Shadee Elmasry – Half Way to Damascus – NBF 407
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The conversation discusses the history and actions of HTS, including the transition from HTS to HTS and the need for trust between government and people. The return of Sayyidina Isa bin Maryam to the throne and the return of Sayyidina Isa bin Maryam to the throne are also discussed. The podcast emphasizes the importance of protecting one's Islam while also reminding listeners to stop any fears or legal activities. The podcast is meant to encourage people to be part of Islam and their emotions out, while also reminding listeners to stop any misled expectations.
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Welcome everybody to the Safina Society nothing but
facts live stream on a Thursday, a Thursday
in which I believe we're now officially in
the winter because we got our first set
of flurries today.
Did you guys see that?
It was five minutes, but given the past,
we'll take it.
Right.
So let's get straight into our issue because
I hate and I despise long form introductions
that drive the user crazy.
And you just keep hitting forward, forward, forward,
forward.
Excuse me.
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And while I read this, Omar will fire
up our Halab, our winter, not Halab, not
restricted to Halab, but it's our winter drive
to make sure the Syria we could we're
doing our part to help the Syrian people
get through the winter.
And as you see here, the title of
this stream, the freedom fighters are halfway to
Damascus.
Now, that's controversial to say freedom fighters, because
some people believe that they're Qaeda, ISIS rebels
and which whom we don't support.
But when I look at the people's reaction.
People are celebrating down there, that doesn't make
something right or wrong, but it kind of
tells me that they're not being mistreated and
that they know who these people are.
It seems that the truth of the matter,
the closest thing to the truth is that
there are a lot of different people involved
in these rebellions, or I should say, this
freedom fighting, it seems that there's a lot
more than merely one party.
And given the way that communication is so
widespread these days, there are a lot of
people celebrating with these alleged rebel soldiers, as
opposed to free legit children of the nation.
That's what it seems to be that they're
like, they're there, they are the children of
the nation, they're just local Syrian people who
got involved in in these groups, because there
was maybe nothing else.
And as I said earlier, it's not totally
far fetched to imagine that a group may
begin very evil, and will morph and morph
and break off and morph again and break
off again.
And then other groups are added to it.
And then at the end, the result of
that is a whole different thing, something that
is palatable to you.
So I want to read a couple things
here.
The first piece of news is that these
freedom fighters slash rebels based on your perspective,
because I'm not jamming my view down anyone
else's throat, other things I will jam down
people's throat, because if it's a Qatari doctrine
fact, you know that you can't entertain any
other opinion.
But this is not the case, people are
free to have any opinion they want about
these rebels slash freedom fighters.
And as we have from people like Bilal
Abdelkarim, I've been watching some of his videos.
And other people like Tawqeer Sharif, he says
it is mixed, it's really mixed.
There cannot be one set statement, things are
mixed, like Bilal Abdelkarim is really against Joe
Lanny.
He thinks the guy is purely a rebel
to be politician that had nothing to do
with Islam.
That's a big opinion.
But then again, at the end of the
day, what is it?
It's an opinion.
It's just epistemically, it's hearsay.
Epistemically, I'm not saying he's lying.
I'm just saying, where would I put that?
If someone said that, that's it.
We don't know in the man's heart what
he is or isn't, Joe Lanny.
We don't know anything about Joe Lanny.
At least new viewers to this Syrian thing
don't know anything about him.
But let's take a look at this was
very interesting, is that Hama has been taken.
And one of my sources of news is
somebody that Assad supporters don't like, they don't
like him at all.
But I'm only judging by what I see.
I can only judge by what I see.
And I see that he's just putting out
pieces of information and he puts his evidence.
And he says that Hama, which is you
go Aleppo, Hama, Damascus.
Hama is halfway to Damascus, but you have
to go a little bit to the west.
And you know that what I'm about to
say, fire up a map for us so
we could see where the cities of Syria
are.
The fall of Hama, Charles Lister says, this
is the person I mentioned that I know
the Assad supporters, they're not going to like
him.
But to me, I can only judge by
what I see.
I don't see any slants.
I see him giving us some news here.
And he's been covering Syria for 15 years.
Why?
Who knows?
Who knows why these Westerners do these things,
to be honest with you.
Ever wonder about this, Omar?
How?
Maybe he married a Syrian woman.
Who knows?
Like, what is the motivation for somebody to
study a country 7,000 miles away for
the last 15 years of his life?
Tell me, would you ever think about this?
Like these people who study, let's say, expert
in China, expert in Japan, expert in Brazil.
Why?
What is no person?
There's got to be a personal motivation.
I don't get it.
I just don't get it.
I never understood Islamists guy, his whole career
studying Islam.
I know where it started.
It started at Soas University of London for
the sake of colonizing.
So I get that.
I don't understand how someone ends up studying
a religion that he doesn't believe in and
has no family related to it.
What's the person?
What's the motivation?
I don't get it.
But any event, I'm not going to get
into his personal life.
It's just, I'm just throwing out my ta
'ajjub on that.
He says that the fall of Hama is
going to catalyze or accelerate developments elsewhere.
As you can see on the map here,
Halab is way up there, Aleppo.
Halab, Latinized as Aleppo.
Go down southwest to Hama.
Let's get Damascus in the picture.
Damascus is over, oh, it's not southeast.
I don't even know my geography.
It continues.
It's, oh, so it is almost like a
slanted straight line.
I thought Damascus was inland a little bit
more.
So I thought it was more like an
arrow shape.
Yeah, like a wide, but it's not.
It's actually Halab, Hama, Homs, Damascus.
Okay.
It's one.
What is that?
It's, it's the M5.
So we have to have British names for
our highways now.
All right.
Halab, Hama, Homs got to be next.
Then they're marching down to Damascus.
And as you can see, Lebanon comes up
a little bit right next to Homs.
Lebanon, and then Damascus to Lebanon is nothing.
That's like a very short drive from Damascus
to the borderline of, of Lebanon.
Very short drive there.
Okay.
The Assad regime is falling very quickly.
Charles Lister has a little article on this.
We'll read in a second.
If I don't get pay, pay walled on
this night and yeah, so I want to
read this, but I also want to tell
you guys and read about Abu Muhammad Al
Jawlani.
He said that he's willing to dismantle the
whole HTS to make it a national, you
know, to, to ship he's continuing to shift
and evolve himself.
So he started off with, I don't know
who then, but now he's now shifting to
be sort of like a, he doesn't want
to have a, a, a, a fringe group
association who wants to dissolve it all rebranding
or absorb the local police, for example, make
it like a national front, a name that
sounds palatable to people, right?
Give it a few weeks.
He may trim his beard too.
I mean, that's the pattern, right?
That's the pattern because you can't go and
say, um, this, that, and the other in
the national world stage and, and not having
like with that appearance.
I'm not saying I'm, I'm don't think I'm
making fun of beards.
I'm all about beards, right?
I'm all about it, but I'm just saying
the rebranding, the pattern is that's what we
should expect, right?
Imagine if a Taliban came around and said,
no, we are the Afghan national party.
Like, what are you guys saying?
You're not, that's not you.
You're an Islamic party, right?
And they stuck with it.
They're, they're now the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan,
the Amara, uh, Amara, even they're accurate by
fiqh.
They're even accurate by fiqh, right?
Uh, to call themselves an Amara, as opposed
to like a Khilafah, which is ISIS, which
is completely inaccurate because nobody made you the
Khalifa.
They're the Amara and the Shahada's there.
And of course I know everyone's going to
say they don't treat women properly.
I'm going to say, okay, I'm going to
assume your facts are correct.
Fine.
We can disagree with them on that and
denounce that too.
Right.
Omar saying, no, it's not facts.
Well, who knows what the facts are?
I don't know.
This is program is called nothing but facts.
Bring me Qatari evidence and that's a fact,
but you bring me hearsay and some people
said this, some people said that I'm going
to tell you, okay, if you're correct, our
position is this.
If you're, if these facts are correct, or
if these statements are correct, then our position
is that how can we lose?
Right.
So if they mistreat women, then we say
to them, we support you in general, but
we don't support you in specific, not this
specific issue, fix it, build some schools, build
a women's gym.
That's what they're saying.
Yeah.
That's their argument.
Over the past week, the future of Bashar
al-Assad's regime has been placed squarely into
question.
A coalition of armed opposition factions has gone
on the offensive in Northern Syria, capturing some
two 50 cities, towns, villages, text this person
right here and ask him if he can
come on the live stream right now.
Yeah, no, it's Danish.
Syria's second largest city of Halab was captured
in 24 hours.
Okay.
So they got 20, a coalition of our
opposition.
In fact, it has gone on the offensive
in Northern Syria, capturing some 250 cities, towns,
and villages.
The second largest city in Syria.
I didn't know this was Halab.
And they captured that in 24 hours.
As Syrian regime front lines collapsed one after
another, after nearly five years of territorial lines
of control being frozen in the country, these
are dramatic game changing developments for years, conventional
wisdom on Syria.
Had held that the crisis there was frozen
with hostilities, a thing of the past and
Assad's regime, the inevitable victor with that international
attention waned Syria focused diplomacy, uh, ended and
governments gradually, uh, divested resources away from policy
aimed at Syria and onto other global challenges.
Meanwhile, as conditions in Syria festered Arab governments
took the step to collectively re-engage Assad
beginning in 2023, effectively normalizing his status across
the Middle East for policy makers in the
U S the fact that regional actors appear
to be taking charge of Syria of the
Syria file was an encouraging sign and a
source of relief.
