Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Q&A

Question is that there are many students who are going to

university. There's a lot of fitna, how do you deal with that

fitna? I mean it's a very difficult thing for us to say.

Because there are different fitness that people are dealing

with at university. You know, one is obviously the intermixing that

takes place at very close level sitting with somebody working with

someone

working with somebody, right of the opposite, you know, for men,

it's women, women, it's men. You're working so closely with

them there's projects sharing your your your accomplishments, you're

sharing your successes, does emotionally bring you closer.

That's a major fitna, right sometimes with non Muslims,

Muslims, whatever. That's one fitna. Another fitna is what are

you studying? Right? Why are you studying that subjects, some of

the stuff that you're learning some philosophical concepts, when

we don't have a strong grounding in our own Aqeedah. And we're

learning things which are based on you know, old Greek philosophy,

modern philosophy, modernity, post modernity, psychoanalysis,

feminism. And sometimes we're being obviously impacted by this,

you know, we're being influenced by this without really realizing

sometimes, you know, because how many of us go through a good,

rigorous Aqeedah course, you know, where we really understand our

key, the most of our key that is what we've learned from our

parents, and from our little mothers or schools that we went

through, you know, and sometimes that is not enough for us to deal

with the more intellectual, the more intellectual challenges that

are put in front of us. So there's a lot of these fitna, right,

however, I can only give a general recommendation, right, which is to

educate ourselves, to try to avoid places that are compromising, you

know, situations that are compromising, stay in touch with

your local Shaco alum or your Imam of the masjid or whatever it is,

always be in consultation with them, do a lot of vicar make dua

to Allah that Allah protect me. I think a lot of these are safety

measures that we can take. And may Allah subhanaw taala protect us or

them because it's our, you know, protect our youth. Because we have

to, I mean, going to university becoming,

having Muslim professionals is extremely important. But there are

no doubt the road is riddled with a lot of issues, you know, a lot

of challenges. So it's one of those things, we have to do our

best. Right? I mean, if there's a certain specific thing you're

talking about, we can respond to that specifically, but in general,

that's what I would say is whether you had a question

about glutes okay.

You talking about collusion? asila.

The question is that, you know, we have a practice of collusion

asila, which is the DA when some calamity befalls the online,

right. So, what happened is that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa

salam

heard about, I think this was in relationship to certain tribes who

had killed a number of Muslims. Right? Does anybody remember the

exact details of that? There were certain tribes that had killed a

number of high ranking Muslims, right by deception, right. They

said they were going to run them safety or something, and then

after they killed him, so the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam

for 40 days in fajr prayer after the ruku, you know, after the

bowing, when he would stand up, he would recite this dua, which was

called a two hour minute pollute naskila, which is a special to

offer a calamity that strikes.

Now, according to the Shafi school, they they look at this

hadith and they say, they made they understand this to be a

regular practice. So in every Fajr, they will do.

Whereas the Hanafi is the understanding is that this happens

specifically for 40 days clearly mentioned the Quran in the Hadith,

right, that happened for 40 days at this instance. When should it

happen? Obviously, that's relative. Because when should it

happen? When should the Quran we read for 40 days? If you look at

it from a very general broad perspective, there's always some

there's always some oppression going on in the Muslim world. I

personally think there is a there is enough justification for HANA

for us to do it and continuous 40 day

sessions, because there's only something going on. We hear about

certain things like in Palestine, there are other things that are

happening that we don't hear about, you know, the smaller

incursions that happen or in Iraq or in other places, we don't know.

So the output as a prayer for steadfastness, a prayer for

strength, a prayer for dealing with the enemies, you know, that

is something I think is justified. However,

majority of them if you ask them, they would probably see it as a

very intense, a major catastrophe. Right? Because otherwise it would

become like I said, every day

because if you really look to look, there's always something

going on. But they will probably say it's an event of major

proportions, then we do it for 40 days.

So I guess there's different perspectives. But what I would

suggest is that if you

You feel that there is an event that

Imams you should go to your Imam and say look I believe this is it

do you think it's something that we should look for a girl to look

for or the Zilla for I think that would be an approach