Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Halal Meat Issues (HMC)
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Allah subhanho wa Taala says in the Quran
Yes, a luna commander or he called the Lakota you that.
That's in surah. Tonight either. There's an endless number of
verses in the Quran that speak about what has been made available
for us. Before we speak about food in itself, which is generally the
default thing that we all speak about. When we gather together we
start speaking about food, whether you're going to go out to eat
someday or what's on the menu in the invitation of the doubt or
whatever the cases. So, before we get to the discussion of food,
let us discuss something else. First, Allah subhanaw taala says
in the Quran, that he's created, nearly all living things, all
living beings are made of water.
Bill,
Allah has created most living things from water, we are much
about constant, much of what we have constituted of is water.
And generally, one of the greatest acts that are encouraged and in
fact actually required in our in our religion is the harder it is
to actually have.
Purity. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said at the
hoorah chatroom, Iman purity is half of faith. Most of us we
reduce purity, the purity of physical filth on the body, that
it needs to be cleansed. And the other filter the other impurity
that we know about is the impurity of the state. When a person is in
need of voodoo or hosel. When a person is in a seminary, defiled
state, or has broken their will do and thus they need to do a will do
before they pray. So going back to the aspect of purity, everything
about us when it comes to our faith, it's all about purity.
Allah subhanho wa Taala is pure, buy. Yep. And he wants pure, pure
things from us pure worship from us. He wants us that when we
donate something, it must be something that we're not just
trying to get rid of.
Allah subhanaw taala says lentinan will be referred to in Fukushima
to a boon
you
cannot attain to piety and righteousness until you spend of
that which you love. Clearly, what we would be loving are things
which are more pure to our hearts, which are closer to our hearts. So
when it comes to anything that we do, in the way we behave, there's
a concept of pure character, a pure heart. And that's why we have
a concept of test gear. This gear refers to purity of the state,
purity of the heart purity of the conduct the behavior, the
professor Larson spoke about that, that the best of you are those who
have the best of character, the best of character or those who
have the purest of behavior, purest of behaviors can only come
from the purest of cells and purest of hearts, because when the
heart is sound, as the Prophet sallallahu sallam said, then all
the rest of the limbs of the body will also be sound and if the
heart is corrupt, then the rest of the body will be corrupt. So the
concept of purity literally infuses every aspect of the
Muslims life both physically, physiologically spiritually, and
in terms of our active deeds and everything else. That's why Allah
has told us that he has sent and Zelner Amina Sama, ima and the
Hora that we've actually cause to descend upon you. Water which is
pure, pure water, we've constitute were constituted of water, a major
percentage of our bodies are made of water. That's our essential
Quiddity and elements. Allah wants us Allah has then given us pure
water so that we can be with it, we can wash with it return
ourselves to a pure a state. The pure state is closer to Allah
subhana wa Tada. That's why when you speak to practitioners, those
who understand the evils of shaytaan the evils of jinn, they
will tell you that remain in a pure state. The pure you are, the
more the less vulnerable we are. The more closer we are to Allah
the further we are away from the shaytaan shaytaan has less
influence
on a pure person. That's why we're told to stay away from impure
places only spend so much time in the toilets that you need to
relieve yourself. Before you enter you say Allahumma inni are also
becoming unhealthy while Hubei I seek refuge in Allah from the male
and female devil
holes from the evil ones. So there's a whole concept of purity
that's pervading everything. And that's why our children should
grow up that way to understand that. Now, if we've got purity in
everything, from what we do from what we're constituted, or from
what we use to return our body to its clear, clean state, and its
pure state with water, with what Allah characterizes as pure water,
and everything else, which is pure, Allah doesn't accept, accept
what is pure. If that is all the case, then imagine the one thing
by which our bodies actually grow and when nourished by it, which is
food. If everything else is supposed to be pure, then what
about the food itself, which is probably one of the greatest
contributors to our physiological growth, not necessarily our
spiritual growth, but that comes in tandem with what we eat as
well. So
to give you an idea of how difficult that has become,
I lived in America for about eight years. And I lived in a place
called Santa Barbara, which is in southern California, but on the
northern tip of Southern California, about two hours north
of Los Angeles. There were there was only one Masjid in my area, no
Halal shops at all. So I had to travel about two and a half hours
to go to Los Angeles, to buy my meats and to buy any other halal.
