Ali Dawah - December 25, 2020


WHY MO SALAH CELEBRATES CHRISTMAS AS A MUSLIM

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Rabbi Moussala Wallahi Jeremiah Al-Uzza Baba Maw Salah Rabbi Allah SubhanAllah Al-Manad Nazareth Prophet Moussa Mawsal Iblis
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Brother Moussala shared a picture of his wife wearing a hijab with her daughter, who is a hijabi sister. Some have questioned why a Muslim woman would wear a hijab in public and others have questioned if it was meant to symbolise something other than Christmas. In this podcast, we discuss the implications of this and what we can do about it.

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00:00:00.000 So Rabbi Moussala, as you can see on the screen, shared something with his wife.
00:00:03.700 His wife is a hijabi sister and obviously she's going to cover herself with a hoodie, but it's more Christmas. 1.00
00:00:08.380 I used to celebrate Christmas. I used to wrap gifts, presents, Christmas, turkey, dinner.
00:00:13.880 A lot of you guys that don't understand the severity and the consequences, to you it's like,
00:00:18.720 Rabbi Ali, what's the hell? Come on, for God's sake.
00:00:30.000 As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu, brothers and sisters and dear friends, welcome back inshaAllah.
00:00:38.920 So I've been getting a lot of messages regarding Brother Moussala and the pictures that he shared.
00:00:46.960 I think he did, he shared one last year as well and again today and this year as well.
00:00:52.240 So now we want to come at this from a different angle.
00:00:55.200 I was very double-minded, shall I do this video or not?
00:00:57.400 But I thought generally, let's just firstly talk about the rights of another believer, number one.
00:01:01.860 Number two, let's just talk about, in general, about Christmas, yeah?
00:01:05.160 Now, many videos have been done over and over again and this is something where a lot of people think,
00:01:09.980 you know what, nah, what's the big deal? Let's just get into it, inshaAllah, yeah?
00:01:13.200 So Brother Moussala, as you can see on the screen, shared something with his wife.
00:01:17.000 His wife is a hijabi sister and obviously she's covering herself with a hoodie, but it's more Christmassy. 0.99
00:01:22.060 And her daughter's there.
00:01:23.000 Now, what we're going to do is we're going to be talking about, in general, firstly, for us to assume the best in a Muslim.
00:01:29.300 It's very important when these things come up, a lot of people jump on the bandwagon and be like,
00:01:32.340 oh yeah, I'm going to attack him, you know, he's a kafir, he's like this, he's like that, and send heat. 1.00
00:01:36.500 That's not the right attitude because at the end of the day, brothers and sisters,
00:01:39.320 do I believe that Moussala, knowing what it's symbolising, what he's doing,
00:01:44.120 do you think he really does it on purpose?
00:01:46.100 Does he think to himself, you know what, I know, let me use this symbol that is rooted in the pagan traditions,
00:01:50.980 or Christmas as well, which we believe is paganism as well.
00:01:54.600 They believe in that Jesus' birth and they believe Jesus to be the son of God or God incarnated.
00:01:59.840 We need to make something clear.
00:02:01.360 Sending hate is not going to solve anything, but it's good to educate, yeah?
00:02:05.420 Maybe when you're giving Nasiya, do it in a nice and good manner. 0.96
00:02:08.780 It's very important for us to do that.
00:02:10.740 So when you're addressing him, just say, brother Moussala, maybe give us some information,
00:02:14.420 maybe he doesn't know, you know, there is actually biblical verses, yeah, in the book of Jeremiah,
00:02:18.040 it actually talks about Christmas, it's very profound, you know, even some Christians deem it to be some kind of pagan ritual.
00:02:23.480 So if we go to the book of Jeremiah, just Jeremiah, so we can just understand.
00:02:27.600 Jeremiah 10, verse 1 to 5, it says,
00:02:30.000 Hear you the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, a house of Israel.
00:02:33.520 Thou saith the Lord, learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the sign of heaven.
00:02:39.220 The heathen is the disbeliever. 1.00
00:02:40.700 For the heathen are dismayed at them.
00:02:42.800 For the customs of the people are vain. 1.00
00:02:44.560 For one cutteth a tree out of the forest.
00:02:48.100 The work of the hands of the workman with the axe.
00:02:50.860 They deck it with silver and with gold.
00:02:53.520 They fasten it with nails and with hammers, then that it move not.
00:02:57.260 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not.
00:02:59.760 They must need to be born.
00:03:02.040 They must need to be born.
00:03:04.420 Because they cannot go.
00:03:05.820 Be not afraid of them, for they cannot do evil.
00:03:07.980 Neither also is it in them to do good.
