leave it because of leadership and his position and he may even do it because he wants to gain the people and he wants to get their hearts and he just wants to have the largest amount of gathering that's it and he may even sometimes say there's no مصالح in it the مصلاحة he's talking about is not مصلاحة الشرعية he's not looking at the مصلاحة of the شريعة he's looking at مصلاحة شخصية and there are two different things he's looking at a personal benefit not a religious benefit and this without a shadow of a doubt is common and it is present within our midst may Allah تعالى تعالى protect us from this و لذلك the scholars have actually proven this in their dealings with people of misguidance and people of falsehood and they also witness from them when having dialogue and discussions with them that they actually admitted that what this person is upon is the truth but the reason why he doesn't want to do it is what worldly reasons and there are many people I sat personally with and I had discussions with even conversed with over the phone and I told them this matter you know it's wrong and you're in the middle of it why don't you leave it يا أخي عاية this person you're talking to me about أنا معك I am with you that he's wrong and he's misguided I'm with you on that but I don't see a مصلاحة in speaking against them or speaking against the mistake the مصلاحة here again is what مصلاحة شخصية even some of them have said the only reason why I'm doing this is because if I speak against this particular person when the government the British government tried to hunt me down I don't have any people to help me و أنا سمعتوا I heard this with my ears so this statement of رحمه الله is كلا و قد يتركوا تكلموا بالحق الذي هو خلافه مع عليه الناس استجلابا لخواطر العوام يعتقد أنه يوجد جميل جميل من الناس who are listening to him he's highly respected if he goes around the world he's got security guard that looks after him when he lands you know red carpet so he believes if he speaks about matters of a سنة and a توحيد that the amount of people who are listening to him مثلا ديابندي so he believes if he starts doing that that he's going to use a high amount of crowd of people so he won't speak about the issue he doesn't want to lose those people so he's only going to talk about universally agreed upon matters اخلاق اتبسب عليوتي اخيك smile in the face of your brother give things on your right hand when you call it when you see your brother on the road give him salams that's it and that doesn't mean I'm belittling those things it has to be mentioned but that's all these Dawas even if it gets to get the crowd large to do comedy and make it that form of Dawa and نشيدs by all means necessary this brings the crowd in it brings the people in by all means necessary it has to be done we need to get استجلابة لخواطل العوام we need to get the general mass we need them to listen to our message so misguidance is done no problem all of that what is he trying to gain from the people as the sheikh says او من سائر الناس if he is مستقبل الزمان he has he has desires in his heart he believes that there's going to come something from the people they might invite him when he comes to the city and say come eat with us that's what he's going to gain it's going to happen and he's going to be driving a nice car and live in a nice hotel all these things are going to happen people are just going to come to him and say I love you the reason why they love him is because he tells them what they want to hear so this statement of has taken place in our today the one who tells the people the truth has become strange this now brings me to a powerful ونقذني إلى أجل أكبر تكلمة التي أردت من الكتاب هداية الحيارة في الأجربة اليهود والنصارة رتنبت by العلابة ابن القيم الجوزية هذا now a manifestation an example of the statement of Shoukhan شوكاني سلت but ابن القيم he encountered it first hand look what he said he said وَلَقَدْ نَعْضَرْتُ عَيْدِبَيتِدْ he's talking about himself who's this? ابن القيم he said وَلَقَدْ نَعْضَرْتُ عَيْدِبَيتِدْ بَعْضَرْ عُلماء النصارة some of the Christians scholars of the Christians فَلَمَّا تَبَيَّنَ لَهُ الْحَقْ بَهَدْ the truth became clear to the scholar from the Nصارة after a long discussion of the whole day معظم يوم the whole nearly the whole day we were going back and forth with each other فَلَمَّا تَبَيَّنَ لَهُ الْحَقْ the truth became clear to him and he got silenced فَقُلْتُ لَهُ عَيْدْ سَتُهِمْ وَأَنَا وَهُ وَخَالِيَينِ we were both by ourselves when everybody else left by ourselves I said to him ما يمنعك الآن من اتباع الحق what is stopping you now from accepting the truth from following the truth from adhering to the truth what is stopping you فقال لي he responded by saying he