# Is Religion Making Us Complacent? I Dr. Omar Suleiman **Author:** Dr. Omar Suleiman **Series:** Lecture **Published:** 2024-11-22 **YouTube:** https://youtu.be/yi08tmNMdNg **URL:** https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/lecture/is-religion-making-us-complacent **Topics:** Quran ## Description As Gaza unfolds, what are we to the take from our religion? Is religion the opium of the masses? Does it inspire complacency or contribution? Drawing lessons from the Sahaba, this lecture highlights the importance of sincere striving and resisting the sedative pull of the Dunya. A reminder to... ## Transcript **[0:00]** Are We Just Trying to Make Ourselves Feel Better? أعوذ بالله السميع من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والعدوان إلا على الظالمين والعاقبة للمتقين اللهم صل وسلم وبارك على عبدك ورسولك محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم تسليماً كثيراً **[0:17]** We begin by praising Allah سبحانه وتعالى and bearing witness that none has the right to be worshipped or unconditionally obeyed except for Him and we bear witness that Muhammad ﷺ is His final messenger We ask Allah to send His peace and blessings upon Him the prophets and messengers that came before Him **[0:32]** His family and companions that served alongside Him and those that follow in His blessed path until the Day of Judgment and we ask Allah to make us amongst them اللهم آمين Dear brothers and sisters, there is a question that has come up now in the wake of Gaza quite a bit which is how do you continue to teach while at the same time observing a genocide **[0:52]** and what should you be teaching? What should we be lecturing about? What should we be studying in the wake of this genocide? And how much does religion play a role in inspiring people to continue versus becoming complacent with the circumstances that are ahead of us? **[1:08]** And subhanAllah, usually when something starts, there is a renewed interest in that cause and so you'll find that there is almost unanimity where there is any place where people can speak about the issue that everyone is talking about the same thing and then as time goes on you see that the nature of the khutbah starts to change **[1:25]** you see that the nature of the lessons start to change and that is indicative of how the people as a whole have moved on Now when it comes to Gaza where you have something that has continued for so long and with no end really in sight when it comes to the cruelty of the Zionist occupation **[1:43]** against our brothers and sisters there is a question, you know, what are we supposed to be focusing on at this point? And are we inspiring people towards contribution or are we making them complacent with the circumstances ahead? And by the way, even with the people of Gaza there is a sentiment at times **[2:01]** that they don't want to continue to be spoken about as heroes they want your support against their villains they don't want you to keep talking about how great they are they want you to be as great as you can so that you can uplift them in these terrible circumstances that they are in **[2:16]** This factors into a larger question the role of religion, the role of religious teaching this day and age and how we speak about these various things And it goes back to a statement that Marx famously said that religion is the opium of the people **[2:31]** that religion is a means of social control that religion is a means of sedation that religion is a means of complacency and it does not cause people to rise above in the midst of their circumstances instead it causes them to become complacent with their circumstances **[2:48]** and for everyone to accept this as the divine will of God without making their best effort and that can be true in regards to some religious teaching it can be true in regards to some religions when the foundation of religion is one that robs you of your choice **[3:07]** that robs you of your efforts that robs you of your ability to impact and influence your own circumstances or the circumstances of someone else then of course it can make you complacent when you believe that we are in a puzzle or we are in the midst of something that is happening without any control ourselves **[3:25]** of course and especially if you believe that it's divinely sanctioned What makes us different as Muslims? And subhanAllah you'll find that there is a common phenomenon that's discussed which is slaveholder religion versus liberation religion I want you to just think about this in terms of the United States slave trade **[3:42]** The slaveholders and the slave owners were using the Bible to oppress they were constructing an image of God of the white Jesus and you are meant to be this way because of the color of your skin and this is what God has ordained for you and even if they don't call it a caste system **[3:58]** it effectively becomes that that you are like this because of something that you did or something that you deserve we are like this because of something that we are privileged with and something that God has given to us On the other hand you have what would be the slaves theology if they are able to see through that **[4:14]** and to combat that and if you think about the up to 30% who were Muslims of the slaves what were they reading from the Quran? How were they interpreting the Quran and the Hadith to fight back and to be inspired towards the revolts that we lead about today **[4:30]** where they sought to break the