Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Bangalore Tour 2018 An Inspirational Talk for Future Scientists
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So
if you're confused about
your
general ledger, why in the world who saw your center more or less
hidden for people who suffer some alone, they're either already EUR,
D or some video about their self esteem and then do
it in a manner. So my dear brothers and sisters, dear
friends, to be honest, I've been for the since I variety, I've been
hearing a lot of other Institute's that you guys have worked very,
very hard to get into. I'm not sure if I envy you or if it really
I don't have to do this all over again.
PhD journey is extremely lonely. Would you guys agree?
It's an exciting journey. I mean, is it a lonely journey I was
so excited about it.
It's, it's something you want to do. When you actually start doing
it. You can't wait until it's complete.
But in the process of the three or four years,
this was my case, I had a full time job, I had four children and
I was doing a PhD at the same time.
I was involved in industrial and I was doing a PhD. And it was tough
to try to balance the research, like Professor used to send me a
message, very formal message.
You promise to deliver the next chapter by you know, the next day.
So then I will quickly drop the chapter and send it to you.
After a few months only when I met him, again, I said Professor
Hughes is in so as a university,
I said,
the rest of that you don't need to be very formal, and you can just
send us over. You don't need to be very formal with me, I wanted to
just break the ice. So it's because I have so many other
things that were going on at the same time, it was very difficult
to come in here and come in there. So eventually, the final year, I
decided I need to get this finished because it's like a
brother now. So then I got pretty hot. And I got into Hungary.
And in the Viva after I submitted to professors in the waiver
process, and company law, one of them, one of them said it was an
older professor from another university, he said, I'm really
glad that I've been able to read something like this before, you
know, before I leave academia, so he was humbled, I was impressed by
because you know when you go to the waiver, and if they tell you,
you have to do a major rewrite for 18 months, I didn't want to touch
my PhD again, after I finished that I wanted to check them. So
Hamdulillah he passed it with minor corrections three months
from now, it's so I pray that Allah make it easy for you as
well. But the best part of it, which I guess, is a concerted
research that you're able to do when you're in the midst of it,
because it's about a PhD supposed to be a full time job. So you
should essentially close out everything else. And you should be
focused. And that's really the only time you can really
the thought process develops. That's why it gets done in one
year because you can't mature in your field in one year. It takes
two, three years to let your ideas develop and mature and come to
some kind of fruition. So I can understand why it's four years, or
three years or whatever it is, I can understand that. And I wish
that I could do it. Now I can only make an effort to undertake any
kind of serious research while I'm writing a book for you, okay.
Okay, so
Allah Subhan, Allah subhanaw taala says will allow the income to move
meaning to believers, that obviously is a very general
statements. How can we understand that? How do we implement that?
How can we make it work in a practical sense? The other thing
that illogical Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said,
in Allah, Canada, exon publishing, Allah subhanho wa Taala has
written excellence in everything. And then the person who was
engaged some examples,
that when you do this and make sure you do it properly when you
do this and you do it properly.
The concept of exam comes from the root. In Arabic, every word in
Arabic, every name in Arabic, every term in Arabic comes from a
root letter, root three root that says, so let me give you an
example. What's your name?
Yeah, as long as you've got to have been
shuffled Huck. Well, that's supposed to be
a shot
reads the most noble a lot of the truth alone. That's a good
example. Ashok is an Arabic term and how is an Arabic term? So
Ashraf comes from the root letters she raw? Sharp, sharp
reasonability a sharp means the most noble right? What's your
name?
One person on the scale
okay, you're gonna say
with a solid because it makes a difference Arabic is a very
sensitive language.
In the Quran we have the word on 11
Just because being saline because being saline if you read it in our
Indian way because being saline you mess up the healing big time
gentlemen ever been called the Kelpies
was
a hot dog so it says that you won't be successful in the
hereafter unless you come with a sound heart and unfortunately some
of the three days except with the sound dog
you don't want to come with a dog in the hereafter because the last
thing you want to come
so Arabic is very sensitive. For example if you look at all malady
glbp Malik is treated as meaning lum Calif California No, this is a
wedding goes away from me Blanca. Meanwhile calf, you can read
cassava standing atop Malik, which means all now sovereign, you can
be Malik which basically means king again, you can get milk,
which means ownership, you can be avoided, which means sovereignty,
you can read it by luck, which means Angel from three lenses and
you can make so many different words Arabic is very sensitive.
So, the word exon
comes from the word because what is crossing we will use that equal
to miss beauty. exon is a transitive term, it means to do
something to create a person in some things. Anything that was
more if it takes time, right, it wrong, it needs to do something to
someone else. Excellent means to deliver a person deliver beauty,
deliver excellence, to perfect something to make something that
companies should enhance or something that's what what XR
means. Very comprehensive. The promise of abortion said Allah has
prescribed upon you, Exxon excellents, creating beauty,
creating enhancements
in everything, whatever you whether that be your if you cook,
if you want to be a chef from A to Z, you know, you need to have XIV
knows.
That's why
the queen had her 7070 You're not just like with your Korean as well
as the British Commonwealth, right? She had a 70 cent 70th
anniversary. And you know who you know who bake the cake.
It was a he taught me woman.
She baked the cake for her very special occasion. Because even we
have a show called the Bake Off the national bake off all of these
bakers, they get together they compete with one another and this
Muslim woman with a hijab and she won. And then she was told to bake
the cake. So he put in everything a woman is supposed to do XL
is supposed to deliver excellence. One,
right not to the level of narcissism or you know, that is
the extreme in every case.
I am a perfectionist. So when we're talking, I'm a publisher,
when I'm publishing, I'm fascinated over the aesthetics,
the beauty. Some people think Why do you have to bother with this
optical alignment and all of these kerning between letters. That's my
field. I love it. I envy it. I enjoy it. Some people say why do
you want to just push the workouts in a you know, even if it's looks
sloppy? I don't believe in that. I think the message of the book can
be delivered much smaller. When you have excellent minutes. When
it's beautiful. It's when it's perfected as far as possible.
Nothing can be perfect in this world. What's amazing is that
sometimes we publish a book. I've had several editors and
proofreaders be over really good proofreaders and we still make
mistakes.
That's just human we do to the best of our ability. That's all it
is. Right? We can never reach perfection. So there has to be a
limit to these things. So I commend you.
For all the all the description of people, you've jumped through
many, many hoops, very competitive. You've played a lot
of competitive. You've been in a lot of competitive competition.
than other things to be able to get to where you are. So I ask
Allah subhanaw taala to take you out even further, and to give you
perfection in everything in your work. And the only thing that is
required for anybody with perfection is that they don't use
their perfection. They don't use or I would say, they don't waste
their ability in the wrong thing.
A friend of mine,
we do we memorize the Quran together, it's very tradition.
i After we finished it, I went to Olive class, right, I went to the
audit class, he went to, to, to, to study further to become a
medical doctor. So he went into medicine Medical University.
He finished his medical degree, he practiced for a while he even did
a specialization in tropical medicine, everything.
Just last year, he called me he says, Look, I'm carrying on this
whole thing. I want to be an island.
Now he wants to get out and find me something rather than find me
somebody that can teach me at my level, right? Because
somehow
I don't want to be in the medical field anymore. But mashallah, now,
there are several, many, many students who are doing PhDs at
Imperial College, there's another citation is an underclass causes
seven or eight years, we have at least two or three students who
are doing PhD or postgraduate in Imperial College and UCL and other
places, they're doing that and they're also coming to study the
D. And then in a very good spot, especially, because they've learnt
the thinking process, right through academia to learn thinking
and research. So when they do all in class, they can marshal that
already to really well.
I'm just giving you ideas that don't let it stop you. Whatever
you're doing is wonderful. Right, and has to be commended. But don't
let me stop there, there's a lot more you can do, and that you can
provide to the world, because we need to be useful people for the
world. So anyway, I went to the other side said I was going to
give you my biography. So I'll just quickly give you my
biography, right, the matches, I finished,
I finished the memorization section of the product about 16.
Then I went into iron class for six years I studied, you know,
Arabic and Chinese and FCM and, and so on, has a wonderful
teachers. But then I wanted to study for further three years
outside. So I went and I studied in
the first year I went to South Africa, I did a BA Honours degree
at the University. I did the Moosey. Class, we in the local
Nodosum. Then the next year, I'm interested in Syria before all
these bad before the bad situation, yeah, I'll bring it
back to its good old times is a wonderful country mashallah voice,
very, very illuminated country levels. Now I'll bring it back.
