 Bismillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alameen Wassalamu alaikum wa barak ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala Alihi wa sahbihi wa salim As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullah wa barakatuhu Alhamdulillah Hope everybody's doing well So we are going to continue this series now inshallah on Deceptive Desires We've been talking about a different desire every week And today inshallah we are going to be talking We're going to do a quick review and then we'll be diving into a specific desire Which is the focus on the desire that the human being asked to always be right and to argue And also how that stems in relation to the desire for anger So a couple of things What we've been talking about so far is basically this idea That the human being can either go in a good direction or a bad direction The human being who follows their lower desires Their lower appetites, their shahawat They will end up generally going in a bad direction So these include the desires that we've been talking about That following the desire for food in the wrong direction The desire for sex in the wrong direction The desire for money in the wrong direction The desire for fame and power and argumentation and to be right and all these other things That you and I can follow those desires and we can go in the wrong direction If we follow those desires and we don't channel them correctly At the same time there's a reason why we even have desires And if we follow and channel the desires in the correct way Inshallah we are going to use what Allah created for us in a positive way And to hopefully ascend closer and closer to Him So the one who restrains themselves from doing what's haram We all have this understanding and know this They are going to benefit And the one who gives in to these desires They are going to be harmed And Allah says in the Qur'an That destroyed or sorry successful is the one who purifies themselves And destroyed is the one who doesn't So our job is to try to purify ourselves And what better purification than to try and purify our nafs So what is the nafs? We've been talking about the nafs a little bit The nafs is known as the lower self This is the lower part of us that inclines towards following and doing haram things Until it's refined So the nafs goes through training The more spiritually trained somebody is The more the nafs is going to improve And eventually the nafs can get to high stages Known as for example as mentioned in Surah al-Fajr Nafs al-Mutsma'idna The tranquil soul Where the soul will actually be in a state of accepting Allah's decree And assisting you and I in accepting Allah's decree And being in a state of contentment However in the early stages What is known as nafs al-Amarah Mentioned in Surah al-Yusuf And the other early stages This is the evil commanding soul And the nafs will follow its base desires And take you in the wrong direction So you and I have to work on ourselves Now here is a very very important thing Just because somebody is starting to practice religion Or has become religious Or has signs of religiosity Does not mean that they are refining their nafs The two are not always linked If they are following the right path If they are following the right types of knowledge If they are doing the right types of spiritual practices In line with the sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ Attempting to be aligned with the akhlaa And the character of the Prophet ﷺ Okay, that's a very very good thing However, if they are following a very very outward focused harsh way of religion That everything has to be their way or the highway And yes they might be worshiping a lot But is the worship really benefiting them Then you have open questions about If their acts are actually benefiting them Because as you become more purified Your character should improve And what is the evidence of this? The evidence is a hadith of the Prophet ﷺ Where the sahaba came to him And they were impressed with a woman A woman who used to fast a lot Extra fasts And she would pray a lot of extra prayers Specifically the hadjid prayer The prayer known as the prayer at the last part of the night Very very virtuous things for somebody to do And so they were impressed by her However, sahaba mentioned that She was also rude to her neighbor And had this kind of rudeness And the Prophet ﷺ said That she is in the fire He said that she is in the fire Because even though she might have done this worship The akhlaa, the character wasn't there And it comes in the hadith that the wadiest deed On the Day of Judgment is one's good character One's character will be the wadiest deed On the Day of Judgment And the Quran magnifies good character as well So let's examine that It's not just about how much worship you do You can do the basic amounts of worship And a little bit more But work on yourself Work on having good character Try to work on mitigating your desires And you can be in a very good place And you can do a lot of worship And all these things But if you're not doing it in the right way And you're getting puffed up Thinking you're all that Thinking you're better than everybody Is it really even helping you? Is it really benefiting you? So this is