chains of slavery using religion, using religious texts and aspiring for something greater so it comes up with something subhanAllah that I have been talking about these days which is the Fada'il of Al-Sham **[4:46]** the Fada'il of the place, the virtues of the land of Al-Sham the virtues of Al-Aqsa and all of these divine implications of this land that we see right now and there is a question that is to be asked and I believe it is a well-meaning question by the way **[5:01]** which is how much should we be talking about this right now? Should we just be talking about every single khutbah the importance of fighting for the innocent and we should be talking about fighting for the innocent should we be talking about just the current reality **[5:16]** or should we draw from the past and paint a picture of what the future is that Allah سبحانه وتعالى has promised for us and how does that factor into our efforts today? It is a well-meaning and well-grounded concern how do you talk about these things? and here is what I want to inshaAllah focus on **[5:33]** what makes Islam so perfect and what makes it so balanced is that it allows us to both be content with that which is out of our control and then to rise to the best potential of that which is in our control and to trust Allah سبحانه وتعالى along the way **[5:50]** meaning to trust Allah سبحانه وتعالى that when we make efforts those efforts will be blessed they will not be in vain and when there is no effort for us to make and we just have to submit ourselves to something that is so beyond our control Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah we trust Allah سبحانه وتعالى **[6:06]** but I ask you, the sahaba who used to speak about Jannah who used to speak about the conditions of the shuhada' that had passed before them when the Prophet ﷺ would speak to them about that condition when Allah would reveal verses وَلَا تَحْسَبَنَّ الَّذِينَ قُتِلُوا فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ أَمْوَاتًا **[6:23]** don't think of them as dead don't say about them that they are dead did that cause the sahaba to say well if that's the case if shahadah is what's ahead if this whole thing about dying for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى is ahead of us then why not just go in the battlefield and submit ourselves to death **[6:39]** if it was just a matter of being content and becoming complacent and being sedated then Khalid ibn al-Walid (رضي الله عنه) would have died in a battlefield but he kept on winning battle after battle after battle you see that the sahaba always had **[6:54]** that extra push that extra zeal to win a battle and subhanAllah you find that that extra step came from their sincerity because as much as they wanted to die for Allah they wanted to win for Allah سبحانه وتعالى as well **[7:09]** they wanted to do good for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى as well and so they were content that if they were to be struck in the midst of that that what Allah had promised them was greater but that did not impact their zeal in the battlefield itself **[7:24]** what does this mean today for us when we talk about the cause of al-Aqsa when we talk about the role of religion when we talk about the past of this blessed land and when we talk about its future what it means is that this cause is one that will be alive **[7:39]** until the day of judgment and we need to make sure that every generation knows exactly what they are fighting for they know exactly what they are struggling for what inspired Salah ad-Din al-Ayubi rahimahullah ta'ala beyond the brutality of the crusaders against this ummah was his knowing the special virtues of that place **[7:55]** and striving and striving and striving and striving so it's important for us to not be sedated but to be inspired to not be complacent but to contribute to light a fire in our hearts towards something that perhaps we did not recognize **[8:11]** was meant to be the central focus of our lives at this point and so I want to take you to something that happened in the battle of Uhud and it was the narration of Anas ibn Nadr (رضي الله عنه) that can help us all sort of think about **[8:27]** how the deen of al-Islam how this religion that we have is meant to give us that extra push meant to give us that extra zeal even when the circumstances become overwhelming and this narration about Anas ibn Nadr (رضي الله عنه) **[8:42]** is so profound because he was a man who missed the battle of Badr and because he missed the battle of Badr the uncle of Anas ibn Malik (رضي الله عنه) he kept telling the Prophet ﷺ that if Allah gives me another chance then Allah عز وجل will see what I will do **[8:57]** Allah سبحانه وتعالى will see the sincerity in my strive and here you have Anas ibn Nadr (رضي الله عنه) and he was approaching the battlefield of Uhud when most people were fleeing the battlefield why were they fleeing the battlefield? because they thought that it was over **[9:13]** they thought that they were being killed they thought that they were being routed Anas ibn Nadr (رضي الله عنه) was actually running towards the battlefield and he said إني لأجد رائحة الجنة I can smell Jannah ahead of me I can smell Paradise ahead of me **[9:29]** and so he's going forward and as he's going forward he sees some people that are sitting in the battlefield and I want you to think about it the dust is flying everywhere the sound of the murder of companions **[9:45]** is all around it's a very