Abdullah Hakim Quick – Blessings Of Becoming Muslim Qa
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The speakers emphasize the importance of avoiding bringing up the wrong names during interviews and maintaining a family name during interviews, as well as the spread of AIDS and the importance of acceptance of all prophets and the belief in one God for one's behavior. They also touch on the history of Islam and the link between the Eastern Middle East and the West, as well as the need for a "whole life of this world" approach to rebuilding a culture. The "arousal crisis" and the "naughty feeling that comes with it" are also emphasized.
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From the left salatu salam ala
thanks a lot Hakeem quick for this for
the malice pinata towards him. inshallah
it's the time for the questions and answers. And shake said,
if anyone has questions shala, he can direct to the Shekar Sharma or he can write in piece of paper and sharpen
the priority for the non Muslims that he sent to the the non Muslims. They have more priority today to address their questions.
And you can ask about anything Siobhan shake when I say
okay, I want to open up the floor for any questions that anybody has. This is a formal setting like a lecture, but actually, we're actually very, very informal. So if you have any questions about anything, feel free to ask one yes.
Say that again? What do we call?
Right?
Going into space? Okay, well, there's no restriction about going into space, and even flying or going up into the atmosphere that there's no restriction. And if it's not for the will of Allah subhanaw taala Illa Bismillah. If Allah subhanaw taala allows for people to go up into the atmosphere. There's nothing wrong with this.
Like airplane travel and whatnot, there's nothing wrong, only the difficulty comes if people go into space. And because of that, they get a god complex. They start to think that their God because they go up and this is the problem.
But in terms of you know, going into the space is nothing wrong. My only problem with Cape Canaveral and what is happening in many of the countries is they're wasting a lot of money. They just recently lost this, this this ship that they sent out i think i think they said $185 million US just experiment because they want to fly a plane five times the speed of sound. People are starving to death and you have the money to play with a little toy because you want to fly faster than you know five times what good is it going to do to you man? When people are starving to death that this is the only real
blame that I would say about doing that. Okay, the floor is open for any other questions anybody has? sisters if you have a question, you know, you can feel free to either ask it or you can write it, it's up to you. Florida
Okay, now, the question is, is there a known reason why Allah wants Allah calls himself he in the in the Quran as opposed to she or in our neutral pronoun
the the the usage within languages many of the languages because of the predominance of men within the societies he is used, but the he what is being used in Arabic, obviously does not mean masculine or feminine, because it is clear within the text of the Quran, that Allah subhanaw taala is not male or female. And he is only used as as a
way of language. It's a way within language they were expressing the concept of the Creator through heat. And to say it's an Arabic does not yet like an English, even English just to call God it wouldn't make sense because that denotes non intelligence. So in English, they would say he with a capital H. Right. And so it is understood through through the actual Arabic grammar. What it means. Okay, any other questions?
See the bottom of my back. I have my glasses on the side of the back. My back.
The Other questions? Yeah, yes.
Yeah.
This is more of a sort of like a more of a personal question to me from a Christian background and I'm thinking
and
I was just wondering if,
if I was to convert would I have to change my name is that Yeah.
currencies do with it? Oh, okay. Good question. Sorry, because that would be a really sort of a big problem within the family.
Yeah, actually, you know, there's nothing in Islam that actually says that you have to change the name. And the early followers of the prophets of Salaam, basically maintain the names. If you see the early people of Bill Owl and Omar and Horace Mann, and Ollie people, they didn't change the name, there was a case of of Duchamp's, who was a slave of the sun. And so his name was unchanged to up the ramen. Okay, so it was a slave of a rough man mean the Creator. So therefore, you have to look into your name. I'll give the example of my close friend Bill Phillips, I think he was here before. And so you know, we were when he came into Islam, we were trying to figure out the names.
And so he did some research and he found out that his name was Dennis Phillips. Okay. Dennis is from the god Dionysius, who is the Greek god of sport and play and drinking wine and whatnot. So he said, I have to change that name. But Philips is a lover of horses. Philips, so there's nothing wrong with that. Muslims love horses. Okay, so um, so therefore, then he changed his name to Bilbao Phillips. Okay. So what is happening is that
probably the best way to do it with as many of us do is that you maintain your surname, which is the family name, or, you know, we look at like a name of a below, like, your tribe, or your family. But then the given name, your given name can be changed, or it can remain, but you know, at first, really, when you become a Muslim, you don't have to think about that, at first, it's not important at all. Okay, only if a person has a name, like hog or Savage, that you may have to think about it.
But even then, it's still a family name, right.
In most cases, though, it's, it's fine. So don't worry about it. Many of the Muslims tend to put more importance on the name than until he'd.
But the crucial thing is the belief in one God, that's the crucial thing, and risala, that you accept all the prophets, and Muhammad SAW them as the finality of problems. Once you accept those, you're in your head. And,
you know, for myself, really, what I found is that Islam is really a lifestyle. So if you look at it more as a lifestyle, it's not our official church, where you sign a document and all that, that that's not the important thing. It's a lifestyle. And the basis of that is the belief in one God, that all of our actions go back to the Creator of the heavens in the earth. So May Allah make it easy for you in Sharla? For this change, any other questions? anybody has any verbal questions?
It says, We are being taught about evolution at the university, and we have been told that AIDS is spread from green monkeys, what is the best argument against this? Okay, there are a number of theories concerning the spread of AIDS, or the the beginning of AIDS. And in South Africa, there was a conference, the Islamic Medical Association, we're leading doctors from around the world came together. And there are a number of theories. One theory, and this is just might shock you. But what this is a doctor who presented this one theory is that AIDS is came from outer space, it's an alien disease.
And aliens brought it to earth and they infected humanity. But that one is a weak argument, which couldn't be supported. The second theory is the theory of
AIDS being
part of a racial thing. And that it was African people first, it was a green monkey in Africa, who infected an African person. And then it was spread by African people around the world. Now, this is also a very weak argument. Number one.
When we look at the spread of AIDS itself, you see there's a tendency, racism comes into disease. In America, whenever somebody gets a flu, they will say, Hong Kong flu.