something to keep in mind So we're trying to talk about just briefly today Is this desire to be right? This is a desire that in the world of social media In the world of the way things happen now on Twitter And on Facebook And on Instagram And on TikTok And even in the comments And these different threads Everybody wants to be right And this was the case This has been the case throughout history But now everybody has to prove themselves I want to be right It's my way or the highway It's about me Anytime you hear somebody really magnifying themselves Me, me, me Know that they are really At a subtle level worshiping themselves They're worshiping their nuts They're worshiping their opinion A person though who's humble enough To accept that okay A lot of the course is the only one in control And there could be a different way to do things They at the end of the day Are following the kind of correct Approach that we should be taking in our religion So what is this desire to be right all the time? This is a sickness This is a sickness deep inside the human being And remember from different desires Stem different sins So the sins are kind of like stems And the desires are like roots So the sexual desire when uncontrolled Can result in the sin of adultery Can result in the sin of Xena Can result in the sin of looking at pornography And so on and so forth The desire when it is uncontrolled The desire for the desire of anger And the desire to be right It results in the sin of arguing It results in the sin of yelling at people It results in the sin of trying To always prove yourself And maybe you're even backbiting people Because you're saying Oh did you hear what they said? She or she totally wrong And you're just talking bad about them all the time This is what the desire to be right leads to And it's very present in the world that we live in So there are different categories of this desire You have those who have this desire Who argue about it Who argue about worldly matters So I have to be right about Okay I'm talking about politics My opinion is right My party is right We saw this manifest in the last election And we see this manifest throughout the United States right now That there is very very little cooperation Between different parties Simply because they believe that their way Has to be the way There is no such thing as compromise for them Because it's about their way And that links to other desires Not only the desire to be right But the desire to win The desire to be in charge And so on and so forth So we can see how much these desires Really end up ruining us At the same time At the same time There are different ways That you and I can manifest this desire In a worldly sense So it might manifest in politics It could manifest at work It could be in our own homes We might Oh I have to be right With regards to like you might be just You know young and arguing with your parents Or vice versa And even though you might have a sense That the other side is kind of On the verge of the truth You because you are sticking to your point It's like no it's about me I see this happen from time to time right People who like have this arrogance to them That it is difficult for them to admit That they are wrong about something And it's very much a cultural practice And generally speaking Many of us men We have this a lot I would say that right There is a kind of general sense that You know I'm the boss I'm in charge I'm right And the prophet's son taught us humility He taught us that being wrong is okay And Imam Malik said that saying I don't know is half of knowledge So you know there is no concept In our religion of having to prove yourself Always in to be right So that can happen in so many different areas It can happen at work It can happen in of course You know at work and in job It can happen in the political arena It can happen with family It can happen broadly with extended family So many ways it can happen Then there are people who It's about arguing for religious matters This is far more dangerous Far more dangerous I have to be right when it comes to my view On the religion When it comes to my specific approach Or even if you follow Madhav It's only my Madhav that's correct It's all this argumentation Argumentation does not have any place In this religion And we have to work on ourselves To get this desire to be right If we want to really purify ourselves Remember Allah says that successful Is the one who purifies themselves And destroyed is the one who doesn't So we have to try to purify ourselves We have to try to work on ourselves In order for us to actually grow And succeed in this religion So when it comes to arguing About religious matters What does this mean? You do have many, many examples Of things that have become controversial Unfortunately because so many people Have tried to fit their framework in Here's something to keep in mind Or sorry the religion into their framework You have two types of people You have somebody who They want to know the truth And they will fit their religious practice Into whatever the truth ends up being Okay And then you have somebody Who has a very specific framework in mind And who will fit the religion Into their framework And who will exclude this And include