And then the third year, I keep some input into the OSI class
again, because I wasn't satisfied, I'm still not satisfied. But I
wasn't satisfied. So I see the movie class again. Then we're
going to America for eight years, we can be demanding in California.
And then I was gone to a law degree than a JD. But then I came
back to England because my mother had been sick. We have mercy on
her. And then I started a Master's and PhD so so I just finished
that.
Then I did one year postgraduate research at the Cambridge Muslim
college. And then I made a conscious decision to come out of
academia.
And we come back into it, but I came out because London, just
London, right, not the whole of England and London alone has at
least five countries, male, male and female audience, anonymous
graduates. And while I'm trying to provide them with all the
experience that I've gained in these spaces, is
to
basically we've established a postgraduate institution for our
lives and animals. So we teach them some additional courses just
to give them more relevance. We have a theology course because
nowadays, there's a lot of people out there who are undertaking
sorry, who are atheism is on the rise. Because you've
come from the 16th century, atheism is already always been
around. There's always be somebody who denies God. They've always
been a minority. These will always be minorities, but they were
hidden. A lot of the time it was children of clergy, children of
clergy, in Europe, and all the time they were trying to spread
some ideas of atheism in a in a coded way, because he couldn't be
openly atheist because the church ran Europe. Europe was run by the
church until quite recently, even in a sense,
but now with the likes of Richard Dawkins
Sam Harris critic Christopher Hitchens, etc. Right? It's become
quite militant atheism in a certain degree to a certain
degree.
Sort of very eloquent. That's why you're on YouTube videos and
debates. And if you don't know much about your own faith and you
listen to him, you will get, you could get confused, because when
you don't know the alternative side, then clearly you just become
convinced by what you hear. And unfortunately, most people, they
don't do thorough research of both sides before they actually accept
now in my job as an Imam, and a counselor, I have to be very
careful.
One side of the other, one side of the conflict will come and tell me
all the bad things about the other side. Now, if I take their word
for it, that I've already failed in my job, because unfortunately,
each side will be biased. They will magnify it exaggerates their
side of the story. And then it's only when you listen to the other
side, that you get a balance. So I have tried to habituate myself to
suspending judgment until you hear both sides. And it's very
important. So.
So that's the issues that we're running right now. Maybe about two
years, there's an opening at a major university, which somebody
has offered me, maybe maybe we'll take that post below, I'm not
sure. But we also love Adobe to give us the best because we push
everyone has a short life.
Everybody's gonna have a
there's one professor, he is a convert himself, major academic.
So I asked him, I said, Do you know?
So he said, No, I said, because I know he knows Turkish you know,
specially knows German, you know, several other languages
is start I would love to but life is not very short. So you have to
realize that regardless of how old we are, wherever we are, mortality
is a reality. We're going to tell you one day, I know we don't like
to think about it, but we are going to die.
And it's a good idea to try to pace ourselves and to place
ourselves in the right place where we get the best out of this world,
but definitely the best of the hereafter. We don't want to be
sought to be we don't want to be invested in this world and then
we lose all the heroes, we will get the best of all that's why
collections. I know it's difficult. There's a lot of
challenges. There's a lot of people that will come in your age.
But that's the nature of this world. But in Islam, I think we've
been given a way to deal with it. So
there's another leaf I mentioned to you which I find extremely
inspiring and motivating. This is rated by Mr. Michael Davis.
And
it may be somebody from a lesser known companion who figures out in
the hammock probably about one is not very well normally sort of
things like all the way on so
once he says that, most of our videos on set may unity love will
be played on Istat relevable
The famous one is maybe they'll be family photography right this one
is my unit allows me to clear on establish
whatever Allah was good with
Hayyan means good. Whatever Allah was good for establish he will use
him
so the companions are wondering what that meant. So they said
Manny Salman, have we also Lola What does is that another movie
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some of our lives. So he said you will see who the Amazon site is in
popular loads the yellow bar and who and how well we are aligned
with LG Ron.
Allah will before before the person says Allah will give him
divining enablement, Allah will give him the inspiration and
enablement governments to do something by which the people
around him or her right will be satisfied with them.
You will accomplish something that will help the people
you will accomplish something by which
people will pray for you today when I read the book that has
helped a lot of people, for example,
everybody knows Imam Buhari is being called right everybody's
heard about
where was it from?
Ohana is equals Pakistan.
All right. Posada is was the biggest time unfortunately, it no
longer retains the scholarship. And the environments that it had
before.
Buhari is from the Caribbean, he's from the same area. So basically,
what he had ever known that somebody in London, somebody in
America, somebody in Bangalore would be reading his book and
saying, after his name, Rahim Allah, may Allah muslim.
Do you think he ever thought that?
Amazing.
He died in 246. I believe he
were in 14 114. Around that time, that's 1200 years meaning are we
spoke a little bit here today. And this video will be about design,
even God, there's so many people, they produce something which is
still, then you have the likes of
interest. And we send them and others who produce a lot of, you
know, science or other breakthroughs. You've got a
number of others. Unfortunately, today, Muslims struggle,
right?
I'm still working my way through this.
There's a lot of research that needs to be done for a lot of
things raised to Islam. But the problem is that there's no money,
there's no funding. That's the problem.
A lot of people want to see scientists though.
There's a lot of mostly sciences. But they're sitting in western
institutes. They're sitting in Holland, Cambridge, in Princeton
again, and Stanford's. That's where the season you go, I've
lived in America, the every hospital has a doctor, Doctor,
Doctor, either from you know that somewhere in Indian subcontinent,
whether that be from this country or neighboring countries? Is it
supposed to take the name of your neighboring countries?
Or is it okay?
There are so many Palestinian and Egyptian
scientists in different in different universities.
Unfortunately, their own countries don't respect them. Right? This is
a serious problem we
haven't we live in India, it may still be a struggle. But you know,
you have a lot of freedom here, which is a wonderful thing that
you can actually do some studies, of course, you have to find
funding. And I think
what boosting organizations need to understand is, I don't think
they've got the idea of paying for somebody's research. Are there any
boosting research or funding organizations that just provides
you three year research for something related to someone
science, for example, is that even like that?
No.
People know that we need to spend money in disaster areas in feeding
the poor.
In the US, she is a mother of six. But unfortunately, this part is
lucky.
Kangaroos in college, they are funding to research positions this
year for Islam and science related. I know one of them is at
least one of them is doing research on AI, artificial
intelligence. We need a lot more
Muslim funding for talented young men and women who will do the
right research. So that way,
I can assess or thinking my way through this. So I don't have any
inconclusive yet.
Rather, that's an area of HR law. I ask Allah subhanaw taala to help
us in this hadith is very important. You can do whatever you
want, it doesn't you don't have to be an army, a scholar of the news
such to be able to get close to Allah subhanaw taala.
You can be whoever you are, as long as you follow the basics of
the need. And then you have the right intention in what you're
doing. Intention is very important. Unfortunately, in the
competitive world very.
It becomes about personal gratification.
personal accomplishment. I'm not saying personal accomplishment is
a bad thing. You have to have some level of confidence inside to be
able to think I can do something that's nothing wrong with that.
But prefer to do something just will meet the need.
That's,
that's not so helpful.
You need to believe in yourself that I can do something but
there's an ulterior there's a lot more to it than just me. Right?
So first of all my name, I can have my name, I don't mind that we
might have. But my intention is empathy is compassion
is helping others is to satisfy cause, satisfy Allah.
And hopefully, then if something is accepted, for example, there's
another Greek scholar,
the same as the man Maliki, one of the great scholars of Medina
Manawa.
One of the legends of the people of North Africa is their Maliki's
because he developed a school of thoughts as well.
He wrote a famous book, called a lot of
this was his collection of Hadith.
Somebody came to him and said,
there's others who are also writing a book with a similar
name.
Now, are you going to vote for copyright infringement? I don't
think there was any copyright database in those days. So I don't
think there were any copyright services. I don't think the courts
were like, What are you talking about copyrights here, right.
