Episode 1 - Don't Fall from the Sky!

Don't fall from the sky...from the sky of faith to the valleys of disbelief... You may think this talk doesn't concern you. No, you will see that we all desperately need this talk.

- Why discuss this topic?

1. So you can evaluate yourself and realize the blessing of Allah upon you with Islam, and be a source of joy and pride.

2. So you understand the distance between faith and disbelief, to beware of falling from the high peaks of faith to the deep valleys of disbelief without realizing it.

Allah the Almighty says: ((And whoever associates others with Allah, it is as if he has fallen from the sky, and the birds snatch him away, or the wind throws him into a remote place)) (Al-Hajj)...This is the real distance. And this is how we want you to see it before you become heedless, so you only notice this difference in the Hereafter after it's too late.

3. We talk about the difference so you see the ugliness of disbelief and taste the sweetness of faith. Things are distinguished by their opposites. Our Prophet (peace be upon him) said: (Three who have it find the sweetness of faith), the third: (And that he hates to return to disbelief as he hates to be thrown into the fire).

4. We talk about the difference so you see the methods our enemies use to belittle the blessing of Islam in our hearts and, in contrast, beautify disbelief and give it misleading names, to push us toward disbelief. You will be surprised when we present their methods to you in one pattern.

5. We chose this topic because the difference between the believer and the disbeliever, and between faith and disbelief, is one of the most recurring meanings in the Quran. If this matter is not clear and psychologically accepted by us, we deprive ourselves of the guidance of the Quran. And we chose Ramadan as the timing for this series so we can read the entire Quran while exploring these meanings, feeling as if we are reading it for the first time.

6. We talk about the difference so you realize humanity's need for Islam, for you are among those to whom Allah said: (You are the best nation produced for mankind), for mankind...for their sake, for their good in this world and the Hereafter. You are from the nation of the one whom Allah sent as a mercy to the worlds. This is not a voluntary mission, but if we abandon it, we will suffer the humiliation of this world and the punishment of the Hereafter.

7. We talk about the difference to correct the misconceptions of Muslims who think it is permissible for them to seize the wealth of non-Muslims and betray them, thereby driving people away from the religion of Allah the Almighty, and they do not realize how much Allah detests them and threatens those who do such things.

8. We talk about the difference because some of our own people are being exported and highlighted in the media to psychologically destroy us, belittle us, and confuse us, making us abandon calling the nations to Islam, and instead, they call us to flatter them in their religion and send our children to their rituals. Like this one who says to a Muslim woman living in a Western country: (Let me play a clip of Youssef:

- (So you, my sister: living in their country, eating from their good, securing your children, educating your children, and what do you want your children to go to church to celebrate with them?)

- (And we have education and health and a house and security, then our children will not be for them because they are disbelievers..disbelievers? We are disbelievers!)

- (We destroyed some mosques..we cursed some..we disbelieved some).

- (Look, we should not talk about religion and its rulings for ten years..until we return to our country).

And the other when he talks about the atheist preacher Richard Dawkins says: [A scholar -Glory be to Allah- you disagree with him, you agree with him, the man is a scholar, and he has the mentality of a scholar and the feelings of a scholar, he glorifies science, delighted with science, rejoices in science, something amazing!].

In contrast, he says to the Muslim:

(What foolishness you fall into! What do you open? And what do you burn? O naive one, go and seek your livelihood! You are hungry! You are naked! You are tired! You cannot control yourself, you come to threaten the world, what have you presented to the world? You presented to them: skinning, slaughtering, and blowing, and they present to us the microphone I am speaking into, and YouTube which I will upload this sermon to, and this camera that records, and these lights and ventilation we enjoy, everything we enjoy, they provided it..]).

9. We talk about the difference because the cunning of our enemies has succeeded in making many Muslim children hate their Islamic identity and disown their affiliation with their nation, and even hate this religion that they were made to believe is the cause of their backwardness, so some have fallen into the traps of atheism or servitude.