Taiwan flu, like all the flu comes from China, when the flu probably came from New York City, but they call it Hong Kong flu. You see, that's racism. That's racism.
So now, as another way to try to put African people down. They connected with the green monkey scientific documentation has showed when aids came out, the highest percentage of AIDS was amongst male homosexuals. In San Francisco. This is where it really spread. And you can spread it you can see it from San Francisco, even to Haiti, people visiting as tourists. It was basically male homosexuals who had this disease. Of course now, we know that it is not only 100
homosexual disease, it is passed through drugs with needles and any fluids to fluids that are coming from one body to another can transfer this disease.
Malik bedri, Dr. Malik bezieht, he wrote a book concerning AIDS. And in this he showed homosexual practices that you will see because of male homosexual practices, that by the the the the taking in of our filth
into the bloodstream and * into the bloodstream, which is not natural to be taken in. It actually breaks down the immune system, because AIDS is actually acquired immunity Deficiency Syndrome. It's your, your, your immune system is broken down. Right. There's another theory that aids was actually spread by the American military.
And there was a woman in America. Her name was Chris, Dr. Chris, and she was traveling from city to city. And she said she was in the laboratories. And she saw the AIDS virus. She saw the containers, and she saw the antidote before it spreads in San Francisco. And so her theory was that they wanted to inoculate. They wanted to do like a test. And so they said they will take the most despised part of the population. So they look for male homosexuals in San Francisco, and they will try it on them to see what would happen. Okay, but then it's spreaded. Got it went wildfire, and so they kept the antidote inside their laboratory. whether that's true or not, Allahu Allah, we can't prove that for
sure.
in a general sense, you can see
in the same way that this facade this corruption and what it brings, the prophets Allah Salaam has said
something to the effect of motherhood selfish if you Coleman cut, Yamato Bihar, Alinea in Nevada Fie him apart, while Ojha unless he limped appconfig slash, cover call this auto slash. Whenever
sexual immorality and corruption spreads amongst a people it appears, and they do it openly.
They will also appear amongst them diseases and famines that they never knew in the previous generations. And so when the homosexuals started having this disease, they felt insecure. And they went out into the streets. In Toronto, we had a good day called Gay Pride day. And they had 500,000 homosexuals marching in the streets. And they said, we're queer. And we're here.
And we're not going away. So they said that
the villa
then, and we're having another lecture next year for Muslims tomorrow. But to give you a hint, they actually included somebody from the Muslim community.
And they had a float that they call us Salaam.
And people from the Muslim community who were turned out and confused and got involved in that and they marched in the parade.
So the process of them said Malzahar, rotten fascia when it comes out. They do it Alinea, then comes the tar ruin well Ojha. So this tar rune is now coming, this disease is now coming in and spreading in the land. So you can put it all together. And, you know, there may be a number of reasons. I'm not sure which one is is actually the theory, but the theory of starting in Africa is racism.
That's racism. And through scientific documentation, you will see that in San Francisco amongst male homosexuals in the first five years or so, they were the main people on earth that had AIDS. And then they say once all the countries
question Yes, sir.
Salaam Alaikum.
My question maybe it's a little bit you know, far away from the main roots of your topic, however, you know, something that
with what you have an answer for it, and the clarification here as Muslims who are living in a non Muslim country, of course, we have our own problems and our own advantages, disadvantages. Now, my question is, should Muslims or confronted two brothers or any two Muslims, should they go to judge by a non Muslim judge?
In the absence of official Muslim judge at this date? Yeah.
Okay, well, the first thing I want to say to be very honest with you
is that we are hoping and praying for a gentleman
In Islamic Society, to evolve and to appear on this earth, but up until now, there is no Islamic State on Earth. There are some people who are getting close and we pray, inshallah we have to make law, the law will help them to complete. So the economy is interest free, the politics has a halifa. Right. And until they are, you know, governed by Quran and Sunnah, there are some that are moving towards actually now, the so called Muslim countries are all shades of different British constitutional law, French constitutional law, all types of secular systems rule the Muslim world. And you will find that there are actually some Islamic practices
that are practiced in the non Muslim countries more than in Muslim countries.
Some of the civil laws in these societies where you get justice in the court system, and certainly it comes from Islamic Courts. It was the Islamic course system that transferred this concept into Europe.
And they took the ball and and they spread it now. So therefore, if we are living within a country like this, if we have surrendered ourself, and come here for whatever the reason is, then to a certain extent, you have to respect the basic laws of the country, as long as it's not making you go outside of your Islam. We have to learn now how to work within the environment that you're in, unfortunately, and I say this from experience, because in Toronto, I was the mom of a big mosque, over 1000 people in the mosque, and we had Muslims in every part of the Muslim world. And when we have marital problems, many times the brothers especially they don't respect the Imam.
The Imam tells them You can't say talaq, talaq, talaq talaq, like water coming out of your mouth. But they continue to say it. They don't respect the mom.
They beat their wife brutally, in the name of Islam. They do all kinds of things, and they won't respect thing, then you say, Okay, brother, I'm gonna call the police. Okay, martial arts of radical law. Now he's, he's, he's gonna, he's gonna be very cooperative now. See, because a police a common
See, in New York City. What what what brothers used to do is, if there was a marital problem, we had brothers trained, and we would go to the house, and we'll deal with him myself. We'll deal with the brother. Okay. But this is a different situation than New York. This is different than New York. So really, you know, we have to learn to, you know, respect those institutions that are here, as long as they're not taken us out of our faith. And sometimes you have to go, you know, in that situation, the best way and what is happening in Canada now.
It may even be coming here. The court systems are realizing that in order to save costs in the court, they have an out of court settlement.
And so they they they appoint people who are not major judges, but they are like lawyers, and they sit with the two parties, aggrieved parties, and they have an out of court settlement. That is the best possible thing for us in this system. Because then you can get a Mufti, somebody from the Muslim community who sits with a lawyer from the court. And then you have the two sides, right? And then it's an out of court settlement, right, where the deal is that the power of the state is there to keep the brother in check. Right, but you still have a Mufti who was there who can enter into shediac perspective. So the shediac perspective would be there in the decision, that's the best that
I've seen within with within a minority situation. Unfortunately only in a few parts of the West Western countries, to the Muslims respect the Imam enough to actually obey what the Imam is saying. Most of the people look at the Imam the lead salaat man make Juma after that you finished man, you have no power over my life. Does this is what happens. So we try to get the best settle into the person who can question in the back.
