Ali Dawah - I'M JEALOUS OF MOHAMMED HIJAB - OVERCOME ENVY

00:00:00.000 Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh brothers and sisters and dear friends welcome to this video

00:00:04.300 now obviously you guys are thinking okay the title is clickbait you can kind of say that

00:00:11.140 but there's a greater message behind it now why have i named this i am jealous of muhammad hijab

00:00:17.340 now the question is jealousy is something that affects everybody ibn taymiyyah may allah have

00:00:26.180 said that everybody suffers from jealousy but for those who try to control it is someone that's

00:00:36.500 dignified somebody who is a dignified person who's someone that he tries to control it and somebody

00:00:41.360 who cannot control it is referred to as somebody that has no integrity now jealousy is something

00:00:46.840 that's affected adam's children one had one overcame the other and killed uh his own brother his own

00:00:54.180 blood brother and we know from banu israel as well that yaqub's children were envious of yusuf

00:01:01.520 and that brought them to the level of wanting to kill their own brother now when i first met

00:01:08.080 muhammad hijab may allah bless him inshaallah i didn't know him all i see him is a brother who comes

00:01:14.080 to the park and in the dawah scene jealousy exists now not only in the dawah scene when i was speaking

00:01:19.620 to my teacher they said that this is actually more on a greater scale with the people of knowledge

00:01:23.720 so the ulema and be it people who are studying abroad this is actually more you're on a peak

00:01:28.960 on their level now the reason i'm sharing this reminder with you guys is because

00:01:33.060 muhammad hijab is just an example that i'm giving is because it's someone that's working with me

00:01:37.360 closely you know now i could have easily said to myself you know what i'm ali dawah i've got this

00:01:43.400 many subscribers this brother has just come into the scene and there's this phenomenon that goes about

00:01:49.800 i want you to be good and i want you to be better but not better than me so this is a disease that

00:01:55.980 we have in the heart where we think to ourselves you know what i want good for this person as long

00:02:01.060 as he's never going to be better than me this is the disease that we carry inside us and a lot of

00:02:05.420 people who study and seeking knowledge abroad they are doing it with the intentions studying this

00:02:11.940 knowledge why so they can be better than this person or they're in competition with this person or if

00:02:17.060 they see another student of knowledge doing better than them they don't like it and this is a disease

00:02:21.600 that covers our umma and sadly it affects our umma why is it that we cannot want the best for another

00:02:30.040 muslim another believer why now coming back to brother muhammad hijab again and with this inshallah 0.93

00:02:35.980 is very important that if anybody praises you to your face abu bakir said that make this dua

00:02:42.420 the following dua is that when somebody comes and praises you to your face you say may allah forgive

00:02:47.800 me for what you do not know about me because you're only praising me for the mercy of allah that you do

00:02:51.920 not know my sins and may allah make me better than what you think of me this is a dua that you should

00:02:58.920 always keep in mind so i could have come and said you know what no i don't want to promote him i don't

00:03:04.800 want to do this no you know he's more knowledgeable than me or in these aspects etc and he has his shortcomings

00:03:09.700 and i'm his brother i know i spend time with him i have shortcomings he has the shortcomings that we advise

00:03:13.620 but he has the strong points and his weak points now the reason i'm mentioning this is because to me

00:03:19.120 if my goal is i'm ali dawa and i have to be the person in the in the uh the light you know like i have

00:03:27.520 to be out there if the dawa is about me then i would have a problem with anyone coming into the scene

00:03:32.920 i would have a problem with this guy coming in and this person coming and talking about this

00:03:36.460 but if the dawa is not from is not about me and it's about allah's religion and making his kalam

00:03:42.760 the highest and defending his religion against his enemies then i should have zero problem with another

00:03:48.560 believer a brother or a sister whoever it may be coming into the scene and helping my cause now

00:03:56.020 when i see brother muhammad hijab will be others like sheikh uthman i would teach sheikh muhammad whoever it