this In order to fit it into their framework Now the danger of this Later methodology And why it's so problematic Is because there are groups of people Unfortunately today Who have major prominence In the Muslim community In the Muslim world Who literally had a very specific View of religion in mind And they took out everything It is that they didn't like And they just made stuff up Oh this is weak This is fabricated Because I don't like it Not because of anything else Maybe the great Imams of the past Had accepted a certain Hadid that had accepted certain statement No I don't like it It isn't aligned with my view It has to be my view Right And their arrogance And their following their desires Got them down a path Where they became Very very harsh with everything And it still manifests today Where if your practice Doesn't fit their very narrow view And their desire to be right Has become so magnified That you are excluded There are even movements And the leaders of these movements That would say Everybody who does not follow My way is a kathar Even though there are So many different Differences of opinion That you could follow About how should you do A certain religious act And what not But again The desire to be right Took them over And they were They killed people They straight up Muslims killed Muslims In the In the The kind of disguise Of I'm right And I'm on the religious truth This is a very dangerous desire And it ruins people It ruins people And it's very related to The Hadid that the prophet Someri said That I fear more More than the Dajal Than Antichrist I fear for you Evil scholars Ulema Asu That these scholars who Literally They will fit the religion Into their framework It's about themselves It's about their nuts It's about their ego It's about their fame It's about hypocrites Like the hypocritical acts That's very dangerous And it's become A disease in the Umma today Such that you and I Will see very Just someone's Just trying to worship I'll give you an example Tonight Tonight is known as Layla to the Isra al-Miraj Mashallah The MCC will have A beautiful program With Dr. Ali Atayya And acclaimed scholar He teaches at Zaytuna College And he lectures In many other places as well Including MCC On the Just reflections on Isra al-Miraj What took place on this night This is the night Of the 27th of Rajab We are in the Blessed month of Rajab We have just Alhamdulillah Entered this blessed night And it's good to talk About the events That took place on this night It's good to Remind the Muslims Allah says Fadaqir Inna dhikra Tanfa'a al-Mu'minid Reminding benefits the believers Right? But you have a group You have groups of Muslims Who? It's about their way So because they don't They don't know Oh, this is how You should do certain things Okay, they're going to You start to have people Who say no You shouldn't practice Anything on this night There's no need to Single out any Specific nights of worship There's no proof For this So on and so forth And just continue The argument Same thing Same groups of people Do it for Nis Shaban They do it for The danger of this It's one thing If you're really sincere And you're really just like Okay I really, really firmly believe At the bottom of my heart That every single thing That I do has to be Like in line with the Very, very, very narrow methodology Of how I do things Okay, you're welcome to do that But then at the same time That group of people Like you should You should definitely Stop watching television You should get off Of all social media You should probably Stop driving cars You should probably Stop using watches To tell the time To tell the prayer time Because all of these things Will not fit the narrow methodology Or the kind of innovation Methodology that somebody Is kind of fit their view in But that's not going to happen Because it's only when it comes to My desire to be right Right? I have to prove myself And then religious argumentation Begins This happens all the time In the community This is a big problem And the way we respond to this is We should not engage in argumentation We should not I see it all the time In YouTube threads And all these different threads People just arguing back and forth Back and forth as though you forgot That we're brothers and sisters That we are Muslims That we are supposed to be united That we have enough people Outside of our umma Who are going to hate on us That we don't need to hate From within That if you disagree You are entitled to disagree And you can have your opinion But disagree respectfully And just leave it Right? Just let people do their own thing That we're living in a time When people are just Barely trying to hold on to faith So stop trying to fit everybody Into the narrow technical view That you want to follow Right? Like let's be a little bit It's called magnanimity Let's be a little bit magnanimous With regards to our approach To other people And try to be generous And try to be open to harm Rather than trying to shove everybody How it doesn't fit our narrow approach This is what happens With the desire to be right And these people They push people away From the religion They push people away And it comes in narration That a people never went astray After they were upon guidance