Your question
I wanted to ask you two questions. The first one was is a haraam if a woman does not wear niqab like cover her face in her hands? And the second question was it if if we had like a Nike jumper or something, do we as Nike is a it's a it's a I believe it's a God of sports in Greece or something like
Yeah. Do you know if we had a Nike jumper? Would we have to cover the word Nike? Yeah, yeah, that's
what I would like to say tomorrow, we're having another session for the Muslims. So some of the deep questions concerning fifth and you know, what not I want to discuss this amongst the Muslims because some of them the non Muslims over here would not be able to follow you know, all the detail 5050 type questions
in terms of covering wearing niqab or gloves, whatever, it is permissible to wear it, or, or not to wear it, you know, and there's a there's a discussion amongst the fuqaha here
Concerning it, but it is if a woman wants to wear that cheese cheese, it's permissible. It's fully permissible. And she's actually following you know, the way of the Sahaba. Many of the Sahaba were the wives of the Prophet so seldom. So there's nothing wrong with doing that. Or if a if a woman shows her face in her hands, there's nothing wrong with that. Also, concerning the Nike is, you know, there's a lot of discussions concerning these advertisement companies. And, you know, Nike Air, it said that on the back of the night, they had a law, something like that a law written on it. It was a symbol. And so I believe they actually took it off. There was a protest made by the
Muslims, and they took it off. In terms of whether Nick is a God of Greece or not, I'm not sure I'm not sure about that.
But it is better to avoid as much as possible. However, most of the products that most of the clothing that comes out of the Western countries, it's got a stamp on it. So just about everybody in this room has a name on their body. I don't care how orthodox Muslim you think you are. You got something I have a Casio watch.
So I can't erase Casio on my watch, man. Right? So as long as there's no symbol that has shirt shark in it, or something like that, then you know, you can only go one thing I would avoid though. The Nike has got the check and it says Just do it. Just do it. That one we don't want. That is the lifestyle of shaytaan. That is shaytans lifestyle. Just do it. Below who dude, no who do no limits in your life. Just do it. Do anything you want to do. This is the life of the hire one of the animals, you want to make a comment about
the God of victory, okay? That this is a good point.
Okay, it says can a Muslim youth have a Christian as a friend? not serious? Okay, again, some of these 50 questions we want to save. But you know, in terms of Muslims relationship with the people of the book and whatnot, there's nothing wrong with having a friend, what the verses talking about only, and only are really the protectors and the really the ones who have allegiance to this allegiance or pledge. It's something deeper, there's nothing wrong with basic relations with
in your book, deeper roots. You mentioned the early, most Americans were Muslims. Can you please tell more about this? This is a whole lecture actually, in there. But what I wanted to say is what I'll say in brief is that in the same way that the Arabs, Muslims were the first to do the maps of Australia. There was a point during history that the historians called the Dark Ages. So the Roman Empire is falling down. So somewhere between four b 400 bc or so. And about the 15th century, out of 400 ad, at about the 15th century AD. They say the decade the lights went out, but the lights didn't go out on the Muslims, the lights were shining, it was the golden age of Islam. So during that time,
Muslims traveled throughout the planet. And there's documented proof by Muslim writers elmas, Rudy Al idrisi, even patea altomare, a number of famous geographers and historians actually are wrote, and we have the written proof. And I've got a book here that that documents the proof for you, written in Arabic, that talks about journeys made by Muslims across the Atlantic Ocean, and they went into America, they live with the native people. And they were actually a long before Columbus. Columbus was lost.
He thought he was in India, and he bumped into America. And he said, You're Indians.
But the people not Indians, man, India was like, you know, hundreds of 1000s it's way far away. He said, You're Indians. And you see the picture of Columbus. And he's standing at the shore and he saying, you know, I conquered you in the name of Ferdinand Isabella. And the people were just saying like, you know, Calm down, man have something to drink.
My question is to the historians. How can you discover a place when the people are standing there looking at you, man.
And they've been living there for 20,000 years.
And they had pyramids, they had big cities, they had philosophy, they had language, everything. How can you say you discovered the placement? This is historical, cultural imperialism, which is put into our educational system. And we're trying to rewrite the textbooks now I work with the Toronto Board of Education. And we tried to rewrite these books. Some of them they let us some they're fighting us not to rewrite the books. I would say Christopher Columbus was discovered in 1492. We understand that
he was discovered
Yeah,
no question in the back. Yes, sir.
Yes, I was.
interested, you know, you, you elaborated on how in Islam were called to enjoin what is right and to forbid what is evil. And the original Sahaba were very vigilant in the actions towards injustice and oppression in general. There was this very, very dynamic aspect of Islam, that was very social. But you know, we go to the mosque here in Perth, and people say, nobody touches on this, the people say,
you know, it might
help you in your studies and Mike Dillard and you know, and all this and it nobody ever touches on these particular issues. Yeah, that is the heart of the Quran. Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, this is the heart of Islam is to have a heart that demands and fights. You know, you cannot separate this, from Islam or this. This is not about a harder question justice, for the restoration of the dignity and unity in the society. But, you know, people talk about louis farrakhan they say, your look, he's kofod, you know, but actually, the Islam that he's preaching is more concerned with social justice, into some extent, and what some of the Islam that we get here is all we use this for
the outcome, we are getting a watered down Islam, that is not in the primary, and the masala the mosque, and people say, Oh, you know, somebody stands up all is, you know, make dua and you know, Allah will bless you in your studies and in your, in your business and all this sort of thing. And you think, well, what's that got to do with or good, you know, that's lovely, but they're missing the heart of Islam should be forgiven, shouldn't be worried about Muslims should be worried about justice and things like that. They, they shouldn't just be worried about, you know, making money and that why is this? Yeah, what's happening? How can we not, you know, I can go to a church and hear
all this weather, I don't need to go to a mosque and hear this, ya know, this is something that has to be addressed rather, yeah. Okay. One of the great historians,
Chairman Khaldoon himolla,
when he looked at Islamic history, he looked at it in a sense, it's like a cycle cyclical. And there are some points where Muslims are not practicing their faith, they may be just Muslim in name. And that will be a low point, they'll have their names, but they will not have solta, they will not have authority in the land. And the more that the Muslims now practice their faith, they start to go up on the circle now. And so we are actually moving up on the circle, we're moving. And that's why you see Muslims all over the place, and is starting to rise and we're coming up. But you know, it's like a person who's sleeping, when you first get up from your sleep, you're groggy.