They were mostly plagiarizing his work. He was just they did their
own collection and called it the monitor, for whatever reason,
right? I'm not saying they had bad intentions, but somebody gave me
my money. And he said, This is what's happening. He said, It
doesn't matter. He said, Monica America, and he probably thought
that which is going to be for Allah that we should do in
sincerity, for a higher motive that will remain, that will really
have to endure. And that which is not done for the sake of Allah
will disappear,
will disappear. That's why to be honest.
In the academic world, do you know the statistic is of somebody
reading your academic paper? How many people in a lifetime will
read your paper? Unless it's an exceptional paper? I'm sure you're
right sexual papers that the average data, research paper
absolutely tells me how many people access it and readers?
What's the, you know, like on JSTOR? You guys use a store? Or
will you use your geolocation?
article database, right? What is the statistic anyway, you don't.
It's about seven reads. In the lifetime of that article,
you work so hard, you're getting peer reviews, and then sending
people to read.
Not saying that should be brought to you. But it's just a side
effect. Now, that's what I don't want to do. So I've gone
mainstream. My books are written with a level of academic
rigor, but I'm intending it for the mass. Because I just feel
that's what I want. I'm gonna say you must do that. I'm saying
that's what I want is what I feel more accomplished that way. Right?
Again, these are just ideas. So hopefully, I think
I asked us to plan without opening for for this discussion. That's
why I just want to say that I hope Allah subhanaw taala make us
famous god, oh, Allah make us the keys for goodness. Allah has given
you something, and a tendency or capability.
If you can use that, to open up certain doors of goodness that the
world can benefit from,
as opposed to use the ability Allah has given us to open the
door of wrong people.
Generally, most people have followers.
Right? They don't wait to
go against the grain.
Right? Some of us like to go against the grain, do something
different.
But there's a risk in that we just have to be careful.
Those of us with a radical bent, inclination wants to do something
different.
Sometimes
were pushed to do the wrong thing.
And that's where you waste your talent.
It's about getting the rights.
And for that, what I always do is I always consult people, others,
what do you think of this idea? What do you think of this? How
will it be received
is the benefit of that as I proceed with that, just the
restrictions, always helps a lot. So we always come up with a better
for the best for all of us. And
I will open it up for any discussion that you have. I think
the idea is that you should be able to feel free to discuss
whatever anything that's weighing on your heart.
Anything that has caused you any kind of disconcert
And
I don't have the answers to everything. I'll tell you that for
now.
And if I don't have the answer to something, I will tell you so,
right, I don't see that as a sign of weakness. In fact, I think the
weakness is to feel like you know everything because I'm sure
everybody here knows you can't know everything.
Somebody hate to give out the use of one of the great Imams of the
past. And he was sitting on the third step of the puppets of the
member in the masjid. And somebody asked him a question.
He said, I don't know. I don't know the answer. So the person was
a bit frustrated. He said, You're sitting up there, you don't know
the answer. He said, Yes, I'm only sitting according to my level of
knowledge. If I said sat, according to the level of my
eagerness, I'd be up there instead, right? increments is a
reality. And we should either use this or write the question now.
And we use it to go and research it afterwards. So please, feel
free to,
to engage.
So everybody had the question, what should be my intention,
whether in my work, or whether in my studies, so I gave you the
example before, of my son looking for the right course. And we felt
that physics was the right thing for him as an alum. And also
because physics allows you to go into computer science, it allows
you to go into so many other fields that are related, it's not
a dead end subject as such. And while you're studying, we learn a
lot as well.
So the intention, I believe that
the richness of Islam is found is that ability to have multiple
intentions. In our meridians, actions, according to
who said you can't have multiple intentions, you can have multiple
intentions for a single act single activity.
The only time having a multiple intention is a problem is if one
intention cancels out the other they contribute three intentions.
Right? So the intention for working and they said simple study
needs to be in my opinion. And again, you could you know, come up
with other ideas. It doesn't have to be religiousness is the number
one, I want to earn a living. If it's a work, there's nothing wrong
with that that's a sooner, especially for men to provide that
cell and especially, right.
That's important, right?
I want to contribute to society, not just Muslims, but to humanity
as a whole. Right? That's in itself.
Another hour, it depends on what you're what you're doing. Right?
It depends on what you're producing what you're researching.
And, of course, your research area needs to be very carefully.
So the attention could be political in the sense of I want
to earn a living for myself, I want to help my,
my cause I want to benefit others, I want to
now it could get a bit complicated, I want to make a name
for myself. Not because I want to be famous for the sake of being
famous. And put myself on Facebook all the time. And the reason that
that's not ideal, because unfortunately, that's what
Facebook allows you to do today and Instagram, right? Even with
absolutely nothing capabilities, you can just basically dress up in
a certain way and sometimes become famous. So I want to be known, so
that I can help a higher cause because some causes you have to be
known and influential, to be able to make a difference.
That's a very, it's a very complicated one. Because you we
sometimes think gets to us, you know, you start receiving awards
and accolades thing against you. That's why the hearts needs to be
constantly nurtured, to keep us down because any kind of knowledge
will push you out. But you need a handful of picker Wallah to keep
it in balance, otherwise you will get to pull it off. So it's very
easy to do that very easily.
someone's attention intentions ultimately as a Muslim, our
intention should also be no but I will please Allah subhanaw taala
that I'm going to please Allah
and you know once you get that intention,
then you will be able to overcome a lot of the difficulties within
your work. You'll feel a sense of contentment because inshallah you
do for the right reason. And Allah will place upon your blessings in
your work
and just contentment
Here's the reason. That's why sometimes even if you get a bit
shortchanged, we do have that set, suffer a bit of setbacks on the
way.
The beauty of believer the beauty of a believer is that he is
successful.
From his intention, even if the word doesn't come to me afterwards
to fruition, because we had a lot of intention. It doesn't mean we
have an empty intentions where you have no capability, it's only an
intention, right? You have something behind you, you know,
you think you can do it. And then even if you fail afterwards, Allah
will reward you for it. So we ask a lot of success. Okay, let's take
these questions.
I am a converted Muslim Brigadier, mostly one of my responsibilities
for my non Muslim parents and siblings,
the one of the wives of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam
who was
she had a non Muslim mother.
So when she came
up, she asked,
What's my red one, he says, No, you need to honor them, you need
to honor because at the end of the day, we're connected by bloods
kitchen, and this is a very important relationship, even
across religions.
The fact that you are the brother or sister of some, the daughter,
or the Son or Son, the mother or father or someone, that's not
something you chose, that's something because tables, and
there's a reason for this.
So we have to respect them.
The only barrier is when a contradiction, the faith, like if
they tell you as Allah says, In the Quran, right? But we want
anything extra, you must have obedience to your parents, the
only law bar and the bar blue King came out to the clinic, there is
no obedience, any creation, when the disobedience of the Creator is
important. Aside from that, there's nothing else. But that
doesn't mean that you'll be rude to them, even if they tell us to
do something wrong.
We just have to be nice in politics.
But flow in your way of polite, respectful.
That's what's important. I know it's very difficult sometimes to
be in, especially if your general extended family are non Muslim,
and they're not accepting is very liberal sometimes. But you have to
remember your reward is even increased. And it's now your
challenge, to show them the best part of this moment. And I've seen
it in many cases, given the years, we may take years, or they finally
understand the future response, but you are the representative. So
your responsibilities are just like any other responsibilities
as any family would have, except that you can't get involved in
anything religious, that contradicts your religion. That's
that that is important. Another thing I want to clarify, it is not
your responsibility to make them Muslim.
Which basically means that every day that's all you talk about,
because eventually they will they're going to say don't speak
to us only speak about, but to do it through our behavior. The Tao,
that invitation for them needs to read from our own behavior. We
need to prove to people that Islam can provide a solution, not just
saying provides a solution. There's a lot of empty calls out
there. But it's about proving it showing it demonstrates to us
the promise and alerting is wonderful. The Quran is wonderful.
You come up with a wonderful, wonderful profit, wonderful zero,
but we do something else. That's the difficulty. It's difficult,
and may Allah make it easy. So we
just want to have your opinion about face coverings and also the
movie about music.
So like so common questions, I would love for you to ask me some
complicated questions.
This is what I say about face covering. Right.
