Should religious Muslims focus on avoiding sin or on doing good?

ago I was thinking how did this person how on Earth can you know that type of stuff the way the way I mean with the with the type of oh no actually you know one thing thing Jalal didn't realize is it's in that book as well oh yes no we said this and but however what he didn't realize is it was transmitted in the of over there under this name and that's actually the same thinking what the how how does somebody do that we're thinking that Allah maybe in a few generations to come people sitting here will be talking like that see it's impossible seems

impossible possible to us it is nothing for Allah this is Islam for us in our life in this Century in this place the Baton that has been placed in our hands but we have to take this seriously but in its true reality you see one of the problems that we seem to understand is that we think and I say we I mean this is a common notion out there that Islam is something like okay now that now I've become religious now it means I've just got turned into somebody

so boring and so uh I'm so grumpy I'm so like oh I'm so burdened by death it's like I'm the only one that's going to die oh God damn it you know like I'm so you so what you laughing about do you know you're going to die God this is what seriously seems to be the image of Islam to most people it seems to be just like like a a boring version of like just being Gothic except a boring version of it that's what oh and now we just go to the

Masid that's all we do come home that's all we do you know why don't we just read and everything I'm so sinful this is another this is another element I'm so sinful I'm so sinful I'm so s okay we get the point so sinful I think you need to understand that that is not what Allah has sent you on this Earth for just to remember how sinful you are that is part of your human nature that is just being human all to human there's nothing wrong with I mean I'm not trying to justify the things but what I'm trying to say is I

believe I sincerely believe this that we are in an age where we need to just focus on the positives don't worry about the the the wrongdoings and stuff like we are in an age where we need to just focus on the good things on you know okay somebody's doing all this wrong all this wrong whatever well okay what are you doing good as well let's bump that up so okay are you are you learning are you doing this are you doing that are you giving in charity are you let's let's focus on the good things the bad things don't worry about it everybody they can take that that's

not a fwa by the way somebody said I don't worry too much about Temptation because we what is it no I don't worry too much about avoiding Temptation because with age it'll just avoid me the thing is look you can take this approach of and people have in a particular time and age they have taken this approach of we're going to be so you know it's all about being very um almost aesthetic non-world and being very sin focused and although I do find that quite almost you know almost

Catholic in a way but I I think in our day and age based on the guidance of the Hadith the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam said to his companions that you are in an age that if you leave one tenth of This Dean you will be destroyed he said but a time will come with a

people that if those people just cling onto a tenth of this de they will be successful I seriously believe we are in the in that age I believe that it's F it's about focusing on The Good The Prophet said welcome people don't scare them away make things easy easy for people don't make it difficult it's not about going trigger happy on Haram there's nothing it doesn't Haram you know and the thing is that people think this is the irony pick up any book that actually

dates back to the salaf I I know there's very few but things that have quotations actual quotations from like let's say you have a book from Imam Malik which is printed in five almost volumes can vary know is the m full of his fwa his students are asking him what do you think about this what do you think about this what do you think about this answering answering answering you show me on how many occasions he uses the word haram he'll say I don't think you should do that it's better not to do

this you know he'll kind of like he he'll rebuke it but he will I dislike that I discourage that oh the people who went before me didn't like this it doesn't go Haram Haram Haram Haram Haram seldom they do use the word haram but it's seldom used where things are so clearly Haram they will say and I mean by clear as in scholarly clear not like you know just clear to some person who sees things in an ultra 2D black and white sense he thinks everything's Haram or everything not not like that clear that person is on enlightened

level of clarity but on the in the real sense it's not that clear that these things are sometime they are so complex you know Imam al- mazeri he says he used to I mean obviously classic almost about a thousand years ago very famous IM AB abdah Mai has a commentary on sah Muslim known as he writes that sometimes he would struggle to condemn something because he could always think of he always knew a fwa of one of the or some of the F that said it was permissible and I I mean I I say this with a bit of dare daring in

there but I seriously can promise you there will be opinions that I could which I won't share with you but I could share you'd be shocked that what I've said things that's prise that's You' be surprised how far and vast this tradition of Islam has been with people people have different takes it's not I'm not saying they were always right in what they said but there was debate on things so go and the irony is today people will judge you for not saying things are Haram they will say you know that person he is too lenient he's a liberal the sellout is a this is a that why just because you don't find it clear

enough to declare something to be Haram because you don't find the evidence is that clear I'm just saying the focus has shifted from by default things are actually permissible the dean is one that welcomes yes make things easy you know give CL it's shifted to things are almost Haram by default that's why it seems to be somebody it's Haram before you even before you even ask a question Haram I Haram it this is what the attitude has become people they and if you don't concur with them it's that

person are deviant or this that just read the read the fwa of the Sal they did not used to go trigger happy on Haram they used to be very very reserved when it came to Haram they used to say that you know if I say something is Haram you know what if an Allah has said it it wasn't where does that leave me where does that leave me so so this is some of the things some of the questions that do concern us and we will only truly get a better understanding when we

ourselves get involved us guys everybody here people start learning on their own level everybody on some level should be doing Arabic everybody should on some level be learning Arab it's not a difficult language you could seriously learn it easily within half a year 6 months easily within a year you know it reasonably well and that's by giving it what 20 25 minutes a day now that a certain amount of acquainting yourself with how to worship how to do what the term for it is just having and but more than all of doing