Today\u2019s topic is on invading privacy and concealing sins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dear brothers, we are all guilty of sin and making mistakes.\nHowever, there is one thing in making that mistake and another in publicising\nthe mistake and telling others about it. This is something that we are advised\nagainst by Allah SWT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The imam mentioned the 19th<\/sup> ayat of Sura An-Nur\nin reference to this. It is translated to say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dear brothers, as we can deduce from this ayat, Allah SWT\nlikes to keep the sins of people private and therefore we should strive to do\nthe same, both in the case of sins we commit and of those we hear others\ncommitting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This commandment of Allah SWT is backed up by the actions of\nthe Prophet SAWS. The imam mentioned the following hadith in reference to this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n I heard\nAllah’s Messenger (\ufdfa) saying. “All the sins of my followers will be\nforgiven except those of the Mujahirin (those who commit a sin openly or\ndisclose their sins to the people). An example of such disclosure is that a\nperson commits a sin at night and though Allah screens it from the public, then\nhe comes in the morning, and says, ‘O so-and-so, I did such-and-such (evil)\ndeed yesterday,’ though he spent his night screened by his Lord (none knowing\nabout his sin) and in the morning he removes Allah’s screen from himself.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dear brothers, we can see from this that the importance of\nconcealing our sins is very important. This is a crucial reminder in todays age\nas we live in a world of mass information and communication across multiple\nplatforms. From Facebook to WhatsApp, from smart phones to CCTV, our actions\nand deeds are recorded and distributed greater and faster than ever before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We need to be mindful of this and try harder in the first\ninstance to not commit sins that are ever more at risk at being shared across\nthese platforms. Alongside that, we need to make a conscious effort in not\nsharing the sins of others. Whether it\u2019s through gossip in the whatsapp groups\nwe are in or through shared recordings that is so easily passed around, we need\nto be mindful that this is all a potential modern trap to have us disclose sins\nto others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By making this effort and concealing the sins of ours and\nothers, we can hope to be of those who are included in the group that is\nmentioned in this hadith of the Prophet SAWS who said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The servant (who conceals) the faults of others in\nthis world, Allah would conceal his faults on the Day of Resurrection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today\u2019s topic is on invading privacy and concealing sins. Dear brothers, we are all guilty of sin and making mistakes. However, there is one thing in making that mistake and another in publicising the mistake and telling others about it. This is something that we are advised against by Allah SWT. The imam mentioned the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_regular_price":[],"currency_symbol":[],"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[362,363],"class_list":["post-2571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon","tag-concealing-sins","tag-privacy"],"blocksy_meta":[],"post_slider_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","post_slider_layout_landscape_large":"","post_slider_layout_portrait_large":"","post_slider_layout_square_large":"","post_slider_layout_landscape":"","post_slider_layout_portrait":"","post_slider_layout_square":"","full":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Indeed, those who like that immorality should be spread [or\npublicized] among those who have believed, will have a painful punishment in\nthis world and the Hereafter. And Allah knows and you do not know.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n