How The Devil Attacks From The Right - Khutbah by Nouman Ali Khan

we continue our conversation about how the devil attacks from multiple directions i've given ahuba previously contemplating only on how he attacks from the front and another of how he attacks from behind and i only started introducing how he attacks from the right and it's interesting that allah azzawajal mentions multiple rights imani him not yamini him but imani him multiple rights and that is to say that there are multiple more variety of attacks from the right and for each person that actually has means different things so what i introduced to you last time is the idea of the right being associated with good deeds and with something good and right is also in many languages including the english language the word right not only for direction but also for something that's correct or something that you deserve like this is my right right so this is actually not just something that's found in the arabic language because the yamin is an oath you mean is something that you owe you mean is part of your dignity uh the ameen the right hand is actually associated with righteousness um the the left hand is associated with shady behavior criminal behavior that sort of thing and so which is why even last time i mentioned how the on judgment day people that are in favor or in allah's favor that did that live the correct way are people of the right hand so now we're learning that shaitaan attacks us from the right and multiple kinds of attacks from the right so we've got to think about that a little bit one just as a quick recap one attack that i introduced you to and myself to and reminded myself of is shaitaan will make you think of the good things you have done or the good things i have done and make us proud of them and so the good thing that our deeds are supposed to make us humble but he reverse engineers how we're supposed to think about this good deed and we start thinking we've accomplished something they assume they've accomplished something amazing by having done this good deed so people become sometimes people love to mention titles like you know in worldly life there are titles and sometimes people are very proud of what they've accomplished so they just don't want to say my name is akram they want to say my name is dr akram right even though they you know they love to tell you that it's different when other people call you that but you wouldn't yourself love hearing that that's a problem or when somebody says their name and then they say make sure you say phd or something or you know they they want to add some title well sometimes even within the islamic sense somebody says hey abdullah is here no no alhaji abdullah i just came back from hajj you know it's kind of like i need to know i need to be recognized for what i've accomplished so this need to recognize a good deed even you know or half is so and so or shaykhs them somebody calls you you know uh norman or somebody calls me i said no no i'm not a sheikh anyway but you got to add that title in no i don't need that title and the title doesn't add anything you know and so the idea of needing recognition and also for yourself to feel like you've accomplished something amazing by doing something good our good deeds are supposed to be something that humble us our good deeds are supposed to be something we present before allah and we say to allah this deed that i've done i pray that you accept it because whatever i did even if i prayed or did hajj or fasted whatever i did i know i didn't do it perfectly i know there were mistakes i know it could have been done better so as broken and as imperfect as it is i'm begging you ya allah to accept it now that's humility that's not that's not something i'm entirely proud of but it's something that i'm supposed to be humble about but shaytaan wants that element to go away he wants that to become a matter of pride from that now another problem is that when people do good deeds and do righteous deeds or let's just say somebody was a non-muslim and allah guided them to islam and they accepted islam or some of you that were born in a muslim family weren't practicing your religion and something clicked in you and you started praying or you started changing the way you speak or you started changing the way you you spend your life or the company you keep you made changes in your life then people look back at that moment and say alhamdulillah you know allah guided me i feel bad for all these people that aren't guided yet wait a second when you say allah guided me that means that you already have the guaranteed stamp and these other people don't have it at that one moment allah guided you and made you turn from a life of evil towards something better yes but that doesn't mean you own guidance now it doesn't mean that it's something that you have now and you won't let it go it's not something that human beings were given the opportunity to possess guidance is a property of allah it belongs to allah it doesn't belong to me doesn't belong to you so the amount that you learn or the amount that you practice or the way that your appearance changes maybe you dress and you you know you look far more religious than you did before maybe you speak far more religiously than you did before maybe you know a lot more about the religion than you know knew before maybe you even worship a lot more than you worship before maybe those things have changed but that's still none of that means you have more guidance guidance is something we have to beg for no matter what state we're in the someone who's memorized the quran and recites the whole thing every week and worships has to beg allah for guidance and someone who's far away from the deen and is just taking half the first step also has to ask allah for guidance nobody has more access to it or less access to it this is something we're all thirsty for i like to compare like allah does himself he compares the guidance of the quran to water to the rain or to water itself now the thing about water is you and i can't say alhamdulillah two years ago i had a glass of water ever since i'm good no it doesn't work that way you get thirsty again your body needs it again it needs it again that's why we have to go back and fill that thirst of guidance every time we stand in salah we ask allah to fill that thirst but shaitaan wants us to think that guidance already happened now it's other people's problem ours has already