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Don’t try to find loopholes

Don’t try to find loopholes

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 Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wa Salatu Wa Salamu Ala Ashrafil Anbiya wal Mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Alaihi Wasallam. Tasliman kathiran kathira. Fahamabadu. My brothers and sisters, I said there are two problems with this whole issue of acquiring knowledge and the desire to acquire knowledge. May Allah protect us from shaitan. Shaitan does not leave any stone unturned and he uses everything that we do and turns it into, turns something which is potentially beneficial into something which is potentially harmful. And he does it in two ways. One of course is to prevent you from doing something which is beneficial, but the other way he does which is very effective is to take that beneficial thing and make you do it in a way which makes it harmful. Right? It takes the beneficial thing and makes you do it in a way which either it becomes harmful, but harmful in the sense that either it becomes completely haram or it reduces the reward of the thing. So, instead of getting, you know, full reward, you get partial reward. It corrupts the reward of the thing. For example, you might be, you know, inclined towards doing charity and alhamdulillah you say, no, I have to do charity. I will do charity. But, you know, you have to do charity. But, shaitan will put it into your mind and your heart to say, well, you're doing this charity, encourage other people by putting it all, putting all this stuff on Facebook and Instagram and so on. So now you are hiring Instagram photographers to take pictures of your charity work and then you're putting it on Instagram and whatnot. And with the idea that you are somehow encouraging people to do it, but also what is hidden in that and which is probably even more true, which is that now your own ego comes into play. You are fantastic. What a great guy I am. I'm a philanthropist. I'm doing this and that. And shaitan will get people to come and praise you and so on. And you know, your articles will be written about you in the newspapers and stuff. So all of this now completely corrupts your niyyah and the ikhlas of your niyyah, the sincerity of your intention. And from being, starting point of where you are doing it to please Allah , now it becomes a self-propagation method where you are propagating your own virtue. And you are not just a person who is doing it for the benefit of people and so that you can get a good name. Now this is something to really, really guard against. Now one of the ways in which shaitan plays games with religious people is by tempting them to use their religious knowledge to find loopholes in the laws of Allah . So what is shaitan doing? Shaitan is trying to make people believe that they are not the only ones who are the only ones doing it. No one else is doing it. Right? So now there is, you are tempted to do something which is wrong. You know it is wrong. You should not be doing it. But because you have religious knowledge, shaitan will put thoughts into your mind of trying to find a way of doing something which you know to be wrong. But because you have religious knowledge, you find a way now around it. Right? Now there is no way around it. This is something which shaitan has put in your mind. This is what I mean. Yeah. So, I mean, it's, I mean, it's a very difficult thing. So, I have to say, I don't know if I can do it in a very perfect way. heart and your mind and you're now finding these so-called arguments in favor of doing something which is actually prohibited. One of the most common ones is this prohibition on interest-based dealings, which is a very clear prohibition. It is something on which Allah declared war in His own name, glorious name, and in the blessed name of Rasulullah . And Allah said, if you will not leave this, if you will not leave this interest-based dealings, borrowing or lending money on interest, then take a declaration of war from Allah and His Prophet .
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