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Lessons from Hatim Al Asamm – 6

Lessons from Hatim Al Asamm – 6

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 Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions. Peace be upon him and upon his family. Faham Abadu. My brothers and sisters, we are looking at the hikayat and the advice of Hatim al-Assam. Arhatul Ali. And there are totally eight of them. We finished five. Today is the sixth. He said, I have seen that in this world, everyone has at least one enemy. I have seen that in this world, everyone has at least one enemy. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the Quran, إِنَّ الشَّيْطَانَ لَكُمْ عَدُوٌّ فَاتَّخِذُوهُ عَدُوَّةً إِنَّمَا يَدْعُو هِزْبَهُ لِيَكُونُ مِّنْ أَسْحَابِ السَّعِيرِ Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, which means, surely, shaitan is an enemy to you. So take him as an enemy. Treat him as an enemy. Shaitan is your enemy. So treat him as an enemy. He only invites his followers to become inmates of hellfire, of the blaze. So Hatim al-Assam, rahmatullah, he says, So I have taken shaitan to be my enemy. And I always try to keep away from him. Therefore, I have no enemy besides or other than shaitan. I remember myself when you, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, told us about shaitan. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ فِي السِّلْمِ كَافَّةً وَلَا تَطْبِعُواْ خُطْوَاتِ الشَّيْطَانِ إِنَّهُ لَكُمْ عَدُومٌ بِينٌ Allah said, Do you believe? Enter into Islam fully, completely, not partially, not selectively, fully and completely. And do not follow the footsteps of shaitan. Verily, he is an open enemy. When we look at this ayat, first of all, the ayat which I recited before, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is warning us and telling us clearly, your enemy is shaitan. So what must you do with the enemy? Treat him like an enemy. Don't treat him like a friend. Don't treat him like, he's okay, I will ignore. No. What do you do with the enemy? You fight the enemy. So Allah is saying, actively fight the shaitan. Actively fight the shaitan. And the other ayat of Surah al-Baqarah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying, don't follow the footsteps of shaitan. Which means shaitan is not there. He's not catching you and dragging you. He went away. Only the mark of his passing is there. Allah says, don't follow this mark. Right? If you remember the ayat that Sheikh recited in the first rakat, which refers to the ayat concerning the Battle of Badr, where first shaitan tells the Quraysh, don't worry, he says, I am your neighbor, I am your friend. And then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, then when he saw the forces that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sent, when he saw the malaika, he says, he said, I am free from you. I am gone. So the friendship of shaitan is a very dicey thing. First of all, it leads you only into, one place which is the hellfire. And that is why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, the shaitan will say on the day of judgment, that Allah told you to do something and I told you to do something. You chose to follow me. You made the choice to follow me. He says, don't send lanat on me, send lanat on yourself. Don't curse me, curse yourself. Because you chose the path. I was gone, only my footsteps were there. You made the choice. You knew these are the footsteps of shaitan. You know it is haram. Still you do it. So you can't blame shaitan. You can't say, oh shaitan made me. No, shaitan did not make you. Shaitan did not make you do it. Shaitan did what shaitan does. He was tempting. And this is what shaitan will tell us. That's the reason why we must read the Quran, understand the Quran, study the Quran and read. Because shaitan, Allah swt told us everything that shaitan will tell us. We have two forces to fight. One is shaitan, one is our nafs. Our own desires. Now there is a way of distinguishing, differentiating between what comes from the nafs
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