Beware of modern idolatry

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Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds.
And peace and blessings be upon the most honorable and most righteous,
Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him,
and upon him, peace and blessings be upon him,
and upon everyone, and upon everyone.
My brothers and sisters,
the thought I want to share with you is that
idolatry or worshiping of idols
is something that changes from time to time
in the way of the shape of the idols.
Now, I don't mean the idols from being
marble statues of Jupiter and Zeus
became the stone statues of the Hindus worship and so forth.
I'm not talking about that.
I'm saying that
idol worship is not restricted to icons.
It's not restricted to stone.
It's not restricted to pictures.
It's not restricted to symbols
like the cross and others.
Idol worship is really something
where a person sees benefit or harm
in others than Allah
and therefore obeys that thing
where he sees the benefit and harm
instead of obeying Allah .
And my dhalil for this is from the Quran
where Allah said to the Prophet
Have you not seen those who have taken as their ila?
Now, Allah did not use any other word.
He did not use some other word, you know, more important.
Ila is an object of worship.
It's a deity.
Say, La ilaha illa Allah.
There is no deity.
There is no one worthy of worship except Allah.
Right?
We are not saying La Khaliqu illa Allah
or La Maliqu.
No, we say La ilaha.
The one who is worthy of worship.
Only and only Allah.
Allah used that word with respect to desires.
Now, usually we tend to translate desires as,
you know, just the haram stuff.
Somebody wants to drink alcohol or smoke or vape or whatnot
and fornication and this and that.
All of those things, yes.
But it's not restricted to that.
So desire is anything.
As I said, my understanding,
may Allah protect me if I'm wrong.
My understanding is that the Hawa is anything
which you give precedence to because you like it
over Allah .
Now, one of the, to me, therefore,
the biggest idol that we worship today
as so-called monotheism,
is the Prophet.
So-called modern society.
Is technology.
Because for us, technology can do no wrong.
Our icons are people who are technology barons.
Who have technology companies,
who are billionaires in the technology field.
They are technology manipulators,
not necessarily inventors.
Because that's another aspect of this.
It's a combination of technology combined with wealth.
Because how many people, for example,
know the names of the inventors?
For example, one of the things that everything
or everything runs on is the algorithm.
Right?
Algorithms, they bring stuff to you
and they choose and whatnot.
How many people know where it started?
How many people even know how the name came to be?
How does the name algorithm come from?
Where does it come from?
I'm not going to tell you.
You look it up.
So the point I'm saying is that
we are not even excited by or
we are not even look up to the actual inventors.
We look at the Elon Musk's of the world and others
who are people who manipulate that technology,
monetize that technology
and make money out of that technology.
Right? I'm not against the idea of that.
I mean, if somebody is doing that in a legal way,
alhamdulillah, if he makes a lot of money, that's fine.
Let him do that.
I'm just saying that
what do you respect?
The reason I'm saying this is because
the other day somebody said to me
talking about robotic surgery for bypass,
hard bypass.
So this person said to me,
the bypass operation
is nowadays being done in such and such a place
by robotic surgery.
So there is a, you know, non-human thing there, AI.
Powered, which is actually doing the surgery.
And that is saving a lot of lives.
So this robotic surgery is saving a lot of lives.
So this was the statement made to me.
And again, the statement made to me was one of my,