been solved i feel bad for everyone else and when you start thinking like that then you know what happens your focus is no longer on yourself your focus is on everybody else you know like if you have been fed and your stomach is full maybe now you can concern yourself with the other one who's hungry and you start feeling like well i'm already filled with guidance so now i have to worry about everybody else who doesn't have guidance actually we never stop concerning ourselves with ourselves i'm not saying don't worry about anybody else but i'm saying always always always our first concern is our self and then someone else with us in other words even when i give someone advice i'm actually giving myself advice along with them i'm not talking down to them and saying this is what you need to hear i have to acknowledge deep inside my heart and not let shaytan get between myself and my my own heart you know and and think that this advice is something they need to hear not myself this is shaytan coming to us even inside the masjid sometimes you guys will listen to me give a khutbah or somebody else give a khutbah and you're thinking in your head man i know someone who really needs to hear this man i wish they were here i wanna is this online is this online because i need to share it with a friend who has this problem you know and you're you're concerned with guiding someone else and this entire time you're not thinking about how this applies to you or i'm not thinking about how this applies to me we're thinking about how this applies to someone else and that's a really powerful trick of shaytaan in your head you're doing something good you're actually sharing something good you want better for someone else and it's in your mind this is actually a good a positive thing but it's not a positive thing it's if it's at the expense of a concern you have for yourself this is why allah told us save yourselves and your families from the fire this is why even the messenger of allah sallallahu alaihi salam used to say usi even the messenger is saying i am counseling you and myself to be cautious of allah i'm including myself in that caution even allah describes those who call others to allah um who could be better in speech than the one who invites other people to allah and acts good himself they see the very immediate words you're calling others to allah that's about them while they're calling others to allah they are acting good themselves and then they declare innani al-muslimeen i am absolutely from among the muslims i'm not above them i'm not above the people i'm calling and i'm not above others i'm trying to submit myself like everybody else just because i'm the one speaking and you're the one listening doesn't put me in a better position but this is the kind of thing shaytaan wants he wants us to think that we're in a position now to give advice not we're not the ones to listen to it and when shaytaan really gets in somebody's head this way somebody who gets used to giving religious advice somebody who gets used to quoting ayat to somebody or a hadith to somebody or giving talks or giving reminders it doesn't have to be with a microphone on it doesn't have to be on facebook it doesn't have to be on youtube it could be in the living room somewhere people are getting together and having or there's some member of your family that's always giving advice when they get to a point where if you try to give them advice they get really offended that's a problem because now they've accepted in their head their job is to give never to receive their job is never to be criticized their job is to they're the ones that tell you how to have guidance and then they have this attitude like oh you're going to tell me you're going to correct me how much do you know i've been teaching for so long and you're going to correct me this this kind of attitude is directly from shapeland it's directly from shaitan so now coming again this is again from the right and by the way this the common theme of the shaitaan's attacks from the right is the people who make these mistakes and fall into the trap of shaitaan are convinced they're doing something good they actually think they're doing something good and allah describes this in the quran in a phrase shaitaan beautified their deeds to them what they're doing even if there's something wrong with it it looks really good to them and it's not just about evil deeds even about good deeds it starts you start decorating it to yourself like you've accomplished something incredible then from the right you know no she's like justice care concern these are good these are good qualities to have and so sometimes people say well i'm fighting for justice i'm fighting for the truth these are good things nobody's gonna say fighting for the truth is a bad thing nobody's gonna say fighting for justice is a good thing nobody's gonna say speaking out against evil is a bad thing but people use these good words like justice like truth like fighting against evil like commanding the good and forbidding the evil and use that to hurt others and use that to destroy others and use that to fulfill their own personal rage and take vendettas and you know against people and to commit all kinds of things and one question they say no no i'm just speaking the haqq i'm just speaking for the truth i'm standing by justice i'm just forbidding an evil and so you can use the right labels you know i'm thinking of for example when the unjustified war happened in iraq and the title was operation iraqi freedom right it had nothing to do with freedom but you can use beautiful words you can use words that sound right they sound justified and do all kinds of crimes underneath you know people you know in in corrupt governments you have people saying well we're taking care of our national security they'll use national security that's a good thing to say national security and under its guise they're arresting innocent citizens they're detaining people torturing people committing all kinds of heinous crimes and but when you say what are you doing they're not going to say we're committing acts against humanity they're not going to say we're violating basic human rights they're going to say what national security that sounds like a good thing the same thing happens in our personal lives people being insulting degrading humiliating and when you question them they say i have the right what do you mean i'm trying to correct this person