00:03:11.120 This is very interesting, because at the end of this verse, it's like they saw maybe the tree as some kind of a,
00:03:17.300 something that brings, like, in the book of Jeremiah, it clearly says,
00:03:21.280 For they cannot do evil, neither also is it that they can do good.
00:03:25.360 So what does Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tell us in the Qur'an about pagans?
00:03:27.620 They can neither bring you good or bad.
00:03:31.040 They can neither harm you or bring you good.
00:03:33.180 You know, they're just something that's inanimate objects.
00:03:35.720 So even the Bible is referring to them.
00:03:37.600 And some Christians today even acknowledge that it comes from paganism.
00:03:40.880 So, but now let's understand and let's advise people in general.
00:03:44.180 So, Baba Maw Salah, he might be watching this.
00:03:46.060 If he's watching this stuff, generally, Baba, I don't believe you did this on purpose, that you think that.
00:03:49.520 But it's very profound, because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in Surah Maryam, verse 19,
00:03:55.880 Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
00:03:57.160 By which the heavens are about to burst, the earth splits apart, and the mountains to crumble with pieces,
00:04:04.380 in protest of attributing children to the most compassionate.
00:04:09.040 Brothers and sisters, let's understand something, yeah?
00:04:11.460 Now, a lot of you guys, so for example, I did a video on TikTok,
00:04:14.680 where I went to a Arab, a Muslim shop, if I'm not mistaken, there was a Christmas tree, Father Christmas was there, yeah?
00:04:20.440 When you come to a Arab, Muslim shop, and you see my man rolling here, 0.99
00:04:28.720 I would be there.
00:04:30.120 Now, what we need to understand is that these things gradually evolve.
00:04:33.580 Now, I as a non-Muslim, back in Jahli, I used to celebrate Christmas.
00:04:36.840 I used to wrap gifts, presents, Christmas, turkey, dinner, etc.
00:04:41.320 You know, in Jahli, I used to eat pork, like, you know, I used to celebrate Christmas.
00:04:44.700 With a half-Christian, half-Muslim family. 0.63
00:04:49.280 Yeah, yeah, I won't get into much details, but the thing is, I used to celebrate Christmas with them.
00:04:55.600 Every single year, we used to get gifts and everything.
00:04:58.720 Now, the thing is, as I started studying the religion, then I understood the severity of that. 0.86
00:05:02.860 Now, a lot of you guys that don't understand the severity and the consequences,
00:05:06.940 to you, it's like, Brother Ali, what's the hell? Come on, for God's sake.
00:05:10.380 Brothers and sisters, if we understood what a shirk is, 1.00
00:05:12.840 and most of the time, this happens because we are ignorant to it.
00:05:16.860 Now, I don't want you guys to see this as some kind of me having a go at you. 0.95
00:05:20.260 Look, I was ignorant at one point.
00:05:21.760 There's nothing wrong with knowing in the context of, like, you should educate yourself.
00:05:28.180 Yeah, okay?
00:05:28.440 I'm not having a go at you, but it's important for you to learn.
00:05:31.140 Allah is saying, the mountains, Allah is saying in the Qur'an, the heavens are about to burst.
00:05:37.100 The mountains, the earth is about to split apart.
00:05:39.540 The mountains are about to crumble.
00:05:42.160 The statement that they uttered, that Isa alayhi salam.
00:05:44.800 And if I'm not mistaken, one of the brothers told us that the star that they have on the tree that they put is a star of Bethlehem.
00:05:51.600 And this is where they follow that star to find Jesus, which they deem to be the Son of God or part of the Trinity.
00:05:59.140 Yeah?
00:05:59.700 And to those non-Muslims that are watching this and trying to understand where we're coming from,
00:06:03.620 look, you have every right to celebrate Christmas.
00:06:05.940 This is your country.
00:06:06.520 You can celebrate it all day, all night.
00:06:08.900 It doesn't bother us.
00:06:09.680 Celebrate it as much as you like.
00:06:11.220 But what we're trying to say, and even in the Islamic land, even if it was run by the Islamic rulership,
00:06:16.120 Christians can celebrate and they can have their own churches.
00:06:19.080 They have the rights to celebrate.
00:06:20.500 We're not here to say, you're not allowed to celebrate, you offended me.
00:06:22.720 No!
00:06:23.500 You can do that.
00:06:24.700 We believe it to be wrong.
00:06:25.660 But what is more confusing, and I feel sorry for reverts,
00:06:28.540 is because those who celebrate Christmas, when they see Muslims doing it, 1.00
00:06:31.940 they're going to be saying to their reverts, family members who say, I can't celebrate.
00:06:34.500 Hold on a second, there's Muslims, like Mossala, he's a Muslim, he's celebrating it. 1.00
00:06:38.520 You put Reavers in a situation where the family's thinking, are you trying to be awkward?