Except when they took to arguing Right? And even one of the scholars The great scholars Imam al-Ozai He said if Allah willed evil for people He would give them argumentation And prevent them from action So you'll have many people A very very special time Comes in the religion All they spend this All that time They spend arguing about it Instead of just worshiping Just go make dua Go pray Go do something useful Or just at least not arguing It'll be better Just remain silent Right? As it comes in narration Speak good or remain silent Right? There's no need to always be talking And arguing about Just trying to get your opinion across But this happens So we have to control this desire We have to work on this desire We have to work on ourselves So the way that we need to approach this Right? It's first and foremost to realize That when it comes to matters of dunya When it comes to you know Politics and work and sports And all these things We should engage in discussions If we want But these are like I mean come on These are petty things Let's not let disagreements Get in great risks between us Let's try and be reasonable With our conversations And let's just be okay With being wrong Or be open to hearing different perspectives That's the kind of background But when it comes to And so that's there with dunya However when it comes to religion We have to know There is no room for argumentation If we are not scholars And we are not scholars And so we really shouldn't be arguing We should know That we need to have Assume that methodology and everything So if you want to be right Let's say you have this desire to be right And you want to prove your point The way in which you go about proving If you believe your point Is the correct religious way Which means it's the way The Prophet Salaam practice The way in which you go about Proving your point Must be aligned with The dunya as well So the methodology has to be correct And the fact that you're Presenting has to be correct You cannot go and prove your point And then be arrogant Yella people Get angry Get mad Use slurs Call people names And say my point though is my point I mean I'm on the truth I'm following the sunnah How are you following the sunnah If your methodology is not in line With the sunnah Show me one time Where the Prophet Salaam argued Show me one time Where his Just I have to be right Got in the way No, he didn't even have that This was one of the famous nights On this Ramiraj Where we know his blessed heart Salaam was actually washed All of these things were washed away From him Salaam A perfect human being So what does that mean? It means that we need to work on ourselves We need to work on our hearts We need to work on our no-foods We need to work on our egos We need to stop thinking That it's my way or the highway We need to humble ourselves We cannot be so puffed up All the time Walking around Just looking for people to make mistakes So we can call them out This has to go away I know so many people Who have been pushed away from Salaam By those of us Who might act in this way And we ask Allah for forgiveness If we've ever pushed somebody away Because of this methodology But we have to work on this So a couple of things to keep in mind Ways to attain this desire to be right Number one Really recognize the danger For you to always be praised Or for you to always be at the forefront Or for you to always be right That's not a good thing It's not a good thing In Western society it's a good thing Because everybody The people don't operate with the afterlife in mind But it's not a good thing for us In our context In the Islamic context To always have to be right Because we know it's a desire Knowledge is the first step So once you know that this is a desire Don't follow it down the wrong direction Where does the desire to be right come in When it comes to be on the haq You want to be on the truth That's a good thing Alhamdulillah If you want to follow the truth You want to really learn How does this religion really work I want to learn the religion in the best way possible Alhamdulillah That's a good place The desire to be on the right path is good But the desire to say Now now I'm following the Deen Now everything I do is the right way Everything somebody else does is the wrong way We can't do that We cannot do that Your kids might do things differently than you As long as it's within the permissible The permissible boundaries that the scholars have created And including the differences In the opinion that the scholars have created Say Alhamdulillah that they are still believing And that they are doing that They are not going to follow every little thing They might get disappointed at certain things That's okay But know that it is a test for you and I Allah says that He will test us with all these aspects He will test us with our wealth And our children And within ourselves And with other people We will be tested So we have to ask Allah for patience And we cannot let this desire to be right And to be to win all the time Get in the way The second thing to do Is to work on our anger Usually the negative aspects of this They result in angry argumentation Angry arguing And it's a problem So we have to work on our anger How do we do that? The Prophet