how does someone end up taking the most
priceless treasure that they can have in
this life our our faith and end up
squandering it and losing it there's a
it doesn't happen overnight
it doesn't just you don't just lose your
iman it's a process and that process has
been described in these timeless words
but uh of course you used to be with us
well I can knock on fat anthem and full
circle however you put yourselves I'll
do a rough translation first and I'll
explain number one you put yourselves in
fitnah you put yourselves in trial you
kept putting yourselves in situations
where your faith gets tested try to
understand what that means you kept
putting yourself in environments where
you knew it was bad for you but you said
no I can handle it I got this I got this
you kept surrounding yourselves with
friends that will do bad things say bad
things see bad things go to bad places
but you said I'm not like them I'm just
trying to help them and you kept going
back into those environments you kept
getting into gatherings and places and
situations you put you kept putting
yourselves in those places assuming that
it will not have any effect on you it'll
affect everyone else or they won't it
won't affect you somebody who smells you
no sense stands next to a smoker for the
first time is coughing and their eyes
are burning but if they start smoking
themselves a year later that just
becomes their oxygen they can't even
breathe normally without smoking it
changes them altogether what was the
second problem the second problem was
with on a bus stop you kept
procrastinating now what does that mean
that means you realized it's bad and you
also realized in your own conscience I
should change what you told yourself
I'll change pretty soon insha'Allah just
this one more month I'm doing this you
know just this one more weekend just as
one or two more party there's one or two
more drinks that you keep telling
yourself just a little bit more a little
bit more a little bit more and then
people tell my my favorite one Ramadan
is right around the corner it's just 10
more months 11 more months you know one
side was on the line come man I'll be
totally different and I planned
go to Hajj once I go to Hajj you watch
I'm gonna be a different person but
until then you know just kind of just
make God for me what is the effect of
tablo's of holding off and holding off
and holding off actually you assume that
you can put the brakes on at any time
the truth of it is that's not the case
the longer you stay the more addicted
you become and the more impossible you
feel you can't get it's impossible for
you to get out of it and when that
happens a guilt sets in nobody likes to
feel guilty and then Shaitaan comes and
says why do you feel guilty you don't
have to feel guilty the only thing
that's making you feel guilty is this
Islam thing islam says this is haram and
that's haram and that's a sin and that's
the same and you can't do this and you
can't say that and you can't go there
it keeps islam keeps making you feel bad
man i want you to feel good what how
true is islam anyway and now the
thoughts start running in this person's
mind a man or a woman why am i even
following aslam it seems like it just
wants me not to be happy I just want to
live my life man I just want to be free
I just want to be able to do what I want
I just want to be able to hang out with
my friends I'm not so sure about the
Quran anyway how do we even know there
is a God how do we even know what's this
hadith business how do we even know it's
authentic and so you have this young man
or woman this zeyneb this I lead is
fatima the solidus getting these
beautiful names and now they're starting
to ask questions about I'm not so sure
about this Islam I don't know I have
doubts I'm serious doubts and these are
not PhDs in philosophy nor do they have
exhaustive education and Islamic history
where they studied it and they started
developing doubts no no they were in a
bad environment they didn't change
themselves that is the process I've
talked to hundreds of these people that
literally lived this ayah they live this
ayah and then they get to a point where
they have doubts but their doubts have
nothing to do with logic or reason as a
matter of fact when you answer one doubt
they go to the next doubt when you
answer that one they go to the next one
when you answer that one you go to the
next one then you say hold on a second
so how long ago did you start ending up
in questionable kinds of company and
then the truth starts coming out what
add up to the very next words are you
fell into doubt you started doubting you
know what doubt
do it'll let you off the hook you'll be
able to say to yourself well it's not
really absolutely the truth anyway so I
shouldn't feel bad that I don't follow
it I shouldn't feel bad and now once
those doubts settle in then two things
are taken away from you
the desire for Jenna is taken away the
desire for making Allah happy is taken
away the afterlife is nothing to you the
afterlife means nothing if somebody even
brings up heaven and hell to joke to you
well if you take away have it in hell if
you take away the motivation to end up
in the reward of Allah or get away from
the punishment of Allah on Judgment Day
well the only motivation you're going to
have left are things that are left in
this world isn't it and this life will
be money
it'll be fame it'll be leisure it'll be
pleasure you know it'll be material
things that's all you ever think about
that's all you ever care about that's
all you ever want to know about that's
the only thing that ever interests you
that's the only thing you make efforts
towards because you think all of these
things are going to bring you happiness
they'll bring you contentment so the
next words are well harlot kun will
Amani you false hopes deceived you you
had false hopes that some kind of
worldly thing will bring you happiness
and you ran after it you gave all of
your life to it
you keep looking for something more to
fulfill you and fulfill you because the
thing that will completely fulfill you
the pleasure of Allah there's no longer
there that desire is no longer there
well Harlequin will marry you until the
decision of Allah came this was your
life this according to the believers is
a summary of a person's life that lost
their faith they started just with
putting themselves in a questionable
environment and from there it's a
downward spiral automatically the next
thing is you start getting hooked on it
you put off and then later on you start
developing doubts and from there the
only thing you ever work towards is
where the lustful material gain material
desires
well humble