any even and forget about governments and high level even within our families or personal situations somebody maybe a family member may be insulting another family member humiliating them degrading them putting them down using all kinds of bad words and you say what are you doing they say i'm teaching them humility i'm teaching them i'm doing a good thing i'm doing them a favor i'm fixing them they need to hear this so they tell themselves they're actually doing something good even when they're engaged in something heinous and hideous and that's how shaitaan sometimes gets us he feeds us that what we're doing is actually a good thing and the way he does that is pretty amazing one he makes you feel like you haven't done anything wrong you're completely justified in what you're doing and two the one you're doing it to he makes them look like the source of all evil they have no good in them they must be destroyed if the heck of allah is supposed to be established they must be annihilated and so long as they're still around or there's still a smile on their face or they're still doing okay then the truth hasn't come out yet you know so you have to you have to keep going you have to keep going this is shaitaan's trickery to people and again in their minds they're doing something really really good one of the scariest tactics of shaitaan from the right is you know allah gave us the most power you know words are very powerful let's just take a minute or two to complement to contemplate the power of words allah azza didn't give words like he gave human beings to animals animals communicate too ants communicate too birds communicate too fish communicate too but the way human beings communicate is incredible it's profound you know ten generations ago the birds that were there built a nest but they didn't teach their next generation this is how you build a nest and this is how you're going to improve they don't do that they still build the same kind of nest but human beings when they built a home a thousand years ago the next generation said they built it this way let's make this improvement and the next generation came and made another improvement and the next generation came and made another improvement in other words they leave instructions behind with words and we take those words and we build on them and build on them and build on them without words knowledge wouldn't go forward words are an incredible thing it's a very powerful thing and the most powerful of all words are the words of allah is the guidance of allah how powerful it is and yet you know what can happen with the guidance of allah which is of course a good there's nothing better than the word of allah people can even use the word of allah for evil purposes even the word of allah can be used for evil purposes allah describes in the quran he misguides by using quran so many he allows so many to be misguided by using the quran and you and i are thinking when allah started surah al-baqarah in the very beginning he said this book is guidance and now later on not two three pages go by and allah says the same quran can be used to misguide the same book that allah sent for guidance he's saying it can be used to misguide why when shaytan comes to you and says here's how you can convince people you can take this ayah from here that quote from there this phrase from here pull them all out of context present them and the person listening to you will say they're talking about the word of allah they quoted this ayah and this ayah and this ayah and this ayah it sounds pretty good they're saying something good and they're actually saying something evil because their their intention was not to explain the word of allah their intention was to get their point across and their their agenda was above even the word of allah let me explain this to you in another way so you remember this this this no this trick of shaytan and how people use it you know when you when for example somebody does research first they gather the information then they study the information they analyze the information and after doing all of the research and all of the study then they come to a conclusion right so the conclusion is the last thing that comes not the first thing that's the last thing first you have to learn and analyze and research and then you get to the conclusion but in some people's heads they already have a conclusion that's not the last thing that is the first thing and they say i already have a conclusion for example i've met people who have a conclusion that women are inferior in islam i completely disagree but in their head there's this conclusion women are inferior in islam now that they have this conclusion they will pick parts of ayat from here parts of a hadith from here parts of text from here parts of text from there and say see i have so much dali i have so much evidence that women are inferior instead of looking at all of the text and all of the guidance of allah and then saying i will have no conclusion first i will let allah speak without me putting my conclusion on top i will let the conclusion come from allah i will let the conclusion come from the messenger of allah no no my conclusion is already there and when you go to people i met people like that and when they quote these things i say what about this ayah what about this hadith what about the wrong way you quoted this ayah they say no no no there's another way of looking at it not willing to look at maybe i got this wrong because my conclusion can't change i can change the way to interpret the word of allah but my conclusion is set this is satanic this is evil because allah's word nothing is above it the word of allah is in the highest place nothing is higher than the word of allah and people will do that and actually it will sound islamic because they're quoting all these islamic texts you know it'll sound like they're speaking on behalf of religion and that in and of itself is a kind of evil when we don't represent the teachings of our deen we actually represent conclusions that we're we're in love with we're in love with these conclusions but not actually what allah himself says another way that people use the text is again you don't have to be ulama or or speakers or duat or whatever to misuse you can be in your families and you know people have an argument and the the father has an argument with the son and he says you know you have to be the best to your parents or they quote the only