ﷺ told us that If when you get angry He tells you to say Alhamdulillah And he said if you are standing Sit down If you are sitting Lie down That anger is a fire Like from the fire of shaitan And it makes you rise Get up See people ever get angry And they say They want to fight They say What did you say to me And they start to get up And you can see They are getting puffed So calm down And then he said If you do that And also If it doesn't work We will do with cold water Because cold water will extinguish the fire No When you are about to get into an argument And when your desire to be right Is manifesting To leave the situation Forgetting the exact verse That when the ignorant approaches you Alu Salama Say peace When the ignorant person just wants to argue Like tell me about this Tell me about your proofs for this Tell me about this Every single thing is about arguing You know they are not coming With a very humble approach There is one thing when someone comes into you And you know You said this name Or you know I am learning something And I just was wondering How do I think about this Like I heard one thing from one person What are the different proofs For this type of approach Mashallah That person is really trying to learn And somebody coming And just being like You this way is wrong Everything you are saying is wrong Your approach is wrong This is an innovation This is a bidah Now my approach is the correct way And show me why you get this wrong It's a disease Just ignore people like that Just ignore them Just say Allah Say Allah and leave them to their idol talk Just leave them to that Because that won't benefit you I will tell you that much It will not benefit you enough If the scholars want to discuss it The differences of opinion Mashallah They do that already So let's let them do that For us it's not worth it Don't let the desires to be right And religious matters get in the way So taming the anger Is very important here Third is analyze the issue And think about Is it worth reading Me really like having to be right Right And is it really worth my time And is it worth me getting into sin Because when you start arguing And anger comes in the way You are getting into sin You are creating animosity You are disrupting things You are disrupting things Between yourself and You are disrupting a societal harmony You've ever been in like Where does this happen a lot And maybe we've got We've all been in quarantine For a while So we haven't gone Maybe at the airport Or like sometimes I've seen this on the subway Back when we used to Be able to ride the subway That something small will happen Everybody's quiet And doing their own thing Two people like Disagree on something And boom Arguments start And everybody's impacted The entire harmony Of the situation has been messed up This happens sometimes At airports But any time When people are kind of In intense mood This happens Sometimes it happens Unfortunately even in our own Communities and our own Massage So what does that mean Don't disrupt Other people's harmony If you have inner harmony I will tell you this You will not be the person Who's disrupting The outward harmony Because your inner harmony Will be a light That brings harmony To everybody else But if you don't have Inner harmony You're just going to go out And look to pick fights You're going to try to pick Everybody apart Argue here Argue here Argue here My way of the highway Every single situation That is a disease I highly recommend to Yourself To you To myself First and foremost And to all of us We have to work on ourselves To get rid of that disease It will destroy us It will destroy us It will mess us up As an umma It will create problems It will create animosity It will create tension And it is a desire That just like these Other desires That control Like the sexual desire And the food desire All these other ones We will start doing Many haram things And we do not want to be In that book We don't And people will This one is to a degree Very problematic Also because people will Just hate us too So like You know We're going to be in Major trouble with other People as well And we will create A dissension amongst people So if anybody has Any questions Feel free to post them To this chat We're about to end InshaAllah If anybody has any questions Or anything I can get to those InshaAllah So those are really The ways that we should Approach this And lastly All of these desires Can be controlled With us doing The following things With us Doing an abundant amount Of thicker With us Fasting Often with the right Intention And with us Appealing to Allah And really turning to Him And ideally In the later parts Of the night And begging the friend To help us That ya Allah Get rid of this Those are the general Over-the-counter tours That the scholars prescribe Right That try to And in this case So the fourth one Actually that's also Prescribed is to Limit the amount That you talk So that doesn't mean We don't talk ever But when you're about To get into an argument Just zip it I know my Desire to be right Is going to manifest Right So let's work on ourselves Let's try to do these things And when that comes up When a topic comes up Just say You know what I'm just going to leave this I'm not