Mentioning the hadith of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him): (You will surely follow the ways of those who came before you, handspan by handspan and cubit by cubit)

The Shaykh: And as in the hadith of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri in "Sahih al-Bukhari": . They said: O Messenger of Allah, the Jews and the Christians? He said: . Who on earth is mentioned as a nation with its civilization, they claim, with its civilization, with its power, with its culture? There is no one other than the Jews and the Christians.
The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) indicates that it is the nature of a nation, when it declines and weakens, to imitate whoever is stronger than it. The Messenger (peace be upon him) indicates in this hadith that a time will come upon the nation of Islam, which should be the strongest nation in every time and place, where it will follow and adopt the way of the Jews and the Christians exactly.
, even if they were to enter any narrow strait, we would imitate them in that. And I am increasingly astonished every day; I find many of the Muslim youth who gladden the heart from one aspect when I enter the mosques, and sadden it from another aspect; I find a youth eager to obey Allah in the mosques, but he does not understand much of Islam. I pray in the second or third row and I find before me a youth with strange clothing. He is a Muslim standing in the row to pray to Allah (Mighty and Majestic), but if you saw him in the market, you would think he was French or American, or perhaps you would think he was a Jew if there were Jews in the lands here. Why? He wears the "Charleston" pants, which should be narrow in a specific place, but he has widened them by two inches, and in the place where they should be wide, he has tightened them on himself until they bite into his buttocks. Then Satan was not satisfied with this deception until he made the youth attract each other's attention; he even stamped a new design on their buttocks, an image of a branch or a flower or something similar. There is no difference in that between the young man and the young woman, and he is standing to pray!! How is this? This is because he has not been raised with an Islamic upbringing; he still has an emotion for Islam and prays, but he does not understand that Islam is not only in prayer. Islam is a whole that cannot be divided. The Muslim must prove that he is a Muslim wherever he is, not only in the mosque when we see him praying; even if he entered the church for the sake of lesson and observation, it would be said, "I would point to him with my finger: this is a Muslim." So, who among the Muslims today, if they entered the churches for entertainment and lesson, would the people of the church not think he is one of them?!
This is the verification of the saying of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him): . And in another narration, more astonishing than this blind imitation, and the appearances began to appear; he said (peace and blessings be upon him): , .
Therefore, O our young brothers, you must not be satisfied with the knowledge of Islam that you have been given, this superficial knowledge. Rather, you must expand your understanding of Islam and combine it with action, so that knowledge of a thing does not become a burden upon you, and so that His saying (Blessed and Exalted is He) does not apply to us: .
So the wealth mentioned in this hadith: We know that the intended meaning of this wealth is, in the past, slaves and servants, and now it is clearly relatives, children, and the like, and wealth is the cars they ride in. This is one of the deviations we wanted to remind you of; because the reality is that when a sin is exposed, it spreads and harms, but when it is concealed, it folds up and dies. Therefore, the Shari'ah encourages that if a Muslim must commit a sin, let him conceal it; because this concealment is good for himself and for others. As for himself, he continues to feel a prick— as they say today— in his heart and his conscience. But if he is heedless and announces it, this feeling dies, and this means that not a mustard seed of faith remains in his heart.