YOU WILL NOT Enter Jannah If You Do This (Extremely Dangerous)

A smallest speck of that in your heart will bar you from entering Jannah. The Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم), he forbid us from eating in plates of gold and silver.

Why?

Umar (رضي الله عليه وسلم) took a stick and hit them. Those people bringing you food, working, are better than you. When that temptation comes, you know, I want to go smoke, I want to drink, I want to go look at haram, I want to go party. Control those. That's the advice.

Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Welcome to a new episode. In this episode, we're speaking about arrogance, something that could lead you to being banned from Jannah. The Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) mentioned the one who would have even a small atom of arrogance in his heart would not be allowed to enter Jannah. That's scary. I'm afraid. I want to enter Jannah. What does arrogance mean? Does that mean I cannot even buy nice clothes, buy a nice car? Is that going to ban me from entering Jannah?

No, that is not what that hadith means. In fact, the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم), in that hadith, explained what arrogance is.

So, what is arrogance?

Arrogance, as the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم), when he said this hadith, لَا يَدْخُلُ الْجَنَّةَ, that a person will not enter Jannah مَنْ كَانَ, whoever has مِدْقَالَ دَرَّةًا مِنَ الْكِبْرِ, whoever even has a small atom's weight of pride will not enter Jannah. The Sahaba, they asked the question that you ask. He said, "O Messenger of Allah, one of us likes nice clothes, one of us likes nice shoes." People who like nice things. Is that what it is? But the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) explained to them, "No." Verily, Allah is beautiful. He loves to see somebody dress well, to be well, to have that bounty upon them. He loves what is beautiful. He clarified that that's not what it means, but then told us what is arrogance. بَتَرَ الْحَقِّ, when you reject the truth and look down on others.

Interesting. Very interesting.

So what is kibra? It's not wearing nice clothes. It's not having nice shoes. It's not having a nice car. It's not having a nice house. That is not what kibra is. But when the truth is presented to you and you reject it, you're like, no, I don't want to listen to that. You're Wahhabi, you're this, you're that. Who cares about what you say in the Quran? I know better. Rejection of the truth. When somebody says, Qala Allah, and you don't care. And somebody says, Qala Rasool (AS), and you don't care. You say, no, my madhab and my imam and my sheikh, and I found a fatwa and I went here and I went Amazon fatwa shopping. That is kibir. Rejecting the truth. Or when you look down on others. Have a nice thobe, have nice shoes, but don't make fun of others. Don't be like, oh, my thobe is worth more than yours, or my shoes are worth more than yours.

Because what happens to you if You feel better than others, or you wear a nice thobe and you look down upon others. What could happen to you?

If you look down on others, as the hadith mentions, and you have even an atom's weight, darrah in Arabic was the lightest thing that they could describe. A smallest speck of that in your heart will bar you from entering Jannah.

Subhanallah.

As the hadith mentions. لَيَتْخُلُ الْجَنَّةَ (layat khulu al-jannah) They will not enter Jannah. Whoever has even the darrah, even a small speck of that kind of pride where you look down, oh, I'm rich, they're poor, they're brokies, they're not worth my time, and I'm this tribe and I'm this race and they're like this, that can bar you from entering Jannah.

SubhanAllah. So how can one humble himself and protect himself from arrogance?

First thing to understand that arrogance is not you dressing well. The Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) used to dress well. At times, he had patches in his clothes because he spent so much for the sake of Allah. But at times, he had beautiful Yemeni cloth, which was very expensive at the time, that he used to wear. So understand that it's not about how you dress, it's your priorities.

And he also mentioned, Allah is beautiful and He loves what's beautiful.

Another beautiful hadith, the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم), He said, Allah loves to see His bounties upon His slaves. Okay, can you say it again? Allah loves to see His bounties that He has blessed His slave with upon His slave.

What does that mean specifically?

Meaning that if Allah blessed you with wealth for you to buy nice clothes, have nice food, Allah loves to see that.

Okay.