More recently driven by opposition to the EU's
policy of isolating Assad and believing him, he
consolidated his victory.
10 European states led by Italy joined forces
to seek to re-engage Assad's regime.
So he was really on his way to
legitimacy.
And it looks like that's all this newspaper's
the, the, this magazine is going to give
us.
Let's see.
Yeah.
They're not going to give us more.
It's just, there's a paywall here.
So forget that.
Okay.
Let's continue reading.
Charles Lister has been working for a full
time on Syria since the crisis began 14
years ago.
Okay.
There really is no understanding of how remarkable
the losses imposed on Assad's regime have been
over the past week.
And a large reason, the biggest reason for
this lies with HTS.
So he has a Twitter thread, hopefully pretty
much his article and let's read.
You got to load up already.
Okay.
Militarily, HTS has invested enormously since 2020 in
enhancing combat capabilities, improving professionalism, tightening its
structure and command and control from an officer
class to special forces, nighttime units, and an
entire drone force, it changed the game.
The expansion of units like Asa'ib al
-Hamra and introduction of Saraya al-Harari and
Kata'ib al-Shaheen, along with large-scale
indigenous rockets, rocket and missile production, means they're
producing them at home, Syria first policy, has
created a force that Assad's regime has seriously
struggled to defend against, let alone outmaneuver.
But just as significant as military capabilities is
the underground work, is the groundwork HTS has
done to facilitate its advance, years of engagement
with tribes, minority notables, and other social bodies
that exist beyond greater Idlib, this has been
crucial.
Having spent four plus years engaged in sensitive
community engagement and with groups traditionally hostile to
the likes of HTS, the group has developed
a knack for diplomacy.
In recent days, it's put this experience to
work on multiple fronts to significant effect.
In areas of Northern Hama, for example, HTS
has negotiated intensively with Ismaili notables, with Assad
regime military commanders, and with Sunni tribes, most
resulting in peaceful takeover, safe exits, and some
publicly acknowledged regime defections.
In the Kurdish area of Halab, HTS's line
of communication with the SDF, remember what we
said, we talked about these groups the other
day, the SDF being the Syrian Defense Force
or whatever, whatever they are, they're the Marxist
Kurds, they're different from their brethren, Sunni Muslim
Kurds.
Most, if I'm not mistaken, Kurds are all
Sunni.
However, this group, this leadership is, they're the
Marxists.
And that explains why when you divide up
Syria into Sunnis, Shiites, and Kurds, you notice
the Kurd part there doesn't make sense.
But really it would be Sunni, Arab Sunnis,
Arab Shiites, and Kurdish atheists, because Marxists tend
to be atheists.
We could just say Marxists to be safe.
But who knows if this group would ever,
like if the majority of Kurds are Sunnis,
that would tilt the balance.
But in any event, the Arab Sunnis would
have a dotted line to Turkey.
The Arab Shiites would have a dotted line
to Iran.
The Kurds, Marxist Kurds, would have a dotted
line to the Americans.
And that's what would happen.
In the Kurdish areas of Aleppo, that communication
has been pragmatic, constructive, and effective.
Now, then there's the SNA.
Remember, that's the Turkish group, the Syrian National
Alliance, the Turkish funded group.
Brief attempts at negotiation, on the other hand,
rapidly devolved into threats and then fighting.
In multiple areas of Aleppo, long held by
Assad, local community elders have called on HTS
to deploy forces to their areas and intervene
against SNA abuses, threats, and criminal behavior, and
to get working on repairs and service distribution.
Don't underestimate the significance of HTS's recent statements
and rhetoric towards Christians, Alawites, Kurds.
They cannot merely be PR.
As it sets an irreversible precedent, Jawlani has
spent years purging those who'd critique such steps.
He's walking stabler ground now.
And he has here a press release of
Jawlani basically telling his forces and announcing to
the minority groups their safety, because of course,
ISIS, their whole reputation was the exact opposite
of all this.
Okay.
Hey, at Tahrir al-Sham has also invested
heavily in its semi-technocratic salvation government, which
comprises 11 ministries and many other public sector
service bodies.
The SSG, what is SSG again?
Syrian Socialist Guard or something?
Operates closely with external aid and international non
-government organizations and the UN has a permanent
office liaisoning with the SSG in Idlib.
Someone find out the SSG exactly so we
don't mess that up.
The SSG has sought to replicate the conventional
acts of sovereign government, running a census, issuing
ID, I love this, issuing ID cards, running
and regulating banks, issuing, so start, they're walking
the walk basically.
Syrian Salvation Government and what's their angle?
What are they?
Are they the local Syrian?
And what group are they?
Where did they originate out of?
Just locals?
They come out of HTS.
Okay.
Start acting like the government and you'll eventually
probably be the government.
Start walking the walk.
No one's going to hand you rule on
a plate.
Some will dismiss HTS and the SSG's early
proto-governance steps in Aleppo as superficial, but
after 14 years of debilitating humanitarian crisis and
Assad's corruption and economic decline, first impressions could
count for a lot in defining what comes
next.
I love this.
A group just comes out and starts taking
the census and issuing ID cards.
You guys know as a comic relief here,
there used to be a group called Hizb
al-Takfeer, Jamaat al-Takfeer wal-Hijrah, a
group that makes Takfeer and migration, right?
And comedy, comedy, I'm telling you.
And these guys took over a little village
in South of Egypt at one point, and
they started walking around, knocking on Christian's door,
collecting the Jizya.
And you know that, that problem that happened
when the US left, like, they accidentally transferred
a couple hundred million dollars to the Taliban
bank account, right?
And some guy online, he had a great
sense of humor.
He said, first Jizya payment.
By the way, Jizya is the money that
people of the book who live, non-Muslims,
when they live under Muslim rule, okay, Omar,
don't forget to, don't give me a haircut
again, when they don't serve in the army
and the Muslim army has to protect them,
the government has to protect them.
So instead of serving in the army, they
pay a Jizya.
And it's also something where they're helped, they're
recommended for them to hate it so much
that they enter Islam because of it.
So get out of paying the Jizya.
That's one of the wisdoms they say, not
the legal reason, but the wisdoms.
This is not even that a lot of,
it's not a lot of money.
It's a very small amount of money.
Okay.
But in any event, for context, in past
years, HTS and Jabhat al-Nusra before it,
and remember in the evolution of all these
things, HTS, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or the
organization for freeing Syria, was Jabhat al-Nusra,
which is the, the angle or the Jabhat,
I guess would be like the basically victory
party, or whatever, Jabhat is not a party.
It's just like an angle.
Struggle to achieve genuine trust with the rest
of Syria's armed opposition.
But that's changed in recent years.
The impressively tight coordination with longstanding FSA branded
groups this past week is evidence of that.
We need a Qamos.
There needs to be an encyclopedia of these
terms.
FSA, SFF, by the way, for you to
know Omar, if you want to put this
up, the freedom fighters of Syria have reversed
the colors of the green and red.
Their flag is, has a green stripe at
the top rather than the red stripe at
the top.
If you want to employ that in your,
yeah, there you go.
That's it.
That is the new Syrian flag.
Yeah.
Green and red has just been swapped.
They just swapped it and they added a
color.
Uh, they added a star.
Sorry.
What's the, what is the third star stand
for?
Who knows?
But maybe someone would know.
But beyond military coordination, the so far smooth
transition from battle to consolidation to interim governance,
particularly in Halab has seen HTS devolve authority
to more locally rooted factions like Jabhat al
-Shamiyah, al-Zinki, et cetera, at all.
The relatively sophisticated PR effort and swift pivot
from military to governing is already having some
effect.
You know, some people have a orientalized mind
and they're like, this is sounds sophisticated.
It sounds like they know what they're doing.
Therefore must be the Zionist influence, right?
You have an orientalist mind or what?
What?
You don't think they have brains?
Now I'll tell you what I thought.
I always felt that ISIS came totally out
of nowhere and had better videos than Hollywood.
And that was fishy to me.
Like they were, that didn't make any sense.
Right.
And also ISIS never once ever tried to
say anything about the Zionists.
So I think a lot, and we all
know for a fact that the US government
propped up ISIS and gave them money, which
is why Trump would say, said that thing,
Obama is the founder of ISIS.
Well, that's obviously the exaggerated form of saying
they sent them money.
And there are emails for that.
They're like, that's proven.
That's not even a fact.
It's not even a speculation that the US
at some point was funding ISIS to knock
off whoever they wanted to knock off.
The relatively sophisticated PR and Swift pivot, it's
having effect.
Aleppo's hospitals are fully staffed.
The city police and defected soldiers are signing
up to join the SSG's interior ministry payroll.
So they have their little, even their government
divided up and they're acting like an institution,
right.
With positions and making sure the water is
running and people have ID cards and the
census is running and stuff like that.
Yeah.
Speak.
Oh, they have their own SSG or HCS
have a military academy.
He's, he's using them differently, but I think
HCS is wants to become just SSG.
I just did some reading on it.
So, uh, SSG is sort of the umbrella
organization.
HTS is just the name of their middle
last seven years now.
SSG is what they've heard of themselves.
Say it again.
Wait, repeat this whole thing.
So SSG, uh, starting in 2017 was formed.
SSG is formed in 2017.
Okay.
Became the governing.
Okay.
Taken over by HTS.
Okay.
HTS became the military wing of the SSG.
So they work together.
Exactly.
HTS falls under SSG governs HTS.
HTS is just the name of their military.
And, uh, SSG has a bunch of different
ministries.