Now, the thing is that Los Angeles is a massive city. It's a massive
city. It's a very big city most people would have heard of heard
of Los Angeles, and there are several meat shops peppered around
the city in different places. The difficulty though, in getting
halal meat, truly halal meat, genuine halal meat from there, it
was extremely difficult. And the reason is that halal meat costs
more money, especially when there's not as much supply as
there could be, the less the suppliers. That means that there's
going to be a markup that's going to be higher. Because there's more
monopoly in that regard. That's just a simple rule of business.
But not only was that that, that was the one thing I mean, I'm
quite a picky buyer. I like to I like to check where you can get a
deal from and I don't have an issue with doing that. I'm not one
who just goes in there's a lot of men, their wives, get them a list,
a shopping list, they go and they pick up the first product, and
they come back home anyways. Like why didn't you get the other one
the shop brand? Well, I just saw that you told me beans. I just got
these ones. Right. And then the wife sell them off, because they
just don't know how to do shop shopping. I think I'm quite a
savvy shopper. But the one thing that I would never ask price in
was meat. Because I couldn't Beggars can't be choosers. If
there was a halal meat store that somebody could could give me
guarantee that yes, these guys are seriously halal. I would close my
eyes and buy what I had to buy. And I wouldn't ask them the price
except what is the total and that's it. So I would go down with
the family sometimes every two to three months down to Los Angeles
to buy meat. When I would go down to buy meat. I would eventually I
started calling there was a Mufti Salim, who was living
and teaching in Los Angeles in close to Orange County. So I used
to call him up each time and I say, look this up, can you tell me
where I can? I should buy meat from this time. So I remember you
telling me go to Jasmine on Sepulveda Avenue, or suburbia
Boulevard, or whatever it was. So I would go there, I would buy my
meats. After a few months, I'd gone back to buy more meat.
And I asked him, Montana, where should I buy meat from this time?
He says, Go to Anaheim, you know, go to this other store there. I
was like, What happened to the other one? I'm actually in the
area. He says no, I found it mixing. So what do you mean? You
see, I got to learn the industry. The industry is a cutthroat
industry. It's a very deceptive industry. And if you know as much
as the people do who understand the industry, it makes it very
difficult for you to actually eat from anywhere. Because there is
just so much going on. I mean, I don't want to scare you. I'm not
doing this to scare you. I'm just telling you the reality. You come
to London today. And nearly every chicken shop or small takeaway.
They will have a halal marker on there.
It just says hello. I mean, there's one I walked into, it's
not even Muslim owned. Right? Some Caribbean takeaway, if I remember
correctly, this is halal. And there was like what does that
mean? It's just a symbol that says that Muslims will come to you and
you'll make more money. That's what it means. Right? That's what
Halal means today in this country. So it used to be very difficult,
you know, for us to go out and eat as a family. It was virtually
impossible in America in Los Angeles, because while there were
restaurants and takeaways, there was so much difference of opinion
as to what is halal and what is not halal. i i mean i
Where there was one invitation I went to, right it was an era
brother of ours. This was in Santa Cruz, Northern California. And I
went and mashallah he had all of this nice food that was prepared
on the table. And this is what he's telling me these are his
words is a chef, this is Hallum This is the Bihar This is also the
Bihar and this is halal, this is halal.
I was like,
No, you have to let me introduce you to some terms here.
The beha
literally means the animal which has been
slaughtered properly. The Bihar from the debate
what is halal mean? Hello means lawful.
I'm assuming that every the Bihar if you've done it properly, what
they mean by the Bihar is the one that's been actually cut from the
throat not mechanically slaughtered on a machine, and so
on. So it's it's been hand slaughtered. So the Bihar refers
to in that terminology, that conventional terminology. That's
what he refers to. What was he trying to tell me when he's saying
this is the Bihar and this is halal? What's the difference? What
he's trying to say? Is that the halal ones that he was pointing
out, those were Halal according to the broad understanding of halal,
they're very accommodating, very inclusive understanding of what
what many, many, many would maybe just call halal, but it's not the
beha. And he knew that I'm probably particular. So he was
saying, X, Y and Zed.
Basically, there are there are so many centers around. Some fatwa
say, any Christian or Jewish slaughtered meat,
it's halal. Some say as long as you say Bismillah, before you eat
it, you can get it from there. But you have to make sure you say
Bismillah before you eat it. That is halal.