But don't do that at the expense of your neighbors going hungry. As the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم), another hadith told us that the one who eats his belly's full but his neighbor goes hungry is not from amongst us. So, have nice clothes, have nice shoes, have a nice car, have a nice house, but take care of the needy. Pay your zakat, give your sadaqah, be involved in Islamic projects, help those that are in need. Don't look down on somebody because they have less than you. You never know, their status in front of Allah may be higher than yours. Don't reject the truth. If somebody comes, if you got a billion dollars, but you're dealing in riba, and somebody comes and tells you, "Achi, riba is haram." Don't be like, "Who are you? Who are you to tell me? I'm this, I'm that." You're nobody in front of Allah. That's arrogance. That rejection of truth and looking down on others. If you look at the Sahaba (صحاب), they had nice things. They had expensive camels, which would be equivalent to cars today. They had fast horses. They had Nice cloth, they had nice shoes, na'alayn, as we mentioned in the hadith that they liked nice shoes. Nothing wrong with that.

What would the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) tell them if he saw them with nice clothes, nice shoes, fast horses?

Never did the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) forbid them from such a thing. But he would remind them of the akhira. He would, even when they would talk about making trade, and one Sahabi, he came, he said, nobody made more money than me in the marketplace. The Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) didn't tell him, don't make money. Don't love? No. But he told them, do you want me to tell you something better than that? He said, make 2 rakaat before Fajr. He would get their priority to be the Akhira, but he didn't condemn them making money. In fact, many of the Sahaba, like Abdur Rahman ibn Auf, and as we mentioned repeatedly, Uthman ibn Affan (Radiyallahu Anhu), they used that wealth for the Deen. They made the Deen a priority. The Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) told them, you bought Jannah. And when you use that money for good, that's amazing. The great scholar of Islam, Abu Hanifa, at a time, he saw somebody enter the masjid with raggedy clothes, ripped clothes, dusty. And again, when you are focused on the Ummah and you are out there fighting fitr, or if you are out there worried about the Ummah and that's why your clothes are raggedy, that's understandable. But if you are not, you are just doing it for show.— it becomes kibra to wear raggedy clothes. SubhanAllah. Can you imagine that?

It comes back full circle.

Because you're not doing it because you spent everything for the sake of Allah, like Umar (ra) did when he was going to open Quds. You're doing it because you want to show people a fake humbleness. So Abu Hanifa, he saw a man coming like this, so he lifted one of the mats they had there, and he had money. He said, take this money, buy yourself some nice clothes. The man said, "No, no, I have money, but this is my humbleness." Abu Hanifa said, "No, humbleness is in the heart." Umar ibn al-Khattab (ra), once he saw some people in the masjid that weren't working. And they had like that, you know, like, "Ah, I'm so humble, I'm so pious." You know, when they shake hands, they go like this. It's a fake humbleness, right? And Umar (ra) saw people from outside were bringing them food and taking care of them. Those people were working, they were making money, and these guys were just sitting. So Umar (ra) took a stick and hit them. SubhanAllah. And he told them, this is not humbleness. Humbleness is in the heart. Go out there, and those people bringing you food, working, are better than you. So this is the first thing to understand. Humbleness, tawwadhu, is not about dressing shabby. It's about having that humbleness in your heart, even when you're wearing nice clothes. I have seen people that are broke but have kibra. And I've seen people that are billionaires, people that are Muslims that I have met myself, traveling to the Middle East, but they are so humble. They care about the poor. They have, subhanAllah, I'm not going to mention names, But I was with somebody who literally is a billionaire, a Muslim man. MashaAllah. And when I was going, he picked up my shoes and brought them to me. Older man, older than me. Can you imagine? But he had that humbleness in his heart. And you see some people, sometimes you go to a place, people don't know who you are. They don't know that MashaAllah Abu Lahya has successful business. They don't know you, right? And some guy will be broke, but he'll look down on you. Look at this guy, get out of my way, you know. I could buy you 10 times over, but that's going to be your test then. Are you going to act that way? Are you going to be patient? Even with your wealth, even with what Allah has blessed you with. The great scholars like Imam Malik and others, the people, the Tujjar of Madinah would bring them cloth, they would bring them things, they would bring them gifts. They accepted gifts, they lived Well, but then they took those gifts and helped the needy with them. They took that cloth and gave it to students that were needy. They didn't let the dunya affect them. So humbleness is where the dunya doesn't affect you. Where whether you have a billion or you have nothing is not where your humbleness comes from. Whether you have nice clothes or you have ripped clothes, not where humbleness is. It's in the heart.