They've got public services.
They've got a war college.
So Jelani is just the head of, uh,
the military wing.
Military component, not the actual SSG.
Yeah.
Who's the leader of that?
Yeah.
We need to know the names.
Who, and, and secondly, this reminds, really reminds
me of the Irgun where Israel was founded
much similar to this, where the British had
not officially given them anything.
Right.
But they started to act like they're a
ruling and they had a terrorist wings terrorizing
the Palestinians and safe and protecting the, the,
the Jews.
And these militias eventually evolved into Israel.
Yep.
So Jelani was their first of the SSG.
Yeah.
Oh, that's a, but now they have a
prime minister.
Can you give me the bio of that
of Al Moussa?
Open up Taimur's mic so that we can
hear Fahd.
Yeah.
Let's hear the president.
Like, is he just a general Syrian guy?
Is he a socialist?
Is he a Qaeda, ISIS?
It seems like a theme in Syria.
These guys are doctors or pharmacists.
So Mustafa Al Moussa is a politician, pharmacist,
and a member of HTS.
He's just like a regular Syrian guy.
Regular Syrian guy decided to fight.
I like this.
Who?
Yeah.
Zawahiri.
Yeah.
So he's the president.
They don't say much about him.
He's the president of the Shura council and
he was previously the head of their health
committee.
So he's not ISIS or anything like that.
It depends on how they label him.
Right.
So if they say everyone who's HTS, you
know, so I don't know, but not here,
it doesn't say anything about him being ISIS,
but you know, with a name like that,
he's definitely on the list.
Oh, for sure.
In men, but at least he has a
first name and a last name.
Enough with these ISIS names.
Right.
You know, like Abu This and Kunya and
a Laqab or a Kunya and like a
city name or country name where you're in
a non basically.
You're, but this guy's like legit.
Like if tomorrow they turned around and said,
okay, here's a, Damascus has fallen, former pharmacists,
Muhammad, whatever his name is, is now the
president of Syria.
It's not going to send ripple effects.
He's a pharmacist, right?
Or whatever he was.
We've got a lot more on the prime
minister.
So Mohammed al-Bashir, he is an engineer.
He became the prime minister in January of
this year.
There's a, he's 40 years old.
He went to the university of Aleppo and
Idlib university.
He used to work at the Syrian gas
company to work on precision instruments.
So we got a pharmacist and we have
an engineer.
All Muslims should, so it looks like the
local masjid board, right?
It's kind of the lights will be on.
Now you can't expect more, right?
Don't expect too much, but the lights will
be on.
Right.
The doors will be open.
Yeah.
It seems like, I mean, I can't make
a judgment, but sounds to me, they're just
the locals.
It's not a bunch of quacks.
That's it.
And it's not someone with an ISIS name,
right?
Everyone's got it.
What's your ISIS name?
Uh, uh, we'll call you, uh, Ibn Abi
Taimur al-Tinaki, right?
Uh, Ibn Abi Omar al-Quinzi from Queens.
It's your ISIS names.
Enough with these ISIS names.
They're Anons.
This is actually, will give people much relaxation.
It's like, I get that a pharmacist and
an engineer in many ways with a heavy
dose of irony.
HTS today is the realization of a vision
first put forward by Ahrar Isham, whose first
generation leaders sought to pursue an evolution from
Salafi Jihad to revolutionary nationalism, nationalism.
That doesn't make any sense.
Ahrar's decline was HTS's doing.
Ahrar Isham, another group in this long list
of, it's almost like a virus that keeps
mutating, Ahrar Isham was the first such group
to embrace the green revolutionary flag, which we
talked about earlier, the swapping the colors and
adding a star.
And to adopt nationalistic rhetoric, to publicly critique
the influence of external Jihad factors.
Well, if by nationalism, they mean by that,
just focusing on getting our cities together, that's
acceptable.
If it's the belief that the nation is
what's most important, that's going to be a
problem.
But I don't think that these guys are
getting that deep into the philosophy of things.
They're probably just mean by it.
Let's just clean up our house first.
Right.
Look at everyone on, in the comments, putting
their ISIS names on.
Right.
Here's Ibn Umar al-Turanti, all sorts of
Anans, Ibn Abi al-Rashid al-Kandahlawi.
Okay.
Ibn Abi Rayyan al-Brunswicky, Anans, ISIS names.
By the way, my ISIS name is actual
person and he's on a list.
I think he's been killed though.
Yeah.
Abu Ayyub al-Masri, he's been killed.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He's been killed.
So I like this idea of these people.
Give me your name.
Just say your name.
Give me your name.
So the guy's a pharmacist.
Half of these ISIS kids are dropouts, if
not all of them.
They're Anans on the earth completely, like they
have no record.
Ex-drug dealers, ex-prisoners, ex-failures in
life, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
But at least this guy, he has a,
he's a pharmacist.
So that means, exactly.
Thank you.
That's the best summary.
His parents are proud.
Show me one ISIS kid and I'm not,
I'm generalizing here, but that's the general reputation
that you guys got.
A bunch of failures, right?
No white haired, mature people who we know
where they came from out of society, who
made their parents proud at some point in
life.
No, these is all just, as the Hadith,
you know, that famous Hadith which Sheikh Abdul
Kareem referred to yesterday, which was from us.
It was from, um, what was the book
that we were referring to?
The famous Hadith book that he was Bukhari's
teacher, I can't, I can't remember, I believe
I can't remember what it's called, but huh?
No, no, he was Bukhari's teacher, but his
book has a lot of weak Hadiths about
the end of time.
Um, what's his name?
SubhanAllah.
I can't believe I forgot his name.
No, no, no.
Uh, but it's criticized, but he's saying like,
why are you worried about the chain?
We see the event right in front of
us.
And the, that Hadith of the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam that talked about people, this group
that's claiming to have a state, people will
travel to them and those, their people will
be, will be basically rabble.
They're not of any import.
They are not of any achievement.
They speak great words, but their hearts are
like rocks.
Right.
Uh, and, and we have, uh, I have
a slideshow on that as proofs of prophethood
that is a prophecy that is so true,
right?
They have long hair, like women, their names
are Abu and their last name is a
city name.
Right.
So that's, it's an amazing proof of prophethood
that ISIS won.
Uh, but I just can't, uh, the name
is, I'm sure somebody here can remember.
It's a well-known book.
It's just the only problem.
It's that, uh, uh, it's, uh, has, it
has very weak Hadith in it and weak
Hadith are very dangerous on the end of
time, because if the opposite happens, you've actually
shown the prophet to be incorrect.
So, so, so Imam Ahmed warned severely against
using weak Hadiths for the end of time.
So you don't want to show your prophet.
Look at all these people put in their
ISIS names.
Ibn Faris, Dhimishqi.
Okay, here we go.
Ahrar al-Sham was the first such group
to embrace the green right revolutionary flag and
this nationalistic rhetoric and publicly critique these external
jihadis.
By the way, we're not against jihad.
We're just for it properly.
Where is the S A S J Ahl
al-Sunnah Jihad Brigade?
Where is it?
We need it.
Yeah.
You can form militias.
Yeah.
Hey, listen, if it's legal, why can't I,
why can't I, uh, uh, act upon my
legal rights, right?
I mean, go to my local mayor, my
local congressman, tell them upfront that this is
what I'm going to do.
Right.
Yeah.
Uh, they'll cook stuff up and you'll get
strangers sign up who are of course feds.
So fine.
We're not doing anything illegal.
We're not even talking about jihad, right?
A S J Ashari Sufi, uh, Jihad Brigade.
That's what someone's saying there.
Yeah.
Well, good for them.
Right.
Listen, I'm of the belief.
I believe that something is correct.
Most correct, best opinion, truth, et cetera.
But I actually, personal belief is that in
the end of time, none of these groups
will dominate over anybody else.
And Sayyidina Imam al-Mahdi will come and
just unify them all.
That's my personal belief, right?
None of these, it's, it's never going to
happen that, Oh, we're going to bring the
heyday back and dominate the ummah again.
That's not going to happen.
And we'll be the best in the ummah.
No one will ever be against us.
That will not happen.
Every single group out there will continue to
exist.
No one will dominate over the other.
You need like literal imperial wealth and imperial
power over legal authority, over the citizenry to
slowly weed out a certain view that you
don't like and prop up another view that
you do like.
I believe that one thing is true.
One thing is more true than something else
and something else is false.
But I don't believe that ever again, one
of these groups will dominate the whole ummah.
What's going to happen is you'll learn to
live together.
Everyone do the best you can in promoting
Islam.
Don't knock each other down.
And when Imam al-Mahdi comes, there's going
to be a qawloon fasl.
You will all have one mujtahid imam, right?
And probably you'll be too busy saving your
life to ask him who was right.
And maybe he will say, maybe he won't
say certain things.
But in the end of the day, Imam
al-Mahdi clears house, cleans, clears the slate
on these groups.
That's a Aqeedah point.
It's a secondary Aqeedah point.
If someone doesn't believe in Imam al-Mahdi,
Allah Allah, maybe that is a bid'ah
in itself, sinful in himself to reject that
concept, but I don't even think that removes
you out of Ahlus Sunnah.
Rejecting Sayyidina Isa bin Maryam is a return
that removes you from Ahlus Sunnah.
So that's different.
Okay.
So I personally believe, and many, many, many
Sunni Muslims believe in Imam al-Mahdi.
He's going to end all these groups, even
Shi'i and Sunni.
He brings it to an end.
