Don't Fall from the Sky!

Peace be upon you. You may think that this talk does not concern you, but you will see that we are all in dire need of this talk.

Why Discuss This Topic?

• To Appreciate Yourself and the Blessing of Islam: So that you may appreciate yourself and realize the blessing of Allah upon you with Islam, and your Islam becomes a source of joy and pride.
• To Understand the Distance Between Faith and Disbelief: So that you understand the distance between faith and disbelief, that you may beware of falling from the high peaks of faith into the deep valleys of disbelief without realizing it. Allah the Almighty says: {And whoever associates others with Allah, it is as if he had fallen from the sky, and the birds would snatch him, or the wind would throw him into a far-off place}. This is the real distance. And thus, we want you to see it before you become heedless, for you will only see this difference in the Hereafter, after it is too late.
• To See the Ugliness of Disbelief and Taste the Sweetness of Faith: We speak about the difference so that you see the ugliness of disbelief and taste the sweetness of faith. And by contrast, things are distinguished. Our Prophet, peace be upon him, said: "Three things, if found in a person, will make him taste the sweetness of faith," the third being: "And that he hates to return to disbelief as he hates to be thrown into the fire."
• To See the Enemies' Tactics: We speak about the difference so that you see the tactics used by our enemies to belittle the blessing of Islam in our hearts, and in contrast, to beautify disbelief and give it misleading names to drive people towards disbelief. And you will be astonished when we present to you their tactics in one sequence.
• Because the Difference Between the Believer and the Disbeliever is One of the Most Frequent Meanings in the Quran: We chose this topic because the difference between the believer and the disbeliever, faith and disbelief, is one of the most frequent meanings in the Quran. If this matter is not clear and psychologically accepted by us, we deprive ourselves of the guidance of the Quran.
• Timing of Ramadan: We chose Ramadan as the timing for this series so that we may read the entire Quran while seeking these meanings, feeling as if we are reading it for the first time.
• To Realize Humanity's Need for Islam: We speak about the difference so that you realize humanity's need for Islam. You are among those to whom Allah said: {You are the best nation ever brought forth to humanity} for humanity, for their sake, for their good in this world and the Hereafter. You are from a nation sent by Allah as a mercy to the worlds. And thus, they turn people away from the religion of Allah the Almighty and do not realize how much Allah detests them and warns those who do what they do.
• To Confront Those Who Belittle Islam Among Our Own People: We speak about the difference because among our own people, there are those who speak and shine in the media to psychologically destroy us, belittle us, and confuse us, causing us to abandon calling nations to Islam, and instead, flatter them in their religion and send our children to participate in their rituals. Like the one who says to a Muslim woman living in a Western country: "You are my sister living in their country, eating from their good and being safe, and your children are safe and studying. Then you want to prevent your children from going to the church? They prepare them and provide education, health, a home, security, and a livelihood, and our children do not reach that? Why? Because they are disbelievers? Disbelievers! We are disbelievers! We have destroyed our country. It is not only disbelief that is from the religion; disbelief is to deny the blessing. We have destroyed our homelands and burned our homelands. We have killed some, destroyed some mosques, cursed some, disbelieved in some. Look, we should not speak about religion and its rulers for ten years in front of Allah the Great until our countries return." And the other when he speaks about the atheist preacher, the fake scientist Richard Dawkins, says: "A scientist! Glory be to Allah, you disagree with him, you agree with him, the man is a scientist with a scientist's psyche and feelings, he glorifies science, rejoices in science, is happy with science, something unnatural. Hawking is an exceptional scientist, an extraordinary scientist. And where are we from Aristotle? And where are we from Hawking? We are nothing! We are nothing compared to them but like a date stone in the roots of tall palm trees. Oh fool, go search for your sustenance, you are hungry, you are naked, you are tired, you do not know how to rule your condition. Something determines for me in the world? What have you presented to the world? You have presented to them this slaughtering and butchering and blowing. And they present nothing but this microphone that you are speaking into, and the YouTube that I will put this sermon on, and this camera that is recording, and these lights, and the ventilation that we are in. Everything, everything we are in, they present."
• To Address Extremism and Neglect in Dealing with Other Nations: We speak about the difference because our stance towards other nations has fallen into extremism and neglect. Neglect from Muslims who have been psychologically and civilizational defeated by other nations. And in contrast, extremism to the point that the oppression we suffer has made some of us treat all other nations the same without distinction 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 and bring them out of the worship of slaves to the worship of the Lord of the slaves, from the injustice of religions to the justice of Islam, from the narrowness of this world to the vastness of this world and the Hereafter. We should feel mercy and compassion for them.
• To Achieve Balance: We speak about the topic to achieve balance, so that we are not among those who have fallen into extremism and unjustly declare Muslims as disbelievers, and at the same time, we are not among those who refrain from judging the clear disbeliever as a disbeliever. Both parties are blameworthy and mistaken: {Is he who walks upright on his face more rightly guided, or he who walks on a straight path?}
• Because the Topic is Emotionally Charged: We speak about the difference because this topic is usually discussed emotionally, under the influence of pressures, psychological complexes, and stereotypical images that have been entrenched in the minds of Muslims for decades. Thus, 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, which may remove them from their religion, and they do not feel it.
• Because Many People Have Started Saying Blasphemous Statements: We speak about the difference because many people have started saying blasphemous statements and believing blasphemous beliefs, and neither they nor the people around them realize the magnitude of this danger and its consequences. So, you see someone who curses Allah the Almighty when angry or bored, and yet his Muslim wife remains with him, lives with him in sin, and his father, brothers, and family know and do not separate her from him. And she bears children from him who are named after him, and they are from sin.
• To Clarify Concepts and Love the Entire Quran: We speak about the difference so that after the concepts become clear to you, you love the entire Quran, and there is no longer any discomfort in your heart about anything in it, whereas before, if you read verses commanding harshness towards disbelievers, something would stir within you.
• To Address Educational Mistakes: We speak about the difference because we practice educational mistakes that belittle Islam in the hearts of our children, and we do not realize it, nor do we see the connection between the two things at all.
• To Know the Greatness of Being a Muslim: Finally, we speak about this topic so that you learn the greatness of being a Muslim, and you do not satisfy yourself with anything but the noble morals that befit your description as a Muslim.