There was just so then there's another shop that I been into to
check it out in Los Angeles. And I talk about all about America,
because when I came to England and I saw the yellow stickers and I
figured out HMC was around that was one of the greatest blessings
of for me, because I no longer had to go and make these inquiries. I
just looked at the sticker. And I closed my eyes and went and
purchased whatever I want. Because I knew now the sin is all on them
if it's wrong,
because individuals don't have the ability to go and make all of
those investigations. So I remember this one shop that I was
at a meat shop, and mashallah they were the better ones in the sense
that they had this massive board on explaining their procedure.
They said that we
own our meat is slowed or our chicken particularly about chicken
chicken is generally the biggest shoe. All of our chicken is
slaughtered by machine on a mechanical process. But we can
guarantee that the shake reads Bismillah before putting the
button on before putting the switch on in the morning or
whenever it is. Right. So that was good enough for a lot of other
people because they followed that fatwa. But for me, that wasn't
good enough because I felt that that's not something I want to do.
I want it to be hand slaughtered individually with the individual
Bismillah. And individually.
It was difficult. I went to buy a yogurt once from the Nome local
local supermarket. And it said kosher gelatin. Now in America, a
lot of Muslims go with kosher because at least is better than
nothing at all. Because the kosher industry, they're supposed to have
similar rights to ours. And in the Quran, there is an allowance to
eat from the food of Christians and Jews. But then, for some
reason, we called up the company and the company told us that yes,
this is kosher gelatin, but only according to a certain certifying
body of Kosher rabbis.
What does that mean? This gelatin is from the bones or the skin of
pig? Like how is that kosher than because according to kosher it's
also not supposed to be from pig because they have the same issues
that we have with pig
with anything to do with time. So no this particular denomination
this group, this sect this filter, you know, like we have those
right? They they just consider the flesh of swine to be non kosher
and non halal. But the bones and skin are fine.
So they've got similar problem that the I then realized that this
at that time they were over 23 If I remember correctly, kosher
certifying bodies all the way from the ultra orthodox union, which
are the most strictest right and going all the way down to these
various other kosher pareve and all these other different ones
just like we have various different Halal certifying bodies.
So that's why after all that difficult
tea. I you know, today I'm a semi vegetarian. I wish I was a semi
vegetarian then.
But I have recently in the last few years we become semi
vegetarian. And the reason is that that is what I believe is the
Sunnah of
the Prophet sallallaahu Salam used to love his meat when he got it.
When he got his meat he ate well, he asked for a shoulder, he asked
for another one, he asked for another one, until the person
said, a goat or you know, only has so many shoulders and the
Protestantism I told him, if you had continued to just
hand, find one for me or look for one for me and give it to me, you
would have continued to do so as a miracle. But since you asked the
question now, yes, they only have so many shoulders. When he got
meat, he ate it well, but he wasn't on the prowl for meat all
the time as we are.
Our situation is such that the Muslims love their meat. When I
mean the Muslims, I can only speak for Asian people for now,
otherwise Muslims that there are Muslims beyond the Asian
community, but they love their meat. But unfortunately, they're
not very particular about the type of meat that they're choosing.
They just look for the cheapest meat.
I will meet shops, Allahu Akbar.
There's a lot more that could be desired. The type of meat that is
distributed in meat shops, even if it's perfectly halal and HMC
certified.
Because there are grades in meat.
There are grades in meat,
grade one, grade two, and so on and so forth. That's not my area.
I don't want to get into that. I don't want to scare you too much.
But it is something that an awareness is important about.
Because the way animals are being read and produced in battery
farms, and in fact, factories farm factories, I had with me and
Hutch, an individual from Pakistan, I was avoiding the
chicken anyway.
He had told me that his family in Pakistan have a chicken business,
a big chicken farm or whatever it is. But he also was refusing to
eat the chicken. It's like why are you refusing the the chicken? He
says I know how they're produced.
I know how they're produced. Okay, how they produce. I'd read I'd
seen documentaries about that anyway. But I'm not here to scare
you about those things. I just want us to be careful. How did we
become semi vegetarian?
The Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam used to go for days without eating
meat to forget meat, anything, dates and water.
Otherwise, some barley that was their diet. Sometimes they would
have meat. When he had meat, he enjoyed it. So we're not
vegetarians, we're not against eating animals. Don't get anybody
wrong in that this term semi vegetarian is a problematic term
even to start with, for the pure, you know, for the puritanism
language and so on. But I don't see any other word for it yet.