And they say, well, how when he's from
al-Hasan and the Shi'is believe he's
from al-Husayn, and even some scholars have
already discussed this, they say there's no, just
because he's from the lineage of al-Hasan
doesn't mean his mother can't be from al
-Husayn, right?
It could be from al-Hasan on one
side and al-Husayn from the mom's side.
So his grandfather is from al-Husayn.
Allah knows best, right?
But we believe it's a secondary aqeedah point
that he will unify all the groups.
There will be no more groups in aqeedah,
in sharia fiqh, in nation states.
As we said earlier, all these lines, dotted
lines, local area only.
And you have one leader.
When Sayyidina Isa comes back, he further consolidates
by taking ahl al-Kitab and showing them,
here, I am your Messiah that you've been
waiting for, and I'm here to affirm Muhammad
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, Islam, and the Quran.
And therefore, after fighting the Antichrist, we'll bring
an end to Judaism and Christianity.
There will be no, within his lifetime, as
the Quran states and prophecies.
Is a reference to Sayyidina Isa Ibn Maryam.
Because the majority of Jews and Christians rejected
him, and only a few minority, end of
time, will have accepted him properly.
When I say Jews and Christians rejected him,
meaning rejected, we know the Jews rejected him,
but the Christians rejected the truth about him,
that he's a prophet, not God, not the
son of God.
That's why it says, alayhim, because the majority,
he will testify against them.
And the minority will be with him.
The minority meaning those who he meets at
the end of time.
You will have an unstoppable ummah at that
point.
You have an ummah that's unified before Sayyidina
Isa gets here.
Then he, then with that unified force, a
couple year overlap between Sayyidina al-Mahdi and
Sayyidina Isa.
Then he unifies the Abrahamic, the associate, those
who attribute themselves back to Abraham, falsely or
correctly, Islam being correctly, and the other two
falsely, unifies them.
Then who stands in front of us at
that point, in front of the truth?
And who's going to stand in front of
him?
Nobody, except one group that no one can
reason with.
And that's Gaag and Magaag, Yajuj and Majuj,
Yajuj and Majuj.
And at that point, everyone has to head
for the hills because no one can stop
them.
No one can reason with these people.
No one can stop them.
Who knows what even, what language they speak?
Can't even talk to them.
Let's continue.
The big test going forward is not, is
to what extent Hayy at-Tahrir al-Sham
strides in Northwest Syria can earn its acceptance,
trust, or credibility from communities and actors deeper
in Syria.
Hama is another testing grounds.
And then after that it's Homs.
And the story isn't over yet.
Okay.
Because after Homs, when you gather personnel from
Halab to Hama to Hems, which translates in
English as Homes, then when you get to
Damascus, it's game over because you're going to
outnumber them.
And of course, at this point, I believe
that Turkey will have, Turkey will have really
been involved because they really want to have
a say in things.
Okay.
In six days, Syria's armed opposition has captured
237 cities, towns, and villages.
Let's go to this section.
I told you before, I want to see
this part on dissolving Hayy at-Tahrir al
-Sham.
And by the way, why is Hama important?
Because Bashar al-Assad's dad, Hafez, his father
massacred 40,000 Muslims in 1982.
In an era before the camera and those
technologies spread so that you could document this,
but there were no pictures in the same
way that we have it today.
Well, to show you how bad these Ba
'athists are, these are a bunch of atheists.
They wrote on a wall, there is no
God, but the nation and no messenger, but
the party.
That's how bad the Marxists are in the
Arab world.
These people are avowed atheists.
Bilal Abdul Kareem says, Hama has fallen to
rebel forces.
Assad's army said that they withdrew to protect
the civilians.
He says, what a joke.
Jowlani has decided to abandon his radical path,
says Mazen Hassoun.
Today, he appeared at the historic Aleppo citadel,
confirming he is still alive.
We, although we all assumed as much, speaking
to crisis group.
I don't know who that is.
I have so many groups.
He stated that Aleppo will be governed by
a transitional body and that HTS is considered
dissolving itself to enable the full consolidation of
civilian and military structures.
Civilian and military structures into new institutions, reflecting
the diversity of Syrian society.
Additionally, there were three reassuring statements today directed
towards Christians, Alawites, and the international community.
The real test of his commitment to change
will lie in the governance of Aleppo, Salamiya,
which is Ismailis, Muharada, Christians, and how his
fighters will enter these two cities.
Okay, we'll
see.
We'll see.
We shall see.
Let's read Ibn Abi Tariq had a nice
little piece here.
And it's not pro-Israel to hate Bashar
al-Assad and arguing otherwise exposes your sectarianism.
You cannot justify Assad's massacre of Sunnis by
pretending it's necessary.
It's a necessary cost to maintain the resistance
against Israel.
Syria's fake resistance of Israel has been exposed
since day one.
Assad uses it as a scare tactic to
legitimize his tyrannical view.
Omar, are you going to take a final
exam?
A midterm in what subject?
Discrete math.
So you have to do math in hiding
or what?
Good.
All right.
Allah give you Tawfiq in your midterm exam.
Assad uses this as a scare tactic to
legitimize his tyrannical rule.
Okay, that's a claim.
Reducing Syria to a battleground for Zionists versus
anti-Zionists is a historical.
The blood of Syrians is worthy of protecting
and speaking out for regardless of any other
conflict this what about or the or this
line that many people use that we're suffering
a genocide therefore shut up on what you're
saying because I don't like what you're saying.
That's essentially the idea, right?
That's the idea.
As Taimur takes his debut at the helm,
he comes in backup quarterback is coming in
for his first.
He's in he's in the seat.
He's in the driver's seat.
But it's a it's a it's a what's
the word?
Manipulation tactic.
It's a silencing tactic.
We're having a genocide so shut up.
It's a it's a manipulation.
Come sit here so we can we can
hear what you're saying.
And I was at the receiving end of
this manipulation and silencing tactic.
When I spoke out against perennialism being preached
here in North Jersey.
On principle, I can't accept it.
I don't care if 200 people listen to
the khutba.
On principle, I won't stop.
And of course, he wasn't coming from a
perennialist.
He was coming from a completely modernist.
Muhammad Abdu approach.
Right.
And today, Sheikh Hamza Bakhbool got wind of
it.
After researching Islamic Relief's zakah committee and wanting
to see the biographies on them because he
didn't like some of the things they do
for zakah.
Not that he didn't like.
He found it completely, completely invalid, right?
And we can talk about that another time.
But the silencing tactic, we have a we
have a genocide in Gaza.
Do you know how many other things are
going on that people are doing in their
little worlds?
Are there little spheres or big spheres?
While the genocide is happening.
So we should allow bad things to continue
because the genocide is happening.
How does it make any sense?
You guys say something.
Yeah, I think we sit here.
It's not their job in their first go
around to go in their own situation first.
And so it's not a fair metric to
say that, OK, because something bad is happening
300 miles away, you can't take care of
the bad thing that's happening to you in
your own house.
Thank you.
Common sense.
The correct analysis here would be don't harm
the resistance fighters.
Don't you know, don't do anything that would
hurt the the the the the resistance fighters.
The our unity right here.
Let's say we're three of us in this
room or 300 of us in New Jersey
or 3000 of us in New Jersey or
30,000 Muslims in America or 3 million
in the Western Hemisphere.
Has our unity impacted anything?
Probably maybe the maximum was that we got
national attention by retweeting and reposting and re
-tick tocking and all that stuff, right?
That's it.
You didn't stop Netanyahu.
So don't also overestimate the power of or
the the the alleged unity.
Secondly, alleged unity on what basis?
We're not coming at it from a secular
basis.
We're coming from an Islamic basis.
Therefore, if the Islam is my foundation and
we're together fighting in opposition, but I find
you hacking away accidentally or not at our
foundation, I have to stop you before I
continue.
Right?
Look at this big picture view.
And you see HTS somehow makes its way
all the way to southern Syria.
Now HTS has a shared border with the
biggest enemy we all have as Muslims, right?
With Israel, the genociders.
And so now let's say three months from
now, you've got a Syria that's controlled by
HTS.
Yeah.
And you've got Lebanon.
You've got the resistance there.
You've got the resistance in Gaza.
Now you're looking at a three-front war
for these people who can't win on one
front, right?
There's a big picture argument to say that
these guys are doing the right thing too.
And none of this is looking at the
micro, right?
In the micro, maybe their actions are incorrect.
Maybe they're going against something else.
That is for someone like you to judge,
not for me.
But I'm saying if you look at it
just from the political perspective, even that there's
10 different interpretations there that could give them
a justification from the political perspective.
And so it's important not to...
You're not there.
None of us are there, right?
So you've got to trust that if these
are righteous people and they pray and they
follow the religion correctly, that they're going to
make their own judgments on these matters and
make the decisions.
And we should make our decisions here.
We should be acting in our own sphere.
What are we doing here when our kids
are going to school and learning about transgenderism,
right?
Like we're failing on our own home front
and then we're judging people on their matters.
We're also taking the autonomy out of their
hands and basically saying that...
And almost giving omnipotence to Israel.
Like there can't be anything positively remotely good
except it's a puppet thing.
That's also part of the problem of...
Defeatism can creep in to messianism.
Messianism, this concept that we're going to just...
The Mahdi is coming.
Everything has to be so bad when the
Mahdi arrives because the Prophet said that the
whole world will be covered in darkness.
That doesn't mean that there won't be exceptional
pockets of truth and that it will be
gaining momentum.
Right?
That doesn't mean that at all.