So you sort of staggering and you're not sure which area. So you see groups a one loves up either one loves education, one loves to bleed, one loves to our one loves to soul worth, one loves this, and that and all kinds of isms and schisms, because people are just waking up from the sleep. And so really, we are moving up towards that pure, you know, Islam, that actually gives you that connection with society, and gives you the enthusiasm to change things to go out into the world. But this is a process that we're going through. And we pray that the next generation can actually see this, but it may take even more than a generation. A lot of knows best. But we're actually in the process now of
change. And so what you need to do is that, you know, there are tapes that are available. There's different lectures available, actually. And also Muslims are actually given
encouragement by Allah subhanaw taala, to travel in the land. So when you travel to different parts of the world, you will see Muslims in a different perspective.
Whenever we, if you stay in your own neighborhood, you only get a narrow version of Islam. But if you traveled, go to Europe, go to America, you know, go to different parts of the Muslim world and you'll see different shades of Islam and you'll see people who are much more active in the way
okay.
Okay, some of the questions now
highly like political type questions concerning the Muslim world. And I would like to reserve these questions till tomorrow we're having another session. And I would prefer to to reserve some of the more tense political questions concerning the Muslim world tomorrow.
What I can say and Allah knows best and I say this with all respect to the Muslims, is that
the colonial period, and the destruction that was wreaked on our societies, has actually put us in a state of confusion and so therefore, in
Coming out of this, some of the government's and some of the things that are happening in the Muslim countries are not in line with Islam at this point in time. And that is because of the economic pressure put on them. The political pressure, there's a there's a psychological syndrome called post traumatic syndrome. And that is that if a person is involved in a trauma, you know, after that trauma is over, they're in a terrible accident, they see somebody loved die, you know, this trauma can come back on you A year later, it can hit you. And you can actually have like a psychological problem can happen. And so in many of the countries, they just come out of a war. They've seen their
families destroyed, they've been terribly confusions of confusing situations. And so therefore, some of the actions done are extreme.
But as long as we know what the sources, as long as we know what Islam is, we're okay. The problem is, we don't know what Islam is, now we're in confusion. But Lisa Hamdulillah, we can go back to the process of them into the earliest Islam. And we know what the basis in this in the case of Minister Farrakhan and what you have to understand the dynamics in America itself, to want to be able to understand Minister Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. And he being a student of Malcolm X. And coming out of one of the powerful organizations, which is actually founded by I would say, the real founder of the organization, is a man named Marcus Garvey, who's from Jamaica, the island of
Jamaica, is a black nationalist, civil rights, but civil rights, it's like a, it's like civil rights type organization.
Economic Empowerment. And so he he answers these questions, he speaks boldly about the problems in society, and then that way, he is doing something that is good. The problem is that that that's happening with his movement, is that he still maintains some of the teachings of Elijah Muhammad. And this is a problem and you read his magazine called the final call, you'll see in the back, that they still say, we believe that Allah appeared in the person of wd 40, Muhammad, in 1930, the majority of the Muslims and the Messiah of the Christians, that means they believe that God came in a man. And that's totally against tawheed. Totally. And so, that's the problem. Like he's in a
transition. And he's saying that he's coming closer to Islam, many of his followers are now becoming Muslims, and we pray inshallah, that Allah would bring them into Islam, because you know, he's very outspoken, but we still have to take a stand. You know, when it comes to these teachings, because when it when it comes to talking about religion, then he will get you confused. But if you're talking about civil rights, then he sounds like Malcolm X, he's the student of Malcolm X. If you understand Malcolm X, you'll see one of the greatest
revolutionaries of the 20th century. And so then you'll see that why farrakhan speaks, you know, in the sense, you have a question from
Lagos, Allah.
Yeah, why would say, and I want to talk a little bit more about this tomorrow night, is that the Muslims are being caught up in the Western culture. process all upset, intellectually, Omar fitna are fitting into how the Luma map, every nation has a test, a trial, tribulation, and the test and trial of this. This woman is wealth money. And so the Western powers now using our advertisement, and also this hieratic dunya the life of this world have gotten Muslims caught up in this lead the life of this world. And so reaching out for this false, you know, money, this false god,
this is the confusion that has happened. Also, using the media. The propaganda now is so heavy that, you know, with some of these movies, they put fear in your heart.
I mean, if you see Arnold Schwarzenegger, what he does to you how the krimson jihad in True Lies, right? You see what he does to them, then it like terrorizes your heart. And this is why they do that, because they wanted to psych people out in terms of what you know, this illusionary power. They actually they have power. There's no doubt about that. But but the movie is a false surrealistic world. And so Muslims because of the technology spreading are caught up in this wish. And so until we can separate ourselves from the wish, we can use the technology, but we don't get involved in the culture. We're not caught up with the culture. We just use the technology and we
maintain it.
The basis of our culture should be the Sunda. That's the basis of our culture. So you know, when we can come out of that, then we would be able to defeat it. You know, it's sort of a love hate thing. Sometimes love, and sometimes it's hate. So you'll see both things coming up.
But it's really a confusion. And those who come from America has yourself, I believe.
Understand that, you know, what's in America is totally different than the movie, man. When you're there on the streets, it's a totally different world than what you see inside this movie. Right? Mission Impossible. And all these people running around. And you know, it's, you know, right now in America, there are more people in prison than in college.
The prison population is larger the university population. Imagine this man. That's the biggest business in America now. You want to make money, sell food to the prisons.