00:06:42.200 You know, but this is why it's very sad.
00:06:44.480 So let's understand that you guys can celebrate, but to us, the severity is so big.
00:06:49.600 Just imagine, for example, there was a symbol, there was a specific tree,
00:06:53.820 or whatever it may be, there was some kind of connections to, let's suppose,
00:06:57.100 a person in your family dying.
00:06:58.940 A member of your family died with someone cutting them into pieces.
00:07:03.980 And from that moment onwards, we were celebrating using that specific knife,
00:07:07.060 and we used to hang the knife right on top of the tree, or something along those lines.
00:07:10.660 Now, shirk, associating partners to God, is one million, trillion, a billion times worse than that.
00:07:16.480 Now, you might not fathom and understand that,
00:07:18.700 but that does not mean that what's happening is not wrong.
00:07:22.280 Just because you can't grasp something because of cultural barriers or differences,
00:07:25.820 or religious, whatever it may be, doesn't mean it's not wrong.
00:07:28.460 But for Muslims, you guys should know better. 1.00
00:07:31.340 Associating partners to Allah, Allah is the one who feeds you. 0.80
00:07:33.720 Allah is the one who clothes you. 1.00
00:07:34.660 Allah is the one who's given you everything that you have, all the blessings that you have.
00:07:38.860 All the blessings.
00:07:40.180 So much so, there is a hadith of the Prophet, peace be upon him,
00:07:42.380 who said, a man will come on the day of judgment, a righteous man.
00:07:44.940 And he will say, Allah will say to him, enter my paradise.
00:07:47.080 He will say, oh Allah, I want to enter with my good deeds.
00:07:49.380 Allah will say, okay.
00:07:50.420 And he'll bring the mizan, the weighing of the deeds that day.
00:07:53.880 And Allah will say, okay, let's get all your good deeds, we'll put it on one side,
00:07:56.460 and let's get your eye, the blessing of your eye, and put it on the other.
00:07:58.760 The eye will outweigh all the good deeds this man did for a hundred years, that he did.
00:08:04.860 And what would Allah say? 0.97
00:08:06.280 Allah will say, you have to go hellfire. 0.83
00:08:08.620 Now, first it was paradise.
00:08:11.020 Now the man will say, oh Allah, please, I want to enter, enter me into paradise with your mercy,
00:08:15.180 not with your justice.
00:08:15.880 Because if it's based on your justice, I'm indebted to you.
00:08:18.780 The moment I'm born to whatever I do, I can never pay you back.
00:08:22.880 So the man, Allah says, okay, enter my paradise.
00:08:26.160 But what is the point here?
00:08:27.020 The point here is, firstly, we enter paradise by the mercy of Allah, not by our good deeds.
00:08:30.620 This doesn't mean you don't do your good deeds.
00:08:32.220 You do your good deeds because of who Allah is.
00:08:34.760 But the point is this, brothers and sisters, for us to understand the severity.
00:08:39.880 Wallahi, brothers and sisters, how ungrateful it is. 0.98
00:08:41.980 Imagine if you did something that hurt your mom's feelings.
00:08:44.500 Imagine you did something that your mom did not like.
00:08:46.920 Imagine if your mom said to you, you know, I've looked after you all this time.
00:08:50.160 Or your dad said, I've done this, I've worked hard to bring you up, and I don't want you to have this in the house.
00:08:54.740 You would say, you know what, at least out of appreciation and love to him and gratitude, my dad doesn't like it, let me not do it.
00:09:00.860 You know, his happiness.
00:09:02.200 Brothers and sisters, what about Allah? 0.94
00:09:03.920 What about the one who created the heavens and the earth?
00:09:06.520 Brothers and sisters, what about him?
00:09:08.320 Allah says in the Quran,
00:09:09.260 Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and in the alternation of the night and day, there are signs for those who believe or who have wisdom, who are thinking.
00:09:26.180 Brothers and sisters, you look around you, you see everything, you see the stars and everything.
00:09:30.720 And Allah has created me and you, he's given us everything.
00:09:33.860 Wallahi, when I say this, I'm getting emotional.
00:09:35.100 Why?
00:09:35.180 Because the Quran says, Wallahi, it's the pinnacle of ingratitude. 1.00
00:09:37.920 It's the pinnacle.
00:09:38.520 You might think to yourself, oh, how dramatic, Brother Ali.
00:09:40.380 It's the pinnacle of ingratitude.
00:09:42.160 He gives you everything and something that's connecting to shirk.
00:09:45.580 Something that is, you might say, okay, it's a festival.
00:09:47.680 No, people don't use it.
00:09:49.300 Irrelevant.
00:09:50.320 Because it's connected to there, Wallahi, don't do it. 1.00
00:09:53.180 Anything that is connected to some kind of indirect way of ingratitude to my mom and dad, I will not do it.