What we started doing was we said, Let us cut down meat
to let us have 131 Meat three day a week, whatever that is Monday,
Tuesday, whatever the boring day of the week, whatever that may be
no meat that day. So sisters, women, no meat that day.
hamdulillah and moved on to such a degree that now we have made maybe
once or twice what I mean by meat, I mean chicken.
Man, mutton, beef or fish. So it's not like only cutting out red
meat. I'm not into my beef anyway. Right? Unless we're in Zambia,
where they've got good beef, right, the mistakes and the good
stuff. But
increase your soups, your vegetables, your lentils, and you
will see that you will actually be healthy and feel healthy. I
guarantee you
the kinds of things that go into the processing of meat, and
especially when we're not getting the best cuts of meat to start
with the kind of animals that we're receiving anyway. I'm not
sure if I'm doing HMC a favor today or not by discussing this,
right. But I think this is important.
Our the way we are made the way we are all of this is impacted by
what we eat because that is the probably the single biggest factor
in how our bodies are nourished inside we take that Aaron, but in
terms of the nutrients that we receive that comes from our food
and drink
and that's what our children are brought up on. That's what we were
brought up on. That needs to be as pure as possible.
Allah subhanho wa Taala says in Surah Al Baqarah Yeah, are you a
nurse? Oh people call you may not call me Mathilde are the halal and
per yerba. Oh people
I have the earth Kullu me Marfil rd
eat of that which is on the earth that is halal, lawful, and that is
pure, halal and pure. So our it looks like right now we're still
in the process of trying to figure out our halal and we don't have
that sorted out yet. But the next level, which we should be focusing
on at the same time is inshallah also how pure that meat is that we
get. And I know it's a challenge. But both of these things should be
considered what Allah subhanaw taala then, interestingly, just
follows that up with saying what Arthur W hotel where the shaytaan
do not adhere to the steps of the shaytaan do not follow in the
footsteps of the shaytaan footsteps of the shaytaan refers
to you see, to get anywhere to a destination to an objective, to
reach a goal, you need to take further steps, you need to take
steps, you don't just reach there. And you can only get to your
destination if you take the first step. So there's a series of steps
that you take to get to a destination shaytans focus is to
take us to where we don't want to go. But he can't just take us and
fling us into that. He takes us by steps. And it's quite amazing how
influential, how detrimental rather you know, from a negative
perspective our food can be for our spiritual states, of the
acceptance of our dua of how close we can feel to Allah subhanaw
taala with something haram rumbling around in our body.
So Allah Allah, Allah says, Do not follow in the footsteps of the
shaytaan because he is your clear enemy. Now look, when I do move
in. Then Allah says in Surah Al Baqarah. Again, the first there's
two verse sort of the buckler 168 172. He says, Yeah, you have
Latina men who are people who believe Kulu may not mean to you,
Batty, Mara Sakana come eat from the pure of what we have granted
you
eat of that, which is pure from what we have given you. That means
we've given you this, it's available to this much pure that's
available, you just have to seek that out. Where does the demand is
going to be a supply?
Believe me where there's a demand, there's going to be a supply. If
we're going to be satisfied with
eating five baby chickens for 10 pounds.
Like, you know, five little chickens you get for 10 pounds.
That's like crazy.
Right? Imagine how those chickens those little hens or whatever that
they've been produced to give them to you for five years. It's 605
that's in London. She's gone to 11 pounds. What is it here? I mean,
she get your little baby chickens for here.
Sorry. 3347 Okay, that's about 11 for five year okay, it's about the
same.
Wash curule Allah. So each of the
each of the pure things that we have granted you and thank Allah,
if it's he that you worship, then Allah says, Yes, alumina Kamada or
he loves them. They asked you what is halal for them, say well hidden
Hola, como, thank you, but the pure things have been made halal.
So one aspect of pure is that which has been ritually you know,
the way Islam wants us to slaughter animals. That's what's
important. And one of the reasons why the Christian meat was
actually allowed for us the pure Christian meat is because and if
you read there's a book called the body, which moves the turkey wrote
and was produced by, we produce the translation of that published
on white thread, press, you can probably find it on other
academies called Islamic laws of animal slaughter. He's shown in
there why we've been allowed in the Quran to eat from the
Christians and Jews because they also, for example, the Christians
according to the Corinthians, they're supposed to sacrifice
they're supposed to slaughter the meat from the neck and allow the
blood to flow and so on. It's very similar process. And likewise,
with the Jews as well, it's supposed to be a similar process.
