Now you learn the next quality of the devil. You know what it means to have an insatiable thirst.
No matter how much you drink you're still what? Thirsty. The devil has something you can call insatiable hate.
It's not enough for him to see Adam burn in hell. It's not enough for him to see حواء burn in hell.
It's not enough for him to see his children burn in hell. He wants every single one of you burning.
And every time he succeeds you could think someone's angry and they kill someone and the anger goes away.
No he goes to the next one and the next one and the next one. He keeps targeting more and more people.
He says "Give me time until they're all raised again. Why? You think they are so much better than me.
You think I'm arrogant? I'm going to show you how arrogant they are. You think I'm worthless?
I'll show you how worthless they are. You think I have an anger problem? I'm going to show you their anger problem.
You think I compare myself to Adam. I'll show you comparison. These guys are going to make me look humble.
Some of these will be so busy I'll feel like I don't even have a job anymore. That's how busy I'll make them."
So he says give me time until they are raised again. I give khutbahs about this so I want you to go through them.
They are on our YouTube page and they are on my Facebook page also. He says "Give me time until they're raised again."
And then Allah says to him {إِنَّكَ مِنَ الْمُنْظَرِينَ} [7:15]. That's fine you've been given time.
You're among those who have been given time to wait. Meaning "Go ahead you want to prove your point."
because he still wants to prove Allah wrong he wants to prove "Fine you think I'm messed up and these guys are so great
they deserve سجدة. I'll show you they are worth nothing. They deserve nothing. They are losers I'll prove my point."
He wants to prove Allah wrong by the way this is a satanic quality. Also when you are corrected there is a fire
burning inside you and you want to do everything you can to prove your right even though you know you're wrong.
You have the need to be proven right it's like a victory for you. So that when somebody is telling you something that's the truth
accepting it might mean you lose the argument so you won't accept it. Can't accept it and you do everything
you can to disprove or to undermine the one that corrected you. The inability to take criticism that's what he has.
And he says {فَبِمَا أَغْوَيْتَنِي لَأَقْعُدَنَّ لَهُمْ صِرَاطَكَ الْمُسْتَقِيمَ} [7:16] because you made me slip he is talking to Allah now.
Because you made me slip. I will sit waiting for them on your precious straight path. He just talked about
the day of resurrection. Which means we already learned about the day of resurrection. He brought up something new now.
What did he bring up? I will sit where? On your what? On your straight path. Meaning Allah already taught us about a straight
path. He taught all of human beings "Listen I'm going to bring you to this earth. It's going to have lots of crooked paths.
But there's only one straight path. You stick to that you'll be back here again. And that home in heaven that will be yours forever.
But you gotta stick on the straight path. He says that straight path of yours that's so precious to you. I'm going to sit right on it.
{ثُمَّ لَآتِيَنَّهُمْ مِنْ بَيْنِ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَمِنْ خَلْفِهِمْ وَعَنْ أَيْمَانِهِمْ وَعَنْ شَمَائِلِهِمْ} [7:17]
I will come to them from their front, from their back, from their right, from their left.
And each of those means many things. I'll just share one or two things with you for each. He's going to stand right in front of you
means you take one step towards Allah. One step towards Allah and he'll put fear in you "What are you doing? What's your family
going to say if you take the step. You going to start praying? You know how extreme that looks?
You know how crazy you look when you do that? What do you think about wearing a hijab? Are you are you insane?
You're just 19 years old. You're just a young man. Why are you looking like that?
Stop doing that. You're changing your appearance? You're not hanging out with these friends?
They're going to think you're weird. Who's going to hire you? Who's going to give you a job?
You're going to get kicked out by everybody. Everybody is going to hate you. Stop. Don't take the step.
You're going too fast. Slow down. We are all human. It's okay. Don't worry about it." He stands right in front of you
not wanting you to take that step towards the right path. Or he stands right in front of you and says
"don't look here look over there. Look at how many options you have." He'll stand right on this road
because if I'm going straight and this thing is in my path what do I have to do? Either I remove this from my path
or I go this way or I go that way. So he stands in this path and if you don't recognize him standing there he is encouraging you
to take the right or the left go some other route don't go straight. for every halal there is plenty of haram options.
For every good use of your time there is plenty of bad uses of your time aren't there so for every good choice
there is a million bad choices. He will just stand right in front of the good choice like for example waking up in the morning
to pray "You got time just the first snooze." He wants you to be angry at your alarm clock. At your phone.
"You got a little bit more time. Don't take the step just stand there. You are about to take one step just stand there for a little bit.
You don't have to take the step right now. Just wait a little bit. You got time." So holding you back.
