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O my merciful Lord!*🤲🏻
Protect our hearts from the sorrows of this world and open for us the doors of happiness and success in a place we never imagined.🌸😒
One of the conditions of marriage to a kitaabi woman is that the Muslim man should be in charge of the family. But what happens nowadays in that those who marry women from kaafir countries marry them under their laws, and there is a great deal of injustice in their systems. They do not recognize a Muslim’s authority over his wife and children, and if the wife gets angry with her husband she will destroy his household and take the children away, with the support of the laws of her land and with the help of their embassies in most countries. It is no secret that the Muslim countries have no power to resist the pressure of those countries and their embassies.
Source: https://islamqa.info/en/answers/45645/a-realistic-look-at-marriage-to-women-of-the-people-of-the-book
A realistic look at marriage to women of the People of the Book - Islam Question & Answer
https://islamqa.info/en/answers/45645
My dear brothers and sisters in Islam,
may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon you all.
Today,
I want to speak to you from the heart about something that has captured the attention of millions around the world, including many of us in this very masjid.
I am speaking about football specifically, the World Cup, national cups, and the intense passion that surrounds them.
Let me be clear from the beginning:
I am not here to say that all sports are completely forbidden.
The body has rights over us, and recreation that does not distract us from our obligations is permitted in principle.
But we must be honest with ourselves about what has happened to our relationship with these games.
📌📌 The Scale of Our Priorities 📌📌
Look at your own life, my brother.
I ask you directly:
How many minutes did you spend today reading the Quran?
How many times did you remember your Creator in your heart?
How often did you pray with full presence of mind?
And then ask yourself:
How many hours did you spend watching football?
How many hours did you spend discussing matches, analyzing players, arguing about penalties?
We find time for everything except Allah.
We make time for nonsense games for hours and hours but when it comes to the Quran, we say,
I'll read it later.
When it comes to prayer, we rush through it.
When it comes to remembering Allah, our hearts are elsewhere.
☝️The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ said: ☝️
Take advantage of five before five: your youth before your old age, your health before your sickness, your wealth before your poverty, your free time before your preoccupation, and your life before your death.
📚📖 (Al-Hakim) 📖📚
Are we truly taking advantage of our free time?
Or are we filling it with what will bring us nothing on the Day of Judgment?
📌📌 Wasting Money and Time 📌📌
Brothers,
we spend money on tickets, on subscriptions, on merchandise.
We spend our hard-earned riyals, dirhams, dollars money that is a trust from Allah on watching other people chase a ball.
And the fans some of them do things that no Muslim should ever be associated with.
Screaming, cursing, fighting, even missing prayers.
Some miss Maghrib because the match isn't finished.
Some delay Isha until the game ends. Some abandon the masjid entirely on match days.
Subhanallah.
Can you imagine the Sahaba the companions of the Prophet ﷺ missing a prayer for any reason? When the call to prayer was made, they would drop everything.
Even during battle, they would pray.
📌 The Path of the Sahaba and the Scholars 📌
The righteous predecessors,
may Allah be pleased with them, understood the value of time.
Imam Al-Hasan Al-Basri said:
"O son of Adam, you are nothing but a collection of days. When a day passes, a part of you passes."
Every hour you spend watching football is an hour that is gone forever.
You will never get it back. On the Day of Judgment, you will wish you had spent that time in the worship of Allah.
☝️The Prophet ﷺ said: ☝️
The feet of the servant will not move on the Day of Judgment until he is asked about four things: his life how he spent it, his youth how he used it, his wealth where he earned it and how he spent it, and his knowledge what he did with it.
📚📖 (At-Tirmidhi) 📖📚
📌📌 What Is Haram? 📌📌
Let me be specific about what makes watching these games problematic:
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Missing prayers or delaying them without valid reason—this is a major sin.
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Wasting excessive time time is your capital, and every second will be accounted for.
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Spending money extravagantly on tickets, travel, subscriptions that could have been given in charity.
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Engaging in haraam behavior the cursing, the anger, the fighting, the immodest dress and scenes.
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Allowing it to become your primary concern when the dunya overtakes your concern for the akhirah.
☝️☝️Allah says in the Quran: ☝️☝️
O you who have believed, let not your wealth and your children divert you from the remembrance of Allah. And whoever does that—then those are the losers.
📚📖 (Surah Al-Munafiqun, 63:9) 📖📚
📌📌 A Call to Action 📌📌
My dear brothers,
I am not asking you to never relax.
But I am asking you to examine your heart.
Ask yourself sincerely:
Do you enjoy the Quran as much as you enjoy the match?
Do you remember Allah as much as you remember the players' names and statistics?
When was the last time you cried while listening to the Quran?
When was the last time you felt genuine joy from praying Fajr on time?
When was the last time you truly savored reading a verse from the Book of Allah?
Yet you can spend hours analyzing a game.
Let us rebalance our priorities.
Let us use our time for what truly matters.
Let us not be among those whom Allah describes as:
They knew only the outward appearance of the worldly life, but they are heedless of the Hereafter.
📚📖 (Surah Ar-Rum, 30:7) 📚📖
✍️✍️ Advice ✍️✍️
📌Watch a match if you must, but never at the expense of prayer
📌Limit your time set a specific amount, and when it's over, switch it off.
📌Do not spend excess money give in charity instead.
📌Guard your tongue no cursing, no backbiting, no arguing over teams.
📌Replace some of that time with Quran even 15 minutes a day.
📌Ask yourself every night:
Did I remember Allah more today than I remembered the game?
May Allah guide us all to the straight path.
May He protect us from wasting the precious time He has given us. May He make the Quran the spring of our hearts.
Barakallahu li wa lakum.
Walhamdulillahi Rabbil
Alameen.
Thank you for listening ☝️☝️
Bismillah
Ah Salam wa laikum my brothers and sisters.
Listen, we are ALL sinners, that's a known fact.
But there's a massive difference between our private sins and our public ones.
Way too many people are out here insulting the people of this ummah with vile comments, perverse behaviour, slander, gossip, racism, weight shaming, men this, women that, etc, etc.
Exposing our sins publicly through sharing things like music (actually don't care who don't like it, it's been made clear to us all that musical instruments are from Iblees),
And a million other different things (slightly exaggeration obviously).
What we do in private is one thing and between us and Allah but my brothers and sisters most of us are the reason we're all in the same situations we're desperate to get away from.
Most of us are the reason the ummah is in this state.
Most of us are the reason the non Muslims we live amongst are against Islam.
Forget about Iblees, forget about the vile false media portrayal of islam.
Forget about this deviant sect, that deviant sect and the other and start looking in a mirror and see who looks back at you.
Brothers - would you want your sisters, daughters, mothers and aunties with a Man like yourself? Answer that honestly to yourself.
Sisters - same question in reverse.
None of us are perfect and we ALL need to work on something but it's clear to me from the day in, day out on here how far we've really gotten from what Allah sent the Prophet with.
Anyone that wants to argue any of the points in this post really hasn't taken anything on board and is either looking to vent or felt burned by the post. That alone should tell you what time it is.
May Allah make us people of understanding who look at ourselves first.
May Allah grant us the capability of changing our manners and morals to the correct way.
Oh Allah, grant us forgiveness and Jannah
👊🏾 ❤️
Excuses are just lies.
What really matters is how much you mean to someone.
If you truly matter to a person,
they will never leave you behind.
As I said earlier,
I’m not a fan of sports, games, or entertainment.
I don’t follow all that, nor waste my time and money supporting countries or teams playing games.
My time is for Allah alone reading the Quran, Hadith, following the Sunnah, listening to Quran recitation and Islamic lectures/dawah.