That's why it was allowed, not because of the mere fact that
because he's a Christian, you can you can eat it. We don't even give
that kind of discretion to a Muslim who claims that he's doing
Halal unless we've checked it out. So a lot of people they say, oh,
that's Christian meat.
Right. They don't know that it's Christian meat, because we don't
even know where the meat that's found in the supermarkets where
it's being slaughtered, who's slaughtering who sacrifice, you
know, who's cutting it, nobody knows. It could be an atheist. It
could be anybody. It could be a Buddhist, it could be somebody
swearing What is that like, man? You know, I don't even want to say
the words. You couldn't be doing that. How do we know? The fact
that we there's a lot of scholars in other countries. Some guy goes
from here and says, you know, we've got this meat problem. We
don't anymore like hamdullah we have enough Hello
metea but they go, you know, from the West, they go to Arab
countries, they are some of the Arab and other scholars, and they
say, Oh, you live in a Christian country, then Christian meters
hello and and thus You're mean you can just eat just say Bismillah
before you eat. That's just a really disingenuous, disingenuous
way of speaking. Because at the end of the day, I don't think
people even call this a Christian country. I mean, it's a secular
country at the end of the day, and who's cutting your meat God knows
best. And then with all of the horsemeat scandals, and God knows
what's coming into the meat, right? You got so many problems of
that nature. That's why I keep saying HMC, for me is at least
between me and Allah, I can say, look, I trusted these guys,
because they've got other ma within them. They've got a very
strict procedure. They could get it wrong, HMC can be wrong. I
mean, that's not impossible that human beings, it's like every one
of us, we all make mistakes, right? I made a mistake in my
mockery, prayers today. We all make mistakes. They could make
mistakes, but they're trying, they're not out there to make
mistakes, they're out there to try their best. So if they made a
mistake here, and they'll Hamdulillah I mean, that's fine,
that shows the human beings, right, but at least I know that
I'm doing my best. Otherwise, it's very, very difficult. That's why
somebody comes and ask me that I'm in an area where I don't have, you
know, I'm not sure about the meat.
It's very difficult, you know, for an individual to go and have to
inquire where you're getting your meat from, and this, that and the
other very difficult.
It's just very difficult. That's why we need an organization who
does this for I think being just Halal doesn't mean that it must be
sacrificed properly, properly. Of course, the whole other aspect of
it is that it must also come from a halal source, meaning the money
generally we buy our meat. So the money that we're using to buy our
meat must come from a halal source. That is as important if
not more than the fact that the meat has to be ritually
slaughtered.
A lot of us sometimes do
turn a turn our eyes away from that we're focused on making sure
our meat is slaughtered properly with Bismillah and all the rest of
it. But in terms of the source of our income, then a lot is left to
be desired. That's another important aspects. I only have a
short time to speak today. So we can't go into that much detail.
But I'm, I want to just touch on all of these different issues.
Just so
that at least it gives us some food for thought. I'm trying to
just create thought and discussion in this area. We have to re
evaluate according to aroma Radi Allahu Allah is a
a statement of his that has been recorded by Imam Malik in his
motto. He says that meat has an addiction. Lahu Tarawa Katara
within humble, just like the just like the addiction or intoxication
of alcohol, meat has a similar effect of an addiction. Are we
addicted to meat?
Are we addicted to meat is a question we need to ask And
Alhamdulillah in the last year, several people because I've been
speaking about this for the last two years, at least several people
have come to me and hamdulillah they've said that they have
decreased their meat intake when you can decrease your meat intake
in your houses so that your dolls are just dolls, they don't have to
have a bit of chicken in there. Right? Because I know that if the
women say okay, I'm going to cook some data today some lentils
today, it's not going to be flavored enough without a bit of
meeting that we need that, you know, people can kind of just they
have a gauge in their mind, they can figure this out. Now it's
proper Don, we do a lot of soups, you know, we do Moroccan soups, we
do the harira Moroccan soups, we do Syrian soups, Lebanese soups,
and we started doing Turkish soups, and believe we need to move
away from all of those, you know
Subhanallah there's just so much to speak about.
In in the normal Asian dish. Sisters, give me the average
number of masala that you would put in a normal Indian dish like a
normal curry. Just give me an average number of how many
massages you need to put in there.
The last time gone.
