Jump to:
Everything You Must Know About The End of Times | Signs of the Hour Ep. 1
5 Signs That Happened in the Prophet’s ﷺ Lifetime | Signs of the Hour Ep. 2
Was Dajjal Alive During The Prophet’s ﷺ Time? | Signs of the Hour Ep. 3
20 Verses of Qur’an That Protect from Dajjal | Signs of the Hour Ep. 4
When 40 Prophets Were Killed | Signs of the Hour Ep. 5
When Only One Sahabi Was Left In The World | Signs of the Hour Ep. 6
Jerusalem to Constantinople: The Promised Conquests | Signs of the Hour Ep. 7
Acts of God: Disasters Foretold by the Prophet ﷺ | Signs of the Hour Ep. 8
The Rise of the Unqualified | Signs of the Hour Ep. 9
The Night the Qur’an Disappears | Signs of the Hour Ep. 10
The Years of Intense Deception | Signs of the Hour Ep. 11
The 10 Patterns of Religious Corruption | Signs of the Hour Ep. 12
A Beautiful Masjid With Empty Rows | Signs of the Hour Ep. 13
Making Halal What Allah Made Haram | Signs of the Hour Ep. 14
When The Love for Wealth Becomes Violent | Signs of the Hour Ep. 16
How Time Is Shrinking | Signs of the Hour Ep. 17
Why The Prophet ﷺ Said People Will Envy the Dead | Signs of the Hour Ep. 18
Why Modern Life Makes Every Death Feel Sudden | Signs of the Hour Ep. 19
Does the Killer Know Why He Kills? | Signs of the Hour Ep. 20
Have Your Parents Become A Burden? | Signs of the Hour Ep. 21
How Much Divorce Are You Seeing? | Signs of the Hour Ep. 22
When Exposing Yourself Is "Empowerment" | Signs of the Hour Ep. 23
Playing
“Who Am I To Judge?” Has A Limit | Signs of the Hour Ep. 24
Signs of the Hour
“Who Am I To Judge?” Has A Limit | Signs of the Hour Ep. 24
The Prophet ﷺ said that someone who witnesses a sin and hates it is like someone who wasn’t there, and someone who wasn’t there but approves of it is like someone who witnessed it. Dr. Omar Suleiman says that hadith reads differently now. You no longer have to be in the room to approve of a sin. You can like it, share it, or laugh at it from anywhere, and every clip and every joke hardens the heart a little more.
In Signs of the Hour Ep. 24, he begins with the narration of a time when zina happens in public and the most righteous person only asks for it to be done out of sight.
He covers Zaynab bint Jahsh’s (ra) question about whether a people can be destroyed while the righteous are still among them, the hadith of trials laid on the heart strand by strand, the ship whose lower deck drilled a hole, and how the decline of Bani Isra’il began when people kept eating with those whose sins they had stopped objecting to.
He ends on why forbidding sin is harder than enjoining good, why it will never cost a person their life or provision, and how to correct someone out of love instead of to shame them.
This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings.
00:00He said, Ya Rasulullah, will we be destroyed and we have righteous people amongst us. He said, yes, when evil becomes widespread. The answer of the Prophet ﷺ was not when righteous people are no longer around.
00:11The answer of the Prophet ﷺ was when righteous people are around, but they no longer resist evil. Private righteousness does not protect a society from public evil.
00:23So with every exposure, with every compromise, with every clip, with every reel, with every joke, with every this, the heart hardens towards these things. The heart does not die because it loves evil. The heart dies once it stops hating evil.
00:37The Last Chapter of the Qur'an The last chapter that I want to bring into this though is sort of a bridge hadith.
00:50Where the Prophet ﷺ mentioned, Also,
01:10Prophet ﷺ said, By him in whose hand is my soul, the ummah will not pass until a man approaches a woman and they would commit zina in the middle of the way.
01:21And the most righteous of people on that day would be the one who simply says, If only you could step out of the way and conceal yourselves. So there's no longer any zina, there's no longer a forbidding of adultery.
01:33It is only, right, can you not do it in front of everybody? Can you not do it in front of everybody? And so this is a core part of the day of judgment.
01:46When evil is not only visible, but it no longer bothers the heart.
01:52And no longer activates any type of inkar, any type of rebuttal or fighting back in terms of the believers. And this is the hadith of Zainab bin Jahsh radiallahu ta'ala anha.
