about how to deal with corrupt youth who influence other youth?
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The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : how
The questioner : There are games... What is the ruling on participating in sports clubs that have football and others...?
The Shaykh : These clubs contain evils, and it is not permissible to attend them, as Allah the Exalted said:[Al-An'am 6:68] There, the private parts are exposed and made lawful, and their display is made lawful. And naturally, this distracts one from maintaining the prayer, especially in congregation. Therefore, this participation is not permissible. However, if a Muslim is modest in his dress, meaning he carries the symbol of Muslims, and as we used to hear, and this was one of the good points of the Muslim Brotherhood in the past... they used to enter some of the matches there in Cairo after the prayer was established... and I do not know if their dress was long or if they were excused by the school of Malik, until now the Muslim Brotherhood's fields. The point is, if it is like this, meaning you hold fast to the Shari'ah and do not lose anything in the way of playing football, any type of football, you do not lose any of the Islamic etiquettes, there is no harm. But if a Muslim joins an Islamic club and they do not declare his Islam, this is not permissible.
The questioner : ...؟
The Shaykh : This is a problem... you see their private parts, and then give this nice young man who maintains Islamic etiquette a kick, but when he grows up... he is affected, because the nature of a corrupt society is that it corrupts the good, because the many overpower the few. And this is an example that you can see with your own eyes: if you have a bunch of onions in your house with one onion, if corruption starts in it, you see the onion closest to it starts to have the corruption seep into it, while the one far from it, does the corruption pass from it? So the infection, my dear, is of two types:
A material infection.
And a moral infection.
So just as a material thing infects its kind from the material, so too does the moral infect its moral kind. And therefore he (peace and blessings be upon him) said... us Muslims, young and old, he said:, so in any case, you profit from it, you smell the fragrance for free, either you buy from him and profit again instead of going down to the market... the companion for free... or you smell a bad odor from him , so in any case, here you lose and there you profit. This is the example of the righteous companion, and that is the example of the bad companion. Therefore, he (peace and blessings be upon him) said in another hadith: , ... you know well, you have heard or read, the old Arabs, the majority of their dwelling was in tents, like the Bedouins, every owner of a tent would light a fire in front of his tent and cook a sheep in it, eat, and so on. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) spoke to the Arabs in their customs, he said: , meaning the Muslim does not live near the polytheist such that every one of the Muslim or the polytheist lights a fire and sees the other's fire. No, the Muslim and the polytheist do not see each other's fire, meaning the Muslim stays away from him.
The questioner : Meaning he does not live near him.
The Shaykh : He does not live near him, well done... he lives far away, why? Because his customs are not the customs of the Muslim, and the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) feared that the Muslim's customs would be affected by the disbeliever's customs. Do you see in the Muslim society, the believing, righteous, chaste, veiled girl enters the university, and after two or three years she graduates changed, developed... naturally, because they corrupted her in the university. Yes, there are strong believers who are patient, but there are those who influence them. Therefore, the Arab poet said:
"Do not ask about a man, but ask about his companion *** For every companion is imitated by his companion".
If you see a young man, look at who he walks with. If he walks with the Muslim youth, the bearded ones like your father and like me, it means he is good... and if you see him walking with the youth who wear tight pants that shape their thighs and more than that... this is deviant, this associates with the wicked. Therefore, the poet said:
"Do not ask about a man, but ask about his companion *** For every companion is imitated by his companion".
So it is not enough for you to be wearing what covers your private parts while the other people are exposing their private parts, that does not happen. You need to place yourself in a righteous society so that I am not tempted... because this covering is not enough, because it is not intended to cover our private parts so that we do not see that I am, for example, my skin is white or brown or black, and you are the same, no, there is something else... the pants, I am engaged, as long as we... have bone and flesh, and this is also a matter that completely contradicts Islam. And therefore, when we wrote the book "The Veil of the Muslim Woman", we placed there conditions for the woman's hijab... among which we said that the hijab should not be tight or transparent. Transparent means it is like... it shows the white flesh under the black sock. This is from the temptations of Satan, and some of the women...