So if people are listening to this and they want to humble themselves, they want to make sure they stay humble, what would be your best piece of advice?

First thing, always remember where will you end up. You're going to be in the Kaaba. This wealth will do nothing for you. You're going to be in front of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala on the Day of Judgment. What will that wealth do for you? Nothing, right? Then go and make that wealth for the sake of Allah. Be the next Uthman ibn Affan. Be the next Abdur Rahman ibn Auf. Be the next Zubayr ibn Awam. Be the next person who goes out and says, "Show me the market," and then comes back with wealth without begging anybody, without asking anybody, standing on their own two feet, and then spending for the sake of Allah, giving for the sake of Allah, humbling themselves for the sake of Allah. There is a beautiful hadith of Uthman (ra), and some of the books have mentioned it with other Sahabah's names and so on, but it's a beautiful statement. A Yahudi came to Uthman ibn Affan (ra). He said, your Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said, 'The dunya is the prison for the believer, but the paradise for the kafir.' He said, 'But I am poorer than you.' He told Usman (رضي الله عنه), 'You have more wives than me, you have more children than me, you have more property than me, you have more wealth than me, and you are the Khalifa. You have the power.' So, how is this your prison and my Jannah? Now, Uthman (ra) corrected his understanding that many of our Ummah don't understand. He told him, you don't understand the hadith of our Prophet (saw). He said, the Dunya, no matter how beautiful, how rich, how wealthy, how blessed it may be for the believer, but in comparison to what's in Jannah, it's still a prison. We still have to get up, make 5 times salah. We still have to give our Zakat. We still have to fast in Ramadan. We still have to live by the rules and regulations, and we still have, you know, difficulties and sickness and things to deal with in this dunya. So it's still a prison for us. But Jannah is so beautiful. That's a real paradise. He's saying for the kafir, the adab of Jahannam, of the Naar, of the Hellfire, is so horrible that no matter how broke they may be in this dunya, it's a Jannah compared to that.

SubhanAllah.

That's true. They don't live by rules.

Yeah.

They do whatever they want. We will do that in Jannah. So even though they may be broke in this dunya, that's the Jannah compared to Jannar. And even we may be blessed with a lot of wealth. May Allah bless the whole Ummah with wealth. I want good for every Muslim. But in comparison to Jannah, it's still a sajid. It's still a prison. The Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم), beautiful hadith. He forbid us from eating in plates of gold and silver. Really?

Yes.

Why? He said, "La hum fid dunya wa lakum fil akhira." For them, for the kuffar, let them live up that uselessness. But for you, it will be in Jannah. But the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم), he himself had a very strong and good camel. In fact, I did a series on the Seerah of the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم). We mentioned the different camels he had and their names and so on. They were expensive camels. He had expensive armors and swords. There were things at that time that were expensive to the people, but they were practical, they were needed. Right? So if you need a good car to make sure that you're on time and make sure that, you know, you're not sitting on the side of a freeway broke down and you have a car that's, you know, whatever it may be needed, go buy it. If you need 2 cars, go buy them. If that's what you need, no problem. To wear nice clothes so you're dignified, so you represent Islam well, Good. But don't waste. Don't go into israf. Don't sit there and eat in gold and silver. What's the point in that?

I really like how you mentioned the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) saying Allah is beautiful and He loves what's beautiful. Yes. And He loves to see the blessing He gives His servant and them making use of it. Yes.

That's beautiful. That's beautiful, right? This is not kibr. When Allah blesses you, and you use that, this is thanking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. But when people let that distract them from their akhira, when they lose themselves and start being racist or start being prejudiced against the poor or start being classists, meaning I'm from a certain class of people and I will only marry somebody who's a billion, this is where kibr comes in.

How would you help someone humble themselves, constantly remind themselves? You gave a few advices. Do you have any more tips when it comes to just always keeping that top of mind to humble yourself? To make sure, because it's difficult. Imagine it literally says if you have an atom of arrogance, you will be banned from Paradise. That's a big statement.