going to Like I'm not going to engage I'm going to leave it Because Allah Will appreciate if I leave it We know that famous story And we'll Insha'Allah end with this And we can't mention briefly Mr. Amiraj We know this famous story Of Sayyed Nambu Bakar Sadiq That one time He was in the masjid And Somebody was Insulting him And He was The Prophet S.A.W. was with him And someone insulted him The Prophet S.A.W. stood by And he was The Prophet S.A.W. Was actually standing by And I believe the narration Said he was smiling And this person The Prophet S.A.W. Didn't say anything He kept doing it He didn't say anything He kept doing it And Finally The Prophet S.A.W. Still listening and smiling And finally The person insults him again And Sayyed Nambu Bakar Sadiq That he Responds to defend himself And at that moment The Prophet S.A.W. Went And he left The Nambu Bakar Catches up And the Prophet S.A.W. Said This person was saying You were there And then why did you leave He said Because when you were silent Right There were angels there Responding on your behalf But when you decided to Right Say something And engage Shaitan came And Shaitan and the Prophet Cannot be in the same room Right So And I'm paraphrasing This is the hadith here But That's more of an indication Right Look at What the Prophet S.A.W. Is teaching us here Just don't engage I'm not talking about In categories where You have to respond Or somebody's like Getting you or your family Into a difficult situation Or into trouble Or any situations of abuse Or talk Or anything I'm talking about just when people Just want to argue Improve themselves Right Just don't respond It's a desire Don't You shouldn't follow it I shouldn't follow it And don't let someone else Follow it Insha'Allah We ask that Allah help us We ask that Allah assist us We ask that Allah facilitate Goodness and care for us And allow us to control our Nuffs And allow us to Work on ourselves And that he All of our intentions That are good Us from following Or any evil intentions Or evil thoughts that we have As-Salaamu Alaykum Wa-Salaamu Alaykum Wa-Salaamu Alaykum Wa-Salaamu Alaykum Wa-Salaamu Alaykum Just briefly If anybody has questions Please post them on the chat We'll take them now And one thing to mention So tonight is a Blessed night Isra'ul Meraj M.C.C. will have a program Just in about 30 minutes Also streamed on YouTube Live And I think Facebook Live Check it out Insha'Allah Just briefly about this night It's a very, very special night It's a night That the Prophet S.A.W. Ascended to the Heavens from Mecca to Jerusalem to the heavens. And this is the night in which he was gifted the prayer and he was gifted the prayer directly. It didn't come in the same form of revelation through the same methods that the Quran came. No, the Prophet's name was gifted the prayer. And I'm sure the Dr. Ali Akhira will get into this, but there was this whole conversation the Prophet's name came with 50 prayers. He went and said the Musa alaih salam told him, Yeruma cannot do 50. And he went back in increments of five or 10. There was like this kind of back and forth until Allah eventually legislated five. And so the Musa alaih salam said, Yeruma cannot do five. And the Prophet's name said, I'm too shy to go back. And he accepted five prayers. Allah said it is five with a reward of 50. So use this night to connect to Allah. There is not any specific Ibadat that I'm aware of that we're supposed to do on this night, but it is a good night just like all the nights are, all the nights of Rajab especially. Good nights to just pray, good night to make Abad Nintuha, good night to learn about the events that took place. And it's a good night to make Dua for yourself and for the Ummah of the Prophet's Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And just to overall remember how much he Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam did for us. That one of the most amazing aspects of this night was that when he was in this conversation with Allah the Prophet's Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, according to most of the opinions of this Ulema, he met Allah on this night. And Allah says, when we say in our prayer, Atayatulillahi, that whole up to the end that he's Allah says, That we repeat that, we follow that. Allah said to the Prophet, Peace be upon you, O Nabi. And the Prophet said, Peace be upon us, And all of the righteous servants. So when he was in this amazing, intimate meeting with Allah, he Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam didn't just think about himself. He thought about the whole Ummah. He said, Peace be upon us, right? That's us. Hopefully we can fall into that category. Even if we're not righteous, and you know, I'm definitely not there, but hopefully I can just fall into that Asalaamu Alaihina and may Allah eventually make us from the righteous, right? But look at that. He remembered all of us. So the least we can do is remember his Ummah and our Dua regularly and not argue. Don't waste time arguing about anything tonight or in any of the nights. Rajab is here. Shaaban is coming up. There will be a group of people who try to argue about Shaaban and its merits and this Shaaban. Just don't engage. Ramadan is then coming up. Alhamdulillah, our