harsh scene it's a very depressing scene in the middle of the battlefield but what made it worse? Anas ibn Nadr (رضي الله عنه) says to these people why are you sitting? and they responded and they said **[10:01]** قُتِلَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ the Prophet ﷺ has been killed they thought that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had been killed and there are two explanations for this one of them is that Mus'ab ibn Umair (رضي الله عنه) and Mus'ab (رضي الله عنه) looked so much like **[10:17]** the Prophet ﷺ that some of the enemies actually thought they killed the Prophet ﷺ and then others shouted out that we killed the Prophet ﷺ as a means of demoralizing the Muslims and there's a reason why the enemy tries to **[10:33]** strike your symbols and there's no greater symbol than the Prophet ﷺ now at that point what's going to inspire you to keep going? what's going to push you to go forward? where if your leader and the central human being **[10:49]** in your life the Prophet ﷺ is dead what's going to keep you going? and so he responds and he says وَيْحَكُمْ قُومُوا فَمُوتُوا عَلَى مَا مَاتَ عَلَيْهِ get up and die for what he died ﷺ **[11:05]** now keep in mind that the end of Uhud is the Prophet ﷺ finding the mutilated body of Anas ibn Nadr he was only recognized by his fingertips and he is the man and like him that Anas ibn Malik says **[11:21]** the ayah مِنْ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ رِجَالٌ صَدَقُوا مَا عَاهَدُوا اللَّهَ عَلَيْهِ فَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ قَضَى نَحْبَهُ وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَنْتَظِرُ وَمَا بَدَّلُوا تَبْدِيلًا that from the believers are those who are truthful to the covenant that they made with Allah ﷻ some of them have an opportunity to prove it at the moment and some of them are made to wait **[11:37]** وَمَا بَدَّلُوا تَبْدِيلًا and they have not changed their resolve at all the end of the battle of Uhud is the Prophet ﷺ finding Anas ibn Nadr in the battlefield absolutely mutilated but at the same time we take from what happened **[11:53]** with Anas ibn Nadr a very important lesson for the moment that we are in right now we have to teach people about the importance of the cause especially when the cause feels like it's being lost we have to teach people about virtue **[12:09]** especially when they can succumb to despair we have to teach people about victory especially when defeat seems most imminent and we have to inspire each other وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالْحَقِّ وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالصَّبْرِ we have to push each other towards good **[12:25]** now if the type of religion that we are hearing about right now is one that is entirely disconnected from the situation that is a problem if everything that is being spoken about is divorced from the reality on the ground **[12:41]** the occupation of Al-Aqsa the destruction of Gaza that is a problem but if we are talking about our deen and noting that our deen is meant to survive and we are pushing people and inspiring them to recognize **[12:57]** that no matter what effort they put forth the outcome will be blessed either for them in this life or the next that victory is for the believers الحمد لله رب العالمين that is not the opium of the people that is the inspiration of the people **[13:13]** and that inspiration comes from knowing that no effort will be in vain that no life will be lost in vain that nothing will be done for Allah سبحانه وتعالى except that it will remain and everything else will disappear **[13:29]** every effort that is made not for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى will do nothing for you in the hereafter but every effort that is made for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى will uplift this ummah and will lead to your reward in the hereafter as well so we shouldn't just be talking about deen and talking about **[13:45]** some abstract concept or some theology that is divorced from that reality we should be talking about reality and theology at the same time because they are intertwined and interconnected and the one who has Allah سبحانه وتعالى will always strive longer and strive harder because **[14:01]** they believe in something that cannot be captured by any enemy and that cannot be encompassed by any worldly reward they believe in Allah, they believe in Jannah and so let's not talk about our religion as something distant let's not just make ourselves **[14:17]** feel better about the situation and say oh well this is the way it's meant to be, oh well this is how it's going to be, instead let's think like Anas ibn Nadr (رضي الله عنه) why are we sitting why aren't you doing more and let's push ourselves and the believer who is truly in a state of introspection **[14:33]** will always look for that next step and we ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى to inspire our hearts, to activate us and to activate through us we ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى to move us for this ummah and to move us in a direction **[14:49]** that's pleasing to him and we ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى that we not only strive in a way to where we have clarity about what we're striving for but that we are able to leave behind us clarity so that the next generation knows exactly what they are to strive for as well 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