So messianism is a very big problem.
And we talked about messianism.
There are problems that come along to religious
people regarding messianism.
And that's one of them.
The second one that Shaykh Abd al-Karim
talked about was tajamud or ta'assub, I
should say, to matters of opinion.
And trust me when I tell you in
human history, this is historical fact, when an
organized group reaches a peak and then it
comes down, it never comes up again.
It could come up a little bit, but
it never really comes up again in the
same way.
So the way that the Islamic ummah was
in the past, the givens, these things will
never dominate again.
They could be strong.
They could be influential, but they will never
be domineering.
And I can't remember when I said this
some while back.
But you're going to live with these groups.
We're going to live together, whether we like
it or not, in the same areas, in
the same masajid, in the same ummah at
hajj, you might as well learn and find
a way to coexist peacefully.
Because let's be practical.
We're not changing these lines of these theological
lines.
But so learn to differ without being destructive.
Serious fake resistance has been exposed since day
one.
He said the blood of Syrians is worthy
of protecting and speaking out for, regardless of
any other conflict.
It is true that instability in the region
benefits Israel.
But the so-called stability that Assad brings
in quotes is one that is only stable
for himself and his allies.
12 million Syrians are displaced.
I hope they go back home.
I'm not saying they're going to go back
home.
Let me rephrase that.
I hope they have the ability to go
back to their homes.
It's not like they're saying, I would go
back home.
Sounded rude, but you know what I mean.
Their lives have been really unstable for over
a decade.
How is that helping them?
Pro-Iran, pro-Russia, pro-Assad.
I would really love to see, I would
really love to see a movement, a wave
where the Syrian people can go back home.
To their home.
You don't want to ever want to be
an immigrant.
You never, it's just, you have a separation
in your mind.
And you're never connected to the country that
you're in.
And then your children grow up a different
nationality almost than you are, even though you
share the same ethnic heritage.
But there's never a smooth transition between, there's
never a smooth transition between the immigrant kids
and the immigrant parents.
It's a rough transition.
They don't share the same culture.
The butcher of Syria will never be the
savior of the Palestinians.
That's a great line.
Pro-Iran, pro-Russia, pro-Assad.
Pundits want you to believe that Syrian lives
are secondary to the Palestinians.
And that Palestinian lives can only be saved
if Assad continues to slaughter and oppress Syrians.
The butcher of Syria will never be the
savior of Palestine.
Believe me, he and his father both had
the opportunity to prove otherwise.
Assad is comfortable with the Zionist entity so
long as he gets his piece of the
pie.
He said, discard the clip with Yahya Sinwar
as an argument.
We have no need to make political or
strategic compromises.
We can stand by our own morality.
The blood of every Muslim is more sacred
than the Kaaba.
And we stand against anyone who belittles that.
And do not pretend that we're the sectarians.
Assad is the king of sectarian violence.
And those who have the audacity to weaponize
that claim against the victims of genocide in
Syria should be ashamed.
Okay.
Mu'ataz Sayyid Hamza says, Assad is a
traitor and a Zionist asset.
He and his brother sold the Golan Heights
for $100 million, deposited in a Swiss bank,
after which they withdrew the Syrian army from
the Golan and allowed the Zionists' IDF to
move in without a single shot fired.
Claims again.
Don't know what the proof is.
Just it's a claim.
Just to give you that piece of information.
We have nothing but facts here.
Nothing but facts.
I really like our viewers.
We're focused a lot on kalam and epistemology
here.
Knowing what's hearsay and what's facts.
Okay.
We didn't do any Q&A, I don't
think, this whole...
Did we?
Right?
I'm watching this clip that someone put here
about zoos.
Someone's just sent me this clip.
Yeah, trapping certain animals is really bad, I
have to say.
Trapping certain animals.
I can't say all zoos are forbidden.
For example, peacocks, donkeys, mules.
These things can be domesticated.
But wild animals that are meant to be
free.
You know, even in our city, a dog.
You can't trap a dog.
These New York apartments and Zootopia.
Poor dogs are trapped.
What's that movie that all the kids watch?
Zootopia?
Where all these New York...
It's in New York and all these dogs
are trapped.
You know, to do that.
Anyway, that's a little tangent because someone just
sent me that.
Let's see what is the latest on the
issue.
Then we'll go to Q&A.
We haven't done Q&A in a long
time.
The problem with many on the anti-imperialist
left is they refuse to accept Arabs and
Muslims have agency.
Didn't we just say this?
They refuse to accept this idea that a
Muslim could think of something smart to do.
Right?
Oh, if it looks professional, it looks good.
It's got to be Western agents.
There.
They see the world through the lens where
the all-powerful USA and NATO and the
Zionists are behind every uprising and revolution.
Let's go to the Q&A here.
If someone from the UK wanted to find
a spiritual guide, who should they go to?
Should they go to Sheikh Asrar Rashid?
They can.
Or they could go to Liverpool and find
Sheikh Ibrahim Moussiafa or Bradford, the Mustafa Mount.
And they will connect you to the Habaib,
al-Habib Omar bin Salim bin Hafib.
Sheikh Mohammed al-Yacoubi's group is there.
And there are many, many other people who
can be murabbis, basic spiritual upbringing, which is
basically learning aqidah and learning fiqh as a
prerequisite.
Then applying them, getting support to apply them.
But most important, encouragement in dhikr and mentorship
in doing dhikr.
That's what we mean by spiritual guide.
Someone, a group, you have a set of
friends, a group, formal, informal, whatever.
But you really encourage each other to do
dhikr a lot and to study the diseases
of the heart and to emphasize it and
to think about it.
It's the spirit of our religion, the heart.
It's not the totality of the religion.
It's the spirit of the religion.
Did you see all the comments criticizing your
original Pakistan episode that you did?
Yeah, I saw that.
But I don't know.
But what's the update on Pakistan?
Taimur, you're Pakistani.
Do you follow Pakistani politics?
What's the status on it?
No update?
And Ron Khan is still in jail.
And of course, you know, like I can't
really choose sides here because, yeah, my mind
wants to choose Imran Khan.
But, you know, some of our local elders
will get on my case if I do
that.
And they're going to give me an earful
every time I go pray in the masjid.
But, you know, the whole country is for
him, except for some elites and the military
elites.
Also, it's, again, a case of all sorts
of information coming on both sides.
He did this bad and he did this
good.
How am I supposed to know what's what?
But yeah, so I don't have much to
say really about it, except that may Allah
give Jannah and forgive those who died, the
200 people who died in the protest.
Is your mic on?
There's an interview with him and Hamza Yusuf,
I can send you the link.
Yeah, I remember that.
I remember that.
Do I go to IRIS or ISNA?
No, I don't really go to conferences for
a couple of reasons.
There is ikna, there's pearls of the Qur
'an.
I support them all, like morally, in terms
of intent and morale.
But I don't necessarily go to these.
And the reason was that when I have
time off, I want to take, I don't
know, my kids are in, they're in Islamic
schools, they're in the masjid all the time.
So when we have time off, I like
to go somewhere else, completely away from this.
Secondly, I don't see the utility of 20
,000 speakers.
If you're, if there are going to be
five, 15 speakers a day, what's the point?
No one's going to remember anything, right?
So I don't find much utility in, for
myself and going there.
There's good speakers there, khalas, they're speaking.
I mean, some of them on ideological basis,
probably maybe all of them on ideological basis.
I'm not going to be invited to go
to these places anyway.
Let alone, if I did, I probably would
turn it down anyway.
Is it to how we create sufficient for
Sunni unity?
Should be.
But there are also our interpretations.
Mihrag Faisal says, what do you think of
the drug addiction of Ash'ari refutation?
Most of them probably are misquoting what the
Ash'ari aqeedah actually is.
Okay.
On zoos, what do you mean on zoos?
Trapping wild animals is unlawful in our religion.
Maybe it could be from the makroo to
haram, based on the harm.
For example, trapping a cat, when I say
trapping, I mean, not letting it roam around
freely.
I don't mean starving it.
Because we know that's haram.
But trapping a cat may probably be on
the last, the least level of harm.
So the lightest karahiya, that trapping wild cats
like lions and tigers and big cats, 100
% haram.
Whales in sea world, 100% unlawful to
do this stuff.
Who allows you to do that?
HF says, is Ash'arism equals Sunnism?
We could say for sure Ash'ariyya is
one of the Sunni schools, but there's the
Hanab Hanbali school.
There is the Maturidi school.
And there's the common Muslim who just doesn't
have any school.
He doesn't get involved in any of these
things.
But as schools of thought.
What do you mean by no taqleed in
aqeedah?
It means to believe in Allah and his
messenger.
It has to come from you, from yourself.
You have to know that.
You can't say, for example, I can say,
is Prophet Isa returning?
Yes, he's returning.
What, how do you know that?
All the ulema said so and Aqeedah Tahawiyyah
mentions it.
That's enough taqleed.
I don't know the evidence, a person can
say, of why Sayyidina Isa is returning.
But so that's a secondary matter of aqeedah,
doctrine.
All of the matters of fiqh, do you
know what's the evidence that you should say
tasbih and ruku?
No, just my dad told me, my imam
told me, that's all fine.
But you cannot say, is Muhammad the last
messenger?
Is Muhammad a prophet?
Yeah, the madhhab says so.
The scholars said that you can't do.
So belief in Allah and his messenger has
to be coming from your heart.
And that's why I believe people should study
a lot to at least know how to
defend that, to at least know why you
believe.