The profits or losses why it's covered their face. And then some
of the resources most women in Medina Mora covered their faces
except the state goes What's wrong with your loved one source Seiko
with a face coming? He pulled it off? He says, there needs to be a
distinction between the
between the three women and the slavery right now please ask me a
question about slavery. Okay.
This is what I said.
When somebody asked me how long
is it while you travel long beers is in wanting to cover your face.
My answer to them is this is essentially the loss of a voice.
That's why I have it.
A friend of mine is a convert. American convert. He went to study
in Turkey. He came back to America. He used to wear a turban
in Arizona
Where there was nobody else or yourself?
And somebody came to ask you the question, why do is there's
actually another Muslim? Why do it is? So he said to me, I can't
answer your question.
Why? Because there's some
reason I learned is because not because it's necessary, right?
That's the Emam is because my profits, why rent rates as the
best living person ever, he used to ever. And I just want to be
like, it's a very personal thing.
So when it comes to face covering, and DNS, and so on, this is why I
say if you cannot do it today, that's fine. But just don't
justify it.
There's a lot of things I can do today, which I'd love to do. My
intention is in short, I'm gonna do tomorrow, maybe not tomorrow,
maybe next week, next month, next year, 10 years. And I'm going to
do one day before I die. Oh, Allah give me
give me the ability to do so I want to be as perfect as possible
and accomplish as possible require, as a lot of things we
can't do.
That doesn't mean that we justified that they must be done
or whatever. And we must just develop that email, develop the
confidence inshallah to do it, and you will if you ask the world with
sincerity. So that's the way generally I answered this
question. Because you were telling me it is necessary, and you think
that's too harsh. You're gonna say, forget, this guy is too
harsh. I'm not an exception. And if I say it's not, and there's
people who believe it is, then they're going to say, Well, this
guy is noise is too liberal to get it. So what's the point? The point
is, practice isn't? The point is right.
Yeah, even though only as well as you well, then I think when you
start immobile, you may not even be jalopy. Right? That's the basis
of it. There's a lot of differences of opinion about how
exactly this should be done. But anyway, all I would say is, you
can't do it today. Make an intention.
That's coming. Right? They contention that we want to be
perfect in every way of our faith. And we also love
someone even seeking knowledge of the deen particularly, is a prime
duty of every Muslim. From where can we get to the authentic data,
especially the working women working in a remote area,
masha Allah. Today Alhamdulillah Allah has provided us as
communities that become more scattered. And as people have gone
to live in remote areas, as long as you've got internet then that
mashallah you can study whatever you want, right?
Zones of Academy, which we have free lectures on, we are even
listening to it from Australia to you know, just in the last five,
six days, the question that I receives only three from UK, all
the questions from Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from Sweden, from
even from India, call us all wherever that is.
So, one from Ben Gloria, the internet is amazing. This is the
beauty of the incidence to college study. Right, especially for women
in the comfort of their own home. And the benefit is that on if it's
on YouTube, on the website, the shape is at your disposal.
You can speed him up to double the speed. If he's taking too long, or
one and a half times the speed. You can say no please say it again
rewind and redo it. So much flexibility now listen, I don't
think animatronics unless they're living in the desert with no
access. And while you're doing right
now authentic there is a there's a lot of confusion. The problem with
the internet is there's a lot of confusion. There are people out
there on the internet saying this is halal. That's haram and that's
all sorts of crazy things right? That's really confusing. I think
what we need to do is you need to find us first pray to Allah
subhanaw taala Oh Allah show me the truth as the truth and allow
me to progress and show me the wrong is the wrong Allah which
I've stayed from it's all about guiding guide me I want to learn
the truth be then find some relevant, who you trust in their
knowledge in their behavior
and other all of our respective you know, you also somebody who's
claiming to be a medical doctor that nobody else respects that
often except they are Charlotte's right. Would you go to the toxic
people in the industry they know who's respectful, you know,
respectable. That's why that's
good to know that
You know has to do with knowledge. If you don't know that I use that
a lot, I will find out what the people are the weatherman think of
uncertainty. And if that's the case, then you go into these
uncertain guidelines you can use. And ultimately Allah will provide
you a few comments, but hopefully that's helpful.
Okay, I'm gonna have to hurry up Microsoft questions in less time,
how to deal with non Muharram in our labs, labs, net, mess,
everywhere we go, they
go, they may be there, how one should behave in such environment?
That's a very good question. If you're already a university, then
one of the biggest challenges, especially I'm assuming,
yeah, I'm not sure if this is from a man or woman, but it's the same,
to be very careful. Especially if you're not married, and you're at
the age of parents, then we have hormones, right? We have hormones,
and they're aging, right? And there's attraction. So you can
trade giveaways. Now for some women, some men will come and
raise them or you will also beautiful.
Finish. Right? Be careful with these things. But be careful.
Sometimes they sit with women. And they say, Oh, we're just giving
them doubt.
Right? These are all excuses, you have to be ready. They say that
there's a few pieces that you have to be
professional
in your, in your MC sometimes you working together. So very,
what happens is that, you know, when you're working together on a
project,
there will be certain successes. And when humans do something
together, whether there there is upon the United States, right?
Actually, there's a bonding, then there's high five is epic
division, right. In fact, one person will try to be religious or
try to be cool, in the wrong way. So he wouldn't say, well, it's too
high five, like this.
Let's do it like this.
And you can just do this, right?
You don't need to do all of that. You need to express yourself in a
way that shows you're honorable and dignified, and that you're not
gonna mess around like this. Because when you get into this,
it, it distracts your studies and everything is wrong. And you will
end up doing
and that's still and that's problematic. So be professional,
don't get too personal. And your communication needs to be in a
very professional environment. And I think that that should help
notice keep me to go out to Allah subhanaw taala as protection. But
be very careful with this. It's a it's a difficult, it's a difficult
one. And may Allah make it easy?
How would you make the atheists interested about the existence of
Allah? They basically argue, on if Allah created us and who created
Allah, how Allah came into existence?
I don't think there's a word when it comes to atheists to believing
Allah. I don't think there's a straightforward answer to any of
this. We last year, we ran a course called the theology course
pay foundations course. So we went through all of the proofs for the
existence of God,
the teleological proof and the cosmological proof and all others.
And we were wondering that we should probably undertake a study
of maybe 100 pages, put each one of these proofs in front of them
seriously the most effective
right before this design study. But as we carry on going through,
we realize that you can't, you won't be able to because
in America, there's somebody who's right as they were, in lots of
places, this particular aqueous environment, something I thought
that was a weird oxymoron, one of the atheists, how would you get
100 Today, it's just a weird oxymoron. But they will know
you're on different universes trying to explain to people wait,
and you know, the challenges of being an atheist. So one person
asked him a question said, what how's your family been set up?
We'd be dishonest from our family.
That way, they have just been easier to believe.
And he said that's the problem. We can't really
measure shortly.
We can't believe
reason for this
was a kind of a crime.
He says, When he said that people hold in Christian houses, grocery
store Christians, Jews, strategies for synthesis that doesn't prove
the truth of your religion. So let me start from a neutral position.
Let me only thing that absolutes, the actual antibodies, things that
everybody agrees with.
So he said, I started looking into what can be considered to be
extroverted, just like true is greater than one. That's
supposedly an axiomatic belief. Right?
He said about when I opened the door of skepticism,
even the very fundamental agreed upon ideas became open to
citizens.
He is very musical. He says that, you know, when you're seeing a
dream, when your energy,
don't you feel like you're in reality,
you're seeing a nightmare.
And you feel like you're in an accident or something happened
where you failed an exam or whatever before. So we have an
example of your success in your exam, right? But in your you know,
you feel like this. And then suddenly, you you're sweating, and
you wake up, and you feel hungry. Now, that was just a dream. For
when you were in the tree, didn't you think it was a reality? Did
you feel that it was a reality? It's a reality.
Right now, is this a reality?
Is this really taking place? Or is this another sleep? Or we will
wake up from this? And this will also be a dream? Can you do that
response?
Concise rules can be many any subject that can any discipline
group is
we just focus on a dream, right?
We just hope it's not a dream, it's been long enough is a very
concrete way should be okay.
But sometimes dreams are very long as well. And then you wake up from
them. That's when he realized that.
For example, somebody says to you that you tell somebody I'm you
know, my father's my mother's son. Pruitt's.