You have a captive, you know, markets. They can't move, man. And they get they, and they're gonna eat three meals a day, man. So if you're selling them burgers, or something like that, you suddenly a millionaire, man, you're a millionaire. You see? So it's all about money making and illusion and trickery. You know, we have to try to come up with it. Yes, brother.
I have been in the racing industry for a number of his.
Unfortunately, the gambling is brought into our car to iron my wedges through what I do. I've never been involved in gambling. But I heard from a lot of others, that me being in the industry is fully Haram. And I asked some shifts, they said, Well, if he
encouraged the gambling, it's how long have you done to chill out? So what's
what's your point?
You know, in Albania, your deeds are based on your intentions. But then, you know, with haram things.
Really, if a person is involved in directly in Haram, and they're assisting and they're building it up, then you can they are basically involved in the forum itself. And really, we should try to avoid this as much as possible. Now, to get specifically to your questions, you'd have to tell me exactly what what you do. Like, for instance, we have a thing called in Cape Town called
the grandwest. casino, which is a new casino just built in Cape Town now. And it's a huge place. It's also a mall. So it's got restaurants inside of it. And it's got all types of things. And at the casino, so it catches some people, because it's a mall has got movie houses inside you see. So, but really, if a person is inside the casino, and they're not betting, but they're fixing up the roulette table, that they're given out the chips, or whatever it is, I mean, they're involved in this harassment ascent. So this is like a shrub hire best that's adult. So leave the book, you know, it armella, you Leave it, leave what is delightful to that which is not helpful, at best is
doubtful. So it's better to stay away from it completely. Because remember this gambling now Mason, it is described by a law as ridgestone anomala shaytaan. It is a film
is a film from the handiwork of the devil. So you really got to try to try to you know, get away from it, and to get some other better Holloway of income.
Okay, so I want to thank you all for the questions. And to my friend who has come here tonight. In terms of Islam, I invite you to to embrace Islam. Because really, you know, when I was about to make that move, the shaytaan comes to the demo can come to you, right? And try to make it seem difficult for you. But if you if you have that feeling in your heart, you're not joining an organization, you know, it's just it's a spiritual change between you and the Creator. You don't have to change your name, right, you're still the same person, you have the same mother, you have the same father, you know, you're still the same, but then you're tawheed now you're connected directly with the Creator.
Right and now you have the fullness of prophethood. So I would encourage you strongly to to take your Shahada tonight, may Allah make it easy for you, and for all those who are interested in Islam. So polyclonal byham, deca eyeshadow Juan de la planta the stock rucola to relate for salaam aleikum wa barakaatuh
actions go back to the Creator of the heavens in the earth. So, may Allah make it easy for you inshallah, for this change, any other questions anybody has any verbal questions?
It says we are being taught about evolution at the university and we are being told that as a spread from green monkeys, what is the best argument against this? Okay, there are a number of theories concerning the spread of AIDS or the the beginning of AIDS and in South Africa, there was a conference the Islamic Medical Association where leading doctors from around the world came together and there are a number of theories. One theory is
This is just made shock you. But what this is a doctor who presented this one theory is that AIDS is came from outer space, it's an alien disease.
And the aliens brought it to earth and they infected humanity. But that one is a weak argument which couldn't be supported. The second theory is the theory of
AIDS being
part of a racial thing. And that it was African people. First, it was a green monkey in Africa, who infected an African person. And then it was spread by African people around the world. Now, this is also a very weak argument. Number one.
When we look at the spread of AIDS itself, you see there's a tendency, racism comes into disease. In America, whenever somebody gets a flu, they will say, Hong Kong flu,
Taiwan flu, like all the flu comes from China, when the flu probably came from New York City, but they call it Hong Kong flu. You see, that's racism. That's racism.
So now, as another way to try to put African people down, they connected with the green monkey scientific documentation has showed when aids came out, the highest percentage of AIDS was amongst male homosexuals. In San Francisco. This is where it really spread. And you can spread it, you can see it from San Francisco, even to Haiti, people visiting as tourists, it was basically male homosexuals, who had this disease. Of course, now, we know that it is not only a homosexual disease, it is passed through drugs, with the needles and any fluids, the fluids that are coming from one body to another, can transfer this disease.
Malik bedri, Dr. Malik bedri, he wrote a book concerning AIDS. And in this he showed homosexual practices that you will see because of male homosexual practices, that by the the the the taking in, of filth
into the bloodstream and * into the bloodstream, which is not natural to be taken in. It actually breaks down the immune system, because AIDS is actually acquired immunity Deficiency Syndrome. It's your your immune system is broken down. Right. There's another theory that aids was actually spread by the American military.
And there was a woman in America. Her name was Chris, Dr. Chris, and she was traveling from city to city. And she said she was in the laboratories. And she saw the AIDS virus. She saw the containers, and she saw the antidote before it spread in San Francisco. And so her theory was that they wanted to inoculate. They wanted to do like a test. And so they said they will take the most despised part of the population. So they look for male homosexuals in San Francisco, and they would try it on them to see what would happen. Okay, but then it spread it got it went wildfire, and so they kept the antidote inside their laboratory. whether that's true or not, Allahu Allah, we can't prove that for
sure.
in a general sense, you can see
in the same way that this facade this corruption and what it brings, the protozoa Sallam has said
something to the effect of motherhood rotten fascia, Coleman cut, Yamato, Bihar, Alinea, in the heart of fee him octoroon. Well,
let's see, let us Laffy hoka call this whenever
sexual immorality and corruption spreads amongst people it appears and they do it openly.
They will also appear amongst them diseases and famines that they never knew in the previous generations. And so when the homosexuals started having this disease, they felt insecure. And they went out into the streets. In Toronto, we had a good day called Gay Pride day. And they had 500,000 homosexuals marching in the streets. And they said, we're queer. And we're here.
And we're not going away. So they said
the law
then, and we're having another lecture lecture for Muslims tomorrow. But to give you a hint, they actually included somebody from the Muslim community.
And they had a float that they call us, Salam
and people from the Muslim community who were turned out and confused and got involved in that.
They marched in the parade.