00:09:58.380 Let alone the one who's created the heavens and the earth.
00:10:00.080 Let alone the one who provides for me and looks after me.
00:10:02.320 Let alone the one and I'm ungrateful and I sin.
00:10:04.100 SubhanAllah.
00:10:05.540 And on top of that, we want to go and treat.
00:10:07.620 And I'm not having a go at Mosul.
00:10:08.880 He's maybe doing it because he doesn't know.
00:10:10.120 And for you guys who are doing it, you might not know.
00:10:12.300 For once, put Allah first in your life. 1.00
00:10:14.080 And I want to end on this note.
00:10:15.720 Brothers and sisters, when it comes to these issues, you need to understand.
00:10:18.480 The people who commit shirk. 0.95
00:10:20.400 The people, the pagan Arabs who committed shirk. 1.00
00:10:23.180 They didn't wake up one day and say, hey, I know, let's start worshiping Allah and Al-Uzza.
00:10:27.320 Yeah?
00:10:27.660 And Al-Manad.
00:10:28.480 Let's worship them.
00:10:29.740 They didn't do that.
00:10:30.560 But these people, these individuals, these statues that they had, idols, these were righteous individuals who used to feed pilgrims.
00:10:41.600 I don't know which one it was.
00:10:42.340 I don't know if it was Al-Uzza.
00:10:42.980 I can't remember.
00:10:43.840 They used to feed pilgrims.
00:10:45.380 When they died, shaytan came to them and said, look, why don't you build some kind of like a, in their memory.
00:10:51.080 Yeah?
00:10:51.660 And what happened?
00:10:52.560 The future generation and the next generation turned back into shirk slowly. 0.98
00:10:57.340 Do you think Jesus, when he came, people took him as God?
00:10:59.980 No.
00:11:00.660 No.
00:11:01.580 The council of Nazareth in 325 and generation after generation did what?
00:11:06.600 Deified him further and deified him further and deified him further.
00:11:09.520 First, he was not a part of God.
00:11:10.680 Then he became a part of God.
00:11:11.540 You know, and you saw how it evolved.
00:11:13.800 Now, Moussa, his daughter, may Allah bless her and make her a righteous child, a righteous daughter, and all of our children as well.
00:11:20.860 If she sees her father doing this, yeah?
00:11:22.860 Like I said, and all of us, if you see her father doing this and the children look after them, do you not think she's going to end up carrying, celebrating Christmas?
00:11:31.020 Do you not think the children is going to come to a point where they're going to say, let's look into this, you know, maybe, and end up becoming Christians or whatever it may be?
00:11:36.600 Brothers and sisters, this is where things lay down.
00:11:39.060 You might be good, and this is the reason why I have this book here.
00:11:41.320 You see this book here?
00:11:42.380 The Devil's Deception?
00:11:43.560 Read it.
00:11:44.340 Read it.
00:11:44.760 This is how the devil, Shaitan, comes to us. 1.00
00:11:46.660 He doesn't come to us directly and say, hey, man, you know, why don't you just start committing shirk?
00:11:50.280 No.
00:11:50.980 Shaitan has stages.
00:11:52.260 It's going to get you.
00:11:53.200 So don't be deceived by Iblis. 1.00
00:11:55.780 Take precautions.
00:11:56.920 Because Iblis will come and say, oh, what's the harm? 1.00
00:11:58.600 Of course, it's just a Christmas tree.
00:12:00.360 Don't put your guards down.
00:12:02.660 You have one life, and you either pass it or you fail it.
00:12:05.880 Please, brothers and sisters, and I'm asking you guys to please be gentle with people.
00:12:09.060 Do not be harsh and aggressive.
00:12:11.060 I hope I don't want to long this video anymore, inshallah.
00:12:12.940 I hope you guys have benefited.
00:12:13.760 Do give me a comment section in the section below, inshallah.
00:12:16.840 And let me know how you feel.
00:12:18.320 And I hope you guys benefited.
00:12:19.240 May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala keep brother Mawsal our firm, and all of us, inshallah.
00:12:22.460 And let's be gentle towards the believers.
00:12:23.820 They have rights over us.
00:12:24.680 Let's not be harsh towards them.
00:12:26.120 And may Allah protect us from shirk. 1.00
00:12:28.060 The minute to the major.
00:12:29.780 May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala protect us, inshallah.
00:12:31.240 And make us among those who are grateful to our Lord and serve His religion.
00:12:34.480 Till next time.
00:12:35.240 As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
00:12:37.260 As-salamu alaykum wa ta'ala puh para You.
00:12:39.520 As-salamu alaykum wa hamatullahi wa ta'ala barakatuh.
00:12:40.280 You