About seven, I think seven is the minimum the last time I counted I
could probably do it here if I had the time. They were about 12 to 15
the more exotic you want it right seven is like least minimum you
know your
your ginger and garlic and your cinnamon and your I mean let me
not even get started right because
that's minimum that much. Now that's wonderful. You know some of
those actually very healthy things like turmeric is actually very
good for you. Garlic is actually a natural, natural antibiotic,
right. I haven't had antibiotics for the last 10 years I would say
because when I have an issue, I have just a clove of garlic in the
morning.
flush a crushed clove of garlic. With some honey, you take that
first thing in the morning, and about three or four days your
throat problem, whatever it was it goes on hamdulillah with Tofik.
You know, with the help of Allah I haven't, you know, I haven't had
antibiotics as far as I can remember a long time. I mean,
Allah keep us away from them. Right? Because antibiotics, huge
research going on, they're not effective anymore. Especially the
there's resistance being built towards the garlic works all the
time. Hamdulillah. So some of these things do have a benefit,
right? There's no doubt about it. But you know, my question, is
this, the kind of foods that we're used to eating and I'm not saying
we need to become pasture people, because that's a whole different
ballgame. Right? But the way we eat and I like I enjoy my Indian
food, like don't get me wrong. But that's the all of that was the way
we eat it was for a particular climate. Most of the climate from
which this comes from the Asian climate, the Indian subcontinent,
climate is a very hot climate. So there's something happening,
there's a reaction, it's conducive to that climate. We're in a cold
climate, eating foods of a hot, hot climate. I don't know if any
studies have been done on this but I've been thinking about this for
a while is just imagine what's going on.
Right? Because Allah produces certain things in certain areas. I
remember when I went to study in Syria in 1998 and we were looking
for ginger I couldn't find ginger. They just did not have French
fresh ginger. Finally I found some dried ginger somebody had it's
just not there. They don't they don't have a Maybe now they have a
Cognos. Right globalized world. But these are things that we need
to think about. Again, I'm just here to
put questions in your minds because it's important think
something has to change.
The Prophet sallallahu sallam said Leia Kuru Ginetta just said when
luthier Bill haram,
anybody, any body which has been nourished by the Haram will not
enter paradise. There'll be kept back for a while, at least,
because there's haram in the
doors are not accepted. We learned that from a famous Hadith in
Sahih, Muslim, the prophets of Autism Speaks about an individual
who's just undertaken a long journey.
Now, a person on a long journey when you're on Mousavian, your
inner in unstable state, you are closer to Allah because you're in
a vulnerable state. So your dollars are accepted, more likely
to be accepted than when you're just at home. That's why we tell
myself in in your in wasafi You're in suffer, you know you're
traveling, please make the offer me. So this is saying that this
person, he is disheveled, his hair is disheveled, his clothing is
soiled, and he is in a state that's vulnerable. If you saw him,
you'd be feeling compassion for him. And Allah has the greatest
level of compassion. He puts his hand up and he says yeah, Rob
Yeah, Rob, my lord, my nourisher Rob refers to the one who does
start to be the one who brings us up and gives us stage by stage
what we need. He's using the right name for Allah as well. But then
the Prophet sallallahu sallam said, I'm gonna use the jugular
Where's he gonna get acceptance from? Why? Because he says mal
pursue haram. But Ambu haram, Masha boo hoo, haram, his and I
translate to Mobis and Muslim and Makayla as the place because for
those who understand Arabic, this is generally the form of the
the love
to show a place from where it comes as opposed to his food is
haram. The place where his food is coming from the source of his food
and drink and clothing is haram.
And that could mean the source of the income, the source of how your
food is produced
the food itself because then it says, Well, who the Erbil haram
he says that separately. He says, his man bus
makan and Muslim the food place the drink. And the clothing source
is haram and he has been nourished by the haram. How is his dog going
to be accepted?
Something to think about that if anybody's thought I was going to
be accepted, it should have been his because he's in that helpless
state.
He is in that helpless state.
Right let me just finish off with just mentioning to you a few
stories about the benefit of Hala.
One of the great righteous solanine of the past he was asked,
be methylene blue methylene blue, how to hearts gain softness so
that we actually feel like worshiping. We feel closer to
Allah because when you have a hard heart because the collarbone when
the heart is hard you don't feel like doing anything
Don't feel like praying you don't feel like there's so many things
just don't feel like doing. You need heart hearts to soften so
that they get closer to Allah. How do we get our hearts to soften? He
said we actually will Halal by eating the halal.