Ummah is united about Ramadan at least I think. And don't argue about moon sighting. Don't argue about any of that stuff. Just worship Allah. Follow whatever it is you're down to it. Ask Allah for guidance. Worship him. Remember all of us in your Dua's may Allah make this time easy for you. Full of life, full of care, full of abundant, abundant, abundant openings for you and your family and cure any of you and any of us who are going through any difficulty or move any anxieties and depressions and problems and sicknesses and issues that we might have and allow us to have abundant secrets and blessings poured upon us on this night and all the other nights. Allahumma barakah ala fi Rajab wa Shaaban. Wa bi-lifna Ramadan. Wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallam wa barakah ala Sayfum Muhammadin wa ala alayhi wa sallam Alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen. Jazakum ala khair. Do not see any questions. People say salamu alaykum. As-salamu alaykum salam. Alhamdulillahi. Thank you for the comments. Alhamdulillah. So if there's no question we'll just wait another 30 seconds. And inshallah we'll end. We are passionate of the truth. We know which is only a fear of Allah but we have to control our emotions in doing that one, not to fall into argumentation. Exactly to the person who mentioned that. Part of that one is not arguing. That's actually, otherwise it's not that one. Because Allah says, that call to the way of your Lord with hikmah, with wisdom, right? And he tells Musa alayhi salam when he's going to do that one to his own. He says to his own. One of the worst tyrant ever. He says to his own to be gentle with him. So it's not da'wah if it's with argument. That's something else. It's not from the da'wah of the Prophet's Islam. It's something else entirely. So let's just keep that in mind but totally agree that we have to control our emotions. We can't be passionate. We can be passionate but we cannot be intense and argumentative. We have to be merciful and we have to not be harsh. We cannot push people away from Islam. We need to bring people in and we will bring people in from our akhlaq. Not from our intellectual rhetoric. It will come from our akhlaq, inshallah, our character. I'm going to say this salam alaykum, alaykum salam, alaykum salam. Alhamdulillah, okay? I don't think there's any more questions, inshallah. I will stay on for another little bit if anything pops up. Alhamdulillah, alaykum salam. What do we do when people say on TikTok, LGBTQ Muslims are going to a bad place? Do we argue? No, so good question. The topic of homosexuality and that entire topic is a very, very broad topic but just briefly, only Allah knows where someone is going, number one. Number two, there are many lists of harams. It is not about having a desire. It's about acting on the desire. So somebody who has a desire before they get married for any sex, the opposite sex or the same sex and they act on that desire, right? Let's say that somebody is not married and they are like a man and they sleep with a woman. Well, and that's not their wife. They, that's haram. Same thing if they sleep with a man. That's haram, right? And so that's one thing to keep in mind. Second thing is there are many lists of haram sins or sorry, major sins among which are homosexuality, arzina. It is adultery is another sin. Disobeying your parents is considered one of the biggest sins in our religion. There are so many sins. Taking interest loans is a huge sin. So when people get into very specific topics, many times that is stemming from a disease of the heart that they just want to single out groups and they don't want to look at everything in its macro context. There are many big major sins. It's not worth narrowing in on very, very specific groups getting very, very homophobic, getting angry with specific groups because of that, right? The other thing is if somebody has that inclination, it's about again controlling the desire. The inclination of it in and of itself is not the problem we're talking about. The desire and acting on it is the problem. So when people start to take the place of Allah and say, this person's going to hell. This person's going to heaven. This whole group is in hell. This whole group is in heaven. It's like, oh, really? It didn't know that you, that you, that you are God next to God? Are you, is that what you are? Don't engage with people who try to legislate where people are going. Leave that to Allah. Allah knows what's in someone's heart and Allah knows where someone is going to end up. They might, people might make toba. People will change, inshallah. And there might be righteous Muslims who in their hadith that indicate this, who at the end of their life they will change and may Allah protect us from this that they will have a bad ending. And there could be Muslims who are really doing lots of haram and at the end Allah will change their life and they will have a good ending. And it is about the way that Allah seals our life, inshallah. But definitely don't argue. Don't argue about any controversial topic. Just don't waste your time. It's a desire. Don't waste your time by arguing about LGBT. Don't, it's not your, it's not my business, not your business. Let