responded to me by saying اذا قدمت على هؤلاء الحمير هكذا لفضل فرشوا لنا الشقاق تحت حواف ردابتي وحكموني في أموالهم ونسائهم ولم يعصوني فيما أامرهم به وانا لا عرف صلعة ولا أحفظ القرآن ولا نحو ولا فقا فلو أسلمت لدرت في الأسواق اتكفف الناس فمن الذي يطيب نفسا بهذا he said to him if I go after taking Islam back to these donkeys and he is referring donkey to his own people the Nassara that he is from يمر القيم لك what he said هكذا لفضل like that he said it to me يمر القيم that is exactly his wordings he is referring to that the Christian scholars that he is from he is referring to them as what حمير, donkeys if I go back to them they will place for me to live under my riding beast they will take me out of my house وحكموني في أموالهم ونسائهم and they will control me in their wealth and their women you see and they won't are you with me so he is trying to say that if I go back to them they will treat me nice they will give me a nice place to sleep they will give me a nice way and they control me they will what they will give me money from their own they will give me their women this is what they will do for me if I go back to them but if I choose not to go back to them they will place me a they will make me sleep outside they will also control my life not give me any money not help me with with their women or anything are you with me and they will disobey everything which I have to say to them are you with me brothers brothers are you with me he is powerful the only reason he is not saying what you are saying is wrong then he goes on to say him وانا لا عريفوا صلاعتين I am not a person who who knows any I have no I don't have no expertise I haven't specialized in anything I'm not a craft man I can't do anything وَلَا أَحْفَضُ قُرْعَنَ I have not memorized Quran meaning his works I have memorized my scriptures وَلَا نَحْوَنَ I don't know grammar as well وَلَا فِقْهَنَ I don't know Fiqh are you with me in other words your Quran I don't also know it I haven't memorized the Quran I haven't studied Fiqh I don't know grammar فلو أسلمتوا if I today took Islam and I accepted it from you لا ديرتوا في الأسواق I would walk around the market اتكففوا الناس they were questioning and begging from the people فمن الذي يطيبوا نفسا بها ده who is going to give himself to that who wants to be like that دين ملوقيم ستهم هذا لا يكونوا that's not going to take the play that's not going to happen وكيف تظنوا بالله أنك آثرت رضاه وعلا هواك يخزيك ويذلك that's not going to be how are you going to think of Allah when you left falsehood for him and you turned away from your desires that he's going to humiliate you then that he's going to belittle you then you've now chosen what was right from what was wrong why would you think bad of Allah it's now that Allah will be there for you and then he said وَلَوْ فَرَضْ نَدَالِكْ أَصَابَكْ وَلَوْ فَرَضْ نَدَالِكْ أَصَابَكْ but if I say hypothetically that that does happen to you that you become broke and you lose your worldly gain فما ظفلت به من الحق والنجاة من النار ومن صخط الله وغضبه في أكمل عوض عما فاتك what you have gained in terms of the truth and the success that you have gained from not entering the hellfire and Allah not being angry with you is greater in exchange than what you've lost then he scratched his head and he said حتى يأذن الله فالله wills Allah will guide me ابن القيل القدر لا يحتج به if the qadr is not a proof you can't use it as a proof ولو كان القدر حجة if the qadr was a proof لكان حجة لليهودي it would have been a proof for the Jews على تكذيب المسيحة in disbelieving in ريسم المريم but you don't accept that وحجة للمشركين and it would have been a proof for the pagans على تكذيب الرسول in disbelieving in the messengers ولا سي يمان not to mention أنتم تكذيبون بالقدر you Christians don't believe in qadr فكيف تحتج به why would you use it in this circumstance then he said دعنا الآن من هذا forget this don't talk to us about this وأمسكة and he withheld from accepting the truth now what stopped this individual from taking the truth what stopped him from surrounding to the truth there is nothing except حب الدنيا أم حب الرئاسة he just wanted leadership and being charged he just didn't want to go back to his people and not be treated the way he is treated and that is the reality of many people they will say to you والله I heard this from so many people he goes I am not going to leave the misguidance he calls it misguidance but I am in but I am the leader in it فضح حق which I am a follower no but I take the truth from you but I am not going to be a follower but in my in where I am in and Subhan Allah goes against the goal of the self which is it is better that you are a follower in the haq than a leader in misguidance خير أن تكون إمام خير