People are afraid of it. My advice is from the Quran. Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala tells us, for the one who's rebellious, Who breaks those laws of Allah, who breaks the boundaries. You know, taghut is to give what is due to Allah to other than Allah. Taghah is to rebel against what has been ordained by Allah (SWT). Wa athar al hayat ad-dunya. Why? What does Allah (SWT) give about the one who is rebellious? He prefers the worldly life. So that's the first thing. Earn money, have wealth, live nice, but always make the akhira your goal. When it's a question of akhira and dunya, give akhira precedence, right? Because you want to be the opposite of that. Because what does Allah (SWT) say about those people that are rebellious against the laws of Allah, those that prefer the worldly life? Their end, their final destination is a hellfire. For the one that fears the maqam, the standing in front of his Rabb, there's the advice. Always think on the Day of Judgment, I have to stand in front of Allah and I have to give account. So if I said, you know what, fasting is for the poor people, I'm rich, I'm gonna go out with my kafir friends and eat in Ramadan, Imagine standing and giving account in front of Allah. If you're like, you know what, don't try to tell me that drinking is haram, I'm rich, I want to go party, I'm with some celebrities, I'm out here in a bar drinking, I got to get subs, I got to get popular, so I'm going to go out to the shisha hookah bar and hang out with these kuffar watching belly dancers and all this nonsense because you want to be accepted by a bunch of kuffar in their circles, or if you're going to go do a haram on Things like the Epstein Island, because you're trying to make those connects. If you're doing those kinds of things, imagine standing in front of Allah on the Day of Judgment. What does Allah (SWT) then tell us? That they control their lower desires from themselves. Meaning that when that temptation comes, I want to go smoke, I want to drink, I want to go look at haram, I want to go party. They control those desires. That's the advice. Then verily, for that person, Jannah is their destination. So clear.

That's what you got to do. So now, Alhamdulillah, we clearly defined what's arrogance, what's not arrogant, how to humble yourself. Now let's say somebody, Alhamdulillah, has wealth. The halal way, and he managed to have a great life from it, and he would like to help others as well acquire wealth. Is it a good thing? Is it a bad thing to help others when it comes to business and them growing wealth?

That's a very good thing. Really? Yes, because the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) told us, لا يومِنُ أَحَدَكُمْ, one of you will not be a perfect true believer until يُحِبَّلَ أَخِيهِ مَا يُحِبَّلَ نَفْسِهِ, until he loves for his brother that which he loves for himself. So, as we want a comfortable life for ourselves, none of us want to be struggling and begging and asking and working 10-hour days and not being able to make our bills. We should love that for our brothers. And that's a sign of not being arrogant, when you want your brother to be successful as well. And if he does well, you're happy for him. You don't have that hasad, you don't have that shuh in your heart. This is the arrogance. What? I made money, how can he make more money than me? No. I have to look down on this person.

No.

We think, I made it, alhamdulillah, Allah blessed me with it. It's not from me. Allah blessed me, may Allah bless my brother. And if he does better than me, I say, barakallah, may Allah bless him more.

Exactly.

And that is humbleness, 100%.

And there's an advice on this, because a lot of brothers, I see them making money and then they get afraid of sharing how they're doing it. They think, oh, my rizq will go away, I should gatekeep it to myself. One of the best advices I have is you will not expect, you will not taste true wealth until you get it yourself, you help others get it, and you let it go. When it comes to the knowledge you had, you don't gatekeep it as if it's the only thing you have, because then you will be limited within your knowledge. You'll have what's called a scarcity mindset. Whereas if you let it, if you spread, if you share it, you have— normally even it's a concept they have what's called an abundance mindset where you think— they call it thinking in abundance. For us, it's rizq, that's from Allah (AJ). Yes, but thinking in abundance basically means you'll, you'll help the brother who needs help, even if that means it could potentially harm your business because you're sharing a tip that, you know, you're using yourself. Maybe he would saturate your market or work with your competitors. But people forget that this advice you have, the business you have, comes from Allah (AJ). So you sharing that tip because he told you, you will not be upon your religion until you love for your brother what you love for yourself. If you share what you'd love him to share with you, then you're pleasing Allah, the one who gave you that tip in the first place. Next time, the next advice you'll need will come from Allah. And that's why people should not gatekeep or withhold information or withhold any advices or whatever. Whoever would need help— you know something that's interesting? Sometimes I had some of my friends who were competitors in the same business I'm running And it happened multiple times with multiple businesses, and I would give them advice freely. I would say, sure, this is how I'm doing it, let me know if you have any questions, I could help you out. And sometimes they ask me honestly, they're like, why are you helping me? I mean, I know we're cool, but I'm gonna make money, that means it's gonna go away from you. And there's a few answers I give them. Sometimes I say I'm just a crazy guy. Sometimes it's nice to have competition. But if you think about it, are you genuinely wealthy? Are you genuinely good at business? If you're only good because of the limited amount of knowledge you have that you gatekeep, or you're really good at business if you feel comfortable sharing it because your skill set would allow you to get it again, to go and get wealth again, to actually please Allah and the tawakkul you have from sharing those tips and not withholding because you know your rizq will come from Allah (عز و جل), not from the tips and the skills you have.