the scholars discuss it and be merciful to people who are in that struggle. Be merciful to them. Be nice, right? Don't argue about controversial things Muslims argue about. They just, just tell people like, you know, go worship, go make dua for people and you'll see the feelings you get in your heart. You will see the light that enters the heart when you spend time learning and worshiping Allah. That is way better than the tension and trepidation that enters the heart that is associated with arguing and all the other worries. I face this issue all the time that people just want to argue about stuff. And I'm just like, I have that inclination as well and I have to hold myself back. Like, how do I stop this? Because this is not healthy for me, even mentally, let alone spiritually. Good question. Thank you for asking, sister. All right. And if there are any other questions, inshallah, please post them. Otherwise, please keep everybody you can go ask tonight. Inshallah, please check out this program that Dr. Ali Atay will be doing at 8 p.m. Easterns in about 22 minutes. Check it out until I think it's on YouTube or Isra'a Miraj. Hopefully it'll be recorded as well so we can watch it later. Inshallah. What if you bring logical arguments just for someone to reason and come to the truth? So argument, the construct of an argument, the Quran is full of arguments, meaning Allah is presenting to us in a very, very logical way. This is why you should believe, right? So that's not a problem. When I say arguing, I don't mean the classical definition of argument. What I mean is that like this kind of intense angry debate that people engage in to prove themselves right. So if you bring logical arguments, let's say that, what's an example here? Let's say that somebody wants to know, let's say that somebody wants to know interest. Let's talk about interest, okay? Someone's like, oh, I don't really understand interest. Like is it haram? Is it not? What is it about? Is it just like when the interest rate is really high? So you say, well, according to the scholars, the first thing you started, what are the consensus of the scholars? Consensus of the scholars is that interest-based instruments are problematic. Then if they really need to look at the proofs, again, it's really not actually for you and me to look into all the proofs because there's hundreds of thousands of proofs. So we're not gonna know them, most of them, right? Just like a doctor, when they're treating you, they're not gonna tell you the different chemical formulas that came up in that treatment that result. When you take the coronavirus vaccine, you're not diagnosing all of the different ingredients in the vaccine. No, you were just taking the vaccine and you're hoping it's gonna help and hoping it's gonna work. Same thing with you go to the scholar and you say, what is the situation here? And they will tell you. So let's say with interest, if you really wanna look, go in the Quran. Allah has many verses worth of Bukhara and other ayahs that talk about interest. He says he wages war on the one who take him and a lot of messenger wage war on the one who takes interest. Then you can look up different hadith. There are various hadith that indicate the problematic place that somebody who is giving interest or bearing witness to interest or taking interest will be. So you can present those to somebody and say, you know what? You should check these out. I think it's very dangerous. I think we should get out of interest. I think we should stop taking car loans and stop taking student loans. And ideally convert any other loans into any Islamic loans that are possible. You can do that. But if it's like an intense argument and usually the argument comes with like on very controversial topics. Logical proofs are fine, but just be careful not to let it get into a bad place. Just be very careful because what happens is just like the, let's say somebody's gonna engage in Zina and Haram and like sexual acts with somebody that they're not married to. It's not necessarily Haram to like just, you know, say hello or something like that, but it starts with the hello. Then it goes into text conversation. Then it goes into a little bit more and a little bit more. And next thing you know, the Haram act has happened. So you have to know yourself is the logical argument you were bringing going to lead to the Haram argumentation that's gonna happen? If so, don't do it. But if it's just to, and the person is receptive, MashaAllah, Bismillah and you are able to control yourself, then we can engage in that. So with our intention that people come to the truth. Yeah. Good question. If there's anything else, inshAllah, we will go ahead and answer it. Ya Allah, Allah. Or we'll go try, inshAllah. Alhamdulillah, may Allah forgive us. Hope everybody's doing well. Hope everybody's preparation. InshAllah for Ramadan, it's going to be again soon. InshAllah, it's something we need to start preparing for. Alhamdulillah. Okay, I don't see anything else. Jazakum Allah Khair. Wassalamu Alaykum. Wa-Alaykum Wa-Alaykum. Wa-Alaykum Wa-Alaykum. Wa-Alaykum Wa-Alaykum Wa-Alaykum. Alhamdulillah, we'll be waiting for you. Alhamdulillah, may Allah forgive us. Assalamu alaykum wa-alaykum wa-alameen.