quran he knows by the way you know no other quran but whenever his son gets out of line you know this is what allah says or you know what allah says about when you when you don't give the rights to parents when you do this or the the husband quotes to the wife how she's going to burn in hell because a wife who does this this this is going to burn in hell or the the wife quotes to the husband how he's not a real man and here's the ayah about it you know and they they use their religion they use the good that allah gave to us they use it to win arguments they use it to slap each other they use it as a weapon allah's words did not come for your personal arguments allah's words did not come so you can make someone shut up in your home that's not why they came allah's words came they came as a counsel that touches the heart from your rabb they didn't come to insult they didn't come to humiliate they didn't come to suppress they didn't come to degrade and when people misuse the word of allah and they say what did i do i just quoted quran i'm just talking about islam my children my wife doesn't want to listen i even told her the word of allah and she doesn't listen no you didn't tell her the word of allah you masked your ego and your own pride and your own anger with the word of allah you misrepresented the word of allah if you did that the same thing a parent can do a mother can do to her daughter a sibling can do to a sibling you know this is in in their head again they're quoting islam this is not why you learn islam that's not why how you you quote allah's word you have to be very careful not to do that and that's again a trick of shaytan making us think we're actually extracting guidance while all we're doing is pushing people away from allah's guidance because those people when they hear the word of allah being used to humiliate them in their head the word of allah causes humiliation why would they come closer to the word of allah we became a reason so many families that are they look religious they act religious they are knowledgeable religiously and their children are running away from the religion because they misused the word of allah in the home they misused it in the home they used it to yell and insult and humiliate their kids and their kids feel like their dignity is taken away because of islam that's not those kids fault our frustration is one thing our submission to allah and our humility to allah's guidance is something else you want to yell at your kids be my guest if there's a context for it you want to be upset there's a way to communicate that but don't use the deen for it don't use the dean that's that's not your it's not yours you don't own it you don't get to use it the way you want you have to submit ourselves you know when people feel when they're in a position of authority they can use that the word of allah to to reinforce their authority the word of allah did not come to establish your authority the word of allah did not come to establish your place or to put somebody else in their place that's not why it came this is not how we should use it and that's again what shaitaan wants and he does that and everybody who does it is thinking again i did something good i'm citing the word of allah i should get reward for this he comes from the right you see how trick how this trickery works but again again there are other attacks from the right i'll mention just a couple more before i close and one one of them is you know i'll give you by an example first you know if you get a job and your job is let's say you have five things to do every day and your boss tells you task number one is the most important this is the one that's the most important if you finish this task and you're done with it and you have some time left then you can do number two and if you have some extra time left then you can do number three but if it you were working for eight hours and you only worked on number one that's okay because that's the most important until that is done we don't care about anything else so there are priorities when your boss gives you priorities you have to respect your boss's priorities you get the same job five items the boss explains to you this is the most important then this then this then this and then item number five and all day you worked on item number five and your boss comes and says is the job done he goes yep i did the best number five you ever seen in your life look at this what's your boss gonna do why didn't you do number one well you know i felt like i'm doing so good at number five that i really don't have to do number one because look at how good i did number five you don't decide that your boss does he's the one paying you he's the one who hired you he's the one who has the authority i'm not telling you about a boss i'm telling you about allah allah tells you and me here's the most important thing in islam here's what you must do here are things you must stay away from these are the they're absolutely necessary for you you must accomplish these and these are the things no matter what you must stay away from them we come along and shaitan comes from the side and says hey why don't you give a lot of charity and since you give a lot of charity you don't have to worry so much about the prayers and when you don't worry about the prayers and somebody says or even the thought comes to you well i don't pray yeah i know i don't pray but i give a lot of charity you know yeah charity has its place but it doesn't substitute the priorities allah said i don't have the right to set those priorities allah sets those priorities but in your head you did something good you gave charity you helped somebody you did some tasks you really love doing some people in their head they say i can do whatever i want so long as i do really good in ramadan that's item number five for them right if i just do really good in ramadan then i have 11 month vacation from everything allah asks me i could do that it's fine in some people's heads they pray they pray they they they eat meat they make sure every time they go to a store where did you get this animal from let me see the pic the video of this animal being slaughtered was this allahu akbar said through a tapered video recorder mp3 file a youtube video or did a guy actually say it i want proof before i eat this barbecue chicken they are so set on eating halal and yet at the same time same guy hasn't given maha to his wife same guy has denied