Yeah,
absolutely is not true. You could probably fortunately in India,
right. Country fortune,
probably
is watched DNA testing. DNA testing is 100%, a friend of mine,
his wife is the head of a really prestigious fertility clinic, they
have come to claiming all the tests, everything has been IVF,
everything really produced the channel number, the husband is
rejecting the job.
They have to go and test all of the couples who came up to me to
see if there's any cross contamination, no problems in that
no problem procedure, then you have to consult with one of the
top
geneticists I think is in about two years. And it was
an exceptional circumstance.
Right? So even 100%, about nine times in a row, it's not 100%. If
somebody wants to be skeptical,
there's no skepticism. There's no interest rates. That means you
have to agree at a certain level, which level do you agreement? And
I think at the end of the day, I believe that anybody who truly
wants the truth, Allah will help them if they ask you.
Otherwise, you will end up with somebody with a very low level of,
you know, what is absolute to them. That's why before you
atheists, agnostics, after this is relatively less non apathy,
somebody just doesn't care. Doesn't want to such as denial,
like, they just don't say logo, right? So there's no God, and then
halfway doesn't even say logo, right?
I can honestly say, we can't know. You still keep looking. I think
somebody came up with the idea and said, We need to keep looking. So
somebody's taken that, essentially follow that idea. We need to keep
looking. Otherwise, it's an absurd idea. You will be looking for so
long something somebody will support it. And if nobody is ever
going to get it, nobody will care. That's just my primitive way.
That's why there's another group now. There's a guy I read, he says
David Keith, David Eagleman derived from the brain. We have a
wonderful book called the brain the story of you.
pretty wonderful book essentially in the brain. He He says there
should be a concept of possibilities.
Which means that you're inclined to think there has to be a god
because most studies were showing us otherwise we have to come up
with some wacky ideas to otherwise justify.
Why remember God is metaphysics. It's not physics.
So that's why physics can't answer about. But anyway, because it's
metaphysics, it's beyond physics. Right? Scientists, science is
fine. As long as it's science, science, science is usually
supposed to be neutral. Because science doesn't give it a statics,
science doesn't deal with God and believe. It doesn't deal with
beauty. Those are things on other subjects. Problem is that because
science is a very powerful tool, scientists have subjectivity.
And they bring in their subjectivity into their world and
computer science. This is where I believe the problem is, that's why
he entered I think it was here that the two studies, I think the
last two decades have some time to try to understand what is the
statistic level of atheists and believers within the scientific
community. And by the second research, they discovered that it
represented the same proportion in normal in normal life in normal.
There are the science that is not supposed to make you a list.
Right? That's why result of evolution.
And I would suggest you go to some some academy.com. We've got two or
three lectures on evolution that are really, really taught me a
lot. They're done by mostly Selena Rohan, who was a medical student
at Cambridge University. And then he became an army officer what's
right, and this doctor of smart history, model, Simon, he was
doing his PhD in Biology from from London somewhere, right? They've
done really, really well.
It's the same thing. nobody's willing to question because it
seems like it's an absolute, many ideas that evolution has seen a
show to be absent and non questionable. There's a book I
read called, it's not rocket science. Right? Really wonderful
exposition for a layman like me to understand science, when it came
to evolution, there was no convincing at all. It literally
said this needs to be accepted. Right? You can't question is, even
though there's no proof,
right? So it's just when you become a believer of certain
scientists, and you feel you have to toe the line, then you need to
use objectivity. That's from other sciences, Islam has never had one
besides Christian church as Islamist.
We do have a problem with certain scientists are using science in a
different way. But that's a challenge for people inside the
community, because sometimes some of those ideas dominates. And to
work your way through that as a young person who's just trying to
make it very difficult. But there's JioFi. Right? That's
something they need to work with. So
where did we start from?
So this idea about who created a wall?
I think it's very simple to understand that this is that
eventually the causal chain has to stop somewhere.
I don't think anybody agrees with an infinite regress in a causal
chain. That a created be created. See the and the decreasing, that's
just absolutes. So eventually, you'll get from us to our parents
up to
right, take, you know, who creates an allegation of the lies was
reasonable. What is the logical question? Now how to answer
that, let's just say that Allah is going one. God too crazy Allah.
Okay, we got two got three blu rays, you've got three or four by
incinerators. That is an insanely.
The other option is to say, God, one was created by God to apply to
a spaceship, I call it one.
Well, that's a reasoning. So what does it mean? That's why
philosophers, Hellenistic philosophers of the past like
Aristotle, etc, they call it God. I think they call it the unmoved
mover.
Right, the fundamental mover, he's moving everything. Just another
way. You can say the first non contingent or the only non
contingent beginning. These are all various expressions of where
their minds are actually, you know, allowing them to reach
without any absolutes.
So I believe anybody who has this issue, you can try it. Right? You
can try to explain to them who God is, but I wouldn't dependents. In
the last minute, I've got a friend which books should I give him an
Islam? You can't just recommend one book. It depends. Is he
scientific? There may be a scientific work over Islam itself.
Is it a solid, given a philosophical is a spiritual
physical sciences notice to the subject, philosophical, right?
There's many ways of explaining. But at the end of the day, it's
not our obligation to convince the ones maybe
They come to me I've got a work colleague, raise a man in St. Gold
call us a woman. I've been telling her about some for two years, but
she won't accept. What should I do now? So I leave her alone. Why
you're
new you can convince. Right? That's just a joke. That didn't
happen.
But I believe that it's true peachy. A lot of people have
disregarded God. Because why is France so anti religion, not just
anti Islam? Why is it anti religion, it's only it's only anti
Islam more than others because other other religions that pretty
much become passive. So Islam that still acts, that's why it's more
of a system. They call religion because they were persecuted by
the church, in the whole of Europe. They were persecuted most
there's a book you should read, if you're interested in the subject
called atheists. The Origin of the Species. It's a it's a turn on
Darwin's book, at least the Origin of the Species, beautiful
exposition by
forget his name.
But he when he has the chapter on France, he says French fury,
because they are furious against religion, then because they've
been persecuted.
And it's an imbalance. There's a woman she normally wants from
Pakistan. Originally Pakistani, she's married to a non Muslim.
And now she was concerned about something. So I said, How did you
end up marrying a Muslim? She said, My parents forced me to
marry my cousin or somebody from my relatives, and we had no
competitors.
So I finally escaped the marriage. And essentially, what happens is a
lot of people, they use religion to justify culture.
They don't care about religion anywhere else. But when it comes
to you must marry. And this is nonsense, you know, because I'm
your parents. Right? And it gives the people a wrong idea.
So that is why a lot of the time people have lost their faith is
because of disenfranchisement is because of feeling isolated,
having a bad experience, I believe you should show them love.
You should, pastoral you need to direct them, not how
they need to show any weaknesses. You know, it has to be long term
we need to find out and then try to help them.
If you're serious about
night and day, our continuous process night changes need to stay
graduated vice versa. The question arises if Allah descends to the
heaven, to the lower heaven and goes back, then he will miss some
of his servants. How to understand is a very good question. Okay.
There's a hadith it says that at the last portion of the life, God
descends to the first heaven and says,
Is there anyone to ask them to give them is? So
the
vast majority, if not the overwhelming understanding, which
is that God cannot be characterized by any movements,
transposition, or any other kinds of human action. So what do you
say this is figurative, this is metaphorical. Symbolic, is saying
that God is closest to you. And the last question of the minds.
This is basically the sentence that's the effect that when you
believe that we'll be committing anthropomorphism. Which basically
means to get called human behavioral traits, which is a
blast to either religion, majority of one or there are few who seem
to indicate the physical movement, but they've been condemned and
criticized. Right, as we shall be covering hobo realist or
anthropomorphise. Our belief is that Allah does not move. He is
where he's always been. And we don't we don't talk about location
because he's beyond time and space. Right?
This just is this talent is a very potent
this the time potential, and, you know, brightest minds concepts.
why it's such an acceptable time.
Simple.
Some of the homeowners think that it's the time when
the Mischief Makers of the night are finally gonna see.