That's in the front. And then he says from behind. Behind means you know some people when they take a step towards Allah
they took a step away from something bad. They were doing something bad and they decided to not do that anymore
and that also is a step towards Allah. And he reminds you of the bad stuff you used to do and say "Wasn't that fun?
I mean it wasn't that bad. Man you used to be crazy remember? I wonder what they are doing now those friends of mine.
I wonder what he is up to. Let me just text him. Give him دعوة or something. I'm just getting together because
you have to stay in touch with people." He is trying to pull you what? Like sometimes there are very toxic people
in your life that clearly were pulling you into haram and somehow you took a step and got away from them.
But that doesn't mean the emotional attachment isn't there. It doesn't mean the residual effects aren't there.
And then you're about to take a step forward and the devil says "Come on you know you miss him. Just one text.
Just unblock for like one hour just one hour. Oh they saw me online. They texted at least I should respond it's rude."
You see he pulls you back. There are people that want to pull you back he uses them to pull you back.
Or he reminds you of your past and says "You are too messed up. Why you even bothering taking the step
Look at all the mistakes you make. You're going to take a step forward please you're a loser."
And then on the left. Now the the left is easier the right will come to last Actually.
The left is when he takes bad things listen carefully now When he takes bad things because the left hand
represents bad deeds. when he takes bad things and he makes you feel like they are not that bad. "It's not that bad.
You are just human. You just have feelings. It's okay. Don't be so hard on yourself. It's not haram with a capital H.
it's haram but it's not haram haram. I mean okay fine it's haram but does that mean I am not Muslim anymore?
At least I didn't kill anybody yet." So because you are about to do something wrong and you say "Well at least I'm not Hitler."
Let me tell you if you want to compare yourself to someone worse you can get away with anything.
Because there's always somebody worse. So he comes at you with evil deeds and he makes you feel like they are not that bad.
He says to Allah "these human beings I'll come at them from the front. I'll come at them from behind.
I'll come at them from left. By the way if you keep slipping "It's not that bad." Then that it's not that bad changes.
You know what it becomes? "What's so bad about it. What's so bad? Why is it bad? I don't understand why it's bad.
I mean can't just a person live their life? Can't they just do what they want? Why is it so bad to be happy?
You see how the conversation changes? {وَإِذْ زَيَّنَ لَهُمُ الشَّيْطَانُ أَعْمَالَهُمْ} [8:48]
شيطان beauties their deeds to them. Now it looks like it's a good thing. "I don't even know why Islam is so harsh.
Why is the Quran so rigid? Like just let me live man. Let me just try to breathe. Just being a normal person."
That's the devil's play. But the most wicked in my opinion personally. The most wicked is
when he comes at you from the right. What does it mean when he comes at you from the right? It means several things
but the one I want you to pay attention to is when he let's you do good things because he also did good things.
Remember he did a lot of good things to be what? And because of his good things. Good deeds he felt like he is better.
So he wasn't doing bad deeds he was doing what? Good deeds but based on those good deeds he felt he was better
in a position to judge who's better and who's worthy and who's not worthy. So when you do good things
you're memorizing the Quran. You're studying Islam. You're graduating from an Islamic university. You're attending
some حلقات. You're doing the religious thing, your a young man starting to give khutbahs you're doing دعو
you're doing the good stuff and now as soon as you feel a little bit higher. You start "Man these people need so much دعو
and you find a young man saying things like "Some people are so ignorant and they say this ...etc"
Wow. Some people are so ignorant. استغفر الله Some people are just following the way of Shaitah. Really some people?
You are already in a position to talk about who's following the devil's path.
Guess what that represents? The devil's path. That's what the devil's path looks like.
When you in a position of doing good deeds feel like you are more worthy of Allah's recognition than other people.
Allah should be giving you responsibility. You have the role. You should be خليفة on the earth. Not them.
That's the scariest one because the person doing it actually thinks they're doing something what? They're doing
something good. {وَهُمْ يَحْسَبُونَ أَنَّهُمْ يُحْسِنُونَ صُنْعًا} [18:104] They're assuming they're doing something great.
Self righteousness. Religious self righteousness is the scariest one. And it takes other forms too.
It comes at people from the right and says "Hey I know you don't pray but I mean you do give charity. Right?
You volunteer at a hospital. I know what you do on the weekend Let's not talk about what you consume and what you do
on the weekend. But I mean you volunteer also. You do some good humanitarian stuff.
So I mean okay you got a little issue on the side a little bit. What's the big deal?" Because you do these good things.
You should be able to get away with some of the bad stuff. He comes at you from the right.
He says "I will come at them in all kinds of ways. All directions." And then at the end of it he makes this claim.