And it doesn't need to be an essay.
It doesn't need to be formalized.
No, because we see with the sahaba and
with the, from the time of the sahaba
till now, the entirety of Islamic history, common
person has the personal belief that Allah is
real, Muhammad is real and can't put it
pen to paper.
So the scholar said, we do not demand
that you be able to write an essay
on it.
That's not the demand.
But you're not saying it out of following,
imitation.
You do believe that Allah is the creator,
Muhammad is the prophet, regardless.
Such that if your parent was to say,
you know what, I'm changing religions, you wouldn't
say, okay, I'll change with you because I'm
a muqallid.
You can't be a muqallid in those two
things, right?
That's the meaning of that.
Okay.
Speaking as an Afghan who lived my entire
life in Afghan, Taliban are an ethno-nationalist
group with a religious cover.
They really oppress women.
Listen, Mike, the support for any group is
conditional on principles.
If you're correct, then if it's at their
munafiqs, and it's just an ethno-religious cover,
then we'll be against them.
If you're incorrect and they are sincere Muslims,
just they have mistakes, maybe major blunders.
Then we can directionally be supportive of their
intent and against the mistakes that they make
or the totally wrong judgments, judgment calls that
they make or policies that they have.
We don't expect people to be perfect.
So that's the answer.
It's everything is conditional support on principles.
You can never go wrong.
Can never go wrong.
It's conditional on principles.
And keep in mind, if your primary principles
are sound, then we generally are supporting.
If your secondary principles are way off, then
we just don't support those, right?
Those things we don't support.
As opposed to the opposite, let's say a
completely atheist state, secular state comes up, props
up, and treats people wonderfully, right?
So, but in general, I can't support you.
Yes, you're doing a lot of things.
But in general, I can't support an atheist
premise.
So we're trying to navigate here and give
everybody some basic principles and frameworks on how
to view these groups.
It cannot simply be yes or no.
It can't be that.
So we're going to have to go primary,
premises, your first order principles, and then your
secondary principles, and then your application of those
things.
The hadith about angels not entering the house
because dogs applies to me if I rent
a basement and the landlord above me has
a dog.
No, it doesn't.
You're responsible for what you're renting.
Any advice on someone who's going to Umrah
for the first time?
The advice is sabr and not to be
distracted by anything.
And if you can possibly go to Masjid
al-Fath on Wednesday between Dhuhr and Asr,
spend the whole time there making du'a.
Masjid al-Fath is in Medina.
And if you can possibly be in the
Haram, rest up all day Thursday, just rest
up, pray, come home, eat, sleep, then you're
going to spend the whole night like Ramadan.
From Maghrib until Fajr of Yawm al-Jum
'ah.
That time in the Haram, make your Umrah
at that time if possible.
If not, just make du'a and stay
there all night making du'a because it
is accepted.
Laylat al-Jum'ah, the night before Jum
'ah.
Yeah, there's what we would call Thursday night
in Arabic, the night of Friday.
And the reason for that is that it's
mujarrab.
Firstly, the Prophet ﷺ, he said du'a
anywhere on the night of Jum'ah is
accepted.
The whole night du'a is so elevated.
It is a shame to lose, to take
away the night of Jum'ah.
To not take advantage of this.
And then on top of that, you're in
the Haram.
On top of that, you're making Umrah.
And if not, tawaf.
It's mujarrab.
I have heard many, many, many stories of
people.
And I'm not saying they told me themselves.
It's on their online.
Stories of people complaining about issues for years.
Then they go and they perform Umrah.
And of course, these are Saudis who are
capable of doing it.
It's not much of a sacrifice of time
or money.
They're like in Riyadh or in different cities.
And they just drive down.
And they take advantage of that.
And they rest up on Thursday.
Then they go and they spend all night
from just like Ramadan night.
Maghrib, as if it's the last 10 nights.
Maghrib to Fajr.
A little, maybe a cat nap here and
there.
Some food here and there.
Bathroom break here and there.
But otherwise, they're busy with different ibadat.
And dua non-stop.
And they have relief very quickly.
It's mujarrab.
Tried and tested.
The truth says, can you give us a
word on the passing of Sheikh Hisham al
-Qabbani?
Yes, I did hear that news.
May Allah give him all mercy and forgiveness.
And accept his good deeds and overlook anything
else.
Could you bring Sheikh Asrar to discuss?
Yeah, he's coming Tuesday.
Inshallah.
Sheikh Asrar Rashid is coming to the live
stream Tuesday to see his position on things.
Trapping birds feels haram.
Probably is.
Trapping birds.
Also lions.
Can you get Bilal Abdul Kareem on your
podcast?
I can help connect you if needed.
From Hamza E.
Yes, we will accept to have him on
the pod.
Not accept.
We would do it.
We'll do it.
So, why don't you do that and send
an email to info at safinasociety.org and
let's make it happen.
Why not?
What is the main difference in Ash'ar
and Athari?
Says Omar Ali.
Oh, we've gone over this a lot.
I wish we had a clip to summarize
that, but I don't know where it is.
But I can't go into that right now.
What's the difference between the Torah and the
Talmud?
The Torah is allegedly the first five books
of the Bible.
Pentateuch.
The other books were allegedly from different prophets
or supposed to be from different prophets.
The Talmud is like the scholarly encyclopedia of
Fatawa.
It's fatwas.
The Talmud has nothing to do with Revelation.
It's the fatwa, but they treat it as
a sacred source because it's like their elders.
But it's like centuries of scholarly debates.
And that's where they get all the weird
things that we would say is not part
of the Revelation.
Very odd sayings in the Talmud and rulings.
Can you do an episode on Khawaja Gharib
Nawaz Mu'in Ad-Din al-Chishti?
Of course.
I think we have one, but we'll do
it.
We can do one then.
Let's see some more questions here.
What should someone do if they are ordered
to pay court fees but can't do so
without taking Gharibawi loan?
I think that you have to at this
point inform the court of bankruptcy.
Right?
And there may be financial aid.
And maybe it's state by state.
Why would you choose an opinion from after
the Salaf when people in the Salaf dealt
with the issues?
The answer to it is only when they
didn't deal with the issue.
Or what's said about the Salaf is unclear.
Or what's said about the Salaf is multiple
different things such that there is no consensus
on it.
So the other three Imams were not Ash
'aris.
The other three Imams also, even what the
Ash'ari Aqidah was trying to do is
answer questions that were not answered at those
times.
It's like Fatawa on Bitcoin.
I can't follow the Salaf on Bitcoin because
they didn't exist at their time.
It's the same concept.
They're trying to answer questions that were not
answered in the past.
So what you're saying, the embedded in what
you're saying is that the Imams, Abu Hanifa,
Anas Shafi'i and Malik, they all had
the same exact Mas'al in front of
us, in front of them as we do,
and chose one route.
Then we would have chosen that too.
But they didn't have those Mas'al in
front of them.
And secondly, who would know better about the
Imams than their own disciples, than their own
students?
And what did the Hanafis choose?
Overwhelmingly with a consensus amongst them.
The Aqidah of Abu Mansur al-Maturid basically
saying if Abu Hanifa was alive on his
methodology, he'd do this.
What did the Maliki choose in within one
generation, two generations of scholars?
They said if Abu Hassan al-Ash'ari
was alive, if Malik was alive, he'd follow
this.
Based on his methodology, based on these new
issues, that's what he'd follow.
And even Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani had
praised Ash'ari scholars, even if he himself
had not come to that conclusion and studied
from them because maybe it hadn't spread that
far.
But what other example?
You can only find two examples in the
Maliki school.
Ibn Abi Zayd and SubhanAllah.
Why is a lot of names skipping my
mind these days?
There's too much stuff going on my head.
That's why the Hadith scholar is skipping my
mind.
There's so much stuff going on in my
head these days that these simple things are
skipping my mind.
But otherwise, you have an overwhelming acceptance of
those conclusions.
Basically saying, based on Malik's methodology, this is
the way he would have gone on these
new matters.
The Madhhabs themselves, right?
The Madhhabs themselves, where did they come from?
It's basically saying, if the Sahaba were alive,
this is the Madhhab, this is what they
would have done on this issue.
The Sahaba themselves.
Sayyidina Ali had to make Ijtihadat in inheritance.
So did Sayyidina Umar.
They're basically saying, if the Prophet was still
alive, this is what we would go with.
So the first and second and third generation
of Imams after the four Madhhabs, the three
Imams that you're mentioning, this is what they're
saying.
These new questions, if our Imam was alive,
he would have made Ijtihadat with this.
And the Shafi'i agreed with the Maliki,
became a Shari'a.
Yes.
Correct.
Correct.
Correct.
The details didn't exist.
And when we say that there is a
Shafi'i opinion on Bitcoin, clearly, obviously, Imam
Shafi'i didn't comment on it.
But when they say the Shafi'i, basically
based on this method of reasoning and these
principles, and that was given in Egypt.
Shafi'i Mufti in Egypt said, and it's
on YouTube, that Bitcoin cannot be lawful for
us to trade in because according to us,
you can't get your rights.
There's like no government backing it.
So if you were to be scammed in
it, you can't get your rights.
So they made the ruling based on the
principle of crisis.
Like if things go bad, what happens?
And that's a methodology.
There is a methodology of judging things that
based on if things go bad, what would
happen?
The Maliki has said, currency is what people
agree is currency.
If me and you wanted to agree that
red balloons are a currency, they would be
a currency, right?
It's what people agree is a currency.
Therefore, they didn't approve it.
