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Transgressions, let's begin our journey
in identifying some of the key things
that you and I as Muslims need to avoid.
(bright music)
Now, I'm not going to speak about the things
that are easily known to us,
I'm not gonna speak to you about murder is wrong
and, you know, you shouldn't steal.
But I want to speak about transgressions
that are a part of our regular day to day life
that we have overlooked.
And I want it to be something
that you can kind of take pause in my life
and your life and say,
this is something that I can do better in.
The transgressions that I want to talk to you about
are things that are not necessarily mentioned directly
by the Prophet Muhammad SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
that he spoke directly about a particular thing.
But I want it to be something that you understand
its consequence is as dangerous as some of the things
that the Prophet clearly spoke to us about.
So when we speak about these transgressions
I don't want you to make it a compiled list where you say,
oh, he didn't say anything about murder
or he didn't say anything about stealing.
I'm gonna talk about stealing
but maybe in stealing joy from others
and stealing other people's accomplishments
and taking credit for other people's work
and cheating on an exam, which is cheating yourself.
All of those are transgressions that are haram actions
that may not have been spoken about in a clear
and critical way by the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
But they are transgressions
that affect our mind, heart, body and soul.
I want that to be kind of how we understand
what it is that we are seeking to pursue today
and that the solution for it is to put up resistance.
You know, resistance and resilience
are really two important R letter word.
Resistance is that you say
I'm gonna push back,
I know this is something I'm gonna push back against it.
I'm not gonna cave in this time,
I caved in yesterday or last week
or last month or last year.
But this time I'm gonna resist,
I'm gonna put up a fight,
I'm not gonna fall prey to my own self,
to the whispers of the shaitan,
to the actions of others,
I'm not gonna lose self control, right?
Number two is I'm going to be resilient.
Yeah, I made a mistake,
I'm gonna pick myself up,
I'm gonna dust myself off,
I'm gonna put myself head high and say.
astaghfirullah wa atubu ilaih
I'm gonna try to avoid and shield
and protect myself from the things.
But I know that I need to be resilient,
I need to be tough,
I need to be thick skinned
and I know that its gonna be certain things that I want,
that I'm gonna be injured by missing out on.
There's going to be that prom that my friends go to
or the, you know, at the end of the year
and I'm not gonna go to it
because it's a place
that I don't believe I need to be as a Muslim.
I'm gonna make a different choice,
I'm not going to accept to go to the movie with that boy
or that girl who's asked me out.
I'm gonna make a choice not to get involved
in that squabbling online
or bullying another student.
I'm gonna hold myself to a higher dignity
where I'm not gonna shame myself
by being vulgar with my words
just because that's the type of word that I hear
in the music that is being,
you know, put through out the airwaves.
I'm gonna dress in a way that honors me,
honors my family, my tradition,
my religion and my culture.
Not because I want to be all good
and looked at by others,
but I want to carry myself in a noble way
that is pleasing to Allah.
That my scarf is my dignity,
my kufi is my honor,
my conservative clothing is a sign to the world
that I put Allah before I put them.
Those are important ways of being resistant and resilient
to the temptations that will pull us away.
Let us begin going through a list of transgressions
that is incredibly important
for you and I to learn about
so that we can avoid them
and redeem ourself from them.
Come back from them
if we have fallen into them.
May Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la protect us, shelter us,
cover our shame, hide our errors, forgive our sins,
that which we know of
and that which we weren't able to understand at the time.
That Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
allows us to turn over a new page,
that we begin a new life
and a new experience with him
with honor and dignity
and love and respect.
Allahumma ameen.