Because it's not true. It's not one or two o'clock and it's still
coming. Right? The evil people the 92 people involved in the finding
honestly, the evil doers of the day are not yet away. That means
is the most doors
right? That is the general explanation that some marketing
team give for this. Why this but
It is not to be taken literally, that Allah descends, he doesn't
mean to the service. So that means that question doesn't even arise,
right? There is a horrible story I've seen, I created this
integral, Allah says, at the time of Sunday, he goes, Yes, this
heavy, this can be
quite confusing confusable
the Hadith says that when the sun sets anyway, most of the time, it
goes on for straights to Allah, and seeks permission to rise.
Now we know that the sun never sets everywhere around the world.
It says one place is rising in another lesson she worries, so how
to have a sense.
May God bless them.
They never try to dismiss these notions, then you say, Oh, we
don't understand it. Let's call it a weekly because it's in second
generations. So there's a score of 150 years ago from BARDA, whose
name was Lucy, your approval mind. He's got a wonderful, he says, I
have asked many, many scholars to give me a satisfying response to
this. But they couldn't. But I research the research. And this is
now my theory, this is now my possible explanations. Just to
bring your understanding, there's a genre increase studies, which is
called a push to upskill.
These are those studies which are complicated to understand. They
don't seem to fit the reality from our context. What solids are
trying to do is to try to explain them. And if they can't, then they
say we can't explain it. But maybe it's this possibility. And we have
a lot of them, I found a lot of satisfaction.
In this one, he says, I've searched worldwide, this is my
final thesis. He says to us today, it's very useful understanding for
him early what to do, and I'll tell you why. He says that.
We have many examples in Sharia of the metaphysical worlds, or the
post. Post, this one comes up, you know, when people die, they see
the dreams. Right? We can't legislate on that. Well, because
we have no experience. It's not something that you can do through
empiricism. Right? It's something beyond this world. For example,
the practice of abortion we met Musa is by his grave, in the same
he carried on in the Mexican Masjid was already literal in his
ascension. This is obviously we are assuming that the study is
correct. As Muslims we believe his marriage, then he went up to the
heavens and depending on which heaven
the sixth one, right, just before I always invent new sites on how
to size spaces, please bear in industry. Okay, the problem is the
loss of physically is moving around. But
what is he doing? When he's supposed to be writing history?
What is he doing? He must be lotsa at that time. And then what's he
doing on the sixth level?
This is the month this is the menstrual cycle work. This is
bizarre, we can't legislate on this. This is possible this is
from the realm of possibilities. We know that it's proven, right? A
lot of scientific breakthroughs tell us about the realm of
possibilities, once you can prove something to be a possibility,
then the details are secondary. Right.
So the soul, and the body now receives reach the soul, the soul
and the body for humans.
In the in the next life, the soul. And the body, the soul could be
one place, it could take on another manifestation. The only
could be in another place. You don't even have to have a body.
You when somebody is eaten by lions. So it's created for the
incinerates. But the soul is still there you simply punishable or
pleasure according to the beliefs of the soldier.
Essentially, what he's saying is that the sun
is just a wall. It's a it's a star, it's moving around. It never
goes anywhere. But it's so that's representatives goes through a
lot.
And I think it's really cool because today we're talking about
smartwatches. Were talking about remote controlling these just
opening your car by remote control would be unheard of a 200 years
ago. They're like are you serious? Speaking somebody on the phone.
That's the realm of possibility.
So it doesn't mean the actual globe of the sun goes. It's the
sun, the spirit of the sun, whatever that is because what he
states is that there are many inanimate objects that have been
said to speak. They have a consciousness, though different
from us, for example. In other words, Allah Allah says
that's a wellness our Samoa Thomas
I want to use some money for someone who's our salon, then
we're going to say our ATM
address the heavens and the earth. And He said to them, if the total
run of government
come together, whether you like it or not, and they responded, Allah
says that they responded they say a trainer or a II, we have come
together in obedience.
Allah is giving consciousness. Now 100 years ago saying an object has
consciousness would have been impossible. Rationally, Musk wants
you to concede that today with AI and with Smart Objects, your
refrigerator at home, your watch smart objects that speak to you in
fact, the books have often said that tiny will come when a
person's later straps on his sandals will speak to
what does that mean? Today you have Naik? They have a citizen,
they have a certain footwear, that is communicates with the iWatch.
What I saw, I watched this
is an iWatch watch normally getting wrong.
Smart Objects Allah showed us in our life. That's, that could be
reality. So maybe there's something even more to come.
Because AI is opening up some crazy dark rooms. Right. But
somehow I don't even get it. It's scary. Some of the potential some
of the negative potentials. Right? So
for me as a satisfying understanding,
who said that the ball knows, right? It's, it's not it's rude,
It's spiritual.
So we must be very careful that we don't dismiss it just because we
don't get it. Right.
We say that, you know, when you allow
that to shake off, that's the one thing that she said she'd gone
away. And he says, one who thought
he passed his wins.
Now, there's some skeptics.
Why would you say something like this? Sounds absurd.
So hello.
And as Peter with horses.
Now, it was actually national policy, we just deal with iPhones,
right? Somebody who has worked with horses will say that when you
get a horse to get a January that software does.
Now that makes it quite clear that that Sahaba would have known this
because they're in tune with horses and candles and things like
that. Right? So how can we dismiss somebody just because we It sounds
absurd to us.
Anthropology tells you not to become armchair critics, you
immerse yourself in the other culture to understand where
they're coming from. It's very easy to western model exercise
every week, without realizing what it is. So anyway, that just gives
you an example.
A song girls are allowed three jobs.
If yes,
women can work. It's just ready to work is the question, you have to
find a safe environment. My wife works. She teaches it teaches
women so she doesn't have a problem. If you don't have women
working in certain areas, then we wouldn't be able to run certain
things. It's just about finding the best option.
That's the difficulty. There is.
You know what it is? I'm writing a book on marriage right now. And
one of the things I've read about is that
a lot of marriages are breaking.
Some of the most divorces are documents that are recorded
in the first second third of January, or the second third,
fourth January. Why? Because
in I don't know what here in where I live, Christmas time is parties,
and a huge degree of informed informality tech space, lots of
data flows.
And lots of marriages break up. This is the promise statistic.
highest rates of divorce is at the beginning of January. And these
are for those who are married, which is a small fraction of the
entire communities anyway.
You see our workers, this is the problem. You will wake up, dress
up,
make yourself up, right to see up to a theory of a particular way.
And the man and the woman, unrelated.
The man is the wife at home or maybe she's working somewhere
else. And
you're going to either work on results
was productive and fresh time of your day. We've just woken up, you
prepare the investments. most productive time, we're going to
work very closely with people, you're going to share things,
you're going to share the options, you're going to share successes,
you're going to develop. Probably you been invited to probably get
to know a woman at work or a man at work, probably better within
the projects that you do, and maybe your own customer, wife.
Then you come home and your tiles.
And these tiles, where do you think things are going with this?
On a practical level? That's right. Just I'm not saying don't
work, I'm saying find the best possible Hello work to do. So it's
not doesn't say women are not allowed to work.
There are many women nowadays with internet, this women who are
making the payment system for the privacy of their own homes.
There's so many things you can do. So I can't give you the exact
criteria. But I can tell you, you need to avoid harm. And if you
have an idea, go to the window and ask them like this is what it is,
this seems questionable. What should I do? Right, that's what
you should do.
Otherwise,
we're not allowed to write.
Opinion all the youth getting exploited by incident and mobile
phone addiction,
your opinion about it?
I think they're wasting their time by not categorizing on addiction
as a proper medical
problem. They're on the verge of it, but they don't really need to
do it. It's a massive problem. Right, maybe one of the subsequent
rounds, we'll be talking about
the addiction of this. It's psychological, it is problematic,
not just for children. The only reason this work is bad for adults
bad for what Allah is bad for what is bad for everybody.
Right. But it's worse for children because they still formational
years. And that addiction in those formation gets even worse.
My children are only allowed to play on the computer, internet
wherever for two hours on Saturdays on Sunday.
But to get them off after two hours, it's like withdrawal
symptoms from drugs. It's crazy. And I tell them that my son was he
was nine and all those things. I said, Look, you've got withdrawal
symptoms.
If only a young boy improves, financially, you're gonna have it
really to put you in rehabilitation.
So the dangerous and there's so much there's so much study out
there that you can read. I don't want to take a summer study, you
need to be careful you have three calendars.