inheritance to his sister same guy cheating other people in business not paying their money back lying same person because in their head this is important this is my islam this is allah is going to be really happy about this chicken but there's other stuff that's okay this will cover it this will cover it people have this thought about hajj if i just go to hajj clean slate so i'm good you know so shaitaan comes and says these things that you like doing why don't you focus on those and there are other things in islam that maybe they're a little bit more effort for you they're hard for you allah will understand you just do what you're comfortable with can you just do that and be happy with that and you tell you tell yourself you're doing something great the final trick of shaytan i want to share with you is when you start defining for yourself what does it mean to be good what does it mean there's one thing that there were five tasks and you pick number five but it's another entirely when you come in and say no forget these five tests i'll tell you what's important i have my own list of five i feel i should be doing this this is what allah makes makes allah happy because now your own feelings and your own impressions and your own opinions are above what allah revealed but in your head this is because you're a good human being you have a good heart and you have good intention so long as you mean well that's all allah wants you you maybe heard someone say you know i know allah says this this this and this he wants me to do this he wants me to do that but you know i'm actually a good person i'm actually a pretty good person i'm nice to people i'm honest at work i'm courteous et cetera et cetera so you know those things i know people that pray and people women that wear hijab or people that have beards they're really messed up so at least i'm not like them i have my own way of being good and that's okay allah will understand and that's what shaitaan comes and tells you it's okay you don't have to submit yourself to allah's revelation because there are bad examples out there so all you have to do is tell yourself allah will understand and you can come up with your own lifestyle and consider yourself good just tell yourself you're great you know in all of these these attacks from the right again the common thread is what you tell yourself it's okay you tell yourself you're doing something good i tell myself this is fine i one last came one came to mind and since next time i'll be talking about the left i'll finish it up and this should take no more than one minute and that is that people you know allah says there are people who when they want to find islam they want to find guidance right they find it with they go to a masjid they meet some people and they they become closer to allah because they met those people right but you guys know that muslims are not all the same masjids are not all the same right so when you go to one masjid then you meet a group of people they maybe belong to a school of thought or they have certain scholars that they respect or they follow a certain curriculum right and you you go there and you're really happy with these people because you found allah through those people but then you go to a different masjid and you find those people are not like these people these people have much shorter beards these people aren't even covering their head like this deviant over here they're not even covering their head and those people over there the way they hold their hands when they pray is different from the way i hold my hands and so you start telling yourself the group i'm with the one who brought me close to allah alhamdulillah i found the right one i feel bad for all these other people and so what becomes your righteous cause what becomes your good deed warning everybody about everybody else who's going to hell so they can join your club because everybody else is misguided everybody else is far from allah they're wrong because of this they're wrong because of this they're wrong because of this let me tell you why we're the best ones actually let me not tell you why we're amazing let me just focus my time on telling you why they're terrible because we have to make sure people are guided you started off with something good you met people that brought you closer to allah but when that turns into a cult and when that turns into when you see a muslim first you see which kind of muslim don't tell me which so uh what are you and he says muslim yeah i know muslim but you know you need to that's not enough when that starts happening that's from the devil that's from shaytan because we don't want in it's not enough that somebody is accepts allah as their master it's not enough for you that muhammad is their messenger that's not enough i need to make sure that you have a membership in the same club that i do and if you don't then we have a problem and then i'm going to spend my time telling you how you need to fix yourself and come join my club otherwise i feel bad for you when that happens that is the height of self-righteousness this goes back to the first thing i said when people assume their own guidance no group of muslims owns guidance no no members of a masjid own guidance no imam owns guidance nobody owns guidance that is with allah allah owns it you can say if somebody is doing something wrong or saying something wrong there's a humble way a loving way to express that to them ibrahim alaihissalam's father was worshiping idols making idols at home and he had a loving way of correcting him look at how we correct other muslims not even worshipers of idols how do people in the name of truth give sermons about how these other people some muslims are wajible qatar according to them they should be murdered and executed or they are followers of shaytan degrading and humiliating other muslims because of what they believe this is how you plan on correcting them which prophet ever did this which prophet ever spoken this way how did how did prophets correct other people's even if you think it's misguidance this is the way to do it this is the way to speak so we we find the most evil ways of what we think is doing something good you know doing good isn't just about what you do it's also about how you do it may allah azzawajal protect us from the attacks of shaitaan from the from the right and keep us committed to the right path him

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