So haram hardens the heart. Meat is known to harden the heart, even
from a cosmological perspective. We're talking about a spiritual
perspective. Then I'm gonna have the hotter the Allah one, our
second Hadith, he said, build water a Amma haram Allah you
Kabbalah dA over the spear. It is by being scrupulous, by being
precautious of that which Allah has made haram, that your doors
will be accepted and your dis be will be accepted. Which means
without that maybe our doors are not being accepted. Because we're
placing a barrier. We're raising our hands. We're asking Allah
we're pleading with him. We're petitioning him, but then we've
placed a barrier it's almost like
we've got the key lock on our fallen and we can't do anything
that's why when you give it to a child they can't do any he's got
the phone in his hand but he can't do anything because there's a lock
on the phone.
We've placed the lock on our hearts. May Allah allow us to lift
it so look no Abdullah to study one of the great saw the heat of
the past he says and Naja two feet Elata
success meaning success of the Hereafter
winning this game with Allah winning the world, winning the
Oscar, three ways. With three things a cruel, halal eating the
halal comes first because that's what we're nourished by. That's
what's going to give us enough energy to make our Ibadah you
don't feel like praying. You have a cup of tea. You eat something,
you've got enough energy to get up. You've come home from work,
you're tired, but you have to pray you're solid. Let me have a cup of
tea get a bit refreshed. Let me pray
occlude halal, that will follow it. Number two, fulfilling the
obligations minimally at least fulfilling the obligations. Do not
miss your prayers. If you miss them, make them up. And number
three, Ikeda b&w Salallahu Alaihe Salam, following the Prophet
sallallahu Sallam in everything that he wants from us. And that is
also cutting out the wheat. Just because meat is available doesn't
mean you have to indulge. Just because it's halal doesn't mean
you have to eat it every day. It's halal. So many things are halal.
We don't do them all the time. It's become a habit.
Abdullah Hangul Mobarak most of you have heard of Abdullah
Abdullah Mubarak Rahim Allah The reason he gets to such a high
status one of his one of the stories sorry, one of the people
on his team is relating that his father was name was Mubarak. I
mean, that's a wonderful name. Mobarak means the Blessed One. He
was actually a slave that was freed. Then he started working
probably for his master inner, he worked for his master in a
in a pomegranate orchard. So he is most at a pomegranate orchard. And
that's where he would work. He has been working there for a few
years, looking after it tending to the, the trees and the fruit and
so on. And on one occasion his his the boss, the owner comes along
with a group of his friends to show them the orchard or whatever
it was. He sits down and he says he calls him over Mubarak, he
calls Mubarak and he says, Bring me a few pomegranates. Like, you
know, he wants his guests to have a few pomegranates. So he goes and
he picks up a few pomegranates and brings them back and gives them to
him. And the the owner opens it up and he finds that oh, one is bad
and one is
is sour. He says, What's wrong with you? I've got all of these
guests. You can't even bring me choose for me pick for me some
good pomegranates. He says no, I just you know, that's what I know.
He says that you're serious that you can't pick a good primer
grant. He says no, that's all I know. You've never eaten a
pomegranate from here. He says no, I've never eaten a pomegranate. He
thought he was joking. He thought he was lying. You know, like,
people who do wrong things. They lie. He asked the neighbors and
people around them. Have you ever seen this guy eating because we've
never seen him eating and pomegranates. He'd been working
there for a few years and he'd never eaten a pomegranate. Because
he was never told that you could eat a pomegranate. You know we go
to strawberry picking and we start eating the strawberries even
though they tell us that you're not allowed to eat them. Right? He
wasn't he was there for years and he didn't need to Palmer he didn't
know how to pick one.
He finally this this farmer married his only daughter to
Mubarak and from them came Abdullah hypnotoad Mobarak Subhan
Allah and you get one of the greatest scholars, one of the
greatest scholars who made such a huge impact on Muslim on Muslim
life for the rest of us he died in
he died in I think 107 161 or something like that Hijiri around
the end of the
The second century so amazing.
171 He He was born in 117. He died in 171 Hijiri
Subhanallah Imam Buhari is father imamo His name is Mohamed. His
father's name is Martin Mohammed Ismail. So I'm Adam Huff's. One of
the people of that time I'm at the Blue House. He says that I went to
visit abolhassan. I will have son is married the father of Buhari, I
went to visit him on his deathbed. He was on his deathbed he was very
sick. And I heard him saying that La La Moulmein murli Darrell
Hammond mean haram I don't know of a single penny dyrham pound
whatever you want to call it in my entire wealth that is from the
Haram in fact, while at the ramen min Shubh hurtin
I don't even know of a single day of doubt that that I don't even
know if that's possible today. Okay, maybe completely not haram
but a doubtful Delhomme.