Okay, you said about the situation Syria, what can we academics can
do to prevent disruption. Who these organizations are difficult,
because they're very specific. I think what you can do in your
position is to try to think how you can measure the quality of
what you do
find something which I wish my whole lecture before was about
that, find something that is not dead. And that's not just for
personal gratification. It's something that has empathy for
others that you can do whether it's Syria or the Rohingya or
whatever it is
alleviate poverty, alleviate difficulty, you know, invent
something that will help people you know like mashallah despite
the inventing various different things people will have water Bill
Gates Foundation and so on. Find something like that.
What are the small especially staying ones do to stop suddenly
share conflicting, which, which would solve a lot of problems? And
we like the whole Lucy hula what can we do? PS wonderful speech.
Okay, thanks for that.
I don't know the answer. It's not my level. And I don't think it's
my responsibility. The leaders have asked me, right, we have our
little level, we have to do the best we can. But this is at a high
level, we must not create conflict within us. It has to start from us
with our sense of responsibility. Let us see how we can coexist in a
proper manner. And hamburger I generally tell people, right.
In English, they look at it.
They look at Saudi Arabia. I said you can't look at it next time in
Saudi Arabia for an example of how you should live. That's a Muslim
country. Those are Muslim countries, utopian ideas. Look at
India.
India has survived as Muslims, even when it's rooted in always a
minority. Do you know that Muslims have never been a majority in that
country? Right 50%
We've always been a minority. What's more shocker all about they
figured out ways to
that's why we don't need a minority 50 We already have one
But our idea, yes, the last 30 years or 40 years has changed the
world
unprecedented changes that you would never have seen, the world
was the same four or 5678. Or century before or 50 years ago, or
maybe 100 years ago, in the last 100 years, the way the world has
changed is unprecedented. And it's never gonna go back.
At least from what we can see. It's just that some of us have not
caught up yet, and have not provided the solution that we
need. I confess to that, right. So it's all about not being able to
provide that solution is completely compressed. It's a hard
job, right. But Alhamdulillah, I can see now that there are a
number of other moms, especially in the West as well, who are
picking up now. And they're trying to provide solutions for this
modern world. This has been a major contention, right, it's been
a major contention. That's why I see QuickBase coming forward,
because somebody has Allah will protect this.
We're going definitely going down. And I think if you can get this
devout call the
same as with some experience,
that don't get the English translation, that's a 50 year old,
90 pt sense, very archaic, try to get the army published or write
for at least a white recurse. I'm not saying just because we
publish, we publish for a reason. It gives you an understanding of
the ups and downs of the human.
You know, and aim of a theory, what we're faring so the worst of
it, we've had worse times we call it Elijah will take us off. But we
Uli all of us have to make an effort. You can't just blame the
relevant and we can't blame just readers. We all have
responsibility, we all have to do a little bit shallow.
Being a case, user scholar, how to balance personal professional life
and personal life, including team what kind of research we need to
do to for humanity, we should use our Alma, why was your country
spending money on basic research?
I found also all these questions. I mean, what kind of research we
need, I'd love to sit down with you or you will have to come up
with three or four ideas, take it to an island say look, what do you
think? Right? There are ideas that I've got written down. For my
comics, I've been compiling ideas, but right now I'm unable to give
them to you or talk about them because of holding discussions.
But it's not something don't wait for Nike, think of ideas.
Think of three or four years, take them to a good solid and have a
discussion. What do you think, take you to other professions?
What do you think it has to be a concerted effort to find the right
way to your shoulder up? And always ask Allah Allah accept me,
for the service of your team?
How would you balance your personal professional life along
the way?
That's a difficult, especially those who are a geeky without
their books.
What we don't want to be is that we're going to win our lab. We're
like the best. When you go outside, we don't even know how to
say hello to someone. That's a massive problem that we sometimes
have. Right? I have had to, you know, because if I sit with
somebody who I have nothing in common with, I find it very good
to see today.
But if they like talking about science, or cars or not, or
football,
or some books, or crypto or the Higgs boson, or the sudden
reactor. So by that I don't know much about it. But that's
that's,
that's the look of Bill Gates. I read a report about him, I want to
meet you. So you're speaking to him. And Bill Gates was like
speaking about somebody else, just like speaking to him on the same
only when he wants a particular subject that he paid attention,
somebody who is very picky. We have to make a concerted effort to
not be like that, because the HELOC interpersonal relationships,
your neighbors, your family members, they can't be
disregarded. That's who we are, we're human first. were useless.
So we have to make an extra effort. And some of you are so
social, social, social, that they can't sit and concentrate or maybe
they just want to talk all the time. These are different types of
goals. We all have to make an effort to strike a balance. So how
to do that we depend on your individual life. But you must give
timeshare
for example is one brother he is a very runs very successful Masjid
in London. He's now Allah 1/3 of his week he spends working as part
time 1/3 with the family and 1/3 in
divided the time between various sources. You have to you have to
consciously divide your time, realize
that it shall not that will help you
Why'd you see what she's not spending money on basic research,
I think because some of them are just not survival modes. Some of
them are just in survival mode just trying to survive, or they've
got their own
problems in other countries based on their own arrogance, or
whatever the case is, there's every country's difference. And
again, that's not my responsibility. They're way above
my paygrade.
Suppose I made my intention to service law after my research is
sports and doing all my research team winning every word will be
mashallah Alexa question. it possibly could be, again,
depending on if you've done it in an educated qualified way with the
right kind of machine if
you haven't got it wrong, like grossly wrong, then yes,
everything is surely everything will be mashallah are eating
becomes the maintenance.
Okay, I am doing a PhD in life sciences, basically, you get into
debate regarding theory of evolution, which is quite contrary
to our beliefs, or what should be the ideal argument to see in the
debates, how to deal with such theory, being a scholar of Life
Sciences, I will firstly, not every way not Christians,
Christians have a problem with evolution completely, like every
part of evolution, we don't have a problem with every aspect of
evolution. There are many aspects of evolution that are not
problematic, right? The main problem in evolution, and there
could be others, there are so many related sciences to evolution,
right, that it's so difficult to encompass them all.
One of the things we have a major problem is the connection between
our device and some other species before that's the biggest points
of contention, we must be very clear about that. That whether you
call him an anomaly decision in the in the circumstance or
situation, or whatever the case is, right? He was born from Allah
created from soil. In fact, he did not mutates from something unless
you can say you're changing from soils, right?
I was initially always on some Academy, and you listen to those
lectures by smartly and similar amount, which isn't the wrong one.
They give you some stuff to what's going on. There are very good
responses to not the extreme responses, like how we got here.
Right? Those are kind of extreme. There are much more educated ways
of looking at this, right. So they don't want like just totally
whitewash everything. No, there are certain things like that. So
you need to probably get a better understanding of yourself before
you can deal with others. And I'm not an expert on it. So I can't
tell you like the one each noggins.
Sometimes what happens is that we know that doing certain things is
not good and simple, still knowing the unknown, the real world in
which that secret acts for you. So
how can we get rid of this kind of action after that? What do we need
to do? This is a spiritual question. And the main thing is
that number one, we need to develop the heart of spirituality
to help us to to prevent us from falling into these things easily.
When the heart is strong, we develop an immunity. You know,
like when you are a strong,
strong partner, somebody that you're immune to catching the flu.
Right, once I came back from Omaha soil hutch, and I had a jacket on,
everybody else didn't. It's the same environment, same
temperature, but I had it like I was saying COVID They weren't or
they got a problem to that driver problem. I had the problems in us.
That's when this
remembrance of Allah you may decide to do it before
you will develop an immunity less likely. Now if you do for
sometimes we may cover you can have military to say you will
never commit a sin and never make a mistake. That's
very few people can do that. May Allah make us suppose over the
rest of us, we will defend the skeleton mentor and carry on. Make
us a lover during picker and asking about for for
protection is important. I'm trying to do multiple things in my
life and giving my best puppies my family trying my best to get my
work done in office, I learned this if it's a problem. My problem
is I'm getting distracted and so on. Since I'm Tyler with so many
things, how can I get to showcase a lot that this there's a whole to
see that I will say on some some Academy there is how to pay
attention or concentration prayer, the whole processing. It's a
holistic way you have to approach it. And I would just say we listen
to that because we run out of time we've gone over time. So I'm gonna
see if I can answer this question that always tell me when to stop.