10. We talk about the difference because our stance toward other nations has been excessive and deficient: deficient from Muslims who have psychologically and civilizational surrendered to other nations, and in contrast, excessive to the point that the oppression we suffer has made some of us treat all other nations the same, without distinguishing between a cunning, deceitful enemy who turns people away from the path of Allah and wants to enslave the peoples on one hand, and on the other hand, masses of non-Muslims who are victims of these deceivers, suffering from them as we suffer. And our role as Muslims is to save them, to bring them out of the worship of servants to the worship of the Lord of the servants, from the tyranny of religions to the justice of Islam, from the narrowness of this world to the vastness of this world and the Hereafter. It is necessary that we feel mercy and compassion for them.

11. We talk about the difference to achieve balance, so we are not among those who have gone to extremes in excommunicating Muslims unjustly, and at the same time, we are not among those who refrain from judging the clear disbeliever. Both parties are condemned and deceitful...(Is he who walks upright on his face better guided, or he who walks straight on a straight path).

12. We talk about the difference because this topic is usually addressed emotionally under the influence of pressures, psychological complexes, and stereotypes that have been entrenched in the minds of Muslims for decades, so verbal battles arise in which the truth is lost between the two parties, and many do not realize that they are saying something very dangerous to their creed that may remove them from their religion without them realizing it...

13. We talk about the difference because many people now say blasphemous statements and hold blasphemous beliefs, and neither they nor those around them realize the magnitude of this danger and its consequences. So you see someone who curses Allah the Almighty when angry or annoyed, and yet his Muslim wife remains with him and lives with him in sin, and his parents, brothers, and family know and do not separate her from him, and she bears children from him who bear his name while they are illegitimate.

14. We talk about the topic because we have reached a stage of Islam's alienation and the distortion of concepts that whoever says this speech is met with disapproval from people who have a psychological complex about the word disbeliever in all its forms. We need to awaken these heedless ones, and we need to support the people of truth and strengthen their hands.

15. We talk about the difference so that after the concepts become clear to you, you love the entire Quran, and nothing in it will bother you anymore, whereas before, if you read verses commanding harshness toward disbelievers, something would stir in your heart.

16. We talk about the difference because we commit educational mistakes that belittle Islam in the hearts of our children, and we do not realize or see the connection between the two at all.

17. Finally, we talk about this topic so you learn the greatness of being a Muslim, and you do not accept for yourself except the noble morals that suit your description as a Muslim.

These are the goals of our Ramadan series in brief:

1. That you fill with pride in your Islam, with balance, humility, and mercy toward people, and adorn yourself with the morals that qualify you to remain at the peak of great faith and to be from the best nation produced for mankind.

2. That you hate disbelief and understand what it leads you to, so you beware of it with the utmost caution and warn your family, loved ones, and all people about it.

I speak to you about this topic, my brothers and sisters, as someone who has lived in America and in Muslim countries, dealt and deals with non-Muslims, who have been my teachers, colleagues, neighbors, and students, and I have been conservative about my Islam, in harmony with myself, treating them with respect and they treat me with respect, benefiting from them and they benefit from me, clear in my stance toward them, not flattering them in their religions, but rather calling them to the religion of Allah the Almighty.

- And I love for you, my brothers and sisters, what I love for myself. Therefore, I present this series to you.

Throughout Ramadan, we will discuss these points with the permission of Allah, then hold a short meeting every few days on Clubhouse to answer your questions related to this point.

And we ask Allah for correctness and acceptance.

And we supplicate with what our Prophet (peace be upon him) taught us and I ask you to supplicate with it:

O Allah, Lord of Jibril, Mika'il, and Israfil, Creator of the heavens and the earth, Knower of the unseen and the witnessed, You judge between Your servants in what they used to differ. Guide me to what they differed about of the truth by Your permission. Verily, You guide whom You will to a straight path. And peace be upon you.