لك أن تكون تابع للخير it is better for you to be a follower in the truth إمام a leader في البداعي أما في الحرام so that is the first root cause for misguidance and deviation now we are going to إن شاء الله تعالى move on to swiftly the second root cause that brings about for today's sit and today's session the second root cause of deviation and the next one إن شاء الله تعالى is الحسد الحسد الحسد my beloved brothers and sisters is also one of the root causes that bring about deviation and it is the thing that made and brought to the Yehud in disbelieving إن الله سبحانه وتعالى وجحدي نبوة نبينا and also to be in stubborn denial of the prophecy of our prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم the Jews were aware of the prophet and they knew him عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم and they used to even go to the Arabs and they would say to them that Muhammad is going to come a prophet and when he comes we will be following him and when we follow him you all will be weak and we will be on top of you but then when the messenger came الله told us in the Quran الذين آتيناهم الكتابة يعرفونه كما يعرفون أبناءهم they knew him the way they like they know their own children the prophet they knew him like that because the signs and everything was there but what is it that stopped them from it الله mentions to us in the Quran ودل الذين كفروا ودل الذين كفروا لو تغفلون عن أصلح لا ها ودوا لو تغفلون لو تغفلون كما كفروا فتكونون سواء لا الله سبحانه وتعالى يقول يقول هسد من عند أنفسهم هسد من عند أنفسهم هسد كل مجموعة فيهم هو ما يتوقفهم من ما من احد يأتي ويأتي إلى إسلام هو ما يتوقفهم ويتوقفهم من تأخذهم رلجن الإسلام the prophet was not from their people he was from the Arabs they were wanting him to come out from them but when they realized that he wasn't from them this is what they did was they showed jealousy and enmity towards him عليه الصلاة والسلام so my beloved brothers and sisters it's obligatory on each and every one of us يحترز من الحسد stay away from jealousy and envy غاية الاحتراز as much as you can run away from it ويتقيه غاية الوقاية shield yourself from it as much as you can العلم عبد الرحمن يحيا المعلمي in his book ات تنكيل the second volume page 195 the kitab is called ات تنكيل the second volume page 195 so عبد الرحمن المعلمي in his kitab he's refuting a man by the name of محمد زاهد الكوثري عبد زاهد الكوثري and العلم عبد الرحمن المعلمي was explaining حقيقة تأثير الحسد the effects and the reality of what حسد is so he said الحسد وذلك إذا كان غيره هو الذي بينا الحق pay attention he said that حسد is إذا كان غيره هو الذي بينا الحق if other than him clarifies the truth it's not you but somebody other than you clarifies the haq فيرا and then the person starts to feel ان اعترافه بذلك الحق يكون اعترافا لذلك المبيني so the individual who's not the one who clarifies the truth it's the other one who clarifies the truth this one starts to see that if he recognize the truth and agrees with him on the truth he's giving this one virtue and he's praising him and he's giving him a status and saying that he's accurate فا يعظوم وذاك في عيون الناس الناس going to be big in the eyes of the people pay attention to this وذلك this is the underlining reason why many people have shown enmity to the Da'a of Muhammad and Abdullah حسد because they were about they were there they were teaching the people and they've never mentioned these issues توحيد that he called to the sunnah in which he brought the people back to they weren't doing that but he came and he clarified everything so they are scared that if they agree with Muhammad and Abdullah and they acknowledge that this is right that he's doing that by default he's going to receive from that virtue and status and that he's going to be a person who then the general are going to listen to and then he goes on to say وإنك لتجد من المنتسبين إلى العلم من يحرص على تخطئة غيره من العلماء ولو بالباطن that the jealousy becomes so much so that he said you find some people who attribute to themselves knowledge that they say we're people of knowledge he will strive to bring out mistakes from this person of knowledge even if it's false they'll try to look for mistakes he'll just watch the video so he can find mistakes the reason why he's doing all of that is what the reason why he's doing that is حسد he has for him he just wants this person to be dropped look what the author says حسد من هو له jealousy and envy that he has in his heart towards this person ومحاولة لحط منزلات him عند الناس he wants to drop his reputation and his status in the eyes of the people that's all he wants he wants this person to be destroyed I have no name and no recognition amongst the people الله أكبر الله أكبر this is exactly if you look at