So the process of them said methodical fashion. When it comes out, they do it Alinea then comes the Toulon, well Ojha, so this time around is now coming, this disease is now coming into the spreading in the land. So you can put it all together. And, you know, there may be a number of reasons, I'm not sure which one is, is actually theory, but the theory of studying in Africa is racism.
That's racism. And through scientific documentation, you will see that in San Francisco amongst male homosexuals in the first five years or so, they were the main people on earth that had AIDS. And then they say once all the countries
question. Yes, sir.
Salaam Alaikum.
My question, maybe it's a little bit, you know, far away from the main roots of your topic, however, you know, something that
with what you have an answer for it, and the clarification here, as Muslims who are living in a non Muslim country, of course, we have our own problems and our own advantages and disadvantages. Now, my question is should Muslim so confronted two brothers or any two Muslims? Should they go to judge by a non Muslim judge?
In the absence of official Muslim judge, and this day, yeah.
Okay, well, the first thing I want to say, to be very honest with you
is that we are hoping and praying for a genuine Islamic Society, to evolve and to appear on this earth. But up until now, there is no Islamic State on Earth. There are some people who are getting close and we pray, inshallah we have to make dua, that Allah will help them to complete. So the economy is is is interest free, the politics has a halifa. Right, until they're, you know, governed by Quran and Sunnah. There are some that are moving towards actually now, the so called Muslim countries are all shades of different British constitutional law, French constitutional law, all types of secular systems rule the Muslim world. And you will find that there are actually some
Islamic practices
that are practice in the non Muslim countries more than in Muslim countries.
Some of the civil laws in these societies where you get justice in the court system, and certainly it comes from Islamic Courts. He was the Islamic court system that transferred this concept into Europe. And they took the ball and and they spread it now. So therefore, if we are living within a country like this, if we have surrendered ourselves, and come here for whatever the reason is, then to a certain extent, you have to respect the basic laws of the country, as long as it's not making you go outside of your Islam. We have to learn now how to work within the environment that you're in, unfortunately, and I say this from experience, because in Toronto, I was the mom of a big
mosque, over 1000 people in the mosque. And we had Muslims in every part of the Muslim world. And when we have marital problems, many times the brothers especially they don't respect the mom.
The mom tells them, you can say, select a lotta lotta luck, like water coming out of your mouth. But they continue to say it. They don't respect the mom.
They they beat their wife brutally, in the name of Islam. They do all kinds of things, and they won't respect thing, then you say, Okay, brother, I'm gonna call the police. Okay, martial arts vehicle law now is going to is going to be very cooperative now.
You see, because the police are coming.
See, in New York City, what brothers used to do is, if there was a marital problem, we had brothers trained, and we would go to the house, and we'll deal with him myself. We'll deal with the brother. Okay. But this is a different situation than New York. This is different than New York. So really, you know, we have to learn to, you know, respect those institutions that are here, as long as they're not taken us out of our faith. And sometimes you have to go, you know, in that situation, the best way and what is happening in Canada now.
It may even be coming here. The court systems are realizing that in order to save costs in the court, they have an out of court settlement.
And so they they they appoint people who are not major judges, but they are like lawyers, and they sit with the two parties, aggrieved parties, and they have an out of court settlement. That is the best possible thing for us in this system. Because then you can get a Mufti, somebody from the Muslim community who sits with a lawyer from the court. And then you have the two sides right?
Then it's an out of court settlement, right with the deal that the power of the state is there to keep the brother in check. Right, but you still have a Mufti who is there who can enter in the shediac perspective. So the shediac perspective would be there in the decision. That's the best that I've seen within with within a minority situation. Unfortunately only in a few parts of the West Western countries, to the Muslims respect Imam enough to actually obey what the Imam is saying. Most of the people look at the Imam the lead salaat man make Juma after that you finished man, you have no power over my life. Does this is what happens. So we try to get the best settle into the possibly
get question in the back.
Your question
I wanted to ask you two questions. The first one was is a haraam if a woman does not wear niqab like cover her face in her hands? And the second question was that if, if we had like a Nike jumper or something, do we as Nike is a it's a, it's a, I believe it's a God of sports in Greece or something like?
Yeah. Do you know if we had a Nike jumper? Would we have to cover the word Nike? Yeah, yeah, that's
what I would like to say tomorrow, we're having another session for the Muslims. So some of the deep questions concerning fifth and you know, what not, I want to discuss this amongst the Muslims, because some of them, the non Muslims over here would not be able to follow you know, all the detailed 50 type questions
in terms of the covering wearing their club or gloves, whatever it is permissible to wear it, or, or not to wear it. You know, and this is a discussion amongst the Football Hall, here concerning it. But it is if a woman wants to wear that cheese, cheese, it's permissible, it's fully permissible. And she's actually following
the way of the Sahaba. Many of the Sahaba were the wives of the Prophet so seldom. So there's nothing wrong with doing that, for if a woman shows her face in her hands. There's nothing wrong with that. Also, concerning the Nikkei is, you know, there's a lot of discussions concerning these advertisement companies. And, you know, Nike Air, it said that on the back of the night, they had a law, something like that a law written on it. It was a symbol. And so I believe they actually took it off. There was a protest made by the Muslims, and they took it off. In terms of whether Nick is a God of Greece or not, I'm not sure I'm not sure about that.
But it is better to avoid as much as possible. However, most of the products that most of the clothing that that comes out of the Western countries, it's got a stamp on it. So just about everybody in this room has a name on their body. I don't care how orthodox Muslim you think you are. You got something I have a Casio watch.
So I can't erase Casio on my watch, man, right? So as long as there's no symbol that has shirt shirt in it, or something like that, then you know, you can only go one thing I would avoid though. The Nike has got the check and it says Just do it. Just do it. That one we don't want that is the lifestyle of shaytaan. That is shaytans lifestyle. Just do it. Below who dude, no who do no limits in your life. Just do it. Do anything you want to do. This is the life of the higher one of the animals. You want to make a comment about
the God of victory, okay? And that this is a good point.