And this a very interesting claim he made in all of these directions he is wanting us to disobey Allah yes or no?
So he should be saying that "After I am done with them you will see that they are not obedient." You will see that they are not what?
obedient he says you will see that they are not grateful {وَلَا تَجِدُ أَكْثَرَهُمْ شَاكِرِينَ} [7:17]
you will not find most of them to be grateful I was expecting him to say you will find that most of them will forget.
Because he makes us forget. He makes us slip. I was expecting him to say that but he said something else.
He said you will find that most of them are not what? Now the question is grateful for what?
Number one grateful for the fact that you gave them the highest honor ever given to any creation.
They will not honour that award that they were given. They are not going to be grateful for the fact
that you allowed them the greatest test that leads to the greatest reward.
They are not be grateful for the fact that you directly speak to them. They are not going to be grateful for that.
You know when someone sees themselves as less. If you think of yourself as worthless then everything
that you've been given also becomes what? Worthless. Let's put this in even simpler terms so you understand.
When somebody is really depressed and they think that nobody loves them. Nobody cares about them.
Somebody has in their head "Nobody loves me. Nobody cares about me." Then you take this person on a vacation
you get them a cake you take them to dinner you do whatever you do with them are they happy?
No they can't see value in anything that's being done for them because they have no value for who? Themselves.
So none of the good things you do mean anything. Nothing makes them happy. He says
"Once they are convinced that they are nothing more than animals. Then none of these good things that you've given them
they'll ever appreciate. None of these good things they'll appreciate {وَلَا تَجِدُ أَكْثَرَهُمْ شَاكِرِينَ}.
you'll find that they are not grateful. You're going to find that they are usually living in complaint. That's how I'll get them.
They're going to complain and that's what I'll know. They are not being grateful. I can come at them from right left front back
I can get them. Man {وَلَا تَجِدُ أَكْثَرَهُمْ شَاكِرِينَ} Allah says now to him. Now we're listening to this entire conversation.
I keep repeating that so it sticks in your head. {قَالَ اخْرُجْ مِنْهَا مَذْءُومًا مَدْحُورًا} [7:18]
He says to him "Get out of here. You've been humiliated. And your مدحور ".مدحور actually means that you are being
crushed on your own. This is an image. If you take a piece of paper and you crumple it up and you press it harder
it becomes a smaller ball and you press it even harder it becomes a smaller ball. Allah is describing the devil
he's got this negative thoughts inside of him. And his own thoughts are crushing him constantly.
They are squeezing him constantly. He's مدحور. Nobody is doing that to him he is doing that to himself.
Some people ask me this when I teach this story some people ask me fun questions like "Ustadh I have a question?
What's your question? What if he does توبة then what's going to happen?" Because he could do توبة right.
I'm like "He should repent and Allah's rule is if somebody repents does Allah reject Allah never rejects." So why doesn't he do it?
Allah describes because he's مدحور his hate keeps crushing him and crushing him even more. He is crushing himself
not allowing himself to stop and realize what he is doing which is exactly what he wants for you.
He wants you to have a negative emotion like hate like resentment like something that happen when you
blame someone he blames Allah. He decided to blame Allah. Now it doesn't matter if the Quran comes.
He can hear the Quran too yes or no? He can hear the Quran because you have to say ‏اعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم
before you recite the Quran which means he is hearing the Quran. So correcting his views is coming from Allah Himself.
There's enough reason for him to do توبة. But he in his world is crushing himself where no words from the outside
they just bounce right off. They bounce right off and that's what he wants for people. He wants them to be immersed
in their own negative thinking. So no good no word from Allah will ever affect them.
The misery of the devil and how he wants that to be contagious. Allah says get out of here
{قَالَ اخْرُجْ مِنْهَا مَذْءُومًا مَدْحُورًا ۖ لَمَنْ تَبِعَكَ مِنْهُمْ لَأَمْلَأَنَّ جَهَنَّمَ مِنْكُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ} those one of the scariest Ayahs.
You get out of here humiliated crushing yourself. Then He says and whoever follows you among them who's them? Us.
Allah pointed at us. He says and whoever follows you among them I shall absolutely fill hell with all of you all together.
He didn't say all of them he said all of you He halfway through He said "By the way I was talking to them I'm done with him
Now I'm talking to you. You follow him, I will put all of you in hell." Do you understand how serious this test is now?
Because we just signed up a few minutes ago for جنة Like "Yeah we got this. Sign us up."
And Allah says "And if everyone of you follows him then I will put every last one of you in hell. Do you understand?
{لَأَمْلَأَنَّ جَهَنَّمَ مِنْكُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ} All of you."