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : But I brought you a clearer example, this is transparent, meaning it reveals the skin color, and this is not permissible, of course, Islamically. But if it does not reveal the skin color, but it defines the organ, that is also not permissible. So tell your father, let him put you in what I am not telling you, the wide pants, this does not exist. You wear the jilbab, that is better... by himself.
The Shaykh : how
The questioner : There are games... What is the ruling on participating in sports clubs that have football and others...?
The Shaykh : These clubs contain evils, and it is not permissible to attend them, as Allah the Exalted said:
then do not remain after the reminder with the wrongdoing people.
فَلا تَقْعُدْ بَعْدَ الذِّكْرَى مَعَ الْقَوْمِ الظَّالِمِينَThe questioner : ...؟
The Shaykh : This is a problem... you see their private parts, and then give this nice young man who maintains Islamic etiquette a kick, but when he grows up... he is affected, because the nature of a corrupt society is that it corrupts the good, because the many overpower the few. And this is an example that you can see with your own eyes: if you have a bunch of onions in your house with one onion, if corruption starts in it, you see the onion closest to it starts to have the corruption seep into it, while the one far from it, does the corruption pass from it? So the infection, my dear, is of two types:
A material infection.
And a moral infection.
So just as a material thing infects its kind from the material, so too does the moral infect its moral kind. And therefore he (peace and blessings be upon him) said... us Muslims, young and old, he said:
The example of the righteous companion is like the seller of musk, either he gives it to you - for free, for nothing - or you buy it, or you smell a pleasant odor from him.
مثل الجليس الصالح كمثل بائع المسك أما أن يعطيك - مجانًا بلاش - وإما أن تشتري وأما أن تشم منه رائحة طيبةAnd the example of the bad companion is like the blacksmith, either he harms you or you smell a bad odor from him.
ومثل الجليس السوء كمثل الحداد إما أن يؤذيك وإما أن تشم منه رائحةً كريهةThe Muslim and the mushrik (one who associates partners with Allah) do not see each other's fires.
المسلم والمشرك لا تتراءى نارهماThe Muslim and the mushrik (one who associates partners with Allah) do not see each other's fires.
المسلم والمشرك لا تتراءى نارهماThe questioner : Meaning he does not live near him.
The Shaykh : He does not live near him, well done... he lives far away, why? Because his customs are not the customs of the Muslim, and the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) feared that the Muslim's customs would be affected by the disbeliever's customs. Do you see in the Muslim society, the believing, righteous, chaste, veiled girl enters the university, and after two or three years she graduates changed, developed... naturally, because they corrupted her in the university. Yes, there are strong believers who are patient, but there are those who influence them. Therefore, the Arab poet said:
"Do not ask about a man, but ask about his companion *** For every companion is imitated by his companion".
If you see a young man, look at who he walks with. If he walks with the Muslim youth, the bearded ones like your father and like me, it means he is good... and if you see him walking with the youth who wear tight pants that shape their thighs and more than that... this is deviant, this associates with the wicked. Therefore, the poet said:
"Do not ask about a man, but ask about his companion *** For every companion is imitated by his companion".
So it is not enough for you to be wearing what covers your private parts while the other people are exposing their private parts, that does not happen. You need to place yourself in a righteous society so that I am not tempted... because this covering is not enough, because it is not intended to cover our private parts so that we do not see that I am, for example, my skin is white or brown or black, and you are the same, no, there is something else... the pants, I am engaged, as long as we... have bone and flesh, and this is also a matter that completely contradicts Islam. And therefore, when we wrote the book "The Veil of the Muslim Woman", we placed there conditions for the woman's hijab... among which we said that the hijab should not be tight or transparent. Transparent means it is like... it shows the white flesh under the black sock. This is from the temptations of Satan, and some of the women...
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : But I brought you a clearer example, this is transparent, meaning it reveals the skin color, and this is not permissible, of course, Islamically. But if it does not reveal the skin color, but it defines the organ, that is also not permissible. So tell your father, let him put you in what I am not telling you, the wide pants, this does not exist. You wear the jilbab, that is better... by himself.