Okay, it says can a Muslim youth have a Christian as a friend Nazis? Okay, again, some of these 50 questions we want to save. But you know, in terms of Muslims relationship with the people of the book and whatnot, there's nothing wrong with having a friend, what the verse is talking about only, and only are are really the protectors. And they're really the ones that you have allegiance to this allegiance or pledge. It's something deeper, there's nothing wrong with basic relations with
in your book, deeper roots. You mentioned the early Muslim Americans were Muslims. Can you please tell more about this? This is a whole lecture actually in there. But what I wanted to say is what I'll say in brief is that in the same way that the Arabs, Muslims were the first to do the maps of Australia. There was a point during history that the historians called the Dark Ages. So the Roman Empire is falling down. So somewhere between
four 400 bc or so, and about the 15th century, out of 400 ad at about the 15th century AD. They say the Dark Ages the lights went out, but the lights didn't go out on the Muslims, the lights were shining. It was the golden age of Islam. So during that time, Muslims traveled throughout the planet. And there's documented proof by Muslim writers Elon Musk Rudy Al idrisi, even patea al Ahmadi
A number of famous geographers and historians actually are wrote and we have the written proof that I've got a book here that that documents the proof for you, written in Arabic, that talks about journeys made by Muslims across the Atlantic Ocean, and they went into America, they live with the native people. And they were actually there long before Columbus. Columbus was lost.
He thought he was in India, and he bumped into America. And he said, You're Indians.
But the people not Indians, man, India was like, you know, hundreds and 1000s is way far away. He said, You're Indians. And you see the picture of Columbus. And he's standing at the shore, and he and he's saying, you know, I conquered you in the name of Ferdinand Isabella. And the people were just saying, like, you know, Calm down, man have something to drink.
My question is to the historians. How can you discover a place when the people are standing there looking at you, man.
And they've been living there for 20,000 years.
And they had pyramids, they had big cities, they had philosophy, they had language, everything. How can you say you discovered the placement? This is historical, cultural imperialism, which is put into our educational system. And we're trying to rewrite the textbooks. Now I work with the Toronto Board of Education. And we tried to rewrite these books, some of them they let us some they're fighting us not to rewrite the books. I would say, Christopher Columbus was discovered in 1492. You understand that?
He was discovered.
Yeah. Now, question in the back. Yes, sir.
Yes, I was interested, you know, you, you elaborated on how in Islam would call to enjoin what is right, and to forbid what is evil. And the original Sahaba were very vigilant in the actions towards injustice and oppression in general. There was this very, very dynamic aspect of Islam. That was very social. But you know, we go to the mosque in Perth, and people say, nobody touches on this, the people say,
you know, it might
help you in your studies, and Mike Dubois and you know, and all this and it nobody ever touches on these particular issues. Yeah, that is the heart of the Quran. Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, this is the heart of Islam is to have a heart that demands and fights. You know, you cannot separate this, from Islam or this. This is not about a heart that fights injustice, for the restoration of the dignity and unity in the society. But, you know, people talk about louis farrakhan, they say, your look, he's kofod, you know, but actually, the Islam that he's preaching is more concerned with social justice, to some extent, and what some of the Islam that we get here is all we Why is this
for the outcome, we are getting a watered down Islam, that is not in the primary, and I will go to the masala the mosque, and people say, Oh, you know, somebody stands up all is, you know, Mike dewine, you know, Allah will bless you and your studies and in your, in your business and all this sort of thing. And you think, well, what's that got to do with? Or good, you know, that's lovely, but they're missing the heart of Islam should be forgiven, shouldn't be worried about Muslims should be worried about justice and things like that. They, they shouldn't just be worried about, you know, making money and that why is this? Yeah, what's happening? How can we not, you know, I can go to a
church and use all this weather, I don't need to go to a mosque and hear this. Yeah, no, this is something that has to be addressed rather, yeah. Okay. One of the great historians
check, even called Dune himolla.
When he looked at Islamic history, he looked at it in a sense, it's like a cycle cyclical. And there are some points where Muslims are not practicing their faith, they may be just Muslim in name. And that will be a low point, they'll have their names, but they will not have solta they will not have authority in the land. And the more that the Muslims now practice their faith, they start to go up on the circle now. And so we are actually moving up on the circle. We're moving and that's why you see Muslims all over the place, and it's starting to rise and we're coming up, but you know, it's like a person who's sleeping when you first get up from your sleep, you're groggy
so you sort of staggering and you're not sure which area. So you see groups a one loves up either one loves education, one loves tub Li and one loves to our one loves to solve, one loves this and that and all kinds of isms and schisms because people are just waking up from the sleep. And so really, we are moving up towards that pure, you know, Islam that actually gives you that
connection with society, and gives you the enthusiasm to change things to go out into the world. But this is a process that we're going through. And we pray that the next generation can actually see this. But it may take even more than a generation, a lot of knows best. But we're actually in the process now of change. And so what you need to do is that, you know, there are tapes that are available. There's different lectures available, actually. And also Muslims are actually given
encouragement by Allah subhanaw taala, to travel in the land. So when you travel to different parts of the world, you will see Muslims in a different perspective.
Whenever we, if you stay in your own neighborhood, you'll only get a narrow version of Islam. But if you traveled, go to Europe, go to America, you know, go to different parts of the Muslim world, and you'll see different shades of Islam, and you'll see people who are much more active in the way.
Okay.
Okay, some of the questions now
highly, like political type questions concerning the Muslim world. And I would like to reserve these questions till tomorrow, we're having another session, I would prefer to reserve some of the more
tense political questions concerning the Muslim world tomorrow.
What I can say and Alon knows best, and I say this with all respect to the Muslims, is that
the colonial period, and the destruction that was wreaked on our societies, has actually put us in a state of confusion. And so therefore, in coming out of this, some of the the government's and some of the things that are happening in the Muslim countries are not in line with Islam at this point in time. And that is because of the economic pressure put on them. The political pressure, there's this there's a psychological syndrome called post traumatic syndrome. And that is that if a person is involved in a trauma,
you know, after that trauma is over, they're in a terrible accident, they see somebody's loved die, you know, this trauma can come back on you A year later, it can hit you. And you can actually have, like a psychological problem can happen. And so in many of the countries, they just come out of a war. They've seen their families destroyed, they've been terribly confusions of confusing situations. And so therefore, some of the actions done are extreme.
