The Sin That Destroys Your Heart, Personality, and Mental Health - Belal Assaad's Powerful Reminder - video Dailymotion

ALLAH IS ONE

ALLAH IS ONE

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00:00If you want to kill your heart, continue to be alone and do private haram all the time.

00:08This is how you will surely kill your heart, kill your personality, kill your mental state and your health.

00:15You know my brothers and sisters, if I were to ask you one question,

00:19what do you think affects the heart the most?

00:23What do you think affects our heart the most out of all the things that we do?

00:28Where is the moment where the heart is the most honest?

00:33In pain? No. Or can I say the reality of a person?

00:39When is the time?

00:42Yes, when they're alone by himself.

00:45When you are alone by yourself.

00:48That, if you want to know yourself, the level of your iman, who you are,

00:54what pathway you're taking, where your stance will be on the Day of Judgment,

01:00what kind of a person you really are right now,

01:04then measure yourself when you are alone.

01:07Measure yourself when you have this in your hand, your phone.

01:12That's when you know who you really are.

01:14A person who fears Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

01:19is the type of person that you should be hanging around with.

01:23He is the man you should marry.

01:25She is the woman you should marry.

01:28But of course they fear Allah truly.

01:30And you try to find out as much as you can.

01:33Ask about them and so on.

01:35But the point is, we're not here to talk about how to find that person.

01:38We're talking about making that the goal.

01:41Because a man and a woman who fear Allah will not be bothered

01:46if they are being watched in public

01:50or whether they are alone in private.

01:55They will fear Allah in public and in private.

01:59But we all sin.

02:01We're all weak.

02:03And when we are alone in private, we do get weak.

02:06And we sometimes slip and falter.

02:10If Adam alayhi salam and Hawwa faltered when they were in paradise,

02:14and Allah left them for a while, they faltered and slipped.

02:18We will slip also.

02:19But that's not what we are talking about here.

02:21Allah does not expect perfection from anybody.

02:24But it's those people who will only be righteous and good

02:28when they are being watched by others in order to put on a facade.

02:32And when they are alone, they can't wait for that moment to come

02:36in order to penetrate all the boundaries of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

02:41with no hesitation, no regret, no repentance.

02:47Like as if it's just a flowing river.

02:49In fact, some people, they look at it as very normal, natural thing

02:54to penetrate the boundaries, sin all you like, do all the haram

02:59if nobody is watching you.

03:01Some people go a further step.

03:04In order to make themselves feel better,

03:07if they feel the guilt of doing the wrong thing

03:10when they are alone not being watched,

03:13then they'll grab for themselves a bunch of people or a group

03:16or some kind of social network.

03:19And they say, I've got nothing to hide.

03:21And so they expose who they really are in secret

03:25because they can't bear to hold on to the guilt.

03:27What have you actually done here?

03:29You think you've done something good for yourself.

03:31But what you've actually done is now you've just topped the cake.

03:34You've accepted yourself in the true nature of an immoral person.

03:40Now it's in open.

03:42But the shaitan comes to you and says to you,

03:45at least you do it in front of people.

03:48But that's the shaitan playing tricks on you.

03:50He's sealed your fate.

03:52And that's probably why you've heard a lot and questioned

03:56why does Islam emphasize that we keep our sins secret, not exposed?

04:05It's not because you're a hypocrite.

04:07It's not because Allah wants you to continue in your sin and hide it.

04:14But first of all, people don't forgive your sins.

04:17They're not the people. People have no business.

04:20You don't turn to people.

04:21It's as if you're saying, I've got to confess who I really am to the public.

04:25Who is the public?

04:27Did the public create you?

04:29We're all here for the same test.

04:30I'm talking to Muslims here, of course.

04:32Non-Muslims who are listening may or may not understand what I'm saying.

04:35But obviously this is a lecture to Muslims.

04:37But non-Muslims can hear and try to learn and ask, inshallah.

04:41But for us as Muslims, we don't confess to the public.

04:45Who are they?

04:47The ones that we have to own up to is one.

04:50He is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

04:52Of course, if there is something that we're doing in secret that's going to harm others,

04:56then we better stop it or we better tell them before they are harmed.

05:00That's a different story, rights of people.

05:02We're talking about yourself.

05:03The boundaries which Allah has forbidden.

05:05So a person who fears Allah with their wife or their husband behind closed doors,

05:12they are still fearing of Allah.

05:16They give their spouses their rights.

05:18They will fix if they ruined.

05:21They will apologize if they have hurt.

05:24They will make up what they have done wrong.

05:28They will treat their children as a trust.

05:30They'll treat their spouse as a trust.

05:32They'll treat their parents as a trust.

05:34Such a person who knows that Allah is watching them in private just as much as in public

05:41has a lesser risk of faltering all the time.

05:44And if they feel guilty, they are less likely to continue for a very long time in what they're doing.

05:51And if they do, they will increase in good deeds.

05:55They will continue to ask Allah to forgive them even if they relapse.

06:00But they will never allow themselves to be comfortable with doing the wrong in private.

06:07If you wanna kill your heart, then allow the sins to be justified and let them enter your heart.

06:15Let them define you now.

06:17If you wanna kill your heart, continue to be alone and do private haram all the time.

06:25This is how you will surely kill your heart, kill your personality, kill your mental state and your health.

06:32And what a topic this is, hidden camera.

06:35If I told you that there was a hidden camera in your bedroom at night, all night.

06:43And it's connected to your parents' house and they can see you but you don't know.

06:50Or it's connected, if you're a man, to your wife's phone and she can see everything all night, all day.

06:57Or your husband's phone.

06:59Or your children.

07:01Or your workplace.

07:03Or the authorities.

07:06Imagine you were being watched and then you found out that there is a hidden camera.

07:13Wouldn't your actions change?

07:16I say this to our students when we're teaching at school.

07:20See, when you misbehave, imagine that camera in the corner.

07:24Imagine that's connected to your parents' house.

07:26Would you act the same way?

07:27They say, oh no, not my parents.

07:29Obviously we change our habits and behaviour when people are watching.

07:32And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala clearly tells us as Muslims that he is always watching.

07:39In secret and in open.

07:43Allah says,

08:14He knows all that enters the earth and all that comes forth from it.

08:18And all that comes down from the heaven and all that goes up to it.

08:22He is with you, wherever you are.

08:25Allah sees all that you do.

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