00:04:02.040 may be when they come to the dawa i rejoice i should rejoice and i should be happy why because

00:04:07.640 you're helping the cause you are helping my cause i personally without yanis sounding like i'm doing

00:04:15.340 something special because this is the get-go this is how every single one of us should be but because

00:04:19.060 of the times we live in you might see this as something praiseworthy it's not i was happy i was

00:04:24.280 like hamdulillah allah has sent a brother who can help me who can help the religion who can maybe help

00:04:30.000 himself by getting involved in dawa because when you're involved in dawa hamdulillah it protects

00:04:32.660 you from certain sins etc you have to be happy i should be happy when i see another believer

00:04:38.200 defending the kalam of allah now if i have a problem with that i have to question my heart

00:04:45.640 why do i not like this brother what's the reason what is the reason i need to ask this question to

00:04:51.160 myself and this is very important muhammad ibn salim at tabi may allah have mercy said i do not envy

00:04:58.020 anyone for some woody thing for if he is going to be amongst the people of paradise then how can i

00:05:04.000 envy him for something of the woody life whilst he is destined for paradise and if he is going to be

00:05:10.120 amongst the people of the hellfire then how can i envy him for something of the woody life while he

00:05:15.120 is destined for the hellfire now this issue here is not just okay you know it's it's a problem in

00:05:20.920 the heart no this is this involves tawhid this involves you denying allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's

00:05:28.100 decree qadr you're you're basically your problem when you have a jealous when you have jealousy with

00:05:32.780 anybody your problem is actually not with that person your problem was is is with your lord

00:05:38.020 because you're saying the following i have a problem and i am jealous and i do not like the fact

00:05:43.400 that this brother is more knowledgeable than me i do not like the fact that this brother has more

00:05:47.520 money than me i don't like the fact that this brother is more good looking than me or sister

00:05:51.440 it might be sister as well i do not like the fact that this brother's got this listen who is the one

00:05:56.620 that's bestowing that to him the old sustainer allah subhanahu wa ta'ala yeah so now your beef

00:06:02.420 yeah in raw terms i'll tell you is not with that person your problem with is with allah is with allah

00:06:09.320 subhanahu wa ta'ala you're saying allah i have a problem with you giving this person this

00:06:14.360 so it's a matter of tawhid you need to understand that that allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the provider

00:06:21.140 and he can bestow whatever whatever he likes on whomever he likes and the fact that you're

00:06:27.100 questioning that is a very very big problem now ibn qayyim raheem allah may allah have mercy on him

00:06:33.280 has said the following that envy is broken up to three sections the first type is the following

00:06:42.280 the type is very little the type is this type is very little and does not leave the envier to harm

00:06:48.080 others either by way of hatred in his heart speech of the tongue or deeds of the hand rather the person

00:06:54.240 has some envy in his heart but he only deals with his muslim brother through what allah loves this is

00:06:59.700 something that is not harmful so me personally my way of dealing with this is the following if any time

00:07:06.820 now i'm not going to try everybody has some kind of jealousy now like ibn taymiya raheem allah said yeah

00:07:10.980 you're going to have some kind of jealousy it's how you control it so for example if any time i feel

00:07:16.440 some kind of thing in my heart towards any kind of brother or sister i do three things yeah

00:07:21.940 number one i seek refuge in allah from the curse shaitan shaitan that's number one number two i make 0.97

00:07:29.200 dua for that person and say oh allah increase this brother or increase his sister

00:07:32.800 higher than myself and give him the best in this life and the hereafter

00:07:36.780 and the third thing that i do is the following when i'm in a gathering i will praise him

00:07:40.560 and if i'm in a gathering this goes with anyone not just with anyone this is the my personal this is

00:07:46.820 me personally to me yeah my way of dealing with the shaitan whispers uh whispering these kind of

00:07:52.860 jealousy thoughts to me do you get what i'm trying to say this is handle that praiseworthy thing why