Like, I'm just wondering if that's even possible today. It's so
difficult for people. We ask Allah to help us, we ask Allah to help
us. So this ama Dibner Huff's who is observing this, he says,
further Sahaja lafc. I felt so small in myself when he said that,
and I said, What Salah who will Abba yen Farrell abenaah, this
great, righteous status of parents is going to pass benefit to their
children. You want our children to be the great sallahu Dean's and
the Notre Dame zombies and everybody then we have to start
somewhere. You can't just expect that that's going to happen hope,
you know it's a lucky dip kind of story. There's the preparation
that happens before that. Unfortunately, those stories are
not known as much as the great people that they've produced and
the stories get left out. Subhanallah
finally
use of hypnosis but another great
self of the one of our greatest people of the past is in the use
of hypnosis about he says that, you know when a young man, a
youth, young man or woman teenager with 20 years old, they start
worshiping they become religious and they start worshipping
shaytaan gets returned.
She totally gets rid of there are countries in the world where if
they find the light is on federal time, that means you must be
extremists.
This was the case in Tunisia. Tennesseans have told me this, if
they would they couldn't put the light on a fragile time to pray.
people under the age of 40 couldn't go to the masjid to pray
otherwise, you're an extremist. So you soon Appspot said that when a
teenager when a youth starts worshipping shaytaan gets worried
teenagers shouldn't be doing that they should be on their phones and
they should be out there doing something else.
So he tells a bliss says to his other Shayateen just can't check
what he's eating.
If they go and find that he is eating the wrong things meaning
not the pure
shaytaan says a bliss says leave him alone Don't worry about him.
He's taken care of
you don't need to learn to study Ruby you shouldn't you don't have
to worry about you don't have to worry about him anymore because
he will put all of his effort
but forgot Khafre calm enough so he suffice to already you don't
need to worry about him by his haram food that's just gonna mess
everything up.
That's why I will leave us with one dua which I found to be
extremely powerful is from the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam and
doesn't work just in this the DA is and maybe you can repeat it at
least once with me and then inshallah you can memorize it if
you don't know it. Allahu MK Fini
Behala Anika and haram ik what else Nene before the baker I'm and
C work. What that means is Oh ALLAH suffice us with the halal
away from the Haram make Halal sufficient for us so we don't even
have to look at the Haram and make us independent with your grace
from anybody but you so we don't have to put our hands in front of
anybody we don't have to feel obliged to anybody else except
you. And you know what this not only
are the MA generally mentioned that this data is good when you
want to pay a debt off you know when you've got a big debt on your
big loan or something you to pay it off they say this will help
you. I guess the idea they think is that you know so that you don't
get involved in haram to try to pay your debt off. You know, you
don't try to make some easy money by selling unsavory substances or
whatever. But I have found this to be better
If it in many, many things, because the meaning if you feel
that you are getting attracted to the wrong thing around haram, like
let's just say there's a guy at university who's just, you know,
the knifes the shaytaan is trying to get him into an unlawful
relationship. Right? You know, we've got a young girl who's just
Unfortunately getting into the getting a feeling attraction to
the wrong things read this door.
It works where there's a choice of good about Oh ALLAH suffice me
with the halal against the Haram make me happy with this because
that's generally what the issue is. Should I go to the prayer? Or
should I go and just play with my friends? Or should I just go out
of Allah suffice me with the halal over the haram? Very powerful dua
We ask Allah subhanahu wa taala
to bless us all. We ask Allah subhana wa Taala to allow the
halal and the pure to be available to us. But that has to happen
through effort so we ask Allah that Allah give us the ability to
work hard, and may Allah subhanho wa Taala bless all of those in the
field, the individuals, the organizations that are working
hard to do this, despite challenges day in and day out. I
know some of the challenges that these organizations have to go
through purely for the sake it's not money making organizations a
lot of these are nonprofit, and I really think we need to help them
as much as possible. They can make mistakes, but mashallah the great
service that they provide, may Allah allow that to continue and
may Allah allow them to go from strength to strength, working with
that one and Al hamdu lillahi rabbil aalameen