So we do have Maliki ruling on Bitcoin,
Shafi'i ruling on Bitcoin, right?
And in a generation or two, you have
a consensus develop and a minority opinion, majority
opinion, et cetera.
It's just the same thing here.
In these questions of Aqidah, and thank you
for those who mentioned, it's Ibn Abd al
-Barr.
Yes, it's Ibn Abd al-Barr.
He takes from both.
He didn't even seem to have a conclusion
because you can find hardcore Ash'ari points
in his books and hardcore Athari points in
his books.
So it seems that he didn't even take
a conclusion.
So he's not even a marja of Aqidah
in the Maliki school.
If you look at the whole history of
the Maliki school, they don't use him as
a marja.
I'm not saying he's not a marja.
The ulama of the Madhhab are saying they
don't treat him as a marja in Aqidah.
And anyway, regardless, I'm of the school of
thought that Athariyya is going to exist.
The Ash'ariyya are going to exist.
The Maturidiyya are going to exist.
Every Madhhab is going to exist.
This is what I believe is right.
And I'm not about to have a war
with anybody else.
But I will continue to say, this is
what we believe in.
This is the Aqidah.
And this is what is correct.
And I know Sheikh Yasir Qadhi's view is
that they're all man-made.
Yes, it's all Ijtihad.
Who said it's not Ijtihad?
But also what you say will also be
Ijtihad too.
Right?
They're all man-made.
That doesn't necessarily mean that they're not correct.
Did not Allah use humans to preserve his
religion?
Right?
Even the Quran itself, physically speaking, what do
we see?
We see tawatur in the preservation and human
beings involved in the effort.
But Allah guides it and ensures it.
Same with Hadith.
Human, Bukhari is a human effort.
Abu Hassan al-Ash'ari is a human
effort.
Imam al-Ghazali is a human effort.
So the question is, who is most worthy
of following?
And given that they're human efforts, as we
said earlier, we all should know what is
Ijtihadi and what is Islam.
And with that, I'm agreeing with him.
If it's Ijtihadi, don't fight about it.
You can say it, but don't have a
fight about it.
And I never started the fight.
And it was other guys who misquoted me
who picked the fight.
And I'm not going to back down from
a fight either.
Keep the peace does not mean turn the
other cheek and get smacked and get beaten
up.
No, I'm not going to back down if
you pick the fight, but I'm not going
to pick the fight.
And I won't extend it either.
I think that's a fair.
So should I turn the other cheek?
Should I extend it to the fact they're
dragging the whole?
No, there's got to be a middle way.
Defend yourself once or twice and that's it.
But I would highly recommend some of the
Shabab that are really caught up in this
to realize that you're caught up in a
matter that's really not even in the best
interest of your Islamic upbringing to study the
Sharh of Tahawiyah to learn from the classical
scholars reading from Nawawi reading from Al-Ghazali
even reading from more contemporary ulama learning and
you're going to people are going to read
everything.
If someone's going to say why don't you
just say Ibn Taymiyyah Ibn Al-Qayyim?
Okay, read everything and you'll see where is
the majority 100% agreement on and where's
the differences and continue to learn what's agreed
upon.
Okay, there was an earthquake in
California.
Oh, really?
How bad was it?
7.0 a tsunami too?
Should we go look at the news for
that?
Let's see.
Let's see.
Earthquake Cali Where was it north or?
Tsunami warning issued in northern California after a
7.0 magnitude Wow, earthquake strikes off the
coast.
Tsunami warnings have been issued for nearly 5
million people in northern California.
After 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the
California coast.
Okay, so the earthquake was off the coast
and that would cause a tsunami to stretch
from Davenport, California up to Douglas, Oregon according
to the National Tsunami Warning Center.
This includes the San Francisco Bay Area and
Eureka.
So a question for you.
Wouldn't the tsunami wave be visible?
Wouldn't it be visible?
Like we'll know where it is at every
minute if you send a drone up there
and look.
Of course, we're not meteorologists but I'm just
assuming here.
Tsunami activity could already be impacting coastlines should
reach and should reach San Francisco around noon.
So they do know.
They said it should reach San Fran around
noon.
Tsunami warnings mean that a tsunami with significant
inundation is possible or already occurring.
For those who don't know what a tsunami
is is when an earthquake happens in the
ocean.
Obviously, the huge massive amounts of water are
going to be displaced and move onto land.
The worst one I think how many million
how many hundred thousand, 90,000 Indonesia killed
90,000 crazy number.
Tsunamis are a series of waves dangerous many
hours after the earthquake.
The first wave may not be the largest
either unlike an earthquake where it's the big
hit is the largest and then it decreases.
Okay, so keep an eye out on that.
Let's get back to a couple Q&A
before we wrap up for the day.
Can you speak about Islamic relief?
I'll just give you a synopsis on Islamic
relief and this is going on.
This is going on his Facebook page and
I didn't look at his full assessment but
or I didn't look at the I didn't
look at the entire policy of Zika but
there is a portion here of the Zika
policy that is unacceptable in the four schools
of thought.
And what is that?
Using Zika to underwrite a micro lending scheme
or funding a halfway house from money meant
for freeing slaves.
So they made a piece on the money
used for freeing a slave.
To allow for micro lending schemes and halfway
house.
And that would be unacceptable in the four
methods because Zika must go cash to the
person who receives it.
So that's basically and when you pay to
free a slave and probably we have to
look at the fiqh does that mean giving
the money to the slave so he frees
himself or paying the master, the owner, to
free the slave?
Well, regardless, that's all that it would be.
There's no analogy based upon that.
And apparently that's the issue.
Okay.
So that's the issue apparently.
Yes.
Yeah.
But then if you actually look at some
of the things that they do with the
money, it just doesn't add up with the
things we know are permissible for Zika.
Again, I'm not a scholar, but there are
certain things that are clearly outside of the
bounds and a lot of organizations will say
Zika is eligible to do it to host
gatherings or to host events.
They're using the money for that and they're
not separating between general donations and Zika money.
And so it's very tricky.
People need to be very specific when you
write a check of your Zika to the
masjid.
You need to label the envelope Zika.
And it's not just general charity.
And I know people who live their entire
life giving Zika as if it's charity.
For example, I sat with some people who
are elderly and they're nearing their 70s.
70s in age.
And they said that their whole life whenever
they have some money times are good, they
just write a check for Zika.
And they give it to the masjid.
But that's not the right way to do
Zika.
Or they'll just send some money back home.
But in that case, it does get to
the rightful person.
When you give charity to the masjid, they
may use that to turn the lights on
or to buy a new rug.
None of that's Zika acceptable.
Those aren't Zika recipients.
So secondly, Sharia requires you to count your
money.
Do you know how many people are wealthy?
It's not so hard to get wealthy enough
that you actually don't know how much money
you have.
I don't know.
I got a bunch of money in Apple.
I got a bunch of apartments here.
And I got an apartment there.
And I got an investment here.
And half of this coffee shop I own.
And I own 5% of that coffee
shop and that laundromat.
And my brother's opened up a gas station.
I just gave him 10,000 bucks.
I don't know.
I own 10% of that.
So you actually have to know.
I don't have a bunch of gold.
I got a couple accounts here.
I got an account in the homeland.
My brother's holding a couple thousand for me.
One of the reasons circus of Zika is
it forced you to count your money.
You have to count your money.
And then you have to calculate the right
amount.
And then you have to ensure that it
gets to a Zika recipient.
And when it comes to the administration, they're
one out of the eight.
The Zika distributors salaries comes from Zika.
But the lights, computers, the car, the gas
comes from charity.
So the building, Zika distribution building comes from
charity.
But the salaries comes from Zika.
As Shafi'i says, of all Zika collected,
the admins can only take an eighth.
So that means if our salaries come from
Zika, only one eighth in the Shafi'i
school can come from Zika.
But the Malikiya don't have a limit on
that.
They didn't observe a limit.
So there's an ihtilaf on that.
But it's a nice rule.
Such that if we were to run a
Zika operation or Islamic Relief, we collect $100
million of Zika.
By the way, $100 million is not even
a lot of money.
You think it's a lot?
It's not a lot of money.
$100 million.
80 million, sorry.
Oh, let's say 80 million, just to keep
it a round number.
$80 million.
Then $10 million can go to give salary
to the whole group.
If they want more money, they got to
earn it somewhere else.
Right?
Or maybe Sadaqah can be given to them.
If they say, my efforts collected a million
dollars.
How can my salary be $50,000?
Without me, you wouldn't have a million dollars.
Say, okay, makes sense.
Deserves a good salary.
But from Zika, you're not going to get
more than one Eid.
And we can disclose to other people that
we're raising funds for salary.
That's Sadaqah.
You can give or not give.
Or if you're so smart, I would say,
open a business.
If you're that smart, right?
To be on the safe side.
Which is what I recommend every Islamic student
of knowledge scholar to do.
Get yourself involved in another business.
So that you don't have to worry about
the finances and getting rich from the dawah
and from knowledge.
You can get rich from knowledge.
I mean, I'm sure many booksellers are very
rich.
It's knowledge, right?
Where he has to observe certain things.
You can't sell certain books and you can't
support other books.
So translators, publishers, editors, painstaking work.
Author is great.
A person authors a book and sells it.
And it's an amazing book.
So there is a way to be wealthy
and it seems completely legitimate, right?
Based on the value that you're offering.
If you wrote a book on the Siyadah,
for example.
And you spent five years of your life,
a couple hours a day, you write this
book.