00:07:57.820 because you're what you're doing is that you're controlling you're acknowledging and saying this

00:08:04.320 is a disease in the heart how do i deal with it this is a good trait rather than you saying how can

00:08:09.840 i ignite this further and try to cause some kind of physical harm or you know some people go to the

00:08:15.660 levels of doing magic they go to yeah and they get involved that's how much you know they they hate

00:08:20.960 the person now the second type uh ibn qayyim talks about ibn qayyim talks about is the envious desires

00:08:27.340 that the blessing bestowed on the one he envies should seize should stop he hates that allah should 0.99

00:08:33.340 give blessings to his slaves rather he desires that the envied person should remain in that state

00:08:38.880 of deprivation yeah this is obviously something that is haram yeah you should not do this third type

00:08:45.320 is it says when a person wishes to be like another person without desiring that the blessings

00:08:51.700 possessed by that person should seize the person who has this type of envy is not blamed rather this

00:08:56.800 is very similar to praiseworthy competition to excel in another another in good deeds umar ibn qatab

00:09:02.120 ibn abu bakr r.a beautiful example yeah they competed with each other in what righteousness good deeds

00:09:09.640 yeah this is what they did this is not blameworthy sheikh ibn ufaymin has said the 13 things that come

00:09:20.040 the uh the effects of jealousy the harmful effects of jealousy okay so the first is it is from the

00:09:24.860 major sins which is not expiated by uh the way of salah fasting charity or any other deed rather it

00:09:31.920 requires the individual to make tawbah you have to make specific tawbah for this so it's not something

00:09:36.660 that you know we say you know allah says in the quran that if you do righteous deed you know it

00:09:39.900 would um um uh like allah says in the quran we will get rid of your minor sins yeah this is something 0.97

00:09:46.260 that's a major sin that requires for you to personally repent and the condition of repent is

00:09:49.700 that you hate the sin you stop the sin and you try not to go back to the sin but if it involves

00:09:53.980 wronging another person you have to ask their forgiveness so that's the first thing the second

00:09:58.140 thing is there is a severe punishment it has been narrated from the prophet peace be upon him

00:10:02.140 beware of envy because envy confirms destroys virtues such as the fire consumes firewood yeah

00:10:09.160 the third is that it is from the mannerisms of certain jewish people that and it may be the

00:10:15.640 the traits that banu israel had yeah i'll refer as banu israel and who likes to be described with an

00:10:21.400 attribute from the attributes of certain uh banu israel that certain uh bad jews yeah we have bad and 0.86

00:10:29.280 good in every faith just to put that in context fourth it negates the brotherhood of faith because

00:10:35.340 the envy wishes for the blessings of allah to cease and the believer loves for his brother what he loves

00:10:40.520 for himself as we know the prophet said love for your brother what you love for yourself the fact

00:10:45.120 that you're jealous is you're you're negating you don't want that to happen fifthly negation of being

00:10:51.040 pleased with qadar the divine um execution and qadr divine will of allah if he was pleased with qadar and

00:10:59.320 qadar he would have said that this is from allah and it is good yeah that's the sixth point the seventh

00:11:06.640 point is the envy follows the footsteps of shaytan yeah what did the shaytan do when adam was created

00:11:12.380 i am better than him yes so much so the one who you know when he acknowledged allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's

00:11:19.600 um that exists allah's asking him to do something he rejected based on why you favored him more than me

00:11:26.680 and allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in surah verse 21 all you who believe follow not the footsteps of shaytan

00:11:32.980 eighth point jealousy inherits it inherits enemies and hatreds between the people yeah you cause fitna yeah

00:11:39.780 ninth jealousy leads to injustice oppression adam's son assaulted and killed his brother because of

00:11:45.680 jealousy the tenth point the envy has disdain for the blessings of allah so he doesn't recognize any

00:11:51.980 blessings of allah upon him for this you find those virtuous individuals whom allah bestowed upon

00:11:56.440 blessings do not have this sickness because they recognize the blessings jealousy is only found

00:12:01.940 in one who doesn't see any of allah's blessings upon himself what this means is that you're so

00:12:09.080 indulged and thinking oh you know why does this person have this why is it you're so busy with

00:12:13.280 that subhanallah that you don't see the blessings allah's bestowed upon you you're so you're too busy

00:12:17.220 with other people why has he got this why has he got that why has he got that why do i have this

00:12:20.160 you're and you're what's going to happen you're not going to recognize and see you know the things

00:12:25.760 that allah has blessed you with point 11 it decreases iman it decreases your faith alhamdulillah

00:12:31.780 how could you not decrease your faith when you're forgetting the remembrance of allah you're forgetting

00:12:35.360 and you're too busy concentrating he's got this he's got that why do i have it 12 point his heart

00:12:41.000 is busy subhanallah it connects 12 11 and 12 his heart is busy from the remembrance of allah and his

00:12:47.220 heart becomes hard because of this subhanallah what great of a punishment else there can be that you are 0.66

00:12:52.200 too busy not remembering allah but you're too jealous of what allah's bestowed on another person

00:12:57.560 point 13 lastly he consumes the blessings of allah and covers up good qualities of others

00:13:04.120 you find one of them when someone they envy is mentioned with something good they say this is

00:13:09.360 correct this is good mashallah he is beneficial to people but then after that he mentions some

00:13:15.220 faults to keep him down and we have dua to protect us from that yeah so we have um surah al-falak

00:13:22.640 and from the evil of an envier when he envies yeah so allah has even given us given us a verse of

00:13:34.200 revelation and the evils of those who envy yeah and you know the prophet before we'd go to sleep

00:13:39.940 narrated by aisha that you recite surah ikhlas surah nasa surah falak blow in his hand and wipe it over

00:13:45.700 his body and um i've asked my teachers and they said that you can do that you know in different

00:13:51.220 times as well it's not just for before you go bed so in a nutshell brothers and sisters i just want

00:13:55.800 to wrap up inshallah i hope you guys have benefited from this and understood and i highly recommend

00:13:59.800 for you guys to actually send this to people that might benefit those who are studying abroad

00:14:03.700 whoever it may be yeah because this is a disease that covers our ummah and sadly it covers it so bad

00:14:08.920 that there's people out there that are looking for the faults and the downfall of other believers

00:14:12.340 just so they can feed their ego and say oh i see this i knew it you know that wallah it's a disease

00:14:18.040 in the heart yeah and we ask allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to bring more people into the dawah scene

00:14:23.440 that would help the kalam of allah defend it against his enemies and we ask allah to protect us from

00:14:28.040 jealousy and envy towards those people and we ask allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to increase them

00:14:32.660 in their goodness and hamdulillah how could a believer not be happy towards another believer that is doing

00:14:38.740 the works of uh islam and hamdulillah promoting islam allah's religion further hope you guys have 0.98

00:14:45.780 benefited inshallah brothers and sisters may allah bless you guys inshallah and um inshallah i ask you

00:14:50.640 guys to make dua that allah keeps us humble because over praise like the prophet said that if someone

00:14:56.400 praises you throw dust in their face because you're actually breaking their back and you're literally

00:15:00.700 and i've seen this with my i'll be honest with you brothers and sisters i've seen people that i've worked

00:15:03.800 with before being praised to a level where i can when i when i heard this hadith i said well why i

00:15:09.800 can see that happening in front of me you're breaking the guys back you're you're you're giving

00:15:14.760 this and we are all people in the public scene we are in danger of this when we overly praise we start

00:15:22.100 thinking we are something special and how many people have we seen that's going to stray because

00:15:25.380 of this so we ask allah subhanahu wa ta'ala protect us inshallah and all praise is glory and

00:15:29.180 gratitude belongs to him until next time assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh

Ali Dawah - April 02, 2019

I'M JEALOUS OF MOHAMMED HIJAB - OVERCOME ENVY

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