Ali Dawah - October 31, 2019I REPENT FOR FALSE ACCUSATION OF SISTER
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Summary
In this video, I publicly retract a false report about a Muslim woman, and ask Allah to forgive me for my mistake. I am a public figure, so I should be careful to be careful in what I say and do in public.
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I might see her and she'll say, you wronged me. You said something about me that wasn't true.
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And if she doesn't forgive me, I'm going to give whatever good it is, if I have, to her.
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Woman wasn't allowed in a nightclub after refusing to remove her hijab.
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Now, when you read that statement, it sounds shocking.
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As a Muslim, man or a woman, be it a brother or sister, whoever it may be,
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when you hear these things, or if it was a headline of a Muslim man caught drinking alcohol in a nightclub,
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whatever it may be, it obviously hurts a Muslim.
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Why does it hurt us? Because we love for our brothers and sisters what we love for ourselves.
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So when we see our brothers and sisters falling short, like myself, I fall short in a lot of things,
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we hate it in our hearts. Why? Because the Prophet said, if you see an evil, try to stop it.
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If you can't stop it with your hands, stop it with your tongue.
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If you can't speak out against it, at least hate it in your heart.
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That's the reason we hate it, not because we dislike the person.
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However, sometimes, personally myself, which the reason why I'm doing this video,
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Sometimes we make mistakes, and we are human beings.
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And that is exactly what this video is going to be about.
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Yes, I'm publicly retracting what I said about our dear sister,
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and I ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to forgive me for myself sharing the information
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from a unreliable source, jumping on the bandwagon unintentionally,
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because of, you can just call it whatever you like, just rash, you know, just being rash,
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and sharing this information without verifying it with our sister herself.
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I tried to get in contact with her through Facebook, and asked for her to forgive me for doing so.
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And hopefully, when she was talking about the haram police, I wasn't one of those.
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Now, what I found really beautiful is it reminded me of a verse,
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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says something, which I looked at this verse, and I said,
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If a sinful person brings you a report, verify its correctness,
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lest you should harm a people out of ignorance,
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Brothers and sisters, if this is not to me, I do not know who it is.
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I should not just go out there haphazardly and say things.
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Because the sin that I done, that I did, was publicly.
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And that's one of the things that we try to advise our different YouTubers on the Muslim scene.
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So you see, people think that we just have a go at other people for no reason.
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Look, the last thing I want to do is take time at my, you know, I'm busy working,
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a lot of things, to go and just look for people's fault.
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I try my best to assume the best and try to privately advise.
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we have to advise and refute their misguidance in public.
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Not only that, it requires a public repentance.
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And that's the reason why I'm doing this video.
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Because I spread an information which was false about our sister.
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Now I came to know that, okay, it wasn't a nightclub, it was a pub.
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Regardless, nightclub and pub are two separate things.
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I'm just saying that if you do, you know, there's an alcohol section.
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Some you go to, it's like a hotel, the pub is there.
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First, I caused harm and unremorseful, like the Quran says in chapter 49, verse 6.
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And I ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, forgive me.
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And brothers and sisters, I want to make something very clear.
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That when it comes to these things, do not be those among people who try to look for other people's faults.
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I do not go and like, I've got nothing better to do.
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I'll be like, oh my gosh, let me go on the internet and let me search what I can find today.
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But with these kind of videos, sometimes we have to come out and do it.
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I'm just talking about general in other things as well.
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So do not see this as some kind of like, oh, well, I'm bored.
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And you know, some people come and say, oh, why do you have to react to everything?
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Because I thought if there are sisters out there who may have, and I thought she actually did this.
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That they fall into this just to give them an Asiyah.
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And say, look, you know, you have a religious garment, etc.
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There's a lot of sisters that do go, you know, sadly in their Islamic attire.
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So it's really, really important for us to advise one another.
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Your friend is not the one who pats you on the back at every haram that you do.
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I genuinely ask for her forgiveness because it was wrong.
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If that was done towards my sister, I'll be very upset.
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And I ask them to forgive me because it reminds me that on the day of judgment,
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that it was showing different journeys that we're going to take.
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And after we've crossed the Sirat, where hellfire is going to be beneath us,
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once we go past there, we're going to be thinking,
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ah, great, if I've made it from here, I'm going to Jannah.
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Well, there's going to be a part between the Sirat and Jannah
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where you are going to be accounted for the wrong that you did to others.
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And subhanallah, you are going to imagine that.
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This is a very, very powerful problem, sisters.
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That person that you wronged is going to be in front of you.
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this person violated this and this and this right of mine.
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may Allah allow us to enter paradise and her and her whole family,
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I'm carrying the burden that I cause to myself,
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and for us to be careful and verify information,
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We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to forgive us,
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That's the reason why I'm asking the sister's forgiveness,
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very careful in what I'm sharing in the future.
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and I will really appreciate if this sister can forgive me,
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and just some kind of communication via her brother,
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and I ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to forgive me,
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that we do not fall amongst those that Allah says,
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that we don't verify information from an evil source like mirror,