 We were Christian before we were Muslim. I was a Christian before I was Muslim We had to wear what was called your Sunday best To go to church. You didn't go to church wearing a t-shirt in fact You wouldn't even think of that and If somebody did that they would have got people would have stared at them shocked like why are you showing such disrespect? To a house of God, that's how that's how Christians would look at it. Why are you showing such disrespect to a house of God? By not even bothering To dress appropriately By not even bothering to dress nicely one day out of the week. Well, it's it's a casual day at work We don't have to wear nice clothes We've been doing that all week That's not that's not the Muslims have a we have a sanctity to the day of Jumu'a Ya, bani Adam, chudu zinatakum and the culli masjid. Oh children of Adam Ornament yourselves in every masjid where you go ornament yourselves Wear a nice perfume for other people the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said manakala al-baqlata thum or al-basul would kurath Fa la yakrabanna Masajid anna whoever eats garlic or leeks or onions let him not come near our masjid Fa inna al-malaiqatata ta'adha bima yata'adha minhun nas The angels don't even like what people don't like So if you come to the masjid smelling Like last night's meal and then you pray next to a person who's thinking about Paradise and you're reminding him of hell Seriously, we have a problem We have a problem the masjid is supposed to be a place where you come for spiritual repose It's a place of dignity. It's a place of sakina the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said if you come into the masjid Don't raise your voice. Don't talk. He said you're in prayer until you leave the masjid He said one of the signs of the end of time his voices would be raised in the masjid He said one of the signs of the end of time is people would talk about worldly affairs in the masjid You have the whole world to talk about worldly affairs leave the house of God to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala wa annan masajidi lilah fa la tida'u ma'allahi ahadha So you can see Islam spreading in America, but the question what kind of Islam? What kind of Islam is it going to be Slacker Islam is it going to be like the slacker culture that's out there? Or are we going to be shohadah ad-Dines people that still have human dignity in an age of utter and complete human degradation? That's the question to ask yourselves Are we going to be dignified people that dress in a dignified manner? Just because everybody else is dressing like that. Look at how Muslims dress for centuries even the poorest Muslims dressed beautifully Go to Sa'id Egypt go to the Swat Valley Go to the Malaysian villages and look how Muslims dressed in traditional clothes with human dignity They never dressed wearing billboards on their selling people's products that they don't even get paid to do People wearing billboards wearing all these things on there, you know Nike and Tommy Hilfiger or whoever That's I ask people are they paying you do you have a contract you're a human billboard They pay money to put their name on billboards cardboard boxes out there They put money they give money to put their names on billboards They they give money to put their names on pixelated images on the internet and yet you're allowing them for free To put their name on your body created by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and you don't even think about it human billboards Total complete utter human degradation. This is what's happened to Benny Adam the Khalifa The Khalifa of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala the only creature that walks upright straight mustaqeem with dignity The only creature that can articulate his needs that can complain if he has complaints That can praise if he feels a need to praise that can give thanks and gratitude We're the only creature that can do that Other creatures dogs can show some gratitude, but they they can't write a thank-you note Human beings are something exalted We're an exalted species and yet we've allowed Iblis to completely and utterly abase us To rub our noses in the dirt not for the sake of Allah in sajda But to show what utterly degraded creatures we are because that was his claim He said you're choosing him over me I'm a high thing. He's a low thing. He's nothing and Iblis has been given respite until the end of time to prove to God That God was wrong. That's what Iblis wants to do. He wants to prove to God To Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. You were wrong in choosing Benny Adam. You should have chosen me and my progeny I'll show you really how to worship you envy And so that's his mission 724 7 days a week 24 hours a day To degrade human beings strip them of their of their ornaments Make them naked the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam said one of the sides of the end of time is you'll see people walking in Marketplaces meaning they're not aboriginal people Where where aboriginal people are like children they have a purity so they dress they have so attained They're not in marketplaces. He didn't say public. He said in market in civilized places You will see people walking with their thighs fully exposed That's a sign of the degraded state of people not aboriginal people like native peoples that Don't look upon each other lustfully in that way But civilized people degraded to the point where they walk around with no shame No shame Shame is a beautiful thing. Hiya modesty the Kulli Dean in Kholuk Kholuk of Islam al-hiya every religion has a quality and a characteristic and the quality and characteristic of my religion is modesty a sense of shame The Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam they said that he was more modest than a virgin that was still cloistered that hadn't come out That was his modesty sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam I'm Bihal ghaafil You know, I'm Lila your people praying Juma. There's lots of Muslims out there right now They're not even bothering praying Juma the good people, you know, inshallah. We ask Allah to be amongst the good people But the good people come even if they come in less than The highest Desirable state, you know, so I'm not in any way. It's not for ta'ir to make fault or blame anybody It's just to be a lot of to remind people wallahi. It's my intention. It's not to expose anybody or make any fault It's just a reminder Wadikir But I have to be honest with you I've mentioned this people have come up to you afterwards. Don't tell me how to dress You know get like you know, I'm doing it out of Ghayrat, you know, you have that word in in Urdu for people to speak Urdu Ghayrat, you know Ghayrat Ghayrat is a beautiful word in in Arabic because it's the idea of a Protectiveness that you have for something that you hold dear and if anybody tries to diminish The respect of that thing you get you feel angry That Ghayrat is that that feeling that comes inside of you when you see like your family member your wife Your child being dishonored or disrespected you feel Ghayrat The religion of Allah is more worthy of our Ghayrat than anything in this dunya