But as long as we know what the sources, as long as we know what Islam is, we're okay. The problem is, we don't know what Islam is. Now we're in confusion. But Lisa Hamdulillah, we can go back to the process of them to the earliest slavery, we know what the basis in this in the case of Minister Farrakhan and what you have to understand the dynamics in America itself, to want to be able to understand Minister Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. And he being a student of Malcolm X. And coming out of one of the powerful organizations, which is actually founded by I would say, the real founder of the organization is a man named Marcus Garvey was from Jamaica, the island of Jamaica, is
a black nationalist, civil rights. But civil rights is like a, it's like civil rights type organization.
Economic Empowerment. And so he he answers these questions, he speaks boldly about the problems in society. And in that way, he is doing something that is good. The problem is that that that's happening with his movement is that he's still maintained some of the teachings of Elijah Muhammad. And this is a problem when you read his magazine called the final call, you'll see in the back, that they still say we believe that Allah appeared in the person of WD Muhammad, in 1930, the majority of the Muslims and the Messiah of the Christians, that means they believe that God came in a man. And that's totally against tawheed. Totally. And so that's the problem like he is in a transition. And
he's saying that he's coming closer to Islam, many of his followers are now becoming Muslims. And we pray in sha Allah, that Allah would bring them into Islam, because, you know, he's very outspoken, but we still have to take a stand. You know, when it comes to these teachings, because when it when it comes to talking about religion, then he will get you confused. But But if you're talking about civil rights, then he sounds like Malcolm X. He's the student of Malcolm X. If you understand Malcolm X, you see one of the greatest
revolutionaries of the 20th century. And so then you'll see that why farrakhan speaks, you know, in the sense, you have a question from
Lego salsola
Why would say and I want to talk a little bit more about this tomorrow night is that the Muslims are being caught up in the Western culture process all upset in the liquidity oma fitna or fitna to how the illuma mouth. Every nation has a test of a trial, tribulation. And the test and trial of this, this woman is wealth money. And so the Western powers now using our advertisement, and also this hieratic dunya the life of this world have gotten Muslims caught up in this lead the life of this world. And so reaching out for this false, you know, money, this false god,
this is the confusion that has happened. Also, using the media. The propaganda now is so heavy that, you know, with some of these movies, they put fear in your heart.
I mean, if you see Arnold Schwarzenegger, what he does to you how the krimson jihad in True Lies, right? You see what he does to them, then it like terrorizes your heart. And this is why they do that, because the thing they wanted to psych people out, in terms of what you know, this illusionary power, they actually, they have power, there's no doubt about that. But but the movie is a false surrealistic world. And so Muslims, because of the technology spreading, are caught up in this wish. And so until we can separate ourselves from the wish, when we can use the technology, but we don't get involved in the culture. We're not caught up with the culture, we just use the technology and we
maintain as the basis of our culture should be the Sunda that's the basis of our culture. So you know, when we can come out of that, then we would be able to defeat it, you know, it's sort of a love hate thing. Sometimes love and sometimes it's hate. So you'll see both things coming up.
But it's really a confusion, and those who come from America as yourself, I believe.
Understand that, you know, what's in America is totally different than the movie man. When you're there on the streets, it's a totally different world than what you see inside this movie. Right? Mission Impossible. And all these people running around. And you know, it's you know, right now in America, there are more people in prison than in college.
The prison population is larger than University population. Imagine this man. That's the biggest business in America. Now. You want to make money, sell food to the prisons.
You have a captive, you know, markets. They can't move, man. And they get they and they're gonna eat three meals a day, man. So if you're selling them burgers, or something like that, you suddenly a millionaire man, you're a millionaire. You see? So it's all about money making and illusion and trickery. You know, we have to try to come out of that. Yes, brother.
Like himself.
I have been in the racing industry for a number of years.
Unfortunately, the gambling is brought into our car to on my wages through what I do. I've never been involved in gambling, but our head from a lot of brothers that me being in the industry is fully Heron. And I asked some shifts, they said, Well, if he
encouraged the gambling, it's how long have you done?
So what's
what's your point?
You know, in Albania, Tamiya deeds are based on your intentions. But then, you know, with haram things.
Really, if a person is involved indirectly in Haram, and they're assisting and they're building it up, then you can they are basically involved in the forum itself. And really, we should try to avoid this as much as possible. Now, to get specifically to your questions, you'd have to tell me exactly what what you do. Like for instance, we have a thing called in Cape Town called
the grand West casino, which is a new casino just built in Cape Town now. And it's a huge place. It's also a mall. So it's got restaurants inside of it, and it's got all types of things. And it's a casino. So it catches some people because it's a mall has got movie houses inside, you see. So, but really, if a person is inside the casino, and they're not betting, but they're fixing up to the roulette table, that they're given out the chips, or whatever it is, I mean, they're involved in this parameter set so this is like a shrub hire best it's adult so leave that may you rebook it umbrella, you leave it leave what is delightful to that which is not doubtful. At best, it's
doubtful. So it's better to stay away from it completely. Because remember this gambling now Mason, it is described by a law as ridgestone minimum
The shaytaan is a film
is a film from the handiwork of the devil. So you really got to try to try to you know, get away from it, and to get some other better Holloway of income.
Okay, so I want to thank you all for the questions. And to my friend who has come here tonight, in terms of Islam, I invite you to, to embrace Islam. Because really, you know, when I was about to make that move, the shaitaan comes to the devil can come to you, right? And try to make it seem difficult for you. But if you have that feeling in your heart, you're not joining an organization, you know, it's just, it's a spiritual change between you and the Creator. You don't have to change the name, right? You're still the same person, you have the same mother, you have the same father, you know, you're still the same, but then you're tawheed. Now you're connected directly with the
Creator, right? And now you have the fullness of prophethood. So I would encourage you strongly to take your Shahada tonight, may Allah make it easy for you, and for all those who are interested in Islam, so particle opium Tikka eyeshadow, Juan de la planta, the stock we're going to relate for Salaam Alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh