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Misery Loves Company | Daily Reminders
When someone tries to drag others down so they can feel better about being down themselves.
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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. Salallahu alayhi wasalam wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wasalam tasliman kathira. Welcome back to our nightly reflections. InshaAllah ta'ala I want to remind everyone of the Dhul Hijjah campaign, which inshaAllah ta'ala Of course is an anticipation of the blessed month, which is starting late next week inshaAllah We're going to be going over the du'as of Ibrahim alayhi salam, the prayers of Ibrahim alayhi salam So make sure you catch up on the lecture that we did about Ibrahim alayhi salam And also follow the virtues of the Dhul Hijjah series and of course inshaAllah ta'ala We want to invite you to automate your sadaqa for 10 days inshaAllah ta'ala Since they are the best 10 days of the year to support The work that we do at Yaqeen which is always free and for the benefit of the ummah So jazakumullahu khayran for your support and hope you'll follow along inshaAllah We're gonna go ahead and continue inshaAllah ta'ala. So, you know last night we spoke about holding yourself to higher standards what I want to speak about this time is yasuddoona an sabeelillah those who seek to Cause others to fall off of the path those who seek to divert others as they have been Diverted. This is a powerful way of Allah telling us about how misery loves company And the surah is of course coherent as is the entire Quran and as I said, you know SubhanAllah just like with the case of Ibrahim alayhi salam while Ibrahim alayhi salam is spoken about you know, so So little in this Quran in this particular surah directly there is so much of it that's related to his story yasuddoona an sabeelillah are those obviously who would harm the believers They would harm those that are calling to the way of Allah that are upon the way of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala because they're interfering With their pursuits of this world and the way that they irresponsibly use what Allah has given them of blessing To disobey him and to harm others. So yasuddoona an sabeelillah is obviously, you know, what was done to Ibrahim alayhi salam
To humiliate him was you know to throw him into a fire why to deter others not just to humiliate him But to deter others they wanted to make an example out of Ibrahim alayhi salam They wanted to make an example out of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and the prophets in general You know through attempted assassinations and crucifixions and whatever it is right to deter others from following their path So there's the obvious, you know force that's used and the oppression that's used to Turn people away from the path of Allah, but here there's another part of this which is misery loves company and in this surah, you'll actually see the the situation or the incident in which Iblis in which the devil addresses his followers in hellfire those that listened to his whispers those that were diverted by Iblis and Iblis stands up as a khatib, you know speaking to them giving them a sermon about how you know Inna allaha wa'adakum wa'ad alhaq wa wa'attukum faakhlaftukum That Allah made you a promise and it was a true promise and I made you a promise and I broke my promise wa maa kana liya alaykum min sultan illa an da'ootukum fastajabatum li That I had no power over you except that I called you and you responded to me. Don't blame me blame yourselves Right. So this this idea of misery loving company You're literally seeing the company of the miserable in Jahannam on the Day of Judgment later on in the surah and we ask Allah subhana to protect us from being in that miserable company Allahumma ameen But to speak about this this concept of why misery loves company Why would someone who is failing want everyone else to fail? Well for one it makes them feel better about their failure. It makes them feel better about their complacency Or makes them complacent with their failure makes them feel better about
the way that they are acting right and so you see most evil practices are inculcated into a society because they become more normalized over time and That happens through a group of people adopting it and being okay with it And then you know it spreads and it spreads and it spreads and you see people that will act in horrific ways And sometimes you're reading, you know episodes of human history and you go how did they act that way even when you're reading episodes in the Quran of Those that rejected their prophets and those that acted in such horrendous ways those that acted in certain ways towards the prophets You read in the seerah about those who acted in certain ways towards the prophets like some you read about You know hateful acts all the time. You say how did this happen? You see Munkar you see evil you see Indecency you say how did this become so widespread and it happens when? People start to spread it and they pull others down because no one wants to be an outcast No one wants to be alone in performing that evil and so instead pull others down Make others fall with you make others fail with you And so your failure then is not really an obvious failure now. It also connects to hubba dunya because you know Failure is not that bad if you're not thinking about the consequences of that failure in the hereafter And so, you know as long as I can get away with this in this world, it's okay and that's the problem is that the delay or the or the distraction from the thought of the consequences of the hereafter are Strategically implanted and whispered by the shaitan and even amongst human beings that pull people away So that you don't think about the consequences of failure and so you feel better about it So what's what's the point? What's what's so wrong with it? Anyway, there's also another aspect of this. You'll subdue non-seville a lot and misery loving company and what this leads to
Which is that in this situation? You find a group of people that are not Convinced right or if they are convinced that they are committing evil They're not convinced of the wickedness of their cause and the righteousness of those that they oppose and so when more people Oppose with them then their wicked opposition somehow becomes a righteous call and this is really, you know interesting because There is an individual implementation of this and then there's a community-wide implementation of this in the individual implementation of this the shaitan whispers and he he beautifies Ugly things so that they don't seem so ugly in the first place Likewise, if you listen to the calls of those that oppressed the prophets and those that rejected the truth They laced those calls with noble calls, right? This is to guard the honor of our forefathers. This is to guard the integrity of our families This is to guard the stability of our society right law and order, right? This is to guard everything, you know Everything in its stability and the way that we've had it and these people are disrupting and they're ruining what we have That's what the prophets I some was accused of and so they appeal to You know supposedly noble claims right they use the language of nobility for very ugly practices Likewise, we find that on the individual level again the shaitan calls us to lowly things by decorating those things And by not by making them seem not so bad and in either case when you have other people That are doing it along with you then it just it loses its gravity. It loses its severity It's normalized and at some point it becomes inconsequential in the worldly sense And if people are drunk with this world and not thinking about the hereafter then it doesn't matter, right? And so when you talk about
Holding yourself to a higher standard that means also holding yourself to a higher standard When things are normalized when things are made acceptable when things are made, okay They're not okay to you and yes to have boon and hi at the dunya ala al-akhirah you know those that love this world too much and those that That turn people away from the path of Allah some of the scholars actually said that is the difference between yes to have boon and you Have boon yes to have boon means that not only do they love it They love this world too much, but they will use it, right? They will use it and and use others get others to adopt their practices as well And to adopt their deviations as well So may Allah subhanaw taala protect us from miserable company in this life and the next May Allah subhanaw taala grant us the blessed company of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam The noble prophets the righteous ones the truthful ones the martyrs and those that are in the highest level of Jannatul Firdaus May Allah make us amongst them Allahumma ameen Jazakum Allah Khayran Wasalamualikoum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh
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