02:04When she said that the Prophet ﷺ entered upon her and he said, He was fazi'an ﷺ. So he was in a state of urgency and said,
02:19Woe to the Arabs from a tragedy that has drawn near. And he mentioned ﷺ that an opening has been made in the barrier of Yajuj and Majuj like this. And then she said,
02:35And we have righteous people amongst us. He said, yes, when evil becomes widespread, when evil becomes widespread.
02:44So this is really interesting because the answer of the Prophet ﷺ was not when righteous people are no longer around.
02:51The answer of the Prophet ﷺ was when righteous people are around, but they no longer resist evil.
03:01So private righteousness does not protect a society from public evil.
03:09And the Prophet ﷺ mentioned that there is a state of the heart here as well that we should resist. So he said, And he said ﷺ in the hadith of Hudhayfa radiallahu ta'ala anhu,
03:26That fitan will appear, be presented upon the hearts like a reed mat, strand by strand. So imagine if you were building out a mat for a room and you were putting it together strand by strand.
03:39And he said ﷺ that any heart that absorbs them will have a dark spot that is placed in it. And any heart that rejects them will have a bright spot that is placed in it. And he said ﷺ,
03:54Until you end up with two hearts. You have a heart that is like a smooth stone where no trial will harm it as long as the heavens and the earth remain. It remains bright.
04:07And you have another heart that becomes dark and dusty like an overturned vessel. And the Prophet ﷺ said,
04:18That it no longer knows what's good and it no longer rejects evil as evil until, Except with what its desires accept. I don't like this.
04:32I don't like that because this doesn't go with my lifestyle. This doesn't go with my desires. Look, whatever sin you are struggling with. It's okay. As long as you're recognizing the sin and you're trying to strive against it.
04:46It's okay. Not it's okay as in like it's okay to keep sinning. But at least don't fall into the point where you don't recognize anymore. That's not a sin. Why? Because my Hawa, my desires don't like it. So I don't want this to be a sin.
05:00So I'm not going to recognize it in myself or recognize it in others. And this actually becomes one of the most important parts of what the Prophet ﷺ is talking about, which is the hardening of the heart towards other people's sins as well. Towards other people's sins as well.
05:14 the heart hardens towards these things.
05:23And it's important here that the Prophet ﷺ is teaching us that the heart does not die because it loves evil. The heart dies once it stops hating evil. The heart doesn't die because it loves evil.
05:34The heart dies when it stops hating evil. So the Hadith of the Prophet ﷺ, Whoever amongst you sees an evil, let them change it with their hands.
05:48Then with their tongue, if they cannot do so. And if you can't change it with your tongue, then at least hate it in your heart. And that is the weakest of faith. That your heart rejects sin.
06:02It's still iman, but your heart rejects sin. And so the weakest iman is to refuse something even in your heart. Right? Hudhayfa radiallahu ta'ala anhu, he was asked,
06:18Which of the trials is the most severe? So he said,
06:21That evil and good are both presented to you and you don't know which one of them to distinguish in your pursuit.
06:34Ibn Mas'ud radiallahu ta'ala anhu said,
06:44He said, you're ruined if there is not in your heart an innate standard in which you can recognize good as good, and a standard by which you can recognize evil as evil.
06:53So basically, again, not tolerating sin, rejecting sin, speaking out against it when you can, being someone who does not accept to be a part of sin in any way whatsoever.
07:08And there's one Hadith, SubhanAllah, that's really interesting here, because again, it's one of those things that fits the digital age. It's the Hadith of Urs ibn Umairah al-Kindi radiallahu anhu, who said that the Prophet ﷺ said,
07:31He said ﷺ, when someone commits a sin, the one who witnesses it and hates it is like the one who is absent from it. The one who witnesses it and hates it is like the one who is absent from it.
07:44And he said, and the one who is absent from it, but who likes it is like the one who witnessed it. Do you understand the Hadith? You were there physically or you saw it, but you hated it.
07:57Then you are like the one who was not there in the first place. You hated it. You disliked it. You spoke about its evil. I don't want this. This is not something I'm okay with. You're like, you're not like the one who witnessed it.
08:10Whereas if you were absent from it and you just were not there, but you're still okay with it, you like it, even though you did not physically witness it, then you are like the one who witnessed it.
08:23And SubhanAllah, we're living in an age where physical presence is no longer the only way of participation. That you can be absent from something, but still be present with approval. So you have to think about what the like button is actually saying now, right?