If I have a Muslim friend who is not falling snap property, what
kind of approach I have to take towards it. If I have a response
to making the right way. We all have responsibility but that
doesn't mean you force someone again, you try to keep a
friendship or relationship
If
you have to, you have to try to understand why they have this
issue. Always try to go to the core. Why do they have this issue
and see if you can help try to relieve that problem. For some
people, it just takes time. Don't give up on people without pushing.
I just take it easy. Don't plant the seeds. And keep watching them
every once in a while. Don't do too much shorter. Otherwise, it
floods them in a row.
That's where it isn't us. You made an article out for last panel,
make a lot of blog because at the end of it is a lot of faces today
and we try our best. So I know how to overcome the moments when when
you can encounter encounters of weakness and disappointments
during research. When everything's not going well. Absolutely sad
situations. Take a break. Have some coffee, relax, go to 12 hours
of solid April Tamia Rahim Allah when he couldn't understand the
muscle, an issue will make shortcuts going such that Allah,
Allah give me understanding, open up this, open this up to me call
on your gods common euros. Otherwise just take a break as
well. Sometimes you may just be like, we have to see what's right,
because sometimes we get writer's block, but not so much make it
easy.
Is it a good time to get married and start family during these
theories and passageways and not distract? And very often? It
depends on your personality, your hormones. I was married before he
and I'm glad I was married. Right? So it just depends. Unfortunately,
some people can't admit how versatile they are committed and
how hard they're working.
For some people, they get married and it finishes plus finish.
Right? Some people mature that they could carry on you need the
right spouse
because you only once you get married and then your spouse
starts crying all
right doesn't let you study every job. So may Allah give you the
right spouse as well
make US economy is
there are lots of knots where although they don't use an
instrument that they also the real voice isn't allowed to listen, how
do they know what is wrong? How to deal with none? Okay? If you're
talking about beatboxing, right,
I would say that even though you're not using instruments, if
it sounds like that's because there's a lot of things that you
can do with equalizers. If it sounds like using is going to have
the same impact, it is problems. I'm still doing research on that.
But if it's similar to the duff, which is hello, right in certain
contexts, then that will be obvious et ends that the devil is
in the detail. It depends on how it's done, and what's done.
How to do the work. I think God wants to tell
your supervisor as an atheist how to take yourself on thoughts
because you spent a lot of conversation with him.
The only way is an antidote, which is to develop your understanding
of your world sooner yourself. Once you've understood that, once
you solidify yourself, and I would say that you need to avoid any
unnecessary discussion. There's no point putting yourself up to date.
Only necessary discussion.
Right, is we want to protect our environment. For that, for us,
that's the most valuable.
Now if you've got a proselytizing professor,
that's a nice term resiliency professor, which means that he
wants to convert you to AES,
then I feel sorry for you, then they'll love you. But hopefully
that's not the case. They're supposed to be huge. Right and
objective as Muslims, you probably have probably, you could just get
it through the ranks because I know this discrimination that we
would have assumed as discrimination here as well.
Right? May you be commended for where you have gotten to me a lot
of potential on the path to further will open up your mouth as
well. The business visa recites under the State Bar in the morning
and
which basically gives you forgiveness if you're during the
evening, everything that comes in the morning gets included in the
morning everything has been given since the night. So now if your
pee has a shower, your switcher now we do 100 salawat and also the
lowest in the morning and evening to invoke blessings on us and we
return a 400
My shoulder that should be very good to start off with once you
become regular with that then inshallah I can give you more that
we can bring incidence today, lots of different ideologies. Each army
says they are correct and it's not running circular jokes which one
is right to follow. That's why I said in the beginning it's
confusing. All I would suggest you do is to try to find those that
you are the are the authors
And then you can trust their behavior, their knowledge,
sincerity. And you keep asking Allah to
small agency who for things, look at their behavior and knowledge.
You look at what else are they gonna think of them. And you ask
Allah subhanaw taala.
And you just stick to
okay, this point of view, everything is created. So who
crazy got to be honest, that's why it loosens blindly follow the
prompts that allow us to have to do everything he said, his
character traits and his reputation before innovation, what
does that mean? That he shouldn't be treated as larger than my
personality? You see, to answer this question, I can't tell you
with a loss of words.
Once you believe that Allah is your Creator, and he sent a series
of Prophets, Mama slaughter was the last prophets, and everything
about your source will be perfect, because why will the last send a
profit that's incomplete? So there's a certain trajectory of
thoughts that needs to take place in understandings, then this
question won't arise. So I can't really answer it quickly. It's
about why he's there. Now I know from a academic objective
perspective, you know, he there used to be a preponderance, they
used to be a preponderance. Right?
That means the whole topic of why that's the case. But I would say
if you fit into the world of your what Allah wants from us through
the Quran, if you read the Quran itself, he will tell you, you must
take what the prophets apostles
and many other verses in the Quran show you that position of the
Isaac use your quality of life, right? That's a reality of being a
Muslim, there's a certain leap of faith you must take right and be
convinced. Otherwise, it's quite confusing to do anything else. I'm
sorry if I can't answer these questions, because we want to. Why
is it a lot of it's it's
swine, eating pork for Christians, was the revelation of the Quran.
And these things are prohibited. Allah they were not permitted,
for.
Allah did not physically
in the Bible is very clear that swine is not so easy.
When I found that out myself, I was quite shocked, surprised that
way, but I still eat so much. So I brought a friend who's a
Christian, but he studied Islam as well. So I contacted him, he said,
Why? Why doesn't any Christian follow this? He said, I think he
was in the third century, they made the decision that dietary
laws will not be follows. As a Christian, you don't have to
follow dietary laws and restrictions. Even if he says in
the Bible, dietary laws are not effective anymore.
So that's, you can see where that's taking you. In fact, a
Christian writer, journalist just a few weeks ago, I ended in not
sure which way he wrote.
He's actually a relative of
one of atheists. He's Christian. He's saying how Christian
Christianity has become so diluted, that soon, people are
going to be disenfranchised from materialism and secularism, and
they're going to look for God again. Because this is the face,
right? It's only last few years. So face, and he says Christianity
will have no reason to have anything to offer because they got
us made in a field called religion. He says Islam has
something so he's telling the Christian general look at Islam,
that they've maintained it, but he's then says, mustard you got to
be red, because you've also got people telling you to cancel this
and cancel that and make it same as Christian religion of passive
passivity. So He literally says that he's foretelling that
secularism sort of feels. Materialism when people get tired
of it's not giving you the hearts 25% of girls in England have a
depression or something 25 percents, I mentioned 50% there,
I'd say it's pretty Vegas. Right? That's a huge number of the
population of girls teenagers because the world is telling you
to be somebody but you can't actually be like that. There's a
massive cognitive dissonance that's taking place and many
people just don't know how to bring the two together. And I know
we must do more to try to cater for them to try to bring it
together.
There are also ideologies in Islam Okay, so
it looks like it's a popular question or popular dilemma.
The concepts of intellectual humility are sharper, knowing a
having mentioned the shapes what we do is we superior to very
intellectual, very clever, very smart. The only thing we have
To Be careful, I call myself songs, that we need to be careful
that I don't start doing it for myself thinking, you know, like
Steve Jobs when he used to walk into a room, he probably knew he
was the smartest guy that I was going to feel.
Right. So one way that I managed to comfort my Commerce have done
is to always be in touch with some of my shores. Right? And they will
take a lot of love. Because when you have a lie in your heart, and
you know, life's greatest keeps us in check. Very important, who will
really benefit you? A lot if you have empty, empty intellectualism,
which is probably learn
how religion and spirituality can help the MC. So I've just
explained that just a second short two hour and two and this
is Islam opposed to modernity. But no, it depends on what you mean by
maternity.
Maternity is a very vague term.
How extended even residency were supposed to be close to hospitals.
Right? We're talking about the type of individualism. So who
cares what maternity is anyways, it's finished, we're done. This is
gone speed, this strength? Maybe the question is, what is something
about post modernism or post modernity?
There isn't what you mean by it. So all I will say is that the
devil is in the detail. Anything that you're specifically concerned
about? Take that to a good scholar, and see what they say
about that. Not everything about Muslims is going to be bad, but
also, modernity brings on capitalism. Capitalism is
problematic. Right, though my audience is provenance. And these
are big topics. So excited to be stuck here.