Goals of the Ramadan Series

These are the goals of our Ramadan series in brief: that you may fill with pride in your Islam with balance, humility, and mercy towards 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 brought forth to humanity, and that you hate disbelief and understand what it puts you in, so you beware of it with the utmost caution, and warn your family, loved ones, and all people.

Personal Experience and Invitation

I speak to you about this topic, my brothers, as someone who has lived in America and in Muslim countries, and has interacted with non-Muslims, who have been my teachers, colleagues, neighbors, and students. I have always been proud of my Islam, consistent with myself, treating them with respect and they treating me with respect, benefiting from them and they benefiting from me. I am clear in my stance towards them; I do not flatter them in their religions, but rather I invite them to the religion of Allah the Almighty.

And I love for you, my brothers and sisters, what I love for myself, and therefore I present to you this series during Ramadan. With the permission of Allah, we will discuss the points mentioned, and then we will hold a short meeting on Clubhouse every few days to answer your questions related to the topic.

Closing Supplication

And we ask Allah for guidance and acceptance, and we supplicate with what our Prophet peace be upon him and his family and companions taught us. I ask you to supplicate with this: "O Allah, Lord of Jibreel, Meekaeel, and Israfeel, Creator of the heavens and the earth, Knower of the unseen and the witnessed, You judge between Your servants in matters wherein they differ. Guide us to the truth in that which we differ, by Your leave. Verily, You guide whom You will to a straight path."

Peace be upon you.