many people when they criticize a person and they speak against a person and you say what's the issue that you have against them you can see right through it that it's nothing except for حسد and then you have jealousy towards that person he will say he didn't pronounce the راء or he didn't pronounce the سين he said it like a صاعد so he doesn't even know the مخالج and only shouldn't be taken from him ومن ذا الذي ترضى سجاياه كلها كفى المرء نبلن انت عدة معيبه who is the person who is free from mistakes is there anyone in the face of this earth who is infallible from mistakes today there isn't but what is honorable and respectful and amazing that you've just sat down here and you've only told me 5 mistakes from a person who's been doing دعوة for the last 30 10 years or 5 years or 4 years or 3 years and you just put out this mistake that just really shows me that this person is powerful because you bringing out mistakes from a person is just proving to me that the Quran is just divine and that the Sunnah is protected and that contradiction only doesn't happen in the Quran and the Sunnah and you're just proving more to me that this person is a human being and not an angel are you with me brothers and of course that mistake depends it's very important that we understand that it's a mistake that we look at it like that but you're bringing me mistakes that are minor mistakes that are minor so many people the reason why they don't want to accept the truth and they don't want to adhere to the truth is because if they do they're going to have to give reputation to this person and recognition so he will never ever say that and he will never accept it hasn't listen to this story حديث which ابن القيب brings in his مفتاح ودار السعادة ابن هشان brings in his seerah and many scholars bring about is المسور ابن مخرمة مسور ابن مخرمة is the nephew of ابو جهل ابو جهل is his maternal uncle ابو جهل is his what he's maternal uncle so he goes to his uncle one day and he says to him هل كنتم تتهيمون محمدًا بالكذب قبل أن يقول مقالته التي قالها نبي الله محمد هل أنت تفهم وقوموا بعمل أنفسك وقوموا بعمل أنفسك أنه كان لعاة قبل أنه قمت بالتكلم أو قبل أنه قمت بالتكلم قبل أن نبي الله محمد قمت بالتكلم يعني قمت بالتكلم هل هل هو من who is known to lie ابو جهل لعنه الله لعنه الله محمد محمد يبنى أخي والله لقد كان محمد فينا وهو شابن محمد was محمد was amongst us as a young boy he was amongst us يدعى الأمين he was called the trustworthy one the truthful one ما جربنا عليه كديم we have never known him to be a person who lies قطن وصعبة فلما خطه الشيب now that age has touched him لم يكل يكجب على الله will not be one who would lie about Allah now that he's grown old and age has touched him عليه الصلاة والسلام he is not one that's going to lie he didn't lie when he was a young boy هذا من من من ألادي عدائي from the biggest enemy that the prophet had at that time ابو جهل but look what he gave his reason he said مثل المخرمس يا خال أنكل فلما لا تتبعونه فلما لا تتبعونه why don't you follow him then قال يبن أخي my nephew تنازعنا نحن وبنو هاشم us and Benu Hashim have a history my nephew my son us and Benu Hashim we have a history we have a history when it came to competing with reputation we have always been known to be the two people to compete one another فأطعموا وأطعمنا they have come they feed the poor and the needy we did the same وسقوا وسقنا then they went and they gave water to those who were in need of it to quench their thirst we did the same competing وأجاروا وأجرنا they gave shelter we also did the same we gave shelter to those who were in need of it فلما جثينا وكننا كفارا سيرهانين and we were like two horses that were racing and no one was beating no one then they popped out and said to us مننا نبيون amongst us is a prophet they came with this statement that مننا نبيون a prophet has come out from us فما تلتوا دريكوهادي how can we reach this now so why is it that أبو جهل does not want to accept this my beloved brothers and sisters why is it that he doesn't want to take on the messenger عليه الصلاة والسلام's prophecy what is his reason the reason is merely حسد hate حسد for the messenger عليه الصلاة والسلام he knows the prophet on a line he knows what he's saying is the truth there's no way about that but حسد من هو له صلى الله عليه وسلم it was jealousy an envy that was in his heart to lose the messenger عليه الصلاة والسلام and now who he did was he spent the rest of his life was to do what محاولتي اللي حطي منزلتي صلى الله عليه وسلم عند الناس all he strove to and all the efforts that he put to was what is to get the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم his reputation and put it down just to belittling him عليه الصلاة والسلام and for no one to respect him صلى الله عليه وسلم هو عليه