Know this, your rizq can never be taken by anybody else. If you don't help your brother Somebody else, some kafir or some fasiq, some fajr, is going to come into the business and he'll figure things out that you figure. You think you're the first one to figure things out?

Yeah. And you'll miss the reward.

Yeah, and you will miss the reward. And you may have a competitor then that will be at odds with you, that will be against you, instead of a brother who would be appreciative that you helped them out. 100%. And this is again from humbleness that you humble yourself and you don't think, how can somebody else make money? You say, look, if Allah wrote it for them, let me be a benefit for them. Allah will give me the ajr, and you humble yourself and know, man tawadu lillah rafa'u. The Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) told us, whoever humbles themselves for the sake of Allah, Allah will raise them. Sometimes people, even with us in da'wah, will come at us very wrong. Tu'at and others will do us wrong. And they'll say things like, why do you have these sahabah? Why are you popular? And what, you know, how we tell them, look, everything is from Allah. And if we do everything according to the Quran, according to the Sunnah, according to the way the Salaf al-Ummah, we don't compromise, we don't do this, we move forward, Allah raises the ranks, Allah raises the da'wah, Allah spreads it. We don't compromise. And people that have hasad and the thing called shuh, and Shu'ah is when you are like, why does he have it? I don't want him to have it. I want to have it. Then you cannot have Iman and that in your heart. Because the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم), in one hadith, he told us, لا يستَمِعُ, it does not come together, حَسَدُ وَالإِمَانُ, hasad and Iman in the chest of a believer. These two cannot be. In another hadith, he said, Shu'ah, like this feeling of why him and not me, it cannot come together. So, we humble ourselves. We don't have this pride of just me, by helping each other. And may Allah bless you with a good car and a good house and a good pious wife and good children, healthy life. And may Allah bless me with it and others with it.

Yeah, Ameen.

Ameen, Ya Rabbil Alameen.

Beautiful reminders, Allahu Akbar. MashaAllah. So Sheikh, give us a nice summary.

In summary, understand this. That kibr and arrogance is not in the things that you own. It's not in nice clothes and nice shoes, because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala loves to see His bounties upon His slaves. It's not in the things that you own, but it's in what you carry in your heart. It's in your attitude towards others. It's in how you treat people. That is arrogance. That will stop you from entering Jannah when you look down on others. It will stop you from entering Jannah when you reject the truth, when you reject the Quran, when you reject the hadith, when you reject what the scholars have been upon because you think you know better, because you think that you're wealthy and nobody can tell you, that is arrogance. Instead, we need to humble ourselves. We need to lower the wing of mercy to our brothers. We need to help others. We need to understand that the true value of a person is not in things, but in the taqwa that they have. Allah (سبحانه وتعالى) did not give precedence to an Arab over an Ajam, or an Ajam over an Arab, or a black over white, or white over black, but on taqwa. On piety. That when you understand, then these worldly things will not affect you. Then the akhira will guide you, and that is where we need to be.

In summary, just be a nice guy, man.

Be a cool guy.

That's the best way to put it together. Humble yourself. You'll make money. If someone else makes more money, let them be. Make dua for them. Always make dua for other people. Tell them, may Allah grant you even more. Be happy, be a cool guy, and you'll have a happy life, insha'Allah.