And you sell the book at a reasonable
cost.
And it's in Arabic, let's say, or Indonesian,
where there's so many people live there.
And a whole bunch of people, millions of
people buy the book at a reasonable cost.
And you're getting a slaver of that.
You're probably going to get maybe, I don't
know, a percentage of that as a royalty.
So you got really rich off of that.
Now you're going to be tested.
Are you going to change or not?
You're going to be tested.
Now, the next book you write, are you
thinking about what is the truth that Allah
wants to be spread or what are the
buyers going to buy?
What are the people?
So you're tested.
It's a test.
If you fail that test, it's very bad.
So your money was lawful, but now you're
tested.
Contrast that a guy who builds a building.
It takes a lot of work to get
zoning, to get permits, to build a building.
Now you rent it out.
Wonderful.
Now you make a ton more money.
Now with that money, you're also tested.
But the test was much less, right?
The test is much less.
Because if now I build a building to
impress the customer, that's expected, right?
That's expected.
The test is very little.
So that if a club, a nightclub comes
and says, hey, you're so good at building
buildings.
Build me a building, a nightclub.
You have to say no.
But the test is, I would say, much
more limited.
Maybe his test is going to be a
bank approaches him and says, you know how
to make money.
Here's a loan, right?
With interest, a good interest rate.
At that point, he's tested.
But his test is far less because it's
not in the deen.
You screw up in the dunya.
It's bad.
But it's not going to be.
You're not messing with the medicine in the
hospital.
The deen, knowledge of deen is the medicine
in the hospital.
So Abd al-Karim Yahya said that everything
go bad.
And I'm assuming he's meaning within the religion.
It really stems from money in the religion.
It doesn't mean money can't be in the
religion.
It has to be.
Masajid have to keep the lights on.
Scholars need endowments and stuff.
But the question is, and there are certain
things that are lawful.
It's lawful to have a salary as a
soldier.
Point being is that if you have an
ambition to become wealthy, do it outside the
deen.
All right, do it outside the deen.
Because when you screw up, it's going to
be a lot less.
Yes.
That's a good point.
That's a good point.
That's a great point is to be fully
into making your money or fully into the
deen.
Pick one.
And six months there, six months.
That's a good idea.
But yeah, and not waiting too long because
you get rusty.
But the question becomes now, you have to
have a profession.
You have to be in the gig business
where I can take a six month gig
or a three month gig.
And usually probably maybe coding or something like
that.
Balancing zikr and ilm for the student of
knowledge.
You should have awrad of sabah and masaa
and a hizb of quran and a portion
of salah on the Prophet ﷺ that is
within reason within your daily routine.
And Thursday night, you focus on salah on
the Prophet ﷺ.
Let me tell you the other part for
those who are doing umrah or in the
haramain ash-sharifin or even here.
If you want your dua accepted about 30
-40 minutes before the end of the day
on Friday, before maghrib, you try to devote
some period of time for dua.
It's a very special time.
To be a recipient of zikr, the person
should not have financial security for a year.
Yeah, that's the least.
Then there are eight categories.
But that's in terms of the poor, that's
what it is.
Traveling in a car, bus, train, signify in
a dream.
Allah knows best of some people means traveling
through life and Allah knows best.
Allah knows best.
I can't interpret it.
But I can just tell you what some
of the symbols mean.
I have a friend in a relationship with
an atheist.
He can't gather the courage to break up
with her, despite increasing a lot in piety
in the past couple of years.
How can he gather the courage?
Okay, it's a good question.
How do we gather the courage to do
what's right and to make big sacrifices?
The answer is, imagine you will meet Allah
tomorrow.
You may die.
Bring into feeling and into mind the greatness
of Allah and that you will meet him.
You will meet him tomorrow.
You may die.
Therefore, you need to cleanse your record before
you die.
And that's the best way to do it.
And it's very tough.
You got yourself into it.
Now you got to find a way out
of it.
I'm enjoying the questions today.
And let's do maybe one more question.
You got a comment?
Say again.
Surround yourself with friends who are not going
to be accepting of that relationship.
So if you've got all these influences now
pushing against what you're doing, it'll make it
much easier to exit.
And they might also give you something in
exchange.
So you're going to have other companions who
will fill that gap that's going to be
left.
Listen, it's going to be painful.
Your heart is tied with her.
Her heart.
You sort of also misled her too.
You led her on.
Listen, you screwed up.
Taking the band-aid and getting things right
is not going to be easy.
Right?
Because you're going to have to hurt her
pretty badly.
You're going to be hurt because you like
her, obviously.
So why don't you propose to her and
to Islam and we'll get married?
That's one option.
Propose and say, listen, think about it for
the next period of time.
I'll give you this much time, but this
is where we need to go.
I know you don't want to go here,
but this is where I need to go.
That's where you could use this Gen Z
language.
This is the headspace that I'm at, right?
That's where I'm at right now.
I identify as a Muslim now, and I
hope you can recognize my identity.
And as a Muslim, I need you to
also...
Listen, if you became trans, in order for
you and her to still be together, she's
got to recognize trans people.
So you need to tell her, listen, I
now identify as a Muslim.
And I need you to support me in
that.
Yeah.
And I need you to support me in
that and be part of this thing, right?
Ibn Abi Rayan says, who cares about her
feelings?
But the thing is, you are human beings
though.
And you do represent Islam too.
So the way that you got to do
things is...
You have to have some mercy in the
way.
Did not the Prophet, peace be upon him,
said, when you kill, when you kill in
war, you don't torture somebody.
You don't do a thousand cuts until he
bleeds out after five hours.
You do one cut, so he bleeds out
in five seconds, right?
Less than...
With animals, we're told to do this.
So I would say, listen, tell her, listen,
I now identify as a Muslim.
And I need you to...
It only allows me to be involved with
a Muslim or a Jew or a Christian,
right?
So become one of these.
Give it some thought.
Right?
Give it some thought.
And then slowly, maybe you stop doing the
haram things that are the worst of haram
things, like khalwah, right?
You would just maybe go slowly like that.
And there could...
This is one potential.
There is another way.
If you see that this person is like
way off and you were way off.
Because there is an atheist who's like a
regular person.
But there's also like an extreme...
Maybe you were part of an extremely vulgar
or un-Islamic life.
At that point, you may just cut it
off, regardless.
That may be the safest thing.
So you have two options there.
And I would say, get, figure out what
you're going to do and do that, right?
But you definitely have to stop the...
You have to stop the forbidden things.
Right away.
Some guy says, why are the philosophical schools
invalid in Islam?
Because they contradict the textual evidence.
And the Ash'ari and Maturidi schools came
to argue against the philosophical schools, where they
parted from the textual evidence of Quran and
Hadith.
Hence, the Ash'ari schools have philosophical language.
Because you are dealing with philosophers, right?
If I have to refute an emotional pull,
what am I going to use?
Emotion.
If a guy comes and he's emotionally manipulating
people, I'm going to bring a better emotion.
I'm not going to bring reason.
I'm going to bring emotion.
So these people brought philosophy.
So the answer will be philosophical in nature,
right?
If nobody did this, then we'd leave these
philosophers run rampant and cause fitna.
Last question.
Is it in the Maliki school recommended to
delay the Isha prayer?
Not pat to the one third mark of
the night.
Not past that.
A lot of good questions.
A lot of great.
We have more and more viewers every day.
That's not the goal of the podcast, but
it's nice to see.
Right?
The goal of the podcast is that Allah
is pleased with it.
That's the goal.
Some people said to me, listen, so-and
-so does this to get views.
I say, I will consider that.
But my first filter, what would Allah and
his messenger love?
And I'm not a mujtahid.
So I have to see what does scholarship
say?
And not even more than that.
What would my teachers say?
What would my own teachers say?
And what would our elders in the community?
Because that does reflect God's will.
It reflects what Allah, God's will in Sharia.
It reflects Sharia for sure.
Right?
So I don't really care for views, but
I am happy to see the viewership rising.
I can't deny that.
It makes me happy to see that the
influence is successful.
And the clips that are cut are always
getting better and better views too.
Right?
And the latest clips about zoos.
Listen, PETA, what is it called?
They're against eating animals.
Are they against trapping them?
They should be supporting me here.
They should retweet it.
Here, look at this.
I'm wondering why I never see PETA around
zoos.
So, but I have to say, I'm not,
we're not saying chickens, mules, these domesticable animals.
Chickens, mules, peacocks, petting zoos.
That's halal.
I hope I didn't.
I hope I mentioned that in that clip.
So no one thinks that that's not wrong.
Petting zoos are lawful to have.
Right?
But when you have a lion, that guy,
he needs to run.
He needs to hunt.
Right?
He needs to hunt.
Can you take a businessman and say, what
do you do?
He says, I run businesses and I earn
5 million a month in my businesses.
Say, how about this?
Stay home and I give you 5 million.
You think he wants that?
It's the gamesmanship of the business.
Business is the sport of adults at a
certain point.
At one point, it's your livelihood.
At a certain point, it's the gamesmanship.
After 25K a month, it's the gamesmanship of
business.
It's the challenge.
It's why you wake up.
Let me, let's see if I could do
this.
Let's see if I can reach a million,
100K a month.
It's the gamesmanship of it.
Let's see if I can reach a million
a month.
Right?
You know what I'm about to say, right?
A million a month.
It's not that much money.
It's not a lot of money if you
think about it.
You know how much money is in the
world?
Million a month.
It's easy for Allah Ta'ala.
It's not a lot of money if you
think about it.