08:38You have to think about what the share button is actually saying now, right? So inkar from the heart, hating something in the heart. And of course here, just quickly, the Hadith of al-Nu'man ibn Bashir radiAllahu ta'ala anhu,
08:51where the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam mentioned the upper deck and the lower deck of the ship, that those in the lower deck wanted water and those on the upper deck wanted water. And those on the upper deck did not give it to them.
09:05And so they drilled holes in the ship and they drowned the ship altogether. And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said, if the people leave them to do what they want, then all of them will perish. But if they restrain them, then all of them will be safe. So when people drill the ship, the whole ship sinks.
09:19And this is why the ulama mentioned this Hadith in regards to inkar and munkar, forbidding evil with this particular chapter. Also, the Messenger of Allah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
09:35the first evil to enter upon Bani Isra'il, this is a very interesting narration. That a man would see another man from Bani Isra'il and would say,
09:50so and so, fear Allah and leave off what you are doing. This is not halal for you. He said that the person persists on the same sin and basically doesn't care, but that does not stop you.
10:02That did not stop a person from still eating and drinking and sitting with that person with absolutely no inkar, with absolutely no forbidding of the evil that they were doing. And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
10:15when a man sees another man from Bani Isra'il, fear Allah and leave off what you are doing. This is not halal for you. This is not halal for you because of the tool or because of the incremental that they were doing. And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said, when they did that,
10:34Allah struck some of their hearts with others. And he read the ayah SallAllahu Alaihi Wa Sallam.
10:53That the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
11:12Notice SubhanAllah, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is saying, that's the first downfall of Bani Isra'il. The sin didn't change, the response changed. The sin didn't change, the response changed, right?
11:24So when people stop forbidding sins amongst themselves, those sins become normalized and the excuse for those who no longer show rejection of those sins, no longer protects them.
11:38And that is why the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam also said, By him in whose hand is my soul, you must command good and forbid evil or soon Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, will send upon you, will send upon you a punishment from him.
11:51And then you will call upon him and you will not be answered. And the ulema mention here that du'a is not a replacement for duty. Like you can't call upon Allah and you will not be answered.
12:04You can't call upon Allah and you will not be answered. Du'a is not a replacement for duty. Like you can't call upon Allah Azza wa Jal to remove consequences while participating in the causes.
12:16And so basically once a people stop speaking against sins, speaking against evil, then the consequences of those sins will not be removed by du'a. In another narration the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
12:30diagnoses the way that we think and why we don't speak. And I want you to think about this very carefully. And I'll go ahead and I'll wrap up now. He said Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in the hadith of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri
12:54Profound hadith. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, let not the fear of people ever prevent you from speaking the truth if you know it or if you witness it.
13:03For indeed speaking the truth neither brings closer an appointed lifespan, meaning it neither makes your death closer, nor does it keep your rizq away, nor does it keep your sustenance away.
13:16What is the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam talking about here? That is, why don't we speak up? Why don't we do inkar 'an al-munkar? Why don't we forbid evil? And forbidding evil is much harder than amr bil ma'ruf, than enjoining good. Enjoining good, people like when you say give charity.
13:31People like when you say pray. That's not something that's controversial. Feed the poor, do these types of things. Inkar 'an al-munkar; forbidding evil is uncomfortable. It risks social alienation. You might lose out on some opportunities.
13:46You might lose out on some circles. You might lose out on some friends. You might think that you're losing out on some rizq, some sustenance. And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is saying, speaking out is not going to make your death come closer or make your rizq shorten, make your sustenance shorten.
14:00So the point is, dear brothers and sisters, a society is judged by what it permits. A heart is judged by what it no longer rejects. And when the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says, the most righteous person at the end of times
14:15is the person who says, "Will you please move out of the way?" then that person no longer feels the confidence in their faith to say this is wrong. First you have to be honest with yourself. If I'm falling short, I'm falling short.
14:30There's no justification for it. And when someone tells me I'm falling short, Jazakallahu khayran, make du'a. I'm trying my best and insha'Allah I'll get there one day. And if someone else is falling short, I love that person enough to say, you're falling short and I'm not doing this
14:44to shame you or to put you down. I'm doing this because I care about you and I care about your hereafter. But standards have to be maintained and particularly, amr bil ma'ruf wa an-nahi 'an al-munkar, to enjoin good and forbid evil is the job description
14:59of this ummah of Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam with each other and with everyone else. And we ask Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala to make us amongst those that maintain that and we ask Allah Azza wa Jal to protect us when we normalize or when we accept things in our presence or beyond.
15:14Allahumma ameen. BarakAllahu feekum. Wassalamu 'alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
